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the streets of west London.", "John Rees, 88, was stabbed to death while shopping in a Co-op supermarket.", "A man is held on suspicion of attempted murder after an officer is seriously assaulted, police say.", "The Office for National Statistics asked how coronavirus was affecting people's lives.", "The zoo is struggling to obtain support from banks, because it has no history of borrowing.", "Nicola Sturgeon extends the coronavirus lockdown in Scotland and says the stay at home message should remain in place.", "The piece depicts a young boy discarding his superhero toys in favour of a model of an NHS nurse.", "Will Covid-19 make handshakes a relic of the past? If so, what might that mean about the future of human touch and interaction?", "The European Commission predicts a decline in economic activity this year of 7.5%.", "The German quartet set the template for electronic music and influenced scores of other artists.", "Lily Burns, who had no underlying health conditions, ended up in intensive care and credits NHS staff with saving her life.", "The airport has been granted permission to appeal a block on its expansion plans", "More than 160,000 suspicious emails have been reported to a new scam-busting service in two weeks.", "MPs consider a petition signed by 330,000, asking for students to get money back on fees this year.", "More than 10 leading bodies say porn sites stream content featuring child sexual abuse and sex trafficking.", "The situation for schools in Wales will not change on 1 June, the education minister says.", "New mothers are missing out on support for their babies amidst lockdown restrictions.", "The chancellor has admitted the scheme is not sustainable, and is looking at how to slowly withdraw it.", "Specialist company nicknamed Parents Get Lost by school kids refuses refunds for cancelled holidays.", "Campaigners want veterans who have moved abroad to have their right to a full pension restored.", "Live BBC News coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, and the latest advice.", "Many say they would be uncomfortable leaving home even if restrictions were lifted.", "The Duchess of Cambridge hopes Hold Still will show \"what everyone is going through at this time\".", "Another minute's clapping has thanked Wales' NHS staff, carers and other key workers.", "Bicycle shops across the UK say demand for new bikes, and repairs for old ones, has risen sharply.", "The PM says government is \"working hard\" to tackle it - and sets 200,000 test aim by end of month.", "Emergency services and other authorities say travel to beaches and national parks will \"cost lives\".", "The US president says he will be tested daily for coronavirus after one of his valets fell ill.", "Ministers are looking at how to ease the lockdown. How cautious should they be?", "More than 2,000 gowns ordered by the UK do not meet British safety standards, the government confirms.", "The singer says \"bravery and sacrifice still define our nation\" ahead of the 75th anniversary.", "The executive says while some may be disappointed, it cannot recommend relaxing restrictions.", "\"We had to leave all our shopping,\" a mother tells BBC News.", "Debenhams will permanently close more stores, after failing to agree new terms with some landlords.", "People from the travelling community say they are struggling to access water, electricity and sanitation.", "A tie-up is agreed that will create one of the UK's largest mobile, broadband and media firms.", "Demand for milk has dropped with the closure of cafes and restaurants during the coronavirus crisis.", "Changes could be incremental and vary between nations, but media reports \"are not a reliable guide\".", "Location and wealth do not fully explain the risk compared with white people, new analysis suggests.", "Bank head Andrew Bailey tells the BBC there will be no quick return to normality after the hit to jobs and income.", "The PM's top aide says he \"behaved reasonably\" as he explains why he drove to Co Durham during lockdown.", "A 'significant' fire broke out at the east Belfast site, with fire crews expected there most of the night.", "Plans to reduce the height of wood-based properties contradicts advice to increase construction.", "Law student Aya Hachem, 19, died when shots were fired from a passing car near a supermarket.", "Wales' only transplant unit is closed due to coronavirus, while some in England have re-opened.", "Paul Cairns, 42, died of his injuries after a gunman opened fire at Ardrossan in North Ayrshire.", "Tens of thousands of Indians are trying to get back to their home villages, with many forced to walk hundreds of miles with little food or water.", "The country hopes to save the summer season but UK tourists face quarantine in their own country.", "All the news and updates on the coronavirus pandemic in Wales.", "The girl was trapped under a boat while a man died after being pulled out of the sea off Cornwall.", "Some year groups in England will return on 1 June, with others going back two weeks later, he says.", "The PM's chief adviser told a press conference he wanted to \"clear up confusion\" amid calls for him to resign.", "Industries say the UK will be left behind, unless it relaxes quarantine rules with low-risk nations.", "The National Cyber Security Centre involvement follows new US sanctions on Chinese telecoms giant.", "The cabinet will meet as the PM's aide continues to face questions over claims he broke lockdown rules.", "The Queen guitarist says he was \"shocked\" to discover he needed surgery and was \"very near death\".", "Boris Johnson says his adviser acted \"legally and with integrity\" when making a 260-mile trip for childcare.", "Boris Johnson says all shops can reopen in England next month if they meet certain Covid-19 guidelines.", "Testing of hydroxychloroquine as a possible coronavirus treatment is suspended by the health agency.", "The first minister says the impact of coronavirus on care homes \"will haunt a lot of us for a long time\".", "A ruling in a German court could have implications for other VW motorists seeking compensation.", "After careful planning, families were able to see the residents of one care home from the safety of their cars.", "Many of the lockdown rules will still be in place despite the start of lifting restrictions later this week, says First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.", "A profile of Boris Johnson's former right-hand-man, who has turned into his chief tormentor.", "Weston General Hospital has a high number of Covid-19 cases and has temporarily stopped accepting new patients.", "The Women's Super League and Women's Championship seasons are ended immediately, but sporting outcomes are still to be decided.", "Photographs show people standing on the edge of chalk cliffs that are prone to collapse.", "Survey suggests British motorists are ready to change their behaviour to protect the environment.", "Sweet treat deliveries see a surge in interest during lockdown, search data suggests.", "Boris Johnson did not address the specifics of his adviser's lockdown trip, he provided one broad answer instead.", "A California company owned by UK businessman Sir Richard Branson fails to launch a rocket to orbit.", "The PM backs Dominic Cummings but this row is far from over...", "Hull City confirm two people at the Championship club have tested positive for coronavirus.", "Saad al-Jabri fled to Canada but officials are going after his children back home, the BBC is told.", "Warnings that children’s social services in England will face an increase in demand after lockdown.", "Chief aide Dominic Cummings admits to lockdown trips but says he does not regret his actions.", "The government could aid strategically important firms affected by the coronavirus pandemic.", "Dominic Cummings gives a statement to explain his actions during lockdown.", "Salons are giving advice via video chat apps to help people style and colour their hair at home.", "But education secretary admits parents will be nervous about safety of children returning to school.", "The government publishes new guidelines for elite athletes returning to contact training when individual sports deem it safe.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak today.", "The Prince says it is important that theatres and orchestras flourish after the coronavirus.", "The PM's chief aide is facing calls from the opposition and some Tory MPs to resign over claims he flouted rules.", "If class sizes in England are going to be 15 to a room, how can a whole school go back together?", "From a helipad to the streets, millions thank front-line workers risking their lives to fight coronavirus.", "The findings will feed into the debate around the safety of re-opening schools.", "A number of Conservatives are now calling for health and care workers to be exempt from the charge.", "Seaside town dwellers complain of crowds of people ignoring health fears for \"a jolly on the beach\".", "The latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic in Scotland.", "A source close to Dominic Cummings confirms he travelled from London to Durham to self-isolate with coronavirus symptons.", "The Oxford trial will monitor the effects on thousands of people's immune systems.", "Nicola Sturgeon says that the existing rules and stay at home message remain in place over the bank holiday weekend.", "Plastic pollutants in UK rivers are finding their way into wildlife and moving up the food chain.", "The singer, who helped bring African music to world audiences with hits like Yéké Yéké, dies in Guinea.", "St Paul's Cathedral is organising the virtual memorial, with choristers recording a piece of music.", "It says some people are cancelling support visits over fears untested staff may infect them.", "Roofers and security guards are among professions with increased demand, one study suggests.", "What's the Matter with Tony Slattery? tackled depression, addiction, abuse, love and comedy.", "A snap-shot survey of councils in England reveals only a minority are advising schools to reopen on 1 June.", "If more schools across the world turn to live video classes, will some children be the losers?", "Private Joseph Hammond is fundraising for frontline workers and vulnerable veterans across Africa.", "A profile of Boris Johnson's former right-hand-man, who has turned into his chief tormentor.", "The Treasury cautions that borrowers should continue to pay their mortgages if they are able.", "More than 64,000 bookings have been cancelled due to the collapse of Specialist Leisure Group.", "They are also charged with attempting to murder a man police believe was the intended target.", "Children in key year groups will return ahead of others, says the education minister.", "TV baker Nadiya Hussain and Citizen Khan's Adil Ray encourage Muslims to enjoy the festival virtually.", "The major accord permits unarmed surveillance flights over dozens of participating countries.", "Coronavirus hospital patients given hydroxychloroquine were more likely to die, medical journal study says.", "President Trump calls on US state governors to reopen places of worship currently shut due to transmission fears.", "Better understanding of Covid-19's impact on the immune system gives hope an existing drug might aid recovery.", "After a two-week search for Louise Smith, 16, officers find human remains in a Hampshire woodland.", "The Premier League is \"as confident as we can be\" about restarting in June, says chief executive Richard Masters.", "Travellers to the UK must self-isolate for 14 days from next month, the government is expected to announce.", "NHS staff and care workers from abroad are to be exempt, as Labour calls it \"the right thing to do\".", "The deficit will hit levels not seen in peacetime, says the head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.", "The nationwide applause has \"had its moment\" and should end after 10 weeks, Annemarie Plas says.", "No, your eyes didn't deceive you. That was Robbie Savage asking Matt Hancock a question.", "It has been easier to catch criminals during the coronavirus pandemic, senior officers say.", "The Mum and Phantom Thread star has delivered a monologue to raise funds for out-of-work colleagues.", "The motorist is accused of murder and attempted false imprisonment over the shooting in Georgia.", "The Chief Executive of NHS England says it is considering hiring cabin crew to train as nurses.", "British clothing sales plummeted by 50.2% last month as many High Street stores were closed.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon unveils a four-phase \"route map\" aimed at relaxing the coronavirus restrictions.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "It's the first time scientists have observed this behaviour, which bees do when pollen is scarce.", "The young musicians have been in a moated castle in eastern Germany for 73 days after Bolivia closed its borders.", "Ten million antibody tests will also start being rolled out next week, Health Secretary Matt Hancock says.", "The singer named several women of colour while making a point about music industry double standards.", "Friends of Louise Smith, missing for two weeks, say they are \"devastated' after a body is found.", "Hundreds of disabled people are to be added to Tesco's priority shopping list after legal action was taken by a disabled mother unable to buy food.", "A round up of news and updates on the coronavirus pandemic in Wales.", "Locking down the UK sooner would have made a big difference to the death rate, a scientific adviser says.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "Overnight stays away from home remain banned despite the easing of the lockdown rules, police warn.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer says 10,000 extra deaths in April must be accounted for, as he questions the PM.", "The online media company says it will be focusing on stories for its US audiences.", "Reality Check examines the weekly deaths figures for nations and regions across the UK.", "Police officer Tim Jones's videos have been watched by more than four million people around the world.", "The ride-hailing firm is providing UK taxi drivers with protective gear, but its use is not mandatory.", "Local authorities with the highest death rates are among those with greatest deprivation, figures show.", "Germany's contact-tracing app will not accept self-diagnosis reports, despite NHS saying they can save lives.", "Sadiq Khan agrees to quickly restore a full Tube service under the terms of the emergency agreement.", "The pandemic passes another sad milestone, of 300,000 deaths, with 1.5m having recovered, on 14 May.", "Tottenham and England midfielder Dele Alli held at knifepoint after robbers break into his house in the early hours of Wednesday.", "The government says it is \"opening the door\" for professional football in England in June, after a meeting with the FA, Premier League and EFL.", "England players will begin individual training next week in the first step to returning to action after the coronavirus shutdown.", "Shops, cafes and parks reopen for New Zealanders - and some keen customers can't wait until morning.", "The pandemic could have an impact on conservation efforts for years to come, say conservation experts.", "England's deputy chief medical officer says allowing families to mix is an \"important public health issue\".", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "A man and a woman are arrested on suspicion of murder after the discovery in the Forest of Dean.", "People are being treated \"as disposable bodies\", a disabilities campaigner warns, after deaths spiked.", "More than £800m was distributed to artists and writers last year, but a storm is coming.", "The stars will be socially distanced and will have to do their own hair and make-up.", "NHS bosses say they are worried seriously ill patients are staying away as visits drop by half.", "A children's hospital in the Afghan capital takes in 19 babies who survived a horrific attack.", "The Tour of Britain is cancelled with the planned 2020 route instead used in September 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic.", "The FBI said it had seen hacking attempts on groups researching vaccines, treatments and testing.", "The latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic in Scotland.", "A nurse says seeing people flout lockdown rules in a park near her hospital felt like a \"knife in the back\".", "The newspaper's dating site says the platform is \"no longer viable\".", "Minister who shared false allegations about Labour leader told to be more responsible by Tory bosses.", "People across the UK show appreciation for front-line workers risking their lives during the pandemic.", "The F1 and luxury car group may raise money secured against its historic race car collection.", "Birmingham City Council has asked for government reassurance a supply of PPE dated 2014 is safe.", "Sadiq Khan warns Transport for London will effectively go bust without a government cash injection.", "A Commons bid to guarantee post-Brexit food import standards is defeated - despite unexpected backing.", "Scientists in Scotland and Switzerland develop a machine which has capacity for up to 3,000 tests a day.", "But the health minister denies the government had \"bad advice\" not to lock them down earlier.", "Nicola Sturgeon says virus restrictions could be eased on a regional basis if evidence supports it.", "Former chancellor Alistair Darling says unemployment will rise as the country faces a \"very deep recession\".", "The Care Inspectorate seeks to cancel the registration of a care home in Portree where seven residents have died.", "Department for Education's own scientist suggests virus might not spread less among children.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Insurance market Lloyd's of London says it expects coronavirus-related claims to cost it up to $4.3bn.", "Manafort, 71, spent about a year of a seven year sentence behind bars, but will serve the rest at home.", "The day's news, stories and information on the pandemic in Wales.", "Should you be comparing Covid-19 statistics between countries?", "The test, now approved in the UK, can tell who has had Covid-19 - but gives no guarantee they are immune.", "Two cooling towers are blown up at the disused Philippsburg nuclear power plant.", "China says it will improve public health systems after criticism of its early response to the virus.", "The aviation watchdog says it could take action if plane companies don't give customers their money back.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "The Premier League is set for a decisive few days in establishing whether it is possible to resume and complete the current season.", "Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the firm will leave California after he is ordered to keep a factory shut.", "At least 227 people attempt to cross the English Channel in two days, the Home Office says.", "Social distancing could mean prayer books cannot be shared and people cannot sing, religious leaders say.", "The fiancee of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi says Newcastle United and the Premier League must put moral values ahead of financial gains.", "The first minister says only small steps to change the lockdown are possible to keep the rate of Covid-19's reproduction down.", "The UK PM announced a \"conditional plan\" to reopen society as the coronavirus lockdown continued, on 10 May.", "The government says it is \"stepping up action\" to stop the \"totally unacceptable\" crossings.", "Psychologists find they are more likely to meet friends than women.", "More than 70 public figures sign an open letter to the prime minister calling for more transparency.", "The measures outlined were designed to show the country there is the beginning of a way out of this crisis.", "The PM has eased restrictions on exercise in England and outlined steps for lifting the coronavirus lockdown.", "Replacing cars with bikes or walking will cut infection and address climate change, say campaigners.", "The self-styled \"king and queen of rock 'n' roll\" - who inspired Elvis and The Beatles - dies at 87.", "Teaching unions across UK and Ireland say test and trace measures must be fully operational before reopening.", "Boris Johnson says some primary year groups in England could start to return to school.", "Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland keep the \"stay at home\" slogan as Labour warns the switch could be confusing.", "Prince Charles praises their \"dedication, resilience and hard work\" in a letter left outside his home.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon reinforces her \"stay at home\" message after saying the once-a-day exercise limit will be removed.", "The government says \"operational issues\" in the UK meant 50,000 samples had to be flown to US labs.", "The annual biscuit showdown is held online as dozens of competitive eaters polish off their webcams.", "Lockdown \"rather different in Wales\" after PM's changes for England, Welsh minister says.", "Use our tool to check the meaning of key words and phrases associated with the Covid-19 outbreak.", "Experts warn the true number of infections may be higher due to low testing rates in many countries.", "The British Retail Consortium says practical safety measures will protect staff and shoppers.", "Dynamo Dresden, who play in the second tier of German Football, have put their entire squad and coaching staff into two-week isolation after recording two new coronavirus cases.", "Researchers will look at how licensed premises could operate safely when the Covid-19 lockdown ends.", "The UK government says the new measures will not apply to those travelling from France.", "South Korea was once a Covid-19 hotspot but used technology and testing to avoid a total lockdown.", "The first minister says the message in Scotland remains the same after the prime minister urged people to \"stay alert\".", "Ch Supt Phil Dolby - who \"nearly died\" with coronavirus - says he is \"disturbed\" by lockdown breaches.", "Springboard says the fall in the number of shoppers visiting UK High Streets was \"unprecedented\".", "Police Federation calls for anyone using coronavirus as a weapon automatically to be remanded in custody.", "A life on the high seas promised adventure, until a kidnapping turned a young man's life upside down.", "Union boss Len McCluskey says workers should not be \"pressured\" as lockdown measures start to ease.", "The Red Square parade was cancelled because of the pandemic, but in neighbouring Belarus the parade went ahead as planned.", "Michael Zammit Tabona said the German chancellor \"has fulfilled Hitler's dream\" to control Europe.", "NI Executive to consider plan for 'phased, strategic approach' to recovery on Monday.", "First minister says the lockdown measures have \"helped to move us past the peak\" of the virus.", "The sum is more than five times the previous quarterly record, in the 2008 financial crisis.", "As Italy eases its restrictions, the damage caused by lockdown is being felt across Naples.", "About 8,000 job centre staff have been redeployed to process claims for financial help, minister tells MPs.", "The victim, 61-year-old Saleem Butt, was described as a \"lovely and very gentle\" man.", "The ITV2 reality show will not go ahead with this summer's series, but it will return in 2021.", "Rail union leaders have written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson with \"severe concerns\".", "The identity of the \"intermediate host\" animal that first passed the coronavirus to a human may never be found, say scientists.", "The leader of the TUC says she cannot recommend the government's draft advice \"in its current form\".", "Restarting the economy - and our lives - will not be a straightforward task.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this morning.", "The former Unite official says it is the \"right time\" to move on with the party under new leadership.", "BBC News brings you a day of live coverage focusing on the positive stories at this challenging time.", "Russia's cases jump by 10,633 in one day, as Moscow's mayor warns the peak is yet to come.", "Union leaders have expressed concerns, saying few firms currently have PPE equipment.", "President Trump also suggested to Fox News that a vaccine could be ready by the end of the year.", "Two residents have died and all but four of the others test positive for Covid-19.", "Programme to help people put on leave due to coronavrius is now being used by 6.3 million people.", "Isle of Wight council staff and healthcare workers will be invited to start testing app on Tuesday.", "The pilot will not involve any changes to social distancing measures, the health secretary says.", "The Good Morning Britain co-host acted \"out of an abundance of caution\" after showing mild symptoms.", "The two bikers travelled from Rochdale in Greater Manchester to Whitby in North Yorkshire.", "Almost half of Britons have suffered \"high anxiety\", with millions losing income, an ONS survey suggests.", "A senior engineer claims \"a vein of toxicity\" is running through the firm after it fired protesters.", "Long-time band member Dave Greenfield dies at the age of 71 after contracting Covid-19.", "Protesters against HS2 are still trying to save threatened forests during the coronavirus pandemic.", "The NFL decides to scrap the four games scheduled to take place in London later this year.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock outlines how the phone software will be trialed across the Isle of Wight.", "Rosie Wicks helped out on Monday's PE lesson after Joe injured his hand in a bicycle accident.", "Some airlines are now making it compulsory for travellers to put on masks when they resume travel.", "The experiment is part of the government's track and trace strategy aimed at limiting a second wave.", "Transport Secretary Grant Shapps says it could help maintain social distancing on public transport.", "Conor Burns used his position as an MP to intimidate a member of the public, standards watchdog finds.", "More than $8bn (£6.5bn) are pledged to help develop a vaccine and fund research into treatments.", "If universities are teaching online next term students will still have to pay full tuition fees.", "A number of Premier League club doctors have raised a range of concerns with league bosses over plans to resume the season, BBC Sport has learned.", "Legendary Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula, who has the most wins as an NFL head coach, dies aged 90.", "South Korea says bullets hit one of its border posts, a day after the North's elusive leader reappears.", "The fast food chain is in talks with property firms as it prepares to reopen some sites.", "The number of daily tests drops by a third, days after the government met its 'audacious' target.", "The first minister says the future strategy will involve testing and tracing those with the virus.", "The presenter says he's acting \"out of an abundance of caution\", after showing mild symptoms.", "The PM's top aide says he \"behaved reasonably\" as he explains why he drove to Co Durham during lockdown.", "The party's new most senior official was assistant general secretary between 1999 and 2001.", "The corporation will air historic sets after the festival was cancelled amid the coronavirus pandemic.", "Douglas Ross quits the government as more than 35 Conservative MPs call for Dominic Cummings to go.", "The country hopes to save the summer season but UK tourists face quarantine in their own country.", "Early May bank holiday delays mean the true death figures are likely to have been even lower.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Is Dominic Cummings' continued presence in No 10 more of a hindrance than a help to Boris Johnson?", "The FBI investigates Minneapolis police after video shows man being arrested saying \"I can't breathe\".", "The girl was trapped under a boat while a man died after being pulled out of the sea off Cornwall.", "Jaden Moodie was 14 when he was knocked off his moped and stabbed to death in east London.", "The feline turned out to be an exotic pet which posed no risk to the public, Scotland Yard says.", "Zara Abid, 28, was being mourned by friends and family, but then trolls began abusing her legacy online.", "The PM's chief adviser told a press conference he wanted to \"clear up confusion\" amid calls for him to resign.", "Almost 15,000 rough sleepers have been in emergency accommodation since the start of the lockdown.", "The NHS is urging men, under 35s and those who have recently recovered from Covid-19 to donate plasma.", "Updates on coronavirus in Wales from Tuesday 26 May.", "The Queen guitarist says he was \"shocked\" to discover he needed surgery and was \"very near death\".", "The Ickabog is her first non-Harry Potter children's story, and will be published in instalments.", "Remdesivir shortens recovery time by about four days, research suggests.", "A spokeswoman insists President Trump saved lives by making \"very hard choice\" to shut down economy.", "The prime minister's chief adviser says his vision was affected by coronavirus.", "A councillor urges the RNLI to \"get back to the beaches as quickly as possible\" after two deaths.", "Testing of hydroxychloroquine as a possible coronavirus treatment is suspended by the health agency.", "The US Democratic presidential candidate makes his first public appearance in more than two months.", "The supercar maker and Formula 1 team plans to layoff 25% of its workforce, the vast majority in the UK.", "The president announced the closure of seven state-owned companies last week, leading to job cuts.", "Some 71% of those surveyed said Mr Cummings had breached regulations, according to a YouGov poll.", "A profile of Boris Johnson's former right-hand-man, who has turned into his chief tormentor.", "The major label is moving to only two \"seasonless\" collections saying clothes need a longer life.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says the new test, trace and protect system will go live on Thursday and have the capacity to carry out more than 15,000 tests daily.", "The senior aide's account of his trip during lockdown was \"exhaustive and verifiable\", minister says.", "Emily Jones died shortly after she was stabbed in a park where she was playing in front of her father.", "The Women's Super League and Women's Championship seasons are ended immediately, but sporting outcomes are still to be decided.", "Photographs show people standing on the edge of chalk cliffs that are prone to collapse.", "Weston General Hospital has a high number of Covid-19 cases and has temporarily stopped accepting new patients.", "A California company owned by UK businessman Sir Richard Branson fails to launch a rocket to orbit.", "The resumption of floor trading comes after a two-month closure due to the coronavirus pandemic.", "Raising council taxes would be a \"very undesirable outcome\", the local government association says.", "The health secretary says coronavirus restrictions are part of plans to suppress infections in England.", "Weston General Hospital is not accepting new patients due to a high number of coronavirus cases.", "Boris Johnson says all shops can reopen in England next month if they meet certain Covid-19 guidelines.", "Transparent masks allow deaf people to communicate - but supplies are short where they are most needed.", "Warnings that children’s social services in England will face an increase in demand after lockdown.", "The woman, identified as Amy Cooper, called police saying an African-American man was threatening her life.", "President Emmanuel Macron wants France to become the top producer of clean vehicles in Europe.", "The often controversial prize is replaced by bursaries worth £100,000 to help struggling artists.", "Jann Tipping and Annalan Navaratnam were given special permission for the ceremony in London.", "But education secretary admits parents will be nervous about safety of children returning to school.", "It is the first time since 18 March that no new deaths have been reported - a \"clear sign of progress\" according to the health minister.", "Ireland's chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan said the Republic has \"suppressed Covid-19 as a country\".", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this evening.", "A community testing regime will be put in place over the next three weeks, according to the first minister.", "The moves will allow some sports and outdoor activities, and meeting someone from another household.", "It comes as medics warn the coronavirus pandemic is likely to lead to long-term mental health conditions.", "The chains' owner Casual Dining Group files intent to appoint administrators after the virus lockdown hit trading.", "The legislation paves the way for the UK to create a new post-Brexit immigration system.", "A study suggests young people in wealthier households do more learning at home than poorer peers.", "Groups of up to six people will be allowed to meet outdoors and some sports can resume.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this morning.", "She was found \"unresponsive\" after reports of gunshots near a supermarket, police say.", "Watchdog says universities must tell applicants whether campuses will reopen in the autumn.", "Samantha Gamble will marry on Friday after lockdown restrictions were eased by politicians last week.", "Loss of smell and taste join a new cough and fever as signs that self-isolation may be necessary, experts say.", "Law student Aya Hachem, 19, was found lying in the street near a Lidl supermarket on Sunday.", "The pandemic has inspired a new wave of street art on the walls of Glasgow city centre.", "The first minister says he is open to increasing fines, which are lower in Wales than England.", "The government says if a vaccine trial is successful the UK will have 30 million doses by September.", "Italy, Spain and Portugal are among European countries further relaxing virus-related restrictions.", "Immigration officers fear unaccompanied children are being trafficked into slavery, a union says.", "The sculptor used the space opposite her home to create prototypes of major commissions.", "The event begins with a trip around Monty Don's garden and a message from Alan Titchmarsh.", "Ray McDermott, who suffers short-term memory loss, was afraid she would never speak Welsh again.", "Public transport, even running at full capacity, will only be able to carry a tenth of normal numbers.", "The Archbishop of Canterbury warns against austerity, saying it would be a \"terrible mistake\".", "Premier League clubs hope to give their players the go-ahead to return to training in small groups this week.", "The over-5s with symptoms will be eligible for a test and the next stage in lifting lockdown north of the border should begin on 28 May.", "Celtic are confirmed as Scottish champions for the ninth season in a row and Hearts are relegated as the SPFL ends the season.", "Larger trials now needed to see if the vaccine can protect against the coronavirus.", "More green screens and socially distanced actors will be the norm when cameras start rolling again.", "A rise in electric-bikes would extend the range of cyclists using them to commute, a study finds.", "The Snowbirds jet was on a mission to boost the morale of Canadians fighting the spread of Covid-19.", "The Atlas V rocket, carrying the X-37B space plane, launched from Cape Canaveral on Sunday.", "There have been huge queues since a recycling centre in Sutton Coldfield reopened.", "Conditions in autumn and winter may see virus pick up again - England's deputy chief medical officer", "Coronavirus testing has been extended to everyone aged five and over in the UK with symptoms.", "The plan would see €500bn of grants distributed to EU member states worst affected by the pandemic.", "Italy may be reopening shops, restaurants and hairdressers, but people here are still living in limbo.", "Good Omens author Neil Gaiman travelled from New Zealand to \"isolate\" on the Isle of Skye.", "A plan to help exit lockdown could need 30,000 tests a day if everyone with symptoms was tested.", "But the airline says it will weather the coronavirus crisis and emerge stronger afterwards.", "CCTV footage from the Ritz hotel is at the centre of a row between the families of the Barclay twins.", "BBC News brings you a day of live coverage focusing on the positive stories at this challenging time.", "Staff at Brussels' Saint-Pierre Hospital stage a protest during a visit by Prime Minister Sophie Wilmès.", "An Afghan journalist and refugee locked down in one of Europe’s migrant camps looks at the conditions in Malakasa camp.", "Councils will need \"significant additional resources\", the local government association says.", "John Tate suspected serial child-killer Robert Black snatched his 13-year-old daughter in 1978.", "The UK nations must band together to compete for global testing supplies, an expert says.", "The latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic in Scotland.", "Events are taking place across the UK all day to mark the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this morning.", "Live BBC News coverage of the events marking the 75th anniversary of VE Day.", "Pavinya Nithiyakumar, aged 19 months, and Nigish Nithiyakumar, three, were found with stab wounds.", "The workers fell asleep on the tracks while trying to make their way home during India's lockdown.", "If the four nations of the UK can't agree on lifting the lockdown, some divergence is inevitable.", "The environment secretary urges the public to abide by the current measures over the bank holiday weekend.", "As coronavirus spreads in the provinces, more and more health workers are getting sick - and dying.", "The masks were to be supplied to the NHS, along with councils and care homes, in West Yorkshire.", "Lifeboats, a helicopter, ambulance and police are involved as three people get cut off by the tide.", "The owner of Stansted and Manchester airports says passengers must cover their faces and wear gloves.", "The first minister warns it is \"too soon\" to make any other changes.", "More than 40,000 people have downloaded the contact tracing app so far, ahead of a wider release.", "The Mercury-nominated rapper had been put in an induced coma in April.", "Manchester City and England defender Kyle Walker says he feels he is \"being harassed\" after it was reported he had broken social distancing rules again.", "Coronavirus is preventing VE Day gatherings so organisers are finding other ways to celebrate.", "The Queen pays tribute to those under lockdown who are marking the 75th anniversary of VE Day.", "Psychologists find they are more likely to meet friends than women.", "The Office for National Statistics asked how coronavirus was affecting people's lives.", "Commemorating her father's VE Day address, she expresses pride in a UK the wartime generation would \"admire\".", "Nicola Sturgeon extends the coronavirus lockdown in Scotland and says the stay at home message should remain in place.", "The Royal Hospital Chelsea says another 58 residents have contracted the virus and recovered.", "One man's dream sailing trip nearly ended in disaster as island nations began closing their borders.", "Funding for English local authorities is likely to be unveiled to encourage people to be more active.", "More than 10 leading bodies say porn sites stream content featuring child sexual abuse and sex trafficking.", "The cousin of Grace Millane, who was murdered in New Zealand, says she would have been \"so proud\".", "Boris Johnson needs to prioritise the environment as the UK recovers from coronavirus, firms say.", "Experts tell the BBC that euphoria over success models runs the risk of people becoming complacent.", "Italy has the third highest officially recorded coronavirus deaths, after the US and the UK.", "The tech giants plan to re-open offices soon but will allow staff to work remotely throughout 2020.", "The RAC motoring group says the number of vehicles on the road is up 11% since the lockdown began.", "An airline industry body says it has been told coronavirus quarantining will start from the end of May.", "The PM will set out a \"cautious\" road map for the UK in his speech on Sunday, a cabinet minister says.", "The TV personality, whose husband Leon died in 2017, was one of the original stars of the reality show.", "Companies say delaying passengers' entrance risks cutting off the UK from the rest of the world.", "Marjorie Morgan, who was at the signing in Reims, is among veterans sharing their VE Day memories.", "US unemployment rises to its highest level since the 1930s as coronavirus devastates the economy.", "Face masks, fresh air and porridge - how people tried to curb a deadly flu pandemic in 1918.", "An RAF flypast and a national minute's silence are among the events marking the 75th anniversary.", "Certain habitats can help dampen the spread of ash dieback, which threatens ash trees.", "Flt Lt Terry Clark, who was a radar operator during WW2, died on the eve of the VE Day anniversary.", "The executive says while some may be disappointed, it cannot recommend relaxing restrictions.", "Released to mark VE Day 75 years on, the message reports British troops entering a Nazi stronghold.", "Trevor Weston was at a cash machine when Michael Collins threatened to stab him.", "Clive and Doreen Hubbard, both in their 80s, died without each other or their family.", "The rock legend said he wouldn't be able to walk \"for a while\" after the injury during lockdown.", "Councils have seen a \"significant surge\" in criminal activity, including the sale of bogus medical kit.", "Changes could be incremental and vary between nations, but media reports \"are not a reliable guide\".", "Location and wealth do not fully explain the risk compared with white people, new analysis suggests.", "Bank head Andrew Bailey tells the BBC there will be no quick return to normality after the hit to jobs and income.", "Train operators and the government are planning to increase rail services from mid-May onwards.", "Buckets and spades have gone from England's beaches, replaced with wildlife and sand art.", "Small businesses are reporting problems accessing money under the Bounce Back Loan scheme.", "The Sage group raised fears people might try to buy fake test results to get an \"immunity passport\".", "A closely watched survey confirms that the service sector contracted at a record pace last month.", "The latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic in Scotland.", "The sum is more than five times the previous quarterly record, in the 2008 financial crisis.", "Mink have caught Covid-19, adding to the list of infected animals, and prompting calls for trade bans.", "The 57-year-old man was declared dead at the scene and another man was critically injured.", "Customers can now order from a range of about 130 M&S food and household items through Deliveroo.", "About 8,000 job centre staff have been redeployed to process claims for financial help, minister tells MPs.", "The healthcare sector is being targeted online by hackers linked to foreign states, the two nations say.", "The patients, who all died from covid-related symptoms, were residents of Glenabbey Manor.", "The identity of the \"intermediate host\" animal that first passed the coronavirus to a human may never be found, say scientists.", "The leader of the TUC says she cannot recommend the government's draft advice \"in its current form\".", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Lillian, 81, and Maurice Dunnington, 85, died days apart, and just two weeks after their son Keith.", "The Scottish government sets out options for reopening schools, but warns that it is too early to take action now.", "Two residents have died and all but four of the others test positive for Covid-19.", "Prof Neil Ferguson, who advised ministers on coronavirus, says he \"made an error of judgement\".", "Teaching unions across UK and Ireland say test and trace measures must be fully operational before reopening.", "Isle of Wight council staff and healthcare workers will be invited to start testing app on Tuesday.", "The Good Morning Britain co-host acted \"out of an abundance of caution\" after showing mild symptoms.", "Almost half of Britons have suffered \"high anxiety\", with millions losing income, an ONS survey suggests.", "Use our tool to check the meaning of key words and phrases associated with the Covid-19 outbreak.", "The figure of 29,427 deaths is \"a massive tragedy\", the foreign secretary says, but steers clear of comparisons.", "The moves could include a gradual reopening of schools and allowing people to spend more time outside.", "Long-time band member Dave Greenfield dies at the age of 71 after contracting Covid-19.", "The airline has told staff that it cannot rule out keeping the operation closed indefinitely.", "The airline will axe a third of its workforce in response to the \"severe impact\" of coronavirus.", "A Michigan store guard is shot in the back of the head after confronting a customer who had no mask.", "Areas such as India, Australia and Africa are predicted to be among the worst affected.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock outlines how the phone software will be trialed across the Isle of Wight.", "The UK's chief scientist tells MPs mass testing is \"part of the system that you need to get right\".", "Motor industry records only a few thousand registrations as Covid-19 outbreak keeps buyers at home.", "Their letter says services can be held with \"proper measures in place\", amid the Covid-19 outbreak.", "Lockdowns have forced the company to close its theme parks and has hurt advertising.", "Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab says there will be no \"real verdict\" until the pandemic is over.", "Colson Whitehead wins the fiction prize three years after winning for The Underground Railroad.", "English Football League chairman Rick Parry says the season needs to be concluded before 31 July and that clubs face a \"£200m hole\".", "The fashion extravaganza was axed, but some stars revealed their outfits anyway, and fans joined in.", "Angela Schlegel's heart condition came to light when she went to hospital with Covid-19 symptoms.", "Sir Keir Starmer urges politicians, employers and unions to work together to address public \"anxiety\".", "More than $8bn (£6.5bn) are pledged to help develop a vaccine and fund research into treatments.", "A number of Premier League club doctors have raised a range of concerns with league bosses over plans to resume the season, BBC Sport has learned.", "One person dies and three are hurt following the incident in south Wales.", "The star returns to the world of Harry Potter by reading the first chapter from the first book.", "Rory Cellan-Jones gets an early look at the app, which could play a critical role in easing the lockdown.", "Officials are wary of speaking openly to avoid offending both US and Chinese sensibilities.", "Isolation is exacerbating psychosis symptoms for some patients, a leading psychiatrist is warning.", "The airline also says it needs to cut a \"minimum\" of 3,000 jobs as it tries to cope with the pandemic.", "Programme to help people put on leave due to coronavrius is now being used by 6.3 million people.", "The boss of one of Britain's biggest chains says cinemas can control social distancing.", "The NBC's Tonight Show host called his depiction of comedian Chris Rock \"unquestionably offensive\".", "The president claims Twitter is \"stifling free speech\", after it added fact-check links to his posts.", "The party's new most senior official was assistant general secretary between 1999 and 2001.", "It would have been the first rocket launch with astronauts from US soil since 2011.", "Presenter Emily Maitlis said \"the country can see\" Dominic Cummings had \"broken the rules\".", "Scientists have tracked a cuckoo's migratory flight from Africa to its breeding ground in Mongolia.", "A drop in travel due to the pandemic worsened the situation for the company, which was already in crisis.", "The Ickabog is her first non-Harry Potter children's story, and will be published in instalments.", "The prime minister's chief adviser says his vision was affected by coronavirus.", "Almost as many Americans have been killed in three months by Covid-19 than in 44 years of wars.", "The health secretary says coronavirus restrictions are part of plans to suppress infections in England.", "Sally Challen, who killed her husband Richard with a hammer, can inherit his estate, a judge rules.", "Conservative party donor Richard Desmond avoided a £40m bill due to timing of the deal.", "President Emmanuel Macron wants France to become the top producer of clean vehicles in Europe.", "Watchdog said Revival Shots had suggested its rehydration sachets could help treat the disease.", "Douglas Ross quits the government as more than 35 Conservative MPs call for Dominic Cummings to go.", "A late decision is made to delay the first astronaut launch to orbit from US soil in nine years.", "Inspectors say urgent improvements must be made to Glasgow's Barlinnie jail, which is not due to be replaced until 2025", "The historic mission to the ISS is the first crewed outing from American soil in nine years.", "Qualifications Wales is looking at streamlining courses for pupils sitting key exams next year.", "The BBC uncovers details of fines issued by police forces for travelling at height of coronavirus lockdown.", "Residents report a \"loud bang\" and seeing flames from the phone mast, just days after it was put up.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this morning.", "Refuge says the lockdown can aggravate abusive behaviour as website traffic surged in a fortnight.", "Police in Belgium and France detain 13 people in an operation prompted by the deaths of 39 migrants.", "The corporation will air historic sets after the festival was cancelled amid the coronavirus pandemic.", "The body of 16-year-old Louise Smith was found in woodland in Havant on Thursday.", "As she turns 100, Joyce Richardson, of Thirsk, is raising funds for a hospice that cared for her son.", "Remdesivir shortens recovery time by about four days, research suggests.", "BBC News profiles the space travellers who journeyed in SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule.", "Testing of hydroxychloroquine as a possible coronavirus treatment is suspended by the health agency.", "Buyer demand leapt when curbs on the sector were lifted in England, but may not last long-term, analysis says.", "Updates on the pandemic in Wales from Wednesday 27 May.", "The socially-distanced play, featuring The Crown actors, will be streamed live from the Old Vic.", "UN agency the International Labour Organisation warns of potential \"lockdown generation\".", "How SpaceX's stylish spacesuit differs from other attire flown by astronauts.", "Andy Byford is appointed to the role of commissioner of Transport for London.", "A test and trace system to try to curb infections is to begin in England on Thursday.", "Julia Roberts and Lin-Manuel Miranda also thank the late playwright and aids activist.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "The FBI investigates Minneapolis police after video shows man being arrested saying \"I can't breathe\".", "The feline turned out to be an exotic pet which posed no risk to the public, Scotland Yard says.", "Schools minister challenged by MPs over whether all primary years in England will go back next month.", "Salons are asking the government to let them open before July to cut hair.", "These are the key phases in the first crew mission to go to orbit from the US in nine years.", "Dominic Cummings's 2019 blog mentioned coronavirus, but only after it was edited in April 2020.", "This contrasts with what UK government health secretary Matt Hancock has announced for England.", "Restrictions could be introduced if there is a local flare-up of coronavirus, a minister says.", "The PM rules out an inquiry into the conduct of his top aide at the height of the coronavirus lockdown.", "The latest data from the National Records of Scotland show that 3,799 Covid-19 linked deaths have now been registered.", "A study suggests that the only situation in which dads pull their weight is if they're not working.", "Why is SpaceX carrying astronauts to the space station and back for Nasa?", "Police say officers \"encouraged\" those involved to \"comply with social distancing guidelines\".", "Premier League clubs agree to resume contact training as four more individuals across three teams test positive for coronavirus.", "Jann Tipping and Annalan Navaratnam were given special permission for the ceremony in London.", "Dr John Wright is intrigued by some singers who became ill long before the UK's first known Covid-19 case.", "The Independent Monitoring Board at HMP Wayland says the ban makes it hard to monitor conditions.", "The aviation watchdog says it could take action if plane companies don't give customers their money back.", "Nicola Sturgeon says people in Scotland should only be out of their homes for \"essential reasons\".", "The Premier League is set for a decisive few days in establishing whether it is possible to resume and complete the current season.", "Families are opting for simpler, cheaper services amid the pandemic, the funeral services group says.", "US national Anne Sacoolas is suspected of causing his death by dangerous driving", "Police, tourism bosses and politicians say they fear some areas will see an influx of visitors.", "Some of the latitude the government was given as the coronavirus emergency unfolded has gone.", "The billionaire hopes to raise $500m to support his businesses including Virgin Atlantic.", "The directive comes after two members of Trump administration staff tested positive for coronavirus.", "BBC News brings you a day of live coverage focusing on the positive stories at this challenging time.", "The measures outlined were designed to show the country there is the beginning of a way out of this crisis.", "The government lockdown has seen couples across the UK cancel or postpone their weddings.", "Boris Johnson says people should only return to the workplace if it is secure against coronavirus.", "A BBC investigation uncovers evidence some sex workers are still travelling around the country.", "The firm said its income has dropped 80% since grounding its fleet due to the coronavirus pandemic.", "The father of actor Ben played the volatile and cantankerous Frank Costanza for six years.", "The submerged mud berth on the River Roach in Essex is recognised as a nationally important site.", "Claire Parry, 41, died from a brain injury caused by \"compression of the neck\", police say.", "They will resume next week at selected courts, including the Old Bailey, with social distancing rules.", "Boris Johnson says some primary year groups in England could start to return to school.", "It is the first time a national chain has sold petrol in the UK at this price since February 2016.", "Welsh authorities warn of confusion as people in England are allowed to drive somewhere to exercise.", "Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland keep the \"stay at home\" slogan as Labour warns the switch could be confusing.", "Michael Zammit Tabona said the German chancellor \"has fulfilled Hitler's dream\" to control Europe.", "Healthcare workers have been no more likely to die with Covid-19 than other 20- to 64-year-olds.", "With visits banned, one Dutch care home has found an innovative way to bring people together.", "The UK government says the new measures will not apply to those travelling from France.", "The first minister says the message in Scotland remains the same after the prime minister urged people to \"stay alert\".", "Ch Supt Phil Dolby - who \"nearly died\" with coronavirus - says he is \"disturbed\" by lockdown breaches.", "Researchers are looking for more UK volunteers showing signs of coronavirus to test existing drugs.", "The Welsh Government has allowed garden centres to reopen provided social distancing is observed.", "Springboard says the fall in the number of shoppers visiting UK High Streets was \"unprecedented\".", "The ferry operator says \"right-sizing\" the business is necessary because of the impact of Covid-19.", "Union boss Len McCluskey says workers should not be \"pressured\" as lockdown measures start to ease.", "The oil-rich kingdom's finances have been rocked after the pandemic forced down global energy prices.", "No professional sport, even behind closed doors, will be staged in England until 1 June at the earliest, the UK government announces.", "Both sides are due to decide next month whether a 31 December deadline should be extended.", "Confusion about the new guidelines leaves them open to interpretation, the Police Federation says.", "Nineteen sailors died when their ship was reportedly hit during a test of a new missile.", "Rail operators ramp up social distancing measures with move to pre-booked tickets and face masks.", "Some large ads at the top of its results were for sites it now believes were stealing users' cash.", "Military scientists at Porton Down have shown the BBC the work they are doing investigating coronavirus.", "A man and a woman are arrested on suspicion of murder after the discovery in the Forest of Dean.", "NHS bosses say they are worried seriously ill patients are staying away as visits drop by half.", "The health secretary addresses criticisms of the government as the epidemic in care homes continues.", "Data also shows more than 50 people have been wrongly charged with offences relating to coronavirus.", "The League Two season is brought to an early conclusion after talks between clubs and the English Football League.", "Police believe the newborn was less than two days old and are \"desperate\" to locate her mother.", "The test, now approved in the UK, can tell who has had Covid-19 - but gives no guarantee they are immune.", "Dutch restaurants are currently closed but a trial is under way to see how they could operate safely.", "Disagreements remain over fishing and competition as the EU's Michel Barnier warns of a stalemate.", "Sadiq Khan agrees to quickly restore a full Tube service under the terms of the emergency agreement.", "Six rhesus macaque monkeys were vaccinated and then exposed to the virus.", "One NHS doctor tells BBC Newsnight he was told by managers at his hospital to \"stop causing a fuss\".", "Mental health nurse Lillian Mudzivare and midwife Safaa Alam worked at a Birmingham hospital trust.", "Hospitals face another \"crucial test\" when outpatient clinics and operations resume, health unions say.", "All your coronavirus updates from 15 May.", "Minister who shared false allegations about Labour leader told to be more responsible by Tory bosses.", "The huge Canary Wharf complex draws up plans for tens of thousands of workers to return post-lockdown.", "Aarogya Setu, India's contact tracing app, has crossed 100 million downloads, but has raised concerns.", "Two cooling towers are blown up at the disused Philippsburg nuclear power plant.", "First Minister Mark Drakeford tells the BBC it's \"not the right time\" to change the coronavirus message.", "New Zealand has reported no new cases of the virus in the past three days.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says polling shows \"widespread endorsement for the approach we are taking\".", "The government says it is \"opening the door\" for professional football in England in June, after a meeting with the FA, Premier League and EFL.", "The newspaper's dating site says the platform is \"no longer viable\".", "Babies born to surrogate mothers are stuck in Ukraine due to coronavirus lockdown measures.", "The RSPB says it has been \"overrun\" by reports of birds of prey being illegally killed.", "The government will cease funding for a scheme to help homeless people in the Covid-19 pandemic.", "Scientists in Scotland and Switzerland develop a machine which has capacity for up to 3,000 tests a day.", "The economy shrank 2.2% in the first three months of 2020 as the pandemic took its toll on activity.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "\"I felt embarrassed for getting excited before the loss,\" she says of her miscarriage in February.", "Lib Dem Layla Moran urges chief science officers to publish scientific advice on schools reopening.", "The charge will resume on Monday and go up in June to avoid a build up of traffic in the capital.", "Seaside towns around England discourage visitors, as lifeguards say most beaches won't be patrolled.", "Children were sent sexual, racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic messages, a BBC investigation finds.", "The official guidance counsels singles to “meet with the same person”, provided they are virus-free.", "Rico Back leaves after less than two years in the role amid reports he ran the firm from Switzerland.", "Residents of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania can now travel freely between the three nations.", "The first minister says people \"can't live like this forever\" as she hints that minor lockdown changes could come next week.", "Under the plans announced last weekend, people arriving from abroad must isolate themselves for two weeks.", "People across the UK show appreciation for front-line workers risking their lives during the pandemic.", "VE Day anniversary celebrations see the legendary singer return to the top 40 at the age of 103.", "William Hill says gamblers have switched to \"alternative sports\" during the coronavirus pandemic.", "The intensive care unit is now gearing up for a second wave of coronavirus infections.", "The station say the presenter has made the 'difficult decision' not to renew her contract.", "Police say a body recovered from Havant Thicket in Hampshire is the missing 16-year-old.", "Jonathan Edwards has the Plaid Cymru whip withdrawn, meaning he must sit as an independent.", "Over two decades Wales' national garden has grown from bust to bloom, and is weathering the pandemic.", "Simon Hart wrote on Twitter that people in Wales could travel 15 miles for exercise.", "But the transport secretary says social distancing will cut capacity to a fifth of the usual amount.", "The wrestler turned Netflix Reality TV personality had posted about online bullying before she died.", "Islam's most important festival won't be the same, but families say it will be as delicious as ever.", "Coronavirus hospital patients given hydroxychloroquine were more likely to die, medical journal study says.", "She isolated from her two-year-old boy after Covid-19 was confirmed at her workplace.", "President Trump calls on US state governors to reopen places of worship currently shut due to transmission fears.", "The Crown Prosecution Service says it is 'moving quickly' to bring these cases to justice.", "Dominic Cummings is accused of flouting lockdown rules by making a 260-mile trip to be near relatives.", "UK prime ministerial aide Dominic Cummings made a long trip during lockdown while suffering symptoms.", "What do you do if your home is in lockdown, but your child's school is set to re-open?", "The Premier League is \"as confident as we can be\" about restarting in June, says chief executive Richard Masters.", "No 10 says fresh accusations about Dominic Cummings are \"false\", as some Tory MPs call for him to go.", "Friends of Louise Smith, missing for two weeks, say they are \"devastated' after a body is found.", "One ophthalmologist said he was saddened patients thought they were a burden during the pandemic.", "Rugby Australia and Queensland Rugby Union release Queensland Reds trio Izack Rodda, Harry Hockings, and Isaac Lucas after they refused to take Covid-19-related pay cuts.", "La Liga chief Javier Tebas says the Betis-Sevilla derby could restart the season on 11 June.", "The latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic in Scotland.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "The nationwide applause has \"had its moment\" and should end after 10 weeks, Annemarie Plas says.", "Fire crews say 45mph winds are proving a \"huge risk\" to the fire which has been burning for six days.", "Darrell Glen Humphries admits assaulting an emergency worker after claiming he had coronavirus.", "More than 64,000 bookings have been cancelled due to the collapse of Specialist Leisure Group.", "They are also charged with attempting to murder a man police believe was the intended target.", "The 19-year-old law student was shot dead in Blackburn last week after she was mistaken for someone else.", "New social distancing rules meant many worshippers had nowhere to go until the church stepped in.", "Labour demands action after the PM's aide went to his parents while self-isolating with Covid-19 symptoms.", "A source close to Dominic Cummings confirms he travelled from London to Durham to self-isolate with coronavirus symptons.", "Overnight stays away from home remain banned despite the easing of the lockdown rules, police warn.", "How the loss of the Amazon goes beyond deforestation - and what the nine countries that share this natural resource are doing to protect it.", "People in Wales still cannot book coronavirus tests via a UK-wide portal used by the other nations.", "A total of 84 people died in 24 hours, the lowest daily toll since March in the worst-hit US state.", "The former Children's Laureate was admitted to hospital in London eight weeks ago.", "The latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic in Scotland.", "While iPhone sales fell due to the lockdown in China, sales of streaming services jumped.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Reality Check examines the weekly deaths figures for nations and regions across the UK.", "Police leaders say that while compliance is holding up overall, warmer weather could be a challenge.", "The fast food chain will reopen 15 outlets, serving a limited menu that won't include breakfast.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this evening.", "But Mark Drakeford says he cannot be certain Wales has come far enough to ease restrictions.", "Amazon's sales surged 26%, but costs are also up due to spending on safety precautions and wages.", "Ex-Parachute Regiment member Steve Parker says he \"died three times\" after falling into a coma.", "Care agencies fear running out of PPE, but say dealing with online portals can lead them to be scammed.", "A study says the higher risk to some ethnic groups cannot be explained by location or age.", "Mediterranean sediments are shown to have up to 1.9 million tiny plastic pieces per square metre.", "An expert warns there is \"nothing more valuable\" in the world today than a way to prevent the disease.", "Clinics will need to prove they can offer services while protecting the safety of patients and staff.", "Wales' first minister announces the payment as coronavirus deaths in care homes continue to rise.", "But the target is just a \"stepping stone\" to more testing, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick says.", "Some authorities say waste sites will reopen at the weekend, while others say further guidance is needed.", "Will life return to how it was once lockdown restrictions are eased, or will some things change for ever?", "Players are \"scared\" about the prospect of returning to action amid the coronavirus pandemic, says Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero.", "Latest updates as the official death toll from Public Health Wales reaches 925.", "Several people injured at a WA shopping centre after an attack by a man with a knife.", "Taoiseach Leo Varadkar also announces a five-stage road map that will \"reopen the country\".", "Urgent services should return to pre-Covid-19 levels, a letter to local trusts and GPs says.", "The US Food and Drug Administration gives emergency approval for the experimental antiviral drug remdesivir.", "Analysis shows people living in more deprived areas are more likely to die with Covid-19.", "Police found the pair injured at a property in Upminster.", "Several senators reportedly wore bulletproof vests as armed demonstrators looked on from the gallery.", "Mr Icke's page was removed for publishing \"health misinformation that could cause physical harm\".", "The Nigerian musician created afrobeat with Fela Kuti and gave it its distinctive rhythms.", "New rules would make it illegal to sell or use 1,500 kinds of assault weapons.", "Boris Johnson says he will set out a plan next week on the economy, schools and transport beyond lockdown.", "The cases include an outbreak at a care home in Portree, says Skye Community Response.", "António Guterres tells the BBC he has been \"shocked but not surprised\" by the coronavirus response.", "The guitarist says he is 'angry and sad' over the situation, as Queen release a new charity single.", "Consultant says she \"can't thank people enough\" after WhatsApp appeal triggers huge public effort.", "Three judges reject a posthumous appeal for killer Gordon Park, who murdered his wife Carol in 1976.", "As people stepped out to show their thanks for key workers, rainbows appeared in the sky across England.", "Our correspondents answer your questions about your money during coronavirus, via live stream.", "People living with abuse will be able to use the pharmacy's consultation rooms to contact helplines.", "The airline has told staff that it cannot rule out keeping the operation closed indefinitely.", "The Masked Singer and Britain's Got Talent are to return, possibly without a live studio audience.", "Many say they would be uncomfortable leaving home even if restrictions were lifted.", "The tweet was one of several bizarre postings, including a promise to sell his possessions.", "The government does not know how many families have received the vouchers.", "Four photos taken by the Duchess of Cambridge show the princess helping deliver food in Norfolk.", "Local residents are being invited to take home its cask beer in their own containers.", "From a young mother to a professional card player: seven people lost to Covid-19 on one day.", "Heathrow Airport boss warns that social-distancing at airports is \"physically impossible\".", "A third of the government's 122,300 tests in 24 hours were sent in the post but not necessarily completed.", "The health organisation pushes back at criticism of its response to the coronavirus outbreak.", "The airline also says it needs to cut a \"minimum\" of 3,000 jobs as it tries to cope with the pandemic.", "The conservation charity calls for urgent support for wildlife sectors amid coronavirus outbreak.", "Businesses and trade bodies have been asked to advise on safe ways to restart the economy.", "Concern about too many customers means the bakery chain will now reopen behind closed doors.", "NHS England says all essential vaccinations are still being provided despite the coronavirus outbreak.", "For the sixth week in a row, people clapped to show appreciation for health workers.", "Mark Drakeford said \"we should all be anxious\" about how long lockdown can be sustained.", "The self-styled \"king and queen of rock 'n' roll\" - who inspired Elvis and The Beatles - dies at 87.", "Cycling and walking will be vital to get UK back working, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps says on 9 May.", "China says it will improve public health systems after criticism of its early response to the virus.", "Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the firm will leave California after he is ordered to keep a factory shut.", "The environment secretary urges the public to abide by the current measures over the bank holiday weekend.", "Pavinya Nithiyakumar, aged 19 months, and Nigish Nithiyakumar, three, were found with stab wounds.", "At least 227 people attempt to cross the English Channel in two days, the Home Office says.", "The owner of Stansted and Manchester airports says passengers must cover their faces and wear gloves.", "The fiancee of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi says Newcastle United and the Premier League must put moral values ahead of financial gains.", "It reportedly planned to re-open on Friday, but authorities say this could lead to more virus cases.", "The first minister says only small steps to change the lockdown are possible to keep the rate of Covid-19's reproduction down.", "Psychologists find they are more likely to meet friends than women.", "\"Extreme caution\" will be needed when the UK eases lockdown, Grant Shapps says as he announces transport measures.", "Commemorating her father's VE Day address, she expresses pride in a UK the wartime generation would \"admire\".", "Replacing cars with bikes or walking will cut infection and address climate change, say campaigners.", "Funding for English local authorities is likely to be unveiled to encourage people to be more active.", "President Xi Jinping expresses concern about the threat to its neighbour, and offers to help.", "Prince Charles praises their \"dedication, resilience and hard work\" in a letter left outside his home.", "Dynamo Dresden, who play in the second tier of German Football, have put their entire squad and coaching staff into two-week isolation after recording two new coronavirus cases.", "The self-styled \"king and queen of rock 'n' roll\" - who inspired Elvis and The Beatles - dies at 87.", "The annual biscuit showdown is held online as dozens of competitive eaters polish off their webcams.", "The cousin of Grace Millane, who was murdered in New Zealand, says she would have been \"so proud\".", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Experts warn the true number of infections may be higher due to low testing rates in many countries.", "Italy has the third highest officially recorded coronavirus deaths, after the US and the UK.", "An airline industry body says it has been told coronavirus quarantining will start from the end of May.", "Mental health problems are growing and ship workers see \"no end\" to their ordeal, a union warns.", "The TV personality, whose husband Leon died in 2017, was one of the original stars of the reality show.", "Companies say delaying passengers' entrance risks cutting off the UK from the rest of the world.", "This video has been removed for rights reasons.", "More than 650,000 watch the Gollum actor narrate Tolkien's fantasy classic in one 11-hour sitting.", "Education unions say they want scientific evidence it is safe for teachers and pupils to return.", "The latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic in Scotland.", "Ministers say the deal between the NHS and private firms will help protect Scotland from \"global supply issues\".", "The Red Square parade was cancelled because of the pandemic, but in neighbouring Belarus the parade went ahead as planned.", "Night Talk is clearly an accomplished work, but the artist needs to get inside our heads as well as the sitters'.", "Councils have seen a \"significant surge\" in criminal activity, including the sale of bogus medical kit.", "Stores following social distancing can reopen from Wednesday, a senior government source says.", "The moves will allow some sports and outdoor activities, and meeting someone from another household.", "The legislation paves the way for the UK to create a new post-Brexit immigration system.", "Samantha Gamble will marry on Friday after lockdown restrictions were eased by politicians last week.", "Law student Aya Hachem, 19, was found lying in the street near a Lidl supermarket on Sunday.", "The Parole Board rules Wendell Baker, who attacked pensioner Hazel Backwell, can be released.", "Chancellor warns that country faces \"severe recession the likes of which we have not seen\", on 19 May.", "There have been huge queues since a recycling centre in Sutton Coldfield reopened.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "MPs and peers were to move out for five years from 2025, but a squeeze on finances may change this..", "Four Britons were among those stranded on the South Atlantic island amid the coronavirus crisis.", "Aya Hachem who was shot dead in Blackburn was a \"very intelligent young lady\", her head teacher said.", "The chains' owner Casual Dining Group files intent to appoint administrators after the virus lockdown hit trading.", "Lockdown measures have seen costs rise as children must stay at home, charity Family Fund says.", "The UK's National Cyber Security Centre acknowledges problems identified by an independent report.", "Loss of smell and taste join a new cough and fever as signs that self-isolation may be necessary, experts say.", "One in three young workers is earning less than before the coronavirus outbreak, a report suggests.", "Air bridges would allow visitors from low-risk countries into the UK without having to quarantine.", "Clubs can expect surprise inspections during training as they prepare for the resumption of the Premier League under new safety guidelines.", "The latest jobless figures for Scotland are yet to fully reflect the \"unprecedented impact\" of the Covid-19 pandemic.", "The tourist industry says another public holiday would help offset losses caused by the lockdown.", "Ankle tags which monitor alcohol consumption will be fitted to 2,000 offenders in England and Wales.", "Larger trials now needed to see if the vaccine can protect against the coronavirus.", "Increases in rainfall in England could impact ambulance and fire crew response times.", "Coronavirus testing has been extended to everyone aged five and over in the UK with symptoms.", "The BBC says it is \"considering the case\" for returning the channel to \"linear television.\"", "One victim speaks out about her ordeal as her former partner is convicted of stalking her.", "There will be no face-to-face lectures in the next academic year due to coronavirus, the university says.", "The attack was \"sophisticated\" the airline said, adding that some credit card details had been accessed.", "One player and two staff at Watford and Burnley assistant manager Ian Woan are among six positive tests for coronavirus.", "Ministers in Wales look at changing rules as advice says virus may decay \"very quickly\" in sunlight.", "Ministers are having a \"very real debate\" about relaxing rules for those who don't live together.", "The ban was put in place as part of measures to manage the coronavirus outbreak.", "Police say the 27 boys and men, aged 16 to 57, were arrested at addresses across Bradford.", "The 100-year-old war veteran raised £32m for NHS charities by completing 100 laps of his garden.", "The BBC speaks to three different people across the UK who have lost their jobs during lockdown.", "Law student Aya Hachem was not the intended target of the attack, police say.", "Public Health England did not share figures on the number of care home outbreaks until late April.", "Good Omens author Neil Gaiman writes apology for making trip from New Zealand to Scotland.", "The government says the law will eliminate legal uncertainty, but trans people fear discrimination.", "The plan would see €500bn of grants distributed to EU member states worst affected by the pandemic.", "An analysis shows a huge daily CO2 drop, but a return to car travel may see emissions rebound.", "A care home boss in England strongly criticises the government's handling of the coronavirus outbreak.", "Groups of up to six people will be allowed to meet outdoors and some sports can resume.", "Four young people explain how they set up businesses in lockdown.", "Stores 'will have to discount heavily' to shift excess stock that may now be out of season, one analyst said.", "The Muslim Council of Britain says people should celebrate virtually during the coronavirus lockdown.", "The party's set piece gathering was scheduled to take place in Liverpool in September.", "Kevin Mayer will be in charge of the global development of the short-form video platform.", "Watford captain Troy Deeney says he will not return to training with the club because he fears for his family's health amid the coronavirus pandemic.", "The Science and Technology Committee says UK capacity was not increased \"early or boldly enough\".", "Two people appear in court as police say Phoenix Netts, 28, was found in the Forest of Dean.", "The total number of registered deaths involving Covid-19 is now more than 1,850 in Wales.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this evening.", "Officers are concerned they could be exposed to coronavirus while conducting drink-drive tests.", "Liz Spooner worked for 41 years at Swansea's Singleton Hospital.", "John Tate suspected serial child-killer Robert Black snatched his 13-year-old daughter in 1978.", "Long stays in intensive care and being ventilated could increase the risk, researchers say.", "Scotland Yard says Prof Neil Ferguson's behaviour was \"plainly disappointing\" but rules out fining him.", "A study has identified a mutation that its authors say could make the coronavirus more infectious.", "The number of people dying with coronavirus in Scotland has fallen for the first time, according to new data.", "Countries have \"gone their own way\" rather than working together, the ex-prime minister says.", "Lillian, 81, and Maurice Dunnington, 85, died days apart, and just two weeks after their son Keith.", "The piece depicts a young boy discarding his superhero toys in favour of a model of an NHS nurse.", "Boris Johnson will lead the Downing Street briefing for the first time since his return to work.", "Prof Neil Ferguson, who advised ministers on coronavirus, says he \"made an error of judgement\".", "Prices should initially fall but then spike by more than 50% if airlines have to keep middle seats free.", "Men with advanced prostate cancer can now take highly targeted hormone therapies at home.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Lockdowns have forced the company to close its theme parks and has hurt advertising.", "The 57-year-old man was declared dead at the scene and another man was critically injured.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon welcomes \"progress\" but says it is \"still too fragile\" to allow restrictions to be eased.", "The healthcare sector is being targeted online by hackers linked to foreign states, the two nations say.", "Restarting the economy - and our lives - will not be a straightforward task.", "A man is held on suspicion of attempted murder after an officer is seriously assaulted, police say.", "The German quartet set the template for electronic music and influenced scores of other artists.", "Ministers are looking at how to ease the lockdown. How cautious should they be?", "The star returns to the world of Harry Potter by reading the first chapter from the first book.", "Many activists have had to stop their usual work due to the pandemic. Here's how they're responding.", "The TV soap's characters will be seen dealing with life during the pandemic when filming resumes.", "The PM says government is \"working hard\" to tackle it - and sets 200,000 test aim by end of month.", "The UK records a further 649 deaths, taking the total number of coronavirus deaths to 30,076.", "The patients, who all died from covid-related symptoms, were residents of Glenabbey Manor.", "The historic move will be temporary to cope with the coronavirus pandemic, says Commons speaker.", "Falling alcohol sales at a specialist Cotswold spirits firm have been replaced by \"exceptional\" sales of its new line in hand sanitisers.", "Use our tool to check the meaning of key words and phrases associated with the Covid-19 outbreak.", "The figure of 29,427 deaths is \"a massive tragedy\", the foreign secretary says, but steers clear of comparisons.", "Areas such as India, Australia and Africa are predicted to be among the worst affected.", "One person dies and three are hurt following the incident in south Wales.", "Rory Cellan-Jones gets an early look at the app, which could play a critical role in easing the lockdown.", "A third of the government's 122,300 tests in 24 hours were sent in the post but not necessarily completed.", "The Labour leader says the UK's coronavirus death figures are “not success or apparent success“.", "UK government advisors say post-pandemic recovery funds should go to firms reducing carbon emissions.", "The 100-year-old fundraiser joins the Queen and David Attenborough in receiving the accolade.", "PM tells MPs new lockdown measures could come in to place from Monday.", "The North Magnetic Pole has been racing across the top of the world, from Canada towards Siberia.", "The airline will axe a third of its workforce in response to the \"severe impact\" of coronavirus.", "A round-up of news and information on coronavirus in Wales.", "Five residents have now died at care home at the centre of a Covid-19 outbreak on Skye.", "The pandemic has added to financial challenges facing the taxi-hailing app firm.", "The former cabinet minister says he cannot ask campaign volunteers to work for another year.", "The Apprentice host's tweet, which promoted a teeth whitening kit, broke advertising guidelines.", "Heathrow boss urges government to help his industry saying restarting aviation is key to restarting UK economy as a whole.", "Debenhams will permanently close more stores, after failing to agree new terms with some landlords.", "The government misses its 100,000 per day testing target - with 69,463 tests provided in 24 hours.", "The singer, who had Jamaica's first million-selling single, dies after suffering a stroke.", "Demand for milk has dropped with the closure of cafes and restaurants during the coronavirus crisis.", "A 'significant' fire broke out at the east Belfast site, with fire crews expected there most of the night.", "Law student Aya Hachem, 19, died when shots were fired from a passing car near a supermarket.", "Police say a body recovered from Havant Thicket in Hampshire is the missing 16-year-old.", "The UK prime minister has come under pressure from some of his MPs to sack adviser Dominic Cummings.", "Paul Cairns, 42, died of his injuries after a gunman opened fire at Ardrossan in North Ayrshire.", "But the transport secretary says social distancing will cut capacity to a fifth of the usual amount.", "Members of political parties speak of death threats, misogyny and sexual comments.", "The former Children's Laureate was admitted to hospital in London eight weeks ago.", "Tens of thousands of Indians are trying to get back to their home villages, with many forced to walk hundreds of miles with little food or water.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "She isolated from her two-year-old boy after Covid-19 was confirmed at her workplace.", "The latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic in Scotland.", "The carmaker is reportedly seeking more than £1bn in taxpayer support as the pandemic hits sales.", "Care workers who test positive for coronavirus will be given enhanced payments in future.", "Sir Michael Wilshaw said it was time for schools to reopen as some children had regressed during lockdown.", "Some year groups in England will return on 1 June, with others going back two weeks later, he says.", "The Stormont Executive relaxed coronavirus lockdown restrictions to allow people to gather in vehicles.", "Manchester Grammar student Yousef Makki died in a fight with his friend in March last year.", "The director general of the BBC says its audience has continued to grow during the Covid-19 pandemic", "No 10 says fresh accusations about Dominic Cummings are \"false\", as some Tory MPs call for him to go.", "The National Cyber Security Centre involvement follows new US sanctions on Chinese telecoms giant.", "Boris Johnson says his adviser acted \"legally and with integrity\" when making a 260-mile trip for childcare.", "Law student Aya Hachem, 19, was walking to the shop when she was shot from a passing car.", "The Duke of Cambridge tells a documentary on mental health he found things \"overwhelming\" at times.", "Those who come into close contact with someone who has tested positive will be asked to isolate.", "Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken ready themselves and their kit for Wednesday's flight to the space station.", "The body of 16-year-old Louise Smith was found in woodland in Havant on Thursday.", "Fire crews say 45mph winds are proving a \"huge risk\" to the fire which has been burning for six days.", "A profile of Boris Johnson's former right-hand-man, who has turned into his chief tormentor.", "People's coronavirus experiences in Wales are being documented, using WhatsApp and Facebook messages.", "Boris Johnson did not address the specifics of his adviser's lockdown trip, he provided one broad answer instead.", "The 19-year-old law student was shot dead in Blackburn last week after she was mistaken for someone else.", "A vast stretch of coast is lashed by torrential rain and huge swells, causing widespread damage.", "The PM backs Dominic Cummings but this row is far from over...", "Hull City confirm two people at the Championship club have tested positive for coronavirus.", "No 10 says fresh claims about Dominic Cummings - who has been seen going into Downing Street - are \"false\".", "Council leader wants people tested twice on discharge from hospital due to false negative results.", "How the loss of the Amazon goes beyond deforestation - and what the nine countries that share this natural resource are doing to protect it.", "People in Wales still cannot book coronavirus tests via a UK-wide portal used by the other nations.", "The virus sparks anxiety issues and some will need help, say mental health experts in Wales.", "The government publishes new guidelines for elite athletes returning to contact training when individual sports deem it safe.", "Police investigate the deaths of three women at Home Farm care home where 10 residents have died in a Covid-19 outbreak.", "Footage of Sandy Cortmann's parachute jump for the 75th anniversary of Operation Market Garden went viral last year.", "Sector may not \"generate any significant revenue\" before next Easter, says Ken Skates.", "A total of 84 people died in 24 hours, the lowest daily toll since March in the worst-hit US state.", "Industries say the UK will be left behind, unless it relaxes quarantine rules with low-risk nations.", "The scheme to pay wages of workers on leave because of coronavirus has been extended to the end of October.", "During the lockdown Transport for London has lost 90% of its overall income, new documents reveal.", "Dr Anthony Fauci says easing lockdowns too quickly risks new outbreaks, in testimony to US senators.", "Sima Kotecha faced \"racist and abusive behaviour\" while preparing for interviews in Leicester.", "US national Anne Sacoolas is suspected of causing his death by dangerous driving", "Wuhan has proposed an ambitious battle plan to test its entire population in just 10 days.", "Some of the latitude the government was given as the coronavirus emergency unfolded has gone.", "Hormone-fed beef and chlorine-washed chicken should remain banned in England. the government is warned.", "The changes are part of the government's new lockdown measures which come into place from Wednesday.", "CBS reporter Weijia Jiang asked Mr Trump why testing is a contest to him. He said she should ask China.", "Doubt is cast on claims fossil fuel companies are curbing their CO2 in line with net zero targets.", "The ban on mass gatherings has ruled out the event that normally attracts 10,000 visitors.", "The Queen led the tributes to nurses, saying they have had \"a very important part to play recently\".", "Demand is high as some golf, fishing and tennis returns in England.", "The pop star debuts on the list in third place, with an estimated fortune of £468m.", "The festivals, featuring Stormzy, are the latest big music events to be called off due to Covid-19.", "Boris Johnson says people should only return to the workplace if it is secure against coronavirus.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak confirms that the UK-wide scheme to pay wages of those unable to work because of Covid-19 is extended to October.", "The fall in the carbon dioxide emissions is not just due to the country's coronavirus lockdown.", "Head teacher leader and council boss say they need more time to prepare for school reopening in England.", "The lockdown could help troubled teenagers, including street gang members, turn their lives around.", "Claire Parry, 41, died from a brain injury caused by \"compression of the neck\", police say.", "Bringing you news from across England on International Nurses Day.", "Public transport, even running at full capacity, will only be able to carry a tenth of normal numbers.", "The airline aims to reintroduce 40% of its schedule from July, subject to travel restrictions being lifted.", "A new app designed to replace the existing official Scrabble app has sparked hundreds of complaints.", "Care home deaths fall 12% in past week with ministers expressing \"relief\" cases may have peaked.", "Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks hit by hackers who claim to have contracts and personal emails of stars.", "Half of intensive care posts in hospitals are not properly filled, says a senior consultant.", "The government scheme, due to end in June, is currently subsidising the wages of six million people.", "Developments from Wales as the chancellor said the furlough scheme will continue until October.", "The refusal to extradite Anne Sacoolas over Harry Dunn's death comes despite an Interpol notice.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says \"big, lavish international holidays\" are unlikely this summer.", "The surprise, virtual meeting brings back strong feelings and memories for the pair.", "The boss of the electric carmaker said he would be on the assembly line with other Tesla workers.", "The hospital blaze in St Petersburg appears to have been caused by a short-circuit in a ventilator.", "The impact of coronavirus on the economy has already been extreme and more questions lie ahead.", "Researchers are looking for more UK volunteers showing signs of coronavirus to test existing drugs.", "The Welsh Government has allowed garden centres to reopen provided social distancing is observed.", "The ferry operator says \"right-sizing\" the business is necessary because of the impact of Covid-19.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak defends the government's \"expensive\" furlough scheme extension in BBC interview.", "The store listed hard-to-find technology and exercise equipment at discount prices and is now offline.", "It says the rise follows the easing of restrictions in England, which do not apply in Wales.", "Belly Mujinga's husband says she was \"a good person, a good mother, and a good wife\".", "Lib Dem Layla Moran urges chief science officers to publish scientific advice on schools reopening.", "Authorities have warned people not to travel in or to Wales in breach of restrictions.", "Seaside towns around England discourage visitors, as lifeguards say most beaches won't be patrolled.", "Abba topped a BBC show's poll, before the contest's producers marked the show that might have been.", "Lillian, 81, and Maurice Dunnington, 85, died days apart, and just two weeks after their son Keith.", "Children were sent sexual, racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic messages, a BBC investigation finds.", "The official guidance counsels singles to “meet with the same person”, provided they are virus-free.", "It means all care home staff and residents with or without symptoms are eligible for tests.", "An examination finds that all nine victims of the crash died as a result of blunt force trauma.", "Steve Linick was investigating Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a senior Democrat says.", "Military scientists at Porton Down have shown the BBC the work they are doing investigating coronavirus.", "Human remains were found in two suitcases in the Forest of Dean on Tuesday night.", "The Labour leader blames Boris Johnson for the Wales-England divergence over lockdown rules.", "Erling Braut Haaland scores for Borussia Dortmund as they mark the return of the Bundesliga during the coronavirus outbreak with a convincing derby win over Schalke.", "The country's most senior Catholic asks the Vatican to investigate after a new film alleges a cover-up.", "The placing of the symbol in windows is allowing families to celebrate those who have died with Covid-19.", "Piers Corbyn was among hundreds of demonstrators in London's Hyde Park on Saturday afternoon.", "The latest updates as Scotland spends its eighth weekend under lockdown.", "The Royal College of GPs says the government should focus on its testing strategy rather than targets.", "Meanwhile hundreds of people gathered in London to protest against the lockdown.", "Under the plans announced last weekend, people arriving from abroad must isolate themselves for two weeks.", "Data also shows more than 50 people have been wrongly charged with offences relating to coronavirus.", "Human remains were found in two suitcases in the Forest of Dean on Tuesday night.", "The education secretary acknowledges some parents are \"very anxious\" about schools reopening in England.", "Expertise was ignored in favour of conspiracy, Glastonbury town council committee members say.", "VE Day anniversary celebrations see the legendary singer return to the top 40 at the age of 103.", "The dogs are already trained to detect odours of cancers, malaria and Parkinson's disease.", "The government will cease funding for a scheme to help homeless people in the Covid-19 pandemic.", "The sites for household waste were closed across Scotland in March due to the Covid-19 outbreak.", "Teachers' unions express safety fears but the education secretary says it will be a cautious return.", "The virus appears to be making people's blood much more sticky, medical experts say.", "A total of 30 residents and 29 staff have tested positive for Covid-19 at Home Farm in Portree.", "BBC News has seen a string of complaints about leading banks from customers unable to get any money.", "Specialists who carry out scans say capacity will struggle to meet demand due to a lack of machines.", "He says it's time to \"hand over to a new leadership\" of the Labour grassroots campaign group.", "The German Bundesliga becomes the first major European league to restart after the coronavirus shutdown this weekend.", "Councils will need \"significant additional resources\", the local government association says.", "Scottish Tory leader Jackson Carlaw says it was \"the wrong call\" not to release information about the event.", "The owner of a pizza restaurant discovered the app was selling his food cheaper than he was but still paying him full price.", "Tech firms say 22 countries and some US states have requested access to their contact-tracing system.", "Newham, in east London, has the highest death rate from coronavirus in England and Wales.", "Many poor Indians, fleeing hunger in locked down cities, have died of exhaustion or in accidents.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this morning.", "While the pandemic is slowing in parts of Europe and Asia, it is still rapidly growing worldwide.", "Law student Aya Hachem, 19, was killed on a Blackburn street in a case of mistaken identity.", "NHS staff say they feel \"stabbed in the back\" after people allegedly broke social distancing rules.", "NHS England's medical director Prof Stephen Powis says experts are currently evaluating the tests.", "Some tourist towns had barely survived fires when the virus hit, and locals say they are struggling.", "Welsh chief constables and police and crime commissioners want a rise in penalties for breaches.", "The Covid-19 pandemic has forced the city to postpone all but 'essential' court cases.", "Emily Jones was at a park with her parents on Mother's Day when she was fatally stabbed.", "The number of people dying with coronavirus in Scotland decreases for the third consecutive week.", "New legislation would allow curfews and travel bans to continue beyond the current two-year limit.", "Aya Hachem who was shot dead in Blackburn was a \"very intelligent young lady\", her head teacher said.", "Margaret Maughan, Britain's first Paralympic gold medallist and who lit the 2012 Paralympic flame, dies aged 91.", "The airline has been hit by the sharp fall in passenger numbers due to the coronavirus crisis.", "The latest jobless figures for Scotland are yet to fully reflect the \"unprecedented impact\" of the Covid-19 pandemic.", "The retail giant says customers are cooking more from scratch and shopping more online.", "The tourist industry says another public holiday would help offset losses caused by the lockdown.", "Simple soap and water can kill the virus if you use it often enough, experts say.", "A major incident is declared as fire crews tackle a large industrial fire in Newton-le-Willows.", "Fayeth, 13, says she feels like she \"gets death stares\" while shopping for her mum who has epilepsy.", "Increases in rainfall in England could impact ambulance and fire crew response times.", "The BBC says it is \"considering the case\" for returning the channel to \"linear television.\"", "But the airline says it will weather the coronavirus crisis and emerge stronger afterwards.", "One victim speaks out about her ordeal as her former partner is convicted of stalking her.", "There will be no face-to-face lectures in the next academic year due to coronavirus, the university says.", "Pupils in Hull were assigned pornography homework but not told the internet was banned for research.", "Latest developments including the prospect of hundreds of British Airways jobs being lost.", "The financial impact of the coronavirus is hitting poor nations hard and destroying millions of livelihoods.", "The 100-year-old war veteran raised £32m for NHS charities by completing 100 laps of his garden.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "When passenger planes start flying again, the world of air travel will be very different.", "The government says the law will eliminate legal uncertainty, but trans people fear discrimination.", "An analysis shows a huge daily CO2 drop, but a return to car travel may see emissions rebound.", "Charging migrant health workers to use the NHS is cruel and unfair, opposition leaders tell the PM.", "Outsourcing giant Serco has apologised for the data breach, which affects almost 300 people.", "Lucy Childs had no idea she was a carer despite looking after her mother and sister from the age of seven", "The aircraft engine maker is axing nearly a fifth of its workforce with the aviation sector in turmoil.", "A care home boss in England strongly criticises the government's handling of the coronavirus outbreak.", "Aspiring solicitor Aya Hachem, 19, was fatally injured in Blackburn when she was mistakenly targeted.", "Daunted by many more weeks of home-schooling? Don't panic, ask for help, say education professionals.", "The latest figures published by National Records of Scotland show that 3,546 people have died with those over 75 accounting for 76%.", "The first minister says he is open to increasing fines, which are lower in Wales than England.", "The NHS is warned not to \"lose sight\" of other areas of life-saving medicine amid the coronavirus outbreak.", "As some council say they won't be ready for 1 June, ministers face the challenges of getting kids back.", "Johnson and Johnson is to stop US sales of the talc in the face of lawsuits claiming it causes cancer.", "It comes as Labour accuses the government of leaving a \"huge hole\" in the UK's coronavirus defences.", "PM was challenged by Sir Keir Starmer over track and trace system for coronavirus testing.", "Inspectors have taken legal action after 10 residents died in a coronavirus outbreak at the care home in Skye.", "A report lists some of the best ways people can tackle their own contribution to climate change.", "Two people appear in court as police say Phoenix Netts, 28, was found in the Forest of Dean.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "The 100-year-old war veteran was in disbelief but \"delighted\" to learn he is to be knighted.", "Some season ticket holders 'in the dark' over refunds, but firms say refund demand is unprecedented.", "It is hoped the antibodies recovered patients have built up will help clear the virus in others.", "The creator of Harry Potter says the money will go towards helping the homeless and domestic abuse victims.", "Proposals to make public transport safer being considered as part of plans for easing coronavirus lockdown.", "Latest figures show that a further 44 coronavirus deaths have been reported in Scottish hospitals.", "Mother and baby are \"doing very well,\" says No 10, and the PM has returned to work in Downing Street.", "Excellent casting and music, but the narrative is plodding with an all-too predictable sequence of events.", "Ex-Parachute Regiment member Steve Parker says he \"died three times\" after falling into a coma.", "Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez aims to lift Spain's strict virus lockdown in four phases from 4 May.", "Temisan Oritsejafor admits assaulting the officer after his arrest at a block of flats in Coventry.", "Care agencies fear running out of PPE, but say dealing with online portals can lead them to be scammed.", "Baby Johnson joins Leo Blair and Florence Cameron to become a member of a very exclusive club.", "Derek Ogg, 65, was a leading defence lawyer and a civil rights campaigner for decades.", "The platform says Mr Icke repeatedly violated its policies by posting misleading videos about Covid-19.", "The firm says it \"needs to take action\" after aircraft manufacturers cut production amid the pandemic.", "Those travelling by train to the Continent may be denied boarding if they do not comply with the rule.", "Cars lined up for 30 minutes before some recycling centres opened for the first time since lockdown.", "Welsh ministers were criticised for saying there was \"no value\" in testing all residents and staff.", "Taoiseach Leo Varadkar also announces a five-stage road map that will \"reopen the country\".", "Vulnerable children and victims of domestic violence and modern slavery will get extra support.", "Analysis shows people living in more deprived areas are more likely to die with Covid-19.", "Police found the pair injured at a property in Upminster.", "Boris Johnson says doctors had planned what to do if his coronavirus treatment went \"badly wrong\".", "New rules would make it illegal to sell or use 1,500 kinds of assault weapons.", "David Gomoh was fatally stabbed seconds after leaving his home in east London, police say.", "With the strict lockdown rules being eased, Spain's adults can finally exercise outside.", "What is it like to have the coronavirus, how will it affect you and how is it treated?", "The US has the highest toll in the world and about a third of the 3.3m total cases, a tally shows.", "Carrie Symonds says she \"couldn't be happier\" with their baby boy Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson.", "The US women's football team's bid for equal pay is dismissed by a court, with the judge rejecting the players' claims that they were underpaid.", "The day's updates, including confirmation of an expansion of testing in care homes.", "Four photos taken by the Duchess of Cambridge show the princess helping deliver food in Norfolk.", "The measure comes as the country starts to relax its strict coronavirus lockdown.", "The tweet was one of several bizarre postings, including a promise to sell his possessions.", "The conservation charity calls for urgent support for wildlife sectors amid coronavirus outbreak.", "Joe Wicks, who runs charity lockdown workouts, suffered complications after previous hand surgery.", "A third of the government's 122,300 tests in 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payments because of the impact of coronavirus.\n\nMore than 1.6 million mortgage customers have taken advantage of the relief from making payments.\n\nThe banking body, UK Finance, estimates this is an average of £755 a month.\n\nThe government brought in the mortgage break scheme in mid-March, which allows people to apply to defer their payments, without their credit reference being affected.\n\nThat respite from payments would end for the first applicants in June.\n\nThis is not free money. It will still have to be paid back later on, so mortgage customers will face higher bills once the so-called holiday comes to an end.\n\nThe problem the Treasury is grappling with is that an abrupt end to the scheme could produce a cliff-edge effect, with families facing money problems as bad, if not worse, as they did when the virus struck.\n\nA spokesman for the financial regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA,) would not comment on any talks but said it was vital that customers should have advice and support at the end of a payment freeze.\n\nHe said: \"We are currently considering what support will be needed for customers reaching the end of a mortgage payment freeze. We have not yet made any final decisions but we will make an announcement soon.\"\n\nOne idea is that the mortgage scheme would be extended for a further three months, but that there would be no blanket extension and the rules on applications could be tightened.\n\nA spokesman for the Treasury said: \"We're not commenting on speculation.\"", "All three books were found in a skip outside a school\n\nA hardback first edition Harry Potter book which was found in a skip has sold for £33,000 at auction.\n\nThe rare copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was discovered by a teacher 12 years ago along with two paperback first editions.\n\nThe anonymous seller found the books outside a school while tidying its library before an Ofsted inspection.\n\nAfter the paperbacks went for £3,400 and £3,000, the seller said: \"To say I'm pleased is an understatement.\"\n\nThey were sold during an online auction at Bishton Hall in Staffordshire earlier.\n\nOnly 500 hardback first editions of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone were printed in 1997, most of which were sent to schools and libraries.\n\nBook expert Jim Spencer said the three copies \"sparked intense bidding\"\n\nPrior to the auction the hardback had an estimate of £8,000-£12,000 due to some damage to its binding.\n\nIt was bought by a private UK buyer after \"a tense auction battle\", Hansons Auctioneers said.\n\nIt is the third copy of a hardback first edition found by the Derbyshire-based company in the last 12 months, and its book expert Jim Spencer described them as \"the Holy Grail\" for collectors.\n\n\"It was marvellous to see the Harry Potter books do so well and spark such intense bidding,\" he added.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Testing has been a difficult issue for UK politicians to handle\n\nWales has fallen behind the other three nations in testing for coronavirus, the UK government's Welsh Secretary Simon Hart has said.\n\nMr Hart said it \"makes progress\" with recovering from Covid-19 \"so much slower\".\n\nThe Welsh Government has been under pressure over the number of tests it provides daily, after it abandoned setting targets in April.\n\nIt said all four UK governments have faced challenges.\n\nThe Welsh Government had set targets to reach capacity for 5,000 tests-a-day by mid April.\n\nThat was dropped, with ministers blaming problems with procuring equipment.\n\nWales now has capacity for more than 5,000 tests-a-day for critical workers and hospital patients with symptoms, and care home staff and residents.\n\nIt has also joined a UK-wide home testing service which provides additional capacity for the general public.\n\nSimon Hart, who heads up the Wales Office in the Conservative UK government, said that throughout the pandemic he had \"tried to be as pragmatic and as sympathetic to the challenges Welsh Government are having as I possibly can\".\n\n\"But on this particular issue, on the testing issue, it is becoming obvious that Wales has fallen behind the other three nations.\n\n\"That just makes progress with this whole recovery process so much slower.\"\n\n\"Progress on that UK-wide, having had a difficult start unsurprisingly, is now pretty well meeting targets,\" Mr Hart told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast with Claire Summers.\n\n\"We're trying not to be critical of each other's efforts,\" he claimed, before adding: \"It's probably not quite where Welsh Government want it to be.\"\n\nSimon Hart said there cannot be a situation where Wales is \"disadvantaged from the rest of the UK\"\n\nLast weekend the Welsh Government scrapped its own online-portal for booking tests, joining a UK-wide system instead.\n\nAs of Wednesday, however, it was still not fully up and running - with key workers seeking a drive-through test directed back to the gov.wales website and a set of email addresses and phone numbers.\n\nDrive-though centres are not currently open to the public in Wales.\n\nHome testing kits, which are available to the general public and handled centrally by the UK government, also saw a period of unavailability on Tuesday morning.\n\nAsked about the unavailability of tests on the portal, Mr Hart said: \"My immediate thought is that cannot be right, there must be an issue here which ought to be easily resolvable.\n\n\"We can't have a situation where Wales is disadvantaged from the rest of UK.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"We are dealing with one of the biggest public health emergencies in a generation.\n\n\"All four governments across the UK have faced a number of challenges since the beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak, but our collective focus must continue to be to protect the health of the people of Wales.\"\n\nSimon Hart says he's been trying not to be critical of the Welsh Government but he didn't quite succeed on Wednesday morning.\n\nTesting has been a long-running problem for ministers in Cardiff, so he was punching a bruise with his observation that Wales has \"fallen behind\" England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nDuring the crisis, ministers know the public don't want to see inter-governmental bickering.\n\nIt was notable how much more positive Simon Hart was about Mark Drakeford's \"roadmap\" out of lockdown last week compared to the Tory Senedd leader Paul Davies, who described it as \"hopeless.\"\n\nBut relations between the UK and Welsh governments have become more frayed lately, with claim and counter-claim over whether they are giving each other adequate briefing and notice of announcements.\n\nIt will take a lot of discipline on both sides to stop relations worsening if coronavirus policies continue to diverge.", "Jackson Carlaw said the decision had been a mistake\n\nScottish Conservative leader Jackson Carlaw has said the public \"should have been told\" about a coronavirus outbreak at a conference in Edinburgh.\n\nAt First Minister's Questions, he said the decision not to release information about the Nike event in February was \"clearly the wrong call\".\n\nNicola Sturgeon accused Mr Carlaw of trying to politicise the issue.\n\nAnd she stressed that public health experts had taken the decision for patient confidentiality reasons.\n\nThe first minister also revealed that scientists working with Public Health Scotland were looking at the molecular sequencing of the strains of the virus in Scotland.\n\n\"One of the strains they are looking at is the strain associated with this conference,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm advised that when that work is completed it will actually tell us whether these cases, the ones that were known about and reported, contributed to any wider outbreak - or, alternatively, if the public health management prevented onward transmission, as we believe will be the case.\n\n\"As that work is completed I'm sure we will be happy to make conclusions of it known to the chamber and indeed to the wider public.\"\n\nA BBC Scotland Disclosure documentary told last week how 25 cases of coronavirus had been linked to the Nike conference, which took place in Edinburgh on 26 and 27 February.\n\nMr Carlaw asked Ms Sturgeon if she accepted that keeping the outbreak \"secret\" had been the wrong course of action.\n\nThe first minister accused the Scottish Conservatives' leader of trying to make the handling of the coronavirus crisis \"political\".\n\nShe said the cases from the Nike conference were all reported \"in the normal way through our daily figures\".\n\nNicola Sturgeon said 60 people were contact traced in Scotland after the conference\n\nThey had not disclosed where these individuals got the virus because it would \"almost certainly\" have identified them.\n\nMs Sturgeon said that the incident management team took \"all appropriate steps\".\n\n\"More than 60 contacts were traced in Scotland. I believe more than 50 were traced by Public Health England south of the border and at any time if that incident management team thought anything further was required, including public notification, they had the powers to do that.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"Let's talk about these things seriously. Let's look at where there are legitimate issues and questions, but let's not engage in ridiculous language of secrecy or cover-up.\"\n\nMr Carlaw described the decision as \"a mistake\" and said: \"Clearly this was the wrong call. The public should have been told.\n\n\"And if, as the first minister still seems to be saying, it wasn't a mistake, then why is our health secretary now giving active consideration to making a different call if this kind of thing happens again?\n\n\"People need to know what the Scottish government will do should the virus be found in this kind of public location in future.\n\n\"So can I ask if and when contact tracers confirm a positive case over the coming weeks and we discover that person has been in a public place, where close contact may have occurred like the Nike conference, will the public be told?\"\n\nMs Sturgeon replied that there had only been 10 people from Scotland at the conference, and there were different considerations when you were further into an epidemic.\n\n\"That's why as we go into test, trace, isolate, yes of course we look at the circumstances in which, where there is a cluster of cases, that is made public.\n\n\"That is exactly the work that is rightly and properly being considered as part of the development of test, trace, isolate.\"", "Time is running out to finalise a test, track and trace strategy to avoid a possible second surge in coronavirus cases, NHS bosses have said.\n\nThe NHS Confederation warned of \"severe\" consequences to staff and patients if the right system was not established quickly.\n\nIt said lockdown measures should not be eased until a clear plan was in place.\n\nIt follows the PM's pledge to introduce a \"world-beating\" contact tracing system in England from June.\n\nContact tracing identifies those who may have come into contact with an infected person - either through an app or by phone and email - so they can avoid potentially passing the disease on.\n\nNiall Dickson, chief executive of the confederation, which represents health and care leaders, welcomed Boris Johnson's pledge made at Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday.\n\nBut in a letter to Health Secretary Matt Hancock, Mr Dickson said without a clear strategy the UK was at greater risk of a second peak of the virus and emphasised the importance of involving local health organisations in the plan.\n\nHe said a test, track and trace strategy should have been in place sooner and if the right system was not instigated rapidly the ramifications for the NHS \"could be severe\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Dickson said: \"We are absolutely clear that contact tracing is the right thing to do, it is absolutely critical, it has got to be in place to prevent any notion of a second surge if the lockdown is being further released.\"\n\nHe added the government was acting \"quite late in the day [and] we haven't yet seen the detail\".\n\nMeanwhile, a further 338 people have died of coronavirus in the UK as of 17:00 BST on Wednesday, the Department of Health said, taking the total to 36,042.\n\nChris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers - a membership group for England's NHS trusts - told BBC Breakfast his members have \"not had clear information and instructions about what their role will be\" in the system.\n\nSecurity minister James Brokenshire said Mr Hopson's comments \"will not be lost on anyone\" at the Department of Health - and will be followed up on \"at pace\".\n\nDowning Street has confirmed that 24,000 manual contact tracers have been hired, with plans to employ an additional 1,000 people before the test, track and trace scheme starts on 1 June.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said \"test and trace\" would start shortly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"Test, track and trace system in place in the UK by June 1\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Johnson said 25,000 contact tracers, able to track 10,000 new cases a day, would be in place by 1 June.\n\nIt coincides with the earliest possible date for the gradual reopening of schools and non-essential shops in England.\n\nNorthern Ireland already has a telephone contact tracing system in place, while the Scottish government is currently trialling one. The Welsh government wants its programme operational by the end of May.\n\nOne of the government's most senior scientific advisers previously said an effective tracing system needed to be in place before lockdown restrictions could be changed.\n\nWhat this letter indicates is that, for all the rhetoric, the NHS Confederation does not yet believe that the government has a robust plan for virus testing and tracking of contacts of those who are infected.\n\nAnd that comes even after the prime minister's statement that such a programme will be in place by 1 June with 25,000 contact tracers appointed.\n\nA widespread testing and tracing system is seen as a necessity if lockdown restrictions are to be further eased, including the reopening of schools.\n\nThe confederation, which represents health leaders and organisations in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, does welcome Mr Johnson's commitment to a testing and tracing programme.\n\nBut tellingly it notes that its members are not yet reassured, and that if there is not rapid action there could be a second wave of infections and serious consequences for NHS patients and staff.\n\nMr Brokenshire said the contact tracing system will be in place on 1 June - with or without an NHS tracing app which will be rolled out \"in the coming weeks\".\n\nThe University of Nottingham's Prof Keith Neal said the app would be most useful if people were out in public at places such as supermarkets.\n\n\"That's where the app comes in because it will allow later on to identify who you've been in contact with but don't know their name or phone number,\" he said.\n\n\"We can do contact tracing even without the app because that is a matter of finding the most high-risk contacts in close and prolonged contact, and you tend to only have close and prolonged contact with people you actually know.\"\n\nThe anonymous contact tracer says he and around \"90 odd people\" had online training for the role\n\nOne newly-hired contact tracer, a graduate who wished to remain anonymous, told the BBC at the moment \"it's not very productive at all\".\n\nHe applied for a job as a \"work at home customer service agent\", he says - \"nothing to do with the NHS\".\n\nA few days later he passed the application process and joined an online training session. \"Whenever we asked questions he would try but the main answer was 'wait for the coming days, you'll get an email or something',\" he says.\n\nHe adds the work is \"quite boring\" as \"we're just kind of sat there doing absolutely nothing for the majority of the day\".\n\n\"Right now, I'm just sat scrolling through Netflix. A lot of people are chilling on games.\n\n\"People say we can't complain, we're getting paid, which is very true, but at the same time it's like why would they set us up doing this if we're just sat around waiting.\"\n\nContact tracing for coronavirus began when the UK identified its first two cases at the end of January.\n\nBut it was stopped in mid-March after England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said it was \"no longer necessary for us to identify every case\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer challenged Mr Johnson over that decision, describing it as a \"huge hole in our defences\".\n\nIn response, the prime minister said he was \"confident\" that England would have a track and trace operation which would allow the country to make \"progress\".\n\nContact tracing is already being used in Hong Kong, Singapore and Germany.\n\nOn Thursday, the government also announced it had agreed a deal to make antibody tests for the virus available on the NHS.\n\nThese tests check if a person has had coronavirus and would be prioritised for NHS and care workers.\n\nThe government's surveillance programme shows the number of coronavirus cases in the community has stayed relatively stable with one in 400 people in England infected.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics surveyed nearly 15,000 people between 4 and 17 May, finding 0.25% of the participants tested positive for Covid-19 - down from the 0.27% figure last week.\n\nIt suggests about 137,000 people in England could currently be infected.\n\nContent available only in the UK\n\nHave you applied for contact-tracing jobs? Do you live on the Isle of Wight and use the NHS contact tracing app? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "A surge in visitors to beaches in northern Europe after coronavirus lockdowns were eased and temperatures rose has alarmed officials and experts.\n\nThree towns in north-western France shut their beaches on Wednesday because of the \"unacceptable\" failure of people to observe social-distancing rules.\n\nMunicipalities in the Netherlands urged German tourists not to visit.\n\nAnd in England, the town council in Southend said it might take action after sunseekers flocked there.\n\nThe number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 around the world has now passed five million, but the number of new infections has been falling across most of Europe.\n\nEuropean countries had reported 1.74 million cases and 164,349 deaths as of Wednesday, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Those with the most fatalities are the UK, Italy, France, Spain and Belgium.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that there is \"still a long way to go in this pandemic\", and called on people in countries where restrictions are being eased to continue to adapt their behaviour to minimise transmission of Covid-19.\n\nThe authorities in France reopened hundreds of beaches last weekend for running, swimming and fishing, but not for sunbathing or picnicking.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, the prefecture of Morbihan, in Brittany, said beaches in five municipalities had been closed because of \"unacceptable behaviour\" by visitors in recent days, including incivility and ignoring social distancing.\n\nSeveral municipalities in the Netherlands meanwhile called on German tourists not to cross the border for a trip during the Ascension Day public holiday on Thursday.\n\nStewards enforced a one-way system for pedestrians in the Belgian coastal town of Ostend\n\nPeople also headed to beaches across England on Wednesday on the hottest day of the year so far, a week after lockdown rules were eased. But people in England should not travel to Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, where the public is still being told to avoid any travel which is not essential.\n\nA care worker's tweets expressing concern at the pictures from Southend-on-Sea, in Essex, were shared 20,000 times.\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 Louise Ellis Davies 💙🌈 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSouthend town council appealed to beachgoers to keep their distance, and warned that it might have to close the seafront to traffic as a last resort if it considered the crowding to be dangerous.\n\nOn Wednesday, European Union tourism ministers agreed to do \"whatever it takes for the quick and full recovery of European tourism\".\n\nThey broadly backed plans spelt out by the European Commission that the bloc's internal borders should come down in phases, based on the prevalence of Covid-19 in countries of origin and destination.\n\nHave you felt safe going to the beach? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "From a helipad to the streets, millions of people across the UK have shown their appreciation for front-line workers risking their lives to fight coronavirus.\n\nIt's the ninth week in a row that Clap for Carers has taken place.", "A coronavirus test that gives results in 20 minutes is being trialled, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced.\n\nThe new swab test - which would show whether someone currently has the virus - does not need to be sent to a lab.\n\nMr Hancock also said more than 10 million antibody tests - that check if someone has had the virus in the past - will start being rolled out next week.\n\nIt comes as the PM decided to scrap the fees to use the NHS for overseas health service staff and care workers.\n\nNon-EU migrants currently have to pay the health immigration surcharge, which is £400 per year and set to rise to £624 in October.\n\nBut after mounting pressure from MPs, Boris Johnson decided foreign NHS staff and care workers should be exempt.\n\nThe number of people who have died after testing positive for the virus has now reached 36,042, a rise of 338, the government announced on Thursday.\n\nThere are currently two types of test for the coronavrius.\n\nSwab tests are already available to all adults and children aged over five on the NHS. They involve taking a swab up the nose or from the back of the throat and indicate if a person currently has Covid-19.\n\nThe antibody test is a blood test that looks for antibodies in the blood to see whether a person has had the virus. Antibodies are made by our immune system as it learns to fight an infection.\n\nThe new swab tests will be trialled in Hampshire in some A&E departments, GP testing hubs and care homes. The trial will run for six weeks and test up to 4,000 people.\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street briefing, Matt Hancock said the new swab test \"is interesting to us because it is so fast,\" adding: \"You get the result on the spot.\"\n\n\"We want to find out if it will be effective on a larger scale. If it works, we'll roll it out as soon as we can.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From a helipad to the streets, millions join the UK's ninth Clap for Carers\n\nResidents of Lee-on-the-Solent, near Portsmouth, applaud key workers during Thursday's Clap for Carers\n\nNuns at the St Anthony's Convent of Mercy in Sunderland also joined the clap\n\nMr Hancock also spoke about antibody tests, saying the government had struck a deal to supply 10 million of them to the NHS. They will begin being rolled out to the NHS next week.\n\n\"We've signed contracts to supply in the coming months over 10 million tests from Roche and Abbott,\" he said.\n\n\"From next week we will begin rolling these out in a phased way, at first to health and care staff, patients and residents.\n\nHe said the UK government's deal will cover all of the devolved nations, and each will decide \"how to use its test allocation and how testing will be prioritised and managed locally\".\n\nThese are both significant announcements in regards to testing.\n\nThe trial of a new on-the-spot swab test to see if someone has an infection has the potential to make a huge difference.\n\nCurrently samples need to be sent off to a laboratory and then take several hours to process. This has left some people waiting days for their test result.\n\nIf the process can be speeded up that will be a major benefit, not just for the testing programme, but also the tracking and tracing.\n\nThe quicker you can identify positive cases the more effective you can be in trying to contain spread.\n\nThe antibody test development does not have the potential to have such an immediate impact.\n\nWe still do not know how strong any antibody response is and therefore the potential for long-term immunity.\n\nSo the logic in offering it to health and care workers is to help with that research.\n\nThey will not suddenly be casting aside their PPE at work.\n\nInstead, officials will be keeping an eye on whether those who have antibodies are at lower risk of re-infection.\n\nHaving antibodies does not automatically mean you cannot get sick or harbour the virus and pass it on to others, BBC health correspondent James Gallagher says.\n\nThe World Health Organization says there is no evidence those who have antibodies are protected from being infected again.\n\nMr Hancock said the tests will help scientists understand if people who have antibodies \"are at lower risk of catching coronavirus, of dying from coronavirus and of transmitting coronavirus\".\n\nLearning more about antibody tests would help develop \"systems of certification\" to tell people who have antibodies \"what they can safely do\", he added.\n\nMr Hancock also said a study suggests 17% of people in London and around 5% of the rest of the nation have virus antibodies.\n\nResidents of Lee-on-the-Solent, near Portsmouth, applaud key workers during Thursday's Clap for Carers\n\nAs warm weather continues in some parts of the country, people swam in the River Lea in London\n\nPreparations are being made - including at Watlington Primary School - for schools to begin reopening on 1 June\n\nIt comes as the NHS Confederation, which represents health service trusts, warned that time was running out to finish a test, track and trace strategy. It warned a contact tracing system was critical to prevent a second wave of the virus.\n\nIn England, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said 25,000 contact tracers, able to track 10,000 new cases a day, would be in place by 1 June.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"Test, track and trace system in place in the UK by June 1\"\n\nContact tracing identifies those who may have come into contact with an infected person and warns them via phone, email or an app.\n\nMr Hancock told the briefing \"we don't know if we'll ever get\" a vaccine, but said he hoped everybody would have it if one was developed.\n\n\"We are doing everything we can to get a vaccine and we will only recommend a vaccine if it is safe,\" he said.\n\n\"That means that if we get a vaccine - and I very much hope that we will and we are working incredibly hard for that - and people are asked to take that vaccine, then they absolutely should because we will only do it on the basis of clinical advice that it is safe.\n\n\"The question of whether it is mandatory is not one we have addressed yet, we are still some time off a vaccine being available.\n\n\"But I would hope, given the scale of this crisis and given the overwhelming need for us to get through this and to get the country back on its feet, and the very positive impact that a vaccine would have, that everybody would have the vaccine.\"\n\nContent available only in the UK", "Apple and Google have released a software tool that will make it possible for nations to release coronavirus contact-tracing apps that adopt the firms' privacy-centric model.\n\nIt offers developers access to added Bluetooth functionality to solve a problem existing apps have of iPhones sometimes failing to detect each other.\n\nAndroid and iOS device owners will have to carry out system upgrades.\n\nBut some countries - including the UK - are pursuing a different approach.\n\n\"The release of these APIs [application programming interfaces] along with the operating-system updates will be a watershed moment for the development and adoption of proximity-tracing apps,\" said Marcel Salathé, an epidemiologist at the Swiss research institute EPFL.\n\nHe added that apps that adopted the protocol should be able to be made \"interoperable\" - meaning that citizens can continue to be contact-traced as they cross from one region and/or country to another. That could potentially help reduce travel restrictions imposed because of the virus - at least for those using the apps involved.\n\nApple and Google said public health agencies from 22 countries and some US states had already asked to test the system.\n\nThe app was not \"a silver bullet\" - but \"user adoption is key to success and we believe that these strong privacy protections are also the best way to encourage use\".\n\nContact-tracing apps are designed to automatically log when two people come into proximity to each other for a significant amount of time.\n\nIf one is later diagnosed with the coronavirus, the other can be given an alert, which might suggest they self-isolate and/or request a medical test of their own.\n\nBut the authorities believe adoption has been hampered by two factors:\n\nIn theory, the new system should address both these issues.\n\nIts \"decentralised\" approach locates contact-matching on devices themselves rather than a centrally controlled computer server.\n\nAnd this aims to cut the risk of either hackers or the authorities using the database of who met whom and for how long for other purposes.\n\nBut the UK's NHS and its counterparts in France, Norway and India say the centralised approach gives them greater insight, making it easier to tweak the risk model that decides who receives which type of alert.\n\nApps that adopt Apple and Google's API can customise it within certain limits.\n\nBut they will not be able to log, for example, a phone's global positioning system (GPS) coordinates.\n\n\"Not collecting some kinds of data, such as location, is a policy decision, not an engineering one,\" technology consultant Benedict Evans said.\n\n\"But Apple-Google have to build something for every phone on Earth, [potentially] including China and Iran, and think about how it could be abused.\n\n\"How much you need the extra data and whether it's worth the privacy risks is a matter of opinion.\"\n\nAustria was the first country to roll out a decentralised contact-tracing app.\n\nStopp Corona, operated by the Red Cross, has been downloaded more than 600,000 times.\n\nAnd its developers, Accenture, now intend to build in Apple and Google's API for a 10 June update so iPhone-users no longer have to bring the app on-screen for it to work effectively.\n\nAustria's Stopp Corona app is set to be among the first to introduce the Apple-Google model to the public\n\nBut Stopp Corona currently gives users the option of manually controlling when matches occur - by pressing an on-screen button to trigger a Bluetooth \"handshake\" .\n\nAnd this is not currently possible within the Apple-Google model.\n\nSo the developers plan to switch to using ultrasonic audio pings in this situation.\n\nApple and Google's API is also currently incompatible with the way Stopp Corona triggers different types of notification.\n\nThe app first serves a yellow alert if a contact self-diagnoses as having the virus and then follows up with a red or green alert depending on whether a medical test confirms it.\n\nAnd the developers are working with Apple and Google to try to retain this functionality.\n\n\"There's really good collaboration on both sides,\" Christian Winhelhofer, the Accenture executive involved, told BBC News.\n\n\"They're really interested in working on solutions that fit our needs.\"\n\nGermany's forthcoming Corona-Warn-App is also set to adopt the Apple-Google protocol.\n\nBut its developers have complained handsets not in use are limited to listening out for a Bluetooth signal only once every five minutes for a duration of about four seconds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: What is contact tracing and how does it work?\n\nSo, in theory, a couple hugging for three minutes, for example, might not be logged, while another merely brushing past each other at the right time would be.\n\nApple and Google are aware of this issue.\n\nBy contrast, the NHS's app listens out for a match roughly once every eight seconds.\n\nThe NHS has also developed its own workaround to the iPhone Bluetooth issue.\n\nBut it is still exploring the Apple-Google system as a back-up plan.", "There was a surprise appearance at Thursday's coronavirus daily briefing - ex-Wales midfielder and former Strictly Come Dancing contestant Robbie Savage.\n\nIn his role as a Daily Mirror columnist, he asked Health Secretary Matt Hancock if we will have to wait for a vaccine before grassroots football can return.", "International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach says he understands why the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Games would have to be cancelled if it cannot take place next summer.\n\nLocal organisers have said they have no back-up plan after the event was postponed by a year because of the coronavirus crisis.\n\n\"You cannot forever employ 3,000 to 5,000 people in an organising committee,\" Bach told BBC Sport. \"You cannot have the athletes being in uncertainty.\"\n• None admitted the job of re-organising the Games was \"a mammoth task\"\n• None warned that the event would \"definitely be different\" with a focus on \"essentials\"\n• None would not be drawn on whether a vaccine for Covid-19 would be needed for the event to take place\n• None insisted staging the Games behind closed doors was \"not what we want\", but he needs more time to consider whether that was feasible\n\nBach said he hoped the first ever postponed Games, which are due to take place from 23 July to 8 August 2021, could prove \"unique\" and send \"a message of solidarity among the entire world, coming for the first time together again, and celebrating the triumph over coronavirus\".\n\n\"There is no blueprint for it so we have to reinvent the wheel day by day. It's very challenging and at the same time fascinating.\"\n• None 2020 Olympics will be 'scrapped' instead of delayed again, says Games chief\n\nJapan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has admitted it may be \"difficult\" to stage the Games if the country does not successfully contain the virus, and the head of the Japan Medical Association has suggested it depends on finding a vaccine.\n\nWhen asked directly if he agreed, Bach said: \"For this question, we are relying on the advice of the World Health Organisation.\n\n\"We have established one principle: to organise these Games in a safe environment for all the participants. Nobody knows what the world will look like in one year, in two months.\n\n\"So we have to rely on [experts] and then take the appropriate decision at the appropriate time based on this advice.\"\n\nThe 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics are due to take place in China just six months after the Tokyo Games, and Bach said that Prime Minister Abe had made it clear to him that, as far as Japan was concerned, next summer was \"the last option\".\n\n\"Quite frankly, I have some understanding for this, because you cannot forever employ 3,000, or 5,000, people in an Organising Committee,\" said Bach.\n\n\"You cannot every year change the entire sports schedule worldwide of all the major federations. You cannot have the athletes being in uncertainty.\n\n\"You cannot have so much overlapping with a future Olympic Games, so I have some understanding for this approach by our Japanese partners.\"\n\nWhen asked how confident he was that the Games would go ahead, Bach said: \"We have to be prepared for different scenarios. There is the clear commitment to having these games in July next year.\n\n\"At the same time, looking at the scenarios this may require towards the organisation, with regard to health measures, these maybe need quarantine for the athletes, for part of the athletes, for other participants.\n\n\"What could this mean for the life in an Olympic Village and so on? All these different scenarios are under consideration and this is why I'm saying it's a mammoth task, because there are so many different options that it's not easy to address them [now]. When we have a clear view on how the world will look on 23 July, 2021, then [we will] take the appropriate decisions.\"\n\nThe director general of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has said it is possible but \"not easy\" for 11,000 athletes from more than 200 teams to come together in Tokyo.\n\nJapan has recorded more than 17,100 cases and 797 deaths from the pandemic, but the numbers of infections are falling sharply and it has been affected far less than some other countries.\n\nCould the Games be staged behind closed doors?\n\nIf social distancing restrictions are still in force in Japan next summer, some have suggested the Games may have to be staged behind closed doors.\n\n\"This is not what we want,\" he said. \"Because the Olympic spirit is about also uniting the fans and this is what makes the Games so unique that they're in an Olympic Stadium, all the fans from all over the world are together.\n\n\"But when it then would come to the decision... I would ask you to give me some more time for consultation with the athletes, with the World Health Organisation, with the Japanese partners.\"\n\nThe IOC has set aside $800m (£654m) to help with the financial impact caused by the postponement of Tokyo 2020. The total additional cost to Japan has been estimated at between two and six billion dollars.\n\nBut Bach said there would also have to be cutbacks to the Games.\n\n\"They will definitely be different, and they have to be different,\" he said. \"If we all have learned something during this crisis, [it is] to look to the essentials and not so much on the nice-to-have things.\n\n\"So this concentration on the essentials should be reflected in the organisation of these Games... there should be no taboo.\"\n\nWhy were the Games not postponed sooner?\n\nTwo months ago, Bach faced unprecedented criticism from athletes for not postponing the Games earlier.\n\n\"The developments were so fast that you could not know what would happen tomorrow,\" he said when asked if he would do anything differently now.\n\n'To find the balance between the more optimistic experts, saying, 'wait, you still have time. It's still some months away. Let's see how it goes', and the others saying, 'this will be a total disaster - why don't you take this decision right now?' This was the challenge every day.\n\n\"And this had to be done in consultation with our Japanese partners, because we could have cancelled the Games alone, without them, and that would have been an easy decision in one way.\n\n\"We could have said, 'OK, this is it.' We would have got our money being paid by insurance. And we could have started to prepare for Paris [2024 Games]. But this was not a real option because this would have deprived the athletes of this unique Olympic experience.\"\n\nBach said he was \"happy\" last weekend to see the Bundesliga resume in his native Germany, even though fans were not present.\n\n\"I wish that now all the other sports are coming back,\" he said. \"On the other hand, I was a little bit feeling for the players, how strange it must be for them, playing in these huge stadiums...\n\n\"So I hope now that is the first step. Sport has to respect the rules, like any other organisation and area of society. But that slowly, we can come back and then maybe lift these restrictions in a responsible way.\"\n\nBach appealed to governments around the world to do what they can to help sports deal with the financial crisis caused by the pandemic.\n\n\"There is, first of all, the contribution of sport to health, and everybody realises that we must concentrate more on health in in the in the future,\" he said.\n\n\"Secondly, sport makes the great contribution to the inclusivity of society... sport is the best glue for a society.\n\n\"And thirdly, sport is also a very important economic factor. We had a study that about 3% of all the jobs being offered in Europe are sports-related.\n\n\"And this is why we are urging the governments to honour and to acknowledge the role of sport, and to include them in their recovery programmes.\"", "Elie Seidman became CEO of dating app Tinder in 2017\n\nCoronavirus has had a \"dramatic\" effect on the way people use the dating app Tinder, its boss has told BBC News, though the changes may suit plans he already had in store for the platform.\n\nThe coronavirus outbreak and lockdown conditions have brought mixed fortunes to online-dating platforms like Tinder, according to its chief executive Elie Seidman.\n\nOn the one hand, user engagement is up, a trend other dating apps have reported too.\n\nTinder users made 3 billion swipes worldwide on Sunday 29 March, the most the app has ever recorded in a single day. In the UK, daily conversations rose by 12% between mid-February and the end of March.\n\nThere has been a \"dramatic shift\" in behaviour metrics which are normally stable, says Mr Seidman.\n\nHowever, the economic impact of lockdown means people have less money to spend.\n\nThis is not such good news for Tinder, which is free but relies on premium subscriptions for its revenue.\n\n“The [US] unemployment figures are hard to see,” says Mr Seidman. “I’m very concerned about what happens economically for our society and the impact it will have on so many of our members.\"\n\nTinder has been downloaded more than 340 million times since its launch in 2012. But the vast majority of its revenues come from just 6 million subscribers who pay for the \"gold\" service. The rate at which it picked up those precious paying-users declined as lockdown struck.\n\nThe company’s data show that new sign-ups for premium membership pick up where lockdowns start to ease, says Mr Siedman.\n\n“You can literally see the comeback on a state by state basis [in the US], as things come out and start to loosen up, as the peak crisis starts to pass.”\n\nOther platforms which offer free sign-up have noticed something similar during lockdown.\n\n“We’ve seen a surge in activity,” says Charly Lester, dating expert for The Inner Circle platform. “Matches have risen by 15% and the number of messages sent is up by 10%, but we’ve also noticed less willingness to pay.”\n\nCharly Lester is dating expert for The Inner Circle\n\nMr Siedman says you might have to wait two or three financial quarters to see the full economic impact on Tinder, as the scale of the global crisis becomes clear.\n\nThe other issue that will become clear with time is whether the popularity of virtual dating, by video call, is here to stay, once physical meet-ups with strangers become more possible.\n\nPlatforms like eHarmony, OKCupid and Match have reported a big rise in video dates.\n\nTinder is planning to roll out its own video dating function in June, says Mr Seidman.\n\nThe video call service will operate on a double opt-in policy, so both sides of the match would have to agree to it. It will be free and supported by a team of moderators.\n\nThe changes to dating brought in by coronavirus lockdowns have merely accelerated a generational change the company was already tracking in focus groups, says Mr Seidman.\n\nThe 18-year-olds joining the app now, unlike their predecessors who joined in 2012, have grown up immersed in social media apps and see that virtual world as something quite natural, he explains.\n\nFor this generation online matches aren’t just about organising a meet-up in real life, they are about having fulfilling online experiences too.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is this a new way of dating during lockdown?\n\nFor this reason the company has been working on making Tinder less of a place to organise \"hook ups\" offline and more of a place to hang out online, to get to know people. It is trialling virtual spaces and live events where people can meet and match on the platform, like Swipe Nights and quizzes.\n\nMr Seidman sums up the creed of the new young crop of Tinder users: “Your digital life is as important as your social life in the physical world.”\n\nIn a world of continued social distancing, this creed may also have to be embraced to some extent by older daters too.\n\nYou can follow reporter Dougal on Twitter: @dougalshawbbc", "Volunteers were needed to help prepare bodies for burial\n\nNewham in east London has the highest proportion of deaths from coronavirus in England and Wales. BBC News looks at why, and what it means for the community.\n\nFor much of April, Ghouse Fazaluddin was consumed by one thought: \"We couldn't just stand back and watch our dead be buried in mass graves.\"\n\nUsing his background as a telecoms project manager, he set to work.\n\nA WhatsApp group was created, and volunteers from the Jamia mosque in Newham, where Mr Fazaluddin is a trustee, were recruited.\n\nThe task in hand was essential, but grim.\n\nThere had been so many deaths that a backlog of bodies had built up and people were required to prepare each person for burial.\n\nA stream of people came forward, and over the course of 10 days, they cleansed and prayed for 32 people.\n\n\"The most important thing for me is how the community has come together,\" says Mr Fazaluddin.\n\n\"The common goal was, we cannot forget our deceased, we cannot just leave them to be buried without the ritual washing that takes place, and that people's dignity, the dignity of the deceased, was preserved.\"\n\nTo facilitate the process, a side room to the mosque was demarcated, with volunteers in personal protective equipment, sourced from builders' merchants, responsible for handling the bodies.\n\n\"At first I was a little bit scared to volunteer, but I just couldn't stand back,\" he says.\n\n\"I thought, I'm doing this for the community, doing it for their family, and I just felt happy.\"\n\nAdam Hussain was one of the volunteers\n\nCovid-19 has preyed on Newham like nowhere else.\n\nData released by the Office for National Statistics shows the east London borough has suffered the highest proportion of deaths from the disease in England and Wales.\n\nWhile there is local concern that some people did not take the virus seriously at first and continued mixing, a combination of deprivation and ethnicity has allowed the disease to exploit the area's mainly black and Asian population.\n\nAnwar Hussain Oli, Dr Louisa Rajakumari and Dr Yusuf Patel were among those who died\n\nThe victims have included key workers such as GP, Dr Yusuf Patel, teacher Dr Louisa Rajakumari, and Anwar Hussain Oli, one of several taxi drivers who've died, as well as at least nine residents of the Bakers Court care home in Little Ilford Lane.\n\n\"The past few weeks have been really depressing,\" says Ayesha Chowdhury, a Labour councillor in Newham who knows around 15 people who've died from coronavirus, many of them Bangladeshis.\n\n\"When they pass away, the community cannot participate in the funeral, they cannot visit the family so everything is completely shocking.\n\nAyesha Chowdhury knows at least 15 people who have died of the virus\n\n\"Besides dealing with the sadness, they also have to think about the finances of a funeral.\"\n\nNewham has long been recognised as one of the poorest areas of England, the 2012 Olympic Park was located there in an effort to regenerate the area.\n\nThat has brought benefits to some parts, but long-standing high levels of both overcrowding and underlying health conditions, such as cardiovascular disease and asthma, have remained.\n\nDespite its problems, the government has cut around £6m, in real terms, from Newham's public health budget since 2016.\n\nThe recent ONS data, which showed people in poor areas dying at twice the rate seen in more affluent districts, mirrors earlier research on the impact of pandemics.\n\nA 2012 paper, looking at the much smaller consequences of the 2009 swine flu outbreak in England, found deaths were three times higher in poorer communities and recommended socio-economic disparities be part of future pandemic planning.\n\nResearchers say there is little evidence that happened.\n\nPeople in poorer areas like Newham are dying at twice the rate of people in richer areas, official figures show\n\n\"This is not an equalising virus. This is a virus with a disproportionate effect on poor communities,\" says Rokhsana Fiaz, Labour Mayor of Newham.\n\n\"If you want to avoid a second wave, if you want to minimise deaths, we've got to be given the resources and flexibility to spend at a local level.\n\n\"Top down, command and control, will not work in light of the evidence we have.\"\n\nPublic health experts agree that a targeted approach will be needed as the disease develops.\n\nJonathan Pearson-Stuttard, a public health researcher at Imperial College London, says communities deemed to be most at risk from Covid-19 should get priority whenever a vaccine is developed.\n\n\"Once those most in need, such as health and care workers are vaccinated, it's very reasonable to assume that those most at risk would be next in line to receive the vaccine.\"\n\nThis virus has a disproportionate effect on poorer communities, says Newham's mayor\n\nIn Newham, the community that has lived through this crisis, must now rebuild the borough.\n\nAt the East London Science School, they have been hit hard - about 40 staff members have had symptoms, at least 10 pupils have lost relatives and one staff member is caring for two children who have been orphaned after both their parents died of Covid-19.\n\n\"Being serious about the education we offer gives them a way of seeing a future for themselves,\" he says.\n\n\"We can't obviously turn things back, but the fact that they can see a future is the best thing we can give them.\"", "A woman must delete photographs of her grandchildren that she posted on Facebook and Pinterest without their parents' permission, a court in the Netherlands has ruled.\n\nIt ended up in court after a falling-out between the woman and her daughter.\n\nThe judge ruled the matter was within the scope of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).\n\nOne expert said the ruling reflected the \"position that the European Court has taken over many years\".\n\nThe case went to court after the woman refused to delete photographs of her grandchildren which she had posted on social media.\n\nThe mother of the children had asked several times for the pictures to be deleted.\n\nThe GDPR does not apply to the \"purely personal\" or \"household\" processing of data.\n\nHowever, that exemption did not apply because posting photographs on social media made them available to a wider audience, the ruling said.\n\n\"With Facebook, it cannot be ruled out that placed photos may be distributed and may end up in the hands of third parties,\" it said.\n\nThe woman must remove the photos or pay a fine of €50 (£45) for every day that she fails to comply with the order, up to a maximum fine of €1,000.\n\nIf she posts more images of the children in the future, she will be fined an extra €50 a day.\n\n\"I think the ruling will surprise a lot of people who probably don't think too much before they tweet or post photos,\" said Neil Brown, a technology lawyer at Decoded Legal.\n\n\"Irrespective of the legal position, would it be reasonable for the people who've posted those photos to think, 'Well, he or she doesn't want them out there anymore'?\"\n\n\"Actually, the reasonable thing - the human thing to do - is to go and take them down.\"", "The government has defended charging overseas health workers to use the NHS, despite criticism from its own party.\n\nThe health immigration surcharge on non-EU migrants is £400 per year and set to rise to £624 in October.\n\nSome Tory MPs have called for NHS and care workers to be exempt as a way of saying \"thank you\" for their work during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nBut the PM's spokesman said the money \"goes directly back into the NHS to help save lives\".\n\nLabour are seeking an amendment to the Immigration Bill to exempt NHS staff from the surcharge, including cleaners and care professionals.\n\nThe party's leader, Sir Keir Starmer, tweeted it was \"grossly hypocritical to clap our carers one day and then charge them to use the NHS the next\".\n\nAsked about the charge at Wednesday's Prime Minister's Questions, Boris Johnson said he \"understood the difficulties faced by our amazing NHS staff\", but said the government \"must look at the realities\" of funding the NHS.\n\nHowever, the Tory chairman of the Commons public administration select committee, William Wragg, said in a tweet it was the time for a \"generosity of spirit towards those who have done so much good\".\n\nHe was backed up by fellow Tory MP Sir Roger Gale, who also tweeted his support for the exemption, saying it would be \"mean-spirited, doctrinaire and petty\" to keep it in place.\n\nHe later told BBC News a number of his colleagues agreed with the exemption, and that while Mr Johnson was on the wrong side of public opinion, he had \"the opportunity to put something that is wrong right.\"\n\nSir Roger added: \"In the grand scheme of things [it is a quick way] to say thank you to some very brave people who've been saving lives.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tory MP: NHS fee exemption is \"way to say thank you\"\n\nThe PM told MPs on Wednesday that the contribution from NHS and care staff allowed the government to raise £900m for its coffers.\n\nFigures from the House of Commons Library, which compiles impartial briefings for MPs, showed £917m was the amount raised over four years by all migrants who have to pay.\n\nBut this number is likely to be considerably higher after the £224 rise in the charge comes in later this year.\n\nThe PM's spokesman confirmed the planned rise in the surcharge would go ahead in October, describing it as a \"very clear manifesto commitment made by the government\" on the basis of which \"the prime minister won a significant majority\".\n\nThe library estimated it would cost around £35m a year to exempt those who are NHS staff, although that figure would rise for Labour's plan to exempt care workers as well.", "Southend beach had thousands of visitors on Wednesday\n\nPeople living in seaside resorts have said they are \"horrified\" by the influx of visitors as temperatures soared ahead of the bank holiday weekend.\n\nThousands of people have headed to English beaches, with many apparently unconcerned about public health issues.\n\n\"Hundreds die every day yet people think it's OK to have a jolly on the beach,\" a walker in Southend said.\n\nNorfolk Chief Constable Simon Bailey said he feared there was a perception that lockdown was \"done and dusted\".\n\nGovernment guidelines in England allow people to travel for fresh air and exercise, as long as they keep two metres (6ft) from anyone they do not live with.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Bailey said some parts of Norfolk had seen numbers typical of a regular summer bank holiday and he was concerned at the \"lack of respect\" for communities who had \"done their best to protect themselves\".\n\n\"We're dealing with far more people heading to the coast, and with the beautiful weather we're having that's not surprising,\" he added.\n\n\"What I do find surprising is a sense that lockdown has been lifted, we can do what we want and the coronavirus challenge has passed.\n\n\"I'm really concerned. That is simply not the case.\"\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 AJ Gritt MBE This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Newquay, Cornwall, police said they moved on camper vans that had stayed overnight, while in Bournemouth the borough council urged people to go home if the beach looked too busy.\n\nIn Southend, where photographs appeared to show people crowded on to the beach on Wednesday, councillor Martin Terry said the local authority had been nervous in anticipation of the hot weather.\n\n\"We've had days where we've had over 300,000 people come down here,\" he said.\n\n\"A survey was undertaken asking people what's the first thing you want to do when you come out of lockdown and 70% said 'I want to go to the seaside and buy an ice-cream'.\n\n\"All we can do is advise people [to] please, please be safe - stay apart and be sensible.\"\n\nTony Cox, leader of the Conservative opposition group on Southend Borough Council, said the authority had been \"ill-prepared\" and that better \"people management\" would allow them the space to distance.\n\nBut Labour council leader Ian Gilbert said the police and council did not have the powers to stop people coming to the area.\n\n\"From the moment the government guidelines allowed people to travel, sunbathe and take unlimited exercise we knew it was going to be extremely difficult to manage the situation,\" he said.\n\nBins were overflowing in Southend after hundreds visited the beach\n\nOn Thursday morning, BBC reporter Richard Smith spoke to locals in Southend, with one, Simon Stenning, commenting: \"I think it's disgusting, and I am so angry because we were told to stay home.\n\n\"The message of 'stay alert' is intentionally vague so the government don't have to take any responsibility.\n\n\"Hundreds die every day yet people think it's OK to have a jolly on the beach.\"\n\nRita, who lives on the seafront at Westcliff, near Southend, said some parts of the resort were so busy \"you probably couldn't swing a cat\", and she said she avoided the beach when out for a walk.\n\n\"It really is bad. The traffic starts at 9 o'clock and it's like a school holiday. We are dreading the bank holiday.\"\n\nThe amount of litter dumped near overflowing bins or strewn across beaches and promenades has also become a matter of concern.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by ExperiencedTraveller 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\nMark Husmann, who did a beach litter-pick at Tynemouth, North Tyneside, said: \"I'm pretty horrified.\n\n\"There were masses of people on the beach who seem to think that a global pandemic is less serious in the sunshine.\"\n\nLitter, including used nappies, was left on the beach at Scarborough\n\nCathy Kent said scenes like this had become a daily occurrence in Exmouth\n\nHis Facebook post was echoed by Cathy Kent, who said after seven \"glorious\" weeks of a litter-free, empty beach at Exmouth in south Devon, the past 10 days had been far busier, with discarded glass bottles a regular find.\n\nIn Southsea, Hampshire, Tania Simmons said every bin on her beach walk on Thursday was was \"overflowing with rubbish, beer bottles and barbecues\", with broken bottles left on the promenade and rubbish strewn across the common.\n\nVisit Blackpool recently rebranded as \"Do Not Visit Blackpool\" to discourage visitors as lockdown restrictions were eased.\n\nHotelier Lyndsay Fieldsend said she had seen a \"surge of day-trippers\" since then and beaches full of litter.\n\nCouncil leaders in Sussex, including in Hastings and Brighton, have said the area's amenities are not open to visitors, although Dorset Council said it would reopen some car parks and public toilets in key locations in time for the bank holiday weekend to help cope with demand.\n• None Coronavirus outbreak- what you can and can't do - GOV.UK The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The more recent photo on the right shows the coat Louise was wearing when she went missing, police said\n\nA body has been found by police searching for a missing teenager.\n\nThe 16-year-old, named locally as Louise Smith, was last seen on 8 May - VE Day - in Somborne Drive, Havant, Hampshire.\n\nDetectives said they were treating the death of a person found in woodland in Havant Thicket as suspicious.\n\nFormal identification has not taken place but Louise's family has been informed of the discovery, Hampshire Constabulary said.\n\nDet Ch Supt Scott Mackechnie said the news would be \"very upsetting for the community\".\n\nHe urged people to avoid speculation and to \"provide all information to the police in the first instance\".\n\n\"We will endeavour to provide you with further updates as soon as we can,\" he said.\n\nA man and a woman, both aged 29, have previously been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping and released on bail.\n\nThe force previously asked people in the area to save any dashcam and CCTV footage from 7 and 8 May - particularly any filmed at VE Day celebrations - for officers to review.\n\nRemains were discovered in Havant Thicket on Thursday\n\nLouise went shopping at a Tesco store on the evening before she was reported missing\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. Matt Hancock was asked whether the PM changed his mind on the fees\n\nNHS staff and care workers from overseas will no longer have to pay an extra charge towards the health service after mounting pressure from MPs.\n\nBoris Johnson's spokesman said the PM had asked the Home Office and Department for Health to exempt NHS and care workers \"as soon as possible\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was \"a victory for common decency\".\n\nThe health immigration surcharge on non-EU migrants is £400 per year and set to rise to £624 in October.\n\nThe move to grant the exemption came after the PM's spokesman defended the fee earlier on Thursday.\n\nOfficials are now working on the detail and more will be announced \"in the coming days\".\n\nBut it is understood the plan will include exemptions for all NHS workers, including porters and cleaners, as well as independent health workers and social care workers.\n\nThe chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, Dame Donna Kinnair, said the charge had created \"an unfair and unjust financial burden\", adding: \"At last the government has agreed with us.\n\n\"This will ease the pressure on families who may be struggling financially or emotionally as a result.\"\n\nMr Johnson himself stood by the charge on Wednesday, telling MPs he \"understood the difficulties faced by our amazing NHS staff\", but said the government \"must look at the realities\" of funding the NHS.\n\nIt caused a backlash, with a number of Tory MPs joining opposition MPs in calling for him to reconsider - including the Tory chairman of the Commons public administration select committee, William Wragg, and his backbench colleague Sir Roger Gale.\n\nJust yesterday when the Labour leader Keir Starmer pressed Boris Johnson to change his mind, the prime minister was firm. He was adamant, it was the right thing to stick with the plan.\n\nBut overnight, there was disquiet - some chatter among Tory MPs - a few of them breaking cover to say they thought it was the wrong thing to stick with the charge.\n\nAnd, lo and behold, just after four o'clock this afternoon, Downing Street announced that the prime minister would be thinking carefully.\n\nFor the government's critics, of course, it has been portrayed immediately as a screaming U turn.\n\nA way for Downing Street to close down a political row.\n\nBut many people who thought it was the wrong thing might be pleased that the prime minister, in their view, has seen sense on this occasion.\n\nEarlier, No 10 defended the levy, saying the money \"goes directly back into the NHS to help save lives\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer: \"This is a victory for common sense\"\n\nBut now Mr Johnson's spokesman has said: \"[The PM] has been thinking about this a great deal. He has been a personal beneficiary of carers from abroad and understands the difficulties faced by our amazing NHS staff.\n\n\"The purpose of the NHS surcharge is to benefit the NHS, help to care for the sick and save lives. NHS and care workers from abroad who are granted visas are doing this already by the fantastic contribution which they make.\"\n\nThe change was welcomed by Labour, as the party had been planning to seek an amendment to the Immigration Bill to secure the exemption.\n\nSir Keir tweeted: \"Boris Johnson is right to have u-turned and backed our proposal to remove the NHS charge for health professionals and care workers.\n\n\"This is a victory for common decency and the right thing to do. We cannot clap our carers one day and then charge them to use our NHS the next.\"\n\nMr Wragg also praised the decision, saying the PM had \"shown true leadership, listened and reflected\".\n\nThe leader of the SNP in Westminster, Ian Blackford, said he was \"pleased to see the change of heart after pressure\", while the acting leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey, called it \"a great cross-party win\".\n\nThe change was also welcomed by of Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants.\n\nBut the charity's chief executive Satbir Singh added: \"It's depressing that it's taken nearly two months for the government to listen.\"\n\nThe surcharge is currently paid by non-European Economic Area (EEA) nationals coming to the UK for longer than six months.\n\nThere are exemptions for victims of slavery or trafficking, children taken into care, and the dependants of armed forces personnel.\n\nThe current rate of £400 a year is double what it what it was when first introduced in 2015.\n\nIt is due to be extended to EEA citizens moving to the UK from from next January, after the post-Brexit transition period ends.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies think-tank has estimated that exempting NHS and social care workers in England would cost around £90m a year.\n\nNews of the exemption came as the government announced a trial for a coronavirus test that does not need to be sent to a lab and gives results in 20 minutes.\n\nIt has also been announced that 10 million antibody tests - that check if someone has had the virus in the past - will start being rolled out next week.\n\nMeanwhile, lockdown restrictions in Scotland are likely to be relaxed slightly from next Thursday.\n\nAnd in Northern Ireland, Education Minister Peter Weir has said the reopening of schools will begin for \"key cohort years\" in August, followed by a phased provision for all pupils in September.\n\nContent available only in the UK", "Antibody tests are carried out in other countries, such as Russia\n\nHealth and care staff will be the first to receive antibody tests to check if a person has had coronavirus, after the government agreed a deal with a large pharmaceutical company.\n\nThe tests will be available on the NHS for \"those who need them\", No 10 said.\n\nAt the moment, the only testing available are swab tests to check if someone currently has Covid-19.\n\nThe UK-wide antibody tests will help scientists with virus research, BBC health correspondent Nick Triggle said.\n\nIt comes as the government announced on Thursday a further 338 people had died after testing positive for the virus.\n\nThe deal follows talks between the government and Swiss firm Roche.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said: \"The tests will be free for people who need them, as you would expect. NHS and care workers will be prioritised for the tests.\"\n\nThe Health Secretary Matt Hancock is expected to give more details this evening.\n\nThe coronavirus tests already available to all adults and children aged over five on the NHS involve taking a swab up the nose or from the back of the throat. These tests tell you if you currently have Covid-19.\n\nThe antibody test is a blood test that looks for antibodies in the blood to see whether a person has had the virus. Antibodies are made by our immune system as it learns to fight an infection.\n\nHowever, having antibodies does not automatically mean you cannot get sick or harbour the virus and pass it on to others, says BBC health correspondent James Gallagher.\n\nThe World Health Organization says there is no evidence people who have antibodies are protected from being infected again.\n\nAntibody testing attracts huge attention. But this development needs to be kept in context.\n\nWe still do not know how strong any antibody response is and therefore the potential for long-term immunity.\n\nSo the logic in offering it to health and care workers is to help with that research.\n\nThey will not suddenly be casting aside their PPE at work.\n\nInstead, officials will be keeping an eye on whether those who have antibodies are at lower risk of re-infection.\n\nThe test may also help with surveillance in time.\n\nA large sample of the population could be tested to look for signs of antibodies.\n\nOne of the great unknowns is just how many people have been infected but have not developed symptoms.\n\nIt comes after NHS England's medical director Prof Stephen Powis cautioned people against using antibody tests which are being sold by some retailers.\n\nOn Wednesday, Superdrug became the latest business - and first High Street retailer - to offer the antibody test. The kit costs £69 and buyers need to take a blood sample at home, which is sent off to a lab for testing.\n\nAs warm weather continues in some parts of the country, people have been sunbathing at Brighton beach\n\nA group of friends from different households observed social distancing measures in Belfast\n\nPublic Health England approved Roche's antibody test last week, calling it a \"very positive development\".\n\nThe government previously spent a reported £16m buying antibody tests which later proved to be ineffective.\n\nPublic Health England said experts at the government's Porton Down facility had evaluated the Roche test.\n\nRoche found that if someone had been infected, it gave the correct result 100% of the time.\n\nIf someone had not caught coronavirus then it gave the correct result more than 99.8% of the time.\n\nIt means fewer than two in 1,000 healthy people would be incorrectly told they had previously caught the coronavirus.\n\nHealth minister Edward Argar previously said the tests would mainly be used on those in the NHS and social care settings to begin with.\n\nIt comes as the NHS Confederation, which represents health service trusts, warned that time was running out to finish a test, track and trace strategy. It warned a contact tracing system was critical to prevent a second wave of the virus.\n\nIn England, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said 25,000 contact tracers, able to track 10,000 new cases a day, would be in place by 1 June.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"Test, track and trace system in place in the UK by June 1\"\n\nContact tracing identifies those who may have come into contact with an infected person and warns them via phone, email or an app.\n\nMeanwhile, lockdown restrictions in Scotland are likely to be relaxed slightly from next Thursday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the first phase will include allowing people to meet outside with people from one other household.\n\nBut schools - which are planned to begin a phased reopening from 1 June in England - will not reopen until the school new year begins on 11 August.\n\nContent available only in the UK", "More than £20m raised by Captain Tom Moore has been handed out to NHS charities across the country.\n\nEach charity has been given £35,000 from the £32.8m fund and a second grant based on the size of the trust they serve, said NHS Charities Together.\n\nThe charity at the hospital where Capt Tom was treated for a broken hip and skin cancer received £122,500.\n\nNHS Charities Together said the donations were \"already having a huge impact and will continue to do so\".\n\nChief executive Ellie Orton said funds raised by Capt Tom were part of a total of £116m which would support staff, volunteers and patients.\n\nThey include paying for tablet devices for them to keep in contact with loved ones, counselling services, food and drink, and comfortable places for them to take a break.\n\n\"We have been completely overwhelmed and delighted by the response our appeal has received,\" she said.\n\nWith gift aid added, the war veteran raised £38.9m for NHS charities by walking 100 lengths of his garden in Bedfordshire before his 100th birthday in April.\n\nThe day was marked with an RAF flypast, some 140,000 birthday cards, and Capt Tom being made an honorary colonel.\n\nOn Tuesday it was announced he had been awarded a knighthood.\n\nCapt Tom was initially inspired to raise money for the NHS in its efforts against coronavirus by the quality of care he received during his own time in hospital in 2018.\n\nThe charity serving Bedford Hospital, where Capt Tom was treated, and the Luton and Dunstable Hospital, which it has merged with, was awarded £122,500.\n\nEach of the 220 members of NHS Charities Together was granted £35,000 in the first wave of hand-outs.\n\nThe second wave to the charities was then calculated at £7 per staff member at the NHS trusts its supports.\n\nAmong the largest donations so far are £315,000 to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Endowments, £196,000 to Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Charity and £182,000 to University Hospitals Birmingham Charity.\n\nOther payments, to the more than 250 charities given money, include:\n\nCapt Tom served in India and Myanmar during World War Two\n\nMore than one and a half million people donated during the fundraising, after which the 100-year-old reached number one with You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nCapt Tom has since announced he is to set up a loneliness foundation, to support those \"who are feeling so very much on their own\" during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Play video 'It's difficult to get in the zone in your kitchen' from BBC\n\n'It's difficult to get in the zone in your kitchen'", "Many migrants have also taken their families along on their difficult journeys\n\nTens of thousands of daily-wage migrant workers suddenly found themselves without jobs or a source of income when India announced a lockdown on 24 March.\n\nOvernight, the cities they had helped build and run seemed to have turned their backs on them, the trains and buses which should have carried them home suspended.\n\nSo with the looming fear of hunger, men, women and children were forced to begin arduous journeys back to their villages - cycling or hitching rides on tuk-tuks, lorries, water tankers and milk vans.\n\nFor many, walking was the only option. Some travelled for a few hundred kilometres, while others covered more than a thousand to go home.\n\nThey weren't always alone - some had young children and others had pregnant wives, and the life they had built for themselves packed into their ragtag bags.\n\nMany never made it. Here, the BBC tells the story of just a handful of the hundreds who have lost their lives on the road home.\n\nRajan Yadav, his wife Sanju and their two children wanted to make it big in Mumbai\n\nSanju Yadav and her husband, Rajan, and their two children - Nitin and Nandini - arrived in India's financial capital, Mumbai, a decade ago with their meagre belongings and dreams of a brighter future.\n\nHer children, she hoped, would thrive growing up in the city.\n\n\"It was not like she didn't like the village life,\" Rajan explained. \"She just knew that Mumbai offered better opportunities for all of us.\"\n\nIndeed, it was Sanju that encouraged Rajan to push himself.\n\n\"I used to do an eight-hour shift in a factory. Sanju motivated me do something more, so we bought a food cart and started selling snacks from 16:00 to 22:00.\n\n\"She pushed me to think big, she used to say that having our business was way better than a job. Job had a fixed salary, but business allowed us to grow.\"\n\nTwo years ago, all the hard work seemed to be paying off. Rajan used his savings and a bank loan to buy a tuk-tuk. The vehicle-for-hire brought more money for Sanju and her family.\n\nBut then came coronavirus.\n\nThousands of people have left the cities\n\nThe couple first heard Prime Minister Narendra Modi talk about the virus on TV on 19 March. A full, three-week lockdown was announced less than a week later.\n\nThey used up most of their savings to pay rent, repay the loan and buy groceries in March and April. They were hoping that the city would reopen in May, but then the lockdown was extended again.\n\nOut of money and options, they decided to go back to their village in Jaunpur district in Uttar Pradesh state. They applied for tickets on the special trains that were being run for migrants, but had no luck for a week.\n\nDesperate and exhausted, they decided to undertake the 1,500-km long journey in their tuk-tuk. The family-of-four left Mumbai on 9 May.\n\nMany were travelling with small children\n\nRajan would drive from 05:00 to 11:00. He would then rest during the day, and at 18:00 the family would be back on the road until 23:00. \"We ate whatever dry food we had packed and slept on pavements. The prospect of being in the safety of our village kept us going,\" he says.\n\nBut in the early hours of 12 May - just 200km from their village - a truck rammed into the tuk-tuk from behind.\n\nSanju and Nandini died on the spot. Rajan and Nitin escaped with minor injuries.\n\n\"It all ended so quickly,\" Rajan says. \"We were so close to our village. We were so excited. But I have nothing left now - just a big void.\"\n\nHe says he can't help but keep thinking about the train tickets that never came. \"I wish I had gotten the tickets. I wish I had never started the journey… I wish I was not poor.\"\n\nLallu Ram Yadav was excited to spend time with his family\n\nLallu Ram Yadav used to meet his cousin Ajay Kumar every Sunday to reminisce about the village he had left for Mumbai a decade earlier, in search of a better life for his wife and six children.\n\nFor 10 years, the 55-year-old had worked as a security guard, 12 hours a day, six days a week.\n\nBut his hard work amounted to little once the lockdown began, and the cousins both found their savings quickly ran out.\n\nLallu Ram called his family to say they were coming home - at least, he would now get to spend time with his children, he said.\n\nAnd so Lallu Ram and Ajay Kumar joined the desperate scramble to find a way home to the village in Uttar Pradesh's Allahabad district, some 1,400km away.\n\nBut the price demanded by lorry drivers proved too much. Instead, inspired by the migrants walking home they saw on the television, they packed small bags and began the journey on foot with four friends.\n\nMany migrants say they don't want to come back to cities\n\nThe covered around 400km in the first 48 hours - hitchhiking in lorries along the way. But the journey was more difficult than they had imagined.\n\n\"It was really hot and we would get tired quickly,\" Ajay Kumar said. \"The leather shoes we were wearing were extremely uncomfortable.\"\n\nThey all had blisters on their feet after walking for a day, but giving up was not an option.\n\nOne evening, Lallu Ram started complaining about breathing difficulties. They had just entered Madhya Pradesh state - they still had a long way to go, but they decided to rest for a while before starting again.\n\nLallu Ram never woke up. When they took him to a nearby hospital, they were told he had died of a cardiac arrest, triggered by exhaustion and fatigue.\n\nMany found it difficult to find food during their journeys\n\nThey didn't know what to do with the body. An ambulance was going to take five to eight hours to reach them.\n\nThe group had around 15,000 rupees ($199; £163) between them - half the amount needed to hire a lorry. But one driver agreed to take the rest of the payment later. And that's how they took the body back home.\n\nLallu Ram couldn't fulfil the promise of spending more time with his children.\n\n\"The family's only breadwinner is gone,\" says Ajay Kumar. \"Nobody helped us. My cousin didn't have to die - but it was a choice between hunger and the long journey.\n\n\"We poor people often have to pick the best from several bad choices. It didn't work out for my cousin this time. It seldom works out for poor people like him.\"\n\nSagheer Ansari was an expert tailor but had lost his job recently\n\nSagheer and Sahib Ansari were good tailors. They never struggled to find work in Delhi's booming garment factories - until the lockdown.\n\nWithin days, they lost their jobs. The brothers thought things would go back to normal in a few weeks and stayed put in their tiny one-room house.\n\nWhen their money ran out, they asked family members in the village for help. When the lockdown was further extended in May, their patience ran out.\n\n\"We couldn't have asked the family for more money. We were supposed to help them, not take money from them,\" Sahib says.\n\nThey would wait in queues for food being distributed by the government. But, Sahib says, it was never enough and they always felt hungry.\n\nSo the brothers discussed the idea of going back to their village in Motihari district in Bihar state, some 1,200km from Delhi.\n\nSagheer has left behind his wife and three young children\n\nThey and their friends decided to buy used bicycles, but could only afford six for eight people. So they decided that they would all take turns to ride pillion.\n\nThey left Delhi in the early hours of 5 May. It was a hot day and the group felt tired after every 10km.\n\n\"Our knees would hurt, but we kept pedalling. We hardly got a proper meal and that made it more difficult to pedal,\" Sahib says.\n\nAfter riding for five days, the group reached Lucknow - the capital of Uttar Pradesh. It had been two days since they had had a proper meal and they were mostly surviving on puffed rice.\n\n\"All of us were very hungry. We sat on a road divider to eat because there was hardly any traffic,\" he says.\n\nMany migrants have had to travel in overcrowded lorries\n\nBut then a car came out of nowhere, hitting the barrier and striking Sagheer. He died in a hospital a few hours later.\n\n\"My world came crashing down,\" Sahib says. \"I had no idea what I was going to tell his two children and his wife.\n\n\"He used to love home-cooked food and was looking forward to it. He died without having a proper meal for days.\"\n\nSahib eventually reached home with his brother's body, brought by an ambulance. But he couldn't mourn with his family for long, as he was put into a quarantine centre right after the burial.\n\n\"I don't know who to blame for his death - coronavirus, hunger or poverty. I have understood one thing: I will never leave my village. I will make less money but at least I will stay alive.\"\n\nNaresh Singh with his wife (standing to his right) and children\n\nJaikrishna Kumar, 17, regrets encouraging his father Balram to come home after the lockdown started.\n\nBalram was from a village in Bihar's Khagadia district, but was working in Gujarat - one of the states worst-hit by the coronavirus - when much of India closed down in March.\n\nHe and his friend Naresh Singh, a maintenance worker for mobile phone towers, were both working hard so their sons back in Bihar could have better futures. Balram wanted Jaikrishna to go to college, Nikram wanted his sons to become government officers.\n\nThey started their journey on foot, but about 400km into it, policemen helped them and others to hitch a ride in a lorry.\n\nThe \"ride\" involved them all being precariously perched on top of cargo - a common sight on Indian highways.\n\nPeople have taken extreme risks to get home\n\nBut this time, the driver lost control in Dausa town in Rajasthan state, ramming the lorry into a tree.\n\nBoth Naresh and Balram died in the accident.\n\nNow Jaikrishna Kumar says he will probably have to quit studying and find a job to support the family.\n\n\"The accident took away my father and my dreams of getting an education. I wish there was another way. I don't like the idea of going to a city to work, but what other option do I have?\n\n\"My father wanted me to break the cycle of poverty. I don't know how to do it without him.\"\n• None Coronavirus as seen through children's art", "\"We'll be judged on how we get out of it, not how we got into it.\"\n\nInside Downing Street there is an acute awareness that the gradual move out of the lockdown is going to be much more complicated than slamming the doors in the first place.\n\nThat's the case both in terms of creating plans and policies that give people enough reassurance to take tiny steps to start to get back to normal, only weeks after the peak of a terrible disease, and trying to do so without taking on too much political water, when the consensus that shaped the start of the crisis has already started to fray.\n\nAnd the ongoing tussle over England's return to schools is perhaps the first big test.\n\nThe possibility of children going back to school, beyond relatively small numbers who have been attending throughout - the kids of key workers and some of the most vulnerable children with special needs - was floated by government well before the prime minister's big speech last Sunday.\n\nGetting schools back is considered crucial for so many reasons: for kids' education - particularly for those from less advantaged backgrounds, but to allow more parents to get back to work too, and stitching back parts of the social fabric that have been so under strain.\n\nSimply, it matters enormously to millions of families, with 8.8 million children in state schools in England.\n\nSo when the prime minister announced his ambition that schools would go back at the start of next month it was huge, even though it applied only to a few year groups.\n\nRemember right now, the plans for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are not to reopen before the summer holidays.\n\nIn the last few days however, council after council in England, including the Conservative council Solihull, have very publicly been raising doubts about whether they can be ready in time, and whether it is safe.\n\nSome of the government's own scientific advisers have warned it's important that the testing, tracking and tracing system should be up and running before schools open again fully too.\n\nThe prime minister suggested today that it would be, but it's fair to say that's quite the promise.\n\nThere's been some pretty tough push back against the government's plans from the unions, and no surprise, some pretty punchy political briefings right back at them.\n\nIn summary, it's not surprising all that might leave some parents confused - anxious, even - and stuck in the middle of a political row that none of them asked for, wondering whether their kids should be sharpening their pencils to go back in 10 days, or whether the PE kit can remain lost somewhere down the back of the sofa for another few weeks.\n\nGovernment sources are trying loudly to remind everyone that the plan was always an ambition, and always conditional.\n\nThe prime minister's 'road map' did make it clear that England will only move into 'Step Two' when the five tests ministers have set out repeatedly have been met. (There's a great reminder from my colleague Nick Triggle here on what they are.)\n\nThat decision will be taken, not by the Department of Education, but by Number 10 at the end of next week.\n\nThere's also some sense of frustration that they have tried to answer many of the questions now being posed.\n\nOf course, parents and teachers worry that it's just not feasible to get groups of wriggling five-year-olds to stay 2 metres apart.\n\nBut the guidance published states that as long as children stay within their smaller groups at a maximum of 15, the 2 metre rule does not have to be followed.\n\nIt's also worth noting that in other European countries schools have started to go back too - you can read about how Denmark did it here.\n\nBut the row has become louder than the volume of explanation.\n\nAnd you can't avoid the complexity and the challenge of getting more kids back. Buildings, staffing, cleaning rotas, teaching itself, are only some of the things that will have to be different in a matter of weeks.\n\nEven with pages of guidance, as one cabinet minister acknowledges you \"just can't itemise every single thing\".\n\nAnd there is worry among many of the public, told for weeks to stay home to be safe, but are now being told to send the youngest members of their families to a different place.\n\nAdd traditional tensions between the Tories and the teaching unions, and then mix in the roles, and politics of the 150 different local authorities with responsibility for education in England, and the various school academy groups too and, well, you have a situation that is enormously more complicated than what one politician, even a very senior one, says at a desk in Downing Street.\n\nIn part, the government created problems for itself by allowing that critical gap, of even a day or so, between the prime minister's announcements about the phased return on that Sunday night, and the detailed guidance of exactly what it would mean in practice.\n\nBut as one minister acknowledged, \"you have to have a period of people settling into what the norm is going to be\".\n\nIt may take an awful lot of political wrangling to get there. Getting schools back may be the first big challenge, but it certainly won't be the last.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Zuckerberg told the BBC's Simon Jack that Facebook would 'take down' coronavirus misinformation\n\nFacebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has told the BBC that it had and would remove any content likely to result in \"immediate and imminent harm\" to users.\n\n\"Even if something isn't going to lead to imminent physical harm, we don't want misinformation to be the content that is going viral,\" he said.\n\nIt removed Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro's claim that scientists had \"proved\" there was a coronavirus cure.\n\nThis was removed because it was \"obviously\" not true, he said.\n\nHe also said that Facebook had removed content from groups claiming that the rollout of the 5G digital network was a cause of the spread of the virus and in some cases encouraged those who believed that to damage the networks physical infrastructure.\n\nFacebook recently removed content from former broadcaster and conspiracy theorist David Icke for \"repeatedly violating our policies on harmful misinformation\".\n\nMr Icke had suggested that 5G mobile phone networks are linked to the spread of the virus and in another video he suggested a Jewish group was behind the virus.\n\nMr Zuckerberg said: \"We work with independent fact checkers. Since the Covid outbreak, they have issued 7,500 notices of misinformation which has led to us issuing 50 million warning labels on posts.\n\n\"We know these are effective because 95% of the time, users don't click through to the content with a warning label.\"\n\nHowever, Facebook has insisted that unless there was the prospect of real imminent harm, then the company would and should allow what he called the \"widest possible aperture\" for freedom of expression on the internet.\n\nHe also told the BBC that preventing electoral interference is an \"arms race\" against countries such as Russia, Iran and China.\n\nHe admitted that the firm was \"behind\" in the 2016 US presidential election.\n\nIn his first UK broadcast interview in five years, he said that Facebook had been unprepared for state-sponsored interference in 2016.\n\nBut he added the company was confident it had since learnt its lessons.\n\nFacebook was previously embroiled in a political scandal in which tens of millions of its users' data ended up in the hands of political interest groups including Cambridge Analytica.\n\nHowever, he said the social media giant, which also owns Whatsapp and Instagram, was now better prepared than other companies, and even governments, to prevent future attempts to influence political outcomes.\n\n\"Countries are going to continue to try and interfere and we are going to see issues like that but we have learnt a lot since 2016 and I feel pretty confident that we are going to be able to protect the integrity of the upcoming election\".\n\nMr Zuckerberg also defended his level of personal control over arguably the world's most powerful media platforms.\n\nAlthough Facebook is a public company worth nearly $700bn (£574bn), he ultimately exerts total individual control thanks to an ownership structure that gives him a controlling interest even though he owns a small fraction of the shares.\n\nHe said it had allowed Facebook to make longer-term strategic decisions which have proved to be correct such as waiting to improve the Facebook experience before launching it on smartphones and not selling out early to rivals.\n\n\"If it had been different then we would have sold out to Yahoo years ago and who knows what would have happened then. \"\n\nYahoo is now worth 1/20th as much as Facebook.\n\nFacebook continues to face criticism over its reluctance to describe or define itself as a publisher and thus embrace the kind of editorial responsibility that newspapers and traditional broadcasters are legally bound by.\n\nHowever, it would be hard to argue that Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram have not provided billions of people with the kind of connectivity with friends and family that has been important during this global pandemic and the consequent restrictions on movement and freedom.\n\nIn fact, after many years of courting controversy and opprobrium, it seems clear that Facebook and Mr Zuckerberg are feeling more confident about their public roles.\n\nIf there are any winners out of this public health emergency, digital companies like Facebook, Netflix and Amazon are among them.\n\nHowever, no one is totally immune to the deep downturn that is already upon us and the evidence for which is confirmed with every new economic release.\n\nFacebook knows that and is one of the reasons it is keen to help small businesses online through this week's launch of a service called Facebook Shops.\n\nIt's a mutually beneficial exchange. Those businesses are Facebook's current and future customers. What's good for them is good for Facebook.", "The number of coronavirus cases in the community is remaining relatively stable with one in 400 people in England infected, the government's surveillance programme shows.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics survey estimates there are around 8,700 new infections a day on average.\n\nFigures for people testing positive in labs, however, is roughly 1,200, suggesting thousands more were infected but had no symptoms.\n\nThey were sent swab tests, which detect the virus, to their homes between 4 and 17 May.\n\nOverall, 0.25% of participants tested positive for the virus - which is similar to the 0.27% figure provided by the programme last week.\n\nThis indicates about 137,000 people in England could be currently infected.\n\nOn Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said a track-and-trace system would be ready by 1 June that would be able to deal with 10,000 cases a day.\n\nThe ONS study is set to expand over time to test 300,000 people in private households across all four UK nations.\n\nIt is one of the sources of information being used to calculate the reproduction (R) number, or transmission rate, of the virus.\n\nThe people tested in this survey did not include hospital patients or people living in care homes, where rates of Covid-19 are likely to be much higher.", "President Donald Trump's ex-lawyer Michael Cohen has been released from prison to home confinement due to Covid-19 concerns.\n\nCohen, 53, is serving a three-year sentence for lying to Congress and campaign finance fraud.\n\nHis early release was first reported in April, but it was delayed.\n\nNew York is the epicentre of the US pandemic and the minimum-security prison where Cohen is detained has had a number of confirmed cases.\n\nAccording to the federal Bureau of Prisons, 2,265 inmates and 188 staff have tested positive for Covid-19 nationwide. There have been 58 inmate deaths due to the virus.\n\nCohen said on Twitter on Thursday, following his release, that he was \"so glad to be home and back with my family\".\n\n\"There is so much I want to say and intend to say. But now is not the right time. Soon. Thank you to all my friends and supporters.\"\n\nEarlier this month, another former Trump aide, ex-campaign chairman Paul Manafort, was released from prison to serve the remainder of his custodial term at home due to Covid-19 fears.\n\nManafort, who was convicted of conspiracy and fraud charges, had served a little over a year of his seven-and-a-half year sentence.\n\nCohen - who was originally due to walk free in November 2021 - was expected to remain in quarantine for two weeks before early release.\n\nThe former fixer, who once said he would take a bullet for Mr Trump, was the first member of his inner circle to be jailed during a justice department-led inquiry into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election.\n\nHe admitted to lying to Congress about a Trump Tower project in Moscow, and campaign finance violations for his role in making hush money payments to women alleging affairs with Mr Trump and other tax and bank fraud charges unrelated to the president.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"Test, track and trace system in place in the UK by June 1\"\n\nThe PM says England will have a \"world-beating\" tracing system from June, as he was accused of leaving a \"huge hole\" in the country's coronavirus defences.\n\nBoris Johnson said 25,000 contact tracers, able to track 10,000 new cases a day, would be in place by 1 June.\n\nBBC health correspondent Nick Triggle said it was unlikely to be a \"fully-functioning perfect system\" by then.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer challenged the PM over the absence of a tracing system since March.\n\nContact tracing is a system used to slow the spread of infectious diseases like coronavirus, and is already being used in Hong Kong, Singapore and Germany.\n\nOne method involves the infected person listing all the people with whom they have had prolonged and recent contact, to be tracked down by phone or email.\n\nAnother uses a location-tracking mobile app, which identifies people the patient has been in contact with.\n\nThe NHS contact tracing app - which is currently being trialled on the Isle of Wight and was initially meant to be launched across England in mid-May - will be rolled out at a later date, No 10 suggested.\n\nIt comes as the number of people who died after testing positive for the virus increased by 363 to 35,704, the government said on Wednesday.\n\nSpeaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir asked why there had been \"no effective\" attempt to trace the contacts of those infected with Covid-19 since 12 March \"when tracing was abandoned\".\n\nMr Johnson replied: \"We have growing confidence that we will have a test, track and trace operation that will be world-beating and yes, it will be in place by June 1.\"\n\nHe added that 24,000 contact tracers had already been recruited.\n\nThe 1 June deadline will also mark the earliest possible date for the gradual reopening of schools and non-essential shops in England.\n\nThe government's deputy chief scientific adviser Prof Dame Angela McLean previously said an effective system for tracing new coronavirus cases needed to be in place before lockdown restrictions could be changed.\n\nDo not expect a fully-functioning perfect track-and-trace system to be up-and-running by 1 June.\n\nWhat will be launched will effectively be a prototype. The app may not be ready by that point, but the army of contract tracers will be available.\n\nGiven where we are today (and plenty argue mistakes have been made, which means we are in a weaker position than we should be) this is perhaps understandable.\n\nThe government does not have the luxury of testing and piloting this behind the scenes for months to come.\n\nSo, the system will have to evolve as it goes.\n\nThe question is whether it will be robust enough to provide a track-and-trace service that will work on a basic level and help contain local outbreaks, which of course is vital as we gradually move out of lockdown.\n\nThe prime minister's assertion that it will be able to deal with 10,000 new cases a day is interesting.\n\nIt sounds a lot. The daily figures suggest there are only a few thousand positive cases a day.\n\nBut remember those figures have not been capturing all the infections - until this week when testing was extended to all over-fives eligibility was quite restricted.\n\nHowever, surveillance data provided by the Office for National Statistics suggests we may well be seeing around that number.\n\nThe work that has been done so far is about to be put to the test.\n\nThe PM also insisted that the UK was now testing more than \"virtually every country in Europe\", and promised that the system would be stepped up in the next fortnight.\n\nLeading scientist Prof Hugh Pennington said the pledge was \"good news\" as it was \"essential if we're going to go anywhere near getting out of lockdown, opening schools\".\n\n\"It's taken a long time. As to world-beating, well we've been beaten by quite a few other countries by having such a system running.\"\n\nHe added that contact tracing was \"really very labour-intensive work\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM promised 200,000 tests in the UK, after he was challenged by Sir Keir Starmer over care home testing.\n\nAlso at PMQs, Sir Keir queried whether people were being tested in care homes, after the boss of a body representing care homes in England said on Tuesday that there were problems.\n\nMr Johnson said 125,000 care home staff have been tested and that the government was \"absolutely confident\" it would be able to increase testing in care homes and \"across the whole of the community\".\n\nHe added: \"And thanks to the hard work of [Health Secretary Matt Hancock] and his teams, we will get up to 200,000 tests in the country by the end of this month.\"\n\nIt comes as the prime minister said the deaths of 181 NHS workers and 131 social care workers had reportedly involved Covid-19.", "Professor Sir Ian Boyd spoke to the BBC's The Coronavirus Newscast\n\nOne of the government's scientific advisers has said he would have liked ministers to have acted \"a week or two weeks earlier\" in the virus pandemic.\n\nSir Ian Boyd, who sits on the Sage scientific advisory group, said \"it would have made quite a big difference\" to the death rate.\n\nMinisters have always insisted they have been guided by the scientific advice during the pandemic.\n\nGovernment figures show 36,042 people with the virus have died in the UK.\n\nSir Ian is a professor of biology at St Andrews University and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), which advises ministers on Covid-19.\n\nHe told The Coronavirus Newscast: \"Acting very early was really important and I would have loved to have seen us acting a week or two weeks earlier and it would have made quite a big difference to the steepness of the curve of infection and therefore the death rate.\n\n\"And I think that's really the number one issue - could we have acted earlier? Were the signs there earlier on?\"\n\nSir Ian suggested that the government based its initial assessment on the transmissibility of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) virus, which is less infectious than this coronavirus.\n\nSars was a previously unknown disease that started to spread around the world in 2003. It went on to infect more than 8,000 people and kill almost 800.\n\nHe described the UK and other European countries as \"a bit slower off the mark\" and less prepared than countries that had experienced Sars in the early 2000s.\n\nHe said that ministers would have received \"very blunt and very clear\" advice from the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance. and chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty.\n\n\"One could point the finger at ministers and politicians for not being willing to listen to scientific advice.\n\n\"You could point the finger at scientists for not actually being explicit enough.\n\n\"But at the end of the day all these interact with public opinion as well. And I think some politicians would have loved to have reacted earlier but in their political opinion it probably wasn't feasible because people wouldn't have perhaps responded in the way they eventually did.\"\n\nSir Ian also called on ministers to stop saying they are \"led\" by the science.\n\n\"I think the statement 'we are guided by the science' is slightly misleading. I don't think ministers intend it to be misleading. I think they intend it to help to provide trust in what they are saying. And quite rightly so.\n\n\"Basically what we in the scientific community do is give the best advice we can based on the evidence that's available to us. We then pass it to government ministers and the policy parts of government who can then take that and do with it what they like within the policy context.\"\n\nSir Ian - who was the chief scientific adviser at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2012-19 - said Sage meetings are currently taking place over Zoom.\n\nHe defended the participation of political aides, such as the prime minister's adviser Dominic Cummings, saying: \"It brings them back to reality.\"\n\nMore than 50 people sit on Sage. The membership of the group was published in early May.\n\nIt was followed by the publication of documents from the group setting out their advice.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aya Hachem, 19, was shot in the chest near a supermarket\n\nThe father of a woman who was shot dead in the street hoped his family would be safe in the UK after they fled Lebanon.\n\nLaw student Aya Hachem, 19, was shot from a passing car in a case of mistaken identity, in the town's King Street on Sunday.\n\nHer father Ismail told BBC Asian Network his dreams have been destroyed in the wake of her death.\n\nTwo more people have been detained in connection with the investigation, bringing the number of arrests to 11.\n\nEight people have been arrested on suspicion of murder while a further three suspects have been held on suspicion of assisting an offender.\n\nPolice have been given more time to question the first three men who were arrested on Monday.\n\nThe suspects, who are aged 19 to 39, remain in police custody.\n\nMs Hachem was walking towards Lidl at about 15:00 BST when she was hit by one of several shots fired from a car.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Terry Woods, of Lancashire Police, said the \"completely innocent\" law student had not been the intended target.\n\nMr Hachem said he repeatedly tried to call his eldest daughter - who with her family had been living in the UK for a decade - when she did not return home from the supermarket.\n\nHis wife later told him \"my heart is saying go check on Aya\", he told the BBC.\n\nHer parents said she was the \"most loyal devoted daughter\" who \"dreamed of becoming a solicitor\"\n\nDuring his search to find his daughter, Mr Hachem discovered King Street had been cordoned off.\n\nHe was unaware that this was the scene of his daughter's death until the police arrived at his home later that day.\n\n\"I start crying... cause all my dreams, Aya,\" he said.\n\n\"I think I would be safe here... in this small town. No big problems.\"\n\nPolice believe this Toyota Avensis was used\n\nThe Lebanese-born teenager - a second year student at the University of Salford - was a young trustee for the Children's Society.\n\nThe charity's chief executive Mark Russell said: \"She was bright, passionate, hard-working, ambitious.\n\n\"It's a complete tragedy that her life has been cut short.\"\n\nHer former head teacher described as a \"wonderful young lady who had so much to offer\".\n\nDiane Atkinson, executive head of Blackburn Central High School, said: \"She fled a war-torn zone as a refugee and came to the UK looking for a better life.\n\nMs Hachem arrived at the school as a 12-year-old \"with very little English\" but \"picked it up very quickly\".\n\nShe was a \"very intelligent young lady\" who had \"great aspirations to help other people\" and \"worked incredibly hard to become the very, very best person she could be\", Ms Atkinson said.\n\nA Toyota Avensis, believed to have been used in the shooting, was later found abandoned in Wellington Road.\n\nDetectives said the shooting was not being treated as terrorism-related or a racially-motivated attack.\n• None Gun death woman 'had aspirations to help others'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Eleven transgender prisoners were sexually assaulted in jails in England and Wales last year, it has emerged.\n\nThe figures, from the Ministry of Justice, cover inmates who were born and remained legally male but self-identified as female.\n\nThe total number of transgender victims far exceeds the number who were suspected of carrying out sex attacks, with only one such case in 2019.\n\nThe campaign group Stonewall called the figures \"upsetting\".\n\nIn a separate incident, it was unclear if the transgender individual involved was the assailant or the victim.\n\nAll of the alleged attacks occurred in the male prison estate, the prisons and probation minister Lucy Frazer said.\n\nLast week, ministers revealed that out of 124 sexual assaults in five women's jails over the previous nine years, from 2010 to 2018, seven had been carried out by trans prisoners.\n\nMs Frazer said the total included those who were born female but identified as men, non-binary or intersex, as well as people who were male by birth and now identified as female.\n\nOne of the cases was that of Karen White, who sexually assaulted two women while on remand at New Hall prison in Wakefield in 2017.\n\nWhite, who was born male and now identifies as a woman, was described by a judge as a \"predator\" who was a danger to women and children.\n\nWhite was given a life sentence for sexual offences.\n\nThe case prompted an overhaul of guidelines for transgender prisoners and led to the establishment of a new transgender unit at HMP Downview, in south London.\n\nLast year, there were 163 transgender prisoners in jails in England and Wales, 129 of them in men's prisons and 34 in women's prisons, an increase of 30 on 2018.\n\nSelf-identified is the term given to someone's personal sense of their own gender, the gender they live in and present as.\n\nThe figures, which were collected during April and May 2019, did not include prisoners who had transitioned from their birth gender and who have a full Gender Recognition Certificate.\n\nIn a statement, Stonewall, which campaigns for the rights of lesbian, gay, bi and trans people said the figures showed transgender prisoners faced a \"high risk of assault, harassment and violence\".\n\n\"We also know that they often face barriers to accessing healthcare, as well as being at risk of serious mental health problems and suicide,\" it said.\n\n\"It's essential that all prison staff are provided with high-quality training, so that they can ensure the safety and dignity of trans prisoners.\"\n\nPrisons minister Lucy Frazer said: \"All sexual assaults in prison are referred to the police and HMPPS (Prison and Probation Service) have strong safeguards in place to manage risks to all those in custody, regardless of their gender.\n\n\"HMPPS has robust processes in place to care for and manage transgender individuals in custody.\n\n\"The safety of all those in our care is of paramount importance.\n\n\"All known risks, both towards or presented by a transgender person in prison, will always be taken into account in their care and management.\n\n\"Individuals will be cared for and managed in the gender with which they identify, regardless of their location in a male or female prison.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nIf you've heard the phrase 'these are unprecedented times' once in the past few months, you've heard it a thousand times.\n\nThe world as we knew it is no more, and who knows when it will ever return to normal?\n\nFootball fans have seen their sporting world put up on bricks. And Thursday night saw another strange moment, at Downing Street this time.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock was busy addressing the nation in the regular Government news conference when he caught everyone off guard by announcing: \"We now go to....Robbie Savage?\"\n\nEven he seemed surprised.\n\nBut this wasn't an impromptu episode of 606. Savage didn't grill the MP for West Suffolk on whether Manchester United could win the title next year if they sign Jadon Sancho, Jack Grealish, Kalidou Koulibaly and the government comes up with a vaccine.\n\nNo, the former Wales midfielder - joining the briefing in his role as a Daily Mirror columnist - had a serious political question.\n\nHe asked: \"Why can junior tennis players, athletes and golfers receive coaching sessions but young people who play the working-class game of football are not allowed to?\"\n\nHancock was not thrown by his unexpected interviewer, though. He sympathised with the view but said that: \"Unfortunately, these rules have to be in place.\"\n\nAsked whether Hancock or the government's scientific advisers could give an indication as to how grassroots football could be allowed to restart, the health secretary said: \"Some of the projects we're putting in place, like this testing and tracing that we've been talking about, are there to try to hold the number of new cases down while allowing more social distancing measures to be lifted and this is one that we can look at.\"\n\nHe added: \"We want grassroots football back as soon as we safely can.\"\n\nNext week: Chris Sutton gets more answers from Priti Patel.", "Antibody tests are carried out in other countries, such as Russia\n\nPeople in England have been cautioned against using coronavirus antibody tests being sold by some retailers.\n\nNHS England's medical director Prof Stephen Powis said experts were \"evaluating\" antibody tests, which show if someone has already had the virus.\n\nSuch tests are not yet available through the NHS, but some are being sold commercially.\n\n\"I would caution against using any tests... without knowing quite how good those tests are,\" said Prof Powis.\n\nCurrently, the coronavirus tests available to all adults and children aged over five are swab tests - taking a swab up the nose or from the back of the throat. These tests tell you if you currently have Covid-19.\n\nA second type of test - the antibody test - is a blood test that looks for antibodies in the blood to see whether a person has had the virus.\n\nHealth officials in England have already approved an antibody test. There is no date for when it will be rolled out, but Health Secretary Matt Hancock said earlier this week the government was in \"the closing stages of commercial negotiations\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Superdrug became the latest business - and first high street retailer - to offer the antibody test. The kit costs £69 and buyers need to take a blood sample at home, which is sent off to a lab for testing.\n\nSpeaking at the No 10 daily briefing on Wednesday, Prof Powis said: \"Public Health England have been evaluating the new antibody tests, the commercial tests that are becoming available.\"\n\nBut he added: \"I would caution against using any tests that might be made available without knowing quite how good those tests are... I would caution people against being tempted to have those tests.\"\n\nSetting out some of the uncertainties around the commercial tests, Prof Powis said: \"Once you have the virus, the body's immune system develops antibodies against it and it's those antibodies that are detected typically a number of weeks after you've had the virus.\n\n\"What we don't absolutely know at the moment is whether having antibodies and having the antibodies that are tested in those tests means that you won't get the virus again.\n\n\"So I wouldn't want people to think just because you test positive for the antibody that it necessarily means that you can do something different in terms of social distancing, in the way you behave.\n\n\"Because until we are absolutely sure about the relationship between the positive antibody test and immunity, I think we as scientists would say we need to tread cautiously going further forward.\"\n\nSuperdrug said it was \"confident\" in the accuracy and reliability of the test, which it said has a sensitivity of 97.5%. That means it will detect positive antibodies 97.5% of the time, so there is a chance a negative result may be wrong.\n\nThere is a variation in the accuracy of tests. A test developed by scientists in Scotland and Switzerland had a 99.8% accuracy rate for giving a positive result.\n\nDr Colin Butler, from the University of Lincoln, said the commercial tests \"should give a good indication\" of whether an individual has been infected with Covid-19.\n\nBut he added: \"Whilst this may be an indication of functional immunity, confirmation of this is awaited from large scale studies presently under way. Until it is, individuals should not assume they are fully immune to further infection.\"\n\nA healthcare professional in Italy shows a test tube with blood for an antibody test\n\nThe World Health Organization says there is no evidence people who have recovered from Covid-19 and have antibodies are protected from being infected again.\n\nThe new coronavirus, called Sars-CoV-2, has not been around long enough to know how long immunity lasts, but there are six other human coronaviruses that can give a clue.\n\nFour produce the symptoms of the common cold and immunity is short-lived. In two coronaviruses - the ones that cause Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers) antibodies have been detected a few years later.", "Peter Weir said pupils' return to school would not be a return to normal, but rather a \"new normal\" guided by social-distancing guidelines\n\nSome NI pupils will return to school in late August with a phased return for the remainder, Education Minister Peter Weir has said.\n\nMr Weir was speaking during a meeting of a Stormont committee on Thursday.\n\n\"Subject to medical guidance and safety, it would be my aim to see a phased reopening of schools,\" he said.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland have been closed since March during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nMr Weir said the reopening of schools would begin with \"limited provision for key cohort years in August, followed by a phased provision for all pupils at the beginning of September\".\n\n\"Key cohorts\" included students preparing for exams, such as GCSEs and A-Levels, and students transitioning from primary to post-primary schools, Mr Weir later clarified.\n\nFrom August, teaching will be split between the classroom and remote learning\n\n\"This will not be a return to school as it was prior to Covid, but rather a new normal reflective of social distancing and a medically safe regime,\" said Mr Weir.\n\n\"For all pupils it will involve a mixture of scheduled school attendance and learning at home.\n\n\"In line with the executive's strategy contingent upon medically sound advice and susceptibility of the transmission of the virus, consideration may be given to a return of younger cohorts.\n\nSpeaking at Thursday's executive press conference, Mr Weir announced a new Education Authority scheme to provide laptops for disadvantaged pupils to support their remote learning.\n\nThe Department of Education would buy more laptops if required, he added.\n\nMr Weir said as many as 400 vulnerable children were attending schools that were open only to provide care - a figure Mr Weir described as \"small but increasing\".\n\nThere will still be many questions for parents, pupils and teachers with this announcement.\n\nI spoke to one principal who asked how he will stagger classes and maintain social distancing, especially among younger pupils - and that's just one school.\n\nAlthough mid-August seems a long way off, it is a huge undertaking to enable pupils to come back and learn full time in September, even if they're not in school settings full time.\n\nWhat about childcare, in cases where students are only in schools part of the week and at home for the remainder?\n\nThe one advantage we do have is that our schools will not open for the rest of this educational year, so we will be able to watch how it is managed in other countries and what problems they've faced and overcome.\n\nBut this is only three months away - it will take every day of those three months to iron out some of these issues.\n\nThe minister said some school pupils were more at risk of falling behind than others.\n\nKevin McAreavey, principal of Holy Cross Boys' Primary School in Belfast, said schools were entering \"uncharted waters\".\n\nGetting to a point where grandparents could care for children again was important because many were \"the chief childminders and also the ones who look after the homework\", he said.\n\n\"It is going to be difficult,\" Mr McAreavey told the BBC's Evening Extra programme. \"There is a lot of planning (required) around the detail.\"\n\nBarry Corrigan, principal of Millennium Integrated Primary School in Saintfield, said the priority would be teaching pupils about good hygiene and working with parents to identify symptoms and limit the potential spread of coronavirus.", "Hancock: 17% of Londoners and 5% of rest of England have had coronavirus\n\nEarlier, at the UK government's daily briefing, we heard news of a study which suggests that 17% of people in London and around 5% of the rest of the nation have virus antibodies. The new data comes as the government agreed a deal with a large pharmaceutical firm for more than 10 million antibody tests, to see if people have had the virus. The first in line for them will be health and social care staff, patients and care home residents. It's still unclear what level of immunity people develop once they have had it, but some experts hope a degree of immunity would last a year or two. However, there is no guarantee that having antibodies means a person will not pass the virus on to somebody else. At the briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said certificates were being looked at for people who test positive for coronavirus antibodies. \"It's not just about the clinical advances that these tests can bring,\" he said. \"It's that knowing that you have these antibodies will help us to understand more in the future if you are at lower risk of catching coronavirus, of dying from coronavirus and of transmitting coronavirus.\"", "Ahmaud Arbery was shot dead during a confrontation on 23 February\n\nA motorist who filmed the shooting of an unarmed black man in the US state of Georgia has been charged with murder.\n\nWilliam Bryan Jr was also accused of a criminal attempt to commit false imprisonment on Thursday, said the Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GBI).\n\nAhmaud Arbery, 25, was jogging when he was shot dead during a confrontation with a father and son in Brunswick on 23 February.\n\nGregory McMichael, 64, and son Travis, 34, were charged with murder on 7 May.\n\nMr Bryan will be the final person arrested in connection with Mr Arbery's death Georgia officials said on Friday.\n\n\"At this point we feel confident that the individuals who need to be charged have been charged,\" GBI Director Vic Reynolds said at a press conference.\n\nWilliam Bryan Jr is detained in the same jail as the McMichaels pending trial\n\nThe GBI investigation is nearly finished, Mr Reynolds said, at which point the case will be transferred to district attorney Joyette Holmes - the fourth to be appointed since Mr Arbery was killed.\n\nIn the moments before the fatal confrontation, the McMichaels, who are white, armed themselves with a pistol and shotgun and pursued Mr Arbery in a pickup truck in the Satilla Shores neighbourhood.\n\nGregory McMichael told police he believed that Mr Arbery resembled the suspect in a series of local break-ins.\n\nMr Bryan's 36-second video leaked online on 5 May, generating nationwide outcry that was swiftly followed by murder charges. It was filmed by Mr Bryan from his vehicle while he was driving behind Mr Arbery.\n\nThe clip appears to show Mr Arbery running down a tree-lined street as the McMichaels wait ahead for him in their vehicle.\n\nTravis McMichael (left) and Gregory McMichael have also been arrested\n\nA tussle follows and the younger Mr McMichael appears to fire a gun at point blank range at Mr Arbery, who falls to the street.\n\nThe Arbery family welcomed Thursday's arrest, with their lawyer Lee Merritt saying Mr Bryan's alleged involvement in the killing \"was obvious to us, many around the country and after their thorough investigation, it was clear to the GBI as well\".\n\nMr Bryan is expected to be booked into the Glynn County jail, where the McMichaels are also detained as they await trial.\n\nA prosecutor said Mr Bryan had been \"in hot pursuit\" of Mr Arbery.\n\nHe is also mentioned in the Glynn County police report of the shooting, in which officers noted that Mr Bryan had unsuccessfully tried to block Mr Arbery's path.\n\nHowever, Mr Bryan told a local TV station that he \"had nothing to do with it\" and was in \"complete shock\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joggers out in solidarity with Ahmaud Arbery\n\nDuring the interview, he did not answer questions on why he was there or why he started recording, but his lawyer Kevin Gough said: \"My client was responding to what he saw, which was someone in the community he didn't know being followed by a vehicle he recognised.\"\n\nMr Bryan has since taken a voluntary lie detector test which law enforcement had not requested, his lawyer had said in a statement on Monday.\n\nHe added that Mr Bryan had been in hiding with his fiancée because of death threats and accused the Arbery family lawyers of instigating them.\n\n\"Contrary to speculation, the polygraph examination confirms that on 23 Feb 2020, the day of the shooting, William 'Roddie' Bryan did not have any conversation with either Gregory or Travis McMichael prior to the shooting.\n\n\"Nor did William 'Roddie' Bryan have any conversation with anyone else that day prior to the shooting about criminal activity in the neighbourhood,\" said Mr Gough, using Mr Bryan's nickname.\n\nIn a CNN interview, Mr Bryan said he had been praying for the Arbery family and hoped his tape would help bring closure.\n\n\"If there wasn't a tape, then we wouldn't know what happened,\" he said. \"I hope that it, in the end, brings justice to the family and peace to the family.\"\n\nAsked on Friday how Mr Bryan could be charged for murder without pulling the trigger, GBI Director Reynolds cited state law stating that someone who committed a felony resulting in a death can be charged with murder.\n\n\"We believe the evidence would indicate that his underlying felony helped cause the death of Ahmaud Arbery,\" Mr Reynolds said.\n\nBreonna Taylor was a decorated emergency medical technician and had no criminal record\n\nThere are no hate crime laws in Georgia law, but the US Justice Department has said it is examining the case to see if any federal hate crime charges are warranted.\n\nMeanwhile, the FBI said on Thursday it had opened an investigation into the another case of a black American shot dead amid conflicting narratives.\n\nBreonna Taylor was fatally shot eight times on 13 March by police conducting a drug raid in Louisville, Kentucky. Police say they knocked on the door and were met by gunfire from within.\n\nBut Ms Taylor's family say the officers did not knock, wore plainclothes and that Ms Taylor's partner opened fire because he thought they were burglars. The family also say the narcotics raid was targeting the wrong address.\n• None Ahmaud Arbery went jogging. Why did he die?", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Benefit officials have told the BBC they fear that as much as £1.5bn may have been lost in fraudulent claims for Universal Credit in recent weeks.\n\nHuge demand for the benefit has seen some processes relaxed to ensure the majority of claims are paid quickly.\n\nBut officials believe that some organised crime groups - as well as individuals - may have taken advantage of the system.\n\nThe DWP said it monitors benefit fraud \"very closely\".\n\nMore than 1.5 million people applied for Universal Credit over the course of one four week period up to 9 April.\n\nOver that period, applications were running at six times normal levels.\n\nTo process the claims quickly, and make sure people received help, a number of processes were relaxed.\n\nIdentity checks were processed online, rather than face-to-face, and some information was taken on trust, such as the cost of rent and whether someone had been self-employed.\n\nWhile officials are keen to emphasise that the vast majority of claims came from genuine applicants, especially in the initial surge, they fear the looser checks have opened the door to individuals and some organised crime groups exploiting the system.\n\nThe government is aware of the concerns and is investigating the extent of the problem, but the BBC has been told that initial calculations indicate that as much as £1.5bn has been wrongly been paid out.\n\nWhile fraud investigators will attempt to recoup all the money, one official said the concern was the hundreds of millions of pounds that had been paid out as advance payments, sometimes on the day, and that it would be far harder to get that money back as the recipients often couldn't be traced.\n\nOne of the original aims of Universal Credit was to cut £1bn from the welfare budget by reducing fraud and error.\n\nBut official figures published last week showed the problems are increasing on the benefit.\n\nWhile the level of overall fraud in the welfare system was 1.4%, on Universal Credit it was 7.6%, a figure that increased by 27% in one year.\n\nLast summer, we highlighted that criminals were exploiting loopholes in the Universal Credit system for paying advance payments to claimants.\n\nIn March, the National Audit Office estimated the government may have lost up to £150m due to the problem.\n\nIn a statement the Department for Work and Pensions told the BBC: \"Thanks to the extraordinary efforts of staff, since mid-March we've managed to process more than two million new claims for Universal Credit and pay 970,000 advances, getting hundreds of millions of pounds into the accounts of those in urgent need within days.\n\n\"We continue to monitor benefit fraud very closely and will relentlessly pursue the minority attempting to abuse the system using the full range of available powers, including prosecution through the courts.\n\n\"Our detection systems make use of increasingly sophisticated techniques to identify discrepancies and thwart those seeking to rip-off taxpayers.\"", "Today we were given the first detailed indication of how Scotland may move out of lockdown:\n• It will be a four phase process, with the first likely to begin from Thursday 28 May.\n• In Phase 1 you will be able to meet up with another household outoors while maintaining social distancing.\n• Staff will return to schools next month, but pupils won't be back until 11 August with some degree of home learning still continuing.\n• Sports like golf, tennis, kayaking and angling will be permitted during the first phase.\n• Garden centres and drive through restaurants will also reopen.\n• Some outdoor work will resume and childminding services can begin again.\n\nThe situation will be reviewed every three weeks and the government has cautioned it may take months or longer before we can move into Phase 4, when mass gatherings and normal school interaction will be possible.\n\nIn other news, the Scottish Conservatives have called for the resignation of Health Secretary Jeane Freeman after it emerged that far more elderly people were released from hospital into care homes to clear beds, than she previously said. On Reporting Scotland Nicola Sturgeon rejected the call.\n\nWe'll be back early tomorrow with more live updates of the latest developments. Don't forget the weekly Clap for Carers event.", "Tube passengers 'could be banned' without face covering\n\nPassengers could be stopped from travelling on Tube trains and buses in the capital without a face covering, London Mayor Sadiq Khan has announced. He said he had the option to make it mandatory in London only, which he said he would be considering next week. Existing guidance from Transport for London only goes as far as advising passengers to wear face coverings, which is in line with nationwide policy. Mr Khan told the London Assembly he would lobby the government to try to \"reach a sensible compromise\", noting some train services in London were not under his control.", "Singapore has some of the world's toughest anti-drug policies\n\nA man has been sentenced to death via a Zoom video call in Singapore, as the country remains on lockdown following a spike in Covid-19 cases.\n\nPunithan Genasan, 37, received the sentence on Friday for his role in a drug deal that took place in 2011.\n\nIt marks the city's first case where such a ruling has been done remotely.\n\nHuman rights groups argued that pursuing the death penalty at a time when the world is being gripped by a pandemic was \"abhorrent\".\n\nThe vast majority of court hearings in Singapore have been adjourned until at least 1 June, when the city's current lockdown period is due to end.\n\nCases which have been deemed to be essential are being held remotely.\n\n\"For the safety of all involved in the proceedings, the hearing for Public Prosecutor v Punithan A/L Genasan was conducted by video-conferencing,\" a spokesperson for Singapore's Supreme Court told Reuters.\n\nMr Genasan's lawyer, Peter Fernando, said his client is considering an appeal.\n\nSingapore has a zero-tolerance policy for illegal drugs. In 2013, 18 people were executed - the highest figure in at least two decades, according to Amnesty International.\n\nOf those 18, 11 had been charged with drug-related offences.\n\nSingapore prides itself on its low crime rate and is fiercely anti-drugs, with a zero-tolerance approach to drug trafficking.\n\nUntil recently, drug trafficking was one of four crimes that brought a mandatory death sentence. Judges can now reduce that to life with caning, under certain conditions.\n\nThe government maintains that hanging drug traffickers sends a powerful message of deterrence against a socially destructive crime.\n\nHuman rights campaigners have long argued that the process is too secretive, and say that executions disproportionately target low-level drug mules, while doing little to stop the flow of drugs into the country.\n\nAmong Singaporeans, however, the use of the death penalty is largely uncontroversial.\n\nExecutions rarely get prominent coverage in the national media, and opinion polls consistently show overwhelming public support for the death penalty in some form, making the few anti-death penalty campaigners a fringe group.\n\nIn a country where the media is rarely overtly critical of government decisions, there is unlikely to be much of a public outcry over Punithan Genasan's fate being decided by video call.\n\nKirsten Han, a Singaporean journalist and activist, said: \"The delivering of a death sentence via Zoom just highlights how clinical and administrative capital punishment is.\"\n\nShe added that by bypassing a courtroom appearance, the accused's family had missed out on an opportunity to speak and hold hands with him.\n\nAmnesty International said the ruling was a \"reminder that Singapore continues to defy international law and standards by imposing the death penalty for drug trafficking.\n\n“At a time when the global attention is focused on saving and protecting lives in a pandemic, the pursuit of the death penalty is all the more abhorrent.\"\n\nHuman Rights Watch Asia deputy director Phil Robertson told the BBC: \"It's shocking the prosecutors and the court are so callous that they fail to see that a man facing capital punishment should have the right to be present in court to confront his accusers.\"\n\nSingapore officials are not the first to issue a death penalty over a video conference call.\n\nLagos judge Mojisola Dada sentenced Olalekan Hameed to death by hanging for the murder of his employer's mother.\n\nHameed had pleaded not guilty to killing 76-year-old Jolasun Okunsanya in December 2018.\n\n\"The irreversible punishment is archaic, inherently cruel and inhuman. It should be abolished,\" Human Rights Watch told the BBC at the time.", "A personal cap on care costs in England was being considered by ministers prior to the coronavirus outbreak, the BBC has learned.\n\nThe idea was raised during talks with Sir Andrew Dilnot, the former UK statistics chief, whose proposals for a cap were abandoned in 2017.\n\nIt is understood a specific social care tax was among options discussed to cover the costs.\n\nDetails were not agreed by the March Budget and were put off till autumn.\n\nA senior figure involved in the talks, which took place in January and February, said there had been \"90% agreement\" on revisiting Sir Andrew's model.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson is understood to have taken part in the discussions.\n\nSir Andrew's proposals would have introduced a more generous means-test for government funding, as well as a lifetime limit on social care costs.\n\nThey were put into law in 2014 under the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition, but delayed and then eventually ditched under David Cameron.\n\nHis successor, Theresa May, later suggested and then abandoned a form of the proposals in 2017.\n\nUnlike health care, social care is not generally provided for free. In England, anyone with assets over £23,250 is expected to contribute to costs.\n\nLocal authorities determine their own means-tests for those receiving care at home, which have to be as generous as the test for care homes.\n\nAlongside adopting a version of the Dilnot model, ministers are considering making changes to the way the social care sector is funded, which is under severe strain after years of cuts to local council budgets.\n\nOne option is to hand money more directly to English care homes, rather than the current model of providing funding through local authorities.\n\nEarlier this month, £600m in government funding to help with infection control in care homes was given to councils on a ring-fenced basis.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock hinted earlier this week that a similar model could be an option for long-term financing of the system.\n\nSenior sources have also told the BBC the Conservatives seriously considered including providing free personal care in their manifesto for last year's election.\n\nHowever, the idea was ditched as the party wanted to rule out rises to income tax, VAT or national insurance.\n\nThe plan for free personal care, which is already available in Scotland, could have cost as much as £10bn in the first year. Some care costs are capped in Wales and home care is free for the over-75s in Northern Ireland.\n\nA source involved in the discussions said: \"No one wanted to raise taxes, so we put it off.\"\n\nThe party's manifesto eventually promised extra funding for social care in England and to pursue cross-party talks on long-term changes to the sector.\n\nMinisters acknowledge reform is long overdue, with a senior figure saying: \"It is obvious now that there is a need for change.\"\n\nDowning Street would not comment on the manifesto.\n\nBut a government spokesperson said ministers remain committed to bringing forward a social care plan \"so everybody is treated with dignity and respect, and nobody has to sell their home to pay for care\".\n\n\"The health secretary has already sought views from across Parliament, but this is one of the most complex issues we face, and it is right we take time to develop a fair, sustainable solution,\" they added.\n\n\"Care homes will continue to get all the support they need to tackle the impacts of the pandemic, with £3.2bn to help address pressures in adult social care and £600m to control infections in care homes.\"", "Tackling harmful drinking during the lockdown will be \"an integral part of the nation's recovery\", an editorial in the BMJ says.\n\nWith supermarket sales of alcohol having risen, it warns cases of alcoholic liver disease could increase too.\n\nAnd the writers fear drinking could be fuelling a rise in calls to domestic violence charities.\n\nThey say greater investment in alcohol treatment services is needed.\n\n\"Many people reacted to the closure of pubs and restaurants by stocking up to drink at home in isolation,\" says the article, by Prof Sir Ian Gilmore, who chairs Alcohol Health Alliance UK, and Ilora Finlay, who chairs the House of Lords Commission on Alcohol Harms.\n\nSales of alcohol in supermarkets and corner shops jumped by 22% in March.\n\nSales of alcohol in off-licences rose by 31% in the same month - but this accounts for just 1% of alcohol sales.\n\nAnd with the lockdown starting on 23 March, figures for the whole of April are likely to be much higher.\n\n\"It is increasingly clear that if we don't prepare for emerging from the pandemic, we will see the toll of increased alcohol harm for a generation,\" the editorial says.\n\nTwo groups need particular attention - those:\n\nGrowth in sales of alcoholic drinks outstripped even that of food purchases\n\nAnd bereavement, job insecurity and troubled relationships could all trigger alcohol dependence.\n\n\"Before Covid-19, only one in five harmful and dependent drinkers got the help they need,\" the writers say.\n\n\"The proportion will be even lower now.\"\n\nCharity Drinkaware says lockdown and isolation could have affected many people's drinking habits.\n\nThe proportion of those now drinking on days they wouldn't usually was:\n\nAnd of the furloughed workers:\n\n\"Changes like these are signs of potentially problematic behaviours that, over time, can develop into alcohol dependency,\" Elaine Hindal, from Drinkaware, said.\n\n\"It is vital that this new normal does not lead to an 'out of sight, out of mind' mentality, particularly when it comes to the health and wellbeing of the UK workforce.\"\n\nEmployers should ensure their staff did not become disconnected during the furlough period and plan for a return to work \"that prioritises employee health and wellbeing\", she added.", "The number of people dying with coronavirus in Scotland has fallen for the third consecutive week.\n\nFigures from the National Records of Scotland showed that 332 deaths involving the virus were registered between 11 and 17 May.\n\nThis was 83 fewer than the previous week, and brings the total number of deaths to 3,546.\n\nThere has also been a further drop in the number of people dying with Covid-19 in care homes.\n\nThe statistics showed that 184 care home deaths were recorded - 54 fewer than the previous week.\n\nDespite the reduction, care homes continued to account for more than half of all deaths involving the virus in Scotland.\n\nAnd the 1,623 deaths recorded in care homes since the start of the pandemic is now almost as high as the 1,664 deaths that have happened in Scotland's hospitals.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon told the Scottish Parliament that the number of deaths in care homes was \"still too high\".\n\nAnd she insisted that the wellbeing of care home residents and staff \"has always been a priority and always will be a priority\".\n\nBut Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard accused Ms Sturgeon of being \"in denial\" about the scale of the tragedy in care homes across the country, and claimed her government had ignored warnings about the impact the pandemic would have on the sector.\n\nMr Leonard pointed to a report by the Common Weal think tank which he said showed the crisis was \"predictable\" because care services had been \"left to private providers, while regulation and inspection regimes have been limited\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would support a Labour proposal for help to be given to care workers who lose out on pay while self-isolating after testing positive for the virus.\n\nSocial care workers who have become infected and have to self-isolate currently receive £95.85 per week in statutory sick pay.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"Without pointing the finger at anybody or trying to pass the buck, I do think it's really important we work with employers to make sure employers are doing the right thing and fulfilling their duties towards the staff who work for them.\"\n\nThe total number of deaths from all causes recorded in Scotland over the week to 17 May was 1,415 - 351 more than the average number of deaths recorded for the same week in the previous five years.\n\nCovid-19 was the underlying cause of death in 297 of these 351 so-called \"excess deaths\", while 17 were caused by dementia and Alzheimer's, 16 were due to cancer and 57 were from other causes.\n\nHowever, deaths from respiratory diseases were actually 11% lower than the average for this time of year.\n\nMore than three quarters (76%) of all coronavirus deaths in Scotland have been people aged 75 or over since the outbreak began.\n\nThe NRS figures are published weekly and include all fatalities registered in Scotland where Covid-19 was either confirmed as, or suspected of being, a contributing factor.\n\nThey differ from the figures given by Ms Sturgeon during her daily coronavirus briefings, which only cover confirmed cases. The number of deaths by this measure currently stands at 2,184.\n\nThe first minister said on Wednesday that 14,751 people have now tested positive for the virus in Scotland, a rise of 96 from the day before.\n\nThere are 1,443 patients in hospital with confirmed or suspected Covid-19, a decrease of four from Tuesday, and 53 people are in intensive care - six fewer than the previous day.\n\nSeparately, Public Health Scotland has published preliminary analysis which Ms Sturgeon said suggested there has not been a higher level of coronavirus cases among the country's black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities than would be expected, given the size of the population.\n\nBut she stressed that the data was \"very limited\" and further analysis was being carried out - particularly because of findings in England and Wales which suggested that people from BAME backgrounds were more likely to die with the virus.", "Boris Johnson with Jennifer Arcuri at an event in 2014\n\nBoris Johnson will not face a criminal investigation into his dealings with US businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri when he was Mayor of London.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct said in its report that there was \"some evidence\" the pair had an \"intimate relationship\".\n\nBut there was no evidence Mr Johnson had influenced payments to Ms Arcuri or her companies.\n\nThe prime minister has always denied any wrongdoing.\n\nHis spokesman said: \"We welcome the fact that this politically-motivated complaint has been thrown out.\n\n\"Such vexatious claims of impropriety in office were untrue and unfounded.\"\n\nThe spokesman added that it was \"not a policing matter, and we consider this was a waste of police time\".\n\nThe PM now faces a separate inquiry by the Greater London Assembly into allegations of conflict of interest during his time as London Mayor, between 2008 and 2016.\n\nThe Assembly investigation had been put on hold until the IOPC published its findings.\n\nMr Johnson was referred to the police watchdog in September over allegations of misconduct in a public office, as the role of the mayor of London is also London's police and crime commissioner.\n\nThe investigation was sparked by a report in the Sunday Times that Ms Arcuri joined trade missions he led, and that she received thousands of pounds in sponsorship grants.\n\nIOPC Director General Michael Lockwood said: \"While there was no evidence that Mr Johnson influenced the payment of sponsorship monies or participation in trade missions, there was evidence to suggest that those officers making decisions about sponsorship monies and attendance on trade missions thought that there was a close relationship between Mr Johnson and Ms Arcuri, and this influenced their decision-making.\"\n\nThe review \"established there was a close association between Mr Johnson and Ms Arcuri and there may have been an intimate relationship\", the watchdog said.\n\nIt said that if Mr Johnson was in an intimate relationship with Ms Arcuri, \"it would have been wise for him to have declared this as a conflict of interest\".\n\nBut the GLA's code of conduct at the time meant that he was under no obligation to do so, the watchdog says, and it recommends a series of measures to tighten up the code.\n\nThe IOPC said its review had taken longer than expected because some of the records it had wanted to see \"either never existed or have been deleted\".\n\nLen Duvall, leader of the Labour group on the London Assembly and chair of the GLA's oversight committee, said: \"The IOPC was looking specifically at whether he committed a criminal offence.\n\n\"That's not our remit and their decision doesn't have any real bearing on our investigation, which will focus on his conduct as Mayor of London.\"\n\nThe Assembly's investigation will look at whether Mr Johnson \"conducted himself in a way that's expected\" from a senior public official, said Mr Duval.\n\nBut the Conservative MP for Orpington in South London, Gareth Bacon, said: \"Labour politicians in City Hall have wasted police time with malicious complaints.\n\n\"They now want to waste taxpayers' money with more petty and partisan point scoring.\"\n\nIn October last year, an internal government review found \"no impropriety\" in a 2019 decision by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to award a £100,000 grant to Hacker House, a company owned by Ms Arcuri.", "Net migration to the UK from countries outside the European Union has risen to its highest level for 45 years, the Office for National Statistics says.\n\nFigures show an estimated 282,000 more non-EU citizens came to the UK than left in 2019, the highest since the information was first gathered in 1975.\n\nThe ONS says a rise in students from China and India has driven this.\n\nIn contrast, the number of people arriving from EU countries for work has \"steadily fallen\".\n\nIn 2019, an estimated 49,000 more EU citizens came to the UK than left - down from the \"peak levels\" of more than 200,000 in 2015 and early 2016, the ONS says.\n\nIn total, an estimated 270,000 more people moved to the UK with an intention to stay for 12 months or more than left the UK in 2019.\n\nThe ONS says more than 677,000 people moved to the UK and about 407,000 people left.\n\nJay Lindop, director of the Centre for International Migration at the ONS, said: \"Overall migration levels have remained broadly stable in recent years, but new patterns have emerged for EU and non-EU migrants since 2016.\n\n\"For the year ending December 2019, non-EU migration was at the highest level we have seen, driven by a rise in students from China and India, while the number of people arriving from EU countries for work has steadily fallen.\n\n\"We know the coronavirus pandemic has had a significant impact on travel since December and new analysis today shows how international travel to and from the UK has decreased in recent months.\"\n\nThe ONS says overall migration levels \"have remained broadly stable\" since the end of 2016, but patterns for EU and non-EU citizens \"have followed different trends\".\n\n\"This in part reflects the different trends in immigration for employment and study, with EU migrants predominantly arriving for work-related reasons and non-EU migrants arriving for study,\" its report says.\n\nRob McNeil, deputy director of the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford, said it was \"too early to quantify how the pandemic will affect migration to the UK\".\n\nBut he said it was clear that the consequences of coronavirus \"already reach right across the immigration system - from workers' inability to travel to take up work and employers' difficulty bringing seasonal workers to British fields, to sharp reductions in the number of people detained and deported\".\n\nHe said the crisis raised questions on whether employers in the UK will still want to recruit from overseas or if international students will still apply and take up places at British universities.\n\nMatthew Fell, chief UK policy director of the Confederation of British Industry, said businesses were \"currently prioritising safety and protecting jobs during this period of unprecedented stress\", saying: \"For now, some businesses are less likely to hire from overseas than before the crisis.\n\n\"But many others will need to access the new immigration system to help grow the UK economy and have little capacity to prepare for it.\n\n\"Time is running out if government and business are to implement this well.\"\n\nHe called for the publication of more information on how the UK's new points-based immigration system would work to enable a \"pragmatic conversation about the time it will take to implement\".\n• None EU net migration to UK at lowest for 16 years", "A trial to see whether two anti-malarial drugs could prevent Covid-19 has begun in Brighton and Oxford.\n\nChloroquine, hydroxychloroquine or a placebo will be given to more than 40,000 healthcare workers from Europe, Africa, Asia and South America.\n\nAll the participants are staff who are in contact with Covid-19 patients.\n\nUS President Donald Trump was criticised this week after he said he had been taking hydroxychloroquine, despite warnings it might be unsafe.\n\nThe first UK participants in the global trial are being enrolled on Thursday at the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals and the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.\n\nThey will be given either hydroxychloroquine or a placebo for three months. At sites in Asia, participants will be given chloroquine or a placebo.\n\nThese are the first of a planned 25 UK sites, with results expected by the end of the year.\n\nThe trial is open to anyone delivering direct care to coronavirus patients in the UK, as long as they have not been diagnosed with Covid-19.\n\nIt will test whether the drugs can prevent healthcare workers exposed to the virus from contracting it.\n\nOne of the study's leaders, Prof Nicholas White at the University of Oxford said: \"We really do not know if chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine are beneficial or harmful against Covid-19.\"\n\nBut, he said, a randomised controlled trial such as this one, where neither the participant nor the researchers know who has been given the drug or a placebo, was the best way to find out.\n\n\"A widely available, safe and effective vaccine may be a long way off,\" said Prof Martin Llewelyn from Brighton and Sussex Medical School, who is also leading the study.\n\n\"If drugs as well-tolerated as chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine could reduce the chances of catching Covid-19, this would be incredibly valuable.\"\n\nThe drugs can reduce fever and inflammation and are used as both a prevention and a treatment for malaria.\n\nHydroxychloroquine regulates the body's immune response and is also used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and Lupus - an inflammatory disease caused by an overactive immune system.\n\nLupus charities in the UK and US have raised concerns that demand for the drug associated with coronavirus could threaten the supply for patients who already rely on it.\n\nThe drug gained attention after US President Donald Trump suggested it may be beneficial, and this week said he was taking hydroxychloroquine to ward off coronavirus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump: \"If it's not good, I'll tell you right, I'm not going to get hurt by it\"\n\nThe US Food and Drug Administration warned against use of the medication outside hospitals, where the agency has granted temporary authorisation for its use in some cases, or clinical trials.\n\nWhile the University of Oxford trial is taking place in a controlled clinical environment, the World Health Organization has warned that some individuals were self-medicating and risked causing themselves serious harm.\n\nIt has not yet been shown to be safe and effective in the prevention or treatment of coronavirus and can cause dangerous heart arrhythmias.\n\nThe trial also involves researchers from the UK, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Italy.\n• None What do we know about hydroxychloroquine?", "Emmerdale has started its \"phased return to filming\", by recording new episodes showing characters dealing with lockdown, ITV has announced.\n\nSix new episodes are currently being worked on at the soap's studios in Leeds, with a scaled-down crew.\n\nThey will explore key characters reflecting on life, and past feuds.\n\n\"Lockdown has created an opportunity for us to focus on what is important in our lives,\" said executive producer Jane Hudson.\n\n\"When we first discussed commissioning these episodes back in March the writers instantly rose to the challenge.\"\n\nFilming on the Yorkshire-based show ground to a halt in March, in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nNow, social distancing measures have been introduced on-set, in line with new government guidelines, and there will be no filming on location during the two-week shoot, which will \"ensure it stays on air in June\", Thursday's statement read.\n\nHudson stressed that after seven weeks of lockdown, the new scripts - which feature a smaller number of actors and scenes than usual - have \"an added poignancy and meaning\".\n\n\"The response from everyone at Emmerdale to filming these episodes has been fantastic and we're really grateful for their support,\" she went on.\n\nOther popular soaps like EastEnders and Coronation Street are also due to return to filming in a similar manner next month, and storylines will reference the ongoing pandemic, while not necessarily focusing on it.\n\nThe Metro's soaps editor Duncan Lindsay this week argued that such shows should not include the current real-life situation in their \"fictional world.\"\n\nHowever, John Whiston, ITV's head of drama, said: \"It will be great to see what the likes of Chas and Paddy and Jimmy and Nicola have got up to while they've been going through lockdown the same as the rest of us.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @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. Ms Sturgeon confirmed that schools will not open to pupils until August\n\nLockdown restrictions in Scotland are likely to be relaxed slightly from 28 May, Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed.\n\nThe first minister made the announcement as she unveiled a four-phase \"route map\" aimed at restarting society while suppressing the virus.\n\nThe first phase will include allowing people to meet outside with people from one other household.\n\nSchools will reopen on 11 August - meaning many will return a week earlier than planned after the summer holiday.\n\nBut the first minister said children will return to a \"blended model\" where they will do a mix of school and home learning.\n\nTeachers will return to schools in June, with transition support being given, where possible, to children going into Primary 1 or moving from primary to secondary schools.\n\nAnd an increased number of children will have access to critical childcare - which has been provided for the children of key workers during lockdown.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the first phase of easing will see garden centres and recycling facilities reopen, while some outdoor activities such as golf, fishing, tennis and bowls will be allowed again, as will outdoor work such as agriculture and forestry.\n\nPeople will also be able to sit or sunbathe in parks and open areas, and will be able to meet people from one other household - although only initially in small numbers and while they are outside.\n\nDifferent households should remain two metres apart from each other, and visiting inside other people's houses will not be permitted in the first phase.\n\nHundreds of people flocked to the beach in Edinburgh on Wednesday on what was the hottest day of the year in Scotland so far\n\nIn addition, people will be able to travel - preferably by walking or cycling - for recreation, although they will be asked to remain \"where possible\" within or close to their own local area.\n\nTake-away and drive-through food outlets will no longer be discouraged from re-opening, so long as they apply safe physical distancing, but \"non-essential\" indoor shops, cafes, restaurants and pubs must remain closed during the first phase.\n\nThere will also be a phased resumption of some aspects of the criminal justice system, as well as face-to-face Children's Hearings, and people at risk will have more contact with social work and other support services.\n\nAnd NHS services which were cancelled because of the coronavirus crisis will \"carefully and gradually\" resume.\n\nThe Scottish government has identified four phases for easing the restrictions:\n\nPhase 1: Virus not yet contained but cases are falling. From 28 May you should be able to meet another household outside in small numbers. Sunbathing is allowed, along with some outdoor activities like golf and fishing. Garden centres and drive-through takeaways can reopen, some outdoor work can resume, and childminding services can begin.\n\nPhase 2: Virus controlled. You can meet larger groups outdoors, and meet another household indoors. Construction, factories, warehouses, laboratories and small shops can resume work. Playgrounds and sports courts can reopen, and professional sport can begin again.\n\nPhase 3: Virus suppressed. You can meet people from more than one household indoors. Non-essential offices would reopen, along with gyms, museums, libraries, cinemas, larger shops, pubs, restaurants, hairdressers and dentists. Live events could take place with restricted numbers and physical distancing restrictions. Schools should reopen from 11 August.\n\nPhase 4: Virus no longer a significant threat. University and college campuses can reopen in full, mass gatherings are allowed. All workplaces open and public transport is back at full capacity.\n\nThe situation will be reviewed every three weeks, with further phases of easing being introduced if enough progress is being made on keeping the virus under control.\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon said she hoped to be able to move more quickly than that if the evidence allows.\n\nShe described the first steps as \"proportionate and suitably cautious\", and said they were intended to \"bring some improvement to people's wellbeing and quality of life, start to get our economy moving again, and start to steer us safely towards a new normality\".\n\nThe first minister added: \"It's important to stress, though, that while the permitted reasons to be out of your house will increase, the default message during phase one will remain stay at home as much as possible.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said her route map did not yet set definite dates for when future phases will be introduced, because the virus is unpredictable.\n\nShe said: \"Our emergence from lockdown will be faster or slower, depending on the continued success that we have in suppressing the virus.\n\n\"In the weeks ahead our messages will become more nuanced and complex as we strike a difficult balance protecting public health and allowing personal choice.\n\n\"Straightforward, strict rules will gradually be replaced by the need for all of us to exercise judgment and responsibility.\"\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon said key advice such as isolating if you have symptoms of Covid, strict physical distancing, washing your hands and face coverings will remain the same.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives said the route out of lockdown would only succeed if the Scottish government \"sorts out problems with testing\".\n\nThe party's leader, Jackson Carlaw, said: \"Unfortunately, failings on testing so far have been the weakest aspect of this SNP government response to the coronavirus crisis.\n\n\"Tens of thousands of tests have gone unused and there have been major problems in getting tests to the vulnerable people who need them most, and those who work with them.\n\n\"And now we learn that the health secretary badly misled the public on the issue of elderly people being discharged from hospital to care homes without being tested for Covid-19.\"\n\nSome of the easing measures announced by Ms Sturgeon were introduced in England last week, but the first minister said at the time it would not be safe for Scotland to follow the same timetable.\n\nThis was largely because the so-called R number - essentially the rate at which the virus is spreading - has been higher in Scotland than in some other parts of the UK.\n\nHowever the number of people who are dying with coronavirus in Scotland has been falling in recent weeks, as has the number of patients needing hospital treatment and intensive care.\n\nThis has given the first minister and her advisers more confidence that any relaxation of the lockdown - which was introduced across the UK on 23 March - will not lead to a resurgence in the virus.\n\nDr Poppy Lamberton, an epidemiologist at Glasgow University, said the \"lag\" between Scotland and England would help the Scottish government to judge the potential impact of easing the lockdown, and whether it will lead to an increase in the infection rate.\n\nUse the form below to send us your questions and we could be in touch.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "The US has announced it will withdraw from a major accord that permits unarmed aerial surveillance flights over dozens of participating countries.\n\nThe Open Skies Treaty came into force in 2002 and is designed to boost confidence and assure against attacks.\n\nBut senior US officials said the country was withdrawing due to repeated Russian violations of its terms.\n\nUS President Donald Trump later said there was a \"very good chance we'll reach a new agreement\" with Russia.\n\n\"I think we have a very good relationship with Russia, but Russia didn't adhere to the treaty,\" Mr Trump said on Thursday, adding: \"Until they adhere we will pull out.\"\n\nThe US will formally withdraw from the accord in six months, officials said.\n\n\"During the course of this review it has become abundantly clear that it is no longer in America's interests to remain a party to the Open Skies Treaty,\" one official told Reuters news agency.\n\nSome 35 nations are party to the treaty, including Russia, Canada and the UK.\n\nRussia's Foreign Ministry insisted that it had not violated the treaty and that a US withdrawal would be \"very regrettable\", adding that the Trump administration was working to \"derail all agreements on arms control\".\n\n\"We reject any attempts to justify a way out of this fundamental agreement,\" Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko told Russia's state-owned RIA Novosti news agency.\n\n\"Nothing prevents continuing the discussions over the technical issues, which the US is misrepresenting as violations by Russia,\" he added.\n\nHe said that any withdrawal would affect the interests of all of the treaty's participants, who are also members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato).\n\nIn abandoning the Open Skies Treaty, the Trump Administration is not just renouncing an arms control agreement that was seen as essential for transparency during the Cold War years, but he is also ditching an agreement that many experts believe still retains huge benefits for the US.\n\nThe fact it comes at a time when the whole structure of arms control is collapsing and a new era of great power competition beckons is doubly troubling.\n\nThe Open Skies Treaty came into force in January 2002 and some 34 countries have ratified the agreement. It allows for unarmed short-notice reconnaissance flights by specially equipped aircraft, over the entire territory of another country to collect data on troop deployments, military facilities and so on.\n\nThere have been some problems in recent years and the US contends - with some justification - that Russia has been preventing access to certain areas. But critics of the Trump administration's antipathy towards arms control say this is a reason for fixing the treaty, not abandoning it.\n\nMr Trump seems to be holding out at least a chance that the US could stick with Open Skies, but that is clearly going to depend upon talks with Moscow.\n\nThe Russian Foreign ministry says that a US withdrawal will affect the interests of all the participants. While the US can clearly use satellites for its intelligence gathering on Russia, Mr Trump's decision will cause tensions with Washington's European allies, few of whom have such satellite access.\n\nEarlier this year, US Defence Secretary Mark Esper accused Russia of violating the treaty by banning flights over the city of Kaliningrad and other areas near Georgia.\n\n\"I have a lot of concerns about the treaty as it stands now,\" he said at the time. \"This is important to many of our Nato allies, that they have the means to conduct the overflights.\"\n\nIt marks the latest effort by President Donald Trump's administration to withdraw the US from a major global treaty.\n\nLast year, it pulled out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) with Russia.\n\nThe INF was signed by the US and the USSR in 1987, and banned the vast majority of nuclear and non-nuclear missiles with short and medium ranges.", "JK Rowling said too many people were losing loved ones\n\nJK Rowling, the creator of the Harry Potter adventures, is donating £1m to charities supporting vulnerable people during the lockdown.\n\nHalf of the money will go to Crisis which helps homeless people, and half to Refuge to support victims of domestic abuse.\n\nSaturday also marks the anniversary of one the author's major events in her stories.\n\nOn Twitter, Rowling said: \"Today's the 22nd anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts, but I am going to be honest and say that it feels inappropriate to talk about fictional deaths.\n\n\"Too many people are losing loved ones in the real world.\"\n\nRowling, who wrote many of her Harry Potter stories while living in Edinburgh, said many vulnerable people who were homeless or in an abusive relationship were suffering at this time.", "Two teenagers have been charged with murdering an NHS worker who was stabbed to death days after his father died with coronavirus.\n\nDavid Gomoh, 24, was attacked after leaving his home in Newham, east London, on 26 April.\n\nMuhammad Jalloh, 18, of Stratford, Newham, and a boy, 16, from Telford, Shropshire, are charged with murder.\n\nThey are also charged with conspiracy to cause GBH and are due to appear at Thames Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nPolice said a post-mortem examination found Southbank University graduate Mr Gomoh was stabbed in the chest and abdomen.\n\nMr Gomoh, whose mother is a nurse, worked for the NHS helping to supply staff with essential equipment.\n\nThe Met said he was killed just days before the funeral of his father, who died after contracting Covid-19.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The bomb was detonated on Weymouth Beach at about 21:00 BST on Saturday\n\nA woman who dug up an unexploded World War Two bomb in her garden said she threw it across the lawn before she realised what it was.\n\nLulu Cirillo, 49, was gardening at her home in Weymouth when her spade struck the bomb 10in (25.4cm) down.\n\nShe thought it was a large stone and took it inside before taking to Facebook to ask people what they thought it was.\n\nThe bomb was detonated on Weymouth Beach at about 21:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nWhen Ms Cirillo dug the device up, she initially thought her pet Shih Tzu Cica might want to play with it later.\n\nShe said: \"I thought it was a stone so I threw it. It was muddy - I never thought it could be a bomb.\"\n\nLulu Cirillo took to Facebook to identify what she first thought was a large stone\n\nShe then took it into her kitchen and cleaned it with a Brillo pad in an effort to get a closer look at her discovery.\n\nBut when Facebook users suggested it was a bomb, an \"absolutely terrified\" Ms Cirillo called the police and returned it quickly to the garden before it was taken away by bomb disposal experts.\n\n\"I was thinking 'hours ago I was cleaning it in my kitchen',\" she said.\n\n\"They said it was loaded and very dangerous so they took it away and the next thing I heard was they'd disposed of it on Weymouth Beach.\n\n\"I'm taking it with humour. I never realised I might have been scattered around Weymouth.\"\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An NHS app aimed at limiting a second wave of coronavirus will be trialled on the Isle of Wight this week.\n\nIt will be the first place where the new contact-tracing app will be used before being rolled out more widely this month, said Transport Secretary Grant Shapps.\n\nThe government will be asking the whole of the UK to download it, he told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show.\n\n\"That will help with a lot of the automation of the tracking.\"\n\nEpidemiologists advising the NHS say that about 56% of the UK population - equating to about 80% of smartphone owners - need to use the app in order to suppress the virus.\n\nHowever, they add that the spread of the disease could still be slowed even if the take-up is lower.\n\nAt the government's daily briefing, Cabinet Minister Michael Gove said he hoped more than half of the 80,000 households on the Isle of Wight would download the app.\n\n\"When it comes to contract tracing, the more people who download the app developed by the NHS the better,\" he said. \"Knowing this is a contribution that all of us can make to helping to keep our communities and neighbours safe is a very powerful incentive.\"\n\nProf Stephen Powis, the medical director for NHS England, said the app was one component of a number that will be needed to try to bring the virus under control.\n\n\"It will need to sit aside other measures that we have become used to, such as if you have the virus you will need stay at home for a period.\"\n\nHowever, the Labour Party's Nick Thomas-Symonds said there were shortcomings in the government's plan as not everybody has a smartphone and there are issues around privacy and security.\n\n\"There are people for whom location services on their mobile devices are turned off for particular safety reasons,\" he told Sophy Ridge on Sky News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: What is contact tracing and how does it work?\n\nThe government has also promised to recruit 18,000 people to do manual contact tracing, as it pursues a track-and-trace strategy with a view to lifting the lockdown.\n\nUsing Bluetooth, the free smartphone app will track when its users come into contact with each other, automating the tracing process.\n\nIf a user develops coronavirus symptoms, the disclosure could trigger an anonymous alert to users with whom they have recently had contact, enabling those people to go into quarantine or be tested.\n\nIt has previously been suggested that areas that trial the contact-tracing app could also have some lockdown measures eased early.\n\nContact tracing has been credited with helping to lift restrictions in other countries, when combined with other measures.\n\nThe app has raised concerns about the government and third parties being given access to people's data.\n• None Essential workers in England to get virus tests", "\"Covid toe\" is a rash that can look like chilblains\n\nFive rashes, including Covid toe, are affecting some hospital patients diagnosed with Covid-19, a small study by Spanish doctors has found.\n\nThe rashes tended to appear in younger people and lasted several days.\n\nIt is not uncommon for a rash to be a symptom of a virus, such as the spots that indicate chicken pox.\n\nBut the researchers said they were surprised to see so many varieties of rash with Covid-19.\n\nRashes are not currently included in the list of symptoms of the illness.\n\nThere have been many reports about \"Covid toe\" - a rash appearing on Covid patients' feet even in the absence of other symptoms - but lead researcher Dr Ignacio Garcia-Doval said the most common form of rash in the study was maculopapules - small, flat and raised red bumps that tend to appear on the torso.\n\n\"It is strange to see several different rashes - and some of them are quite specific,\" Dr Garcia-Doval told the BBC.\n\n\"It usually appears later on, after the respiratory manifestation of the disease - so it's not good for diagnosing patients,\" he added.\n\nThe most commonly seen rash in the study affected nearly half of the patients\n\nAll the patients in the study were already in hospital and had respiratory symptoms.\n\nThe peer-reviewed paper was published this week in the British Journal of Dermatology.\n\nAll dermatologists in Spain were asked to share details of Covid patients they had seen who had developed rashes in the previous two weeks. There were 375 in total.\n\nHowever, the researchers stressed that rashes can have many causes, and it can be difficult to differentiate between them without medical expertise.\n\n\"The relevance of this study is not so much in helping people self-diagnose, but rather to help build our wider understanding of how the infection can affect people,\" said Dr Ruth Murphy, president of the British Association of Dermatologists.\n\nDr Michael Head at the University of Southampton said that rashes were a well-known side effect of many viral infections, including pneumonia.\n\n\"With Covid-19, rashes and skin ulcers have been noted in a few per cent of hospitalised patients. We don't yet know the extent of these links, or precisely why this inflammation occurs in some patients but not others.\"\n\nThe American Academy of Determatology is also compiling a register of skin symptoms seen by its members.", "A healthcare worker described as the \"perfect dad and granddad\" has died after contracting Covid-19.\n\nRay Lever, 62, a domestic services assistant at Sheffield's Northern General Hospital, was a \"credit to the NHS\", the trust said.\n\nHis daughters paid tribute to medical staff who fulfilled his last request to have a drink of his favourite beer.\n\nHis daughters Rachel, Kathryn and Rebecca said: \"Our world will never be the same again.\"\n\nThey added: \"Dad was the perfect dad and granddad, and nothing was ever too much trouble for him if it meant helping someone else.\n\n\"He was always cheerful and loved a laugh and joke.\"\n\nThey thanked Sheffield Hospitals for \"unbelievable care\", which included providing protective clothing to ensure one of them could be with him at the end of his life.\n\nHis daughters added: \"They even fulfilled his last request to have a drink of beer by sending someone out to get a bottle of his favourite tipple.\n\n\"A small gesture but it demonstrated the kindness of an incredible team.\"\n\nMr Lever, who died on Friday, had previously worked in patient areas but was moved to non-patient areas early on in the outbreak, according to Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (STHNHSFT).\n\nAndrew Jones, STHNHSFT facilities director, said: \"He was always showing pictures of his family and particularly his grandchildren who he doted on.\n\n\"It is so very sad for everyone who had the privilege to know and work with Ray.\"\n\nTrust chief executive Kirsten Major said: \"His family can be justifiably proud that he made a difference to people's lives each and every single day.\"\n\nShe added: \"He was a genuinely, lovely, kind man who put others before himself in his personal and work life and we were very fortunate to have someone like him as part of our team.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rail union leaders have written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson with \"severe concerns\" over plans to increase train services.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told the BBC on Sunday that more buses and trains would run as part of a staggered approach to easing the lockdown.\n\nThe letter says it is \"completely unacceptable\" to put passengers and rail staff at risk.\n\nThe government says workers should still stay at home where possible.\n\n\"Our advice is clear that the best way to protect our NHS and save lives is to stay home if possible,\" a Department for Transport (DfT) spokesperson said.\n\n\"Our rail system has been carrying key workers and freight around the country since the current restrictions were put in place, however we must ensure the network is ready to respond to a change in demand when these are lifted.\"\n\nUnion bosses say there is currently no plan to be able to increase services while also maintaining social distancing.\n\n\"We therefore call on the government and train operators to work with us in establishing where there is a real demand to increase services and, where that demand exists, how it can be delivered safely,\" says the letter, signed by the general secretaries of Aslef, the RMT and the TSSA - Mick Whelan, Mick Cash and Manuel Cortes.\n\nLast month, one rail boss told the BBC that social-distancing of any kind would be \"extraordinarily difficult\" to manage and police. Another said it could reduce the capacity of an individual train by between 70% and 90%.\n\nAt the moment about half of normal train services in the UK are running so that essential journeys are possible.\n\nThe DfT said in response it understood that talks would be needed to work out how to increase services.\n\n\"Reinstating services is a complex and time-consuming task, which is why we are in talks with the rail industry and unions on this issue,\" it said.\n\n\"In the meantime it is imperative people continue to follow the government advice and stay home and only use public transport if you have to.\"\n\nEarlier, Mr Shapps told the Andrew Marr Show that the government was looking at a range of options for people to travel to work, including encouraging what he described as a \"massive expansion\" in interest in \"active travel\" such as cycling or walking.\n\n\"There are a series of different things that we can do including staggering work times, working with businesses and organisations to do that,\" he said.\n\nHe also said he was working with train companies and unions on maintaining social distancing rules on platforms and at bus stops.\n\nEurostar passengers will be required to cover their faces from Monday or risk being refused travel.\n\nThe rail company said the rule for travellers to wear face coverings was in line with guidelines from the French and Belgian governments.\n\nAny type of face covering is allowed \"as long as it effectively covers your nose and mouth\", a statement said.", "Russia has the seventh highest number of coronavirus cases in the world\n\nRussia has recorded 10,633 new coronavirus infections in the past 24 hours, the highest daily rise since the outbreak began in the country.\n\nThe increase brings Russia's total number of coronavirus cases to 134,686, the seventh highest tally in the world.\n\nBut Russia's mortality rate remains low relative to other countries, such as the US, Italy and Spain.\n\nOn Sunday, a further 58 coronavirus-related deaths were announced, bringing the total to 1,280 in Russia.\n\nMoscow has been hit particularly hard by the virus, leaving its healthcare system struggling to cope.\n\nMoscow's mayor Sergei Sobyanin on Saturday cautioned against complacency, saying the capital was not past the peak of its coronavirus epidemic.\n\nThe mayor said around 2% of residents in the city - around 250,000 people - had tested positive for coronavirus. On Sunday, Moscow's total number of cases jumped by 5,948 to a total of 68,606.\n\nA strict lockdown has been imposed in Moscow, where its 12 million residents have been ordered to stay at home with few exceptions.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has said situation remains \"very serious\", warning Russians to brace for a \"gruelling phase of the pandemic\" in the weeks ahead.\n\nEarlier in the week Russian Prime Minister, Mikhail Mishustin, confirmed he had been diagnosed with Covid-19, the first senior minister in the country to do so.\n\nMr Mishustin's diagnosis was announced during a televised video-call with President Putin\n\nMr Mishustin, who was appointed as PM in January, was still being treated in hospital on Sunday. His spokesman said he was feeling fine, enabling him to work from hospital.\n\nOn Friday, Russia's housing minister, Vladimir Yakushev, became the second senior minister to be confirmed to have Covid-19.\n\nThe number of confirmed coronavirus cases here is rising steadily each day. The Russian authorities put that down to a big increase in testing - over 40,000 people a day, in Moscow alone.\n\nThey also say up to half of the new cases are people without symptoms - including those detected through screening, like healthcare workers.\n\nStill, the virus is spreading more quickly now in Russia's regions - where hospital facilities are far worse than in the capital and where medics have been complaining they don't have the masks and protective clothing to keep them safe.\n\nAnd even here, in Moscow, some 1,700 people are being admitted to hospital each day, increasing the strain on the system.\n\nPresident Putin has extended a nationwide non-working period until 11 May, saying \"the peak is not behind us\".\n\nBeyond that, the president said his government will consider gradually lifting coronavirus restrictions from 12 May, depending on the region.\n\nLast week, Mr Putin admitted there was a shortage of protective kit for medics on the frontline of the coronavirus crisis.", "Ministers should immediately set out plans for a \"carefully phased\" lifting of the UK's coronavirus lockdown, a business group has said.\n\n\"This is a time to be bold,\" said the British Chambers of Commerce, adding high public spending should continue if needed to restart the economy.\n\nBoris Johnson has said he will outline plans relating to schools, commuting and the workplace in the coming week.\n\nBut the PM stressed the UK must not \"risk a second spike\" in infections.\n\nTransport secretary Grant Shapps told the BBC that businesses could be asked to stagger employees working hours, once lockdown eases, to help prevent crowding on public transport.\n\n\"There are a series of different things that we can do including staggering work times, and we're working with businesses and organisations to do that,\" he said.\n\nThe British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) said business groups and major employers expect to receive draft guidance from the government on Sunday about the safe return to work when the lockdown eases.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Johnson, BCC president Baroness Ruby McGregor-Smith said planning and communication of the government's approach to leaving lockdown \"must begin immediately if we are to harness the public health and economic benefits\".\n\n\"Fundamental prerequisites to beginning this journey include mass testing and contact tracing,\" she writes.\n\nThe BCC's director general Adam Marshall also said that businesses need to be given adequate time to prepare to reopen.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: \"A number of firms need a couple of weeks or possibly even longer in order to prepare to reopen their operations.\n\n\"I think they understand that of course public health considerations have to come first and the government may have to make changes to that plan as we go but they need to start seeing some timeframes for reopening and that will give them the confidence to get ready.\"\n\nBaroness McGregor-Smith also calls for \"clear decisions and guidance\" on the protective kit employees should wear in workplaces, as well as steps to ensure adequate supply to both the NHS and businesses, where necessary.\n\nThe government has set out five tests to be met before lockdown restrictions can be eased, including:\n\nSince the pandemic hit the UK, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced tens of billions of pounds in emergency support aimed at helping businesses and saving jobs.\n\nA job retention scheme in which the government covers 80% of workers' wages, up to a maximum of £2,500 per worker, per month before tax, received applications from 185,000 firms on the day it launched last month.\n\nAnd the number of people applying for universal credit benefits has rocketed during the lockdown.\n\nCompanies feeling the hit from the shutdown are starting to accept that a reopened economy will not be \"business as usual\".\n\nBut they want to know when and how they can get going again.\n\nElizabeth and Phil Gabriel own a health club near Nottingham. They have furloughed staff, benefitted from a cash grant and been able to defer VAT payments. But fixed costs continue and cash will run out if they have to close for four months or more.\n\nHealth club owners Elizabeth and Phil Gabriel want clarity on how businesses will reopen\n\nThey are asking for decent notice of re-opening dates, and clear guidance on how many customers - especially those who are older - will be allowed in at once.\n\nThen there's office-based firms. David Morel runs Tiger Recruitment. His staff are currently either working from home or on furlough. While he waits for clarity from government, he's considering a range of options for safe office working.\n\nThere will be different dilemmas for different industries. Hospitality businesses, for example, such as restaurants are trying to work out how they can make enough money to survive with new layouts that probably mean fewer customers.\n\nMr Marshall said that the government needs to extend its various support schemes to help businesses survive.\n\n\"Unfortunately quite a lot of firms are facing a very serious cash crunch,\" he said. \"Many businesses have been able to hold on through the period of lockdown [but] some unfortunately won't be able to last very long which is why we need to see an extension to the government support schemes that are in place.\n\n\"So the furlough scheme, for example, is going to have to be extended and become more flexible to help more firms survive over the coming months and avoid some of the mass redundancies that none of us want to see.\"\n\nIn her letter, Baroness McGregor-Smith urges the prime minister to act further to minimise job losses and business failures, putting the UK economy on a \"high-growth, high-wage and low unemployment trajectory\" as soon as possible.\n\n\"Government should not shy away from sustaining high levels of public spending in order to restart and renew our communities and the economy in the short and medium-term, while not tying the hands of future generations,\" she says.", "David Icke has now had his official pages deleted by YouTube and Facebook\n\nYouTube has deleted the conspiracy theorist David Icke's official channel from its platform.\n\nThe Google-owned video clip service acted after repeatedly warning Mr Icke that he had violated its policies by posting misleading information about the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHowever, the firm will still allow videos posted by others that feature Mr Icke to remain live, so long as their content does not break its rules.\n\nIt follows a similar ban by Facebook.\n\n\"YouTube has clear policies prohibiting any content that disputes the existence and transmission of Covid-19 as described by the WHO and the NHS,\" a spokeswoman told the BBC.\n\n\"Due to continued violation of these policies, we have terminated David Icke's YouTube channel.\"\n\nThe channel had more than 900,000 subscribers at the time it was removed. The last clip Mr Icke had posted on Friday - about his Facebook ban - had about 120,000 views.\n\nYouTube confirmed Mr Icke would not be allowed to start again by setting up a new channel.\n\nLast month, a live-streamed interview with Mr Icke posted by another account prompted YouTube to ban all conspiracy theory videos falsely linking coronavirus symptoms to 5G mobile phone networks.\n\nThe tech firm subsequently went further by banning any material that:\n\nSome civil rights groups have previously expressed concern about \"growing online censorship around the coronavirus pandemic\" by the major social networks.\n\n\"It is through a free forum of ideas that citizens understand, contextualise and trust information, not through harsh restrictions on information sharing,\" they wrote to YouTube on 16 April.\n\nBut the latest move was welcomed by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a UK-based think tank.\n\nIt said that videos of Mr Icke discussing conspiracy theories had been viewed about 30 million times across social media.\n\n\"We commend YouTube on bowing to pressure and taking action on David Icke's channel,\" said CCDH's chief executive Imran Ahmed.\n\n\"However, there remains a network of channels and shadowy amplifiers, who promote Mr Icke's content [and] need to be removed.\"\n\nCCDH is now urging Twitter and Facebook's Instagram to take similar action.", "Tributes have been paid to the QC and civil rights activist Derek Ogg who has died at the age of 65.\n\nHis career spanned work as a Crown prosecutor and latterly as a defence advocate.\n\nMr Ogg campaigned for the 2018 law which automatically pardoned gay and bisexual men convicted of sexual offences that are no longer illegal.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said Mr Ogg was a \"brilliant advocate and a truly lovely man\".\n\nIn a Twitter post, the first minister added: \"It was always a pleasure for me to hear from him on issues he felt strongly about, and I will miss his wisdom and good sense.\"\n\nGordon Jackson QC, dean of Faculty of Advocates, said: \"All of us who knew Derek Ogg are deeply saddened by his passing.\n\n\"He was a marvellous advocate but more than that he was a fierce campaigner for his beliefs both on a personal and professional level. He will be greatly missed by everyone at the faculty.\"\n\nPolice Scotland said Mr Ogg was found by officers in his Glasgow home on Friday evening and there \"would appear to be no suspicious circumstances\" surrounding his death.\n\nMr Ogg, co-founder of the Scottish Aids Monitor group which helped to spread information about Aids, speaking to Princess Diana in the late 1980s\n\nWhen Nicola Sturgeon offered an unequivocal apology to gay men convicted of sexual offences at Holyood in 2017, Mr Ogg was in the gallery watching.\n\nSpeaking on Radio Scotland that day, he said was a \"wonderful day\".\n\nHe added: \"It's Scotland at peace with itself and it is a reconciliation between the people in Scotland who are alive and the families of gay people who are dead, who were prosecuted, convicted, simply because of the gender of the person they loved or fancied.\n\n\"You can't underestimate the scars that leaves on people. I've never been convicted of such an offence but the fact is that the law was there and could have been used, I could have been arrested.\n\n\"I was at the very beginning of my legal career - my career would have been destroyed. An apology, together with the pardons bill, is appropriate.\"\n\nFellow QC Tony Graham, stable director of Optimum Advocates, of which Mr Ogg was a member, said: \"There was far more to Derek than his time in wig and gown.\n\n\"Whilst Derek was one of most well-read individuals one could encounter, he was also a man who was full of fun, compassion and ready to assist anyone - colleague or not - in any way he could.\n\n\"He provided an ear to those who needed his wisdom, could put a smile on the face of the sullen, inspire a laugh from those engrossed in sadness, and create a conversation in even the solemnest of rooms. Often, he did all of these things in a self-deprecating way.\"\n\nHe added: \"We have lost not just a committed and talented colleague, but a loyal and generous friend. Glasgow High Court will be an unfortunately quieter place without Derek as he leaves a void uneasy to fill.\"", "The aerospace firm says it \"needs to take action\" after aircraft manufacturers cut production\n\nRolls-Royce could axe up to 8,000 jobs after aircraft manufacturers were forced to cut production during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe aeroplane engine maker employs 52,000 people worldwide, with 23,000 staff in the UK.\n\nAccording to a company source, senior leaders have warned \"cuts could be as high as 8,000, but efforts to mitigate the impact are ongoing\".\n\nIt had announced plans to save £750m but now \"needs to take further action\".\n\nRolls-Royce is expected to tell staff the actual number of job losses by the end of May.\n\nThe aviation industry has been badly hit by the pandemic as many flights across the world have been suspended.\n\nPlane-maker Airbus announced earlier this month it was cutting aircraft production by a third\n\nThe impact has forced aircraft manufacturers to cut production - Airbus has cut its production by a third and has furloughed 3,200 staff.\n\nRolls-Royce, one of the world's largest makers of aircraft engines, had previously warned the virus was a \"macro-risk for everyone\".\n\nThe Financial Times first reported the potential job losses, and said the restructuring plan \"would shrink the workforce...by up to 15%\".\n\nDerby council leader Chris Poulter said it was \"worrying\" after Rolls-Royce confirmed some of the 15,000 staff at its two sites in the city could be affected.\n\nAs well as Derby, the firm has operations in six other UK locations. It also has a presence in the US, Germany, India, Singapore and Japan.\n\nA Rolls-Royce spokesman said the pandemic was \"unprecedented\", adding: \"We have taken swift action to increase our liquidity, dramatically reduce our spending in 2020, and strengthen our resilience in these exceptionally challenging times.\n\n\"But we will need to take further action. We have promised to give our people further details of the impact of the current situation on the size of our workforce before the end of this month.\"\n\nIt added negotiations were ongoing and it would \"consult with everyone affected\".\n\nThe Unite union said it was \"making no comment whatsoever at this stage\".\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Eurostar passengers will be required to cover their faces from Monday 4 May or risk being refused travel.\n\nThe rail company said the rule for travellers to wear face coverings is in line with guidelines from the French and Belgian governments.\n\nAny type of face covering is allowed \"as long as it effectively covers your nose and mouth\", a statement said.\n\nIt comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said face coverings \"will be useful\" as the UK eases lockdown.\n\nMr Johnson's comments followed a Scottish government recommendation for people to cover their faces when in shops and on public transport.\n\nIn its statement, Eurostar said fines may be imposed in France and Belgium for anyone without a face covering.\n\nThe company is operating a significantly reduced service, in line with increased border controls and a lower demand for travel triggered by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nJust four services are running each day between London and Paris, and London and Brussels, according to timetables published on the company's website.\n\nEurostar is a UK-based company but its main shareholder is the French state railway, SNCF. The French government has said face coverings will be mandatory on public transport when it begins to ease lockdown restrictions on 11 May.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe World Health Organization's (WHO) current advice says two groups of people should wear protective masks, those who are:\n\nThere are concerns that wearing a mask may offer a false sense of security and lead people to be less careful regarding social distancing and other hygiene measures, such as washing hands.\n\nThe WHO said countries must weigh the risks and benefits when it comes to advising the whole populations about wearing face coverings.", "Nicola Benedetti is passionate about sharing her talent with young people\n\nScottish violinist Nicola Benedetti has assembled a team of musicians to offer three weeks of free music classes online.\n\nBeginning on 11 May, they will culminate in a huge online concert at the end of the month.\n\nThe Ayrshire-born musician already offered online music classes through her own Benedetti Foundation.\n\nBut the lockdown made her wonder whether they could reach an even wider audience on social media platforms.\n\nAlthough the sessions are free, donations are welcome.\n\nNearly 800 people have signed up so far to teach or play, including fellow musicians The Ayoub Sisters.\n\nMs Benedetti says she's been passionate about sharing her music since winning BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2004, at the age of just 16.\n\n\"I feel like I can do it well,\" she said. \"I have the capability of being a galvanising type of person, I can convince a lot of people to get involved with something and I'm really serious about getting a message across to young people.\n\n\"I think if you have the chance to do something well, you have a responsibility to society to at least try and put some time and effort into the thing you have some talent for.\"\n\nThe violinist held sessions with young people before the lockdown\n\nThe violinist is patron of a number of musical organisations including Sistema Scotland, the National Children's Orchestra, Music in Secondary Schools Trust, The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the European String Teachers' Association.\n\nHer new album, a collection of pieces by Elgar, will be released digitally on 15 May. It includes Salut D'amour, the first piece of music she recalls making her cry at the age of six. It was around then that she and her sister Stephanie first persuaded their mother to allow them to learn violin.\n\nShe still teaches it to young musicians online, and says it often produces the same emotions.\n\nThe supporting concert tour to promote the album won't happen, and she's worried about how long it will be before she can perform in concert halls again.\n\n\"The reality for me is of four months of concerts, gone in a heartbeat,\" she said. \"We have an arrogant sense of control - not everyone, but in the professional world I inhabit. We think we can determine what happens next year, that's the attitude and something like this is humbling, it's very humbling.\"\n\nShe added: \"Our business requires bringing great groups of people together. The margins for concert halls, they're that size for a reason, you want as many people as possible and if you cut that number in half, things don't add up so well. You won't even cover your costs, never mind make a profit.\n\n\"When budgets don't stand up, there's only so much you can expect people to do for free or for less. Revenue has to come from somewhere and if the loss is too great, concerts can't go ahead. It's a simple equation.\n\n\"As much as the will is so intense, and people are desperate to get back to playing, there may be an economic reality to that which makes it last longer than we are realising.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Drivers were already queuing before opening time\n\nQueues built up outside tips in Manchester as they reopened for the first time since lockdown.\n\nCars were lined up before 07:30 BST, half an hour before some recycling centres were due to open for the first time in six weeks.\n\nLocal Government Secretary Robert Jenrick has urged councils to reopen tips \"as soon as possible\".\n\nGreater Manchester is one of the first places to do so, with restrictions and social distancing measures in place.\n\nBut the region's mayor Andy Burnham said \"this is not a return to normal\", adding: \"We would ask the public to limit their journeys and only travel to a household waste and recycling centre if it is absolutely essential.\"\n\nGreater Manchester is one of the first places to reopen tips\n\nOnly vehicles with number plates ending in even numbers were allowed in to a waste centre on Reliance Street, to control the number of visitors, and some people were turned away.\n\nCentres were only accepting bagged general waste and Greater Manchester residents need to show proof of address to use the sites, which are limiting the number of cars allowed in.\n\nMr Jenrick previously said reopening tips in a staged manner was \"sensible\".\n\n\"The longer we delay it, the longer those queues are going to be when the waste sites reopen.\"\n\nHowever, some councils have expressed concern over reopening sites due to the need for social distancing measures.\n\nCouncillor David Renard, from the Local Government Association, warned police would be required to manage \"inevitable\" queues.\n\nHe said permit systems and longer opening hours could be considered and reopenings would be decided locally on risk assessments.\n\nFigures show fly-tipping has risen by 300% in rural communities since the closure of nearly all tips in March, while the number of DIY projects had increased as people were stuck at home.", "Nearly two-thirds of doctors told the survey they are not well protected during the pandemic\n\nAlmost half of doctors in England might be buying their own protective equipment or are relying on donations, according to a survey by the British Medical Association (BMA).\n\nThe survey of more than 16,000 doctors also found that 65% feel they are only partly or not at all protected on the front line of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nOne said the situation is \"an outrage for all staff\".\n\nThe government said it is \"working round the clock\" to deliver equipment.\n\nThe survey found that 48% of doctors reported having bought personal protective equipment (PPE) directly for themselves or their department, or had received donations from a charity or local firm.\n\n\"At the moment we're at the mercy of donations or purchasing them,\" Dr Chaand Nagpaul, chairman of the BMA council, told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"That doesn't give you security and it hasn't met the government's own commitment and promise that it will be protecting its workforce.\"\n\nHe said the survey showed supplies were improving but that they had not reached a point where all staff could be assured they would be adequately protected from infection.\n\nGPs appear to be more affected by PPE shortages: 55% of family doctors said they had to source their own equipment, compared with 38% of hospital doctors.\n\nDr Helen Kirby-Blount is a GP at Riverside Health Partnership in Retford, Nottinghamshire. She told BBC News that the partnership has not received any PPE from the government since early March.\n\nShe said staff have resorted to buying their own PPE online, and are otherwise dependant on donations, including goggles and visors made by local schools.\n\nCosts continue to rise, and there is no guarantee that staff will be refunded for equipment they have bought themselves.\n\nWhere practical, Dr Kirby-Blount said staff are are re-using equipment, but had so far avoided re-using aprons, gloves or surgical masks.\n\n\"We are not comfortable re-using masks,\" she said. \"We would not normally do so in any other type of situation.\"\n\nAbout five of her staff have frequent contact with patients who may have coronavirus, including patients in care homes and those referred by the 111 phone service. Dr Kirby-Blount said \"the best PPE\" is reserved for high-risk occasions.\n\nShe estimates current mask supplies will run out in 1-2 weeks.\n\nDr Kirby-Blount believes the situation is only likely to get worse as restrictions are lifted.\n\n\"We are not expecting coronavirus to go away anytime soon,\" she says.\n\n\"Our biggest fear is what is going to happen next autumn when it will be impossible to know who has coronavirus and who has the normal types of winter bugs. Everyone will have to wear PPE.\"\n\nAlmost a third of doctors told the survey that they had not spoken out about PPE, staff shortages, testing or drug shortages because they did not think any action would be taken if they did.\n\nIn a statement, the government said it was \"working around the clock to ensure PPE is delivered\" to healthcare staff and said that it had supplied more than a billion items since the outbreak began.\n\nOn Sunday, a plane carrying ten million pairs of surgical gloves arrived from Malaysia, the latest delivery of protective equipment as the NHS tries to meet demand.\n\nEnsuring adequate protective equipment would be needed before lockdown restrictions are eased, the BMA said, as it will mean resuming normal NHS services, with greater numbers of non-coronavirus patients.\n\nAre you a doctor? Have you had to source your own PPE or rely on donated equipment? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "As we bring our live coverage to an end for the day, here's a reminder of today's developments:\n\nPublic Health Wales has announced the death of a further 14 people in Wales after testing positive for coronavirus, taking the total to 983.\n\nSchools would need about three weeks to prepare for a phased return, according to First Minister Mark Drakeford. But his mention of June in an interview with Andrew Marr has caused confusion according to a teaching union.\n\nThe way we buy and sell food should be reviewed after the coronavirus crisis, according Dr Ludivine Petetin, from Cardiff University. She said the weaknesses of the current \"just in time\" delivery system had been exposed by the crisis.\n\nWe'll be back with the latest on the outbreak in the morning.", "There is evidence of rising violence during the lockdown (picture posed by model)\n\nThe government has pledged to spend £76m to support vulnerable people who are \"trapped in a nightmare\" at home during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick said the new funding would help vulnerable children and victims of domestic violence and modern slavery.\n\nHe also announced the launch of a taskforce which will aim to support rough sleepers after the lockdown.\n\nMore than 105,000 coronavirus tests were provided on Friday.\n\nThe total number of reported coronavirus-related deaths in the UK now stands at 28,131 - an increase of 621 on Friday's figure.\n\nThe funding package will help community-based services that work with victims of domestic abuse, sexual violence and modern slavery, as well as vulnerable children, in England and Wales.\n\nThis includes the recruitment of additional counsellors for victims of sexual violence.\n\nIt will also go towards the provision of safe accommodation for survivors of domestic abuse and their children, and further support for vulnerable children, in England.\n\nThere has been a \"surge\" in violence in the weeks since the lockdown was introduced, a report by MPs said.\n\nIt found there has been a rise in killings, while the number of calls to the National Domestic Abuse helpline run by Refuge are up 50% after three weeks.\n\nSpeaking during the government's daily coronavirus briefing, Mr Jenrick said: \"For some in our society these [lockdown] measures involve sacrifices that none of us would wish anyone to bear.\"\n\nHe stressed that victims will not be breaking the law if they need to seek help outside the home during lockdown.\n\nThe domestic abuse charity Refuge said it was \"pleased\" with the government's announcement.\n\nChief executive Sandra Horley said the previous housing requirements \"risked women having to make an unthinkable decision - to stay with an abusive partner or risk homelessness\".\n\nShe added that the package \"will help to plug some of the gaps left by a decade of austerity cuts\".\n\nSally Field, chairwoman of Woman's Trust, said she welcomed the announcement \"somewhat cautiously\" because it is not clear how charities will access the funds.\n\nWomen were being turned away from refuges even before the lockdown, she added, and the sector needs \"long-term sustainable funding\" in order to provide safe accommodation.\n\nShe added that she expects an \"exponential increase in calls for help\" after lockdown because victims are unable to reach out for help while they are at home.\n\nMr Jenrick said that, as a father of three girls, he \"cannot even imagine women and young children being put in this situation\"\n\nMr Jenrick also said that 90% of rough sleepers known to councils have been offered accommodation and that the government is \"determined that as few people as possible return to life on the streets\" after the outbreak.\n\nDame Louise Casey, who is already leading a review of rough sleeping, is to oversee an effort to ensure rough sleepers have safe accommodation while self-isolating, and to work with councils on the provision of long-term support.\n\nJon Sparkes, chief executive of homelessness charity Crisis, said he was \"delighted\" to see ministers \"seize the opportunity\" to make sure those helped during the pandemic do not return to rough sleeping.\n\n\"We look forward to working closely with the task force to provide as many people as possible with a home of their own,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Harry Potter author JK Rowling announced she is donating £500,000 to Crisis and £500,000 to Refuge, which supports victims of domestic abuse.\n\nJK Rowling said too many people were losing loved ones\n\nThe £76m funding pledge comes days after MPs debated the Domestic Abuse Bill in Parliament.\n\nThe bill brings in new protections for victims and proposes the first government definition of domestic abuse in England and Wales, including financial abuse and controlling and manipulative non-physical behaviour.\n\nOn Tuesday, the government announced it would spend £3.1 million on services supporting children who witness \"appalling abuse\" at home during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nBut Labour said this fell \"woefully short\" of what was needed and proposed amendments to the bill that would see 10% of the £750 million charity support package announced last month ring-fenced in a fast-track fund for domestic abuse charities.\n\nMPs also said the bill must do more to ensure that there is adequate accommodation for victims who flee their homes. Former shadow home secretary Diane Abbott called on the government to house them in vacant hotel rooms during the lockdown until decent alternatives could be found.\n\nDuring Saturday's briefing, Mr Jenrick said the government will \"work with refuges to make this option available to them\" where necessary.", "Boris Johnson has revealed \"contingency plans\" were made for his death while he was seriously ill in hospital with coronavirus.\n\nIn an interview with the Sun on Sunday, the prime minister said at one point it was \"50-50\" whether he would be put on a ventilator.\n\n\"That was when it got a bit… they were starting to think about how to handle it presentationally,\" he said.\n\n\"It was a tough old moment, I won't deny it,\" he told the paper.\n\nHe said he knew at the time that doctors had devised a plan in the event of his death.\n\n\"They had a strategy to deal with a 'death of Stalin'-type scenario,\" he said, in reference to the former Soviet Union leader, Joseph Stalin.\n\nMr Johnson said he was given \"litres and litres of oxygen\" to keep him alive and credited his recovery to \"wonderful, wonderful nursing\".\n\n\"I get emotional about it . . . but it was an extraordinary thing.\"\n\nMr Johnson was diagnosed with coronavirus on 26 March and was admitted to London's St Thomas' Hospital 10 days later. The following day, he was moved to intensive care.\n\n\"It was hard to believe that in just a few days my health had deteriorated to this extent,\" he said.\n\nDescribing the seriousness of the disease, he said: \"I've broken my nose, I've broken my finger, I've broken my wrist, I've broken my rib. I've broken just about everything. I've broken all sorts of things, several times in some cases.\n\n\"But I've never had anything as serious as this.\"\n\nHe said his week in hospital had left him driven by a desire to both stop others suffering and to get the UK \"healthy again\".\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Johnson said the UK was \"past the peak\" of the coronavirus outbreak, but stressed the country must not \"risk a second spike\".\n\nThe number of people being treated in hospitals for the virus has fallen by 13% over the past week, according to England's deputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries.\n\nThe total number of reported coronavirus-related deaths in the UK now stands at 28,131 - an increase of 621 on Friday's figure.\n\nOn Saturday, the government pledged £76m to support vulnerable children, victims of domestic violence and modern slavery, who were \"trapped\" at home during the lockdown.\n\nThe announcement followed reports of a \"surge\" in violence in the weeks since the lockdown was introduced.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson's fiancee, Carrie Symonds, announced they had named their son - who was born on Wednesday - Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson.\n\nCarrie Symonds thanked NHS staff following the birth of her son in a post on Instagram\n\nMs Symonds said the newborn's second middle name, Nicholas, was a tribute to \"Dr Nick Price and Dr Nick Hart - the two doctors that saved Boris' life\".\n\nDr Nick Price and Prof Nick Hart offered their \"warm congratulations\" to the couple.\n\nThey said in a statement: \"We are honoured and humbled to have been recognised in this way, and we give our thanks to the incredible team of professionals who we work with at Guy's and St Thomas' and who ensure every patient receives the best care.\n\n\"We wish the new family every health and happiness.\"", "Two teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of murdering an NHS worker who was stabbed to death days after his father died with coronavirus.\n\nDavid Gomoh, 24, was attacked seconds after leaving his home in Newham, east London, on 26 April.\n\nPolice said Mr Gomoh's family were \"going through unimaginable torment\".\n\nA 19-year-old man arrested in Stratford on Friday and a 16-year-old boy detained in Telford, Shropshire, on Saturday, remain in custody.\n\nMr Gomoh, whose mother is a nurse, was attacked on Freemasons Road, close to the junction with Kerry Close, at about 22:25 BST.\n\nThe Southbank University graduate worked for the NHS helping to supply staff with essential equipment.\n\nPolice have appealed for information about this silver Dodge Caliber\n\nPolice said Mr Gomoh was killed just days before the funeral of his father, who died after contracting Covid-19.\n\nDet Insp Tony Kirk said: \"David's family are going through unimaginable torment.\n\n\"Within days his mother has seen the death of her husband and son - his sister has lost her father and brother. Both are now heartbroken.\"\n\nHe added: \"David and his mother, who have done so much to help the community, now need the public to come forward and tell us what they know.\"\n\nPolice urged anyone with information about a stolen silver Dodge Caliber which was abandoned at about 22:30 in Lincoln Road, to come forward.\n\nOfficers said the car, which had a temporary wheel on the front passenger side, was stolen in Dagenham on 16 April and was on cloned plates when it was recovered.", "The coronavirus emerged in only December last year, but already the world is dealing with a pandemic of the virus and the disease it causes - Covid-19.\n\nFor most, the disease is mild, but some people die.\n\nSo how is the virus attacking the body, why are some people being killed and how is it treated?\n\nThis is when the virus is establishing itself.\n\nViruses work by getting inside the cells your body is made of and then hijacking them.\n\nThe coronavirus, officially called Sars-CoV-2, can invade your body when you breathe it in (after someone coughs nearby) or you touch a contaminated surface and then your face.\n\nIt first infects the cells lining your throat, airways and lungs and turns them into \"coronavirus factories\" that spew out huge numbers of new viruses that go on to infect yet more cells.\n\nAt this early stage, you will not be sick and some people may never develop symptoms.\n\nThe incubation period, the time between infection and first symptoms appearing, varies widely, but is five days on average.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Everything you need to know about the coronavirus – explained in one minute by the BBC's Laura Foster\n\nThis is all most people will experience.\n\nCovid-19 is a mild infection for eight out of 10 people who get it and the core symptoms are a fever and a cough.\n\nBody aches, sore throat and a headache are all possible, but not guaranteed.\n\nThe fever, and generally feeling grotty, is a result of your immune system responding to the infection. It has recognised the virus as a hostile invader and signals to the rest of the body something is wrong by releasing chemicals called cytokines.\n\nThese rally the immune system, but also cause the body aches, pain and fever.\n\nThe coronavirus cough is initially a dry one (you're not bringing stuff up) and this is probably down to irritation of cells as they become infected by the virus.\n\nSome people will eventually start coughing up sputum - a thick mucus containing dead lung cells killed by the virus.\n\nThese symptoms are treated with bed rest, plenty of fluids and paracetamol. You won't need specialist hospital care.\n\nThis stage lasts about a week - at which point most recover because their immune system has fought off the virus.\n\nHowever, some will develop a more serious form of Covid-19.\n\nThis is the best we understand at the moment about this stage, however, there are studies emerging that suggest the disease can cause more cold-like symptoms such as a runny nose too.\n\nIf the disease progresses it will be due to the immune system overreacting to the virus.\n\nThose chemical signals to the rest of the body cause inflammation, but this needs to be delicately balanced. Too much inflammation can cause collateral damage throughout the body.\n\n\"The virus is triggering an imbalance in the immune response, there's too much inflammation, how it is doing this we don't know,\" said Dr Nathalie MacDermott, from King's College London.\n\nScans of lungs infected with coronavirus showing areas of pneumonia\n\nInflammation of the lungs is called pneumonia.\n\nIf it was possible to travel through your mouth down the windpipe and through the tiny tubes in your lungs, you'd eventually end up in tiny little air sacs.\n\nThis is where oxygen moves into the blood and carbon dioxide moves out, but in pneumonia the tiny sacs start to fill with water and can eventually cause shortness of breath and difficulty breathing.\n\nSome people will need a ventilator to help them breathe.\n\nThis stage is thought to affect around 14% of people, based on data from China.\n\nIt is estimated around 6% of cases become critically ill.\n\nBy this point the body is starting to fail and there is a real chance of death.\n\nThe problem is the immune system is now spiralling out of control and causing damage throughout the body.\n\nIt can lead to septic shock when the blood pressure drops to dangerously low levels and organs stop working properly or fail completely.\n\nAcute respiratory distress syndrome caused by widespread inflammation in the lungs stops the body getting enough oxygen it needs to survive. It can stop the kidneys from cleaning the blood and damage the lining of your intestines.\n\n\"The virus sets up such a huge degree of inflammation that you succumb... it becomes multi-organ failure,\" Dr Bharat Pankhania said.\n\nAnd if the immune system cannot get on top of the virus, then it will eventually spread to every corner of the body where it can cause even more damage.\n\nTreatment by this stage will be highly invasive and can include ECMO or extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation.\n\nThis is essentially an artificial lung that takes blood out of the body through thick tubes, oxygenates it and pumps it back in.\n\nBut eventually the damage can reach fatal levels at which organs can no longer keep the body alive.\n\nDoctors have described how some patients died despite their best efforts.\n\nThe first two patients to die at Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, China, detailed in the Lancet Medical journal, were seemingly healthy, although they were long-term smokers and that would have weakened their lungs.\n\nThe first, a 61-year-old man, had severe pneumonia by the time he arrived at hospital.\n\nHe was in acute respiratory distress, and despite being put on a ventilator, his lungs failed and his heart stopped beating.\n\nHe died 11 days after he was admitted.\n\nThe second patient, a 69-year-old man, also had acute respiratory distress syndrome.\n\nHe was attached to an ECMO machine but this wasn't enough. He died of severe pneumonia and septic shock when his blood pressure collapsed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA police officer has been suspended after allegedly using \"unnecessary force\" when detaining a teenage boy.\n\nFootage shared widely on social media shows a West Midlands Police officer appearing to \"strike and kick\" the 15-year-old, the police watchdog said.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is investigating the \"altercation\" in an alleyway in Newtown, Birmingham, on 21 April.\n\nThe force said the officer, who has not been identified, has been suspended.\n\nIn a statement, the force said the boy \"had been seen acting suspiciously\" and was told he would be searched under the Misuse of Drugs Act.\n\nThe watchdog said it understood the boy's mother had made a formal complaint about the officer's actions.\n\nThe IOPC said: \"Footage of the incident has been shared on social media that shows a police officer involved in an altercation with the boy, who he is seen to strike and kick.\"\n\nThe officer allegedly used excessive force against another member of the public in a separate incident, the watchdog said.\n\nRegional director Derrick Campbell said: \"We are aware that the footage circulated on social and other media has caused significant public concern.\n\n\"We will be carefully examining the circumstances of the incident and the officer's use of force.\"\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct has confirmed it is investigating\n\nWest Midlands Police said: \"We have suspended one of our officers following two complaints received about his conduct.\n\n\"A complaint was received after the officer stopped a teenager on 21 April in Melbourne Avenue, Newtown.\n\n\"In the ensuing incident it is alleged that the officer used unnecessary force in striking and kicking the young person.\"\n\nThe force said the second complaint relates to an incident on 20 April in Frederick Road, Aston, where two officers stopped a man they suspected was on a stolen bicycle.\n\n\"The man was detained and it's alleged the officer assaulted the man before he was released with no further action,\" the force said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson and his fiancee Carrie Symonds have named their baby boy Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson.\n\nThe names are a tribute to their grandfathers and two doctors who treated Mr Johnson while he was in hospital with coronavirus, Ms Symonds wrote in an Instagram post.\n\nShe posted a picture of herself with the baby, who was born on Wednesday.\n\nAnd she thanked staff at University College London Hospital, adding: \"I couldn't be happier. My heart is full.\"\n\nThe birth came just weeks after Mr Johnson was discharged from intensive care at another London hospital following treatment for coronavirus.\n\nMs Symonds wrote on Saturday that their son shares his first name with the prime minister's grandfather, and the first of his middle names, Lawrie, with her own.\n\nBBC One's Who Do You Think You Are found in 2008 that he was originally born Osman Wilfred Kemal - but his Turkish surname was changed during World War One.\n\nCarrie Symonds thanked NHS staff following the birth of her son in a post on Instagram\n\nMs Symonds added that their son's other middle name, Nicholas, is a tribute to \"Dr Nick Price and Dr Nick Hart - the two doctors that saved Boris' life last month\".\n\nThe decision to pay tribute to the medics is \"an insight into just how serious things were for the prime minister\" after contracting the virus, said BBC political correspondent Jonathan Blake.\n\nMr Johnson said after he was discharged that it \"could have gone either way\".\n\nDr Nick Price and Prof Nick Hart offered their \"warm congratulations\" to the PM and Ms Symonds.\n\nThey said in a statement: \"We are honoured and humbled to have been recognised in this way, and we give our thanks to the incredible team of professionals who we work with at Guy's and St Thomas' and who ensure every patient receives the best care.\n\n\"We wish the new family every health and happiness.\"\n\nBoris Johnson arriving back in Downing Street after the birth\n\nMr Johnson was understood to be present throughout the birth on Wednesday, but later returned to Downing Street to lead the response to the pandemic.\n\nHe is expected to take a \"short period\" of paternity leave at some point later this year, Downing Street has said.\n\nThe newborn is only the third baby born to a serving prime minister in living memory.\n\nJonathan Blake added that the family will live in the flat above No 11 Downing Street, \"so we might see more of the little one in the weeks and months ahead\".\n\nPoliticians and leaders from around the world congratulated the couple following the birth.\n\nThe Queen also sent a private message of good wishes, Buckingham Palace said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The lockdown has eased in Spain, but there are still time restrictions on when people can be outdoors\n\nMasks will be compulsory on public transport in Spain from Monday as the country moves to gradually relax its tough lockdown.\n\nPrime Minister Pedro Sanchez said the government would distribute 6m masks, mainly at transport locations, and give another 7m to local authorities.\n\nAdults in Spain were able to exercise outdoors on Saturday for the first time in seven weeks.\n\nThe lockdown was eased for children under 14 a week ago.\n\nLockdowns in other European countries are also being eased, though social distancing remains in force. Some countries require mask-wearing in shops and on public transport.\n\nItaly has Europe's highest death toll from coronavirus, closely followed by the UK and then Spain (though experts caution that countries do not record death figures in exactly the same way).\n\nThe UK's figures show hundreds of people are still falling victim to Covid-19 every day - on Saturday the deaths of a further 621 people were announced.\n\nBoth France and Italy recorded fewer than 200 deaths in a 24-hour period.\n\nItaly announced another 474 deaths on Saturday, a larger number than in recent days, but according to La Repubblica that figure includes 282 deaths outside hospitals in April which were not included in earlier figures.\n\nMr Sanchez said Spain was now reaping the rewards of the sacrifices made during the lockdown, one of Europe's strictest.\n\nHe also said his government would approve a €16bn ($17.6bn; £14bn) fund to help regional authorities deal with the economic damage inflicted by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIn Madrid, residents voiced relief to be finally exercising outdoors. \"Happy, we feel free!\" Susana Piego told Reuters.\n\nJesus Gutierrez said \"it's basic, for physical and mental health, it is basic to allow people to do sport\".\n\nSince 14 March people have only been allowed to leave the house to buy food or medicine, to go to work if working from home was not possible, or to briefly walk the dog.\n\nThere are now exercise slots for different age groups, and the amount of outdoor exercise time remains limited. Most adults can walk or play sports between 06:00 and 10:00, and between 20:00 and 23:00.\n\nSpaniards have made the most of the latest easing of the national lockdown, as they have taken to the streets in droves since early this morning.\n\nIn many areas, the large numbers who took to the streets made it look almost like a normal Saturday morning, yet social distancing was observed and few cars were on the roads.\n\nSome, however, remain reluctant to venture out.\n\n\"I want to go out because it's a beautiful day,\" said Carmen Pérez, a 65-year-old in Madrid. \"But I'm a bit scared of getting infected.\"\n\nWhile we all understand why we have been in 'la cuarentena' ['quarantine'], I can say from first-hand experience that seven weeks inside our homes, except for essential journeys, has been a test.\n\nFor most city residents, buying food or visiting a pharmacy involves walking no further than a few dozen metres.\n\nToday is different. People are in sports gear and running, walking and cycling freely.\n\nA man is playing Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe's famous song Barcelona loudly down at the water's edge and a nearby advertising board says, \"Bienvenidos a la libertad\" - \"Welcome to freedom\".\n\nUntil last week Spain was the only country in Europe where children under 14 could not leave home at all.\n\nFrom 12:00 to 19:00 only children aged 14 and under are allowed to go outside, accompanied by an adult. The remaining slots are set aside for elderly and vulnerable people.\n\nThe Spanish government will also give masks to the Red Cross and other organisations to distribute\n\nTeenagers aged 14 and above can go out for exercise once in one of the adult slots.\n\nIn other news from Europe:\n\nMeanwhile, the Irish Taoiseach (prime minister) Leo Varadkar has outlined a plan to reopen his country's economy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Children in Spain can play outside again\n\nOn 18 May it is planned that outdoor workers, including builders, will return to their jobs. DIY and hardware stores will reopen.\n\nFrom that date, Mr Varadkar said, it would be possible to meet friends and family in small groups outdoors, and some sporting activity would be allowed, again in small groups.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grant Shapps said restrictions for those entering the UK were being considered.\n\nBusinesses could be asked to stagger employees' working hours when the coronavirus lockdown eases, the transport secretary has said.\n\nGrant Shapps told the BBC that the move would help to prevent crowded commutes.\n\nHe said more buses and trains would run but he hoped to encourage cycling and walking.\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove said a \"staged\" easing would mean measures could be reintroduced to tackle \"localised\" outbreaks.\n\nThe government is expected to announce the next steps in its response to the epidemic next Sunday.\n\nSpeaking at the government's daily coronavirus briefing, Mr Gove said consultations are under way with employers, trade unions and public health experts to ensure that people return to work in the \"safest possible\" environments and understand official guidance.\n\nBusiness groups and unions received draft government guidelines on Sunday, and have until 21:00 BST to respond.\n\nMr Gove stressed that the UK's approach would not be \"flicking a switch and going... back to the old normal\".\n\n\"A phased approach is one which allows us to monitor the impact that those changes are having on public health,\" he said.\n\n\"And - if necessary, in a specific and localised way - that means that we can pause or even reintroduce those restrictions that might be required in order to deal with localised outbreaks.\"\n\nIt comes as businesses called for a \"carefully phased\" plan for lifting lockdown restrictions to be set out immediately, as many say they need weeks to prepare for resuming operations.\n\nRail bosses said last month that social-distancing of any kind would be \"extraordinarily difficult\" to manage and police, and could reduce the capacity of an individual train by between 70% and 90%.\n\nEarlier, Mr Shapps told the Andrew Marr Show that the government was looking at a range of options for people to travel to work, including encouraging what he described as a \"massive expansion\" in interest in \"active travel\" such as cycling or walking.\n\n\"There are a series of different things that we can do including staggering work times, working with businesses and organisations to do that,\" he said.\n\nHe also said he was working with train companies and unions on maintaining social distancing rules on platforms and at bus stops.\n\nHand sanitiser could also be made available and one-way systems for passengers introduced, he told Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday.\n\nThe number of coronavirus-related deaths in the UK stands at 28,446 - an increase of 315 on Saturday's figure.\n\nThe government said only 76,500 coronavirus tests were carried out on Saturday, falling short of its daily target of 100,000.\n\nMr Gove said the dip in the number of tests was due to the fact that fewer people were at work over the weekend.\n\nDr Elisabetta Groppelli, a lecturer in global health at St George's, University of London, said that 76,500 was still a \"fantastic number\" and that the UK was \"becoming comparable\" to countries with similar population sizes.\n\n\"What is important is that the UK has steadily increased the number of tests that have been performed,\" she said.\n\nMr Shapps said with testing now available to all staff and residents, infection rates were now falling in care homes as well as other parts of the community.\n\nFor that reason, he said he hoped the country would avoid care homes transmitting the virus back into the rest of society.\n\nAsked whether fewer people would have died if testing capacity had been greater sooner, he said: \"Yes. If we had had 100,000 test capacity before this thing started and the knowledge that we now have retrospectively I'm sure many things could be different.\"\n\nBut he said that although the UK has a big pharmaceuticals industry, it does not have a testing industry like Germany's, making it more difficult to increase test numbers.\n\nDefending the decision not to close airports or introduce screening for international arrivals earlier in the pandemic, Mr Shapps said the advice was that a \"complete lockdown of the borders\" might only have delayed the virus by three to five days.\n\n\"We had millions of people abroad who needed to return home,\" he said.\n\nBut he said that now the infection rate was falling to a more manageable level, plans for screening and quarantining people travelling to the UK from abroad were \"a serious point under consideration\".\n\nChief executive Tim Alderslade said it would be a \"blunt tool measure\" that would \"completely shut off the UK from the rest of the world when other countries are opening up their economies\" and the UK should be leading the way on common standards such as health screening, which would enable the sector to restart.\n\nDo you have any concerns about returning to your workplace? Or are you happy to stop working from home? Tell us about 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:", "Universities have warned of financial collapse if some institutions cannot recruit enough students this year\n\nUniversity students in England will still have to pay full tuition fees even if their courses are taught online in the autumn, the government has said.\n\n\"We don't believe students will be entitled to reimbursement if the quality is there,\" universities minister Michelle Donelan said.\n\nBut the university sector's request for a £2bn bail-out has been rejected.\n\nUniversities had warned of financial danger from a reduction in overseas students because of coronavirus.\n\nUniversity campuses have been closed by the pandemic - and there is uncertainty for students whether there will be in-person teaching in the autumn or whether courses will be taught fully or partly online.\n\nThe universities minister said no formal decision had been taken on the next academic year, but if courses are taught online and \"students are really getting the quality, and they're getting a course which is fit for purpose\", they would not get a discount on fees.\n\n\"Universities are still continuing with their overheads and their expenses during this time, and it's no fault of their own,\" she said.\n\nIf students were not getting adequate teaching online, she said there were processes for them to complain.\n\nJake, an accountancy student in Leeds, told the BBC that charging full fees for online courses was so unfair that it made him want to drop out.\n\n\"There has clearly been no consideration of students with this decision. I pay tuition fees to go to my university in person, to be taught at my university in person, to access the facilities of the university - libraries, societies, sports facilities - in person.\n\n\"Expecting students to pay full fees for a service that they aren't receiving is frankly insulting,\" he said.\n\nRose, an international student from India studying in Manchester, said getting lessons online was not an adequate alternative - and regretted paying so much for her course.\n\n\"It's been a nightmare. First of all we had two strikes which lasted three to four weeks at a time and now this.\n\n\"I paid £19,000 for my course. We're not a rich family. That's all the money my family have. I feel so guilty for using it all up for this.\"\n\nIsobel, another student in Manchester, contacted the BBC to say: \"There has been no talk about a refund for the lack of lectures.\n\n\"I am finding it difficult not being able to access libraries, and ask questions. Yes, I know you can email stuff to lecturers but they're swamped.\"\n\nAn unimpressed student, Livi, posted on Twitter: \"So by September I'll have lost almost £3,000 to rent a house I'm not even living in, and tuition fees will still be max even if it's online - something about this seems unfair.\"\n\nTom Kendall, a member of the UK Youth Parliament, said: \"If we have to stay home and complete online lectures what about the students who are less fortunate and don't have a laptop or access to wi-fi?\"\n\nAs well as weighing up whether they want to study online, applicants will be waiting for information on how a reopened campus might function, in terms of social distancing, social activities and student accommodation.\n\nThe National Union of Students has highlighted how difficult it can be for current students to study online, with some struggling with a lack of computer equipment and broadband access and not having enough space in which to work.\n\nWhat would a university experience be like with social distancing?\n\nA study from the Sutton Trust suggests some applicants are reconsidering their university plans, in a year group that has already seen exams cancelled and replaced by estimated grades.\n\nThere is a \"huge degree of worry and uncertainty,\" says trust founder, Sir Peter Lampl.\n\nThere are particular financial worries for universities about an expected drop in overseas students, who pay a higher level of fees.\n\nLast month, Universities UK called for at least £2bn in emergency funding, saying that otherwise some institutions could go bust.\n\nMs Donelan has announced measures to stabilise university finances, but without the extra cash requested.\n\nTo help with cash flow, £2.6bn of tuition fee income and £100m of research funding will be brought forward and universities will be able to access the Treasury's support for businesses disrupted by coronavirus, worth another £700m.\n\n\"Should providers require further support the government will continue to review their financial circumstances,\" said the universities minister.\n\nThere will also be more flexibility in the clearing system, which matches applicants to empty places after results are issued.\n\nUniversities have been worried about \"volatility\" in applications and that some universities could be so short of recruits they would be financially unviable.\n\nTo stop such fluctuations, there will be controls on student numbers, designed to stop some universities adding many more students, while others could be be left with too few.\n\nThe higher education watchdog, the Office for Students, said it would impose financial penalties on universities using pressure selling tactics \"to increase student intake beyond normal levels\".\n\nThe Russell Group of leading universities said the \"big remaining challenge\" was funding for research.\n\n\"Universities face significant shortfalls in international students and other sources of income that we need to underpin vital work that otherwise goes under-funded,\" said chief executive, Tim Bradshaw.\n\nUniversities UK said the stability measures were a recognition of the important part universities would play in the \"recovery of the economy and communities\" in the wake of the pandemic and the \"severe financial storm\" it had created.\n\nThe universities body has said that in the forthcoming weeks current students and applicants will be given a clearer idea of arrangements for opening in the autumn.", "Officers discovered there was \"no animal and no risk to the public\"\n\nArmed police and a helicopter were scrambled to reports of a tiger on the loose in the countryside - only to find the wild animal was a life-size model.\n\nOfficers responding to the call in Underriver, Kent, on Saturday were met by the sculpture's creator.\n\n\"I took them down to the sculpture where they all had a good laugh and took a lot of photographs,\" artist Juliet Simpson, 85, said.\n\nKent Police said it found there was \"no animal and no risk to the public\".\n\nTold by a neighbour that police were investigating reports of a loose big cat, Mrs Simpson set off up the lane near her home.\n\n\"Out of the field opposite came a whole crowd of armed police, who by then knew that it was all a false alarm and I said 'would they like to be introduced to my real live tiger?'\" she told BBC Radio Kent.\n\n\"It looks quite real, it's meant to look real and it is about 30 metres from the footpath so you can't see it very closely.\"\n\nThe sculpture was placed in woodland more than 20 years ago\n\nThe wire and resin artwork has been in place in woodlands near a public path for at least 20 years and is now \"rather dilapidated\", she said.\n\n\"When I put this one in the wood behind my house, he seemed to sort of own the wood, so I never sold him, so he's just sat there.\"\n\nKent Police said officers were sent to Mote Road in Ightham, near Underriver, \"following a report from a member of the public that a large wild cat had been seen in the area\".\n\n\"Officers, including armed officers, attended as a precaution and, following a search of the area, have established there was no animal and no risk to the public.\"\n\nA helicopter from the National Police Air Service also briefly attended.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cabinet Minister Michael Gove said the Prime Minister will next week set out a plan on how the country may be able gradually to ease lockdown restrictions.\n\nGove said: \"His comprehensive plan will explain how we can get our economy moving, how we can get our children back to school, how we can travel to work more safely, and how we can make life in the workplace safer.\"\n\nBut Gove said before we can ease the existing restrictions, \"we must ensure the government's five tests are met\".\n\nThe five tests include ensuring that the number of cases are falling, death rates are declining, the NHS is prepared, and that measures are in place to stop a second peak overwhelming the NHS.\n\nGove added that: \"We're consulting with employers and unions, professionals and public health experts, to establish how we can ensure that we have the safest possible working environments, and the prime minister will be saying more later this week.\"", "Nightingale hospital 'should take all coronavirus patients'\n\nAll coronavirus patients in Bristol should be treated exclusively at the city's Nightingale hospital to free up the main hospitals, opposition councillors say. Bristol City Council's Lib Dem group claims patients are avoiding appointments fearing they would contract the virus. Leader Gary Hopkins, said: \"They are massively handicapped in trying to deal with the backlog, with operating theatres turned over to Covid-19 and many patients frightened to come into hospital because of Covid-19 fears. \"Covid-19 is highly dangerous and infectious, and hospital staff are hard pushed enough without dealing with the dangers of internal cross infection.\" The Bristol Nightingale will be used for patients from across Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Somerset as well as Bristol. NHS Nightingale Hospital Bristol chief officer Marie-Noelle Orzel said: \"Capacity still exists in hospitals throughout the Severn network region to care for patients with coronavirus, as well as other patients who may need urgent and emergency treatment, with the Nightingale Bristol standing ready if and when needed. \"A degree of flexibility has been built into the planning so that as the clinical picture and patient requirements evolve, the hospital will be able to adapt accordingly.\"", "Pearl went missing in Karachi in 2002 while researching extremism\n\nThe parents of murdered US journalist Daniel Pearl have filed an appeal with Pakistan's Supreme Court to reverse a ruling overturning the convictions of four men in the case.\n\nPearl was kidnapped and beheaded in 2002 while investigating Islamist militants in Karachi, Pakistan.\n\nLast month a court in Karachi overturned the death sentence of the man convicted of masterminding the killing, and acquitted three others.\n\nPearl was the Wall Street Journal's Asia bureau chief when he was abducted and killed. A graphic video of his killing was sent to the US consulate a month later.\n\nIn a video statement, his father Judea Pearl said: \"We have filed an appeal of this decision to the Pakistan Supreme Court.\n\n\"We are standing up for justice not only for our son, but for all our dear friends in Pakistan so they can live in a society free of violence and terror and raise their children in peace and harmony.\"\n\nAhmed Omar Saeed Sheikh seen here surrounded by Pakistani police in 2002\n\nTheir petition adds to one already filed by prosecutors.\n\nThe accused mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is being held at Guantanamo Bay detention centre, has said he personally beheaded Pearl.\n\nMohammed told US interrogators he killed the journalist with his \"blessed right hand\", according to the Pentagon. The confession was made under torture and Mohammed - whose trial date for the 11 September 2001 attacks has been set for next year - has not been charged with Pearl's murder.\n\nShortly after their acquittal the four men - including the convicted mastermind Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh - were re-arrested. They will be held for at least three months as the appeals play out.\n\nSheikh's death sentence had been reduced to seven years in prison for kidnapping.\n\nThe Committee to Protect Journalists voiced its support for the appeal, and said that releasing the four men in the case \"would only add to the threats facing journalists in Pakistan and deepen Pakistan's reputation as a haven for terrorists\".\n\nHe had been researching links between Islamist militant activity in Karachi and Richard Reid, who tried to blow up a passenger plane using bombs hidden in his shoes.\n\nAccording to prosecutors, Sheikh lured him to a meeting with an Islamic cleric. The two had built up a relationship discussing concerns about their wives, who were both pregnant at the time.\n\nAlmost a month later, a video showing the 38-year-old's beheading was sent to the US consulate in Karachi.\n\nPearl's son, Adam, was born in May 2002.\n\nSheikh was convicted of Pearl's murder in July 2002 by an anti-terrorism court, and has been on death row since.\n\nSheikh was born in London in 1973, where he attended public school before going on to study at the London School of Economics. He did not graduate, failing to return after driving aid to conflict-wracked Bosnia after his first year.\n\nHe was arrested for involvement in the kidnapping of four tourists - three British and one American - in Delhi in 1994.\n\nSheikh was released from prison as part of demands by militants who hijacked a plane in 1999.\n\nAccording to news agency Reuters, police in India later accused him of transferring money to one of the militants who flew a plane into the World Trade Center on 9/11.", "It is not clear what provoked the initial gunfire\n\nNorth and South Korea have exchanged gunfire in the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) which divides the two countries.\n\nSeoul's military said shots from the North hit a guard post in the central border town of Cheorwon. It said it returned fire and delivered a warning announcement.\n\nSuch incidents across the world's most heavily fortified border are rare.\n\nUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told US media the shots from the North were believed to be \"accidental\".\n\nMeanwhile South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted a government official as saying the shots were not likely to have been intentional.\n\nNo injuries were reported in the incident. Military officials in the South say there was no sign of unusual troop movements.\n\nThere's a \"low possibility\" that the shots fired by North Korea were intentional, according to the South Korean military. But at this stage it is unclear how they've made that assessment.\n\nEven if it was an accident or a miscalculation, it shows just how important it is for troops to keep level heads in the heavily fortified DMZ to ensure the situation isn't made much worse.\n\nIf it was a more tactical decision by North Korea then that's a very different matter.\n\nThe timing is interesting. It's just 24 hours since the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un re-appeared after a 21-day absence. There have also been a large number of military drills in the North in recent months to improve readiness to fight an \"actual war\", according to state media.\n\nPyongyang has sometimes used the tactic of escalate to de-escalate, using its military posturing as leverage in later negotiations.\n\nBut any sign of direct fire will be a disappointment to many in South Korea. There has been a lot of work in the last two years to ease tensions between the two countries after President Moon Jae-in met Kim Jong-un. The two sides signed a military agreement - any deliberate shots fired would breach that pact.\n\nThe last time the North opened fire on the South happened in 2017 when a North Korean soldier made a dash across the military demarcation line to defect.\n\nThe demilitarised zone (DMZ) was set up after the Korean War in 1953 in order to create a buffer zone between the two countries.\n\nFor the past two years, the government in Seoul has tried to turn the heavily fortified border into a peace zone.\n\nEasing military tensions at the border was one of the agreements reached between the leaders of the two countries at a summit in Pyongyang in September 2018.\n\nKim Jong-un's reappearance in public, reported by North Korean state media on Friday, followed an almost-three-week unexplained absence that sparked intense global speculation about his health.", "McDonald's has closed all its outlets in the UK\n\nMcDonald's is in talks with some of its landlords in the UK about cutting rent payments as the fast food chain prepares to reopen some of its sites.\n\nBusinesses face their next quarterly rent bill on 24 June when they are due to pay for the next three months.\n\nMcDonald's said it has paid in full for the current quarter.\n\nHowever, it said that \"given the unprecedented situation\", it was in talks with landlords about how they could \"offer support\" on rent.\n\nMcDonald's has closed all its outlets in the UK because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nA spokesman for the company said: \"We have opened dialogue with some of our landlords to discuss how they might offer support on rent and service charges for a short period due to our restaurants not trading.\"\n\nMcDonald's plans to reopen 15 outlets in the UK for delivery only services on 13 May.\n\nOther food chains such as Burger King and Yo! Sushi did not pay rent to landlords in the UK when it fell due in March.\n\nThe government has implemented some measures to help businesses who are struggling to pay their rent.\n\nBut shopping centre-owner Intu said recently that it was considering legal action against some big brands who have money but are \"not engaging\" in rent negotiations.\n\nIntu, which owns Manchester's Trafford Centre and the Lakeside in Essex, declined to name the brands.\n\nIn April, the British Retail Consortium and the British Property Federation both wrote to Chancellor Rishi Sunak seeking more support for shops and landlords.\n\nMcDonald's plans to reopen some UK sites in May for delivery-only orders\n\nThey want the government to support a \"furloughed space grant scheme\" where businesses would pay some rent, landlords would agree to a reduction and the state would make-up the shortfall.\n\nA spokesman for the Treasury said: \"We recognise the current challenges facing commercial landlords and the significant impact recent changes are having on their business models. We also recognise that many landlords are working closely with tenants to find solutions that work for both parties.\"\n\n\"Our package of support for businesses currently includes our new bounce back loans, which provide quick and easy support for eligible companies that is interest-free for the first 12 months, our job retention scheme and other measures such as protecting commercial tenants from eviction.\"\n\nLast week, McDonald's revealed that the coronavirus outbreak had sent first quarter like-for-like sales down 3.4%.\n\nIt said around three quarters of its outlets across the world remained opened and were serving people via drive-throughs, delivery or takeaway services.\n\nBut the UK is among a few of its markets where it has temporarily closed all of its sites. Others include France, Italy and Spain.", "An NHS worker arrives at a drive-in centre in a car park in Wolverhampton to be tested\n\nTesting for coronavirus fell sharply on Saturday, days after Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the government had met its daily target of 100,000 tests.\n\nIn the past 24 hours, ministers said just under 76,500 tests were carried out, a drop of more than a third on the 122,000 tests carried out on 30 April.\n\nNHS England medical director Prof Stephen Powis acknowledged that testing had taken a \"little bit of a dip\".\n\nOn Friday Mr Hancock described the 100,000 target as \"audacious\".\n\nThe health secretary set the goal on 2 April, when the UK was on 10,000 tests a day.\n\nAnnouncing the government's success, Mr Hancock suggested the 100,000 goal had a \"galvanising effect\", adding that the bolstered testing capacity would \"help us to unlock the lockdown\".\n\nHowever, the government came in for criticism for including 40,000 tests which were dispatched by post and may not have been taken.\n\nSince then, the number of tests has dropped by about 40,000, according to official statistics.\n\nAt the Downing Street briefing on Sunday, cabinet minister Michael Gove praised Mr Hancock's \"amazing achievement\" in reaching his target.\n\nMr Gove said the massive increase in tests had been an example of what \"the public sector and the private sector working together under a very strong political leadership can achieve\".\n\nHe said the dip in the number of tests was due to the fact that fewer people were at work over the weekend.\n\n\"Thanks to the hard work of so many across the NHS, Public Health England, our pharmaceutical sector and our universities, we have tested over 200,000 key workers and their families, allowing those who don't have the virus to go back to work and protecting those who do.\"\n\nAlso speaking at the briefing, Prof Powis said testing capacity \"had ramped up very quickly\".\n\n\"We are now at a very high level of testing, over 100,000 - a little bit of a dip in the weekend - but we anticipate that that testing capacity will continue to increase,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What it's like to test yourself for Covid-19\n\nDr Elisabetta Groppelli, a lecturer in global health at St George's, University of London, said 76,500 was still a \"fantastic number\" and that the UK was \"becoming comparable\" to countries with similar population sizes.\n\n\"What is important is that the UK has steadily increased the number of tests that have been performed,\" she said.\n\nTesting was expanded in England last week to millions more people with symptoms including over-65s, those who have to leave home to work, and people living with someone in these groups.\n\nIn Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced earlier that testing would be expanded to over-65s with symptoms and also all those in care homes where there had been an outbreak.\n\nAnd on Friday, the Welsh government extended coronavirus testing to people in care homes even if they are not showing symptoms of the disease.\n\nThe UK government is hoping the enhanced testing regime, alongside contact tracing and continued social distancing, can stay on top of transmission rates and prevent a second wave of infection.\n\nA \"comprehensive\" road map on a gradual easing of lockdown measures is expected at the end of next week.\n\nA total of 28,446 people have now died with coronavirus across the UK.\n\nThat number includes deaths in hospitals, care homes and the community, but only for those who have tested positive for Covid-19.", "Test, track and trace is the strategy that could help to ease the UK's lockdown and return the country to some kind of “new normal”.\n\nHopes rest on the UK’s huge expansion of testing, with the government exceeding its target of 100,000 tests a day by the end of April.\n\nThree days on and there has been “a dip”, with figures put at 76,496 for the 24 hours up to 09:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nWhen quizzed on this at the daily press briefing earlier, Michael Gove said one might expect over a weekend, with fewer people going to work, “a dip in the amount of testing that might occur”.\n\nThe figures include both tests processed through official labs and tests sent to homes or other sites.\n\nThe tests to be conducted at home or at satellite centres are counted before the recipient has provided and returned their sample to the lab, with thousands of home kits distributed by Amazon and the Royal Mail on behalf of the government.\n\nThis has raised questions over whether counting a test put in the post is the same as a conducted test which has results.\n\nOnly time will tell if the dip today is a weekend anomaly or something more significant.", "Piers Morgan has said he will temporarily step back from presenting Good Morning Britain after developing a \"mild\" coronavirus symptom.\n\nThe ITV programme will be hosted by Ben Shephard and Susanna Reid, as Mr Morgan awaits test results on Monday, he said.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Morgan said he was acting \"on medical advice, and out of an abundance of caution\".\n\nLast week, he was cleared of breaching TV watchdog Ofcom's rules after 4,000 complaints about his questioning.\n\nDuring an animated interview, he asked care minister Helen Whately for the number of health workers and care workers who had died from the illness.\n\nShe accused him of \"shouting at me and not giving me a chance to answer your questions\" and \"attempting to score points\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Morgan defended his approach, saying it was not as \"uncomfortable\" as the conditions for the carers on the front line of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe presenter has also attracted positive publicity recently, as one of the famous faces taking on the 2.6 challenge, which replaced the London Marathon and raised money for struggling charities.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keir Starmer says the government was “too slow” to protect people in care homes from coronavirus.\n\nBoris Johnson must account for official figures showing 10,000 \"unexplained\" deaths in care homes last month, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said.\n\nSir Keir said there were 18,000 more deaths in April than the average for that month, but only 8,000 were recorded as coronavirus-related.\n\nHe said the government had been \"too slow to protect people in care homes\".\n\nMr Johnson said there \"is much more to do but we are making progress\" on reducing the pandemic in care homes.\n\nAnd he announced a further £600m to fight infections in care homes in England.\n\nThe money will be funnelled through local councils to help improve infection control by measures such as reducing staff rotation between homes, increasing testing and ensuring small independent homes have access to expert advice.\n\nMr Johnson and Sir Keir also clashed at Prime Minister's Questions over government advice issued at the start of the pandemic.\n\nSir Keir said that up until 12 March care homes were being told it was \"very unlikely\" anyone would become infected.\n\nThe prime minister said \"it wasn't true the advice said that\".\n\nSir Keir wrote to the PM after the session, to accuse him of misleading MPs and asking him to return to the Commons to correct the record.\n\nBut in a letter responding to Sir Keir, Mr Johnson said he stood by his comments and accused the Labour leader of \"selectively and misleadingly\" quoting guidance from Public Health England.\n\nThe advice that was withdrawn in mid-March was based on the assumption at the time that the virus was not spreading widely in the community.\n\nIn hindsight, that assumption was wrong and the fear that the virus had taken hold was part of the reason the government ordered the lockdown. At that point the advice was withdrawn.\n\nBut the large death toll in care homes is also related to what happened after that point.\n\nBecause we did not have a testing network or the right stocks of personal protective equipment care homes have undoubtedly suffered.\n\nThe NHS became the major priority and even now not all staff or residents have been tested.\n\nThe deaths being reported in care homes have also been a source of concern and confusion for a number of weeks.\n\nSir Keir Starmer is right to say a large number of deaths are unaccounted for.\n\nThere are a number of possible explanations for this.\n\nThey could be coronavirus cases that have been under-reported - the lack of testing in care homes may mean doctors have missed the presence of the virus when they have filled in the death certificates.\n\nThey could be \"indirect deaths\" related to the fact that residents have been unable to get care for other conditions, such as heart disease.\n\nFinally, some are likely to be people who in previous years would have been taken to hospital to die but were kept in care homes - the ONS data also shows that the number of non-coronavirus deaths in hospital have actually fallen.\n\nThe guidance at the centre of the row was issued on 25 February and withdrawn on 13 March, a time when the virus was not thought to be spreading in the community.\n\nIt said: \"This guidance is intended for the current position in the UK where there is currently no transmission of COVID-19 in the community.\n\n\"It is therefore very unlikely that anyone receiving care in a care home or the community will become infected.\"\n\nThe guidance went on: \"There is no need to do anything differently in any care setting at present.\"\n\nThe prime minister's letter accused Sir Keir of \"neglecting\" to provide the context of the guidance.\n\nMr Johnson said deaths in care homes were too high\n\nIn his letter to Mr Johnson, the Labour leader said: \"At this time of national crisis it is more important than ever that government ministers are accurate in the information they give.\"\n\nHe added that: \"I expect you to come to the House of Commons at the earliest opportunity to correct the record.\"\n\nIn his letter to Sir Keir, Mr Johnson said he had sought engagement and consultation with opposition parties and added: \"The public expect us to work together.\"\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said the government had brought in the lockdown in care homes ahead of the general lockdown but that there was \"unquestionably an appalling epidemic\" in that setting.\n\nHe added that the number of deaths in care homes had been \"too high\", but that \"the number of outbreaks is down and the number of fatalities well down\".\n\nSir Keir pointed to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed at least 40% of Covid-19 deaths in England and Wales occurred in care homes.\n\nAnd he quoted a cardiologist who had told the Daily Telegraph newspaper that hospitals had \"actively seeded\" the virus into the \"most vulnerable\" population by discharging \"known, suspected and unknown cases into care homes\".\n\nMr Johnson said: \"The number of discharges from hospitals into care homes went down in March and April and we had a system of testing people going into care homes and that testing is now being ramped up.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: Test and trace 'fully ready' by the end of May\n\nA contact tracing system to suppress coronavirus is to be trialled in three health boards from Monday, the Scottish government has said.\n\nThe software will be tested in NHS Fife, NHS Lanarkshire and NHS Highland.\n\nEarlier this month, the government said testing and tracing would be \"key\" to the battle against the virus.\n\nHowever, it has been revealed that despite 8,000 applications for 2,000 jobs as contact tracers, no-one has yet been hired.\n\nThe Scottish government has opted for a system of alerting people by a telephone call initially, rather than using a smartphone \"proximity\" app of the kind being trialled elsewhere in the UK.\n\nBut it has not ruled out making use of such proximity technology in future.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said the two-week pilot would allow health boards to test out the software which contact tracers will in future use to collect data.\n\nShe said 600 additional staff from the NHS were \"ready to begin this work, as part of the process of recruiting up to 2,000 staff\".\n\nScottish Labour has claimed the health secretary has \"serious questions to answer\" over why no tracers had so far been hired.\n\nBut Ms Freeman insisted the first \"prong of the strategy\" was to utilise existing NHS staff, and that others would be recruited once necessary pre-employment and disclosure checks were complete.\n\nSpeaking at the government's daily coronavirus briefing on Sunday, Ms Freeman said the software technology would allow contact tracing \"on a much larger scale\"\n\nJeane Freeman said existing NHS staff were being redeployed in readiness for the test and tracing rollout\n\nThe tracing software is different to the app piloted by the NHS in England which has been downloaded more than 55,000 times since being launched on the Isle of Wight.\n\nMs Freeman said the Scottish software would \"focus on supporting public health teams to identify outbreaks\".\n\nShe said it could reduce transmission in high risk groups and settings by making it easier for staff to collect and record information.\n\n\"The test, trace, isolate and support approach is about breaking the chain of transmission of the virus but it remains vital that alongside this people continue to follow physical distancing advice and practise good hand and cough hygiene,\" she said.\n\nMs Freeman said the technology would be rolled out to all health boards by the end of May and then \"enhanced further\" during June.\n\nThe health secretary said current NHS staff and \"returning workers\" would be the first and second group of contact tracers in place.\n\nAs for new recruits, she said: \"We need to go through proper pre-employment checks and disclosure checks as well as training.\n\n\"All of that work is under way and I am confident that we will get to that 2,000 number through that three-fold process but also with the help of other groups we are talking to, such as the St Andrew's First Aid Service.\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Jackson Carlaw said the SNP had been \"behind the curve\" on contact tracing.\n\n\"The success of the test, trace, isolate scheme depends on having enough staff, and the SNP's lack of progress has put this and Scotland's ability to exit lockdown safely in jeopardy,\" he said.\n\nScottish Labour's health and social care spokeswoman Monica Lennon said the safety of the people of Scotland must not be \"hampered by a failure to hire contact tracers\".\n\nShe said: \"Contact tracing should never have been abandoned.\n\n\"The cabinet secretary for health has been too slow to hire contact tracers despite clear demand for the role.\n\n\"The Scottish government did not act swiftly enough to protect the people of Scotland when a proactive approach to this incredibly serious public health emergency was needed.\"\n\nThere have been calls coronavirus testing to be expanded to care homes that are currently thought to be virus-free.\n\nDuring the Scottish government briefing, Jeane Freeman also said the Scottish government had issued new guidance for arrangements in care homes.\n\nShe said the guidance, which will come into effect on Monday, would ensure \"enhanced professional and clinical care oversight\".\n\nIt comes after a leading care sector organisation called for coronavirus testing to be expanded to care homes that are currently thought to be virus-free.\n\nCurrently, all staff and residents are tested at a care home whenever there is a confirmed case of Covid-19.\n\nScottish care chief executive Donald Macaskill had earlier told the BBC that there should be regular testing of all staff and residents.\n\nMs Freeman said the new rules would make sure clinical care, infection prevention and control, PPE and testing arrangements were \"where we need them to be\".\n\nNew measures added to the Coronavirus Bill, and to be considered by Parliament this week, would see the government take over the running of failing care homes.\n\nMs Freeman said these powers to ensure continuation of care would only be exercised as a \"last resort\".\n\n\"Further action will be taken to address any failings that arise, and will be taken quickly,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The former chef has just arrived back home in Ireland after a perilous journey.\n\nHe spent two months stranded on a beach in Loch Eriboll in the north of Scotland after the engine of his boat was flooded during a storm.\n\nAs the coronavirus began to spread across the UK, he made the decision to isolate at sea as much as possible.\n\nThe 25-year-old had been in Norway learning about the country’s travelling culture.\n\nHe is now back home in Rathfarnham on the south side of Dublin.", "The woman was found on King Street at about 15:00 BST\n\nA woman has died after a suspected shooting near a supermarket in Blackburn.\n\nOfficers were called to reports a woman had been found \"unresponsive\" after gunshots were heard at about 15:00 BST.\n\nArmed officers remain on King Street, close to Lidl, where she was discovered, Lancashire Police said.\n\nThe woman, who is believed to be a 19-year-old from Blackburn, was taken to hospital but later died.\n\nLancashire Police said it was reported that a vehicle, thought to be a light coloured or metallic green Toyota Avensis, was seen leaving the scene.\n\nA car matching that description was later recovered and officers are appealing for anyone who may have seen the vehicle to contact them.\n\nDet Supt Jonathan Holmes said: \"This is a truly shocking and senseless killing, which has robbed a young woman of her life.\n\n\"Although the victim has yet to be formally identified, we believe she was a young woman from the local area.\n\n\"Her family have now been informed of her death and they are understandably utterly, utterly distraught.\"\n\nHe added that he understood people may be reluctant to come forward, particularly if they had been breaching lockdown rules, but that the force's immediate concern was to find out what happened.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Andy Burnham warned there could be a second spike of coronavirus cases in the north\n\nGreater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham says Boris Johnson faces a \"fracturing of national unity\" if he ignores the regions in the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nMr Burnham said mayors had not been told the lockdown was being eased.\n\nWriting in the Observer, he warned that without extra support for the English regions, there was a danger of a \"second spike\" of the disease.\n\nHis intervention came as the prime minister accepted that there had been \"frustration\" over lockdown rules.\n\nThe devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland have refused to follow Mr Johnson's easing plan, while cities such as Liverpool have said they will not start re-opening schools on 1 June as the government wants.\n\nLiverpool, Gateshead and Hartlepool are adopting their own approaches on reopening schools\n\nThe infection rate - also known the reproduction or R number - is higher in northwest England than London.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, Mr Burnham said: \"It's the most deprived councils that have seen the highest number of cases.\"\n\nWhile coronavirus cases have been declining in the South East, Mr Burnham believes the loosening of restrictions \"came a little early\" for the North.\n\n\"There is a very different picture in the north, particularly in the North East where the R number is highest, so I understand why people have concerns there.\"\n\nMr Burnham said West Midlands mayor Andy Street should be on the government's Cobra committee\n\nDespite having taken part in a call two weeks ago with Mr Johnson and eight other regional mayors, Mr Burnham said he was given no real notice of the easing in restrictions, which was announced last Sunday.\n\n\"On the eve of a new working week, the PM was on TV 'actively encouraging' a return to work.\n\n\"Even though that would clearly put more cars on roads and people on trams, no-one in government thought it important to tell the cities that would have to cope with that,\" he said.\n\nTo prevent further divisions, he urged Mr Johnson to appoint West Midlands mayor Andy Street to represent the English regions on the government's Cobra civil contingencies committee.\n\n\"If the government carries on in the same vein, expect to see an even greater fracturing of national unity. Different places will adopt their own messaging and policies,\" he said.\n\nMr Burnham added that the prime minister \"hasn't given us a transport funding deal like in London so we can put on extra trams and buses to keep people safe.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said they would \"continue to work closely\" with councils.\n\n\"The suggestion that we have chosen to favour certain councils over others is entirely wrong.\"\n\nHowever Mr Burnham challenged the government's claim that an allocation of an extra £3.2bn to English councils had been \"distributed in the fairest way\".\n\nHe called for the government to \"acknowledge that councils need extra funding\" and to publish regional R numbers, which would help local authorities decide when to reopen schools.\n\n\"People do not have the R information at the moment. They can get it, but it's not formally published by the government.\"\n\nIn the Observer, he wrote: \"Nervousness in the North about the R number will see more councils adopt their own approach on schools, as Liverpool, Gateshead and Hartlepool are doing. Arguments will increase about funding.\n\n\"And if we don't get the help we need, there is a risk of a second spike here which, in turn, will pass the infection back down the country through the Midlands to London.\"\n\nThe prime minister wrote in the Mail on Sunday that more complicated messages were needed during the next phase of the response and as restrictions changed.\n\nIn his article, Mr Johnson said changes to lockdown restrictions in England - such as unlimited exercise outdoors - were possible due to the public's \"good common sense\".\n\nIn a reference to confusion and criticism of the government's new message urging people to \"stay alert\", Mr Johnson said the government was attempting something that has \"never had to be done before\".", "Abba's Waterloo has been named the greatest Eurovision song of all time by BBC viewers.\n\nEurovision: Come Together saw the public vote for their favourites, on the night that this year's song contest was due to take place.\n\nThe 2020 competition was cancelled in March amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe Swedish foursome won it in 1974 in Brighton. The track, which topped the UK charts and set them on their way to fame, went on to sell nearly 6m copies.\n\nSpeaking later on the night, Bjorn Ulvaeus from the band said he found it \"hard to believe\" that was where it began for them all those years ago.\n\nThe shortlist for the programme included Eurovision classics from the likes of Netta, Bucks Fizz, Conchita Wurst and Gina G.\n\nBut it was Agnetha, Anni-Frid, Benny and Bjorn who ultimately triumphed, with their musical metaphor about the joys of surrendering to love.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by AbbaVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe 19-strong song list was compiled by Eurovision experts and broadcasters, including Rylan Clark-Neal, Scott Mills, Ken Bruce, Adele Roberts and Mel Giedroyc, as well as former UK acts SuRie and Nicki French.\n\nPresenter Graham Norton upheld the tradition of raising a glass to the late Sir Terry Wogan, who hosted the contest for nearly 30 years.\n\n\"We couldn't deny you your Eurovision fix,\" he declared.\n\nThe programme also showcased what would have been the UK entry this year - James Newman's My Last Breath - and Norton spoke to the singer via video link.\n\nNewman said he was \"pretty gutted\" and \"had to have a few minutes to myself\" when he found out the contest had been cancelled.\n\nJames Newman was due to represent the UK at this year's contest\n\nHe said the staging had already been planned and showed an image of an underwater scene leading down from some steps.\n\nNewman added that his favourite Eurovision entry this year was Iceland's - it was one of the favourites to win had the competition gone ahead, according to recent Spotify streaming figures.\n\nLater on on Saturday evening, the BBC also joined with other European broadcasters for Eurovision: Europe Shine A Light, to honour all 41 songs which would have competed this year.\n\nSome of this year's songs would have been eliminated at the semi-finals, where the entrants are normally whittled down to 26 but the semis were also cancelled.\n\nThe event was hosted from the Dutch city of Hilversum - an hour away from where the contest was due to take place in Rotterdam - while Norton popped up again as the UK's commentator, and acts appeared in various forms from across the continent.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMåns Zelmerlöw sang an acoustic version of Heroes, his winning song from 2015, in homage to health workers during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by Eurovision Song Contest This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nDouble Eurovision winner, Ireland's Johnny Logan, was joined by scores of fans via video-link for a rendition of his most relevantly-titled track, What's Another Year.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Eurovision🇬🇧 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\n3. Love shone its light, not once but twice\n\nThe Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra combined (again, via the wonders of modern technology) to perform an instrumental version of the UK's 1997-winning Love Shine a Light, by Katrina and the Waves, as the broadcasters showed images of iconic music venues around the world lighting up.\n\nThis was certainly a high point for another former UK contestant SuRie, who said she had been left \"broken\" by the performance… in a good way.\n\nThe track got another airing for the show's finale, but this time with the lyrics too, as performers from all countries sang along in unison.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 3 by Eurovision Song Contest This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\n4. There were FIVE Daði Freyr Péturssons\n\nIceland's eccentric performer urged us all to \"stay healthy\" and \"stay fabulous\" with the help of a barbershop quartet, comprised of different digital versions of himself, all wearing the same sweater bearing an image of, yep, you guessed it... him again.\n\nTV critic Scott Bryan, for one, enjoyed it.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe Austrian singer and drag act Conchita Wurst, who won in 2014, confessed that the \"most beautiful\" part of the coronavirus lockdown was the fact, \"I hardly wear any underwear and I love it so much\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by BBC Eurovision🇬🇧 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe UK broadcaster admitted, \"there's no denying this is a very odd programme\" - referring to the lack of an actual competition this year, for the first time since the contest began in 1956.\n\nIt got even odder as he had to take part in a live two-way chat with the Dutch hosts, with a bit of a delay. \"That was awkward,\" he joked, but he also said the show as a whole had \"real emotion\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by BBC Eurovision🇬🇧 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\n8. Bjorn was 'happy' to forget about you know what for a wee while\n\nAbba were the winners who took it all in the earlier BBC poll, and there was a rare TV appearance from the aforementioned Bjorn in the Shine A Light show.\n\nAfter recounting a sweet tale about the time his grandson Albert first realised his grandad was a Eurovision pop star, he described the contest as one of the most \"genuinely joyous events of the TV year\" which \"allows you to escape and be happy and even forget about the coronavirus for a little while\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 5 by Eurovision Song Contest This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe show featured messages of love and support from all of the acts who would have featured in the competition. Some viewers though, it seems, would have preferred more action and less well-wishing.\n\n\"I miss when Eurovision was fun,\" wrote one Twitter user. \"A chance to escape everything else. Yes the world is in a terrible place but the title is Shine a Light, not doom.\"\n\n\"They have badly judged what we all wanted,\" offered another. \"We wanted a party, even a Zoom party would have done, but this is a bit depressing.\n\nFifty Shades of Grey author EL James, however, thought the show's producers hit all the right notes.\n\n\"Don't know about anyone else but I'm pretty emotional watching this,\" she posted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The artists of Eurovision 2020 have recorded messages for their fans\n\nNone of the 2020 songs will be carried over to next year. Instead, countries will select new entrants for the 2021 contest.\n\nSeveral countries - including Greece, Spain and Bulgaria - have confirmed they will send the same acts next year to give the artists a second chance, but they will have to perform different songs.\n\nCurrently, there's no word on whether the UK's 2020 entrant James Newman will be chosen for the 2021 contest, although he has said he \"absolutely\" wants to represent his country again.\n\nIt was confirmed that Rotterdam, which missed out this year, would indeed be allowed to host the show in 2021 instead.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Last year's winner Duncan Laurence on \"missing the bubble\" of Eurovision\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Steve Linick was appointed by Barack Obama, to oversee spending and detect mismanagement at the state department\n\nThe US state department's inspector general, Steve Linick, has become the latest senior official to be fired by US President Donald Trump.\n\nMr Trump said Mr Linick no longer had his full confidence and that he would be removed in 30 days.\n\nMr Linick had begun investigating Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for suspected abuse of office, reports say.\n\nDemocrats say Mr Trump is retaliating against public servants who want to hold his administration to account.\n\n\"It is vital that I have the fullest confidence in the appointees serving as inspectors general. That is no longer the case with regard to this inspector general,\" Mr Trump is quoted as saying in a letter sent late on Friday to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, US media report.\n\nNot long after Mr Linick's dismissal was announced, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said Mr Linick had opened an investigation into Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.\n\n\"This firing is the outrageous act of a president trying to protect one of his most loyal supporters, the secretary of state, from accountability,\" Eliot Engel, a Democrat, said in a statement.\n\n\"I have learned that the Office of the Inspector General had opened an investigation into Secretary Pompeo. Mr Linick's firing amid such a probe strongly suggests that this is an unlawful act of retaliation.\"\n\nMr Engel did not provide any further details about the content of this investigation into Mr Pompeo.\n\nMr Linick was examining complaints that Mr Pompeo had improperly used staff for personal tasks, such as picking up dry cleaning and walking his dog, according to US media.\n\nMr Linick, a former prosecutor, was appointed by Mr Trump's predecessor, Barack Obama, to oversee spending and detect mismanagement at the state department.\n\nDemocrats have been reacting to the move. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Mr Linick was \"punished for honourably performing his duty to protect the constitution and our national security\".\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\nThis is the latest in a series of dismissals of independent government watchdogs.\n\nLast month, Mr Trump dismissed Michael Atkinson, the inspector general of the intelligence community.\n\nMr Atkinson first alerted Congress to a whistleblower complaint that led to Mr Trump's impeachment trial.", "Police say the kiss falls under the Sexual Offences Act 2003\n\nPolice have removed a sexual assault appeal after it attracted \"counterproductive\" comments online.\n\nDerbyshire Police posted the appeal on its website and social media accounts on Saturday.\n\nIt asked for help to find a man who kissed a woman on the cheek to thank her for helping him when his lorry became stuck under a bridge in Matlock.\n\nThe appeal was ridiculed, with one person on Twitter arguing that \"a kiss on the cheek isn't a crime\".\n\nThe force later pulled the appeal from its accounts, explaining: \"The post drew a significant number of comments that were counterproductive to the nature of the appeal.\"\n\nOne Twitter user asked the force if the appeal was a joke and another wrote: \"Giving someone a kiss on the cheek isn't a crime nor is it sexual assault.\"\n\nOthers have argued that kissing a stranger, especially during the coronavirus crisis, is not acceptable behaviour.\n\nDerbyshire Police said the unwanted kiss fell under the Sexual Offences Act 2003.\n\nThe force said the victim, a woman in her 70s, was \"very distressed, especially at a time when close contact with strangers is to be avoided\" and added: \"We take all allegations of this nature extremely seriously.\"\n\nDespite removing the details of the incident, police said people with information could still get in touch.\n\nThe force recently faced criticism for using drone footage to \"lockdown shame\" walkers in the Peak District.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Keir Starmer hailed \"an incredible sense of solidarity\" across the UK\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said different approaches across the four UK nations to tackling coronavirus are not going to \"help us out of this crisis\".\n\nHe blamed Prime Minister Boris Johnson for the way Wales and England had diverged in the easing of the lockdown.\n\nSir Keir said it reinforced his call for \"radical federalism\" across the UK.\n\nBut Welsh Secretary Simon Hart has said there were \"far more similarities than differences in the approaches of the nations of the UK\".\n\nTalking to the BBC's Politics Wales programme, Sir Keir said there had been an \"incredible sense of solidarity\" across the United Kingdom, but the relationship between Wales, England, Scotland and Northern Ireland \"could\" be put under strain if there was an increasing divergence in approaches from the respective governments to coronavirus.\n\n\"The sooner, frankly, we get back to operating as four nations together the better,\" he said.\n\n\"I do think responsibility for that lies very largely with the prime minister, who I would have hoped could have got all the ducks in a row before he actually made his speech last Sunday,\" Sir Keir added.\n\nBoris Johnson has been accused of not consulting the other UK nations over lockdown changes\n\nIn his televised address that day, Boris Johnson announced guidance that said people - in England - could \"drive to other destinations\" for exercise and leisure.\n\nIn Wales, the Welsh Government restated people cannot travel \"a significant distance\" from home for exercise.\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford has told the BBC's Political Thinking with Nick Robinson podcast he was not consulted before the UK government altered the lockdown slogan from \"Stay at home\" to \"Stay alert\", adding that there was no change to the message in Wales.\n\nWelsh Secretary Simon Hart has said: \"No one part of the UK could face this pandemic alone and the UK Government has provided unprecedented support to every part of the UK.\n\n\"We entered this fight as a United Kingdom and we will come out of it equally united.\"\n\nIn the BBC Wales interview, Sir Keir was asked whether it was politically difficult for him to criticise the UK Government's coronavirus response on issues which had also troubled the Welsh Labour government.\n\nHe said: \"I'm constantly asked to compare and contrast... and I've refused to get into that because I don't think people want to hear that.\n\n\"What I've said is that the Labour party, certainly in the UK Government, will be a constructive opposition and what I meant by that is having the courage to say we'll support the government when that's the right thing to do.\"\n\nMark Drakeford has pledged to ease the lockdown \"carefully and cautiously\"\n\nOn Thursday, Sir Keir held online question-and-answer sessions with groups of Welsh voters in an attempt to understand the reason why Labour suffered its worst general election result in Wales since 1983.\n\nHe said Brexit and Jeremy Corbyn's leadership had been issues for voters, but he believed \"they were talking about something much deeper, about trust and engagement from the Labour Party\".\n\nSir Keir added that the \"perception that the leader of the Labour party and Welsh Labour are in two different places, is not right, and that's my job to make sure people realise we're all on the same page, all working together\".\n\nDuring the Labour leadership contest, Sir Keir said devolving more powers to the Welsh Parliament so that \"more powers are closer to people\" was the way forward.\n\nBBC Politics Wales is on BBC One Wales at 10:15 GMT on Sunday 17 May and available on BBC iPlayer after broadcast.", "Mr Gaiman left his wife Amanda Palmer and son behind in Auckland\n\nAuthor Neil Gaiman has admitted breaking Scotland's lockdown rules by travelling 11,000 miles from New Zealand to his holiday home on Skye.\n\nThe Good Omens and American Gods writer left his wife and son in Auckland so he could \"isolate\" at his island retreat.\n\nHe wrote on his online blog: \"Hullo from Scotland, where I am in rural lockdown on my own.\"\n\nThe science fiction and fantasy author has since been criticised for \"endangering\" local people\".\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford, who is the MP for the island, told the Sunday Times the author's journey was unacceptable.\n\nHe said: \"What is it about people, when they know we are in the middle of lockdown that they think they can come here from the other side of the planet, in turn endangering local people from exposure to this infection that they could have picked up at any step of the way?\"\n\nMr Gaiman - whose main family home is in Woodstock in the USA - has owned the house on Skye for more than 10 years.\n\nThe English-born author wrote on his blog that until two weeks ago he had been living in New Zealand with his wife, the singer Amanda Palmer, and their four-year-old son.\n\nHe said the couple agreed \"that we needed to give each other some space\".\n\nThe 59-year-old said he flew \"masked and gloved, from empty Auckland airport\" to Los Angeles.\n\nHe then caught a British Airways flight to London before borrowing a friend's car and heading for Skye.\n\n\"I drove north, on empty motorways and then on empty roads, and got in about midnight, and I've been here ever since,\" he said.\n\n\"I needed to be somewhere I could talk to people in the UK while they and I were awake, not just before breakfast and after dinner. And I needed to be somewhere I could continue to isolate easily.\n\n\"It's rough for almost everyone right now - some people are crammed together and wish they weren't, some are alone and crave companionship, pretty much all of us are hurting in one way or another. So be kind.\"\n\nMr Gaiman was criticised online for heading to Skye from overseas when tourists and second-home owners were being urged to stay away.\n\nOne person tweeted: \"Neil, we're in lockdown in Scotland. Maybe don't encourage folk to travel to a second home - especially in small island communities.\n\n\"I'm sorry for your troubles and sympathise with your situation but we are doing our best to save lives right now and that means everyone stay put.\"\n\nHe replied by insisting he would remain quarantined until lockdown restrictions were lifted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Gaiman's arrival on Skye came as the island community learned of a major outbreak of coronavirus at a care home at Portree.\n\nTen elderly people at Home Farm care home have died, and almost all of the 34 residents have tested positive along with 29 staff.\n\nLocal MP Mr Blackford commented: \"To descend on this island at this time, when we have a serious outbreak which has resulted in such tragic circumstances - it pays scant respect to the families of the bereaved and the people who live here.\"\n\nMr Gaiman, whose best known works include American Gods, Good Omens and the children's novel Coraline, has described Skye as his favourite place in the world and the best place for him to write.", "Barack Obama has hit out at the Trump administration's coronavirus response twice in recent days\n\nFormer US President Barack Obama has criticised his successor Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIn an online address to graduating college students, he said the pandemic had shown that many officials \"aren't even pretending to be in charge\".\n\nIt is the second time in recent days that Mr Obama has hit out at the Trump administration's coronavirus response.\n\nHe said it had been \"an absolute chaotic disaster\" during a leaked conference call last week.\n\nThe former president also gave an address to high school students that was hosted by NBA star LeBron James and was part of a special programme that featured numerous celebrities including the Jonas Brothers, Megan Rapinoe, Pharrell Williams and education activist Malala Yousafzai.\n\nIn his speech to graduates from several dozen historically black colleges and universities, Mr Obama said the Covid-19 outbreak had exposed failings in the country's leadership.\n\n\"More than anything this pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they're doing,\" he said.\n\n\"A lot of them aren't even pretending to be in charge,\" he added.\n\nMore than 1,200 people have died with coronavirus in the US over the past 24 hours, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University.\n\nThe total death toll now stands at almost 89,000, which is the highest anywhere in the world.\n\nMr Obama also spoke at length about the impact the pandemic is having on black communities in the US.\n\n\"A disease like this just spotlights the underlying inequalities and extra burdens that black communities have historically had to deal with in this country,\" he said.\n\nAfrican Americans make up a disproportionate number of coronavirus deaths and hospitalisations in the US.\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 former president also referenced the killing of Ahmaud Arbery - an unarmed black jogger who was shot and killed by two white men in February - during his address.\n\nHe said racial inequalities in the US were made apparent \"when a black man goes for a jog and some folks feel like they can stop and question and shoot him, if he doesn't submit to their question\".\n\n\"If the world's going to get better, it's going to be up to you,\" he told the graduates.\n\nMr Obama has kept a relatively low profile since leaving office in January 2017 and has rarely spoken out about the actions of his successor.\n\nBut the pair have been engaged in several back-and-forths in recent days, leading Mr Trump to accuse Mr Obama and his aides of engaging in a criminal effort to undermine his presidency.\n\n\"The biggest political crime in American history, by far!\" the president wrote on Twitter last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Trump voters think of his handling of the virus outbreak", "Fertility clinics in the UK can open again from 11 May to offer treatment to families wanting to have children.\n\nClinics - both NHS and private - will first need to show they can provide safe and effective treatment, the fertility regulator said.\n\nThere must be social distancing in waiting rooms and more appointments by phone may be used, as well as PPE.\n\nThe move is part of a plan to ramp up services again now that the peak of the epidemic is past.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock made the announcement at the government's daily briefing on coronavirus, saying he knew \"how time sensitive and important\" this was for families affected.\n\n\"When I say thank you to all those staying at home, of course I'm saying thank you on behalf of the lives you are saving - but also on behalf of the lives the NHS can now create,\" he said.\n\nSally Cheshire, chairwoman of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) - said the closure of clinics had been \"extremely distressing\" for patients and this would be \"good news\" for those trying for a much longed-for family.\n\nKaty found out she was having her first miscarriage at her 12-week scan, two weeks before her wedding to husband Tom\n\nKaty and husband Tom, from Exeter, Devon, started IVF after going through two miscarriages, including one just before their wedding five years ago.\n\nShe should have had her fourth IVF transfer two weeks ago.\n\n\"It is heartbreaking,\" she said. \"I just feel lost and sad, frustrated, angry.\n\n\"I was three weeks into my treatment... They basically put me into menopause with injections, when they stopped treatment.\"\n\nFertility services were suspended on 23 March, the day lockdown began in the UK.\n\nOther elective NHS treatments were also put on hold.\n\nBefore reopening, clinics will be asked to show that they are able to keep patients and staff safe while offering and carrying out fertility treatment.\n\nPersonal protective equipment should also be provided if necessary.\n\nIt is thought private clinics may be able to restart services more quickly than NHS ones whose staff may have been redeployed in front-line roles during the pandemic.\n\nMr Hancock said all fertility patients should be dealt with fairly and not face any additional disadvantage as a result of services being stopped for six weeks.", "A number of mobile testing sites have been set up across the country\n\nCoronavirus testing for key workers has been branded \"shambolic\" after people trying to book slots were offered appointments requiring round trips of hundreds of miles.\n\nNorth Durham MP Kevan Jones said one constituent was given an invitation 200 miles (320km) away in Perth, Scotland.\n\nAnother was offered a booking 130 miles (210km) away in Edinburgh, he claimed.\n\nThe government said it was working hard to make testing \"fast and simple\" for everyone eligible.\n\nLabour MP Mr Jones said:\"The national coronavirus testing website is shambolic, and along with Durham County Council, I am calling on the health secretary to take urgent action.\"\n\nHe added it was an example of Westminster \"micro-managing\" what happened regionally.\n\nLucy Hovvels, chair of the County Durham Health and Wellbeing Board, has written to Health Secretary Matt Hancock outlining the problem.\n\nShe warned three temporary sites operating in the county since 26 April had been \"hampered\" with people unable to book appointments as the facilities have not been listed as being available on the official testing website.\n\nHaving initially been advised to tell people they could register at the sites without an appointment, she said the policy has since changed and people who have travelled there \"are now being turned away because they do not have the necessary appointment code\".\n\nPolice \"have become involved\" at a site at Dalton Park, she added.\n\nThe number of tests undertaken via the mobile testing units was down 75% last weekend compared with the previous one, she added.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said more than a million people had been tested in the UK \"and the vast majority report no issues with the process\".\n\nHe added: \"As we tackle this virus we are determined to make it fast and simple for all eligible people who need a test to get a test.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The prime minister outlined changes to lockdown restrictions in England during an address to the nation last week\n\nBoris Johnson has acknowledged frustration over the \"complex\" easing of England's coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe PM wrote in the Mail on Sunday that more complicated messages were needed during the next phase of the response and as restrictions changed.\n\nHis comments come amid mounting criticism of the way restrictions have been lifted in England.\n\nGreater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham warned the PM risked a \"fracturing of national unity\" if he ignores regions.\n\nAnd Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has blamed Mr Johnson for the way Wales and England have diverged on the easing of lockdown.\n\nIn his article, Mr Johnson said that the government was attempting something that has \"never had to be done before\".\n\nHe also cautioned that, while the UK is \"leading the global effort\" to find a vaccine, it \"might not come to fruition\".\n\nMr Johnson said he trusted the \"good sense of the British people\" to observe the new rules and thanked the public for \"sticking with us\" so far.\n\nThe PM said he understood people \"will feel frustrated with some of the new rules\", adding: \"We are trying to do something that has never had to be done before - moving the country out of a full lockdown, in a way which is safe and does not risk sacrificing all of your hard work.\"\n\nBut Mr Burnham said England's regional mayors had been given no notice that lockdown restrictions were being eased.\n\nWriting in the Observer, he warned that without additional support for the regions, there was a danger of a \"second spike\" of the disease.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast that \"the voice of the English regions isn't being heard at the moment\", adding that the government has \"lost some goodwill\" with local authorities in its handling and communication of the lifting of lockdown measures.\n\nMr Burnham said that, despite having taken part in a call two weeks ago with Mr Johnson and eight other regional mayors, he was given no real notice of the measures announced last Sunday.\n\n\"On the eve of a new working week, the PM was on TV 'actively encouraging' a return to work,\" he wrote in the article.\n\n\"Even though that would clearly put more cars on roads and people on trams, no-one in government thought it important to tell the cities that would have to cope with that.\n\n\"The surprisingly permissive package might well be right for the South East, given the fall in cases there. But my gut feeling told me it was too soon for the North.\"\n\nMr Burnham called for the government to publish the infection rate - the R-number - per region in England.\n\nIf the R-number - currently between 0.5 and 0.9 in the UK - is higher than one, then the number of cases increases exponentially.\n\nMeanwhile, the devolved nations, which have their own powers over restrictions, have ignored the move in England to a \"stay alert\" recommendation, and have kept their \"stay at home\" advice.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she did not know what \"stay alert\" meant.\n\nLabour's Sir Keir said different approaches across the four UK nations to tackling coronavirus are not going to \"help us out of this crisis\".\n\nThe PM said he accepts there has been frustration at changes to lockdown restrictions\n\nThe PM's comments come as the government's plans to start reopening primary schools in England from 1 June have been challenged by local authorities in the north of England and teaching unions.\n\nLiverpool and Hartlepool councils issued statements saying schools will not reopen at the start of next month as coronavirus cases continue to rise locally.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This is a very small, tentative step, in what I believe is the right direction,\" Mr Williamson tells the BBC's Branwen Jeffreys\n\nMeanwhile, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that 17,200 people have been recruited to the contact tracing scheme on the Isle of Wight and that the government was on track to hit its 18,000 target by next week.\n\nIt comes as No 10 announced up to £93m to speed-up a new vaccine research lab.\n\nThe new fund will accelerate construction of the not-for-profit Vaccines Manufacturing and Innovation Centre in Oxfordshire so it can open a year earlier than planned, the government said.\n\nMinisters hope the centre will be a \"key component\" of the UK's coronavirus vaccine programme.\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma said: \"Once a breakthrough is made, we need to be ready to manufacture a vaccine by the millions.\"\n\nThe number of people who have died with coronavirus in the UK across all settings increased by 468 on Saturday.\n\nIt takes the total number of UK deaths, in all settings following a positive coronavirus test, to 34,466.\n\nThere were 136,486 tests processed or sent out in the UK on Friday - the highest daily figure so far in the UK. The figure is not the same as the total number of people tested, which was 78,537 on Friday.\n\nBoris Johnson has set a target of 200,000 tests a day by the end of May.\n\nHow have you been affected by coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "Senior Polish Catholic archbishop Wojciech Polak said \"we do not allow for the hiding\" of sexual abuse\n\nThe head of Poland's Roman Catholic Church has said he is asking the Vatican to investigate the cover-up of child sexual abuse by priests.\n\nArchbishop Wojciech Polak called on the Church hierarchy to \"launch proceedings\" following the release of a documentary on the subject on Saturday.\n\nThe film tells the story of two brothers who seek to confront a priest who allegedly abused them as children.\n\nThe Vatican is expected to assign an investigator to the case.\n\nThe film - \"Hide and Seek\" - has been viewed more than 1.9 million times on YouTube. It is the second documentary on the subject by brothers Marek and Tomasz Sekielski.\n\nIt follows two victims as they attempt to bring to account those in the Church who were responsible for covering up their abuse.\n\nIt alleges that a senior bishop knew about the allegations for years but failed to take any action.\n\nIn churches across Poland today, people are celebrating the life of their Pope, John Paul II, a day ahead of the centenary of his birth.\n\nNumbers will be smaller than usual due to the coronavirus restrictions, but Karol Wojtyla, the first non-Italian to become pope in more than 450 years, is still revered in his homeland. In particular, for germinating the belief among people here in the 1980s that together, they could achieve the end of the communist regime, which then seemed impossible.\n\nThe Polish Catholic Church's vital role in that victory subsequently gave it enormous influence in Polish society, including over politicians. The current Law and Justice-led government promotes traditional Catholic values.\n\nWhen the Sekielski brothers' first documentary became a subject of national debate last May, it agreed that a state commission should be set up. But it said it must not solely focus on the sexual abuse of children by priests, but also by members of other professions. The law to create the commission took effect in September, but since then, nothing has happened.\n\nTomasz Sekielski says it's a failure of all the political parties. He's says he's not disappointed because he didn't have high expectations. The most important thing, he says, is that the film changed the public's awareness of the problem, and no one today can pretend that the raping of boys and girls by priests is only a problem in the West.\n\n\"The film... shows that protection standards for children and adolescents in the Church were not respected,\" Archbishop Polak said in a video released by the Catholic news agency KAI.\n\n\"I ask priests, nuns, parents and educators to not be led by the false logic of shielding the Church, effectively hiding sexual abusers,\" he said. \"We do not allow for the hiding of these crimes.\"\n\nArchbishop Polak added that he had asked the Vatican to investigate the allegations raised in the film under the auspices of an Apostolic letter that was issued by Pope Francis last year.\n\nThe letter made it mandatory for Roman Catholic clergy to report cases of clerical sexual abuse and cover-ups.\n\nPope Francis promised last year to take concrete action to tackle abuse in the Church\n\nThe first film in the series - \"Tell No One\" - was released by the Sekielski brothers in May 2019 and has been viewed more than 23 million times. It sparked widespread outrage and a national discussion about sexual abuse in the Church.\n\nIt includes secret camera footage of victims confronting priests about their alleged abuse. Some of the priests in the film admit to the abuse.\n\nThe documentary prompted the government to announce plans to double jail terms for paedophiles. It also promised to set up a commission to investigate paedophile priests, but this has not yet happened.\n\nIn March last year, the Polish Church admitted that almost 400 clergy had sexually abused minors over the past 30 years.", "The UK's daily coronavirus death figure has dropped to the lowest number since the day after lockdown began\n\nThe UK's daily figure for coronavirus deaths has dropped to 170 - the lowest since the day after lockdown began.\n\nThe announcement comes a week after the first easing of restrictions in England - and while numbers are typically lower on Sundays, the figure is almost 100 fewer than the 268 reported a week ago.\n\nBut the overall death toll remains the highest in Europe, and is now 34,636.\n\nMeanwhile in Spain, the daily number of deaths dropped below 100 for the first time since its lockdown started.\n\nThe UK death numbers announced on Sundays and Mondays are typically lower than the other five days of the week, due to fluctuations in how quickly deaths are reported by hospitals and care homes.\n\nSunday's figure is the lowest since 24 March, when 149 deaths were reported. The evening before that, Prime Minister Boris Johnson had introduced the lockdown.\n\nSpain, which introduced a strict lockdown on 14 March, announced 87 new deaths on Sunday. At its peak on 2 April, there were 961 deaths in a 24-hour period.\n\nItaly has also reported its lowest figure since its lockdown began, with a total of 145.\n\nLiker other government ministers during the week, Business Secretary Alok Sharma said the country was moving towards level three of the coronavirus alert system, which would see the gradual relaxation of restrictions, but \"to definitively conquer this disease we need to find a safe workable vaccine\".\n\nSpeaking at Sunday's Downing Street briefing, he said the clinical trial for a Covid-19 vaccine at the University of Oxford was progressing well and announced £93m to speed up a new vaccine research lab.\n\nThe government has already invested £47m in the Oxford vaccine and Mr Sharma committed to a further £84m of new funding.\n\nHe added that pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca had finalised a \"global licensing agreement\" with Oxford and the government.\n\nIt means if the trial is successful, 30 million doses will be available for the UK by this September, as part of a 100 million-dose agreement.\n\nMr Sharma said this would put the UK at the front of the queue for getting the vaccine.\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma says research to find a vaccine for coronavirus is progressing at unprecedented speed and with the UK leading it, British people should be at the front of the queue for getting the jab.\n\nPharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has signed a licensing agreement to make 30 million doses available by this September.\n\nBut that's incredibly ambitious and is conditional on immunisation actually working.\n\nExperts admit an effective coronavirus vaccine may never be found. Trials are under way with volunteers being vaccinated.\n\nIt will take months to be sure of success.\n\nThat's why researchers are also backing another horse - finding existing drugs and therapies that can be used to improve the survival odds of patients who become extremely ill with coronavirus.\n\nThe business secretary also said the opening of the UK's first vaccine manufacturing innovation centre is expected to take place in the summer of 2021, a year ahead of schedule, after the government's funding pledge.\n\n\"The centre, which is already under construction, will have capacity to produce enough vaccine doses to serve the entire UK population in as little as six months,\" he said.\n\n\"But if, and it is a big if, a successful vaccine is available later this year, we will need to be in a position to manufacture it at scale and quickly. So whilst assent is being built, the government will establish a rapid deployment facility thanks to a further investment of £38m.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nErling Braut Haaland scored for Borussia Dortmund as they marked the return of the Bundesliga during the coronavirus outbreak with a convincing derby win over Schalke.\n\nThe game will mostly be remembered for the surreal circumstances in which it was played, as Germany became the first major league in Europe to resume action behind closed doors.\n\nThere was an eerie atmosphere at Dortmund's iconic Signal Iduna Park stadium, with every shout by players or coaches audible, and social distancing protocol followed by substitutes and during goal celebrations.\n\nHaaland opened the scoring with a trademark cool finish, flicking home Thorgen Hazard's cross to continue his sensational season, albeit after an enforced break of almost 10 weeks.\n\nRaphael Guerreiro added two more goals and Hazard also found the net as Dortmund went on to claim a comfortable win over their near neighbours and move within a point of leaders Bayern Munich, who play on Sunday.\n• None Relive Germany's return to football as Dortmund hit four\n\nElite-level football might be back in Europe, but it certainly has a different feel about it than it did two months ago.\n\nStrict hygiene protocols saw the Dortmund and Schalke players arrive on multiple buses, use several changing rooms and then enter the pitch by different routes.\n\nWarm-ups were staggered and the coaching staff and substitutes wore masks and were all separated by two metres as they took their place on the sidelines.\n\nOnce the balls had been disinfected by the ball-boys, the game began in total silence, only pierced by the referee's whistle for kick-off, before being played out to the sound of echoed applause or yelled instructions from the dug-outs.\n\nFans were completely absent from the 80,000-capacity stadium but that did not stop the Dortmund players performing their trademark salute to the empty stands at the final whistle - standing apart rather than holding hands of course.\n\nThe backdrop to the game made for a strange spectacle, but it did nothing to disrupt Haaland's fine form even if it was 70 days on from his last Bundesliga appearance.\n\nWith the rest of Europe watching on, Dortmund's 19-year-old Norwegian wonderkid reminded everyone of his precocious talent as he scored one goal, and helped make another.\n\nHaaland now has hit 10 goals in his first nine Bundesliga appearances - and 13 in 12 games in all competitions - since his January move from Red Bull Salzburg and his prolific scoring rate shows no sign of slowing up.\n\nAnother of Dortmund's highly-rated young talents, England forward Jadon Sancho, was restricted to an 11-minute cameo off the bench, because of a calf injury.\n\nOn-loan Everton full-back Jonjoe Kenny started for Schalke, who brought on Wales winger Rabbi Matondo as one of their five substitutes - two more than usual are permitted under the new regulations for the Bundesliga's restart.\n• None Alessandro Schöpf (FC Schalke 04) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Rabbi Matondo (FC Schalke 04) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Bastian Oczipka.\n• None Rabbi Matondo (FC Schalke 04) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Substitution, Borussia Dortmund. Jadon Sancho replaces Thorgan Hazard because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Salif Sané (FC Schalke 04) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Bastian Oczipka with a cross following a corner.\n• None Lukasz Piszczek (Borussia Dortmund) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.\n• None Attempt missed. Guido Burgstaller (FC Schalke 04) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right following a set piece situation. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Italians were able to return to espresso counters on Monday as most businesses reopened\n\nItaly and Spain are among a number of European countries further easing their coronavirus lockdown restrictions on Monday.\n\nMost businesses in Italy, including bars and hairdressers, are reopening after more than two months of nationwide lockdown measures.\n\nSpain meanwhile has slightly eased restrictions on some of its least affected islands.\n\nThe measures follow consistent drops in the number of daily recorded deaths.\n\nOn Sunday, Italy recorded the fewest daily deaths since it entered lockdown in March.\n\nIt said 145 people had died with the virus in the previous 24 hours. This marked a significant drop from its highest daily death toll, which was more than 900 on 27 March.\n\nIn Spain, the daily death toll fell below 100 for the first time since it imposed its lockdown restrictions.\n\nBut officials are warning that complacency over the virus could lead to a second wave of infections.\n\nRestaurants, bars, cafes, hairdressers and shops have been allowed to reopen in Italy, providing social distancing is enforced.\n\nAlmost 32,000 people in Italy have died in the pandemic, and the economy is expected to shrink by nearly 10% this year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCatholic churches are resuming Mass, but there is strict social distancing and worshippers must wear face masks. Other faiths are also being allowed to hold religious services.\n\nBut health officials have warned of the continued dangers of large social gatherings.\n\nPope Francis held a private Mass at St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, which has been disinfected ahead of its reopening to tourists.\n\nThe Mass honoured the late Pope John Paul II, 100 years after his birth in Poland.\n\nThere was sorrow but relief too at morning mass in Milan's Santa Maria del Rosario: the first time that people could return to churches in 10 weeks.\n\nThey came for comfort and to pray for Italy's recovery. And they abided by strict measures: pews were disinfected before the service; worshippers sat apart; and the priest wore gloves to place the communion wafer in people's hands, not their mouths.\n\n\"It was strange to feel the body of Christ on these gloves,\" said Fr Marco Borghi, \"but it's so important for people to be able to get closer to God again at this time\".\n\nFrom restaurants and bars to museums and libraries, to hair salons and beauty parlours, Italy is reopening and emerging from the world's longest national lockdown.\n\nThere's a sense of optimism in the streets but also, still, astonishment at what has happened, particularly here in Italy's richest, most advanced region: over 15,000 people killed in Lombardy, almost half of all the Italian deaths.\n\nAnd the economic pain is intense. One in three businesses here say they won't be reopening today.\n\nIn Spain, some areas are also seeing restrictions ease.\n\nThe country has a four-phase system for reopening, which authorities are applying at different speeds in different regions.\n\nMost of Spain moved into phase one last week. Up to 10 people are allowed to meet together, provided they wear masks and socially distance, while bars and restaurants can open outdoor seating at half capacity. Cinemas, museums and theatres are also opening at reduced capacity.\n\nSome Spanish islands that have not been badly affected by the outbreak moved into phase two on Monday - allowing shopping malls to reopen and gatherings of up to 15 people.\n\nBarcelona, Madrid and parts of the north-west however remain in phase 0. Most restrictions will remain in place, but some small shops will be allowed to reopen on Monday and funerals can be held for groups of up to 10 inside and 15 outside. This has been dubbed \"phase 0.5\" - an intermediate step in these regions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Beach crowds as countries around the world ease lockdowns\n\nThe country is now \"very close\" to stopping the transmission of the virus, the head of the emergency health centre, Fernando Simon, said on Sunday.\n\nBut he warned that the risk of a second wave of cases was \"still very big\".", "Amanda Faulkiner-Farrow with her son Tristan and husband James\n\nA woman whose fertility treatment has been hit by the coronavirus outbreak has described it as \"soul destroying\".\n\nAmanda Faulkiner-Farrow, 38, from Bethel, Gwynedd, was due to have a round of treatment in June.\n\nNon-urgent outpatient appointments and surgical procedures were suspended by the Welsh Government in March to help the health service tackle coronavirus.\n\nStacey Matthews, 38, who has also been trying for a baby, said she was \"struggling\" due to the delays.\n\nThe Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) which regulates UK fertility clinics said all current treatments must be completed by 15 April.\n\nThe Welsh Government said that a plan was in \"place to stop all non-urgent and planned treatments\" by Wednesday, but added that \"as the situation progresses this position will remain under frequent review\".\n\nMrs Faulkiner-Farrow and her husband James had their first round of ICSI, a form of fertility treatment, in January 2019.\n\nIt was successful and she became pregnant with twins, but lost them early in the pregnancy.\n\n\"It was devastating,\" she said.\n\n\"My husband's not a real crier but when you see tears in his eyes, you see the pain and you just think: what have I done wrong?\"\n\nMrs Faulkiner-Farrow said she sought a second round of treatment last September but was told she would have to wait until the next financial year because of limited funding.\n\nHer second and final round on the NHS was due to take place in June which she saw as her \"last chance\".\n\n\"There's a lot of women out there like me, on a clock, and we didn't leave it last minute because we wanted a career, it was just the way love and life and circumstances fell,\" she said.\n\n\"It's just something that I want so bad and my husband wants so bad.\n\n\"And then we're in this crisis because, at the end of the day, age is not on our side.\"\n\nMrs Faulkiner-Farrow, who has a 13-year-old son, Tristan, from a previous marriage, said the situation was impacting her whole family.\n\n\"Tristan's on this journey a little bit so it doesn't just affect myself or my husband, you're talking about the grandparents who are looking for grandchildren, friends who've been there for us, it's a bigger journey,\" she said.\n\nMrs Faulkiner-Farrow said she was trying to stay positive but is concerned about how long it will take for treatments to start again.\n\nIn a post on its website, the HFEA said it would do all it could to \"lift this restriction as soon as possible but we cannot give a date when this will happen given the current situation with the Covid-19 pandemic\".\n\n\"This is the only responsible course of action for the fertility sector and patients at this tough time,\" it said.\n\nTreatment in fertility clinics may now only continue in exceptional cases, such as when a woman wants to freeze her eggs before undergoing chemotherapy.\n\nAlice Matthews, who is the Wales co-ordinator for Fertility Network UK, said the support organisation had seen a \"surge\" in calls and emails over the past few weeks.\n\nShe said: \"People are going to be feeling extremely anxious, like they've got absolutely no control over their lives, like they're in limbo, like their lives are literally on hold and there's very little that anybody can do.\"\n\nShe added that anyone on a waiting list for fertility treatment will remain in the same position and that \"nobody's going to lose their place\" when treatments restart.\n\nStacey Matthews and husband Richard on their wedding day\n\nAlso concerned about the waiting is 38-year-old Stacey Matthews, from Beddau, Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nShe and her husband, Richard, have been trying for a baby for seven years.\n\nThey had two rounds of ICSI on the NHS and have since self-funded a further round.\n\nThey were hoping to undergo a fourth round in July but a planned surgery to remove a fibroid in Mrs Matthews' uterus has been cancelled, throwing doubt over when they can proceed.\n\n\"Everything's just on hold at the moment,\" she said.\n\n\"I am struggling and I'm grieving in a way as well because our hopes of having a child have now been extended even longer.\n\n\"And we just don't know when we're going to be able to do it.\"\n\nAfter Mrs Matthews' husband was furloughed from his business in response to the coronavirus outbreak, she said it may take the couple longer to raise £4,000 to pay for the treatment.\n\n\"We'll try and remain positive because it will happen eventually,\" she said.\n\nThe Welsh Health Specialist Services Committee said it \"appreciates\" the impact of Covid-19.\n\nIt said fertility treatment guidance was issued by the British Fertility Society and the Association of Reproductive and Clinical Scientists.\n\nA spokesman said: \"All women will be entitled to the treatment they have been entitled to on the 13th of March 2020.\n\n\"This date was chosen because the government has confirmed that all non-urgent procedures should be suspended.\n\n\"Please note that this will not apply to patients who have opted for personal treatment.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The number of children crossing the Channel in dinghies is rising, Kent County Council says\n\nThe number of unaccompanied child migrants arriving in Kent has risen significantly in the past 12 months, the county council leader has said.\n\nRoger Gough claimed the number of young asylum seekers in the county had \"doubled in a little more than a year\".\n\nA drop in lorries crossing the Channel due to coronavirus had caused a rise in children arriving in dinghies, he said.\n\nIt has led to fears children are being trafficked into modern slavery, the Immigration Services Union said.\n\nWhen asylum-seeking children arrive unaccompanied in Kent, usually at Dover, they are passed into the care of the county council.\n\nThere were 450 child migrants in the council's care at the end of April, compared with 257 in April 2019.\n\nVolunteers say between 100 and 200 migrant children are camped in Calais\n\nAbout 20 children arrived in small boats over the bank holiday weekend, Mr Gough said.\n\nWhile stowing away on lorries had until recently been the \"typical route for a young person,\" he said they were \"to a large degree now coming in the boats\".\n\n\"What we are now seeing, particularly as you can imagine all the changes with lockdowns across Europe and a significant reduction in freight transport, is that actually the boats are becoming a route for those unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.\"\n\nThe increase in new arrivals was putting \"severe and growing pressure\" on the council's finances and social care services, he said.\n\nLucy Moreton, of the Immigration Services Union, said the age of children arriving unaccompanied \"does appear to be dropping\" and fears the journeys may be the result of human trafficking.\n\nSmugglers usually charged between £5,000 to £10,000 per head, she said, adding: \"Unaccompanied children do not have the financial resources to do this.\"\n\nMs Moreton fears organised crime groups may be \"bringing the children here for the purposes of modern slavery or sexual slavery\".\n\nNewly-arrived children must be watched closely by social services and not allowed to \"vanish\", as has sometimes happened with older children in the past, Ms Moreton said.\n\nPersonal hygiene in migrant camps had deteriorated, charities say\n\nVolunteers have said conditions in makeshift migrant camps in northern France have deteriorated during the pandemic because of a reduction in charities working in the area.\n\nCare4Calais volunteer Tia Bush said there were between 100 and 200 children living in Calais, who were mostly unaccompanied.\n\n\"The problem is the conditions have got so bad here with the virus that obviously people are more desperate to get to the UK,\" she said.\n\n\"They are not safe here, so they have nothing to lose,\" she said.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"The government takes the welfare of unaccompanied children very seriously and provides funding to local authorities, including Kent, as a contribution to the cost of supporting unaccompanied children and those who leave care.\"\n\nIt said it was working to dismantle the \"ruthless criminal gangs put people's lives in grave danger\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jeremy Corbyn's brother Piers was among 19 people arrested at an anti-lockdown demonstration in London's Hyde Park on Saturday afternoon.\n\nHundreds of people gathered to object to their rights of free speech and movement being curtailed, with some holding several placards and banners including slogans like \"freedom over fear\".\n\nRead more: 'Busy but manageable' at England's beauty spots", "The Archbishop of Canterbury has warned cuts to public spending after coronavirus \"would be catastrophic\".\n\nThe Most Reverend Justin Welby called for politicians to be \"brave and courageous\" as they sought to deal with the economic and social consequences of the lockdown.\n\nIn response to spiralling public debt he said \"going for austerity again would be the most terrible mistake\".\n\nEstimates suggest the crisis could cost up to £298bn for this financial year.\n\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility which keeps tabs on government spending, made the estimate for the figure for the final bill, for April 2020 to April 2021.\n\nThe prime minister reportedly told backbench Conservative MPs on Friday there was \"no question\" of cutting public sector pay.\n\nBoris Johnson has previously insisted the costs of the crisis would not mean a fresh round of austerity, saying: \"That will certainly not be part of our approach.\"\n\nMr Welby, who worked as an oil executive before being ordained, was speaking to the BBC ahead of Mental Health Awareness Week.\n\nHe called on government ministers to invest in mental health services and for a royal commission to be set up on social care.\n\n\"Borrowing costs are the lowest they've ever been in our entire history. Spending money on mental health will have a positive rate of return,\" he said.\n\n\"We can do it now in a way we've never been able to [before]. We must be brave and courageous in setting our vision for what society will be.\"\n\nHe went on: \"Just because we're in the middle of a crisis, it doesn't mean that we can't have a vision for a future where justice and righteousness are the key stones of our common life.\n\n\"So we fund mental health; we have a commission of inquiry into what we learn from this - not to blame, but to learn; we have a royal commission on how we look after social care.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Andrew Marr asked the archbishop what it was like to deliver an Easter sermon from his kitchen\n\nMr Welby has spoken openly of his own mental health struggles. He revealed he was suffering from depression last year in a Thought for the Day broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Today programme and separately said he was taking anti-depressants.\n\nSpeaking this week to the BBC's religion editor Martin Bashir, he described \"an overwhelming sense the world is getting more and more difficult and gloomy\".\n\nExplaining how his own mental health has affected his behaviour, he said: \"You turn inwards on yourself a lot. You become, frankly, narcissistic. And when you have good friends or family who spot it, they can say 'might it not be an idea to talk to someone'. Which I did.\"\n\nHe added: \"There is nothing pathetic about it. It is no more pathetic than being ill in any other way. And we just need to get over that.\"\n\nBoth the archbishop's parents were alcoholics and he said his childhood was \"disturbing\" and \"chaotic\". Later, while working in business, his seven-month-old daughter Johanna died in a car crash.\n\n\"As we will see as the recession takes hold, loss, grief, and anxiety are traumas. And trauma has to be gone through. You can't do it just with the stiff upper lip.\"\n\nHe said the whole country had been \"compulsorily fasting\" and that had caused \"huge suffering\" for many.\n\nAsked what how he hoped Britain would recover after the coronavirus crisis, he said: \"We don't do it with austerity. We don't do it with class fighting. We do it with community and the common good. And we're not afraid of spending money that will produce a better society.\"\n\nThe archbishop has chosen to repeat a theme that runs through his book \"Dethroning Mammon\" published four years ago: that wealth is not an idol to be worshipped but an asset to be deployed for the benefit of all people.\n\nHe's likely to enrage some politicians who will dismiss his remarks as irresponsible and failing to acknowledge the damaging effect of large deficits.\n\nBut he does have particular insights into the impact of austerity - with the Church of England educating one in five primary school children, running vast numbers of food banks and engaged in a range of social projects that seek to support the young and the old in deprived and disadvantaged areas of the country.\n\nIt is why he believes the burden of rebuilding post-pandemic Britain must not \"fall upon the shoulders of those who are already turning up at food banks\".", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPremier League clubs hope to give their players the go-ahead to return to training in small groups this week.\n\nBut there is a growing feeling the intended 12 June date for matches to start again will need to be pushed back.\n\nA vote is due to take place on training and medical protocols when the 20 top-flight clubs hold their next meeting on Monday.\n\nIf passed, players would be able to train in groups of five from Tuesday.\n\nThat would be on condition they observe social distancing rules and adhere to a series of strict criteria, which include getting changed at home and driving to training grounds on their own.\n\nAt least 14 of the 20 clubs must agree that safety protocols are sufficient for the plan to be approved.\n• None Restrictions in place for team training under 'Project Restart'\n• None Rush goalie? No offsides? Which playground rules would make Premier League better?\n\nLast week, the government said it had \"opened the door\" for the return of elite sport, but several hurdles remain before the Premier League can resume behind closed doors.\n\nClubs have been carrying out coronavirus testing this weekend to ensure there is no further delay, but a number of players - including Newcastle United defender Danny Rose and Watford skipper Troy Deeney - have expressed concerns about returning.\n\nPlayers have been asked to sign waivers and it is understood the Professional Footballers' Association has offered to get the agreements legally checked if anyone is uncertain.\n\nClub officials have been holding high-level meetings because the legal liability for any player who became seriously ill would fall on them.\n\nIt is anticipated a three-step return to action will be implemented. It is hoped to move into the second phase at the beginning of June, which would involve training in larger groups, before a return to contact training.\n\nAt the meeting on Monday, clubs will also be updated on talks with police and safety committees over the request to play matches at their own stadiums rather than at neutral grounds, as initially proposed.\n\nThey will also receive a report on the return of Germany's Bundesliga and will have been heartened to learn there were no instances of fans turning up at stadiums in significant numbers.\n• None 'Bizarre, sterile and haunting' - what it was like inside one of Germany's 'ghost games'\n\nManchester City forward Raheem Sterling said on Sunday that players would need a \"full four to five weeks\" of training before returning to competition.\n\nNewcastle manager Steve Bruce had earlier told the Sunday Telegraph the timescale was \"at least six weeks\", adding: \"I don't see how we can play games until the back end of June.\"\n\nThe Premier League is thought to be relaxed, viewing the restart as more important than the actual date.\n\nIt also knows that while Uefa hopes domestic leagues are completed by 31 July, there are spare days in August free from European competition to allow outstanding fixtures to be played.\n\nWhat happens next?\n• None 19 May: Players may return to group training under socially distancing protocols\n• None 25 May: Uefa deadline for leagues to have finalised plan for restarting seasons\n• None 1 June: Government date for possible return of elite sport behind closed doors\n• None 12 June: Premier League aiming to return with first fixture\n\nFurther talks in the EFL\n\nIn addition to the Premier League meeting, League One clubs will hold further talks about how to proceed with their season after a meeting on Friday ended in deadlock.\n\nMany clubs want the season to end now because of the costs involved but at least seven - including Peterborough, Sunderland, Ipswich and Portsmouth - want to continue.\n\nThey hope to have a plan to put before Wednesday's meeting of the EFL board, which will also have to assess League Two's proposals for terminating the season.\n\nIt is thought unlikely the request to not relegate anyone to the National League will be endorsed, with a number of Championship clubs making it clear they would not agree with any decision that undermines the concept of promotion to the Premier League.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Changes to testing in Wales is following scientific advice, says minister\n\nAn online platform for key workers to book coronavirus tests has been scrapped by the Welsh Government, which has opted to use a UK-wide system.\n\nWelsh ministers decided to work with Amazon in developing a testing portal, which was only ever rolled out in the south east of the country.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said data issues with the UK-wide system had been resolved so there was no need to continue \"developing that Wales-only route\".\n\nHe said it was not \"about being different for the sake of it\".\n\nWales went its own way, while the Scottish and Northern Irish governments signed up to the UK government booking portal.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Politics Wales programme, Mr Gething said: \"At the starting point we weren't able to take proper advantage of the UK testing programme because we'd only have known if people had a test - the other information wasn't coming back into our health and care system, so the value was really limited.\n\n\"Now, we're in a position where those data issues, that really do matter, are going to be resolved.\n\n\"That's why I've got some confidence about taking part in the wider UK testing programme.\n\n\"So the results will go back on to the patient record, clinicians may be able to see them and make use of them.\n\n\"That's really important for us because, whilst we were developing our own track, now we're able to have a consistent approach with other parts UK with information coming back to us. We can use the exact same portal.\n\n\"And the question is, now we're able to do that, why would we carry on with developing and implementing a separate portal online here in Wales?\"\n\nAsked how much had been spent on setting up the Amazon website, the health minister said he did not have the figures to hand and he was \"really not bothered about getting into how much we spent on developing a different portal at a point in time\".\n\nAddressing the issues around patient data, the UK Government's Welsh Secretary Simon Hart said \"there are always going to be concerns\" when you construct a new system.\n\nHe added: \"I think the access to data is of critical importance because people's treatment or safety could be compromised unless that's got right.\n\n\"That is probably one of the most over-riding reasons that we felt right from day one that this should be a UK-wide approach because that we can minimise the risk of any data issues and we can maximise the opportunity of getting the right system in place with the right level of investment as quickly as possible.\"\n\nPaul Davies, leader of the Welsh Conservatives in the Senedd, welcomed the decision but said the Welsh Government was \"once again behind the curve\".\n\nPlaid Cymru's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said: \"Why have we been in this situation where there was confusion over whether Wales' and England's system could talk to each other? How much has this cost us? How much time has been lost as a result of this?\n\n\"It's another example of the confusion in the way the Welsh Government has reacted to this. Great if this is the best way, there we are. But it raises the questions why are we again in this situation with so much confusion?\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nBundesliga leaders Bayern Munich comfortably beat Union Berlin in another strange game as the league's return continued during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt has been allowed to restart without fans, most people off the pitch wearing masks and muted goal celebrations.\n\nRobert Lewandowski gave the champions the lead with a penalty - his 40th goal in 34 Bayern games this season.\n\nAnd Benjamin Pavard headed in a late second from Joshua Kimmich's corner.\n\nSaturday's games gave us an indication of what football will look like for the foreseeable future, as the Bundesliga became the first elite league to return.\n• None The inside view from one of Saturday's games\n• None Which Bundesliga team should you support?\n\nAnd it was more of the same on Sunday, with substitutes and coaches socially distancing on the bench - including using the front rows of the otherwise empty stands.\n\nThe footballs were disinfected by ball boys and left in certain spots around the pitch, rather than handing them directly to the players.\n\nEven goal celebrations were mostly done without embracing, although Pavard hugged David Alaba after his late goal.\n\nPlayers and coaches were quarantined in their team hotels this week, undergoing regular coronavirus testing and only leaving to go to training together.\n\nUnion Berlin coach Urs Fischer had to miss this match because he broke quarantine when his father-in-law died.\n\nThe lack of fans was a real shame for Union, whose link with their supporters is legendary in Germany.\n\nThis is their first ever season in the top flight, with the fixture against Bayern - who have won the past seven Bundesliga titles - always one of the games fans look forward to the most.\n\nBayern were comfortable winners in the end, despite only having three shots on target.\n\nThomas Muller had a goal ruled out by the video assistant referee for offside before Lewandowski scored the opener following a foul by Neven Subotic on Leon Goretzka.\n\nPavard's header with 10 minutes to go wrapped up the victory to take them four points above Borussia Dortmund at the top.\n\n\"We are happy to have controlled the game and to have brought the three points home,\" said Bayern captain Manuel Neuer.\n\n\"In games without fans the minutes are very long until the final whistle.\"\n• None Attempt missed. Joshua Kimmich (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from more than 35 yards is high and wide to the right from a direct free kick.\n• None Attempt saved. Felix Kroos (1. FC Union Berlin) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Christopher Lenz.\n• None Goal! 1. FC Union Berlin 0, FC Bayern München 2. Benjamin Pavard (FC Bayern München) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Joshua Kimmich with a cross following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Leaders of the HS2 rail project have been \"blindsided by contact with reality\", a report by MPs has found.\n\nThe Public Accounts Committee accused HS2 Ltd and the Department for Transport (DfT) of lacking transparency and undermining public confidence.\n\nThe committee's report said HS2 was \"badly off course\" and urged the government to regularly update Parliament with \"accurate\" information.\n\nThe DfT said the project has been \"comprehensively reset\".\n\nAmong its conclusions, the cross-party committee questioned evidence given by DfT permanent secretary Bernadette Kelly and HS2 Ltd executives Mark Thurston and Michael Bradley.\n\nThe report said the trio's appearance before MPs in March 2020 \"raised questions about the previous picture provided by the witnesses of the project's health\" last year.\n\nIt said the DfT and HS2 Ltd \"were aware of the scale of the issues facing the programme as early as October 2018\".\n\nThe report said Ms Kelly \"withheld from us that the programme was in significant difficulty\" during appearances in 2018 and 2019, \"even in response to specific questions\".\n\nIt also said HS2 Ltd's annual report and accounts \"similarly failed to give an accurate account of the programme's problems\".\n\nSpiralling costs have prompted criticism of the project - granted the go-ahead by the government in February.\n\nThe cost set out in the 2015 Budget was just under £56bn, but one independent estimate has put the eventual cost as high as £106bn.\n\nCommittee chairman Meg Hillier said that, for example, the cost of community commitments in the first phase of the project had risen from £245m to £1.2bn.\n\nMs Hillier said: \"There is no excuse for hiding the nature and extent of the problems the project was facing from Parliament and the taxpayer.\"\n\n\"The Department and HS2 appear to have been blindsided by contact with reality,\" she added.\n\n\"The government unfortunately has a wealth of mistakes on major transport infrastructure to learn from, but it does not give confidence that it is finally going to take those lessons when this is its approach.\"\n\nDeputy chairman Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown said the report was \"one of the most critical, in both the transparency of government and the handling of a project, that I have seen in my nine years in total on the committee\".\n\nA DfT spokesperson said Transport Secretary Grant Shapps \"has been clear that this project must go forward with a new approach to parliamentary reporting, with clear transparency, strengthened accountability to ministers, and tight control of costs\".\n\n\"We have comprehensively reset the HS2 programme, introducing a revised budget and funding regime, with significant reforms to ensure the project is delivered in a more disciplined and transparent manner,\" they added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe spokesperson also highlighted the appointment of a dedicated HS2 minister and the new six-monthly reports to Parliament.\n\nThe DfT statement added Ms Kelly had acknowledged cost pressures in May 2019 and that discussions between the government and HS2 Ltd \"were active and commercially confidential\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Beach crowds as countries around the world ease lockdowns\n\nPeople have returned to beauty spots in a \"manageable\" way on the first weekend after lockdown rules in England eased.\n\nThe public was urged to \"think twice\" before heading to beaches and country parks as councils feared a surge in visitors could result in a rise in coronavirus infections.\n\nPeak District bosses said one area was \"extremely busy\" but the National Trust said people were being \"sensible\".\n\nIn London, hundreds of people gathered to protest against the lockdown.\n\nThis is the first weekend since the lockdown rules were relaxed in England, allowing people to spend as much time outdoors as they want \"for leisure purposes\", including sunbathing.\n\nThere is no longer a limit on how far people can travel and people are also allowed to meet one person outside their household outdoors.\n\nBut people in England should not travel to Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, where the public is still being told to avoid any travel which is not essential.\n\nPark bosses in the Peak District tweeted that social distancing was \"difficult\" in the Langsett area at the north-eastern edge of the park, where car parks were full.\n\n\"Please don't travel to the area or park outside of designated bays,\" they added.\n\nPeople have been urged not to visit coastal towns like Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, this weekend\n\nThe National Trust said that people seemed to be \"taking a pragmatic and sensible approach\".\n\n\"Our car parks which are open are busy, but it's been manageable,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nThe Lake District National Park Authority's chief executive Richard Leafe thanked the public for \"not rushing back\" to the Lake District.\n\nHe said: \"It's early days but at the moment it's quiet and we hope to see this throughout the weekend.\"\n\nHe had previously asked people not to travel \"because of the impact you will have on the local communities\".\n\nIn central London, about 300 people gathered in Hyde Park to protest against the regulations introduced to control coronavirus.\n\nThe protesters said they objected to their rights of free speech and movement being curtailed, with some holding several placards and banners including slogans like \"freedom over fear\".\n\nPolice made 19 arrests after trying to get the protesters to move on, including Piers Corbyn - the brother of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nTen people were also issued with fixed penalty notices.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn's brother Piers was among the protesters arrested\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor said in general people in parks have largely been complying with the restrictions.\n\nHe said: \"It was disappointing that a relatively small group in Hyde Park came together to protest the regulations in clear breach of the guidance putting themselves and others at risk of infection.\"\n\nIt comes after the Metropolitan Police warned people against taking part in \"spontaneous or planned mass gatherings\".\n\nIt said that \"games of football... outdoor concerts or parties, protest, marches or assemblies are still not permitted\".\n\nPolice have been stopping cars on the A23 between the capital and Brighton, where the local council is asking people to \"stay away\" from its seafront.\n\nIn Glasgow a man has been charged with breach of the peace after a small protest against lockdown measures.\n\nPolice Scotland said three warnings had been issued at the city's Queens Park, while there had also been gatherings at Glasgow Green and Holyrood Park in Edinburgh.\n\nPolice have been stopping cars on the A23 between London and Brighton\n\nAn estimated 15 million leisure trips will be made by car in the UK this weekend, an RAC survey suggests.\n\nHowever, almost half of the journeys will be no more than 10 miles long, according to the motoring organisation's poll of 1,317 drivers.\n\nWith sunny weather forecast in parts of the country, the County Councils Network has urged people to stay local.\n\nThe network, which represents 36 county authorities, warned that \"day-trippers\" who travel from towns and cities to exercise were likely to face long queues of traffic and difficulties parking.\n\nAnd it cautioned that country parks that reopened after lockdown rules were eased on Wednesday may be forced to close again if social distancing becomes impossible.\n\nResidents in Barbican, London, return to the tennis courts after lockdown measures were eased\n\nJulian German, the network's rural spokesman and leader of Cornwall Council, said England's coastal and rural areas \"will be there when this is over\".\n\n\"We are asking households to bear with us and please do their bit over the coming weeks by exercising locally,\" he said.\n\n\"While councils will be allowing cars access to country parks, it does not change the unique situation of the need to maintain social distancing.\"\n\nHe added that the councils wanted to prevent a repeat of the \"unprecedented numbers of visitors\" to parks and coastal areas over the weekend before lockdown was introduced in March.\n\nThe majority of beaches will not have lifeguards after the RNLI suspended lifeguard provision during lockdown - it usually patrol 240 beaches.\n\nPeter Williamson, chairman of Norfolk and Suffolk Tourist Attractions Association, also urged people to stay away, stressing that attractions, car parks and other facilities would be closed.\n\n\"What we're trying to say to people is we're not open, please don't come because there is nothing for you here at this moment in time,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nThe Chief Constable of North Wales Police, Carl Foulkes, stressed the rules were different in Wales - where people should only be exercising from their home address - to those in England.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast that officers would be carrying out high visibility controls in key hotspots such as national parks and beaches, as well as road checks to ensure people were complying with the regulations.\n\nMr Foulkes said vehicles breaking the rules would be told to turn around, with officers using enforcement if necessary.\n\nThe warnings come as government scientific advisers say the infection rate in the UK has gone up - and is close to the point where the virus starts spreading rapidly.\n\nThe R-number - which represents the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - had been sitting between 0.5 and 0.9, but is now between 0.7 and 1.0.\n\nIt needs to be kept below one in order to stay in control.\n\nMeanwhile, modelling published by the University of Cambridge and backed by Public Health England, suggests that while London has made the most progress with suppressing the virus, it is proving more stubborn in other parts of England.\n\nThe figures do not perfectly match those from the Sage group of government scientific advisers because it assesses multiple models to reach its conclusions.", "Officers took pictures of the revellers as they left the scene\n\nA group of about 70 people have gathered in a park for a \"rave\" - flouting lockdown rules and telling police they were \"sick of self-isolation\".\n\nWest Mercia Police said a DJ had set up for the party at Granville Country Park in Telford, Shropshire, on Saturday.\n\n\"We have worked so hard and sacrificed so much and this group decide it doesn't apply,\" one officer said.\n\n\"I'm shocked that people would care so little,\" they added.\n\nPolice dispersed the group from the Donnington park at about 20:15 BST.\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 Telford Cops This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice dispersed the group from the Donnington park at about 20:15 BST\n\nOfficers said they \"do not fine unless there is no other action open\".\n\nThey added: \"We asked the group to disperse and they did.\n\n\"We would ask anyone who is thinking of organising one of these events to think of the bigger picture.\"\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 Telford Cops 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\nThough lockdown restrictions have been eased in England, government advice states that people should \"not gather in groups of more than two\" except with members of their household.\n\nThe government has warned the coronavirus infection rate will increase if people break the rules.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Workplace safety watchdogs are dealing with hundreds of coronavirus-related complaints from Scotland.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive said it had been contacted 390 times with concerns about Scottish workplaces since early March.\n\nThat's about 8% of the 4,813 cases raised across the UK over a two-month period.\n\nThe agency said it was addressing all concerns and would not hesitate to take enforcement action if required.\n\nEnsuring social distancing and providing personal protective equipment (PPE) have become important issues for employers during the pandemic.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said its advice team resolved many concerns but about 40% triggered an investigation.\n\nIn some cases, it said work had to be suspended while safety measures were put in place.\n\nIt has not yet issued enforcement notices related to Covid-19 anywhere in the UK.\n\nThe caseload figures are for the period 9 March to 7 May.\n\nThat covers the two weeks before lockdown started and continues until just before Boris Johnson announced plans to ease some restrictions in England.\n\nIn Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon is still advising the public to stay at home except for essential purposes.\n\nAn HSE spokesman told BBC Scotland: \"At the heart of the return to work is controlling the risk posed by the virus.\n\n\"Ensuring safe working practices are in place will help deliver a safe return to work and support businesses across the UK.\"\n\n\"We'll continue to take proportionate action, but will not hesitate to take enforcement if needed.\n\n\"We have a strong track record of using enforcement to ensure workers health and safety is protected.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer: What you need to know about the new Labour leader\n\nNew Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer \"will stand up for Wales\", First Minister Mark Drakeford has said.\n\nSir Keir won the race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn with 56.2% of the vote, beating Rebecca Long-Bailey and Lisa Nandy.\n\nMr Drakeford, who is Welsh Labour Party leader, said Sir Keir's leadership would be \"crucial\" in the coming months.\n\nHe also called on the party to unite to face the \"challenges ahead\".\n\n\"Keir becomes leader at a critical time for our country,\" Mr Drakeford said.\n\n\"His leadership in Parliament will be crucial in the coming months as we respond to the coronavirus outbreak, and then as we seek to build the more equal and just society that must surely follow.\n\n\"I know that in Keir, we have a UK Labour leader who will continue to stand up for Wales' interests and support the work of the Welsh Labour government in delivering for the people of Wales.\"\n\nLabour lost six Welsh seats to the Conservatives in the December general election, including some in traditional heartlands such as Bridgend and Wrexham.\n\nMr Drakeford said the party must now unite behind the new leader and gain the public's trust.\n\n\"United and focused we will win the public's trust and, in time, their permission to govern across the UK.\"\n\nSir Keir during a visit to GE Aviation, in Nantgarw\n\nDuring a leadership hustings in Cardiff in February, Sir Keir said more powers should be devolved to Wales.\n\nHe added that he wanted to see the Welsh leadership play a \"bigger part in decision making\" in the party.\n\nCarolyn Harris said Sir Keir would work meaningfully with the UK and Welsh Governments to tackle the pandemic\n\nSwansea East MP and Welsh Labour deputy leader Carolyn Harris said: \"When we overcome the challenges of today, and overcome them we will, Labour will stand united, ready under Keir's leadership to win back the trust of communities and return the Labour government we so desperately need.\"\n\nShadow Welsh Secretary Christina Rees MP said Wales had a \"firm supporter in Keir\".\n\n\"I know from working alongside him in the shadow cabinet that he gets devolution, works closely with our Welsh Labour government, and understands the importance of always respecting both,\" she said.\n\n\"Keir's immediate focus, like all of ours, is on tackling the Covid-19 pandemic, and he will do this with both compassion and with his trademark forensic attention to detail.\"\n\nKeir Starmer accepts Labour has \"a mountain to climb\" as he takes over as leader - the party suffered its worst general election defeat since 1935 in December, losing six seats in Wales.\n\nFor now his focus must be on the Covid-19 crisis, during which he has promised to \"engage constructively\" with the Conservative UK government.\n\nNext year's devolved elections in Wales and Scotland will be key tests of his impact, with opinion polls currently suggesting Labour will lose seats in Cardiff Bay.\n\nAt least he begins his leadership on a sound footing, enjoying widespread support amongst his own MPs.\n\nThirteen Welsh Labour MPs nominated Sir Keir. So did former MEP Jackie Jones.\n\nFor comparison, just one Welsh Labour MP nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2015, while another challenged Mr Corbyn in a leadership contest in 2016.", "Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the world has seen lockdowns in many countries.\n\nIn South Africa, not only have people been told to stay at home, but exercise outside was banned for some time - and cigarettes and alcohol still can't be purchased.\n\nWhat is the impact of such a ban and how do people feel about it?\n\nProduced by Becky Lipscombe, filmed by Stuart Phillips, and edited by Christian Parkinson.", "A woman whose fertility treatment was suspended due to coronavirus has said she now has some hope after NHS clinics announced plans to re-open.\n\nAmanda Faulkiner-Farrow, 38, from Gwynedd, had said it was \"soul destroying\" to find out her scheduled treatment would not go ahead in June.\n\nNon-urgent outpatient appointments and surgical procedures were suspended by the Welsh Government in March.\n\nA fertility charity has warned patients could still be \"stuck in limbo\".\n\nThis is because they cannot undergo the tests needed to be referred to a fertility clinic, Fertility Network UK said.\n\nAnd one provider set to open on Monday warned it would not be at full capacity due to social-distancing requirements.\n\nEarlier this month, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), which regulates UK fertility clinics, said clinics across the UK could apply to re-open from 11 May if they could show they could provide safe and effective treatment.\n\nTwo of Wales' three NHS fertility treatment providers - the Shropshire and Mid Wales Fertility Centre and the Hewitt Fertility Centre in Liverpool - said their applications to re-open had been approved by the HFEA, and services would resume on Monday.\n\nMrs Faulkiner-Farrow said it had been a difficult time for her and husband James.\n\nThe couple had their first round of fertility treatment in January 2019. It was successful and she became pregnant with twins, but lost them early in the pregnancy.\n\nAmanda Faulkiner-Farrow with her son Tristan and husband James\n\n\"I was thinking that these treatments wouldn't start again until 2021,\" she said.\n\n\"And next year I would have been 39, and that sits with you heavy.\n\n\"The difference between being able to conceive in the next couple of months compared to next year… that could be the difference.\n\n\"They don't realise how much hope that's given us.\"\n\nThe Shropshire and Mid Wales Fertility Centre said it hoped treatments would start again on 15 June.\n\nThe Hewitt Fertility Centre said capacity would be limited to allow social distancing.\n\nThe third provider for Welsh NHS patients, the Wales Fertility Institute, said it hoped to relaunch fertility services \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nMs Faulkiner-Farrow, who has a 13-year-old son, Tristan, from a previous marriage, said she had not heard from her clinic yet, but would be getting in touch.\n\nTwo of Wales' three NHS fertility treatment providers will re-open on Monday\n\nThe re-opening of a number of clinics is \"reassuring\", according to Alice Matthews, Wales co-ordinator for Fertility Network UK, but she urged caution.\n\n\"A large number are still unable to undergo the investigatory tests needed before even being referred to a tertiary fertility clinic,\" she said.\n\n\"Until these vital outpatient appointments can resume, there will still be a large number of people who are stuck in limbo, feeling isolated, anxious and ill-informed about their condition.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said it appreciated the anxiety the situation had caused, adding that all fertility services had been asked to submit plans on how they would re-open safely.\n\nThe London Women's Clinic Wales, a private provider, said its application to re-open had been approved.\n\nAnother, the Centre for Reproduction and Gynaecology Wales, said it had applied to re-open and was hoping to resume treatment from July.", "Katy said she feels lost, sad and angry after her IVF was stopped part way through a course of treatment\n\nA woman whose fertility treatment was stopped because of the coronavirus outbreak said she felt lost not knowing when she would be able to have a baby.\n\nKaty and her husband Tom, from Exeter, Devon, started IVF after going through two miscarriages, including one just before their wedding five years ago.\n\nShe should have had her fourth IVF transfer two weeks ago.\n\n\"It is heartbreaking,\" she said. \"I just feel lost and sad, frustrated, angry.\"\n\nNHS and private fertility clinics were instructed to stop all treatments by 15 April but some clinics stopped earlier than that.\n\nKaty said: \"I was three weeks into my treatment... they basically put me into menopause with injections, when they stopped treatment.\"\n\nKaty and Tom found out they were having their first miscarriage at their 12-week scan, which was two weeks before their wedding\n\nKaty, 28, a healthcare assistant at Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, said her age meant time was on her side but, after years of trying to conceive, she felt like she was in limbo.\n\n\"We started our married life with heartbreak and wanting to try for a baby,\" she said.\n\n\"All our lives have been about is infertility and trying.\"\n\nThe couple, who have been diagnosed with unexplained infertility, started their latest round of IVF in October and Katy felt hopeful the treatment would have been successful this time.\n\n\"Every time we are getting closer so they are tweaking the medication and the timings so I really had a lot of faith in this cycle working,\" she said.\n\n\"You build yourself up mentally and physically to prepare for another cycle and it is heartbreaking.\"\n\nKaty said she had pictured her life with children and she and husband Tom were ready to have them\n\nAnya Sizer, from the Fertility Network UK, which provides free support and advice for anyone affected by fertility issues, said every aspect of people's lives was affected when they went through infertility.\n\n\"Going through infertility cuts to the very heart of how you see yourself as a person, how you see your place in society, it rocks your relationship, finances, friendships,\" she said.\n\n\"We are not surprised at all by the level of anxiety that we are seeing.\"\n\nKaty said she understood why the treatment had stopped but not knowing when it might restart was \"really difficult\".\n\n\"We just want children of our own because we are ready now and we have been for a while,\" she said.\n\n\"It just seems so far away and every week or month that goes by it is just getting further and further away.\"\n\nThe body that regulates IVF clinics, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, said it was working on an exit strategy with patients and clinics \"to enable fertility treatment to resume when government restrictions on social contact and travel are lifted\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This is a very small, tentative step, in what I believe is the right direction,\" Mr Williamson tells BBC's Branwen Jeffreys\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has said \"we owe it to the children\" to get pupils back in school, as he reassured parents it would be safe.\n\nMr Williamson said he knew some parents were \"very anxious\" about reopening schools, but said it would be a \"cautious, phased return\".\n\nIt follows a row over the government's plan to begin a phased reopening of schools in England from 1 June.\n\nTeachers' unions have said the date is too soon to be safe.\n\nSpeaking at the government's daily Downing Street briefing on Saturday, Mr Williamson said: \"There are some who would like to delay the wider opening of schools but there is a consequence to this.\n\n\"The longer that schools are closed the more children miss out. Teachers know this. Teachers know that there are children out there that have not spoken or played with another child of their own age for two months.\n\n\"They know there are children from difficult or very unhappy homes for whom school is the happiest moment in their week and it's also the safest place for them to be.\"\n\nEngland is the only UK nation to set a date for schools to start to reopen. Schools in Wales will not reopen on 1 June, while those in Scotland and Northern Ireland may not restart before the summer holidays.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of people who have died with coronavirus in the UK has increased by 468, the government said on Saturday. It takes the total number of UK deaths, in all settings following a positive coronavirus test, to 34,466.\n\nSchools in England closed for most pupils on 20 March, staying open only for the children of key workers and vulnerable children.\n\nThe phased reopening will begin with children in nursery and pre-school, Reception and Years 1 and 6 returning to primary school first on 1 June. At secondary school and college, Years 10 and 12 would return first.\n\nBut teaching unions have said plans to reopen primary schools do not have adequate safety measures and need to be halted. Some councils have said their schools will not open.\n\nEducation is \"one of the most important and precious gifts\" for a child, Mr Williamson said\n\nMr Williamson said the government's approach was based on the \"best scientific advice with children at the very heart of everything we do\" - and the impact of it would be carefully monitored.\n\n\"We have been quite clear all along that we'd only start inviting more children when our five key tests have been met,\" he said. \"That position has not changed nor will it.\"\n\nThe education secretary also said students in Years 10 and 12 who were studying for their GCSEs and A-levels \"stand to lose more by staying away from school\".\n\nBut there were no plans to bring forward the start of the next school year to August, he said - although he was looking at \"different initiatives\" which could be rolled out during the summer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nReassuring people what safety measures were being taken, Mr Williamson said school staff could already be tested for the virus and, from 1 June, children and their families would also be able to get tests if they developed symptoms.\n\nPupils will also be kept in groups of no more than 15 and there will be regular cleaning, Mr Williamson added.\n\n\"Together these measures will create an inherently safer system where the risk of transmission is substantially reduced for children, their teachers and also their families,\" he said.\n\nThere were 136,486 tests in the UK on Friday - the highest daily figure so far in the UK. Boris Johnson has set a target of 200,000 tests a day by the end of May.\n\nDr Jenny Harries, England's deputy chief medical officer, told the briefing that evidence suggests children \"probably have [the] same level of infections\" but do not get as ill with the virus.\n\nParents and teachers \"should not be thinking that every school is swarming with cases,\" she said.\n\nWill some children in England returning to school lead to an increase in infections? This is being debated by politicians, teachers and unions.\n\nDr Jenny Harries said that seven different \"return to school\" scenarios had been modelled by the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage).\n\nShe said the government had adopted one scientists estimate will give the smallest increase in the R number - the measure of how fast the disease the is spreading.\n\nIn England, Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 children will return to school from 1 June.\n\nSome of the reasons given for picking these age groups were to do with preventing spread of disease, for example because older children are more likely to have higher numbers of contacts outside school so pose a greater transmission risk.\n\nSome were about balancing up children's needs, including the fact that younger age groups may find self-directed learning more challenging.\n\nSome councils - such as Liverpool and Hartlepool - have said their schools will not reopen at the start of next month.\n\nAsked what school governors should do if the council's stance differs from the government's, Mr Williamson said: \"What we would ask them to do is look at the guidance very, very carefully.\n\n\"The best way of protecting children, the best way of giving them the best opportunities in life is actually to have them coming back into school - and this is a very small, tentative step in what I believe is the right direction if we pass those five tests.\"\n\nThe government's guidance says schools should:\n\nMr Williamson said he was \"always keen to listen and talk to\" union leaders - who met the government's scientific advisers on Friday - saying: \"My door is always open.\"\n\nPatrick Roach, the head the NASUWT teachers' union, welcomed Mr Williamson's promise to talk, adding that schools wanted \"clear and unequivocal guidance on the health and safety measures they will need to have in place prior to reopening\".\n\n\"The bottom line is that no teacher or child should be expected to go into schools until it can be demonstrated that it is safe for them to do so,\" Mr Roach added.\n\nOn Saturday, the children's commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, said the government and unions should \"stop squabbling and agree a plan\" to reopen schools safely \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nShe said many disadvantaged children were losing out because of schools being closed for so long.\n\nSome parents and teachers have said they are worried about the emotional distress returning to the classroom could have on staff and pupils - and questioned how they will follow social distancing rules.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video taken by an eyewitness shows the jet taking off, it went on to crash shortly after\n\nAt least one person has died after an aerobatic Canadian air force jet crashed into a residential neighbourhood.\n\nAnother crew member was injured when the plane hit a house in the city of Kamloops, British Columbia.\n\nOne pilot was able to eject before the crash on Sunday, video showed.\n\nThe Snowbirds jet had been on a tour \"to salute Canadians doing their part to fight the spread of Covid-19\", according to the team's website.\n\nThe Snowbirds perform aerobatic stunts for the public, similar to Red Arrows in the UK or the US Blue Angels.\n\nThe jet was part of the Canadian air force's Snowbirds display team\n\nThe crash happened on Sunday morning, shortly after the jet took off.\n\n\"It is with heavy hearts that we announce that one member of the CF Snowbirds team has died and one has sustained serious injuries,\" the Royal Canadian Air Force said in a tweet.\n\nThe Air Force later said that the crew member's injuries were not thought to be life threatening.\n\nThe Canadian Armed Forces identified Capt Jennifer Casey as the pilot killed.\n\nShe joined the armed forces in 2014 after a career in journalism, and served with the Snowbirds since 2018.\n\nCapt Richard MacDougall was injured but expected to recover.\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 Royal Canadian Air Force 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\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau said he was \"deeply saddened by the tragic loss\".\n\n\"For the past two weeks, the Snowbirds have been flying across the country to lift up Canadians during these difficult times,\" he said.\n\n\"Their flyovers across the country put a smile on the faces of Canadians everywhere and make us proud. Sophie and I join all Canadians in offering our heartfelt condolences to the family and loved ones of Captain Jennifer Casey.\"\n\nVideo posted on Twitter showed two jets climbing into the air from what is believed to be the Kamloops Airport before one catches on fire.\n\nWitness Annette Schonewille told CBC News: \"The one plane continued and the other one, there was two puffs, it looked like puffs of smoke and one... was a ball of fire,\" she said.\n\n\"No noise, it was strange, and then the plane just did a cartwheel and fell right out of the sky. Just boom, straight down, and then a burst of black, black smoke.\"\n\nA plume of smoke can be seen rising from the scene of the crash\n\nAfter it hit the front garden of a home in Kamloops, residents ran outside in an attempt to put out the fire.\n\n\"I just started running down the street. And I got there maybe a minute after it crashed and there was a couple of residents that had their hoses out and they were trying to put the flames out because it hit a house,\" neighbour Kenny Hinds told the Associated Press.\n\n\"It looked like most of it landed in the front yard, but maybe a wing or something went through the roof.\"\n\nThe Snowbirds perform acrobatic stunts for the public\n\nMeanwhile, resident Nolyn McLeod told CBC he saw the plane curve into the street and hit the bedroom window of his neighbour's house.\n\nPhotos published in Canadian media appeared to show a parachute on the roof of the house.\n\nThe city of Kamloops is around 200 miles (320km) northeast of Vancouver in the West Coast Canadian province. It has a population of 90,000.\n\nIn October, a Snowbirds jet crashed into an uninhabited area before an air show in the US city of Atlanta, after the pilot ejected.", "It all started with a little request we made earlier this month.\n\nWe asked you to send us the last \"normal\" photo you had on your phone before coronavirus changed your life. Hundreds of you responded. We were overwhelmed.\n\nOn Saturday, we brought you 13 of those stories - from major sporting events to family gatherings to a wedding. We then invited more of you to share your photos online using the hashtag #lastnormalphoto.\n\nThanks largely to a tweet by journalist Robyn Vinter, it quickly became one of the top three most-used Twitter hashtags worldwide.\n\nAmong the tens of thousands of photos shared online, there are some common themes. Food, friendships, the utterly random events that make up our lives. Many people's photos showed the last time they were with relatives, after lockdowns forced families apart.\n\nSue Clark's last \"normal\" photo was at her daughter's baby shower on 7 March. Her grandson Theo was born in late April.\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 Sue #StayAtHome 🏡❤️ 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 lockdown meant Sue was unable to see or support her daughter during the final weeks of her pregnancy, or to be close during what was a difficult birth.\n\n\"Luckily all turned out fine but this is a situation where as a mother your instinct is to be there - but unfortunately I felt I had to follow the rules,\" she told the BBC.\n\nSue and her daughter are now arranging to meet at a distance in a park next week.\n\nSocial distancing rules mean group events may now feel like a distant memory, but lots of you shared photos of crowds in close proximity only a couple of months ago.\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 🇪🇺 Susan Kassab 🇪🇺 This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA lot (and we mean a lot) of the photos also showed people eating in restaurants and bars, or going to clubs or theatres - places that have been inaccessible for many of us for at least two months, and may remain so for some 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 4 by Greg Bossick This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome found a photo of their workplace or university, looking back at a time before remote working was introduced to reduce the spread of the virus.\n\nOlivia Simpson's last \"normal\" photo was taken on a commute to university on 13 March.\n\nShe would normally meet friends in the library so they could work together, but like thousands of students across the UK, she is now continuing her studies alone at home.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by olivia. 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\nOthers had been anticipating big events before the new rules took effect. Several people shared photos of the dresses they bought for a prom that could not go ahead.\n\nOne of them was Emma Canzanese, 18. She chose her prom dress on 5 March - it made her feel confident in herself. But the prom was later cancelled because of coronavirus regulations in New Jersey.\n\n\"I'm happy I still bought it for any future occasion,\" she said, \"but it would have been amazing to roll up to prom and show off.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 7 by 🦋 Emma Loves Yuta Jaemin Haechan Taeyong 🦋 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome joked about how abnormal their last \"normal\" photo was.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 8 by Dr Dani Rabaiotti 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\nDr Dani Rabaiotti, a scientist with the Zoological Society of London posed with a meerkat at London Zoo for her last photo.\n\nThe zoo has been closed to visitors since late March due to the coronavirus lockdown and staff say it now faces an uncertain future.\n\nA friendly meerkat is not as abnormal, however, as a meal of fried chicken and donuts.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 9 by Vibi the Alien This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 9 by Vibi the Alien\n\nIf you could go back to the start of the year and give yourself some pre-lockdown advice, knowing what was about to happen, what advice would that be?\n\nWe will use a selection of your responses in a future article. Your name, age and location would be included unless you state otherwise but your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your response. Please include your name, age and location in your email.\n• None The last 'normal' photo on your phone", "English councils have called on the government to provide a £5bn \"income guarantee\" to prevent local authorities from having to cut services as the coronavirus hits finances.\n\nThe County Councils Network has warned councils could lose £2.4bn as income from tax and business rates fall.\n\nThe group said councils would have \"no choice\" but to suspend non-essential expenditure and cut services.\n\nThe government says it has provided \"an unprecedented £3.2bn\" to councils.\n\nA spokesman said it was giving councils \"the resources that they need to tackle the immediate pressures they have told us they're facing\".\n\n\"This is on top of English councils' core spending power rising by over £2.9 billion this financial year and a further £600 million to help reduce the infection rate in care homes,\" he added.\n\nThe County Councils Network (CCN), which represents 36 county and unitary local authorities in England, says its members could lose an estimated £430m from a fall in fees and charges.\n\nIt also says councils stand to lose up to £2.4bn if the proportion of people unable to pay council tax rises to 20% and income from business rates falls by 10%.\n\nLast month the Local Government Association said the income base was \"collapsing\" for councils, with leisure centres shut, public transport cut and parking fees not coming in.\n\nThe CCN warns that councils may have to suspend non-essential expenditure and implement cutbacks to services \"including those aimed at fighting the spread of coronavirus\".\n\nTo prevent this happening, the CCN says the government should make £5bn available to compensate councils for their lost income, pointing out the government wrote off the NHS' £13bn debt following the outbreak of the virus.\n\nCouncils fear revenue from business rates will fall as the economic impact of the coronavirus hits\n\nCllr David Williams, chairman of the County Councils Network, said funding provided by the government was \"very welcome and provides vital resources to meet immediate cost pressures, recognising that councils have done much of the heavy lifting during this pandemic, from protecting the vulnerable and taking the strain off the NHS\".\n\nHe added: \"However welcome one-off injections of resources have been, councils cannot budget on verbal reassurances alone and therefore now is the time for the government to step forward with firmer financial guarantees to stem fears that councils will have to declare insolvency.\"\n\nThe Local Government Association reiterated the message, saying that without \"ongoing and consistent funding... councils and the services our communities rely on will face an existential crisis\".\n\nCllr Richard Watts, who chairs the Local Government Association's resources board, said: \"Some councils have warned that they will soon face the prospect of Section 114 reports - this would lead to spending blocks and in-year cuts to the vital local services that are supporting communities through this crisis and the national effort to beat this deadly disease.\"\n\nSection 114 reports are issued when a council cannot achieve a balanced budget.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, the Conservative leader of Staffordshire County Council Philip Atkins acknowledged that council finances \"will be stretched\".\n\nHe says the virus has cost his council an estimated £50m - and the local authority says it has so far spent £20m supporting the local care sector.\n\n\"The government has given us £38m to help us cover the costs, so there's a bit of a gap,\" he said.\n\n\"There's a problem coming over the hill that we have to be prepared for, but I'm hopeful that the majority of the cost will be paid for by the government.\"", "The Atlas V rocket launched from Cape Canaveral on Sunday\n\nThe US Air Force has successfully launched its Atlas V rocket, carrying a X-37B space plane for a secretive mission.\n\nThe rocket launched on Sunday from Cape Canaveral, a day after bad weather halted plans for a Saturday launch.\n\nThe aircraft, also known as an Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), will deploy a satellite into orbit and also test power-beaming technology.\n\nIt is the plane's sixth mission in space.\n\nThe launch was dedicated to front line workers and those affected by the pandemic. A message including the words \"America Strong\" was written on the rocket's payload fairing.\n\nX-37B is a classified programme and United Launch Alliance, which operates the Atlas rocket, was required to end its webcast earlier in the flight than it would normally do.\n\nThe Pentagon has revealed very few details about the reusable vehicle's missions and capabilities in the past, but Secretary of the Air Force, Barbara Barrett, said earlier this month: \"This X-37B mission will host more experiments than any other prior mission.\"\n\nIt's known that one of the onboard experiments will test the effect of radiation on seeds and other materials.\n\nThe X-37B programme is classified and very little is known about previous missions\n\nThe X-37B programme started in 1999. The vehicle (the project has two) resembles a smaller version of the crewed space shuttles that were retired by the US space programme in 2011. It can glide back down through the atmosphere to land on a runway, just as the shuttle did.\n\nBuilt by Boeing, the plane uses solar panels for power in orbit, measures over 29ft (9m) long, has a wingspan of nearly 15ft and a weight of 11,000lbs (5,000kg).\n\nThe first plane flew in April 2010 and returned after an eight-month mission.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The pictures, released by 30th Space Wing, give little away about the plane's purpose\n\nThe most recent mission ended in October 2019, after 780 days in orbit, bringing the X-37B programme's time in space to more than seven years.\n\nThe length of this latest mission is currently unclear.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChina’s Ambassador to Israel, Du Wei, has been found dead in his apartment north of Tel Aviv, an Israeli official told BBC News.\n\nThe official said Israeli police had launched an investigation but initial findings suggested no foul play.\n\nMr Du, 57, was appointed ambassador in February having previously served as envoy to Ukraine.\n\nThe ambassador was married and had a son but his family had still to join him in Israel.\n\nHe was living in Herzliya, some 10km north of Tel Aviv.\n\nAn Israeli police spokesman told Reuters news agency: \"As part of the regular procedure, police units are at the scene.\"\n\nIsrael's Channel 12 TV, quoting unnamed medical sources, said initial indications were that Mr Du had died in his sleep of natural causes.\n\nThere was no immediate comment on Mr Du's death from Chinese officials.\n\nIn a message published on the embassy's website just after his appointment as ambassador, Mr Du praised the relations between \"the second largest economy in the world and Israel the start-up nation\".\n\nWhen he arrived in Israel on 15 February, Mr Du had immediately to self-isolate for two weeks because of coronavirus restrictions.\n\nIn an interview with Israeli newspaper Makor Rishon last month, Mr Du said China was being made the world's scapegoat.\n\n\"In history, more than once, a certain group of people was accused of spreading pandemics,\" he said.\n\n\"That is despicable and should be condemned. The disease is an enemy of the entire humankind and the world should fight it together.\"\n\nOn Friday, his embassy made a scathing attack on US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who had criticised China's handling of the coronavirus pandemic on a visit to Israel.\n\nIn a response published in the Jerusalem Post, the embassy condemned Mr Pompeo's \"absurd comments\", denying that China had ever covered up the crisis.", "Restaurants and bars on Hull’s Princes Avenue still face uncertainty as they continue to try and cope with coronavirus lockdown measures.\n\nSome are optimistic and have adapted to delivering takeaways, but not all have been able to after being shut in late March.\n\nJayney Wright, who runs the Off the Road Live Lounge, said she can keep going until June, but would start to struggle without any more help or the lifting of some restrictions.\n\n“We’ve had to shut shop completely. We were thinking about doing a takeaway and delivery service but our kitchen isn’t fitted out for it.\"\n\nDavid Brown, owner of the Crafted bar and eatery, said his business had switched to takeaways and it gone really well..\n\nWhile Majid Parasmand, the owner of the Persian restaurant, faces problems relating to social-distancing when he reopens - his business only seats 24 people.\n\n“We don’t know what to do. Without them, how do we cope? Even if we reopen we then have to divide people up, it’s not clear what we can do.\"", "Brexit talks are going \"well\" but the EU needs to show flexibility, Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove has said.\n\nHe said there is a \"big philosophical difference\" between the sides, and the EU wants the UK \"to follow their rules even after we have left the club\".\n\nThe EU's Michel Barnier has suggested the UK's demands are \"not realistic\" and warned of a looming stalemate.\n\nThe UK said \"very little progress\" had been made after the latest post-Brexit trade talks concluded on Friday.\n\nThe two sides have been discussing their future economic and security partnership following the UK's withdrawal from the 27-member bloc on 31 January.\n\nThe UK has said it will not extend the negotiation process beyond 31 December, despite calls for the government to allow more time for a deal to be reached due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOne of the sticking points during negotiations has been access to fishing waters. Speaking to the Andrew Marr programme, Mr Gove said \"they [the EU] want to have the same access to our fish as they had when we were in the EU\".\n\nHe challenged the EU to show \"a little bit of their fabled flexibility\", earlier telling Sky News that he was \"confident a deal could be done\".\n\nOn Friday, Mr Barnier - the EU's chief Brexit negotiator - said the UK could \"not have the best of both worlds\" adding he was \"still determined but not optimistic\" about the chances of reaching an agreement.\n\nHe also said the EU would not accept a deal \"at any price\" and was stepping up preparations for a no-deal outcome, in which the two sides would trade with each other under World Trade Organization rules.\n\nInsisting the EU would not negotiate \"in haste\", Mr Barnier said the UK must consider whether it was possible to agree a deal before the end of the year, when the current 11-month transition period is due to end.\n\nDuring the transition period the UK continues to follow EU rules - and the government has insisted it does not want to extend this period.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking to Sky News, shadow cabinet office minister Rachel Reeves said Labour \"absolutely do not want\" the UK to end the transition period in December without a deal and urged the government not to \"rush this\".\n\n\"The last thing our country and our economy needs at the moment is a further shock that could put jobs and livelihoods at risk,\" she said.\n\nMeanwhile MPs from the other opposition parties, including the SNP, Lib Dems and the Green Party, have written to Mr Barnier expressing their support for an extension to the transition period.\n\nThe letter said there was \"significant opposition to the UK government's extreme position\", adding that an extension would \"enable these detailed and defining negotiations to be conducted at a time when, we hope, the efforts of national governments and the European Union will not be engaged solely with dealing with the dreadful Covid-19 epidemic\".", "The Scottish Government say 600 of the 2000 staff required will come from the NHS Image caption: The Scottish Government say 600 of the 2000 staff required will come from the NHS\n\nA testing and tracing system to help suppress coronavirus is to be trialled in three health boards from Monday, the Scottish government has said.\n\nThe data gathering technology will be piloted in NHS Fife, NHS Lanarkshire and NHS Highland.\n\nEarlier this month, the government said testing and tracing would be \"key\" to the battle against the virus.\n\nIt has been revealed that despite 8,000 applications for 2,000 jobs as contact tracers, no-one has yet been hired.\n\nBut Health Secretary Jeane Freeman did say that 600 additional staff from the NHS are ready to start and added that she had every confidence that all the posts would be filled by the end of May.", "Thank you for following our updates.\n\nWe're now wrapping up the live page for today but before we go here's a recap of the day's main developments:\n• Over 4.6 million coronavirus cases have been reported globally, according to Johns Hopkins University, and the total death toll has risen to more than 312,000\n• The UK has reported 170 new virus-related deaths - the lowest figure since the day after its lockdown began. The UK government says it will make £84m ($102m) of funding available to researchers looking for a vaccine\n• For the first time since its own lockdown started, Spain has reported fewer than 100 deaths in the last 24 hours\n• Meanwhile India has extended its nationwide lockdown until 31 May, although there are considerable relaxations\n• Qatar has made the wearing of face masks compulsory, with repeated offenders facing a jail term of up to three years or a fine of up to $55,000 (£45,000)\n• At least 13 sailors on the American aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt have reportedly tested positive for coronavirus for a second time - it's unclear whether they were re-infected or if the virus remained in their blood from their first positive tests\n\nYou've been kept up to date by our team of writers and editors in London and Washington - Alix Kroeger, Hugo Bachega, Alexandra Fouché, Josh Cheetham, Suzanne Leigh, Victoria Lindrea, Becky Morton, Matthew Cannon, Alex Bysouth, Jonathan Jurejko, Michael Emons and Max Matza.\n\nJoin us again on Monday as we continue to bring you the latest on the pandemic from our team of experts and correspondents around the world.\n\nSee you soon!", "Sir Keir Starmer has said much more needs to be done to reassure people they are safe to return to work when the UK begins to move out of lockdown.\n\nThe Labour leader said government plans were \"full of gaps\" and a \"national consensus\" was needed between political parties, employers and unions.\n\nHe is calling for new safety standards in the workplace to reassure people \"very anxious\" about returning to work.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said any new measures had to be \"practical\".\n\nBoris Johnson is expected to reveal a \"road map\" out of lockdown on Sunday.\n\nMinisters are required by law to review the UK's lockdown restrictions every three weeks, with the next review due by Thursday. Mr Johnson has warned the UK must not lift restrictions too soon.\n\nMany companies have been shut since widespread limits on everyday life were imposed on 23 March in a bid to limit the effects of the virus's spread on the NHS.\n\nSir Keir, who took over as leader of the party last month, told the BBC that Labour supported the restrictions being extended and pledged to work \"constructively\" with the government.\n\nBut he said it was \"not unreasonable\" to ask for more clarity on what was expected of businesses and their staff to minimise the risk of the infection rate going back up again.\n\nSir Keir, who will hold talks with the PM and other opposition leaders later this week, set out out seven \"core principles\" which he believed should be considered by the government as part of its planning for an exit strategy.\n\nThese include bringing in a \"national safety standard\" for businesses and schools, in order to address the TUC's concerns about the government's draft guidance on getting people back to work.\n\n\"The government put out a consultation document out at the weekend which was very vague, with lots of gaps in it,\" he told Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"We need something stronger.\n\n\"Reassurance really matters here. I think the vast majority of people are really anxious about going back to work.\n\n\"I think people are more likely to be reassured and have confidence if they see political parties, trade unions and businesses lining up behind a standard they think is right and enforceable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus vaccine: How close are you to getting one?\n\nAnd he said ministers should urgently make the existing furlough scheme \"more flexible\" to manage people's gradual return to work.\n\nUp to 6.3 million workers - 23% of the UK's employed workforce - have been placed on the scheme, in which the state pays up to 80% of their wages.\n\nSir Keir said he agreed with Chancellor Rishi Sunak that this could not go on indefinitely and industries expected to return sooner needed more help so they can get their workers \"ready to go back to business\".\n\nSir Keir said it was \"inevitable\" people will \"probably\" have to wear face coverings in places where social distancing cannot be guaranteed after lockdown while it was likely more train services would have to be laid on.\n\nOn vaccines, Sir Keir said the government should set out how it intends to ensure the manufacture and distribution of any vaccine, while ministers should also publish a national plan for the winter flu season.\n\nA plan to ensure supply chains for protective equipment for key workers were guaranteed and a \"structured approach to easing and tightening restrictions\" must also be formed, he said.\n\nMr Hancock told the BBC that the government was consulting with unions and employers on the way forward.\n\n\"Clearly it is absolutely vital that people are as safe as possible when they're at work. We've got to do that in a way that's practical,\" he said.\n\nIn a video message posted on Twitter on Monday, Mr Johnson said the the UK must not lift restrictions too soon.\n\nThe prime minister said the UK would only be able to move on to \"the second phase of this conflict\" when the government's five tests had been met, including a sustained and consistent fall in daily deaths and being confident any adjustments would not risk a second peak which could overwhelm the health service.", "Radiologists say they are \"very concerned\" patients may not be cured of serious illnesses when demand for services increases, due to a lack of imaging equipment in the UK.\n\nThe president of the Royal College of Radiologists has warned the service had been \"woefully underfunded\".\n\nShe said cleaning requirements because of coronavirus would reduce capacity.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care in England said it was investing £200m on imaging equipment.\n\n\"Radiology is one of those services that people use all the time, but don't really often think about, it's not sexy like surgery\", said Dr Jeanette Dickson, president of the Royal College of Radiologists.\n\n\"Imaging touches on virtually every patient who comes into a hospital.\n\n\"If you look at us on a European-wide average, we are certainly one of the countries that have the fewest number of scanners a head of the population.\"\n\nA comparison by the OECD, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, in 2014 - the last set of comparable figures - showed there were just 9.5 scanners per million head of the population, far below figures for Spain, Germany, France and Italy.\n\nThe BBC has been told some trusts just had a single CT scanner in operation in the UK.\n\nDr Dickson said normal service before the outbreak was \"woefully underfunded and under-resourced\" and that they were \"coping but barely\".\n\nShe said the whole of imaging was very much understaffed prior to the Covid-19 crisis. The latest figures form the Royal College of Radiologists show 11% of funded posts for radiologists across the UK were vacant.\n\nIn April, Cancer Research said a drop-off in screening and referrals meant roughly 2,700 fewer people were being diagnosed every week.\n\nSara Hiom, Cancer Research UK's director of early diagnosis said CT scanners for diagnosing cancer \"were already at breaking point before the pandemic\".\n\nThe BBC understands that more than 30 CT scanners have been obtained from the independent sector during the coronavirus crisis, with at least 35 more ordered.\n\n\"Capacity will be much, much less than demand\" even with the equipment that has been ordered, Dr Dickson said.\n\nShe warned even when all imaging resumes, and the NHS gets back to operating fully, it would take \"at least 30-45 minutes\" to deep clean scanners after Covid-19 patients and \"more attention\" was being paid to cleaning equipment between all patients. Patients have to socially distance in the waiting room.\n\n\"I am very concerned that we may find that patients are suffering unnecessary treatments or unnecessarily damaging treatments and losing the opportunity for a cure of cancer or another serious illness, because of the lack of imaging,\" Dr Dickson said.\n\nSara Hiom added: \"The government needs to invest in the necessary equipment, employing and training more staff to enable the NHS to cope with the backlog of patients waiting for cancer care.\n\n\"Prompt diagnosis and treatment remain crucial to give patients the greatest chances of survival.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care in England said in a statement it is \"committed to increasing our capacity for earlier cancer diagnosis and have provided £200m for new state of the art diagnostic machines to improve the quality and speed of diagnosis and replace any outdated machines\".\n\nIt added that cancer services would be \"among the first of many NHS services to be returning to normal\" during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nA spokesperson for NHS England said: \"Increased cleaning of CT scanners and additional infection control measures are in place throughout the pandemic to protect staff and patients.\n\n\"The NHS is making full use of the additional scanning capacity in the independent sector as well as buying additional scanners so that tests can go ahead as normal.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said it was \"increasing diagnostic capacity in radiology, including a new National Imaging Academy, and doubling the radiology training programme\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government said it expected all health boards to \"continue to prioritise radiology capacity for those patients referred with an urgent suspicion of cancer throughout and beyond the Covid-19 outbreak\".\n\n\"The majority of cancer radiology diagnostics and treatments have continued, however some patient's treatment plans will change to minimise their individual risk,\" it added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This Sunday Andrew Marr is joined by Michael Gove and the WHO's chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan.\n\nOther guests include Robert Chote, Angela Rayner and Line of Duty's Vicky McClure and Jed Mercurio.", "Extra funding has been pledged to support women involved in prostitution during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe Scottish government said more than £61,000 will be allocated to nine organisations across the country.\n\nThe additional money will enable them to increase their staffing and improve access to support and trauma counselling.\n\nCommunity Safety Minister Ash Denham said the lockdown has increased the risk of gender-based violence.\n\nShe added: \"Women involved in prostitution may be experiencing extreme hardship due to Covid-19 as well as facing additional challenges which need to be addressed to ensure they have access to resources and support.\n\n\"No one should feel unsupported during this crisis. Stigma and the hidden nature of prostitution creates a barrier to engagement with mainstream services.\"\n\nThe funding will be delivered through the Encompass Network of support agencies over the next three months.\n\nLinda Thompson, national co-ordinator for the Women's Support Project and Encompass Network, said: \"Women involved in selling or exchanging sex in all settings have faced some incredibly difficult times recently and we know how hard it has been for them to overcome barriers for financial help.\n\n\"This will help offer more direct support to women who are facing difficulties, work alongside them to link into local services and offer some financial help. We need to make sure their needs are met now and in the future as well.\"\n\nMembers of the network include Aberdeen Cyrenians, Quay Services, Routes Out and Vice Versa.", "Staff at Saint-Pierre Hospital in Brussels have turned their backs on Belgian Prime Minister Sophie Wilmès during an official visit.\n\nBelgium's government has been criticised for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic and the country's high mortality rate.\n\nThe PM has previously suggested that Belgium may be over-reporting the actual number of cases.", "Steve Linick, who was appointed to detect mismanagement at the state department, was fired on Friday\n\nUS Democrats have launched an investigation into President Donald Trump's firing of the state department's internal watchdog.\n\nInspector General Steve Linick was investigating Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for suspected abuse of office, reports say.\n\nBut he was sacked late on Friday after Mr Trump said he no longer commanded his full confidence.\n\nThe move prompted angry criticism from senior Democrats in Congress.\n\nThey accused Mr Trump of retaliating against public servants who want to hold his administration to account. Mr Linick was the third official responsible for monitoring government misconduct to be dismissed in recent weeks.\n\nThe former prosecutor was appointed by Mr Trump's predecessor, Barack Obama, to oversee spending and detect mismanagement at the state department.\n\nOn Saturday, top Democrats on the House and Senate Foreign Relations Committees questioned the timing of Mr Linick's removal and announced an immediate investigation.\n\n\"We unalterably oppose the politically-motivated firing of inspectors general and the president's gutting of these critical positions,\" Congressman Eliot Engel and Senator Bob Menendez said in a statement.\n\nThey said Mr Linick had \"opened an investigation into wrongdoing by Secretary Pompeo himself\", adding that his firing was \"transparently designed to protect Secretary Pompeo from personal accountability\".\n\nMr Linick had begun investigating allegations that Mr Pompeo had improperly used staff to run personal errands, US media report.\n\nThe White House said Secretary Pompeo (R) had recommended firing the inspector general\n\nMr Engel and Mr Menendez have requested that the White House and State Department hand over all records related to his dismissal by next Friday.\n\nMeanwhile, on Saturday, the White House said the decision to oust Mr Linick was prompted by Mr Pompeo himself. \"Secretary Pompeo recommended the move, and President Trump agreed,\" an official said.\n\nMr Trump sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in which he declared his intention to fire Mr Linick.\n\nUnder federal law, the Trump administration must give Congress 30 days' notice of its plans to fire an inspector general. It is expected that Mr Linick will leave his post after this time, with some reports suggesting a political ally of Mr Trump is being lined up to replace him.\n\n\"It is vital that I have the fullest confidence in the appointees serving as inspectors general. That is no longer the case with regard to this inspector general,\" Mr Trump said in the letter.\n\nNot long after Mr Linick's dismissal was announced, Mr Engel, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said Mr Linick had opened an investigation into Mr Pompeo.\n\n\"Mr Linick's firing amid such a probe strongly suggests that this is an unlawful act of retaliation,\" he said in a statement.\n\nHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Mr Linick was \"punished for honourably performing his duty to protect the constitution and our national security\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt was the latest in a series of dismissals of independent government watchdogs.\n\nLast month, Mr Trump dismissed Michael Atkinson, the inspector general of the intelligence community.\n\nMr Atkinson first alerted Congress to a whistleblower complaint that led to Mr Trump's impeachment trial.", "The founder of the Labour grassroots campaign group Momentum, Jon Lansman, has announced he will step down as its chairman next month.\n\nMr Lansman, a close ally of ex-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, said it was time to \"hand over to a new leadership.\"\n\nThe left-wing group was formed out of the campaign that supported Mr Corbyn in his successful 2015 leadership bid.\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said Mr Lansman had made \"a big impact on politics\".\n\nAnnouncing his departure on the Labour List website, Mr Lansman said Momentum was \"a mass of dedicated activists fighting for a better world\" but said he would not miss \"operating against a backdrop of warring factions, abuse and hatred\".\n\nHe also suggested he would remain a member of Labour's ruling National Executive Committee (NEC), which he said was \"not fit for purpose\".\n\nHe added that the group \"must not give up\" on democratising the Labour party which it \"didn't succeed... while Jeremy was leader\".\n\nIn January 2018, he was elected to the NEC, calling the result a victory for \"21st Century socialism\".\n\nLater that year he joined the race to be Labour's general secretary before dropping out of the race to focus on his role on the party's governing body.\n\nHe argued for a much greater say for Labour members in the running of the party.\n\nHe called for an end to the era of centralised \"command and control\" in the Labour Party, in which the views of members were \"too often ignored\" and over-ruled at the party conference.\n\nMr Lansman, who has been a leading figure on Labour's \"hard left\" for four decades, has been criticised by some within Labour who have viewed Momentum as a party within a party.\n\nFollowing Labour's crushing defeat at the last election, former Labour home secretary Alan Johnson called Momentum \"a cult\".\n\nMeanwhile, former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson blamed Mr Lansman for trying to oust him from his position last year in an internal row which threatened to overshadow the party's conference.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShadow education secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey wished Mr Lansman all the \"very best for the future\" in a tweet, saying he was \"a tireless voice for Labour Party democracy for over 50 years\".", "Eurovision stars past and present have come together for a celebration show, on the night that this year's cancelled contest would have taken place.\n\nThe annual song contest was due to take place in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, but was called off amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe live show honoured all 41 songs that would have competed this year, and ended on a singalong of Love Shine A Light, the UK's winning song from 1997.", "Ann with her her husband Angus who died two years ago\n\nTributes have been paid to Ann Mitchell - one of the last of a World War Two code-breaking team at Bletchley Park - who has died aged 97.\n\nMrs Mitchell, who deciphered German codes at the British code-breaking centre from 1943, died at an Edinburgh care home on Monday.\n\nHer family and friends said she had been declining in health for some years and had \"a life well lived\".\n\nThe Scotsman reported she had tested positive for Covid-19 recently.\n\nHer son Andy Mitchell, 61, told BBC Scotland: \"She was a loving mother and it's very sad but she was declining in old age with memory loss and physical frailties.\n\n\"I'm pleased she has been given the recognition for a life well lived.\"\n\nWhen Mrs Mitchell was called up for war service in 1943 in the Foreign Office, \"she had no idea what kind of job she was accepting\", her son said.\n\nThe Oxford mathematics graduate spent the next two years at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, cracking the secret Enigma messages sent by the Germans.\n\nLater in life, her pioneering research into the effects of divorce on children influenced changes to Scots law.\n\nBorn in Oxford, she moved to Edinburgh more than 20 years ago.\n\n\"My headmistress firmly told my parents that mathematics was not a ladylike subject,\" she once said.\n\n\"She herself taught chemistry, which was surely even less ladylike. However, my parents overruled her and I pursued my chosen path.\"\n\nAnn Mitchell worked in \"hut 6\" at the top secret Bletchley Park code-breaking centre\n\nShe was one of only five women accepted to read maths at Oxford University in 1940.\n\nDuring her time at Bletchley Park, Mrs Mitchell was assigned to \"hut 6\", one of the many single-storey buildings in the grounds, where she was initiated into the secret world of code breaking.\n\nShe remained until the end of the war in the hut 6 machine room, so called because it had a number of British-made deciphering machines,\n\nHut 6 dealt with the high priority German army and air force codes, most important of which was the \"Red\" code of the Luftwaffe.\n\nAs the war came to a close, the number of messages declined until there were no more.\n\n\"I did go up to London for VE Day on 8 May 1945 but I remember very little about the celebrations,\" she said.\n\nThe codebreakers of Bletchley Park returned to normal life and, having signed the Official Secrets Act and sworn not to divulge any information about her work, Mrs Mitchell never told anyone, not even her husband, about her wartime role.\n\nShe was therefore \"amazed\", in the 1970s, to find that books were being published about Enigma.\n\nOnce the secret was out she was \"delighted\" that she could now talk about her life during wartime and gave illustrated talks around the country. She featured in the book The Bletchley Girls.\n\nShe once said: \"It was a fillip towards the end of my life, suddenly to have risen in importance, to go from being a nobody to a somebody.\n\n\"A whole past that nobody was interested in and suddenly lots of people are. It's very strange.\"\n\nDr Tessa Dunlop, author of The Bletchley Girls, said Mrs Mitchell had been in \"an era when women often didn't work\"\n\nDr Tessa Dunlop, author of The Bletchley Girls, said: \"Ann was a rare breed. I remember the archivist at her Oxford University college sending me her CV - in an era when women often didn't work it made for intimidating reading.\n\n\"Yet to meet and speak to Ann was an enlightening and joyful experience. A wife and mother-of-four she combined gentle empathy (hence her later sterling work in the marriage guidance arena ) with extraordinary acuity.\n\n\"It was the latter quality which Bletchley Park would benefit from during the war. The vast majority of the thousands of women who worked there were just out of school, cogs in a much bigger code breaking factory, but Ann was a maths graduate whose numerical dexterity was put to good use in hut 6.\n\n\"Ann's main task was to compose the 'menus' for bombes (the testing machines designed to find enigma codes).\n\n\"It was a pressurised job that suited her temperament. Ann let me read her diary... it was a wonderful testimony to a young girl who came of age in an era which briefly defied gender norms to staff a giant secret war machine, Ann grasped the opportunity that presented with both hands.\n\n\"The park were lucky to have her.\"\n\nSally Jameson, 86, became good friends with Mrs Mitchell when she moved to Edinburgh 22 years ago.\n\nShe said: \"My husband and I made friends with Ann when we joined the St John's Church in Edinburgh.\n\n\"She was awfully kind to us. We loved the old lady, she was a dear.\n\n\"We met up with her on all sorts of occasions, she was a lovely person. She was terrific and did such a lot. She also did her marriage guidance and was terribly good at that.\"", "More than 110,000 self-employed people whose businesses are affected by coronavirus have already applied for government grants on the first day of the scheme's operation.\n\nThe value of the claims made so far is more than £340m, said officials.\n\nThe Self Employed Income Support Scheme is designed to match the support being given to furloughed employees.\n\nThe grants will be calculated as 80% of average monthly profit over a period of up to three years.\n\nThe government said the money would be paid into the accounts of eligible people six days after applying.\n\nThe maximum payment will be £7,500, intended to cover March, April and May.\n\nThe scheme is the biggest direct financial support package for freelancers and the self-employed since lockdown started.\n\nThe process is being run by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), which has been operating and overseeing loan schemes and the government's furlough payments.\n\nHMRC says most of the 3.5 million people affected should have been contacted, and invited to get ready to make a claim by using its eligibility checker.\n\nThey will then have been given a time at which to apply, between Wednesday and 18 May, although if applicants are unable to file at that time HMRC says they can still go ahead and apply.\n\nInevitably, some people's records will not be up to date or they may not be at their normal address. HMRC says anyone who thinks they are eligible but has not heard from it should go to its website and use the checker tool. Claims can then be made from 17 May.\n\nMost should receive any money they are entitled to from 25 May.\n\nThe scheme was unveiled in March after the government faced criticism for failing to provide support for self-employed and freelance workers in its earlier package of economic measures.\n\nDerek Cribb, chief executive of the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed, said the scheme extended \"a much-needed lifeline to those self-employed people who are eligible for it\".\n\n\"For the self-employed, coronavirus is not only a health crisis, but also a pressing income crisis, until now they've been coping either by applying for Universal Credit or by digging into their savings.\"\n\nHowever, those who started in business from early April last year will miss out, as will those who pay themselves just with dividends from a limited company. Mr Cribb urged the government to extend the scheme to include those groups too.\n\nThe government has not said whether the initiative will be extended into the autumn in line with the furlough scheme, which protects 80% of employees' wages up to £2,500 a month.\n\nOn Tuesday, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced that scheme was being extended until the end of October.\n\nMr Sunak said: \"With payments arriving before the end of this month, the self-employed across the UK will have money in their pockets to help them through these challenging times.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keir Starmer says the government was “too slow” to protect people in care homes from coronavirus.\n\nBoris Johnson must account for official figures showing 10,000 \"unexplained\" deaths in care homes last month, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said.\n\nSir Keir said there were 18,000 more deaths in April than the average for that month, but only 8,000 were recorded as coronavirus-related.\n\nHe said the government had been \"too slow to protect people in care homes\".\n\nMr Johnson said there \"is much more to do but we are making progress\" on reducing the pandemic in care homes.\n\nAnd he announced a further £600m to fight infections in care homes in England.\n\nThe money will be funnelled through local councils to help improve infection control by measures such as reducing staff rotation between homes, increasing testing and ensuring small independent homes have access to expert advice.\n\nMr Johnson and Sir Keir also clashed at Prime Minister's Questions over government advice issued at the start of the pandemic.\n\nSir Keir said that up until 12 March care homes were being told it was \"very unlikely\" anyone would become infected.\n\nThe prime minister said \"it wasn't true the advice said that\".\n\nSir Keir wrote to the PM after the session, to accuse him of misleading MPs and asking him to return to the Commons to correct the record.\n\nBut in a letter responding to Sir Keir, Mr Johnson said he stood by his comments and accused the Labour leader of \"selectively and misleadingly\" quoting guidance from Public Health England.\n\nThe advice that was withdrawn in mid-March was based on the assumption at the time that the virus was not spreading widely in the community.\n\nIn hindsight, that assumption was wrong and the fear that the virus had taken hold was part of the reason the government ordered the lockdown. At that point the advice was withdrawn.\n\nBut the large death toll in care homes is also related to what happened after that point.\n\nBecause we did not have a testing network or the right stocks of personal protective equipment care homes have undoubtedly suffered.\n\nThe NHS became the major priority and even now not all staff or residents have been tested.\n\nThe deaths being reported in care homes have also been a source of concern and confusion for a number of weeks.\n\nSir Keir Starmer is right to say a large number of deaths are unaccounted for.\n\nThere are a number of possible explanations for this.\n\nThey could be coronavirus cases that have been under-reported - the lack of testing in care homes may mean doctors have missed the presence of the virus when they have filled in the death certificates.\n\nThey could be \"indirect deaths\" related to the fact that residents have been unable to get care for other conditions, such as heart disease.\n\nFinally, some are likely to be people who in previous years would have been taken to hospital to die but were kept in care homes - the ONS data also shows that the number of non-coronavirus deaths in hospital have actually fallen.\n\nThe guidance at the centre of the row was issued on 25 February and withdrawn on 13 March, a time when the virus was not thought to be spreading in the community.\n\nIt said: \"This guidance is intended for the current position in the UK where there is currently no transmission of COVID-19 in the community.\n\n\"It is therefore very unlikely that anyone receiving care in a care home or the community will become infected.\"\n\nThe guidance went on: \"There is no need to do anything differently in any care setting at present.\"\n\nThe prime minister's letter accused Sir Keir of \"neglecting\" to provide the context of the guidance.\n\nMr Johnson said deaths in care homes were too high\n\nIn his letter to Mr Johnson, the Labour leader said: \"At this time of national crisis it is more important than ever that government ministers are accurate in the information they give.\"\n\nHe added that: \"I expect you to come to the House of Commons at the earliest opportunity to correct the record.\"\n\nIn his letter to Sir Keir, Mr Johnson said he had sought engagement and consultation with opposition parties and added: \"The public expect us to work together.\"\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said the government had brought in the lockdown in care homes ahead of the general lockdown but that there was \"unquestionably an appalling epidemic\" in that setting.\n\nHe added that the number of deaths in care homes had been \"too high\", but that \"the number of outbreaks is down and the number of fatalities well down\".\n\nSir Keir pointed to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed at least 40% of Covid-19 deaths in England and Wales occurred in care homes.\n\nAnd he quoted a cardiologist who had told the Daily Telegraph newspaper that hospitals had \"actively seeded\" the virus into the \"most vulnerable\" population by discharging \"known, suspected and unknown cases into care homes\".\n\nMr Johnson said: \"The number of discharges from hospitals into care homes went down in March and April and we had a system of testing people going into care homes and that testing is now being ramped up.\"", "Buzzfeed News staff in New York: The company says it is to focus on US stories\n\nOnline media firm Buzzfeed is to close its UK and Australian news operations.\n\nThe US company, which set up its London office in 2013, said the decision had been made \"both for economic and strategic reasons\".\n\nBuzzfeed said it would be focusing on news that \"hits big in the United States during this difficult period\".\n\nSome staff will stay on to cover social news, celebrity and investigations, but it is thought about 10 jobs are affected.\n\nBBC News media editor Amol Rajan said the affected UK staff had been furloughed.\n\nHe added that the title \"did much outstanding work\" and its closure showed that the coronavirus crisis had \"claimed a high-profile journalistic institution\".\n\nBuzzfeed News had been a \"strong, scooping, important voice\" in UK journalism and its decision was due to the pressures on the company's advertising-funded business model, not its work, our correspondent added.\n\nBuzzfeed's UK political editor Alex Wickham tweeted: \"So incredibly proud of the BuzzFeed UK team, which punched so far above its weight and did some really amazing journalism.\"\n\nPaying tribute to his colleagues, news editor Alan White posted that \"the amount of talent in that office was unreal\".\n\nPolitical correspondent Hannah Al-Othman tweeted she had \"an absolutely brilliant three years\" at the title. \"It's been the best job I've ever had, and there'll probably never be another one better,\" she added.\n\nGuardian columnist Marina Hyde wrote that she had \"been informed and made to laugh so many times a day by their brilliant, idiosyncratic and dedicated staff\".\n\nA Buzzfeed UK investigation into 14 mysterious deaths allegedly linked to Russia was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2017.\n\nEarlier this month, the site was also the first to report on all seven of the government's draft documents which outlined proposals for easing the UK's coronavirus lockdown.\n\nIn a statement, Buzzfeed said it was still investing heavily in its news business and will spend about $10m (£8.05m) more than it makes from its operation this year, and about $6m more in 2021.\n\nIt added: \"We will be consulting with employees on our plans regarding furloughs and stand-downs\".", "The government has set out plans to restart England's housing market, which has been in deep freeze since the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nEstate agents can now open, viewings can be carried out and removal firms and conveyancers can restart operations.\n\nHousing Secretary Robert Jenrick said the changes must be carried out under social distancing and safety rules.\n\nIt is estimated there are 450,000 buyers and renters with plans on hold.\n\n\"Our clear plan will enable people to move home safely, covering each aspect of the sales and letting process, from viewings to removals,\" Mr Jenrick said.\n\n\"This critical industry can now safely move forward, and those waiting patiently to move can now do so.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the property markets in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland remain shut. Home viewings are not permitted under lockdown regulations and their land registries are either running a reduced service or are not registering transactions.\n\nAlistair Elliott, chairman and senior partner at estate agents Knight Frank, told the BBC's Today programme the measures were \"a major first step\".\n\n\"We believe the public will have confidence to re-engage with the housing market,\" he said.\n\nJonathan Hopper, chief executive of real estate consultants Garrington Property Finders, said: \"Few things are more likely to make people want to move than being cooped up in the same four walls for weeks on end, and property portals have seen traffic increase by up to a fifth.\"\n\nThis announcement by the government will test the housing sector's hope, and belief, that a wave of pent-up demand amongst buyers and renters is ready to be released.\n\nYet, the reality is that many people's finances are now less secure than they were just a few months ago when they were preparing to move.\n\nExpect a lot more haggling over price from both sides if they have yet to have formally agreed what they will pay or accept, especially if getting a mortgage is harder.\n\nEstate agent Savills has already suggested that people who still have money to look for somewhere new, may now be rethinking their priorities.\n\nA spare room and good Wi-Fi may suddenly have become more appealing when working from home, and a large garden may be even more of a golden ticket for anyone with children.\n\nHousing Secretary Mr Jenrick said guidance from Public Health England must continue to be followed. For example, anyone advised to self-isolate should continue to do so and not move home.\n\nThe move has raised questions over how social distancing would work during the viewing process to ensure people remain safe, particularly when tenants are still at home.\n\nMiles Shipside, from property portal Rightmove, said he expected digital viewings to remain popular.\n\nProperty website Zoopla previously estimated that about 373,000 property sales had been put on hold during lockdown - with a total value of £82bn.\n\nAgreed sales were running at a 10th of the normal level for the time of year, and were akin to the activity seen in late December, it said.\n\nSpring is usually a busy time for the housing and mortgage markets.\n\nBuyers deserted the housing market for obvious reasons just before and after the introduction of virus restrictions, which began on 23 March.\n\nContent available only in the UK\n\nThis led to a 70% drop in buyer demand over the course of a few weeks. Meanwhile, rental demand is 42% down since the start of March, according to Zoopla.\n\nThe government has also outlined other measures to get the house building sector moving, including:\n\nThe new guidance includes the permission for trades people to operate in homes, providing they follow social distancing advice.\n\nStewart Baseley, executive chairman of the Home Builders Federation, said: \"A resumption of work will play a major part in helping the economy recover, as well as delivering the homes the country needs.\n\n\"It should also provide the supply chain with the confidence it needs to accelerate its own restart.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's political editor asks Rishi Sunak if the UK is looking at a recession due to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe UK scheme to pay wages of workers on leave because of coronavirus will be extended to October, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said.\n\nMr Sunak confirmed that employees will continue to receive 80% of their monthly wages up to £2,500.\n\nBut he said the government will ask companies to \"start sharing\" the cost of the scheme from August.\n\nA quarter of the workforce, some 7.5 million people, are now covered by the scheme, which has cost £14bn a month.\n\nThe chancellor said that from August, the scheme would continue for all sectors and regions of the country but with greater flexibility to support the transition back to work.\n\nEmployers currently using the scheme will then be able to bring furloughed employees back part-time.\n\nMr Sunak will attempt slowly to reduce the cost to the taxpayer of the subsidy scheme, but full details are still to be worked out.\n\nHowever, sources have told the BBC the Treasury stills expects to be paying more than half the costs between August and October.\n\nLater on Tuesday, in an interview with the BBC, Mr Sunak said the number of job losses \"breaks my heart\", adding: \"That's why I'm working night and day to limit the amount of job losses.\"\n\nMr Sunak told the Commons said: \"I'm extending the scheme because I won't give up on the people who rely on it.\n\n\"Our message today is simple: we stood behind Britain's workers and businesses as we came into this crisis, and we will stand behind them as we come through the other side.\"\n\nThere has been growing concern about the cost of the scheme, and last week Mr Sunak said it could not continue in its current form.\n\nHowever, he was under pressure to announce changes soon to avoid a so-called \"cliff edge\" in which employers begin mass redundancies.\n\nAny company seeking to cut more than 100 jobs must run a 45-day consultation, meaning 18 May was the last date employers could start this process before the furlough scheme ended in June.\n\nThe chancellor rejected suggestions some people might get \"addicted\" to furlough if it was extended.\n\n\"Nobody who is on the furlough scheme wants to be on this scheme,\" the chancellor said. \"People up and down this country believe in the dignity of their work, going to work, providing for their families, it's not their fault their business has been asked to close or asked to stay at home.\"\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds said broadly welcomed the changes, saying \"at least we are moving in the right direction\".\n\nBut she said the \"big elephant in the room\" is over what the government's employer contribution will involve, adding that the \"critical point is that any changes to the scheme must not result in any spike in unemployment\".\n\nDespite the extension of the furlough scheme, Patrick Langmaid said it's still unlikely to stop him making people redundant from his Mother Ivey's Bay holiday park, at Padstow.\n\nHe has furloughed seven staff and has nine still working. The handful of staff he would usually employ seasonally he has let go.\n\n\"There is no income - and huge costs,\" he says.\n\n\"We are very worried about how we, as employers, are going to make contributions through August, September and October [when employers will be expected to share the costs of the scheme]\", he said. \"I am very, very worried about how I am going to cope in the winter.\n\n\"I've already started briefing my team that there will have to be redundancies,\" he says. He reckons four or five jobs may have to go, depending how long the lockdown lasts.\n\nDealing with redundancy is \"horrible\", he says, adding: \"It is really not a nice time to be running a business.\"\n\nBusinesses largely welcomed the extension, with business group the British Chambers of Commerce saying the move would bring \"significant relief\" to employers and workers,\n\nAnd Stephen Phipson, chief executive of manufacturing group Make UK, said it would avoid \"a looming cliff edge triggering significant redundancies for many companies and recognises the need for greater flexibility as the economy fires up.\"\n\nHowever, he warned that there was no \"silver bullet\" and that both government and industry would have to be flexible.\n\nThere was also support from the TUC, with general secretary Frances O'Grady saying the extension \"will be a big relief for millions\".\n\nBut she added: \"As the economic consequences of Covid-19 become clear, unions will keep pushing for a job guarantee scheme to make sure everyone has a decent job.\"\n\nPaul Johnson, director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies economic think tank, estimates the scheme will have cost nearly £100bn by October. It is thought that about 935,000 businesses signed up for the scheme in total.\n\nReports of the demise of the furlough scheme have been somewhat exaggerated. It was never going to be scrapped, especially after the Bank of England stressed the scheme's importance for economic recovery.\n\nOver a quarter of all jobs - 27%, 7.5 million in total - are now paid for by the taxpayer, potentially for eight months. After that, the level of subsidy from taxpayer will be lowered, with employers expected to pay a contribution.\n\nBy August, the scheme could start to look quite similar to longer standing wage subsidy schemes seen in continental Europe. The cost of the scheme to date is already over £10bn. This extension will be tens of billions more, but difficult to put a precise number on this given the lack of detail on the \"employer contribution\".\n\nExpensive yes. But what is also costly is letting unemployment sky rocket, as, without the extension, many businesses would have begun 45-day redundancy consultations this week.\n\nThe question now is how many businesses still see this as a bridge to some sort of normality where furloughed staff can be phased back into their old jobs. Unfortunately some in industries which will not return to normal have already started to fire staff. This announcement buys most workers more time.\n\nAre you currently on furlough? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "People in the most-deprived areas of Scotland are more than twice as likely to die with Covid-19 than those in the least deprived areas, new data reveals.\n\nThe latest weekly figures from the National Record of Scotland show additional analysis of the impact of deprivation on mortality.\n\nIt shows that the death rate among people living in the 20% most-deprived areas is 86.5 per 100,000.\n\nIn the least-deprived fifth of Scottish areas the figure is just 38.2.\n\nDeath rates from all causes are normally higher in the most-deprived areas but the statistics show that phenomenon is even worse when it comes to Covid-19.\n\nThe National Records of Scotland figures show that Inverclyde, which includes Greenock and Port Glasgow, had the highest rate of any council area, with 13.2 coronavirus deaths per 10,000 of the population. That is double the average for the whole of Scotland, which is 5.72.\n\nThe latest NRS analysis shows that men in the most-deprived areas are even more badly affected. The death rate for men in the poorest areas is 109.2 per 100,000 compared with 43.2 in the least-deprived areas. For women the figure is 70.2 per 100,000 in the poorest areas and 32.9 in the richest.\n\nJim McCormick, associate director for Scotland at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, said: \"It can never be right that someone's life chances are so profoundly affected by where they live or how much money their family has.\n\n\"It's crucial that all aspects of the spread of this virus are carefully examined, but we know that people in areas with higher deprivation scores are less likely to have jobs where they can work from home.\n\n\"This means they may have to face a very significant drop in income or keep going to work, facing greater risks of catching virus. They are also more likely to live in overcrowded homes, increasing the risk for whole families. \"\n\nThe areas are based on the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation - a measure considering seven criteria including income and health.\n\nThe analysis also looked at urban and rural areas, showing a large difference in Covid-19 death rates.\n\nIn large urban areas the death rate from Covid-19 was 76.8 per 100,000 people whereas in remote rural areas it was just 17.9.", "Lockdown measures have been loosened in France Image caption: Lockdown measures have been loosened in France\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that Covid-19 may be here to stay.\n\n\"This virus may become just another endemic virus in our communities and this virus may never go away,\" Michael Ryan, the WHO's emergencies director, told a virtual press conference in Geneva.\n\n\"HIV has not gone away - but we have come to terms with the virus.\"\n\nHe said that, without a vaccine, it could take years for the population to build up sufficient levels of immunity to the virus. There are many attempts being carried out around the world to develop a vaccine but experts say there is a risk that one may never be created.\n\nMeanwhile, as countries across the globe start easing lockdown measures, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that the process could trigger new waves of infections.\n\nRyan said there was lots of \"magical thinking\" surrounding countries opening back up. He added that there was a \"long, long way to go\" on the path to returning to normal.", "Tim Jones said he had received messages from Rocky Horror star Susan Sarandon and writer Richard O'Brien\n\nA singing police officer who has been raising spirits during lockdown says the response to his videos has been \"overwhelming\".\n\nMore than four million people have watched PC Tim Jones perform a song from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, while dressed in his police uniform.\n\nHe now has 118,000 social media followers around the world through his regular live shows broadcast from home.\n\n\"It is all about positivity and I have had so many nice messages,\" he said.\n\nThe 47-year-old constable started a challenge to sing one song every day for a month, but it was his rendition of Sweet Transvestite from The Rocky Horror Picture Show which really took off.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook video by Tim This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\n\"A few of my friends and colleagues were doing things so I thought I had to upgrade, so I sang in my police uniform at work.\n\n\"In 24 hours it went from 1,000 views to over a million.\n\n\"Overwhelming would be the word. I have people from Australia and South Africa tuning in to watch me sing in my dining room,\" he said.\n\nHe said he had even received messages from Rocky Horror star Susan Sarandon and writer Richard O'Brien.\n\nTim has been a police officer for 18 years\n\nThe Gloucester police officer said he could not make it into his school choir as a child and only returned to singing at the age of 30.\n\nHe has since performed on stage in musical theatre productions at venues including Cheltenham's Everyman Theatre.\n\n\"People are suffering at the moment and along with all the fun, there is a serious message about mental health, so if I can help people in any way that is great.\n\n\"It is a real release for me; I love it. I'm not sure where it will all end up.\"", "Play video What are guidelines on face masks across the UK? from BBC\n\nWhat are guidelines on face masks across the UK?", "Long seen as annoying creatures that can leave holes in your clothes, moths have been badly misjudged, say scientists.\n\nNew research suggests they play a vital role as overnight pollinators of a wide range of flowers and plants.\n\nThe study says that the moths' transport networks are larger and more complex than those of daytime pollinators like bees.\n\nThe authors believe there is an urgent need to stem declines in moth numbers.\n\nOver the past decade, public anxiety about the role of our pollinators has focused squarely on bees.\n\nThe fall-off in their numbers, linked to changes in land and widespread use of pesticides, has helped raise environmental awareness of the critical role these creatures play in the food chain.\n\nMoths, though, have not evoked similar sympathies.\n\n\"There's this big misconception that all moths come and eat my clothes. That's not what happens at all,\" said Dr Richard Walton, from University College London (UCL), the lead author of the new study.\n\nA magpie moth was one of the species examined in the study\n\n\"Some of them happen to be visiting flowers and can be an important part of the pollination process.\"\n\nTo find out how vital a part the moths play, Dr Walton and colleagues monitored moth activity around ponds in agricultural areas of Norfolk.\n\nThey found that 45% of the moths they tested were transporting pollen, which originated from 47 different plant species, including several that were rarely visited by bees, hoverflies and butterflies.\n\nThe scientists found that while bumblebees and honeybees are critically important, they tended to target the most prolific nectar and pollen sources. Not so with moths.\n\n\"From what we see from our work, moths tend to be generalists, meaning they're not specifically visiting a narrow group of flowers,\" said Dr Walton.\n\n\"They're kind of visiting any type of flower that they can access. These tend to be the open cup-shaped flowers like bramble, they can access things from the legume family, the clover family was also very important.\"\n\nPrevious studies on moths have tended to focus on their ability to transport pollen via their proboscis or nose. This new work looked at the pollen collected on the moths' distinctly hairy bodies when they sit on flowers while feeding.\n\nThe researchers believe their study shows that moths complement the work of daytime pollinators and help keep plant populations diverse and abundant. They serve as a form of back-up for biodiversity, which in turn supports crop yields.\n\nThe vital role played by the moths has come under increasing threat as they have suffered steep declines in numbers since the 1970s. This is largely due to changes in land use and the increasing use of pesticides.\n\n\"This has a knock-on effect for birds that feed on moths, such as the cuckoo. Its decline is kind of tied to moth declines,\" said Dr Walton.\n\n\"Bats will feed on moths as well, so there's ties to other creatures having declines in their own populations, because their food supply, the moths, are going down as well. You can see this kind of linkage play out.\"\n\nHelping the moths will require the use of less pesticide and encouraging a wider diversity of plants in the landscape.\n\nBut perhaps more importantly, the public perception of moths needs to change.\n\n\"Something that's out of sight, is often out of mind,\" said Dr Walton.\n\nPollination by bees is critically important but they are not they only species involved\n\n\"We just see bees in the daytime and we see them visiting the flower so they've got the better shift when when it comes to work, in terms of being visible.\"\n\n\"But moths are by no means less important. I think it's vital to raise the profile of moths to help the public at large see the important part they play in our ecology.\"\n\nThe study has been published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters.", "Germany's forthcoming coronavirus contact-tracing app will trigger alerts only if users test positive for Covid-19.\n\nThat puts it at odds with the NHS app, which instead relies on users self-diagnosing via an on-screen questionnaire.\n\nUK health chiefs have said the questionnaire is a key reason they are pursuing a \"centralised\" design despite privacy campaigners' protests.\n\nAnd on Wednesday Chancellor Angela Merkel said there would be a \"much higher level of acceptance\" for a decentralised approach, which is designed to offer a higher degree of anonymity.\n\nGermany's chancellor believes a decentralised app will be more popular\n\nAutomated contact tracing uses smartphones to register when their owners are in close proximity for significant amounts of time.\n\nIf someone is later found to have the virus, a warning can be sent to others they may have infected, telling them to get tested themselves and possibly go into quarantine.\n\nIn the centralised model, the contact-matching happens on a remote computer server.\n\nAnd the UK's National Cyber Security Centre has said this will enable it to catch attackers trying to abuse the self-diagnosis system.\n\nBy contrast, the decentralised version carries out the process on the phones themselves.\n\nAnd there is no central database that could be used to re-identify individuals and reveal with whom they had had spent time.\n\nBBC News technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones said: \"The NHS is taking a big gamble in choosing to alert app users when they have been in contact with someone who has merely reported symptoms.\n\n\"It could make the app fast and effective - or it could mean users become exasperated by a blizzard of false alarms.\"\n\nMs Merkel said SAP and Deutsche Telekom - which are co-developing Germany's app - were waiting for Google and Apple to release a software interface before they could complete their work.\n\nAnd BBC News has learned the two US technology companies plan to release the finished version of their API (application programming interface) as soon as Thursday.\n\nDetails of Germany's Corona-Warn-App published on the code-sharing site Github say it depends solely on medical test results to \"avoid misuse\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What is contact tracing and how does it work?\n\nThose who test positive will be given a verification code that must be entered into the app before it anonymously flags them as being a risk to others.\n\nGermany has led the way in testing in Europe and currently has capacity to analyse about 838,000 samples per week.\n\n\"Speed is of the essence,\" Prof Christophe Fraser, of the Oxford Big Data Institute, said last week.\n\nIt can take several days to obtain Covid-19 test results.\n\nAnd self-reported symptoms can be acted on instantly.\n\nBut an ethics advisory board advising Health Secretary Matt Hancock on the app has warned too many resulting \"false positive alerts could undermine trust in the app and cause undue stress to users\".\n\nThe NHS is currently trialling its app on the Isle of Wight.\n\nThere have been reports of some suspected false alerts.\n\nBut a Department of Health spokeswoman said this had been expected.\n\n\"In a matter of days, more than 50,000 people have downloaded the app with overwhelmingly positive feedback,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"But as with all new technologies, there will be issues that need to be resolved in how it works, which is why it is being trialled before a national rollout.\"\n\nThe NHS is also exploring use of the Apple-Google API, which would entail a switch to the decentralised model.\n\nBut it intends to offer users the centralised version first, unless plans to complete the rollout within a fortnight go awry.\n\nNorway's data regulator is at odds with the country's' National Institute of Public Health about its contact-tracing app\n\nOne sticking point could be calls for limits on how the data is used - possibly requiring a new law.\n\nThat would avoid the risk of a repeat of the situation in Norway, where the local data protection watchdog has accused the country's health authority of failing to carry out a proper risk assessment of a centralised contact-tracing app.", "Coming up on The Nine: Care home staff 'do not meet testing criteria' even with symptoms\n\nBBC Scotland's The Nine has seen NHS guidance sent to care homes that advises staff “do not meet criteria for testing” even if they show symptoms of coronavirus. The document, sent to care homes in Fife, says that if the staff member works in a team big enough to “absorb the workload” they should isolate for 14 days instead. But Scottish government guidance states “all symptomatic key workers” can be tested. A Scottish government spokesperson told us “all residents and staff will be offered testing, whether they are symptomatic or not, in homes where there has been a confirmed case”.", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nTottenham and England midfielder Dele Alli was held at knifepoint during a burglary in the early hours of Wednesday morning.\n\nTwo men broke into the 24-year-old's house in north London, where he is spending lockdown with his brother and their respective partners.\n\nAlli was threatened and punched during the incident and suffered minor facial injuries in a scuffle.\n\nAlli has handed CCTV footage to the police.\n\n\"Thank you for all the messages. Horrible experience but we're all okay now. Appreciate the support,\" Alli posted on Twitter on Wednesday night.\n\nSpurs added: \"We have been offering our support to Dele and those isolating with him. We encourage anyone with any information to help the police with their investigation to come forward.\"\n\nA Metropolitan Police statement said: \"Police were called at approximately 00:35 BST on Wednesday, 13 May to reports of a robbery at a residential address.\n\n\"Two males gained entry to the property and stole items of jewellery, including watches, before fleeing.\n\n\"Two male occupants at the property suffered minor facial injuries after being assaulted. They did not require hospital treatment.\n\n\"There have been no arrests. Enquiries into the circumstances continue.\"\n\nIn March, the family of Alli's Spurs team-mate Jan Vertonghen was robbed at knifepoint while he was away on Champions League duty.", "A member of the Municipal Civil Guard checks the temperature of a pedestrian in the city of Niterói\n\nBrazil has recorded its highest daily rise in the number of deaths from the coronavirus, health officials say.\n\nIt registered 881 new deaths on Tuesday, the health ministry said. The total death toll now stands at 12,400.\n\nIt means Brazil, which is at the centre of the Latin American outbreak, is now the sixth worst affected country in terms of recorded deaths.\n\nAnd experts say the real figure may be far higher due to a lack of testing in the country.\n\n\"Brazil is only testing people who end up in the hospital,\" Domingo Alves from the University of Säo Paulo Medical School told AFP news agency.\n\n\"It's hard to know what's really happening based on the available data,\" he said. \"We don't have a real policy to manage the outbreak.\"\n\nMr Alves is one of the authors of a study that estimated the real number of infections was 15 times higher than the official figure.\n\nThe number of confirmed cases in the country currently stands at 177,589, officials say. It rose by more than 9,000 on Tuesday and overtook Germany's tally of 170,000.\n\nBrazil's total is second only to the US in the Western Hemisphere. The World Health Organization (WHO) says the Americas are currently at the centre of the pandemic.\n\nThe outbreak is expected to accelerate over the coming weeks, experts say, and there are fears the pandemic could overwhelm Brazil's health system.\n\nBut far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has repeatedly downplayed the threat of the coronavirus and criticised governors and mayors for adopting strict restrictions to curb its spread.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Doria: \"It’s amazing when you have two viruses to combat: the coronavirus and the Bolsonaro virus\"\n\nEarlier this week, he issued a decree that classified businesses such as gyms and hairdressers as \"essential\" services that were exempt from lockdowns. But at least 10 governors said they would not comply with the order.\n\n\"Governors who do not agree with the decree can file lawsuits in court,\" Mr Bolsonaro wrote on social media.\n\nIt comes after researchers said the first recorded coronavirus-related death in Brazil happened almost two months earlier than previously thought.\n\nScientists at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation said molecular tests suggested a patient who had died in Rio de Janeiro between 19 and 25 January had had Covid-19.\n\nBrazil's coronavirus figures are issued at the end of each day - and every evening people are hoping for the best but expecting the worst.\n\nBrazil doesn't have a lot going for it at the moment, when it comes to flattening the curve… a president who sows confusion by flouting global health guidelines (at the weekend he jumped on a jetski, mask-free, and attended a floating BBQ, for example) and government statistics that reveal residents in the worst-hit city Sao Paulo are increasingly failing to isolate.\n\nJust 48% of people in Sao Paulo are staying at home nowadays, despite a state-wide quarantine. Traffic jams have returned and local authorities are trying to counter that by introducing tougher measures. Sao Paulo city has banned cars from circulating on particular days and tried to block roads to dissuade people from commuting. Some badly affected states in the north east have introduced much tougher lockdown measures.\n\nBut they all feel like desperate attempts to reverse an inevitable course of spiralling deaths. With no federal leadership for people to look to, Brazil has resorted to a fragmented approach to an ever more worrying crisis.\n\nThe scientists also said their research suggested the virus was being spread from person to person in Brazil in early February - weeks before the country's popular carnival street parties kicked off.\n\nHealth Minister Nelson Teich said he needed more information before he could comment on the research carried out by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, which has been published online but not yet been peer-reviewed.\n\nIf confirmed, the cases would considerably change the timeline of how the virus spread in Brazil.", "Hormone-fed beef and chlorine-washed chicken should remain banned in England after Brexit, the government has been warned.\n\nMinisters say the issue will be dealt with in the upcoming Trade Bill.\n\nBut opponents of these practices say that could lead to farm standards being bargained away in negotiations.\n\nInstead, they want ministers to guarantee food standards in the Agriculture Bill, which returns to the House of Commons on Wednesday.\n\nSome Conservative MPs have joined up with the opposition to demand protection for England's farmers from lower standard produce from countries like the US.\n\nFarmers there are allowed to feed beef with hormones and wash chickens with chlorine solution in order to maximise productivity.\n\nBut both of these practices are currently banned in the EU. The US demands that ban should be lifted.\n\nA government spokesperson said existing protections would not be compromised in trade negotiations.\n\nThe issue is part of a great upheaval in UK farm and countryside policy – the biggest since World War II.\n\nThe UK government wants to shift farm grants to reward activities that enhance the environment.\n\nIts opponents are concerned at the lack of clarity over exactly how the transformation will happen, and want the changes to be delayed.\n\nMinsters are likely to suffer huge pressure in the Commons on the question of food import standards.\n\nThey face almost identical amendments to the Bill from some Conservative back-benchers; the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Efra) Select Committee; and the Labour and Liberal Democrat front benches. They are all calling for a level playing field on food standards.\n\nJyoti Fernandes, from the Landworkers' Alliance, a union of farmers and other land-based workers, said: \"The Agriculture Bill is a historic moment to make or break our food system.\n\n“If we don’t protect our farms from being undercut by cheap imports and make a firm commitment to supporting our farmers through this transition, we can wave goodbye to a humane and ecological domestic food supply for future generations.\"\n\nSally-Ann Spence, from the Nature Friendly Farming Network, runs a farm in Wiltshire. She said: “As a farmer doing my best to protect our precious natural environment and heritage, the prospect of low-standard imports fills me with dread.\n\n“In the UK, we are striving to deliver healthy food at world-leading standards whilst managing the land for wildlife and public goods.\n\n“I urge MPs to safeguard our high environmental and animal welfare standards in trade law.”\n\nWith its huge majority, the government is not thought to be in danger of losing key votes.\n\nBut Neil Parish, Conservative chair of the Efra committee, said: “We (Tories) put high welfare standards in our manifesto so people will be expecting us to deliver on that.\n\n“The government mustn’t allow any trade deal with the US, or anyone else, to undermine British food standards.”\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"The UK is renowned for its high environmental, food safety and animal welfare standards.\n\n\"We have been clear that in all of our trade negotiations we will not compromise on our high environmental protection, animal welfare and food standards.\"\n\nAgricultural policies in the UK are devolved.", "Coolio was born at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend, but died days later in Swansea\n\nThe father of a three-day-old baby who died after his mother tested positive for coronavirus has said the death of his miracle son was \"beyond cruel\".\n\nCoolio Carl Justin John Morgan was born on 2 May at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend, but died three days later.\n\nAn inquest heard how maternal coronavirus contributed to his death.\n\nHis father Carl said: \"The only time I saw him was on the last day of his life.\"\n\nAn inquest at Pontypridd Coroner's Court heard how Coolio's mother Kimberley tested positive for Covid-19 after she gave birth at the Bridgend hospital.\n\nCoolio had fetal bradycardia - a low heart rate - and was transferred to Singleton Hospital in Swansea where he died on 5 May.\n\nThe primary cause of death was listed as severe hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy, meaning the brain is starved of blood and oxygen. while maternal Covid-19 was listed as a secondary cause.\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, Carl said: \"They told me he'd tested positive for coronavirus too, which meant I wouldn't be allowed to see him or hold his hand.\"\n\nSpeaking from the couple's home in Maesteg, Bridgend county, Carl said doctors waited until Kimberly was well enough to go with him to say goodbye before turning their baby son's life support off.\n\nHe said after going to the hospital to be induced, Kimberly had told staff \"something's not right\", and was given some pain killers before collapsing.He added: \"By now the baby's head was showing and they had to try and get the baby out quickly, but it was too late for him.\n\n\"The night before, I'd watched Coolio kicking like mad inside Kim's tummy. I just can't believe any of this happened. It is beyond cruel.\"\n\nThe 49-year-old said the couple considered Coolio their \"miracle baby\" as they thought they were too old to have children.\n\nSenior coroner's officer Lauren Howitt told the hearing \"the mother was found to be Covid-19 positive soon after delivery\".\n\nNo post-mortem examination was carried out and Mr Hughes asked his officers to investigate the circumstances of the death ahead of next year's hearing.\n\nHe said: \"I pass on my condolences to the family in these most sad and depressing circumstances\".", "House moves and viewings will be able to resume again in England from Wednesday, under new UK government coronavirus rules.\n\nThe changes were contained in the updated lockdown regulations presented to Parliament on Tuesday.\n\nBuyers and renters had previously been urged to delay moving while the \"stay at home\" advice was in place.\n\nLockdown measures are being eased across England from Wednesday after more than seven weeks of restrictions.\n\nIt comes as a further 627 people died in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus, taking the total number of deaths recorded to 32,692.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK scheme to pay the wages of workers on leave because of the pandemic will be extended to October.\n\nUnder the new lockdown regulations tabled by the government, moving home will be allowed again, as will visiting estate agents and letting agents.\n\nPotential buyers and renters will also be allowed to visit show homes and view houses on the market to let or buy.\n\nAnyone who has already bought a new home will be able to visit it to prepare it for moving in.\n\nProperty website Zoopla had previously estimated around that some 373,000 property sales had been put on hold during lockdown - with a total value of £82bn.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHousing Secretary Robert Jenrick said those \"waiting patiently to move can now do so\" as long as it is carried out under social distancing and safety rules.\n\nMr Jenrick said the government's \"step-by-step plan\" will enable people \"to move home safely, covering each aspect of the sales and letting process, from viewings to removals\".\n\nMeanwhile, the property markets in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland remain shut.\n\nHome viewings are not permitted under lockdown regulations, and their land registries are either running a reduced service or are not registering transactions.\n\nThe updated regulations, presented to Parliament by Health Secretary Matt Hancock, also allow people in England to leave their homes to collect goods ordered from businesses and travel to waste or recycling centres.\n\nIt is part of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's \"conditional plan\" - which he outlined on Sunday - to reopen society, including encouraging people to return to work if they could not work from home.\n\nThe regulations say people will be permitted to visit a \"public open space for the purposes of open-air recreation to promote their physical or mental health or emotional wellbeing\". This means that people can simply visit or spend time in an outdoor place without having to exercise.\n\nAs the government has indicated, people can go outdoors with other members of their household, alone or with one other person from a different household.\n\nThe regulations list definitions of \"public open space\" which include open country, access land, public gardens and recreation areas.\n\nGarden centres and outdoor sports courts may now open under the new regulations, but playgrounds cannot.", "Belly Mujinga died of coronavirus after being spat at while at work in Victoria station\n\nColleagues of a railway worker who died with coronavirus after being spat at have described being \"scared\" and \"vulnerable\".\n\nBelly Mujinga, 47, was working at Victoria station in London in March when she was assaulted along with a female colleague. She died on 5 April.\n\nSpeaking during Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, Boris Johnson described her death as \"tragic\".\n\n\"The fact that she was abused for doing her job is utterly appalling,\" he said.\n\nMs Mujinga, mother to an 11-year-old daughter, was said to have told her bosses at Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) about the attack, but police were not called at the time.\n\nA police investigation has been launched more than a month after Ms Mujinga was attacked by a man claiming to have Covid-19 on 21 March.\n\nUpon hearing the news of her death, colleague Victor Bangura, 34, said: \"My whole body went into shock. I was very, very emotional. We are all vulnerable, in the same station, it could happen to any one of us.\"\n\nLinda Freitas, who has worked at Victoria for 13 years, said: \"I don't think people realise how much abuse we get. We have occasions where people become aggressive, it's very bad, it's scary.\"\n\nShe added she was \"anxious and scared\" about the prospect of more commuters going back to work after the loosening of lockdown restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nThe Prime Minister described Ms Mujinga's death as \"tragic\"\n\nA security worker at Victoria station said he was given a mask on Wednesday for the first time and had to bring his own gloves.\n\n\"I think they're [GTR] trying to cover themselves, this should have been done right at the beginning,\" he said.\n\nGTR said the safety of its customers and staff \"continues to be front of mind at all times.\"\n\nThe Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA), called for the £60,000 compensation scheme to be extended to transport workers who die with coronavirus.\n\nIn a letter to the prime minister, TSSA said: \"Belly Mujinga was one of many transport workers bravely going to work to keep our country moving through the pandemic and ensuring that other key workers can get to their workplaces.\n\n\"She put herself on the front line and she has died of the virus.\n\n\"We ask you to extend the compensation to Belly Mujinga's family and to other transport workers who die from coronavirus.\"Latest figures show 42 Transport for London workers have died with Covid-19, in addition to 10 Network Rail staff.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Allowing family gatherings is an \"important public health issue\", England's deputy chief medical officer has said - but it is \"complicated\" to make the rules fair.\n\nDr Jenny Harries said such a move could provide a \"mental health boost\".\n\nBut she said if two large families wanted to meet \"you end up effectively with quite a large gathering\".\n\nSome lockdown measures have been eased in England but restrictions on how many people you can meet remain in place.\n\nTwo people from different households can meet in outdoor settings, such as parks - as long as they stay more than two metres apart.\n\nBut any larger meetings between different households at the same time are currently banned. The UK government has said this means someone cannot see both parents at the same time.\n\nAt the daily No 10 briefing earlier, Dr Harries was asked whether this could be expanded to allow different households to meet as \"bubbles\" or \"clusters\".\n\nShe said such a move would be particularly beneficial to those \"who have been on their own or who are isolated from others\".\n\nBut she added that any such step had to be \"fair\" and \"consistent with public health advice\".\n\n\"So for example if you have families with large numbers already in their families who want to meet up, you end up effectively with quite a large gathering even if it's just two families meeting.\n\n\"I think it's really important that we think through the implications of that, particularly across families in different circumstances. If your family is a long way away, for example, you may be less able to do that.\"\n\nUnderstandably meeting up with family is something we miss dearly.\n\nThe government has tried to offer some flexibility in England by allowing people to meet outside in twos where the risk of infection is low because of the ability to keep your distance and the fact you are in the fresh air.\n\nBut, of course, that is not the same as having people round for a Sunday lunch or visiting relatives for a weekend.\n\nThe problem the government and its advisers face is that the risk coronavirus presents differs hugely depending if you are the grandparent or grandchild.\n\nThe average 80-year-old has a nearly one in 10 chance of dying if they are infected, whereas for children the risk is virtually zero.\n\nIt's not just about individual risk either. A spike in infections among older people would overwhelm the health service. Around a quarter of people over 70 who are infected need hospital treatment.\n\nFamily gatherings, involving multiple generations, where people are in close proximity, are simply too dangerous until we know more about the virus and who in particular among the older generations - and younger people with health conditions for that matter - is most at risk.\n\nMeanwhile, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick defended the government's decision to allow potential home buyers to view properties in England. The property markets in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland remain shut.\n\nSpeaking at Wednesday's briefing, he said he had been asked why the government would allow people to \"look around a stranger's home but not visit their loved ones or parents\".\n\nMr Jenrick said he understood \"why this can seem confusing at first glance\" but said estate agents must follow new guidelines during viewings. These include:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This may seem confusing at first glance especially when people have been separated from their loved ones for so long\" - Jenrick\n\nIt is estimated there are 450,000 buyers and renters with plans on hold.\n\nProperty website Zoopla previously estimated that about 373,000 property sales had been put on hold during lockdown - with a total value of £82bn.\n\nMr Jenrick added that it was \"essential that we cautiously open up parts of our economy where it's safe to do so\".\n\nHis call came as the number of people who have died after testing positive for coronavirus in the UK has reached 33,186, a rise of 494 on the previous day.", "Golfer's living room practice pays off on first game back\n\nA golfer says practising shots in his living room helped for his first game back playing after the government eased some coronavirus lockdown restrictions. Bruce Allison, 73, from Harrogate teed off at 07:40 this morning - making him one of the first golfers back on the course since the government allowed some sports to resume under social distancing rules to keep players safe. Mr Allison said his club, in Pannal, organised a charity draw to find out who had the privilege of being one of the first to tee off. He said: \"It was wonderful. For members it was terrific and great to be back on the course. \"We have distance markings around the tee and you have to turn up five minutes before your tee time for when you've booked. \"You don't touch the pin and clearly you can't shake hands with your partner after the game,” he added.", "That's all from us for now.\n\nThanks for following along today.\n\nYou can find the live feeds of parliament at the top of this page.\n\nBut please do join us again later for our coverage of today's daily briefing at Downing Street.\n\nYou'll find us over here on the main coronavirus page.", "The Queen and senior royals have called healthcare workers around the world to mark International Nurses Day amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Royal, the Countess of Wessex and Princess Alexandra took part in the tributes.\n\nPrince Charles thanked nurses for their \"diligence\" and \"courage\".\n\nWhile Camilla said: \"Extraordinary times call for extraordinary people.\"\n\nIn a video montage released by Kensington Palace on social media, many nurses were seen wearing face masks as they spoke to the royals about the impact of Covid-19.\n\nIn one call, the Duchess of Cambridge said: \"I don't know how you manage to do this and keep the show on the road despite the extra pressures you're all under and the challenging conditions - it's just shown how vital the role that nurses play across the world. You should be so proud of the work that you do.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by kensingtonroyal This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt the beginning of the video, the Queen can be heard speaking to Prof Kathleen McCourt, president of the Commonwealth Nurses and Midwives Federation.\n\nAfter being greeted by Prof McCourt with a \"Good afternoon, Your Majesty\", the Queen says: \"This is rather an important day... because obviously they've [nurses] had a very important part to play recently.\"\n\nThe palace believes it could be the first time audio of a phone call made by the Queen has been released.\n\nIn a different call, the heir to the throne, Prince Charles, said: \"My family and I want to join in the chorus of thank yous to nursing and midwifery staff across the country and indeed the world.\"\n\nCatherine and Sophie spoke together with nurses in India, Australia, Malawi, Cyprus, the Bahamas and Sierra Leone, as well as in the UK.\n\nSophie told some of them: \"I hope you're feeling some of the love as well.\"\n\nThe pair spoke with nurses whose specialisms included maternal health, HIV, mental health, women's health and ophthalmology.\n\nAnita Kamara, a nurse at the women's centre in Sierra Leone, said: \"Having the future Queen and the countess speak to us today was really special.\"\n\nCatherine and Sophie spoke to nurses in Malawi\n\nThe calls were organised by Nursing Now, a global campaign to raise the status and profile of nursing, of which Catherine is patron.\n\nIt comes as the head of NHS England, Sir Simon Stevens, said there had been a surge in interest in nursing as a career since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nSir Simon said there had been a three-fold increase in the number of people clicking on the nursing pages of the NHS careers website, adding that any new recruits would be welcome.", "The last thing Wales needs is a culture of people being \"shamed\" because they are not wearing masks, the country's chief medical officer Frank Atherton has said.\n\nWales is the only UK nation that has not recommended the use of face coverings.\n\nPeople in England are being advised to wear coverings in some enclosed spaces.\n\nDr Atherton said their benefits had been potentially \"oversold\" and there were \"practical drawbacks\".\n\nThe Welsh Government is not telling the public to refrain from wearing masks - but it is not making it mandatory, or recommending their use.\n\nOfficials think the potential benefits are low, and are worried about any impact on supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE) for the NHS.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Wales Breakfast with Claire Summers, Dr Atherton argued basic hygiene and social distancing can make more of a difference than the compulsory use of face masks.\n\n\"My advice is that people should use them if they choose to, but they shouldn't be mandatory,\" he said.\n\n\"We shouldn't be saying that people have to wear face masks here in Wales, but if they choose to do so then obviously that's… their right.\"\n\nHe said the benefits are \"quite small\". The UK government SAGE advisory group had \"drawn the conclusion there is a small benefit but it's based on very weak evidence\", he said.\n\nDr Atherton said he is worried about creating a culture of mistrust\n\nBut he said people who have symptoms \"shouldn't feel that they can put on a face mask and go about their business going to a supermarket.\n\n\"That will be extremely risky. People who have symptoms really should be staying home,\" he said.\n\nHe said there is a risk \"people could start to use supplies which really should be going into the NHS\".\n\n\"And the third thing that I really worry about is creating a culture of mistrust,\" he added.\n\n\"The last thing I think we need in Wales is a kind of mask shaming, because somebody hasn't got a mask.\n\n\"We have to focus on basic hygiene, on the social distancing measures, not touching our face when we can avoid it, and keeping our distance.\n\n\"Those are the things that can make a difference, not relying on compulsory use of face masks.\"\n• None Step-by-step guide to making your own face mask", "Travel firm Tui is pressing for tourism to resume to countries where the coronavirus threat has abated.\n\nIt plans to reopen some hotels in Germany \"in the coming days\".\n\nThe company, which says it has 27 million customers, added operations in other European destinations were also ready to welcome holidaymakers.\n\nTui has identified Austria, Greece and Cyprus as being more viable among European destinations because the virus there appears to be contained.\n\nIt was forced to cancel the majority of its travel programme in March and on Wednesday warned that up to 8,000 jobs would go as it strives to cut costs by 30% in a major restructuring.\n\nTUI has cancelled all holidays until June and cruises until July. It would normally be running hundreds of flights a week at this time of year.\n\nTravel restrictions across Europe and further afield mean that the crucial summer season for many though is still in doubt, leaving millions of holidaymakers unsure of their plans.\n\nIn the UK, the Foreign Office is still advising against all non-essential foreign travel, with no indication of when the policy might change.\n\nOn Tuesday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said it was unlikely that \"big, lavish international holidays\" were going to be possible this summer.\n\nA spokesman for Tui said countries were \"knocking at its door\", eager to see it reopen hotels and bring back tourists.\n\nTui said it was trying hard to resume operations and had worked out a number of protocols to make its holidays safe. It has a 10-point plan of guidance on how to reopen safely, including limited buffet services, restrictions on some sports and games and longer opening times at restaurants.\n\nBut the company said blanket travel restrictions were making resumption impossible.\n\nSpain, for example, is introducing a 14-day quarantine period for incomers - which covers the length of most package holidays.\n\nThe issue of holiday travel is becoming politically sensitive as parts of Europe begin to either recover from or emerge as less affected by the first onslaught of the virus.\n\nThe European Commission said on Wednesday a summer holiday season shouldn't be ruled out this year, contrasting with the UK health secretary's comment on the unlikelihood of a trip abroad this summer.\n\nTui chief executive Fritz Joussen said: \"The demand for holidays is still very high. People want to travel.\n\n\"Our integrated business model allows us to start travel activities as soon as this is possible again. The season starts later, but could last longer.\n\n\"For 2020, we will also reinvent the holiday: new destinations, changed travel seasons, new local offerings, more digitalisation.\"\n\nTui said it was ready to resume providing holidays this year, using new social distancing and cleaning measures.\n\n\"The health and well-being of both customers and colleagues remain paramount and we are assessing how we can responsibly adapt to measures so that leisure travel can resume,\" the firm said.\n\n\"We are preparing new procedures for the airport process, on board our aircraft, in hotels and on our ships, so that any social distancing recommendations or guidelines can be implemented, without compromising customer enjoyment and travel experience.\"\n\nTui said its restructuring would affect its airline business and would also involve selling off \"non-profitable activities\".\n\n\"We are targeting to permanently reduce our overhead cost base by 30% across the entire group. This will have an impact on potentially 8,000 roles globally that will either not be recruited or reduced,\" it said in a statement.\n\nLast month it told its UK workforce they would face a cut of up to 50% in hours worked, with a matching cut in basic pay.\n\nThe firm said its turnover and earnings would be significantly lower in the current financial year, with cost savings only partly compensating for the slump.\n\nTui, which has a global workforce of 70,000, was recently bolstered by a €1.8bn (£1.6bn) state-backed loan in Germany, where it has its headquarters.", "Campaigners want all foreign key workers to be eligible for free visa extensions\n\nAll foreign key workers who have been on the front line during the pandemic should be part of the government's free visa extension scheme, say campaigners.\n\nSome migrant workers must pay thousands of pounds for new visas to stay in the UK, despite playing a vital role in keeping the country going.\n\nIn March, the Home Office brought in a one-year free visa extension for some staff in the NHS and care sectors.\n\nThe list was initially limited to NHS doctors, nurses and paramedics.\n\nFor those eligible, the extension covers visas which expire between 31 March and 1 October 2020.\n\nLast month, Home Secretary Priti Patel extended the scheme to more NHS staff, including radiographers and social workers, and said some social care staff would also benefit.\n\nBut the list does not include jobs like porters and cleaners.\n\n\"The visa extension scheme is what you get when a minister asks 'what is the very least we could do right now, whilst looking like we are doing something,'\" says Satbir Singh, chief executive of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants\n\n\"It's overlooked hundreds of thousands of people within the health system and outside, and other key roles.\"\n\nMr Singh believes the scheme should be extended to key workers in and beyond the NHS and care sector, for example, bus drivers, a number of whom have died during the pandemic.\n\n\"Just a few weeks ago this government was referring to those excluded as low-skilled and unwelcome,\" argues Mr Singh.\n\n\"But they have proven over the last few months that they are the backbone of our society. They are still being treated as disposable.\"\n\nMichelle, who has cleaned Covid wards at a big London hospital throughout the pandemic, feels the government does not recognise her front-line role.\n\nHer visa expires on Friday and if she wants to continue living in the UK and carry on with her cleaning job, she will have to pay £2,000 to renew it, as she is excluded from the free visa extension scheme.\n\n\"I clean toilets, kitchens, the coronavirus patients' rooms, the corridors. I feel scared,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"One of my sons said: 'Mummy please don't go to work, I don't want you to die.'\n\n\"I see people die every day, I see terrible things that I will never forget in my life.\"\n\nMichelle is a single mother from west Africa and has a daily three-hour round trip to work, which involves travelling on a bus and a train.\n\nShe is proud of the part she has played in the pandemic: \"I have to save lives. If I stop going, who will do the job?\n\n\"Everybody can't be a doctor, everybody can't be a nurse. We work as a team. They should treat us all equally.\"\n\nMichelle is being helped by the migrant and refugee support charity Praxis. Half of her £2,000 visa cost goes towards the Immigration Health Surcharge which allows those with visas to use the NHS.\n\nLabour MP, Yvette Cooper, who chairs the Parliamentary Home Affairs Select Committee, has raised the issue of this surcharge with the Home Secretary.\n\nIn a letter to Priti Patel, released on Tuesday, she asked: \"Has the Home Office considered exempting all NHS and social care workers from the NHS surcharge during the Covid-19 crisis?\"\n\nMs. Cooper also questioned why hospital porters, cleaners and administrative staff would not benefit from the visa extension scheme.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Right across the immigration system we are supporting people whether it is by granting free, automatic visa extensions for health workers in the NHS and the independent health and care sector or extending visas for people unable to return home.\n\n\"We are also supporting the social care sector in a number of different ways, including providing additional funding and will continue to work to see how best we can support social care workers.\"\n\nContent available only in the UK\n\nSome workers in the social care sector which, like the NHS, relies heavily on foreign labour, are also eligible for the scheme.\n\nRaj Sehgal, who runs four care homes in Norfolk, has a number of frontline staff from India and the Philippines, having tried and failed to recruit locally.\n\n\"If the people simply aren't available, what options do we have?\" asks Mr Sehgal.\n\nHe is disappointed that the visa extension scheme only runs until October.\n\n\"It really is a question of 'we want to use you while this crisis is on and once we've finished with you, you can go back home,'\" he says.", "Rihanna is now the richest woman in music\n\nRihanna has made her debut appearance on The Sunday Times Rich List, with an estimated fortune of £468 million.\n\nThe Bajan pop star, who now resides in London, overtakes Sirs Elton John and Mick Jagger to claim third place on the list of Britain's richest musicians.\n\nAndrew Lloyd Webber and Paul McCartney are joint first on the list, with fortunes of £800m apiece.\n\nRihanna's earnings are largely due to the Fenty Beauty cosmetics brand, where her reported 15% stake is worth £351m.\n\n\"She somewhat caught us by surprise,\" says Robert Watts, who compiles The Sunday Times' annual list.\n\n\"Very few people knew she was living in the UK until last summer. Now she's well placed to be the first musician to reach billionaire status in the UK,\" he tells the BBC.\n\nRihanna, who turned 32 in February, is a youthful exception amongst Britain's richest musicians, most of whom found fame in the 1960s and 70s.\n\nAmongst the top 40 highest-earners, only Ed Sheeran and Adele are younger, with fortunes of £200m and £150m respectively.\n\nFurther down the list, there are new entries for the next generation of pop stars, with Dua Lipa, 24, and George Ezra, 26, each said to be worth £16m.\n\nTheatre impresario Lord Lloyd-Webber, 72, is the only star on the list to see his valuation fall, with Watts calculating that the Covid-19 shutdown of theatres in the West End and Broadway has already wiped £20m off his fortune.\n\nSir Paul, by contrast, receives a £50m boost to his finances, thanks to a lucrative world tour and his first children's book Hey Grandude!, which topped the New York Times' best-seller list last year.\n\nSir Elton's farewell tour also added £40m to his fortune, putting him in fourth place; while Rolling Stone Sir Mick comes fifth with £285m.\n\nEd Sheeran topped the young musicians (aged 30 or under) list, adding £40m to his overall wealth after completing a 255-date world tour last August. Harry Styles took second place, with a fortune of £63m.\n\nAll five members of One Direction appear on the list, with Harry Styles just above his bandmate Niall Horan\n\nEagle-eyed readers might spot that U2 have dropped off the Sunday Times' rankings entirely, despite taking third place last year with earnings of £583m.\n\nTheir absence is solely due to coronavirus - as the pandemic has delayed the publication of the paper's Irish Rich List. When those figures are revealed later this year, the band is likely to knock Rihanna down to fourth place.\n\nNonetheless, Watts says that Rihanna's presence is indicative of a \"seismic change\" in the make-up of the main Rich List which, since 1989, had been identifying the 1,000 wealthiest individuals or families living in the UK.\n\n\"The days when it was dominated by inherited wealth, the landed gentry and mass of largely white, middle-aged and elderly men, are changing,\" says Watts.\n\n\"For example, we've seen a big rise in the number of Asian entrepreneurs and in the number of self-made people.\n\n\"Rihanna is, I think, a very good example of someone who's come from a pretty tough upbringing in Barbados and who has a hunger and a determination to work, work work... which, I think, is one of her songs, isn't it?\" (It is).\n\nRihanna's earnings from beauty and fashion eclipse those from her music career\n\nAlthough Rihanna made her name in music, she hasn't released an album since 2016's Anti, instead concentrating on her fashion empire.\n\nFenty Beauty launched in September 2017, and was designed to cater to a wider range of skin types and tones than typical cosmetic brands.\n\nThanks to the star's endorsement, and her 82 million Instagram followers, it was an immediate success, racking up sales of £78m in its first few weeks. The company is now valued at $3bn (£2.4bn).\n\nRihanna also has a lingerie line, Savage X Fenty, and continues to receive royalties from hit songs like SOS, Umbrella and Only Girl In The World.\n\nHer £468m fortune makes her the richest female musician not just in the UK, but the world - ahead of Madonna (£462m), Celine Dion (£365m) and Beyoncé (£325m).\n\nWatts notes that musicians' wealth \"held up better than many other ultra-high net worth individuals\" over the last 12 months, but says the impact of cancelled tours could impact next year's list.\n\n\"Their fortunes have held up a little better this year because they're coming off the back of big tours and their valuation is not affected by a plunging stock market,\" he says.\n\n\"But next year I would expect, for a lot of these musicians, their wealth to flatline - and some of them may even have to dip into their reserves.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Phones have been ringing off the hook, venue bosses are working harder than ever and search engines are being sent into overdrive after some recreational sports were given the go-ahead to return in England.\n\nGolf, tennis, angling and basketball are among the sports taking tentative steps in allowing the general public to return to participation on Wednesday as coronavirus lockdown measures are eased.\n\nBut each sport is also urging caution and vigilance as they seek to keep the spread of the virus under control while also helping protect people's mental health and wellbeing.\n\nSo how has the first wave of the nation's sports begun to come out of hibernation after two months?\n\nBBC Sport has spoken to a number of clubs and organisations hoping to use fun and games as a vehicle for helping the country come gradually out of lockdown.\n\nTee times snapped up in less than 24 hours\n\nCourses across England will once again be alive with the sound of golf balls being hit on Wednesday.\n\nGoverning bodies have worked together to formulate how the game can be played safely during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThere is plenty of guidance on how to socially distance, new rules on course etiquette and phrases such as \"wash your hands, don't touch the flag\" which have now entered the golfing lexicon.\n• None Golf is back - but what are the differences?\n\nDavid Rickman, the R&A's executive director of governance, said everyone in the sport is \"conscious of the continued impact of the pandemic and that lives are still being lost\", but added that golf has a \"small part to play\" in the nation's wellbeing.\n\n\"We are fortunate that golf lends itself to social distancing, so by making a few relatively small changes to the rules and the environment in which we play, we can make it safe for golfers,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nAlready Perranporth Golf Course, in Cornwall, is fully booked for when play can resume on Wednesday.\n\nAll tee times for the first day of play in more than seven weeks were snapped up in less than 24 hours after prime minister Boris Johnson announced that golfers could get back on the greens.\n\nSue McDevitt, general manager of the course, said the \"booking system went crazy\" after the announcement.\n\n\"I had one of the busiest days of my working career on Monday,\" McDevitt told BBC Sport.\n\nThe booking of tee times, which was previously advisable at the club, has now become compulsory during the pandemic in an effort to help keep golfers safe and numbers on the course in check.\n\nWhile it is largely done online, McDevitt says she is also taking bookings from older members who simply don't have access to technology.\n\nIt has been a busy two days getting ready to once again host golf at Perranporth, but with seven weeks of preparation the challenge has been met \"with ease\" considering the circumstances.\n\n\"We always knew it was going to come back at some point, so I've been really busy during these last few weeks coming up with a plan on how we are going to do it, \" McDevitt said.\n\n\"I even emailed what the plan was to the members so they would be ready.\"\n\nJust hours after the government announced that recreational golf would be free to restart, the club published a nine-point notice on their social media channels outlining their approach.\n\nIt is a basic roadmap back to the greens that was drawn up with the help of the major golfing bodies in England and in conjunction with neighbouring clubs, West Cornwall, Tehidy Park, Mullion and Newquay.\n\n\"We already had close working relationships so we decided between us that we would have similar plans so golfers in the area would all have similar options,\" McDevitt said.\n\n\"It is in all our interests to get as much golf going in Cornwall as possible.\"\n\nAs far as business goes, much of the club remains unable to open during the pandemic, with the course's accommodation, restaurant, bar, golf shop and practice facilities all shut.\n\nA majority of staff, including some green keepers, remain furloughed, which makes aspects of opening - including maintaining the course and keeping tabs on golfers - a challenge.\n\n\"The course is open and it looks absolutely beautiful, but it is perhaps not going to play as well as it normally would at this time of year because it hasn't had all those man hours manicuring it,\" McDevitt said.\n\n\"It is playable but the members may lose their ball in the rough initially. They are quite happy with that because they can play golf. It doesn't need to be at Championship standard yet, but we will get there.\"\n\nAngling can 'have a positive effect on mental health'\n\nAngling has found itself thrust into the limelight since the gradual easing of lockdown restrictions was announced, with both fresh and saltwater recreational fishing being allowed to resume across England.\n\nBut why has it been identified among the sports and pastimes deemed appropriate and suitable?\n\nAccording to Martin Salter, head of policy at the Angling Trust, it's the result of producing a detailed plan to demonstrate why angling is a Covid-19 compliant sport due to its general nature, and earning recognition from the government that it \"has potential to be part of the solution and not part of the problem\".\n\n\"Spending time outdoors and in fresh air can limit the spread of the virus rather than the other way round,\" Salter told BBC Sport.\n\n\"We can help disperse crowds and have a positive effect on people's mental health and wellbeing.\n\n\"But it really is incumbent on all of us to realise we're going to be ambassadors for our sport. The spotlight is going to be on us.\n\n\"The last thing I want to see is pictures in newspapers and other media outlets of anglers crowding around piers or breakwaters too close to each other.\n\n\"We must continue to respect the social distancing guidelines and ensure, when we say to both government and society that angling is a Covid-19 compliant sport, we demonstrate that responsibility to ourselves and each other.\"\n\nThe Angling Trust is also continuing to lobby government for clarity over when and how tackle and bait shops can reopen to support the angling infrastructure, in a similar way to cycle shops being allowed to continue trading during lockdown.\n\n\"Those shops are where you pick up your permits, your licences, your day tickets, where you get your advice as anglers,\" he said.\n\n\"A lot of those retailers have been struggling so we've made direct representations to government and we hope they can grant an extension to allow those shops to reopen before June.\"\n\nWhile recreational angling is free to resume from Wednesday, match fishing and competitions remain banned for the foreseeable future in line with other major sporting events and mass gatherings.\n\nThe coarse fishing close season for rivers and some still waters also remains in place until 16 June.\n\nSome commercial fisheries across England will actually remain closed as they choose to \"wait and see\" how the sport's approach to coming out of lockdown unfolds.\n\nOne that will be welcoming anglers back is Makins Fishery, near Nuneaton, in Warwickshire, but under a series of rules and guidelines, including only allowing pre-booked visits and operating strict daytime opening hours.\n\nWendell Ward, manager of the three-lake facility, has had three phones ringing off the hook since Sunday evening, but stresses anglers will need to be responsible.\n\n\"We have to ensure people can return to fishing in a safe environment,\" he said.\n\n\"Initially I did think it might be a bit too soon to reopen and I would've been happy to wait a bit longer. But if we put the right measures in place and control numbers, people can get back to enjoying the sport.\n\n\"I know people have been chomping at the bit to get back out there since lockdown, but I don't want them being careless and reckless.\n\n\"Restrictions have been relaxed and reopening is vital for our business, but if people turn up in big groups and car loads, they will be sent away and we'll have to reconsider our choice.\"\n\nWith people in England allowed to exercise outside as many times as they wish, a variety of facilities can now be accessed.\n\nAlthough playgrounds, outdoor gyms and ticketed outdoor leisure venues will remain closed, playing one-on-one sports, including tennis, basketball and even a hit in the cricket nets, is permissible as long as social distancing rules are observed.\n\nSunday's government announcement saw searches for venues \"go bonkers\" for Playfinder, an online booking portal for grassroots facilities.\n• None Where? How? Who with? Getting yourself back into playing tennis\n\nJamie Foale, the founder and chief executive of the company which has 5,200 venues on its books across the UK, said Monday was the marketplace's busiest day since lockdown began.\n\nA new filter is poised to be added to their search options, distinguishing what venues are open to the public as not every court, course or venue is suitable or able to host people yet.\n\n\"As a result of the clarification given on Monday we are seeing almost all councils open their suitable venues to a degree,\" said Foale, whose company manages bookings for a number of councils, as well as schools and commercial sites.\n\n\"Councils recognise they a have a big part to play in helping people stay fit and healthy through this and I know that they want to be able to open facilities so they can do that.\n\n\"We had a number of bookings made on Monday and a lot of searches for free courts, which has always been a big part of what we do.\"\n\nFoale said the most difficult part of helping people prepare for the resumption of recreational sports has been getting in touch with the venues themselves when huge swathes of employees in the sector have been furloughed.\n\n\"We've madly been calling up the venues to make sure we have a firm grip on what is available and what isn't,\" said Foale, whose company will not be taking booking fees during the pandemic.\n\n\"Communication has been hard when all these businesses are struggling, trying to work out how they will operate in a post-pandemic world.\n\n\"We need to keep the nation moving and active. We, as a business, set up to to help people play sport. And that service is now needed more than ever.\"\n\nA sign of the times that many may end up seeing on their local court or around their favourite course will be signage reminding participants of the rules which have made a return to action possible.\n\nGoverning bodies for each sport have different directives to best suit the game being played. All of them, however, have the same underlying message about maintaining social distance.\n\nNot every sporting venue will automatically open as a result, with this being a key message from the Lawn Tennis Association, which governs the game in Britain.\n\nVenues have been advised to take time to ensure they are set up to reopen safely, so players in certain places might have to wait a little longer before they can get back on court.\n\nThe Queen's Club in London, one of the nation's most iconic clubs, for example, will not be at full capacity as they have chosen to open only nine of its 27 outdoor courts to members from Wednesday.\n\nIt is a similar situation at the Northern Tennis Club, in Manchester, where only seven of their 18 outdoor courts will be opened to ensure social distancing is maintained.\n\n\"We're hugely relieved and excited that we're able to start reopening the courts, but we're also conscious that we must do it slowly and cautiously,\" chairman Neville Hewer told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"We've been maintaining our courts during the lockdown period so we were in a position to go when we had the opportunity to, but we're mindful of the fact that in this circumstance we're walking on eggshells because of this unprecedented scenario.\"", "A children's hospital in the Afghan capital Kabul has taken in 19 babies who survived a horrific attack by militants on a maternity ward at another clinic.\n\nIt was not immediately known how many of the infants' mothers were among the dozens killed in Tuesday's gun and bomb assault. No group has said it carried it out.", "Wanda Cooper-Jones (left), Ahmaud Arbery's mother, and his sister, Jasmine (right)\n\nThe mother of Ahmaud Arbery, who was killed while out for a jog near his home in Georgia, believes \"there will be justice\".\n\nThe 25-year-old was shot by a white father and son in an attack his family say was clearly racist.\n\n\"He was African-American, he was jogging in a predominantly white neighbourhood - he was targeted for the colour of his skin,\" says Wanda Cooper-Jones.\n\nGregory and Travis McMichael were charged with murder last week.\n\nIt was the first time any arrests had been made in the case, despite Ahmaud being killed on 23 February. The McMichaels admitted to killing Ahmaud in the initial police report, claiming they acted in self-defence.\n\nAhmaud had dreams of being an electrician\n\nGiven the time that had passed, the arrests surprised Wanda.\n\n\"In the very beginning, when it first occurred, I thought it was going to be covered up. Everything was working in that direction. If we didn't find the right resources to push the issue we wouldn't have an arrest today.\"\n\nShe adds: \"They visited a crime scene where there was a man dead. And all parties that were responsible were able to return home while my son was taken to the morgue.\"\n\nThe Glynn County Police Department says it has \"sought justice in this case from the beginning\".\n\nAhmaud, from Brunswick in Georgia, was \"humble, happy and well-mannered\", according to his mum.\n\n\"He loved life. He was love. To know Ahmaud was to love Ahmaud.\"\n\nHe had dreams of being a \"very successful electrician, like his uncles are\".\n\n\"Ahmaud was young. He loved - so I'm quite sure he dreamed of having a wife and kids.\n\n\"All that was taken away.\"\n\nDemonstrators have been able to go out on to the streets in support of the Arberys in the last week\n\nWanda says it's been \"long, stressful and hopeless\" trying to get Ahmaud's name out there in the months since his death.\n\nOrdinarily with cases like this we would expect to see pictures of demonstrators out on the streets. But Ahmaud was killed as coronavirus began its spread and the lockdown started.\n\n\"I really was getting to a point where I never thought I would receive justice.\"\n\nThe family set up the #RunWithMaud Facebook page, which encouraged people to dedicate their workouts to the 25-year-old and share the hashtag.\n\nBut it was a video of the shooting going viral that changed things. It was filmed from a vehicle following Ahmaud and shows him jogging towards a stationary truck ahead of him. He tries to bypass the truck and is seen struggling with a man carrying a shotgun. There is muffled shouting and three gunshots.\n\nTwo days later the first arrests came.\n\nMemorials have been set up in Ahmaud's neighbourhood\n\n\"I haven't viewed the video, but I think it's good that it came out,\" says Wanda, who was \"really surprised\" by the arrests.\n\nLawyer for the family Lee Merritt says \"we shouldn't have needed a video\" for an arrest to be made, adding that it's \"not something that should be for this kind of public consumption. I don't think it's helpful for the African-American community\".\n\n\"If nothing else, that video has angered, frightened, and stirred up emotions in a lot of different people... it obviously was a catalyst to get us to justice,\" he says.\n\nWilliam Bryan, who filmed the video, is being investigated.\n\nIn America, district attorneys are the people in charge of prosecuting people in different counties. Ahmaud's case is now on its fourth, which lawyer Lee says is unheard of.\n\nTwo district attorneys removed themselves from the case due to professional connections to Gregory McMichael. The 64-year-old is a former police officer who also worked as an investigator for the local district attorney for years and had retired in 2019.\n\nJackie Johnson and George Barnhill's handling of the investigation is now being investigated by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.\n\nAnd the federal government, which operates across the whole of the USA rather than just in individual states, is now involved too - with Donald Trump saying he is \"disturbed\" by the case.\n\n\"We are assessing all of the evidence to determine whether federal hate crime charges are appropriate,\" Department of Justice (DOJ) spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said, adding that the FBI is also involved.\n\nGeorgia, where Ahmaud was killed, is one of four states in America with no hate crime statutes, but the federal government can file those charges.\n\nTravis McMichael (left) and Gregory McMichael were detained on 7 May\n\nLee Merritt says the response Ahmaud's case has received is \"extremely rare\".\n\n\"I represent a lot of victims of high-profile police shootings - and Gregory McMichael is a police officer.\n\n\"I always ask for a special prosecutor and almost never get one. I almost always ask for a DOJ investigation and almost never get one. And to have the people who failed to act, to have them being investigated? Almost never happens.\"\n\nHe says that things in South Georgia and all over the country \"are very tense\" due to coronavirus.\n\n\"There has been an increase in police violence, particularly against African Americans, as they tried to enforce social distancing. I think this was a bridge too far and the powers that be understand they have to respond accordingly.\"\n\nLast week, 8 May, would have been Ahmaud's 26th birthday.\n\nOn the day Wanda received a phone call from Oprah Winfrey, something she says \"really meant a lot\".\n\n\"Ahmaud's gone, but people are actually supporting us nationally - so that makes me feel good.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Marks & Spencer is to reopen 49 of its cafes across the UK from Thursday, the High Street retailer has said.\n\nIt took the decision to reopen for takeaway customers after operating social distancing and putting extra hygiene measures in its stores.\n\nThe retailer joins other chains reopening for takeaway customers.\n\nPret a Manger and Caffe Nero are reopening sites, while fast food chains McDonalds and Burger King are opening up drive-throughs.\n\nMarks & Spencer cafes have been closed since 18 March, five days before the UK lockdown began.\n\nM&S said the plans for reopenings came after a trial at five locations including at High Street Kensington and Maybrook Canterbury.\n\nThe 49 sites are across the UK, and include locations in Belfast, Dunblane and Swansea.\n\nIt said the company had prepared \"rigorous guidance for colleagues and will have extensive signage for customers so they can pick up their coffee safely\".\n\nSafety measures had been introduced, including perspex screens at tills.\n\nSeveral other UK chains are also starting to emerge from the lockdown.\n\nFrom Monday, Pret a Manger had more than 100 shops open for takeaway and delivery through third parties.\n\nFast-food chain McDonalds opened 15 pilot restaurants in southeast England on Wednesday but is offering services only through delivery via Uber Eats.\n\nIt plans to reopen an additional 30 restaurants in the UK and Ireland, offering services through the drive-through lane from 20 May.\n\nBurger King UK, meanwhile, has been reopening its outlets in phases since 16 April, and says it will have reopened 350 restaurants - three-quarters of its outlets - by the end of June.\n\nLike McDonald's, the burger chain is serving a limited menu. Customers have to order via food delivery mobile apps Just Eat and Deliveroo, even when visiting drive-through restaurants.\n\nThere has been high demand at some Burger King outlets, with a newly reopened Burger King restaurant in Moray having to close on Wednesday due to long queues of traffic.\n\nA newly reopened Burger King restaurant in Moray, Scotland had to close after long queues by the restaurant caused traffic congestion on Wednesday\n\nCoffee chain Starbucks will also from Thursday begin a phased reopening of 150 of its drive-through locations and some takeaway-only stores.\n\nWhen Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the lockdown in March, he told restaurants and cafes to close, but exempted takeaway food places.\n\nHowever, most chains such as Nando's, KFC, Costa Coffee, Subway and Pizza Express chose to close completely, saying they wanted to protect the wellbeing of staff and customers.", "One commuter told the BBC \"it's next to impossible to social distance on the Tube\"\n\nCommuters in London said social distancing was \"next to impossible\" as many made their first journeys to work since lockdown rules were eased.\n\nPeople in England are being encouraged to return to work if they cannot work from home.\n\nThe government said it would have to \"take steps\" if too many people used public transport.\n\nOne commuter said most people were not wearing masks, leaving him fearing \"a second wave of infection\".\n\nPassengers using public transport should stay 2m (6ft) apart and wear face coverings, under government guidelines.\n\nThe Victoria Line saw an increase in passengers\n\n\"It is next to impossible to social distance on the Tube,\" Matt Hickson told the BBC.\n\nThe 47-year-old street works inspector said he saw \"less than 10% of commuters wearing masks\" on his London Underground journey.\n\nA \"customer incident\" on Victoria line earlier meant overcrowding across the line, TfL said\n\n\"People are taking liberties not only with their own health but with other people's.\n\n\"There could be a second wave of infections coming.\"\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\nTransport for London (TfL) said 5,674 more passengers travelled on the Tube on Wednesday compared to the previous day - a 7% increase.\n\nPassengers journeys are still 93% lower than this time last year.\n\nTfL ran 70% of its Tube services during the morning and 82% of its usual bus services.\n\nA passenger was taken ill on the Victoria line at about 07.20 leading to delays and overcrowded trains, TfL said.\n\nThe train was held while the passenger received medical attention. The incident is not thought to be coronavirus related.\n\nDrew Aspland said his usual bus was \"rammed full of people\"\n\n\"Any notion of self-distancing on buses or tubes is going to be impossible,\" said Drew Aspland.\n\nThe 36-year-old walked to work in central London from Bethnal Green after seeing his bus \"back to pre-lockdown levels of passengers\".\n\nTrains at London Waterloo have been running at 45% of normal capacity since Monday, after reducing services by 75% since the earlier stages of the lockdown.\n\nServices are expected to rise to 82% from next Monday,\n\nA TfL spokesman said: \"We are doing everything possible to return Tube and bus services to normal levels under extraordinarily difficult circumstances, with many staff still off sick, shielding or self-isolating.\n\n\"In keeping with the government's plans for the national rail network, next week we aim to increase to 75% of Tube services, 85% of bus services, restore the Circle Line and reopen some closed Tube stations.\"\n\nSeveral of London's main roads experienced higher traffic than in recent weeks.\n\nQueues of up to 45 minutes were recorded on a five mile stretch along the East India Dock Road.", "Childminders in England can reopen from Wednesday if they are caring for children from the same household, the government announced late on Tuesday.\n\nThe move follows confusion about when childminders could reopen.\n\n\"Childminders have been told three different things about plans to reopen in a matter of days,\" said Neil Leitch of the Early Years Alliance (EYA).\n\nThe EYA said it received news of the change to government guidance in an email just after 18:30 BST on Tuesday.\n\nThe Department for Education says the updated guidance will allow childminders to look after children from one household from Wednesday and, depending on infection rates, to open to more children from 1 June.\n\nDuring lockdown, registered childminders across the UK have either been closed or providing care for vulnerable children or children of key workers and this remains the case in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nOn Sunday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced plans to reopen the sector in England as part of his \"conditional plan\" to gradually end the lockdown.\n\nHowever, organisations representing childminders later sought clarification as separate documents issued by the government suggested both 13 May and 1 June as dates for when this could happen.\n\nIn a meeting on Tuesday, the Department for Education appeared to confirm the 1 June date for all childminders, according to the Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years (PACEY).\n\nBut in an email to childcare organisations, sent a few hours later, an official issued an update on childminder policy \"effective from tomorrow\".\n\n\"The government has amended its guidance to clarify that paid childcare can be provided to the children of one household in any circumstance,\" said the email.\n\n\"This would include nannies, for example, and childminders may also choose to provide childcare on this basis if not already providing care for vulnerable children and children of critical workers.\n\n\"This should enable more working parents to return to work.\"\n\nRebecca Martland, from Worthing, normally cares for children from several families and has no plans to reopen until 1 June.\n\n\"I don't think it's appropriate,\" she says.\n\n\"I have nothing in place. I need to rearrange my family home to accommodate safe working.\"\n\nShe also says she will need to amend her policies and working practices and consult with parents \"to make sure they feel happy and safe\".\n\nShe points out inconsistencies in government policy: \"You can't have your grandchildren but you can welcome an unrelated family into your home which goes against everything we've been told is safe to do,\" she says.\n\nThe guidance so far has been \"a shambles\", she says.\n\n\"As a sector we've been very shabbily treated.\"\n\nPACEY chief executive Liz Bayram welcomed the clarification, saying the organisation had heard from thousands of its members who were unclear when they could reopen.\n\n\"It is up to you as an individual to decide whether you want to open now or take time to prepare to open to all children on 1 June,\" PACEY advised its members on its web page.\n\nContent available only in the UK\n\nMs Bayram however warned that not all childminders could consider opening in June because of ongoing worries about infection.\n\n\"We also know many childminders are worried about reopening and placing their family at risk.\"\n\nShe called for better financial support from government for childminders whose businesses have been hit by the lockdown.\n\nMr Leitch said childminders had \"frankly had enough of last-minute, contradictory guidance from this government\".\n\nHe urged ministers to stop treating them as an \"afterthought\" and to recognise that they needed better support and guidance in meeting the challenge of providing childcare safely in their own homes.", "Sales are at levels normally seen at Christmas\n\nSome 373,000 property sales are on hold owing to the coronavirus lockdown, analysis of the housing market in UK cities suggests.\n\nThe value of held sales totals a collective £82bn, researchers at property portal Zoopla have estimated.\n\nAgreed sales were running at a tenth of the normal level for the time of year, and were akin to the activity seen in late December, they said.\n\nSpring is usually a busy time for the housing and mortgage markets.\n\nIt is known in the trade as the \"spring bounce\". However, the stay-at-home message from the government has meant that people are only moving to new homes in rare circumstances, such as entering a vacant property.\n\nGovernment advice is for sellers and buyers to come to an amicable arrangement over delaying a moving date.\n\nZoopla researchers said the rate of sales falling through peaked on 23 March - the day the UK lockdown began.\n\nIt added that demand for housing was down 60% on levels recorded at the start of March. However, the picture varied across UK cities, with Cardiff recording an 80% drop in demand from buyers, and Newcastle a 48% fall.\n\nThe housing market could take some time to recover\n\nZoopla said people had been browsing for homes less on the internet, but this had recovered slightly in the last couple of weeks, perhaps in response to the fact people are living and working from home and yearning for more room on the domestic front.\n\n\"Some may feel the urge to move and find more space or consider the potential for remote working,\" said Richard Donnell, director of research and insight at Zoopla.\n\n\"This could boost activity in the second half of 2020, but this all depends upon how much the economy is impacted over the rest of the year and the impact on levels of unemployment.\"\n\nOverall, Zoopla expects the number of completed sales across the UK this year to be around half that seen in 2019.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: \"Unlikely that big, lavish international holidays are going to possible for this summer\"\n\nMany British people are unlikely to be able to take foreign holidays this summer because of coronavirus, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nHe told ITV's This Morning it's \"likely to be the case\" there won't be a normal summer holiday season.\n\nThe government is opening up parts of the economy, and Ryanair is planning to start services in July.\n\nBut Mr Hancock said the traditional big-break holiday season is unlikely.\n\nSocial distancing will have to be maintained for some time, he said. \"The conclusion from that is it is unlikely that big, lavish international holidays are going to be possible for this summer.\"\n\nMr Hancock's comments came as many airlines detailed plans to restart flights.\n\nRyanair boss Michael O'Leary, who last month said that leaving the middle seat free to help social distancing was \"idiotic\", said he planned to sell as many seats as possible this summer.\n\nThe airline is planning to operate nearly 1,000 flights a day from July, up from 30 today. It said face coverings being worn by all crew and passengers and cashless on-board transactions would help keep passengers safe as well as a new system for toilet breaks.\n\nPassengers will have to ask crew to use the toilet to stop queues forming.\n\nMeanwhile, EasyJet has told the BBC that it does not have a date for restarting flights, but is keeping the situation under review.\n\nThe announcement came despite government plans to introduce a 14-day quarantine for international travellers to prevent a second spike in the virus, infuriating airlines which planned to resume flying in the coming months.\n\nWillie Walsh, boss of rival firm IAG, which owns British Airways, criticised the move, warning it would force him to review his plans to ramp up flights in the summer.\n\n\"There's nothing positive in anything I heard the prime minister say [on Sunday],\" he told MPs.\n\nVirgin Atlantic also released its summer schedule for 2021 on Tuesday, promising more flights to Tel Aviv as well as routes linking Florida with Manchester, Glasgow, London Heathrow and Belfast after it pulled out of Gatwick.\n\nScenes that are unlikely to be seen this summer\n\nJohn and Irene Hays, owners of travel company Hays Travel, which took over Thomas Cook's shops last year, said the news has not dampened people's enthusiasm to get away.\n\nMr Hay told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"There is a real desire to go on holiday. People have been locked down, and in terms of new bookings we're getting strong demand.\"\n\nTalking about trips which were booked earlier in the year, Mrs Hays added: \"Many people are not cancelling, they are just deferring their holiday or in some cases holding on to a credit note for now.\"\n\nMr Hays also thought that having to self-isolate at home for 14 days after returning from abroad may not stop people travelling.\n\n\"If people in the UK are already in lockdown, they might be happy to spend another fortnight at home. Some people might say go to Spain or somewhere, have a nice holiday and then come back and continue their lockdown,\" he said.\n\nMr Hancock's comments echo those from Transport Secretary Grant Shapps last month who warned people not to book summer holidays - domestic and overseas - until social distancing rules are relaxed. \"I won't be booking a summer holiday at this point,\" he told the BBC on 17 April.\n\nAirlines, and the travel industry generally, have been among the biggest financial losers of the international lockdown.\n\nAircraft fleets have been grounded and thousands of job cuts announced, with British Airways shedding 12,000 jobs and Virgin 3,000 jobs.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's political editor asks Rishi Sunak if the UK is looking at a recession due to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe tiny number of staff at work in Number 11 did make an effort at celebration in these grim times with, apparently, a few balloons in the office.\n\nThere is, though, not much time in government for anything other than trying to get through this emergency - nor anything to celebrate.\n\nThe impact on the economy has already been so extreme that Rishi Sunak confirmed today that the taxpayer will carry on paying 80% of the wages of more than seven million people until the end of July and then sharing the cost of that with employers, extending the furlough scheme until the end of October.\n\nThe idea is the Treasury picks up swathes of the country's wage bill so that businesses can close their doors but can keep their staff on standby.\n\nThe plan has, ministers firmly believe, staved off a much, much more serious economic disaster where we'd be heading into a period of mass unemployment.\n\nBy carrying on for a few more months, the hope is to keep the brakes on, to stop a slide into profound and prolonged downturn.\n\nThere are fears about the extension, however: not least how much businesses will be asked to share the bill from August.\n\nWhat happens to businesses who still haven't reopened by then and still have no income, so can't split the bill?\n\nWhat about businesses who decide not to reopen?\n\nThere are also fears among some ministers about how extending the scheme for every part of the economy reduces the incentive for people to go back to work and businesses to reopen too.\n\nBut, in the months to come, the question for the government is likely to extend far beyond the dilemmas over furlough.\n\nMore broadly, they may have to consider which sectors of the economy do they ask the taxpayer to help preserve, and which do they let go?\n\nIn this emergency phase, we are living with an astonishing level of state support being lent to keep big swathes of the economy afloat.\n\nThis chancellor and this Tory government are prepared to wear massive levels of borrowing for the foreseeable future. There will, in time, be a limit and an end point to how much more to add.\n\nBut many industries' models may not work for a long time; the sums may simply not add up.\n\nRishi Sunak may therefore have to decide whether it's the right thing to keep propping up business and industries whose future after corona may not be viable.\n\nThat's not just a decision about what we need, and how we want to earn our living as a country in the future, but a series of political choices about what the economy ought to look like in the years to come.\n\nWhen ministers make decisions about the best use of taxpayers' money - awful though it may be to consider - the changes that Covid-19 has forced on our way of life may mean that some previously successful businesses may simply not be able to make the sums work for a very long time on the other side.\n\nNot that long ago, the chancellor and others talked brightly of a swift bounce back to the economy.\n\nIt is, of course, possible that may yet happen. There is, and will continue to be, vigorous economic debate about exactly what the numbers display.\n\nBut politically a mood is sinking in now, that very hard decisions about the shape of the country's income will have to be made.\n\nWhen we asked him today about whether we're facing recession, the chancellor was reluctant to use the \"r\" word - recession - but accepted there were signs it was already happening.\n\nHe says his own \"heart breaks\" as people are already losing their jobs.\n\nBut it may not be long before he and the prime minister have no choice but to acknowledge the economic reality more explicitly - the sting in the virus' poisonous tail may be hardship for massive numbers of people in the country and harder decisions for Number 11 too.", "Some big lenders have begun reopening their doors to British borrowers, making it easier to get a home loan.\n\nAt the start of the coronavirus lockdown, several scrapped deals or only offered loans to those with large deposits.\n\nBut this week Nationwide, Halifax, Virgin and Santander all made it easier for people to qualify for a loan.\n\n\"Lenders are adapting and innovating,\" said broker Mark Harris of SPF Private Clients.\n\nNationwide resumed loans at 85% loan-to-value (LTV) on Wednesday, while Halifax raised its LTV level from 80% to 85%.\n\nMeanwhile, this week Virgin Money began offering purchase mortgages again, as Santander increased its maximum loan size - from £300,000 to £500,000 - and cut fees on its residential mortgages.\n\nAt the start of the lockdown, lenders were forced to reassess their deals in the light of the new restrictions.\n\nFor instance, Nationwide, the UK's biggest building society, stopped offering deals above 75% loan-to-value to new customers at the end of March to \"focus on supporting existing mortgage members, while continuing to process ongoing applications\".\n\n\"Lenders had to work out how they were going to continue trading while their mortgage processing centres were being scaled back and staff were working from home,\" explained Aaron Strutt, product director at Trinity Financial.\n\n\"As the general public is getting used to life under extended lockdown, so too are lenders,\" said Chris Sykes, mortgage consultant at broker Private Finance.\n\nLenders returning this last week \"is great news for the market and for borrowers who will have increased choice going forward,\" he added.\n\n\"It also means the post-lockdown recovery should be swifter when some semblance of normality returns.\"\n\nAccording to SPF's chief executive Mark Harris, lenders have found ways to deal with some of the problems and \"there is a willingness to lend\".\n\n\"Problems have mostly centred around staff resources, handling the surge in mortgage payment holidays and those staff self-isolating who have children and no childcare,\" he said.\n\nLenders have been changing the way they operate to cope with the lockdown and are now much more reliant on their IT systems, pointed out Mr Strutt.\n\nOne of the biggest problems under lockdown has been valuations, as properties can't be visited by lenders' staff to be inspected.\n\n\"Lenders are using system-generated valuations to get property purchases and remortgages agreed,\" he said.\n\nThese are known in the industry as \"drive-by valuations\".\n\nSorting out the problems and gaining confidence in the use of these valuations has encouraged lenders to reopen temporarily-closed doors.\n\n\"As the UK's second largest mortgage lender, it is right that we still play an active role in the market, while maintaining the levels of service expected of us, during what are unprecedented and evolving times,\" said Henry Jordan, director of mortgages at Nationwide.\n\nNationwide has raised its loan-to-value level to 85%\n\n\"We are still getting calls from people asking if it is possible to get a mortgage,\" said Mr Strutt.\n\nHe said borrowers typically need a deposit of at least 10% to qualify and lenders will want to know if people's income has reduced as a result of the coronavirus. But that doesn't mean you will be turned down.\n\n\"There is a little more caution in the underwriting process, but even if a borrower is furloughed, the lender will often take their full income into account if it can be proven that the employer is topping up the salary,\" said Mr Harris.\n\nHe added: \"NHS workers are being prioritised on remortgages to make sure they go through smoothly and lessen any potential stress.\"\n\nFixed rates continue to be at all-time lows, while the base rate is almost zero, so there continue to be plenty of good deals on offer, he pointed out.\n\n\"After three weeks of product availability falling, borrowers looking to purchase or remortgage will have an increased number of options open to them,\" said Mr Harris.", "Two companies involved in building emergency coronavirus hospitals have been hit by cyber-attacks this month.\n\nInterserve, which helped build Birmingham's NHS Nightingale hospital, and Bam Construct, which delivered the Yorkshire and the Humber's, have reported the incidents to authorities.\n\nEarlier this month, the government warned healthcare groups involved in the response to the virus were being targeted by malicious actors.\n\nThe separate attacks were not linked.\n\nBut Bam Construct said the \"significant\" cyber-attack on it \"forms part of the wave of attacks on public and private organisations supporting the national effort on Covid-19\".\n\nA spokesman said the company had shut down its website and some other systems as a precaution, after being hit by a computer virus.\n\nBut its day-to-day business had remained largely unaffected.\n\n\"Our own precautions have had more of an effect on our normal working procedures than the virus itself,\" he said.\n\nEmergency Nightingale hospitals have been built quickly by converting spaces such as convention centres\n\nInterserve, meanwhile, said \"some operational services may be affected\".\n\nBut it was working with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to \"contain and remedy the situation\" and had notified the Information Commissioner's Office and warned its employees, former employees, clients and suppliers to \"exercise heightened vigilance during this time\".\n\nThe outsourcing company also provides facilities management and other services and holds a range of contracts with the government beyond the construction sector.\n\nEarlier this month, the NCSC warned of attempts to attack healthcare and research organisations during the pandemic.\n\nAnd the government warned malicious actors were \"seeking to undermine the global response to this unprecedented global health crisis endanger lives\".", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak has mistakenly joined a Tory rebellion against the government over post-Brexit food import standards.\n\nMr Sunak voted digitally for a change to the Agriculture Bill that would have guaranteed a ban on chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef.\n\nThe amendment was defeated by 277 to 328, a majority of 51.\n\nA source close to the chancellor blamed \"teething problems\" with a new online voting system.\n\n\"The chancellor did not intentionally vote against the government. He called the chief whip straight away to explain,\" added the source.\n\nSeveral MPs made the same mistake in what was only the second time they have voted digitally.\n\nThe system - brought in to allow MPs to continue working during the coronavirus lockdown - does not allow MPs to change their vote once it has been cast.\n\nDeputy Speaker Dame Eleanor Laing said she had been told some MPs had mistakenly voted the wrong way and \"that their use of technology was not quite as good as they felt that it ought to be\".\n\nBut she told MPs she was \"satisfied\" the mistakes had not affected the outcome of the vote.\n\nMinisters say the issue of protecting food standards in post-Brexit trade will be dealt with in the upcoming Trade Bill.\n\nBut opponents of practices such chlorine-washing chicken say that could lead to farm standards being bargained away in negotiations.\n\nInstead, they wanted ministers to guarantee food standards in the Agriculture Bill.\n\nLeading rebel, Tory MP Simon Hoare, warned MPs that without changes to the bill \"food imports to this country would be cheap for no other reason bar the fact that they were raised to lower standards\".\n\nFellow rebel Neil Parish, chairman of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, told MPs it was time to support such measures.\n\nTory rebels called on American farmers to improve their standards\n\nHe said: \"I'd say to the Americans, why don't you upgrade your production? Why don't you reduce the density of population of your chicken?\n\n\"Why don't you reduce the amount of antibiotics you're using and then you can actually produce better chicken not only for America, it can also come into this country?\n\n\"Let's not be frightened of putting clauses into this bill that protect us to have the great environment and welfare that the whole bill wants to have and farmers want to have.\"\n\nBut Environment Minister Victoria Prentis warned of \"unintended consequences\" of amending the bill and insisted all EU import standards will be converted into domestic law by the end of the December 2020 transition period.\n\nShe told MPs all existing import requirements would continue to apply, including \"a ban on using artificial growth hormones in beef\".\n\nShe added: \"Nothing apart from potable water may be used to clean chicken carcasses and any changes to these standards would have to come before this Parliament.\n\n\"We will be doing our own inspections to ensure that these import conditions are met.\"\n\nShadow environment secretary Luke Pollard said not including food standards in the bill could lead to a \"race to the bottom\".\n\nDuring the third reading vote, Labour spokesman Mr Pollard could be heard asking in the Commons chamber: \"How many members of the Cabinet voted the wrong way?\"\n\nGovernment deputy chief whip Stuart Andrew was heard replying: \"Just the one. He's a very busy man.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics says public health restrictions and social distancing were a key factor behind some bad economic news just released - the biggest quarterly contraction in the UK economy since the financial crisis.\n\nFace masks are now recommended for anyone who cannot avoid using public transport\n\nFrom this morning, millions of self-employed people can apply for an income support grant of up to £7,500. The government says the money will be paid into the accounts of those eligible six days later. It comes after the furlough scheme, which supports employees' wages, was extended by the chancellor on Tuesday.\n\nSome newly self-employed people are not eligible for help\n\nSchool and university leavers face acute challenges at this difficult time, and experts warn those with the fewest qualifications will be worst hit. The BBC has spoken to several young people who paint a picture of a very uncertain future, as their desired career paths are closed off and back-up options for temporary work in the likes of retail and hospitality disappear too.\n\nJared Thomas has seen work fail to pick up\n\nWith so much focus on the death toll, it's important to remember that the vast majority of coronavirus sufferers do get better, even those who are very ill. Our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh meets some patients starting their rehabilitation after time in intensive care. And read more on how long it takes to recover here.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do you recover after nearly dying from coronavirus?\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and get all the latest in our live page.\n\nPolicymakers say they are following the science on coronavirus, so what do the experts say about easing lockdown rules?\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Researchers are to study the genetic codes of severely-ill Covid-19 patients to find out why the disease affects some people more than others.\n\nThe Edinburgh University-led programme will identify the specific genes that cause a predisposition to the disease.\n\nIt will allow the genome sequencing of up 20,000 people who have been in intensive care with Covid-19, and 15,000 who have mild symptoms.\n\nThe findings will then be used to suggest potential treatments.\n\nResults from the study will also inform global strategic planning for possible later waves of Covid-19 and other pandemics in the future.\n\nThe human genome is made up of billions of pieces of DNA, found in nearly every cell in the body. It is the \"instruction manual\" for life and errors can trigger a vast range of disorders.\n\nThe UK-wide sequencing project is being led by Dr Kenneth Baillie from the University of Edinburgh, who will be working with teams from within the NHS and Genomics England.\n\nIt has secured £28m of funding and is being hailed as \"a global collaboration to study genetics in critical illness\".\n\nUK Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the study was \"a further major programme in the UK's fight against Covid-19\".\n\nThe human genome is made up of billions of pieces of DNA\n\nHe added: \"As a nation, we are determined to harness the UK's leadership in genomics to understand its role in viral response and whether we can use this information to identify those at greatest risk and improve their treatment.\"\n\nDr Baillie said: \"Our genes play a role in determining who becomes desperately sick with infections like Covid-19.\n\n\"Understanding these genes will help us to choose treatments for clinical trials.\"\n\nSir Mark Caulfield, chief scientist at Genomics England, said the study could pave the way for new targeted medicines.\n\nHe said: \"For the first time in a generation we face a global viral pandemic that is life-threatening for some people, yet others have a mild infection.\n\n\"By reading the whole genome, we may able to identify variation that affects response to Covid-19 and discover new therapies that could reduce harm, save lives and even prevent future outbreaks.\"", "Vaughan Gething said on Tuesday tests had reached 5,330 a day\n\nA work-force of 1,000 will be needed as part of a new strategy to test the public and trace the spread of coronavirus in Wales, the Welsh Government has said.\n\nMinisters are hoping to use a test, track and trace strategy to ease the country out of lockdown.\n\nThe Welsh Government pledged to increase testing capacity to 20,000-a-day as it implements the plans.\n\nAn initial draft had suggested that as many 36,000 test a day could have been needed - Health Minister Vaughan Gething had dismissed that figure.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives welcomed the plan but said it was an initial outline, while Plaid Cymru complained of a lack of detail.\n\nMeanwhile the chief executive of Public Health Wales has apologised for saying she was not aware of a former target to test 9,000 people a day by the end of April.\n\nTest, tracking and tracing are widely seen as key to keeping outbreaks under control\n\nUnder the \"Trace, Track and Protect\" strategy the Welsh Government intends to:\n\nThe plan says the Welsh Government will continue to increase its testing capacity over the coming weeks and months, \"potentially to as many as 10,000 tests a day, enabling us to test more people staying in hospitals and care settings and those working in these sectors and in other critical services\".\n\nMr Gething told the Senedd's virtual meeting on Wednesday that he hopes to have 10,000 tests a day by the end of May.\n\nIt says it can increase testing further by \"drawing on the testing programme across the UK\".\n\n\"Contact tracing combined with the other purposes that testing supports could require as many as 20,000 tests a day,\" the plan says, adding this was dependant on the spread of the disease.\n\nIt is understood the 20,000 figure includes a home testing system for the general public which will be delivered on a UK-wide basis. It is not clear when the Welsh Government intends to reach the figure.\n\nThe report says that, working with councils and NHS health boards, the Welsh Government is \"aiming to deploy a workforce of around 1,000 staff\".\n\n\"We will then grow our workforce and adapt our approach as circumstances dictate\".\n\nContact tracing would be maintained at a \"significant level, potentially for the next year or until a vaccine is found\", the plan said, \"responding to the latest evidence on how common the disease is across Wales and how quickly it is spreading\".\n\nThe Welsh Government is also hoping to make use of the NHSX app being trailed in the Isle of Wight, which will alert users if they may have come into proximity with someone with coronavirus, but is seeking privacy assurances.\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokeswoman Angela Burns said the plan was \"better late than never\". But she added: \"The devil will be in the detail, and at the moment this announcement is more of an outline, rather than a definitive plan.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said a strategy \"is only as good as its implementation plan and there's no detailed plan here that I can see to put the already widely accepted principles of the need to test and trace into practice\".\n\nSeparately, Public Health Wales chief executive Tracey Cooper apologised \"sincerely\" to members of the Welsh Parliament's health committee for the \"confusion\" caused after she said she was \"not familiar\" with the abandoned 9,000-a-day testing target.\n\n\"The 9,000 relates to the 5,000 domestic testing capacity that was our primary focus for the end of April and the additional 4,000 was a figure based on assumptions at the UK level and was not associated with our 5,000 capacity planned for the end of April,\" she wrote.\n\n\"The Welsh Government has indicated that the additional 4,000 tests (on top of the 5,000 tests in Wales) was not a target for testing in Wales, but reflected the UK level assumptions at the time.\n\n\"I now realise that this differentiation was at the core of the confusion my answer caused and I apologise again to the committee.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's political editor asks Rishi Sunak if the UK is looking at a recession due to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has spoken of the \"heartbreaking\" job losses already caused by the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nHe said the government was determined to save as many firms as it could - which was why it would carry on paying the wages of 7.5 million people.\n\nThe scheme was \"expensive\" but the cost to society of not doing it would be \"far higher\", he told the BBC.\n\nHe earlier announced the extension of the furlough scheme to the end of October.\n\nEmployees will continue to receive 80% of their monthly wages up to £2,500 but the government will ask companies to \"start sharing\" the cost of the scheme from August.\n\nA quarter of the workforce, some 7.5 million people, are now covered by the scheme, which has cost £14bn a month.\n\nThe chancellor said that from August, the scheme would continue for all sectors and regions of the country but with greater flexibility to support the transition back to work.\n\nEmployers currently using the scheme will then be able to bring furloughed employees back part-time.\n\nMr Sunak told the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg: \"This is an expensive scheme... but I also believe it's absolutely the right thing to do.\n\n\"And what's very clear to me is that the cost of not doing this for society, for our economy, for our country would be far higher, and I am simply not going to give up on all these people.\"\n\nAsked if the UK was heading for a recession, he said: \"We already know that many people have lost their jobs and it breaks my heart, we've seen what's happening with Universal Credit claims already.\n\n\"This is not something that we're going to wait to see - it's already happening.\n\n\"There are already businesses that are shutting there are already people who have lost their jobs.\n\n\"And as I said that's heartbreaking to me and that's why I'm working night and day to limit the amount of job losses.\n\nAsked about the effect of the lockdown on the future of the British economy, the chancellor pledged to drive up productivity across the UK and \"invest\" in people and infrastructure.\n\n\"That agenda remains even more relevant today than it did then. And we will not we will not at all retrench from delivering on that,\" he told Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nLabour has welcomed Mr Sunak's decision to extend the furlough scheme, calling it \"a lifeline for millions\".\n\nBut shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds said the government had to clarify when employers will be required to start making contributions, and how much they'll be asked to pay.\n\n\"If every business is suddenly required to make a substantial contribution from 1 August onwards, there is a very real risk that we will see mass redundancies,\" she added.", "Some passengers at Canning Town underground station in east London wore masks for their commute on Wednesday morning\n\nSome people in England who cannot work from home are returning to their workplaces today, as the government begins easing some lockdown measures.\n\nThe government urged people to avoid public transport if possible.\n\nBut some commuters said Tube trains and buses were still too busy to observe social distancing rules.\n\nMeanwhile, new guidance issued by the College of Policing said officers had \"no powers to enforce two-metre distancing\" in England.\n\nUnder the new rules in England, people can now spend more time outside and move house.\n\nGarden centres can reopen and sports that are physically distanced - such as golf - are now permitted.\n\nTwo people from different households can meet in outdoor settings, such as parks, as long as they stay more than 2m apart.\n\nHowever, government guidance on maintaining a 2m distance, avoiding public transport and wearing face coverings in enclosed spaces is \"not enforceable\" by officers in England, according to the fresh guidelines from the College of Policing.\n\nIt follows a speech by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday in which he unveiled a \"conditional plan\" aimed at reopening society.\n\nThis has led to a divergence in lockdown rules between the UK government and the devolved administrations, with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland keeping stricter measures in place and retaining the message to stay at home.\n\nIt comes as figures from the Office for National Statistics showed the UK economy shrank at the fastest pace since the financial crisis in the first quarter of 2020.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak told the BBC it was \"very likely\" the UK would face a \"significant recession\" as a result of the pandemic.\n\nThe number of people who have died after testing positive for coronavirus in the UK has reached 33,186, a rise of 494 on the previous day.\n\nHousing Secretary Robert Jenrick led the Downing Street daily briefing and was joined by the deputy chief medical officer for England, Dr Jenny Harries.\n\nThe lockdown has brought immense challenges for the police service.\n\nAlthough crime has plummeted and police sickness rates have been far lower than expected, officers have found themselves caught in the middle of a web of hastily-drawn up regulations and guidelines.\n\nThe latest police guidance for England suggests their job won't be any easier as it makes clear they can only enforce the law - not government advice.\n\nThat means, for example, you can be stopped or fined if you go on an overnight trip or meet up with two or more people from outside your home - because that's the law.\n\nBut officers can't prevent you from standing close to a stranger or travelling by train without a face mask on - because two-metre distancing and wearing face coverings in enclosed spaces are guidance.\n\nIn England, employers have been issued with guidelines on keeping workplaces as safe as possible, including staggering shifts and frequent cleaning.\n\nThose who flout the rules could face criminal proceedings, the Health and Safety Executive watchdog has warned.\n\nFrances O'Grady, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, said the new guidelines for employers were \"a step in the right direction\" but \"the real test will be delivery\".\n\nShe said employers should publish a risk assessment and if workers had any concerns they could contact the Health and Safety Executive hotline.\n\n\"It's really important to remember that workers do have that right in law not to work if it would put them in imminent danger,\" she told BBC Breakfast.\n\nSome commuters were not able to maintain a 2m distance on a Victoria Line Tube into central London\n\nBy contrast, one commuter pictured this almost-deserted Tyne and Wear Metro carriage in Newcastle\n\nThere was some traffic on the M1 in Northamptonshire on Wednesday morning\n\nYork Tennis Club opened for players on Wednesday after restrictions were eased\n\nAsked how it was possible for people to maintain social distancing on public transport as more people returned to work, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the government was urging people to cycle and walk where possible.\n\n\"The absolute key here is for anybody who can to make alternative arrangements for travel,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nHe added that, even if the public transport network was running at full capacity, only one in 10 passengers would be able to travel while keeping to social distancing rules.\n\nPassenger numbers across the UK's major railway stations were up 10% up compared with the same day last week, BBC transport correspondent Tom Burridge said.\n\nTransport for London (TfL) said the number of passengers using the Tube from the start of service to 06:00 was up by 8.7% compared with the same period last week. As of 10:00 the number of Tube passengers was about 7.3% higher.\n\nHowever both figures are still a fraction of the normal numbers and Downing Street said TfL was \"not reporting significant increases\" on the London network compared to the last few days.\n\nOne commuter told the BBC it was \"next to impossible\" to socially distance on the London Underground and most people were not wearing masks.\n\nIn Blackpool, a hospital worker said the downstairs of her bus was \"packed\" during her morning commute.\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 Julia Kate Rayworth This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAsked about reports of busy rush hour trains and buses during Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"I don't want to see crowding on public transport in our capital or anywhere else.\"\n\nHe said the government was \"working very actively\" with TfL to increase capacity and lay on more Tube trains when necessary.\n\n\"We also want to see proper marshalling at stations to prevent crowding of trains,\" he added.\n\nThe updated lockdown regulations, which were presented to Parliament on Tuesday, also allow people to leave their homes to collect goods ordered from businesses or to travel to waste or recycling centres.\n\nSome outdoor sports can get under way again, with golf clubs and tennis courts expected to reopen to the public. Playgrounds, however, will stay shut.\n\nRestrictions have also been lifted on how far people can travel to get to the countryside, national parks and beaches in England.\n\nHowever, people have been warned to respect local communities, keep their distance from others and avoid busy areas.\n\nThe government reiterated that staying overnight at a holiday or second home was not allowed.\n\nThose who break the rules will now face fines starting at £100 in England, and this will double on each further repeat offence up to £3,200.\n\nNational Police Chiefs' Council chairman Martin Hewitt said officers would \"continue to use common sense and discretion\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast police would be \"encouraging\" people to go home if they were not out for a \"legitimate reason\" and enforcement and fines would be used \"only as a last resort\".\n\nContent available only in the UK\n\nAre you returning to work today? Tell us about your commute by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "Plans to reopen primary schools in England do not have adequate safety measures and need to be halted, warns an alliance of school teachers' unions.\n\nA joint education union statement called on the government to \"step back\" from a 1 June start date.\n\nIn the House of Commons, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson warned against \"scaremongering\" over safety.\n\nBut his department's chief scientific adviser cast doubt on suggestions the virus spreads less among children.\n\nMr Williamson, facing questions from MPs on reopening schools, rejected fears over safety and said it was the most disadvantaged who were losing out from schools being closed.\n\n\"Sometimes scaremongering, making people fear, is really unfair and not a welcome pressure to be placed on families, children and teachers alike,\" he told MPs.\n\nMr Williamson said that pupils, like teachers, would be a priority for testing if they or their families showed symptoms.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats' education spokeswoman, Layla Moran, challenged the education secretary to publish the scientific evidence on which the return to school was based.\n\nGavin Williamson said disadvantaged pupils were the most likely to suffer from a long time out of school\n\nBut the Department for Education's chief scientific adviser, Osama Rahman, appearing before the Science and Technology Committee, said decisions around opening schools, such as which year groups went back first, had not been taken by the department.\n\nAsked whether he had assessed the safety guidance given to schools and how it might be implemented, the DFE's scientific adviser told MPs: \"I haven't.\"\n\nAs such he was unable to say what evidence was behind the decision to reopen schools - or to say how many under-18s had died from the virus.\n\nAnd Mr Rahman told MPs there was only \"low confidence\" in evidence suggesting that children transmit Covid-19 any less than adults.\n\n\"As a former teacher listening to this I don't think the profession is going to be at all satisfied by what they are hearing at the moment,\" said Scottish National Party MP Carol Monaghan.\n\nPatrick Roach, leader of the Nasuwt teachers' union, said the DFE adviser's comments were \"truly shocking and disturbing\".\n\nThe Department for Education later circulated a letter from Mr Rahman in which he said he had been \"closely involved\" in advising on reopening schools - and that he had \"full confidence in in the plan to reopen education institutions for all the reasons set out by the government\".\n\nIn their joint statement, nine unions, including the National Education Union and the National Association of Head Teachers, rejected the plans for a phased return of primary school pupils after half term - saying it was still too early to be safe.\n\nThe unions called for a delay until a \"full roll-out of a national test and trace scheme\" was in place and there were extra resources for cleaning, protective equipment and risk assessments.\n\nThe joint statement said that \"classrooms of four and five-year olds could become sources of Covid-19 transmission and spread\".\n\n\"We call on the government to step back from the 1st June and work with us to create the conditions for a safe return to schools.\"\n\nBut Mr Williamson told MPs that opening schools was the \"responsible\" course of action, now the virus was \"past the peak\" and that safety was uppermost in how it was being planned.\n\n\"The best place for children to be educated and to learn is in school,\" he said, particularly for the disadvantaged who would be most likely to fall further behind.\n\nInstead of a fixed date for a return, Labour's shadow education secretary, Rebecca Long-Bailey, argued that schools should reopen only when there was clear evidence it was safe.\n\n\"The guidance provided so far does not yet provide the clear assurances over safety that are needed,\" she told MPs.\n\nShe said that families were still worried about the implications of pupils going back to school, such as for relatives who might have illnesses.\n\nIn Wales, the First Minister Mark Drakeford has said schools would not open on 1 June.\n\nIn Scotland, it is not expected that schools will re-open before the summer holidays.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, Education Minister Peter Weir has spoken of a possible phased return of schools in September.", "Ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been released from prison to serve the remainder of his sentence at home due to Covid-19 fears.\n\nHe had served a little over a year of a seven-and-a-half year sentence in jail.\n\nManafort, 71, was convicted of conspiracy and fraud charges that stemmed from a justice department inquiry into Russian election meddling.\n\nThere are over 2,800 confirmed Covid-19 cases among US federal prisoners and 50 deaths.\n\nAccording to the latest data from the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), there are 139,584 federal inmates in federal custody, and another 11,235 in community facilities, plus around 36,000 staff. According to the BOP, 2,818 inmates and 262 staff have tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThere have not been any confirmed cases of the disease at Manafort's prison, FCI Loretto in Pennsylvania.\n\nLast month, Manafort's lawyers sought for his release to home confinement in Northern Virginia, arguing that his \"age and pre-existing health conditions\" put him at high risk for infection in prison.\n\nAt the end of March, Attorney General William Barr told the BOP to grant home confinement to virus-vulnerable, low-risk inmates. His memo noted \"some offenses, such as sex offenses, will render an inmate ineligible for home detention\".\n\nIn April, Mr Barr directed the BOP to transfer inmates at risk for Covid-19 out of three federal facilities grappling with outbreaks, and told officials to review inmates at other similar facilities where the virus was affecting operations.\n\nThe BOP reports 2,471 inmates have been moved to home confinement due to the pandemic since 26 March.\n\nIn Pennsylvania, the governor ordered its corrections department to allow nonviolent and at-risk inmates to be momentarily released.\n\nThough the administration said as many as 1,800 people would be eligible, just 150 have been released as of 12 May, according to state corrections data.\n\nUS jails and prisons, both federal and state, have been criticised for their handling of virus outbreaks and advocates continue to call for non-violent inmates to be released.\n\nCritics say prisoners are uniquely at-risk for the disease given overcrowding and unhygienic conditions. Inmates often lack soap and hand sanitiser is banned due to its alcohol content.\n\nThe American Civil Liberties Union predicts 100,000 more Covid-19 deaths than current projections \"if jail populations are not dramatically and immediately reduced\", noting conditions in American facilities are \"substantially inferior\" to other Western nations.\n\nAnother ex-Trump aide, the president's former lawyer Michael Cohen, 53, is said to be expecting home release from prison in New York later this month.\n\nA number of other high-profile convicts, including financial fraudster Bernie Madoff, 82, and comedian Bill Cosby, 82, have also appealed for release due to the virus.\n\nManafort served as President Trump's campaign chairman from June to August 2016, when he was forced to resign over his previous work in Ukraine.\n\nHe was convicted on a range of banking fraud, tax evasion, conspiracy and witness tampering charges from two separate cases relating to his work as a political consultant.\n\nManafort said the case had taken everything from him\n\nManafort also agreed to co-operate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation in a deal for a possible lighter sentence. However, just two months later that plea deal collapsed as investigators said Manafort had repeatedly lied to the government.\n\nHe was sentenced in March 2019 and his prison term was to have ended in 2024.", "A suspected scam store, featuring hard-to-find gadgets priced below the norm, topped Google search results for days.\n\nMyTechDomestic accepted payments via direct bank transfers only - despite indicating support for credit cards and PayPal - and falsely claimed to be owned by a UK-registered company.\n\nIt was flagged to Google last week but the US company took action only after being contacted by BBC News on Monday.\n\nThe site's operator did not respond to several requests for comment.\n\nHowever, the platform went offline shortly after BBC News asked for a response to customers' claims it amounted to a \"scam\".\n\nAction Fraud - the UK's national reporting centre for fraud and cyber-crime - is looking into the matter after receiving a complaint from a member of the public.\n\n\"Given the large numbers of people who view these adverts, Google should move much more quickly in response to reports of scams, and be proactive about vetting them to help prevent people losing money to fraudsters,\" Which? Computing editor Kate Bevan said.\n\nMyTechDomestic's website was registered with a Canadian domain registrar on 19 April.\n\nIt was subsequently promoted via ads bought from Google's Shopping service, meaning its listings featured a \"By Google\" tag when they appeared within its search results.\n\nBy late last week, the site was top billed for several gadgets sold out or priced at a premium elsewhere.\n\nThese ads appeared at the top of Google's mobile search results and to the side of some desktop searches.\n\nThe company's ads appeared at the top of search results on mobile phones\n\nThe store often indicated it had relatively low supplies left in stock and frequently priced products at an 18% discount.\n\nAnd although its pages featured logos for American Express, Mastercard and PayPal, at point-of-sale it allowed customers to pay via a bank transfer only.\n\nBut after one user drew attention to this being unusual, on a post to MoneySavingExpert.com's forum, the site switched to using an English bank.\n\nMyTechDomestic stated it was operated by a London-based corporation, for which it provided an address and registration number.\n\nBut that company turned out to be a seven-year-old business consultancy with similar initials, which denied involvement.\n\n\"MyTechDomestic is nothing whatsoever to do with MTDO Ltd,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"We don't sell anything on the internet and we were shocked that it was that easy to set up something that steals someone else's company's identity.\"\n\nMTDO said it had reported the issue to Google on Friday, 8 May, via its Report Phishing tool.\n\nHowever, the adverts remained online until Monday evening.\n\nThe site often indicated its stock levels were low, in the individual product listings\n\nAfter being contacted by BBC News, Google began its own investigation.\n\nIt concluded the site had violated its \"misrepresentation policy\" and should have been dealt with more quickly.\n\n\"We take dishonest business practices very seriously and consider them to be an egregious violation of our policies,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"We have a tool where anyone can report these ads and these complaints are reviewed manually by our team.\n\n\"In 2019, we removed 2.7 billion bad ads and we're constantly updating our policies as we see new threats emerge.\"\n\nThe site's registrar, PlanetHoster, confirmed it had also taken action of its own.\n\n\"Currently, the website mytechdomestic.com is suspended for a violation of our policy,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"Unfortunately, we cannot share more information about this case without an official warrant.\"\n\nMeanwhile, several of the site's users voiced concerns they may have been \"scammed\" out of hundreds of pounds, in complaints posted to TrustPilot's review site.\n\n\"[An] investigation is currently ongoing with my bank and the Action Fraud police,\" one, who had paid £311.59 for a treadmill, told BBC News.\n\nOne cyber-security expert said consumers should be \"wary\" of listings from unfamiliar names - even if they were promoted by Google.\n\n\"Having been warned of a suspicious site, Google could easily have confirmed that the site was less than a month old and asking for payment in a way which doesn't protect consumers,\" Graham Cluley said.\n\n\"At the very least, it should have suspended the shopping lists while it investigated the domain.\"", "Gerry Adams tried to escape from the Maze Prison twice in the 1970s\n\nGerry Adams has won his appeal to have two convictions for attempting to escape from prison in the 1970s overturned.\n\nThe Supreme Court said the former Sinn Féin president's convictions were quashed because Mr Adams' detention was unlawful.\n\nHe attempted to escape from the Maze Prison, also known as Long Kesh internment camp, in 1973 and 1974.\n\nHe was later sentenced to a total of four-and-a-half years in jail.\n\nMr Adams was in jail because he had been interned without trial, a practice that was introduced in Northern Ireland amid spiralling violence in the early 1970s.\n\nMore than 1,900 people suspected of being members of paramilitary organisations were detained, but many were arrested based on flawed intelligence.\n\nMr Adams has consistently denied being a member of the IRA.\n\nThe former Sinn Féin leader welcomed the Supreme Court's decision, saying internment without trial \"set aside the normal principles of law and was based on a blunt and brutal piece of coercive legislation\".\n\n\"There is an onus on the British government to identify and inform other internees whose internment may also have been unlawful,\" he said.\n\nThe highest court has set aside Gerry Adams' only convictions from Northern Ireland's Troubles.\n\nMr Adams, as well as repeatedly denying he was ever in the IRA, can now point to a clear record.\n\nBut it will not alter the historical narrative around him.\n\nInstead of controlling violence it inflamed it.\n\nNow it has been found that arguably the most famous internee of all was put in jail unlawfully, due to an error.\n\nAt an earlier hearing in November, Mr Adams' lawyers argued his detention was unlawful because the interim custody order (ICO) used to detain him in July 1973 was not authorised by Willie Whitelaw, who was Northern Ireland secretary at the time.\n\nAnnouncing the Supreme Court's judgement at a remote hearing on Wednesday, Lord Kerr - the former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland - said the court had unanimously allowed Mr Adams' appeal and had quashed his convictions.\n\nThe judge said Mr Adams' detention was unlawful because it had not been \"considered personally\" by Mr Whitelaw.\n\nHe explained that Mr Adams, a former West Belfast MP, had been detained under an ICO made under the Detention of Terrorists (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 and that \"such an order could be made where the secretary of state considered that an individual was involved in terrorism\".\n\nIn the court's written judgment, Lord Kerr said the power to make such an order was \"a momentous one\", describing it as \"a power to detain without trial and potentially for a limitless period\".\n\n\"This provides an insight into Parliament's intention and that the intention was that such a crucial decision should be made by the secretary of state,\" he said.\n• None What was internment in Northern Ireland?", "Everyone wants to know how well their country is tackling the coronavirus pandemic, compared with others.\n\nBut there are all sorts of challenges in comparing countries, such as how widely they test for Covid-19 and whether they count deaths from the virus in the same way.\n\nProf Sir David Spiegelhalter from Cambridge University has said trying to rank different countries to decide which is the worst in Europe is a \"completely fatuous exercise\".\n\nBut he's also referred to \"the bad countries in Europe: UK, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy\" and said \"clearly it's important to note that group is way above, in terms of their mortality, a group like Germany, Austria, Portugal, Denmark, Norway, who have low fatality rates.\"\n\nSo, when it comes to comparing countries, what factors do you need to take into account?\n\nFirst of all, there are differences in how countries record Covid-19 deaths.\n\nFrance and Germany, for example, have been including deaths in care homes in the headline numbers they produce every day.\n\nBut the daily figures for England referred only to deaths in hospitals until 29 April, when they started factoring in deaths in care homes as well.\n\nA further complication is that there is no accepted international standard for how you measure deaths, or their causes.\n\nDoes somebody need to have been tested for coronavirus to count towards the statistics, or are the suspicions of a doctor enough?\n\nGermany counts deaths in care homes only if people have tested positive for the virus. Belgium, on the other hand, includes any death in which a doctor suspects coronavirus was involved.\n\nThe UK's daily figures only count deaths when somebody has tested positive for the virus, but its weekly figures include suspected cases.\n\nAlso, does the virus need to be the main cause of death, or does any mention on a death certificate count?\n\nAgain, different countries do things differently. So, are you really comparing like with like?\n\nThere is a lot of focus on death rates, but there are different ways of measuring them too.\n\nOne is the ratio of deaths to confirmed cases - of all the people who test positive for coronavirus, how many go on to die?\n\nBut different countries are testing in different ways. Early in the outbreak, the UK mainly tested people who were ill enough to be admitted to hospital. That can make the death rate appear much higher than in a country with a wider testing programme.\n\nThe more testing a country carries out, the more it will find people who have coronavirus with only mild symptoms, or perhaps no symptoms at all.\n\nIn other words, the death rate in confirmed cases is not the same as the overall death rate.\n\nAnother measurement is how many deaths have occurred compared with the size of a country's population - the numbers of deaths per million people, for example.\n\nBut that is determined partly by what stage of the outbreak an individual country has reached. If a country's first case was early in the global outbreak, then it has had longer for its death toll to grow.\n\nOne way to take account of that is to look at how a country has done since reaching a particular point in the pandemic - the day it recorded its 50th death for example.\n\nBut even that poses some problems. A country that reaches 50 deaths later should have had more time to prepare for the virus and to reduce the eventual death toll.\n\nIt is also worth emphasising, when studying these comparisons, that most people who get infected with coronavirus will recover.\n\nThere are other factors to take into account beyond the numbers themselves.\n\nIt is more difficult to have confidence in data that comes from countries with tightly controlled political systems.\n\nIs the number of deaths recorded so far in countries like China or Iran accurate? We don't really know.\n\nCalculated as a number of deaths per million of its population, China's figures are extraordinarily low, even after it revised upwards the death toll in Wuhan by 50%.\n\nSo, can we really trust the data?\n\nThere are real differences in the populations in different countries. Demographics are particularly important - that's things like average age, or where people live.\n\nComparisons have been made between the UK and the Republic of Ireland, but they are problematic. Ireland has a much lower population density, and a much larger percentage of people live in rural areas.\n\nIt makes more sense to compare Dublin City and County with an urban area in the UK of about the same size (like Merseyside) than to try to compare the two countries as a whole.\n\nSimilarly, a better though still imperfect comparison for London, Europe's major global city, may be with New York, the biggest global hub in the United States.\n\nYou also need to make sure you are comparing like with like in terms of age structure.\n\nA comparison of death rates between countries in Europe and Africa wouldn't necessarily work, because countries in Africa tend to have much younger populations.\n\nWe know that older people are much more likely to die of Covid-19.\n\nOn the other hand, most European countries have health systems that are better funded than those in most African countries.\n\nAnd that will also have an effect on how badly hit a country is by coronavirus, as will factors such as how easily different cultures adjust to social distancing.\n\nHealth systems obviously play a crucial role in trying to control a pandemic, but they are not all the same.\n\n\"Do people actively seek treatment, how easy is it to get to hospitals, do you have to pay to be treated well? All of these things vary from place to place,\" says Prof Andy Tatem, of the University of Southampton.\n\nAnother big factor is the level of comorbidity - this means the number of other conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease or high blood pressure - which people may already have when they get infected.\n\nCountries that did a lot of testing early in the pandemic, and followed it up by tracing the contacts of anyone who was infected, seem to have been most successful in slowing the spread of the disease so far.\n\nBoth Germany and South Korea have had far fewer deaths than the worst affected countries.\n\nThe number of tests per head of population may be a useful statistic to predict lower fatality rates.\n\nBut not all testing data is the same - some countries record the number of people tested, while others record the total number of tests carried out (many people need to be tested more than once to get an accurate result).\n\nThe timing of testing, and whether tests took place mostly in hospitals or in the community, also need to be taken into account.\n\nGermany and South Korea tested aggressively very early on, and learned a lot more about how the virus was spreading.\n\nBut Italy, which has also done a lot of tests, has suffered a relatively high numbers of deaths. Italy only substantially increased its capacity for testing after the pandemic had already taken hold. The UK has done the same thing.\n\nSo, is anything useful likely to emerge from all these comparisons?\n\n\"What you want to know is why one country might be doing better than another, and what you can learn from that,\" says Prof Jason Oke from the University of Oxford.\n\n\"And testing seems to be the most obvious example so far.\"\n\nBut until this outbreak is over it won't be possible to know for sure which countries have dealt with the virus better.\n\n\"That's when we can really learn the lessons for next time,\" says Prof Oke.\n• None Who can still get free Covid tests?", "A holiday park said it had been inundated with requests for bookings after it was announced that lockdown measures would be eased in England.\n\nPeople living in England are allowed to travel for their exercise, but that is not allowed in Wales where people are restricted to staying near homes.\n\nLaurie Clark, general manager of Golden Sands in Rhyl, said some callers did not believe the different rules.\n\nHe said the resort had had about 40 requests since Sunday's announcement.\n\nRegulations against going on holiday or staying overnight at a holiday home or second home, however, still apply in both England and Wales.\n\nThe differences in lockdown rules between the English approach, and those of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, have already created confusion.\n\n\"It has been a mixture of caravan owners and holidaymakers getting in touch, who are confused about the statement from Boris Johnson on Sunday,\" Mr Clark said.\n\n\"We are surrounded by Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham catchment areas; people here assume we are going to be open.\n\n\"When we turned on our phone system on Monday morning, we were inundated from a mixture of holidaymakers enquiring if we would be open in the week, or are they able to visit their holiday homes?\n\n\"When we try to give clarity, saying the lockdown measures are different in Wales, some people were fine, some were more argumentative.\n\n\"They were saying, 'Why is this? Boris is PM for UK; why is it a different rule for Wales?'\n\n\"They didn't understand that the Welsh government were involved, or it was different in Scotland as well.\n\n\"They felt entitled to visit their holiday home, which they pay thousands for.\"\n\nMr Clark said as well as the 40 calls on Monday there were also about 30 or 40 emails.\n\nNorth Wales police and crime commissioner Arfon Jones said the confusion over lockdown easing was a \"total shambles\" and could cause an influx of visitors to north Wales.", "Back next week - but it will only be until September when the Ford plant in Bridgend closes for good\n\nFord's engine plant in Wales will restart production next week, the car manufacturer has announced.\n\nIts 1,200 strong workforce in Bridgend has been on furlough since 25 March, following the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThere were fears it might not have reopened at all after lockdown, as it is due to shut for good in September.\n\nIt comes after staff at Toyota on Deeside returned to work this week under new procedures that implemented social distancing.\n\nFord also confirmed it intends to restart initial production at its Dagenham engine plant in Essex.\n\nTogether with its Valencia factory in Spain, it means all of Ford's European manufacturing facilities will be back at work.\n\n\"As we return to work at our two engine plants in the UK, our key priority is the implementation of Ford's global standards on social distancing and strengthened health and safety protocols to safeguard the well-being of our workforce,\" said Graham Hoare, chairman, Ford of Britain.\n\nAll Ford's European production plants will be back at work from next week\n\nThe decision follows comments from the Welsh Economy Minister Ken Skates revealing Wales has the highest proportion of businesses applying for the UK government's furlough scheme.\n\nMr Skates said 74% of companies in Wales had applied for the scheme, \"compared to 67% England, 72% Scotland and 65% in Northern Ireland\".\n\nHe said the Job Retention Scheme was essential to enable large parts of the economy to \"hibernate\" through the crisis.\n\nFord's announcement also came as official figures showed the UK economy shrank by 2% in the first three months of 2020, as coronavirus forced the country into lockdown.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics said there had been \"widespread\" declines across the services, manufacturing and construction sectors.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The first minister has indicated there could be some easing of lockdown measures in Scotland from 28 May.\n\nMore detail on the plan is expected to be published later this week, which is likely to allow some outdoor work and activities such as golf.\n\nMs Sturgeon has given an indication of what might happen in Scotland in her \"looking beyond lockdown\" document. The UK government has issued its \"our plan to rebuild\" strategy.\n\nHow do the rules in Scotland differ from the UK's other nations - and how similar will they be after the end of the month?\n\nIn England, people who cannot work from home are now \"actively encouraged to go to work\", with construction and manufacturing being explicitly mentioned by the prime minister.\n\nThey should still avoid public transport if possible because of social distancing and employers should make workplaces \"Covid-secure\" - for instance by staggering shifts, rethinking shared equipment and planning safe walking routes.\n\nOn Monday 18 May, Northern Ireland introduced \"step one\" of the loosening of restrictions, which also encouraged those unable to work from home to go back to work on a phased basis.\n\nHowever in Scotland, the government says businesses should only open if what they do is essential to the effort of tackling the virus or the wellbeing of society.\n\nTradespeople such as plumbers can carry out maintenance and essential repairs if they are not showing symptoms but no work should be carried out in a household that is self-isolating.\n\nThe Scottish government is looking at how some outdoor work may be able to resume safely after 28 May.\n\nPeople in England are now advised to wear face coverings on public transport or in shops - advice that was first issued in Scotland almost a fortnight earlier.\n\nIn England, the new social distancing guidelines mean that people can take \"unlimited amounts of outdoor exercise\" and generally spend more time outdoors for leisure purposes.\n\nSports such as basketball, tennis and fishing are allowed - as long as they involve members of the same household. Golf courses and bowling greens can be used alone or with household members - or with one non-household member if social distancing is maintained.\n\nPeople are also free to sit in parks, and to \"play sports\" with people from the same household. Driving to a beach or park is also permitted - but people are being told not travel to other parts of the UK where different rules apply.\n\nSocial distancing rules - keeping at least 2m apart from non-household members - must still be adhered to.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, phase one of its lockdown easing sees outdoor spaces and public sports amenities reopen. Water sports, golf and tennis as well as angling are permitted.\n\nGolf is now also allowed in Wales, which made the change to bring it into line with England.\n\nWales also made other \"modest\" changes, allowing people to exercise outside more than once a day, and reopening some garden centres.\n\nIn Scotland, people are now allowed to go outside more than once a day to exercise - but this should continue to take place close to home, either alone or with members of their household.\n\nThe change does not allow people to mix with other households or relax outdoors, for instance by sunbathing in a park.\n\nThe key message remains that people should stay at home.\n\nBut the first minister has indicated that, after 28 May, people will be allowed some outdoor activities such as sitting in a park.\n\nSome sports, such as golf, tennis and fishing, could also be set to resume.\n\nThe new guidelines for England say that two people from different households can now meet in outdoor settings such as parks as long as they stay more than 2m apart.\n\nNew rules in Northern Ireland allow groups of up to six people who do not share a household to meet up outdoors while maintaining social distancing.\n\nHowever, NI ministers did not reach agreement to allow visits to immediate family indoors yet, despite it being part of the first step of the recovery plan.\n\nIn Scotland the advice remains that members of different households should not be meeting up.\n\nThe measures being considered for introduction after 28 May are likely to include allowing people to meet others from outside their own household in an outdoor setting - but still keeping 2m apart.\n\nWhile food stores and other \"essential outlets\" have remained open, Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the \"phased reopening\" of other shops may begin at the start of June at the earliest.\n\nThis will only happen where social distancing rules can be followed.\n\nGarden centres in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have already reopened and Nicola Sturgeon has said Scotland is likely to go down the same route at the end of May.\n\nNo date has yet been suggested for the reopening of non-essential retail outlets in Scotland.\n\nWaste recycling facilities are also likely to open in Scotland, as they have in the other three nations.\n\nPrimary schools in England may be able to reopen \"in stages\" from 1 June at the earliest, according to Boris Johnson.\n\nHe says it is also an \"ambition\" to give secondary pupils doing exams next year some time with their teachers before the summer holidays.\n\nWelsh first minister Mark Drakeford said the \"ambition\" was to get some children \"back into school before the summer break\".\n\nIn Northern Ireland, ministers had already ruled out a return of schools before the summer and a phased return is planned for September, to tie in with the start of a new educational year.\n\nIn Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon has said she does not expect schools to reopen as early as 1 June.\n\nThe Scottish government has also talked about a phased reopening, with priority given to primary pupils transitioning to secondary and those starting national qualification courses in S3 to S6.\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon has previously warned it is possible there will be no return to school before the summer holidays. In Scotland, these start in late June or early July, a little earlier than in England.\n\nAt Monday's briefing, the first minister said she hoped it would be possible to give more information shortly on a likely timetable towards reopening schools.", "A railway ticket office worker has died with coronavirus after being spat at by a man who claimed he had Covid-19.\n\nBelly Mujinga, 47, who had underlying respiratory problems, was working at Victoria station in London in March when she was assaulted, along with a female colleague.\n\nWithin days of the incident, both women fell ill with the virus.\n\nBritish Transport Police said an inquiry had been launched to trace the man who spat at the pair.\n\nMrs Mujinga was on the concourse of Victoria station on 22 March when she was approached by the suspect.\n\nHer husband Lusamba Gode Katalay said the man had asked his wife what she was doing and why she was there.\n\n\"She told him she was working and the man said he had the virus and spat on her,\" he added.\n\nMrs Mujinga was admitted to Barnet Hospital on 2 April and was put on a ventilator. But she died three days later, the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA), said.\n\nThe Prime Minister's official spokesman described the attack on the key worker as \"despicable\".\n\nMr Katalay said he called his wife on a video app when she was in hospital, but didn't hear from her again.\n\n\"I thought she might be asleep, but the doctor phoned me to tell me she had died,\" he said.\n\n\"She was a good person, a good mother, and a good wife. She was a caring person and would take care of everybody.\"\n\nHer cousin Agnes Ntumba told the BBC that Mrs Mujinga believed she was safe in her usual work environment - the ticket office.\n\n\"They should not have made her work on the concourse,\" she said.\n\n\"She shouldn't have died in this condition. We could have prevented it - if she had more PPE or if they kept her inside instead of being on the concourse.\"\n\nBritish Transport Police said an investigation had been launched following the incident at Victoria station\n\nTSSA general secretary Manuel Cortes said: \"We are shocked and devastated at Belly's death. She is one of far too many front-line workers who have lost their lives to coronavirus.\"\n\nThe union added that there were \"serious questions about her death\".\n\n\"As a vulnerable person in the 'at-risk' category, and her condition known to her employer, there are questions about why she wasn't stood down from frontline duties early on in this pandemic,\" Mr Cortes said.\n\nMs Mujinga's employer, Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), said it \"took any allegations extremely seriously\" and that it was investigating all claims.\n\nAngie Doll, of GTR, said: \"The safety of our customers and staff, who are key workers themselves, continues to be front of mind at all times and we follow the latest government advice.\"\n\nLatest figures show 42 Transport for London (TfL) workers have died with Covid-19, in addition to 10 Network Rail staff.\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. No quick return to normality, says Bank of England chief\n\nThe Bank of England has warned that the UK economy is heading towards its sharpest recession on record.\n\nThe coronavirus impact would see the economy shrink 14% this year, based on the lockdown being relaxed in June.\n\nScenarios drawn up by the Bank to illustrate the economic impact said Covid-19 was \"dramatically reducing jobs and incomes in the UK\".\n\nBank governor Andrew Bailey told the BBC there would be no quick return to normality.\n\nHe described the downturn as \"unprecedented\", and said consumers would remain cautious even when lockdown restrictions are lifted.\n\nMr Bailey said: \"Not all of the economic activity comes back. There's quite a sharp recovery. But we've also factored that people will be cautious of their own choice.\n\n\"They don't re-engage fully, and so it's really only until next summer that activity comes fully back.\"\n\nAlso on Thursday, policymakers voted unanimously to keep interest rates at a record low of 0.1%. However, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) that sets interest rates was split on whether to inject more stimulus into the economy.\n\nTwo of its nine members voted to increase the latest round of quantitative easing by £100bn to £300bn.\n\nThe Bank's analysis, published on Thursday, was based on the assumption that social distancing measures are gradually phased out between June and September.\n\nIts latest Monetary Policy Report showed the UK economy plunging into its first recession in more than a decade. The economy shrinks by 3% in the first quarter of 2020, followed by an unprecedented 25% decline in the three months to June.\n\nThis would push the UK into a technical recession, defined as two consecutive quarters of economic decline.\n\nThe Bank said the housing market had come to a standstill, while consumer spending had dropped by 30% in recent weeks.\n\nFor the year as a whole, the economy is expected to contract by 14%. This would be the biggest annual decline on record, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data dating back to 1949.\n\nIt would also be the sharpest annual contraction since 1706, according to reconstructed Bank of England data stretching back to the 18th Century.\n\nWhile UK growth is expected to rebound in 2021 to 15%, the size of the economy is not expected to get back to its pre-virus peak until the middle of next year.\n\nThe UK government is expected to start easing lockdown restrictions next week.\n\nThe Bank stressed that the outlook for the economy was \"unusually uncertain\" at present and would depend on how households and businesses responded to the pandemic.\n\nMr Bailey said he expected any permanent damage from the pandemic to be \"relatively small\". The economy was likely to recover \"much more rapidly than the pull back from the global financial crisis,\" he said.\n\nHe also praised the action by the government to support workers and businesses through wage subsidies, loans and grants. He said the success of these schemes and the Bank's own stimulus meant there would be \"limited scarring to the economy\".\n\n\"The furloughing scheme really does enable people to come back into the economy more quickly so it's a much quicker recovery that we've seen in the past.\"\n\nJames Smith, research director at the Resolution Foundation, said the hit to the economy this year was equivalent to £9,000 for every family in Britain.\n\nHe said: \"Faced with this huge economic hit, both the Bank and the government have made the right call in taking bold action to protect firms and families as much as possible.\"\n\nAverage weekly earnings are expected to shrink by 2% this year, reflecting the fall in wages for furloughed workers.\n\nThe Bank said sharp increases in benefit claims were \"consistent with a pronounced rise in the unemployment rate\", which is expected to climb above 9% this year, from the current rate of 4%.\n\nUnder the Bank's scenario, inflation, as measured by the consumer prices index (CPI) falls to zero at the start of next year amid the sharp drop in energy prices.It is also expected to remain well below the Bank's 2% target for the next two years.\n\nThe Bank's latest Financial Stability Report said the Bank's scenario was consistent with a 16% drop in house prices. Latest figures published by UK finance show one in seven mortgage holders has taken a payment holiday due to the coronavirus.\n\nThe Bank said the number of new mortgage deals on offer had halved in just over a month as banks focused on the deluge of payment holiday requests. This includes a huge contraction in deals for buyers with a deposit of less than 40% of the purchase price.\n\nThe MPC also highlighted the stark drop in consumer spending. It said spending on flights, hotels, restaurants and entertainment had dropped to a fifth of their previous levels.\n\nShopping at High Street retailers had dropped by 80%, while business confidence was described as \"severely depressed\".\n\nPhilip Shaw, an economist at Investec, described the Bank's scenario as \"optimistic\", particularly its assumption that unemployment would fall back to its pre-crisis low in two years.\n\n\"Exactly how the economy evolves will depend critically on how the government calibrates its policies and how they are unwound and tapered,\" he said. \"There is plenty that could go wrong.\"\n\nThe Bank of England itself has minimal staff, but they have applied themselves to try to work out what is happening in the economy. They are not sufficiently confident that the numbers they have run, the charts that they have published, constitute what they would call a \"forecast\".\n\nBut they do give the clearest indication that we are in recession, after the sharpest, fastest economic contraction in the three-century history of the Bank looking at these things.\n\nFaster than the financial crisis, and the Great Depression, and the earlier 1920s depression just before, the only things which come close.\n\n\"It is unprecedented in the recent history of this institution,\" Governor Andrew Bailey told me. \"What it really means is that obviously the very sharp sort of downturn, a product of the situation we've been in since March, and the restrictions that are in place, affect economic activity very severely,\"", "Numbers of detainees have fallen by two thirds, figures reveal\n\nThe number of people held in UK immigration removal centres has dropped by more than two thirds during the pandemic, figures reveal.\n\nMore than 700 detainees were released between 16 March and 21 April as the government responded to concerns about the spread of infection.\n\nCampaigners are calling on authorities \"to do the humane, responsible thing, and close centres altogether\".\n\nThe Home Office said detainees' welfare was taken very seriously.\n\nIn March, the High Court rejected calls to free all remaining immigration detainees, after human rights activists claimed there was a real risk of serious harm from an outbreak of Covid-19.\n\nFigures released during the legal challenge show there are now 368 people being held, the charity Detention Action said.\n\nAccording to detainees, there are only 13 women left at the Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre in Bedfordshire, after a case of coronavirus sparked panic - and dozens of people were released.\n\nTinsley House at Gatwick Airport, and Dungavel in South Lanarkshire, are also thought to be nearly empty.\n\nAbout 50 people are believed to have been deported.\n\nCharities working with recently released detainees say many have UK addresses, while others, including asylum seekers and ex-offenders, have been provided housing and support.\n\nHowever, there are anecdotal claims some foreign nationals have been allowed to walk out of Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs) without money or accommodation.\n\nOne former detainee, using the name Jolene, who was released from Yarl's Wood last month, described the process as \"chaotic\".\n\n\"There was a weird atmosphere after an outbreak of Covid-19 in March and some of the staff started whispering to each other and wearing face masks,\" she said.\n\n\"They told us not to worry; that we would be safer inside the centre, but the residents were terrified and one group threatened to strike.\n\n\"A few days later people were being let go without warning - 15 or 16 people a day.\"\n\n\"I was told that I was about to be deported but then something suddenly changed and I was left at Bedford Station instead,\" she added.\n\nDetention Action is calling for the closure of all IRCs\n\nLike other recently-released detainees, Jolene is required to check in at a reporting centre on a given date.\n\nKaren Doyle from the charity, Movement for Justice, said: \"There are reams of reports exposing the problems of immigration detention; how it worsens people's mental health, how it is costly and ineffective.\n\n\"Now we also know the centres can be easily emptied and people can manage their cases in the community.\"\n\nRemoval centres are used to detain thousands of foreign nationals every year who face a realistic prospect of being deported.\n\nBrook House near Gatwick Airport: One former detainee says there are only 40 people left\n\nThere are currently nine IRCs in the UK, including two short-term holding facilities in Manchester and Belfast.\n\nMost detainees who pass through them are bailed - or found to have a right to remain in the UK.\n\nDrake - not his real name - was released on bail from Brook House near Gatwick Airport in April.\n\nHe said everyone was locked in their cells for 24 hours a day when one of the residents became ill with Covid-19. He says there are only about 40 people left at the centre.\n\n\"Around 20% of them have been granted bail, but they haven't got an address to go to so they're not able to leave,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm guessing that as soon as the lockdown is over, they'll start pulling everyone back.\"\n\nBella Sankey from Detention Action, which brought the legal challenge, said the litigation \"forced major, rapid concessions from the government, including the release of 350 detainees in one week and a halt on new detentions of people facing removal to 49 countries.\"\n\nShe said: \"The Home Office is fighting a losing battle by continuing to detain at all in these circumstances.\n\n\"And it is shocking but not surprising that the majority of those left in IRCs right now are accepted to be vulnerable adults at risk.\"\n\nThe Home Office said: \"The vast majority of those in detention, at this time, are foreign national offenders. It is only right that we continue to protect the public from dangerous criminals.\"\n\nIt said the welfare of the detainees in its care was taken very seriously and it was taking the necessary precautions to ensure that any risk of Covid-19 is minimised, including for those who may be particularly vulnerable.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Decisions to detain someone are made on a case-by-case basis and as circumstances change and cases are reviewed, release on immigration bail may become the most appropriate option.\"", "Artists involved in stage shows being streamed online during the coronavirus crisis will be offered payment, the National Theatre has announced.\n\nThe \"nominal\" payment will apply to all the productions the National has been streaming on YouTube since early April, and the artists can turn it down if they wish.\n\nJames Corden, Benedict Cumberbatch and Tamsin Greig are among the actors whose work at the National has been made available online to view free of charge.\n\nBenedict Cumberbatch (left) and Jonny Lee Miller alternated the lead roles in Frankenstein, one of several shows to have been made available Image caption: Benedict Cumberbatch (left) and Jonny Lee Miller alternated the lead roles in Frankenstein, one of several shows to have been made available\n\n\"Whilst the National Theatre continues to face a precarious financial future, we now feel able to make a payment to all artists involved,\" said its executive director Lisa Burger.\n\n\"We recognise a great many are also experiencing a particularly challenging time at this moment.\"", "Former government adviser Prof Neil Ferguson will not face police action after he accepted making an \"error of judgment\" by breaching social distancing rules.\n\nScotland Yard said Prof Ferguson's behaviour was \"plainly disappointing\", but ruled out issuing a fine.\n\nThe force said he \"has taken responsibility\" after resigning as a government adviser on the epidemic.\n\nThe mathematician and epidemiologist's modelling of the spread of coronavirus was key to the government's decision to bring in the lockdown.\n\nHis resignation came after the Daily Telegraph reported that a woman he was said to be in a relationship with visited his home on at least two occasions during the lockdown.\n\nIn a statement, Scotland Yard said it was committed to supporting \"adherence to the government guidance\".\n\nBut it added: \"It is clear in this case that whilst this behaviour is plainly disappointing, Prof Ferguson has accepted that he made an error of judgment and has taken responsibility for that.\n\n\"We therefore do not intend to take any further action.\"\n\nThe force declined to say whether it had spoken directly to Prof Ferguson.\n\nPolice officers are being advised to explain the law to those breaching the guidance, however, if someone refuses to follow the regulations police can issue an on-the-spot fine of £60.\n\nDowning Street said Boris Johnson agreed with Prof Ferguson's decision to resign, but denied that the government had pushed for him to step down.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said No 10 was informed \"just before\" the story broke on Tuesday.\n\nEarlier, Health Secretary Matt Hancock described Prof Ferguson's actions as \"extraordinary\", telling Sky News that it was \"just not possible\" for him to continue advising the government.\n\nHe praised Prof Ferguson as a \"very eminent\" scientist whose work had been \"important\" in the government's response but said social distancing rules were \"there for everyone\" and were \"deadly serious\".\n\nProf Ferguson's modelling of the virus's transmission suggested 250,000 people could die without drastic action.\n\nIt led Mr Johnson to announce the lockdown on 23 March.\n\nUnder those measures, people were told to go out as little as possible, with partners who live separately later being told they should \"ideally\" stay in their own homes.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson appeared before the Science and Technology Committee in March\n\nIn a statement, Prof Ferguson said: \"I accept I made an error of judgement and took the wrong course of action.\n\n\"I acted in the belief that I was immune, having tested positive for coronavirus and completely isolated myself for almost two weeks after developing symptoms.\n\n\"I deeply regret any undermining of the clear messages around the continued need for social distancing.\"\n\nHe also called the government advice on social distancing \"unequivocal\", adding that it was there \"to protect all of us\".\n\nDespite Prof Ferguson's comments, it is currently unclear whether people who have recovered from the virus will be immune or able to catch it again.\n\nBBC medical correspondent Fergus Walsh said \"Neil Ferguson will know the science is very much developing\" on immunity - and the government was not advising people to carry on as normal if they had already had the disease.\n\nSir Robert Lechler, president of the Academy of Medical Sciences, said he did not think Prof Ferguson's resignation would \"have any material impact\" on the work of advisory group Sage.\n\nHe told the BBC that Prof Ferguson had made \"an important contribution\" but he was sure the group would \"continue to provide valuable input\".\n\nProf Ferguson's resignation comes a month after Scotland's chief medical officer, Dr Catherine Calderwood, quit when it was revealed she had broken lockdown rules by making two trips to her second home.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was right that Prof Ferguson had resigned.\n\n\"We all have a role to play in the fight against the virus,\" Sir Keir's spokesman said. \"That means taking responsibility and following the official advice.\"\n\nConservative MP Sir John Redwood suggested the circumstances behind Prof Ferguson's resignation would not matter to the public.\n\n\"What matters to the nation is are we getting the right advice and how do we get through this dreadful crisis?\" he said.", "Scotland's biggest teaching union has warned of the \"huge challenges\" facing the country's schools when lockdown is eased.\n\nLarry Flanagan, general secretary of the EIS union, told BBC Scotland: “We’re looking at how schools can open.\n\n“The calculation is reasonably straight forward if you’re going to maintain two-metre social distancing in an average classroom that would normally house 30 pupils that would bring down somewhere to ten maybe 12 or 13 depending on the age-group.\"\n\nThe use of extra facilities such as church halls and the hiring of extra teachers are also being considered, Mr Flanagan added.", "As coronavirus spreads more widely in Russia’s provinces, hospitals - often old and ill-equipped - have become infection \"hot spots\". The number of medical workers getting sick, and dying, is growing.\n\nPresident Putin admitted that there was a shortage of PPE and ordered an increase in production. But even now, many Russian healthcare staff are scared to complain publicly about having to work without proper protection.", "The masks were destined for the NHS and care home staff\n\nThieves have stolen 80,000 face masks which were destined for the NHS and front-line workers.\n\nThe £166,000 worth of personal protective equipment (PPE) was taken when three people broke into a warehouse in Salford on Wednesday.\n\nDet Insp Chris Mannion, from Greater Manchester Police, said it was a \"particularly sickening crime\".\n\nThe masks were to be supplied to the NHS, along with councils and care homes, in West Yorkshire.\n\nDet Insp Chris Mannion said the thefts were shocking\n\nThe high-quality n95 respirator masks were taken from the warehouse of a medical supplies firm at the Trafalgar Business Park overnight.\n\nThe gang spent about two hours at the premises, first cutting a hole in the warehouse steel shutters so as not to trigger burglar alarms by lifting up the door.\n\nThey then removed 320 boxes, or 10 pallets' worth, of the masks.\n\nOther medical equipment, including cheaper quality masks also housed at the site, were left untouched.\n\nPolice want to trace three offenders - two men and a third person, possibly a woman, who were all wearing dark clothing - who made off with the haul in three vehicles, a white Mercedes Sprinter van, a grey Volkswagen Caddy van and a grey silver estate vehicle.\n\nDetectives believe they were at the site between 21:30 BST on Wednesday and 00:20 on Thursday, when the alarm was raised by a security guard.\n\n\"It is shocking there are people prepared to steal the equipment which protects vulnerable people and front-line workers,\" Det Insp Mannion said.\n\n\"This is a particularly sickening crime when you consider that the PPE was intended for the NHS and for care home workers and at a time when we are trying to protect the NHS and one another against one common enemy in Covid-19.\n\n\"Clearly there's an open market there and there's any number of ways that these people can sell on the goods stolen from here.\"", "More than 13,000 people are being treated for Covid-19 in hospitals around Britain\n\nThe UK has become the first country in Europe to pass 30,000 coronavirus deaths, according to the latest government figures.\n\nA total of 30,076 people have now died in hospitals, care homes and the wider community after testing positive for the virus, up by 649 from Tuesday.\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick said they were \"heartbreaking losses\".\n\nOn Tuesday, the number of deaths recorded in the UK passed Italy's total, becoming the highest in Europe.\n\nThe latest total for Italy, which also records deaths of those who have tested positive for the virus, stands at 29,684.\n\nThe UK now has the second-highest number of recorded coronavirus deaths in the world, behind the United States which has more than 70,000.\n\nExperts have warned that it could be months before full global comparisons can be made.\n\nEach country also has different testing regimes, with Italy conducting more tests than the UK to date.\n\nMr Jenrick told the government's daily coronavirus briefing: \"It is difficult to make international comparisons with certainty, there will be a time for that.\"\n\nHowever, Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter - a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) advising the government on the pandemic - said the UK \"should now use other countries to try and learn why our numbers are so high\".\n\nProf Spiegelhalter tweeted the remark as he urged ministers to stop referencing an article he wrote for the Guardian \"to claim we cannot make any international comparisons yet\".\n\nHe added that his article was only referring to it not being possible to make \"detailed league tables\" to compare international deaths.\n\nEarlier in the Commons, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the government had been too slow to introduce the lockdown and too slow to increase the number of tests.\n\nAnd challenging Prime Minister Boris Johnson on the rising numbers of deaths in care homes, the new Labour leader said: \"Twelve weeks after the health secretary declared that we're in a health crisis, I have to ask the prime minister - why hasn't the government got to grips with this already?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer says the UK's coronavirus death figures are “not success or apparent success“\n\nMeanwhile, testing for coronavirus in the UK has fallen to its lowest level in a week.\n\nThe government provided 69,463 tests in the 24 hours up to 09:00 BST on Wednesday, lower than its testing target of 100,000 for the fourth consecutive day.\n\nIt had previously pledged to conduct 100,000 tests a day from the beginning of May - it has reached that number on two occasions.\n\nAs well as tests conducted in person, it also includes thousands of postal tests, which have not necessarily been carried out on the day.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth tweeted: \"Testing should be going up, not be on this downward trajectory. Ministers need to explain why they are failing to deliver the testing promised.\"\n\nEarlier, Boris Johnson said it was his \"ambition\" to increase coronavirus testing capacity to 200,000 a day by the end of May.\n\nOn Tuesday, the UK recorded 6,111 new cases of coronavirus - the third highest daily total so far.\n\nThe number of new cases - more than 6,000 - may seem shocking. It is after all one of the highest daily totals so far.\n\nBut it is not quite what it seems.\n\nBecause many more tests are being carried out than they were (even taking into account the dip in activity since the 100,000 mark was \"hit\" last week) more cases that would have previously gone undetected are now being diagnosed.\n\nTwo thirds of these new cases are among groups that just a month ago would mostly not have been tested, including the over 65s and those who have to leave home to go to work.\n\nIt does not mean there is more virus circulating.\n\nAll the indications - from hospital admissions to deaths - show the number of infections have been falling for some time.\n\nThe seemingly large number is simply a consequence of testing more.\n\nIt has been just over nine weeks since the UK recorded its first death on 2 March. The personal stories of those who have died are continuing to emerge.\n\nAmong those was Jennie Sablayan, a 44-year-old haematology nurse who worked at the University College London Hospital for more than 18 years. The hospital said she was an \"expert in her field\" who treated cancer patients with kindness and dedication.\n\nJermaine Wright worked in the aseptic unit at Hammersmith Hospital\n\nSenior NHS pharmacy technician, Jermaine Wright, 45, was described as a \"people person\" with a passion for food and football. He was called the \"driving force\" behind London's amateur football scene.\n\nAfua Fofie, a healthcare assistant in London, was \"known for her infectious laugh and willingness to go the extra mile for patients and her colleagues\", according to the Hounslow and Richmond C ommunity Healthcare Trust.\n\nMeanwhile, five residents have now died at care home at the centre of a Covid-19 outbreak on the Isle of Skye.", "The NHS is running an awareness campaign to promote the app\n\nThe NHS has released the source code behind its coronavirus contact-tracing app.\n\nMore than 40,000 people have installed the smartphone software so far.\n\nThe health service is targeting the Isle of Wight only, at this stage, but it says this is the first stage of the app's rollout - not a test.\n\nTests carried out on behalf of BBC News confirm the developers have found a way to work round restrictions Apple places on the use of Bluetooth in iPhones.\n\nIn a related development, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced that Baroness Dido Harding will head up the wider test, track and trace programme.\n\nThe appointment has surprised some given that when she was chief executive of TalkTalk, the internet provider suffered a major data breach and failed to properly notify affected customers.\n\nThe NHS Covid-19 app is designed to use people's smartphones to keep track of when they come close to each other and for how long, by sending wireless Bluetooth signals.\n\nAbout a third of over-16s living on the Isle of Wight have downloaded the NHS Covid-19 app so far\n\nIf one of them falls ill, they can anonymously trigger an upload of the records so alerts can be cascaded to others they might have infected, asking them to self-isolate, if deemed necessary, potentially before they have any symptoms but are still highly contagious.\n\nAlong with other measures, including manual contact tracing, this may allow lockdown measures to be eased without causing another spike in cases.\n\nNHSX, the health service's digital innovation unit, has opted for a centralised system to power the app, so the contact-matching process happens on a UK-based computer server rather than individuals' smartphones.\n\nAnd there has been a lot of speculation this decision would mean the app was doomed to work badly on iPhones.\n\nApple limits the extent to which third-party apps can use Bluetooth when they are off-screen and running in the background, although it has promised to relax this rule for contact-tracing apps that use a decentralised system it is co-developing with Google.\n\nAnd Singapore and Australia have signalled they will switch from centralised to decentralised apps, for that reason.\n\nBut NHSX had said it had come up with its own solution.\n\nAnd preliminary tests by a cyber-security company suggest it has succeeded.\n\nPen Test Partners installed the app on a handful of \"jailbroken\" iPhones - altered to allow them to monitor activity normally hidden from users.\n\nA cyber-security team analysed when Bluetooth \"handshakes\" were made between the devices it tested\n\n\"When first placed in proximity to each other, the phones would start to 'beacon' over Bluetooth at either eight- or 16-second intervals,\" co-founder Ken Munro said.\n\n\"Others had expressed concern about the app not being effective when 'backgrounded'.\n\n\"Our tests showed that this did not appear to affect the beaconing, whether the phones had encountered each other for the first time or subsequently been physically moved out and then back into range.\"\n\nA second company, Reincubate, found the app would sometimes \"go quiet\" when run undisturbed in the background for more than 90 minutes but suggested this should not be too big an issue in real-world conditions.\n\n\"A number of reasonable factors can trigger this window being extended, including other use of Bluetooth, the presence of Android devices and the effectiveness of notifications [asking the user to reopen the app],\" it blogged.\n\n\"In our tests, the iOS devices we've run the app on have continued to keep the background service running overnight.\"\n\nThere will be further scrutiny of the app now the source code has been published to Github, allowing others to see how the workarounds were achieved.\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\nEarlier this week, the Joint Human Rights Committee heard evidence that despite the app anonymising users' identities, they could in theory be re-identified, which might allow the authorities - or even hackers - to reveal people's social circles for other purposes.\n\nAnd the committee said a new watchdog should be created to oversee use of the app and the measures taken to keep the data safe.\n\nHarriet Harman, who chairs the committee, said: \"Assurances from ministers about privacy are not enough.\n\n\"There must be robust legal protection for individuals about what that data will be used for, who will have access to it, and how it will be safeguarded from hacking.\"\n\nCritics say a decentralised approach - where contact-matching happens on handsets - would better protect users' privacy.\n\nAnd BBC News has been told members of an ethics group advising NHSX on the app are calling for it to better explain the advantages of a centralised system.\n\nOxford University's Prof Christophe Fraser has been advising NHSX and other health authorities on their contact-tracing apps\n\nProf Christophe Fraser- an epidemiologist advising NHSX - told BBC News the two main benefits were:\n\nBut he added talks were continuing with Apple and Google.\n\nAnd analysis of how the app was being used in the Isle of Wight would inform decisions on how best to proceed.\n\n\"There's been a lot of discussion of privacy, and rightly so,\" he said.\n\n\"But there is also your ability to save lives.\n\n\"And there is the ability not to be quarantining millions of people.\n\n\"Figuring out how we can find the optimal system that trades off these different requirements is a bit of an open question at this stage.\"", "Passengers travelling through some UK airports are being told to cover their faces and wear gloves due to Covid-19.\n\nThe new rules will apply to those travelling through Manchester, Stansted and East Midlands airports from Thursday.\n\nManchester Airports Group (MAG), which owns the sites, said the measure will show \"one way in which air travel can be made safe\".\n\nThe announcement comes as the aviation sector struggles with coronavirus.\n\nThe three airports are believed to be the first in the UK to introduce such strict hygiene rules.\n\nThose passing through the airport will be given face coverings or masks as well as gloves during the initial stages of the trial. All airport staff serving passengers will also be required to wear the items.\n\nMAG boss Charlie Cornish said: \"It's clear that social distancing will not work on any form of public transport. But we're confident that when the time is right, people will be able to travel safely. We now need to work urgently with government to agree how we operate in the future.\"\n\nHe added: \"This has to be a top priority so that people can be confident about flying, and to get tourism and travel going again.\"\n\nTemperature screening trials will also be conducted at Stansted over the next few weeks to test equipment. It follows the boss of Heathrow airport confirming on Wednesday that it is trialling large-scale temperature checks.\n\nChief executive John Holland-Kaye said they are already being carried out at departure gates on people going to places where this is a requirement.\n\nHe also urged the government to produce a plan on what common standards UK airports should adopt, so that the aviation sector could \"get started again\".\n\nMany airlines have been struggling as the coronavirus pandemic has brought global travel to a virtual standstill.\n\nOn Thursday, British Airways owner IAG has said it is hoping for a \"meaningful return\" of flights in July at the earliest if lockdown measures are relaxed.\n\nHowever, IAG - which also owns Iberia and Aer Lingus - said these plans were \"highly uncertain\", and were subject to various travel restrictions.\n\nIAG said it did not expect passenger demand, which has been hit by the pandemic, to recover before 2023.\n\n\"We will adapt our operating procedures to ensure our customers and our people are properly protected in this new environment,\" chief executive Willie Walsh said.\n\nThe group said that even if flights resumed in the summer it expected that passenger capacity would still only be half the usual level in 2020.\n\nSince late March, capacity has fallen by 94%, with most of the group's aircraft grounded.\n\nThe announcement came as IAG reported losses after tax hit €1.68bn (£1.47bn) during the first three months of the year, which included a €1.3bn charge for fuel hedges.\n\nMany airlines are struggling during the pandemic\n\nIAG also reported an operating loss of €535m (£466.6m) for the quarter, down from a €135m profit in 2019.\n\nThe group added that it expected the second quarter to be \"significantly worse\".\n\nIn an attempt to shore up cash during the coronavirus crisis, IAG said that it expected to defer deliveries of 68 aircraft.\n\nAlthough IAG is planning for a resumption of some services, it says it will still need to let go of many staff.\n\nLast month, BA said it was set to cut up to 12,000 jobs from its 42,000-strong workforce. It also told staff that its Gatwick airport operation might not reopen after the pandemic passes.\n\nIAG chief executive Willie Walsh will delay his retirement until September\n\nIAG chief executive Willie Walsh had been due to retire in March, but will stay on until September \"to focus on the immediate response to the crisis\".\n\nLuis Gallego, head of the group's Spanish division, Iberia, since 2014, will succeed him.\n\nOn Wednesday, other aviation bosses called for additional support for the sector from the UK government.\n\nSpeaking to MPs on the Transport Select Committee, Heathrow Airport chief executive John Holland-Kaye argued that the French, German and US governments had provided large, bespoke rescue packages for their aviation industries as they saw them as \"fundamental\", and suggested that was not the case in the UK.\n\nAir France KLM, for example, won a €7bn loan package from the French government in April.\n\nHowever, IAG's competitor has reported that it made a loss in its day-to-day business of €815m in the three months of the year due to travel grinding to a halt.\n\nSeveral other firms posted trading updates on Thursday which detailed how they had been affected by the coronavirus pandemic.", "The Nigerian-British musician died on Thursday after contracting pneumonia while recovering from coronavirus.\n\nTy was known for a witty, mature style that owed more to the old-school US rappers than the grittier street sounds of London.\n\nIn 2004, Ty's second album, Upwards, was nominated for the Mercury Prize alongside Amy Winehouse, The Streets and eventual winners Franz Ferdinand.\n\nTy contracted coronavirus earlier this year, and a fundraising page set up in April said he had been \"put in a medically induced coma to temporarily sedate to help his body receive the appropriate treatment\".\n\nHe later left intensive care after his condition seemingly improved - but on Thursday, his press team confirmed he had died.\n\nWriting on the fundraising page, Ty's friend Diane Laidlaw confirmed he had contracted pneumonia while recovering from coronavirus.\n\n\"Ty's condition had been improving but last week while on a normal ward he had contracted pneumonia which worsened his recovery and ultimately Ty's body couldn't fight back anymore,\" she wrote.\n\nHis death was mourned by stars including Ghetts and Roots Manuva.\n\nDJ Charlie Sloth called him \"a friend, a role model and a true foundation to UK rap\".\n\n\"This brother here was truly a good person. Sad to see you ascend from this realm so soon,\" wrote Posdnuos, from US rap trio De La Soul, who appeared on Ty's third album, Closer, in 2006.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Big Dada This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nBorn Ben Chijioke in London in 1972, he grew up with his sister in a strict household where he was expected to become a doctor or a lawyer.\n\nBut he fell in love with hip-hop and decided to pursue a career as an MC.\n\n\"They didn't take to it very well at all,\" he told the Independent in 2008. \"I knew that it was going to happen, but I just continued to do what I did - they just made me do it in secret.\"\n\nAfter finding a job as a sound engineer, he started recording in the mid-90s, appearing on tracks produced by IG Culture's New Sector Movement and DJ Pogo, as well as hosting a hip-hop night called Lyrical Lounge.\n\nHe released his debut album Awkward in 2001, but it was Upwards - with its mixture of Afro-funk, Jamaican dub, Latin shuffles and dextrous wordplay - that brought him to mainstream attention.\n\nThe album showcased his relaxed, storytelling style, whether he was talking about relationship problems on Wait A Minute, or the more serious dilemma of gun crime on Rain.\n\nHe went on to record three further solo albums, the most recent being A Work of Heart in 2018, and collaborated with dozens of artists from afro-beat drummer Tony Allen to Soweto Kinch and US hip-hop outfit Arrested Development.\n\nRapper Ghetts was among the rappers paying tribute, writing on Instagram: \"RIP TY. This ones deep I had a lot of respect for.\n\nHe added that Ty was \"one of the first from the older generation to embrace me and show me love\".\n\nRoots Manuva simply wrote: \"Rest my Brother. You did good\".\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 GHETTS This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Notting Hill Carnival was due to take place on 30 and 31 August\n\nNotting Hill Carnival has been cancelled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAbout one million people usually attend the event in west London, which was due to take place on 30 and 31 August.\n\nOrganisers said the pandemic meant that calling off the weekend was \"the only safe option\", but said they were working on holding a celebration on the same weekend in an alternative form.\n\nIt is the first time it will not take place in more than 50 years.\n\nThe carnival, which has been held since 1966, is the latest in a string of summer calendar events to have been postponed, including the Glastonbury Festival and the Tokyo Olympics.\n\nThe event normally attracts more than one million people to the streets of west London\n\nCarnival organisers said the decision followed \"lengthy consultations with our strategic partners and our Advisory Council\".\n\n\"This has not been an easy decision to make, but the reality of the Covid-19 pandemic and the way in which it has unfolded means that this is the only safe option,\" they said.\n\nThe board said plans for an alternative event were \"still at the early stage of planning\", with more details to be released \"soon\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Notting Hill Carnival Ltd.\n\nEmma Will, Kensington and Chelsea Council's lead member for culture, leisure and community safety, said it was \"absolutely the right decision given what the UK and London is currently facing\".\n\nShe said the council was \"committed in giving logistical and financial support to turn alternative plans into reality\" and there was \"no reason why we cannot all bring the true spirit of Carnival into our own front rooms\".", "A woman has appeared in court charged with murdering an 88-year-old man who was stabbed to death at a supermarket in south Wales.\n\nJohn Rees was fatally injured at the Co-op, in Penygraig, Rhondda, at about 13:45 BST on Tuesday.\n\nZara Anne Radcliffe, 29, from Porth, only spoke to confirm her name and address before Cardiff magistrates.\n\nShe is also accused of the attempted murder of Lisa Way, Gaynor Saurin and Andrew Price.\n\nMr Price is said to be in a stable condition at the University Hospital of Wales, while the two women sustained non-life-threatening injuries.\n\nMr Rees, a grandfather from Trealaw, has been described by his family as \"the very definition of a good man, extremely respected and liked in the community\".\n\nIn a statement, his relatives added: \"He was proud of his family, proud to be a Welshman and devoted to All Saints Church. We will all miss him terribly.\"\n\nThree other people were injured at the Co-op store on Tylacelyn Road in Penygraig\n\nThe Church in Wales has confirmed that bells, which had been rung in previous weeks by Mr Rees in honour of key workers will ring again at All Saints Church on Thursday evening.\n\nMr Rees, a longstanding member of the church community along with his wife Eunice, had served on the Parochial Church Council at the church in Trealaw.\n\nThe Church in Wales said a memorial service could take place at the church when it reopens, if the family request one.\n\nFlowers and tributes have been left at All Saints Church\n\nTrealaw councillor Joy Rosser said she would be out clapping for Mr Rees later, when the church bells are ringing: \"John was a very private person, he was a true gentleman and a committed family man devoted to his wife Eunice for whom he was carer.\n\n\"My heart goes out to his wife and family, he was an avid church-goer and was one of those who rang the bells for the NHS on Thursday evenings.\n\n\"I know I represent the views of the community in saying that prayers and thoughts are with the family and indeed all those who are affected by this tragic incident.\"\n\nThe two women injured in the incident have now both returned home following treatment.\n\nGaynor Saurin is now recovering at home\n\nJodie Pope, the daughter of Royal Glamorgan Hospital nurse Lisa Way, said on social media: \"Mam is home and we all feel very blessed and lucky that she is.\n\n\"Lisa Way is loved by so many. She is an inspirational hero with so much bravery and strength and we all as a family are incredibly proud of her!\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family who have not been as lucky as us.\"\n\nMs Radcliffe was remanded in custody and will appear before Cardiff Crown Court on Monday.\n\nSouth Wales Police initially referred their handling of the case to the watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\n\nAn IOPC spokesman said: \"We have decided that an investigation by the IOPC is not required, and the referral has been returned to the force.\"", "Police officers had been following a vehicle along Dartmouth Road, West Hendon\n\nA Met Police officer was attacked while pursuing a suspect in north-west London.\n\nPolice had been pursuing a vehicle in Dartmouth Road, West Hendon, shortly after 19:00 BST when one occupant got out.\n\nScotland Yard confirmed one officer, who found the suspect in an alleyway, was seriously assaulted during a \"struggle\".\n\nThe suspect fled but was later arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.\n\nA force spokesperson said the officer, whose injuries are not thought to be life-threatening, had not been stabbed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People in lockdown are more worried about their mental wellbeing than their general health, an Office for National Statistics survey suggests.\n\nJust under two-thirds of 16- to 69-year-olds surveyed were most affected by boredom, stress and anxiety, and the inability to make plans.\n\nAnd those aged over 70 were even less likely (6%) than the under-70s (13%) to say their overall health was affected.\n\nMost of the under-70s did worry about their loved ones' health.\n\nBut, in general, those surveyed were considerably more worried about their friends and family's mental wellbeing.\n\nAnd the over-70's were much more likely to be worried about their family's work (62%) being affected than their health (27%).\n\nTheir own access to groceries, medication and other essentials was another major worry for the over-70s.\n\nBut the under-70s were more concerned about the impact on their work.\n\nJust under three-quarters of all the people surveyed said the pandemic had reduced their household income.\n\nJust over a third said they were using savings to cover their living costs.\n\nAnd when asked how the pandemic was affecting their own wellbeing, more people expressed concern about the future than other, more immediate, worries such as being alone, strain on personal relationships or challenges working from home.\n\nMore than 85% said they had enough information to protect themselves from the virus.\n\nBut only about half said they had enough information about the UK government's plan for dealing with it.\n\nAlthough there were high levels of support for and compliance with lockdown measures, only 24% of those self-isolating for the past seven days had not left their home for the whole period.\n\nThe survey, conducted among households in England and Wales, excluded people staying in hospitals, care homes or other residential facilities.\n\nThe results were weighted to reflect the make-up of the population of Britain, including the proportions of key workers and people with health conditions.\n\nThe proportion of adults with high levels of anxiety fell from a high of 50% at the end of March to 37% between 17 and 27 April.\n\nBut a separate survey, by University College London, suggests it has risen again in the past week.\n\n\"Life-satisfaction ratings had been returning to pre-Covid-19 levels but this improvement has now halted,\" it says, linking this to the uncertainty created by speculation around exiting lockdown.\n\nOne in 12 of the 80,000 people surveyed by UCL was worried about their future and twice as many about their finances.\n\nAnd these figures were even higher among those under the age of 60, with lower household incomes or a mental-health diagnosis.", "London Zoo has only ever shut for any length of time once before, for two weeks during the Blitz\n\nLondon Zoo and its conservation work face an \"uncertain future\" without immediate support, the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) has warned.\n\nZSL London Zoo and its sister site Whipsnade Zoo, in Bedfordshire, have been closed to visitors since 20 March due to the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThis has come at what is usually a peak time, when they would have expected 250,000 visitors, ZSL said.\n\nThe charity's core income has dried up while costs for staff remain the same.\n\nLondon Zoo has only ever shut for any length of time once before, for two weeks during the Blitz, before it reopened at the request of the government to boost morale in the capital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does London Zoo look like on lockdown?\n\nZSL currently cares for 20,000 animals, many of which are rare and endangered.\n\nThe income from the two zoos underpins ZSL's scientific research institute and global conservation programmes, which help research diseases in wildlife, including coronaviruses.\n\nDirector general Dominic Jermey said lockdown was putting it in a \"very challenging\" position.\n\nZSL said it was struggling to obtain financial support from banks, because the organisation has no history of borrowing.\n\nIt currently operates to invest everything back into conservation and science, making it hard to generate profits to pay off a loan.\n\nCosts for keepers and vets to care for 20,000 animals remain the same, despite a lack of income\n\nMinisters have announced a £14m fund to support zoos hit by the pandemic lockdown but ZSL said the focus was on small grants for small zoos and an institution of its size needed much more significant support.\n\nMr Jermey said: \"We are having conversations with very generous people who have supported us in the past, and with banks, in order to make sure the future does not remain perilous.\n\n\"But at the moment it's a very challenging moment for the organisation.\"\n\nThe idea that the pandemic could spell the end of London Zoo \"would be absolutely unthinkable\", he said.\n\n\"But the plain facts of any organisation is we can't continue to operate without any income.\"\n\nMr Jermey said ZSL was \"determined to be part of the solution\", with its work on wildlife diseases and, as lockdown begins to ease, by offering people an outdoor space they can experience safely.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nicola Sturgeon has warned it could be \"catastrophic\" to drop the stay at home message as she announced that the lockdown is to be extended in Scotland.\n\nIt has been suggested that Boris Johnson could scrap the slogan as part of moves to ease some lockdown rules.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the Scottish government may be prepared to allow people to spend more time outdoors.\n\nBut she said scrapping the \"clear, well understood\" stay at home message was \"a potentially catastrophic mistake\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would prefer all four nations to make changes together because that would help give consistent messages to the public.\n\nHowever, she said it was possible to go \"different ways\" if they were at different stages.\n\nFollowing a call between Ms Sturgeon and the prime minister, a spokeswoman for Mr Johnson acknowledged that different parts of the UK could \"move at slightly different speeds\", with \"decisions made based on the science for each nation\".\n\nBoth the Scottish and UK governments formally extended their coronavirus lockdown measures on Thursday.\n\nHowever Mr Johnson - who will make a televised address about the future on Sunday evening - has suggested some measures could start to be lifted from Monday.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she was open to relaxing the rules around outdoor exercise, but said no other measures should be eased at this \"critical juncture\".\n\nScrapping the \"stay at home message\" could confuse people, she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronoavirus: Changing message now could be 'catastrophic'\n\nShe said: \"Extreme caution is required at this critical juncture to avoid a rapid resurgence of the virus.\n\n\"It is not an exaggeration to say decisions now are a matter of life and death.\n\n\"That is why they weigh so very, very heavily and why they must be taken with great care, and it is why as I take them I will continue to err on the side of caution.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was thought that Scotland's infection rate might still be higher than in other parts of the UK, potentially because the first cases of Covid-19 north of the border came later than in England.\n\nShe said she \"will not be pressured into lifting restrictions prematurely\" and would \"make judgements, informed by the evidence, that are right and safe for Scotland\".\n\nThe prime minister's spokeswoman said Mr Johnson had \"emphasised that this is a critical moment in the fight against coronavirus\" in a call with the leaders of the devolved administrations.\n\nShe said: \"He reiterated his commitment to continuing our UK-wide approach to tackling coronavirus, even if different parts of the UK begin to move at slightly different speeds. Those decisions will be made based on the science for each nation.\n\n\"They all agreed that continued engagement between our administrations is vital and to remain in close contact in the days and weeks ahead.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon says she must extend the lockdown in Scotland to stop a resurgence of the virus.\n\nBecause the rate of infection (the now famous R number) is still at or around one in Scotland, possibly slighter higher than in other parts of the UK, she says any easing of the current restrictions would be \"very very risky\" indeed.\n\nThis may not be the same message we hear from Boris Johnson on Sunday.\n\nThat means we could soon see different parts of the UK operating under different lockdown rules.\n\nRead more from Sarah Smith here.\n\nThe Scottish government has published a paper of options for starting to lift restrictions, although no dates are suggested in it.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she \"may be prepared to agree to a change to guidance limiting outdoor exercise to once a day only\". It has been rumoured that such a move is being considered by UK ministers.\n\nHowever, the first minister said this \"would not change the overall message\" that people should remain close to home and not mix with other households.\n\nShe said: \"The other possible changes that are reported in the media, such as encouraging more people back to work now, opening beer gardens, or encouraging more use of public transport, would not in my judgment be safe for us to make yet.\n\n\"What I do not want a few weeks from now is for us to see a resurgence of this virus, and for you to be asking me 'why on Earth did you start to ease lockdown a week or a couple of weeks too early'?\"", "A new Banksy artwork has appeared at Southampton General Hospital.\n\nThe largely monochrome painting, which is one square metre, was hung in collaboration with the hospital's managers in a foyer near the emergency department.\n\nIt shows a young boy kneeling by a wastepaper basket dressed in dungarees and a T-shirt.\n\nHe has discarded his Spiderman and Batman model figures in favour of a new favourite action hero - an NHS nurse.\n\nThe nurse's arm is outstretched and pointing forward in the fashion of Superman on a mission.\n\nShe is wearing a facemask, a nurse's cape, and an apron with the Red Cross emblem (the only element of colour in the picture).\n\nThe artist left a note for hospital workers, which read: \"Thanks for all you're doing. I hope this brightens the place up a bit, even if its only black and white.\"\n\nThe painting will remain at Southampton General Hospital until the autumn when it will be auctioned to raise money for the NHS.\n\nPaula Head, CEO of the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust said: \"Our hospital family has been directly impacted with the tragic loss of much loved and respected members of staff and friends.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Staff react to the Banksy artwork on display at Southampton General Hospital\n\n\"The fact that Banksy has chosen us to recognise the outstanding contribution everyone in and with the NHS is making, in unprecedented times, is a huge honour.\"\n\nShe added: \"It will be really valued by everyone in the hospital, as people get a moment in their busy lives to pause, reflect and appreciate this piece of art. It will no doubt also be a massive boost to morale for everyone who works and is cared for at our hospital.\"\n\nThe artwork is now on view to staff and patients on Level C of the Southampton General.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Around the world, humans are struggling to ignore thousands of years of bio-social convention and avoid touching another. Shaking hands might be one of the hardest customs to lose in the post-pandemic world but there are alternatives, writes James Jeffrey.\n\nThe humble handshake spans the mundane to the potent, ranging from a simple greeting between strangers who will never meet again, to the sealing of billion-dollar deals between business titans.\n\nThere are various ideas about the origin of the handshake. It may have originated in ancient Greece as a symbol of peace between two people by showing that neither person was carrying a weapon. Or the shaking gesture of the handshake may have started in Medieval Europe, when knights would shake the hand of others in an attempt to shake loose any hidden weapons.\n\nThe Quakers are credited with popularising the handshake after they deemed it to be more egalitarian than bowing.\n\nThe handshake is a \"literal gesture of human connectedness,\" a symbol of how humans have evolved to be deeply social, tactile-orientated animals, says Cristine Legare, a psychology professor at the University of Texas at Austin.\n\nWith a history tracing back thousands of years, the handshake may be too entrenched to be easily halted.\n\n\"The fact we went for the elbow bump as an alternative shows how important touch is - we didn't want to lose that physical connecting,\" says Prof Legare.\n\nThat biological drive to touch and be touched is found in other animals as well. In the 1960s American psychologist Harry Harlow demonstrated how vital touch and affection was for the development of young rhesus monkeys.\n\nOther examples from the animal kingdom include our closest cousins: chimpanzees typically touch palms, hug and sometimes kiss as a form of greeting. Giraffes use their necks that can reach two metres in length to engage in a type of behaviour called \"necking\" - with male giraffes entwining their neck with each other's and swaying and rubbing to assess the other's strength and size to establish dominance.\n\nThat said, numerous forms of human greeting exist around the world that avoid the transmission trap. Many cultures embrace pressing the palms of hands together with fingers pointing up while accompanied by a slight bow, the traditional Hindu Namaste greeting being one of the most well-known.\n\nIn Samoa there is the \"eyebrow flash\" that comprises raising your eyebrows while flashing a big smile at the person you are greeting.\n\nIn Muslim countries, a hand over a heart is a respectful way to greet someone you are not accustomed to touching. And there is the Hawaiian shaka sign, adopted and popularised by American surfers, made by curling the three middle fingers and extending you thumb and smallest finger while shaking your hand back and forth for emphasis.\n\nPhysical touch has not always been deemed so critical. During the first half of the 20th Century, many psychologists believed that showing affection to children was simply a sentimental gesture that served no real purpose - even cautioning that displays of affection risked spreading diseases and contributing to adult psychological problems.\n\nIn her book Don't Look, Don't Touch, behavioural scientist Val Curtis of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine says that one possible reason that handshakes and kisses on cheeks endure as greetings is because they signal that the other person is trusted enough to risk sharing germs with - hence the history of the practices going in and out of style depending on public health concerns.\n\nIn the 1920s, articles appeared in the American Journal of Nursing that warned of hands being the agents of bacterial transfer, and recommending that Americans adapt the Chinese custom at the time, of shaking one's own hands together when greeting a friend.\n\nThere have been more recent objections to handshakes that pre-date the coronavirus outbreak: in 2015, a UCLA hospital established a handshake-free zone in its intensive care unit (the UCLA policy only lasted six months).\n\nMeanwhile, many Muslim women throughout the world have objected to handshakes based on religious grounds.\n\nBut despite such reservations and incidences of conscientious objectors to handshakes, as the 20th century progressed the gesture evolved into a near universal and unassailable symbol of professional greeting.\n\nScientific studies of the ritual have identified how a good handshake activates the same part of the brain that processes other types of reward stimulus such as good food, drink and even sex.\n\nAs some states in the US begin to ease lockdown measures, the future of the handshake remains uncertain.\n\n\"I don't think we should ever shake hands ever again, to be honest with you,\" Dr Anthony Fauci, a key member of the White House coronavirus task force, said back in April.\n\n\"Not only would it be good to prevent coronavirus disease; it probably would decrease instances of influenza dramatically in this country.\"\n\nSocial distancing guidelines will likely stay in place for a long time to come, according to US government's guidelines for re-opening the country, especially for vulnerable people like the elderly and those with medical co-morbidities such as lung disease, obesity and diabetes.\n\nThis could give rise to what Stuart Wolf, associate chair for Clinical Integration and Operations at Dell Medical, calls a \"science-fiction dystopia\" where society would be divided into those who can touch and be touched, and those who must remain isolated.\n\nThat could create grave psychological consequences, Dr Wolf says.\n\n\"We already place such a premium on youth and vigour in society, and this forced artificial distinction between the old and infirm and the young and healthy probably will hit some folks very hard.\"\n\nThe urge to reach out - physically - is deeply wired into us. There's a reason why a US president is estimated to shake hands with 65,000 people per year.\n\n\"Habits die hard,\" says Elke Weber, a professor of psychology and public affairs at Princeton University who studies how people take risks. \"On the other hand, habits and social customs can and do change when the social and economic and, in this case, health context changes, [think of] foot binding in China, which was also an ancient custom.\"\n\nThere are already lots of non-contact options. Bowing, for example, is already very widely practiced around the world - and has been credited for fewer deaths due to coronavirus in Thailand. Then there is waving, nodding, smiling and myriad hand signals that don't involve physical contact.\n\nBut Prof Legare notes that one of Covid-19's cruel ironies is that it is precisely when humans are faced with stressful circumstances that they depend on human touch.\n\n\"Think of the ways we respond when people are grieving after death or something bad that's happened, it is with a hug, or it could just be sitting beside a person and touching a shoulder.\"\n\nSanitary conventions like fist-bumps and elbow taps just don't quite cut the mustard when it comes to human connectivity.\n\nWhenever they occur there is always an internalised complicit knowledge of how they go against the grain of intuitive friendliness, notes Steven Pinker, Harvard University's Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, in an article for The Harvard Gazette, the university's official news website.\n\n\"That explains why, at least in my experience, people accompany these gestures with a little laugh, as if to reassure each other that the superficially aggressive displays are new conventions in a contagious time and offered in a spirit of camaraderie,\" Prof Pinker says.\n\nDue to her work in public health, including infectious diseases, Deliana Garcia was already moving away from handshakes with most people. But some habits are harder to break than others.\n\n\"I am a fanatical hugger,\" says Ms Garcia, noting social distancing with her 85-year-old mother has been particularly hard.\n\n\"She is so close, and I just want to walk up to her and smooch her little face and give her a kiss and tell her I love her.\"\n\nThis powerful urge collides with concerns about transmission, resulting in an \"awkward dance\" between the two of them, she says.\n\n\"Even as she is approaching, I can feel myself growing anxious - what if I make her sick?\" Ms Garcia says. \"So I withdraw, but if she starts to move away, I follow. I need the tactile to assure myself and yet I can't let her get close. We sort of repel one another like identical poles on magnets.\"\n\nAs hard as a future without handshakes or touch may be, it is better than the alternative, Prof Weber says. \"I don't think people are overreacting at this point, quite the opposite.\"\n\n\"Survival or trying to stay alive is another important basic human drive. The alternative is to go back to life as we knew it and ignore the fact that large numbers of elderly, overweight and people with co-morbidities will die until we establish herd immunity, which will take considerable time.\"\n\nBut don't give up on the humble handshake just yet. While avoiding disease is an essential part of human survival, so is living fulfilling and complex social lives, says Arthur Markman, a professor in the department of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin.\n\n\"Perhaps we start by focusing on more routine handwashing, hand sanitisers, and strategies to avoid touching your face rather than giving up touch altogether,\" he says.\n\n\"The real concern is that we will develop a new normal that is devoid of touch, and so we will not realise what we are missing by not having any tactile contact with the people in our social network.\"\n\nJames Jeffrey is a freelance writer based in Texas who regularly contributes to the BBC", "The European Union faces a deep and uneven recession, according to a new forecast from the EU's Commission.\n\nThe bloc's executive arm predicts a recovery in 2021 but warns that the uncertainty is exceptionally high.\n\nThe Commission predicts a decline in economic activity this year of 7.5%, and slightly more than that for the eurozone.\n\nIt warns the outcome could be worse if the pandemic turns out to be longer or more severe than currently envisaged.\n\nEuropean and other governments are intentionally blocking economic activity to contain the virus, so a sharp downturn is inevitable.\n\nThat said, the Commission's forecasts do put some rather stark numbers on the extent of the damage the EU can expect to sustain.\n\nThe Commission describes the downturn as a recession of historic proportions. Paolo Gentiloni, the Commissioner for the Economy called it \"a shock without precedent since the Great Depression\".\n\nThe impact will be uneven, Mr Gentiloni said, conditioned by how quickly the lockdowns can be lifted and by the importance of services such as tourism in the national economies.\n\nThe forecasts for specific countries do indeed point to an especially severe impact in some that that are popular tourist destinations.\n\nThe deepest predicted contraction of all is for Greece. At 9.7% that would be more than the worst in single year during the financial crisis, although the country did have a succession of bad years that added up to a much larger decline than is likely in 2020.\n\nSpain and Italy are also forecast to have declines in excess of 9%. The revisions to the forecasts for two other Mediterranean countries- Malta and Cyprus - were also relatively large.\n\nInevitably, such an extensive impact on economic activity will mean job losses.\n\nThe Commission says that policies such as short-time working schemes, job subsidies and support to businesses should help to limit the damage to employment, but the impact on the labour market will nonetheless be severe.\n\nThe report predicts an increase in unemployment in every EU state. That said, the predicted highs are not as bad as they were in the aftermath of the financial crisis.\n\nThe two worst for predictions for this year are unemployment rates of 19.9% for Greece and 18.9% for Spain. Those figures are annual averages so there would be peaks during the year that are significantly higher.\n\nBut those annual figures are still well below the equivalent levels, which were in the high twenties, that the two countries suffered as a result of the following the financial crisis.\n\nIt will be harder, the Commission says, for young people to get their first jobs.\n\nThe growth predicted for 2021 at 6.1% is less than the contraction the Commission envisages for this year. It would therefore be 2022 at the earliest when the EU economy gets back to the level of activity it experienced last year.\n\nThe report also notes that unsuccessful trade negotiations with the UK could further impede any recovery:\n\n\"The threat of tariffs [on traded goods] following the end of the transition period between the EU and United Kingdom could also dampen growth, albeit to a lesser extent in the EU than in the UK.\"", "Ralf Hütter (left) and Florian Schneider were Kraftwerk's founders and core members\n\nFlorian Schneider, co-founder of highly influential electronic pop group Kraftwerk, has died at the age of 73.\n\nThe German quartet set the template for synthesiser music in the 1970s and 80s with songs like Autobahn and The Model.\n\nThey achieved both musical innovation and commercial success, and inspired scores of artists across genres ranging from techno to hip-hop.\n\nMidge Ure described Schneider as \"way ahead of his time\", while singer Edwyn Collins summed it up with: \"He's God\".\n\nSchneider formed the group with Ralf Hütter in 1970, and remained a member until his departure in 2008.\n\nA statement said he \"passed away from a short cancer disease just a few days after his 73rd birthday\".\n\nSchneider in a suit made from recycled plastic to support a campaign to stop plastic pollution in 2015\n\nTributes flowed from the music world. Spandau Ballet's Gary Kemp said Schneider was \"such an important influence upon so much of the music we know\", and had forged \"a new Metropolis of music for us all to live in\".\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 Gary Kemp 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\nDuran Duran keyboardist Nick Rhodes remembered hearing Autobahn and \"how radically different it sounded from everything else on the radio\".\n\nIt \"sparked my lifelong admiration for their innovation and creativity\", and the group's \"influence on contemporary music is deeply woven into the fabric of our pop culture\", he wrote.\n\nOMD said they were \"absolutely devastated\" at the news, and Jean-Michel Jarre also paid tribute.\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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe long list of artists to have been influenced by Kraftwerk included David Bowie, who named the track V-2 Schneider on his Heroes album after Schneider; as well Depeche Mode, New Order and Daft Punk.\n\nColdplay used a section from Kraftwerk's Computer Love in their hit Talk, while Jay-Z and Dr Dre borrowed from Trans Europe Express for their track Under Pressure. Kraftwerk reputedly turned down Michael Jackson, who wanted to collaborate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe group faced resistance in the British music press at first, but went on to achieve both musical innovation and commercial success.\n\nThey broke through with the hypnotic Autobahn in 1975, and went to number one in the UK with the double A-side single The Model/Computer Love in 1982.\n\nEven Kraftwerk's image was mechanical - during the 1970s, they began to portray themselves as robotic figures, dressed identically and standing in a row behind keyboards on stage.\n\nWith striking album covers adding to their visual impact, their artistic as well as musical identity led to a series of acclaimed residencies in galleries like New York's Moma and the Tate Modern in London in the 2010s.\n\nSchneider had left by then. He and Hütter remained famously enigmatic, but Hütter told The Guardian in 2009 his bandmate had not been \"really involved in Kraftwerk for many, many years\".\n\nDuring the mid-70s, the band's allegiance to what they called \"robot pop\" set the sonic template for everything from hip-hop to house music via EDM and techno.\n\nIn some quarters, they were dubbed \"the electronic Beatles\", and it's hard to disagree.\n\nElectronic music had existed before - from the musitron solo on Del Shannon's Runaway to the mind-expanding Doctor Who theme, recorded by the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop in 1963.\n\nBut Kraftwerk developed a new musical vocabulary, sculpting hypnotic, low-frequency sounds that celebrated Europe's romantic past, and looked forward to its shimmering future.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A 21-year-old who spent a week in intensive care fighting coronavirus has told BBC Scotland she thought she was going to die.\n\nLily Burns, who had no underlying health conditions, is now recovering at home and believes it is a \"miracle\" she is still alive thanks to NHS staff.\n\nLily, from Fort William, had initially gone into hospital with a suspected kidney infection.\n\nBut she rapidly deteriorated and was diagnosed with Covid-19.\n\nShe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme she had been doing a run in aid of the NHS when she first started to feel unwell.\n\n\"I'd come home and was still feeling sick,\" she said. \"We went to out-of-hours but they thought it was a kidney infection. A high temperature was the only coronavirus symptom I had.\n\n\"Because of Covid they didn't want me going into hospital so they sent me home and told me to go to A&E if I got any worse.\"\n\nLily before she became ill\n\nLily continued to be sick so went into A&E during the night and was admitted with a kidney infection.\n\nShe had an initial test for Covid-19 but it was negative.\n\nShe started to feel a bit better but was sent to Raigmore Hospital as a precaution after a second test came back positive.\n\n\"By the time I got to Raigmore, I had deteriorated,\" she said. \"The Covid had attacked all my internal organs - my heart, my liver, my kidneys.\n\n\"They tried to give me oxygen through my nose, but because I needed so much of it, my body couldn't take it through my nose so they had to put me under sedation and that was me for seven days.\n\n\"The only thing I remember was getting out of the ambulance and being in a room with about 8-10 doctors. It was a bit overwhelming for me and I got a fright.\n\n\"When I came back round after the seven days [under sedation on a ventilator] I thought I'd only been sleeping for one.\"\n\nLily was reunited with her family outside the hospital\n\nOnce she started to recover, Lily was able to have daily conversations with her family on Facetime.\n\n\"I think I looked pretty scary,\" she said. \"I think it was way more traumatic for them than it was for me.\"\n\nAfter weeks in hospital and now back at home, she said: \"I'm feeling very emotional about everything now. With me nearly not coming through, my friends have been coming over to the house with gifts, but obviously they can't come anywhere near me, so that's very hard.\"\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Daisy This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nIn a Facebook post she said: \"I need to take this time to thank the intensive care unit in Raigmore who I literally owe my life to, their practise [sic], support and ability to make me laugh was world-class and these truly are lives [sic] heroes.\"\n\nIn another post she wrote: \"I can't begin to explain the impact this has had on my life. I will never ever be taking anyone or anything for granted.\n\n\"I can only be thankful it was me as I could never ever of [sic] coped watching one of my family or friends go through what they had to witness.\"\n\nOn Good Morning Scotland, she added: \"I would advise everyone to stick to the restrictions because after what my family went through, I wouldn't want to put anyone else through that.\"", "Heathrow Airport has been granted permission to appeal against a block on its plans for a third runway.\n\nIn February the Court of Appeal found the government decision to allow the plans to go ahead was unlawful.\n\nAt the time the court said the government had not taken its climate commitments into account, but Heathrow said it would appeal.\n\nThe Supreme Court has now given permission for an appeal to go ahead.\n\nHeathrow said it would go ahead with the appeal, despite the aviation sector taking a massive hit from the coronavirus crisis.\n\nAn airport spokesman said: \"Responding to the impacts of coronavirus is our priority right now. We do believe that once the benefits of air travel and connectivity have been restored in years to come, an expanded Heathrow will be required.\"\n\nThe Heathrow spokesman added that the privately funded project would \"see billions of pounds pumped into the UK's economy, stimulating sectors across the country and creating tens of thousands of new jobs.\"\n\nHowever, Friends of the Earth, which was one of the groups that brought the case against Heathrow, said investment should instead be put into green infrastructure projects.\n\n\"It is especially important now, as we plan for a future after the dreadful coronavirus pandemic, that the UK invests in low-carbon, resilient infrastructure. A new runway at Heathrow is the opposite of what we need to be building,\" said Friends of the Earth pollution campaigner Jenny Bates.\n\nWill Rundle, head of legal at Friends of the Earth, said: \"We'll resist the appeal brought by Heathrow Airport and the developer Aurora Holdings, in the Supreme Court.\n\n\"Climate change must be front and centre in all planning and infrastructure decisions, and it is irresponsible for them to try and avoid the Court of Appeal's verdict against them on climate change by this appeal.\n\nIn February, the Court of Appeal found that the government had not followed UK policy when backing the controversial expansion plans.\n\nIt said that the government had a duty to take into account the Paris climate agreement, which seeks to limit global warming.\n\nIt was \"legally fatal\" to the government's Heathrow expansion policy that it did not take those climate commitments into account, the judges said at the time.\n\nOn Thursday, three Supreme Court Justices - Lord Reed, Lord Hodge and Lord Sales - gave permission to appeal that judgement.\n\nBritish Airways-owner IAG, which has in the past criticised the expansion's costs and called for an independent review of the environmental impact, said: \"The challenges facing Heathrow's expansion are immense and even greater now following [the coronavirus crisis].\"\n\nHowever, the CBI industry group said: \"Ensuring a safe return to work after coronavirus is business' top priority right now, but an expanded Heathrow can play an important role in driving prosperity over the long term.\n\n\"Businesses will be pleased that Heathrow has been given the opportunity to get this critical project back on track.\"\n\nAnd Adam Marshal, director general of industry group the British Chambers of Commerce, said: \"Businesses are clear that an expanded Heathrow will provide crucial regional connectivity, access to key markets across the world and wider economic benefits extending across the UK.\n\n\"While attention is rightly focused on the immediate response to coronavirus, firms will be hoping that long-overdue plans for a world-leading hub airport can move ahead in due course to help power recovery and future growth.\"\n• None What are the Heathrow third runway plans?", "160,000 suspicious emails have been sent in\n\nPeople have forwarded more than 160,000 suspicious emails to a scam-busting service, leading to 300 websites being shut down.\n\nThe Suspicious Email Reporting Service was set up two weeks ago by the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).\n\nIt received 10,000 reports in just one day, after being promoted on ITV's Martin Lewis Money Show,\n\nMany of the scam websites claimed to sell coronavirus tests, face masks and even vaccines.\n\nOthers were mock-ups of official government websites that tried to trick visitors into giving their payment information to scammers.\n\nNCSC chief executive Ciaran Martin praised the \"phenomenal response\" from the British public.\n\n\"While cyber-criminals continue to prey on people's fears, the number of scams we have removed in such a short timeframe shows what a vital role the public can play in fighting back,\" he said.\n\nTV presenter Martin Lewis said scam emails remained the \"toughest nut to crack\".\n\n\"We need what I call 'social policing',\" he said.\n\n\"Everyone that can spot a scam must take up arms and report it, to protect those who can't.\"\n\nThose wishing to report suspect emails can forward them to report@phishing.gov.uk\n\nIf they are found to link to malicious content, the websites will be taken down", "A student who gathered 330,000 signatures calling for a refund of university tuition fees says students are being \"completely ignored\".\n\nSophie Quinn's petition calls for a refund for teaching lost in the Covid-19 outbreak and lecturers' strikes.\n\nHer claim was brought before the House of Commons Petitions Committee.\n\nUniversities UK told MPs universities were under \"severe financial pressure\" and paying refunds to students could \"put some institutions at risk\".\n\n\"Universities are doing all they can to make sure that students achieve the learning outcomes they need,\" president Julia Buckingham said.\n\nMs Quinn told an online session of the committee students were feeling \"angry and let down\" and had not got what they paid for.\n\n\"This whole year has been disrupted by strikes and the coronavirus,\" the University of Liverpool student told the committee.\n\nShe told MPs students were \"frustrated\" by:\n\n\"As students we feel we have been completely ignored,\" she said, calling for a full or partial reimbursement of the tuition fees paid by students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMs Quinn said it remained unclear how the fees, which are for university services as well as teaching, were being spent this year.\n\nProf Buckingham said if students had concerns over fees they should pursue complaints through the processes of their universities and then through the independent adjudicator.\n\nBut Ms Quinn said as all students were disrupted by the Covid-19 outbreak it did not seem \"efficient\" or a good use of university resources for every student to put in a separate grievance claim.\n\nUCU lecturers' union leader Jo Grady said the petition showed students were not happy with \"exorbitant fees\" and were not \"getting what they were told to expect\", while many academic staff on insecure contracts were also vulnerable.\n\nShe called for greater clarity on how campuses were meant to safely reopen in the autumn - and said there were discussions about students from some subjects going back in person while others would be taught online.\n\nNational Union of Students president Zamzam Ibrahim said students could be getting different levels of quality in their online lessons.\n\n\"There is no clear guidance of what adequate teaching looks like,\" she said.\n\nEarlier this week, Universities Minister Michelle Donelan said students would still have to pay full tuition fees if universities were teaching online in the autumn term - as long as the quality was good enough.", "Major credit card companies should block payments to pornographic sites, according to a group of international campaigners and campaign groups who say they work to tackle sexual exploitation.\n\nA letter seen by the BBC, signed by more than 10 campaigners and campaign groups, says porn sites \"eroticise sexual violence, incest, and racism\" and stream content that features child sexual abuse and sex trafficking.\n\nOne leading site, Pornhub, said \"the letter [was] not only factually wrong but also intentionally misleading.\"\n\nMastercard told the BBC they were investigating claims made in the letter on pornography sites and would \"terminate their connection to our network\" if illegal activity by a cardholder was confirmed.\n\nThe letter was sent to 10 major credit card companies, including the \"Big Three\", Visa, MasterCard and American Express. The signatories from countries including the UK, US, India, Uganda and Australia have called for the immediate suspension of payments to pornographic sites.\n\nThe signatories of the letter include the anti-pornography non-profit group the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) in the US, and other faith-led or women and child rights' advocacy groups.\n\nThe letter alleges it is impossible to \"judge or verify consent in any videos on their site, let alone live webcam videos\" which \"inherently makes pornography websites a target for sex traffickers, child abusers, and others sharing predatory nonconsensual videos\".\n\n\"We've been seeing an increasingly global outcry about the harms of pornography sharing websites in a number of ways in recent months,\" said Haley McNamara, the director of the UK-based International Centre on Sexual Exploitation, the international arm of the NCOSE and a signatory of the letter.\n\n\"We in the international child advocacy and anti-sexual exploitation community are demanding financial institutions to critically analyse their supportive role in the pornography industry, and to cut ties with them,\" she told the BBC.\n\nA report on the appetite for child abuse videos on pornography sites was published in April by India Child Protection Fund (ICPF). The organisation said there had been a steep increase in demand for child abuse searches on pornography sites in India, particularly since coronavirus lockdown.\n\nPornhub, the most popular pornography streaming site, is named in the letter. In 2019, it registered more than 42 billion visits, the equivalent of 115 million a day.\n\nPornhub was under scrutiny last year when one of its content providers - Girls Do Porn - became the subject of an FBI investigation.\n\nThe FBI charged four people working for the production company that created the channel of coaxing women into making pornographic films under false pretences. Pornhub removed the Girls Do Porn channel as soon as the charges were made.\n\nCommenting to the BBC in February regarding this case, Pornhub said its policy was to \"remove unauthorised content as soon as we are made aware of it, which is exactly what we did in this case\".\n\nIn October last year a 30-year-old Florida man, Christopher Johnson, faced charges for sexually abusing a 15 year old. Videos of the alleged attack had been posted on Pornhub.\n\nIn the same statement to the BBC in February, Pornhub said its policy was to \"remove unauthorised content as soon as we are made aware of it, which is exactly what we did in this case\".\n\nThe Internet Watch Foundation, a UK organisation that specialises in monitoring online sexual abuse - particularly of children - confirmed to the BBC that they had found 118 instances of child sexual abuse and child rape videos on Pornhub between 2017 and 2019. The body works in partnership with global police and governments to flag illegal content.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, a spokesperson for Pornhub said they had \"a steadfast commitment to eradicating and fighting any and all illegal content, including non-consensual and under-age material. Any suggestion otherwise is categorically and factually inaccurate.\"\n\n\"Our content moderation system is at the forefront of the industry, utilising leading technologies and moderation techniques that create a comprehensive process to detect and rid the platform of any illegal content.\n\nPornhub said the letter was sent by organisations \"who attempt to police people's sexual orientation and activity - are not only factually wrong but also intentionally misleading.\"\n\nAmerican Express has had a global policy in place since 2000 that says it prohibits transactions for adult digital content where the risk is deemed unusually high, with a total ban on online pornography. In an interview with the Smartmoney website in 2011, a spokesperson for American Express at the time said this was due to high levels of disputes, and an additional safeguard in the fight against child pornography.\n\nYet, the organisations also sent the letters to American Express, because they say American Express payment options have been offered on pornography sites - including one that specialises in teenage themed content.\n\nA spokesperson for American Express told the BBC that while the global policy still stood, American Express had a pilot with one company that allowed for payment to certain pornography streaming websites if the payment was made within the US and on a US consumer credit card.\n\nOther major credit card companies, including Visa and MasterCard, do allow both credit and debit card holders to purchase online pornography.\n\nIn an email to the BBC, a spokesperson for Mastercard said they were \"currently investigating the claims referred to us in the letter.\n\n\"The way our network works is that a bank connects a merchant to our network to accept card payments.\n\n\"If we confirm illegal activity or violations of our rules (by card holders), we will work with the merchant's bank to either bring them into compliance or to terminate their connection to our network.\n\n\"This is consistent with how we have previously worked with law enforcement agencies and groups like National and International Centers for Missing and Exploited Children.\"\n\nSome moves have been made by online payment companies to distance themselves from the pornography industry.\n\nIn November 2019, Paypal, the global online payment company, announced it would no longer be supporting payments to Pornhub as their policy forbids supporting \"certain sexually oriented materials or services\".\n\nIn a blog on their site, Pornhub said they were \"devastated\" by the decision and the move would leave thousands of Pornhub models and performers who relied on subscription from the premium services without payment.\n\nA pornography performer who shares material on Pornhub, and who asked to remain anonymous, said a payment freeze would have devastating implications for her earnings.\n\n\"Honestly, it would be a body blow,\" she said. \"It would wipe out my entire income and I wouldn't know how to earn money, especially now in lockdown.\"\n\nFollowing mounting pressure for more accountability from pornographic sites, Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska sent a letter to the US Department of Justice in March asking Attorney General William Barr to investigate Pornhub for allegedly streaming acts of rape and exploitation.\n\nIn the same month, nine Canadian multi-party parliamentarians wrote to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calling for an investigation into MindGeek, the parent company of Pornhub which has its headquarters in Montreal.\n\nAfrican Network for the Prevention and Protection against Child Abuse and Neglect, Liberia", "Schools in Wales will not re-open on 1 June after closing due to the coronavirus pandemic, Education Minister Kirsty Williams has said.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford had said schools would need at least three weeks' notice to reopen, meaning they could do so from June at the earliest.\n\nMs Williams said there had been \"speculation\" around announcements in England.\n\n\"The situation for schools in Wales will not change on 1 June,\" she said.\n\nMost schools have been closed for about six weeks, although some have been open for children of key workers and vulnerable pupils.\n\nAfter Mr Drakeford mentioned June as an example of when children could go back to school, some parents expressed concerns around the possibility about a return in the coming weeks.\n\nSome head teachers and unions have also questioned how social distancing can be practically observed.\n\nIn Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said reopening schools too early could see the NHS overwhelmed within two months, while the Northern Irish education minister has predicted a phased return there in September.\n\nAhead of anticipated announcements by the UK government around the lockdown this weekend, Ms Williams said any decision in Wales regarding schools would be \"communicated well in advance\".\n\n\"We are working closely with local authorities to ensure that schools are supported in this preparation work,\" she said.\n\n\"In the meantime, critical workers and those who need to use schools or hubs for your children should continue to do so.\n\n\"We will continue to be guided by the very latest scientific advice and will only look to have more pupils and staff in schools when it is safe to do so.\n\n\"We will, of course, need to ensure that social-distancing requirements can be adhered to.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe previously said pupils would not all return to school at once when restrictions are eased, with \"a phased approach\" based on five principles.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson will announce lockdown plans for England on Sunday at 19:00 BST, with tensions growing between Cardiff Bay and Westminster over the latest lockdown review.\n\nDowning Street said Mr Johnson had a call with the first ministers of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland earlier.\n\n\"This reflects the government's continued commitment to working in consultation with the devolved administrations in response to the coronavirus pandemic,\" a spokesman added.\n\n\"He [the prime minister] reiterated his commitment to continuing our UK-wide approach to tackling coronavirus, even if different parts of the UK begin to move at slightly different speeds.\n\n\"Those decisions will be made based on the science for each nation.\"", "Most health visitors checks are being carried out remotely at the moment\n\nConcerns for the wellbeing of babies born in lockdown are being raised, as parents struggle to access regular support services.\n\nEngland's children's commissioner is highlighting pressures facing mothers caring for babies without the usual family and state support networks.\n\nPlaygroups are closed and health visitor \"visits\" are being carried out remotely in most cases.\n\nThe NHS said adaptations had been made to keep new mothers and babies safe.\n\nThe briefing paper from Anne Longfield's office says an estimated 76,000 babies will have been born in England under lockdown so far.\n\nBut births are not being registered, because of temporary rules tied to the virus pandemic, so even basic information about new babies is not being gathered.\n\nAt the same time, support services provided by health visitors and GPs are not readily accessible, with many taking place via phone and video calls or not at all.\n\nShe highlights how up to 50% of health visitors in some areas of England were redeployed to other parts of the NHS as it grappled to fight the pandemic.\n\nAnd there are concerns many babies may have missed their developmental health checks, due in the first few weeks of life to pick up urgent developmental needs.\n\nInstitute of Health Visiting executive director Dr Cheryll Adams said health visitors were very concerned.\n\n\"In some areas, the six-week GP baby check hasn't been available or parents haven't wanted to attend it due to a potential risk of infection,\" she said.\n\nAnd, although helplines for parents had been set up in most areas, the usual sources of support from family, friends and voluntary services were no longer as available.\n\nMs Longfield said: \"At the best of times, around 10% of new mothers face perinatal [post-birth] mental illness - but the GP is closed, as is the children's centre and playgroups and playgrounds, and the health visitor, where she 'visits', is doing so by video link.\n\n\"There are even reports that in some areas families have been stopped from playing outside together by heavy-handed policing of lockdown rules.\n\n\"The vast majority of new parents will be coping - the resilience of the family will see them through.\n\n\"But there will be a significant minority where the additional challenge of a new child is a strain too far.\"\n\nMs Longfield is particularly concerned about children living in poverty or with risks such as domestic violence or mental ill health.\n\n\"Health services are usually the places where concerns about babies are identified and referred - and these services are likely to remain under increased pressure for a long period of time,\" she said.\n\nProactive steps were needed to ensure different agencies shared information on children they had concerns about, she said.\n\nAnd she called for ministers and local authorities to prepare for a surge in referrals to social services and post-natal services as lockdown eased.\n\nPublic Health England chief nurse Prof Viv Bennett said: \"Many community nursing services have been provided virtually and innovatively during the Covid-19 response.\n\n\"With the onset of Covid-19, some public health nurses were redeployed in hospitals where their expertise was most needed to care for acutely ill patients.\n\n\"It is important that as pressures ease, these nurses are able to quickly get back to help support those families and young people.\"", "The chancellor has the most delicate of balancing acts over the eventual withdrawal of the Job Retention Scheme.\n\nFrom inception, it was not just a massive piece of government support spending, but, as importantly, a piece of mass applied psychology.\n\nThe \"furlough\" scheme was designed to get into the heads of employers and persuade them to hold off on firing workers from businesses suffering in the pandemic shutdowns.\n\nTo park them, to put them on \"standby mode\" as one cabinet minister put it to me, so they could be switched back on to contribute to a V-shaped bounce back recovery when the pandemic peak passed.\n\nThat has worked. Universal Credit applications have gone up by 1.8 million, but without the furlough scheme it would have been multiples of that. Crucially, it has kept workers contractually connected to their workplaces.\n\nThis helps avoid what economists call \"hysteresis\" - the scarring effect of unemployment on the economy and public finances over many years. Some 6.3 million jobs are currently being paid for by government, approaching one in four of total UK employments.\n\nBut at £8bn so far, it is possible that the expert forecasts of a total cost of £39bn by July, is reached, which does put the cost of the scheme per month at the same order as monthly NHS funding.\n\nSo while the government says the spending has been good value for money, it is also, in the chancellor's words not sustainable.\n\nThis has led to a suggestion that support will be pulled, and the Treasury clarifying that there will be no \"cliff edge\". The Treasury did not say that people were \"addicted\" to the funding - it has only just started to be paid out.\n\nBut their dilemma is that they do want to give a broad signal that employers should not become dependent on the scheme - they should expect to get their workforces back working and earning, as safe social distancing arrangements are agreed.\n\nAt the same time they want to reassure that the scheme will be fully available until the end of June, and then will be eased out, in some form.\n\nAll options are being discussed on how to phase it out. The amount could be reduced from 80%. Its sectoral application could mirror the phasing in of the reopening of sectors of the economy.\n\nPerhaps the most interesting idea is to learn from the Irish and the Germans on applying the scheme more flexibly, and allowing hours rather than jobs to be furloughed, instantly removing the necessity for employers to require that employees do not work.\n\nVirgin Atlantic has seen passenger numbers slump as countries close borders and enact travel bans\n\nThis is being pushed by some business groups, and the opposition Labour Party too. Some Conservative thinkers have even suggested privately, as is the case in Germany, that a scheme such as this, could be made semi-permanent.\n\nThe Kurzarbeit system, which is a century-old is credited with saving a million jobs a decade ago, and is paid at 60% of wages, but is untaxed and applies to hours lost rather than requiring a worker to stop employment.\n\nSuch a scheme would basically be an expensive form of employment insurance, operating through the private sector rather than the Department for Work and Pensions. This is not in the Treasury's plans, as they seek to reaffirm the support is temporary.\n\nBut the behavioural economics of withdrawing support in any form is very delicate.\n\nIt was the aviation industry who last week asked for the scheme to be extended into and past July. The loss of thousands of jobs in that sector followed clarification that such a move should not be relied on, for an industry facing a fundamental long-lasting change in trading conditions.\n\nThe aviation industry is now saying even after those losses that the scheme needs to be extended until October.\n\nBut the message has gone out, in vague terms not to get too reliant on this extraordinary form of funding. But if the impression emerged that the scheme was to be wrapped up too quickly, as one business group leader told me, it would lead to hundreds of thousands of instant job losses.\n\nMany options are being discussed. No decisions have been taken yet. But clarity will be needed quickly.", "Ian Grand is angry that he hasn't had the money back from the cancelled PGL trip his three children were looking forward to\n\nAngry parents are demanding their cash back from a specialist school holiday company.\n\nPGL hosts children at residential activity centres across the UK, but has had to cancel visits during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nParents are asking for their money back, but PGL - dubbed Parents Get Lost by children - has refused.\n\nInstead, the school holiday company is offering customers a \"refund credit note\".\n\nPGL runs short-stay school trips with outdoor activities for thousands of pupils each year at sites across the UK and in France. Like the rest of the travel industry, the coronavirus crisis has had a \"significant impact\" on its business.\n\nIf the customer wants a cash refund, the refund credit note entitles them to obtain the money in March 2021, or they can use the credit note for booking a future holiday.\n\nHard-up families say that's not good enough and if the situation were to be reversed, they would be unlikely to be able to defer paying for another 10 months.\n\nIan Grand of Worksop in Nottinghamshire booked a four-day break with PGL for his three children, plus his niece and nephew, for the end of May, at a cost of £1,583.75.\n\nAfter the company cancelled the holiday in March, the family asked for their money back, but six weeks later they're still waiting.\n\n\"They offered me a credit note but I wasn't keen as I was worried that should PGL go under, I would lose out,\" Mr Grand told the BBC.\n\n\"I asked for a refund, which the terms of the contract stated must be done within 14 days.\n\n\"My wife is a self-employed dividend director who has not been offered any support under the government schemes so the only income we can rely on is mine. So having the money from the cancelled booking would be a welcome relief.\"\n\nIan reckons that if the situation was reversed and the family had cancelled the holiday, the company would be chasing them for the cash.\n\n\"I am quite sure that PGL would refer to the terms and conditions - and rightly so - and we would have lost some or all of the money. Now I am referring to their terms and conditions to argue my point [that] PGL are moving the goal posts, or so it would seem.\"\n\nStacey Edwards is a full-time mum of four in Watchet in Somerset and with her husband working a 40-hour week, money is tight.\n\n\"My 11-year-old son was due to go on a school trip to France with PGL in mid-March,\" she said. \"Obviously the trip had to be cancelled, but it left lots of parents £380 out of pocket and we still don't know what's going on.\"\n\nThe family booked the trip for son Cruize through his school last year and paid for it in full in December.\n\nMs Edwards feels it would be really helpful to have the money back, and other parents feel the same: \"PGL are not talking to parents as the trip was booked through the school, which has told us it has submitted a travel insurance claim.\n\n\"Lots of families locally are in the same boat, waiting to hear if they'll get their money back.\"\n\nPGL - named after the firm's founder Peter Gordon Lawrence - has offered to reschedule trips and is offering a refund credit note to customers.\n\nThe travel agents' group ABTA has asked the government to amend travel regulations in light of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nOne proposal is to allow travel firms to issue refund credits as an acceptable and enforceable alternative to immediate cash refunds, and to extend the 14-day period holiday providers have to issue refunds until 31 March 2021.\n\nWhile awaiting clarity from the government on the issue, PGL told the BBC it is offering either flexible rebooking arrangements or a refund credit note, which can be claimed for a cash refund when it expires in March 2021, \"in line with ABTA guidance\".\n\nA spokesman for PGL said: \"We have been waiting for ABTA to receive clarity from the government, which has not been forthcoming.\"\n\nWhen it comes to trips organised by schools, the company said it is supporting schools whose trips have been impacted - those who were scheduled to travel before 31 May to make insurance claims.\n\n\"This has been acknowledged by the government, the ABI (Association of British Insurers) and various trade and professional and other organisational bodies within the school travel sector, as the best method to secure cash to refund parents,\" said PGL.\n\nMany travel firms have adopted a similar policy, but Which? Travel editor Rory Boland reckons that's not good enough.\n\n\"It's true that the travel industry is under enormous strain at the moment but they're not the only ones in difficult circumstances,\" he pointed out.\n\n\"Lots of people are struggling with money and it's unfair of travel firms to effectively ask them for an interest-free loan.\"\n\nHe added that it should not be up to consumers to bail-out struggling firms: \"The bailout should come from the government.\"\n\nAn ABI spokesperson responded: \"Where travel operators have a legal obligation to refund customers, insurers expect them to honour that legal agreement.\n\n\"Insurance cancellation cover kicks in when no other safety net is available with insurers expecting to pay out £275m in cancellation costs due to Covid-19.\"", "WW2 veteran Anne Puckridge has led the campaign for pensioners abroad\n\nCampaigners are calling on the government to restore full state pensions to World War Two veterans who moved abroad after retirement.\n\nMore than 500,000 UK state pensioners have had their pensions frozen after moving overseas, including an estimated 100,000 who served in the Armed Forces.\n\nThe government says it increases the value of pensions in other countries where it is legally required to do so.\n\nIt comes as Britain marks the 75th anniversary of VE Day on Friday.\n\nThe veterans have been called the \"forgotten heroes\" - an ever-dwindling band who feel they have been let down by the country they served.\n\nMany left the UK to join families who had settled in other Commonwealth countries like Australia and Canada.\n\nInez Minc worked as a nurse in field hospitals across Europe, tending to allied soldiers as well as German and Italian prisoners. She even treated an exhausted Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery towards the end of the war.\n\nNow, aged 97, she recalls spending her VE Day entertaining the wounded in a Belgian hospital with performances of the tango and the Mexican hat dance.\n\nBut she has less to celebrate 75 years on.\n\nInez moved to Australia in 1986 with her husband after a career in nursing in the UK. It was only then that she found out her pension had been frozen.\n\nIf she were still living in the UK, she would be entitled to a state pension of £134.25 - but because she moved abroad, she only gets £40.13 a week.\n\nInez Minc didn't find out her pension was frozen until she moved to Australia\n\nShe lives on her own near Perth, and is partially deaf and blind. In the past she has struggled with medical bills.\n\nShe said it was the injustice that \"rankles\", having paid taxes and national insurance in the UK for nearly all of her working life.\n\n\"To expect Australia to pick up the tab is a bit of a cheek,\" she said. Explaining the situation to her Australian friends made her feel \"a little bit sad to be English\", she added.\n\nAnne Puckridge, 95, is more forthright. \"I feel ashamed to be British\", she said.\n\nShe served with the Armed Forces in India during WW2. After a full working life spent in the UK, she moved to Canada almost 20 years ago to be with her daughter.\n\nAnne has had her pension frozen at £72.50 a week - nearly half the amount she would be entitled to if she were still living in the UK.\n\nSince moving to Canada, she has been campaigning for the British government to pay her a full index-linked pension as part of the End Frozen Pensions campaign.\n\n\"I call it fraud,\" she said. \"We paid for our pension on exactly the same terms as every other pensioner, and yet without being warned - and because we have come to a Commonwealth country - we receive no further indexation until we die.\"\n\nAnne Puckridge (second from left) during World War Two\n\nIt highlights an anomaly. If Anne were living across the border in the United States, she would be receiving her pension in full.\n\nThe US, along with Israel and most European countries, has a reciprocal arrangement with the UK. But most Commonwealth countries do not.\n\nMore than half a million UK state pensioners who moved abroad have been caught in this trap, including an estimated 100,000 that have served in the Armed Forces.\n\nCampaigners want to remind politicians of what they see as an injustice on 8 May, the 75th anniversary of VE Day.\n\nActress Miriam Margolyes is among those calling for a change in policy. \"We can't stand and cheer the veterans with one hand waving flags, and then freeze their [pensions] and close their purses just because they retired to be with their family in a Commonwealth country,\" she said. \"It's just not fair play, not British really.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Department for Work and Pensions defended the policy. It said: \"The government continues to uprate state pensions overseas where there is a legal requirement to do so.\" It also estimated that it would cost £3bn over five years to change the policy.\n\nAt 95, Anne knows that time is not on her side. But time is also running out for those who wish to honour the wartime generation.\n\n\"I cannot understand why the country I served has failed me,\" she said.", "This video can not be played.", "Many polled say they are obeying government advice due to fears of catching the virus\n\nWhen lockdown first started in the UK in the final week of March there was widespread support for the measures aimed at controlling the coronavirus. But have attitudes changed?\n\nThe country is currently in its seventh week of the greatest curbs on daily life since World War Two.\n\nThe prime minister says the government will proceed with \"maximum caution\" regarding easing restrictions, when he speaks to the country on Sunday evening. However, surveys suggest a significant majority of the British public believe they could cope with the restrictions for another couple of months.\n\nA new YouGov poll finds eight in 10 Britons (82%) reckon they could easily continue with the current lockdown until June.\n\nAlmost two-thirds (63%) say they would manage well until July, but 50% say they would struggle if they were still stuck indoors until August.\n\nFor the moment, there is not a public clamour for lockdown to end.\n\nAnother recent poll showed many would be uncomfortable leaving home, even if restrictions were lifted in a month's time.\n\nMore than 60% would be uncomfortable about going out to bars and restaurants or using public transport, the Ipsos Mori survey suggested.\n\nMore than 40% would still be reluctant to go shopping or send their children to school and more than 30% would be worried about going to work or meeting friends.\n\nThe vast majority of people in the UK are obeying the lockdown rules - not because they have been ordered to by the government but because they don't want to catch or spread the virus.\n\nVery few actively like being in lockdown, though.\n\nResponses to a series of surveys over the last month suggest the country has gone from apprehension at the start through to dejection as the economy shrank and the death toll mounted. People have moved on to frustration in the most recent analysis as restrictions begin to grind and reality dawns as to how long they may last.\n\nMore people are on the roads than at the beginning of lockdown\n\nThere is no question that lockdown places a significant strain on households, but is the increasing frustration and boredom translating into exasperation? Are we reaching the point where people will start to ignore the rules?\n\nSome newspapers and politicians have been suggesting the social distancing restrictions are beginning to fray, but the evidence points to a high level of compliance remaining.\n\nThere have been reports of a slight increase in numbers using their cars, but it is not clear what the reason for that might be. In part, it may be because more businesses are finding ways to open up and people are returning to work.\n\nDuring the sunny Easter period more people returned to parks and green spaces, Google data suggests, although police said the vast majority sought to obey social distancing rules and activity was still well below pre-lockdown levels.\n\nAnalysis of surveys conducted by King's College in London suggests there are three broad groups when it comes to lockdown: accepting, suffering and resisting.\n\nJust under half of people - 48% - are characterised as accepting, following the rules and coping reasonably well. At 44%, slightly fewer say they are struggling, often losing sleep, feeling anxious or depressed, but still overwhelmingly trying to obey all the rules.\n\nThe remaining 9% are resistant to the lockdown, with many of those believing too much fuss is being made about the virus and admitting they are less likely to follow the restrictions.\n\nYounger people were more than twice as likely as over 65s to say they were not coping with lockdown\n\nPeople tend to think social isolation will be most difficult for older people, but the survey evidence suggests the opposite is true. A survey conducted for insight company Britain Thinks finds 42% of 18-24-year-olds say they were not coping with lockdown, more than twice the proportion of those aged over 65.\n\nOlder people, of course, are likely to have seen less of a change to their lifestyle than the young. Their housing and income are likely to be more secure. Their social lives are less about going out to crowded bars and clubs, festivals and sports events.\n\nWomen appear to be struggling more than men in lockdown, perhaps a consequence of the tendency for them to take on a greater share of domestic responsibilities.\n\nUnsurprisingly, poorer people are finding it tougher than those on higher incomes.\n\nAbout 20% of people are worried about their mental health in lockdown, with 11% concerned about anxiety and 7% with concerns about depression, according to a survey conducted for the Academy of Medical Sciences and the mental health research charity MQ.\n\nThe behavioural science that forms part of the government's thinking on the lockdown warned before the restrictions came in that people would struggle to stick to the rules for prolonged periods.\n\nHowever, experts have been struck by how compliant the British public have remained.\n\nOther countries, notably the US, have seen very public rebellions against the restrictions, but here the call to stay home to protect the NHS and save lives seems to have been greeted with very widespread and consistent support.", "Catherine said she was \"struck by some of the incredible images\" she had seen\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge has launched a photography project with the National Portrait Gallery, aimed at capturing a snapshot of the UK during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nKeen photographer Catherine said she hoped Hold Still would show \"what everyone is going through\".\n\nMembers of the public can submit images inspired by three themes - Helpers and Heroes, Your New Normal and Acts of Kindness - by 18 June.\n\nThey will displayed in an online exhibition.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We've all been struck by some of the incredible images we've seen which have given us an insight into the experiences and stories of people across the country,\" Catherine added.\n\n\"Some desperately sad images showing the human tragedy of this pandemic and other uplifting pictures showing people coming together to support those more vulnerable.\n\n\"Hold Still aims to capture a portrait of the nation, the spirit of the nation, what everyone is going through at this time,\" she continued.\n\n\"Photographs reflecting resilience, bravery, kindness - all those things that people are experiencing.\"\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge's own photos include this birthday portrait of son Louis\n\nSpeaking on ITV's This Morning programme on Thursday, the duchess stressed that \"everyone and anyone\" could participate in the project.\n\n\"The magic of photography is it can capture a moment and tell a story,\" she told co-presenters Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby.\n\nShe asked participants \"to showcase and share what they're going through\" and \"try and tell their part of the story\".\n\nShe also praised the way communities have come together during the lockdown, adding: \"Small acts of kindness go such a long way.\"\n\nThe duchess has been patron of the National Portrait Gallery since 2012.\n\nIts director Nicholas Cullinan said Hold Still would \"provide an inclusive perspective on, and an important historical record of, these unprecedented times\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @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.", "Thanks for following our updates today, including Wales' weekly tributes to key workers - through clapping, hooting, singing and more.\n\nThat's the end of our live coverage for Thursday, but we'll be back with more on Friday morning.\n\nWe'll also bring you the Welsh Government's daily briefing at 12:30 BST, where we're expecting to hear details of the next stage in the lockdown here.\n\nHere's a reminder of some of the other developments from Thursday:\n• Schools in Wales will not reopen on 1 June, the education minister confirmed\n• Its chief executive said she was \"not familiar\" with ministers' original aim to carry out 9,000 daily tests by the end of April", "Fear of catching coronavirus on public transport has helped lead to a boom in cycle-to-work schemes.\n\nThe schemes saw a 200% increase in bicycle orders from people working for emergency services.\n\nDemand for more mobility and exercise amid lifestyle changes imposed by the lockdown has also boosted bike sales across the UK.\n\n\"Very strong\" bicycle sales at bike and car parts chain Halfords this week saw its shares soar by 23%.\n\nSome bike stores are battling to meet demand. Broadribb Cycles in Bicester normally despatches 20-30 bikes a week, but manager Stuart Taylor says the shop is currently selling 50 bikes every day - and seeing a commensurate rise in demand for servicing.\n\n\"It's just gone crazy,\" he told the BBC. \"People are dragging bikes out of sheds and garages and finding they need new tyres and cables.\n\n\"We normally take in bikes for repair and servicing and deal with them for next day [pick-up]. Now we're booking services for two weeks [ahead].\"\n\nAt Lunar Cycles repair shop in north London, the mechanic says trade was booming, then ended the call to avoid upsetting the socially-distanced queue outside.\n\nAndrew Hassard from Mango Bikes in Ballyclare, Northern Ireland, said: \"The bicycle industry is having a boom. People are saying 'I'm getting back on a bike after 15-20 years - I'm going to use it during lockdown - then commute on it as well,' to avoid public transport.\"\n\nA recent poll for the consultants SYSTRA suggested 61% of Britons are nervous of taking public transport post-lockdown.\n\nAdrian Warren who runs an alliance of cycle schemes, told the BBC: \"This past six weeks, we have seen the biggest experiment in transport policy this country has even known. It's clear the default option is cycling.\"\n\nCycle schemes allow employees to claim a tax credit on bikes they buy at work.\n\nBut rusty cyclists may be nervous on busy roads, so the pressure group Cycling UK has commissioned research showing how 100 \"pop-up\" lanes in 10 English cities could make cycling and walking easier.\n\nIt maps UK cities which have created extra cycle lines during the crisis, in many cases taking over one car lane on a dual carriageway.\n\nAndrew Hassard of Mango Bikes says people now want bicycles as a form of regular exercise during the lockdown\n\nThe Cycling UK research from Leeds looks at English cities with a high cycling potential and has identified 99.2 miles of streets and roads in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Bristol, Leicester, Sheffield, Newcastle and Cambridge which could benefit from temporary walking and cycling infrastructure.\n\nCities round the world have been freeing space for people on foot and bikes, in response to the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nIn Germany, expanded cycle lanes have been marked by removable tape and mobile signs.\n\nParis is rolling out 650 kilometres of cycleways, including a number of pop-up \"corona cycleways\".\n\nSome cities, like Milan, are making the changes permanent.\n\nThe Scottish government has announced £10m of funding for councils to provide temporary space on the roads this way, and Cycling UK is urging ministers in Westminster to follow suit.\n\nTemporary walking infrastructure set up on British roads during the coronavirus lockdown\n\nIn London, the walking and cycling commissioner, Will Norman, told the Online magazine BikeBiz that the capital's public transport capacity is running at a fifth of pre-crisis levels, meaning post-lockdown up to eight million journeys a day will need to be made by other means.\n\nUK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has in fact said that he favours getting people out of their cars, overall.\n\nMr Shapps told Sky News that he sees cycling and walking as part of the solution.\n\n\"Active transport can keep people off public transport and get people to work under their own steam - and that can be a very important part of this [the nation's post-lockdown] recovery as well,\" he said.\n\nNot everyone is in favour: The libertarian group the Alliance of British Drivers has strongly opposed removing road space from motorists. But Edmund King, president of the AA, said he didn't oppose the transfer of road space to cycles \"where appropriate\".", "Boris Johnson has said he \"bitterly regrets\" the coronavirus crisis in care homes - and the government was \"working very hard\" to tackle it.\n\nLatest figures show deaths in care homes continued to rise even amid a fall in Covid-19 hospital deaths.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused the PM of failing to get a grip on the issue at Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nThe PM said a \"huge effort\" was going in - and there had been a \"palpable improvement\" in recent days.\n\nHe added that \"it has been enraging to see the difficulties we've had in supplying PPE to those who need it\" but the government is now \"engaged in a massive plan to ramp up domestic supply\".\n\nThe prime minister also pledged to reach 200,000 tests for coronavirus a day by the end of May.\n\nThe government announced it had hit its target of 100,000 tests on Friday, but that number has since fallen back.\n\nThe PM said \"capacity currently exceeds demand\" and the government was taking steps to address that.\n\nThe BBC's health editor Hugh Pym said government sources confirmed that the 200,000 per day target refers to lab capacity rather than individual tests.\n\nMr Johnson said his \"ambition\" was to hit 200,000 tests \"by the end of this month - and then go even higher\".\n\nHe also confirmed that he would be setting out plans to begin lifting the coronavirus lockdown on Sunday, adding that he hoped to \"get going on some of these measures on Monday\".\n\nMr Johnson was making his first appearance in the Commons - and his first PMQs clash with new Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer - since the birth of his son and his recovery from coronavirus.\n\nThe government's 200,000-tests-a-day ambition may not quite be what it seems.\n\nOfficials are now saying it refers to the ability of labs to process the tests.\n\nIf that is the case, the system is probably not far off that.\n\nTesting is essentially a two-stage process. Swabs are taken at hospitals, drive-thru centres, military-run mobile units and sent out to homes for people to do them themselves.\n\nThey are then sent to labs to process. Some hospitals can do this themselves, but the majority go to one of three mega-labs in Glasgow, Cheshire and Milton Keynes.\n\nThese labs are increasingly using an automated system to process them which means they can carry out an increasing numbers.\n\nCurrently capacity is around 150,000 - so 200,000 should not be too difficult to achieve.\n\nWhat remains a problem, though, is getting people tested and turning those tests around quickly - for some it can take 72 hours.\n\nCare homes are still reporting they cannot always get staff and residents tested, while drive-thru centres, which are not always conveniently located for other eligible groups, are being under-used.\n\nTackling these problems will be much more difficult if 200,000 tests a day are actually to be done.\n\nThe government must review lockdown measures on Thursday by law - but the PM said he was waiting until Sunday to announce the government's plans because more data would be available.\n\nAnd he warned it would be an \"economic disaster\" to relax the lockdown in a way which triggered a second spike in coronavirus cases.\n\nIn March, the PM said the government was aiming for 250,000 coronavirus tests a day but did not put a timescale on that.\n\nSir Keir Starmer said only 84,000 tests were done on Monday, meaning 24,000 were not used, from the 100,000 the government said last week were available.\n\nMr Johnson replied: \"Yes, he's right that capacity currently exceeds demand, we're working on that, we're running at about 100,000 a day, but the ambition clearly is to get up to 200,000 a day by the end of this month and then to go even higher.\"\n\nHe told MPs that a \"fantastic\" testing regime will be critical to the UK's long-term economic recovery.\n\nLabour sources said they planned to hold Mr Johnson to account on his latest testing promise.\n\nThe government believes a track, test and trace programme to quickly identify new cases of coronavirus and prevent the further spread of the infection is the best route out of lockdown.\n\nSir Keir said the UK now had the highest death rate from the virus in Europe because it had been too slow into lockdown, testing and the provision of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).\n\nMr Johnson said it was too early to make international comparisons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer says the UK's coronavirus death figures are “not success or apparent success“\n\nIt came as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed that the lockdown in Scotland will continue for at least another three weeks.\n\nAsked by the SNP's Ian Blackford if the contents of his statement on Sunday would be \"fully agreed\" with the devolved nations, Mr Johnson said: \"We'll do our level best to make sure that the outlines of this attract the widest possible consensus.\"", "People have been criticised for travelling to St Ives in Cornwall during the lockdown\n\nPeople have been warned to avoid beauty spots this bank holiday weekend, as temperatures are predicted to soar across England.\n\nEmergency services and other authorities said travel to beaches and national parks would \"cost lives\".\n\nThe country will be bathed in sunshine over the VE Day bank holiday on Friday, with warm weather also forecast for central and southern areas on Saturday.\n\nBoris Johnson is expected to announce plans to ease restrictions on Sunday.\n\nThe prime minister was reviewing the coronavirus lockdown in England with his cabinet on Thursday.\n\nWarnings have been issued by several police forces, including Devon and Cornwall and Norfolk Police, telling people to adhere to current restrictions, despite the anticipated government announcement.\n\nDorset Police also said the county was \"closed\".\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police's Assistant Chief Constable Glen Mayhew said: \"To those thinking about travelling to the South West for holiday or social purposes, please come back later.\n\n\"Now is not the time for complacency and we must all continue to adhere to the advice which includes social distancing and only making essential journeys outside of our homes.\"\n\nCoastguards told people to avoid beaches after about 50 surfers were pictured at Polzeath in April\n\nCumbria Police also tweeted to urge people to avoid the scenic Lake District and said the county had \"high infection rates and people are still suffering and dying in our hospitals\".\n\nThe county's tourism industry leaders added to the plea, with a Lake District National Park Authority spokesperson claiming flouting the rules \"will cost lives\".\n\nGill Haigh, managing director of Cumbria Tourism, said: \"When it is once again safe to travel our businesses look forward to welcoming you back - but that time is not now.\"\n\nMore than 100,000 key workers were put at the centre of a social media campaign, along with council leaders in the South West, thanking tourists who keep away until government guidelines change.\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\nDrivers have been criticised for damaging animal habitats by parking on New Forest verges\n\nA spokesperson for Forestry England urged people not to visit the New Forest National Park in Hampshire after \"a range of emergencies\" in recent weeks, including \"forest fires, anti-social behaviour, off-roading drink-driving, medical emergencies, vandalised gates and wild camping\".\n\nElsewhere, North Yorkshire's Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner Julia Mulligan wrote an open letter saying those who were tempted to travel would put emergency service staff at risk of contracting coronavirus.\n\n\"Over the past few weeks, a minority have concluded the rules do not apply to them and have travelled substantial distances to North Yorkshire,\" she said.\n\n\"This weekend, the prime minister will set out the roadmap to easing the restrictions we face. We do not know what he will say, but we do know that until then the current instructions remain. And they do not include taking a daytrip to North Yorkshire.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "England's Billy Vunipola was among those pictured Image caption: England's Billy Vunipola was among those pictured\n\nA group of Saracens rugby players have apologised after breaking the UK coronavirus lockdown regulations.\n\nEngland's Billy Vunipola, Alex Goode and Nick Isiekwe, Scotland back Sean Maitland and prop Josh Ibuanokpe were reportedly spotted in St Albans.\n\nThe Daily Mail said the players met for a coffee and a chat in the street and did not follow social distancing rules.\n\nThe Premiership season is currently suspended because of the pandemic.\n\n\"Management has spoken to the players involved, all of whom accept that they made an error in judgement,\" said a Saracens statement.\n\n\"The club has reminded these players as well as the whole Saracens squad of their responsibilities to themselves and the community around them and we are confident that this will not happen again.\"", "The constant stream of bad news on coronavirus, from the rising number of deaths, to doctors and nurses risking their lives because of a lack of protective equipment has, understandably, caused great anxiety.\n\nThat much is clear from the proportion of adults worried about the threat they believe the virus poses to themselves.\n\nOlder people are the most concerned, but even among younger age groups the majority believe they are at risk.\n\nBut have we got this out of perspective? How much actual risk does coronavirus present?\n\nThe people who are most at risk are older people and those with pre-existing health conditions. The overwhelming majority of deaths has been among these groups.\n\nBut young people are, of course still, dying - by late April there had been more than 300 deaths among the under-45s.\n\nWhat is more, there are many more who have been left seriously ill, struggling with the after-effects for weeks.\n\nSo how should we interpret that? And what does that mean for post-lockdown life?\n\nOur constant focus on the most negative impacts of the epidemic means we have \"lost sight\" of the fact the virus causes a mild to moderate illness for many, says Dr Amitava Banerjee, of University College London.\n\nThe expert in clinical data science believes it is important not to jump to conclusions about the deaths of younger, seemingly healthy adults. Some could have had health conditions that had not been diagnosed, he says.\n\nBut he admits there will be otherwise healthy people who have died - as happens with everything from heart attacks to flu.\n\nIn future, we need to stop looking at coronavirus through such a \"narrow lens\", he says. Instead we should take more account of the indirect costs, such as rising rates of domestic violence in lockdown, mental health problems and the lack of access to health care more generally.\n\nOn Sunday Boris Johnson is expected to set out how restrictions will be eased in England. All indications are that it will be a very gradual process to keep the rate of transmission of the virus down.\n\nBut some believe we do not need to be so draconian.\n\nEdinburgh University and a group of London-based academics published a paper this week arguing restrictions could be lifted quite significantly if the most vulnerable were completely shielded.\n\nThat would require the continued isolation of these individuals and the regular testing of their carers - or shielders as the researchers call them.\n\nIf we could protect them - and that would require very good access to quick testing and protective equipment - the researchers believe we could lift many restrictions and allow a \"controlled\" epidemic in the general population.\n\nGood hand-hygiene, isolating when you have symptoms and voluntary social distancing where possible would be needed. But people could return to work, and school - in a matter of months. The majority could even be eating in restaurants and going to cinemas.\n\nFor the non-vulnerable population, coronavirus carries no more risk than a \"nasty flu\", says Prof Mark Woolhouse, an expert in infectious disease who led the research.\n\n\"If it wasn't for the fact that it presents such a high risk of severe disease in vulnerable groups, we would never have taken the steps we have and closed down the country.\n\n\"If we can shield the vulnerable really well, there is no reason why we cannot lift many of the restrictions in place for others.\n\n\"The lockdown has come at a huge economic, social and health cost.\"\n\nIt is, he says, all about getting the balance of risk right.\n\nIt is a point others have made.\n\nCambridge University statistician Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter has highlighted evidence which shows the risk of dying from coronavirus is very similar to the underlying risk people of all age groups from early 20s upwards have of dying anyway.\n\nHis point is that for the average adult getting infected means you are effectively doubling your risk of death. The younger you are, the lower the risk.\n\nFor children, as you can see on the graph, the risk from the virus is so small that you might be better off worrying about other things. After the first year of life cancers, accidents and self-harm are the leading causes of death.\n\nResearchers from Stanford University in the US have been trying to count the risk another way - equating it to that which we face from dying while driving.\n\nIn the UK, they calculate that those under the age of 65 have faced the same risk over the past few months from coronavirus as they would have faced from driving 185 miles a day - the equivalent of commuting from Swindon to London.\n\nStrip out the under-65s with health conditions - about one in 16 - and the risk is even lower, with deaths in non-vulnerable groups being \"remarkably uncommon\".\n\nPutting risk in perspective is going to be essential for individuals and decision-makers, the authors suggest.\n\nIf we do, we may learn to live with coronavirus. We may have to.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some of the surgical gowns ordered from Turkey amid a row over the procurement of personal protective equipment for the NHS do not meet British safety standards, the UK government has said.\n\nThe gowns were among a batch of 400,000 sourced by ministers last month and the RAF flew out to collect them when they were not shipped on the expected date.\n\nBut it has emerged 2,400 of the 67,000 gowns that have so far arrived in the UK have failed quality checks.\n\nOnly 4,500 have been given to the NHS.\n\nThe remaining gowns from the shipment are still being tested.\n\nNews of the faulty gowns were first reported by the Daily Telegraph on Thursday morning - prompting the prime minister's spokesperson to say the NHS was speaking to the supplier about getting replacements or a refund.\n\nThe Department of Health later clarified that a \"small number\" had failed tests in the UK and it had only paid an \"initial deposit\".\n\nA spokesman for the Turkish company which supplied the goods said it had not received any complaints.\n\nMehmet Duzen, from Selegna Tekstil, told the BBC the company had not had any communication from the NHS, the British embassy in Ankara, or British government officials complaining about the quality of its gowns.\n\n\"The fabric we supplied was certified. All the goods were certified,\" he said, adding that they were ready to respond if there was a mistake.\n\nDuring the past few months as the UK has tackled the coronavirus pandemic, healthcare workers including doctors and nurses have complained of a lack of adequate kit such as gowns, masks and gloves.\n\nPPE is essential for protecting front-line workers exposed to Covid-19, and without it workers are concerned they could catch or spread the virus.\n\nThe Department of Health said it was working \"night and day to source PPE\".\n\nAfter several delays, the RAF was deployed to Istanbul to fly the PPE it had sourced from Turkey to RAF Brize Norton on 22 April.\n\nThe PPE order from Turkey was delayed and then collected by the RAF\n\nThe chief executive of the NHS Confederation, representing health and care leaders, said the shipment from Turkey had been \"sizeable\" but had only offered a few days supply.\n\nNiall Dickson told the BBC Radio 4's Today programme that NHS bosses understood that the quality of equipment was \"not always what it says in the box\" but warned that making promises that are not kept \"undermines confidence\" in the government among frontline staff.\n\nHe added that supplies were now \"generally better\" in hospital but that care homes and GP surgeries still face \"some difficulties\".\n\nOne paramedic, who wanted to remain anonymous, described the PPE shortage as like sending soldiers to fight in a war without guns.\n\n\"We are desperately short of gowns,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live. \"We have got enough aprons - which dinner ladies would use - but the actual gowns, we are definitely short of those.\n\n\"You're walking through the door, you're hearing these poor souls coughing and spluttering, and you're thinking, 'am I going to be catching that and taking it home to my wife and kids?',\" he said. \"It's absolutely terrifying.\"\n\nLast week, the Department of Health asked hospitals not to order their own PPE but to to rely on the government's national procurement scheme.\n\nBut Mr Dickson warned that further delivery problems would encourage some NHS organisations to continue to place their own orders.\n\nAsked about the order from Turkey, Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis said it was \"reassuring\" that British experts were \"ensuring the best quality of equipment\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast that the government was \"working through\" a list of about 10,000 UK-based firms which have offered to make PPE, and had received 250,000 gowns from Northern Ireland.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We have received part of an order of around 400,000 gowns from a private supplier in Turkey.\n\n\"While a small number of these gowns have failed tests in the UK, more have passed tests making them suitable for use in the NHS. The majority of items ordered from the private supplier are awaiting testing in the UK and Turkish warehouses.\"\n\nThey added the Turkish authorities also provided 68,000 coveralls when it became clear that an order from a private company was delayed and all of these had passed quality checks.\n\nCorrection: This story has been updated after the UK government said that only a \"small number\" of gowns had failed quality tests and not 400,000 as previously reported in the media", "Dame Vera Lynn was known as the Forces' Sweetheart during her World War Two heyday\n\nDame Vera Lynn has spoken about the bravery and sacrifice that characterises the nation on the eve of the 75th anniversary of VE Day.\n\nIn 1945, huge crowds celebrated after learning of the final surrender of the Nazis, but many will spend Friday's anniversary in coronavirus lockdown.\n\nDame Vera, now 103, said while people would be apart, \"hope remains even in the most difficult of times\".\n\nQuoting from her most well-known song, she said: \"We will meet again.\"\n\nThe wartime song was also echoed by the Queen in a special televised address in April, when she acknowledged the hardship Britons were facing during the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nThe statement by Dame Vera, who lives in Ditchling, East Sussex, said VE Day was one of the most important days in the UK's history, marking the day when freedom returned \"after the most difficult of times\".\n\nShe said as celebrations were held for the anniversary \"we must all remember the brave boys and what they sacrificed for us... they left their families and homes to fight for our freedom and many lost their lives trying to protect us and our liberties\".\n\nOne of Vera Lynn's most famous songs, We'll Meet Again, was released in 1939\n\nThe London-born singer said: \"This year, we must commemorate this special anniversary apart.\n\n\"I hope that VE Day will remind us all that hope remains even in the most difficult of times and that simple acts of bravery and sacrifice still define our nation as the NHS works so hard to care for us.\n\n\"Most of all, I hope today serves as a reminder that however hard things get, we will meet again.\"\n\nDame Vera is best known for performing for the troops during World War Two in countries including Egypt, India and Burma.\n\nHer famous songs include The White Cliffs Of Dover and There'll Always Be An England.", "There is \"no headroom\" to lift any Covid-19 lockdown restrictions in NI yet, the first and deputy first ministers have said.\n\nIt had been hoped the executive would publish a recovery plan on Thursday.\n\nMichelle O'Neill later tweeted the Executive had agreed to extend restrictions for three more weeks.\n\nShe and Arlene Foster also recommended face coverings be worn in enclosed spaces, if social distancing was not possible.\n\n\"The best way\" to honour World War Two veterans and VE Day on Friday was to stay home, added Mrs Foster, the first minister.\n\nExecutive ministers met for more than three hours on Thursday, ahead of a call between the PM and leaders of the devolved institutions.\n\nThey agreed to recommend that people in Northern Ireland should now wear face coverings when they were in enclosed spaces for short periods of time, where social distancing is not possible.\n\nThe decision was taken in line with scientific advice, Mrs Foster told the Executive's daily press conference.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann later said that while evidence on the overall protection provided by face coverings \"is not conclusive, on balance it is sufficient to recommend that members of the public consider using them in particular circumstances\".\n\n\"In practice, these circumstances will largely relate to public transport and retail environments,\" he added.\n\n\"Their use will not be mandatory. Crucially, face coverings must not lead to any false sense of security about the level of protection provided.\"\n\nOn Sunday night, Boris Johnson will set out his own plan aimed at beginning to ease the UK lockdown.\n\nThe Executive had to review its coronavirus legislation by Saturday, and will not make any changes to it at this stage.\n\nThe regulations initially took effect in Northern Ireland on 28 March, and have already been extended once.\n\nSocial distancing measures have been introduced to slow the spread of coronavirus\n\nMs O'Neill, who had previously said she wanted a recovery plan published on Thursday, said she recognised \"many people will be disappointed\".\n\n\"Every decision we will make will have an impact, we're in a precarious situation and we're not in a position today where we're able to relax anything at this time.\"\n\nThe deputy first minister outlined specific criteria that must be met before the lockdown can be eased:\n\nMinisters will consider making a \"minor number of changes\" to the legislation next week, added Mrs Foster.\n\nNorthern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have the power to diverge from what the government at Westminster decides on the lockdown - and could lift restrictions at a different rate.\n\nEarlier, Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has said her preference was for the four parts of the UK to move together, but said any decisions \"must be taken with great care\".\n\nIt comes as four more deaths of people with coronavirus have been confirmed in Northern Ireland, bringing the total to 422. The Department of Health figures relate mostly to hospital deaths and are likely to increase.\n\nIn other developments on Thursday:\n\nA number of Stormont ministers have said they do not support placing projected dates on phases of lifting lockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland, in case certain measures need to be re-imposed.\n\nLast week, Agriculture and Environment Minister Edwin Poots called for churches and garden centres to reopen on a controlled basis.\n\nThe executive recognises the lifting of any restrictions will not be without risk, and is concerned that if some measures are relaxed too quickly, it could lead to another surge of infections.\n\n\"We want to be clear and give reassurance, we hope in the next few days to publish that roadmap, and give you phases for the next few weeks and months,\" said Ms O'Neill.\n\nMrs Foster added that the executive would continue its work on a recovery blueprint over the next few days, and stressed that people should not be complacent this weekend.\n\nAhead of the 75th anniversary of VE day on Friday, which marks the day peace emerged after World War Two, the first minister warned the public against celebrating with others.\n\n\"The best way we can honour those in World War Two who fought for freedom and won, the best way we can honour those who are fighting for us today on the health front line is to stay at home as much as possible,\" Mrs Foster said.\n\n\"Our world is a long way away from its VE day in the fight against coronavirus, and compared to the sacrifices asked of our parents and grandparents, what is being asked of us now is very small, but is hugely important.\"\n\nOn Thursday, a further four deaths related to Covid-19 in Northern Ireland were reported by the Department of Health.\n\nIt brings the department's total death toll, mostly comprised of hospital fatalities, to at least 422.\n\nTwo sets of figures are published in Northern Ireland:\n\nNorthern Ireland's overall death toll will be higher when all deaths in the community are recorded.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, it was announced on Thursday that a further 29 people with Covid-19 had died, bringing the death toll there to 1,403.", "\"It was embarrassing, everyone was looking at us,\" Susan Bleau says of the moment she tried to spend free school meal vouchers worth £45.\n\nAfter weeks of delays, her daughter's school had finally received the vouchers and printed them out for her.\n\nBut at the till, with a trolley full of shopping, the vouchers failed to scan.\n\nEdenred, which runs the government scheme to give pupils in England vouchers worth £15 a week, says all of its vouchers are valid.\n\nBut ever since it was set up, in late March, the scheme has been beset by problems.\n\nThe system was rebuilt over the Easter break but the improvements were slow to take effect, with schools still struggling to log on, parents unable to download the vouchers and some even saying the vouchers failed when they tried to spend them.\n\nWith the newly printed vouchers in her pocket, Susan and her 11-year-old daughter had taken the bus from their home in Wembley, north London, to Tesco at Brent Park and queued outside before picking out what they needed.\n\n\"We had everything - cheese, pizzas, yoghurt, smoothies,\" Susan says.\n\nBut when they tried to use the vouchers to pay, they would not scan.\n\nAs the queue built up behind them, the cashier called the manager, who tried to enter the barcodes manually before pronouncing them faulty.\n\nAll the shopping had to go back and the pair had to leave empty-handed, humiliated and disappointed.\n\n\"You're not the first and you won't be the last,\" Susan remembers one of the supermarket staff saying.\n\nIt was a Saturday, so all Susan could do was leave a message on the school voicemail and wait for replacement vouchers the following week.\n\n\"We had to live on what we had which, wasn't enough but we had to cope,\" she says.\n\nRaphael Moss, their head teacher, at Elsley Primary, who knows of at least one other family this has happened to, says: \"I can't imagine how distressing and embarrassing that must have been.\"\n\nTesco says it is not aware of widespread issues when customers redeem their vouchers in its stores.\n\nAnd Edenred insists every supermarket eGift voucher it sends to parents is valid.\n\nThe company suggests poor or damaged printed copies could be responsible for some of the failures.\n\nBut many school leaders believe the problem is not uncommon.\n\n\"This has happened to so many of our parents,\" said one head on Twitter.\n\nAnd Martin Knowles, head teacher of Essa academy, in Bolton, says about one in five of parents in receipt of the vouchers has had problems at the till.\n\nHe says the school is considering abandoning the Edenred vouchers and setting up its own scheme, at a cost of £8,500 a week, if the problems continue.\n\nChiswick School, in west London, continues to hear from parents whose redeemed vouchers do not work at the tills, according to school business manager Danny Sohal.\n\nOther school leaders, from London, Cornwall, the West Midlands, and the north-east of England, have also experienced problems.\n\nThe government scheme allows £15 a week for every child eligible for free school meals\n\nEdenred says it continues to make big improvements to its system and waiting times for schools and families to log on to the site have been \"almost eliminated\".\n\nMore than £52m worth of eGift cards have been issued to schools and families since the scheme was launched, with 16,500 schools signed up, it adds.\n\nThe Department for Education says it is encouraging schools to make their own arrangements and to use Edenred only when that is not possible.\n\nBut many heads are worried about doing their own deals to provide food or vouchers, whether with local catering suppliers, direct with supermarkets or with other voucher specialists such as Wonde.\n\nThey believe their only option is to use Edenred, as it is fully funded and, if their budgets are in surplus, they will not be able to claim back money they spend on alternatives.\n\nIndeed, guidance published by the DfE last month limits the schools able to claim back additional expenditure incurred because of the lockdown to those unable to meet the cost out of existing resources.", "Debenhams has confirmed that another five stores will not be re-opening after lockdown restrictions are lifted.\n\nThe department store chain has struck deals with landlords to keep most of its 142 stores open, after it fell into administration for the second time.\n\nBut five more stores will not reopen when the government lifts coronavirus restrictions on non-essential shops.\n\nIt's understood the retailer has been unable to agree new terms with shopping centre owner Hammerson.\n\nThe Debenhams stores affected are in the Bullring in Birmingham, The Oracle in Reading, Centrale in Croydon, Highcross in Leicester, and Silverburn in Glasgow.\n\nThe BBC understands that around 1,000 jobs will be affected, including concession staff.\n\nDebenhams said in a statement: \"We can confirm that despite our best efforts, we have been unable to agree terms with Hammerson on our five stores in its shopping centres, and so they will not be reopening.\n\n\"We continue to engage in constructive talks with our landlords and have agreed terms on the vast majority of our stores, which we look forward to reopening when government restrictions allow\".\n\nWhen Debenhams first collapsed in April last year, it agreed a company voluntary arrangement (CVA) with its landlords to cut costs in order to save the business.\n\nUnder the agreement, the retailer would close 22 stores in 2020 and 28 stores in 2021.\n\nLast month, Debenhams still had 142 stores but it was forced to appoint administrators again to protect the business from its creditors as coronavirus forced it to temporarily shut its stores.\n\nIt then accelerated negotiations with landlords to agree new terms and conditions, including a five month rent and service charge holiday.\n\nDebenhams has managed to strike deals on 120 stores. But over the course of the last few weeks, it's emerged a number of stores would close permanently once the government lifts restrictions on non-essential shops.\n\nA total of 15 stores are now set for closure, including the five outlets in Hammerson shopping centres.\n\nThe BBC has approached Hammerson for comment.\n\nThe retailer's Warrington store had been earmarked to shut but this has now been given a last minute reprieve.\n\nHowever, the future of five major Debenhams stores in Wales is still in doubt, unless the Welsh government reverses a decision on business rates relief.\n\nDebenhams is still in discussions with the remaining seven stores in its estate.\n\nThe retailer is still trading online \"normally\" while its shops are closed.\n\nLike many other non essential retailers, it has furloughed the majority of its staff who are being paid under the government's coronavirus job retention scheme which pays 80% of a worker's salary up to £2,500 a month.", "Roadside families have been without water and sanitation after public services shut\n\nTravellers have told the BBC the coronavirus pandemic has left them struggling for weeks without access to water, electricity or sanitation.\n\nSome have received eviction threats while one pregnant woman said the hardship was severely affecting her mental health.\n\nA national charity supporting the community said calls to its helpline had doubled.\n\nThe government said it has written to councils about providing services.\n\nAround 10,000 Gypsies and travellers currently live roadside on unauthorised encampments while around 70,000 reside on sites, according to charities.\n\nSome Irish Travellers asked to be anonymous because of fears about public abuse.\n\nCharlene, not her real name, is in her early 20s and pregnant. She lives with her husband's family on an overcrowded council-run site in London with a single, shared amenity block.\n\nShe told the BBC she has had no separate access to running water to help her self-isolate, or any electricity during the lockdown.\n\n\"I'm about to be a mum for the first time and feel very vulnerable.\n\n\"My anxiety and depression couldn't be higher... I'm feeling let down and at risk of infection.\"\n\nJosie, also not her real name, is living roadside with her family, including 18 young children, in caravans in London.\n\nShe said they have had no access to electricity, running water or toilets for more than six weeks.\n\nThey had been relying on public amenities and local facilities such as leisure centres, but these have all temporarily closed.\n\n\"Why are travellers forgotten about at times like this?\" she asks. \"We are human beings.\"\n\nDebby Kennett, head of London Gypsies and Travellers, an organisation which challenges social exclusion and discrimination, said vulnerable families had been given \"no support\" by local councils.\n\nChloe has been stopped by police four times since the lockdown started and threatened with fines\n\nChloe, 32, from Scarborough, lives in a van with her eight-year-old daughter and has been asked to relocate four times by police in the last month.\n\n\"I've been constantly on edge, stopped at all hours of the night and my mental health has really suffered,\" she said.\n\nShe is employed on the frontline as a community support worker aiding the rehabilitation of hospital patients, many of whom are recovering from coronavirus.\n\n\"I've been made to feel like an outcast from the community where I've lived all my life and paid my taxes,\" she said.\n\nShe said her local council suggested she either leave the town or register as homeless to stay in a bed and breakfast, but Chloe said no children or pets were allowed.\n\nChris Johnson, partner at Community Law Partnership in Birmingham, said he had halted three council evictions of travellers since the start of the lockdown.\n\n\"The current government guidance implies councils should not evict people but help them find alternative locations,\" he said.\n\nJanette McCormick, the deputy chief constable at the National Police Chiefs' Council, said a large number of travellers have health issues and authorities should respond \"proportionately\".\n\nIn a letter sent to all police Chief Officers, seen by BBC News, she has encouraged forces to stop evictions in favour of \"negotiated stopping\".\n\nThis involves councils making agreements with travellers to temporarily settle on unauthorised sites in return for better access to healthcare and public services.\n\nSarah Sweeney from Friends, Families and Travellers said urgent support was needed\n\nSarah Sweeney, policy manager at Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT) in Brighton, said calls to its national helpline had doubled during the crisis and there had been threats of eviction in nearly a dozen local authorities.\n\n\"We have also heard a number of issues where vulnerable people have struggled to register at GPs or contact NHS 111 because they don't have fixed addresses,\" she said.\n\nThe charity has been supporting the community with food packages, practical advice, and help accessing remote schooling and relief funds.\n\n\"Many people living roadside would like to live on a site or land, but it's really difficult because there's been a chronic under delivery of traveller sites across the country,\" she explained.\n\nFFT has written to the government asking for specific guidance in England to support the community. Scotland, Wales and the Republic of Ireland have already acted.\n\nThe government said Public Health England was working to develop guidance for travellers and it had written to councils to underline their responsibility to provide water, sanitation and waste disposal facilities.\n\n\"Councils are also best placed to decide when to use their powers to remove unauthorised encampments in order to ensure that the rights of settled communities are respected and the local environment protected,\" it added.\n\nA spokesperson for City Hall said the mayor was aware of the \"acute health inequalities\" that the Gypsy and traveller community faces and it was \"vital\" that they are able to self-isolate.\n\nIt said it would not move on any unauthorised encampments of travellers without \"fully considering\" the circumstances and nature of the encampment.", "Mobile operator O2 and broadband giant Virgin Media are to merge, creating one of the UK's largest entertainment and telecoms firms and a major rival to BT.\n\nLiberty Global, which owns Virgin Media, and Spain's Telefonica, which owns O2, said they had agreed terms for joining forces.\n\nConsumer group Which? called on the Competition and Markets Authority to investigate the deal.\n\nIt said the tie-up \"could have a significant impact on consumers\".\n\nWhich? added: \"Neither provider stands out in our recent customer satisfaction surveys, and any merger should only be allowed to go ahead if it delivers positive outcomes for consumers.\"\n\nO2 has about 34 million mobile phone users, while Virgin has about six million broadband and cable TV customers and another three million mobile users.\n\nAs well as having its own subscribers, O2 provides the network for Tesco Mobile, Giffgaff and Sky Mobile.\n\nTelefonica chief executive Jose Maria Alvarez-Pallete said: \"Combining O2's number one mobile business with Virgin Media's superfast broadband network and entertainment services will be a game-changer in the UK, at a time when demand for connectivity has never been greater or more critical.\"\n\nDespite Which?'s concerns about the deal, some analysts said customers were set to benefit by having access to more services, although it is unclear whether cost savings from the tie-up will be passed on to consumers.\n\nErnest Doku, mobiles expert at price comparison website Uswitch.com, said he did not expect customers to lose out.\n\n\"It will be interesting to see what this means for existing customers in terms of products and access to extra services, such as O2 Priorities.\n\n\"For all customers there is the exciting prospect of greater breadth of entertainment and faster speeds to look forward to.\"\n\nKaren Egan, telecoms analyst at Enders Analysis, told the BBC's Today programme the deal was \"a fortuitous marrying of objectives\" for the two parent companies.\n\nTelefonica was \"keen to monetise\" its stake in O2, while Liberty Global had long believed in combining fixed-line and mobile networks, she said.\n\nThe new merged company would now be able to \"diversify and match some of BT's innovative products\", she added.\n\nVirgin Media and O2 are celebrating the creation of a powerful competitor to BT as a converged communications business. They appear confident that their merger will be waved through by the competition regulator - but that assumes the deal is self-evidently good for consumers.\n\nWill removing one player from the telecoms market really mean better prices and improved service for Virgin and O2 customers? The firms are insisting that it will give them the resources for the huge job of extending full fibre broadband and 5G across the UK, promising to spend £10bn over the next five years. But the consumer group Which? isn't convinced, pointing to the patchy customer service record of both firms and calling for an inquiry.\n\nHaving allowed a merger between BT and EE in 2016, it seems unlikely that the Competition and Markets Authority will block this deal. But Virgin O2 - or whatever brand they choose - can still expect plenty of regulatory scrutiny, even after their marriage is approved.\n\nThe companies said O2 would be valued at £12.7bn and Virgin Media at £18.7bn, both on a total enterprise value basis.\n\n\"O2 [is] to be transferred into the joint venture on a debt-free basis, while Virgin Media to be contributed with £11.3bn of net debt and debt-like items,\" the firms said in a joint statement.\n\nTelefonica tried to sell O2 to the owner of Three, CK Hutchison, for £10.3bn in 2015. However, that deal was blocked by the European Commission over concerns that it would have left just three major mobile phone operators in the UK.", "Dairy farmers in England can apply for up to £10,000 in cash payments under a scheme to support the industry during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nDemand for dairy products in the hospitality sector has dropped with the closure of many cafes and restaurants.\n\nProducers will be eligible for aid to cover 70% of income they have lost during April and May.\n\nMinisters have already relaxed competition laws in a bid to help the industry.\n\nThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said there would not be a cap on the number of farmers who can receive the payments.\n\nBut farmers would have to demonstrate they had lost more than a quarter of their income in April and May to access the funding, the department added.\n\nSome dairy farmers are having to throw away thousands of litres of fresh milk due to disruption to the supply chain caused by the virus.\n\nWhilst some have managed to redirect supplies towards supermarkets, falling demand has seen excess milk and therefore falling prices.\n\nThe government has already relaxed competition rules to allow farmers to share staff and facilities with retailers in a bid to reroute produce.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice says ministers were doing \"all we can\" to make sure dairy farmers are \"properly supported\" during the current crisis.\n\n\"We've already relaxed competition laws so dairy farmers can work together through the toughest months, but recognise there is more to be done,\" he added.\n\nJoe Stanley, vice-chair of the Leicestershire National Farmers Union, said the new funding was welcome but additional support \"shouldn't have taken this long\".\n\nSpeaking to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee on Tuesday, the National Farmers' Union (NFU) president said many farmers were in \"absolute crisis\".\n\nMinette Batters told MPs: \"We have got a lot of them on a relatively stabilised price of 15p per litre (of milk). That is about 10p and more below the cost of production. It is not a sustainable place to be.\"\n\nTom Hind, chief strategy officer for the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board, also told the committee that dairy farmers had lost £7.4m collectively in April through milk price cuts alone - a figure that could rise to £14m in May.\n\nThe move comes as a £1m advertising campaign is launched to try and persuade people to drink more milk at home.\n\nJoint funded by industry groups and the government, it will feature adverts on television and posted on social media.\n\nThe NFU said the campaign would promote tea and coffee drinking as a \"centre point of most human connections\".\n\nThe union's dairy board chairman Michael Oakes said the advertising drive would be a \"much-needed and timely boost for the dairy sector\".\n• None Five ways coronavirus is disrupting the food industry", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Any lockdown changes will be \"modest\", says Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab\n\nThe PM says the government will proceed with \"maximum caution\" when considering easing coronavirus restrictions.\n\nBoris Johnson is due to announce plans for England's lockdown on Sunday, but ministers have insisted short term changes to measures will be \"modest\".\n\nAt the government's daily briefing, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab described media reports on easing restrictions as \"not a reliable guide\".\n\nHe added that changes may vary between the different nations.\n\nIt comes after Scotland's lockdown was formally extended and the Northern Ireland Executive said there was \"no headroom\" yet to ease the lockdown.\n\nWales is due to announced its the nation's lockdown plans on Friday, after the Welsh government warned media reports speculating how Mr Johnson might ease lockdown measures risked sending \"mixed messages\" to the public.\n\nSome newspapers suggested the rules on exercise could be relaxed and more people encouraged to return to work.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have the power to make their own decisions on lockdown regulations - and could lift restrictions at a different rate.\n\nThe prime minister has told leaders of the devolved nations that he is committed to a UK-wide approach to tackling coronavirus \"even if different parts of the UK begin to move at slightly different speeds\", Downing Street said.\n\n\"Those decisions will be made based on the science for each nation,\" a No 10 spokesman added.\n\nThe latest figures show the total number of people who have died in hospitals, care homes and the wider community in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus is 30,615 - a daily increase of 539.\n\nThe UK provided some 86,583 tests in 24 hours to 09:00 BST on Thursday - meaning the government missed its 100,000-per-day target for the fifth consecutive day.\n\nThere were reports restrictions on outdoor exercise could be lifted in England from Monday\n\nPeople all over the UK joined in the weekly clap for NHS staff and other key workers on Thursday evening\n\nAt the briefing, Mr Raab said any short term changes to restrictions would be \"modest, small, incremental and very carefully monitored\".\n\nHe stressed that the existing rules would still apply over the bank holiday weekend and urged people to \"continue to follow the guidance\".\n\nFacing pressure over media reports suggesting the lockdown would be eased, the foreign secretary said that reports were \"not a reliable guide\" to future policy decisions.\n\nHe added that future decisions would be based on the reproduction number - known as the R level - which represents the average number of people that an infected person will pass the virus on to.\n\n\"If we find in the future the R level goes back up or that people aren't following the rules, we must have the ability then to put back measures in place,\" he said.\n\nMr Raab said the R number was somewhere between 0.5 and 0.9. However, Prof John Edmunds, who is advising the government, said earlier that it had actually risen slightly - to between 0.75 and one.\n\nAn R number greater than one would result in exponential growth in the number of cases. But if the number stays lower than one, the disease will eventually peter out as not enough new people are being infected to sustain the outbreak.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the R number and what does it mean?\n\nSir Ian Diamond, the chief statistician for the Office for National Statistics, said the current R number was below one.\n\nHowever, he said R had increased since the last estimates due to the rise in virus transmission in care homes.\n\nThe R number can be different in different parts of the country or in different settings, says the BBC's health reporter Rachel Schraer.\n\n\"The question is how contained they are or whether the epidemic in care homes will spread back into the community,\" she said.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the government was \"right to extend the lockdown\" until the infection rate was under control, saying that \"the health and safety of the nation needs to come first\".\n\nHe added that \"there needs to be absolute clarity that we must follow the rules\".\n\nWith much speculation about Sunday's announcement, the government seems keen to manage expectations.\n\nDominic Raab's emphasis was on gradual steps; he spoke of this being a delicate and dangerous moment with the virus remaining deadly.\n\nHe said the prime minister would set out a road map of how the country might come out of this lockdown, but the government doesn't want to release the handbrake and see the car race away just yet.\n\nToday's press conference seemed designed to both offer a glimmer of hope about how the country might move on from lockdown, and to shroud it in caution - with emphasis that current measures still remain in place.\n\nWhether that message comes across as clear, or confused, is the key question at what could be a crucial moment in managing this pandemic.\n\nBy law, the government must review the restrictions every three weeks, and Thursday marks the latest deadline.\n\nAlthough the lockdown - first announced on 23 March - will largely stay in place, the \"stay at home\" message is expected to be scrapped and it is likely more outdoor activities will be permitted. The prime minister will make his address at 19:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nMr Johnson has told opposition leaders he will deliver a statement in the House of Commons on the government's next steps on Monday.\n\nIn Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned it could be \"catastrophic\" to drop the stay at home message as she announced that the nation's lockdown was to be extended.\n\nShe said any easing of restrictions would be \"very risky\" at this stage, but said the Scottish government may be prepared to allow people to spend more time outdoors.\n\nScotland has already set out a number of options for lifting the lockdown.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would prefer the UK to make changes as a whole, but said the four nations could decide in a \"grown-up\" manner if they \"want to go different ways\".\n\nShe added that media reports about the prime minister planning to ease the lockdown had not been discussed with the Scottish government.\n\nEarlier, a Welsh government spokesman said it was \"crucially important\" people in Wales were \"informed clearly and accurately\" about any changes to the current restrictions.\n\n\"Some of the reporting in today's newspapers is confusing and risks sending mixed messages to people across the UK,\" he added.\n\nIt comes as the UK became the first country in Europe to record more than 30,000 people dying with coronavirus.\n\nIt has been just over nine weeks since the UK recorded its first death on 2 March. The personal stories of those who have died are continuing to emerge.\n\nAmong those was Dr Tariq Shafi, 61, who was the lead consultant for haematology for 13 years at Darent Valley Hospital in Dartford, Kent.\n\nDr Tariq Shaf was described as a \"dedicated and respected\" doctor\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Black men and women are nearly twice as likely to die with coronavirus as white people in England and Wales, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nThe analysis shows the inequality persists after taking into account age, where people live and some measures of deprivation and prior health.\n\nPeople from Indian, Bangladeshi and Pakistani communities also had a significantly higher risk of dying.\n\nThe government has launched a review into the issue.\n\nThe analysis by the ONS combined data on deaths involving Covid-19 with information on ethnicity from the 2011 census.\n\nTaking into account age, location and some measures of deprivation, disadvantage and prior health, it found black people were 90% more likely to die with Covid-19 than white people.\n\nMen and women from Indian, Bangladeshi and Pakistani communities had an increased risk of between 30% and 80%, the analysis found.\n\nThe ONS suggested some of the risk might be caused by other social and economic factors that are not included in the data.\n\nAnd it said that some ethnic groups may be \"over-represented in public-facing occupations\" and so more at risk of being infected while at work.\n\nThe ONS plans to examine the link between coronavirus risk and occupation.\n\nWithout taking into account factors such as prior health and location, the analysis found black people were more than four times as likely to die after contracting the virus.\n\nBut Prof Keith Neal, emeritus professor of the epidemiology of infectious diseases at the University of Nottingham, said that figure was \"misleading\".\n\nHe said not adjusting for \"known factors\" like whether groups were living in areas with more coronavirus cases could make the difference in risk appear even bigger than it was.\n\nAfter factoring in these issues, the death rate among black men and women was 1.9 times as high as white men and women. For Bangladeshi and Pakistani men the risk was 1.8 times higher, and for women in those communities it was 1.6 times higher.\n\nOne expert in communicable diseases said the NHS should pull BAME staff at greater risk of infection \"out of the front line\".\n\nDr Bharat Pankhania from the University of Exeter told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"Now that we know, we can say, we need to reduce your face-to-face consultations. Where face-to-face consultations are absolutely necessary, we are going to give you enhanced personal protective equipment to protect yourselves.\"\n\nAfterwards, he said, experts could investigate further whether the issue was caused by other health problems prevalent in ethnic minority communities, such as heart disease or diabetes, or whether there was another explanation.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab told the daily coronavirus briefing in Downing Street that Public Health England was investigating what \"interventions can sensibly be made\" to protect BAME frontline workers.\n\n\"We're very concerned about it, it's something we take very seriously,\" he said.\n\nThe raw numbers on coronavirus deaths in England and Wales and ethnicity are stark.\n\nPeople from black backgrounds make up just over 3% of the population but account for 6% of coronavirus deaths.\n\nBut what's causing this? Raw numbers don't give the reason why. You need to take account of the differences between communities that could explain it.\n\nMore people from black, Asian or minority ethnic communities live in cities where the epidemic has been worst. But white communities are older on average, and the coronavirus hits older people harder.\n\nIf you take account of age differences, but not of other factors, black people are four time more likely to die with coronavirus.\n\nIf you also take account of where people live, that difference falls but doesn't disappear: black people are just over twice as likely to die with coronavirus.\n\nAccounting for rough measures of health and wealth changes it a little, bringing the risk down to just under twice as likely. But the analysis doesn't address the impact of exposure at work or current health conditions.\n\nDavid Lammy, the shadow justice secretary, said the greater risk faced by black people was \"appalling\".\n\n\"It is urgent the causes of this disproportionality are investigated. Action must be taken to protect black men and women - as well as people from all backgrounds - from the virus,\" the Labour MP for Tottenham said on Twitter.\n\nNicole Andrews, a lecturer in health and social care at Newman University in Birmingham, told the BBC the figures were \"completely devastating\" but not surprising, as \"there is a long legacy of poor health outcomes for our communities\" in the UK.\n\nBlack and minority ethnic workers were more likely to be in front-line positions with more contact with the public, leading to a greater risk of the exposure to the virus, Dr Andrews said.\n\nResearch by the Health Foundation found that in London, while black and Asian workers made up 34% of the overall working population, they represented 54% of workers in food retail, 48% of health and social care staff, and 44% of people working in transport.\n\nHelen Barnard, acting director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, said workers from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds were also more likely to live in overcrowded homes, increasing the risk of the virus spreading to their families.\n\nShe said that the UK entered the crisis with \"a rising tide of low pay, insecure jobs and spiralling living costs\" and \"we must ask ourselves what kind of society we want to live in after the virus passes\".\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokeswoman said it had commissioned Public Health England to examine different factors such as ethnicity, obesity and geographical location that may influence the effect of the virus.\n\n\"It is critical we find out which groups are most at risk so we can take the right steps to protect them and minimise their risk,\" she said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. No quick return to normality, says Bank of England chief\n\nThe Bank of England has warned that the UK economy is heading towards its sharpest recession on record.\n\nThe coronavirus impact would see the economy shrink 14% this year, based on the lockdown being relaxed in June.\n\nScenarios drawn up by the Bank to illustrate the economic impact said Covid-19 was \"dramatically reducing jobs and incomes in the UK\".\n\nBank governor Andrew Bailey told the BBC there would be no quick return to normality.\n\nHe described the downturn as \"unprecedented\", and said consumers would remain cautious even when lockdown restrictions are lifted.\n\nMr Bailey said: \"Not all of the economic activity comes back. There's quite a sharp recovery. But we've also factored that people will be cautious of their own choice.\n\n\"They don't re-engage fully, and so it's really only until next summer that activity comes fully back.\"\n\nAlso on Thursday, policymakers voted unanimously to keep interest rates at a record low of 0.1%. However, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) that sets interest rates was split on whether to inject more stimulus into the economy.\n\nTwo of its nine members voted to increase the latest round of quantitative easing by £100bn to £300bn.\n\nThe Bank's analysis, published on Thursday, was based on the assumption that social distancing measures are gradually phased out between June and September.\n\nIts latest Monetary Policy Report showed the UK economy plunging into its first recession in more than a decade. The economy shrinks by 3% in the first quarter of 2020, followed by an unprecedented 25% decline in the three months to June.\n\nThis would push the UK into a technical recession, defined as two consecutive quarters of economic decline.\n\nThe Bank said the housing market had come to a standstill, while consumer spending had dropped by 30% in recent weeks.\n\nFor the year as a whole, the economy is expected to contract by 14%. This would be the biggest annual decline on record, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data dating back to 1949.\n\nIt would also be the sharpest annual contraction since 1706, according to reconstructed Bank of England data stretching back to the 18th Century.\n\nWhile UK growth is expected to rebound in 2021 to 15%, the size of the economy is not expected to get back to its pre-virus peak until the middle of next year.\n\nThe UK government is expected to start easing lockdown restrictions next week.\n\nThe Bank stressed that the outlook for the economy was \"unusually uncertain\" at present and would depend on how households and businesses responded to the pandemic.\n\nMr Bailey said he expected any permanent damage from the pandemic to be \"relatively small\". The economy was likely to recover \"much more rapidly than the pull back from the global financial crisis,\" he said.\n\nHe also praised the action by the government to support workers and businesses through wage subsidies, loans and grants. He said the success of these schemes and the Bank's own stimulus meant there would be \"limited scarring to the economy\".\n\n\"The furloughing scheme really does enable people to come back into the economy more quickly so it's a much quicker recovery that we've seen in the past.\"\n\nJames Smith, research director at the Resolution Foundation, said the hit to the economy this year was equivalent to £9,000 for every family in Britain.\n\nHe said: \"Faced with this huge economic hit, both the Bank and the government have made the right call in taking bold action to protect firms and families as much as possible.\"\n\nAverage weekly earnings are expected to shrink by 2% this year, reflecting the fall in wages for furloughed workers.\n\nThe Bank said sharp increases in benefit claims were \"consistent with a pronounced rise in the unemployment rate\", which is expected to climb above 9% this year, from the current rate of 4%.\n\nUnder the Bank's scenario, inflation, as measured by the consumer prices index (CPI) falls to zero at the start of next year amid the sharp drop in energy prices.It is also expected to remain well below the Bank's 2% target for the next two years.\n\nThe Bank's latest Financial Stability Report said the Bank's scenario was consistent with a 16% drop in house prices. Latest figures published by UK finance show one in seven mortgage holders has taken a payment holiday due to the coronavirus.\n\nThe Bank said the number of new mortgage deals on offer had halved in just over a month as banks focused on the deluge of payment holiday requests. This includes a huge contraction in deals for buyers with a deposit of less than 40% of the purchase price.\n\nThe MPC also highlighted the stark drop in consumer spending. It said spending on flights, hotels, restaurants and entertainment had dropped to a fifth of their previous levels.\n\nShopping at High Street retailers had dropped by 80%, while business confidence was described as \"severely depressed\".\n\nPhilip Shaw, an economist at Investec, described the Bank's scenario as \"optimistic\", particularly its assumption that unemployment would fall back to its pre-crisis low in two years.\n\n\"Exactly how the economy evolves will depend critically on how the government calibrates its policies and how they are unwound and tapered,\" he said. \"There is plenty that could go wrong.\"\n\nThe Bank of England itself has minimal staff, but they have applied themselves to try to work out what is happening in the economy. They are not sufficiently confident that the numbers they have run, the charts that they have published, constitute what they would call a \"forecast\".\n\nBut they do give the clearest indication that we are in recession, after the sharpest, fastest economic contraction in the three-century history of the Bank looking at these things.\n\nFaster than the financial crisis, and the Great Depression, and the earlier 1920s depression just before, the only things which come close.\n\n\"It is unprecedented in the recent history of this institution,\" Governor Andrew Bailey told me. \"What it really means is that obviously the very sharp sort of downturn, a product of the situation we've been in since March, and the restrictions that are in place, affect economic activity very severely,\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe prime minister's chief adviser Dominic Cummings has said he does not regret driving 260 miles from London during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nHe revealed he had not told Boris Johnson when he decided to take his family to County Durham after his wife developed Covid-19 symptoms.\n\nMr Cummings said he believed he had acted \"reasonably\" and within the law.\n\nMr Johnson said he understood \"the confusion, anger and pain\" felt and people \"needed to hear\" from his aide.\n\nHe added that Mr Cummings had acted \"reasonably\" and with \"integrity and care for others\", but Labour and the Liberal Democrats accused both men of double standards.\n\nMeanwhile, the government said the number of deaths among people who have tested positive for coronavirus, in all settings, had risen by 121 to 36,914.\n\nMr Cummings has faced several days of attacks in the media, with many people, including some Conservative MPs, calling for him to go.\n\nSpeaking in a press conference in the Downing Street rose garden - requested by the prime minister - he said he wanted to \"clear up the confusions and misunderstandings\".\n\nHe added that, despite days of criticism in the press, he had not considered resigning, saying: \"I don't regret what I did.\"\n\nDuring his statement, Mr Cummings revealed he had:\n\nMany people, including some Conservative MPs, have called for Mr Cummings to be sacked for making his car journey just four days after the lockdown started, while Labour said he had \"clearly broken the rules\".\n\nBut Mr Cummings told reporters: \"I don't think I am so different and that there is one rule for me and one rule for other people.\"\n\nHe added: \"I don't regret what I did.\"\n\nWhen he found out his wife was ill on 27 March and after \"briefly telling some officials in Number 10 what happened\", Mr Cummings said he \"immediately left the building, ran to my car and drove home\".\n\nAfter a couple of hours she \"felt a bit better\", he said, and \"there were many critical things at work, and she urged me to return in the afternoon and I did\".\n\nMr Cummings said he realised the family would have been left without childcare in London if, like his wife, he had fallen ill, so they decided to drive to County Durham that evening.\n\nBBC Newsnight's policy editor Lewis Goodall tweeted that the \"crux of the issue\" is whether he \"abused\" the guidelines by doing 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. Skip twitter post by Lewis Goodall 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\nDominic Cummings' rose garden confessional was a bold move designed to take the drama out of a crisis.\n\nBut giving detailed answers to why he at the very least broke the spirit of the lockdown rules does not answer the fundamental question now - is his continued presence in Downing Street more of a hindrance than a help to Boris Johnson?\n\nTempers may have cooled slightly on the Conservative backbenches, but there are still calls for him to go, both private and public.\n\nAnd some senior Conservative MPs are still aghast at how much political capital the prime minister has burned through to keep Mr Cummings at his side. Opposition leaders still intend to push for his departure.\n\nThe man respected by Mr Johnson for judging the public mood has made himself famous for falling foul of that opinion.\n\nHis explanations may ease for some of the anger. But in Westminster and beyond, it will not disappear overnight.\n\nAnd when the prime minister is interrogated by senior MPs on Wednesday his decisions over Dominic Cummings will surely be on the list.\n\nHe said his sister and his nieces, who live on his parents' land, had offered to look after his four-year-old son if necessary.\n\nMr Cummings himself became ill the day after arriving in County Durham, with symptoms including a headache and fever.\n\nHe said he had isolated in a cottage around 50 metres from his parents' home but did not have any contact with the couple, in their 70s, other than shouted conversations.\n\nHe added that, while he had not informed the prime minister - who himself caught coronavirus - before he drove north: \"I did actually speak to him later but neither of us can remember what was said because we were both in pretty bad shape.\"\n\nMr Cummings also said his son had suffered a \"bad fever\" on 2 April. He had gone to hospital by ambulance but had not tested positive for coronavirus, and Mr Cummings had picked him up by car after an overnight stay because there were \"no taxis\".\n\nAsked about his trip to the tourist hotspot of Barnard Castle on 12 April, which included walking \"10 to 15 metres from the car to the riverbank\", he replied: \"I wasn't sightseeing.\"\n\nHe said: \"My wife was very worried, particularly as my eyesight seemed to have been affected by [Covid-19]. She did not want to risk a nearly 300-mile drive with our child, given how ill I had been.\n\n\"We agreed that we should go for a short drive to see if I could drive safely.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Cummings: \"I don't regret what I did... people may well disagree\"\n\nHowever, John Apter, chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales, tweeted that anyone concerned about their vision should not drive in order to \"test\" their ability to do so.\n\n\"It's not a wise move,\" he wrote.\n\nMr Cummings insisted he had not stopped during the journey from London to Durham but may have pulled in on the return to London to get petrol.\n\nHe had had to stop so his son could go to the toilet in a woods by the side of the road, he added.\n\nAnd he believed he had kept to government guidelines, which tell people who develop Covid symptoms to stay in their homes, because they allowed for some leeway in \"extreme\" circumstances.\n\nHe said he was not surprised that many were angry about his actions but it had been \"a complicated, tricky situation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson responds to a question about Dominic Cummings' drive to Barnard Castle to test his eyesight\n\nCommenting on Mr Cummings' appearance before the media, Mr Johnson said: \"To me, he came across as somebody who cared very much about his family and who was doing the best for his family.\"\n\nBut Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner said the hour-long Downing Street press conference had been \"painful to watch\".\n\n\"He clearly broke the rules,\" she said. \"The prime minister has failed to act in the national interest. He should have never allowed this situation with a member of his staff.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Labour Party added those hoping for an apology had \"got none\".\n\nActing Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey urged Mr Johnson to sack Mr Cummings, adding: \"His refusal to have the decency to apologise is an insult to us all. It reveals the worst of his elitist arrogance.\"\n\nSNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford MP echoed that sentiment, saying Mr Johnson had \"no option\" but to sack Mr Cummings, and his failure to do \"is a gross failure of leadership\".", "Fifty firefighters have been tackling a \"significant fire\" at the Bombardier factory in the docks area of Belfast.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) received a call at about 20:45 BST to attend the blaze on Airport Road in the east of the city.\n\nThe extent of the damage to the factory unit is not yet known, but there are no injuries.\n\nMembers of the public are being asked to avoid the area to allow operations to continue unhindered.\n\nThe aerospace company, Bombardier, is one of Northern Ireland's largest employers.\n\nIn a statement, it said there were no employees working in the factory at the time, adding that it would take time to assess any damage.\n\nThe fire service said six pumping appliances, one aerial appliance, and a high-volume pump were being used to contain the fire.\n\nFire Service Area Commander Dermott Rooney said it was a \"very significant\" blaze and he and his colleagues would be at the scene for some 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 Gavin Robinson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Obviously, we are trying to get the fire under control. It's very early stages, we would ask members of the public to stay away from the area so they don't hamper our efforts,\" he said.\n\n\"We've no indication of any particular risk to the local people, but they would be well advised to keep their windows and doors closed,\" he added.\n\nIt is not yet known how the fire started.\n\nThe road has been closed to traffic.\n\nDUP MP for East Belfast Gavin Robinson said it was \"worrying news of a large scale fire in the factory\".\n\nAlliance MLA for East Belfast Chris Lyttle said Victoria Park was also closed and that he was \"grateful for the prompt response\" of the fire service.", "Fears of another Grenfell-type fire are stunting the spread of wood-based buildings in England.\n\nThe government is planning to reduce the maximum height of wood-framed buildings from six storeys to four.\n\nThe move’s been recommended by the emergency services in order to reduce fire risk.\n\nBut it contradicts other advice to increase timber construction because trees lock up climate-heating carbon emissions.\n\nIn France, President Macron has ruled all new publicly-funded buildings should be at least 50% timber or other natural materials by 2022.\n\nAnd in Norway a new “ply-scraper” stretches fully 18 storeys – that’s the height recently deemed safe by standards authorities in North America.\n\nMembers of the timber trade say the Government in England has misunderstood the science behind timber construction.\n\nThey say timber walls can be made safe by methods including flame-retardant treatments and fire-resistant claddings.\n\nThey point out that it is futile planting millions of trees if they are left to rot and release the CO2 they previously captured.\n\nPlans for Forest Green Rover's new wood-based football stadium have been approved\n\nIn a consultation ending on Monday, ministers propose the height of timber-based flats, hotels, and boarding houses should be limited to 11 metres – that’s 3-4 storeys.\n\nIn higher buildings timber would be permitted in floors but banned from outside walls.\n\nThis further tightens rules introduced after the Grenfell disaster, following representation from fire authorities.\n\nMatt Linegar from the Finnish timber giant Stora Enso told BBC News: “Obviously no-one wants to see another tragedy like Grenfell; protecting life is the main concern.\n\n“But the government is over-reacting. Properly-constructed timber buildings can be safe in a fire – it depends on the design.\n\n“Even with the current guidelines introduced after Grenfell there has been a chilling effect on the industry. People commissioning buildings think ‘I’d better not use timber’. The market has virtually dried up.”\n\nA study from the Germany’s Potsdam Institute (PIK), found that a global boom in wood buildings could lock in up to 700 million tons of carbon a year.\n\nIt said a five-story residential building structured in laminated timber can store up to 180 kilos of carbon per square metre - three times more than in the trunk, branches and leaves of natural forests.\n\nPIK’s Hans Schellnhuber said: “Societies have made good use of wood for buildings for many centuries, yet now the challenge of climate stabilisation calls for a very serious up-scaling.\n\n\"If we engineer the wood into modern building materials and smartly manage harvest and construction, we humans can build ourselves a safe home on Earth.”\n\nThe head of the Committee on Climate Change, Chris Stark, told BBC News: “Timber buildings can be tall and safe. Displacing cement, brick and steel with wood means more than double the carbon savings in buildings overall.\n\n“With encouragement from the Government, we could triple the amount of carbon locked into buildings – one of the simplest steps we can take to help meet the UK’s climate goals.”\n\nA government spokesperson said the consultation responses would be studied before final decisions were made. The fire authorities declined to comment.", "Aya Hachem died from a gunshot wound to the chest\n\nA 34-year-old man has become the sixth person to be charged with the murder of a law student in a drive-by shooting.\n\nAya Hachem, 19, died when shots were fired from a passing car in Blackburn on 17 May.\n\nAyaz Hussain, 34, of Calgary Avenue in Blackburn, has been charged with her murder and the attempted murder of a man who officers think was the intended target of the shooting.\n\nHe will appear before magistrates in Preston on Monday.\n\nFeroz Suleman, 39, Abubakir Satia, 31, Uthman Satia, 28, Judy Chapman, 26, and Kashif Manzoor, 24, were previously charged with Ms Hachem's murder and the attempted murder of the intended target.\n\nThey have been remanded in custody to appear at Preston Crown Court on Wednesday.\n\nMs Hachem was walking along King Street to the Lidl supermarket when she was hit by one of two bullets fired from a car.\n\nThe Lebanese-born teenager, who was a second-year student at the University of Salford, was buried in the town of Koleileh on Saturday.\n\nHer parents have paid tribute to her as the \"most loyal devoted daughter\" who \"dreamed of becoming a solicitor\".\n\nAya Hachem was a young trustee for the Children's Society\n\nA total of 14 people were arrested in the days after her death, including the five men and one woman who have been charged with murder.\n\nTwo men arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder have been bailed pending further inquiries, while five people have been released under investigation.\n\nA 22-year-old man, from Blackburn, who was arrested on Friday on suspicion of murder and attempted murder, has been released without charge.\n\nDet Supt Andy Cribbin said the police investigation had \"moved at a fast pace\" but was \"far from over\".\n\n\"Our resolve and determination to get to the bottom of what happened and who was responsible for Aya's needless and senseless death remains as strong as ever,\" he said.\n\n\"I would like to thank Aya's family and the public for their support, as well as the people who have been in touch with information and the many officers and detectives who are working extremely hard on this investigation.\"\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. Shaun Ruck says he tries to be a positive influence on his children despite living with kidney disease.\n\nA father-of-two waiting for a life-changing kidney transplant has said he has been left \"in limbo\" due to coronavirus.\n\nShaun Ruck, 34, from Tonyrefail, Rhondda Cynon Taff, has been waiting four years for a kidney and needs dialysis three times a week.\n\nBut with Wales' only transplant centre temporarily closed, he will not be contacted if a match is found.\n\nThe Welsh Government said plans to re-open the unit were being considered.\n\nAt the start of this year there were 201 patients waiting for a kidney transplant in Wales - accounting for 80% of all patients waiting for an organ transplant.\n\nBut at the start of the coronavirus lockdown transplant units were closed due to fears about patients with low immune systems being at risk of the virus.\n\nWhile eight units in England and one in Scotland have since re-opened, 15 remain closed including the only one in Wales - at the University Hospital of Wales (UHW), Cardiff.\n\nThe Kidney Wales charity said people could die if the unit did not reopen on a \"case-by-case basis\" as they would not be offered a match if it was found.\n\nBut the Welsh Government said \"urgent transplants\" were still taking place, and plans were being reviewed on how to re-open the Cardiff unit while keeping patients safe.\n\nShaun said he tried to show his children they could do anything they wanted to even when times are hard\n\nEvery week Shuan Ruck juggles work and spending time with his children, to spend hours attached to a dialysis machine at UHW.\n\nBorn with dysplastic kidneys, meaning they did not form properly, he has had two previous transplants, but his body eventually rejected them.\n\nThe charity worker has now been waiting for another kidney match for four years and needs dialysis every other day.\n\n\"I knew when my [second] transplant failed that I had more chances of winning the lottery than having a third,\" said Shaun.\n\n\"To have the call that there was a matching kidney for me would 100% give me my life back,\" he said.\n\nShaun said he found dialysis hard and it took hours every other day\n\nThe 34-year-old had been on a trial to suppress his immune system further so his body was less likely to reject another organ - but just as it ended the transplant units were closed.\n\nWith the Cardiff unit closed even if a match was found, Shaun would not be offered the organ, as it would go instead to a patient in one of the units which has re-opened.\n\n\"I haven't left the house other than for my treatments,\" he said.\n\n\"The only outside world I see is my car and then the dialysis unit.\n\n\"To have the call from the hospital would mean the world.\"\n\nPatients in Wales get sent to clinics in Cardiff or Liverpool - but both are still closed\n\nTransplant units were closed because of concerns patients are particularly vulnerable to infection during the pandemic.\n\nWhile the NHS Blood and Transplant service issued guidelines at the end of April about how units could start planning to re-open, it added any such move would be a local decision.\n\nJudith Stone from Kidney Wales said some patients may die if they do not have a transplant.\n\n\"We would like to see the kidney transplant programme re-open for surgery on a case by case basis as soon as possible for individuals where the benefits out weigh the risk factors,\" she said.\n\nThe Welsh Government said urgent transplants have still been taking place\n\nThe Welsh Government said \"urgent transplants for imminently life-threatening conditions\" had been continuing during the pandemic.\n\n\"Kidney transplants at UHW in Cardiff have been suspended and they are currently considering how they can resume activity safely,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"Transplant teams need to balance the patient's need for transplant against the additional challenges of being immuno-suppressed at this time.\"\n\nThe Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee (WHSSC), which commissions the transplant service on behalf of the Welsh Government, said it was currently considering \"detailed plans\" to safely resume the service.\n\n\"Central to this planning process is recognition that the Covid-19 virus remains in circulation and that renal and transplant patients are extremely vulnerable and therefore recommended to 'shield'.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The man who died was named by police as Paul Cairns\n\nA man shot dead in a house in North Ayrshire at the weekend has been named by police.\n\nPaul Cairns, 42, was fatally wounded by a gunman who entered a house in Nithsdale Road, Ardrossan, at about 16:50 on Sunday.\n\nMr Cairns died at the scene. A 46-year-old woman was also in the house, but was not injured.\n\nA 42-year-old man has been arrested and charged in connection with the shooting.\n\nThe shooting happened in Nithsdale Road in Ardrossan\n\nCh Insp Brian Shaw, said: \"It would appear to have been a targeted attack and I would like to reassure the community that we do not believe that there is an ongoing to risk to the public.\n\n\"Additional officers have been deployed to the area and high visibility patrols will continue to provide further reassurance in the community.\n\n\"Inquiries into the circumstances surrounding this death are ongoing and we are keen to talk to anyone who may have information that would help our investigation or who may have seen anything before or after the incident.\"", "India’s strict lockdown to halt the spread of coronavirus meant that most factories and businesses shut down, rendering millions jobless.\n\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi appealed to businesses to keep paying their workers, including daily-wage labourers.\n\nBut that didn’t happen, and most of the workers were left with little money and food.\n\nWith no prospect of income, they took long journeys to go back to their villages. Some managed to get transport, but those who couldn’t, walked hundreds of miles.\n\nAnd some of them never made it home as they died because of exhaustion or in accidents.", "Foreign visitors to Spain will no longer have to undergo a two-week quarantine from 1 July, the government has announced.\n\nIt said the measure had been finalised in a cabinet meeting on Monday.\n\nForeign Minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya had previously said the requirement would be lifted in July, without giving a date.\n\nThe news comes as the UK government prepares to bring in its own 14-day quarantine policy from 8 June.\n\nTravel firms and other industry bodies say the UK should relax the measure for visitors arriving from countries where people are at a lower risk of contracting the coronavirus.\n\nSpain normally attracts 80 million tourists a year, with the sector providing more than 12% of the country's GDP.\n\nOpening up the holiday market again before the summer season is over is seen as crucial to the Spanish economy.\n\nBut under the UK's new policy, any tourists returning home after taking holidays in Spain and most other foreign destinations would have to spend two weeks in self-isolation.\n\nSeveral airlines including EasyJet, Jet2 and Ryanair have announced that they plan to resume flights and holidays soon.\n\nEasyjet will be resuming flights from 22 airports across Europe from 15 June, as well as regional flights across the UK. But there will only be one international flight from the UK - from Gatwick to Nice in France.\n\nJet2 is planning to resume full services from 1 July, and will fly to several Spanish and Italian destinations, before opening up to Greece and Croatia later in the year.\n\nAnd Ryanair will be restoring 40% of its flights from 1 July and will resume flights from most of the 80 airports it flies from across Europe.\n\nBusiness groups wrote to Boris Johnson on Sunday saying the quarantine would have \"serious consequences\" for the economy and calling for \"air bridge\" deals to be struck with other nations.\n\nIn their letter to the prime minister, bosses of airlines EasyJet, Tui, Jet2 and Virgin Atlantic, as well as industry bodies Airlines UK, the British Chambers of Commerce, UK Hospitality and manufacturing association Made UK said they had \"serious reservations\" about a \"blanket approach\" to all arrivals into Britain.\n\nInstead, they are asking for a more \"targeted, risk-based\" approach when establishing air links with countries that have high infection rates from the pandemic.\n\n\"The alternative risks major damage to the arteries of UK trade with key industry supply chains, whilst pushing the UK to the back of the queue as states begin conversations for opening up their borders,\" says the letter.", "Plenty of sunshine but no crowds at Amroth Beach in Pembrokeshire Image caption: Plenty of sunshine but no crowds at Amroth Beach in Pembrokeshire\n\nPictures from around Wales show empty beaches and other beauty spots as people appear to be following the lockdown restrictions.\n\nIn cities like Newport there are people out and about enjoying the sunshine, apparently closer to home.\n\nCapel Curig in Snowdonia would normally be busy with walkers on a bank holiday Image caption: Capel Curig in Snowdonia would normally be busy with walkers on a bank holiday\n\nBarry Island is also usually busy when the sun comes out. This photo was taken at lunch time Image caption: Barry Island is also usually busy when the sun comes out. This photo was taken at lunch time\n\nThis is the empty scene near Plas y Brenin National Outdoor Centre in Conwy county, which is used by walkers, climbers and watersports enthusiasts Image caption: This is the empty scene near Plas y Brenin National Outdoor Centre in Conwy county, which is used by walkers, climbers and watersports enthusiasts\n\nThere are people out and about in Newport, walking along the River Usk on Monday Image caption: There are people out and about in Newport, walking along the River Usk on Monday", "The coastguard helicopter landed on the beach between Porthtowan and Chapel Porth on Monday afternoon\n\nA teenage girl trapped beneath a capsized boat and a man who was pulled out of the sea off the Cornwall coast have died, police said.\n\nThe girl was with three others who survived after their boat capsized on the Doom Bar near Padstow at about 12:45 BST.\n\nIn a separate rescue, a man was pulled from the sea near Constantine by an off-duty RNLI lifeguard.\n\nPolice said it had been \"a very tough day for local emergency services\".\n\nThe two deaths were among multiple incidents reported to emergency services over the bank holiday.\n\nIt comes after the RNLI suspended lifeguard patrols on UK beaches in March due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nCh Insp Ian Thompson said: \"These are extremely upsetting circumstances and our thoughts go out to all involved.\n\n\"It has been a very tough day for local emergency services.\"\n\nThe girl died after being airlifted to hospital and the man who had been struggling in the water at Treyarnon Bay at about 12:30 BST was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nSigns at Chapel Porth warn beachgoers about RNLI lifeguards not being on duty\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn another incident a man is in a serious condition in hospital after being found face down in the water at Porthtowan.\n\nSteve England, from surf magazine Carve, who was surfing, said he and others gave the man CPR and pulled him out of the water while waiting for the coastguard helicopter and a lifeboat to arrive.\n\n\"If we had a lifeguard on the beach we would have got oxygen to the casualty within two minutes but we had to wait 20 minutes,\" he said.\n\nOther incidents were reported including some on social media at other locations such as one where a number of surfers struggled in a rip current and two kayakers got into difficulty on Sunday.\n\nA man is in a serious condition in hospital after being pulled from the sea at Porthtowan\n\nThe RNLI said it had been dealing with an increased number of call outs and urged people to follow safety advice \"if people chose to go into the water\".\n\nIn a statement, it said: \"We continue to do what we can to get a lifeguard service up and running as soon as possible.\n\n\"But it must be safe for our lifeguards and the public when the risk posed by coronavirus is still a very real threat.\"\n\nThe charity has since announced plans to patrol 70 beaches this summer rather than its usual 240 and is rolling out a reduced service \"in phases\" from the end of the month.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: Phased reopening of schools to begin from June 1\n\nParents and teachers should prepare for the phased reopening of schools in England to start on 1 June as planned, the prime minister has confirmed.\n\nBoris Johnson said the government intended to reopen then for early years pupils, Reception, Year 1 and Year 6.\n\nOn June 15, up to a quarter of Year 10 and Year 12 will be allowed \"some contact\" to help prepare for exams.\n\nSchools closed on 20 March, except for key workers' children and vulnerable children, as Covid-19 spread in the UK.\n\nSpeaking at the daily Downing Street briefing, Mr Johnson said he was setting out the government's intention so teachers and parents could \"plan in earnest\" for school to resume in just over a week.\n\nHe said the formal decision would be taken as part of the three-week review into the lockdown measures, which the government is legally required to carry out by Thursday.\n\nWith many teachers expressing concerns about wider reopening, Mr Johnson said he acknowledged that it \"may not be possible\" for all schools, adding that the government will support those \"experiencing difficulties\" to reopen as soon as possible.\n\nMr Johnson said reopening schools was a crucial part of the next phase of the government's response to the pandemic because \"the education of our children is crucial for their welfare, their health, their long-term future and for social justice\".\n\n\"So in line with the decisions taken in many other countries, we want to start getting our children back into the classroom in a way that is as manageable and as safe as possible,\" he said.\n\nSchools have been preparing measures to teach safely during the pandemic\n\nThe proposal had prompted concerns from teaching unions, head teachers and many local authorities.\n\nSpeaking after the prime minister's announcement, Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said the union did not agree that it would be right to reopen more widely.\n\nHe called on the government to \"engage meaningfully\" with unions to address concerns over issues such such as protective equipment for staff and procedures for dealing with an outbreak.\n\nA BBC Breakfast survey with responses from 99 councils found that only 20 were advising schools to open more widely on 1 June.\n\nAnother 15 said they would not be advising schools to reopen to more pupils and 68 said they could not guarantee reopening for Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 as the government intended.\n\nThe timetable also sets England apart from other parts of the UK, where schools are not expected to open until later. Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted after the prime minister's briefing \"to avoid a resurgence we must move carefully\".\n\nSchools in Scotland are scheduled to begin to reopen on 11 August, the beginning of the autumn term. In Northern Ireland, they are not expected to reopen before September.\n\nAnd Wales has ruled out a return to school on 1 June, with the education minister saying only that they will reopen \"when it is safe to do so\".\n\nThe government \"has not done a good job in building confidence\", said head teachers' leaders.\n\nThis tough report card wasn't about political events - but the way that reopening schools in England is being handled.\n\nBoris Johnson repeated the aim for opening primary schools on 1 June - although at the same time acknowledging the reality that many will not really open, with teachers' unions and some local authorities and parents not convinced of its safety.\n\nThere are some adjustments. Secondary school pupils in Years 10 and 12 will now go back from 15 June.\n\nThe first few primary year groups are still set to return on 1 June. But heads still have no explanation for how for the last month of term they are meant to fit all their primary years into school full-time, while at the same time only allowing 15 children per classroom.\n\nA lack of trust still seems to be confusing plans for a return to school - only a week before children should be getting ready for their first day back since March.\n\nMr Johnson said teaching unions, head teachers and local authorities in England would be able to \"ask questions and probe the evidence\" further over the coming days and said that \"detailed guidance\" had been published setting out how to ensure safety.\n\nThat included smaller classes, staggered times for breaks, drop-offs and pick-ups, and reducing the use of shared items, the prime minister said.\n\nStaff and students would have access to coronavirus testing, he said, and \"if they test positive we will take the appropriate reactive measures\".", "The PM's chief advisor has given a press conference amid calls for him to resign, saying he wanted to \"clear up confusion and misunderstandings\" over his actions during lockdown.\n\nDominic Cummings started with a statement – which he said he should have given earlier, and which Boris Johnson had asked him to relay to the public.\n\nIn it Mr Cummings outlined events that saw him drive his family 260 miles to County Durham.\n\nRead more: 'I don't regret what I did,' says Cummings", "Industry leaders have warned the government that the UK risks being left behind, unless it quickly agrees \"air bridge\" deals with other nations.\n\nBusiness groups have written to Boris Johnson, saying a 14-day quarantine on all air passengers arriving in the UK will have \"serious consequences\" for the economy.\n\nOn Friday, Home Secretary Priti Patel said it will come into force on 8 June.\n\nBut firms say the UK should relax the measure with low-risk countries.\n\nSo-called air bridges would allow visitors from countries where coronavirus infection rates are low into the UK, without having to self-isolate for two weeks.\n\nIn a letter to the prime minister, bosses of airlines like EasyJet, Tui, Jet2 and Virgin Atlantic, as well as industry bodies Airlines UK, the British Chambers of Commerce, UK Hospitality and manufacturing association Made UK said that while they fully support the government's commitment to public health, they have \"serious reservations\" about a \"blanket approach\" to all arrivals into Britain.\n\nInstead, they are asking for a more \"targeted, risk-based\" approach when establishing air links with countries that have high infection rates from the pandemic.\n\n\"The alternative risks major damage to the arteries of UK trade with key industry supply chains, whilst pushing the UK to the back of the queue as states begin conversations for opening up their borders,\" says the letter.\n\nPassengers, pictured here at Manchester Airport, are required to stand at least 2m apart from others\n\nMs Patel said on Friday: \"We recognise how hard these changes will be for our travel and leisure sectors, who are already struggling in these unprecedented times.\n\n\"Across government, we continue to work with them and support what is an incredibly dynamic sector to find new ways to reopen international travel and tourism in a safe and responsible way.\"\n\nShe added that the 14-day self-isolation rule will be reviewed every three weeks.\n\nSome airlines have announced plans to increase flight numbers this summer after air travel ground to a virtual halt because of the coronavirus lockdowns imposed by many governments.\n\nHowever, some have argued that the two-week-long quarantine will put people off travel and be difficult to enforce.\n\nMichael O'Leary, boss of Ryanair, which will ramp up flight numbers in July, recently told BBC Radio 5's Live Breakfast programme that the 14-day quarantine rule was \"idiotic\" and would prove to be \"ineffective\".", "The UK government is conducting a new review into the impact of allowing Huawei telecoms equipment to be used in British 5G networks.\n\nThe National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) involvement comes after the US brought fresh sanctions against the Chinese company, citing security fears.\n\nIn January, the UK resisted US pressure to ban Huawei from contributing to 5G.\n\nA NCSC spokesman said: \"The security and resilience of our networks is of paramount importance.\"\n\n\"Following the US announcement of additional sanctions against Huawei, the NCSC is looking carefully at any impact they could have to the UK's networks.\"\n\nThe sanctions restrict Huawei from using US technology and software to design its semiconductors.\n\nThe US Department of Commerce is concerned Huawei has flouted regulations implemented last year that require the firm to obtain a licence in order to export US items.\n\nIt says Huawei got around this rule by using US semiconductor manufacturing equipment at factories in other countries.\n\nThe UK government had previously approved a limited role for Huawei in building the country's new mobile networks.\n\nThe tech giant was banned from supplying kit to \"sensitive parts\" of the network, known as the core. In addition, it is only allowed to account for 35% of the kit in a network's periphery, which includes radio masts.\n\nUK mobile operators were told by the NCSC - part of the intelligence agency GCHQ - that they would have three years to comply with caps on the use of Huawei equipment in their networks.\n\nHuawei has won 91 5G contracts with mobile operators around the world\n\nResponding to the review, Victor Zhang, vice-president at Huawei, said: \"Our priority remains to continue the rollout of a reliable and secure 5G networks across Britain.\"\n\nHe added: \"We are happy to discuss with NCSC any concerns they may have and hope to continue the close working relationship we have enjoyed for the last 10 years.\"\n\nCritics argue it is a security risk to allow the Chinese company to play any role at all in the UK's 5G network, due to fears it could be used by Beijing to spy on or even sabotage communications.\n\nIn March, a backbench rebellion within the Conservative party signalled efforts to overturn the move. And on 4 April, a group of 15 Conservative MPs called for a rethink on relations with China in their own letter to the Prime Minister, written a day before he was admitted to hospital.\n\nIn response, Huawei wrote an open letter to the UK government, urging it not to \"disrupt\" Huawei's involvement in the rollout of 5G.\n\nIn January, after a prolonged and difficult debate, the government decided to allow Huawei to play a role in 5G but to limit its market share to 35% of the network and keep it out of the most sensitive parts.\n\nBut there was a significant backbench rebellion over the issue in March and pressure has grown domestically since the Coronavirus crisis began to take a tougher line on China.\n\nAt the same time the Trump administration has not let up in its campaign for the UK and other allies to exclude Huawei entirely.\n\nEven though this review is based on the technical considerations about the impact of US sanctions, it could potentially offer the government a route to move away from its earlier decision and exclude the company or impose further limits - although that may involve economic costs at home and increased tension with Beijing.\n\nHuawei stressed that the coronavirus pandemic had placed \"significant pressure\" on British telecoms systems and highlighted how many people in the country - particularly those living in rural communities - do not have good access to the internet.\n\n5G, which promises faster mobile internet data speeds, a stable network that can handle more connections, and more bandwidth for a multitude of different technological applications, has been touted as being a way to bridge the digital divide in areas where broadband internet rollouts have been inconsistent.\n\nAccording to latest data released by Huawei, the firm has so far won 91 5G contracts across the world.\n\nHuawei has always denied that it would help the Chinese government attack one of its clients.\n\nThe firm's founder has said he would \"shut the company down\" rather than aid \"any spying activities\".\n\nThree out of four of the UK's mobile networks had already decided to use and deploy Huawei's 5G products outside the core in the \"periphery\", namely Vodafone, EE and Three.\n\nTwo of them - Vodafone and EE - now face having to reduce their reliance on the supplier, as more than 35% of their existing radio access network equipment was made by it.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Did you go to Barnard Castle, Mr Cummings?\": The media question him outside his London home on Monday morning\n\nThe PM's decision to back his chief aide's lockdown trip to Durham has sparked fears that the government's coronavirus message will be undermined.\n\nSome Tory backbenchers have called for Dominic Cummings to resign to ensure public confidence in future measures.\n\nThe row comes as plans to further ease lockdown restrictions will be discussed at a cabinet meeting later.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has said Mr Cummings \"at no stage broke the law or broke the rules\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Williamson said that everyone, \"whether they are anywhere in the country or working in No 10\", was expected to abide by the law.\n\n\"That's what the prime minister expects, that's the assurance that he asked for, that is the assurance that he got.\"\n\nCriticism of Boris Johnson's decision to take no action over Mr Cummings' 260-mile trip to his parents' home has come from all quarters.\n\nNineteen Tory MPs are calling for Mr Cummings to resign or be sacked, while others have joined Labour in calling for an inquiry.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned the consequences of Mr Johnson's decision could be \"serious\", and acting Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey said it undermined the prime minister's authority on the coronavirus crisis.\n\nSenior Church of England bishops and scientists advising ministers on the pandemic have also strongly criticised the government's handling of the row.\n\nMr Johnson has defended Mr Cummings, saying he believed his senior aide had \"no alternative\" but to make the journey from London at the end of March for childcare \"when both he and his wife were about to be incapacitated by coronavirus\".\n\nDurham's police chief, Steve White, has asked the force to \"establish the facts concerning any potential breach of the law\" surrounding Mr Cummings' visit to the county.\n\nThe prime minister is this week expected to set out details of plans to ease restrictions, which will reportedly include information about the reopening of some non-essential shops in June.\n\nAt Sunday's daily briefing, the prime minister confirmed the phased reopening of England's primary schools will begin on 1 June.\n\nIf Boris Johnson's decision to appear at Sunday's press conference was an attempt to close down the story about Dominic Cummings' behaviour during the lockdown by handling it himself, it failed completely.\n\nIt certainly was not an attempt to give the public the full information.\n\nInstead, the prime minister refused to answer the questions that remain about the specifics of his adviser's visit or visits, to the north east of England while his team was telling the public again and again and again that they had to \"stay at home\".\n\nConservative backbencher David Warburton, MP for Somerton and Frome, said Mr Cummings was \"damaging the government and the country that he's supposed to be serving\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Mr Warburton said: \"We've not been offered the chance to interpret the rules, that's really not how it works otherwise there would be complete chaos.\"\n\nThe MP, who said his own father had died alone as a result of the coronavirus lockdown, said \"people have made sacrifices\" and \"in those sacrifices there really hasn't been the choice to use instinct\".\n\nHe added: \"We've been tasked with following regulations laid down by the government.\"\n\nAnother Tory MP, Jason McCartney, said in a Facebook post that while it was important for people to show compassion during the crisis, Mr Cummings had to go because the \"perceived hypocrisy of the rule makers potentially threatens the success of any future measures\" under a second wave of coronavirus.\n\nTheresa Villiers, a Tory MP and former cabinet minister, said she understood the row makes Mr Cummings' position \"difficult\", but she said: \"I hope that he is able to stay because he's a highly effective adviser to the prime minister.\"\n\nThere were also calls for an investigation into Mr Cummings' actions from Conservative MPs Rob Roberts and Peter Gibson, while Tory MP Lee Anderson suggested a decision on whether or not Mr Cummings' should stay in his job should be made once the full facts are clear.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson defends his senior adviser Dominic Cummings in May 2020\n\nMeanwhile, some of the scientists that advise ministers were concerned the prime minister's decision to back Mr Cummings would undermine the message on controlling the virus, with one warning that \"more people are going to die\".\n\nStephen Reicher, a professor of social psychology who has advised the government on behavioural science during the pandemic, said the prime minister's backing of Mr Cummings made him feel \"dismay\".\n\nHe said trust was vital to maintaining public health measures. \"You can't have trust if people have a sense of them and us,\" he told the BBC.\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 Stephen Reicher This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpeaking on ITV's Good Morning Britain, Prof Reicher - a member of the scientific pandemic influenza group on behaviours (SPI-B) - said research showed that the reason people observed lockdown was not for themselves but for the community.\n\n\"If you give the impression there's one rule for them and one rule for us you fatally undermine that sense of 'we're all in this together' and you undermine adherence to the forms of behaviour which have got us through this crisis,\" he said.\n\n\"The real issue here is that because of these actions, because of undermining trust in the government, because of undermining adherence to the rules that we all need to follow, people are going to die.\"\n\nTwo other members of SPI-B, which feeds into the Sage scientific advisory group, have backed Prof Reicher's comments - University College of London professors Robert West and Susan Michie.\n\nIt comes as the Bishop of Bristol, the Right Reverend Vivienne Faull, has accused the prime minister of having \"no respect for people\", while the Bishop of Leeds, the Right Reverend Nick Baines, said Mr Johnson was treating people \"as mugs\".\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth criticised the government in a series of tweets, saying that \"in a pandemic everyone must adjust their behaviour to protect us all\".\n\n\"How can Matt Hancock expect adherence to social distancing requirements while endorsing breaches like this,\" he said.\n\nThe shadow home secretary, Nick Thomas-Symonds, has written to Home Secretary Priti Patel about policing the lockdown, asking whether guidance on travel restrictions had been updated for parents with coronavirus symptoms.\n\nEarlier, the former chief constable of Durham Police, Mark Barton, told BBC Breakfast that the prime minister's decision has \"now made it exponentially tougher for all those on the frontline enforcing the lockdown\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Let's have an inquiry,\" says shadow communities secretary Steve Reed\n\nThe prime minister said he held \"extensive\" discussions on Sunday with Mr Cummings, who he said \"followed the instincts of every father and every parent - and I do not mark him down for that\".\n\nThe Observer and Sunday Mirror reported two further allegations of lockdown breaches by his aide, although Mr Johnson called \"some\" of the claims \"palpably false\".\n\nOne report alleges that a witness saw Mr Cummings in Barnard Castle, more than 25 miles from Durham, where he had been self-isolating, on 12 April.\n\nMinisters to publicly support Mr Cummings include the Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove.\n\nHas the lockdown stopped you from travelling or not? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "The star said his \"small\" heart attack revealed more serious underlying problems\n\nQueen guitarist Brian May has revealed he \"could have died\" after being rushed to hospital following a heart attack.\n\nThe 72-year-old said he was \"shocked\" to discover he needed surgery after what he described as a \"small\" heart attack earlier this month.\n\nThe star's heart scare came a few days after a separate medical issue, when he thought he had ripped his glutes during a gardening accident.\n\nHe explained his latest health problem in a video posted to Instagram.\n\n\"I thought I was a very healthy guy,\" he said.\n\n\"But I turned out to have three arteries that were congested and in danger of blocking the supply of blood to my heart.\"\n\nMay was subsequently fitted with three stents - tiny tubes that can hold open blocked arteries - and says he is back in full health.\n\n\"I walked out with a heart that's very strong now, so I think I'm in good shape for some time to come.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe star made headlines earlier this month when he posted that he had torn a muscle in his gluteus maximus during a gardening accident.\n\nThe injury left him in \"relentless pain,\" which he later discovered was due to another injury.\n\n\"I told you I had a ripped muscle,\" he said in the seven-minute video he posted titled \"Sheer Heart Attack\" - a reference to the title of Queen's third album, released in 1974.\n\n\"That was the way I was diagnosed and we thought it was like a bizarre gardening accident.\n\n\"I didn't realise that was amusing, really. I kind of forgot anything to do with the bum people find amusing... but anyway, it turned out to be not really the case.\n\n\"Now a week later I'm still in agony. I mean real agony. I wanted to jump at some points. I could not believe the pain. And people were saying, 'That's not like a ripped muscle, you don't get that amount of pain,' so eventually I had another MRI.\n\n'But this time I had one of the lower spine and, sure enough, what did we discover but I had a compressed sciatic nerve, quite severely compressed, and that's why I had the feeling that someone was putting a screwdriver in my back the whole time. It was excruciating.\n\n\"So finally we started treating the thing for what it was. I'd been putting the ice packs in the wrong place for about 10 days.\n\n'That's one side of the story, and I'm a lot better now... But the rest of the story is a little more bizarre and a bit more shocking.\n\n\"I thought I was a very healthy guy. Everyone says, 'You've got a great blood pressure, you've got a great heart rate'. And I keep fit, I bike, good diet, not too much fat.\n\n\"Anyway, I had - in the middle of the whole saga of the painful backside - I had a small heart attack.\n\n\"It's not something that did me any harm. It was about 40 minutes of pain in the chest and tightness, and that feeling in the arms and sweating.\"\n\nHaving realised he was having a heart attack, he called his doctor, who drove him to hospital for tests that exposed his underlying health problems.\n\nQueen were due to be on tour with Adam Lambert this year before coronavirus put live music on hold\n\nGiven the choice between open heart surgery and having stents fitted, the musician chose the latter, and said the operation was remarkably straightforward.\n\nThe star added that his experience should be a lesson to other people in their \"autumn years\".\n\n\"What seems to be a very healthy heart may not be, and I would get it checked if I were you,\" he said.\n\n\"I was actually very near death [but] I didn't die. I came out and I would have been full of beans if it hadn't been for the leg.\"\n\nMay's health scare came shortly after Queen released a new version of We Are The Champions to raise money for the World Health Organization's Covid-19 fund.\n\nThe single was renamed You Are The Champions as a tribute to medical staff, and was recorded under lockdown.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @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. Boris Johnson defends his senior adviser Dominic Cummings in May 2020\n\nBoris Johnson has backed his key adviser Dominic Cummings, amid a row over the aide’s travel during lockdown.\n\nThe PM said he believed Mr Cummings had \"no alternative\" but to travel from London to the North East for childcare \"when both he and his wife were about to be incapacitated by coronavirus\".\n\n\"In every respect, he has acted responsibly, legally and with integrity,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nIt follows calls from several Tory MPs for Mr Cummings' resignation.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Johnson's decision to take no action against Mr Cummings was \"an insult to sacrifices made by the British people\".\n\nLeaving Downing Street after about six hours in Number 10 on Sunday, Mr Cummings refused to answer questions.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson said parents and teachers should prepare for the phased reopening of schools in England to start on 1 June as planned.\n\nHe also announced that a further 118 people had died with coronavirus in the UK, across all settings, bringing the total to 36,793.\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Cummings and the government had said he acted \"reasonably and legally\" in response to the original claims that he drove 260 miles from London to County Durham with his wife, who had coronavirus symptoms.\n\nThe aide then faced further allegations on Sunday of a second trip to the North East, reported by The Observer and Sunday Mirror.\n\nBut, speaking at Downing Street's daily coronavirus briefing, Mr Johnson called \"some\" of the claims \"palpably false\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Johnson said he held \"extensive\" discussions on Sunday with Mr Cummings, who he said \"followed the instincts of every father and every parent - and I do not mark him down for that\".\n\n\"Looking at the very severe childcare difficulties that presented themselves to Dominic Cummings and his family, I think that what they did was totally understandable - there's actually guidance... about what you need to do about the pressures that families face when they have childcare needs.\n\n\"He found those needs where they could best be served, best be delivered and yes, that did involve travel.\"\n\nWhen asked whether Mr Cummings made a trip to Barnard Castle - 30 miles from Durham - during his isolation in April, Mr Johnson said his aide isolated for 14 days and he was \"content that in all periods and in both sides (of isolation) he behaved responsibly and correctly\".\n\nIt strikes me Boris Johnson is taking a political gamble here; that the public will understand his decision or aren't that bothered by a \"Westminster row\".\n\nIndeed, Mr Johnson and Mr Cummings are seen as political operators who can judge the public mood well.\n\nBut many - including several Tory MPs - think they've got this wrong. They believe the public does care and see it as one rule for us, one rule for them.\n\nThere are a lot of unanswered questions too; when did the PM know his adviser had travelled to Durham? Did Mr Cummings visit an area 30 miles from where he was isolating?\n\nLabour had called for an urgent inquiry into the allegations, while several Conservative backbench MPs publicly questioned Mr Cummings' position, including Sir Roger Gale.\n\nReacting to the prime minister's comments, Sir Roger said it was an \"extraordinary position\" for Mr Johnson to take.\n\n\"It's up to the prime minister to exercise judgement about who he has around him,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"In this case, I do think that that judgement is flawed. I don't think many people will buy into the idea that suddenly after the event it's OK to reinterpret the rules\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Millions of people had made 'agonising choices' to stay away from family during lockdown\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said: \"This was a huge test of the prime minister and he has just failed that test.\n\n\"Millions of people across the country have made the most agonising choices - not visiting relatives, not going to funerals - they deserve better answers than they got from the prime minister today.\"\n\nHe also said he would've sacked Mr Cummings if he were prime minister.\n\nActing Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey said he was \"astonished\" with Mr Johnson's decision as the PM had told the public to stay at home.\n\nIn a statement posted on Twitter, Amanda Hopgood, leader of the Liberal Democrats on Durham County Council, said \"a number of local residents have reported seeing Dominic Cummings on several occasions in April and May\".\n\nShe said that \"given the clear public interest\" she has referred the matter to Durham Constabulary to see if there had been a breach of the coronavirus regulations.\n\nAnd the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford said: \"The prime minister's refusal to act demeans his office and will cause lasting damage to public confidence in the Tory government and its response to Covid-19.\"\n\nScientists also raised concerns. Stephen Reicher, a professor of social psychology who has advised the government on behavioural science during the pandemic, said the prime minister's comments made him feel \"dismay\".\n\nHe said trust was vital to maintaining public health measures. \"You can't have trust if people have a sense of them and us, that there's one rule for them and another rule for us,\" he told the BBC.\n\nAnd two Church of England bishops strongly criticised the defence of Mr Cummings. The Bishop of Leeds, the Right Reverend Nick Baines, said the public were being \"lied to, patronised and treated by a PM as mugs\".\n\nThe Bishop of Bristol, the Right Reverend Vivienne Faull, accused the prime minister of having \"no respect for people\".\n\n16 March - Government tells the UK public they have to isolate for 14 days if someone in their household has symptoms\n\n23 March - Boris Johnson tells the UK public they \"must stay at home\"\n\n30 March - Downing Street says Mr Cummings is self-isolating with coronavirus symptoms\n\n31 March - Officers from Durham Constabulary \"were made aware of reports that an individual had travelled from London to Durham and was present at an address in the city\", the force adds that officers \"made contact with the owners of that address\"\n\n12 April - According to the Observer and Sunday Mirror, Mr Cummings was seen visiting Barnard Castle, 30 miles from his parents' residence.\n\n14 April - Mr Cummings is photographed at Downing Street for the first time since 27 March\n\n19 April - This is the date an unnamed witness tells the Observer and Sunday Mirror they saw Mr Cummings in Durham\n\nEarlier, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that the \"integrity\" of public health advice \"must come first\" as she urged Mr Cummings to resign.\n\nShe added that it was \"tough to lose a trusted adviser at the height of crisis\", referring to Scotland's chief medical officer who resigned in April after twice breaking lockdown restrictions to drive to her second home.\n\nSome government ministers had rallied around Mr Cummings on Saturday and defended his conduct.\n\nMatt Hancock and Michael Gove were among those to come out in support of Mr Cummings on social media.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson announces date for non-essential shops in England to reopen\n\nAll non-essential retailers will be able to reopen in England from 15 June, Boris Johnson has announced, as part of plans to further ease the lockdown.\n\nHowever, the move is \"contingent on progress in the fight against coronavirus\", and retailers will have to adhere to new guidelines to protect shoppers and workers, the PM added.\n\nOutdoor markets and car showrooms will be able to reopen from 1 June.\n\nIt comes as the number of coronavirus deaths in the UK rose by 121 to 36,914.\n\nMr Johnson said new guidance had been published for the retail sector \"detailing the measures they should take to meet the necessary social distancing and hygiene standards\".\n\n\"Shops now have the time to implement this guidance before they reopen,\" he said.\n\n\"This will ensure there can be no doubt about what steps they should take.\"\n\nHe added: \"I want people to be confident that they can shop safely, provided they follow the social distancing rules for all premises.\"\n\nCommenting on the development, Business Secretary Alok Sharma said: \"Enabling these businesses to open will be a critical step on the road to rebuilding our economy, and will support millions of jobs across the UK.\"\n\nThe British Retail Consortium said it welcomed the announcement, adding it provided \"much-needed clarity on the route ahead\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC health correspondent Laura Foster explains how to keep safe while shopping\n\nA spokesman for the Confederation of British Industry added that the new guidance would help retailers to open \"safely and securely\".\n\nHowever, not all businesses are pleased with the announcement.\n\nThe British Association of Independent Retailers said many small shops had been preparing to open from next week, adding: \"It is therefore a little disappointing for the smaller retailers not to be able to open until June 15, especially as they can make it safe to do so.\"\n\nAnd analyst Catherine Shuttleworth, from the Savvy retail marketing agency, told the Today programme: \"It is fine saying the stores can open, but are we going to have the appetite to go back?\n\n\"Shopping is a social, fun experience a lot of the time and social distancing takes that away. It's going to be a very different way of shopping from what we're used to.\"\n\nThis is extremely welcome news for a sector that was struggling even before the pandemic.\n\nThe problem of falling footfall on the High Street looked like a walk in the park compared to months of shuttered windows.\n\nWhen 15 June comes around, shops will look rather different to what we've been used to, with limits to the number of people allowed in, and restrictions on how people move around shops.\n\nThere might also be screens in place, and hygiene products on arrival.\n\nHowever, some of these measures will be harder to implement than others - such as encouraging customers to avoid handling products while browsing.\n\nThe announcement at the daily Downing Street coronavirus briefing came after a lengthy press conference involving the PM's chief adviser, Dominic Cummings.\n\nMr Cummings has been facing calls to resign after it emerged he had driven his child and ill wife 260 miles from London to County Durham during lockdown.\n\nBut at the press conference, the former Vote Leave chief said he did not regret his actions and believed he had acted \"reasonably\" within the law.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn the subject of why he then drove his family to the town of Barnard Castle - 15 days after he had displayed symptoms - he said he was testing his eyesight to see if he could make the trip back down to London.\n\nAsked about the matter at the daily briefing, Mr Johnson said: \"Do I regret what has happened? Yes, of course I do regret the confusion and the anger and the pain that people feel.\"\n\nWould the easing of shopping restrictions make a difference to you? Do you own a shop or work in one? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US President Donald Trump said he was taking hydroxychloroquine to ward off Covid-19\n\nTesting of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a possible treatment for coronavirus has been halted because of safety fears, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.\n\nTrials in several countries are being \"temporarily\" suspended as a precaution, the agency said on Monday.\n\nIt comes after a recent medical study suggested the drug could increase the risk of patients dying from Covid-19.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has said he has taken the drug to ward off the virus.\n\nThe US president has repeatedly promoted the anti-malarial drug, against medical advice and despite warnings from public health officials that it could cause heart problems.\n\nLast week, a study in medical journal The Lancet said there were no benefits to treating coronavirus patients with hydroxychloroquine, and that taking it might even increase the number of deaths among those in hospital with the disease.\n\nHydroxychloroquine is safe for malaria, and conditions like lupus or arthritis, but no clinical trials have recommended its use for treating Covid-19.\n\nResearchers say Covid-19 patients should not use hydroxychloroquine outside of clinical trials\n\nThe WHO, which is running clinical trials of various drugs to assess which might be beneficial in treating the disease, has previously raised concerns over reports of individuals self-medicating and causing themselves serious harm.\n\nOn Monday, officials at the UN health agency said hydroxychloroquine would be removed from those trials pending a safety assessment.\n\nThe Lancet study involved 96,000 coronavirus patients, nearly 15,000 of whom were given hydroxychloroquine - or a related form chloroquine - either alone or with an antibiotic.\n\nThe study found that the patients were more likely to die in hospital and develop heart rhythm complications than other Covid patients in a comparison group.\n\nThe death rates of the treated groups were: hydroxychloroquine 18%; chloroquine 16.4%; control group 9%. Those treated with hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine in combination with antibiotics had an even higher death rate.\n\nThe researchers warned that hydroxychloroquine should not be used outside of clinical trials.", "The spread of coronavirus in care homes is \"heartbreaking\" and \"will haunt a lot of us for a long time\", Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nCases of the virus have been reported in 60% of Scotland's care homes, with a total of 5,635 residents affected.\n\nMinisters have come under pressure over why hundreds of hospital patients were sent to homes without being tested.\n\nMs Sturgeon said her government had \"done what we thought was best based on the knowledge that we had at the time\".\n\nBut she said applying \"hindsight\" and \"knowledge we have now that we didn't have then\" would lead her to \"a different conclusion\".\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman has said there should be a review of social care in Scotland in the wake of the pandemic, as it had \"shone a light\" on areas that needed to be improved.\n\nIn the early days of the crisis, hundreds of \"delayed discharge\" patients were moved out of hospitals to make room for an expected wave of Covid-19 patients.\n\nMore than 900 of them were sent to care homes - before the point when coronavirus testing was made mandatory for such transfers.\n\nOpposition parties say this raises \"serious questions\" about the government's handling of the crisis, with Scottish Labour saying it was \"inexcusable to discharge patients into care home without first testing them\".\n\nAs of 17 May there had been 1,623 deaths in care homes where Covid-19 was a confirmed or suspected cause, accounting for 46% of the total in Scotland.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that the situation in care homes across the UK was \"heartbreaking\" and \"will haunt a lot of us for a long time emotionally\".\n\nShe said: \"This is a virus that we know hits older people particularly hard, and it spreads faster in institutional settings like care homes.\n\n\"We put in place very early on risk assessment of people being admitted to care homes, we put in place guidance around isolation of residents within care home. But we have to continually review what we did as our knowledge of this virus develops.\n\n\"Its very easy and I guess understandable for those not in decision making positions to apply hindsight to all of this and apply knowledge that we have now that we didn't have then to these decisions\n\n\"We learn as we go, but at all steps we do what we consider right to protect people from this virus.\"\n\nAsked if she believed the discharge of untested patients into care homes had exacerbated the issues there, Ms Sturgeon said \"if I apply hindsight to that, I come to different conclusions\".\n\nShe said: \"These older people, so called delayed discharges had no medical need to be in hospital.\n\n\"At that point we were getting ready for what we considered to be a tsunami of coronavirus cases into our hospitals, and our hospitals as it turned out were under huge pressure.\n\n\"It would have exposed older people to enormous risk to leave them in hospitals at that point.\n\n\"People say there should have been more testing and that is again a legitimate question, but what we knew then about the efficacy of testing asymptomatic people is different to what we know now.\n\n\"At every stage we have done what we thought was best based on the knowledge that we had a at the time. Of course mistakes will have been made and we learn as our knowledge of this virus increases. But the suggestion that any of us acted recklessly or without due care and attention to older people is frankly one that is not true.\"\n\nOpposition politicians claim the public have \"lost confidence\" in Jeane Freeman as health secretary\n\nThe first minister defended Ms Freeman for getting the figures about care home discharges wrong at Holyrood, saying she \"made a mistake in articulating numbers\" because she had been working around the clock and was \"a bit tired\".\n\nOpposition parties have called for the health secretary to step down, with the Scottish Conservatives saying she \"no longer has the confidence of the public\" and \"simply can't be trusted on care home coronavirus\".\n\nMs Sturgeon also said she was \"very hopeful and optimistic\" that some of Scotland's lockdown restrictions could be lifted on Thursday.\n\nShe said: \"The data would suggest that is the case, but I have to formally assess that on Thursday.\n\n\"It will be cautious step forward, because we have to keep the virus under control - but it will be the first step on a road back to hopefully a greater sense of normality.\"\n\nUse the form below to send us your questions and we could be in touch.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Germany's highest civil court has ruled that Volkswagen must pay compensation to a motorist who had bought one of its diesel minivans fitted with emissions-cheating software.\n\nThe ruling sets a benchmark for about 60,000 other cases in Germany.\n\nThe plaintiff, Herbert Gilbert, will be partially reimbursed for his vehicle, with depreciation taken into account\n\nVW said it would now offer affected motorists a one-off payment. The amount will depend on individual cases.\n\nThe company has already settled a separate €830m (£743m) class action suit involving 235,000 German car owners.\n\nVW said in a statement on Monday: \"For the majority of the 60,000 pending cases, this ruling provides clarity as to how the [Federal Court of Justice] assesses essential questions in German diesel proceedings.\n\n\"Volkswagen is now seeking to bring these proceedings to a prompt conclusion in agreement with the plaintiffs. We will therefore approach the plaintiffs with the adequate settlement proposals.\"\n\nVW has paid out more than €30bn in fines, compensation and buyback schemes worldwide since the scandal first broke in 2015.\n\nThe company disclosed at the time that it had used illegal software to manipulate the results of diesel emissions tests.\n\nIt said that about 11 million cars were fitted with the \"defeat device\", which alerted diesel engines when they were being tested. The engine would then change its performance in order to improve the result of the test.\n\nVolkswagen has faced a flurry of legal action worldwide, including the UK.\n\nAbout 90,000 motorists in England and Wales have brought action against VW as well as Audi, Seat and Skoda, which are also owned by Volkswagen Group.\n\nLast month, their case cleared its first hurdle in the High Court, when a judge ruled that the software installed in the cars was indeed a \"defeat device\" under EU rules.\n\nThe carmaker's current and former senior employees are facing criminal charges in Germany.", "A care home in Devon has copied the concept of drive-through restaurants to reunite loved ones during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nDuring lockdown regular visits haven't been allowed at Sefton Hall in Dawlish.\n\nBut through careful planning - including use of PPE, time-slots and separate stations - families were, for one day, able to see residents from the safety of their cars after eight weeks apart.\n\nCare home staff and visitors shared this footage with the BBC with the permission of residents and families.\n\nWatch more personal stories during the coronavirus outbreak: Your Coronavirus Stories", "Dominic Cummings has given a detailed account of what he did, when and why. So what have we learned from his side of the story?\n\nHe described the fact that his London home had become a “target” which led him to fear for the safety of his family.\n\nMr Cummings also admitted not telling the prime minister about his decision to decide to travel to his parent’s property in Durham.\n\nHe explained some of the uncertainties about his movements including what he was doing in Castle Bernard (to test his eyesight for driving) and whether he stopped on the journey from London (he didn’t).\n\nBut on several occasions Mr Cummings described the “exceptional circumstances” of providing care for a small child, which he believed the guidelines allow.\n\nHe acknowledged that people were angry and “hated the idea of unfairness” - and admitted that he should’ve made a statement sooner.\n\nBut this was an explanation for his actions, not an apology.\n\nIt will be for people to judge whether they accept it as a justification for what many see as acting against the spirit, if not the letter of the rules.", "Dominic Cummings was never going to go quietly after being forced out of Downing Street at the end of last year.\n\nBut the number, and seriousness, of his claims about what went on at the heart of government, as ministers battled to get on top of the coronavirus crisis, are unprecedented in modern times.\n\nRarely has a former adviser made so many potentially damaging revelations about a sitting prime minister.\n\nHis critics say Mr Cummings is motivated by revenge against Boris Johnson, and will not rest until the PM has been removed from No 10.\n\nMr Cummings insists he is driven by a desire to make what he views as a broken and chaotic government machine work better in future.\n\nHe left his Downing Street role following an internal power struggle, amid claims the PM's then-fiancee had blocked the promotion of one of his allies, Lee Cain, after months of internal warfare.\n\nIn his final year at Downing Street, Mr Cummings had a £40,000 pay rise, taking his salary to between £140,000 and £144,999.\n\nThere was speculation that the 49-year-old would seek a post-politics career as the first head of Aria, the UK's new \"high risk\" science agency, which had been one of his pet projects.\n\nBut he appears to have a different career path in mind.\n\nIn February, he started a technology consultancy firm, Siwah Ltd. He is the sole director of the firm, according to Companies House, and it is registered at an address in his native Durham, in north-east England. This would appear to be a successor to Dynamic Maps, his previous tech consultancy.\n\nBut in recent months, most of his time appears to have been taken up with spilling the beans on his time in government.\n\nThe BBC did not pay Mr Cummings for his exclusive interview with political editor Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nAnd he has not yet taken the time-honoured route of selling his story to a newspaper, or signing a book deal.\n\nBut he has found a way of generating income through online platform Substack, where he has launched a newsletter.\n\nHe plans to give out information on the coronavirus pandemic and his time in Downing Street for free, but \"more recondite stuff on the media, Westminster, 'inside No 10', how did we get Brexit done in 2019, the 2019 election etc\" will only be available to subscribers who pay £10 a month.\n\nHe is also offering his marketing and election campaigning expertise, for fees that \"slide from zero to lots depending on who you are / your project\".\n\nThis new venture has incurred the wrath of Whitehall watchdog Lord Pickles, who chairs the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba), which vets jobs taken by former ministers and top officials.\n\nIn a letter to Cabinet Office Minister Micheal Gove, he says Mr Cummings has sought advice on working as a consultant.\n\nBut he adds: \"It appears that Mr Cummings is offering various services for payment via a blog hosted on Substack, the blog for which he is also receiving subscription payments.\n\n\"Mr Cummings has failed to seek the committee's advice on this commercial undertaking, nor has the committee received the courtesy of a reply to our letter requesting an explanation.\n\n\"Failure to seek and await advice before taking up work is a breach of the government's rules.\"\n\nThere are few repercussions for failing to consult Acoba, however.\n\nLittle was heard from Mr Cummings for several months after his departure from Downing Street - but that all changed in April.\n\nAfter being named in media reports as the source of government leaks, he launched a scathing attack on Mr Johnson via a 1,000-word blog post in April.\n\nAs well as denying he was behind the leaks, he went on to make a series of accusations against the PM and questioned his \"competence and integrity\".\n\nThe following month, Mr Cummings expanded on his criticisms at a seven-hour select committee appearance, declaring Boris Johnson \"unfit for the job\", and claiming he had ignored scientific advice and wrongly delayed lockdowns.\n\nHe also turned his fire on then-health secretary Matt Hancock, who he said should have been fired for lying.\n\nThis sparked a bitter war of words with Mr Hancock, who flatly denied all of Mr Cummings's allegations.\n\nIt thrust Mr Cummings back into the spotlight for the first time since his now infamous visit to County Durham, four days after the start of the first national lockdown, in March last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhile staying with his family at his father's farm, he made a 30-mile road journey to Barnard Castle, which he later said had been to test his eyesight before the 260-mile drive back to London.\n\nThis revelation - at a specially-convened press conference in the Downing Street garden - made Mr Cummings a household name and led to furious allegations of double standards at a time when the government had banned all but essential long-distance travel.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Cummings said that, during the Barnard Castle trip, he had been trying to work out \"Do I feel OK driving?\"\n\nHe also said he had decided to move his family to County Durham before his wife fell ill with suspected Covid because of security concerns over his home in London.\n\nAsked why he had given a story that was \"not the 100% truth\" when he held a special press conference in the Downing Street rose garden on 25 May, Mr Cummings admitted that \"the way we handled the whole thing was wrong\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cummings says he drove to Barnard Castle to test vision\n\nBoris Johnson stood by his adviser throughout the Barnard Castle episode - to the consternation of some of his supporters, who feared it was undermining his attempts to hold the country together during a national crisis.\n\nSome said the episode burned through the political capital the prime minister had generated months earlier during the 2019 general election.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson defends his senior adviser Dominic Cummings in May 2020\n\nBut it is hard to overstate how important Mr Cummings was to the Johnson project.\n\nThe two are very different characters - Mr Johnson likes to be popular, Mr Cummings appears indifferent to such concerns - but they formed a strong bond in the white heat of the 2016 Vote Leave campaign to get Britain out of the EU, which Mr Cummings led as campaign director.\n\nThe combination of Mr Johnson, the flamboyant household-name frontman, with Mr Cummings, the ruthless, data-driven strategist, with a flair for an eye-catching slogan, proved to be unbeatable.\n\nMr Cummings was credited with formulating the \"take back control\" slogan that appears to have struck a chord with so many referendum voters, changing the course of British history.\n\nYet some were surprised when Mr Cummings was brought into the heart of government as Mr Johnson's chief adviser, given his past record of rubbing senior Tory politicians up the wrong way.\n\nIt proved to be a shrewd move. It was Mr Cummings who devised the high-risk strategy of pushing for the 2019 election to be fought on a \"Get Brexit Done\" ticket, focusing on winning seats in Labour heartlands, something no previous Tory leader had managed to do in decades.\n\nMany of the policy ideas that have shaped the Johnson government's agenda have his fingerprints all over them.\n\n\"Levelling up\" - moving power and money out of London and the South East of England - is a Cummings project, as are plans to shake-up the civil service, take on the judiciary and reform the planning system.\n\nThe team that surrounded Mr Cummings at Downing Street, some of whom are Vote Leave veterans, were fiercely loyal to him and shared a sense that they were outsiders in Whitehall, battling an entrenched \"elite\".\n\nLee Cain, the former Downing Street and Vote Leave communications chief, left No 10 just before Mr Cummings did.\n\nMr Cummings watches the PM in action at a coronavirus briefing\n\nThere had been rumours of a rift between the Vote Leave veterans and other No 10 aides, who didn't like Mr Cummings's and Mr Cain's abrasive style.\n\nThere were tales of crackdowns on special advisers suspected of leaking to the media and angry, dismissive behaviour towards Tory MPs, civil servants and even secretaries of state.\n\nNone of this will have come as much of a surprise to veteran Cummings watchers.\n\nMr Cummings has been in and around the upper reaches of government and the Conservative Party for nearly two decades, and has made a career out of defying conventional wisdom and challenging the established order.\n\nBut he has never been a member of the Conservative Party, or any party, and appears to have little time for most MPs.\n\nA longstanding Eurosceptic who cut his campaigning teeth as a director of the anti-euro Business for Sterling group, Mr Cummings's other passion is changing the way government operates.\n\nHe grabbed headlines when he posted an advert on his personal blog for \"weirdos and misfits with odd skills\" to work in government, arguing that the civil service lacked \"deep expertise\" in many policy areas.\n\nThe Vote Leave bus was one of its most notable campaign tactics\n\nMr Cummings is a native of Durham, in the North East of England. His father, Robert, was an oil rig engineer and his mother, Morag, a teacher and behavioural specialist.\n\nHe went to a state primary school and was then privately educated at Durham School. He graduated from Oxford University with a first-class degree in modern history and spent some time in Russia, where he was involved with an ill-fated attempt to launch an airline, among other projects.\n\nHe is married to Spectator journalist Mary Wakefield, the daughter of aristocrat Sir Humphry Wakefield, whose family seat is Chillingam Castle, in Northumberland.\n\nAfter a stint as campaign director for Business for Sterling, Mr Cummings spent eight months as chief strategy adviser to then Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith, who fired him.\n\nHe played a key role in the 2004 campaign against an elected regional assembly in his native North East.\n\nIn what turned out to be a dry run for the Brexit campaign, the North East Says No team won the referendum with a mix of eye-catching stunts - including an inflatable white elephant - and snappy slogans that tapped into the growing anti-politics mood among the public.\n\nHe is then said to have retreated to his father's farm, in County Durham, where he spent his time reading science and history books in an effort to attain a better understanding of the world.\n\nMr Cummings facing questions from the media outside his home\n\nHe re-emerged in 2007 as a special adviser to Michael Gove, who became education secretary in 2010 and turned out to be something of a kindred spirit.\n\nThe pair would rail against what they called \"the blob\" - the informal alliance of senior civil servants and teachers' unions that sought, in their opinion, to frustrate their attempts at reform.\n\nHe left of his own accord to set up a free school, having alienated a number of senior people in the education ministry and the Conservative Party.\n\nHe once described former Brexit Secretary David Davis as \"thick as mince\" and as \"lazy as a toad\" and irritated David Cameron, the then prime minister, who called him a \"career psychopath\".\n\nBenedict Cumberbatch was widely praised for his portrayal of Dominic Cummings in Brexit: The Uncivil War\n\nHis appointment as head of the Vote Leave campaign - dramatised in Channel 4 drama Brexit: The Uncivil War - was seen as a risk worth taking by those putting the campaign together but he left a controversial legacy.\n\nVote Leave was found to have broken electoral law over spending limits by the Electoral Commission and Mr Cummings was held in contempt of Parliament for failing to respond to a summons to appear before and give evidence to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.\n\nLike most advisers, he shunned media interviews when he was in government, and his rare appearances before MPs were characterised by animosity on both sides.\n\nAll that has changed in recent weeks, but it would be a brave person who said he had now joined the ranks of the former Westminster insiders who make their living as pundits - a class he appears to view with as much disdain as he does his former colleagues in government.", "The hospital in Weston-super-Mare has temporarily stopped accepting new patients\n\nA hospital in Somerset has stopped accepting new patients due to a high number of coronavirus cases.\n\nWeston General Hospital implemented the temporary measures, which extend to its A&E department, at 08:00 BST to \"maintain patient and staff safety\".\n\nIts NHS trust described it as a \"precautionary measure\" and arrangements have been made for new patients to be treated elsewhere.\n\nMedical director Dr William Oldfield said the situation was under review.\n\n\"We currently have a high number of patients with Covid-19,\" he said.\n\n\"While the vast majority will have come into the hospital with Covid-19, as an extra precaution we have taken the proactive step to temporarily stop accepting new patients to maintain patient and staff safety.\"\n\nDr Oldfield, from the University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, said there was a \"robust\" coronavirus testing programme in place for patients and staff to identify cases quickly.\n\nHe added current hospital patients were continuing to receive care, while the trust's partners were working to give new patients treatment in \"the appropriate setting\".\n\nThe trust said alternative services included walk-in treatment facilities for minor injuries in Clevedon, Yate, and Bristol.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Women's Super League and Women's Championship seasons have been ended immediately, with the outcome of the WSL title and promotion and relegation issues still to be decided.\n\nThe joint WSL and Women's Championship board has sent various recommendations to the Football Association board to \"determine the most appropriate sporting outcome for the season\".\n\nAn FA statement said the decision came after \"overwhelming feedback from clubs\" and was made \"in the best interest of the women's game\".\n\nIt continued: \"This will also enable clubs, the Women's Super League and Women's Championship board and the FA to plan, prepare and focus on next season when football returns for the 2020-21 campaign.\"\n\nIt means all divisions of women's football in England have now been cancelled for the 2019-20 campaign.\n\nClubs had been assuming their season would not resume, several sources had told BBC Sport, leaving the 45 remaining fixtures in the WSL - and 36 in the Championship - outstanding.\n\nMonday's joint leagues board meeting came after a formal consultation process with clubs last week. The FA wrote to clubs on Wednesday to seek their formal views on whether to end the season and how to do so.\n\nWhat is still to be decided?\n\nManchester City were top of the table when the season was suspended in March because of the coronavirus pandemic, although second-placed Chelsea had a game in hand on the leaders.\n\nReigning champions Arsenal were three points further back in third place.\n\nShould final places in the Women's Super League be decided by an unweighted points-per-game ratio, Chelsea would climb above City to go top.\n\nAlso still to be confirmed are England's two representatives to take part in next season's Women's Champions League, which, the FA said in their statement, \"would be based on sporting merit\" from the WSL season.\n\nAt the foot of the WSL, Liverpool remain in danger of being relegated. The Reds are a point below second-from-bottom Birmingham and have played a game more.\n\nAston Villa are six points clear of Sheffield United at the top of the second-tier Championship.\n\nIt is understood no decision has yet been made regarding the conclusion of the Women's FA Cup, which had reached the quarter-final stage before March's suspension of elite football in England.\n• None Points-per-game is 'fairest way' to settle final WSL places - Beard\n\nManchester City said they \"now await the outcome of discussions regarding the final standings of the league table\".\n\nOn their website, the club added: \"While disappointed that we are unable to complete the season, we understand the complexities of the situation and support the FA's decision.\n\n\"Our priority remains the safety and wellbeing of our players and staff, and we will now move forward with preparations for next season.\"\n\nLiverpool said they believed they \"would have been able to meet the operational and financial obligations associated with a return to play, once detailed drafts and accurate protocols had been shared with clubs\",\n\nHowever, the club said they now \"await an equitable solution to those issues still to be decided in a campaign where a third of our league games were still to be played\".\n\nManchester United were fourth in their first season at WSL level, and said they \"understood\" and \"accepted\" the decision to bring the campaign to an early conclusion.\n\nUnited manager Casey Stoney said: \"It's obviously disappointing not to be able complete the season, but it is the right decision for the safety of everyone involved.\n\n\"Our focus now moves to our development for next season, which we have been continuously planning for throughout the year, and we can't wait to be back on the pitch again when it is safe to do so.\"\n\nWest Ham United boss Matt Beard said: \"While the preference was always to return to the pitch to determine the campaign if safe to do so, we completely understand the unique situation that we, and football, finds itself in.\n\n\"As always, the health and safety of our players, staff and fantastic supporters remains the priority at all times.\"\n\nBristol City manager Tanya Oxtoby added: \"The safety of the players, staff and public is the most important thing and, while it's disappointing that we cannot finish our eight remaining games, we appreciate that a decision has now been made.\"\n\nCrystal Palace, who were eighth in the 11-team Championship, posted on Twitter: \"Obviously a disappointing end to the season but the safety of our players and staff is paramount. We can now look forward to next season with no distractions.\"", "Coastguard crews have been asking people to stay away from the cliff's edge in Birling Gap\n\nPeople have been standing near cliff edges and posing for pictures prompting warnings from patrolling coastguards.\n\nLarge numbers of visitors travelled to the south coast on Monday and pictures from Birling Gap in East Sussex show people standing on the chalk cliffs.\n\nThe Maritime and Coastguard Agency said it was \"more important than ever\" to stay away from the crumbling coastline.\n\n\"Coronavirus hasn't gone away and your choices might put our frontline responders at risk,\" it said.\n\n\"We really can't stress enough how important it is to keep back from cliff edges, There is no 'safe' place to be and the cliffs along the UK coastline are continuously eroding. \"\n\nThe chalk cliffs at Birling Gap are prone to collapse\n\nRescue teams have been deployed to beaches, cliff and marinas across the country to \"look out for anyone in trouble and offer safety advice where needed,\" the agency said.\n\nIt said its pre-emptive measures were especially important while RNLI lifeguards provide a limited service due to coronavirus.\n\nOn Sunday a young girl was pictured peering over the edge at Birling Gap, prompting Wealden District Council to urge people to stay away from the cliff edge.\n\nThe council tweeted: \"Is it really worth risking your life for?\"\n\nA young girl was pictured peering over the edge at Birling Gap on Sunday\n\nThere have been significant cliff falls along the south coast in recent years.\n\nAt Seven Sisters, near Eastbourne, 50,000 tonnes of the cliff crumbled and fell to the beach below in 2017.\n\nThe following day a 23-year-old South Korean tourist fell to her death when she jumped in the air for a picture and lost her footing on the edge.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many British towns and cities are making more road space available for pedestrians and cyclists\n\nBritish drivers are ready to change their behaviour to maintain the cleaner air of the lockdown and protect the environment, a survey suggests.\n\nOf the 20,000 motorists polled for the AA, half said they would walk more and 40% intended to drive less.\n\nFour in five would take some action to reduce their impact on air quality.\n\nIt comes after researchers warned the dramatic improvements in air quality in recent weeks could be quickly reversed as the coronavirus restrictions ease.\n\nAs well as walking more and driving less, a quarter of motorists said they planned to work from home more, another quarter said they would be flying less, while one in five plan to cycle more.\n\n\"We have all enjoyed the benefits of cleaner air during lockdown and it is gratifying that the vast majority of drivers want to do their bit to maintain the cleaner air,\" said AA president Edmund King.\n\n\"Walking and cycling more, coupled with less driving and more working from home, could have a significant effect on both reducing congestion and maintaining cleaner air.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the AA is warning drivers in England - now able to drive to destinations for exercise or open-air recreation - against travelling to tourist destinations this Bank Holiday Monday.\n\n\"Drivers should think about how far they need to travel to enjoy the great outdoors,\" Mr King said.\n\nThe UK government has pledged £250m for improvements in cycling and walking infrastructure and many British towns and cities are already making more road space available for pedestrians and those on bikes.\n\nIt is the first part of a £5bn investment announced in February, the Department for Transport said.\n\nBut the official advice from Transport Secretary Grant Shapps as some people start to go back to work is that people should drive rather than use public transport, when walking or cycling is not a viable option.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How will commuting change after lockdown?\n\nThey found the dramatic fall in traffic has been key to the 17% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions that was recorded at the peak of the coronavirus crisis in early April.\n\nSurface transport emissions emissions - including vehicles and industry - declined by 43%, the same as the drop from industry and power generation combined.\n\nBy contrast, the fall in the emission from aviation only accounted for 10% of the decrease.\n\nTo avoid increases in traffic the AA is urging the government to find solutions to help people get around on journeys where walking and cycling are not an option.\n\nIt is calling for emergency park and cycle sites to be set up on the edge of cities.\n\nBut, the organisation warns, even if motorists want to get back in their cars, they may find getting them started after the weeks of lockdown difficult.\n\nIt reports an uptick in breakdowns since restrictions have been eased, as many vehicles left unused throughout lockdown were started for the first time.\n\nThe main cause, the AA says, is flat batteries.\n\nIf you are going to drive, it advises, check the tyre pressure, oil and coolant levels and top up washer fluid if needed.", "Online searches for cream teas and afternoon teas to be delivered have surged since the UK went into lockdown, search data has suggested.\n\nAfternoon tea treats topped the list of most increased searches for \"delivery\" queries in the UK, analysis of data from Google Trends showed.\n\nOther popular terms included TGI, Nando's, takeaways and cakes, as people looked for a \"pick-me-up\" treat.\n\nPeople have also been trying to make sure Royal Mail delivers on a Saturday.\n\nClaire Dinwiddy, from Brewood in Staffordshire, had a cream tea as a surprise treat for her 40th birthday after other celebrations had to be cancelled.\n\n\"It was really nice. We were meant to be away with all my family for a long weekend glamping, but obviously it's all not going ahead so my friends did it to cheer me up,\" she said.\n\n\"A cream tea is something I've never had before as a birthday gift and it's really lovely not having to make anything yourself.\n\n\"It was proper party food: cakes and sandwiches; the weather was lovely so we sat out in the garden with a parasol and drank champagne.\"\n\nKerry Real from Shropshire said her husband ordered a cream tea as a \"nice pick-me-up\" in the middle of home schooling, working from home and a new baby.\n\n\"We like to go to National Trust places, normally we'd have a cream tea while we're there,\" she said.\n\n\"It is one of those nice things we just miss, so we thought, why not do it at home?\"\n\nShe said the treat was from an independent, Lily's Secret Vintage Pop-up Tearoom, and it felt good to support them.\n\n\"I think with lockdown, a lot of things are returning back to supporting local businesses; it's important, it helps them to survive as well.\"\n\nKerry Real said her cream tea and ploughman's lunch was a family treat\n\nOne of those small business owners is Homemade by Victoria, run by Northamptonshire 23-year-old Victoria Austin.\n\nThe former young chef of the year said afternoon teas were now her bestsellers as people rang up and placed orders for friends and family nearby whom they were unable to visit.\n\nShe said the deliveries were helping make up for losses from cancelled catering for weddings and other events, and now instead of serving up teas on presentation china, it was now a simple box for hygienic delivery.\n\n\"I started doing a few boxes here and there just to see,\" she said.\n\n\"They've always been quite popular but never as popular as this. I don't know why it is such a big thing but everyone's loving it.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Rodda's, the Cornish clotted cream business, suggested the popularity may be to do with a wish for \"home comforts\".\n\nShe said: \"A cream tea is one of those special moments, conjuring up fond memories of time spent with loved ones.\n\n\"Over the last few weeks we've seen so many people taking to the kitchen making scones, teaching the younger members of the family how to bake, and more importantly, how to enjoy a delicious cream tea.\n\n\"With a little help from technology, we've also seen people enjoy these moments online, staying connected with loved ones.\"", "If Boris Johnson's decision to appear at Sunday's press conference was an attempt to close down the story about Dominic Cummings' behaviour during the lockdown by handling it himself, it failed completely.\n\nIt certainly was not an attempt to give the public the full information.\n\nInstead, the prime minister refused to answer the questions that remain about the specifics of his adviser's visit, or visits, to the north east of England while his team was telling the public again and again and again that they had to \"stay at home\".\n\nThe prime minister said repeatedly that some parts of the stories that have been reported have been \"palpably false\".\n\nBut without being specific about what is true and what is not, questions will continue to be asked. As a former journalist, surely the prime minister knows that?\n\nOne of the rules of political crisis management is that if a public figure gets rumbled, you need to get all the details, however gory, out from under wherever they had been hiding pronto, or else your opponents will just keep looking.\n\nThe prime minister instead only provided one broad answer - that he himself had talked to Mr Cummings about why he did what he did while he was self-isolating and that was enough.\n\nAnd whatever is left hanging, the central allegation - that his most senior adviser left lockdown while his wife was ill and travelled across the country - is true. Given the government has day after day told everyone to stay at home, that is still extraordinary.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson defends his senior adviser Dominic Cummings in May 2020\n\nThe prime minister said that Mr Cummings was within the guidelines, because of the severe challenges of finding childcare. He seemed almost to be praising him for following his \"instinct\" as a good father.\n\nThe problem with that, is that millions of parents were told they couldn't follow their instincts - the government's lockdown rules were \"instructions\", in the words of cabinet ministers.\n\nMany of the public would have loved to rely on family members if they were unlucky enough to fall ill. Many of the public would have loved to follow their instincts in going to visit relatives who were suffering, or far away.\n\nBut instead they followed the daily exhortations from the government, the prime minister's appeal to the nation, and stayed home - however hard it was.\n\nRather than acknowledging a tiny iota of conflict or fraction of fault, instead Mr Johnson seemed to double down on what many people see as a double standard.\n\nA small troop of Tory MPs have already said publicly that Mr Cummings broke the rules and should quit, and a few more have gone public since the prime minister spoke, alongside some of the government's scientific advisers.\n\nSeveral ministers are saying it privately too, who feel deeply uncomfortable with what has happened and Mr Johnson's justification of it. And many of the public may feel it is quite something to watch the prime minister seemingly reinterpret the same public health advice he has credited with saving thousands of lives, to protect one of his team.\n\nOne cabinet minister has a more benevolent interpretation, saying the prime minister is someone who is always \"loyal to those who have been loyal to him.\"\n\nMr Johnson certainly sees Mr Cummings as a vital part of his operation - a record forged together in the fire of the referendum campaign, the chaos and brutality of their first few months in office as a minority government, and then the strategy to turn red seats blue in the north of England, romping home in the general election.\n\nNo one doubts Mr Cummings' ability as a campaigner, and someone willing to say the unsayable.\n\nBut in government, his willingness to pick fights to get things done has made him many enemies. One senior official described his strategy today as \"shouting in an empty room\".\n\nHis supporters see his willingness to confront hard truths as an advantage. But it means now he is under attack: despite a few slavish cabinet tweets yesterday, there is hardly a long queue of supporters willing to defend him.\n\nAnd even some of his and Mr Johnson's own supporters worry about how dependent the prime minister has become on one adviser. How has Boris Johnson allowed a situation to develop where many people in government believe one aide's view dominates above all else?\n\nAnd some are questioning tonight the willingness to splurge so much personal political capital on one adviser's political survival. It is abundantly clear the prime minister is determined to keep Mr Cummings in place.\n\nMr Johnson has brazened out many difficult political situations before - simply refusing, for example, to answer any questions about the police being called to his and his partner's flat during his bid to become prime minister.\n\nThe hope in No 10 is that in time the controversy will fade. But this time, the misdemeanour goes against the grain of what millions of people were putting up with in lockdown at Boris Johnson's own instruction. Many of them are understandably angry.\n\nDid the prime minister manage to shut this mess down today? Not even close.", "Cosmic Girl pulls away as LauncherOne ignites: The rocket's flight terminated shortly after\n\nSir Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit company has tried unsuccessfully to launch a rocket over the Pacific Ocean.\n\nThe booster was released from under the wing of one of the UK entrepreneur's old jumbos which had been specially converted for the task.\n\nThe rocket ignited its engine seconds later but an anomaly meant the flight was terminated early.\n\nVirgin Orbit's goal is to try to capture a share of the emerging market for the launch of small satellites.\n\nIt's not clear at this stage precisely what went wrong but the firm had warned beforehand that the chances of success might be only 50:50.\n\nThe history of rocketry shows that maiden outings very often encounter technical problems.\n\n\"Test flights are instrumented to yield data and we now have a treasure trove of that. We accomplished many of the goals we set for ourselves, though not as many as we would have liked,\" said Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart.\n\n\"Nevertheless, we took a big step forward today. Our engineers are already poring through the data. Our next rocket is waiting. We will learn, adjust, and begin preparing for our next test, which is coming up soon.\"\n\nThe next rocket on the production line is in the late stages of integration\n\nThe company is sure to be back for another attempt pretty soon - depending on the outcome of the post-mission analysis. The second rocket is undergoing final integration at the company's Long Beach factory in California and could be ready to fly within weeks.\n\nMost publicity about Sir Richard's space activities has focussed on the tourist plane he is developing to take fare-paying passengers on joy rides above the atmosphere.\n\nHis satellite-launch venture is entirely separate.\n\nOrbit is chasing the growing interest in small spacecraft that are being designed for telecommunications and Earth observation.\n\nNew manufacturing techniques, often involving \"off-the-shelf\" components from the consumer electronics industry, mean these satellites can now be turned out for a fraction of their historic cost. But they need matching, inexpensive means of getting into space - and the air-launched system from Virgin Orbit is intended to meet this demand.\n\nThe 747, known as Cosmic Girl, left Mojave Air and Space Port to the north of Los Angeles shortly before midday Pacific time (19:00 GMT / 20:00 BST), carrying the rocket, dubbed LauncherOne, under its left wing.\n\nAt 35,000ft (10km), just west of the Channel Islands, the jet unlatched the liquid-fuelled booster to let it go into freefall.\n\nLauncherOne ignited its NewtonThree engine four seconds later to start the climb to orbit. But it seems it didn't get very far.\n\n\"LauncherOne maintained stability after release, and we ignited our first-stage engine, NewtonThree. An anomaly then occurred early in first-stage flight. We'll learn more as our engineers analyse the mountain of data we collected today,\" the company's Twitter feed reported.\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 Virgin Orbit 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\nSir Richard was not in attendance, but he was following events very closely, Orbit executives said.\n\nAlthough his space start-up is headquartered in California currently, he is keen to bring it to the UK also.\n\nOrbit is working through the possibilities with the US and British governments, the UK Space Agency and the local authorities in the southwest of England. Newquay Airport in Cornwall has been identified as an ideal location from which to base operations.\n\nBritain's enthusiasm is tied closely to that of its satellite manufacturing sector. The country is one of the biggest producers in the world of compact spacecraft.\n\nWill Whitehorn is president of the trade body UKSpace. He also initiated early design work on an air-launched rocket system when working for Sir Richard in the late 2000s.\n\n\"Everyone's attention right now is on the astronauts launching this week on a SpaceX rocket, but from an industrial perspective [Virgin Orbit] is just as significant,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"If the coronavirus has taught us anything it is that our world is changing and space is going to be a big part of that. We could put so much industry outside the atmosphere. Take just the example of server farms. We know we could put them in space to harness solar power. It all comes down to the cost of access to space and that will be revolutionised by this kind of system.\"", "Why Are The Police Putting Down Their Guns?\n\nHundreds of firearms officers hand in their permits to carry weapons.", "Last updated on .From the section Championship\n\nChampionship side Hull City have confirmed two people at the club have tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe English Football League earlier said there were two positive cases out of more than 1,000 players and staff tested at the 24 second-tier clubs.\n\nIn a statement, Hull said the pair were asymptomatic and feeling no ill effects, but would self-isolate for seven days in line with EFL guidelines.\n\nThey will both be tested again at a later date.\n\nThe Tigers did not confirm whether the positive tests were from players or staff.\n\nIt comes after reports that Hull vice-chairman Ehab Allam wrote to the EFL twice to say the season should be voided.\n\nWith Championship clubs set to return to training on Monday, a total of 1,014 tests were undertaken on players and staff over the past 72 hours, with all but the two at the Tigers coming back negative.\n\nThose who had returned negative tests would be allowed to enter training grounds, but prior to going in, everyone must complete a screening protocol to detect any symptoms in a manner devised by the club doctor.\n\nIn the Premier League an unnamed Bournemouth player was one of two new coronavirus cases discovered by the latest round of top-flight tests - taking the overall total of positive results to eight.\n\nThe tests, which are being funded by the clubs and will not affect NHS testing, are not 100% accurate but meet government and NHS standards.\n\nThe Championship, which has been suspended since 13 March, is hoping to restart the season at some point in June.\n\nMeanwhile, no testing programme is in place for League One and League Two clubs.\n\nOn 15 May, teams in the fourth tier \"unanimously indicated\" they wanted to bring their season to an early conclusion, although talks between sides in League One stalled after they failed to agree on a resolution.", "Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is considered the de facto leader of Saudi Arabia\n\nA senior Saudi security official who for years was the key go-between for Britain's MI6 and other Western spy agencies in Saudi Arabia is now being persecuted along with his family, according to former Western intelligence officials.\n\nDr Saad al-Jabri, who helped foil an al-Qaeda bomb plot against the West, fled into exile three years ago, ahead of a purge by the all-powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Now his children have been seized as \"hostages\", according to his eldest son, Khalid.\n\n\"Omar and Sarah were kidnapped at dawn on 16 March and taken out of their beds by about 50 state security officers who arrived in 20 cars,\" says their brother, Khalid al-Jabri.\n\nThe family house in Riyadh was then searched, the CCTV memory cards removed and the pair, aged 21 and 20 respectively, held incommunicado at a detention centre.\n\nThere have been no charges given and no reason offered to the family for their arrest, Khalid tells me on a phone call from Canada where he and his father live in self-imposed exile. \"We don't even know if they are alive or dead.\"\n\nHe believes they are being held as bargaining chips in an attempt to force his father to return to Saudi Arabia where he fears he will face immediate arrest and imprisonment.\n\n\"They can make up any lies they want about him but he is innocent.\"\n\nThe Saudi authorities have not responded to the BBC's requests for comment on the allegations made by the family of Dr Saad al-Jabri and those who worked with him.\n\nKhalid al-Jabri (left) believes his brother Omar (right) has been taken hostage by the state\n\nFor years he was the right-hand man, the gatekeeper, to Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who was widely credited with defeating the al-Qaeda insurgency in the 2000s. He was also the linchpin in all Saudi Arabia's relations with the \"Five Eyes\" (US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) intelligence agencies.\n\nIn 2010 this crucial link \"helped save hundreds of lives\", according to a former Western intelligence officer who worked with him.\n\nAl-Qaeda in Yemen had smuggled a powerful bomb on-board a cargo plane bound for Chicago, hidden inside a printer ink toner cartridge. But Saudi intelligence had a human informant inside al-Qaida who provided the tip-off to MI6, even relaying the serial number of the device it was hidden in.\n\nBritish counter-terrorism police then located and defused the bomb inside the plane at East Midlands Airport. \"If that had gone off as planned over Chicago hundreds would have been killed,\" said the former intelligence officer.\n\n\"Dr al-Jabri transformed Saudi counter-terrorism efforts,\" says another former western intelligence official.\n\n\"He changed it from being a crude, violent, confession-based system into one that used modern forensics and computer-based data mining.\n\n\"He was the smartest guy we dealt with amongst so many others who were dysfunctional,\" he says.\n\nSaad al-Jabri (circled) was welcomed by then UK Home Secretary Theresa May (right) during a visit to London in 2015\n\nA quiet-spoken man with a doctorate in artificial intelligence from Edinburgh University, Dr al-Jabri rose to the rank of cabinet minister and held a major-general's rank in the interior ministry.\n\nBut in 2015 everything changed. King Abdullah died and his half-brother Salman ascended to the throne, appointing his young and untested son Mohammed Bin Salman (known as MBS) as defence minister.\n\nMBS then ordered his country's forces to intervene in Yemen's civil war, a move opposed by Dr al-Jabri who pointed out that there was no exit strategy. More than five years later Saudi Arabia is still looking for a way out of the costly stalemate in Yemen.\n\nIn 2017 MBS carried out a bloodless palace coup with his father's blessing. He effectively usurped the next in line to the throne, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, becoming crown prince himself.\n\nSarah al-Jabri is also being held incommunicado\n\nToday that deposed prince is under arrest, his assets seized and those who worked for him have been removed from their posts. Dr al-Jabri fled into exile in Canada. But former Western intelligence officials believe MBS still sees him as a threat to his legitimacy.\n\n\"He can't afford to have that guy as a free radical and a galvanising force against him,\" says one of them.\n\nHis family say they have tried in vain to meet the Saudi authorities \"on neutral ground\" and have now decided to go public.\n\n\"There are signs that Dr Saad is being targeted with a wide range of threats and the (Canadian) authorities are taking it seriously,\" says his son Khalid.\n\n\"We were pushed into this,\" he adds. \"We are patriots, we love our country, we don't want to embarrass Saudi Arabia but kidnapping Omar and Sarah like this, it's daylight thuggery by a state.\"", "There are warnings that children’s social services in England will face a large increase in demand as vulnerable children start to come out of lockdown.\n\nThe Association of Directors of Children's Services has told the BBC that as schools reopen, teachers will begin to see those needing help, after being at home for many weeks.\n\nSocial workers have tried to keep in contact with those already known to them - but limited access to some children during the pandemic could mean abuse, neglect or harm are going on behind closed doors.\n\nThe BBC's Frankie McCamley met some young people in desperate need of help as coronavirus hit the UK.", "Sweden's Public Health Agency has published official advice on dating and sexual relationships for the first time since the start of the pandemic.\n\nThe advice came as the agency announced that the Covid-19 death toll had passed 4,000.\n\nThe agency has updated its online guidelines to state that \"dating and temporary sexual relationships with new partners...pose a risk of getting infected or infecting others\".\n\nHowever, it advises that \"closeness, intimacy and sex are good for well-being and public health\" and says that for those who are in relationships \"sex is no obstacle if you and your partner, or partners, show no symptoms of illness\".\n\nLast month, Denmark said that its social distancing guidelines did not extend to sexual relationships, whether serious or casual.\n\nSweden never had a lockdown and has kept larger parts of society open than many countries, including bars and restaurants.\n\nHowever, venues have already been asked to make efforts to avoid mingling or hook-ups between strangers, for example by offering table-service only and spacing out seating.", "The UK government has indicated it is prepared to rescue large British companies severely affected by the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe Treasury said \"last resort\" support could be made available if a firm's failure would \"disproportionately harm the UK economy\".\n\nThe move follows indications that a number of big firms are seeking government help to survive the crisis.\n\nThese include Jaguar Land Rover, which is in talks to secure a £1bn loan.\n\nThe government has already put in place various initiatives to help companies weather the pandemic, including loan programmes, deferring of tax payments and the furlough scheme, which allows workers to receive 80% of their salary paid by the government.\n\nAccording to latest figures, eight million workers are covered by the furlough scheme which has been extended until the end of October. But from August, businesses will be expected to meet part of the cost of the scheme.\n\nConcern is growing that some big firms are still in difficulties even after making use of these options.\n\nThe bailout plan, named \"Project Birch\", was mentioned by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps in Parliament last week when discussing the future of the aviation industry.\n\nIt could involve the state taking stakes in companies, although extending existing loans would be preferable.\n\nUnite the union welcomed the plan but urged the government to act quickly.\n\n\"There is no more time to lose if we are to prevent a tsunami of job losses from sweeping through communities this summer,\" said Unite assistant general secretary for manufacturing, Steve Turner.\n\n\"We still need to ensure that proposed changes to the job retention scheme do not undermine a plan to recover and rebuild and that workers continue to get their wages.\"\n\nA Treasury spokeswoman said: \"We have put in place unprecedented levels of support to help businesses get through this crisis.\n\n\"Beyond that, many firms are getting support from established market mechanisms, such as existing shareholders, bank lending and commercial finance.\n\n\"In exceptional circumstances, where a viable company has exhausted all options and its failure would disproportionately harm the economy, we may consider support on a 'last resort' basis.\n\n\"As the British public would expect, we are putting in place sensible contingency planning and any such support would be on terms that protect the taxpayer.\"\n\nThe BBC understands the Treasury would have to notify Parliament of any spend incurred, and although companies might seek financial assistance, this does not mean such support will be given.\n\nOn Saturday, Sky News reported that Tata Steel, Britain's biggest steel producer, had approached both the Welsh and UK governments for financial aid that could run into hundreds of millions.\n\nTata Steel says there has been a sudden drop in European steel demand\n\nEarlier this week, Welsh MP Stephen Kinnock told parliament that Tata Steel, which owns the steelworks in Port Talbot, needs around £500m in order to survive the pandemic.\n\nAnd according to the Financial Times, aviation industry bosses have been asking the government for a \"long-term investment facility\" that would help to support supply chains.\n\nJim O'Neill, former Treasury minister and ex-chief economist at Goldman Sachs, told the newspaper he had been in discussion with government officials about creating a public sector-owned funding body to take stakes in firms that would be \"inherently stable\" in times of normal economic activity.\n• None How will airlines get flying again?", "The UK PM's chief adviser Dominic Cummings has given a statement to explain his actions during lockdown.\n\nIt follows allegations that he broke lockdown rules by travelling 260 miles with his family to be near relatives when his wife developed coronavirus symptoms.\n\nPM Boris Johnson has attempted to draw a line under the row - but MPs have continued to call for Mr Cummings' dismissal.", "Paul Phillips has been offering consultations over FaceTime\n\nHairdressers have been offering virtual appointments to help people style their hair at home.\n\nStylists are using apps including FaceTime, Zoom, and YouTube to provide customers live one-to-one advice and tutorials.\n\nWhile salons have already reopened in France and Germany, hairdressers in the UK expect to remain closed until July.\n\nAn industry report estimated the hair and beauty sector contributed £6.6bn to the country's economy last year.\n\nPaul Phillips owns Chopp Hair salon in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex, which shut in March when the coronavirus lockdown began.\n\nHe provides a service called Chopp Drops, in which he delivers hair products to customers’ doorsteps and then demonstrates via video call how to apply the treatment.\n\n“Most hairdressers say you should never colour your hair at home, and in normal times I’d agree,” he says.\n\n“But lots of clients’ mental health has been affected by the current situation, so sorting out grey roots and split ends makes them feel better.”\n\nPaul says he serves up to 26 clients a day, but adds that he is cautious to only offer advice that is achievable at home.\n\n“It’s too technical to dye blonde hair, so those clients sadly have to sit tight and wait for the lockdown to be over,” he explains.\n\n“You don’t want somebody to mess up and then have to live with it for another seven weeks.”\n\nMost of the hairdressers the BBC spoke to offered bespoke hair kits and virtual appointments priced between £30 and £150.\n\nEbuni Ajiduah is a hair loss-specialist. She has also moved her appointments online, offering clients home treatments, and when required referring them to dermatologists for further advice.\n\n“People now have the time to focus on things they may have neglected,” she says, adding that she’s seen an increased demand for her services.\n\nEbuni has also launched a Virtual Wash Day every Sunday, when she invites people to join her on Zoom to wash, treat, and style hair together.\n\n“We talk about the products we use and how we twist our hair,” she says. “It’s really nice, you get some people in shower caps and others trying to keep their kids still.\n\n“It gives people a sense of normalcy when the world is on fire - you can still have a routine and focus time on yourself.”\n\nSome hairdressers advise against cutting your own hair but are still offering other tips online.\n\n“I've trimmed mine at the front but even I wouldn't attempt [to cut] mine at the back,” Michael Van Clarke says in a video on Instagram. Instead, he proceeds to show the audience how to style short hair that has grown out over a few weeks.\n\nSince closing its doors, the team from his salon has been posting videos on social media and booking virtual colour consultations, serving more than 3,000 customers online.\n\n“We have new clients which have never even been to our salon, the demand is huge,” Mr Van Clarke says.\n\n“It’s a lot easier to do the video consultations if we’ve seen them in person before, but we are still able to give advice to new customers.”\n\nMichael Van Clarke is trying to continue service the customers he normally sees in his salon\n\nSenior technicians carry out a hair assessment over an initial video call, advise on treatments and products, send them out and then offer a follow-up consultation to observe and guide the client.\n\n“Some people like their hands held for reassurance, so our technicians can show them how to hold the brush and how long to leave colour on for,” Mr Van Clarke adds.\n\nGina Conway, who runs three salons in London, thinks this could become the \"new normal\".\n\n“Even when lockdown is over, it’s going to be chaos,” she explains. “Some people might not be able to afford to go to the salon, they might be working from home or looking after children still, so I hope we can relieve that stress through technology.”\n\nGina says she’s now pivoting to focus on the internet.\n\n“At first I was hesitant as I wanted to keep my business as professional as possible, but this is our way of giving proper advice and helping people to feel good about themselves.”", "It remains uncertain how many schools will reopen on 1 June\n\n\"The coronavirus could be with us for a year or more\" so children cannot continue to stay out of school for \"months and months\" longer, says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nBut he told BBC Breakfast he recognised there would be \"initial nervousness\" among parents about children returning.\n\nTeachers' unions have warned it is not safe to open England's primary schools on 1 June.\n\nOn Sunday, Boris Johnson accepted some schools would not be ready to open.\n\nThe education secretary said the first steps for returning to school had to begin.\n\n\"We cannot be in a situation where we go for months and months where children are missing out on education,\" said Mr Williamson.\n\nChallenged over whether the row over Dominic Cummings had undermined the credibility of the government's health advice, he said \"safety was at the heart\" of planning for pupils to return.\n\nThis has not persuaded teachers' unions - with no sign of a resolution to the stand-off over bringing increasing numbers of children into schools.\n\nGavin Williamson did not accept that public trust in government health messages had been undermined\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said the government had \"not done a good job in building confidence in its plans\".\n\nMinisters were failing to win \"trust and confidence\", said Patrick Roach, leader of the Nasuwt teachers' union.\n\nMr Williamson told BBC Breakfast that he recognised there would be hesitation among parents.\n\n\"We do realise there will be an initial nervousness about the return of schools,\" he said.\n\nAnd he said it was right that there would be no penalties for parents who decided to keep children at home.\n\nAsked whether parents should now rely on their \"instincts\" rather than official guidance, he said he hoped that parents would start to send their children back to school.\n\nHe said the guidance for returning to school ensured a \"maximum amount of safety\" - and going back would be important for children's well-being as well as helping them to catch up on lost lessons.\n\nSchools have remained open for the children of key workers and vulnerable children - and the government's plan is for all pupils in Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 to return to school from 1 June.\n\nBut many local authorities have already indicated that their schools will not be ready to open, or that schools will have their own variations on which pupils will return.\n\nIf schools have to spread out classes, how will all year groups be able to return at the same time?\n\nMr Williamson said there was no reason why most schools should not open - but gave no indication of any sanctions for those that did not.\n\nThe first children returning to secondary school, in Years 10 and 12, will begin on 15 June.\n\nSchool leaders have questioned the feasibility of the next stage of reopening, which would have all primary children back in school together for the last month of term.\n\nThe Department for Education says this part of the plan is now \"under review\".\n\nIn Scotland and Northern Ireland there are plans for a phased return to school for pupils, starting in August.\n\nSchools in Wales will not go back on 1 June, but a date has not yet been set.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nThe government has given the go-ahead for elite athletes to return to contact training - when individual sports deem it safe to do so.\n\nThe government advises beginning with clusters of two or three athletes, then progressing to groups of four to 12 and ultimately full team training.\n\nIt is up to individual sports to assess the risk and consult athletes, coaches and support staff.\n\nThe Premier League will discuss the guidance at a meeting on Wednesday.\n\nClubs in England's top flight returned to 'phase one' non-contact training on 19 May.\n\nContact training is phase two in a three-stage plan, with the final phase - the resumption of sport behind closed doors - expected to begin in June.\n\nSports minister Nigel Huddleston said: \"This new guidance marks the latest phase of a carefully phased return to training process for elite athletes, designed to limit the risk of injury and protect the health and safety of all involved.\n\n\"We are absolutely clear that individual sports must review whether they have the appropriate carefully controlled medical conditions in place before they can proceed, and secure the confidence of athletes, coaches and support staff.\"\n\nCurrent social-distancing rules will apply at all times other than during technical training, and equipment-sharing will be avoided where possible.\n\nFootball is the only major team sport to recommence training so far, with the English Football League joining the Premier League in returning on Monday.\n\nIt was announced on Thursday that rugby union's Premiership clubs would not begin training for at least two weeks, while England's men have begun a phased return to cricket training ahead of a proposed restart of action in England and Wales on 1 July.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak today. We'll have another update for you on Tuesday morning.\n\nBoris Johnson's cabinet is to meet later to discuss the further easing of lockdown restrictions, but such details are likely to be overshadowed by the allegations facing senior aide Dominic Cummings that he breached the rules. Mr Johnson has defended his key adviser, but some Tory MPs say the row has undermined the government's message and want Mr Cummings to resign. Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg says the prime minister failed to \"close down\" the story at Sunday's Downing Street briefing.\n\nThe phased reopening of schools in England will start on 1 June as planned, with early years pupils, Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 returning to the classroom first. On June 15, up to a quarter of Year 10 and Year 12 will be allowed \"some contact\" to help prepare for exams, the prime minister said.\n\nLarge British companies severely impacted by the coronavirus crisis could be rescued, the UK government has indicated. The bailout plan, named \"Project Birch\", was first mentioned by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps in Parliament last week when discussing the future of the aviation industry and more details have been now confirmed by the Treasury.\n\nLockdown has seen a surge in the number of online searches for cream teas and afternoon teas, new data suggests. Afternoon tea treats topped the list of most increased searches for \"delivery\" queries in the UK, analysis of data from Google Trends showed.\n\nLockdown in small, remote villages can be tough. Populations in rural areas are often older and poorer, with more limited access to public transport and broadband. But a huge volunteer effort in the Dorset village of Piddlehinton has turned the threat of coronavirus into an opportunity for a fresh start, the BBC's Jon Kay reports.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Piddlehinton's most vulnerable residents get daily visits from their neighbours\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The prince is patron of the Royal Opera and president of the Royal Ballet amongst other positions\n\nThe Prince of Wales has raised concerns about how orchestras and theatres will survive the coronavirus crisis.\n\nMany theatres and concert halls are struggling after closing their doors during lockdown, with no clear indication of when shows might resume,\n\nPrince Charles said it was important to \"find a way of keeping these orchestras and other arts bodies going\".\n\nThe prince, who is patron of dozens of arts institutions, noted they were of \"enormous importance\" to the economy.\n\n\"It's absolutely crucial that they can come back twice as enthusiastic as before,\" he said in an interview with Classic FM.\n\nThe heads of the National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company and the Southbank Centre have all warned they are facing financial collapse without additional government assistance due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe Royal Opera House, of which Prince Charles is a patron, says it has seen 60% of house income fall away since the start of the crisis.\n\n\"They're in terrible difficulties, of course, because how are they going to be able to restart?\" said the prince.\n\n\"It is a very expensive art form, but it is crucial because it has such a worldwide impact... and so we have to find a way to make sure these marvellous people and organisations are going to survive through all this.\"\n\nThe 71-year-old, who spent a week in self-isolation after testing positive for coronavirus in March, was talking to Alan Titchmarsh for a special Classic FM programme celebrating his life-long love of classical music.\n\nHe recalled his first visit to the Royal Opera House, in 1956, to see the Bolshoi Ballet perform The Fountain of Bakhchisarai in their debut tour of the UK.\n\n\"The music was unbelievably exciting,\" he said. \"It was all Tartar dancing and cracking the whips and leaping in the air and doing unbelievably energetic things, which only the Bolshoi could do.\n\n\"I was completely inspired by that... Which is why it's so important, I think, for grandparents and other relations to take children at about the age of seven to experience some form of the arts in performance.\"\n\nThe prince said he had helped choose the music for his son's wedding to Kate Middleton\n\nElsewhere in the interview, the prince revealed he had helped Prince William curate the musical choices for his 2011 wedding to Kate Middleton.\n\n\"I love trying to organise some interesting, I hope, pieces of music for certain occasions…particularly for weddings if people want,\" he said.\n\n\"I know my eldest son was quite understanding and was perfectly happy for me to suggest a few pieces for their wedding.\"\n\n\"I hope that gave some people pleasure, but it's rather fun having orchestras in for great occasions like that, and why not suggest a few pieces occasionally? Anyway... I do enjoy it.\"\n\nThe 2011 Royal Wedding service included pieces from Bach, Elgar, Britten and Vaughan Williams.\n\nThree of the pieces - Farewell to Stromness, Touch Her Soft Lips and Part and Romance for String Orchestra Op. 11 - were chosen specifically because they were played at the service of prayer and dedication at Charles and Camilla's wedding in 2005.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @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. \"Did you go to Barnard Castle, Mr Cummings?\": The media question him outside his London home on Monday morning\n\nThe PM's chief adviser Dominic Cummings is to make a public statement at 16:00 BST over allegations he broke coronavirus lockdown rules.\n\nMr Cummings is facing calls from Labour and some Tory MPs to quit or be fired.\n\nHe travelled 260 miles with his family to be near relatives when his wife developed Covid-19 symptoms.\n\nBoris Johnson insists his aide acted legally and within guidelines - but critics say the government's lockdown message has been undermined.\n\nThe prime minister made a statement on Sunday in an attempt to draw a line under the row - but Conservative MPs have continued to call for Mr Cummings' dismissal.\n\nMr Cummings has been under fire since the Guardian and Daily Mirror reported that he had been seen in County Durham, at his family's farm during lockdown.\n\nIt later emerged that he had travelled there from London with his four-year-old son and wife, who had developed Covid-19 symptoms, so that he could self-isolate near relatives who could take care of the child if necessary.\n\nUnder lockdown rules, which are still in force, anyone developing symptoms has been instructed to stay in their home.\n\nThe Observer and Sunday Mirror reported that Mr Cummings had also been seen in Barnard Castle, 30 miles from his family's Durham home, on Easter Sunday, at a time when the government was warning people not to travel to tourist spots.\n\nMr Johnson did not deny that Mr Cummings had gone to Barnard Castle, at his Sunday press conference, but insisted that some press reports of his movements during lockdown were \"palpably false\".\n\nMr Cummings has been quizzed by reporters outside his London home since the row erupted, telling them he had done the \"right thing\" by making the journey to Durham, and did not care what it looked like.\n\nBut he has not yet given a full explanation of his actions - something he will be expected to do when he makes a statement and takes questions from journalists shortly.\n\nIt comes as plans to further ease lockdown restrictions are being discussed at a cabinet meeting.\n\n\"We're following the science\" has been the phrase often used by ministers. But now some of the very scientists informing government say efforts to tackle the pandemic are being undermined.\n\nAdvice on how to build trust and get the public to follow lockdown had been \"trashed\", according to one member of the Sage committee on behavioural science.\n\nMaintaining public support is going to be vital in the next stage of dealing with the coronavirus.\n\nThe plan will be to replace parts of lockdown with highly targeted testing, contact tracing and persuading people to isolate or quarantine.\n\nDisease modellers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who are also advising government, say that will require very high levels of public support in order to work.\n\nHowever, they fear it will now be much harder to achieve.\n\nTwenty Tory MPs are calling for Mr Cummings to resign or be sacked, while others have joined Labour in calling for an inquiry.\n\nTory MP Peter Aldous said: \"My initial view was to be sympathetic to Dominic Cummings due to his expressed desire to protect his young son. I have now revised this opinion.\n\n\"I have received many e-mails from constituents highlighting the sacrifices that families have made during the pandemic and expressing upset and anger that there appears to be one rule for those in positions of authority and another for everyone else.\n\n\"Moreover, questions remain unanswered as to whether Mr Cummings completely self-isolated whilst he was in County Durham.\"\n\nBut Tory MP Andrew Bridgen tweeted: \"Many have judged Dominic Cummings without hearing his side of the story. That will change this afternoon and will be unprecedented. It's possible that people will be surprised.\"\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned the consequences of Mr Johnson's decision to back Mr Cummings could be \"serious\", and acting Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey said it undermined the prime minister's authority on the coronavirus crisis.\n\nSenior Church of England bishops and scientists advising ministers on the pandemic have also strongly criticised the government's handling of the row.\n\nMr Johnson has defended Mr Cummings, saying he believed his senior aide had \"no alternative\" but to make the journey from London at the end of March for childcare \"when both he and his wife were about to be incapacitated by coronavirus\".\n\nDurham's police and crime commissioner, Steve White, has asked the force to \"establish the facts concerning any potential breach of the law\" surrounding Mr Cummings' visit to the county.\n\nIn a statement, Durham Constabulary said: \"We can confirm that, over the last few days, Durham Constabulary has received further information and complaints from members of the public and we are reviewing and examining that information.\"", "Here's a practical maths conundrum, rather than a political question, about the plan to reopen schools in England.\n\nAnd as a spoiler - the Department for Education says it will need to issue new guidance to sort it out.\n\nThe government announced that to keep children and teachers safe there should be no more than 15 pupils per class - so in effect, every class of 30 would have to be spread over two classrooms.\n\nThis might work for the phased return of the first few year groups. But the government is also aiming, if the safety advice permits, for all primary year groups to be back in school for a month before the end of term.\n\nThe complication is that if each class is occupying two or more classrooms, how could all the year groups be back full time at the same time? There wouldn't be enough classrooms or teachers.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, says the sums don't add up: \"It seems to us a non-starter.\"\n\n\"It is impossible to reconcile this ambition with the current guidance about limiting class sizes to 15 and keeping groups in 'bubbles' to reduce mixing,\" says Mr Barton.\n\nIt's an example of how the plan to reopen schools is being road-tested against reality - before the final decision is taken, on or before 28 May, on whether to go ahead with reopening schools.\n\nA Department for Education spokesman says new safety guidance will be provided if it's decided all primary pupils are going back: \"We'll revisit the advice when the science indicates it is safe to invite more children back to schools and colleges.\"\n\nPrimary schools are going to have to be adapted in many other ways.\n\nSecondary schools will be closed for most year groups until September\n\nThey're designed to be welcoming, family-friendly places, with lots of shared play areas. But now they will need a safety-first environment.\n\nIt's goodbye to the soft toys and anything which might be hard to clean and might spread infection. Instead there will be marked out spaces, gaps between desks, one-way systems and a routine of frequent hand washing.\n\nThere's a big encouragement on fresh air and ventilation - with the safety guidance urging outdoor classes where possible and doors and windows to be kept open.\n\nAnything that can be touched will have to be frequently cleaned - light switches, books, tables, chairs, bannisters.\n\nBringing books or anything else between school and home is discouraged - and in school there shouldn't be a sharing of pencil and paper, and libraries will be closed.\n\nBut it's not about masks or social distancing - with the guidelines accepting that a two-metre exclusion zone is not realistic between young children.\n\nInstead the safety guidance is based on keeping children in closed groups of no more than 15, which stay separate from the rest of the school, and so minimise the risk of spreading infection.\n\nThese small groups will have one teacher and will learn, play and eat separately, arriving and leaving school at a different time from other small groups of pupils - each group staying two metres apart from any other.\n\nIt's a system that's followed Denmark's \"protective bubble\" approach - and teachers there suggest that pupils adapt surprisingly quickly and seem to enjoy seeing their friends again.\n\nSteve Chalke, founder of the Oasis academy trust which runs 35 primary schools, says it is very hard to have a catch-all set of national guidelines - because every school will have different buildings and circumstances.\n\nAccess to outside spaces, the design and size of rooms, the layout of schools and corridors will be different. Every building will need a \"bespoke plan\", he says.\n\nMr Chalke, who supports reopening schools, says the pressure on space from class sizes of 15 will mean that schools are likely to need rota systems, such as different classes having morning and afternoon shifts.\n\nIf schools have to spread out classes, how will all year groups be able to return?\n\nThat might raise childcare questions for parents, if they have to work around part-time school timetables.\n\nMr Chalke says while there are political debates going on between the government and teachers' unions, the key demographic to persuade over reopening schools will be parents.\n\n\"If I'm a mum or a dad, am I going to send my child?\"\n\nHe expects at first there might be relatively few arriving. \"I'm guessing it's going to be a trickle,\" he says.\n\nBut he thinks if schools can show that schools are safe and children are glad to be back, the numbers will start increasing.\n\nSchools were closed in a rush more than eight weeks ago - reopening them could prove a more complicated process.", "From a helipad to the streets, millions of people across the UK have shown their appreciation for front-line workers risking their lives to fight coronavirus.\n\nIt's the ninth week in a row that Clap for Carers has taken place.", "Children and adolescents are half as likely to catch the coronavirus, the largest review of the evidence shows.\n\nThe findings, by UCL and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, will feed into the debate about how schools are reopened.\n\nChildren also appear less likely to spread the virus, but the team said there was still uncertainty on this.\n\nThe UK government is expected to publish its scientific advice on schools later.\n\nHowever, only England has announced that some primary children (Reception, Year 1 and Year 6) could return to the classroom, sparking concerns about safety.\n\nIt is already clear that children are at far less risk of becoming severely ill or dying from coronavirus.\n\nIn the UK, three children under 15 have died with coronavirus\n\nHowever, two other key questions have proved harder to answer:\n\nThe researchers went through 6,332 studies from around the world - much of it not formally published - to try to get the answers. They identified only 18 with useful data.\n\nThese were a mixture of studies that tested how the virus spreads in schools or households through rigorous testing of contacts, as well as studies that test large numbers of people in a population for the virus to see who is carrying it.\n\nThe analysis showed children were 56% less likely than an adult to catch the virus when exposed to an infected person.\n\n\"Teachers worry about their children and I think it is incredibly reassuring the children they teach are half as susceptible to this virus,\" said Prof Russell Viner, from University College London and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.\n\nHowever, the reason why is not clear.\n\nThere have been discussions about differences in children's lungs that make it harder for them to catch the virus or that they are exposed to more colds that are related to the coronavirus, which might lead to some degree of immunity.\n\nThe evidence was less clear-cut about how easily children spread the virus. For example, one study of 31 clusters of infections showed only three (10%) were started by a child. The equivalent figure in influenza is 54%.\n\nHowever, the researcher said if children were less susceptible to the virus, they are also less likely to be the major source of infections.\n\nProf Viner added: \"This supports the view that children are likely to play a smaller role in transmitting the virus and proliferating the pandemic, although considerable uncertainty remains.\"\n\nHe refused to be drawn directly on the political decision of reopening schools, but said he would be concerned if all the focus was solely on the health impacts to adults \"and the harms to children of staying off school were devalued and not playing into the equation\".\n\nThe advice given by the UK government's scientific advisors, called SAGE, is due to be published later.\n\nHowever, the rival group called \"Independent SAGE\" has published its opinion, saying schools should not re-open until there is the ability to track the spread of the virus and test anyone coming into contact with infected people.\n\nIt also said the risk to pupils would be halved if reopening was delayed by two weeks as a result of cases reducing further.\n\nBoris Johnson has indicated that 25,000 contact tracers, able to track 10,000 new cases a day, would be in place by 1 June.\n\nSir David King, who leads the group, said: \"It is clear from the evidence we have collected that 1 June is simply too early to go back, by going ahead with this dangerous decision, the government is further risking the health of our communities and the likelihood of a second spike.\"", "The government has defended charging overseas health workers to use the NHS, despite criticism from its own party.\n\nThe health immigration surcharge on non-EU migrants is £400 per year and set to rise to £624 in October.\n\nSome Tory MPs have called for NHS and care workers to be exempt as a way of saying \"thank you\" for their work during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nBut the PM's spokesman said the money \"goes directly back into the NHS to help save lives\".\n\nLabour are seeking an amendment to the Immigration Bill to exempt NHS staff from the surcharge, including cleaners and care professionals.\n\nThe party's leader, Sir Keir Starmer, tweeted it was \"grossly hypocritical to clap our carers one day and then charge them to use the NHS the next\".\n\nAsked about the charge at Wednesday's Prime Minister's Questions, Boris Johnson said he \"understood the difficulties faced by our amazing NHS staff\", but said the government \"must look at the realities\" of funding the NHS.\n\nHowever, the Tory chairman of the Commons public administration select committee, William Wragg, said in a tweet it was the time for a \"generosity of spirit towards those who have done so much good\".\n\nHe was backed up by fellow Tory MP Sir Roger Gale, who also tweeted his support for the exemption, saying it would be \"mean-spirited, doctrinaire and petty\" to keep it in place.\n\nHe later told BBC News a number of his colleagues agreed with the exemption, and that while Mr Johnson was on the wrong side of public opinion, he had \"the opportunity to put something that is wrong right.\"\n\nSir Roger added: \"In the grand scheme of things [it is a quick way] to say thank you to some very brave people who've been saving lives.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tory MP: NHS fee exemption is \"way to say thank you\"\n\nThe PM told MPs on Wednesday that the contribution from NHS and care staff allowed the government to raise £900m for its coffers.\n\nFigures from the House of Commons Library, which compiles impartial briefings for MPs, showed £917m was the amount raised over four years by all migrants who have to pay.\n\nBut this number is likely to be considerably higher after the £224 rise in the charge comes in later this year.\n\nThe PM's spokesman confirmed the planned rise in the surcharge would go ahead in October, describing it as a \"very clear manifesto commitment made by the government\" on the basis of which \"the prime minister won a significant majority\".\n\nThe library estimated it would cost around £35m a year to exempt those who are NHS staff, although that figure would rise for Labour's plan to exempt care workers as well.", "Southend beach had thousands of visitors on Wednesday\n\nPeople living in seaside resorts have said they are \"horrified\" by the influx of visitors as temperatures soared ahead of the bank holiday weekend.\n\nThousands of people have headed to English beaches, with many apparently unconcerned about public health issues.\n\n\"Hundreds die every day yet people think it's OK to have a jolly on the beach,\" a walker in Southend said.\n\nNorfolk Chief Constable Simon Bailey said he feared there was a perception that lockdown was \"done and dusted\".\n\nGovernment guidelines in England allow people to travel for fresh air and exercise, as long as they keep two metres (6ft) from anyone they do not live with.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Bailey said some parts of Norfolk had seen numbers typical of a regular summer bank holiday and he was concerned at the \"lack of respect\" for communities who had \"done their best to protect themselves\".\n\n\"We're dealing with far more people heading to the coast, and with the beautiful weather we're having that's not surprising,\" he added.\n\n\"What I do find surprising is a sense that lockdown has been lifted, we can do what we want and the coronavirus challenge has passed.\n\n\"I'm really concerned. That is simply not the case.\"\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 AJ Gritt MBE This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Newquay, Cornwall, police said they moved on camper vans that had stayed overnight, while in Bournemouth the borough council urged people to go home if the beach looked too busy.\n\nIn Southend, where photographs appeared to show people crowded on to the beach on Wednesday, councillor Martin Terry said the local authority had been nervous in anticipation of the hot weather.\n\n\"We've had days where we've had over 300,000 people come down here,\" he said.\n\n\"A survey was undertaken asking people what's the first thing you want to do when you come out of lockdown and 70% said 'I want to go to the seaside and buy an ice-cream'.\n\n\"All we can do is advise people [to] please, please be safe - stay apart and be sensible.\"\n\nTony Cox, leader of the Conservative opposition group on Southend Borough Council, said the authority had been \"ill-prepared\" and that better \"people management\" would allow them the space to distance.\n\nBut Labour council leader Ian Gilbert said the police and council did not have the powers to stop people coming to the area.\n\n\"From the moment the government guidelines allowed people to travel, sunbathe and take unlimited exercise we knew it was going to be extremely difficult to manage the situation,\" he said.\n\nBins were overflowing in Southend after hundreds visited the beach\n\nOn Thursday morning, BBC reporter Richard Smith spoke to locals in Southend, with one, Simon Stenning, commenting: \"I think it's disgusting, and I am so angry because we were told to stay home.\n\n\"The message of 'stay alert' is intentionally vague so the government don't have to take any responsibility.\n\n\"Hundreds die every day yet people think it's OK to have a jolly on the beach.\"\n\nRita, who lives on the seafront at Westcliff, near Southend, said some parts of the resort were so busy \"you probably couldn't swing a cat\", and she said she avoided the beach when out for a walk.\n\n\"It really is bad. The traffic starts at 9 o'clock and it's like a school holiday. We are dreading the bank holiday.\"\n\nThe amount of litter dumped near overflowing bins or strewn across beaches and promenades has also become a matter of concern.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by ExperiencedTraveller 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\nMark Husmann, who did a beach litter-pick at Tynemouth, North Tyneside, said: \"I'm pretty horrified.\n\n\"There were masses of people on the beach who seem to think that a global pandemic is less serious in the sunshine.\"\n\nLitter, including used nappies, was left on the beach at Scarborough\n\nCathy Kent said scenes like this had become a daily occurrence in Exmouth\n\nHis Facebook post was echoed by Cathy Kent, who said after seven \"glorious\" weeks of a litter-free, empty beach at Exmouth in south Devon, the past 10 days had been far busier, with discarded glass bottles a regular find.\n\nIn Southsea, Hampshire, Tania Simmons said every bin on her beach walk on Thursday was was \"overflowing with rubbish, beer bottles and barbecues\", with broken bottles left on the promenade and rubbish strewn across the common.\n\nVisit Blackpool recently rebranded as \"Do Not Visit Blackpool\" to discourage visitors as lockdown restrictions were eased.\n\nHotelier Lyndsay Fieldsend said she had seen a \"surge of day-trippers\" since then and beaches full of litter.\n\nCouncil leaders in Sussex, including in Hastings and Brighton, have said the area's amenities are not open to visitors, although Dorset Council said it would reopen some car parks and public toilets in key locations in time for the bank holiday weekend to help cope with demand.\n• None Coronavirus outbreak- what you can and can't do - GOV.UK The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Quote Message: The first minister was was keen to stress, again and again, that the first phase of lockdown easing hasn’t happened yet. If it does happen, it happens from 28 May. The current lockdown remains in place, and the one thing that would slow down progress towards easing it is to take the brakes off far too rapidly. I also liked the point she clarified that you will be allowed to meet people from another household outside, as long as it is one at a time, but it doesn’t limit you to one household. So no big house parties or garden parties, but you don’t have to choose just one set of buddies. You can move from one to another. Try to limit the travel, stay local. She said 'OK, the five-mile limit is not a rigid rule, you won’t be stopped by the police, but try to stay local because we don’t really want you to go indoors'. There has been a reluctant acquiescence from the business elements, even though the construction industry had hoped to go a lot more quickly than this. But Nicola Sturgeon is adamant she has to go at the carefully caveated pace that will not allow the virus to regroup.\"\n\nThe first minister was was keen to stress, again and again, that the first phase of lockdown easing hasn’t happened yet. If it does happen, it happens from 28 May. The current lockdown remains in place, and the one thing that would slow down progress towards easing it is to take the brakes off far too rapidly. I also liked the point she clarified that you will be allowed to meet people from another household outside, as long as it is one at a time, but it doesn’t limit you to one household. So no big house parties or garden parties, but you don’t have to choose just one set of buddies. You can move from one to another. Try to limit the travel, stay local. She said 'OK, the five-mile limit is not a rigid rule, you won’t be stopped by the police, but try to stay local because we don’t really want you to go indoors'. There has been a reluctant acquiescence from the business elements, even though the construction industry had hoped to go a lot more quickly than this. But Nicola Sturgeon is adamant she has to go at the carefully caveated pace that will not allow the virus to regroup.\"", "Dominic Cummings travelled hundreds of miles from London to County Durham during the lockdown when he had coronavirus symptoms.\n\nMr Cummings and his wife went to his parents' home to self-isolate, a source close to the PM's chief aide told BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nThe source insisted Mr Cummings did not break official guidance because the couple stayed in a separate building.\n\n\"If accurate, the prime minister's chief adviser appears to have breached the lockdown rules. The government's guidance was very clear: stay at home and no non-essential travel,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"The British people do not expect there to be one rule for them and another rule for Dominic Cummings.\"\n\nThe Scottish National Party's Westminster leader Ian Blackford said Mr Cummings should resign or be dismissed by Boris Johnson and that it was a \"key test of leadership\" for the PM.\n\nAnd Ed Davey, acting leader of the Liberal Democrats, added: \"If Dominic Cummings has broken the guidelines he will have to resign, it is as simple as that.\"\n\nNo 10 declined to comment on Friday night after the story was first reported in the Daily Mirror and Guardian newspapers.\n\nBoth papers reported Mr Cummings, the former Vote Leave chief who was the architect of the PM's Brexit strategy, had been approached by the police.\n\nDurham Constabulary said: \"On Tuesday, March 31, our officers were made aware of reports that an individual had travelled from London to Durham and was present at an address in the city.\n\n\"Officers made contact with the owners of that address who confirmed that the individual in question was present and was self-isolating in part of the house.\n\n\"In line with national policing guidance, officers explained to the family the guidelines around self-isolation and reiterated the appropriate advice around essential travel.\"\n\nAt the time Dominic Cummings had coronavirus, there was only a limited set of reasons for which people were allowed to leave their homes.\n\nAnd the advice for anyone with symptoms was - and is - not to leave home at all for at least seven days.\n\nRemember there have already been other senior figures involved in tackling the pandemic who have had to resign for breaching lockdown restrictions - Scotland's Former Chief Medical Officer Catherine Calderwood and a leading scientist Professor Neil Ferguson, who was advising the government.\n\nA source close to Dominic Cummings is insistent that he didn't break the rules.\n\nBut for those at the top to be perceived to even be stretching the rules is damaging.\n\nAlong with triggering accusations of hypocrisy, it risks prompting people to question why they should be following the rules, if those involved in imposing them are not.\n\nGovernment advice on 31 March was for the public to stay at home and only leave their address for clearly defined reasons, including to exercise, essential shopping or for medical needs.\n\nAt the time - and as remains the case - those with symptoms of coronavirus are told to self-isolate at home and not leave even for essential supplies, if possible, for seven days.\n\nThe source close to Mr Cummings said he had not been spoken to by police, and that he had made the trip because his parents could help care for his young child while he and his wife were both ill with symptoms of coronavirus.\n\nThe PM said in a speech on 18 March that \"children should not be left with older grandparents, or older relatives, who may be particularly vulnerable or fall into some of the vulnerable groups\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFormer Conservative MP David Liddington, who was de facto deputy PM under Theresa May, told BBC Newsnight: \"There's clearly serious questions that No 10 are going to have to address not least because the readiness of members of the public to follow government guidance more generally is going to be affected by this sort of story.\"\n\nMr Johnson's positive test for coronavirus was announced on 27 March, and Downing Street said at the time that Mr Cummings did not have symptoms.\n\nOn 30 March, it was confirmed Mr Cummings had developed symptoms of the virus and was self-isolating at home.\n\nMr Cummings was next photographed at Downing Street on 14 April.", "Children and older adults are to be included in the second phase of vaccine trials to protect against coronavirus.\n\nThe first phase of the University of Oxford trial began in April, involving 1,000 healthy adults aged 55 and under.\n\nNow more than 10,200 people - including over 70s and five to 12-year-olds - will be enrolled in the study, to see the effects on their immune system.\n\nTrials of the same vaccine on monkeys appear to have given them some protection against the disease.\n\nThe animals had less of the virus in their lungs and airways, but it is not certain this finding will translate to people.\n\nThe scientists behind the vaccine have previously said they are aiming to have at least a million doses of a coronavirus vaccine by September this year.\n\nBut the UK government has repeatedly said there are no guarantees - and a vaccine could still be some way off.\n\nAnd most experts still estimate it will take 12 to 18 months to develop and manufacture a vaccine.\n\nThere are more than 100 experimental vaccines against Covid-19 currently being developed worldwide.\n\nAdults in this trial will receive one or two doses of either the new vaccine - ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 - or another licensed vaccine.\n\nResearchers will then compare the number of infections in both groups.\n\nThis could take between two and to six months, depending on how many people are exposed to the virus.\n\nThe age range of participants has been expanded to include those aged:\n\nSarah Gilbert, professor of vaccinology, at the Jenner Institute, said: \"We have had a lot of interest already from people over the age of 55 years who were not eligible to take part in the phase-one study.\n\n\"And we will now be able to include older age groups to continue the vaccine assessment.\n\n\"We will also be including more study sites, in different parts of the country.\"\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. Coronavirus: What will the rules be on visiting parents?\n\nNicola Sturgeon has urged people in Scotland to \"stick with\" the lockdown restrictions for \"a few more days\".\n\nThe first minister has announced plans to ease the rules from next week.\n\nBut she stressed that the existing restrictions and stay at home message will remain in place over the bank holiday weekend.\n\nThe Scottish government published its route map for easing lockdown restrictions on Thursday.\n\nIn the first phase, due to start from 28 May, people will be allowed to meet people from one other household, in small numbers, while outdoors - so long as they stay at least two metres apart.\n\nMore outdoor activities and sports such as golf and fishing will also be allowed, and garden centres and recycling facilities will be able to reopen.\n\nAt her daily briefing, Ms Sturgeon said: \"Not all of the phase one measures will necessarily be introduced next Thursday, but I hope that most of them will be, or at least a day or two afterwards.\"\n\nThe first minister clarified that people will not be limited to meeting one specific household while outside.\n\n\"You can see different households, but we are asking you to only meet with one at a time,\" she said.\n\nShe said the government did not intend to set a five-mile limit on the distance that people could travel to do things like meeting their parents in a garden.\n\nBut she said they did not want people to enter their homes, in case they were infectious and could spread the virus to another family member.\n\nThe first minister added: \"Please use your judgement and continue to have uppermost in your mind the need to protect those you care about, even if that might mean staying apart from them for a little bit longer.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said that people travelling for recreation were being asked to stay \"fairly local\".\n\n\"Five miles isn't going to be a strict limit, but is intended to give you a guide because what we don't want in this phase is for people to congregate at tourist hotspots,\" she said.\n\nMs Sturgeon said more detailed advice and information would be published next week.\n\nBut she stressed that the current lockdown restrictions remained in place for now.\n\n\"I know how hard these restrictions are and I absolutely know that hearing me talking about easing them, particularly as we head into a bank holiday weekend, will make all of this seem even tougher,\" she said.\n\n\"But you do need to stick with it for a few more days because if we do then I really hope that this time next week when I stand here telling you all to have a nice weekend, I will also be telling you to enjoy, for the first time in a long while, seeing some of your family and friends over the weekend - as long as you do it outdoors and remember to stay socially distant.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon also said Scotland could need more than the 2,000 contact tracers being recruited to help control the spread of coronavirus.\n\nShe insisted the Scottish government is \"on track\" to have 2,000 contact tracers in place by June, and was \"very close\" to being able to process 15,000 tests for Covid-19 a day.\n\nContact tracers and a higher testing capacity are necessary as part of the Scottish government's test, trace and isolate approach, which is being brought in to try to curb the spread of the disease when lockdown is eased.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon conceded more testing and tracers may be required, depending on \"the requirements the virus places on us\".\n\nShe confirmed there were 660 contact tracers currently in place, with another 750 \"at various stages of the appointment and training process\".\n\nUse the form below to send us your questions and we could be in touch.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. 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Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Birds living on river banks are ingesting plastic at the rate of hundreds of tiny fragments a day, according to a new study.\n\nScientists say this is the first clear evidence that plastic pollutants in rivers are finding their way into wildlife and moving up the food chain.\n\nPieces of plastic 5mm or smaller (microplastics), including polyester, polypropylene and nylon, are known to pollute rivers.\n\nThe impacts on wildlife are unclear.\n\nResearchers at Cardiff University looked at plastic pollutants found in a bird known as a dipper, which wades or dives into rivers in search of underwater insects.\n\n\"These iconic birds, the dippers, are ingesting hundreds of pieces of plastic every day,\" said Prof Steve Ormerod of Cardiff University's Water Research Institute. \"They're also feeding this material to their chicks.\"\n\nPrevious research has shown that half of the insects in the rivers of south Wales contain microplastic fragments.\n\n\"The fact that so many river insects are contaminated makes it inevitable that fish, birds and other predators will pick up these polluted prey - but this is the first time that this type of transfer through food webs has been shown clearly in free-living river animals,\" said co-researcher Dr Joseph D'Souza.\n\nPlastic also accumulates in animals on beaches like this lugworm\n\nThe research team examined droppings and regurgitated pellets from dippers living near rivers running from the Brecon Beacons down to the Severn Estuary.\n\nThey found microplastic fragments in roughly half of 166 samples taken from adults and nestlings, at 14 of 15 sites studied, with the greatest concentrations in urban locations. Most were fibres from textiles or building materials.\n\nCalculations suggest dippers are ingesting around 200 tiny fragments of plastic a day from the insects they consume.\n\nPrevious studies have shown that microplastics are present even in the depths of the ocean and are ending up in the bodies of living organisms, from seals to crabs to seabirds.\n\nRivers are a major route between land and sea for microplastics such as synthetic clothing fibres, tyre dust and other fragmenting plastic waste.\n\nThe research, published in the journal Global Change Biology, was carried out in collaboration with the Greenpeace Research Laboratories at the University of Exeter.\n• None Seeking the 'plastic score' of the food on our plates", "Mory Kanté was of one West Africa's best-known musicians\n\nThe singer Mory Kanté, who helped bring African music to world audiences with hits like Yéké Yéké, has died in Guinea.\n\nKanté died in hospital on Friday in the capital, Conakry, aged 70, his son Balla Kanté told the AFP news agency.\n\nHis death was the result of untreated health problems, he said.\n\n\"He suffered from chronic illnesses and often travelled to France for treatment but that was no longer possible with the coronavirus,\" he added.\n\n\"We saw his condition deteriorate rapidly, but I was still surprised because he'd been through much worse times before.\"\n\nBorn in a famous family of \"griots\" - West African musicians and storytellers - he had been nicknamed \"the electronic griot\", and was known as a distinguished player of kora - a West African harp.\n\nHis song Yéké Yéké became a huge hit in the late 1980s and was widely remixed.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKanté is the latest prominent African musician to pass away, after the recent deaths of Manu Dibango, Tony Allen and Idir.\n\nMory Kanté started music at the age of just seven, when he was sent to Mali to learn to play the kora harp.\n\nIn the 1970s, he joined Mali's legendary group the Rail Band of Bamako and performed alongside Salif Keita and became the lead singer after Keita left.\n\nHis international success came in 1988 when he released his album Akwaba Beach, which includes Yéké Yéké. Millions of copies of Yéké Yéké were sold and Akwaba Beach became the best-selling African album of that time.\n\nHe belonged to a generation of avant-garde African musicians who dared to create new sounds.\n\nBorn and raised in the West African Mandigo traditional culture and Muslim religion, he came up with an unique sound by mixing his kora with electronic music.\n\nAs a goodwill ambassador for international organisations like Unicef, the FAO, UNHCR, he was involved in various humanitarian causes in Africa and Eastern Europe.", "The project is called Remember Me and is open to people of all faiths or none\n\nAn online book of remembrance to commemorate those who have died from coronavirus has been organised by St Paul's Cathedral.\n\nThe Prince of Wales said the virtual memorial was a chance to mark \"our loss and sorrow, but also to be thankful for everything good that those we have loved brought into our lives\".\n\nThe St Paul's choristers have also recorded a piece of music via video.\n\nThe piece was sung from the boys' homes during the lockdown.\n\nThe memorial book, called Remember Me, is online from Friday and open to people of all faiths or none, the cathedral said.\n\nFamily members, friends and carers of anyone who has died can submit the name, photograph and a short message. The deceased person must be British or have been living in the UK.\n\nThe St Paul's choristers recorded a special version of Mendelssohn's Lift Thine Eyes, part of Psalm 121\n\nMore than 36,000 people have died in the UK after testing positive for the virus, government figures show.\n\nHowever, the total number of deaths relating to coronavirus is estimated to be much higher, with Office for National Statistics data suggesting there had already been more than 41,000 such deaths by the week beginning 8 May\n\n\"This virtual book of remembrance is here to help us remember; not just to recall our loss and sorrow, but also to be thankful for everything good that those we have loved brought into our lives, and all that they have given to others,\" said Prince Charles.\n\nThe prince, who previously contracted coronavirus, said in a video message: \"For too many among us, this has brought tragedy and heartbreak. For some, relatives have not been able to be present at the time of their loved one's passing.\n\n\"For many, the loss of their loved ones has been made all the more agonisingly painful by the necessary restrictions on funerals, travel and gatherings. For all of us, there has been anxiety in the present as we have wondered what the future will be.\"\n\nThe cathedral intends to create a physical memorial to those who have died, and has approved designs for a new porch which are subject to funding.\n\nA member of the St Paul's community has been personally impacted by the virus, after the mother of Oliver Caroe, surveyor of the fabric of the cathedral, died on 5 April aged 81 due to the virus. Mary Caroe was a former GP and police surgeon.\n\nMary Caroe, the mother of St Paul's Cathedral\"s surveyor of the fabric, Oliver Caroe\n\nMr Caroe said: \"Not having any of the closeness, face to face conversations or rituals that you would normally have in place with someone over their last days adds to the deep emotional impact.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge joined care home residents in Cardiff for a game of bingo via video call.\n\nDuring the lockdown, the royal couple have video-called care workers in England and Northern Ireland\n\nPrince William and Kate spoke to people living at Shire Hall Care Home and took turns as bingo callers. They also spoke to care workers about the challenges they have faced during the pandemic.\n\nThe royal couple thanked care home staff for their \"tireless efforts\", the palace said\n\nDuring the call, the duke said: \"If there's hopefully some positivity that comes out of this horrendous time, it is that there's a light shone on all of the wonderful things you all do and on the social care sector, and it allows people to acknowledge, respect and appreciate everything that you are doing.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rhian Davies some disabled people were cancelling support visits over fears untested staff may infect them\n\nA disability charity is concerned about possible human rights breaches caused by Wales' coronavirus test policy.\n\nBBC Wales has been told care workers are struggling to get tested, despite qualifying last weekend.\n\nIt follows calls by the Older People's Commissioner for the Equality and Human Rights Commission to investigate test policy.\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford said he would do \"all the things in his power\" to protect people.\n\nRhian Davies, chief executive of Disability Wales, said it was \"not acceptable\" that eight weeks into lockdown some support workers were still awaiting tests.\n\nShe said it was leading to some disabled people cancelling support visits over fears untested staff may infect them.\n\n\"Some of our members are saying to us they actually spend most of their time in bed because it's difficult to get up and get dressed or be out and about in the home without support,\" Ms Davies said.\n\n\"It feels like a massive risk, whether it's an individual in their own home or in a residential care setting… because anybody could have it.\"\n\nShe said staff needed \"ready and frequent access to testing\".\n\nMark Drakeford said he would do \"all the things in his power\" to protect people\n\nWithout this disabled people were \"at risk almost indefinitely\" she said.\n\nThey would be \"last out of lockdown\", if testing was not rolled out to support workers sooner, Ms Davies said, and quality of life gains made in recent decades would be lost.\n\nShe agreed that concerns raised by the Older People's Commissioner for Wales over human rights also applied to disabled people.\n\n\"We've seen a number of issues emerging in a way disabled people's human rights are in breach or potentially breached,\" Ms Davies said.\n\nDisability Wales boss Rhian Davies said it was \"not acceptable\" some were still awaiting tests\n\n\"Testing is an important way to ensure disabled people's human rights are safeguarded.\"\n\nRev John Hancock is director of The Carningli Trust which runs four residential homes in Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire for adults with learning disabilities.\n\nMany residents have underlying health problems, and fear they would die if they caught the virus.\n\nMr Hancock said despite the policy change, he was struggling to get tests for staff and agreed the human rights of residents may have been breached.\n\n\"I regret having to take this sort of step to get the ear of the decision makers, to get some leadership, to get the testing that the people that do this work desperately deserve,\" he said.\n\nCarningli Trust director John Hancock said he was struggling to get tests for staff\n\n\"I really don't understand how it is that the Welsh Government can get away with not doing everything reasonably practical when the life of the people in our care homes is on the line.\n\n\"People we know, love and have cared for, for many years, will die unless we plug this hole about infections getting into care homes through asymptomatic workers.\n\n\"Testing is the only way you can stop it.\"\n\nJared Brookman, deputy manager of one of the homes, said testing was important as staff \"don't have an option to work from home or distance ourselves\".\n\n\"We're doing personal care and activities, and we can't do that from a distance,\" he said\n\n\"If you knew in the early stages that you had it, you could stop yourself from going to work.\"\n\nCare home deputy manager Jared Brookman said staff needed tests because they cannot work from home\n\nMr Drakeford told BBC Wales he was \"more determined than ever\" to do \"all the things in his power\" to protect people.\n\nHe said: \"Where there are blockages to the policies that we have announced being delivered in practice, then we work very carefully with the sectors, with those people who have the day-to-day responsibilities for delivering those services, to try to make them as good as they possibly can be.\n\n\"That is what we work on all day, every day here in the Welsh Government, and that's what we will be doing in the weeks, and no doubt beyond that, ahead.\"", "Some rural parts of the UK have seen a surge in job adverts posted, despite the coronavirus pandemic, one study suggests.\n\nJob postings in Breckland and South Norfolk jumped 8.7% between early and mid-May.\n\nParts of Scotland and north-eastern England also saw an increase, according to the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC).\n\nIts chief executive described the new data as \"encouraging\".\n\n\"Hopefully other regions will start to follow in the coming weeks,\" said REC boss Neil Carberry.\n\nThe largest weekly falls in vacancies were reported to be in the South West and North West.\n\nBut the new report also identified several sectors where demand for workers was rising.\n\nBetween the start and the middle of May, companies were looking for more pharmacists and nurses as the coronavirus pandemic continued.\n\nThere was also an increase in vacancies for roofers (+5.4%), security guards (+3.8%) and artists (+4.1%).\n\nMr Carberry added: \"Health and social care workers being in high demand isn't a surprise, but as more workplaces start to reopen, we are likely to see similar trends emerging for other roles.\n\n\"The increase in job adverts for cleaners and security guards could be the first sign of this... the economy will begin to bounce back from Covid-19 in the coming months, as businesses start to hire again.\"\n\nThe REC also found that there were about 950,000 job adverts in the UK between 11 and 17 May.\n\nThe new study comes after official statistics showed on Tuesday that the number of people claiming unemployment benefit soared to 2.1 million in April.\n\nThe jump of 856,500 claims in April reflected the impact of the first full month of lockdown, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nThe government has made some changes to who can claim work-related benefits during the pandemic, but this figure is one of a series that show the stress Covid-19 has been putting on the jobs market.\n\nWhen quizzed on unemployment by the Lords Economic Affairs Committee, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said he did not have a precise estimate for what the numbers would be at the end of the year.\n\nHowever, he said: \"Obviously, the impact [of the coronavirus pandemic] will be severe.\"\n\nBefore the lockdown began, employment had hit a record high.", "Comedian Tony Slattery has said he's been \"genuinely moved\" by the reaction to the documentary about his battles with depression and drug addiction.\n\nWhat's the Matter with Tony Slattery?, on BBC Two's Horizon on Thursday, was broadcast following a revealing article in The Guardian in 2019.\n\nThe programme followed the Whose Line Is It Anyway? star as he attempted to connect the dots between his undiagnosed bipolar tendencies, drug and alcohol use, and the abuse he suffered as a child by a priest.\n\n\"I'm genuinely moved by all your messages of love, kindness, & support,\" he wrote on Twitter on Friday, paying special homage to his long-time partner Mark - \"the love of my life\".\n\nSlattery was an improvisational stand-up comedy TV star of the 80s and 90s, but withdrew from the public eye afterwards, due to deep-rooted and wide-ranging personal issues.\n\nThe documentary saw him return to the stage in front of a live audience for the first time in decades.\n\nViewers from around the worlds of medicine, comedy and beyond have praised him for finally telling his story.\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\nStephen Fry, who appeared in the feature to discuss his own experiences of mental health issues, described Slattery - a fellow ex-member the Cambridge University Footlights comedy set - as being \"painfully honest and as always utterly lovable\".\n\n\"No-one in their right mind chooses to be depressed,\" Slattery told his old friend Fry in the programme.\n\nAnother comedian and broadcaster, Robin Ince, said it was \"sad to watch\" but \"a documentary that is definitely worth your time\".\n\nA young Tony Slattery alongside Stephen Fry and Emma Thompson in the Cambridge Footlights Revue\n\nAhead of the showing going out, Slattery told the Today programme's Nick Robinson it was \"a privilege\" to speak to experts about such issues, which he says are \"widespread, regardless of class or upbringing or money\".\n\n\"There was denial,\" he added. \"Because I thought, 'look, some things happened a quarter of a century ago, I'm 60 now, [it was] when I was eight, what is the point?'\"\n\nSlattery admitted on-screen that he worried the show was too \"self-regarding\", but just hoped it might at least help others in similar situations.\n\nThe Times gave the feature five stars, with Carol Midgley, writing it was about \"how a comedian's tragedy was redeemed by love\".\n\nLucy Mangan in The Guardian awarded four stars, calling it \"a moving study of drink, depression and abuse\".\n\n\"Horizon's respectful and sensitive look at the comedian's life and struggles with addiction is a beacon of the genre,\" she wrote.\n\n\"It was tough to watch the brightest of stars so dimmed,\" added Anita Singh in The Telegraph, also opting for four stars, while adding it was \"a brave film to make\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Scores of councils in England say they cannot guarantee primaries will reopen on 1 June, throwing government plans to get pupils back to school into chaos.\n\nOnly 20 of 99 councils to respond to a BBC Breakfast survey said they were advising schools to open more widely on Boris Johnson's target date.\n\nOf the 99 who responded, two thirds (68), could not guarantee schools would reopen to Reception, Year 1 and Year 6.\n\nIt comes as the government prepares to publish scientific advice on its plan.\n\nMinisters have been insisting that they would only be calling on schools in England to reopen in June if the scientific advice said it was safe to do so.\n\nTeaching unions, heads and politicians have been calling for that advice to be made public.\n\nBBC Breakfast carried out a snap-shot survey of the 150 local authorities that oversee primary schools over the past 48 hours.\n\nThe local authorities which have said they will not open on 1 June include: Blackburn, Bury, Calderdale, Cheshire East, Cheshire West, East Riding, Knowsley, Newcastle City, Rochdale, Stockport, Trafford and Wirral.\n\nIt is the head teachers and the governing bodies on the ground who need to make arrangements for social distancing or keeping children within small groups to limit the potential spread of infection.\n\nNurseries are also due to open on June 1.\n\nSchools across England have been open to small numbers of vulnerable pupils and the children of key workers since they formally closed at the end of March.\n\nBut the prime minister announced plans for a phased reopening of primaries from 1 June, when he set out the government's plans to move gradually out of lockdown measures on 10 May.\n\nAlmost immediately, teaching unions and head teachers warned of safety concerns and practicalities in many schools which, they argued, made safety measures unfeasible.\n\nAnd, with scientific evidence on the way the virus is spread by children limited, there are concerns the wider opening of schools could lead to a second spike in Covid-19.\n\nTeaching unions also called for a more regional approach, with local authorities being given the final call.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson made a plea for the sector to let children get back to school, and a string of ministers lined up to try to persuade parents, many of whom are concerned about a return, that schools would be safe.\n\nBut, as opposition continued to grow, there has been a softening of the government's approach.\n\nOn Wednesday, Justice Minister Robert Buckland, said the government was prepared to listen to the concerns of head teachers and council leaders, and hinted it might step back from the 1 June date.\n\nHe also acknowledged schools would not reopen in a uniform way across England after half term.\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Education said: \"We want children back in schools as soon as possible because being with their teachers and friends is so important for their education and their well-being.\"\n\nHe added that plans for a cautious, phased return of some children was based on the best scientific and medical advice and insisted the department had been engaging closely with a range of organisations including the teaching unions.\n\nBut Paul Whiteman, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said support for a fixed date for school return was vanishing quickly.\n\n\"What is needed now is local flexibility to determine when it is right for schools to open up to more pupils.\"\n\nCouncillor Judith Blake, chair of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, backed calls for decisions to be made locally.\n\n\"As there are different Covid-19 infection rates around the country, schools and councils must be able to work together to decide how and when schools open to more children,\" said Ms Blake.\n\nCouncils also needed crucial testing data to be shared with them to boost confidence about reopening schools among teachers and parents, along with powers to manage outbreaks in schools, care homes and the community, she argued.\n\nMeanwhile Unison, which represents many school support staff, said members had little confidence in government reassurances that English schools will be safe to open to more pupils from 1 June.\n\nAn overwhelming 96% of 42,000 teaching assistants, cleaners, technicians and office staff surveyed by the union, said they felt ministers had not put safety first in their reopening plans.\n\nOn Thursday the governments of Scotland and Northern Ireland announced plans for a phased return to school for pupils, starting in August. Wales has not yet set a date.", "Future in full flow: Teacher and students at Epsom College\n\nThroughout James Malley's usually bustling school, classrooms sit strangely empty and quiet. Chairs sit neatly on top of tables after the cleaners have been through. But sitting at his head teacher's desk, he can see and hear students chatting from far away, as he watches the potential future of education in a coronavirus world.\n\nSixth form geography students are mid-video conference. Their teacher, working from home, is talking about volcanoes - transmitting a presentation direct into their homes - just as if it were on the whiteboard in the classroom.\n\n\"When we closed down, I don't think anybody was even contemplating no GCSEs, no A-Levels schools and not coming back for the rest of the academic year,\" he says.\n\nSo sitting staring at a virtual class is not how Mr Malley set out to lead Therfield School in Leatherhead, Surrey - nor did any other head teacher anywhere else in the world.\n\nBut if social distancing continues until who-knows-when, he and thousands of other heads know that video classes may now be inevitable. And that, in turn, is developing into an enormous existential dilemma for his profession: will teachers unintentionally, deepen the education divide between \"Zoom Haves\" and \"Zoom Have Nots\"?\n\nSince the UK's national closure of schools began in March, many heads like Mr Malley have taken their schools through three broad phases of completely reinventing the way they teach:\n\n\"We're not trying to replicate the school day,\" says Mr Malley. \"In any given two weeks there is a core offer and then other activities to extend the curriculum.\"\n\nTherfield is now fully embedded in the second of these three phases. Teachers have converted their classroom materials into Powerpoint-style presentations that are delivered via the homework portal. They call each student, every week, for a chat - and they can see proof of actual progress through formal online assessments.\n\nBut it's in phase three that the risks really begin to emerge, say many teachers. If schools try to recreate live online classes, will the poorest students lose out?\n\nEpsom College is a grand private school, close to the world famous race course and five miles from Therfield. Almost half of its pupils are boarders, many of them children from abroad whose families value a traditional English education. Like Therfield, headmaster Jay Piggot and his leadership team rapidly developed a stop-gap plan of online worksheets, to keep teaching going during the first weeks of lockdown.\n\nJay Piggot: Video has helped keep the community together - including with a virtual choir\n\nAnd like many other independent schools, they've moved far more quickly to full video classes - and are now offering all their students a broadcast curriculum, throughout the day. They are using Microsoft Teams, rather than Zoom. Other providers are available. The school day has been shortened - and classes only run for 40 minutes. And there are more breaks to help teachers prepare and give everyone a screen break. His staff and students have already learnt a lot.\n\n\"You have to concentrate much harder within a video conference - you won't get the body language cues,\" says Mr Piggot. \"Teaching tends to be more of a monologue and then a response. But there are strengths too. If a teacher sets a question and the students can respond online, then the teacher has received an immediate insight. That is very useful, but in terms of the richness of the classroom, it's no comparison.\"\n\nNot the classroom of the future - everyone hopes\n\nThe technology has also helped, virtually at least, preserve the school community as video has brought pupils together for assemblies, challenges and even a digital choir.\n\nSo, is there now a coronavirus technological divide widening the gap between independent and state schools?\n\nJay Piggot says he is concerned there will be - and he's sharing what he has learnt so far about video teaching with the state schools near to him.\n\nAnd Stephen Fraser of the Education Endowment Foundation, a leading education charity, says there is now a historic challenge.\n\n\"Universal and compulsory schooling are the great leveller,\" he says. \"This crisis has thrown that universal platform in the air. There is now a huge variability in what students can access.\"\n\nThe EEF predicts that the most disadvantaged students may need 12 months or longer to catch up on what they have lost during lockdown. But he adds: \"Teaching practice always trumps the platform. Whether it's video conferencing, through to the delivery of hard [paper] copies of lessons, if it is backed up by high quality teaching, that is what matters.\"\n\n\"We know that if a teacher makes a phone call at the start of the week to the child who they know, that can be really effective.\"\n\nInstinctively, state school heads like Mr Malley are restless to do more. That's where the dilemma of embracing video classes will become acute. Some 15% of Therfield students are eligible for free school meals - the national average. Approximately 10% of the 910 students are what Mr Malley terms internet poor - either they have no proper access at all, or it is limited by availability of devices or bandwidth in the home.\n\n\"We've got parents working from home and they have one laptop between them. If we say at 10 o'clock, it's your history lesson, that's not meaningful. If you think about schools in more deprived areas, you're going to be doubling those figures.\n\n\"So you are then into a situation where you have to ask how much are those students losing out compared to their peers?\n\n\"That is the moral dilemma that state school heads are facing,\" says Mr Malley. \"Every time we decide to do more, there might be some students who won't get access.\"\n\nThe Department for Education has already launched a major programme to lend laptops and other technology to disadvantaged families. But while James Malley welcomes the government cash - it remains an imperfect solution to what could become, for some, a perfect storm of underachievement because of factors beyond sending data across the internet.\n\n\"I'm a historian by trade. In wars and in periods of crisis, we adapt. We will probably end up doing some things better than we have ever done them. But that's not a replacement for the things that you lose.\"", "A 95-year-old World War Two veteran from Ghana has set himself the challenge of walking two miles a day for a week to raise money for coronavirus charities.\n\nPrivate Joseph Hammond was inspired by the video of the UK's Captain Tom Moore who raised millions by walking in his garden.\n\nThe money he raises will be used to purchase personal protection equipment (PPE) for Covid-19 front-line workers and vulnerable veterans in Commonwealth countries.", "Dominic Cummings was never going to go quietly after being forced out of Downing Street at the end of last year.\n\nBut the number, and seriousness, of his claims about what went on at the heart of government, as ministers battled to get on top of the coronavirus crisis, are unprecedented in modern times.\n\nRarely has a former adviser made so many potentially damaging revelations about a sitting prime minister.\n\nHis critics say Mr Cummings is motivated by revenge against Boris Johnson, and will not rest until the PM has been removed from No 10.\n\nMr Cummings insists he is driven by a desire to make what he views as a broken and chaotic government machine work better in future.\n\nHe left his Downing Street role following an internal power struggle, amid claims the PM's then-fiancee had blocked the promotion of one of his allies, Lee Cain, after months of internal warfare.\n\nIn his final year at Downing Street, Mr Cummings had a £40,000 pay rise, taking his salary to between £140,000 and £144,999.\n\nThere was speculation that the 49-year-old would seek a post-politics career as the first head of Aria, the UK's new \"high risk\" science agency, which had been one of his pet projects.\n\nBut he appears to have a different career path in mind.\n\nIn February, he started a technology consultancy firm, Siwah Ltd. He is the sole director of the firm, according to Companies House, and it is registered at an address in his native Durham, in north-east England. This would appear to be a successor to Dynamic Maps, his previous tech consultancy.\n\nBut in recent months, most of his time appears to have been taken up with spilling the beans on his time in government.\n\nThe BBC did not pay Mr Cummings for his exclusive interview with political editor Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nAnd he has not yet taken the time-honoured route of selling his story to a newspaper, or signing a book deal.\n\nBut he has found a way of generating income through online platform Substack, where he has launched a newsletter.\n\nHe plans to give out information on the coronavirus pandemic and his time in Downing Street for free, but \"more recondite stuff on the media, Westminster, 'inside No 10', how did we get Brexit done in 2019, the 2019 election etc\" will only be available to subscribers who pay £10 a month.\n\nHe is also offering his marketing and election campaigning expertise, for fees that \"slide from zero to lots depending on who you are / your project\".\n\nThis new venture has incurred the wrath of Whitehall watchdog Lord Pickles, who chairs the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba), which vets jobs taken by former ministers and top officials.\n\nIn a letter to Cabinet Office Minister Micheal Gove, he says Mr Cummings has sought advice on working as a consultant.\n\nBut he adds: \"It appears that Mr Cummings is offering various services for payment via a blog hosted on Substack, the blog for which he is also receiving subscription payments.\n\n\"Mr Cummings has failed to seek the committee's advice on this commercial undertaking, nor has the committee received the courtesy of a reply to our letter requesting an explanation.\n\n\"Failure to seek and await advice before taking up work is a breach of the government's rules.\"\n\nThere are few repercussions for failing to consult Acoba, however.\n\nLittle was heard from Mr Cummings for several months after his departure from Downing Street - but that all changed in April.\n\nAfter being named in media reports as the source of government leaks, he launched a scathing attack on Mr Johnson via a 1,000-word blog post in April.\n\nAs well as denying he was behind the leaks, he went on to make a series of accusations against the PM and questioned his \"competence and integrity\".\n\nThe following month, Mr Cummings expanded on his criticisms at a seven-hour select committee appearance, declaring Boris Johnson \"unfit for the job\", and claiming he had ignored scientific advice and wrongly delayed lockdowns.\n\nHe also turned his fire on then-health secretary Matt Hancock, who he said should have been fired for lying.\n\nThis sparked a bitter war of words with Mr Hancock, who flatly denied all of Mr Cummings's allegations.\n\nIt thrust Mr Cummings back into the spotlight for the first time since his now infamous visit to County Durham, four days after the start of the first national lockdown, in March last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhile staying with his family at his father's farm, he made a 30-mile road journey to Barnard Castle, which he later said had been to test his eyesight before the 260-mile drive back to London.\n\nThis revelation - at a specially-convened press conference in the Downing Street garden - made Mr Cummings a household name and led to furious allegations of double standards at a time when the government had banned all but essential long-distance travel.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Cummings said that, during the Barnard Castle trip, he had been trying to work out \"Do I feel OK driving?\"\n\nHe also said he had decided to move his family to County Durham before his wife fell ill with suspected Covid because of security concerns over his home in London.\n\nAsked why he had given a story that was \"not the 100% truth\" when he held a special press conference in the Downing Street rose garden on 25 May, Mr Cummings admitted that \"the way we handled the whole thing was wrong\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cummings says he drove to Barnard Castle to test vision\n\nBoris Johnson stood by his adviser throughout the Barnard Castle episode - to the consternation of some of his supporters, who feared it was undermining his attempts to hold the country together during a national crisis.\n\nSome said the episode burned through the political capital the prime minister had generated months earlier during the 2019 general election.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson defends his senior adviser Dominic Cummings in May 2020\n\nBut it is hard to overstate how important Mr Cummings was to the Johnson project.\n\nThe two are very different characters - Mr Johnson likes to be popular, Mr Cummings appears indifferent to such concerns - but they formed a strong bond in the white heat of the 2016 Vote Leave campaign to get Britain out of the EU, which Mr Cummings led as campaign director.\n\nThe combination of Mr Johnson, the flamboyant household-name frontman, with Mr Cummings, the ruthless, data-driven strategist, with a flair for an eye-catching slogan, proved to be unbeatable.\n\nMr Cummings was credited with formulating the \"take back control\" slogan that appears to have struck a chord with so many referendum voters, changing the course of British history.\n\nYet some were surprised when Mr Cummings was brought into the heart of government as Mr Johnson's chief adviser, given his past record of rubbing senior Tory politicians up the wrong way.\n\nIt proved to be a shrewd move. It was Mr Cummings who devised the high-risk strategy of pushing for the 2019 election to be fought on a \"Get Brexit Done\" ticket, focusing on winning seats in Labour heartlands, something no previous Tory leader had managed to do in decades.\n\nMany of the policy ideas that have shaped the Johnson government's agenda have his fingerprints all over them.\n\n\"Levelling up\" - moving power and money out of London and the South East of England - is a Cummings project, as are plans to shake-up the civil service, take on the judiciary and reform the planning system.\n\nThe team that surrounded Mr Cummings at Downing Street, some of whom are Vote Leave veterans, were fiercely loyal to him and shared a sense that they were outsiders in Whitehall, battling an entrenched \"elite\".\n\nLee Cain, the former Downing Street and Vote Leave communications chief, left No 10 just before Mr Cummings did.\n\nMr Cummings watches the PM in action at a coronavirus briefing\n\nThere had been rumours of a rift between the Vote Leave veterans and other No 10 aides, who didn't like Mr Cummings's and Mr Cain's abrasive style.\n\nThere were tales of crackdowns on special advisers suspected of leaking to the media and angry, dismissive behaviour towards Tory MPs, civil servants and even secretaries of state.\n\nNone of this will have come as much of a surprise to veteran Cummings watchers.\n\nMr Cummings has been in and around the upper reaches of government and the Conservative Party for nearly two decades, and has made a career out of defying conventional wisdom and challenging the established order.\n\nBut he has never been a member of the Conservative Party, or any party, and appears to have little time for most MPs.\n\nA longstanding Eurosceptic who cut his campaigning teeth as a director of the anti-euro Business for Sterling group, Mr Cummings's other passion is changing the way government operates.\n\nHe grabbed headlines when he posted an advert on his personal blog for \"weirdos and misfits with odd skills\" to work in government, arguing that the civil service lacked \"deep expertise\" in many policy areas.\n\nThe Vote Leave bus was one of its most notable campaign tactics\n\nMr Cummings is a native of Durham, in the North East of England. His father, Robert, was an oil rig engineer and his mother, Morag, a teacher and behavioural specialist.\n\nHe went to a state primary school and was then privately educated at Durham School. He graduated from Oxford University with a first-class degree in modern history and spent some time in Russia, where he was involved with an ill-fated attempt to launch an airline, among other projects.\n\nHe is married to Spectator journalist Mary Wakefield, the daughter of aristocrat Sir Humphry Wakefield, whose family seat is Chillingam Castle, in Northumberland.\n\nAfter a stint as campaign director for Business for Sterling, Mr Cummings spent eight months as chief strategy adviser to then Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith, who fired him.\n\nHe played a key role in the 2004 campaign against an elected regional assembly in his native North East.\n\nIn what turned out to be a dry run for the Brexit campaign, the North East Says No team won the referendum with a mix of eye-catching stunts - including an inflatable white elephant - and snappy slogans that tapped into the growing anti-politics mood among the public.\n\nHe is then said to have retreated to his father's farm, in County Durham, where he spent his time reading science and history books in an effort to attain a better understanding of the world.\n\nMr Cummings facing questions from the media outside his home\n\nHe re-emerged in 2007 as a special adviser to Michael Gove, who became education secretary in 2010 and turned out to be something of a kindred spirit.\n\nThe pair would rail against what they called \"the blob\" - the informal alliance of senior civil servants and teachers' unions that sought, in their opinion, to frustrate their attempts at reform.\n\nHe left of his own accord to set up a free school, having alienated a number of senior people in the education ministry and the Conservative Party.\n\nHe once described former Brexit Secretary David Davis as \"thick as mince\" and as \"lazy as a toad\" and irritated David Cameron, the then prime minister, who called him a \"career psychopath\".\n\nBenedict Cumberbatch was widely praised for his portrayal of Dominic Cummings in Brexit: The Uncivil War\n\nHis appointment as head of the Vote Leave campaign - dramatised in Channel 4 drama Brexit: The Uncivil War - was seen as a risk worth taking by those putting the campaign together but he left a controversial legacy.\n\nVote Leave was found to have broken electoral law over spending limits by the Electoral Commission and Mr Cummings was held in contempt of Parliament for failing to respond to a summons to appear before and give evidence to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.\n\nLike most advisers, he shunned media interviews when he was in government, and his rare appearances before MPs were characterised by animosity on both sides.\n\nAll that has changed in recent weeks, but it would be a brave person who said he had now joined the ranks of the former Westminster insiders who make their living as pundits - a class he appears to view with as much disdain as he does his former colleagues in government.", "More than a million and a half people took up the opportunity to delay their mortgage payments under the scheme.\n\nHomeowners struggling financially due to coronavirus will be able to extend their mortgage payment holiday for a further three months, or cut payments.\n\nMortgage holidays started in March, allowing people to defer payments without affecting their credit rating.\n\nThat respite from payments would end for the first applicants in June and the Treasury said the extension would provide certainty for those affected.\n\nHowever, it said borrowers should still pay their mortgages if they were able.\n\nThe deferred payments will still have to be paid back later on, so mortgage customers will face higher bills once the so-called holiday comes to an end.\n\nHowever, the Treasury was concerned an abrupt end to the scheme could produce a cliff-edge effect, with families facing money problems as bad, if not worse, as they did when the virus struck.\n\nChristopher Woolard, interim chief executive at financial regulator the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), said that if customers could afford to restart mortgage payments \"it is in their best interests to do so\".\n\n\"But where they can't, a range of further support will be available,\" he added.\n\nStephen Jones, chief executive of UK Finance, said: \"A payment holiday may not be the right choice for everyone, and borrowers should only apply if they need one. We would encourage any borrowers concerned about their financial situation to check with their lender.\"\n\nThe Money Advice Trust, a charity which runs the National Debtline advice service, said the extension was good news, but urged the government to help private renters, too.\n\nJoanna Elson, chief executive of the Money Advice Trust, said: \"People in private rented accommodation are among the most exposed to financial difficulty in the wake of the outbreak, and the government should listen to calls to help people meet their rent payments by increasing the Local Housing Allowance rate to cover 50% of average market rents.\"\n\nThe date for homeowners to apply to extend their mortgage holidays has also been extended, with customers able to apply until the end of October, so if someone applied for one then, it would take them through to January.\n\nMore than 1.8 million mortgage customers have taken advantage of the relief from making payments so far.\n\nThe banking body, UK Finance, estimates this is an average of £755 a month.\n\nA cliff edge was looming. The first borrowers to have put off their mortgage payments would have had to start paying again next month.\n\nThe proposal to extend the scheme puts off the day of reckoning, but it could create an even bigger financial challenge for families later on.\n\nBecause the so-called mortgage holidays do not involve free money. You have to make up the shortfall afterwards.\n\nIt means that mortgage bills will be slightly higher when you resume paying, and they will be higher still if you extend for another three months.\n\nMortgage rates are relatively low and the cost is spread over 25 years, so hopefully the increase will be bearable.\n\nThat may not be the case with higher cost borrowing. The FCA will have to think much harder about whether extending holidays for credit cards and other debt is a good idea.\n\nLenders will be expected to contact customers affected by the extension, to discuss the options available to them.\n\n\"Some may be able to resume their full monthly payments, others may be able to pay a proportion of their monthly payment, or temporarily switch to an interest only mortgage, and others will opt to extend their mortgage payment holiday,\" the government said.", "Shearings Holidays is part of the group\n\nAbout 2,500 jobs have been lost and 64,000 bookings cancelled with the collapse into administration of Specialist Leisure Group.\n\nThe hotel and travel company included well-known coach holiday brands Shearings and National Holidays.\n\nTrade organisation Abta said the company, which specialised in products for the over-50s, was \"significantly impacted\" by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOne hotel owner predicted its demise would leave \"a void in the market\".\n\nAbta said the company had struggled to provide thousands of refunds for cancelled trips.\n\nIt added that the vast majority of cancelled bookings were coach package holidays, which are financially protected, and customers with these bookings would receive a full refund.\n\nThe Specialist Leisure Group, based in Wigan, also operated Caledonian Travel and hotel businesses such as Bay Hotels, Coast and Country Hotels and Country Living Hotels.\n\nThe firm said on its website that all tours, cruises, holidays and hotel breaks had been cancelled and would not be rescheduled, blaming the impact of the pandemic.\n\nEmployee Matthew Herbert said he was \"gutted\" upon hearing the news.\n\n\"It'll take a while for this wound to heal. To my colleagues, good luck, stay safe, stay strong,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matthew Herbert This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRichard Perry, who owns the Silversands Hotel in Blackpool, has worked with National Holidays and Caledonian Travel for 10 years and said they had been \"very successful and brought lots of people\" to the hotel.\n\nMr Perry said he was owed £6,500 by National and would have \"to look at our business model again as National supplied around 60% of our trade\".\n\nHe described the group's collapse as \"a great shame\" and believes there \"will be a void now in the market especially for pensioners who can no longer travel abroad\".\n\nRichard and Elaine Perry said National Holidays supplied \"around 60%\" of trade to their hotel\n\nHarry Carter, 71, and his wife Gillian have been regular National Holidays customers for years.\n\nMr Carter said: \"I'm upset about the news. Never in all my years of using them have we ever had a bad experience.\n\n\"You get on the coach and you meet some very interesting people, and the service you get from the driver is first-class.\n\nJohn de Vial, Abta's director of membership and financial services, said: \"Today is a very sad day for these customers and the thousands of staff who will have lost their jobs.\n\n\"The fact that two such well-known brands with a loyal customer base have had to call in administrators is a stark indication of the pressure that the holiday industry is under as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"Abta has repeatedly highlighted to the government the urgency of the situation and the need to set out a co-ordinated strategy with clearer communication if it wants to help avoid significant job losses and support companies to weather the storm.\"\n\nOther coach companies sent messages of support.\n\nRuncorn-based Anthony's Travel mourned the loss of a firm said in a tweet Shearings was \"long-associated with the golden age of coach travel and UK tourism\".\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 ANTHONYS TRAVEL This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTeesside-based Skelton Coaches urged the government to \"help the coach and tour industry before it's all gone\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Skelton Coaches 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\nAtol, the government-run financial protection scheme, said it would be contacting the small number of customers with flight-inclusive packages, which would be protected.\n\nAtol spokesman Andrew McConnell said: \"This is a particularly sad day for customers and employees of Shearings Holidays Ltd, a long-standing business and well-known UK travel company.\"\n\nAre you a Specialist Leisure employee or customer? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "Aya Hachem died from a gunshot wound to the chest\n\nFive people have been charged with the murder of a law student in a drive-by shooting in Blackburn.\n\nAya Hachem, 19, died when shots were fired from a passing car on Sunday.\n\nFeroz Suleman, 39, Abubakir Satia, 31, Uthman Satia, 28, Judy Chapman, 26, and Kashif Manzoor, 24, appeared at Preston Magistrates' Court, sitting at Sessions House Crown Court.\n\nThey have also been charged with the attempted murder of their intended target Pashar Khan, the court heard.\n\nThe five people were remanded in custody to appear at Preston Crown Court on Wednesday.\n\nA closure order was issued for Mr Suleman's business, RI Tyres, for up to three months following an application by Lancashire Police.\n\nMs Hachem's parents have paid tribute to her as the \"most loyal devoted daughter\" who \"dreamed of becoming a solicitor\".\n\n\"We are absolutely devastated by her death and would like to take this opportunity to plead with any members of the public who may have any information however small that may bring those responsible to justice,\" they said.\n\nAya Hachem was a young trustee for the Children's Society\n\nMr Suleman, of Shear Brow in Blackburn, and Abubakir Satia, of Oxford Close in Blackburn, were the first people to be charged on Friday.\n\nThey appeared at Preston Magistrates' Court along with Uthman Satia, of Oxford Close in Blackburn, Judy Chapman, of St Hubert's Road in Great Harwood, and Kashif Manzoor, of Shakeshaft Street in Blackburn, who were charged later.\n\nTwo men, aged 33 and 36, from Blackburn, arrested on Monday on suspicion of murder and attempted murder, have been released on bail pending further inquiries.\n\nFour other people arrested as part of the inquiry have been released under investigation, while a 22-year-old man, from Blackburn, who was arrested on Friday on suspicion of murder and attempted murder, was released without charge.\n\nA 39-year-old man from Blackburn, who was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of murder and attempted murder, and a 34-year-old man from Blackburn arrested on Thursday on suspicion of murder and attempted murder, remain in custody.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Peter Weir said pupils' return to school would not be a return to normal, but rather a \"new normal\" guided by social-distancing guidelines\n\nSome NI pupils will return to school in late August with a phased return for the remainder, Education Minister Peter Weir has said.\n\nMr Weir was speaking during a meeting of a Stormont committee on Thursday.\n\n\"Subject to medical guidance and safety, it would be my aim to see a phased reopening of schools,\" he said.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland have been closed since March during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nMr Weir said the reopening of schools would begin with \"limited provision for key cohort years in August, followed by a phased provision for all pupils at the beginning of September\".\n\n\"Key cohorts\" included students preparing for exams, such as GCSEs and A-Levels, and students transitioning from primary to post-primary schools, Mr Weir later clarified.\n\nFrom August, teaching will be split between the classroom and remote learning\n\n\"This will not be a return to school as it was prior to Covid, but rather a new normal reflective of social distancing and a medically safe regime,\" said Mr Weir.\n\n\"For all pupils it will involve a mixture of scheduled school attendance and learning at home.\n\n\"In line with the executive's strategy contingent upon medically sound advice and susceptibility of the transmission of the virus, consideration may be given to a return of younger cohorts.\n\nSpeaking at Thursday's executive press conference, Mr Weir announced a new Education Authority scheme to provide laptops for disadvantaged pupils to support their remote learning.\n\nThe Department of Education would buy more laptops if required, he added.\n\nMr Weir said as many as 400 vulnerable children were attending schools that were open only to provide care - a figure Mr Weir described as \"small but increasing\".\n\nThere will still be many questions for parents, pupils and teachers with this announcement.\n\nI spoke to one principal who asked how he will stagger classes and maintain social distancing, especially among younger pupils - and that's just one school.\n\nAlthough mid-August seems a long way off, it is a huge undertaking to enable pupils to come back and learn full time in September, even if they're not in school settings full time.\n\nWhat about childcare, in cases where students are only in schools part of the week and at home for the remainder?\n\nThe one advantage we do have is that our schools will not open for the rest of this educational year, so we will be able to watch how it is managed in other countries and what problems they've faced and overcome.\n\nBut this is only three months away - it will take every day of those three months to iron out some of these issues.\n\nThe minister said some school pupils were more at risk of falling behind than others.\n\nKevin McAreavey, principal of Holy Cross Boys' Primary School in Belfast, said schools were entering \"uncharted waters\".\n\nGetting to a point where grandparents could care for children again was important because many were \"the chief childminders and also the ones who look after the homework\", he said.\n\n\"It is going to be difficult,\" Mr McAreavey told the BBC's Evening Extra programme. \"There is a lot of planning (required) around the detail.\"\n\nBarry Corrigan, principal of Millennium Integrated Primary School in Saintfield, said the priority would be teaching pupils about good hygiene and working with parents to identify symptoms and limit the potential spread of coronavirus.", "Celebrities including baker Nadiya Hussain and Citizen Khan creator Adil Ray have urged Muslims celebrating Eid this weekend to follow social distancing guidelines.\n\nTraditionally, the festival is marked with communal prayers in mosques and visits to friends and family.\n\nBut in a video posted online, Muslims were encouraged to stay at home and celebrate with their families online.\n\nHussain said \"now could not be a better time to put others first\".\n\nEid is celebrated at the end of the fasting month of Ramadan and is a special time for nearly two billion Muslims all over the world.\n\nThe Eid al-Fitr prayers are usually among the best attended of the year, however, mosques are currently closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAddressing his fellow Muslims in the video, Ray said: \"This year, we can stay home, save lives and give consideration to others. What a wonderful Eid gift that would be.\"\n\nFormer Blue Peter presenter and children's book author Konnie Huq, who also appears in the video, said: \"By following the guidance we are helping to protect not just ourselves but also our families.\"\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 Nadiya Jamir Hussain MBE This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt Thursday's Downing Street coronavirus briefing, a member of the public asked about advice for those celebrating Eid this weekend.\n\nMehwish from Coventry asked: \"With the BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) coronavirus death rate being relatively high, will you be advising the Muslim community to stay at home or stay alert during the upcoming three-day celebration of Eid?\n\n\"If not, what is your advice for them? As a member I am concerned that some people may be finding ways to flout the rules like having garden parties or gatherings.\"\n\nMillions of Muslims have been observing Ramadan under lockdown this year\n\nChief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said religious celebrations for all faiths will have to continue to be adapted to meet social distancing rules.\n\nHe said: \"Everybody knows what those rules are and they remain the same for every community.\n\n\"And the reason we must all do that is, this is to protect the whole community, all communities and all of us must find ways around this, of whatever faith.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some British Muslims have been breaking their fast over Zoom\n\nEarlier this week, the Muslim Council of Britain - an umbrella organisation of various UK Muslim bodies - said people should celebrate Eid at home and virtually.", "The US has announced it will withdraw from a major accord that permits unarmed aerial surveillance flights over dozens of participating countries.\n\nThe Open Skies Treaty came into force in 2002 and is designed to boost confidence and assure against attacks.\n\nBut senior US officials said the country was withdrawing due to repeated Russian violations of its terms.\n\nUS President Donald Trump later said there was a \"very good chance we'll reach a new agreement\" with Russia.\n\n\"I think we have a very good relationship with Russia, but Russia didn't adhere to the treaty,\" Mr Trump said on Thursday, adding: \"Until they adhere we will pull out.\"\n\nThe US will formally withdraw from the accord in six months, officials said.\n\n\"During the course of this review it has become abundantly clear that it is no longer in America's interests to remain a party to the Open Skies Treaty,\" one official told Reuters news agency.\n\nSome 35 nations are party to the treaty, including Russia, Canada and the UK.\n\nRussia's Foreign Ministry insisted that it had not violated the treaty and that a US withdrawal would be \"very regrettable\", adding that the Trump administration was working to \"derail all agreements on arms control\".\n\n\"We reject any attempts to justify a way out of this fundamental agreement,\" Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko told Russia's state-owned RIA Novosti news agency.\n\n\"Nothing prevents continuing the discussions over the technical issues, which the US is misrepresenting as violations by Russia,\" he added.\n\nHe said that any withdrawal would affect the interests of all of the treaty's participants, who are also members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato).\n\nIn abandoning the Open Skies Treaty, the Trump Administration is not just renouncing an arms control agreement that was seen as essential for transparency during the Cold War years, but he is also ditching an agreement that many experts believe still retains huge benefits for the US.\n\nThe fact it comes at a time when the whole structure of arms control is collapsing and a new era of great power competition beckons is doubly troubling.\n\nThe Open Skies Treaty came into force in January 2002 and some 34 countries have ratified the agreement. It allows for unarmed short-notice reconnaissance flights by specially equipped aircraft, over the entire territory of another country to collect data on troop deployments, military facilities and so on.\n\nThere have been some problems in recent years and the US contends - with some justification - that Russia has been preventing access to certain areas. But critics of the Trump administration's antipathy towards arms control say this is a reason for fixing the treaty, not abandoning it.\n\nMr Trump seems to be holding out at least a chance that the US could stick with Open Skies, but that is clearly going to depend upon talks with Moscow.\n\nThe Russian Foreign ministry says that a US withdrawal will affect the interests of all the participants. While the US can clearly use satellites for its intelligence gathering on Russia, Mr Trump's decision will cause tensions with Washington's European allies, few of whom have such satellite access.\n\nEarlier this year, US Defence Secretary Mark Esper accused Russia of violating the treaty by banning flights over the city of Kaliningrad and other areas near Georgia.\n\n\"I have a lot of concerns about the treaty as it stands now,\" he said at the time. \"This is important to many of our Nato allies, that they have the means to conduct the overflights.\"\n\nIt marks the latest effort by President Donald Trump's administration to withdraw the US from a major global treaty.\n\nLast year, it pulled out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) with Russia.\n\nThe INF was signed by the US and the USSR in 1987, and banned the vast majority of nuclear and non-nuclear missiles with short and medium ranges.", "Hydroxychloroquine is safe for designated treatments such as malaria, lupus and arthritis\n\nThe drug US President Donald Trump said he was taking to ward off Covid-19 actually increases the risk of patients with the disease dying from it, a study in the Lancet has found.\n\nThe study said there were no benefits to treating patients with the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine.\n\nMr Trump said he was taking the drug despite public health officials warning that it could cause heart problems.\n\nThe president has repeatedly promoted the drug, against medical advice.\n\nHydroxychloroquine is safe for malaria, and conditions like lupus or arthritis, but no clinical trials have recommended the use of hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus.\n\nThe Lancet study involved 96,000 coronavirus patients, nearly 15,000 of whom were given hydroxychloroquine - or a related form chloroquine - either alone or with an antibiotic.\n\nThe study found that the patients were more likely to die in hospital and develop heart rhythm complications than other Covid patients in a comparison group.\n\nThe death rates of the treated groups were: hydroxychloroquine 18%; chloroquine 16.4%; control group 9%. Those treated with hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine in combination with antibiotics had an even higher death rate.\n\nThe researchers warned that hydroxychloroquine should not be used outside of clinical trials.\n\nMr Trump says he has not tested positive for Covid-19 and is taking the drug because he thinks it has \"positive benefits\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump: \"If it's not good, I'll tell you right, I'm not going to get hurt by it\"\n\nA trial is under way to see whether the anti-malarial drug could prevent Covid-19. More than 40,000 healthcare workers from Europe, Africa, Asia and South America who are in contact with patients with the disease will be given the drug as part of the trial.\n\nWhen asked about the Lancet study, White House coronavirus taskforce co-ordinator Dr Deborah Birx said the US Food and Drug Administration had been \"very clear\" about concerns in using the drug as either a coronavirus prevention or as a treatment course.\n\nDr Marcos Espinal, director of the Pan American Health Organization - part of the World Health Organization - has stressed that no clinical trials have recommended the use of hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus.", "People in England are being urged to stay away from tourism hotspots over the bank holiday weekend, with warm weather again forecast.\n\nPictures of large numbers visiting beaches in Brighton and Southend in recent days have raised fears over social distancing, with no limit in place on how far people can travel.\n\nVisitors to Brighton will find stewards stationed around the beach to encourage physical distancing and direct people to less busy parts of the seafront if it becomes too busy.\n\nCouncillor Carmen Appich, from Brighton & Hove City Council, said it would be an \"insult to the NHS staff and frontline workers\" to promote the city as a destination to visit.\n\nHastings Borough Council says the area is \"closed to visitors from outside the town\" and on the Isle of Wight the council's \"clear advice\" is to stay away.\n\nPeople are also being advised not to visit Blackpool and have been asked to think twice before visiting the Peak District or Morecambe Bay.\n\nIn Cornwall, council leaders have warned there is no lifeguard cover, and a large coastal swell and spring tide will bring hazardous sea conditions over the weekend.\n\nThe National Trust is urging people across England to stay close to home and explore local green spaces and countryside this weekend.\n\nSpeaking at the daily Downing Street press conference, Home Secretary Priti Patel said people can enjoy the outdoors as long as they follow social distancing advice.", "UK scientists are to begin testing a treatment that it is hoped could counter the effects of Covid-19 in the most seriously ill patients.\n\nIt has been found those with the most severe form of the disease have extremely low numbers of an immune cell called a T-cell.\n\nThe clinical trial will evaluate if a drug called interleukin 7, known to boost T-cell numbers, can aid patients' recovery.\n\nIt involves scientists from the Francis Crick Institute, King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital.\n\nThey have looked at immune cells in the blood of 60 Covid-19 patients and found an apparent crash in the numbers of T-cells.\n\nProf Adrian Hayday from the Crick Institute said it was a \"great surprise\" to see what was happening with the immune cells.\n\n\"They're trying to protect us, but the virus seems to be doing something that's pulling the rug from under them, because their numbers have declined dramatically.\n\nIn a microlitre (0.001ml) drop of blood, normal healthy adults have between 2,000 and 4,000 T-cells, also called T lymphocytes.\n\nThe Covid patients the team tested had between 200-1,200.\n\nThe researchers say these findings pave the way for them to develop a \"fingerprint test\" to check the levels of T-cells in the blood which could provide early indications of who might go on to develop more severe disease.\n\nIt also provides the possibility for a specific treatment to reverse that immune cell decline.\n\nManu Shankar-Hari, a critical care consultant at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, said that around 70% of patients that he sees in intensive care with Covid-19 arrive with between 400-800 lymphocytes per microlitre. \"When they start to recover, their lymphocyte level also starts to go back up,\" he added.\n\nInterleukin 7 has already been tested in a small group of patients with sepsis and proved to safely increase the production of these specific cells.\n\nIn this trial, it will be given to patients with a low lymphocyte count who have been in critical care for more than three days.\n\nMr Shankar-Hari said: \"We are hoping that [when we increase the cell count] the viral infections gets cleared.\n\n\"As a critical care physician, I look after patients who are extremely unwell and, other than supportive care, we do not have any direct active treatment against the disease.\n\n\"So a treatment like this coming along for it in the context of a clinical trial is extremely encouraging for critical care physicians across the UK.\"\n\nThis research has also provided insight into the specific ways in which this disease interacts with the immune system, that Prof Hayday says will be vital as scientists around the world look for clinically valuable information.\n\n\"The virus that has caused this completely Earth-changing emergency is unique - it's different. It is something unprecedented.\"\n\n\"The exact reason for this disruption - the spanner in the works of the T-cell system - is not at all clear to us.\n\n\"This virus is really doing something distinct and future research - which we will start immediately - needs to find out the mechanism by which this virus is having these effects.\"", "The more recent photo on the right shows the coat Louise was wearing when she went missing, police said\n\nA body has been found by police searching for a missing teenager.\n\nThe 16-year-old, named locally as Louise Smith, was last seen on 8 May - VE Day - in Somborne Drive, Havant, Hampshire.\n\nDetectives said they were treating the death of a person found in woodland in Havant Thicket as suspicious.\n\nFormal identification has not taken place but Louise's family has been informed of the discovery, Hampshire Constabulary said.\n\nDet Ch Supt Scott Mackechnie said the news would be \"very upsetting for the community\".\n\nHe urged people to avoid speculation and to \"provide all information to the police in the first instance\".\n\n\"We will endeavour to provide you with further updates as soon as we can,\" he said.\n\nA man and a woman, both aged 29, have previously been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping and released on bail.\n\nThe force previously asked people in the area to save any dashcam and CCTV footage from 7 and 8 May - particularly any filmed at VE Day celebrations - for officers to review.\n\nRemains were discovered in Havant Thicket on Thursday\n\nLouise went shopping at a Tesco store on the evening before she was reported missing\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe Premier League is \"as confident as we can be\" about restarting in June, says chief executive Richard Masters.\n\nPlayers resumed training on Tuesday, the day it was announced there had been six positive tests for coronavirus across three clubs.\n\nThe Premier League, suspended on 13 March, had previously identified 12 June as a possible restart date.\n\n\"There is some momentum. We've taken the first step,\" Masters told BBC Sport.\n\n\"It's great for everybody, including the fans, to see our players back on the training ground.\"\n\nAsked what date the Premier League was targeting for a return, Masters said it must be \"flexible\" and could learn from the resumption of the Bundesliga last weekend.\n\nHe also recognised the need for \"contingency plans\" and said \"curtailment is still a possibility\", meaning the season would be ended, but there was \"optimism\" fans could attend matches next season.\n\nMasters also admitted the idea of scrapping relegation \"would come up for discussion\" and was \"a significant topic\".\n\n\"That will be part of the debate we have,\" he said. \"What would happen in that environment (curtailment of season) is something we're yet to discuss with the clubs.\"\n\nFootball Association Chairman Greg Clarke told the Premier League clubs at their last meeting that the governing body would oppose the scrapping of relegation.\n\n\"I can't speak for the FA but obviously they have their own views on it and until we've discussed it as clubs and as a collective we can't really talk further about it,\" Masters added.\n\nPhase one of the return to training features small groups training with social distancing maintained.\n\nOn Wednesday culture secretary Oliver Dowden said phase two - the return of contact training in elite sports - could get government approval \"later this week\".\n\nMasters said the Premier League would not take this next step until it was safe to do so.\n\n\"We wouldn't have taken the first step to get back to training if we weren't convinced we had created a very safe environment for our players,\" he said.\n\n\"It is the first step and we have to be sure when we go to contact training we have completed those processes.\"\n\n'We think it is safe to return'\n\nChelsea midfielder N'Golo Kante will train at home because of coronavirus fears and Watford captain Troy Deeney will not return to training.\n\nThe Premier League hosted video conference calls \"to provide health reassurances\" to club captains and managers before training recommenced.\n\nThe league began testing players and staff for coronavirus again on Friday after six tested positive on Tuesday, a result Masters was \"reassured by\" given it represented less than 1% of tests.\n\n\"Our sympathies are with everybody who has tested positive,\" he said. \"A few of them were surprised because they were asymptomatic.\"\n\nEarlier this month, a number of club doctors raised concerns with league bosses over plans to resume the season and Masters said the Premier League \"were very surprised to hear that\".\n\n\"We ran a very thorough consultation with club doctors,\" he added.\n\n\"We have done everything we possibly can to make return to training as safe as possible.\n\n\"We think it is safe to return. We have to respect players' decisions not to return to training. I would be comfortable to return to training.\"\n\nShould matches resume and Liverpool - 25 points clear at the top of the table - secure their first title in 30 years, Masters said they should be allowed a trophy presentation \"if we can find a way of doing it\".\n\nBut some people are worried about fans gathering outside Anfield, and Masters said the potential for crowds of supporters was \"a concern\".\n\nMasters said the Premier League wanted \"to play out the season as much as possible at home and away venues\".\n\n\"We're talking to the authorities about that,\" he added.\n\n\"I do believe we can appeal to fans not to congregate outside football grounds or go to other people's houses to watch football matches in contravention of government guidelines.\"", "Anyone arriving in the UK from abroad could be fined £1,000 if they fail to self-isolate for 14 days, the government is expected to announce.\n\nUnder the plans, health officials would be able to carry out spot checks to check whether people were complying.\n\nThe new rules to help tackle Covid-19, which will also apply to British people returning from abroad, are not expected to come into force until next month.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel will give more details at the daily briefing.\n\nThe number of people who have died with coronavirus in the UK has reached 36,393 - a rise of 351 on Thursday's figure.\n\nAs part of the quarantine proposals, which are aimed at guarding against a second wave of coronavirus infections, any passengers arriving in the UK by plane, ferry or train would be asked to fill in a form with their contact information.\n\nThey would need to provide UK Border Force officials with an address where they would self-isolate, otherwise accommodation would be arranged by the government.\n\nRoad hauliers and medical officials would be exempt, as well as those arriving from the Republic of Ireland.\n\nHowever, people travelling from France will not be exempt, the government has previously confirmed, after it was initially suggested otherwise.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis said: \"The reality is we are saying to people if you are going to go abroad you need to look at the fact you may well need to do quarantine when you come back.\"\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth backed the plans, but said there were \"lots of questions as to why we didn't do this sooner\".\n\nHe added: \"I would urge the government to get on with it and give us the details about how it's going to work in practice.\"\n\nMany other countries already require arriving passengers to enter a 14-day quarantine, including New Zealand, South Africa, South Korea, Spain and the US.\n\nFormer head of Border Force, Tony Smith - now chairman of the International Border Management and Technologies Association - said he was \"surprised\" quarantine measures hadn't been brought in sooner at UK borders.\n\nHe told the Commons Home Affairs Committee on Friday that he would have expected a more \"incremental approach\" from the government \"that might have reduced the transmission from abroad\".\n\nAlso speaking to MPs, the boss of the Airport Operators Association, Karen Dee, said there had been no \"specific discussions\" as yet on how a quarantine would be implemented, but said it would be \"odd\" to introduce them now.\n\nShe said quarantine proposals were a \"blunt tool\" because it would apply \"to everybody in all circumstances\" and airports would prefer a risk-based approach, with agreements between countries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will thermal cameras help at airports?\n\nAirlines have warned quarantine measures could make an already critical situation worse for them, as air travel has plummeted by as much as 99% due to the pandemic.\n\nVirgin Atlantic said the government's proposal would \"prevent flights from resuming\" before August because there \"simply won't be sufficient demand\".\n\nA Ryanair spokeswoman said the plans were completely \"unenforceable\" and the isolation measure would not work unless passengers arriving in UK airports from abroad are \"detained in airport terminals or hotels\" for the 14-day period.\n\nShe added: \"If this measure had any basis in science, then the Irish visitors would not and could not be exempt.\"\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK - which represents the industry - said introducing a quarantine at this stage \"makes no sense\".\n\nHe said the government should support \"a common-sense approach\" involving \"health corridors with low-risk countries\" - these have also been called air bridges and would allow tourists to travel between two countries without needing to quarantine.\n\nDowning Street previously said its plans would be reviewed every three weeks once they were introduced.\n\nThe government currently recommends international travel only when absolutely necessary, and nobody should travel if they display any coronavirus symptoms.\n\nMeanwhile, the scientific advice given to the government which informed plans to send some pupils in England back to school will be published later.\n\nIt comes after more than 35 councils warned that not all of their primary schools will be ready to reopen to children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 on 1 June.\n\nSchools in Wales will not reopen on 1 June, while those in Scotland and Northern Ireland may not restart before the summer holidays.\n\nSchools have been closed for most pupils since March\n\nOn Thursday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said a new coronavirus test that gives results in 20 minutes is being trialled.\n\nThe swab test - which would show whether someone currently has the virus - does not need to be sent to a lab.\n\nHe also said more than 10 million antibody tests - that check if someone has had the virus in the past - will begin to be rolled out next week.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock was asked whether the PM changed his mind on the fees\n\nNHS staff and care workers from overseas will no longer have to pay an extra charge towards the health service after mounting pressure from MPs.\n\nBoris Johnson's spokesman said the PM had asked the Home Office and Department for Health to exempt NHS and care workers \"as soon as possible\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was \"a victory for common decency\".\n\nThe health immigration surcharge on non-EU migrants is £400 per year and set to rise to £624 in October.\n\nThe move to grant the exemption came after the PM's spokesman defended the fee earlier on Thursday.\n\nOfficials are now working on the detail and more will be announced \"in the coming days\".\n\nBut it is understood the plan will include exemptions for all NHS workers, including porters and cleaners, as well as independent health workers and social care workers.\n\nThe chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, Dame Donna Kinnair, said the charge had created \"an unfair and unjust financial burden\", adding: \"At last the government has agreed with us.\n\n\"This will ease the pressure on families who may be struggling financially or emotionally as a result.\"\n\nMr Johnson himself stood by the charge on Wednesday, telling MPs he \"understood the difficulties faced by our amazing NHS staff\", but said the government \"must look at the realities\" of funding the NHS.\n\nIt caused a backlash, with a number of Tory MPs joining opposition MPs in calling for him to reconsider - including the Tory chairman of the Commons public administration select committee, William Wragg, and his backbench colleague Sir Roger Gale.\n\nJust yesterday when the Labour leader Keir Starmer pressed Boris Johnson to change his mind, the prime minister was firm. He was adamant, it was the right thing to stick with the plan.\n\nBut overnight, there was disquiet - some chatter among Tory MPs - a few of them breaking cover to say they thought it was the wrong thing to stick with the charge.\n\nAnd, lo and behold, just after four o'clock this afternoon, Downing Street announced that the prime minister would be thinking carefully.\n\nFor the government's critics, of course, it has been portrayed immediately as a screaming U turn.\n\nA way for Downing Street to close down a political row.\n\nBut many people who thought it was the wrong thing might be pleased that the prime minister, in their view, has seen sense on this occasion.\n\nEarlier, No 10 defended the levy, saying the money \"goes directly back into the NHS to help save lives\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer: \"This is a victory for common sense\"\n\nBut now Mr Johnson's spokesman has said: \"[The PM] has been thinking about this a great deal. He has been a personal beneficiary of carers from abroad and understands the difficulties faced by our amazing NHS staff.\n\n\"The purpose of the NHS surcharge is to benefit the NHS, help to care for the sick and save lives. NHS and care workers from abroad who are granted visas are doing this already by the fantastic contribution which they make.\"\n\nThe change was welcomed by Labour, as the party had been planning to seek an amendment to the Immigration Bill to secure the exemption.\n\nSir Keir tweeted: \"Boris Johnson is right to have u-turned and backed our proposal to remove the NHS charge for health professionals and care workers.\n\n\"This is a victory for common decency and the right thing to do. We cannot clap our carers one day and then charge them to use our NHS the next.\"\n\nMr Wragg also praised the decision, saying the PM had \"shown true leadership, listened and reflected\".\n\nThe leader of the SNP in Westminster, Ian Blackford, said he was \"pleased to see the change of heart after pressure\", while the acting leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey, called it \"a great cross-party win\".\n\nThe change was also welcomed by of Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants.\n\nBut the charity's chief executive Satbir Singh added: \"It's depressing that it's taken nearly two months for the government to listen.\"\n\nThe surcharge is currently paid by non-European Economic Area (EEA) nationals coming to the UK for longer than six months.\n\nThere are exemptions for victims of slavery or trafficking, children taken into care, and the dependants of armed forces personnel.\n\nThe current rate of £400 a year is double what it what it was when first introduced in 2015.\n\nIt is due to be extended to EEA citizens moving to the UK from from next January, after the post-Brexit transition period ends.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies think-tank has estimated that exempting NHS and social care workers in England would cost around £90m a year.\n\nNews of the exemption came as the government announced a trial for a coronavirus test that does not need to be sent to a lab and gives results in 20 minutes.\n\nIt has also been announced that 10 million antibody tests - that check if someone has had the virus in the past - will start being rolled out next week.\n\nMeanwhile, lockdown restrictions in Scotland are likely to be relaxed slightly from next Thursday.\n\nAnd in Northern Ireland, Education Minister Peter Weir has said the reopening of schools will begin for \"key cohort years\" in August, followed by a phased provision for all pupils in September.\n\nContent available only in the UK", "The UK's budget deficit is set to see \"an absolutely colossal increase to a level not seen in peacetime\", the director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said.\n\nThe economic impact of coronavirus was likely to push the deficit to as high as £260bn, Paul Johnson told the BBC.\n\nHe was speaking after latest figures showed that the deficit hit £48.7bn in the 2019-20 financial year.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said those figures were \"the numbers before the storm\".\n\nAnd, separately, one of the Bank of England's top policymakers has warned that the UK faces its worst economic shock in several hundred years.\n\nJan Vlieghe, a member of the BoE's interest-rate setting committee, said that \"early indicators\" suggest the UK was \"experiencing an economic contraction that is faster and deeper than anything we have seen in the past century, or possibly several centuries\".\n\nHe did, though, say there was \"in principle\" a good chance that the UK would return to its \"pre-virus trajectory once the pandemic is over\".\n\nThe UK's deficit last year - the gap between the government's income and its expenditure - was £9.3bn higher than in the 2018-19 financial year and equivalent to 2.2% of GDP.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics, which released those figures, said they did not capture the big spending announced by the government to cope with the virus.\n\n\"The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic is expected to have a significant impact on the UK public sector finances,\" it added.\n\n\"These effects will arise from both the introduction of public health measures and from new government policies to support businesses and individuals.\"\n\nThe ONS said the full effects of coronavirus on the public finances would become clearer in the coming months.\n\nMr Johnson told the BBC's Today programme that there was still \"a huge amount of uncertainty\" surrounding the economic impact of the virus.\n\nHowever, the government had announced tax cuts and spending increases worth £100bn, so the effect was \"likely to dwarf the record that we saw during the financial crisis\".\n\nMr Johnson said the economy was unlikely to recover quickly afterwards and would remain \"smaller than it otherwise would have been\". He added that tax rises and a growing deficit were the likely outcome.\n\n\"I would be astonished if in a couple of years the economy was back where it would have been if it [the virus] had never happened,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, a closely watched survey of UK businesses has indicated that the economic impact has been even worse than feared.\n\nThe IHS Markit/CIPS flash UK composite purchasing managers' index (PMI), which measures activity in the services and manufacturing sectors, fell to a new record low of 12.9 in April, down from 36 in March.\n\nAny reading below 50 indicates contraction. Economists polled by Reuters had expected a figure of 31.4.\n\n\"The dire survey readings will inevitably raise questions about the cost of the lockdown and how long current containment measures will last,\" said Chris Williamson, chief business economist at IHS Markit, adding that the figures pointed to a quarter-on-quarter economic contraction of at least 7%.\n\nIn another development, the Treasury has announced that it is speeding up its plans to raise money in order to cover the cost of its coronavirus measures.\n\nIt will now be issuing £180bn worth of government bonds, known as gilts, in the May-to-July period, more than originally intended in those months.\n\nWe already knew the government was likely to have to borrow huge sums of money to support the economy. But now it's not a \"scenario\" from the Office of Budget Responsibility, but concrete reality.\n\nThis morning, the Debt Management Office, the arm of the Treasury that borrows on international money markets on behalf of the government, announced how much the government is actually planning to borrow. That's £45bn in April alone and a further £180bn from the start of May to the end of July - a total of £225bn in just four months.\n\nOne reason is the huge cost of programmes such as furloughing, now expected to cost well north of £50bn. The other reason is that the government's revenues - the tax it collects through income tax, VAT and national insurance - are collapsing. If you shut down much of the economy, you also turn off the tap on much of the government's tax income.\n\nThe OBR's scenario was that the government might need to borrow £382bn for the year - about seven times what was expected pre-Covid. That depends, though, on the shutdown being lifted sooner rather than later.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation estimates that if the shutdown continues for six months, borrowing will be even higher for the year - a truly mind-boggling £500bn. That's about a quarter of the size of the entire economy.\n\n\"The temporary and immediate nature of the unprecedented support announced for people and businesses means the government expects that a significantly higher proportion of total gilt sales in 2020-21 will take place in the first four months of the financial year, in order to meet the immediate financing needs resulting from Covid-19,\" the Treasury said.\n\n\"This higher volume of issuance is not expected to be required across the remainder of the financial year.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Founder Annemarie Plas said it would be \"beautiful\" to end it after its 10th week and make it an annual event\n\nThe UK's weekly applause for front-line workers tackling the coronavirus outbreak has \"had its moment\" and should end next Thursday, the woman behind it has suggested.\n\nIt would be \"beautiful\" to end Clap for Carers after its 10th week, and make it an annual event, Annemarie Plas said.\n\nShe said the public had \"shown our appreciation\" and it was now up to ministers to \"reward\" key workers.\n\nThe government has said it is considering how best to do so.\n\nSome have taken to incorporating pots and pans during into their weekly claps\n\nThe event originally began as a one-off to support NHS staff on 26 March - three days after the UK went into lockdown.\n\nHowever, after proving very popular, it was expanded to cover all key workers and has continued every Thursday at 20:00 BST, with people peering out of their windows or standing on their doorsteps to show their appreciation by clapping, cheering, banging saucepans and playing instruments.\n\nDutch-born Londoner Ms Plas, who is credited with starting the nationwide applause, told BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine show that it was inspired by similar events in the Netherlands and around the world.\n\nBut she said: \"Because this is the ninth time - and next week will be 10 times - I think that would be beautiful, to be the end of the series.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From a helipad to the streets, millions join the UK's ninth Clap for Carers\n\nFrom that point, she said maybe it should stop and \"then move to an annual moment\" - noting that \"other opinions\" are starting to \"rise to the surface\".\n\nShe added: \"So I feel like this had its moment and then we can adapt - let's continue to something else.\"\n\nPeople in London took to the street for the ninth Clap for Carers on Thursday\n\nThe applause has been called into question in recent weeks. Some NHS staff have said they felt \"stabbed in the back\" by people breaking lockdown guidelines to hold VE Day street parties or flock to the beach.\n\nOthers have suggested the NHS would benefit more from extra funding rather than applause, while Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said many key workers are \"overlooked and underpaid\".\n\nMs Plas said she feels that people have shown key workers their appreciation and it is now the responsibility of \"the people that are in power... to reward and give them the respect they deserve\".\n\nIn a later interview, she added: \"Without getting too political, I share some of the opinions that some people have about it becoming politicised.\n\n\"I think the narrative is starting to change and I don't want the clap to be negative.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said ministers were \"thinking [about] how to recognise the work of healthcare staff, of carers, of many others\".\n\nIt followed a pledge by Health Secretary Matt Hancock last week to \"fight\" to get nurses a \"fair reward\" for their work tackling the outbreak.\n• None When is it hypocritical to clap for carers?", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nIf you've heard the phrase 'these are unprecedented times' once in the past few months, you've heard it a thousand times.\n\nThe world as we knew it is no more, and who knows when it will ever return to normal?\n\nFootball fans have seen their sporting world put up on bricks. And Thursday night saw another strange moment, at Downing Street this time.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock was busy addressing the nation in the regular Government news conference when he caught everyone off guard by announcing: \"We now go to....Robbie Savage?\"\n\nEven he seemed surprised.\n\nBut this wasn't an impromptu episode of 606. Savage didn't grill the MP for West Suffolk on whether Manchester United could win the title next year if they sign Jadon Sancho, Jack Grealish, Kalidou Koulibaly and the government comes up with a vaccine.\n\nNo, the former Wales midfielder - joining the briefing in his role as a Daily Mirror columnist - had a serious political question.\n\nHe asked: \"Why can junior tennis players, athletes and golfers receive coaching sessions but young people who play the working-class game of football are not allowed to?\"\n\nHancock was not thrown by his unexpected interviewer, though. He sympathised with the view but said that: \"Unfortunately, these rules have to be in place.\"\n\nAsked whether Hancock or the government's scientific advisers could give an indication as to how grassroots football could be allowed to restart, the health secretary said: \"Some of the projects we're putting in place, like this testing and tracing that we've been talking about, are there to try to hold the number of new cases down while allowing more social distancing measures to be lifted and this is one that we can look at.\"\n\nHe added: \"We want grassroots football back as soon as we safely can.\"\n\nNext week: Chris Sutton gets more answers from Priti Patel.", "Police have been conducting vehicle checks to ensure travel is essential\n\nMoney and thousands of pounds' worth of drugs have been seized as an \"indirect consequence\" of police vehicle checks during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSenior police officers say it has been easier to catch criminals because there are fewer motorists on the roads.\n\nGwent Police have seized more than 300 vehicles and significant amounts of Class A drugs during checks.\n\nForces in Wales have been operating motorcycle \"Covid patrols\" and have set up check points.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Amanda Blakeman says criminals are much more prominent with fewer cars on the road\n\nGwent's Deputy Chief Constable, Amanda Blakeman, said the force has found a wide range of drugs, from cannabis to cocaine, and organised criminals were now \"much more prominent\".\n\nShe said: \"We've seized thousands of pounds' worth of cash, we've seized large quantities of Class A drugs, we've also seized other types of drugs.\n\n\"And we've seized and taken off the road 347 vehicles since the start of this.\"\n\nOfficers discovered more than 2kg (4.4lb) of cocaine and £30,000 in cash in one vehicle stop.\n\nSgt Stuart Poulton, a police motorcyclist with 30 years of service, said: \"Because we're checking so many more now, we're coming across more and more offences.\n\n\"They were probably always out there, it's just that we're detecting them an awful lot easier.\n\n\"It's an indirect consequence of the lockdown.\"\n\nSgt Stuart Poulton says more criminal activity is being disrupted as a result of the lockdown\n\nThe work to police the lockdown is known as Operation Dovecote.\n\nAs part of the checks, Dyfed-Powys Police officers have found offensive weapons and drugs, and stopped a motorist with no licence or insurance who was towing a suspected stolen digger.\n\nIn Pembrokeshire, a man who travelled in a BMW from Cardiff to Tenby for a walk was arrested in Stepaside because police found he was wanted for recall to prison.\n\nPolice have been using roadside drug tests to catch motorists driving under the influence of cannabis or cocaine, in addition to tests for alcohol, and hundreds have been caught driving without a licence or insurance.\n\nThey include a man who said he was taking his children for a drive to get them to sleep - and was found to have no insurance.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said a \"substantial amount\" of cocaine was found in a car when it was stopped during a check in St Clears, Carmarthenshire, in April.\n\nThe force also discovered a suitcase containing 2kg of cannabis with a street value of £20,000 in the back of a van on the A40 near Haverfordwest in May.\n\nPolice road units are using automatic number place recognition (ANPR) to identify who motorists are, and where they may be coming from.\n\nCh Insp Martin Smith said it had been easier to track offenders who were moving in and out of Wales.\n\n\"Not all drivers are criminals but all criminals drive,\" he said.\n\n\"They are going to stand out more because there's less vehicles on the road.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Manville, pictured here in World on Fire, was Oscar-nominated for Phantom Thread\n\nLesley Manville has said she \"feels for young actors\" during the coronavirus crisis, most of whom she says are not as well-off as some people may assume.\n\nThe Mum star, who was nominated for an Oscar in 2018 for her role in Phantom Thread, is among a host of big names to have delivered a new monologue online for the Equity Benevolent Fund.\n\nThe union is offering support to actors in need of help during the pandemic.\n\nSirs Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi also uploaded solo performances from home.\n\n\"I really feel for young actors at the moment, who are just getting going,\" Manville told BBC News.\n\n\"They're now stuck in this real kind of critical situation that we can't see at the moment quite how we are going to get out of.\"\n\n\"You know, will theatres survive even? And when are we ever going to be in front of a camera again?\" she continued.\n\n\"It's just very scary. They've devoted their time to studying and becoming actors, and then suddenly they can't do what they're trained to do.\"\n\nManville believes there is \"an illusion\", or general perception that \"if you're an actor, you must be loaded\".\n\n\"I'm not denying that there are some very well-paid actors around without question, who are not going to be knocking on the door of the Equity Benevolent Fund at all,\" she went on.\n\n\"But that is not the case of the majority. This is about them just needing support at a time when hopefully we're going to get through and there will be an industry when we come out the other side.\"\n\nMichelle Collins is also involved in the For the Love of Arts initiative\n\nThe star was asked to take part in the collaborative new project, called For the Love of Arts, by Michelle Collins, whom she acted alongside in Real Women.\n\nIt arrives during a period of great uncertainty for British theatres and cinemas, which remain closed and are grappling with how to reopen and, in some cases survive.\n\nManville said she was working on the National Theatre's production of The Visit by Friedrich Durrenmatt when the virus \"pulled the rug [from] under our feet\".\n\nThe 64-year-old believes that out-of-work actors of all ages are at risk of falling through the gaps of the benefits system and government furlough schemes due to the unsteady nature of their profession.\n\nCollins, who had been rehearsing for a tour of Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party before the lockdown, told PA this week that young people were at risk because Downing Street officials were \"ignoring\" the crisis facing her industry.\n\nIn response, a DCMS spokeswoman told the BBC: \"The government has announced unprecedented support for the cultural and creative sectors, including the Self Employed Support Scheme, the job retention scheme, a years' business rates holiday, and the Arts Council's £160 million emergency response package.\n\n\"We're working closely with the industry to plan for the future and support its recovery. [On Wednesday] we announced the appointment of Neil Mendoza as commissioner for cultural recovery and renewal and the creation of the Entertainment and Events Working Group as part of our commitment to getting our cultural and creative sectors back up and running again.\"\n\nShe added: \"As soon as it is safe to do so we will be encouraging everyone to get out and experience the UK's fantastic creative and cultural offerings again.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Equity Benevolent Fund This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nManville's own offering is a performance of The Girl with No Name, which she describes as \"a glorious bit of writing\" by Real Women and Coronation Street screenwriter Susan Oudot.\n\nThe soliloquy is delivered by a middle-aged woman with children who finds herself dipping her toe into the murky world of online dating for the first time, after her husband of many years leaves her for a younger woman.\n\n\"I'd have loved to have had more time to really learn it and have done it a bit more justice,\" admitted Manville, who received the script and performed the single-camera piece in just two days.\n\n\"I just had to kind of busk it a bit, but I think we're all busking a bit. But we're doing it for a good cause, so that's the main thing.\"\n\nOther contributors to the cause include After Life's Mandeep Dhillon reading a \"Letter to My Future Self\", and Joseph Fiennes performing King Edward's monologue from Edward II, by Christopher Marlowe.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Ahmaud Arbery was shot dead during a confrontation on 23 February\n\nA motorist who filmed the shooting of an unarmed black man in the US state of Georgia has been charged with murder.\n\nWilliam Bryan Jr was also accused of a criminal attempt to commit false imprisonment on Thursday, said the Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GBI).\n\nAhmaud Arbery, 25, was jogging when he was shot dead during a confrontation with a father and son in Brunswick on 23 February.\n\nGregory McMichael, 64, and son Travis, 34, were charged with murder on 7 May.\n\nMr Bryan will be the final person arrested in connection with Mr Arbery's death Georgia officials said on Friday.\n\n\"At this point we feel confident that the individuals who need to be charged have been charged,\" GBI Director Vic Reynolds said at a press conference.\n\nWilliam Bryan Jr is detained in the same jail as the McMichaels pending trial\n\nThe GBI investigation is nearly finished, Mr Reynolds said, at which point the case will be transferred to district attorney Joyette Holmes - the fourth to be appointed since Mr Arbery was killed.\n\nIn the moments before the fatal confrontation, the McMichaels, who are white, armed themselves with a pistol and shotgun and pursued Mr Arbery in a pickup truck in the Satilla Shores neighbourhood.\n\nGregory McMichael told police he believed that Mr Arbery resembled the suspect in a series of local break-ins.\n\nMr Bryan's 36-second video leaked online on 5 May, generating nationwide outcry that was swiftly followed by murder charges. It was filmed by Mr Bryan from his vehicle while he was driving behind Mr Arbery.\n\nThe clip appears to show Mr Arbery running down a tree-lined street as the McMichaels wait ahead for him in their vehicle.\n\nTravis McMichael (left) and Gregory McMichael have also been arrested\n\nA tussle follows and the younger Mr McMichael appears to fire a gun at point blank range at Mr Arbery, who falls to the street.\n\nThe Arbery family welcomed Thursday's arrest, with their lawyer Lee Merritt saying Mr Bryan's alleged involvement in the killing \"was obvious to us, many around the country and after their thorough investigation, it was clear to the GBI as well\".\n\nMr Bryan is expected to be booked into the Glynn County jail, where the McMichaels are also detained as they await trial.\n\nA prosecutor said Mr Bryan had been \"in hot pursuit\" of Mr Arbery.\n\nHe is also mentioned in the Glynn County police report of the shooting, in which officers noted that Mr Bryan had unsuccessfully tried to block Mr Arbery's path.\n\nHowever, Mr Bryan told a local TV station that he \"had nothing to do with it\" and was in \"complete shock\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joggers out in solidarity with Ahmaud Arbery\n\nDuring the interview, he did not answer questions on why he was there or why he started recording, but his lawyer Kevin Gough said: \"My client was responding to what he saw, which was someone in the community he didn't know being followed by a vehicle he recognised.\"\n\nMr Bryan has since taken a voluntary lie detector test which law enforcement had not requested, his lawyer had said in a statement on Monday.\n\nHe added that Mr Bryan had been in hiding with his fiancée because of death threats and accused the Arbery family lawyers of instigating them.\n\n\"Contrary to speculation, the polygraph examination confirms that on 23 Feb 2020, the day of the shooting, William 'Roddie' Bryan did not have any conversation with either Gregory or Travis McMichael prior to the shooting.\n\n\"Nor did William 'Roddie' Bryan have any conversation with anyone else that day prior to the shooting about criminal activity in the neighbourhood,\" said Mr Gough, using Mr Bryan's nickname.\n\nIn a CNN interview, Mr Bryan said he had been praying for the Arbery family and hoped his tape would help bring closure.\n\n\"If there wasn't a tape, then we wouldn't know what happened,\" he said. \"I hope that it, in the end, brings justice to the family and peace to the family.\"\n\nAsked on Friday how Mr Bryan could be charged for murder without pulling the trigger, GBI Director Reynolds cited state law stating that someone who committed a felony resulting in a death can be charged with murder.\n\n\"We believe the evidence would indicate that his underlying felony helped cause the death of Ahmaud Arbery,\" Mr Reynolds said.\n\nBreonna Taylor was a decorated emergency medical technician and had no criminal record\n\nThere are no hate crime laws in Georgia law, but the US Justice Department has said it is examining the case to see if any federal hate crime charges are warranted.\n\nMeanwhile, the FBI said on Thursday it had opened an investigation into the another case of a black American shot dead amid conflicting narratives.\n\nBreonna Taylor was fatally shot eight times on 13 March by police conducting a drug raid in Louisville, Kentucky. Police say they knocked on the door and were met by gunfire from within.\n\nBut Ms Taylor's family say the officers did not knock, wore plainclothes and that Ms Taylor's partner opened fire because he thought they were burglars. The family also say the narcotics raid was targeting the wrong address.\n• None Ahmaud Arbery went jogging. Why did he die?", "The NHS in England may start hiring airline staff who have lost their jobs to fill a gap in nurse numbers, its chief executive has said.\n\nSir Simon Stevens told MPs airlines hired nurses from the NHS to work as cabin crew in the early 2000s.\n\nIt was now possible the NHS would consider hiring these staff back as the airline industry continues to struggle due to coronavirus.\n\nHe was speaking to the Commons Public Accounts Committee.\n\nSir Simon told the committee the health service had seen an \"amazing response\" from former NHS staff who were prepared to return to the frontline to help the fight against Covid-19.\n\nBut he added that international recruitment for NHS staff would be a problem for the first half of this year due to the pandemic.\n\nThe NHS in England currently has a nursing staff gap of 40,000. Sir Simon said he wanted to see 50,000 nurses join the service.\n\nSir Simon told the MPS that the NHS would have to change the way it offers care, with coronavirus constantly \"in the background\".\n\nAgreements struck with private hospitals to supply beds during the coronavirus crisis would need to continue, he added, and Nightingale hospitals, set up to treat Covid-19 patients and manage excess demand for hospital beds, would be kept \"in reserve\".\n\nNHS hospitals had treated 89,000 coronavirus patients since the outbreak began in the UK in February, Sir Simon told the committee.\n\nAnd standard emergency and A&E attendances, which had seen a drop, were starting to increase back to expected levels.\n\nChris Wormald, the top civil servant at the Department for Health and Social Care, told the committee that the UK \"never ran out of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) nationally\".\n\nBut he said \"there were a lot of issues\" in getting PPE to NHS staff and care workers.\n\nThe government was looking at producing PPE domestically, he added, but there would be \"no imminent replacement of what we need to buy on international markets\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theo Paphitis: 'Retail will never, ever be the same again'\n\nBritish retail sales plummeted by a record amount in April as many stores closed amid the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that the amount of goods sold fell by 18.1% last month.\n\nClothing sales also halved as many High Street shops were shut under the lockdown measures introduced by the government in March.\n\nOnline shopping as a proportion of all retail reached a record high of 30.7%, the ONS said.\n\nAll types of shop, other than those selling clothing or household goods, saw record amounts being spent with them online.\n\nBut the pick-up in online shopping failed to offset the collapse in spending on the High Street.\n\n\"The effects of Covid-19 have contributed to a record monthly fall in retail sales of nearly a fifth,\" ONS deputy national statistician for economic statistics Jonathan Athow said.\n\nHe added that \"online shopping has again surged as people purchased goods from their homes\" amid lockdown.\n\nRichard Lim, chief executive of Retail Economics, said that the shift to online had benefitted \"those retailers with the slickest e-commerce operations and who managed to cope with the shift in demand.\n\n\"Online grocery retailers were one of the major beneficiaries as they worked at an incredible pace to boost capacity.\"\n\nIn April, the proportion of online spending on food increased from 5.7% to 9.3%, according to the ONS.\n\nElsewhere, off-licence sales also continued to increase, seeing a slight uptick after a 23.9% jump in March.\n\nMr Lim added that that the impact of lockdown had \"paralysed\" the industry.\n\n\"Clothing retailers were the hardest hit as the absence of social interaction, whether that's going to work, seeing friends or heading off on holiday, decimated demand for new outfits,\" he said.\n\nThe fall in non-food sales in April resulted in the lowest levels of clothing and shoe sales seen since the ONS starting collecting the data.\n\nSeparate figures from retail research firm Springboard show that the number of shoppers visiting UK High Streets, retail parks and shopping centres fell by 80% in April amid the lockdown.\n\nThat was almost double the level of March's downturn when there was a 41.3% drop in visits to shopping locations.\n\nSeveral fashion firms have been struggling as customers stay at home.\n\nClothing giant Primark, for example, said last month it had gone from making £650m in sales a month to nothing after the coronavirus outbreak forced it to close its stores in Europe and the US.\n\nDespite the gloomy news, Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said: \"Retail sales should recover some of April's lost ground in May.\"\n\nHe said that was despite the fact that lockdown measures on store closures in England have not changed significantly since they were introduced.\n\nThis point was echoed by Lisa Hooker, consumer markets leader at PwC: \"However bad April's figures are, we believe that retail has reached a turning point in the Covid-19 crisis.\n\n\"In the short term, May has already seen a loosening of lockdown restrictions across all the home nations.\"\n\nSince the start of lockdown, garden centres have been allowed to open again in England.\n\nOther retailers classified as essential, such as DIY stores Homebase and B&Q, re-opened some sites around the end of April.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ms Sturgeon confirmed that schools will not open to pupils until August\n\nLockdown restrictions in Scotland are likely to be relaxed slightly from 28 May, Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed.\n\nThe first minister made the announcement as she unveiled a four-phase \"route map\" aimed at restarting society while suppressing the virus.\n\nThe first phase will include allowing people to meet outside with people from one other household.\n\nSchools will reopen on 11 August - meaning many will return a week earlier than planned after the summer holiday.\n\nBut the first minister said children will return to a \"blended model\" where they will do a mix of school and home learning.\n\nTeachers will return to schools in June, with transition support being given, where possible, to children going into Primary 1 or moving from primary to secondary schools.\n\nAnd an increased number of children will have access to critical childcare - which has been provided for the children of key workers during lockdown.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the first phase of easing will see garden centres and recycling facilities reopen, while some outdoor activities such as golf, fishing, tennis and bowls will be allowed again, as will outdoor work such as agriculture and forestry.\n\nPeople will also be able to sit or sunbathe in parks and open areas, and will be able to meet people from one other household - although only initially in small numbers and while they are outside.\n\nDifferent households should remain two metres apart from each other, and visiting inside other people's houses will not be permitted in the first phase.\n\nHundreds of people flocked to the beach in Edinburgh on Wednesday on what was the hottest day of the year in Scotland so far\n\nIn addition, people will be able to travel - preferably by walking or cycling - for recreation, although they will be asked to remain \"where possible\" within or close to their own local area.\n\nTake-away and drive-through food outlets will no longer be discouraged from re-opening, so long as they apply safe physical distancing, but \"non-essential\" indoor shops, cafes, restaurants and pubs must remain closed during the first phase.\n\nThere will also be a phased resumption of some aspects of the criminal justice system, as well as face-to-face Children's Hearings, and people at risk will have more contact with social work and other support services.\n\nAnd NHS services which were cancelled because of the coronavirus crisis will \"carefully and gradually\" resume.\n\nThe Scottish government has identified four phases for easing the restrictions:\n\nPhase 1: Virus not yet contained but cases are falling. From 28 May you should be able to meet another household outside in small numbers. Sunbathing is allowed, along with some outdoor activities like golf and fishing. Garden centres and drive-through takeaways can reopen, some outdoor work can resume, and childminding services can begin.\n\nPhase 2: Virus controlled. You can meet larger groups outdoors, and meet another household indoors. Construction, factories, warehouses, laboratories and small shops can resume work. Playgrounds and sports courts can reopen, and professional sport can begin again.\n\nPhase 3: Virus suppressed. You can meet people from more than one household indoors. Non-essential offices would reopen, along with gyms, museums, libraries, cinemas, larger shops, pubs, restaurants, hairdressers and dentists. Live events could take place with restricted numbers and physical distancing restrictions. Schools should reopen from 11 August.\n\nPhase 4: Virus no longer a significant threat. University and college campuses can reopen in full, mass gatherings are allowed. All workplaces open and public transport is back at full capacity.\n\nThe situation will be reviewed every three weeks, with further phases of easing being introduced if enough progress is being made on keeping the virus under control.\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon said she hoped to be able to move more quickly than that if the evidence allows.\n\nShe described the first steps as \"proportionate and suitably cautious\", and said they were intended to \"bring some improvement to people's wellbeing and quality of life, start to get our economy moving again, and start to steer us safely towards a new normality\".\n\nThe first minister added: \"It's important to stress, though, that while the permitted reasons to be out of your house will increase, the default message during phase one will remain stay at home as much as possible.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said her route map did not yet set definite dates for when future phases will be introduced, because the virus is unpredictable.\n\nShe said: \"Our emergence from lockdown will be faster or slower, depending on the continued success that we have in suppressing the virus.\n\n\"In the weeks ahead our messages will become more nuanced and complex as we strike a difficult balance protecting public health and allowing personal choice.\n\n\"Straightforward, strict rules will gradually be replaced by the need for all of us to exercise judgment and responsibility.\"\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon said key advice such as isolating if you have symptoms of Covid, strict physical distancing, washing your hands and face coverings will remain the same.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives said the route out of lockdown would only succeed if the Scottish government \"sorts out problems with testing\".\n\nThe party's leader, Jackson Carlaw, said: \"Unfortunately, failings on testing so far have been the weakest aspect of this SNP government response to the coronavirus crisis.\n\n\"Tens of thousands of tests have gone unused and there have been major problems in getting tests to the vulnerable people who need them most, and those who work with them.\n\n\"And now we learn that the health secretary badly misled the public on the issue of elderly people being discharged from hospital to care homes without being tested for Covid-19.\"\n\nSome of the easing measures announced by Ms Sturgeon were introduced in England last week, but the first minister said at the time it would not be safe for Scotland to follow the same timetable.\n\nThis was largely because the so-called R number - essentially the rate at which the virus is spreading - has been higher in Scotland than in some other parts of the UK.\n\nHowever the number of people who are dying with coronavirus in Scotland has been falling in recent weeks, as has the number of patients needing hospital treatment and intensive care.\n\nThis has given the first minister and her advisers more confidence that any relaxation of the lockdown - which was introduced across the UK on 23 March - will not lead to a resurgence in the virus.\n\nDr Poppy Lamberton, an epidemiologist at Glasgow University, said the \"lag\" between Scotland and England would help the Scottish government to judge the potential impact of easing the lockdown, and whether it will lead to an increase in the infection rate.\n\nUse the form below to send us your questions and we could be in touch.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "The key evidence on the safety and impact of reopening schools has been published by the government's scientific advisory group, Sage.\n\nSources involved said the risk of coronavirus to pupils going back to the classroom was \"very, very small, but it is not zero\".\n\nTeachers were not at above-average risk compared with other occupations, it said.\n\nHowever, there is a theme of uncertainty throughout the advice to government.\n\nThe documents say they \"cannot be clear\" on the extent schools could be reopened without leading to cases taking off in the UK again.\n\nAnd while it is clear-cut that children are far less likely to be severely ill, there is contradictory evidence on how likely they are to be infected or to spread the virus.\n\nOne study, published this morning and considered by Sage, showed children were 56% less likely to be infected than an adult if they were in contact with an infected individual.", "Scientists have observed for the first time bumble bees tricking plants into flowering early.\n\nThe practice is used by the bees when pollen is scarce.", "The sound of panpipes, flutes and snare drums fills the rehearsal space of the Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos.\n\n\"The breathing techniques required to play these instruments for a few hours put you in a kind of trance,\" says Miguel Cordoba, who plays the siku flute.\n\nBut as soon as the rehearsal finishes they are all too aware of how their life has changed. Because they are not rehearsing back home in La Paz, Bolivia, but in the shadow of a German castle where they have been stranded for 73 days.\n\nThe musicians, most of whom have never left Bolivia before, were expecting to spend just over a fortnight this spring touring east Germany's concert halls.\n\nInstead they are holed up in the buildings and grounds of the sprawling estate of Rheinsberg Palace, a moated castle which has been home to generations of German royalty and aristocracy, an hour and a half's drive northwest of Berlin.\n\nAs the musicians, some of whom are as young as 17, touched down in Germany on 10 March for their tour, news broke that Berlin had become the seventh German region to impose a ban on gatherings of 1,000 people or more in response to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"Our bus broke down on the motorway. I remember joking that this was bad luck and perhaps our concerts would be cancelled,\" recollects Carlos, \"but never did I think it would actually happen.\"\n\nTheir three planned performances were cancelled in the days that followed, and as Bolivia's government announced it would close its borders, the orchestra scrambled to get home but failed.\n\nGermany's ban on mass gatherings was swiftly followed by a full lockdown, meaning the musicians are only allowed to roam as far as the forest that lines the perimeter of the estate.\n\nSo their free time is spent rehearsing in the nearly 600-year-old palace grounds and exploring the surrounding woodland, home to 23 packs of wolves.\n\nOnly on Monday did they get the chance to step inside the castle for the first time as tours for the public reopened.\n\n\"It's very different to my home, it's very beautiful,\" says 25-year-old Miguel.\n\nRehearsing in the guest house of Rheinsberg Palace\n\n\"There are worse places to be trapped. When I wake up, I watch the sun rise over the forest and the lake. Back home, I only hear the sound of traffic.\"\n\nBut despite the picturesque natural surroundings, the musicians are worried they have been forgotten.\n\n\"We feel abandoned,\" says Carlos, who's spent several thankless hours on the phone to the Bolivian embassy trying to find a way to get home.\n\nThe group had only been in Germany for a week when Bolivia's president announced the country's border was set to close within days, and all international flights had been suspended.\n\nArrangements were swiftly made by the German foreign office and Bolivian embassy to reserve seats on one of the last flights out of Germany to South America, landing in Lima, Peru.\n\n\"When we were on the way to the airport, we were all in good spirits, laughing and chatting,\" says Camed Martela, 20.\n\nBut then Carlos received a call to say the flight had been cancelled as the plane was not allowed to land in Peru.\n\n\"The mood suddenly became sombre - everyone on the bus went quiet,\" he says.\n\nFrom that moment, the 6,000 miles (9,656km) between Germany and Bolivia seemed further than ever.\n\nTracy Prado, who only joined the orchestra in December, remembers thinking about her daughter's 11th birthday which was coming up a few weeks later.\n\n\"I had got my hopes up and it was devastating to think I would miss this important day,\" she says.\n\nThe group decided the only way to cope was to put together a strict practice schedule - three hours before lunch, three hours after, experimenting with a fusion of traditional Andean music and more contemporary genres.\n\n\"Indigenous music is all about the principle of community - everybody can take something from what they are and offer it to the group,\" says Carlos.\n\n\"You feel the same as your ancestors felt when playing these traditional instruments, which is a beautiful thing,\" adds Miguel, whose roots stretch back to Bolivia's Kallawaya people known for their musical healing ceremonies.\n\nSome members of the orchestra speak to their families in Bolivia. For others, communication is near impossible as internet and telephone signals are patchy outside Bolivia's main cities.\n\nMany of the musicians play a major role in providing for their families financially, and being unable to do this at the moment is exacerbating their anxiety.\n\nIn an interview with Bolivia's flagship station Radio Panamericana, foreign minister Karen Longaric was asked for her response to the orchestra's case after a distraught mother of one of the musicians called in.\n\nLongaric suggested the orchestra left knowing the borders were set to soon close, although Bolivia had not recorded a single coronavirus case on the day they left.\n\nShe also said the government's priorities were elsewhere - repatriating \"the most vulnerable - women, children, sick people and the elderly\".\n\nCarlos says there seems to be little sympathy for the orchestra back in Bolivia.\n\n\"People back home think we're in a fairytale land,\" he says, rolling his eyes. \"I've had hundreds of messages telling me to stop complaining, and that I'm living like a princess in a German castle.\"\n\nCamed is disappointed they have not been able to perform as planned.\n\n\"We'd been preparing since January so I became quite depressed as I watched everything we'd prepared for get taken away like this.\n\n\"The orchestra helped me get back on track after the death of my dad. My family were so proud of me when they heard I was flying to Europe to perform my country's music.\"\n\nThe town of just over 8,000 people, also called Rheinsberg, has largely been welcoming towards the Bolivian visitors, if a little bemused by their presence.\n\n\"When I leave the hostel alone, I do feel a little self-conscious,\" Camed says. \"Sometimes I get strange looks and people stop and stare.\"\n\nSome go further than a raised eyebrow, perhaps confused by the fact that the musicians appear to be flouting Germany's social distancing rules, as it may not be immediately obvious that they have been allowed to classify themselves as a family unit.\n\nHe says on one of the occasions the Bolivians played a game of football on the meadow directly in front of the castle. They soon found themselves surrounded by six police officers \"in full riot gear, just short of a helmet\", says Timo Kreuser, one of three German musicians who helped facilitate the tour and are staying with them.\n\n\"They came from from left and right and started to encircle us and things got a little tense,\" recalls Miguel.\n\n\"In the end, they just told us that we couldn't congregate in such a large group, but it wasn't too serious.\"\n\n\"The police are used to it now, so they just phone me and it's always resolved,\" says Timo.\n\nTimo has been keen to help the musicians, partly to repay the favour of their own hospitality when he was with them in La Paz in October. Violent protests led to the resignation of the president and Carlos and the orchestra helped Timo evacuate to Peru.\n\nGenerosity and offers of help have been in plentiful supply from most people.\n\nThe kitchen staff at the guest house the musicians are living in come in to work wearing masks and maintain a distance from their Bolivian guests.\n\n\"We are so grateful for the food and the roofs over our heads,\" says Tracy, who speculates she's one of only a few in the group who enjoy the local delicacies.\n\nAnd, of course, they have the woodland to explore. Tracy says she spotted three wolves while out walking recently\n\n\"I froze in fear but they were just play fighting and moved on.\"\n\nIt is not just wolves they look out for.\n\nOne of the palace's former inhabitants was Frederick the Great, who was given ownership of the estate by his father in 1736 before he ascended to the throne, and described his time at Rheinsberg as his \"happiest years\".\n\nThe musicians are very aware of the palace's previous inhabitants, including Frederick the Great\n\nA close friend of Frederick, reflecting on his impressions of Rheinsberg, wrote \"the evenings are dedicated to music. The prince has concerts in his salon, where no-one is admitted unless called\". One of those who performed was reportedly JC Bach.\n\n\"We all joke that Frederick's ghost is following us and trying to trip us up,\" says Camed. \"I don't usually believe in such things but it does feel as if there are ghosts on the grounds.\"\n\nAs the seasons shifted from early spring to summer, the musicians' heavy clothes packed in anticipation of colder weather were too warm for their long walks around the estate.\n\nBut a concerned Bolivian expat in Hamburg has helped out on this front.\n\n\"She collected mountains of clothes and sent them to us. We have seven big boxes so far - perhaps too many, we may need to return some or pass them onto someone else in need,\" says Carlos.\n\nBut despite the generosity and good will, the orchestra worries that its stay cannot be bankrolled forever.\n\n\"Accommodation costs are mounting to more than €35,000 ($38,400) a month alone,\" says Berno Odo Polzer, the director of MaerzMusik, the festival at which the orchestra were set to perform. It is one of several publicly funded arts programmes which has supported the orchestra's longer than expected stay.\n\nGermany is allowing international flights again but Bolivia's borders remain shut for the foreseeable future.\n\nThe Bolivian embassy told the BBC it is trying to get the orchestra on a flight to Bolivia in early June out of Madrid.\n\nBut Carlos is worried about how things will be once they return too.\n\n\"Covid is getting very political back home,\" says Carlos.\n\nThe Bolivian government delayed the presidential election that was due in March and later tried and failed to force through a decree limiting freedom of expression and criticisms over the handling of the coronavirus crisis.\n\n\"I'm dreaming of the day I will be at my bed in Bolivia and say, 'OK, this is over' but I also know that on that day I will start missing what is happening here,\" admits Carlos.", "A coronavirus test that gives results in 20 minutes is being trialled, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced.\n\nThe new swab test - which would show whether someone currently has the virus - does not need to be sent to a lab.\n\nMr Hancock also said more than 10 million antibody tests - that check if someone has had the virus in the past - will start being rolled out next week.\n\nIt comes as the PM decided to scrap the fees to use the NHS for overseas health service staff and care workers.\n\nNon-EU migrants currently have to pay the health immigration surcharge, which is £400 per year and set to rise to £624 in October.\n\nBut after mounting pressure from MPs, Boris Johnson decided foreign NHS staff and care workers should be exempt.\n\nThe number of people who have died after testing positive for the virus has now reached 36,042, a rise of 338, the government announced on Thursday.\n\nThere are currently two types of test for the coronavrius.\n\nSwab tests are already available to all adults and children aged over five on the NHS. They involve taking a swab up the nose or from the back of the throat and indicate if a person currently has Covid-19.\n\nThe antibody test is a blood test that looks for antibodies in the blood to see whether a person has had the virus. Antibodies are made by our immune system as it learns to fight an infection.\n\nThe new swab tests will be trialled in Hampshire in some A&E departments, GP testing hubs and care homes. The trial will run for six weeks and test up to 4,000 people.\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street briefing, Matt Hancock said the new swab test \"is interesting to us because it is so fast,\" adding: \"You get the result on the spot.\"\n\n\"We want to find out if it will be effective on a larger scale. If it works, we'll roll it out as soon as we can.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From a helipad to the streets, millions join the UK's ninth Clap for Carers\n\nResidents of Lee-on-the-Solent, near Portsmouth, applaud key workers during Thursday's Clap for Carers\n\nNuns at the St Anthony's Convent of Mercy in Sunderland also joined the clap\n\nMr Hancock also spoke about antibody tests, saying the government had struck a deal to supply 10 million of them to the NHS. They will begin being rolled out to the NHS next week.\n\n\"We've signed contracts to supply in the coming months over 10 million tests from Roche and Abbott,\" he said.\n\n\"From next week we will begin rolling these out in a phased way, at first to health and care staff, patients and residents.\n\nHe said the UK government's deal will cover all of the devolved nations, and each will decide \"how to use its test allocation and how testing will be prioritised and managed locally\".\n\nThese are both significant announcements in regards to testing.\n\nThe trial of a new on-the-spot swab test to see if someone has an infection has the potential to make a huge difference.\n\nCurrently samples need to be sent off to a laboratory and then take several hours to process. This has left some people waiting days for their test result.\n\nIf the process can be speeded up that will be a major benefit, not just for the testing programme, but also the tracking and tracing.\n\nThe quicker you can identify positive cases the more effective you can be in trying to contain spread.\n\nThe antibody test development does not have the potential to have such an immediate impact.\n\nWe still do not know how strong any antibody response is and therefore the potential for long-term immunity.\n\nSo the logic in offering it to health and care workers is to help with that research.\n\nThey will not suddenly be casting aside their PPE at work.\n\nInstead, officials will be keeping an eye on whether those who have antibodies are at lower risk of re-infection.\n\nHaving antibodies does not automatically mean you cannot get sick or harbour the virus and pass it on to others, BBC health correspondent James Gallagher says.\n\nThe World Health Organization says there is no evidence those who have antibodies are protected from being infected again.\n\nMr Hancock said the tests will help scientists understand if people who have antibodies \"are at lower risk of catching coronavirus, of dying from coronavirus and of transmitting coronavirus\".\n\nLearning more about antibody tests would help develop \"systems of certification\" to tell people who have antibodies \"what they can safely do\", he added.\n\nMr Hancock also said a study suggests 17% of people in London and around 5% of the rest of the nation have virus antibodies.\n\nResidents of Lee-on-the-Solent, near Portsmouth, applaud key workers during Thursday's Clap for Carers\n\nAs warm weather continues in some parts of the country, people swam in the River Lea in London\n\nPreparations are being made - including at Watlington Primary School - for schools to begin reopening on 1 June\n\nIt comes as the NHS Confederation, which represents health service trusts, warned that time was running out to finish a test, track and trace strategy. It warned a contact tracing system was critical to prevent a second wave of the virus.\n\nIn England, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said 25,000 contact tracers, able to track 10,000 new cases a day, would be in place by 1 June.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"Test, track and trace system in place in the UK by June 1\"\n\nContact tracing identifies those who may have come into contact with an infected person and warns them via phone, email or an app.\n\nMr Hancock told the briefing \"we don't know if we'll ever get\" a vaccine, but said he hoped everybody would have it if one was developed.\n\n\"We are doing everything we can to get a vaccine and we will only recommend a vaccine if it is safe,\" he said.\n\n\"That means that if we get a vaccine - and I very much hope that we will and we are working incredibly hard for that - and people are asked to take that vaccine, then they absolutely should because we will only do it on the basis of clinical advice that it is safe.\n\n\"The question of whether it is mandatory is not one we have addressed yet, we are still some time off a vaccine being available.\n\n\"But I would hope, given the scale of this crisis and given the overwhelming need for us to get through this and to get the country back on its feet, and the very positive impact that a vaccine would have, that everybody would have the vaccine.\"\n\nContent available only in the UK", "The star was accused of dragging other female artists into an argument with her critics\n\nLana Del Rey has defended herself against accusations of racism, arising from a statement she made about double standards in the music industry.\n\nIn a long Instagram post this week, the singer claimed she had been branded as anti-feminist, despite singing about similar themes as other female artists.\n\nBut some fans said the examples she chose - including Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé - were mainly black women.\n\nResponding on Instagram, Del Rey said: \"Don't ever ever ever call me racist.\"\n\nShe added: \"The singers I mentioned are my favourite singers so if you want to try and make a bone to pick out of that, like you always do be my guest.\n\n\"It doesn't change the fact that I haven't had the same opportunity to express what I wanted to express without being completely decimated.\n\n\"If you want to say that that has something to do with race that's your opinion but that's not what I was saying.\"\n\nIn her original post, Del Rey claimed she had been branded an anti-feminist pariah while \"Doja Cat, Ariana, Camila, Cardi B, Kehlani and Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé\" had all sung about \"being sexy, wearing no clothes... cheating, etc\" without facing similar criticism.\n\nMany people suggested the comments were tone deaf, with many wondering why the star had mostly cited women of colour.\n\n\"Think Lana's post would have been fine if she hadn't compared herself to a group of mostly black women with the clear tone that she thinks she's been treated worse by the media when that's observably untrue,\" wrote Shon Faye on Twitter.\n\n\"Lana blatantly ignoring the criticism Beyoncé, Nicki, and other black women have received (and continue to) for being confident in their sexuality doesn't sit right with me,\" added another user, simply calling themselves C.\n\n\"Commercial success hasn't made them exempt from misogynistic attacks masked as constructive criticism.\"\n\n\"Even if she made a point, the inclusion of other women was so unnecessary and the fact the women were mostly black has left a bad taste,\" added journalist Toni Tone.\n\n\"The lines and adjectives also read like she's implying those women aren't as graceful, delicate or feminine as her. It's a messy statement.\"\n\nThe Guardian's Laura Snapes also responded with a column in which she said Del Rey's \"swipes at her peers of colour undermine her feminist argument\".\n\nYet Del Rey was unrepentant and suggested her comments were being wilfully misinterpreted.\n\n\"This is sad to make it about a WOC [women of colour] issue when I'm talking about my favourite singers,\" she wrote.\n\n\"I could've literally said anyone but I picked my favourite people. And this is the problem with society today, not everything is about whatever you want it to be.\n\n\"It's exactly the point of my post - there are certain women that culture doesn't want to have a voice.\n\n\"It may not have to do with race. I don't know what it has to do with. I don't care anymore but don't ever, ever, ever, ever bro - call me racist because that is bull.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "Louise Smith was described as a \"lovely girl with a heart of gold\" by a friend\n\nFriends and neighbours of a missing teenager have said they are \"devastated\" after a body was found in woodland.\n\nThe 16-year-old, named locally as Louise Smith, was last seen on 8 May - VE Day- Havant, Hampshire.\n\nOfficers discovered the remains in Havant Thicket on Thursday. Formal identification has yet to take place.\n\nForensic officers continue to search the woods and a flat in Somborne Drive, where Louise was last seen.\n\nMandy Ferdinando, who had known Louise since she was a young girl, laid flowers at the entrance to the thicket.\n\nShe told the Press Association: \"She was a lovely girl with a heart of gold.\n\n\"The community is devastated, sad, shocked, I can't speak for everybody but when anyone hears of a young person, whoever it may be, it's very sad.\"\n\nNeighbour John Singleton said: \"I saw her on the day she went missing, she just went out walking, I didn't know where she was going.\n\n\"It's very sad, the outcome is the saddest, for a while we had some hope.\"\n\nFlowers have been left at Havant Thicket where a body was found\n\nDetectives said they were treating the death as suspicious and urged people not to speculate on the circumstances.\n\nLouise had not been in touch with her friends or family since being seen in Somborne Drive, a short distance from where the body was found.\n\nA man and a woman, both aged 29, had previously been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping and released on bail.\n\nHampshire police previously asked people in the area to save any dashcam and CCTV footage from 7 and 8 May - particularly any filmed at VE Day anniversary celebrations - for officers to review.\n\nForensics officers have been searching a flat in Somborne Drive, the road where Louise was last seen\n\nLouise went shopping at a Tesco store on the evening before she was reported missing\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hundreds of disabled people can now be added to Tesco's priority shopping list after legal action was taken by a disabled mother unable to buy food.\n\nJoanne Baskett, 48, who cannot leave her house, says she was discriminated against because she could not secure an online shopping slot.\n\nA further 318 people sent claims to all of the UK's major supermarkets for breaching the Equality Act 2010.\n\nTesco has now agreed to add all those people to its priority list.\n\nThe individuals were not named on the Government's Extremely Clinically Vulnerable list, but nevertheless felt their access requirements should be taken into consideration by supermarkets.\n\nMs Baskett from Swindon, who has multiple organ paralysis, says she was unable to secure an online shopping slot after returning home from hospital at the end of March.\n\nShe said: \"For six weeks I would stay awake until midnight to try and get a slot but I couldn't. It has had a huge mental and physical effect on me.\"\n\nShe took legal action and accused the supermarket of breaching the Equality Act 2010 for not making reasonable adjustments to enable her, as a disabled person, to shop.\n\nChris Fry, from Fry Law, who handled the case, said: \"We have been hearing so many heart-breaking stories about people unable to leave the house and having to rely on the charity of friends and families and even foodbanks.\n\n\"This is just the first step but it's going to improve many people's lives.\"\n\nThe other claimants include people with sight loss, mobility issues, agoraphobia and some who have to shield due to multiple health conditions.\n\nIn a statement, Tesco urged customers facing similar issues to contact them directly.", "A trauma consultant in Wales is urging motorcyclists to take care after dealing with the consequences of a string of serious accidents.\n\nProfessor Ian Pallister, from Swansea's Morriston Hospital, said one person had died and others had suffered life-changing injuries in motorbike collisions in the last week.\n\n“In the eight weeks preceding that, we had none,” said Prof Pallister.\n\n“It could be that they are now starting to take advantage of the quieter roads and going out and about more.\n\n“However, just because the roads are quiet does not mean they are any less dangerous.”\n\nHe said motorcyclists should whenever possible heed the message of stay home, protect the NHS and save lives to ease pressure on the NHS.\n\n“Our theatre capacity is nothing like what it usually is,” he said.\n\n“We have to prioritise serious injuries and emergencies above everything. Unfortunately that does mean someone else will not get the treatment they have been waiting for.”", "Professor Sir Ian Boyd spoke to the BBC's The Coronavirus Newscast\n\nOne of the government's scientific advisers has said he would have liked ministers to have acted \"a week or two weeks earlier\" in the virus pandemic.\n\nSir Ian Boyd, who sits on the Sage scientific advisory group, said \"it would have made quite a big difference\" to the death rate.\n\nMinisters have always insisted they have been guided by the scientific advice during the pandemic.\n\nGovernment figures show 36,042 people with the virus have died in the UK.\n\nSir Ian is a professor of biology at St Andrews University and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), which advises ministers on Covid-19.\n\nHe told The Coronavirus Newscast: \"Acting very early was really important and I would have loved to have seen us acting a week or two weeks earlier and it would have made quite a big difference to the steepness of the curve of infection and therefore the death rate.\n\n\"And I think that's really the number one issue - could we have acted earlier? Were the signs there earlier on?\"\n\nSir Ian suggested that the government based its initial assessment on the transmissibility of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) virus, which is less infectious than this coronavirus.\n\nSars was a previously unknown disease that started to spread around the world in 2003. It went on to infect more than 8,000 people and kill almost 800.\n\nHe described the UK and other European countries as \"a bit slower off the mark\" and less prepared than countries that had experienced Sars in the early 2000s.\n\nHe said that ministers would have received \"very blunt and very clear\" advice from the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance. and chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty.\n\n\"One could point the finger at ministers and politicians for not being willing to listen to scientific advice.\n\n\"You could point the finger at scientists for not actually being explicit enough.\n\n\"But at the end of the day all these interact with public opinion as well. And I think some politicians would have loved to have reacted earlier but in their political opinion it probably wasn't feasible because people wouldn't have perhaps responded in the way they eventually did.\"\n\nSir Ian also called on ministers to stop saying they are \"led\" by the science.\n\n\"I think the statement 'we are guided by the science' is slightly misleading. I don't think ministers intend it to be misleading. I think they intend it to help to provide trust in what they are saying. And quite rightly so.\n\n\"Basically what we in the scientific community do is give the best advice we can based on the evidence that's available to us. We then pass it to government ministers and the policy parts of government who can then take that and do with it what they like within the policy context.\"\n\nSir Ian - who was the chief scientific adviser at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2012-19 - said Sage meetings are currently taking place over Zoom.\n\nHe defended the participation of political aides, such as the prime minister's adviser Dominic Cummings, saying: \"It brings them back to reality.\"\n\nMore than 50 people sit on Sage. The membership of the group was published in early May.\n\nIt was followed by the publication of documents from the group setting out their advice.", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Truro MP Cherilyn Mackrory said she had spoken to police and the Prime Minister's Office about people staying in campervans overnight, particularly in Perranporth\n\nPeople are being reminded the coronavirus lockdown rules do not allow overnight camping at beauty spots.\n\nThe warning comes after police woke up people in campervans in Newquay, Cornwall and officers in Dorset found a group camping on a beach in a gazebo.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police and Crime Commissioner Alison Hernandez said the force did not want people coming to the South West for sleepovers.\n\nBut she said the reality was police were fighting a \"losing battle\".\n\nMs Hernandez said beaches and beauty spots in Devon and Cornwall had been \"inundated\" with campervans, caravans and day trippers but she said no public toilets were open and many car parks were closed, causing people to park illegally.\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 Alison Hernandez: #StayAlert This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We are worried going into the bank holiday weekend that people are not heeding the advice about staying home,\" she said.\n\nShe added that the government guidance was that people should spend the night at their primary residence, and pointed out that there was only one hospital in Cornwall.\n\nOn Thursday Newquay police said officers had been out on dawn patrol, waking up people who had stayed overnight in vehicles.\n\nPolice in Newquay were out early on Thursday morning waking up overnight visitors\n\nOfficers said that with their \"engagement, explanation and education\" the visitors had moved on\n\nIn nearby Perranporth, residents took to social media to share pictures of campervans in a clifftop car park and of tents on the beach early in the morning. Campers have also been asked to move on in North Devon.\n\nTruro and Falmouth MP Cherilyn Mackrory said she had spoken to the Prime Minister's Office, as well as local police.\n\n\"Earlier today it was brought to my attention that there were a number of caravans and campervans that were parked up and stayed overnight last night on the north coast - particularly in Perranporth,\" she said.\n\n\"Let me be clear, this is not on.\"\n\nPictures of tents on Perranporth beach were posted online on Thursday morning along with a picture of a bench that had been destroyed in a beach fire\n\nNorth Devon resident Rob Joules tweeted that he had been out near Croyde trying to move on campers who stayed overnight\n\nBrad Mears, who lives in Perranporth, said people had been camping on the beach and in the dunes all week.\n\nHe said he had seen campers using a cave as a toilet and the remains of a bench from a nearby pub were visible in the remnants of a fire.\n\n\"It is not good. My mum is petrified of getting [coronavirus],\" he said.\n\n\"Everyone has been so good down here and now I don't know.\"\n\nMrs Mackrory said the behaviour of those who chose to break the rules regarding overnight stays was \"irresponsible and dangerous\" and \"risks the health and wellbeing of our coastal communities with a second peak of Covid-19\".\n\nIn Dorset on Thursday, police patrolling Sandbanks beach near Poole said they had spoken to a group of people from London who had camped overnight in a gazebo.\n\nDorset Police found a group of people sleeping in a gazebo on Sandbanks beach near Poole\n\nCouncillor Laura Miller, who represents the area of Dorset that includes Durdle Door and Lulworth Cove, said people had been sleeping in their cars and urinating in gardens.\n\nAnd on Thursday night, the coastguard and police were called out after a man from London pitched two tents \"around one foot\" from the cliff edge, she said, adding that it was \"so dangerous\".\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Dorset Council This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nIn the Lake District, the national park authority said dozens of people were attempting to stay overnight.\n\nRichard Leafe, chief executive of the Lake District National Park Authority, said: \"The message from Cumbria Police and ourselves is clear. Follow the rules.\n\n\"We would like to thank the British public for heeding our call not to rush back to the Lake District and other national parks.\n\n\"We have found the vast majority of people are respecting social distancing and are following government guidance and we thank them for that.\"\n\nNick Lomas, the Caravan and Motorhome Club's director general, pointed out that many motorhome owners would be using their vehicles legitimately.\n\nHe said: \"As a responsible members' club, we actively encourage members to adhere to rules and guidelines.\n\n\"Many people have a motorhome/campervan as their only vehicle and will sometimes need to use it for trips to the shops and if travelling for exercise.\n\n\"Neither of these groups are breaking the current regulations and we are sure the public will recognise this.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keir Starmer says the government was “too slow” to protect people in care homes from coronavirus.\n\nBoris Johnson must account for official figures showing 10,000 \"unexplained\" deaths in care homes last month, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said.\n\nSir Keir said there were 18,000 more deaths in April than the average for that month, but only 8,000 were recorded as coronavirus-related.\n\nHe said the government had been \"too slow to protect people in care homes\".\n\nMr Johnson said there \"is much more to do but we are making progress\" on reducing the pandemic in care homes.\n\nAnd he announced a further £600m to fight infections in care homes in England.\n\nThe money will be funnelled through local councils to help improve infection control by measures such as reducing staff rotation between homes, increasing testing and ensuring small independent homes have access to expert advice.\n\nMr Johnson and Sir Keir also clashed at Prime Minister's Questions over government advice issued at the start of the pandemic.\n\nSir Keir said that up until 12 March care homes were being told it was \"very unlikely\" anyone would become infected.\n\nThe prime minister said \"it wasn't true the advice said that\".\n\nSir Keir wrote to the PM after the session, to accuse him of misleading MPs and asking him to return to the Commons to correct the record.\n\nBut in a letter responding to Sir Keir, Mr Johnson said he stood by his comments and accused the Labour leader of \"selectively and misleadingly\" quoting guidance from Public Health England.\n\nThe advice that was withdrawn in mid-March was based on the assumption at the time that the virus was not spreading widely in the community.\n\nIn hindsight, that assumption was wrong and the fear that the virus had taken hold was part of the reason the government ordered the lockdown. At that point the advice was withdrawn.\n\nBut the large death toll in care homes is also related to what happened after that point.\n\nBecause we did not have a testing network or the right stocks of personal protective equipment care homes have undoubtedly suffered.\n\nThe NHS became the major priority and even now not all staff or residents have been tested.\n\nThe deaths being reported in care homes have also been a source of concern and confusion for a number of weeks.\n\nSir Keir Starmer is right to say a large number of deaths are unaccounted for.\n\nThere are a number of possible explanations for this.\n\nThey could be coronavirus cases that have been under-reported - the lack of testing in care homes may mean doctors have missed the presence of the virus when they have filled in the death certificates.\n\nThey could be \"indirect deaths\" related to the fact that residents have been unable to get care for other conditions, such as heart disease.\n\nFinally, some are likely to be people who in previous years would have been taken to hospital to die but were kept in care homes - the ONS data also shows that the number of non-coronavirus deaths in hospital have actually fallen.\n\nThe guidance at the centre of the row was issued on 25 February and withdrawn on 13 March, a time when the virus was not thought to be spreading in the community.\n\nIt said: \"This guidance is intended for the current position in the UK where there is currently no transmission of COVID-19 in the community.\n\n\"It is therefore very unlikely that anyone receiving care in a care home or the community will become infected.\"\n\nThe guidance went on: \"There is no need to do anything differently in any care setting at present.\"\n\nThe prime minister's letter accused Sir Keir of \"neglecting\" to provide the context of the guidance.\n\nMr Johnson said deaths in care homes were too high\n\nIn his letter to Mr Johnson, the Labour leader said: \"At this time of national crisis it is more important than ever that government ministers are accurate in the information they give.\"\n\nHe added that: \"I expect you to come to the House of Commons at the earliest opportunity to correct the record.\"\n\nIn his letter to Sir Keir, Mr Johnson said he had sought engagement and consultation with opposition parties and added: \"The public expect us to work together.\"\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said the government had brought in the lockdown in care homes ahead of the general lockdown but that there was \"unquestionably an appalling epidemic\" in that setting.\n\nHe added that the number of deaths in care homes had been \"too high\", but that \"the number of outbreaks is down and the number of fatalities well down\".\n\nSir Keir pointed to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed at least 40% of Covid-19 deaths in England and Wales occurred in care homes.\n\nAnd he quoted a cardiologist who had told the Daily Telegraph newspaper that hospitals had \"actively seeded\" the virus into the \"most vulnerable\" population by discharging \"known, suspected and unknown cases into care homes\".\n\nMr Johnson said: \"The number of discharges from hospitals into care homes went down in March and April and we had a system of testing people going into care homes and that testing is now being ramped up.\"", "Buzzfeed News staff in New York: The company says it is to focus on US stories\n\nOnline media firm Buzzfeed is to close its UK and Australian news operations.\n\nThe US company, which set up its London office in 2013, said the decision had been made \"both for economic and strategic reasons\".\n\nBuzzfeed said it would be focusing on news that \"hits big in the United States during this difficult period\".\n\nSome staff will stay on to cover social news, celebrity and investigations, but it is thought about 10 jobs are affected.\n\nBBC News media editor Amol Rajan said the affected UK staff had been furloughed.\n\nHe added that the title \"did much outstanding work\" and its closure showed that the coronavirus crisis had \"claimed a high-profile journalistic institution\".\n\nBuzzfeed News had been a \"strong, scooping, important voice\" in UK journalism and its decision was due to the pressures on the company's advertising-funded business model, not its work, our correspondent added.\n\nBuzzfeed's UK political editor Alex Wickham tweeted: \"So incredibly proud of the BuzzFeed UK team, which punched so far above its weight and did some really amazing journalism.\"\n\nPaying tribute to his colleagues, news editor Alan White posted that \"the amount of talent in that office was unreal\".\n\nPolitical correspondent Hannah Al-Othman tweeted she had \"an absolutely brilliant three years\" at the title. \"It's been the best job I've ever had, and there'll probably never be another one better,\" she added.\n\nGuardian columnist Marina Hyde wrote that she had \"been informed and made to laugh so many times a day by their brilliant, idiosyncratic and dedicated staff\".\n\nA Buzzfeed UK investigation into 14 mysterious deaths allegedly linked to Russia was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2017.\n\nEarlier this month, the site was also the first to report on all seven of the government's draft documents which outlined proposals for easing the UK's coronavirus lockdown.\n\nIn a statement, Buzzfeed said it was still investing heavily in its news business and will spend about $10m (£8.05m) more than it makes from its operation this year, and about $6m more in 2021.\n\nIt added: \"We will be consulting with employees on our plans regarding furloughs and stand-downs\".", "Weekly death registrations in London, which was the epicentre of the UK's coronavirus outbreak, have returned to the range that would normally be expected, as the country moves further beyond the worst weeks of the pandemic.\n\nIn the latest figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), London registered only 64 excess deaths in the week ending 29 May, compared to 2,304 excess deaths in the week ending 17 April.\n\nExcess deaths refer to the number of registered deaths from all causes which are above the five-year average for that week of the year.\n\nBy the week ending 29 May, London recorded fewer excess deaths than any other region in England. In the same week, death registrations in Wales also returned to their normal range, only a few percent above the five year average.\n\nA similar pattern can be seen with deaths specifically linked to Covid-19.\n\nThe week ending 29 May was the fourth week in a row in which London did not register the highest number of deaths attributed to the virus.\n\nThe North West had the highest weekly count, with 282 death certificates mentioning a confirmed or suspected case of Covid-19.\n\nBut every region of England and Wales has passed the peak of the pandemic.\n\nLondon, the West Midlands, the North West and Wales recorded their peaks in the week ending 17 April.\n\nThe South East, South West, East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions all recorded their worst week of deaths in the week to 24 April.\n\nRegions with a later peak have tended to see a more gradual decline in the number of excess deaths.\n\nLondon recorded 21% of the total number of Covid-19 deaths in England and Wales until 1 May, despite having 15% of the population.\n\nIn fact, in the four weeks to 24 April, more people were killed by coronavirus in London than died during the worst four-week period of aerial bombing of the city during the Blitz in World War Two.\n\nRegistered deaths in London attributed to Covid-19, in those four weeks, reached 5,901 according to the ONS.\n\nIn comparison, figures collated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission show that 4,677 people were killed during the Blitz and buried in London cemeteries in the 28 days to 4 October 1940.\n\nSeparate ONS data released on 1 May shows that, once you take the age of population into account, the rate of deaths involving Covid-19 is roughly twice as high in the most deprived areas of England and Wales as in the least deprived.\n\n\"We know that people in more deprived areas are less likely to have jobs where they can work from home,\" said Helen Barnard from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.\n\n\"This means they may have to face a very significant drop in income or keep going to work, facing greater risks of catching virus. They are also more likely to live in overcrowded homes, increasing the risk for whole families.\"\n\nThe data shows that the highest rates of deaths involving Covid-19 are in inner-city areas where lots of people live close together.\n\nThe majority of the highest age-standardised mortality rates are in London boroughs, such as Newham, Brent and Hackney.\n\nOne of the biggest issues for policymakers now is trying to establish what other factors have caused the recent surge in excess deaths.\n\nFurther deaths from Covid-19 will continue to happen despite the lockdown measures.\n\nBut other deaths have happened because of the restrictions, with people not getting the treatment or support they need for other health conditions.\n\nNational Records Scotland releases figures on a slightly different timescale. In the week to 24 May, there were 1,125 deaths registered in Scotland. That's 11% higher than the five-year average for this week, of 1,017. Around a tenth of the death certificates mentioned Covid-19.\n\nIn Northern Ireland for the week ending 29 May there were 316 deaths registered, up from the five-year average of 290. Covid-19 was mentioned on 49 death certificates.\n\nThis piece has been updated to reflect the latest statistics.", "Tim Jones said he had received messages from Rocky Horror star Susan Sarandon and writer Richard O'Brien\n\nA singing police officer who has been raising spirits during lockdown says the response to his videos has been \"overwhelming\".\n\nMore than four million people have watched PC Tim Jones perform a song from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, while dressed in his police uniform.\n\nHe now has 118,000 social media followers around the world through his regular live shows broadcast from home.\n\n\"It is all about positivity and I have had so many nice messages,\" he said.\n\nThe 47-year-old constable started a challenge to sing one song every day for a month, but it was his rendition of Sweet Transvestite from The Rocky Horror Picture Show which really took off.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook video by Tim This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\n\"A few of my friends and colleagues were doing things so I thought I had to upgrade, so I sang in my police uniform at work.\n\n\"In 24 hours it went from 1,000 views to over a million.\n\n\"Overwhelming would be the word. I have people from Australia and South Africa tuning in to watch me sing in my dining room,\" he said.\n\nHe said he had even received messages from Rocky Horror star Susan Sarandon and writer Richard O'Brien.\n\nTim has been a police officer for 18 years\n\nThe Gloucester police officer said he could not make it into his school choir as a child and only returned to singing at the age of 30.\n\nHe has since performed on stage in musical theatre productions at venues including Cheltenham's Everyman Theatre.\n\n\"People are suffering at the moment and along with all the fun, there is a serious message about mental health, so if I can help people in any way that is great.\n\n\"It is a real release for me; I love it. I'm not sure where it will all end up.\"", "An AA engineer installing a perspex screen in a taxi for Uber\n\nUber drivers and passengers in most countries will have to wear face masks from next week as the ride-hailing firm toughens its coronavirus policy.\n\nThe new rule takes effect on Monday.\n\nIt applies to services in the US, Canada, Mexico, India and most of Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.\n\nBut the UK is not on the list, following government guidance which advises but does not require people to wear face coverings in confined spaces.\n\nAlthough it is not making it compulsory to wear a face mask in the UK, Uber said it had distributed free protective equipment to UK drivers, including more than a million single-use face masks, as well as 95,000 cleaning sprays. In the coming weeks, it will hand out another two million masks.\n\n\"As well as working with Unilever to provide drivers with free sanitising products, Uber is distributing millions of masks and directly reimbursing drivers if they choose to source the PPE themselves,\" an Uber spokesman told the BBC.\n\nAt the same time, Uber, along with taxi firm Addison Lee, has announced new safety measures as the government looks to ease coronavirus restrictions and people return to work.\n\nAddison Lee will fit perspex partition screens between drivers and passengers across its 4,000 vehicles next week.\n\nAnd Uber is paying the AA to install partitions in 400 cars in Newcastle, Sunderland and Durham as part of an initial pilot.\n\nUnited Private Hire Drivers union wants it to be mandatory for both drivers and passengers to wear masks during journeys\n\n\"We know there is significant demand from drivers, passengers, businesses and the general public for more to be done to make transport cleaner and safer as we go back to work - including calls for the introduction of partition screens into private hire vehicles,\" said Liam Griffin, chief executive of London-based Addison Lee.\n\n\"That's why we have taken the decision to begin rolling out the installation of safety screens between drivers and passenger seats.\"\n\nUber said its pilot in the North East of England was crucial for the company to get a better understanding of how to carry passengers on journeys as safely as possible.\n\nUber is first trialling the partition screens in areas where it has been able to gain the permission of the regulator or city council, in order to ensure that the screens are installed safely.\n\nOn Wednesday, Transport for London (TfL) updated its guidance for taxi and private hire vehicle firms.\n\nThe regulator is advising firms to have drivers and passengers socially distance, with passengers sitting in the back seats of cars. It advised drivers to carry a bottle of hand sanitiser gel in their vehicle that contains at least 60% alcohol.\n\nHowever, when it comes to the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) such as face masks, gloves or partition walls, TfL said it is waiting to hear from the London Strategic Coordination Group (SCG) on recommendations before mandating additional coronavirus prevention and control measures for taxis and private hire vehicles.\n\nThe BBC understands that a number of taxi firms in the UK are seeking clarification from the government on health and safety precautions to take once the lockdown ends, and would prefer regulation rather than advice.\n\nIn Wales, taxi drivers told the BBC they experience anxiety with every passenger they pick up, and are still waiting for approval from their local councils before they can make any modifications to their vehicles, such as installing a screen.\n\n\"Two months into a public health emergency which has seen private hire drivers suffer one of the highest occupational mortality rates, yet TfL and the Department for Transport (DfT) are still not taking responsibility to introduce necessary safety controls,\" James Farrar, chair of the United Private Hire Drivers trade body, told the BBC.\n\n\"Poor regulatory standards and employment misclassification has become a lethal combination for desperately exploited drivers.\"\n\nTaxi drivers have lost a lot of their income during the coronavirus income, as cities like Cardiff stand mostly deserted\n\nThe trade body is similarly concerned that Uber is not providing partition screens to its drivers in other parts of the UK, such as London, which has the largest concentration of Uber drivers in the country.\n\nMr Farrar wants to see Uber commit to limiting bookings to no more than two passengers per vehicle, and to make the wearing of masks mandatory for both drivers and passengers.\n\nFor now, there is no evidence available that demonstrates that partitions in taxis will reduce the risk of transmitting the coronavirus.\n\nBut there is some evidence that the use of cloth face coverings can help to reduce transmission of coronavirus infection where it is not possible for people to maintain a distance of 2m.", "Many of Wales' poorest areas have been hardest hit by the pandemic\n\nThe coronavirus death rate continues to disproportionately affect the most deprived areas in Wales, analysis of the latest figures has shown.\n\nThe five local authorities with the highest mortality rate are also among those with the greatest proportion of deprivation in Wales.\n\n\"If you're able to work from home, you're fortunate to have the means to do that,\" she added.\n\nCharlotte works in Cardiff with a group called Action in Caerau and Ely (Ace).\n\nAce is delivering food each day to 50 homes during the pandemic\n\nA recent breakdown by the Office for National Statistics suggested Caerau West alone had seen 13 coronavirus-related deaths.\n\nBefore the pandemic, Ace was supporting working families who needed extra support, now it regularly distributes three bags each to about 50 homes.\n\n\"The people we work with were balancing multiple jobs, on zero-hour contracts, low pay and just trying to make ends meet,\" she said.\n\nCharlotte said some people face a choice between going to work and risking their health\n\nNow, she explains, many have to weigh up whether to put themselves at risk to pay the bills, or cope with less money to protect their health.\n\n\"If you're coming into contact with people, you're at risk and if you've got to do 30 or 40 hours a week to get that sort of income, then 30 or 40 hours a week you're at risk.\n\n\"It looks very different to people in other areas who have got computers and internet at home.\n\n\"Within our area, I know that there have been quite high deaths through the coronavirus [but also] male suicides as well. It's been a shock and I think that's down to financial issues and people struggling.\"\n\n\"Sometimes people don't know where to get help,\" said councillor Majid Rahman\n\nNewport councillor Majid Rahman represents the Victoria ward - which saw 11 coronavirus deaths in the latest figures.\n\nThe densely populated area is a mix of middle-class families, single professionals and many on low incomes too, he said.\n\nHe is acutely aware of the loss many have gone through - including his brother's father-in-law.\n\nHe said there were a variety of factors, but poverty, housing and employment were hard to ignore.\n\n\"People are on low wages, in the gig economy, or taxi drivers. They don't have access to big companies that can give them that extra support or help financially and sometimes they don't know where to get help from the government.\"\n\nHe has also been exploring why the black, Asian and ethnic minority communities have been particularly hard hit.\n\n\"Those people have come into contact with someone with Covid-19, they go back home to a large family - because most Asian communities live in large household units - and may then pass it on to the rest of the family,\" he said.\n\nMany of Wales' most deprived areas have seen the highest death rates from coronavirus\n\nThe death rate, per 100,000 population, according to the latest figures from PHW (as of 12 May)\n\nLocal authorities with the highest proportion of areas in the most deprived 10% in Wales\n\nJulie said the Rhondda's strength is the people who live there\n\nJulie Edwards works for a community group in Ynyshir and Wattstown in Rhondda Cynon Taff.\n\nThey have delivered more than 500 packs to people in the area - including treats, books and gifts for children.\n\nRecent ONS analysis showed 15 confirmed deaths locally, though deaths at care homes may affect the local picture.\n\nWhile Rhondda Cynon Taff includes one of the highest number of most deprived wards, Julie says its real strength is its people.\n\n\"A lot of small villages in the valleys communities have become more fractured over the years and I think something like this - as tragic as it is - has actually helped them to come back together,\" she said.\n\n\"People are looking after their neighbours, and that's probably something we haven't seen for quite some time.\"\n• None Deaths involving COVID-19 by local area and socioeconomic deprivation - Office for National Statistics The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Germany's forthcoming coronavirus contact-tracing app will trigger alerts only if users test positive for Covid-19.\n\nThat puts it at odds with the NHS app, which instead relies on users self-diagnosing via an on-screen questionnaire.\n\nUK health chiefs have said the questionnaire is a key reason they are pursuing a \"centralised\" design despite privacy campaigners' protests.\n\nAnd on Wednesday Chancellor Angela Merkel said there would be a \"much higher level of acceptance\" for a decentralised approach, which is designed to offer a higher degree of anonymity.\n\nGermany's chancellor believes a decentralised app will be more popular\n\nAutomated contact tracing uses smartphones to register when their owners are in close proximity for significant amounts of time.\n\nIf someone is later found to have the virus, a warning can be sent to others they may have infected, telling them to get tested themselves and possibly go into quarantine.\n\nIn the centralised model, the contact-matching happens on a remote computer server.\n\nAnd the UK's National Cyber Security Centre has said this will enable it to catch attackers trying to abuse the self-diagnosis system.\n\nBy contrast, the decentralised version carries out the process on the phones themselves.\n\nAnd there is no central database that could be used to re-identify individuals and reveal with whom they had had spent time.\n\nBBC News technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones said: \"The NHS is taking a big gamble in choosing to alert app users when they have been in contact with someone who has merely reported symptoms.\n\n\"It could make the app fast and effective - or it could mean users become exasperated by a blizzard of false alarms.\"\n\nMs Merkel said SAP and Deutsche Telekom - which are co-developing Germany's app - were waiting for Google and Apple to release a software interface before they could complete their work.\n\nAnd BBC News has learned the two US technology companies plan to release the finished version of their API (application programming interface) as soon as Thursday.\n\nDetails of Germany's Corona-Warn-App published on the code-sharing site Github say it depends solely on medical test results to \"avoid misuse\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What is contact tracing and how does it work?\n\nThose who test positive will be given a verification code that must be entered into the app before it anonymously flags them as being a risk to others.\n\nGermany has led the way in testing in Europe and currently has capacity to analyse about 838,000 samples per week.\n\n\"Speed is of the essence,\" Prof Christophe Fraser, of the Oxford Big Data Institute, said last week.\n\nIt can take several days to obtain Covid-19 test results.\n\nAnd self-reported symptoms can be acted on instantly.\n\nBut an ethics advisory board advising Health Secretary Matt Hancock on the app has warned too many resulting \"false positive alerts could undermine trust in the app and cause undue stress to users\".\n\nThe NHS is currently trialling its app on the Isle of Wight.\n\nThere have been reports of some suspected false alerts.\n\nBut a Department of Health spokeswoman said this had been expected.\n\n\"In a matter of days, more than 50,000 people have downloaded the app with overwhelmingly positive feedback,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"But as with all new technologies, there will be issues that need to be resolved in how it works, which is why it is being trialled before a national rollout.\"\n\nThe NHS is also exploring use of the Apple-Google API, which would entail a switch to the decentralised model.\n\nBut it intends to offer users the centralised version first, unless plans to complete the rollout within a fortnight go awry.\n\nNorway's data regulator is at odds with the country's' National Institute of Public Health about its contact-tracing app\n\nOne sticking point could be calls for limits on how the data is used - possibly requiring a new law.\n\nThat would avoid the risk of a repeat of the situation in Norway, where the local data protection watchdog has accused the country's health authority of failing to carry out a proper risk assessment of a centralised contact-tracing app.", "Transport for London has had to significantly reduce Tube services because of coronavirus\n\nTransport for London (TfL) has secured £1.6bn in emergency funding to keep Tube and bus services running until September.\n\nUnder the bailout's terms, London mayor Sadiq Khan is expected to restore a full Underground service as soon as possible.\n\nHe has also agreed to increase bus and Tube fares by 1% above inflation.\n\nMr Khan had urged the government to provide support or risk TfL running out of money.\n\nThe BBC has been told a £500m loan agreed with the Department for Transport forms part of the total.\n\nA mayoral source said the government had \"belatedly agreed financial support for TfL to deal with Covid-19 - as they have for every other train and bus operator in the country\".\n\n\"They have forced ordinary Londoners to pay a very heavy price for doing the right thing on Covid-19 by hiking TfL fares, temporarily suspending the Freedom Pass at busy times and loading TfL with debt that Londoners will pay for in the long run.\"\n\nMr Khan's offer to raise fares by 1% above inflation goes against a pledge made during this year's mayoral election campaign.\n\nIn the run-up to the ballot, since deferred until 2021, he had promised \"cost of living\" increases in line with the Retail Price Index.\n\nTfL had said it would have been forced to issue a Section 114 notice - the equivalent of a public body going bust - if no deal had been reached by the end of the day.\n\nTfL said it had not seen such rapidly reducing passenger numbers in 100 years\n\nLondon mayor Conservative candidate Shaun Bailey said the government had had to take control of the TfL board and its finances, adding: \"The coronavirus highlighted existing structural flaws within TfL's balance sheet - the primary cause was our profligate mayor.\"\n\nLondon's Transport Commissioner Mike Brown, said: \"We have worked closely with the government and mayor as part of the national effort to fight the virus, rapidly reducing passenger numbers to levels not seen for 100 years.\n\n\"Enormous challenges remain, including agreeing longer term sustainable funding for transport in the capital.\n\n\"In the meantime, we will continue to do everything in our power to help deliver a successful recovery for our great city.\"\n\nManuel Cortes, general secretary of the TSSA transport union, said the funding would prevent services \"coming to a halt\".\n\nMick Whelan, general secretary of the train driver's union Aslef, said: \"It would have been a disaster for the capital, and the country, if the Tube network - and London buses - had stopped running.\"\n\nIn 2019-20 Transport for London earned £4.9bn from fares -making up 47% of the transport authority's income\n\nIt costs £600m a month to keep the network running on its current reduced service.\n\nThe lockdown has led to a 95% cut in people using the Tube compared to this time last year.\n\nThe number of bus passengers has also dropped, by 85%, and customers no longer have to tap-in to pay for rides as part of measures to protect drivers.\n\nMost TfL services are still running, but 7,000 staff - about 25% of the workforce - have been furloughed to cut costs.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Coronavirus is continuing its spread across the world, with more than four million confirmed cases in 188 countries.\n\nWith more than 1.3 million cases, the US has the highest number of confirmed infections in the world. It has also recorded more than 80,000 deaths.\n\nThe state of New York has been particularly badly affected, with more than 27,000 deaths.\n\nHere are our latest charts and other visuals tracking the global outbreak.\n\nIn the UK, another 428 deaths were announced on Thursday, bringing the official total number of deaths to 33,614.\n\nBut the average number of daily deaths reported has been trending downward for weeks now. Nonetheless, as experts have said, the curve shoots up quickly but takes a much longer time to come down.\n\nAll the latest data on the UK outbreak can be found here.", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nTottenham and England midfielder Dele Alli was held at knifepoint during a burglary in the early hours of Wednesday morning.\n\nTwo men broke into the 24-year-old's house in north London, where he is spending lockdown with his brother and their respective partners.\n\nAlli was threatened and punched during the incident and suffered minor facial injuries in a scuffle.\n\nAlli has handed CCTV footage to the police.\n\n\"Thank you for all the messages. Horrible experience but we're all okay now. Appreciate the support,\" Alli posted on Twitter on Wednesday night.\n\nSpurs added: \"We have been offering our support to Dele and those isolating with him. We encourage anyone with any information to help the police with their investigation to come forward.\"\n\nA Metropolitan Police statement said: \"Police were called at approximately 00:35 BST on Wednesday, 13 May to reports of a robbery at a residential address.\n\n\"Two males gained entry to the property and stole items of jewellery, including watches, before fleeing.\n\n\"Two male occupants at the property suffered minor facial injuries after being assaulted. They did not require hospital treatment.\n\n\"There have been no arrests. Enquiries into the circumstances continue.\"\n\nIn March, the family of Alli's Spurs team-mate Jan Vertonghen was robbed at knifepoint while he was away on Champions League duty.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe government says it is \"opening the door\" for the return of professional football in England in June.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said Thursday's meeting with the Football Association, Premier League and English Football League had \"progressed plans\".\n\nHe added that plans for the sport to resume should \"include widening access for fans to view live coverage\".\n\nMeanwhile, England's deputy chief medical officer said any return would be \"slow\" and \"measured\".\n\nThe Premier League met on Monday to discuss \"Project Restart\" and hopes for a return to action on 12 June, with matches played behind closed doors.\n\n\"We all agreed that we will only go ahead if it is safe to do so and the health and welfare of players, coaches and staff comes first,\" said Dowden.\n\n\"It is now up to the football authorities to agree and finalise the detail of their plans, and there is combined goodwill to achieve this for their fans, the football community and the nation as a whole.\n\n\"The government and our medical experts will continue to offer guidance and support.\"\n\nHe added that plans to return should \"ensure finances from the game's resumption supports the wider football family\".\n\nThe next meeting of Premier League clubs will take place on Monday, when top-flight players may return to initial group training under social distancing protocols.\n\nFootballers have so far been limited to individual training but Premier League bosses hope a first phase of team training, under strict guidelines and restricted to 75 minutes, can begin next week.\n• None Restrictions in place for team training under 'Project Restart'\n\nEngland's deputy chief medical officer, Jonathan Van-Tam, said: \"There will be small, carefully measured, step-wise approaches to see what can be achieved safely. The first of those is to return safely to training, still observing social distancing.\n\n\"We will have to see how that goes before we can even think about moving on to the return of competitive football matches.\"\n\nMonday's meeting will come after a weekend when the Bundesliga, Germany's top flight, becomes the first major league to restart.\n• None Bundesliga: What you need to know about this season\n\nThe Premier League has been suspended since 13 March because of the Covid-19 pandemic and most teams have nine fixtures left to play.\n\nBrighton had a third player test positive for coronavirus earlier in May and boss Graham Potter is wary about a return to action.\n\n\"We are in uncharted territory. It's a hugely complex situation,\" he said.\n\n\"It's very difficult to call one day to the next. The general will from all the clubs is to play out the season as close to the format as possible. Whatever date that is remains to be seen.\n\n\"We are sanitising the environment. The players are not coming in for any length of time.\n\n\"It will be as safe as it is made to be. The challenge will be when [we have] contact, larger groups and different teams. We need to see where we are on Monday and then Tuesday.\"\n\nHe added: \"There are concerns, of course. We have come out of lockdown. The situation is not totally resolved.\n\n\"I have a young family. My wife's family has health issues. We are human beings.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Premier League confirmed clubs had decided that short-term contract extensions could be agreed with players whose deals run out on 30 June, with the season set to go beyond that date.\n\nClubs and players will now have until 23 June to agree extensions which run until whenever the campaign is scheduled to finish.\n\nPremier League chief executive Richard Masters said it was decided \"to ensure as far as possible that clubs complete the season with the same squad they had available prior to the suspension of the campaign\".\n\nElsewhere, six League One clubs have united to express their determination to finish the season.\n\nPeterborough chairman Darragh MacAnthony has released a statement on behalf of Posh, Oxford, Sunderland, Fleetwood, Portsmouth and Ipswich.\n\nLeague One clubs are due to meet with the EFL board on Friday to discuss options for completing the season.\n\nThe fact the government summoned the three football bodies to a meeting together tells its own story. Ministers want football to think collectively during this crisis, and act in the interests of the whole game. And to understand that any government financial bailouts for the sport are highly unlikely.\n\nThe Premier League was reminded that if its season does resume next month, it will be expected to do what it can for clubs in the EFL and for grassroots football. And to ensure that, while honouring contracts with its broadcast partners, as many matches as possible are shown free to air, so that as many people as possible can watch them.\n\nWith the Premier League lobbying government to scrap the idea of neutral stadiums to keep their clubs happy, ministers are now asking for something in return.\n\nIt was significant today that despite continued police concerns over the risk of fans gathering outside grounds once matches resume, the government reinforced its support for the resumption of matches.\n\nBut it also warned that games will only take place if the phased return to training goes to plan, and the sense is that 'Project Restart' still hangs in the balance.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland players will begin individual training next week in the first step to returning to action after the coronavirus shutdown.\n\nBowlers will have staggered sessions at various county grounds with a coach, physio and, where possible, a strength and conditioning coach in attendance.\n\nOther players will return to practice two weeks later.\n\n\"These are very tentative steps to returning to play,\" said England director of cricket Ashley Giles.\n\nThere will be no cricket in England or Wales until at least 1 July, a shutdown which has meant the postponement of the Test series against West Indies, which was scheduled for June.\n• None West Indies players 'very nervous' about travelling to England\n• None Some anxieties about return to action - Buttler\n\nWith the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in talks with Cricket West Indies (CWI) over the rescheduling of those three Tests, Giles said the return to training coincides with a seven-week build-up to what could be the start of the series on 8 July.\n\nAbout 30 players - centrally contracted and from the county system - will be invited to train at 11 venues. The players and venues will be confirmed on Monday. The ECB will also use some county coaches and staff.\n\nOn Wednesday, the government issued guidelines on how elite athletes were able to return to training, with further guidance on greater contact between players and coaches due in the coming weeks.\n\nIn line with government advice, the ECB will implement the following protocols:\n• None Players and support staff will arrive in training kit ready to practise\n• None Players and support staff will have their temperatures taken before they are allowed to take part\n• None Medical staff will wear personal protective equipment (PPE) to treat injuries. The PPE will be sourced and funded by the ECB\n• None Dressing rooms and other venue facilities will be closed\n\nEngland's women will return to training in late June, while the ECB is expecting to provide an update on when the 18 first-class counties can return to training by the end of May.\n\n\"This first phase should be a safer environment than going about daily life,\" said Giles.\n\n\"I'm not making light of this, but there are risks every time you go outside the house. We need to mitigate as many of the risks around the spreading of this virus as we possibly can.\"\n\nIt is likely that any international cricket that is played this summer - England are also due to host Pakistan, Australia and Ireland - will be played behind closed doors, perhaps in a 'bio-secure' environment.\n\nPrevious discussions have involved the prospect of players remaining within the team environment for the duration of the summer in order to minimise the risk of infection.\n\nHowever, Giles said this is not \"realistic\" given the various home circumstances of the players. For example, the wife of Test captain Joe Root is expecting their second child.\n\n\"We are going to have to find ways where we can get players out of their environment,\" said Giles.\n\n\"Our players will do anything they can to get this going, but it isn't realistic to expect them to be in a bubble for 10 weeks.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, CWI chief executive Johnny Grave said some West Indies players would be \"very nervous\" about travelling to England.\n\n\"We are all nervous, aren't we?\" Giles said. \"I went shopping last week and it's a really weird feeling when you go out. You are almost threatened by anyone who comes near you. That will change over time.\n\n\"It can be quite scary but we are doing everything we possibly can to answer all of the West Indies' questions.\"", "This barber in Christchurch welcomed back customers just after midnight\n\nThousands of businesses in New Zealand have reopened on Thursday as the country relaxes its coronavirus curbs, with some hairdressers seeing overnight queues round the block.\n\nShops, cafes, and public parks are all open as the country moves into Level 2 of its restrictions, described as a \"safer new normal\".\n\nNew Zealand has reported no new cases of the virus in the past three days.\n\nAuthorities say the chance of community transmission is now very low.\n\nPeople are allowed to start seeing their friends and families again, with a limit of 10 people.\n\nProfessional sport is back on the menu - albeit with safety measures in place. And for those keen to let off steam after a long lockdown, gyms have reopened too.\n\nThere have been reports of crowds at shopping centres in some parts of the country, but for some a quiet catch-up on the waterfront was the first thing on their minds.\n\nThe waterfront in Wellington was a peaceful catch-up spot for this pair\n\nThe wait is over for anyone who's missed the gym\n\nHiding something, lads? Hoodies were a popular choice in this queue for haircuts in Wellington\n\nParks and playgrounds are open again - to the joy of this young visitor\n\nSome more unusual businesses have also reopened - like Frank and Anya Walkington's alpaca farm tours in Akaroa\n\nNew Zealand has seen 1,497 confirmed cases of Covid-19 out of a population of around five million people, according to Johns Hopkins University figures. Twenty-one people have died, and fewer than 90 are still sick.\n\nThe country had already eased some restrictions in late April, allowing takeaway food shops and some non-essential business to re-open.\n\nThough offices reopened on Thursday, people have been urged to continue working from home where possible, to help avoid a second wave of infections.\n\nTo the relief of many parents, school pupils will be able to return from Monday.\n\nBars are closed for now, but will be back in business from 21 May.\n\nOffices are open, but people have been asked to keep working from home where possible\n\nNew Zealand's bars won't reopen until 21 May. It's a decision partly prompted by South Korea, which has seen a spike in virus cases linked to nightclubs\n\nPosters are reminding everyone to keep up social distancing while they shop\n\nPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been widely praised for taking swift action early on in the global pandemic.\n\n\"We're going hard and we're going early,\" Ms Ardern told the public in mid-March. \"We only have 102 cases, but so did Italy once.\"\n\nBeaches, waterfronts and playgrounds were shut on 26 March, as were offices and schools. Bars and restaurants were also closed, including for takeaway and delivery.\n\nImposing some of the world's toughest restrictions on travel and activity helped stop cases arriving in New Zealand from overseas. But it also struck a heavy blow to the country's tourism-dependent economy.\n\nMs Ardern has described economic conditions as the worst since the Great Depression in the 1930s.\n\nAs part of a budget on Thursday, the government announced a NZ$50 billion (£24bn; US$30) Covid-19 recovery fund to help cushion the country's losses in the months to come.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Families and friends reunite as NZ moves to Level 2", "New goals for tackling the loss of nature are due to be drawn up this year\n\nThe pandemic has disrupted conservation work and funding, with potential repercussions for years to come, according to conservation groups.\n\nBut we can seize the opportunity to push for stronger action to protect the natural world, say Dr Diogo Veríssimo and Dr Nisha Owen from campaign group On The Edge Conservation.\n\nThe pandemic struck in what was meant to be a landmark year for biodiversity.\n\nNew goals for protecting the natural world are due to be agreed in October.\n\nWhile lockdown has been linked to a number of positive environmental changes, including wildlife reclaiming urban spaces, we know very little about how large areas of the world that host vast quantities of biodiversity have been faring, said Dr Owen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Victoria Gill looks at the wildlife species enjoying lockdown\n\n\"There's reports coming in of illegal activities happening on the ground that are not being patrolled for or monitored or counted because of the effects of coronavirus lockdown or reduced staff or reduced funds,\" she said.\n\n\"We're not going to know the scale of what that impact may have been on wildlife and biodiversity until we're able to systematically assess that, and that's probably not going to be until we come out of lockdown.\"\n\nLoss of funding for conservation work is a growing concern, particularly for lesser-known endangered species, such as pangolins, which already receive a \"smaller slice of the cake\".\n\n\"It is not just the case that organisations in far flung places are feeling difficulties,\" said Dr Veríssimo, who is also a scientist at the University of Oxford.\n\n\"It is also right here in the UK where environmental charities are being gravely affected by all the changes that Covid-19 is producing.\"\n\nThe Wildlife and Countryside Link, a coalition of more than 50 environment and wildlife groups in England, recently warned in a report that UK environment charities are facing a dramatic loss of income, which will have an impact on their ability to care for our land, protect wildlife and tackle climate change and nature's decline for years to come.\n\nGlobal leaders are drawing up new goals to protect the natural world\n\nIt comes in what was set to be a \"Super Year for Biodiversity\", as coined by the UN, culminating in a global biodiversity conference in October, where new goals for tackling biodiversity over the next decade were due to be drawn up.\n\nThough the timetable has changed, this is a key opportunity for world leaders to set strong goals and highlight that biodiversity is integral to human health and well-being, and the planet that we live on, said Dr Owen.\n\nDr Veríssimo added: \"This pandemic had its biological source in a wild animal. It's about our relationship with nature, and how we have now put animals in contexts and situations where these types of diseases are more likely to not only cross species within wildlife but also cross to humans.\"", "Allowing family gatherings is an \"important public health issue\", England's deputy chief medical officer has said - but it is \"complicated\" to make the rules fair.\n\nDr Jenny Harries said such a move could provide a \"mental health boost\".\n\nBut she said if two large families wanted to meet \"you end up effectively with quite a large gathering\".\n\nSome lockdown measures have been eased in England but restrictions on how many people you can meet remain in place.\n\nTwo people from different households can meet in outdoor settings, such as parks - as long as they stay more than two metres apart.\n\nBut any larger meetings between different households at the same time are currently banned. The UK government has said this means someone cannot see both parents at the same time.\n\nAt the daily No 10 briefing earlier, Dr Harries was asked whether this could be expanded to allow different households to meet as \"bubbles\" or \"clusters\".\n\nShe said such a move would be particularly beneficial to those \"who have been on their own or who are isolated from others\".\n\nBut she added that any such step had to be \"fair\" and \"consistent with public health advice\".\n\n\"So for example if you have families with large numbers already in their families who want to meet up, you end up effectively with quite a large gathering even if it's just two families meeting.\n\n\"I think it's really important that we think through the implications of that, particularly across families in different circumstances. If your family is a long way away, for example, you may be less able to do that.\"\n\nUnderstandably meeting up with family is something we miss dearly.\n\nThe government has tried to offer some flexibility in England by allowing people to meet outside in twos where the risk of infection is low because of the ability to keep your distance and the fact you are in the fresh air.\n\nBut, of course, that is not the same as having people round for a Sunday lunch or visiting relatives for a weekend.\n\nThe problem the government and its advisers face is that the risk coronavirus presents differs hugely depending if you are the grandparent or grandchild.\n\nThe average 80-year-old has a nearly one in 10 chance of dying if they are infected, whereas for children the risk is virtually zero.\n\nIt's not just about individual risk either. A spike in infections among older people would overwhelm the health service. Around a quarter of people over 70 who are infected need hospital treatment.\n\nFamily gatherings, involving multiple generations, where people are in close proximity, are simply too dangerous until we know more about the virus and who in particular among the older generations - and younger people with health conditions for that matter - is most at risk.\n\nMeanwhile, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick defended the government's decision to allow potential home buyers to view properties in England. The property markets in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland remain shut.\n\nSpeaking at Wednesday's briefing, he said he had been asked why the government would allow people to \"look around a stranger's home but not visit their loved ones or parents\".\n\nMr Jenrick said he understood \"why this can seem confusing at first glance\" but said estate agents must follow new guidelines during viewings. These include:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This may seem confusing at first glance especially when people have been separated from their loved ones for so long\" - Jenrick\n\nIt is estimated there are 450,000 buyers and renters with plans on hold.\n\nProperty website Zoopla previously estimated that about 373,000 property sales had been put on hold during lockdown - with a total value of £82bn.\n\nMr Jenrick added that it was \"essential that we cautiously open up parts of our economy where it's safe to do so\".\n\nHis call came as the number of people who have died after testing positive for coronavirus in the UK has reached 33,186, a rise of 494 on the previous day.", "Golfer's living room practice pays off on first game back\n\nA golfer says practising shots in his living room helped for his first game back playing after the government eased some coronavirus lockdown restrictions. Bruce Allison, 73, from Harrogate teed off at 07:40 this morning - making him one of the first golfers back on the course since the government allowed some sports to resume under social distancing rules to keep players safe. Mr Allison said his club, in Pannal, organised a charity draw to find out who had the privilege of being one of the first to tee off. He said: \"It was wonderful. For members it was terrific and great to be back on the course. \"We have distance markings around the tee and you have to turn up five minutes before your tee time for when you've booked. \"You don't touch the pin and clearly you can't shake hands with your partner after the game,” he added.", "Three tents have been erected at the entrance to Stowfield Quarry on the closed A4136 outside of Coleford\n\nHuman remains were found in two suitcases when police responded to a call about a driver acting suspiciously, officers have said.\n\nGloucestershire Police was called to near Coleford in the Forest of Dean just after 22:30 BST on Tuesday.\n\nThe vehicle was identified, a man and a woman were questioned and then arrested, the force said.\n\nOfficers believe the remains are that of a woman but forensic examinations are ongoing to identify the victim.\n\nEarlier, detectives were given an additional 36 hours to continue questioning the man, who is in his 30s and from Wolverhampton, and the woman, who is in her 20s and from Birmingham,\n\nDet Ch Insp John Turner said: \"The nature of this incident is distressing and we're working around the clock to fully understand what has happened.\n\n\"Someone's life has been lost and our priority is to identify the victim and get answers for her family.\n\n\"Searches have taken place in the surrounding area for evidence gathering and contrary to media reports no remains have been found as part of these searches.\"\n\nRoad closures on the A4136 are expected to remain in place until Friday, officers said.\n\nThe road has been closed while inquiries continue\n\nA spokesman for the force said forensic testing to establish the identity of the victim was ongoing\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Care Quality Commission says there has been 175% more deaths in places that can support people with learning disabilities in England last month, than reported in the same period last year.\n\nWhile elderly people are entitled to be tested for Covid-19, people with a learning disability are not.\n\nBBC Breakfast spoke to disabilities campaigner, Sara Ryan, and Dr Dominic Slowie, former NHS national clinical director for learning disability.", "Ed Sheeran and Mabel were among the British singer-songwriters who scored major hits in 2019\n\nMusicians and songwriters in the UK received a record amount of money last year, but the loss of live music poses a major threat to income in 2020.\n\nThe warning was issued by PRS for Music, the body that makes sure 145,000 songwriters, composers and publishers in the UK are paid when their music is played or performed around the world.\n\nThe organisation collected a record £810m last year, a rise of 8.7%.\n\nBut it said Covid-19 would result in an \"inevitable decline\" in 2020 and 2021.\n\n\"Even though we had a record-breaking year, we know very well that we're in unprecedented, unpredictable times,\" chief executive Andrea Martin told the BBC.\n\nRevenues from \"live music and public performance will be hit\" not just in 2020 but in 2021, as international payments often take time to trickle down, she said.\n\n\"There will be a downfall,\" she added. \"But by how much and by what per cent... your guess is just as good as mine.\"\n\nThe situation will hit smaller acts, many of whom were already struggling before the pandemic, the hardest.\n\nPRS processed 18.8 trillion \"performances\" of music last year, including streams, downloads, radio and TV broadcasts, and music played in pubs, clubs, hairdressers and concert venues.\n\nUK songwriters contributed to many of the year's most-played hits, including like Someone You Loved by Lewis Capaldi, Old Town Road by Lil Nas X and Don't Call Me Up by Mabel.\n\nLive music generated £54m in royalties, up £15m since 2018. Revenues were boosted by major tours from the Spice Girls, Sir Elton John, Ed Sheeran and the return of Glastonbury after a fallow year in 2018.\n\nBut with an entire summer of festivals cancelled and dozens of major tours postponed until 2021, that figure will be impossible to recreate in next year's results.\n\nThe Spice Girls' reunion tour grossed £78m last year, but this summer's stadium concerts have been cancelled\n\nLast week, UK Music revealed the contribution of live music to the UK economy is set to drop in 2020 from an estimated £1.1bn to £200m, describing it as a \"catastrophic\" blow to the industry.\n\nMeanwhile, the Ivors Academy of songwriters and composers said it anticipated a loss of £25,000 per member over a six-month period.\n\nThe lockdown also means songwriters will lose out on royalties gathered when their music is played in shops, cinemas, pubs, clubs and restaurants. In 2019, that figure was £168.2m.\n\nThere is some good news, however. Royalties from music streaming rose 22.1% to £155m, while the money generated from music on video-on-demand services like Amazon and Netflix increased 47.5% to £17.7m.\n\nEarly figures suggest more people have taken out streaming subscriptions during the lockdown, which may provide a small counterweight to the loss of live music.\n\nBut many musicians have noted that the money they receive from the likes of Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon is not enough to sustain a career.\n\nTom Gray from indie band Gomez recently shared a chart, originally compiled by The Trichordist, showing how many streams artists require to make a living in the UK.\n\nOn YouTube, a song would have to be played 7,267 times to generate £8.72 - or one hour of minimum wage. On Spotify, the figure was 3,114 streams, and on Apple Music 1,615 streams.\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 Tom Gray 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\nThat has led to a campaign, #BrokenRecord, seeking a more equitable system of distributing streaming money.\n\nSpearheaded by the Ivors Academy and the Musicians' Union, it is calling for a new system, where your subscription fee is distributed to the artists you actually listen to - rather than going into a central pot, where money is split between the most-streamed songs on a percentage basis.\n\n\"This is what the consumer wants,\" said Graham Davies of the Ivors Academy, who is calling for a government-backed review.\n\n\"They want their £9.99 a month to be paid to the artists, performers, songwriters and composers of the music they love.\"\n\nIn the meantime, the PRS Emergency Relief Fund has raised more than £2.1m to help members who have lost income as a result of Covid-19. Martin says 1,600 songwriters have applied for assistance in the last week alone.\n\nAnother £5m fund, set up by the charity Help Musicians, ran out of cash within a week after being launched in March.\n\nTrade body UK Music has subsequently called on the government to set up a new taskforce to revive the music industry as it navigates the pandemic.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Lewis Capaldi was the UK's biggest-seller in 2019", "Kellie Bright in the Queen Vic in EastEnders\n\nEastEnders and Top Gear will go back into production in June, but the stars will be socially distanced and will have to do their own hair and make-up.\n\nVirtually all filming has been on hold since the lockdown began in March.\n\nThe BBC said it would use \"strictly limited\" crews and stick to government guidelines when it resumes.\n\nBBC director of content Charlotte Moore said: \"We're also exploring ways to re-start filming on more dramas and other major BBC shows as soon as possible.\"\n\nWriting in The Telegraph, she said the broadcaster wanted to \"help fire up the engines of British TV production - safely and sensibly\".\n\nThere will be a socially-distanced Top Gear\n\nShe wrote: \"We've been looking very carefully at how we can safely put some of our shows back into production, and I'm pleased to announce that we plan to begin filming again on both EastEnders and Top Gear by the end of next month.\"\n\nShe continued: \"Cast members will do their own hair and make-up. Social distancing measures will be in place.\"\n\nEpisodes of EastEnders that were in the can before the pandemic have been rationed by BBC One. But when existing episodes run out, there is likely to be a gap before the new ones reach screens.\n\nCoronavirus is expected to be referenced as part of the storylines, although not in a prominent way.\n\nThe corporation has been filming one drama series during lockdown. New versions of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads monologues are being made by skeleton crews on the EastEnders and Holby City sets, which is \"showing what's possible under Covid-19 restrictions\", Moore said.\n\nFriday's VE Day anniversary special from Buckingham Palace and the recent Hospital coronavirus specials \"are examples of how well we can rise to the creative and technical challenge\", she added.\n\nShe did not say when other dramas like Line of Duty, Peaky Blinders and Call the Midwife - which all put filming on hold - are likely to return to set.\n\nShe added that the BBC was \"determined to do everything we can\" to \"kick-start the TV industry and support our brilliant production sector nationwide\".\n\nNeighbours has resumed filming with cast and crew keeping their distance\n\nAustralian soap Neighbours has already returned, with reworked scripts and fewer characters in specific scenes.\n\nSome are being filmed in \"smaller components\" before being stitched together in the editing room, executive producer Jason Herbison told the Reuters news agency on Wednesday.\n\nIn intimate scenes, a character might \"lean in for a kiss, and then the camera pans away and we hear a little bit of a giggle\", he said.\n\n\"It's just about re-imagining the scene differently, so you don't see that moment of impact.\"\n\nHerbison said there would be no explicit references to coronavirus in the show, but viewers would see characters doing thing like sanitising their hands in restaurants.\n\nOther British soaps, such as ITV's Coronation Street and Emmerdale and Channel 4's Hollyoaks, have not yet announced how and when they expect to start filming again.\n\nCorrie producer Iain MacLeod did recently say the pandemic would feature in future episodes, but it won't \"dominate every single story\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A&E visits in England have halved since the coronavirus outbreak started, dropping to their lowest level since records began.\n\nBefore the pandemic, about two million patients a month were visiting A&E but in April that dropped to 916,581.\n\nNHS bosses are concerned seriously ill patients are being put off seeking treatment.\n\nDrops in cancer referrals and routine operations were also seen as services were scaled back and staff redeployed.\n\nHealth experts said it could take months to get the NHS back to normal and tackle the backlog.\n\nThe drop in A&E visits - to just above 900,000 in April - was the lowest since records began in 2010.\n\nBefore the coronavirus outbreak, more than 2.1 million patients a month were visiting A&E. In March that dropped to 1.53 million.\n\nThere is particular concern that patients who have suffered strokes and heart problems have stayed away because of fears over coronavirus.\n\nNHS England clinical director for stroke Dr Deb Lowe said she and her fellow doctors were \"really worried\" that the numbers seeking help for stroke care had gone down.\n\nBreast screening is just one of many ways of detecting cancer\n\nData for other areas lags a month behind - so for routine treatments and cancer care NHS England has only been able to publish the data for March. Lockdown was announced in late March.\n\nGPs made 181,873 urgent cancer referrals during March - down from 196,425 on the same month in 2019.\n\nThe number of patients admitted for routine surgery and treatment, such as knee and hip operations, dropped by a third to 207,754, down from 305,356 in March 2019.\n\nHospitals were told to start stopping routine care to free up beds for the coronavirus peak.\n\nAt the end of last month Health Secretary Matt Hancock urged hospitals to re-start routine treatments - guidance has now been updated advising patients to isolate for two weeks before going in for surgery\n\nMeanwhile, community services have had to be scaled back as staff have been redeployed and face-to-face contact has had to be restricted.\n\nHealth visitors, for example, have been having to carry out most of their consultations with new mothers via phone or using video technology.\n\nMacmillan Cancer Support chief executive Lynda Thomas said despite urgent cancer care being prioritised during the lockdown, services were still affected, while she fears some patients were put off seeking help.\n\n\"Cancer must not become the forgotten 'C' in this pandemic.\"\n\nThree leading think tanks - the Nuffield Trust, King's Fund and Health Foundation - said restoring services was going to take time.\n\nThey warned staff were exhausted because they had been working flat out and needed time to recover.\n\nThe availability of protective kit, such as aprons and goggles, would need to be improved and expanded, while changes would need to be made to allow for social distancing and extra cleaning.\n\nWhat is more, capacity would still need to be set aside for a second peak.\n\nThe NHS is expected to use the space at the 10 field hospitals - known as Nightingales in England - to provide some of this. Only two of them are currently being used.\n\nNuffield Trust chief executive Nigel Edwards said: \"With the virus still at large there is no easy route back to the way things were before.\n\n\"Unfortunately that will mean people waiting much longer and some services being put on hold.\"", "A children's hospital in the Afghan capital Kabul has taken in 19 babies who survived a horrific attack by militants on a maternity ward at another clinic.\n\nIt was not immediately known how many of the infants' mothers were among the dozens killed in Tuesday's gun and bomb assault. No group has said it carried it out.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nThe Tour of Britain has been cancelled for 2020 because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe race was due to take place between 6-13 September but there are concerns over holding public events because of the spread of the virus.\n\nThe Women's Tour stage race in Britain and the Tour de Yorkshire have also been cancelled for 2020.\n\nOrganisers say the 2021 Tour of Britain will be held between 5-12 September and use the route planned for 2020.\n\nThe cancellation means Britain will not host any major stage races this year.\n\nThe RideLondon-Surrey Classic is the only major race is still scheduled, on 16 August.\n\nTour of Britain organisers said holding the event without spectators would \"go against everything that cycling, as an accessible sport, stands for\".\n\n\"Holding the Tour of Britain behind closed doors or with extensive social distancing rules would not only be immensely impractical, but would rob our venues and spectators of these opportunities,\" a statement read.\n\nThere will be no professional sport, even behind closed doors, in England until 1 June, with social distancing measures still in force.\n\nThe 2019 Tour of Britain, which was won by Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel, attracted 1.5 million spectators.\n\nThe full route for the 2020 race had not been announced, but it was set to visit Cornwall, Devon, Warrington, Cumbria and finish in Aberdeen.\n\n\"It is disappointing to hear of the postponement but it feels like the correct decision has been taken,\" leader of Aberdeenshire Council Jim Gifford said.\n\n\"The team can now begin to focus their efforts on next year.\"\n\nOrganisers added they would explore how the Tour of Britain venues can still celebrate the event in September.", "The University of Washington immunology labs have been looking for coronavirus antibodies in their work to control the virus\n\nChina-linked hackers are targeting organisations researching the Covid-19 pandemic, US officials say.\n\nThe FBI said it had seen hacking attempts on US groups researching vaccines, treatments and testing.\n\nThe US has long accused the Chinese government of cyber-espionage, something Beijing denies.\n\nThe pandemic has worsened tensions between the two countries, which have both accused each other of failing to contain the outbreak.\n\nMore than 4.3m people around the world have been infected by Covid-19, with over 83,000 US deaths and 4,600 deaths in China, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nThe Federal Bureau of Investigation and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa), a division of the homeland security department, issued a rare joint warning on Wednesday.\n\nIn what was billed as a public service announcement, they said \"healthcare, pharmaceutical and research sectors working on Covid-19 response should all be aware they are prime targets\" of hackers.\n\nThe cyber-thieves had \"been observed attempting to identify and illicitly obtain valuable intellectual property and public health data\" on treating the coronavirus, the statement added.\n\nChina has repeatedly denied US accusations of cyber-espionage.\n\nEarlier this week, foreign affairs ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said: \"We are leading the world in Covid-19 treatment and vaccine research. It is immoral to target China with rumours and slanders in the absence of any evidence.\"\n\nAt a press briefing on Monday, President Donald Trump referred to China's alleged cyber-activities.\n\n\"What else is new with China? I'm not happy with China, could have stopped it at the source, should have,\" he said.\n\n\"Now you're telling me they're hacking. What else is new? We're watching very closely.\"\n\nUS officials have long accused China of hacking and intellectual property theft.\n\nIn 2009, the US alleged that China-linked hackers managed to infiltrate the sensitive data from the Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jet. Shortly afterwards, China announced it was developing a similar jet, the Shenyang J-31.\n\nIntelligence officials have also in the past accused China of using \"non-traditional collectors\", who steal technology from US firms.\n\nBill Evanina, director of the US National Counterintelligence and Security Centre, has said China's theft of US intellectual property amounts to about $400bn a year.\n\nThe UK and US had already issued a detailed joint warning about other countries targeting research back on 5 May.\n\nOn that occasion, they did not officially name names but sources indicated China, Russia and Iran were among those responsible.\n\nNow, in a widely trailed move, the US has decided to single out China specifically with this new advisory.\n\nSo far they have not been joined by the UK and the new alert does not contain any new details of what has taken place.\n\nThat means this may well be interpreted as a means of both playing to a domestic audience and of raising the pressure on China as part of the growing tension between Washington and Beijing.\n• None US-China contagion: The battle behind the scenes", "The grandson of the seventh resident of a Skye care home to die after contracting Covid-19 has called her his \"best friend and guiding light\".\n\nIna Beaton was 103 when the virus took her life at Home Farm in Portree on 11 May.\n\nBorn Hectorina Matheson, she was a well known figure on the island and lived in her own home in Balmaqueen until just two years ago.\n\nIna lived through the Great War, the Spanish flu of 1919 and moved to Glasgow during the war years where she worked as a conductress on the trams, surviving the Clydebank Blitz.\n\nAilean Beaton thanked the staff at Home Farm care home who he said \"had been through a lot\".\n\nQuote Message: She was my best friend and guiding light, and we loved each other very much. If you know me, you know how much she meant to me. But the loss is shared across the entire island, especially the north end where she was mum, granny, friend to more than just the Beatons. Her crystal memory and broad experience of life in Skye over several generations meant that she contributed to our shared knowledge of the place we're from, its language and culture. At 103 years old, her perspective is literally irreplaceable. I never could have tired of her company . She was the first person I wanted to visit any time I travelled home. from Ailean Beaton Grandson of Ina Beaton She was my best friend and guiding light, and we loved each other very much. If you know me, you know how much she meant to me. But the loss is shared across the entire island, especially the north end where she was mum, granny, friend to more than just the Beatons. Her crystal memory and broad experience of life in Skye over several generations meant that she contributed to our shared knowledge of the place we're from, its language and culture. At 103 years old, her perspective is literally irreplaceable. I never could have tired of her company . She was the first person I wanted to visit any time I travelled home.", "The 29-year-old said she does not get to see her daughter often, but when she does she is physically and mentally exhausted\n\nAs lockdown begins to ease and unlimited exercise is allowed in England, a nurse has pleaded with people to adhere strictly to social distancing rules.\n\nLouise Wigginton, a specialist respiratory nurse working in an intensive care Covid-19 Red Zone in central London, said she was left feeling upset and unappreciated after seeing groups of people drinking and socialising in a park directly outside the hospital's intensive care unit.\n\n\"They were sunbathing, drinking and meeting in large groups,\" the 29-year-old said.\n\n\"My colleagues and I said to one another, 'can they not see us up here?'.\n\n\"This was the realisation that people are already not listening to the rules and now that lockdown is softened, it will only get worse.\"\n\nLouise, from Hampshire, usually works 13-hour days and says she often does not take a break.\n\n\"I worry about leaving my patients alone because I know everyone is so busy,\" she said.\n\nLouise normally works 13-hour days on a Covid-19 ward, often with no breaks - the marks left by her PPE can be seen on her face\n\nSaturday 9 May, when temperatures reached highs of 23C (73.4F) in the city, was the most challenging shift Louise has worked in her seven years of nursing.\n\n\"My Covid-19 positive patient was the sickest patient I have ever had to manage.\n\n\"The patient was young, a healthcare professional and incredibly unstable. There was absolutely no reason why she had become so sick.\n\n\"I was so hot in my PPE that I thought I was going to faint. My eyes felt funny and my legs felt like jelly,\" she said.\n\n\"Luckily with all the willpower I had, I held myself together and overcame this.\"\n\nFeeling a mixture of sadness, frustration and defeat, Louise said it took all her strength to hold back tears.\n\nDespite her own sacrifice, groups had no qualms flouting social distancing rules in a park directly opposite the ward where some patients were taking their last breath, Louise said.\n\n\"As I put all my efforts into saving your family and your friends there are people out there not even bothering to social distance\", the nurse said.\n\n\"Yes you may clap for the NHS. We do appreciate it, but what we do not appreciate is the clap to our face and the knife in our backs when you wave us off to work.\"\n\nAfter seven weeks of restrictions, lockdown measures were relaxed on Wednesday, allowing people to exercise outside more than once a day and permitting some to return to work.\n\nThe nurse says it takes all her strength to fight back tears while working\n\nThis is extremely worrying for NHS staff, according to Louise, whose workplace the BBC has agreed not to name.\n\n\"We expect another peak. How many more people can we watch die a terrible death?\n\n\"How many people can we turn away from our specialised care? For how many years will I hear the cries of the families saying goodbye over Skype?\n\n\"We can only take so much. We are not heroes, we have no special superpowers to deal with this.\n\n\"If we fall, who will look after you then?\"\n\nShe pleaded for people not to let her and her colleagues' trauma be for nothing.\n\n\"Let's stick together and keep the control over this virus.\"", "The Guardian is closing its online dating service Guardian Soulmates because it is \"no longer viable\".\n\nThe service, which has about 35,000 free members and paid subscribers, will close at the end of June, it said.\n\nThe \"online dating landscape has changed dramatically\" since it launched in 2004, it added - making it a \"very little fish in a very big pool\".\n\nThe 15 years since its launch has seen the growth of global dating apps such as Tinder, Hinge and Bumble.\n\nGuardian Soulmates said on its website: \"There are so many dating apps now, so many ways to meet people, which are often free and very quick.\n\n\"To keep up with the changing times we'd need to invest heavily in new technology and develop a new way of operating, and it's just not viable.\"\n\nMembership to the site is free, but it has seen about a 40% fall in the number of paid subscribers - with access to advanced search and messaging options - over the past six years.\n\nFormer users took to Twitter to thank the site for helping them find their partners.\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\nGuardian Soulmates said the service had helped many of the newspaper's readers \"find love and form lasting relationships\".\n\n\"We want to say thank you to everyone who has participated in Soulmates and has been part of a like-minded community of people looking for love,\" it said.\n\nIt said it was contacting its members.", "Nadine Dorries has deleted the post from her Twitter timeline\n\nHealth minister Nadine Dorries and two other Tory MPs have been ordered to \"check the validity\" of social media posts before sharing them.\n\nParty bosses spoke to the MPs after they retweeted false allegations about Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer.\n\nSir Keir said he was satisfied with the actions taken by the party and the MPs, who have deleted the tweets.\n\n\"There are more important things in the world to concentrate on than a doctored video of me,\" he added.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said: \"These tweets have rightly been deleted.\n\n\"The MPs involved have been spoken to by the Whips' Office and reminded of their responsibility to check the validity of information before they post on social media sites.\"\n\nAs director of public prosecutions between 2008 and 2013, Sir Keir was head of the Crown Prosecution Service, the body that decides whether or not to prosecute someone accused of a crime.\n\nThe clip shared by Ms Dorries and fellow Tory MPs Maria Caulfield and Lucy Allan was from a 2013 Channel 5 interview with Sir Keir.\n\nIn it, he appeared to be listing a series of reasons for not bringing charges against grooming gangs - including if the alleged victims had been in trouble with the police, or had been abusing drink or drugs.\n\nBut the clip does not include the reporter's question, which asks Sir Keir about the incorrect use of guidelines being used by the authorities in the reporting and investigating of child sexual abuse allegations.\n\nAs can be seen from the full exchange, Sir Keir was talking about how the police wrongly applied the guidelines, and how police culture had to change.\n\nMs Dorries retweeted the edited clip and allegations against Sir Keir, from the right-wing @NJamesWorld account, with the one word comment \"revealing\".\n\nLabour MP and shadow Treasury minister Wes Streeting replied: \"What's revealing is that: 1. You've spread fake news and indulged a smear being promoted by the far right. 2. You had time to do this despite being a minister in the Department of Health during a public health crisis.\n\n\"It's either malevolence or stupidity. Probably both.\"\n\nFormer senior prosecutor Nazir Afzal, who was involved in bringing a number of cases, said the clip was being used to suggest Sir Keir did not take child sexual abuse seriously, when the opposite was true.\n\n\"As national lead, I can assure you that he and I put right the failings of a generation of those who should have safeguarded children. He inherited failure and left success,\" he tweeted.\n\nEarlier, a Labour Party source said: \"This is a doctored video tweeted by a far-right social media account.\n\n\"As a government minister, we hope Nadine Dorries acknowledges this and takes it down.\"\n\nThe edited video was viewed more than 239,000 times before the @NJamesWorld account was suspended.\n\nMs Caulfield subsequently locked her Twitter account. while Ms Dorries and Ms Allan both deleted their tweets.", "People across the UK showed their appreciation for front-line workers risking their lives to keep us safe for the eighth week.\n\nThe founder of clap for carers, Annemarie Plas, told BBC News that she was proud of the country for uniting every Thursday evening.", "McLaren is considering raising money by mortgaging its historic car collection and factory to see it through the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe Formula One team owner and supercar maker has seen sales and F1 advertising revenues hit as countries globally went into lockdown.\n\nCars on show at McLaren's Surrey HQ include F1 winners from the 1980s and '90s and Le Mans competitors.\n\nMcLaren would not disclose details, but said it was exploring funding options.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Like many other British businesses McLaren has been severely affected by the current pandemic and we are therefore exploring a variety of different funding options to help navigate these short-term business interruptions.\"\n\nBut it is understood a possible option is raising up to £300m in loans secured against McLaren's high-tech production factory and racing car collection, including those driven by the legendary Ayrton Senna.\n\nThe loans would be repaid once car sales pick up and the F1 season, currently suspended, returns to normal\n\nMcLaren Group consists of three divisions, the F1 racing team, the supercar operation, and the technology research arm.\n\nGroup revenues last year were up 18% to £1.4bn. More than 90% of McLaren's supercars are exported. In addition to the HQ at Woking, McLaren has a composite materials centre in Sheffield.\n\nThe company, which employs 4,000 people, is using the government's job furlough scheme. But it is thought to have had a request for aid rejected because not enough other fund-raising options had been pursued.\n\nHowever, Sky News, which first reported the latest development, said that talks between McLaren and Whitehall continue.\n\nEarlier this year Paul Walsh took over as chairman. He is due to step down as chairman of FTSE 100 catering giant Compass, and his appointment at McLaren sparked speculation the company could float on the stock market.", "Masks sent to Birmingham City Council have had use-by dates of 2014\n\nA council has asked for government reassurance that a supply of personal protective equipment for staff on the front line against Covid-19 is safe, despite being six years out of date.\n\nBirmingham City Council said it received a delivery in April of about 4,000 masks with 2014 use-by dates.\n\nThe authority claims a further supply was sent to it with plain stickers covering the 2014 date with a 2019 one.\n\nA minister overseeing PPE would respond to the council, the government said.\n\nIt has also emerged more of the same FFP3 masks have been sent out in the past two weeks, bringing to 16,000 the total number of masks the council has in stock but said it could not use.\n\nIn a letter to housing minister Chris Pincher, who has been co-ordinating the government's efforts to supply local authorities with PPE, council leader Ian Ward said it was first made aware of a potential issue with the masks on 22 April.\n\nThe Labour-controlled authority had since then been asking \"on a daily basis\" for written confirmation of their safety from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and the Department of Health and Social Care, he added.\n\nMr Ward said it was \"incredibly concerning\" the government had failed to do so, despite the \"severe implications\" of it not providing assurances - specifically that the council had only \"a few\" days' supply of useable FFP3 masks left to distribute.\n\nHe wrote: \"Our primary objective is to protect the health and safety of those that may need PPE. We will not jeopardise their safety by releasing potentially ineffectual, date-expired stock.\"\n\nHis letter said if the equipment had been tested \"a clear, documented audit trail should be readily available\".\n\nMr Ward said: \"It is quite frankly outrageous that we are having to chase the government on this issue.\n\n\"Those workers, that are putting themselves in harm's way to help the city get through this crisis, should not be put at even greater risk with the supply of potentially defective PPE.\n\n\"Please can we receive the ministry's urgent written assurance that our current stock of date-expired PPE is safe to use?\"\n\nThe Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government told the BBC Mr Pincher would be \"responding to the letter in due course\".\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"All deliveries of PPE are checked to ensure the equipment meets the safety and quality standards to protect our front-line workers.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Transport for London must cut its Tube and bus networks without emergency funding, the mayor warned.\n\nTransport for London (TfL) will be forced to reduce services unless it receives a government grant by the end of the day, Sadiq Khan has claimed.\n\nWithout financial support, the transport body must cut its Tube and bus networks, the mayor of London said.\n\nMr Khan said TfL had been negotiating with the government for about six weeks.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said he was \"optimistic of having a solution\".\n\nThe BBC has been told TFL - which previously said it expects to lose £4bn this year due to the impact of coronavirus - is negotiating a bailout worth several billion pounds.\n\nBosses warned it would declare itself bankrupt without emergency finance by the end of Thursday.\n\nThe Transport Secretary also said he was encouraging Mr Khan to get bus and train capacity back to 100% in order to avoid overcrowding on services.\n\nWhen asked whether the solution might entail higher fares, Mr Shapps replied it was \"important to provide a rescue package for TfL\" but a 'right balance' needs to be struck.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said negotiations were at an \"advanced stage\".\n\nSpeaking on LBC Radio the Labour mayor said: \"At a time when the government is wanting us to increase services to get into the recovery phase, we might be required to cut services because the Government is failing to give us the grant support we need.\n\n\"TfL is legally treated like a local authority, which means we have to be able to balance the books.\n\n\"If we don't get the deal done today, the [chief financial officer] of TfL has legal duties that he has to follow.\"\n\nIf no deal is agreed, TfL said, it would have to publish an unbalanced budget under the requirements of the Local Government Act.\n\nIt would also be forced to issue a Section 114 notice - the equivalent of a public body going bust - which would ban it from spending any new cash.\n\nAn emergency board meeting would be called, after which the government would have to step in or services could be wound-down, TfL said.\n\nSpeaking at Thursday's Downing Street press briefing, transport secretary Mr Shapps said: 'We don't know what the long-term will be.\n\n\"But in the short-term trains and buses will continue to run.\"\n\nSadiq Khan said TfL must \"balance the books\"\n\nTfL - which runs the Underground, buses, and some overground rail services - has already used £1bn of its reserves to keep the network running.\n\nIt costs £600m a month to keep the network running on its current reduced service.\n\nThe lockdown has led to a 95% cut in people using the Tube compared to this time last year.\n\nThe number of bus passengers has also dropped, by 85%, and customers no longer have to tap-in to pay for rides as part of measures to protect drivers.\n\nMost TfL services are still running, but 7,000 staff - about 25% of the workforce - have been furloughed to cut costs.\n\nTravellers using London buses do not currently need to pay\n\nConservative candidate for mayor of London, Shaun Bailey, said: \"Sadiq Khan has failed in his job as chairman of Transport for London.\n\n\"Coronavirus highlighted existing structural flaws within TfL's balance sheet - it is not the primary cause.\n\n\"It is simply wrong for Sadiq Khan to then use Londoners - and key workers, making critical journeys - as collateral to get a bailout to cover his mismanagement and bad decision making.\"\n\nA spokesman for 10 Downing Street said: \"It is a commercial discussion. We remain in close contact with the mayor and TfL to look at how we can support them.\n\n\"Our priority is on reaching an agreement which keeps critical services running for those passengers who must use public transport to get work, ensuring we keep London moving safely.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak has mistakenly joined a Tory rebellion against the government over post-Brexit food import standards.\n\nMr Sunak voted digitally for a change to the Agriculture Bill that would have guaranteed a ban on chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef.\n\nThe amendment was defeated by 277 to 328, a majority of 51.\n\nA source close to the chancellor blamed \"teething problems\" with a new online voting system.\n\n\"The chancellor did not intentionally vote against the government. He called the chief whip straight away to explain,\" added the source.\n\nSeveral MPs made the same mistake in what was only the second time they have voted digitally.\n\nThe system - brought in to allow MPs to continue working during the coronavirus lockdown - does not allow MPs to change their vote once it has been cast.\n\nDeputy Speaker Dame Eleanor Laing said she had been told some MPs had mistakenly voted the wrong way and \"that their use of technology was not quite as good as they felt that it ought to be\".\n\nBut she told MPs she was \"satisfied\" the mistakes had not affected the outcome of the vote.\n\nMinisters say the issue of protecting food standards in post-Brexit trade will be dealt with in the upcoming Trade Bill.\n\nBut opponents of practices such chlorine-washing chicken say that could lead to farm standards being bargained away in negotiations.\n\nInstead, they wanted ministers to guarantee food standards in the Agriculture Bill.\n\nLeading rebel, Tory MP Simon Hoare, warned MPs that without changes to the bill \"food imports to this country would be cheap for no other reason bar the fact that they were raised to lower standards\".\n\nFellow rebel Neil Parish, chairman of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, told MPs it was time to support such measures.\n\nTory rebels called on American farmers to improve their standards\n\nHe said: \"I'd say to the Americans, why don't you upgrade your production? Why don't you reduce the density of population of your chicken?\n\n\"Why don't you reduce the amount of antibiotics you're using and then you can actually produce better chicken not only for America, it can also come into this country?\n\n\"Let's not be frightened of putting clauses into this bill that protect us to have the great environment and welfare that the whole bill wants to have and farmers want to have.\"\n\nBut Environment Minister Victoria Prentis warned of \"unintended consequences\" of amending the bill and insisted all EU import standards will be converted into domestic law by the end of the December 2020 transition period.\n\nShe told MPs all existing import requirements would continue to apply, including \"a ban on using artificial growth hormones in beef\".\n\nShe added: \"Nothing apart from potable water may be used to clean chicken carcasses and any changes to these standards would have to come before this Parliament.\n\n\"We will be doing our own inspections to ensure that these import conditions are met.\"\n\nShadow environment secretary Luke Pollard said not including food standards in the bill could lead to a \"race to the bottom\".\n\nDuring the third reading vote, Labour spokesman Mr Pollard could be heard asking in the Commons chamber: \"How many members of the Cabinet voted the wrong way?\"\n\nGovernment deputy chief whip Stuart Andrew was heard replying: \"Just the one. He's a very busy man.\"", "A healthcare professional in Italy shows a test tube with blood for a serological test that can identify who has contracted Covid-19 and has produced antibodies.\n\nA new \"fast and accurate\" coronavirus antibody test has been developed by scientists in Scotland and Switzerland.\n\nQuotien said each serological screening machine has capacity for up to 3,000 tests a day and produces results in 35 minutes with 99.8% accuracy.\n\nThe blood-screening firm is now keen to hold talks with UK ministers amid interest from Europe for the machines.\n\nThe Scottish government said it will explore \"all options\" as they become available.\n\nQuotient said the test can spot whether a person has developed antibodies to Covid-19.\n\nUnderstanding immunity could help ease lockdown if it is clear who is not at risk of catching or spreading the virus.\n\nChief executive Franz Walt was managing director of the Singapore-based Roche Laboratory which developed the first diagnostic test for Sars in 2003.\n\nHe said: \"We are truly proud to have developed such a fast and accurate test. This is an outstanding performance by our teams in both Edinburgh and Switzerland.\n\n\"We now want to make sure that we can help as many people as possible as quickly as possible. We have strong roots in the UK and want to speak to ministers there so MosaiQ can be used in the amazing national effort to tackle coronavirus and relaunch the economy.\n\n\"We realise ministers and the NHS are incredibly busy but are keen to talk given the strong interest from across Europe in the product.\"\n\nQuotient said it has 12 screening machines available which can process up to 36,000 tests a day or 252,000 a week.\n\nA further 20 are expected to be ready by the end of the year.\n\nThe firm's headquarters are in Eysins, Nyon, but its Scottish research division is based in Penicuik, Midlothian. It also has a corporate office in Edinburgh.\n\nWhile the UK government says it has laboratory capability to test for coronavirus immunity, it is currently being used for survey testing of existing blood samples and the capacity is not known.\n\nIt is also attempting to develop home testing kits, rather than requiring analysis in laboratories, but so far these have proved unreliable.\n\nOn Friday, Quotient received European regulatory approval for the MosaiQ serological screening machines.\n\nIt claims they have 100% sensitivity and 99.8% specificity, meaning there is a low chance of a misread or \"false positive\".\n\nEd Farrell, chief operating officer at the Edinburgh office, said: \"We're incredibly proud of all our work here in Scotland and Switzerland.\n\n\"We've got such a rich history here and we hope we can now make a difference at this challenging time.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"Health Protection Scotland, with key partners, explore all options around new antibody tests as they become available on the market.\n\n\"The Scottish government is working closely with the UK government to ensure that everyone is able to access new antibody tests when they become available.\n\n\"It is essential that any new tests are reliable, and time is needed to undertake rigorous evaluation so that there is confidence that tests are accurate.\"\n• None Can you catch Covid twice?", "A body representing care homes says it may have been \"wrong\" to prioritise the NHS without protecting elderly residents\n\nCare homes felt \"completely abandoned\" as the coronavirus crisis swept across the UK, the National Care Association has said.\n\nNadra Ahmed, chair of the association, said advice to prioritise the NHS without adequately protecting elderly people in care may have been \"wrong\".\n\nIt comes as the government announced £600m to improve infection control in homes.\n\nMs Ahmed told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that care homes had been happy to support the NHS but struggled with a lack of protective equipment as well as with people being discharged from hospital into their facilities without being tested for coronavirus.\n\nShe said: \"Here we were, suddenly left completely abandoned. And we understand the mantra that was about save the NHS - but our concern was, at what cost was that going to happen?\"\n\nThe advice to government was \"certainly not well put and, yes, perhaps it was wrong\", because the sector looking after \"the most frail and vulnerable\" should have been shielded.\n\nDespite promises that all care home residents and staff can now be tested, she said there were delays in getting results and funding promised for the sector was not yet reaching providers.\n\nThe government is aiming to have offered tests to all care-home staff and residents by early June and has made 30,000 tests a day available, according to Lord Bethell, minister for innovation in the Department for Health and Social Care.\n\nBut Labour said the roll-out of testing was too slow, with more than 1.5 million tests needed and only tens of thousands carried out so far.\n\nMore than 9,700 people with coronavirus have died in care homes, 2,800 of them in the most recent week for which figures have been published.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK's overall death toll rose by 428, to 33,614, according to figures from the Department for Heath and Social Care.\n\nThe numbers also showed 126,064 tests had been carried out or posted out on Wednesday - the third time the government has reached its 100,000 a day target.\n\nThe NHS Confederation, which represents NHS trusts and other organisations, said when the crisis was over the UK would need to address the \"national disgrace\" of \"our collective failure to address social care\".\n\nNiall Dickson, the confederation's chief executive, said it had been neglected too long and there needed to be \"fundamental reform\" to combine the social care system and NHS.\n\nMr Argar told the BBC the £600m announced by government to help stop the virus spreading in care homes had to \"get to the front line\".\n\nHe acknowledged there were still issues with testing, saying the government would continue to \"ramp up\" its efforts in the coming weeks.\n\nHe said: \"There is still some capacity there that we need to make available to care homes make sure that everyone can access it quickly and to make sure they can get the results back quickly.\"\n\nBut Labour's shadow housing, communities and local government secretary Steve Reed said the £600m was \"a drop in the ocean\".\n\nHe said that local authorities faced a £10bn shortfall, a third of which was for care homes, and he accused the government of \"backtracking\" on a promise to provide them with \"whatever was necessary to get communities through this crisis\".\n\nMr Argar also denied the government had been badly advised by scientists when it failed to lock down care homes and stop non-essential visits at the same time as Italy on 5 March.\n\n\"We have some of the best scientists in the world modelling this and giving us the advice,\" he said.\n\n\"This was a disease that was new, and every day we were learning something new about how it behaved. And it didn't always behave exactly the same way in different countries.\"\n\nHe said Italy was \"ahead of us in terms of the curve and community transmission\", which Mr Argar said was not occurring in the UK until it moved from the containment phase on 13 March.\n\nBut on 5 March, Prof Chris Whitty, the UK's chief medical adviser, told MPs it was \"highly likely\" the virus was being transmitted between people in the UK.\n\nHas your relative contracted coronavirus in a care home? Or do you work in a care home? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "Shetland is one of several parts of Scotland which have few - if any - coronavirus patients in hospital\n\nScottish ministers are \"not ruling out\" easing lockdown in some areas ahead of others, Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nSome parts of Scotland are less badly affected by coronavirus, with few cases currently in hospitals in Orkney, Shetland or Dumfries and Galloway.\n\nThe first minister said she had \"never ruled out\" taking a \"regionally varied approach\" across Scotland.\n\nBut she stressed that the government was not proposing that approach \"at this stage\" .\n\nAnd she said if it was to happen, it would need to be done in a \"practical and clearly understandable way\".\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland currently have stricter restrictions in place than England, after Prime Minister Boris Johnson moved to begin slightly easing the lockdown there this week.\n\nThe virus appears to have hit the central belt of Scotland and its larger cities harder than more rural areas.\n\nData from the National Records of Scotland has suggested the highest rates of death linked to the virus were recorded in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde and Lothian health board areas, while none have been reported in the Western Isles.\n\nThe latest Scottish government figures said there were fewer than five cases in hospitals in each of Orkney, Shetland, the Western Isles and Dumfries and Galloway, and only five in the Highland region.\n\nThis has led to suggestions that the lockdown restrictions could start to be eased there before harder-hit parts of the country.\n\nThe Scottish government's paper of options for exiting lockdown said ministers had an \"open mind\" about \"geographical variation within Scotland\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said this was not the government's current plan, but that it could be pursued if it was backed up by scientific evidence.\n\nShe said: \"I've never ruled out regional variations if both the evidence backs up that kind of approach and we judge they can be implemented in a practical and clearly understandable way.\n\n\"We don't rule that out, but we are not at this stage proposing that kind of regionally varied approach in Scotland.\n\n\"We still have a [virus reproduction rate] and incidence of the virus that are still too high for us to meaningfully at this stage ease up on lockdown.\n\n\"That is something obviously which is under ongoing monitoring. We will monitor that on a Scotland-wide basis, but if the evidence leads us to think things could be done on a regional basis, we've never ruled that out.\"\n\nChief Medical Officer Gregor Smith warned that it was harder to be confident about figures for virus reproduction rate over smaller geographic areas, saying localised figures should be \"treated with caution\".\n\nThe latest figures showed a further 34 people have died in Scotland with a confirmed case of coronavirus - bringing the total by that measure to 2,007.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing that 1,480 people were currently in hospital with a suspected or confirmed case , a reduction of 54 on the previous day, with 71 being treated in intensive care - an increase of one.", "Mr Darling was chancellor during the 2008 financial crisis\n\nThe economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic will be \"far, far worse\" than the banking crisis in 2008, a former chancellor has warned.\n\nAlistair Darling said the country was already in a \"very deep recession\".\n\nHe predicted that unemployment would start to rise in August despite the UK government's furlough scheme.\n\nAnd he said the government had to start planning now to prevent people being \"simply dumped on the dole\" when furlough ends.\n\nMr Darling was Chancellor of the Exchequer in Gordon Brown's Labour government during the 2008 financial meltdown, which was widely seen as being the world's worst financial crisis since the Great Depression in the 1930s.\n\nHe was involved in bailing out some of the UK's major banks by taking multi-billion-pound stakes in them. But without access to state support, many companies folded.\n\nMr Darling told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme that the collapse in 2008 had been caused by a \"fracture to the banking system that could be fixed, albeit at huge cost and political controversy at the time\".\n\nThe former chancellor said the current crisis would be considerably worse because it would be some time yet before the virus was brought under control and the economy could begin to recover.\n\nAnd he said there was \"no doubt\" that the country was facing a very deep recession that would take some time to come out of.\n\nMr Darling said the furlough scheme - which has been extended until October by current Chancellor Rishi Sunak - had been excellent for keeping people in work so far.\n\nBut he warned: \"What will happen in August, when the government moves to a situation where employers begin to share the cost, is you will find that employers will say 'is this job really going to be around'?\n\n\"That is when when you will start to see unemployment rise, which is why I think the government needs to plan for that now.\n\n\"We can't go back to what it was like in the 1980s when people were simply dumped on the dole - the government has got a role to play here.\"\n\nMr Sunak has extended the furlough scheme for a further four months\n\nMr Darling said the UK had managed to deal with levels of debt after the Second World War and could do so again.\n\nHe added: \"We are a big economy, we have got our own central bank, so I think the government should concentrate on making sure that the economy is intact so that when we get the recovery, we can start to grow.\"\n\nMr Sunak said on Wednesday that it was \"very likely\" the UK was in a \"significant recession\", as figures showed the economy contracted at its fastest pace since the financial crisis in the first three months of the year.\n\nEconomists expect an even bigger slump in the current quarter, which has seen the full economic impact of the lockdown.\n\nMr Darling praised Mr Sunak for focusing on keeping as many people in work as possible - but warned against a return to austerity measures as a way of dealing with the current economic crisis.\n\nHe said: \"One thing big governments - which is what we've got because we are a big economy - can do is spread the risk over generations so you don't end up clobbering people unnecessarily.\n\n\"If you start imposing tax rises now and cuts you will suppress the economy even more, which is the very last thing you want at the moment.\"\n\nAndrew Wilson, an economist and former SNP MSP, had earlier told the Good Morning Scotland programme that the UK and Scottish governments should discuss the idea of changing the devolution settlement to allow the Scottish government to issue its own bonds as a way of helping to fund universities and other devolved areas.\n\nMr Wilson, the author of the SNP's Growth Commission report on the finances of a future independent Scotland, said there was \"no reason\" why this could not happen.\n\nMr Darling, who led the Better Together campaign ahead of the 2014 independence referendum, said he had no problem with this in principle.\n\nBut he said the reality was that the UK would be able to secure better rates for its bonds than Scotland could, because it has its own central bank which can keep interest rates low and therefore cut the borrowing cost.\n\nHe added: \"I am practical about this. I want to make sure that wherever you are in the UK, we can benefit from those low cost borrowing bonds.\n\n\"And that is what you can do if you are part of a large economy. It has got its own central bank and we've got a record where people can have absolute confidence that if they lend us money, they will get it back.\"", "Seven residents have died at Home Farm, with almost all of its residents and many staff contracting the virus\n\nThe Care Inspectorate has taken legal action over the running of a private care home on Skye where seven residents have died in a coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe inspectorate has asked the Sheriff Court to cancel the registration of the HC-One-owned Home Farm facility in Portree.\n\nIt follows an unannounced inspection of the home on Tuesday.\n\nThe Care Inspectorate said the visit raised \"serious and significant concerns\" about the quality of care.\n\nSo far, 30 of the home's 34 resident have tested positive for Covid-19, as well as 29 staff.\n\nNHS Highland is already said by local MSP Kate Forbes to be effectively running the home, with additional NHS management, nursing and direct care resources being put in place with the aim of \"improving and sustaining the appropriate quality of care\".\n\nThe move by the Care Inspectorate could end HC-One's role as the care provider at the home, with the NHS taking over completely.\n\nIt could also potentially result in the home being closed and residents moving to alternative accommodation.\n\nA spokesman for the Care Inspectorate said its priority was always the health and wellbeing of residents, and acknowledged that the situation was \"difficult and distressing\" for residents, their families and staff.\n\nHe added: \"We have submitted an application to the sheriff court seeking cancellation of the care home's registration.\n\n\"This could mean new care arrangements will be put in place for residents at Home Farm care home.\"\n\nAn Army-run mobile testing unit has been set up on Skye following the outbreak\n\nHC-One said it was disappointed the Care Inspectorate had taken the action, adding that it was working with NHS Highland to implement a \"robust action plan\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"We have accepted the shortcomings at Home Farm and apologise to our residents, their families, and the local community. We are fully committed to making significant improvements at the home and determined to put things right.\"\n\nThe company, which operates 56 homes in Scotland, has previously said it did not know the source of the infection, and insisted it was doing everything it could to keep residents and staff safe, including \"seconding a number of Scottish workers\" to help.\n\nThe Scottish government's health secretary, Jeane Freeman, said she supported action to ensure that all care homes are safe for residents.\n\nNHS Highland is already said to be effectively running the care home\n\nThe outbreak at the care home, which was detected at the end of April, was the first time the virus had been confirmed on Skye.\n\nAn Army-run mobile testing unit was set up on the island following the outbreak.\n\nHighland councillor John Gordon, whose father John Angus died with the virus in the care home, claimed that local people were being kept in the dark about the circumstances surrounding the outbreak.\n\nHe told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"Everyone just wants clear honesty, even about the staff and residents who are recovering as well as those who are passing away.\n\n\"Our community is standing as one - everyone is concerned about the staff, the residents and their families.\n\n\"I think the lack of information coming out of the NHS, and even the council, is just a disgrace.\"\n\nNHS Highland insisted there had been \"significant engagement\" with the community on Skye since the beginning of the pandemic, and that it was following national guidance on patient confidentiality.\n\nThe majority of coronavirus deaths in Scotland are currently happening in care homes - although the number of deaths has been falling over the past two weeks.\n\nScottish Care - which represents the independent care sector - has argued the Scottish government and health authorities had put too much focus on the ability of the NHS to cope when the pandemic started, rather than care home .\n\nIts chief executive, Dr Donald Macaskill, said: \"Priority was given to PPE (personal protective equipment) for the NHS as we tried to make sure there was enough capacity.\n\n\"We will have to look at the extent to which dealing with delayed discharge and placing individuals in care homes contributed to the spread of the virus.\"", "Plans to reopen primary schools in England do not have adequate safety measures and need to be halted, warns an alliance of school teachers' unions.\n\nA joint education union statement called on the government to \"step back\" from a 1 June start date.\n\nIn the House of Commons, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson warned against \"scaremongering\" over safety.\n\nBut his department's chief scientific adviser cast doubt on suggestions the virus spreads less among children.\n\nMr Williamson, facing questions from MPs on reopening schools, rejected fears over safety and said it was the most disadvantaged who were losing out from schools being closed.\n\n\"Sometimes scaremongering, making people fear, is really unfair and not a welcome pressure to be placed on families, children and teachers alike,\" he told MPs.\n\nMr Williamson said that pupils, like teachers, would be a priority for testing if they or their families showed symptoms.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats' education spokeswoman, Layla Moran, challenged the education secretary to publish the scientific evidence on which the return to school was based.\n\nGavin Williamson said disadvantaged pupils were the most likely to suffer from a long time out of school\n\nBut the Department for Education's chief scientific adviser, Osama Rahman, appearing before the Science and Technology Committee, said decisions around opening schools, such as which year groups went back first, had not been taken by the department.\n\nAsked whether he had assessed the safety guidance given to schools and how it might be implemented, the DFE's scientific adviser told MPs: \"I haven't.\"\n\nAs such he was unable to say what evidence was behind the decision to reopen schools - or to say how many under-18s had died from the virus.\n\nAnd Mr Rahman told MPs there was only \"low confidence\" in evidence suggesting that children transmit Covid-19 any less than adults.\n\n\"As a former teacher listening to this I don't think the profession is going to be at all satisfied by what they are hearing at the moment,\" said Scottish National Party MP Carol Monaghan.\n\nPatrick Roach, leader of the Nasuwt teachers' union, said the DFE adviser's comments were \"truly shocking and disturbing\".\n\nThe Department for Education later circulated a letter from Mr Rahman in which he said he had been \"closely involved\" in advising on reopening schools - and that he had \"full confidence in in the plan to reopen education institutions for all the reasons set out by the government\".\n\nIn their joint statement, nine unions, including the National Education Union and the National Association of Head Teachers, rejected the plans for a phased return of primary school pupils after half term - saying it was still too early to be safe.\n\nThe unions called for a delay until a \"full roll-out of a national test and trace scheme\" was in place and there were extra resources for cleaning, protective equipment and risk assessments.\n\nThe joint statement said that \"classrooms of four and five-year olds could become sources of Covid-19 transmission and spread\".\n\n\"We call on the government to step back from the 1st June and work with us to create the conditions for a safe return to schools.\"\n\nBut Mr Williamson told MPs that opening schools was the \"responsible\" course of action, now the virus was \"past the peak\" and that safety was uppermost in how it was being planned.\n\n\"The best place for children to be educated and to learn is in school,\" he said, particularly for the disadvantaged who would be most likely to fall further behind.\n\nInstead of a fixed date for a return, Labour's shadow education secretary, Rebecca Long-Bailey, argued that schools should reopen only when there was clear evidence it was safe.\n\n\"The guidance provided so far does not yet provide the clear assurances over safety that are needed,\" she told MPs.\n\nShe said that families were still worried about the implications of pupils going back to school, such as for relatives who might have illnesses.\n\nIn Wales, the First Minister Mark Drakeford has said schools would not open on 1 June.\n\nIn Scotland, it is not expected that schools will re-open before the summer holidays.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, Education Minister Peter Weir has spoken of a possible phased return of schools in September.", "A family has spent lockdown raising spirits by dressing up as popular children’s TV characters and going on regular walks to wave at youngsters stuck indoors.\n\nAnna Smith and her relatives have covered more than 15 miles of streets in Grantham, Lincolnshire over the past eight weeks disguised as Peppa Pig, Skye from Paw Patrol and a ninja turtle, as well as making socially-distanced visits to schools and nurseries.\n\nThe disability consultant said: “Every week since the lockdown started we have visited different areas waving at children and adults to spread some joy.\n\n\"No payment is ever taken and it is all from a distance.\n\n\"I often work with children in my usual job and I have a passion for making them smile.”", "Insurance market Lloyd's of London has said it expects coronavirus-related claims to cost it $3bn to $4.3bn (£2.5bn to £3.5bn).\n\nThat means its biggest payout since the 11 September 2001 attacks in the US.\n\nThe losses could rise further if the current lockdown continues into another quarter, Lloyd's said.\n\nInsurers around the world have been hit by the cost of the pandemic, although many would-be claimants have found the virus is not covered by their policies.\n\nLloyd's said its payout on coronavirus claims would also equal the combined impact of hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria in 2017.\n\nThose three hurricanes brought devastation to the Caribbean and parts of the US, in what is reckoned to be the costliest year for storms on record.\n\nLloyd's chief executive John Neal told the BBC \"it could be two years before everyone really gets their arms around the true cost of this pandemic\".\n\n\"We estimate that government borrowing could be as much as $10trn globally to protect the economy for the losses that we've seen,\" he added.\n\nHe also implied that between $1bn-$1.4bn has been paid by Lloyds members for business interruption claims because of coronavirus, despite the fact that the vast majority of businesses \"don't have the right cover and the right protection in force for this type of event\".\n\nMr Neal said that there were \"some pretty harsh lessons\" to take away from the pandemic, and that the insurance market would need to structure policies and covers differently in future so that businesses are \"protected more completely\".\n\nNatural catastrophes, such as Hurricane Harvey, brought devastation to the Caribbean and parts of the US\n\n\"Importantly, these natural catastrophes were geographically contained events, occurring over the course of hours and days - vastly different in nature to the global, systemic and longer-term impact of Covid-19,\" Lloyd's said.\n\nMr Neal said the global insurance industry was paying out on \"a very wide range of policies\" to support business and people affected by the pandemic.\n\nHe added: \"What makes Covid-19 unique is not just the devastating continuing human and social impact, but also the economic shock.\n\n\"Taking all those factors together will challenge the industry as never before, but we will keep focused on supporting our customers and continuing to pay claims over the weeks and months ahead.\"\n\nNearly a third of the insurance losses are expected to come from the cancellation or postponement of major events around the world, including the Tokyo Olympics, which are now due to take place in 2021.\n\nMany small businesses in the UK are at loggerheads with insurers who they say have denied them payments for disruption. The insurers say most small business policies do not cover the pandemic.\n\nOne Lloyd's of London insurer, Hiscox, has said it will not pay out on business interruption claims resulting from the virus outbreak.\n\nLloyd's said its total payouts arising from the 9/11 attacks were $4.7bn, while the 2017 hurricanes led to combined payouts of $4.8bn.\n\nLloyd's said that once all factors were taken into account, the total impact of coronavirus on the insurance industry as a whole was likely to be far bigger.\n\n\"The estimated 2020 underwriting losses covered by the industry as a result of Covid-19 are approximately $107bn,\" it said.\n\n\"In addition, unlike other events, the industry will also experience falls in investment portfolios of an estimated $96bn, bringing the total projected loss to the insurance industry to $203bn.\"", "Ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been released from prison to serve the remainder of his sentence at home due to Covid-19 fears.\n\nHe had served a little over a year of a seven-and-a-half year sentence in jail.\n\nManafort, 71, was convicted of conspiracy and fraud charges that stemmed from a justice department inquiry into Russian election meddling.\n\nThere are over 2,800 confirmed Covid-19 cases among US federal prisoners and 50 deaths.\n\nAccording to the latest data from the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), there are 139,584 federal inmates in federal custody, and another 11,235 in community facilities, plus around 36,000 staff. According to the BOP, 2,818 inmates and 262 staff have tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThere have not been any confirmed cases of the disease at Manafort's prison, FCI Loretto in Pennsylvania.\n\nLast month, Manafort's lawyers sought for his release to home confinement in Northern Virginia, arguing that his \"age and pre-existing health conditions\" put him at high risk for infection in prison.\n\nAt the end of March, Attorney General William Barr told the BOP to grant home confinement to virus-vulnerable, low-risk inmates. His memo noted \"some offenses, such as sex offenses, will render an inmate ineligible for home detention\".\n\nIn April, Mr Barr directed the BOP to transfer inmates at risk for Covid-19 out of three federal facilities grappling with outbreaks, and told officials to review inmates at other similar facilities where the virus was affecting operations.\n\nThe BOP reports 2,471 inmates have been moved to home confinement due to the pandemic since 26 March.\n\nIn Pennsylvania, the governor ordered its corrections department to allow nonviolent and at-risk inmates to be momentarily released.\n\nThough the administration said as many as 1,800 people would be eligible, just 150 have been released as of 12 May, according to state corrections data.\n\nUS jails and prisons, both federal and state, have been criticised for their handling of virus outbreaks and advocates continue to call for non-violent inmates to be released.\n\nCritics say prisoners are uniquely at-risk for the disease given overcrowding and unhygienic conditions. Inmates often lack soap and hand sanitiser is banned due to its alcohol content.\n\nThe American Civil Liberties Union predicts 100,000 more Covid-19 deaths than current projections \"if jail populations are not dramatically and immediately reduced\", noting conditions in American facilities are \"substantially inferior\" to other Western nations.\n\nAnother ex-Trump aide, the president's former lawyer Michael Cohen, 53, is said to be expecting home release from prison in New York later this month.\n\nA number of other high-profile convicts, including financial fraudster Bernie Madoff, 82, and comedian Bill Cosby, 82, have also appealed for release due to the virus.\n\nManafort served as President Trump's campaign chairman from June to August 2016, when he was forced to resign over his previous work in Ukraine.\n\nHe was convicted on a range of banking fraud, tax evasion, conspiracy and witness tampering charges from two separate cases relating to his work as a political consultant.\n\nManafort said the case had taken everything from him\n\nManafort also agreed to co-operate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation in a deal for a possible lighter sentence. However, just two months later that plea deal collapsed as investigators said Manafort had repeatedly lied to the government.\n\nHe was sentenced in March 2019 and his prison term was to have ended in 2024.", "The pavement on Castle Street in Cardiff city centre will be widened on Sunday to help social distancing during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe work will involve the traffic lane next to Cardiff Castle being removed so there is more space for both pedestrians and cyclists to use.\n\nThis new shared space will run from the Cathedral Road/Cowbridge Road junction, over Canton Bridge, along Castle Street, Duke Street and up to the North Road-Boulevard De Nantes junction.\n\nCardiff Council said: \"This is the first city-centre project that will be installed to keep the public safe and able to socially distance on the highway network.\"\n\nEarlier works were introduced around Roath Park Lake to create a one-way footpath to aid social distancing, as well as the removal of visitor parking bays nearest to the lake to provide additional space for cyclists and joggers.\n\nCouncillor Caro Wild said a similar scheme on Wood Street is \"currently being looked into\", while a pilot scheme to enable better social distancing in shopping areas at Wellfield Road in Plasnewydd is expected soon.\n\n\"It's not possible for us to transform all public space in the city overnight, but we are doing all that we can, with the resources available, to bring in these social-distancing schemes as quickly as possible,\" she added.\n\nThe pavement on Cardiff's Castle Street will be widened from Sunday Image caption: The pavement on Cardiff's Castle Street will be widened from Sunday", "Everyone wants to know how well their country is tackling the coronavirus pandemic, compared with others.\n\nBut there are all sorts of challenges in comparing countries, such as how widely they test for Covid-19 and whether they count deaths from the virus in the same way.\n\nProf Sir David Spiegelhalter from Cambridge University has said trying to rank different countries to decide which is the worst in Europe is a \"completely fatuous exercise\".\n\nBut he's also referred to \"the bad countries in Europe: UK, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy\" and said \"clearly it's important to note that group is way above, in terms of their mortality, a group like Germany, Austria, Portugal, Denmark, Norway, who have low fatality rates.\"\n\nSo, when it comes to comparing countries, what factors do you need to take into account?\n\nFirst of all, there are differences in how countries record Covid-19 deaths.\n\nFrance and Germany, for example, have been including deaths in care homes in the headline numbers they produce every day.\n\nBut the daily figures for England referred only to deaths in hospitals until 29 April, when they started factoring in deaths in care homes as well.\n\nA further complication is that there is no accepted international standard for how you measure deaths, or their causes.\n\nDoes somebody need to have been tested for coronavirus to count towards the statistics, or are the suspicions of a doctor enough?\n\nGermany counts deaths in care homes only if people have tested positive for the virus. Belgium, on the other hand, includes any death in which a doctor suspects coronavirus was involved.\n\nThe UK's daily figures only count deaths when somebody has tested positive for the virus, but its weekly figures include suspected cases.\n\nAlso, does the virus need to be the main cause of death, or does any mention on a death certificate count?\n\nAgain, different countries do things differently. So, are you really comparing like with like?\n\nThere is a lot of focus on death rates, but there are different ways of measuring them too.\n\nOne is the ratio of deaths to confirmed cases - of all the people who test positive for coronavirus, how many go on to die?\n\nBut different countries are testing in different ways. Early in the outbreak, the UK mainly tested people who were ill enough to be admitted to hospital. That can make the death rate appear much higher than in a country with a wider testing programme.\n\nThe more testing a country carries out, the more it will find people who have coronavirus with only mild symptoms, or perhaps no symptoms at all.\n\nIn other words, the death rate in confirmed cases is not the same as the overall death rate.\n\nAnother measurement is how many deaths have occurred compared with the size of a country's population - the numbers of deaths per million people, for example.\n\nBut that is determined partly by what stage of the outbreak an individual country has reached. If a country's first case was early in the global outbreak, then it has had longer for its death toll to grow.\n\nOne way to take account of that is to look at how a country has done since reaching a particular point in the pandemic - the day it recorded its 50th death for example.\n\nBut even that poses some problems. A country that reaches 50 deaths later should have had more time to prepare for the virus and to reduce the eventual death toll.\n\nIt is also worth emphasising, when studying these comparisons, that most people who get infected with coronavirus will recover.\n\nThere are other factors to take into account beyond the numbers themselves.\n\nIt is more difficult to have confidence in data that comes from countries with tightly controlled political systems.\n\nIs the number of deaths recorded so far in countries like China or Iran accurate? We don't really know.\n\nCalculated as a number of deaths per million of its population, China's figures are extraordinarily low, even after it revised upwards the death toll in Wuhan by 50%.\n\nSo, can we really trust the data?\n\nThere are real differences in the populations in different countries. Demographics are particularly important - that's things like average age, or where people live.\n\nComparisons have been made between the UK and the Republic of Ireland, but they are problematic. Ireland has a much lower population density, and a much larger percentage of people live in rural areas.\n\nIt makes more sense to compare Dublin City and County with an urban area in the UK of about the same size (like Merseyside) than to try to compare the two countries as a whole.\n\nSimilarly, a better though still imperfect comparison for London, Europe's major global city, may be with New York, the biggest global hub in the United States.\n\nYou also need to make sure you are comparing like with like in terms of age structure.\n\nA comparison of death rates between countries in Europe and Africa wouldn't necessarily work, because countries in Africa tend to have much younger populations.\n\nWe know that older people are much more likely to die of Covid-19.\n\nOn the other hand, most European countries have health systems that are better funded than those in most African countries.\n\nAnd that will also have an effect on how badly hit a country is by coronavirus, as will factors such as how easily different cultures adjust to social distancing.\n\nHealth systems obviously play a crucial role in trying to control a pandemic, but they are not all the same.\n\n\"Do people actively seek treatment, how easy is it to get to hospitals, do you have to pay to be treated well? All of these things vary from place to place,\" says Prof Andy Tatem, of the University of Southampton.\n\nAnother big factor is the level of comorbidity - this means the number of other conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease or high blood pressure - which people may already have when they get infected.\n\nCountries that did a lot of testing early in the pandemic, and followed it up by tracing the contacts of anyone who was infected, seem to have been most successful in slowing the spread of the disease so far.\n\nBoth Germany and South Korea have had far fewer deaths than the worst affected countries.\n\nThe number of tests per head of population may be a useful statistic to predict lower fatality rates.\n\nBut not all testing data is the same - some countries record the number of people tested, while others record the total number of tests carried out (many people need to be tested more than once to get an accurate result).\n\nThe timing of testing, and whether tests took place mostly in hospitals or in the community, also need to be taken into account.\n\nGermany and South Korea tested aggressively very early on, and learned a lot more about how the virus was spreading.\n\nBut Italy, which has also done a lot of tests, has suffered a relatively high numbers of deaths. Italy only substantially increased its capacity for testing after the pandemic had already taken hold. The UK has done the same thing.\n\nSo, is anything useful likely to emerge from all these comparisons?\n\n\"What you want to know is why one country might be doing better than another, and what you can learn from that,\" says Prof Jason Oke from the University of Oxford.\n\n\"And testing seems to be the most obvious example so far.\"\n\nBut until this outbreak is over it won't be possible to know for sure which countries have dealt with the virus better.\n\n\"That's when we can really learn the lessons for next time,\" says Prof Oke.\n• None Who can still get free Covid tests?", "A test to find out whether people have been infected with coronavirus in the past has been approved by health officials in England.\n\nPublic Health England said the antibody test, developed by Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche, was a \"very positive development\".\n\nThe blood test looks for antibodies to see if a person has already had the virus and might now have some immunity.\n\nUntil now, officials have said such tests are not reliable enough.\n\nThe government previously spent a reported £16m buying antibody tests which later proved to be ineffective.\n\nSources told the BBC the Roche test was the first one to offer serious potential.\n\nAntibodies are made by our immune system as it learns to fight an infection.\n\nFinding antibodies that attack the coronavirus show that person has been infected in the past, but they do not prove they are protected against it in the future.\n\nExperts at the government's Porton Down facility evaluated the Roche test last week, Public Health England said.\n\nRoche found that if someone had been infected, it gave the correct result 100% of the time.\n\nIf someone had not caught coronavirus then it gave the correct result more than 99.8% of the time.\n\nIt means fewer than two in 1,000 healthy people would be incorrectly told they had previously caught the coronavirus.\n\nHealth minister Edward Argar said the tests would mainly be used on those in the NHS and social care settings to begin with.\n\nHe could not give an exact date for when the testing could start.\n\nProf John Newton, national coordinator of the UK coronavirus testing programme, said: \"This is a very positive development because such a highly specific antibody test is a very reliable marker of past infection.\n\n\"This in turn may indicate some immunity to future infection, although the extent to which the presence of antibodies indicates immunity remains unclear.\"\n\nRoche is understood to be in talks with the Department of Health and Social Care about possible use by the NHS in England, though other testing products are also being assessed.\n\nHealth officials in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland make their own decisions, but are likely to follow suit if England does adopt it.\n\nThe test already has approval from medical regulators in the EU and the United States.\n\nThe main use of an antibody test is to find out how many people have been infected.\n\nThe official figures are only a fraction of the total number - not everybody is getting tested and some people are being infected without developing symptoms.\n\nAntibody tests will help answer questions such as how far and how easily the virus has spread and, crucially, how deadly it really is.\n\nThe second use - helping to lift lockdown - is highly controversial.\n\nThe idea is if you have antibodies, then you can go back to work. This could be particularly helpful in hospitals and care homes full of vulnerable people, if you could guarantee the staff were immune.\n\nBut having antibodies does not automatically mean you cannot get sick or harbour the virus and pass it on to others.\n\nWorld Health Organization scientists advise against using so called \"immunity passports\" because of the lack of evidence.\n\nThe swab tests currently being carried out in the UK determine whether someone has the virus at the time of the test.\n\nThese will remain the core part of the government's test, track and trace strategy for containing the spread of the virus.\n\nAnother 428 coronavirus deaths have been recorded across the UK, bringing the total number of deaths for people who have tested positive for the virus to 33,614.\n\nSir John Bell, regius professor of medicine at Oxford University, described the Roche test as a \"major step forward\".\n\nBut although it could determine whether someone had had the infection, it did not determine \"for sure\" whether they would be protected from the virus in future, he said.\n\n\"We have still yet to completely understand what a positive result actually means,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. \"So we're not there yet.\"\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesperson said: \"We have talked about, in the future, the potential for some kind of health certificate related to whether or not you have antibodies.\"\n\nBut the spokesperson stressed more information was needed on immunity and coronavirus \"to better understand the potential of the test\".\n\nThe World Health Organization has previously warned governments not to issue so-called \"immunity passports\" or \"risk-free certificates\" as a way of easing lockdowns.\n\nLast week, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the UK was in talks with Roche about a \"very large-scale roll-out\" of coronavirus antibody testing.\n\nBut he acknowledged there had been \"false hope before\" and that he would only make an announcement when the government was \"absolutely ready\".\n\nBBC Reality Check correspondent Chris Morris said other European countries were already carrying out limited antibody testing programmes.\n\nIn Germany, 61,299 antibody tests were conducted last week, according to the Accredited Laboratories for Medicine association (ALM).\n\nIn Spain, the health ministry said on Wednesday that preliminary results of one study, based on more than 60,000 antibody tests around the country, suggested about 5% of the population had been infected by coronavirus so far.", "Two cooling towers have been demolished in spectacular controlled explosions at a disused nuclear power plant in south-western Germany.", "Medics in Wuhan have been mourning those who died with coronavirus in China\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic is a \"big test\" that has exposed weaknesses in China's public health system, a senior official has told Chinese media.\n\nThe rare admission, from Director of China's National Health Commission Li Bin, comes after sustained criticism abroad of China's early response.\n\nThe country will now improve its disease prevention, public health system and data collection, he says.\n\nChina has offered to help North Korea fight the pandemic there.\n\nMr Li told journalists the pandemic was a significant challenge for China's governance, and that it exposed \"the weak links in how we address major epidemic and the public health system.\"\n\nChina has been accused of responding too slowly to early signs of the virus in Wuhan, where the outbreak began, and failing to quickly alert the international community of the outbreak.\n\nChina has rejected calls for an independent international investigation into the origins of the virus.\n\nIn April an EU report accused China of spreading misinformation about the crisis.\n\nA doctor who tried to alert authorities about the virus in December was told to stop \"making false comments\". Li Wenliang later died from Covid-19 in hospital in Wuhan.\n\nChina has 4,637 deaths from coronavirus, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins university, and nearly 84,000 cases. Globally more than 275,000 people have died, with nearly 4m confirmed cases.\n\nIt's rare for Chinese leaders to admit wrongdoing.\n\nLi Bin said the commission would fix the problems by centralising its systems and making better use of big data and artificial intelligence, building on many of the leadership's longstanding objectives.\n\nChina has faced tough criticism, domestically and abroad, over its early handling of the virus. Several provincial and local officials from the ruling Communist Party have been sacked but no senior member of the Party has been punished.\n\nBeijing has not responded to calls to ease censorship and state control of the media.\n\nChina has now offered to help North Korea, after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un congratulated Xi Jinping on its success in fighting Covid-19, Chinese state media report.\n\nNorth Korea says it has had no confirmed cases of coronavirus, something that is questioned by experts.\n\nThe country has a fragile health system that would likely become overwhelmed in a serious outbreak.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The aviation watchdog has warned airlines that they are legally required to provide refunds to customers who had their flights cancelled because of the coronavirus.\n\nBy law, plane operators must refund customers within seven days if their flight is cancelled.\n\nBut with fewer than 10% of UK flights taking off, airlines are struggling to deal with all the requests for refunds.\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said it could take action against airlines.\n\n\"We are reviewing how airlines are handling refunds during the coronavirus pandemic, and will consider if any action should be taken to ensure that consumer rights are protected,\" the regulator said in a statement.\n\nLast month, consumer group Which? said it had received thousands of complaints from people struggling to secure a refund for their cancelled travel. Instead, airlines were offering customers vouchers to be used when lockdown are lifted.\n\nThe travel industry's own estimates suggested £7bn of travellers' money was affected, Which? said.\n\nNow the CAA has stepped in. \"Under the law, consumers are entitled to receive a refund for their cancelled flights, despite the challenges the industry is currently facing,\" it said.\n\n\"We support airlines offering consumers vouchers and rebooking alternatives where it makes sense for the consumer.\n\n\"But it is important that consumers are given a clear option to request a cash refund without unnecessary barriers.\"\n\nThe regulator said it did not expect airlines to \"systematically\" deny consumers their right to a refund.\n\n\"We expect airlines to provide refunds for cancelled flights as soon as practically possible, whilst appreciating there are operational challenges for airlines in the current circumstances.\"\n\nRyanair boss Michael O'Leary has said it will take up to six months to refund passengers for flights cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nRyanair boss Michael O'Leary has cut his pay by 50% for the rest of the year\n\nHe told the BBC that the airline was struggling to process a backlog of 25 million refunds with reduced staff.\n\nAirlines have been forced to ground the majority of their fleets because of the crisis, which has all but eliminated demand for air travel.\n\nAs a result, British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and Ryanair have all announced thousands of job cuts.\n\nAirlines have also said that plans to introduce a 14-day quarantine period for anyone arriving in the UK from any countries apart from the Republic of Ireland and France will further hurt demand.\n\nUK airports suggested that a quarantine \"would not only have a devastating impact on the UK aviation industry, but also on the wider economy\".\n\nKaren Dee from the Airport Operators Association, which represents most UK airports, said the measure should be applied \"on a selective basis following the science\" and \"the economic impact on key sectors should be mitigated\".", "That's it for our live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic in England for today.\n\nWe'll be back with more updates from across the country from 07:30 BST on Monday, when the country will start to implement any changes to lockdown measures that Prime Minister Boris Johnson unveils in his briefing this evening.\n\nRemember, there is plenty of information on symptoms of the virus and guidance on social distancing rules on the coronavirus section of the BBC News website.\n\nThanks for joining us.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nThe Premier League is set for a decisive few days in establishing whether it is possible to resume and complete the current season.\n\nClub officials will meet on Monday to continue talks on \"Project Restart\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson did not mention professional sport in unveiling plans to reopen society on Sunday.\n\nThe government is expected to announce on Monday that some elite athletes can start an initial phase of restricted group training later this week.\n\nThat will depend on medical protocols being finalised and accepted.\n\nFootballers have so far been limited to individual training.\n\nOn Monday, Alison McGovern, the shadow sports minister, wrote to Sports Minister Nigel Huddleston asking 20 questions about \"Project Restart\".\n\nThey request transparency around plans and medical protocols, health risk assessments, numbers of people allowed at games, measures if there are positive tests, personal protective equipment for medical staff, non-playing staff, referees and the media, and ticket refunds for fans.\n\n\"The government's recent media announcements have placed great emphasis on the morale impact of the return of the Premier League,\" McGovern writes.\n\n\"Leaving aside the focus on elite sport rather than grassroots participation, this strategy raises many questions. The public will rightly wish the government to be open about its plans.\"\n\nA vote on whether to use neutral venues is not planned during Monday's Premier League meeting - a sign that an estimated six or seven clubs remain opposed to the idea.\n\nBut the talks represent a major step towards establishing whether there is an appetite for playing out the season.\n\nLeague bosses do not believe there is wide support for scrapping relegation, and are confident there is a consensus for returning to training, regardless of when the permission to play again is given.\n\nThe league has been suspended since 13 March because of the coronavirus pandemic but is aiming to resume in June, with most clubs having nine games to play.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden is due to meet football authorities on Thursday.\n\nLater this week, the Premier League will also hold talks with the Professional Footballers' Association and the League Managers Association after they have digested the medical protocols needed for a return to firstly phased training and then full competition, and have received feedback from their members.\n\nOn Sunday, the PM said people in England will be able to \"play sports but only with members of your own household\".\n\nDowden posted on social media that the government will \"imminently allow\" some sports like golf, basketball, tennis and fishing to resume \"in the least risky outdoor environments\", and only for those taking part alone or in their own households.\n\nThe Premier League still faces several challenges around \"Project Restart\".\n\nA third, unnamed Brighton player tested positive for coronavirus on Sunday, after two others tested positive earlier in the pandemic.\n\nPrivately conducted coronavirus tests are reckoned to cost between £150 and £180 and it is understood the protocols being worked on in football insist on twice-weekly tests.\n\nFor the Premier League to complete the remaining 92 matches, that could be about 40,000 tests at a cost of about £30,000 a week.\n\nCrystal Palace chairman Steve Parish, who is backing \"Project Restart\", told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show that initial plans to stage league matches again from June may prove unfeasible.\n\nAston Villa, Brighton and Watford have all publicly opposed using neutral venues to complete the season, while club doctors have raised concerns over aspects of the proposals.\n\nA vote on neutral venues is likely to be held later in May and 14 of the 20 clubs must vote in favour for it to be adopted.\n\nBefore voting, league bosses are also awaiting government guidance on the criteria for bio-security at events and ground-safety licensing, which is expected later this week.\n\nMonday's Premier League meeting will feature a vote on whether player contracts are to be extended until the end of the rescheduled season.\n\nEuropean leagues have until 25 May to tell governing body Uefa whether they want to complete or cancel their seasons.\n\nPremier League chief executive Richard Masters has previously predicted a loss of \"at least £1bn\" if the Premier League fails to complete the 2019-20 campaign.", "Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of electric car company Tesla, is embroiled in a row over reopening its California-based factory\n\nBillionaire Tesla boss Elon Musk has said he will move the electric carmaker's headquarters out of California, after he was ordered to keep its only US vehicle plant closed.\n\n\"Tesla will now move its HQ and future programs to Texas/Nevada immediately,\" the CEO tweeted.\n\nThe company was filing a lawsuit against Alameda County, he added.\n\nThe county's health department had refused to let the Tesla factory reopen on Friday, citing lockdown measures.\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 Elon Musk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAccording to figures from Johns Hopkins University, 2,715 people in California have died with coronavirus.\n\nSince 23 March, all but \"basic operations\" have been suspended at Tesla's Fremont plant, near San Francisco, because of \"shelter in place\" orders enacted in Alameda County. The factory employs more than 10,000 workers, and makes about 415,000 vehicles every year.\n\nCalifornia's government has eased some restrictions around the state this week, allowing businesses to resume operations. But several Bay Area counties have issued their own criteria for which businesses may reopen, which take precedence.\n\nIn Alameda, all but essential businesses must remain shut until the end of May.\n\nMr Musk suggested the factory's future could now be in doubt, tweeting: \"If we even retain Fremont manufacturing activity at all, it will be dependen[t] on how Tesla is treated in the future.\"\n\nIn a statement released before Mr Musk's tweets, Alameda County said: \"We welcome Tesla's proactive work on a reopening plan, so that once they fit the criteria to reopen, they can do so in a way that protects their employees and the community at large.\"\n\nMr Musk, 48, who welcomed a baby with Canadian singer Grimes earlier this week, wiped $14bn (£11bn) off Tesla's value on 1 May after tweeting that its share price was too high.\n\nHe has donated over 1,200 ventilators to hospitals in the US to assist with treating coronavirus patients.\n\nThe tech billionaire has also poked fun at the mass purchasing of toilet paper when the pandemic began. But he has also sparked controversy for promoting an unproven treatment for the virus, and for asserting, falsely, that children are \"essentially immune\".\n\nMr Musk has continually voiced his opposition to \"fascist\" lockdown measures, tweeting \"FREE AMERICA NOW\" last month.\n\nTesla has suspended operations at its plant in the Chinese city of Shanghai, according to Bloomberg. It had previously closed the factory as a temporary measure when the virus was at its peak in China.\n\nThe company reported a net profit in the first three months of this year, and its stock has risen to nearly $820 (£669; €756). But analysts expect the coronavirus pandemic will adversely affect its earnings in 2020.", "It is thought about 80 migrants crossed the English Channel on Saturday\n\nAt least 227 migrants have been intercepted in two days as they tried to cross the English Channel to reach the UK.\n\nEight boats carrying 145 people were stopped on Friday, the Home Office confirmed - a record for a single day.\n\nA further 82 were intercepted on Saturday.\n\nThose picked up by Border Force officials said they were Iranian, Iraqi, Kuwaiti, Syrian and Afghan nationals.\n\nFriday's total included 51 people packed on board a single inflatable boat, the Home Office said.\n\nOf 82 people detained on Saturday, 70 were aboard inflatable boats, while 12 men were found at Dungeness on the Kent coast.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said French authorities had prevented a total of 44 people from crossing.\n\nOn Sunday and Monday more than 130 suspected migrants were stopped as they attempted to reach the UK from France.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has acknowledged that a recent increase in the number of migrant boats making the dangerous crossing is linked to the Covid-19 lockdown.\n\nSince lockdown was announced in Britain on 23 March, at least 609 migrants have been intercepted by UK authorities and brought ashore.\n\nThe migrants have been taking advantage of the coronavirus lockdown\n\nClare Moseley, from aid group Care4Calais, said it was \"little wonder\" those living in French refugee camps were \"desperate to make this dangerous crossing, given the awful conditions they face\".\n\n\"Coronavirus has made a bad situation life-threateningly worse,\" she said.\n\n\"These people are fleeing terrifying situations in some of the most dangerous parts of the world. They aim for the UK because they want to be safe.\n\n\"Many have family or other connections, and others know our language and want to integrate and contribute,\" she said.\n\nMinister for immigration compliance Chris Philp said the recent increase in crossings was \"totally unacceptable\" and it was \"sickening that smugglers are willing to put people's lives at risk, including children\".\n\nHe said the government was \"stepping up action to stop the crossings, going after the criminals perpetrating these heinous crimes and prosecuting them for their criminal activity\".\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Religious leaders are warning social distancing will be difficult in places of worship\n\nSocial distancing will be impossible in some places of worship if government ministers allow them to reopen, religious leaders have warned.\n\nThe Anglican Bishop of London, the Rt Rev Sarah Mullally, said churches might not return to normal services before the end of the year.\n\nMosques, churches and temples in the UK have been closed for almost two months.\n\nThe prime minister is due to make a statement about the lockdown restrictions later.\n\nIt is not clear if the government will change its guidance for places of worship.\n\nBut senior religious leaders have told the BBC that faith communities will have to endure long-term changes to their worship in order to prevent the spread of coronavirus.\n\nIbrahim Mogra, a senior imam in Leicester, warned the prime minister not to ease restrictions on places of worship before the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month.\n\n\"I am not convinced that we can maintain social distance,\" he said.\n\n\"Within a mosque set up the first thing is the removal of footwear. And then it's the ritual washing, and then going into the main prayer hall,\" he said.\n\n\"We are talking about a five times regular daily attendance compared to other places of worship,\" he said. \"So we are talking about really large numbers of people.\"\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain, the UK's largest Muslim umbrella organisation, is consulting its members before issuing guidance this weekend for mosques that are considering reopening.\n\n\"The majority of the mosques that we have consulted are of the view that they do not wish to open during Ramadan,\" Mr Mogra said.\n\n\"We do not want to be the ones who cause harm to others.\"\n\nThe Bishop of London, Sarah Mullally, has warned churches may not go back to normal by the end of the year\n\nThe Rt Rev Sarah Mullally, the Bishop of London, is leading the Church of England's planning for reopening its buildings. She said there would have to be significant changes to key aspects of Christian worship \"for some time\" to come.\n\n\"I don't envisage, even up to the end of the year, we will be back to our normal services.\n\n\"We'll have some churches doing things differently. And of course, this approach will depend on the part of the country you are in. Being in Devon is very different to being in the centre of London. So we need to approach this based on our local circumstances,\" she said.\n\n\"There are some very challenging questions that we'll have to face, not least about singing and about the receiving of Holy Communion. So the future will look different.\n\n\"But we want to continue to support people in their spiritual journey with their faith,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"When we open our church buildings, we will still have to ensure physical distancing. We'll have to make sure people can wash their hands on the way in and on the way out. We are likely not to be able to use hymn books or service sheets or sing.\"\n\nMany religious communities have seen a spike in numbers as services and prayers are forced online during the pandemic.\n\nA survey by ComRes last week found that almost one in four British adults have watched or listened to a religious service since lockdown began. Academics from British Religion in Numbers estimate that typically just 6% of adults regularly attend a religious service.\n\nBishop Sarah Mullally said the findings showed that while religious buildings are closed \"the Church continues to be open\".\n\nShe added: \"Now there is going to be a challenge for us in the future, about asking ourselves why do more people access online than may be coming to our buildings? How do we enable them to enter into our community, to be part of our community in church?\"\n\nImam Ibrahim Mogra said the Islamic festival of Eid, which ends the month long fast in Ramadan, would not feel the same.\n\n\"As an imam when I finish with the Eid prayers, hundreds upon hundreds queue up to hug me,\" he said.\n\n\"There are friends I know who wait all year long to greet me and to hug me on that special day of Eid,\" he added.\n\n\"So we will dearly miss all this. But we must understand that we have a duty to protect others and to protect ourselves. Our celebrations may be dampened. But if we remain disciplined as we have so far, I think the next year we can make up for it and have a really big party.\"", "Newcastle United and the Premier League must put moral values ahead of financial gains, says the fiancee of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi.\n\nSaudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund looks set to finance 80% of a £300m takeover of the club.\n\nKhashoggi was killed in 2018 with Western intelligence agencies believing that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the murder - which he denies.\n\n\"My message would be to the management of Newcastle United and to the decision makers.\n\n\"We should consider ethical values, not just financial or political ones. Money cannot buy everything in the world. So the message that will be given to people like Crown Prince is extremely important.\n\n\"There should be no place in English football for those credibly accused of atrocities and murder\".\n• None Fans vow to raise Saudi issues despite support for deal\n\nKhashoggi - a dissident Saudi columnist living in self-exile in the United States - had gone to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October 2018, seeking papers to marry Cengiz.\n\nInvestigators believe that as she waited outside, the 59-year-old was murdered and then dismembered. His remains have never been found.\n\nUN Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard said there was credible evidence that Crown Prince Mohammed and other high-level Saudi officials were individually liable.\n\nA court in Saudi Arabia last year sentenced five people to death and jailed three others over his murder, while Turkey has separately charged 20 suspects over the murder.\n\n\"We don't want this deal to go ahead,\" Cengiz added. \"We are not just talking about the murder of a human being but the efforts to keep all hopes regarding the future, to keep human rights alive, to support justice and to start a transformation in the Middle East.\n\n\"This deal seems to be about buying something. But there is a wider picture. Saudi Arabia shows the world its face of reform. But it has another face where the reality is far from what is shown to the world. This is why we want this (deal) to be stopped and not be completed.\"\n\nWhat do we know about the takeover?\n\nMike Ashley has owned Newcastle since 2007 and put the club up for sale in 2017. The proposed Saudi takeover is thought to be worth some £300 million.\n\nBut it has already caused much controversy.\n• None Who are the main people involved in the potential deal?\n\nThe Saudi government has been accused of facilitating the theft of Premier League commercial rights, while Amnesty International has criticised the potential deal due to the country's dire human rights record.\n\nThe country has also been accused of \"sportswashing\", a term used to describe countries that try to improve their international reputation by investing in major teams or hosting big sporting events.\n\nBut these accusations have been rebuffed by the Saudi government, which claims it wants to get more of its people engaged in sport.\n\nCengiz has written to the Premier League to state the takeover should be blocked. In a reply to her letter from chief executive Richard Masters, seen by BBC Sport, he says the Premier League are following \"due processes required by UK law and by the Premier League's own rules\", which \"go beyond those required by UK company law\" and are \"applied with rigour\". But he says he \"appreciates the strength of feeling\" from her and reiterated his condolences.\n\nLast month, the Premier League was urged by one of its largest overseas broadcast partners to \"fully interrogate\" Newcastle United's proposed £300m takeover.\n\nThe chief executive of the Qatar-based TV giant beIN Sport, Yousef al-Obaidly, has written to the chairs of top-flight clubs about the deal, which could see the Magpies bought by a Saudi-backed consortium.\n\nIn the letter, Al-Obaidly accused the Saudi Arabian government of the \"facilitation of the near three-year theft of the Premier League's commercial rights - and in turn your club's commercial revenues - through its backing of the huge-scale beoutQ pirate service\".\n\nIt should be decided soon, possibly this week, and yes it will go through. Certainly speak to those close to the consortium and they don't sound too concerned.\n\nThey can point to the fact that Britain's been happy to do billions of pounds-worth of arms deals with the Saudis over recent years and I think it's significant that the British government the other day did make it clear that it wouldn't stand in the way of this deal, saying it was a matter for the Premier League.\n\nThe PIF, the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, has declined to comment but it's understood its position is that although the Crown Prince is chair of the organisation, he is not involved with it in the day-to-day running so the accusations against him are not directly relevant to this bid.\n\nAnd the owners' and directors' tests the Premier League will be looking at now doesn't appear to have much to say about character. It refers to unspent convictions, but unless there is an obvious and clear link between a person and an offence or that person has been convicted in a court of law, it's difficult to see how they could fail the test.", "That's all from us today. Thanks for joining us for us our live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic in Wales on Saturday.\n\nHere's a round-up of the main stories in Wales today:\n• Public Health Wales has announced an additional nine deaths of people with coronavirus in Wales, bringing the total to 1,099.\n• First Minister Mark Drakeford has acknowledged extending lockdown is damaging people's sense of mental well-being.\n• Artists have been left in \"real hardship\" by the closure of venues and festivals, the Arts Council of Wales has warned.\n• Wales has followed England in offering financial help to dairy farmers hit by the outbreak.\n\nJoin us from Sunday afternoon for all the latest updates from across Wales.", "When the UK began its lockdown, photographer Tom Skipp had been due to visit his mother, who lives in a care home about four hours' drive from him.\n\nNo longer able to travel, he decided instead to photograph the many rainbows that had sprung up in and around Bristol.\n\n\"Millie, Sophia and Maddie coloured the bricks all the way across their adjoining houses,\" Skipp said. \"It made it look like one home, bringing them together.\" Image caption: \"Millie, Sophia and Maddie coloured the bricks all the way across their adjoining houses,\" Skipp said. \"It made it look like one home, bringing them together.\"\n\n\"When Finn found out that somebody wanted to take a photo of him in the window he had created, he was very excited,\" Skipp says. \"He asked if it would be OK if he dressed up as a superhero. I was greeted by Spider-Man.\" Image caption: \"When Finn found out that somebody wanted to take a photo of him in the window he had created, he was very excited,\" Skipp says. \"He asked if it would be OK if he dressed up as a superhero. I was greeted by Spider-Man.\"\n\nToby and Lara are still going to school, Skipp explained, because their mum is a doctor. \"When I met them after the school day, they were really tired because they had been doing 'sports' all day. They lit up when they got to the window - they worry about their mum working in the NHS.\" Image caption: Toby and Lara are still going to school, Skipp explained, because their mum is a doctor. \"When I met them after the school day, they were really tired because they had been doing 'sports' all day. They lit up when they got to the window - they worry about their mum working in the NHS.\"\n\nSee all his pictures here.", "Minister for immigration compliance Chris Philp said the recent increase in crossings was \"totally unacceptable\"\n\nAnother boat carrying migrants has been intercepted by the Border Force off the Kent coast following a spike in the number of incidents in recent days.\n\nThe Home Office said there were 11 men and six women on board who presented themselves as Iraqi nationals.\n\nMore than 240 people have now crossed the Channel since Friday, with a further 77 stopped by French officials.\n\nMinister for immigration compliance Chris Philp said the recent increase in crossings was \"totally unacceptable\".\n\nHe said it was \"sickening that smugglers are willing to put people's lives at risk, including children\".\n\nMr Philp said the government was \"stepping up action to stop the crossings, going after the criminals perpetrating these heinous crimes and prosecuting them for their criminal activity\".\n\nAt least 227 people have crossed the English Channel since Friday\n\nEight boats carrying 145 people were stopped on Friday, the Home Office confirmed - a record for a single day.\n\nA further 82 were intercepted on Saturday.\n\nThose picked up by Border Force officials said they were Iranian, Iraqi, Kuwaiti, Syrian and Afghan nationals.\n\nFriday's total included 51 people packed on board a single inflatable boat, the Home Office said.\n\nOf 82 people detained on Saturday, 70 were aboard inflatable boats, while 12 men were found at Dungeness on the Kent coast.\n\nThe Home Office said the migrants had \"left a safe country - generally France - and where appropriate we will be seeking to return them\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has acknowledged that a recent increase in the number of migrant boats making the dangerous crossing is linked to the Covid-19 lockdown.\n\nShe has spoken to her French counterpart, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner, who reaffirmed the commitment to carry out more returns at sea to stop the illegal crossings.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Young men are more likely than young women to break lockdown rules, psychologists suggest.\n\nA team from the University of Sheffield and Ulster University questioned just under 2,000 13-24 year olds.\n\nHalf of the men aged 19-24 had met friends or family members they did not live with during lockdown, compared to 25% of women.\n\nThe researchers called on the government to better target messages for young people.\n\nJust under half of all those questioned - 917 young people - said they were feeling significantly more anxious during the lockdown - particularly if they had a parent who was a key worker.\n\nThose with depression were more likely to flout lockdown rules by meeting up with friends and leaving the house unnecessarily; while those with anxiety were more likely to practise social distancing and regularly wash their hands.\n\nDr Liat Levita from the University of Sheffield says mental health is no justification for not following the rules, but it might help us understand why it's difficult for certain people to comply.\n\n\"The more someone is depressed, the less compliant and de-motivated they are.\n\n\"So if you need to hand-wash more often and need to make an effort in following the guidelines, it's not something that you're actually going to be able to do very well.\"\n\nProfessor of Clinical Psychology and Rehabilitation from Kings College London, Prof Dame Til Wykes says feeling anxious is pretty normal with so much uncertainty and a loss of social support.\n\n\"The crucial questions are how long this lasts and what support young people need.\n\n\"This [situation] can have a serious impact on those with pre-existing mental health problems and some will certainly need some formal psychological treatment.\"\n\nDr Levita agrees it's important we don't wait to help young people with their mental health during the coronavirus crisis.\n\n\"If you have a broken leg, you don't wait two months before you go to the hospital to get it fixed.\"\n\nThis research found 150 out of 281 men aged 19-24 had met with a group of friends during lockdown, while a fifth had been reprimanded by police - either dispersed, fined or arrested as a result of breaking the rules\n\nThis male group was also more likely to think they weren't at risk of catching Covid-19 or spreading it to others, and that following the government's guidelines was not worthwhile.\n\nDr Levita says \"we know that males in general take more risks and evolutionary psychologists have always explained that in terms of males trying to show off.\n\n\"They will take more risks and their decision-making processes are shaped by that so their behaviour actually makes sense to them.\"\n\nThe findings come after recent statistics from the National Police Chief's Council that found a third of those fined by police for breaking lockdown rules were aged 18-24 and eight out of 10 were men.\n\nAcross all ages, the study showed the majority were not complying with basic hygiene recommendations such as washing hands regularly, but most said they intended to follow the guidelines in future weeks.\n\nThe psychologists say the government must do more to explain the reasons for ongoing physical distancing to help young people understand lockdown rules.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care has highlighted the government's campaign urging people to stay at home and the advice ministers give at the daily press briefing.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There are concerns about the impact on people from an ethnic minority background\n\nMore than 70 public figures are calling for a full independent public inquiry into deaths from Covid-19 among people from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nThey have signed a letter to the prime minister calling for more transparency.\n\nBlack men and women are nearly twice as likely to die with coronavirus as white people in England and Wales, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\n\"Only an independent public inquiry will provide the answers we need. Such an inquiry is essential for all, especially for those who have lost loved ones as a result of the pandemic,\" the open letter to Boris Johnson says.\n\nA scientific review by Public Health England (PHE) into the impact of Covid-19 on frontline workers from ethnic minority backgrounds and the wider community is already under way.\n\nThe rapid review, which is due to report by the end of the month, will examine health records to try to establish more \"robust\" data on emerging evidence that the virus is having a disproportionate effect on certain groups.\n\nAsked about the PHE review at Saturday's daily news briefing, deputy chief medical officer for England, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam said the matter was being taken \"incredibly seriously\".\n\nHe added: \"We are determined to get to the bottom of it in a proper and scientific way.\"\n\nThe Office for National Statistics analysis shows the inequality in death rates between black and white people persists after taking into account age, where people live, and some measures of deprivation and prior health.\n\nPeople from Indian, Bangladeshi and Pakistani communities also had a significantly higher risk of dying.\n\nThe Labour Party has announced its own review into coronavirus impact on black, Asian and ethnic minority communities, headed by Baroness Lawrence.\n\nThe campaigner and mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence has been appointed as Labour's race relations adviser by leader Sir Keir Starmer.", "This is the start - the country's doors being edged open a crack.\n\nMore time in the fresh air for exercise everywhere this week, and a timetable of a sort from Boris Johnson for an achingly gradual return to a recognisable life.\n\nIn England at least, if you work in construction or manufacturing, or can't do your job from home, you'll be encouraged to go back to work as long as you can keep your distance from others this week.\n\nYou'll be able, from Wednesday too, to take unlimited exercise; to meet one person from outside your own household as long as you stay two metres apart; you can go and sit in your local park, to sunbathe, or to take part in sport with others from your household.\n\nBut importantly there will be NO change for the many people who are more vulnerable to the disease who are therefore \"shielding\".\n\nBut progress beyond the next few days is a series of big ifs. The ambition is to start bringing back some primary school years from the start of June, but it depends how the outbreak progresses.\n\nThe plan is for some secondary school pupils to be able to see their teachers occasionally before the end of the term. But there is no intention though to reopen them before the summer.\n\nThere is a hope that from July, some parts of the hospitality trade might be able to open up. But don't take that to mean that pubs will be back in business - rather some limited firms that are able to trade outdoors could be allowed to return. \"If\" was the word the prime minister said again and again.\n\nThe difficult reality for the government though, and for the public trying to understand what these next phases of the pandemic look like, is that different parts of our social life, different parts of the public sector, and different parts of the economy have to move at different paces because there are different levels of risk.\n\nBut despite the prime minister's lengthy address there are as many questions raised as answered.\n\nWorkers in some sectors have been advised to go to work on Monday but told to avoid public transport. What are employers meant to be telling their staff? What are workers meant to do if their only way of getting to work is by limited public transport? What should the parents of secondary school pupils do if they can go back to work, but their children have no prospect of a proper return?\n\nThere was no mention of face coverings, even though the government has been talking about them being a possible part of their plans.\n\nNor was there a fixed date or detail of when people travelling to the UK by plane will be asked to go into some kind of quarantine.\n\nImportantly for so many members of the public, there was vanishingly little detail of when people might be able to see their extended families again.\n\nAnd the prime minister's approach is also creating a very real political tension between Westminster and the devolved administrations.\n\nWith what are thought to be higher rates of the infection in Scotland and Wales, Nicola Sturgeon and Mark Drakeford have made no bones about their reluctance to move from the \"stay at home\" message.\n\nThe governments have been trying to stick together in the last few weeks but there is very obvious division now - not just over the message and communication, but over the attitude to the workplace.\n\nAny clash like that creates confusion and uncertainty too.\n\nThis is what the prime minister described as the \"sketch of a plan\" - sketches are rough, and can easily be rubbed out.\n\nAnd it's dependent, at every stage, on how this relatively unknown disease progresses throughout the country.\n\nOn Monday a document of 50 pages or so will be published that will answer some of Sunday night's questions.\n\nThe prime minister's statement was designed to try to reassure, to show the country that there is the beginning of a way out of this crisis. Yet it has prompted questions and provided only limited answers.\n\nDoubts about Downing Street's approach are spreading beyond the opposition, with one normally loyal senior MP saying: \"The backbenches are getting restless; the PM needs to lead.\"", "The prime minister has set out a series of steps for the lifting of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nIn a ministerial broadcast Boris Johnson encouraged people in England to exercise outdoors more often, and those unable to work from home to travel to their usual place of work.\n\nMr Johnson also looked ahead to possible school re-openings in June and hospitality and public places returning to business in July.", "A new scheme in Milan has re-allocated car parking space for pedestrians and cyclists\n\nThe UK government is urging the public to walk and cycle to work instead of using public transport or driving.\n\nIt comes as people across the UK have told BBC News they are finding it impossible to stay safe outside because our cities were not built for social distancing.\n\nHow we will travel while maintaining social distancing is one of the biggest challenges the government faces as it seeks to start to lift the lockdown.\n\nIt has led communities, UK transport groups and public health experts to call for radical changes - some already happening globally - such as wider pavements, traffic restrictions and cycle networks.\n\nSuch changes would prevent further waves of infections, improve air quality and public health, and help countries achieve their climate goals, they say.\n\nThe decline in road use during the lockdown has seen dramatic falls in air pollution - an unforeseen benefit of the pandemic - as well as quieter roads for cycling.\n\nBut social distancing has highlighted the close proximity in which we all live, particularly in urban areas.\n\nIn Manchester, Deborah Todd has given up on pavements and now walks in the roads with her children; Carrie-Ann Lightley had an accident because pedestrians did not make space for her wheelchair on the pavement in Cumbria; Julie Taylor has to queue to walk through the narrow alleyway outside her home in Wiltshire. And in London, Anne Bookless has stopped going outside altogether because there is no room for her wheelchair.\n\nPhotos sent to BBC News show obstacles on pavements or queues outside shops\n\nCycling has increased by 22% in places such as Greater Manchester, including those key workers commuting by bike where public transport is closed.\n\nWhen public transport does reopen, capacity will be severely restricted.\n\nIn London, the Tube will be able to handle less than 15% of its pre-pandemic rush hour peak: 50,000 passengers every 15 minutes, compared with 325,000 before, according to leaked documents seen by the BBC.\n\nAnd if more people travel by car, instead of public transport, road space - already at a premium - will be under even greater pressure.\n\nWidened pavements in London this week were welcomed by a walking campaign group and residents\n\n\"The crisis has exposed how little space is allocated to people - it's exposed that everyone wants safe streets,\" Chris Boardman, Cycling Commissioner for Manchester and former Olympic cyclist, says.\n\nThe UK is being urged to follow the lead of cities like Paris, Berlin and New York City and install temporary measures to create space for social distancing.\n\nUsing temporary traffic orders, councils can widen pavements, install networks of temporary cycle lanes, and close residential streets to through-traffic.\n\n\"If we enable people to travel differently, we will protect them now during the crisis, and afterwards, when the public health benefits of more people exercising and breathing in cleaner air kick in. That's how you protect the NHS,\" says Mr Boardman.\n\nBut banning cars ignores the needs of many road users, says Duncan Buchanan, policy director at the Road Haulage Association (RHA): \"Selective bans will have detrimental impacts on all other roads, add to congestion and journey times as well as increase pollution and CO2 emissions,\" he argues.\n\nScientists warn we will need to practise social distancing for at least the next 12-18 months. Public transport will be severely reduced, meaning commuters will need to find other ways to travel.\n\nThere are signs people will turn to their cars in greater numbers than pre-lockdown: 56% of drivers currently without a car plan to buy one post-lockdown, according to car sales company AutoTrader.\n\nIn Wuhan, China, private car usage nearly doubled when lockdown ended, rising from 34% before the outbreak to 66% after lockdown.\n\n\"There is an avalanche of private car usage coming if we don't do something about it,\" says Leo Murray from climate action charity Possible, which campaigns for green transport.\n\nIn the UK's most polluted urban areas, where two studies suggest the air quality is putting people at higher risk of dying from Covid-19, there is a heightened sense of urgency.\n\nPeople in cities such as London, Birmingham, and Glasgow are already struggling with respiratory disease and heart attacks linked to air pollution. If car use soars, it will be catastrophic for public health and well-being, Mr Murray suggests, as well as for the climate change goals that require a 50% decline in private car use in the UK.\n\n\"There is a real incentive to keep our respiratory health as good as possible. Walking and cycling is the way to keep London moving in a safe and socially distanced way,\" says Caroline Russell, London Assembly and Islington councillor for the Green Party.\n\nJust 9% of people want a total return to pre-lockdown life, according to a YouGov survey.\n\nSince lockdown measures were imposed, the US city of Los Angeles has had its longest stretch of air quality rated as \"good\" since 1995\n\nMost journeys in the UK are short - 68% are under five miles - meaning that most people could complete them easily by bike if they felt confident and safe. Habit change is notoriously difficult, according to psychologists, but the crisis has transformed behaviours overnight.\n\n\"We've got this really precious moment to change how we live and we can't let it slip between our fingers. Let this tragedy re-define, in a positive way, what living in cities is about,\" says Will Butler-Adams, the CEO of UK bike manufacturer Brompton.\n\nBritish cities are lagging behind their global counterparts in making effective changes.\n\nSo far, the government has made it easier for councils to close streets to cars, and London has announced its Streetspace Plan to encourage millions more to cycle and walk.\n\nBut councillors and planners say more is needed.\n\n\"Local councils are overwhelmed with emergency work and lack funding - the government itself needs to lead,\" says Adam Tranter, Cycling Mayor for the city of Coventry.\n\nIn London, a group of women calling themselves the Tactical Urbanistas took matters into their own hands. Last week they widened the pavement outside a busy high street supermarket, using painted circles on the road surface and makeshift barriers of tyres filled with soil and flowers.\n\nFrustrated at the lack of space to queue, a group of women widened a London pavement themselves\n\nResidents in Tower Hamlets welcomed the change and the barriers were applauded on social media, the group say. However, the local council objected and removed the tyres, citing safety reasons.\n\n\"London's streets are not safe for social distancing and a disproportionate amount of space is given to cars at the expense of other road users. This is a public health risk and needs to be treated urgently,\" Tactical Urbanistas told BBC News.\n\nPlans for building cycle networks already exist - government and local authorities just need to enact them, say numerous experts including Brian Deegan, a street engineer who helped design the London and Manchester cycle networks. Light segregation of roads for cycle paths and widening pavements would be cheap and quick, he adds.\n\n\"It demands an emergency response. If residents don't like the temporary measures, councils can reverse them when the crisis is over. But history shows people prefer the quieter and cleaner streets,\" he suggests.\n\nCommunity groups that have long called for greener, sustainable cities hope the pandemic could bring that change.\n\nIn Germany, officials concluded that temporary cycle lanes installed in Berlin helped residents observe social distancing measures and had no negative impact on traffic flows.\n\n\"So much has been taken away from us, and now people are focussing on the smaller things,\" says Paul Riley, from Transition Liverpool.\n\n\"We've learnt that it is possible to implement change, if we want it.\"", "Pioneering rock 'n' roll singer Little Richard has died at the age of 87, the musician's family has confirmed.\n\nLittle Richard's hit Good Golly Miss Molly made the charts in 1958. Other well-known songs include Tutti Frutti and Long Tall Sally.\n\nThe Beatles, Elton John and Elvis Presley all cited him an influence. The singer was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986.\n\nHe died of bone cancer in Tullahoma, Tennessee his family said.\n\nLittle Richard was born as Richard Wayne Penniman in 1932.\n\nHe had his biggest hits in the 1950s and was known for his exuberant performances, shrieks, raspy voice and flamboyant outfits. He sold more than 30 million records worldwide.\n\nPaying tribute after news of his death emerged, former Beatles drummer Sir Ringo Starr tweeted: \"God bless Little Richard, one of my all-time musical heroes.\"\n\nChic co-founder Nile Rodgers said it was \"the loss of a true giant\", while Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys said his music would \"last forever\".\n\nRichard's bass guitarist, Charles Glenn, told celebrity news website TMZ the singer had been ill for two months. He said Richard died at his home, with his brother, sister and son beside him.\n\nLittle Richard was one of 12 children, and said he had started singing because he wanted to stand out from his siblings.\n\n\"I was the biggest head of all, and I still have the biggest head,\" he told the BBC in 2008.\n\n\"I did what I did, because I wanted attention. When I started banging on the piano and screaming and singing, I got attention.\"\n\nHis music was embraced by both black and white fans at a time when parts of the US were still segregated, and concerts had a rope up the centre of the auditorium to divide people by colour.\n\nAn electric performer, a flamboyant persona, a shrieking vocalist, an all-round force of nature - popular music hadn't seen the like of Little Richard before he emerged from New Orleans in the mid-1950s.\n\nIf there had been no Little Richard, a key part of DNA would have been missing from acts like The Beatles, Bob Dylan, David Bowie and Jimi Hendrix - all of whom idolised him.\n\nWith the likes of Chuck Berry and Elvis, he was one of the handful of US acts who concocted the primordial soup of blues, R&B and gospel that led to the evolution of rock 'n' roll in the 60s.\n\nStanding at his piano with his bouffant hair and letting rip with full-throated voice on songs like Tutti Frutti, Long Tall Sally, Lucille and Good Golly Miss Molly, he was a gust of fresh air after a strait-laced post-war age.\n\nRichard was born in Macon, Georgia, on 5 December 1932. Growing up in the southern US state, he absorbed the rhythms of gospel music and the influences of New Orleans, blending them into his own piano-laden extravaganzas.\n\nHis father was a preacher who also ran a nightclub, and his mother was a devout Baptist.\n\n\"I was born in the slums. My daddy sold whiskey, bootleg whiskey,\" he told Rolling Stone magazine in 1970.\n\nThe singer left home in his teens after disagreements with his father who initially didn't support his music.\n\n\"My daddy wanted seven boys, and I had spoiled it, because I was gay,\" the showman later said.\n\nLittle Richard had a complex relationship with his sexuality\n\nThough openly homosexual for many years, Richard also had relationships with women. He married Ernestine Harvin, a fellow Evangelical, and later adopted a son.\n\nHe was known for drugs, hard drinking and sex parties - to which he would take his Bible.\n\nIn the late 1950s, he turned his back on music after seeing a fireball cross the sky while on stage in Sydney, Australia. It was the Sputnik 1 satellite returning to Earth - but Richard took it as a sign from God that he should immediately change his ways.\n\nHe signed up to Bible college in Alabama, but was soon asked to leave following allegations he had exposed himself to another student. Within five years, he was back on tour. A gospel album in 1961 was followed by forays into Soul.\n\nAfter seeing cocaine kill his brother, Richard turned to religion again - and was eventually ordained as a minister in 1970.\n\nThe singer's complex attitude to his sexuality meant he wasn't widely viewed as a gay icon. After he was re-baptised as a Seventh Day Adventist, he renounced homosexuality, framing it as a temporary choice he had made.\n\nRichard felt his musical influence was never acknowledged as it should have been, and blamed the deep racial prejudice in America at the height of his career.\n\nBut he was proud of his impact in crossing divides.\n\n\"I've always thought that rock 'n' roll brought the races together,\" the singer once told an interviewer. \"Although I was black, the fans didn't care. I used to feel good about that.\"\n\nThe Rolling Stones, who opened shows for him, spoke reverently of his on-stage prowess. Sir Mick Jagger tweeted: \"I'm so saddened to hear about the passing of Little Richard, he was the biggest inspiration of my early teens and his music still has the same raw electric energy when you play it now as it did when it was first shot through the music scene in the mid 50s.\n\n\"When we were on tour with him I would watch his moves every night and learn from him how to entertain and involve the audience and he was always so generous with advice to me.\n\n\"He contributed so much to popular music. I will miss you Richard, God bless.\"", "Teaching unions across the UK and Ireland are warning national leaders not to reopen schools too early.\n\nThe British Irish Group of Teacher Unions has written to the education ministers of all five nations in which the million staff it represents work.\n\nIts letter warns the ministers of the \"very real risk of creating a spike in the transmission of the virus by a premature opening of schools\".\n\nTest and trace measures must be fully operational before reopening, it says.\n\nThe letter was signed by leaders of 10 teaching unions, including the National Education Union (NEU), the National Association of Schoolmasters and Women Teachers, which between represents the bulk of teachers in England and Wales, and Scottish and Irish teaching unions.\n\nScotland and Wales have already sketched out plans for a phased return of schools, with England's Education Secretary, Gavin Williamson, saying he will take a phased approach too and head teachers will be given plenty of notice.\n\nAsked by the newly appointed shadow secretary of state for education, Rebecca Long Bailey, in the Commons, on Tuesday morning, when there would be clarity over schools reopening, Mr Williamson said: \"In terms of the return of schools, obviously she, I'm sure, shares a desire with me to see children being given the opportunity of returning to school when it is the right time to do so - and this will be based on the scientific and medical advice that we receive.\n\n\"I can assure her that we will take a phased approach in terms of opening schools and we will always aim to give schools, parents and, of course critically important, children the maximum amount of notice in terms of when this is going to happen.\"\n\nMr Williamson also acknowledged there was \"no substitute for a child being in a classroom, learning directly from a teacher\".\n\nIt is expected children in the last year of primary school and then those in the pre-GCSE year will be prioritised.\n\nReports have suggested 1 June would be the earliest reopening date in England.\n\nSchools in England, Wales and Northern Ireland were closed in the last week of March, with Irish schools shutting a little earlier.\n\nMeanwhile, of 1,931 NEU members surveyed - all of whom are regularly working in school during lockdown:\n\nNEU joint general secretary Kevin Courtney said much more needed to be done to \"equip schools for the road ahead\" and he accused the government of being \"premature in its off-the-record briefings about school reopenings\".\n\n\"There should be no mad rush to reopen schools,\" he said.\n\n\"It must be done with great care and alongside a profession who feel confident about safety measures being adequate and fit for purpose.\n\n\"Parents also agree with us - they have shown immense patience in recent weeks, for which all school staff are grateful.\n\n\"But that goodwill and effort from the public will be squandered by returning pupils too hastily.\n\n\"Safety must come first.\"\n• None Schools will reopen in phases, says Williamson", "Primary schools in England could reopen to some year groups from 1 June \"at the earliest\", says Boris Johnson.\n\nThe prime minister said a phased return to school would begin with pupils in Reception, Year 1 and Year 6, if infection rates and the government's other tests at the time allow it.\n\nFor most pupils, schools have been closed since 20 March.\n\nBut the National Education Union said the reopening plan was \"nothing short of reckless\".\n\n\"At the earliest by June 1, after half term, we believe we may be in a position to begin the phased reopening of shops and to get primary pupils back into schools, in stages,\" said Mr Johnson, in an address to the nation.\n\nOnly secondary pupils with exams next year are likely to go back to school before the autumn\n\nSecondary schools are likely to stay closed until September.\n\nBut the prime minister said there was an \"ambition\" that secondary pupils facing exams next year - such as Years 10 and 12 - would get some time in school before the summer holidays.\n\nThese were the \"first careful steps\" and the timetable for reopening would be delayed if necessary, he said.\n\n\"If we can't do it by those dates, and if the alert level won't allow it, we will simply wait and go on until we have got it right,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\n\"If there are problems we will not hesitate to put on the brakes,\" said the prime minister.\n\nMr Johnson set out how schools in England would begin to reopen, beyond the children of key workers and vulnerable children who are currently attending.\n\nThe oldest and some of the youngest in primary school would go back first - Year 6 who would soon be moving to secondary school and the Reception class and Year 1.\n\nHead teachers have warned that social distancing would mean schools would not have the capacity to teach all year groups at the same time.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said it was important the reopening date was not \"set in stone\", because it was not yet clear how the proposed numbers of pupils could be \"safely managed\".\n\nIn Denmark primary schools have reopened, with a big emphasis on hand washing and keeping groups of children apart\n\nPaul Whiteman, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers, said the government's announcement had not passed the \"confidence test\" with parents and teachers.\n\n\"It will all be in vain if many parents still decide to keep their children at home,\" he warned.\n\nMary Bousted, co-leader of the National Education Union, rejected the prime minister's plan, saying infection rates were too high for it to be safe.\n\nA snap poll of the teachers' union members, carried out after the prime minister's announcement, found 92% \"would not feel safe with the proposed wider opening of schools\".\n\nParents on the BBC's Family and Education Facebook page questioned how practical it would be to apply social distancing with young children.\n\n\"Reception and Year 1 will totally understand social distancing, right?\" posted Rachel Marshall.\n\nLeona Shergold said: \"There is no way of keeping 4-5 year olds two metres apart from their friends.\"\n\nSchools closed for most pupils on 20 March, with lessons moving online\n\nBringing back Year 6 pupils \"makes sense\", posted Rachel Burrows. \"They could do social distancing.\" But she did not think that would work with Reception and Year 1.\n\nIn countries which have already begun to reopen schools, such as Denmark, teachers have reported that social distancing can be hard to enforce - and instead have focused on keeping children in small, separate groups and using lots of hand washing.\n\nIn Wales, the First Minister Mark Drakeford has already ruled out following the same timetable as England.\n\n\"We're not going to be reopening schools in Wales in the next three weeks, or indeed in June,\" he said.\n\nIn Scotland, the government has warned that fully reopening primary schools ran the risk of \"overwhelming\" the NHS.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, Education Minister Peter Weir has spoken of a possible phased return of schools in September.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robert Jenrick: \"Stay alert will mean stay alert, by staying home as much as possible\"\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick has insisted now is the right time to update the government's coronavirus message from \"stay at home\" to \"stay alert\", amid widespread criticism.\n\nPM Boris Johnson announced the slogan for England, telling people to \"stay alert, control the virus, save lives\", ahead of his national address.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are sticking with \"stay at home\".\n\nScotland's Nicola Sturgeon said: \"I don't know what 'stay alert' means.\"\n\nThe first minister added at the daily briefing in Edinburgh: \"For Scotland right now, given the fragility of the progress we've made, given the critical point that we are at, then it would be catastrophic for me to drop the 'stay at home' message.\n\n\"I am particularly not prepared to do it in favour of a message that is vague and imprecise.\"\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth warned people might be \"puzzled\" by the change.\n\nBut Mr Jenrick told the BBC's Andrew Marr: \"Stay alert will mean stay alert by staying home as much as possible, but stay alert when you do go out, by maintaining social distancing, washing your hands, respecting others in the workplace and the other settings that you'll go to.\"\n\nA further 269 people have died in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus, taking the total number of deaths recorded to 31,855.\n\nThe number of deaths recorded tends to be lower over the weekend because of reporting delays.\n\nThe government has also missed its target of 100,000 coronavirus tests a day for the eighth day in a row, with 92,837 tests on Saturday.\n\nThe prime minister shared the new government slogan on Twitter, detailing some of the guidance issued to the public.\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 Boris Johnson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA No 10 spokesman added: \"Everyone has a role to play in keeping the rate of infection (R) down by staying alert and following the rules.\"\n\nMr Ashworth called on the government to clarify what the new slogan meant.\n\n\"When you're dealing with a public health crisis of this nature, you need absolute clarity from government about what the advice is. There is no room for nuance,\" he said.\n\n\"The problem with the new message is that many people will be puzzled by it,\" he added.\n\nMr Jenrick said the updated message was a \"cautious\" one, because the rate of infection remained high and the public were \"understandably anxious\".\n\nHe dismissed Mr Ashworth's concerns, saying: \"The public are capable of understanding a broader message as we move into the next phase of the virus.\"\n\nHowever, the Liberal Democrats' acting leader Sir Ed Davey said changing the slogan \"makes the police's job near-impossible and may cause considerable alarm\" as he urged the government to publish the evidence that has informed the new strategy.\n\nAnd on social media, Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham called the updated advice \"too ambiguous\" and \"unenforceable\".\n\nThe UK government's new slogan is part of moving into the next phase of the response to coronavirus.\n\nStaying at home where possible will remain part of the strategy, but ministers want to \"broaden the message\".\n\nSome are worried the new campaign is ambiguous and muddies the water.\n\nIn Wales and Scotland, the devolved governments who control health have made clear they will keep the original slogan - stay at home, protect the NHS, save lives.\n\nSo from tomorrow, messaging will be different in different parts of the UK. And I understand there are real concerns in the Scottish government about how people will react - and fears it will be harder to get them to follow their advice to stay at home unless essential.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she would continue to use the \"stay at home\" message in Scotland and later said she had asked the UK government \"not to deploy\" the new slogan there.\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 Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLeaders of the devolved nations - which have the power to set their own lockdown regulations - said they had not been consulted over the \"stay alert\" message.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the first she heard of the updated guidance was in newspaper reports.\n\nGiving Scotland's daily coronavirus briefing, she said that, other than allowing people to leave home for exercise more than once a day, the rules there had not changed. \"We remain in lockdown for now and my ask of you is to remain at home\", she said.\n\nBehavioural expert Professor Susan Michie, who is part of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), warned some people might take the more generalised \"alert\" slogan as a \"green light\" to socialise.\n\n\"I do not think this is a helpful message in terms of guiding behaviour. It does not give advice as to what people should do,\" she told the PA news agency.\n\nMeanwhile, the government's pandemic response has been called \"wishy-washy\" by a body representing police officers in London.\n\nIt comes after a police force in east London shared an image of a crowded park in Hackney on Saturday, where hundreds of people, they said, were eating and drinking alcohol.\n\nKen Marsh, from the Metropolitan Police Federation, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme authorities \"needed to be firmer right from the beginning\" and that if authorities had been more stringent from the outset \"we would have a better result now\".\n\nBut another adviser to Sage, Prof Mark Woolhouse of Edinburgh University, told BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend outdoor activities posed a \"relatively low risk\" so long as people with symptoms were not going out and that those who needed to quarantine themselves did so.\n\nIn his address, the prime minister announced the launch of an alert system for tracking coronavirus in England and unveiled a \"conditional plan\" to reopen society, allowing people in England to spend more time outdoors from Wednesday.\n\nMr Johnson also said people who could not work from home should return to the workplace - but avoid public transport.\n\nThe lockdown has already been extended for another three weeks in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to 28 May.", "The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall said postal workers had \"never been more important\"\n\nThe Prince of Wales has hailed the \"dedication, resilience and hard work\" of Britain's postal workers during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nCharles left a letter addressed to \"Everyone at Royal Mail\" outside his home in Birkhall, Aberdeenshire.\n\nIn the message, he and the Duchess of Cornwall stressed the value of Royal Mail workers \"has never been more important\".\n\nThe royal note was collected on Tuesday by their local postman Neil Martin.\n\nIn it the couple said: \"Receiving such a personal message at this difficult and anxious time can mean an enormous amount.\n\n\"We feel sure that a very large number of these special greetings will be treasured for years to come. They may even become a valuable resource for social historians in the future.\n\n\"Postmen and postwomen are trusted figures in our local communities. They are a constant presence in an ever-changing world. For some people, they are a point of daily human contact; a friendly, familiar face.\"\n\nThe letter was addressed to \"Everyone at Royal Mail\"\n\nIt was signed off with \"heartfelt thanks - and a big thumbs up\" in reference to Royal Mail's Thumbs Up For Your Postie campaign - which encourages people to show their appreciation to their postal worker.\n\nThe royal couple also noted the challenges workers faced and said they played an \"absolutely vital role in keeping family and friends in touch with one another\".\n\n\"Many of you, we know, have gone above and beyond what is normally expected of you,\" the letter said. \"We have heard wonderful stories of postmen and postwomen checking on older and vulnerable residents, raising funds for good causes, even wearing fancy dress costumes to raise a smile...\"\n\nPrince Charles spent a week in self-isolation after testing positive for coronavirus in March.", "The general secretary of a leading union is calling on the government not to \"cut corners\" or \"play fast and loose with employees' safety\" as people are encouraged to go back to work.\n\nSpeaking after the PM's speech, the general secretary of Unison, Dave Prentis, warns: \"If safety isn't paramount, then infections will increase and there'll be a second wave that risks overwhelming the NHS and social care.\"\n\nHe says many health, care and other key workers use trains, buses and the Tube to get to work, saying their safety \"must not be compromised by crowded public transport\".\n\nAnd he says the government \"must ensure the NHS and the care sector have guaranteed supplies of protective equipment and there's a comprehensive test, track and trace programme in place before any mass return to work\".", "The government has admitted sending about 50,000 coronavirus tests to the US last week for processing after \"operational issues\" in UK labs.\n\nThe Department of Health said sending swabs abroad is among the contingencies to deal with \"teething problems\".\n\nThe samples were airlifted to the US in chartered flights from Stansted Airport, the Sunday Telegraph said.\n\nResults will be validated in the UK and sent to patients as soon as possible.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said expanding Britain's virus testing network had involved setting up an \"entirely new\" lab network to process tests, adding \"contingencies\" - such as sending swabs abroad - were in place for when \"problems arise\".\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick said the kits had to be sent abroad because of a \"temporary failure\" at a lab.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that the move \"shows our determination to get the job done\".\n\nMeanwhile, the government has sent an urgent alert to hospitals recalling 15.8m protective goggles due to safety concerns.\n\nAlthough the \"Tiger Eye\" protectors, purchased in 2009 during the swine flu pandemic, were in CE marked boxes - meaning they should have met European Union safety requirements - the goggles have since been retested and do not provide proper splash protection.\n\nCommenting on the recall, which was first reported in the Sunday Telegraph, a DHSC spokeswoman said the safety of front-line staff was \"our top priority\".\n\nShe added that hospital trusts should have enough goggles to \"immediately stop\" using the \"Tiger Eye\" protectors. A further 9.2m of the goggles are in quarantine, she added.\n\nThe revelations come as the government failed to hit the 100,000 daily tests target set by Health Secretary Matt Hancock for the seventh day in a row.\n\nThere were 96,878 tests delivered in the 24 hours up to 09:00 BST on Friday, down from 97,029 the day before.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said his \"ambition\" was to hit 200,000 tests \"by the end of this month - and then go even higher\".\n\nBut health leaders said they expected \"fluctuations\" in the figures, and that testing was still much higher than it was at the start of the outbreak.\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street coronavirus briefing on Saturday, deputy chief medical officer Prof Jonathan Van-Tam said he expected \"fluctuation\" in the day-to-day figures.\n\nHe said: \"We are now really at a high plateau, in the region of 100,000 tests per day.\n\n\"I don't think we can read too much into day-to-day variations, but the macro picture is this is now at a much, much higher level than it ever was at the beginning of this crisis.\"\n\nBBC health reporter Rachel Schraer said the UK did not start with the resources to do mass testing, unlike some other countries.\n\nBut it also took several weeks to expand from an initial eight public health laboratories to a wider network of private and university labs.\n\nUnlike the UK, countries like Germany and South Korea rapidly stockpiled kits and made the test available to a larger number of labs.\n\nProf Van-Tam also told the briefing that the test-and-trace strategy of finding people with the virus and tracking people they have been in contact with was \"part of the solution\" needed to ease the lockdown.", "Kate Scott (bottom left) said her win was down to \"preparation\" and local pride\n\nDorset's annual knob-eating competition has been held online for the first time.\n\nThe event - in which contestants vie to gobble more of the county's traditional biscuits than their rivals - usually draws huge crowds.\n\nBut this year 100 competitive eaters live-streamed their attempts to swallow the savoury spheres.\n\nKate Scott, from Shaftesbury, necked eight and a half of the thrice-baked treats to claim the crown.\n\nContestants across nine heats got a minute to finish off as many knobs as they could manage.\n\nFestival chairman Ian Gregory said the bun-shaped confections were \"quite dry\" and competitors often used a mug to moisten them.\n\nTop nosher Ms Scott said she was determined to see off non-Dorset competitors and \"keep this local\".\n\n\"It was all in the preparation - I had plenty of time to practise and focus,\" she said.\n\n\"Those knobs were going down - no-one else was going to beat me.\"\n\nWinner Kate Scott said she was determined there should be a Dorset victor\n\nHer impressive score fell some way short of 2015's winner, who necked at least 13 knobs.\n\nMr Gregory said that \"momentous performance\" was believed to be a world record.\n\nThis year, due to lockdown regulations, each hopeful was sent a packet of regulation Moores Biscuits for their heats.\n\nContestants are usually seen stuffing their faces in front of an appreciative crowd\n\nOrganisers said entries had come in from all corners of the UK, including Castle Donington, Ellesmere Port and Cockermouth.\n\nIn total, the knob eaters raised more than £1,200 for local charity Weldmar Hospicecare.\n\nSister event, the Dorset knob-throwing festival, has been postponed until 2021.\n\nEntrants in that competition would normally gather in a field to toss the bun-shaped confections as far as possible.\n\nThe knob-throwing event started in 2008 and now incorporates a food festival, knob darts, and games including knob and spoon racing and pinning the knob on the Cerne Abbas giant.\n\nSackfuls of Dorset knobs are usually eaten with Blue Vinney cheese or honey and clotted cream - known as thunder and lightning\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It wasn't clear from the prime minister's broadcast, but aside from the imposition of quarantine \"on people coming into this country by air\" the rest of the lockdown changes he announced will only apply in England.\n\nBut, of course, Boris Johnson is the prime minister for the whole of the United Kingdom so his speech is obviously for a wider audience. It's complicated.\n\nUltimately, on the big ticket changes the prime minister has decided to keep England pretty much aligned with Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland - for now, at least.\n\nBut differences in messaging, slogans and changes around the margins could potentially cause problems for Welsh ministers.\n\nHaving heard the prime minister's address, is everyone in Bristol who fancies driving to Powys to walk in the Brecon Beacons going to know that the rules are different in Wales?\n\nA Welsh Government source said \"people need clear communication\" and they may now end up \"wasting time\" clarifying the different regulations on either side of the border.", "\n• A medical test that can show if a person has had the coronavirus and now has some immunity. The test detects antibodies in the blood, which are produced by the body to fight off the disease.\n• Someone who has a disease but does not have any of the symptoms it causes. Some studies suggest some people with coronavirus carry the disease but don't show the common symptoms, such as a persistent cough or high temperature.\n• The first part of the UK's strategy to deal with the coronavirus, which involved trying to identify infected people early and trace anyone who had been in close contact with them.\n• One of a group of viruses that can cause severe or mild illness in humans and animals. The coronavirus currently sweeping the world causes the disease Covid-19. The common cold and influenza (flu) are other types of coronaviruses.\n• The disease caused by the coronavirus first detected in Wuhan, China, in late 2019. It primarily affects the lungs.\n• The second part of the UK's strategy to deal with the coronavirus, in which measures such as social distancing are used to delay its spread.\n• A fine designed to deal with an offence on the spot, instead of in court. These are often for driving offences, but now also cover anti-social behaviour and breaches of the coronavirus lockdown.\n• Health experts use a line on a chart to show numbers of new coronavirus cases. If a lot of people get the virus in a short period of time, the line might rise sharply and look a bit like a mountain. However, taking measures to reduce infections can spread cases out over a longer period and means the \"curve\" is flatter. This makes it easier for health systems to cope.\n• Short for influenza, a virus that routinely causes disease in humans and animals, in seasonal epidemics.\n• Supports firms hit by coronavirus by temporarily helping pay the wages of some staff. It allows employees to remain on the payroll, even though they aren't working.\n• How the spread of a disease slows after a sufficiently large proportion of a population has been exposed to it.\n• A person whose body can withstand or fend off a disease is said to be immune to it. Once a person has recovered from the disease caused by the coronavirus, Covid-19, for example, it is thought they cannot catch it again for a certain period of time.\n• The period of time between catching a disease and starting to display symptoms.\n• Hospital wards which treat patients who are very ill. They are run by specially-trained healthcare staff and contain specialist equipment.\n• Restrictions on movement or daily life, where public buildings are closed and people told to stay at home. Lockdowns have been imposed in several countries as part of drastic efforts to control the spread of the coronavirus.\n• The third part of the UK's strategy to deal with the coronavirus, which will involve attempts to lessen the impact of a high number of cases on public services. This could mean the NHS halting all non-critical care and police responding to major crimes and emergencies only.\n• The NHS's 24-hour phone and online service, which offers medical advice to anyone who needs it. People in England and Wales are advised to ring the service if they are worried about their symptoms. In Scotland, they should check NHS inform, then ring their GP in office hours or 111 out of hours. In Northern Ireland, they should call their GP.\n• Multiple cases of a disease occurring rapidly, in a cluster or different locations.\n• An epidemic of serious disease spreading rapidly in many countries simultaneously.\n• This is when the UK will start to lift some of its lockdown rules while still trying to reduce the spread of coronavirus.\n• PPE, or personal protective equipment, is clothing and kit such as masks, aprons, gloves and goggles used by medical staff, care workers and others to protect themselves against infection from coronavirus patients and other people who might be carrying the disease.\n• The isolation of people exposed to a contagious disease to prevent its spread.\n• R0, pronounced \"R-naught\", is the average number of people who will catch the disease from a single infected person. If the R0 of coronavirus in a particular population is 2, then on average each case will create two more new cases. The value therefore gives an indication of how much the infection could spread.\n• This happens when there is a significant drop in income, jobs and sales in a country for two consecutive three-month periods.\n• Severe acute respiratory syndrome, a type of coronavirus that emerged in Asia in 2003.\n• Staying inside and avoiding all contact with other people, with the aim of preventing the spread of a disease.\n• Keeping away from other people, with the aim of slowing down transmission of a disease. The government advises not seeing friends or relatives other than those you live with, working from home where possible and avoiding public transport.\n• Measures taken by a government to restrict daily life while it deals with a crisis. This can involve closing schools and workplaces, restricting the movement of people and even deploying the armed forces to support the regular emergency services.\n• These can be used by government ministers to implement new laws or regulations, or change existing laws. They are an easier alternative to passing a full Act of Parliament.\n• Any sign of disease, triggered by the body's immune system as it attempts to fight off the infection. The main symptoms of the coronavirus are a fever, dry cough and shortness of breath.\n• A treatment that causes the body to produce antibodies, which fight off a disease, and gives immunity against further infection.\n• A machine that takes over breathing for the body when disease has caused the lungs to fail.\n• A tiny agent that copies itself inside the living cells of any organism. Viruses can cause these cells to die and interrupt the body's normal chemical processes, causing disease.", "Experts warn the infections may actually be higher due to low testing rates in many countries\n\nMore than four million confirmed cases of coronavirus have been reported around the world, according to data collated by Johns Hopkins University.\n\nThe global death toll has also risen to above 277,000.\n\nThe US remains the worst-hit country, accounting for over a quarter of confirmed cases and a third of deaths.\n\nExperts warn the true number of infections is likely to be far higher, with low testing rates in many countries skewing the data.\n\nDaily death tolls are continuing to drop in some nations, including Spain, but there is concern that easing lockdown restrictions could lead to a \"second wave\" of infections.\n\nIn addition, governments are bracing for economic fallout as the pandemic hits global markets and supply chains.\n\nA senior Chinese official has told local media that the pandemic was a \"big test\" that had exposed weaknesses in the country's public health system. The rare admission, from the director of China's National Health Commission, Li Bin, comes after sustained criticism abroad of China's early response.\n\nThis week, some lockdown measures have begun easing in Italy, once the global epicentre of the pandemic. Italians have been able to exercise outdoors and visit family members in their region.\n\nFrance has recorded its lowest daily number of coronavirus deaths for more than a month, with 80 deaths over the past 24 hours. Authorities are preparing to ease restrictions from Monday, as is the government in neighbouring Spain.\n\nMeanwhile lockdowns are continuing in countries like South Africa, despite calls from opposition parties for it to end.\n\nIn South Korea, renewed restrictions are being imposed on bars and clubs after a series of transmissions linked to Seoul's leisure district.\n\nRussia also cancelled a military parade in Moscow, planned as part of the country's Victory Day celebrations. Instead, President Vladimir Putin hosted a subdued event on Saturday, laying roses at the Eternal Flame war memorial.\n\nBut despite scientific evidence, leaders of several countries have continued to express scepticism about the virus and the need for lockdowns.\n\nIn Belarus, thousands of soldiers marched to celebrate Victory Day, as President Alexander Lukashenko rejected calls for tougher measures.\n\nBritish medical journal The Lancet has written a scathing editorial about Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, calling him the biggest threat to his country's ability to contain the spread of coronavirus. Brazil is currently reporting the highest number of cases in Latin America - over 10,000 more on Saturday, bringing the national total to nearly 156,000. But despite the outbreak, President Bolsonaro continues to dismiss the virus' severity and has clashed with governors over lockdown measures.\n\nFrustrations about the outbreak turned violent in Afghanistan, and at least six people died during clashes between protesters and security forces. The violence started after demonstrators gathered in Firozkoh, the capital of Ghor province, to complain about the government's perceived failure to help the poor during the pandemic.", "Decisions on which shops reopen after lockdown should be based on safety, not their size or business type, the British Retail Consortium has said.\n\nChief executive Helen Dickinson told the BBC she expects a \"gradual lifting\" of the restrictions with schools and transport reopening early on.\n\nMs Dickinson said it would be harder for retail staff to return to work while schools remain closed.\n\nBoris Johnson will address the nation about the restrictions later on Sunday.\n\nThe prime minister is not expected to provide dates for when the coronavirus restrictions - first announced on 23 March - might change.\n\nBut a senior government source has told the BBC that garden centres in England will be allowed to reopen from Wednesday provided they comply with social distancing.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to confirm this on Sunday, when he is also set to unveil a new Covid-19 alert system in England to track the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, Ms Dickinson believes the government's guidance will reflect her organisation's own advice on the practical measures that can be taken to promote staff and customer safety.\n\nThese measures would include staggering shift times, managing the number of people in store, and the use of plastic screens at payment points.\n\nShe said it is \"incumbent\" on retailers to ensure they can operate safely otherwise \"they shouldn't open\", adding that supermarkets have \"shown us the way\" over the past couple of months.\n\nSafety measures, she added, would \"give us confidence as shoppers, members of the public, that we can go out to shop\".\n\nShe said a phased lifting of restrictions across different industries, with schools and transport addressed early on would help those retail staff with children.\n\nIn a letter to the Observer, the head of the shop workers' union, Usdaw, and three other major union leaders, said they will not recommend their members return to work unless the government guarantees \"the right policies and practices are in place to make workplaces safe\".\n\n\"The trade union movement wants to be able to recommend the government's back-to-work plans,\" the letter said.\n\n\"But for us to do that we need to ensure that ministers have listened and that we stay safe and save lives at work too.\"\n\nWorkers could also face issues getting to work. On Saturday, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said even with public transport reverting to a full service, social distancing measures would leave effective capacity for only one in 10 passengers in many parts of the network.\n\nHe urged people returning to work to walk or cycle, and announced pop-up bike lanes, wider pavements, safer junctions, and cycle and bus-only corridors will be created in England within weeks as part of a £250m emergency fund.\n\nMs Dickinson also urged the government to ensure we avoid \"a cliff edge of support falling way as soon as restrictions lifted\".\n\nShe called for \"some form of tapering down\" of the government's job retention scheme, which is set to run until the end of June.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nDynamo Dresden, who play in the second tier of German football, have put their entire squad and coaching staff into two-week isolation after two players tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 are due to restart on Saturday, 16 May.\n\nIt is set to be the first European league to restart following the coronavirus shutdown.\n\n\"The fact is that we can neither train nor participate in a game in the next 14 days,\" said Dynamo.\n\nOn Thursday, the German Football Association (DFB) said the season would resume under strict health protocols that ban fans from the stadium and require players to have Covid-19 testing.\n\nAbout 300 people, including players, staff and officials, will be in or around the stadiums during match days.\n\nThe league has been suspended since 13 March. Clubs returned to training in mid-April, with players working in groups.\n\nBut on Saturday Dresden, who are bottom of Bundesliga 2, said they would be unable to fulfil the initial fixtures.\n\n\"In the past few weeks, we have made enormous efforts in terms of personnel and logistics in order to strictly implement all the prescribed medical and hygienic measures, \"said Dynamo sports manager Ralf Minge .\n\n\"We are in contact with the responsible health authority and the DFL (German Football League) to coordinate all further steps.\"\n\nDresden were due to resume the season on 17 May at Hannover 96.\n\nThe Dynamo Dresden situation proves that any league will be balanced on a knife edge when football resumes, even with all the planning and all the expertise that has gone into the Bundesliga restart.\n\nDFL boss Christian Seifert admitted as much on Friday when he said that they are \"playing under probation\".\n\nThe truth for football authorities everywhere is that there are no certainties at the moment and there will be setbacks.\n\nThe only good news is that although there are a lot of fixtures to pack in, time is relatively on German football's side compared to the other big European leagues, who are still wondering if and when they'll be able to return.\n\nNow the DFL will be hoping that this will be the only fixture they'll have to postpone on their high profile re-opening weekend.", "Researchers at the University of Stirling are to look at how pubs, clubs and restaurants could safely reopen.\n\nThey are studying the viability of easing the coronavirus lockdown measures for licensed premises.\n\nThe project is being funded by the Scottish government and will look at a wide range of implications, including consumption, intoxication and violence.\n\nProf Niamh Fitzgerald, the lead researcher, said one option might be to \"ease restrictions partially\".\n\nThe study will assess the impact on the emergency services, including the ambulance service, at a time when they are under increased strain.\n\nProf Fitzgerald says the research will look at whether people might drink more when pubs reopen\n\nProf Fitzgerald said: \"Governments and the public are very interested in how licensed premises may begin to reopen - but there are risks involved.\n\n\"Whenever restrictions ease, businesses may seek to recoup losses and customers may choose to celebrate by drinking more than usual.\n\n\"The actions of businesses and consumers could have implications for how intoxicated people get, and have a knock-on impact on our emergency services.\"\n\nShe added: \"We will consult with a wide range of businesses, staff, policymakers and experts.\n\n\"One option could be to ease restrictions partially, or in a staggered way, potentially with measures remaining in place around sales, opening hours or venue capacities to minimise harm and impact on the emergency services.\"\n\nProf Jim Lewsey, of the Institute of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow, is also involved in the research.\n\nHe said: \"This study has only been possible because it builds on a strong existing collaboration with the Scottish Ambulance Service, to better understand the impact of alcohol on ambulance call-outs more generally.\n\n\"We are delighted to have the opportunity to support the service with relevant research at this challenging time.\"", "Passengers arriving from France will be exempt from forthcoming UK coronavirus quarantine measures.\n\nBoris Johnson said on Sunday the rules would be imposed on people coming into the UK, to prevent Covid-19 being brought in from overseas.\n\nAs yet, no start or end date for the measures has been announced.\n\nThe government has already indicated that people arriving from the Republic of Ireland will not be made to go into quarantine.\n\nHowever, the measures will apply to UK holidaymakers returning from other destinations.\n\nIn updated advice issued on Monday, the government confirmed that people will be asked to self-isolate for 14 days and to provide an address when they arrive at the border, other than those exempted.\n\nThe World Travel and Tourism Council expressed concern about the new measures, saying they would damage confidence among would-be travellers.\n\nIn his address to the nation on Sunday, the prime minister said: \"I am serving notice that it will soon be the time - with transmission significantly lower - to impose quarantine on people coming into this country by air.\"\n\nThe government later clarified that the rules would apply not just to air passengers, but also those arriving by other means of travel such as train or ferry.\n\nFollowing Mr Johnson's speech, No 10 confirmed a reciprocal deal with the government in Paris meant restrictions would not apply to passengers from France.\n\nIn a joint statement, the UK and French governments said they had agreed to \"work together in taking forward appropriate border measures\", adding: \"This co-operation is particularly necessary for the management of our common border.\"\n\nThe statement added: \"No quarantine measures would apply to travellers coming from France at this stage; any measures on either side would be taken in a concerted and reciprocal manner.\n\n\"A working group between the two governments will be set up to ensure this consultation throughout the coming weeks.\"\n\nHowever, the announcement has raised questions about whether international travellers could avoid 14-days in isolation by passing through France on their way to the UK.\n\nNumber 10 says further details of the new rules will be set out before they come into force.\n\nWillie Walsh, chief executive of British Airways owner IAG, said it was more bad news for the travel industry.\n\n\"There's nothing positive in anything I heard the Prime Minister say yesterday,\" he told MPs on parliament's Transport Select Committee.\n\nWhen asked why travellers from France will not be quarantined over, for example, Germany, he said: \"That's the bit I don't understand.\n\nWillie Walsh, boss of British Airways' parent IAG, was questioned by MPs\n\n\"We will have to wait and see the final details of what the Prime Minister intends to do.\"\n\nHe added that the quarantine measures will mean his company will have to review its plan to return to 50% capacity by July.\n\nVirginia Messina, managing director of the World Travel and Tourism Council, told the BBC's Today programme she was \"concerned\" about the government's new policy.\n\n\"Quarantines work when implemented early, so it should have probably been applied much earlier in the UK,\" she said.\n\n\"We believe this is going to highly damage the confidence of people who are wishing to travel or at least make some plans in the near future.\"\n\nMs Messina pointed out that some airports in other countries were testing passengers for the virus on arrival and exempting them from quarantine if they tested negative.\n\nAirline and airport bosses spoke to the aviation minister on Sunday about the new measures.\n\nHowever, they told the BBC that they were still in the dark over basic details such as when they would come into force, when they would end and whether they would be continuously reviewed.\n\nAirlines are calling for additional government support after the prime minister confirmed a quarantine period will come into force.\n\nAirlines UK chief executive Tim Alderslade said: \"We all, including government, need to adapt to the new normal, but closing off air travel in this way is not the way to achieve this.\"\n\nThe government faces a two-pronged attack over its travel quarantine, even though the detail on the policy is still sparse.\n\nThe pandemic is already causing acute damage to the UK's aviation sector, and airline and airport bosses believe the quarantine will make things a whole lot worse.\n\nThey did not receive the reassurances they wanted during a call with the aviation minister earlier on Sunday.\n\nOpposition MPs are also wading in with the question: \"If now, why not before?\"\n\nIt's estimated that about 100,000 people have arrived in the UK since 23 March, when the lockdown was brought in.\n\nMany people coming home in recent weeks have been left confused over whether they were supposed to self-isolate.\n\nGovernment advice that people arriving from China and Italy who didn't have symptoms should stay at home for two weeks was withdrawn on 13 March.\n\nHeathrow airport said it supported the government's aim of avoiding a second wave of infection, even though a 14-day quarantine plan amounted to a temporary closure of borders.\n\nHowever, the airport's chief executive, John Holland-Kaye, said the government \"urgently\" needed to lay out a roadmap for how it would reopen borders once the disease had been beaten.\n\nAir travel has ground to a halt because of the global coronavirus pandemic, prompting steep job cuts by the industry.\n\nRyanair has said it plans to axe 3,000 workers and has asked remaining staff to take a pay cut.\n\nBA has said it will cut 12,000 of its workforce and has warned that it might not reopen at Gatwick Airport once the pandemic passes.", "As coronavirus spread outside China, South Korea was at risk of becoming among the world's worst affected countries.\n\nThe southern city of Daegu was an initial hotspot.\n\nBut the country managed to avoid the peaks and fatalities seen elsewhere due to the government's implementation of an aggressive test, trace and contain policy.\n\nLaura Bicker reports on how technology proved vital in tracing the infected.\n\nA tracking app using GPS on mobile phones paired with CCTV footage managed to identify Covid-19 carriers and notify people in recent contact and at risk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the advice in Scotland remains \"stay at home\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has stressed the \"stay at home\" message remains in place in Scotland after Boris Johnson announced his \"conditional plan\" to reopen society.\n\nDuring his statement, the prime minister urged people to \"stay alert, control the virus and save lives\".\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said there should be a \"simpler\" message and that people in Scotland should still stay at home.\n\nThe once-a-day exercise limit will be removed in Scotland from Monday.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said people must still stay close to home and emphasised the move does not extend to picnics, sunbathing or barbeques.\n\nDuring his address on Sunday evening, Mr Johnson said people in England who could not work from home should return to the workplace - but avoid public transport.\n\nThe first minister stressed that the advice to businesses in Scotland had not changed.\n\n\"I am not, at this stage, asking anybody who is not working to go back to work, although we have said we are looking, with priority, at the construction sector, the retail sector and the manufacturing sector,\" she told BBC Scotland.\n\nShe said different parts of the UK were at different stages of the infection curve, and that the \"all-important R number\" was thought to be higher north of the border.\n\nMs Sturgeon also said the prime minister should have stressed \"more strongly\" that most of the changes he referred to in his speech applied to England.\n\n\"When he talks about things like border control, he is talking for the whole UK, but really all of us have a duty right now to be as clear as possible and, having watched the prime minister, I think there is still some room for some simpler messages,\" she said.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the Scottish government was being \"deliberately cautious\" and was taking \"baby steps\".\n\nAnd she added: \"If you change the message from stay at home to something vaguer then you don't give clear messages to the public.\"\n\nWe are now getting two quite different messages as a result of the announcement by the prime minister and the response from the first minister.\n\nBusinesses deciding whether to go back to work in construction or manufacturing are being encouraged to do so south of the border. However, you're being pretty strongly discouraged if it's not essential work north of the border.\n\nThat's going to lead to employers having different expectations of their staff depending on where that employer is based.\n\nEmployers are looking for answers about how much money will be available and for how long.\n\nThe furlough system has been absolutely essential to avoiding redundancies soaring. In Scotland, around 370,000 jobs are estimated to have stayed on the payroll rather than becoming redundant.\n\nSo what's going to happen to that once the money stops as it is currently scheduled to do at the end of June?\n\nThe first minister had earlier said that she had first learned about the UK government's new slogan in the Sunday papers and admitted: \"I do not know what 'Stay Alert' means.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon accepted the need for other parts of the UK to move at different speeds, based on scientific evidence and said she is committed to the closest possible cooperation.\n\nBut she added: \"We should not be reading of each other's plans for the first time in newspapers and decisions that are taken for one nation only, for good evidence based reasons, should not be presented as if they apply UK-wide.\n\n\"Clarity of message is paramount if we expect all of you to know what we are asking of you and as leaders we have a duty to deliver that clarity to those that we are accountable to, not to confuse it.\n\n\"To that end I have asked the UK government not to deploy their 'stay alert' advertising campaign in Scotland.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Sturgeon added that the message in Scotland is not \"stay at home if you can\" but rather \"stay at home full stop\".\n\nShe was speaking after latest figures show the number of deaths has increased by 10 to 1,587, while the number of positive cases is now 13,486.\n\nThe first minister said the new guidelines governing exercise in Scotland were not a \"licence to meet up in groups\" at parks or beaches.\n\nShe also emphasised the ongoing need for people to maintain social distancing and not mix with other households.\n\nGuidelines concerning the range of outdoor activities, reopening garden centres and the resumption of some outdoor work will also be considered in the coming days.\n\nThe Scottish government will also be speaking to councils about the prospect of re-opening waste and recycling centres.\n\nThe first minister said an update on these developments will be issued next weekend.", "Ch Supt Phil Dolby returned home after three weeks in hospital\n\nA senior police officer who spent more than three weeks in hospital with coronavirus said he is \"very disturbed\" at some people's attitude to lockdown.\n\nCh Supt Phil Dolby, of West Midlands Police, was admitted to Worcester Royal Hospital on 29 March and later placed on a ventilator for 13 days.\n\nIn a post on Twitter, he criticised \"increasingly blasé\" behaviour.\n\nHis comments come as forces around England reported multiple instances of people ignoring lockdown rules.\n\nMr Dolby told the BBC he was prompted to speak out about people ignoring lockdown restrictions after his own experience of the virus which \"nearly killed\" him.\n\nMr Dolby was put in an induced coma and on a ventilator while in hospital\n\n\"I've been pretty disappointed and shocked to see so many people being quite blasé about the lockdown and the social distancing,\" he said.\n\n\"You can see queues of people getting into parks, queues of cars driving to beaches, lots of activity that seems to me to be against the medical advice.\n\n\"I've felt that a missing voice in all of that was someone who'd been through it, was still going through it in a sense.\n\n\"As a 45-year-old fairly healthy person with no real health issues, the virus nearly killed me.\n\n\"As a result, not only have I been a victim, my family have been through an awful lot of trauma as well, we are also concerned about what that means for us going forward, so I felt an extra voice adding to that debate would be useful for people to think about what they were doing.\"\n\nThe have been reports from forces across England about people breaching lockdown rules over the weekend, including:\n\nElsewhere, seven people were arrested when police tried to stop a birthday party with about 40 attendees in Bolton, Greater Manchester.\n\nIn East Sussex, a couple camping at Cow Gap sparked a search involving police, the coastguard and a volunteer lifeboat after leaving their car at nearby Beachy Head.\n\nMeanwhile, Derbyshire Police tweeted that there were a number of non-essential journeys in Matlock Bath.\n\nThey added: \"We aren't the fun police but looking at Twitter it feels like a growing minority are risking undoing all the good work previously done.\"\n\nAnd Liz Stone, from Fawley, Hampshire, took pictures of a number of cars parked at Lepe Beach on Saturday while travelling back from feeding her horse, which is permitted under restrictions.\n\n\"It was crazy,\" she said. \"People were walking around, sitting on the beach, some were paddling. They were just having a normal day at the beach.\"\n\nMr Dolby's original Twitter post has been retweeted more than 3,000 times and had hundreds of replies, including one from a nurse who said they were \"increasingly baffled, frustrated and saddened\" by the behaviour of some people.\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 Ch Supt Phil Dolby 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\nMeanwhile, a body representing police officers in London said the government's pandemic response was \"wishy-washy\".\n\nKen Marsh, from the Metropolitan Police Federation, told BBC Radio 4 authorities \"needed to be firmer right from the beginning\".\n\nAt the government's daily coronavirus briefing on Saturday, transport secretary Grant Shapps was asked about the apparent rise in people going outside, which came after warnings against sending out \"mixed messages\" with newspaper reports suggesting sunbathing and picnics could be permitted as early as Monday.\n\nHe dismissed allegations the government's messaging strategy was confusing, and said: \"I think that most people are more than capable of understanding what is meant.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The number of shoppers visiting UK High Streets, retail parks and shopping centres fell at its fastest rate ever in April as the lockdown forced people to stay indoors, industry figures show.\n\nFootfall fell by more than 80% after all but essential shops closed their doors, according to Springboard.\n\nThat was almost double the level of March's downturn when there was a 41.3% drop in visits to shopping locations.\n\nSpringboard said the April slump was a \"decline of unprecedented magnitude\".\n\nShopping centres were the worst hit by the drop in footfall, as visits fell by 84.8%.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of visits to High Streets around the country fell by 83.3% and footfall at retail parks was 68.1% lower.\n\nThe presence of supermarkets and wide-open spaces, which allowed for better social distancing, meant retail parks performed slightly better than other areas, according to the retail analyst company.\n\n\"What has become clear, but what is not obvious from the headline rate, is the shift in consumer behaviour away from large towns and cities to smaller more local centres,\" said Diane Wehrle from Springboard.\n\nAt 20 smaller town centres, including Harold Hill, Prescot, Kenilworth and Dudley, footfall decreased by less than 60%.\n\nMeanwhile, major city centres such as Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, Bristol and London were among the 20 areas that saw the biggest drops in footfall.\n\n\"The overriding focus on safe shopping and the greater emphasis on community that has come to the fore means that trips to larger towns and cities have been curtailed,\" said Ms Wehrle.\n\n\"Indeed, it is the first evidence available that suggests how consumers may respond to easing of restrictions.\"\n\nShe said it was a contrast to \"pre-coronavirus days\" when small High Streets faced an increasing struggle to attract shoppers.\n\n\"The path of recovery for retail may well be led by smaller high streets which can offer both safety and community benefits.\n\n\"For larger destinations, the emphasis on safety suggests that those environments that have the capability to control shopper numbers - such as retail parks and shopping centres - will be the next phase of recovery, followed by large towns and cities which inevitably face issues around pedestrian congestion.\"", "Officers have been subjected to abusive behaviour including threats of deliberate transmission\n\nPolice in Scotland have recorded more than 100 coronavirus-related attacks and threats aimed at officers.\n\nThey included being spat at or deliberately coughed on.\n\nThe force described these incidents as \"outrageous and disgraceful\" and said they would result in automatic arrest.\n\nBut the Police Federation, which represents 98% of all officers, called for anyone accused of such attacks automatically to be held in custody before appearing in court.\n\nIn the first three weeks following the lock-down, (24 March-18 April) police recorded more than 100 crimes where officers or staff were the victim.\n\nThey included occasions where front-line officers and personnel from the custody suites have been subjected to abusive behaviour including threats of deliberate transmission.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Fiona Taylor said police officers and staff were playing a vital role to help make the changes and sacrifices needed to protect the NHS and save lives.\n\nShe said: \"Those doing the right thing will agree these sorts of attacks on our officers and staff are outrageous and disgraceful.\n\n\"Abuse and assault is not simply part of the job for police officers and staff and will not be tolerated.\n\n\"The Chief Constable has made it clear that this completely unacceptable. The Lord Advocate has also confirmed that offenders will be dealt with robustly by Scotland's prosecution service.\n\n\"Threatening a member of Police Scotland personnel, or any other emergency service worker, while they are carrying out their duties to keep the public safe will result in immediate arrest.\"\n\nShe said where such cases had gone to court, sheriffs had been very supportive, and some offenders had been remanded in custody.\n\nThe Police Federation, which represents officers up to the rank of chief inspector, said offenders could be charged with common assault or culpable and reckless behaviour, but its general secretary, Calum Steele, called for prosecutors to do more.\n\nHe said: \"It is astonishing even after all this time that there has been no direction from the Crown Office that anyone accused of such offences should be held in custody before they appear in court.\"\n\nThe Crown Office said guidelines agreed by the Lord Advocate and the chief constable had been published at the start of the lockdown.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Liberation is a decision for the police based upon the circumstances of the individual incident.\n\n\"The police can detain any person to protect the public from risk of harm, and spitting at someone and saying you have the virus would meet a reasonable description of putting someone at risk of harm.\"\n\nHe said there was a statutory obligation not to detain someone unnecessarily.\n\nChief Constable Iain Livingstone has thanked Scotland's communities for the high levels of co-operation shown during \"this challenging period\".\n\nHe said officers are engaging with the public, explaining the physical distancing requirements, encouraging people to comply with the law, and using enforcement only where necessary.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "For Sudeep Choudhury, work on merchant ships promised adventure and a better life.\n\nBut a voyage on an oil tanker in West Africa, in dangerous seas far from home, would turn the young graduate's life upside down.\n\nHis fate would come to depend on a band of drug-fuelled jungle pirates - and the whims of a mysterious figure called The King.\n\nThe MT Apecus dropped anchor off Nigeria's Bonny Island shortly after sunrise. Sudeep Choudhury was at the end of a draining shift on deck. Looking towards land, he could make out dozens of other ships. On the shoreline beyond them, a column of white oil storage tanks rose out of the ground like giants.\n\nHe had breakfast and then made two phone calls. One to his parents - he knew they worried about him, their only child - and one to his fiancee, Bhagyashree. He told her that everything was going to plan and that he would call her again later that day. He then clambered into bed for a sleep.\n\nIt was 19 April, 2019. The small, ageing oil tanker and its crew of 15 had spent two days sailing south from the port of Lagos to the Niger Delta, where oil was discovered in the 1950s by Dutch and British businessmen seeking a swift fortune. Although he knew that vicious pirates roamed the labyrinthine wetlands and mangroves of the delta, Sudeep felt safe that tropical South Atlantic morning. Nigerian navy boats were patrolling and the Apecus was moored just outside Bonny, seven nautical miles from land, waiting for permission to enter port.\n\nThe warm waters of the Gulf of Guinea, which lap across the coastline of seven West African nations, are the most dangerous in the world. It used to be Somalia, but now this area is the epicentre of modern sea piracy. Of all the seafarers held for ransom globally last year, some 90% were taken here. Sixty-four people were seized from six ships in just the last three months of 2019, according to the International Maritime Bureau, which tracks such incidents. Many more attacks may have gone unreported.\n\nThe bountiful oil found here could have made the people of the delta rich, but for most it has been a curse. Spills have poisoned the water and the land, and a fight over the spoils of the industry has fuelled violent crime and conflict for decades. In the villages above the pipelines that have netted billions for the Nigerian government and international oil companies, life expectancy is about 45 years.\n\nMilitant groups with comic book names like the Niger Delta Avengers have blown up pipelines and crippled production to demand the redistribution of wealth and resources. Oil thieves siphon off thick black crude and process it in makeshift refineries hidden in the forest. The level of violence in the delta ebbs and flows - but the threat is always there.\n\nSudeep woke up a few hours later to yelling and banging. The watchman in the ship's command room, high above the deck, had spotted an approaching speedboat carrying nine heavily-armed men. His cry of warning ricocheted around the 80m-long ship as the crew scrambled. They couldn't stop the pirates, but they could at least try to hide.\n\nSudeep, just 28 but the ship's third officer, was in charge of the five other Indian crew working on the Apecus. There was no oil on board, so he knew the pirates would want to take human cargo for ransom. Americans and Europeans are highly prized because their companies pay the highest ransoms but in reality, most sailors come from the developing world. On the Apecus, the Indians were the only non-Africans.\n\nWith less than five minutes to act, Sudeep gathered his men in the engine room in the bowels of the ship before running upstairs to set off an emergency alarm that would notify everyone on board. On his way back down, he realised he was only wearing the underwear he had gone to sleep in. Then he caught his first glimpse of the attackers, who were wearing T-shirts and black face coverings, and brandishing assault rifles. They were alongside the vessel, confidently hooking a ladder onto the side.\n\nThe Indians decided to hide in a small storeroom, where they crouched among lights, wires and other electrical supplies, and tried to still their panicked breathing. The pirates were soon prowling around outside, their voices echoing above the low hum of engine machinery. The sailors were trembling but stayed silent. Many ships that sail in the Gulf of Guinea invest in safe rooms with bullet-proof walls where crews can take shelter in exactly this kind of situation. The Apecus didn't have one. The men heard footsteps approaching and the bolt slid open with a clang.\n\nThe pirates fired at the floor and a bullet fragment struck Sudeep in his left shin, lodging itself just an inch from the bone. The men marched the sailors outside and up onto the deck. They knew they had to move very quickly. The captain had put out a distress call and the gunshots might have been heard by other ships.\n\nThe attackers ordered the Indians to climb down a ladder onto the waiting speedboat, which had two engines for extra speed. Chirag, a nervous 22-year-old on his first deployment at sea, was the first to comply. With the pirates' guns trained on them the others followed, as did the captain.\n\nThe six hostages - five Indians and one Nigerian - squatted uncomfortably on the overcrowded boat as it began to motor away. The remaining crew, including one Indian who had managed to evade the attackers, emerged onto the deck. They watched as the pirates sped off towards the delta with their blindfolded captives, leaving the Apecus floating in the tide.\n\nThe text message from the shipping agent arrived in the middle of the night.\n\nDear Sir, understandably Sudeep's vessel has been hijacked. The Greek owner is co-ordinating the matter. Don't get panicky. No harm will come to Sudeep. Please keep patience.\n\nPradeep Choudhury and his wife Suniti, sitting in their bedroom, were left reeling by this perfunctory message. They had spoken to their son just hours earlier. Pradeep began forwarding the text to family members and Sudeep's closest friends. Could this really be true? Had anyone heard from their son?\n\nSudeep, as anyone who knows him will say, was mischievous growing up. He was restless, always wanting to get out of the house for an adventure. And his parents, especially his mother, would constantly worry about him. They have lived in Bhubaneswar, a small city in the state of Odisha on India's eastern coast, for most of Sudeep's life. It's a place that Indians living in the centres of power and influence - Delhi, Mumbai or Bangalore - rarely, if ever, think about, but running a small photocopying shop from the front of their home gave the Choudhurys a comfortable life.\n\nOn the busy pavements near their home in central Bhubaneswar, the faces of deities stare out from modest shrines. But before he left for Africa, Sudeep didn't really believe in any kind of god. Life would be what he and Bhagyashree could make of it. They met when they were teenagers. Now a software engineer, she has the air of a girl who would have been popular at school.\n\nThe couple are the kind of aspirational young Indians whose dreams far eclipse the stable, traditional family lives that their parents craved. There are tens of millions like them in India, armed with degrees and certificates but coming of age in a lumbering economy that continues to churn out many more graduates than well-paying jobs.\n\nFor Sudeep, a job in merchant shipping promised an escape from all of that. He was lured by stories of good money, plenty of work and a chance to see the world. And he's not alone - after Filipinos and Indonesians, Indians make up the largest contingent of global seafarers, working as deckhands, cooks, engineers and officers. Some 234,000 of them sailed on foreign-flagged vessels in 2019.\n\nBut getting the right qualifications is complicated and Sudeep studied for five years, set on a path that cost his family thousands of dollars. At the age of 27, he finally qualified as a third officer and got a tattoo on his right forearm to celebrate: a little sailing boat bobbing on a cluster of triangles representing the sea, with a large anchor cutting straight through the middle like a dagger.\n\nOn the first morning after the sailors were kidnapped, dozens of men emerged from the forest and fired their guns into the sky for nearly half an hour to celebrate. The five Indians, who had been left on a car-sized wooden platform floating on a mangrove swamp, stared hopelessly at the brown water below them.\n\nTo get to their jungle prison they had been taken on a snaking, hours-long boat ride through the waterways of the delta. In those first days, the message from the pirates - reinforced with occasional beatings - was clear: if no-one pays a ransom, we will kill you.\n\nSudeep was still living in his underwear and itched all night under buzzing mosquitoes that left his skin dotted with bites. He hadn't been given a bandage for the wound on his leg, so he had pushed mud into the hole. The humidity of the jungle meant the men were never dry. They shared a single dirty mat for a bed, and would snatch brief minutes of sleep before jolting awake and remembering where they were.\n\nEarly on, the pirates had dragged a skeleton up from the swamp to show the sailors what had supposedly become of a former hostage whose boss had refused to pay. That wasn't the only macabre threat. On another day, they were shown a pile of concrete blocks. Try anything and we'll strap these to your legs and drop you in the ocean, the pirates told them.\n\nA rotating cast of guards kept watch from the riverbank, 10 or so metres away. They spent their time fishing, smoking marijuana and drinking a local spirit made from palm sap called kai-kai - but they also watched the hostages closely, occasionally training a gun on them and yelling out a warning, as if their captives might suddenly dive into the murky water and swim away.\n\nOver time, Sudeep would try to strike up a relationship with some of these men. He would gently ask them how they were, or if they had children. But the response was always silence, or a blunt warning. Don't talk to us. They appeared to be under strict orders but never referred to their leader - who seemed to be based elsewhere in the jungle - by name. He was just \"The King\".\n\nSudeep and the other men - Chirag, 22, Ankit, 21, Avinash, 22, and Moogu, 34 - had little choice but to try to conserve their energy and wait for something to happen. Their lives fell into a kind of lethargic routine. Once a day, normally in mid-morning, they would get a bowl of instant noodles to share between the five of them. They would carefully ration the meal, passing around a grimy spoon and each taking one mouthful. They would repeat the ritual in the evening and hand back the empty bowl.\n\nThey were given nothing to drink except muddy water, which was often mixed with petrol. Sometimes they were so thirsty they drank saltwater from the river. The Nigerian captain was kept separately in a hut nearby. He was treated better and the Indians began to loathe him for it.\n\nTo pass time, the five men would talk about their lives back home and their plans for the future. They would watch the nature around them - snakes slithering up trees, birds taking flight through the mangroves. They would pray. If the pirates spotted a monkey, the quiet would be broken. The Indians would watch them scramble after it, spraying the animal with bullets. It would later be cooked over a bonfire but the meat was never shared with them.\n\nThe sailors tried to keep track of each passing sunset by etching small arrows into the wooden planks that they slept on. They were at times delirious - some of them, including Sudeep, contracted malaria. In whispers, they would imagine a scenario where the pirates came to kill them and they fought back. If they were going to die, they could probably kill at least three of them on the way down, right?\n\nAt moments like this they laughed, but it was a constant battle not to sink into despair. During the many quiet hours in which they would simply lie under the beating sun, Sudeep would think over and over what he could do to get them out, and what he would tell the Indian High Commission or his family if he got a chance to call. In his head, he was still trying to plan his wedding.\n\nThe pirates' initial demand was for a ransom of several million dollars. It was an exorbitant sum and one they must have known was unlikely to be paid. But these kinds of ransom kidnappings involve complex and drawn-out negotiations, and in the undiscoverable warrens of the Niger Delta, time always seemed to be on their side.\n\nAbout 15 days after the attack, the pirates took Sudeep on a boat to another part of the forest, and handed him a satellite phone so he could appeal directly to the ship owner, a Greek businessman based in the Mediterranean port of Piraeus called Captain Christos Traios. His company, Petrogress Inc, operates several oil tankers in West Africa with swashbuckling names like the Optimus and the Invictus.\n\nSudeep knew little about Capt Christos but had heard he was an aggressive, bad-tempered man. \"Sir, this is terrible. We are in a very bad condition. And I need you to act very fast because we might die here,\" he told him. His boss, furious about what had happened, was apparently unmoved. The pirates were incensed. \"We just want money,\" they would say over and over again. \"But if your people don't give us money, we will kill you.\"\n\nTheir business model is dependent on the compliance of ship bosses who, usually covered by insurance, will pay significant amounts to free their crew after weeks of negotiations. But in this case they were up against a stubborn ship owner. The key now, the kidnappers knew, would be to reach the families.\n\nBack in India, Sudeep's parents spent their nights lying awake. They knew so little about what had happened that their minds veered towards the worst in those hours before dawn broke, when the streets of Bhubaneswar would briefly be still. They feared their son would never emerge from a pirates' den that they could scarcely imagine.\n\nThere was no way the family could afford to pay the pirates directly and it was never considered as a serious option. The Indian government doesn't pay ransoms but they hoped it would help them in other ways - by assisting the Nigerian navy to find the pirate camp, or forcing the ship owner to pay up. Bhagyashree and Swapna, a formidable cousin of Sudeep in her mid-30s, took charge of this effort. They corralled the family members of the kidnapped men into a WhatsApp group so they could co-ordinate efforts to get their boys freed.\n\nIt soon became clear to Bhagyashree that the pirates would gain nothing by killing the sailors. But she was nervous about how long their patience would last. Pressuring the ship owner from all directions seemed the only feasible way to get her fiancee out. And so in the car, in the bathroom stall at work, and at home lying in bed, she was online, tweeting, firing off pleading emails to anyone who might be able to help.\n\nAfter three weeks of near-silence, on day 17, the families had a breakthrough. A sister of one of the kidnapped men, Avinash, received a call from her brother in the Nigerian jungle. He told her that all the men were alive but they really needed help. The other families would go on to receive calls from their sons in the coming days - but not Bhagyashree and the Choudhurys.\n\nStrange relationships began to be forged. A relative of one of the sailors who works in the shipping industry, a man called Captain Nasib, began calling the pirates regularly on their satellite phone to check on the men's condition. But the tinny audio recordings he posted in the WhatsApp chat did not reassure the families. The ship owner \"does not care\" about the lives of his men and is \"playing around\", a pirate angrily told Capt Nasib in one phone call.\n\nOn 17 May 2019 - day 28 - the pirates gave Sudeep the chance to speak to Capt Nasib, who assured him that the ordeal would only last a few more days. But Sudeep, as the ranking officer, was told he had to keep everyone's morale high in the meantime. \"I'm trying,\" Sudeep can be heard responding in Hindi in a crackly recording of the call. \"Tell my family that you talked to me.\"\n\nEvery few weeks the Indians were moved from one jungle lair to another. As negotiations with Capt Christos seemingly broke down, The King himself began to visit them. He would never say much, but the other pirates treated him with a reverence that suggested fear. His status as the group's leader almost seemed a consequence of his sheer size. All the pirates were muscle-bound and threatening but The King was especially hulking - at least 6ft 6in. He carried a much larger gun than the men under his command, and a leather belt filled with bullets was always strapped around his massive frame.\n\nHe would turn up every four or five days and calmly smoke some marijuana before the captives. He would say that Capt Christos was still not playing ball and that this would have consequences. The King spoke deliberately, and with better English than the other men. After many weeks in captivity, the sailors were becoming bony and thin; their eyes were a pale yellow and their urine was at times blood-red. Each visit from the King felt like it brought them closer to the fate of the skeleton they had seen pulled from the mud.\n\nThen events took a more bizarre turn. Up until this point, what had happened to the Apecus seemed to be just another opportunistic ransom kidnapping. But in late May, unbeknown to the men who sat festering on those planks in the swamp, machinations were unfolding that seemed to point to a far more complex series of events.\n\nThe Nigerian navy had publicly accused the tanker company of being involved in the transport of stolen crude oil from the Niger Delta to Ghana. The attack on the Apecus and the kidnapping, according to the navy, had actually been provoked by a disagreement between two criminal groups. There had even been arrests. The ship company's manager in Nigeria had apparently confessed to being involved in illicit oil trading.\n\nCapt Christos, the ship's owner, fervently denied this. In emails seen by the BBC, he blamed the Indian government for getting the Nigerian navy to detain his vessels and staff in order to force him to \"negotiate with terrorists\" and pay an \"incredible\" ransom. Indian authorities dispute this version of events. The Nigerian Navy didn't comment.\n\nIt was a precarious situation for the captives. But the accusations - which put Capt Christos's tanker operations in Nigeria at risk - did seem to spur him to reach a resolution with the pirates. And so on 13 June, Sudeep's family finally learned from a government source that negotiations were complete and that payment was being arranged. At the same time, the sailors in the jungle were told that their ordeal might be coming to an end.\n\nThe men woke up on the morning of 29 June 2019 like they had almost every day for the previous 70 days. At mid-morning, after handing over the bowl of noodles, one of the guards beckoned Sudeep over and whispered that if things worked out, this could be his last day in the jungle. Two hours later the guard returned with confirmation: the man bringing the money was on his way.\n\nThe frail Ghanaian man in his mid-60s who approached in a boat that afternoon, nervously clutching a heavy plastic bag with US dollars peeking out of the top, did not look like a seasoned negotiator. Within minutes of his arrival, it was clear something was not right. A group of pirates began beating the old man. The King, bellowing about the money being short, pulled a small knife out of his belt and stabbed him in the leg, leaving him writhing on the muddy ground. He then approached the Indians and told them that while the Ghanaian would be staying, all six captives were free to go. His men wouldn't stop them, but if another pirate group picked them up, they were on their own. He looked Sudeep in the eye: \"Bye-bye.\"\n\nThe men did not hesitate. They ran to the water's edge, where the fishing boat that had brought the bag man was parked. Sudeep told the driver to take them where he had come from. After more than two months he was still in his underwear, though the pirates had given him a torn T-shirt to wear. The boat rocked unsteadily from side to side as it motored away.\n\nAfter nearly four hours, the driver said he was out of fuel and stopped at a jetty. In the distance, on the outskirts of a small village, a group of barefoot men were playing football. The ragged sailors approached them. When they explained they had been kidnapped, they were ushered into a house and given bottles of water which they gulped down one after the other. Three of the village's biggest men kept guard outside the guesthouse they were housed in during the night. The Indians, though weak, finally felt safe. \"It was as if God himself appointed them as our saviours,\" Sudeep said later.\n\nThe men were soon in bustling Lagos, waiting for a flight to Mumbai. Alone for the first time in his hotel room, Sudeep poured himself a cold beer, ran a bath and examined his scars. A pirate had inflicted a fresh wound with a fish cleaver on his shoulder a few days before, which stung as he gingerly lowered himself into the steaming bath. An Indian diplomat had given him a packet of cigarettes and over the next hour, he smoked 12 of them one after the other, staring at the ceiling as the water around him slowly cooled.\n\nIt's been eight months since the men were released. Suniti, wearing a yellow sari, sits on the kitchen floor, rolling chapatis on a round block of wood. A few metres away her husband watches the Indian cricket team play New Zealand on TV.\n\n\"Sudeeeeeeep!\" Suniti calls her son to come downstairs and eat but it sounds like a cry of yearning, as though she's checking he's still here. He lost more than 20kg in the 70 days that he spent in the jungle and returned with sunken cheeks. His mother weighed him every few days for the first month, feeling buoyed with each kilo gained.\n\nBhagyashree passes her mother-in-law a metal plate, her red and gold wedding bangles sliding down her arm as she does so. \"I was confident he would return,\" she says. \"It's just the start for us, so how can I spend life without him? I believed in the Almighty - that he would come, that he had to come. Nothing can end like this.\"\n\nThey finally got married in January. The couple have their own space upstairs, but every evening the four of them eat as a family in the small living room on the ground floor. On this night cousin Swapna - who campaigned ferociously for Sudeep's release - is visiting, and sings a 1960s Bollywood love song after dinner.\n\nBack in his tight-knit family and community, Sudeep appears to have found stability. He is working at the local maritime college, teaching young sailors about safety at sea, although he has put his own ocean-faring days behind him. He shows flashes of joy with his family and friends, but it's hard to tell what mark months in a pirates' den has left behind. They rarely talk about it.\n\n\"The trauma is still there,\" he tells me, as we drive around the dark streets of Bhubaneswar with pop music playing on the car speaker. \"But it's okay. I got married and all my friends and family are here... If I go to the sea then that thing will come again in my mind.\"\n\nThe ordeal is over but Sudeep and the other men remain tangled in a bureaucratic mess to try to get someone to take responsibility for what happened to them. Since returning, they have not received their salaries, nor any compensation. Sudeep reckons he's owed close to $10,000 in wages for the more than seven months he spent on the ship and in captivity. Capt Christos did not respond to detailed questions about the kidnapping, whether he disputed that he owed Sudeep money and about the fate of the Ghanaian man left behind with the pirates.\n\nHe said in an email: \"All the kidnapped personnel was safely released and return [sic] to their homes, thanks to Owners ONLY!\" The company continues to deny that the Apecus was involved in the purchase of illegal oil, and instead argues it was at Bonny Island for repairs and to pick up supplies. A court case is pending in Nigeria.\n\nWhat happened to Sudeep underscores the vulnerability of those who find themselves in trouble or exploited at sea - a frontier where regulations and labour protections in theory exist but are difficult to enforce. Seafarers are on the front line of global trade - Nigerian oil ends up at petrol stations across Western Europe, including the UK, as well as India and other parts of Asia. Stories like Sudeep's, of which there are many, also reflect the human cost of security failings in the Gulf of Guinea. Unlike Somalia, Nigeria - the largest economy in Africa - will not allow international navies to patrol its waters.\n\nAfter all he's been through, it seems cruel that Sudeep should need to go through another fight. But he says that he wants to pursue it until the end. \"I faced this and that means I can face anything in my life,\" he says on another late-night drive. \"No-one can break me down mentally. Because for me it's a second birth, I'm living another life.\"\n\nI ask him if it really feels that way. \"It's not feeling that - it is my second life,\" he replies. We park outside his house - it's past 11pm but the lights are still on inside. Bhagyashree and his parents are waiting.\n\nDesigned by Manuella Bonomi; Photos by Sanjeet Pattanaik, Getty Images and www.marinetraffic.com/Dennis Mortimer", "The general secretary of the Unite trade union has said workers \"should refuse\" to return to work if there is no \"safe environment\" for them.\n\nLen McCluskey was speaking to the BBC after Boris Johnson unveiled a \"conditional plan\" to reopen society.\n\nThe prime minister said those who could not work from home should be \"actively encouraged to go to work\" in England.\n\nMeanwhile, business groups have called for clarity on what will need to change in the workplace.\n\nMr McCluskey said it was every worker's \"statutory right\" to have such an environment and any worker \"unsure\" of having that available \"should not be pressured in going back to work\".\n\nHe also said that he did not believe there should be any \"need for that\", as long as \"employers and government embrace expertise\".\n\nHe added that the economy had to be restarted: \"Otherwise we'll be faced with mass unemployment, which will impact on everybody.\"\n\nBusiness groups including the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) have urged the government to provide clear guidance on the relaxation of coronavirus lockdown restrictions.\n\nHe added: \"It is imperative that companies have detailed advice on what will need to change in the workplace, including clarity on the use of personal protective equipment (PPE),\" said BCC director Adam Marshall.\n\nFederation of Small Businesses national chairman Mike Cherry said: \"Small businesses will need time to adapt after the workplace guidance is published, and for smaller businesses it must be proportionate and focused on the overall outcome of maintaining safe working environments, achieved as straightforwardly as possible.\"\n\nIn a televised address, Mr Johnson said he wanted those in the construction and manufacturing industries to return to work this week.\n\nCaution was, however, urged by other trade groups, such as the Institute of Directors (IoD).\n\nIts director general, Jonathan Geldart, said it was vital the guidance was clear so that companies could plan how to return safely.\n\n\"As people with ultimate legal responsibility, directors need to have confidence that it's safe, and that if they act responsibly they won't be at undue risk. Businesses should consult with their people to put in place robust policies, which in many cases might not be an overnight process.\"\n\nCarolyn Fairbairn, the director general of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) said businesses were \"keen to open and get the economy back on its feet\".\n\n\"But they also know putting health first is the only sustainable route to economic recovery. The message of continued vigilance is right,\" she said.\n\nShe added: \"While stopping work was necessarily fast and immediate, restarting will be slower and more complex. It must go hand in hand with plans for schools, transport, testing and access to PPE. Firms will want to see a roadmap, with dates they can plan for.\"\n\nVery little has changed in terms of the regulations and prohibitions first announced in March. The lockdown remains. Closed shops, for example, won't reopen.\n\nWhat we did get was a \"change of emphasis\" - that people should assume they should go back to work, rather than presume they should not.\n\nSome in government and in industry fear that the \"stay at home\" message has now deeply embedded itself in the minds of millions of workers.\n\nThe prime minister's replacement of that message with \"stay alert\" in England is designed to get businesses to use the existing discretion in the lockdown regulations.\n\nThe practicalities of that are not easy, however, with business groups and unions not agreeing on what constitutes a \"Covid-safe\" workplace.\n\nThe government acknowledges that there won't be enough public transport options for people to return to work. Many workers will also face problems with childcare.\n\nOn top of that, to the extent that some industries will reopen - such as construction and perhaps some forms of hospitality by July, any increase in the rate of infection could see the brakes applied quickly.\n\nThe path ahead will be a delicate, difficult and constant balancing act between health and the economy. For now, the economy is definitively second priority.\n\nDuring his address, Mr Johnson added that workplaces would receive guidance on how to become \"Covid secure\".\n\nFrances O'Grady, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, called for those guidelines to be published.\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 Frances O'Grady This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBBC News previously reported that reduced hot-desking and alternatives to social distancing where it is not possible were among measures being considered to let workplaces reopen.\n\nOne of seven draft plans to ease anti-coronavirus restrictions, seen by the BBC, also urged employers to minimise numbers using equipment, stagger shift times and maximise home-working.\n\nMany companies have been shut since widespread limits on everyday life were imposed on 23 March, in a bid to limit the effects of the virus's spread on the NHS.\n\nAs a result, the government is now paying the wages for nearly a quarter of UK jobs under a programme aimed at helping people put on leave due to the virus pandemic.\n\nUnder the job retention scheme, it funds 80% of workers' wages, up to £2,500 a month.\n\nOn Sunday, business groups also urged caution when it came to any future withdrawal of the support.\n\nAre you planning to return to work this week following lockdown? Share your stories 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:", "Russia's Victory Day parade has been cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic, but in neighbouring Belarus the parade went ahead as planned.\n\nRussian military aircraft swooped through the skies above an empty Red Square which, in normal circumstances, would be packed with spectators.", "Michael Zammit Tabona (left) presented his \"letters of credence\" to Finnish President Sauli Niinistö in 2014\n\nMalta's ambassador to Finland has resigned after comparing German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, local media say.\n\nMichael Zammit Tabona reportedly wrote on his Facebook page: \"Seventy-five years ago we stopped Hitler. Who will stop Angela Merkel? She has fulfilled Hitler's dream! To control Europe.\"\n\nThe post has since been deleted.\n\nMaltese Foreign Minister Evarist Bartolo said Germany would receive an apology, the Times of Malta reports.\n\nMr Bartolo told the newspaper that he had instructed the ambassador to remove the comment \"as soon as I was alerted to it\".\n\nMr Zammit Tabona, who became Malta's ambassador in Finland in 2014, has so far made no comment on the row.\n\nHe is reported to be a political appointee - not a career diplomat.", "The Northern Ireland Executive says it will \"consider its plan for a phased, strategic approach to recovery\" at a meeting on Monday.\n\nA statement from First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill was issued on Sunday night.\n\nPoliticians in NI had emphasised the \"stay at home message\" ahead of the prime minister's address on Sunday.\n\nThe executive has already extended lockdown in NI until 28 May.\n\nArlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill took part in a Cobra call on Sunday afternoon with the prime minister.\n\nOn Sunday evening, Boris Johnson unveiled a \"conditional plan\" to reopen society, allowing people in England to spend more time outdoors from Wednesday.\n\nMrs Foster said on Sunday evening \"we have flattened the curve of infection, reduced the R rate to below one and protected our health service but we are not out of the woods yet\".\n\nArlene Foster said the message on the whole remained to \"stay at home\"\n\n\"It is important that we continue to follow this advice,\" she added.\n\n\"As the executive begins to finalise our plans for recovery, we need to strike the balance between continuing to protect lives and the health service and give people hope for the future.\n\n\"The changes that we will introduce will be gradual, proportionate and based on scientific and medical advice and will be taken at the right time and in the best interests of the people of Northern Ireland.\"\n\nMs O'Neill said \"we are at a critical stage in the fight against the virus and so our recovery must be phased, gradual and strategic\".\n\nShe added: \"The decisions this executive will take in the days and weeks ahead are some of the biggest we will ever have to make.\n\n\"We know that six weeks into the restrictions, people need some light at the end of the tunnel.\n\n\"We also know that recovery will only happen one step at a time, to do otherwise risks undermining the sacrifices people have already made and increases the risk of a second spike in the future.\"\n\nHealth officials in England have changed their message to \"stay alert\" with regard to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.\n\nIn NI, the message remains the same.\n\nEarlier on Sunday, Mrs Foster said the message on the whole remained to \"stay at home\".\n\nShe added Northern Ireland will have a \"road map\" for moving out of lockdown at the beginning of the week.\n\nShe said people in Northern Ireland had complied with the social distancing regulations although \"compliance is beginning to fray\".\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill and Health Minister Robin Swann both tweeted \"stay at home\" messages on Sunday.\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\nAlliance deputy leader Stephen Farry said that in a cross-party call with the prime minister on Sunday, he had expressed concerns about the \"stay alert\" message.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said he felt the message \"doesn't make any sense and nobody will understand it\".\n\n\"I said very clearly to Boris Johnson, it's not a burglar we are worried about it's a virus,\" he added.\n\nColum Eastwood said he felt the \"stay alert\" message \"does not make any sense\"\n\nAnd Ulster Unionist leader Steve Aiken said: \"It is our strong belief that now is not the time to change the message or direction.\n\n\"Until the R rate is reduced we must continue to keep staying home, keep protecting our NHS & above all, keep saving lives.\"\n\nGreen Party NI leader Clare Bailey said \"the message for people across Northern Ireland is to stay home, safe safe and protect our NHS\".\n\nEarlier on Sunday Scotland's First Minister asked the UK government not to advertise its new \"stay alert\" message north of the border.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said: \"Given the critical point we are at in tackling the virus, #StayHomeSaveLives remains my clear message to Scotland at this stage.\"\n\nIn Wales, the country's First Minister Mark Drakeford said people should stay home \"wherever you can\".\n\nOn Sunday, it was reported that five more people diagnosed with coronavirus have died in Northern Ireland.\n\nThat brings the number of Covid-19 related deaths to 435, according to Department of Health figures.\n\nThey show the number of people with a positive laboratory completed test is now 4,119.\n\nThe total number of laboratory completed tests is 38,984.\n\nThese figures are one of two sets published in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe others are weekly statistics from Northern Ireland's Statistics and Research Agency (Nisra), which cover all fatalities where coronavirus has been recorded on the death certificate.\n\nFigures released by Northern Ireland's Statistics Agency (Nisra) on Friday showed there have been 516 coronavirus-related deaths recorded overall in NI - including 232 in care homes, and four in hospices.\n\nOfficial statistics on Friday showed that, for a second week, there were more deaths in care homes (71) than hospitals (39).\n\nOverall, there have been 232 care home deaths related to coronavirus.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill has called for universal testing for Covid-19 across all of Northern Ireland's care homes immediately.\n\nA further 269 people diagnosed with Covid-19 have died in the UK it was reported on Sunday, bringing the total to 31,855.\n\nThe figures count deaths in hospitals, care homes and the community.\n\nOn Sunday, it was reported that a further 12 people with Covid-19 have died in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nIt brings the number of coronavirus related deaths in the country to 1,458.", "Welsh politicians have held discussions with General Electric about the future of its south Wales plant after the company announced plans to cut 13,000 jobs globally.\n\nMick Antoniw, the Welsh Assembly member for Pontypridd, said the company would be looking for voluntary redundancies at the Nantgarw site, rather than compulsory ones, and will also safeguard its apprenticeship scheme\n\nGE had been forced to take action because of the \"unique economic circumstances\" facing it, with the air industry in particular suffering a \"massive impact\" from coronavirus, Mr Antoniw said.\n\n\"It could be a lot worse because, at the moment, three-quarters of the air industry is shut down,\" he added.\n\nGE said on Monday it was planning to cut 25% of its worldwide workforce as part of $3bn savings. It employs about 1,400 people at Nantgarw.\n\nThe mounting woes for the aviation sector are now expected to last into 2021 following a dramatic fall in passenger air travel demand.\n\nPontypridd MP Alex Davies-Jones said: \"Considering what's going on, it does seem that they've done everything they can to protect jobs and the business.\"", "The US has said it wants to borrow a record $3tn (£2.4tn) in the second quarter, as coronavirus-related rescue packages blow up the budget.\n\nThe sum is more than five times the previous quarterly record, set at the height of the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nIn all of 2019, the country borrowed $1.28tn. The US has approved about $3tn in virus-related relief, including health funding and direct payouts.\n\nTotal US government debt is now near $25tn.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We used to donate to this food bank, now we rely on it'\n\nThe latest spending packages are estimated to be worth about 14% of the country's economy. The government has also extended the annual 15 April deadline for tax payments, adding to the cash crunch.\n\nThe new borrowing estimate is more than $3tn above the government's previous estimate, a sign of the impact of the new programmes.\n\nDiscussions are under way over further assistance, though some Republicans have expressed concerns about the impact of more spending on the country's skyrocketing national debt.\n\nThe US borrows by selling government bonds. It has historically enjoyed relatively low interest rates since its debt is viewed as relatively low-risk by investors around the world.\n\nBut even before the coronavirus, the country's debt load had been climbing toward levels many economists consider risky for long-term growth, as the country spent more than it took in.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: When might Hollywood reopen for business?\n\nThe US Congressional Budget Office last month predicted the budget deficit would hit $3.7tn this year, while the national debt soared above 100% of GDP.\n\nLast week, the chair of America's central bank, Jerome Powell, said he would have liked to see the US government's books be in better shape before the pandemic.\n\nHowever, he said spending now was essential to cushion the economic blow, as orders to shut businesses to slow the spread of the virus cost at least 30 million people their jobs.\n\n\"It may well be that the economy will need more help from all of us if the recovery is to be a robust one,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Armel Omatoko has moved his dance classes online so people can stay involved during lockdown.\n\nAs part of its own relief efforts, the Federal Reserve has bought more than $1tn in treasuries in recent weeks.\n\nInvestors from foreign countries are also historically significant holders of US debt, with Japan, China and the UK at the top of the pack as of February.\n\nIncreased tensions between the US and China in recent years have renewed scrutiny of America's debt position. According to the Washington Post last week, Trump administration officials had discussed cancelling debt obligations to China, but US President Donald Trump reportedly played down the idea, saying \"you start playing those games and it's tough\".\n\nFor now, continued low rates suggest investor appetite for US debt remains, allowing for a borrowing increase, Alan Blinder, a professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University, told the BBC last month.\n\n\"So far, the answer has been everything is fine, as to how much borrowing the United States government can do before investors start to feel satiated with US debt,\" he said. \"But there is a legitimate question.\"", "As Italy begins to ease its lockdown measures, residents in some of Naples' poorest neighbourhoods share their stories of how the global pandemic has left scars on their city.\n\nTakeaways and parks are reopening, small funerals can resume and some businesses are restarting.\n\nBut the shutdown has left deep wounds in a country with already serious economic problems.\n\nMark Lowen has been speaking to people whose lives have been changed.", "The pandemic has led to the closure of job centres\n\nNearly two million people have applied for universal credit benefits since the government advised people to stay at home due to coronavirus.\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey said there had been more than 1.8 million claims since 16 March.\n\nMs Coffey told MPs that figure was six times the normal claimant rate, and in one week there had been a \"tenfold\" increase in claims.\n\nShe said about 8,000 staff had been redeployed to deal with the claims.\n\nThe figures show the growing increase in demand on the benefit system since the government urged people to avoid non-essential travel and contact with others to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nMs Coffey told MPs there had also been more than 250,000 claims for Jobseeker's Allowance and over 20,000 claims for Employment Support Allowance.\n\n\"Overall, this is six times the volume that we would typically experience and in one week we had a tenfold increase\".\n\nShe said that the rate for universal credit had appeared to have stabilised at about 20,000 to 25,000 claims per day, which she said was \"double that of a standard week pre Covid-19.\"\n\nShe added: \"We've also issued almost 700,000 advances to claimants who felt that they could not wait for their routine payment and the vast majority of these claimants received money within 72 hours.\"\n\nUniversal credit is a consolidated monthly payment for those of working-age, which replaced a host of previous benefits including income-based Jobseeker's Allowance, housing benefit, child tax credit and working tax credit.\n\nIn October 2019, there were 2.6 million universal credit claimants - just over a third of whom were in work.\n\nLabour's Jonathan Reynolds said the government needed to \"widen the safety net\" of support for everyone who needs it.\n\nThe shadow work and pensions secretary said: \"The social security system we had going in to this crisis was a safety net with too many holes in it\".\n\nMr Reynolds said that the amount universal credit claimants receive had been significantly increased since the lockdown began, but asked when people on legacy benefits such as Jobseekers Allowance would see the same increases.\n\nHe highlighted calls from charities and anti-poverty campaigners to temporarily suspend the benefit cap, which puts a limit on the overall amount working age families can claim.\n\nAnd he said the two-child limit, which restricts the child element in universal credit and tax credits - worth £2,780 per child per year - to the first two children should be lifted.\n\n\"People three years ago could not have been expected to make family choices based on the likelihood of a global pandemic shutting down our economy,\" said Mr Reynolds.\n\n\"The government has suspended sanctions during the crisis but the two-child limit is effectively an 18-year sanction on the third and fourth child in a family and surely it should go too.\"\n\nMr Reynolds also said the five-week wait for the first payment of universal credit, another issue highlighted by charities as a cause of hardship despite the availability of advance loans, \"should not exist at all\".\n\nAnd he raised concerns over the impact of universal credit on maternity allowance, warning it could result in a \"low-paid pregnant woman being as much as £4,000 a year worse off\".\n\nMPs thanked front line staff for their work processing the unprecedented increase in the number of claims for support.\n\nMs Coffey said that average waiting times for calls to DWP helplines were \"now below five minutes\".\n\nThe work and pensions secretary also said a new government website had been set up to advertise new jobs, which had 58,200 vacancies on offer.", "Saleem Butt died from head and neck injuries sometime on 22 or 23 April\n\nA man has been charged with murdering a 61-year-old who was tied up and killed in his own home.\n\nSaleem Butt, 61, died from severe head and neck injuries after being \"severely beaten\" at Hyrstlands Road, Batley, between 22 and 23 April.\n\nCraig Stanton, 42, of Southgate in Huddersfield, appeared at Leeds Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nMr Stanton was remanded in custody and told he will next appear at the city's crown court on Tuesday.\n\nA 46-year-old man from the Dewsbury Moor area was arrested on Monday morning on suspicion of murder. He is being held in custody, police said.\n\nA man and a woman who were arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender have been released on bail.\n\nPolice said Mr Butt had been \"severely beaten in what was clearly an horrific sustained attack\".\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amber Gill, Tommy Fury and Molly-Mae Hague starred in the 2019 series of Love Island\n\nLove Island will not broadcast a summer series this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe reality show will instead return in 2021, ITV confirmed on Monday.\n\nKevin Lygo, director of television at ITV said: \"We have tried every which way to make Love Island this summer.\n\n\"But logistically it's just not possible to produce it in a way that safeguards the wellbeing of everyone involved and that for us is the priority.\"\n\nHe added: \"In normal circumstances we would be preparing very soon to travel out to the location in Mallorca to get the villa ready but clearly that's now out of the question.\n\n\"We are very sorry for fans of the show but making it safely is our prime concern and Love Island will be back stronger than ever in 2021. In the meantime Love Island fans can still enjoy all six series of Love Island on BritBox.\"\n\nThe cancellation of this year's summer edition of Love Island will be a big disappointment to its viewers. The programme is TV's most popular show for younger adults.\n\nThe loss of that audience will also be a huge financial blow to ITV. The show's ability to deliver those younger viewers has made it immensely valuable to advertisers.\n\nAnd that financial loss, estimated at tens of millions of pounds, will extend to the other lucrative deals it usually strikes with around a dozen other commercial partners for everything from programme sponsorship to product placement.\n\nBut perhaps the most significant impact will be the loss of such a popular piece of escapism at a time that many will feel that they need it the most.\n\nLove Island is the most successful programme in ITV2's history.\n\nMore than six million viewers watched the launch of last summer's series, which was eventually won by Amber Gill and Greg O'Shea.\n\nPaige Turley and Finley Tapp won the first winter series of Love Island earlier this year\n\nThe dating show sees contestants secluded in a villa in Spain, hoping to find romance. The winning couple receives £50,000.\n\nThe show, a revival of an earlier series of the same name which aired for two series back in 2005 and 2006, has been broadcast every summer since 2015.\n\nEarlier this year it launched an additional winter series, which was won by Finley Tapp and Paige Turley.\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 Laura Whitmore This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Amy Hart This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLaura Whitmore was set to return to host Love Island this summer having presented the winter edition.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Rail union leaders have written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson with \"severe concerns\" over plans to increase train services.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told the BBC on Sunday that more buses and trains would run as part of a staggered approach to easing the lockdown.\n\nThe letter says it is \"completely unacceptable\" to put passengers and rail staff at risk.\n\nThe government says workers should still stay at home where possible.\n\n\"Our advice is clear that the best way to protect our NHS and save lives is to stay home if possible,\" a Department for Transport (DfT) spokesperson said.\n\n\"Our rail system has been carrying key workers and freight around the country since the current restrictions were put in place, however we must ensure the network is ready to respond to a change in demand when these are lifted.\"\n\nUnion bosses say there is currently no plan to be able to increase services while also maintaining social distancing.\n\n\"We therefore call on the government and train operators to work with us in establishing where there is a real demand to increase services and, where that demand exists, how it can be delivered safely,\" says the letter, signed by the general secretaries of Aslef, the RMT and the TSSA - Mick Whelan, Mick Cash and Manuel Cortes.\n\nLast month, one rail boss told the BBC that social-distancing of any kind would be \"extraordinarily difficult\" to manage and police. Another said it could reduce the capacity of an individual train by between 70% and 90%.\n\nAt the moment about half of normal train services in the UK are running so that essential journeys are possible.\n\nThe DfT said in response it understood that talks would be needed to work out how to increase services.\n\n\"Reinstating services is a complex and time-consuming task, which is why we are in talks with the rail industry and unions on this issue,\" it said.\n\n\"In the meantime it is imperative people continue to follow the government advice and stay home and only use public transport if you have to.\"\n\nEarlier, Mr Shapps told the Andrew Marr Show that the government was looking at a range of options for people to travel to work, including encouraging what he described as a \"massive expansion\" in interest in \"active travel\" such as cycling or walking.\n\n\"There are a series of different things that we can do including staggering work times, working with businesses and organisations to do that,\" he said.\n\nHe also said he was working with train companies and unions on maintaining social distancing rules on platforms and at bus stops.\n\nEurostar passengers will be required to cover their faces from Monday or risk being refused travel.\n\nThe rail company said the rule for travellers to wear face coverings was in line with guidelines from the French and Belgian governments.\n\nAny type of face covering is allowed \"as long as it effectively covers your nose and mouth\", a statement said.", "A number of early cases in the pandemic were linked to the Wuhan Seafood Market\n\nIt was a matter of \"when not if\" an animal passed the coronavirus from wild bats to humans, scientists say.\n\nBut it remains unclear whether that animal was sold in the now infamous Wuhan wildlife market in China.\n\nThe World Health Organization says that all evidence points to the virus's natural origin, but some scientists now say it might never be known how the first person was infected.\n\nTrade in wild animals is under scrutiny as source of this \"spillover\".\n\nBut when wildlife is bought and sold in almost every country in the world, controlling it - let alone banning it - is far from straightforward. Tackling it on a global scale could be the route to stopping a future pandemic before it starts.\n\nThe virus originated in bats and was probably passed to humans via an 'intermediate host'\n\nGlobal health researchers have, for many years, understood how the trade in wild animals provides a source of species-to-species disease transmission. As life-changing as this particular outbreak has been for so much of the global population, it is actually one of many that the trade has been linked to.\n\nAs the WHO's technical lead on Covid-19, Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, told the BBC: \"We were preparing for something like this as it's not a matter of if, it is a matter of when.\"\n\nInfectious disease experts agree that, like most emerging human disease, this virus initially jumped undetected across the species barrier.\n\nProf Andrew Cunningham, from the Zoological Society of London, explained: \"We've actually been expecting something like this to happen for a while.\n\n\"These diseases are emerging more frequently in recent years as a result of human encroachment into wild habitat and increased contact and use of wild animals by people.\"\n\nOfficials seize civet cats in Xinyuan wildlife market in Guangzhou to prevent the spread of Sars\n\nThe virus that causes Covid-19 joins a murky list of household name viruses - including Ebola, rabies, Sars and Mers - that have originated in wild bat populations.\n\nSome of the now extensive body of evidence about bat viruses, and their ability to infect humans, comes from seeking the source of the 2003 outbreak of Sars, a very closely related coronavirus. It was only in 2017 though that scientists pinned down the \"rich gene pool of bat Sars-related coronaviruses\" in a single cave in China. - the possible source of the pandemic.\n\nThese viruses have resided in the bodies of bats for millennia, but are pre-programmed with the ability to infect a humans; the key that unlocks some of our cells, where they can replicate.\n\n\"In the case of Sars-CoV-2 the key is a virus protein called Spike and the main lock to enter a cell is a receptor called ACE2,\" explained Prof David Robertson, a virologist from the University of Glasgow. \"The coronavirus is not only able to fit that ACE2 lock, \"it's actually doing this many times better than Sars-1 [the virus that caused the 2003 outbreak] does\", he said.\n\nThat perfect fit could explain why the coronavirus is so easily transmitted from person to person; its contagiousness has outpaced our efforts to contain it. But bringing the bat virus to the door of a human cell is where the trade in wildlife plays an important role.\n\nMost of us have heard that this virus \"started\" in a wildlife market in Wuhan. But the source of the virus - an animal with this pathogen in its body - was not found in the market.\n\n\"The initial cluster of infections was associated with the market - that is circumstantial evidence,\" explained Prof James Wood from the University of Cambridge.\n\n\"The infection could have come from somewhere else and just, by chance, clustered around people there. But given that it is an animal virus, the market association is highly suggestive.\"\n\nProf Cunningham agreed; wildlife markets, he explained, are hotspots for animal diseases to find new hosts. \"Mixing large numbers of species under poor hygienic and welfare conditions, and species that wouldn't normally come close together gives opportunities for pathogens to jump species to species,\" he explained.\n\nAnimals rescued from the exotic pet trade often have to be protected from human disease\n\nMany wildlife viruses in the past have come into humans via a second species - one that is farmed, or hunted and sold on a market.\n\nProf Woods explained: \"The original Sars virus was transmitted into the human population via an epidemic in Palm civets, which were being traded around southern China to be eaten.\n\n\"That was very important to know because there was an epidemic in the Palm civets themselves, which had to be controlled to stop an ongoing spillover into humans.\"\n\nIn the search for the missing link in this particular transmission chain, scientists found clues pointing to mink, ferrets and even turtles as a host. Similar viruses were found in the bodies of rare and widely trafficked pangolins, but none of these suspect species has been shown to be involved in this outbreak. What we do know is that our contact with, and trading of, wild animals puts us in the path of new diseases that are silently seeking a host.\n\nCamels can harbour the novel coronavirus, Mers\n\n\"Trying to make sure that we are not bringing wildlife into direct contact with ourselves or with other domestic animals is a very important part of this equation,\" said Prof Wood.\n\n\"And there have been various campaigns to ban all trade in animals and all contact with wildlife,\" he added, \"but what you do then is penalise some of the poorest people in the world. In many cases, by introducing measures like that you drive trade underground, which makes it far harder to do anything about.\"\n\nThe WHO has already called for stricter hygiene and safety standards for so-called wet markets in China. But in many cases - such as the trade in bush meat in Sub-Saharan Africa, which was linked with the Ebola outbreak - markets are informal and therefore very difficult to regulate.\n\n\"You can't do it from an office in London or in Geneva; you have to do that locally on the ground in every country,\" added Prof Wood.\n\nDr Maria Van Kerkhove agreed: \"It's very important we work with population and people who are working at the animal/human interface - people who work with wildlife.\"\n\nWhat that will be is a truly global and highly complicated effort. But the Covid-19 outbreak appears to have shown us the cost of the alternative.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Victoria Gill looks at the wildlife species enjoying lockdown", "Draft guidance for getting people back to work during the coronavirus pandemic could compromise worker safety, the head of the TUC has warned.\n\nFrances O'Grady, who leads the group representing UK unions, said it cannot back the advice in its \"current form\".\n\nShe said there were \"huge gaps\" over protective kit and testing.\n\nReduced hot-desking and alternatives to social distancing where it is not possible are among measures being considered by the government.\n\nThe document, seen by the BBC, is one of seven draft plans to ease anti-virus restrictions.\n\nIt also urges employers to minimise numbers using equipment, stagger shift times and maximise home-working.\n\nThe guidance covers the whole of the UK - but the devolved governments have the power to make their own decisions on how businesses can get back to work.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of coronavirus-related deaths in the UK stands at 28,734, an increase of 288, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said at the Downing Street briefing.\n\nThe health secretary outlined the coronavirus contact-tracing app at the Downing Street briefing\n\nThe daily increase in deaths is lower than at any point since the end of March, but the figures reported at the weekend tend to be lower and are expected to rise, Mr Hancock said.\n\nA total of 13,258 people are currently being treated in hospital, while 85,186 coronavirus tests took place on Sunday.\n\nHowever, hospital admissions have fallen, along with the number of critical care beds being used.\n\nA coronavirus contact-tracing app aimed at limiting a second wave of coronavirus will be trialled on the Isle of Wight this week, before being rolled out more widely in the UK, as part of the government's test, track and trace effort.\n\nMr Hancock said creating the system was a \"huge national undertaking\" and would allow the UK to take a \"more targeted approach to lockdown while still safely containing the disease\".\n\nBuzzfeed has seen all seven draft documents on getting people back to work.\n\nMs O'Grady said the Trades Union Congress had seen some of the documents on Sunday.\n\nShe said workers' safety must not be compromised and called for \"robust direction and enforcement\" so employers can \"do the right thing\" and action can be taken against those who do not.\n\nFrances O'Grady is general secretary of the TUC which represents many UK trade unions\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's The World at One: \"The problem is the government is asking us to trust to employer discretion, use words like 'consider social distancing', 'consider having hand sanitiser or soap available', and frankly that's just not good enough.\"\n\nAsked whether the government's current advice will compromise worker safety, Ms O'Grady said No 10 has time to \"get this right\" and it should work with unions to ensure \"a proper job\" and \"not a botched job\".\n\nAccording to one of the seven draft documents seen by the BBC, firms are told to enact additional hygiene procedures, as well as physical screens, and protective equipment should be considered where maintaining distancing of 2m (6ft) between workers is impossible.\n\nHowever, the section marked personal protective equipment (PPE) contains only a promise that \"more detail\" will follow.\n\nDuring the Downing Street briefing, BBC health editor Hugh Pym asked where those businesses required to have PPE for their staff would source it, and whether they would be in competition with the NHS.\n\nMr Hancock said the \"first call\" on PPE must be for NHS and social care staff, as well as those \"essential services who need it to keep the people delivering those services safe\".\n\nHe reiterated PPE was one of the government's five tests for adjusting the lockdown.\n\nThe BBC has also seen a second document with advice for the hospitality industry, which says bar areas, seated restaurants and cafe areas must be closed, with all food and drink outlets serving takeaway food only.\n\nIt adds hotels should consider \"room occupancy levels to maintain social distancing, especially in multi-occupancy dormitories\".\n\nIt also says \"guidance to follow\" on the use of PPE and face masks.\n\nSome of the other guidance featured in the document includes:\n\nBoris Johnson is to reveal a \"roadmap\" out of lockdown on Sunday, but in a video message on Monday he said the the UK must not lift restrictions too soon.\n\nIn the video, posted on Twitter, Mr Johnson said: \"The worst thing we could do now is ease up too soon and allow a second peak of coronavirus.\"\n\nMr Johnson said the UK would only be able to move on to \"the second phase of this conflict\" when the government's five tests had been met, including a sustained and consistent fall in daily deaths and being confident any adjustments would not risk a second peak which could overwhelm the health service.\n\nMany companies have been shut since widespread limits on everyday life were imposed on 23 March, in a bid to limit the effects of the virus's spread on the NHS.\n\nMinisters are obliged to review those restrictions by Thursday.\n\nLondon's NHS Nightingale was built in just nine days\n\nMeanwhile, London's NHS Nightingale hospital is expected not to admit any new patients and be placed on standby in the coming days.\n\nThe ExCel Centre was turned into a 4,000-bed facility to increase the NHS's capacity for treating patients with Covid-19.\n\nIn a briefing to staff, the hospital's chief executive said it was \"likely\" the hospital would not need to admit patients in the coming days while the virus remained under control in London.\n\nThe BBC understands fewer than 20 people are currently being treated there.\n\nHow have you been affected by coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "We are, declared the prime minister at the end of last week, past the peak of the coronavirus pandemic in the UK.\n\nBut he said we'd have to wait until this week to learn more about how we'll start to move out of the lockdown that has changed the country so dramatically in the past six weeks.\n\nGiven that the crisis has affected pretty much everyone in one way or another, there is a fevered guessing game well under way about what moving out of the lockdown might look like - and it involves huge dilemmas for the government.\n\nWith another six days to go before the prime minister is expected to spell out those choices, some things are clear.\n\nFirst and foremost, the government is not about to throw the country's doors open.\n\nScotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, admitted today that this Thursday - when UK ministers have to review the restrictions - she is likely to ask people to stick with the lockdown for a while longer.\n\nThat's likely to be the case across the UK.\n\nSo while you can pencil in a big political moment for Sunday, when Boris Johnson makes his statement, he is not going to be saying that on Monday morning you will wake up and the world will have got back to normal.\n\nThe first thing the government is trying to do is to prod some things back to life in the economy that didn't necessarily need to close to in the first place.\n\nSome ministers are already gently trying to make this happen - by encouraging businesses like DIY stores or takeaways to open safely.\n\nThe impact of the government's \"Stay at Home\" message surprised Whitehall, with more of the country's business closing down than they had expected.\n\nBut workplaces will be prompted to come back to life, as long as they can follow the principle of keeping people apart.\n\nAs leaked draft guidance for business seen by my colleague Simon Jack shows, this is far from straightforward, and if it's possible to do your job from home, that is likely still to be the expectation.\n\nThe return of schools is equally, if not more, fraught.\n\nThere's a hope in government that schools in England, at least, can start to reopen at the beginning of June, with some kind of staggered return, or rota system for different year groups.\n\nThe social and economic consequences of school gates staying shut are obviously profound, but with a still limited amount of information about the disease, and about how children do or do not transmit it, there are nerves about exactly what to do.\n\nAnd while it might be politically deeply tricky, it is possible that the government, with what it hopes will be the benefit of a sophisticated tracing mechanism for the virus, could flex restrictions at different times in different parts of the country.\n\nSeveral cabinet ministers have expressed private reservations about regional variations, saying that they prefer a \"sectoral\" approach.\n\nBut others in government make the argument for targeted approaches to easing lockdown - experimenting, then monitoring, rather than a one-size-fits-all approach.\n\nTrying out changes in a limited way has some appeal but would be tricky politically.\n\nWhat is more likely, perhaps, is that the whole country starts to come out of lockdown at the same kind of gradual rate, but if the infection re-emerges in one particular area, limits are restored in that specific place.\n\nThat of course only works, if the government manages to dramatically improve the amount and quality of data that is available.\n\nThe much-vaunted app that is meant to be critical to all of this, starts its test phase on the Isle of Wight on Tuesday.\n\nSo much has to be decided - on schools, businesses, geography, PPE - and individual government departments are each making plans about how they might proceed.\n\nBut in the hunt for the detail, don't miss the bigger point.\n\nLockdown, when it came, changed the country almost overnight. Recreating our lives in a changed world will be long and difficult undertaking.\n\nFigures from the Treasury show just how many people have been affected, not by the disease itself, but by the lockdown shock - more than six million people are having their wages paid for the first time by the Treasury, on the furlough scheme.\n\nExit will bring complicated policy choices and economic pain too.\n\nAs one senior government figure said: \"Work will be different, shopping with be different, transport will be different - we need to create a whole different way of how society can work.\"\n\nA cabinet minister described it as \"turning up the dimmer switch\".\n\nAnd it will be a long time before we can be sure what we'll really see.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nAt the end of this week, the prime minister will reveal his \"roadmap\" to get the UK out of lockdown. Ahead of that, the BBC has seen what the rules around workplaces might look like, including reduced hot-desking, staggered shifts and continued home-working. There is an acceptance, though, that keeping 2m away from colleagues and customers won't always be possible. Here, the BBC's David Shukman looks at the science behind that number.\n\nProtective screens are already in use in many premises\n\nRail union leaders have written to Boris Johnson expressing \"severe concerns\" over plans to increase train services as part of easing the UK lockdown. The letter says it is \"completely unacceptable\" to put passengers and rail staff at risk. See how other nations are going about lifting their restrictions, including requiring people to wear masks on all public transport.\n\nBoris Johnson is among leaders who'll today sign up to a global fundraising drive aiming to raise £6.6bn (€7.5bn; $8.3bn) to find a coronavirus vaccine. The PM will call it \"the most urgent shared endeavour of our lifetimes\". The Brussels-led fundraising initiative comes as France, Spain and Italy see death rates continue to fall.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We risked everything to survive\" - Naples resident Filomena\n\nUniversity students in England won't get a discount on their tuition fees if their courses are taught online in the autumn. The sector is facing a budget squeeze because of a drop in lucrative foreign students, so universities have also been told they'll be able to recruit more home-grown entrants to help fill the gap. We answer your questions on universities and a host of other topics here.\n\nThere are currently few effective treatments for coronavirus, with doctors relying on patients' own immune systems. However, a new drug developed by UK scientists is being trialled at University Hospital Southampton, with initial results expected by the end of June. Read more on the most promising drugs in the pipeline.\n\nKaye Flitney is one of 75 people enrolled in the Southampton trial\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and follow all the latest developments via our live page.\n\nAmong today's stories, a child psychologist asks whether lockdown has any impact on babies, and one mother-to-be, navigating this whole experience without a partner, shares her story.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. 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Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Mrs Formby said she had taken on the role to support Jeremy Corbyn and his \"inspiring\" message\n\nJennie Formby is to stand down as the Labour Party's most senior official.\n\nShe said it was the \"right time\" to make way as general secretary, with the party under new leadership following Sir Keir Starmer's election last month.\n\nThe former Unite union officer said she had taken on the role in 2018 primarily to support then leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nMs Formby, who was treated for breast cancer in 2019, said it had been a privilege to serve during what had been a \"very challenging period\".\n\nThe 60-year-old is at the centre of a row over the leak of an internal review into the handling of allegations of anti-Semitism in Labour's ranks.\n\nIn a statement, Ms Formby - who previously worked as political director for the Unite union and a regional branch secretary - thanked all those who had supported her.\n\n\"When I applied for the role of general secretary in 2018 it was because I wanted to support Jeremy Corbyn, who inspired so many people to get involved in politics with his message of hope, equality and peace,\" she said.\n\n\"Now we have a new leadership team it is the right time to step down.\"\n\nIt had been assumed Ms Formby would have stood down ahead of the party conference in September.\n\nThis would have been after the inquiry in to the leaked document reports in July.\n\nAnd it would probably have been after the Equality and Human Rights Commission delivers the results of its investigation in to anti-Semitism in the party.\n\nBut Ms Formby has instead chosen to go sooner, on her own terms, without awaiting the verdict of these probes.\n\nSir Keir thanked Ms Formby for the commitment and energy she had shown in helping steer Labour through a period of \"political upheaval\" while deputy leader Angela Rayner said she had \"blazed a trail\" for women in the Labour movement.\n\nDuring Ms Formby's time as general secretary, the party was dogged by anti-Semitism allegations and there were rows over Mr Corbyn's leadership.\n\nLabour MP Margaret Hodge - who has been critical of Mr Corbyn and of the party's handling of anti-Semitism claims - tweeted that Ms Formby's resignation was \"another opportunity to draw a line under the past four years\".\n\nShadow minister Andy McDonald told the BBC that Ms Formby \"had a really difficult stewardship\" and it was also \"no secret\" that she had been \"quite poorly, but she battled through that incredibly\".\n\nHe said she did a \"terrific job\" and displayed \"great professionalism\".\n\nThe Labour grassroots and pro-Corbyn group Momentum said Ms Formby \"inherited a party bureaucracy that was often hostile to Jeremy's leadership\", referencing the leaked report that claimed anti-Jeremy Corbyn sentiment among Labour staff hindered efforts to tackle anti-Semitism claims.\n\n\"Struggling against this while undergoing chemotherapy must have taken a herculean effort,\" the group said.\n\nLabour's ruling body, the NEC, will meet soon to discuss a timetable to choose her successor.", "Politicians, police, postal workers and paramedics...are just a few of the key workers on show in scarecrow form around the village of Kilkhampton in Cornwall.\n\nResident Val Shadrick said she put out a call on Facebook for locals to make the effigies to keep the village entertained.\n\nMs Shadrick said she expected about 30 to be put up, but more than 150 have appeared.\n\nShe said initially she thought making the straw sentinels would be \"something that the children and bigger kids could get involved with, should they be bored\" as well as livening up the villager's daily walks.\n\nBut as more and more people got involved, Ms Shadrick said it had reached the point where she'd coined the phrase \"scarecrow-navirus\".", "Russia has the seventh highest number of coronavirus cases in the world\n\nRussia has recorded 10,633 new coronavirus infections in the past 24 hours, the highest daily rise since the outbreak began in the country.\n\nThe increase brings Russia's total number of coronavirus cases to 134,686, the seventh highest tally in the world.\n\nBut Russia's mortality rate remains low relative to other countries, such as the US, Italy and Spain.\n\nOn Sunday, a further 58 coronavirus-related deaths were announced, bringing the total to 1,280 in Russia.\n\nMoscow has been hit particularly hard by the virus, leaving its healthcare system struggling to cope.\n\nMoscow's mayor Sergei Sobyanin on Saturday cautioned against complacency, saying the capital was not past the peak of its coronavirus epidemic.\n\nThe mayor said around 2% of residents in the city - around 250,000 people - had tested positive for coronavirus. On Sunday, Moscow's total number of cases jumped by 5,948 to a total of 68,606.\n\nA strict lockdown has been imposed in Moscow, where its 12 million residents have been ordered to stay at home with few exceptions.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has said situation remains \"very serious\", warning Russians to brace for a \"gruelling phase of the pandemic\" in the weeks ahead.\n\nEarlier in the week Russian Prime Minister, Mikhail Mishustin, confirmed he had been diagnosed with Covid-19, the first senior minister in the country to do so.\n\nMr Mishustin's diagnosis was announced during a televised video-call with President Putin\n\nMr Mishustin, who was appointed as PM in January, was still being treated in hospital on Sunday. His spokesman said he was feeling fine, enabling him to work from hospital.\n\nOn Friday, Russia's housing minister, Vladimir Yakushev, became the second senior minister to be confirmed to have Covid-19.\n\nThe number of confirmed coronavirus cases here is rising steadily each day. The Russian authorities put that down to a big increase in testing - over 40,000 people a day, in Moscow alone.\n\nThey also say up to half of the new cases are people without symptoms - including those detected through screening, like healthcare workers.\n\nStill, the virus is spreading more quickly now in Russia's regions - where hospital facilities are far worse than in the capital and where medics have been complaining they don't have the masks and protective clothing to keep them safe.\n\nAnd even here, in Moscow, some 1,700 people are being admitted to hospital each day, increasing the strain on the system.\n\nPresident Putin has extended a nationwide non-working period until 11 May, saying \"the peak is not behind us\".\n\nBeyond that, the president said his government will consider gradually lifting coronavirus restrictions from 12 May, depending on the region.\n\nLast week, Mr Putin admitted there was a shortage of protective kit for medics on the frontline of the coronavirus crisis.", "Employers will not be required to maintain social distancing of two metres between workers under government proposals to reopen the UK's workplaces.\n\nIn one of the draft government strategy papers, seen by the BBC, employers are encouraged to do so where possible but where it's not, additional measures should be considered, it suggests.\n\nThese should include additional hygiene procedures, physical screens and the use of protective equipment.\n\nHowever, the section of the documents marked PPE is currently empty, apart from a promise that \"more detail\" will follow.\n\nUnion leaders have expressed concerns, saying few firms currently have this equipment and efforts to acquire it could see them competing with the NHS for scarce and essential supplies.\n\nEmployers are also encouraged to stagger arrival and break times, minimise the use of equipment or office space by many users, and avoid chopping and changing worker rotas.\n\nWorkers considered vulnerable (for instance over 70, pregnant, or with underlying organ or respiratory problems) but who cannot work from home should be put in the \"safest possible roles\" in the workplace.\n\nThe guidance remains clear that those who can work from home should continue to do so, which suggests office workers will not be returning to work for many weeks - or even months - to come.\n\nCompanies, business groups and unions were given until 10pm last night to respond to these proposals and the government will present updated plans on Thursday.\n\nThe guidance in the leaked documents covers the whole of the UK but devolved governments have the power to make their own decisions on how businesses get back to work.\n\nSeparately, rail unions have written to the Prime Minister expressing concerns about plans by the rail operating companies to increase the number of trains in service.\n\nA joint letter from ASLEF, RMT and TSSA described plans to run more trains as \"completely unacceptable\" as long as there is no agreement on how services can be increased whilst protecting workers and passengers.\n\nRe-opening the economy will take more than modified working practices.\n\nWorkers must be confident they are safe.\n\nCompanies must be confident they won't be sued if they get it wrong.\n\nAnd consumers must be confident enough to spend money.\n\nThe government's repetitive message to stay at home to protect the NHS and save lives has been largely effective. Changing the record will be difficult.", "President Trump also said he believed a vaccine could be ready by the end of this year\n\nUS President Donald Trump has warned that as many as 100,000 people could die of coronavirus in the US.\n\nSpeaking at a two-hour virtual \"town hall\", Mr Trump also denied that his administration had acted too slowly.\n\nMore than 68,000 people have already died with Covid-19 in the US.\n\nBut Mr Trump expressed optimism about the development of a vaccine, suggesting one could be ready by the end of this year - although experts believe it will take 12 to 18 months.\n\n\"I think we're going to have a vaccine by the end of the year,\" he told Fox News. \"The doctors would say, well you shouldn't say that. I'll say what I think... I think we'll a vaccine sooner rather than later.\"\n\nAmong the experts to disagree with this optimistic estimate are Dr Anthony Fauci, America's top infectious disease expert, and England's Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty.\n\nDr Fauci has previously said a vaccine will take up to 18 months to develop, while Professor Whitty said last month the chances of having an effective vaccine or other treatment within the next year were \"incredibly small\".\n\nThe town hall - or community meeting featuring viewers' questions - was intended to relaunch Mr Trump's presidential campaign in lieu of rallies.\n\nPresident Trump also rejected claims that his administration had failed to act quickly enough at the start of the outbreak, saying: \"We did the right thing.\"\n\nThe town hall was held at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC\n\nInstead, he again accused China for failing to stop the virus spreading: \"I think they made a horrible mistake, and they didn't want to admit it. We wanted to go in. They didn't want us there.\"\n\nMr Trump also laid some of the blame at the door of US intelligence officials, accusing them of failing to raise concerns about the outbreak until 23 January.\n\nHowever, US broadcasters CNN and ABC report that the president's intelligence briefings mentioned the coronavirus as early as 3 January.", "An outbreak was detected at Home Farm care home last week\n\nTwo residents have died at a care home on the Isle of Skye where 57 people have tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe outbreak was first detected at Home Farm independent care home in Portree last week.\n\nThe company which runs the home, HC One, said 30 of the home's 34 residents - including the two who died - and 27 staff were confirmed to have the virus.\n\nAn Army-run mobile testing unit has been set up on Skye following the outbreak.\n\nA spokesman for the home said its thoughts and sympathies were with the families who had lost loved ones.\n\nScottish Health Secretary Jeane Freeman told the Scottish government's daily briefing that all residents had been isolated in their rooms while the local GP and advanced nurse practitioner undertook \"medical assessments\".\n\nThe health secretary said her \"best thoughts and good wishes\" went out to those who have tested positive at Home Farm and other care homes across the country.\n\nThe GMB union later called for an investigation into the scale of the outbreak at Home Farm.\n\nDrew Duffy, senior GMB organiser for public services, told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime with John Beattie: \"The numbers involved in the Isle of Skye is just a tragedy, so we do need to immediately look at what was put in place for residents and staff, but clearly this has just highlighted years of underfunding within social care.\n\n\"The private sector care homes having been running on minuscule budgets, cutting corners and the crisis has just highlighted the disease that has been austerity for years - they just cannot cope.\"\n\nA Care Inspectorate report in January - before the UK coronavirus outbreak - raised some concerns about cleaning and staffing at the home.\n\nBut the care home insisted these were \"swiftly resolved\" and it had sufficient staff to maintain \"high standards of cleanliness\" .\n\nA spokesperson added: \"In response to the coronavirus outbreak in the UK, which we have been planning for since February, all colleagues completed additional, specific coronavirus training and infection control training.\"\n\nA mobile testing unit, run by the Army, has been sent to Skye\n\nLocal MSP Kate Forbes, who is the Scottish government's finance secretary, earlier told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that contact tracing could be used on the island to track the spread of the virus.\n\n\"Skye, as a self-contained island community, shows the advantages of contact tracing and I think that contact tracing is going to be an important part of our capability on Skye in dealing with the outbreak,\" she said.\n\n\"That will form a vital part of NHS Highland's response, as you can see from that increased testing capacity and the way that they have already started to make contact, not just with those who have tested, but with their households as well.\"\n\nMs Forbes said some members of staff had part-time jobs in the community as well as their work at the care home, making contact tracing an \"important\" way of containing the virus.\n\nFormer Scottish Tory leader Baroness Goldie, speaking on the same programme, said the testing strategy on the island should be designed to \"absolutely ensure the safety of residents\".\n\nDespite the situation on Skye, the defence minister said it was clear that the UK was \"past the peak\" of the virus.\n\nShe said: \"I don't want to in any way diminish the gravity and the horror of what's been happening in the care home, that's been a very tragic and worrying situation.\n\n\"But the data now shows that the peak is past.\n\n\"We see deaths beginning to fall, we see rates of infection beginning to fall, we see hospital admissions beginning to fall, but that is not a sign that we can relax the restrictions.\"\n\nBaroness Goldie urged people to adhere to the restrictions put in place to control the virus, saying it was important that the measures were not lifted too early.\n\nLast week, soldiers set up mobile testing sites in Dunoon, Motherwell, Prestwick Airport, Elgin, Galashiels, Stranraer and Peterhead.\n\nA further three sites will be added this week in Peterhead, Thurso and Arbroath.", "The government is now paying the wages for nearly a quarter of UK jobs under a programme aimed at helping people put on leave due to the virus pandemic.\n\nAbout 2.5 million people registered last week for the scheme, bringing the total claims to 6.3 million - 23% of the employed workforce.\n\nThe job retention scheme funds 80% of workers' wages, up to £2,500 a month.\n\nSeparately, the Department of Work and Pensions reported another 1.8 million new Universal Credit claims.\n\nThe spike in the numbers of people seeking assistance comes as the world braces for the most severe economic crisis since the 1930s. Forecasts suggest the UK economy will contract 6.5% or more this year.\n\n\"The 6.3 million jobs being furloughed shows in stark terms the scale of the economic shutdown that Britain is living through,\" said Torsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation.\n\n\"If this kind of volume of workers stay on the scheme for several months the cost will run into the tens of billions of pounds And that is a cost very much worth paying.\"\n\nThe Government said about 800,000 employers have reported furloughing workers since 20 April, when the programme started.\n\nIt said it had distributed £8bn so far, with an average payout of £1,269 - about half of the £2,500 maximum. The scheme is due to run through June, suggesting the total cost could exceed £30bn.\n\nSome business groups have urged the government to extend the scheme, in which the state covers up to 80% of pay for workers put on leave due to the virus.\n\nHowever, in a television interview, Chancellor Rishi Sunak sounded a cautionary note, saying that level of expenditure was \"not sustainable\".\n\n\"I am working as we speak to figure out the most effective way to wind down the scheme and ease people back into work in a measured way,\" he said.\n\n\"But as some scenarios have suggested we are potentially spending as much on the furlough scheme as we do on the [National Health Service] for example. Now clearly that is not a sustainable solution.\"", "A test version of the NHS's coronavirus contact-tracing app has been published to Apple and Google's app stores.\n\nCouncil staff and healthcare workers on the Isle of Wight will be invited to install it on Tuesday, ahead of a wider roll-out on the island on Thursday.\n\nProject chiefs have said their so-called \"centralised\" approach gives them advantages over a rival scheme advocated by the US tech giants and some privacy experts.\n\nBut fresh concerns have been raised.\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office has declared that \"as a general rule, a decentralised approach\" would better follow its principle that organisations should minimise the amount of personal data they collect.\n\nThe House of Commons' Human Rights Select Committee also discussed fears about plans to extend the app to record location data.\n\n\"There is an inherent risk that if you create a system that can be added to incrementally, you could do so in a way that is very privacy invasive,\" cautioned law professor Orla Lynskey.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock said Isle of Wight residents using the app \"will be saving lives\"\n\nBut NHSX - the health service's digital innovation unit - has stressed that:\n\n\"Please download the app to protect the NHS and save lives,\" Health Secretary Matt Hancock urged Isle of Wight residents.\n\n\"By downloading the app, you're protecting your own health, you're protecting the health of your loved ones, and the health of the community.\"\n\nThe NHS Covid-19 app is intended to supplement medical tests and contact-tracing interviews carried out by humans, in order to prevent a resurgence of Covid-19 when lockdown measures are eased.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: What is contact tracing and how does it work?\n\nIt works by using Bluetooth signals to detect when two people's smartphones are close to each other. If one person later registers themselves as being infected, an alert can be sent to others judged to be at high risk of contagion. This might be based on the fact they were exposed to the same person for a long period of time or that there had been multiple instances of them being in the vicinity of different people.\n\nThe trial on the Isle of Wight will help NHSX test how well the system works in practice, as well as judge how willing a population is to install and use the software. It follows a smaller experiment on an RAF base.\n\nAlthough the app is live, it is effectively hidden on the iOS and Android marketplaces, and residents will need to follow a set of instructions to install it.\n\nUsers will be asked to enter the first part of their postcode but not their name or other personal details\n\nWhile in theory there is nothing to prevent the details being shared and used by others elsewhere, NHSX hopes this will not happen as it could confuse the feedback it receives.\n\nAhead of the trial, NHSX chief Matthew Gould acknowledged that there would \"inevitably be unintended consequences\" and that \"if we think there is a better way of doing what we need to do, we won't hesitate to change\".\n\nBut he added that if citizens \"want to carry on saving lives, protecting the NHS and get the country back on its feet, then downloading the app is one way they can do that\".\n\nNHSX's app will send back details of the logged Bluetooth \"handshakes\" to a UK-based computer server to do the contact matching, rather carrying out the process on the handsets themselves.\n\nApple, Google and hundreds of privacy advocates have raised concerns that this risks hackers or even the state itself being able to re-identify anonymised users, and thus learn details about their social circles.\n\nBut NHSX has consulted ethicists and GCHQ's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) on the matter, and believes safeguards are in place to minimise the risk of this happening.\n\nFurthermore, it believes any such concerns are outweighed by the benefits of adopting a centralised approach.\n\nIt says a centralised app will let it:\n\nNHSX believes another major benefit is that its app can make use of people self-diagnosing themselves before they obtain test results.\n\nThe app will allow people to self-diagnose themselves by answering a series of questions\n\nThis would only be possible, Mr Gould explained, because NHSX could spot \"anomalous patterns of activity\" indicating that people were lying to the app for malicious reasons.\n\nBut the DP3T group - which promotes the decentralised approach - believes this claim is misleading.\n\n\"I have not seen any evidence that this would do anything but spot very large-scale and quite clumsy attacks,\" explained Prof Michael Veale.\n\n\"The only way to make sure that people can be held to account for submitting false reports is to identify them [which takes you down] a slippery slope.\"\n\nAnother criticism of NHSX's approach is that it puts the UK at odds with Ireland, Germany, Switzerland and a growing list of other nations, which are pursuing decentralised apps.\n\nThe fear is that UK citizens may face tougher restrictions on international travel if its system is not interoperable with others.\n\nMr Gould said that NHSX was \"talking to a range of countries [to] make sure that systems can talk to each other,\" adding that France and Japan were among others developing centralised apps.\n\nBut Prof Veale warned that any attempt to try to join up the two systems risked \"the worst of both worlds\".\n\n\"I don't think it's just a mater of political will. It would be a matter of sacrificing the privacy-by-design within both systems.\"\n\nThe Isle of Wight's Green Party - which has nine locally-elected councillors - has also expressed its doubts.\n\n\"The Isle of Wight has a significantly older and more vulnerable population [and] the island's one hospital could be overwhelmed if... people feel they do no need to stick to lockdown measures due to the rolling out of this app,\" it said.\n\nBut the government's coordinator for testing said the island was \"well-equipped\" to cope.\n\n\"It's quite a large population and there is a benefit in the fact that travel on and off the island is relatively restricted - the ferries are there, but they're running relatively infrequently,\" added Public Health England's Prof John Newton.\n\n\"So it is an ideal place to look at the epidemiology and see the impact.\"", "Every time people cough, sneeze, talk or even breathe they can spread droplets containing the virus.\n\nThat’s the rather graphic conclusion of the Royal Society, Britain’s oldest and most prestigious scientific academy.\n\nIt highlights the risk of the virus being spread by people who don’t realise they have it - either because they’ve yet to develop symptoms or because they never show symptoms at all.\n\nThis is how an estimated 40-80% of coronavirus infections happen and that’s why the panel recommends face masks.\n\nThe report stresses that high-quality masks should be reserved for medical and care workers.\n\nBut it says homemade face coverings can be effective, not at protecting the wearer but at preventing the wearer from infecting others where social distancing isn’t possible, on public transport and in shops and workplaces.\n\nThe issue has become highly divisive. Some researchers say the Royal Society’s report has ignored the risk to the public, for example, of contaminating themselves when handling masks.\n\nThe UK government is still considering the evidence.", "Piers Morgan said he had tested negative for coronavirus\n\nPiers Morgan has said he has tested negative for coronavirus after showing potential symptoms of the illness.\n\nBen Shephard deputised for him on Monday's Good Morning Britain, alongside regular co-host Susanna Reid, while Morgan awaited his test results.\n\nIn a tweet, Morgan said he would be back on the show \"as soon as my doctor advises I'm OK to return to work\".\n\nHe said he was advised to take a test after developing possible symptoms and was eligible as an essential worker.\n\nDespite the result, Shephard filled in for him again on Tuesday.\n\nLast week, Morgan was cleared of breaching broadcasting watchdog Ofcom's rules after 4,000 complaints about his questioning of care minister Helen Whately.\n\nDuring an animated interview he asked her to say the number of health workers and care workers who had died with coronavirus.\n\nShe accused him of \"shouting at me and not giving me a chance to answer your questions\" and \"attempting to score points\".\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.", "The two bikers had travelled from Rochdale to Whitby to buy fish and chips\n\nTwo bikers who went on a 200-mile round trip to buy fish and chips have been fined for breaching coronavirus lockdown restrictions.\n\nThe pair had travelled from Rochdale in Greater Manchester to Whitby in North Yorkshire before being stopped, fined and sent home by police.\n\nWhitby Neighbourhood Policing Team said the trip was not \"reasonable travel\".\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police has previously said people were breaking lockdown rules to travel to the area.\n\nPosting on Facebook, the force said: \"Whilst Whitby would usually welcome visitors to sample our finest fish and chips, due to the current climate this does not constitute reasonable travel.\n\n\"Whitby Neighbourhood Policing Team were patrolling the A169 and stopped two motorcyclists who had travelled from Rochdale purely for fish and chips.\n\n\"Both were sent home and issued fines.\"\n\nThe same force said on Monday that people were \"blatantly ignoring\" lockdown rules by visiting local beauty spots.\n\nA force spokesman said: \"This weekend [2/3 May] proved to be another busy weekend for police in North Yorkshire, with the force seeing no dip in visitors to the area or the number of fines issued.\"\n\nThe force added: \"Sixty-one fines were issued across Saturday and Sunday, with Malham again proving to be a \"hot-spot\" for out-of-area day-trippers, with 12 of the 61 fines issued being in the vicinity.\"\n\nDay-trippers to the Yorkshire Dales accounted for the majority of fines.\n\nMalham Cove is a popular beauty spot in the Yorkshire Dales National Park\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "People who have lost income from shuttered businesses are feeling the most anxiety\n\nNearly half of people in Britain experienced \"high anxiety\" as the country's lockdown began, an Office for National Statistics survey suggests.\n\nAnxiety levels were highest among an estimated 8.6 million people whose income fell, according to the weekly survey on the impact of coronavirus.\n\nRenters and the self-employed were also particularly affected.\n\nMeasures of well-being were at their lowest levels since records began in 2011, the ONS said.\n\nThe survey's finding suggested that more than 25 million people - 49.6% of over-16s in Britain - rated their anxiety as \"high\", more than double the amount who did so at the end of 2019.\n\nThose suffering the greatest level of worry were an estimated 2.6 million people who said they were struggling to pay bills.\n\nThe survey data suggested that 8.6 million people had seen their income fall, with this group also reporting anxiety levels 16% higher than average.\n\nWomen reported anxiety levels 24% higher than men on average, with the ONS saying the difference might be because a larger proportion of women were either economically inactive, in lower paid jobs or working part time.\n\nDavid Shaw, who has been signed off work with anxiety, is trying to juggle providing for his family with the care of his severely disabled 16-year-old daughter, who has scoliosis.\n\nMr Shaw, who manages a supermarket in Brandon, Suffolk, said: \"My daughter would be extremely vulnerable to the virus and I can't risk bringing the virus home to her.\"\n\nThe 43-year-old said his employer was a good company and gave him two weeks carers' leave, but he added he was no longer being paid.\n\nDavid Shaw said he did not feel safe going to work in case the virus infected his daughter\n\nMr Shaw said: \"I can get a mortgage holiday but that is just one bill. I am not sure if the doctor will keep signing me off so I don't know what I will do.\"\n\nHe added he felt guilty that his colleagues were working while he was not but that he had to put his daughter's safety first.\n\nLucy Tinkler, head of the quality of life team at the ONS, said: \"All measures of personal well-being, which include anxiety and happiness, are at their worst levels since we began collecting data in 2011.\"\n\n\"The most recent data showed a slight improvement in anxiety compared to previous weeks, but remained much higher than before the pandemic.\"\n\nThe ONS is carrying out a weekly opinions and lifestyle survey of about 1,500 people to understand the impact of the coronavirus on Britain, and comparing it with the results of a similar survey it normally carries out monthly.\n\nIt found the average reported anxiety level rose from 2.97 out of 10 at the end of 2019 to 5.18 at the end of March as the lockdown was beginning.\n\nIn the most recent survey, from 9 April to 20 April, that fell slightly to 4.2.\n\nMost people feel anxious from time to time but if it is affecting your life then there are things you can do to help yourself and ways to seek help.\n\nSymptoms of anxiety can include headaches, a faster heartbeat, feeling tense, difficulty sleeping, problems concentrating and not being able to enjoy leisure time.\n\nThe NHS suggests ways to manage anxiety including breathing exercises, eating healthily and exercising. More advice is available from mental health charity Mind which has published wellbeing advice for the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe proportion of Britons reporting low happiness also rose sharply from 8.4% at the end of 2019 to 20.7% at the end of March.\n\nFinances were the biggest worry for an estimated 5.3 million people, while 6.2 million were most concerned about their work and 8.5 million most concerned about their well-being, the survey suggested.\n\nLucretia Thomas, a project adviser at Citizens Advice Enfield, said it had had a \"spike\" in people asking for advice about employment, benefits and debt issues as the pandemic prevented many people from working.\n\n\"The loss of income has really had a devastating effect on families, because their normal household expenses have increased,\" she said, explaining that families were often missing out on free school meals.\n\nPeople were also reporting that landlords had been issuing notices in preparation for when evictions might resume in June, she said, adding to the stress for some families.\n\nOthers are saying that their employers are preparing to make them redundant once the furlough period is over.\n\n\"People are ringing us for reassurance, thinking that we might have a timeline for when this is over. A client asked me, 'When do you think my husband might be able to go back to work?' I'm not able to answer that question,\" Ms Thomas said.", "A vice-president at Amazon has quit \"in dismay\" at the internet giant's crackdown on workers who criticised it over coronavirus safety measures.\n\nTim Bray described the firing of protesters as \"evidence of a vein of toxicity running through the company culture\".\n\nWorkers have criticised Amazon for not doing enough to protect warehouse staff against the virus.\n\nAmazon declined to comment, but has previously defended its actions.\n\nMr Bray, who was a senior engineer at Amazon Web Services, set out in a blog why he had left the company where he had worked for five years.\n\nThe firm faces possible investigation of worker rights violations in New York, where the company fired the organiser of a small protest about safety conditions at a warehouse.\n\nMr Bray said Amazon also fired office staff who had been organising another protest and had spoken out against the company on climate issues.\n\n\"At that point, I snapped,\" he wrote, adding that he raised his concerns internally first.\n\n\"That done, remaining an Amazon [vice-president] would have meant, in effect, signing off on actions I despised. So I resigned,\" he wrote.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Emily Cunningham 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 Bray said working at the firm had been \"rewarding fun\" and his decision would cost him financially.\n\n\"What with big-tech salaries and share vestings, this will probably cost me over a million (pre-tax) dollars, not to mention the best job I've ever had, working with awfully good people. So I'm pretty blue,\" he wrote.\n\nHowever, he said: \"Firing whistleblowers isn't just a side-effect of macroeconomic forces, nor is it intrinsic to the function of free markets.\n\n\"It's evidence of a vein of toxicity running through the company culture. I choose neither to serve nor drink that poison.\"\n\nBy business reporter Zoe Thomas in New York\n\nAmazon had an image problem before the Covid-19 pandemic. The company has taken aggressive steps to stop unionisation in its warehouse. Its vast collection of personal data on users raised concerns about privacy. Its tax avoidance tactics had politicians across the globe asking why such a prosperous company led by the world's richest man shouldn't be paying more to public coffers.\n\nBut these concerns dogged other big tech firms (Google, Facebook, Apple) as well. The coronavirus pandemic has given these companies a way to redeem their image. Tech giants are helping develop programs to track the virus, making it possible for other business to work remotely and keeping people connected to friends and family.\n\nAmazon should be at the head of this pack for image improvement. By keeping its delivery business going, Amazon has allowed millions of people to stay home. Instead, the treatment of its workers has become the story.\n\nThe company has arguably tried to brush it under the rug, blaming the firing of workers who spoke up about warehouse conditions on other factors. Mr Bray's resignation may be a sign that won't be enough to appease senior staff within Amazon's ranks and, down the line, even shareholders.\n\nShareholders were told Amazon wouldn't make a profit in the second quarter, because the firm would be spending more on warehouse safety and cleanliness. But if workers are still raising concerns, investors may question if the company is getting it right.\n\nThis should be Amazon's moment to show shoppers, investors and government officials just how useful it can be, and that mammoth size is a helpful thing in a crisis like this. Instead, the conversation is being steered away from it, and if Amazon doesn't resolve these issues with the workforce, it may never have a chance to redeem its image.\n\nAmazon declined to comment on Mr Bray's characterisation. When asked previously about the firing of office staff, it has said it supports its staff's right to speak out, but added, \"That does not come with blanket immunity.\"\n\nThe firm has been facing renewed scrutiny over its business practices as the pandemic pushes the company into overdrive to fill online orders from people in lockdown.\n\nThe e-commerce giant temporarily shut its six warehouses in France after a court ordered it to stop all but essential deliveries.\n\nAmazon's chief executive, Jeff Bezos - one of the world's richest people, with a fortune of $138bn - has also been asked to speak before the US Congress as part of a broader investigation of monopoly power.\n\nAmazon last week warned investors that the pandemic had forced costly changes to the business, including spending on protective gear and adjustments to operations that make its warehouses less efficient.\n\nIt said it expected to spend $4bn (£3.2bn) - its anticipated quarterly profit - on coronavirus measures in the three months through June.\n\nSales are booming, however, and it expects sales to rise as high as 28% in the current quarter.", "The Stranglers keyboard player Dave Greenfield has died at the age of 71 after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nGreenfield died on Sunday having contracted the virus after a prolonged stay in hospital for heart problems.\n\nHe penned the band's biggest hit, Golden Brown, a song about heroin, which went to number two on the UK singles chart in 1982.\n\nThe Stranglers bass player Jean-Jacques \"JJ\" Burnel paid tribute to Greenfield as a \"musical genius\".\n\nHe said: \"On the evening of Sunday May 3rd, my great friend and longstanding colleague of 45 years, the musical genius that was Dave Greenfield, passed away as one of the victims of the Great Pandemic of 2020.\n\n\"All of us in the worldwide Stranglers' family grieve and send our sincerest condolences to [Greenfield's wife] Pam.\"\n\nDrummer Jet Black added: \"We have just lost a dear friend and music genius, and so has the whole world.\n\n\"Dave was a complete natural in music. Together, we toured the globe endlessly and it was clear he was adored by millions. A huge talent, a great loss, he is dearly missed.\"\n\n(Left to right) Dave Greenfield, Jean-Jacques Burnel, Jet Black and Hugh Cornwell of The Stranglers in 1980\n\nThe Stranglers formed in 1974 in Guildford, Surrey. Greenfield, who originated from Brighton, joined within a year and they went on to be associated with the punk era.\n\nHe was soon known for his distinctive sound and playing style on instruments including the harpsichord and Hammond electric organ. Critics compared his sound to that of Ray Manzarek from The Doors.\n\nIn an interview with the band's website, however, the man himself said he was more influenced by a couple of other famous keyboard players.\n\n\"The only tracks by the Doors I knew were Light My Fire & Riders on the Storm,\" said Greenfield. \"Before I joined my main influences were probably Jon Lord [Deep Purple] and then Rick Wakeman [Yes].\"\n\nIn the same interview he said he always considered the Stranglers to be \"more new wave, than punk\", and also admitted to having had an interest in the occult, evident from him wearing a pentagram pendant in many early band pictures.\n\n\"The Pentagram represents the microcosm (as opposed to the macrocosm),\" he said. \"The relation between the self and the universe. I studied (not practiced) the occult quite intensively in those days.\"\n\nGolden Brown, perhaps Greenfield's finest moment, eventually won them an Ivor Novello award; however his bandmates initially discarded the song and did not consider it a single.\n\nThe band's other hits include No More Heroes, Peaches and Something Better Change. They continued touring and recording after original frontman Hugh Cornwell left in 1990.\n\nCornwell posted on Twitter he was \"very sorry\" to hear of his old bandmate's passing.\n\n\"He was the difference between The Stranglers and every other punk band,\" wrote Cornwell.\n\n\"His musical skill and gentle nature gave an interesting twist to the band. He should be remembered as the man who gave the world the music of Golden Brown.\"\n\nCurrent vocalist and guitarist Baz Warne described Greenfield as \"a true innovator\" and a \"musical legend\".\n\n\"The word genius is bandied around far too easily in this day and age, but Dave Greenfield certainly was one,\" said Warne.\n\nThe band recently postponed their farewell tour from this summer due to the pandemic.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @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. HS2: Protester living in tree \"willing to be arrested\"\n\nAs the nation is told to stay at home, defiant protesters against HS2 have chosen to self-isolate at makeshift camps in under-threat forests. Dozens are living in ancient woodlands during lockdown - spending the days up trees - where they say they have been isolating as though they are a single, large household.\n\nThe camp at Crackley Woods, near Kenilworth, Warwickshire, consists of a roundhouse built from hay bales and covered in tarpaulin, a field kitchen, about 20 small tents and a handful of camper-vans. The landowner gave the protesters permission to set up here before lockdown, and they have continued to do so over the past six weeks.\n\nSupporters bring food and care packages and leave them at the edge of the camp. It was originally made up of locals from the Stop HS2 campaign group, but they have been joined by people from other organisations including Extinction Rebellion.\n\nIt is possible to walk along a public bridleway which brings you through the woods to the edge of the camp, and to the fences which have been erected by HS2 contractors to keep the protesters out. On one side are mobile CCTV camera units called Armadillos, as well as HS2 staff wearing PPE who are patrolling the boundary to check for incursions.\n\nThe campaign to stop HS2 is continuing amid the coronavirus pandemic\n\nOn the other side, the protesters have built tree-houses and a gantry so they can see what's happening over the fence. Nearly all of the trees that should have been felled have been taken down over the past few weeks. The campaigners took to the treetops to try to stop the work going ahead, and a number were arrested by enforcement officers.\n\nOne, known as Quercus - the Latin for oak - is a former tree surgeon. He spends most of the day in a tree-house 30ft up. He told me when he saw the trees coming down he was \"overcome with grief\" and he was willing to be arrested again to try to stop the trees being felled.\n\nHe has been at the camp for several weeks and says he feels it is important to continue the fight as the country remains in lockdown.\n\n\"Even before we had the pandemic and lockdown, there were a vast minority of people that were able to come out and do protests like this - certainly far fewer people now,\" he said.\n\n\"People's democratic right to protest and have their say has been taken away at this time.\"\n\nAnother protest group, called HS2 Rebellion says it has blockaded more than 20 other sites around the UK from London to Crackley Woods.\n\nHS2 Rebellion says it has blockaded more than 20 other sites around the UK\n\nOne member said in an online video: \"Our nurses and doctors are without PPE, yet these workers can continue because the Government deems them key workers.\n\n\"Our real key essential workers are without PPE because of projects like this.\"\n\nA statement said the group \"wish to emphasise the public resistance to HS2'S destruction of our ancient woodland and wildlife habitats, and HS2'S failure to stop construction works at multiple sites breaching HSE Covid guidelines and exposing their workers, protesters, families and communities to unnecessary risk during a national health crisis\".\n\nSeveral camps have been set up in forests along the planned HS2 line\n\nCampaigners claim 108 ancient woodlands along the route, which has been given the go ahead by the government, are under threat. HS2 said that was an exaggeration.\n\nPaul Faulkner, chief executive of Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce, is a big supporter of the project. He believes it has very strong green credentials and says a tiny fraction of the country's ancient woodland will be felled.\n\n\"HS2 is aiming to be the world's most sustainable high-speed railway. It's got a whole host of pro-environmental measures that it's introducing, and that's before we get on to the massive economic benefits that HS2 is going to bring.\"\n\nStop HS2 has argued the economic benefits have never been proven and they believe the money would be better spent after lockdown ends.\n\nWork on the high-speed line is continuing after the government gave the go ahead\n\nChief executive of HS2 Mark Thurston said 11,000 people from 2,000 companies were already working on the project and he expected that to double over the next two years.\n\n\"We see HS2 now as having an important role in getting the economy back on its feet,\" he said.\n\nThe Department for Transport said in a statement: \"While the government's top priority is rightly to combat the spread of coronavirus, we should not delay work on our long-term plan to level up the country.\"\n\nMatt Bishop grew up in Coventry and visited Crackley Woods when he was a child. He has become one of the camp's leaders. He still hopes the project - which has been given the green light by the government - can be halted.\n\n\"We need to show the government that you cannot just draw a line across the middle of the countryside. That's just not acceptable,\" he said.\n\nThe first train is not expected to roll into the new Birmingham Curzon Street station until 2029.\n\nOnce built, London to Birmingham travel times will be cut from one hour, 21 minutes to 52 minutes, according to the Department for Transport", "The NFL has cancelled the four games scheduled to take place in London later this year.\n\nTwo fixtures involving the Jacksonville Jaguars were scheduled for Wembley, with two more matches due to be played at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.\n\nThey will now be held in the US after organisers decided it was impossible to arrange games in a different continent because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe London games were set for autumn 2020, but no firm dates had been set.\n\nIt will be the first time an NFL regular season game has not been played in London since 2006.\n\nNFL commissioner Roger Goodell made the decision after consultation with a number of stakeholders including clubs, local governments and medical authorities.\n\nThe Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said it was \"absolutely the right decision to ensure the safety of everyone involved in the sport\", while Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy said they \"fully appreciate the difficult decision that the NFL has had to make\".\n\nThe NFL had also been planning to play one game at the Azteca Stadium in Mexico, but that too will now take place in the USA.\n\nNFL UK managing director Alistair Kirkwood added: \"The NFL's London Games have become a major part of the NFL season and the UK sports calendar.\n\n\"But the uncertainty in the current sporting landscape and the tremendous amount of long-term travel and planning required to stage successful London games mean this is the sensible decision to make.\"\n\nThis news is hardly unexpected given no-one knows when top-level sport will be played in the United Kingdom - and when it is, it will almost certainly be behind closed doors for the remainder of 2020 at least.\n\nHowever, it is another financial blow to both Tottenham and the Football Association, given the games have proved themselves to be useful money-spinners over the years.\n\nThe company responsible for the technology that allows beer to be filled from the bottom of the glass upwards at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium posted on social media that they had taken £1m for the first of the two games last year - and with the club netting most of the profits from merchandise sales as well, it is fair to assume they have missed out on about £4m in income.\n\nIt is yet another example of the financial pain Covid-19 is causing sport and underlines why Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy said in March he was facing the biggest problems he has encountered in 20 years at the club.", "The health secretary has set out the UK's plan to test its contact-tracing app across the Isle of Wight.\n\nSpeaking at the daily coronavirus briefing, Matt Hancock said the phone software will allow the government to take a \"more targeted\" approach to the lockdown while containing the virus.", "Joe Wicks described the exercises verbally in Monday's lesson while Rosie demonstrated\n\nJoe Wicks had a bit of help with his online PE lesson on Monday from a guest teaching assistant - his wife Rosie.\n\nThe 33-year-old, who is also known as The Body Coach, has been leading PE classes on YouTube during lockdown.\n\nBut Rosie offered to help with Monday's class after Joe was unable to host it by himself, having spent the weekend in hospital.\n\n\"You're an amazing wife and I would not be able to do this without you,\" he told her during Monday's livestream.\n\nJoe had minor surgery on his hand in March after being involved in a bicycle accident.\n\nAfter the operation, where wires were inserted into his hand, he was seen in his weekday PE lessons with his left arm bandaged up.\n\nThis weekend, he was admitted to hospital again after his hand started \"throbbing like liquid hot magma\" - which he said was a suspected infection from the surgery.\n\nHe posted pictures on social media from his bed at Kingston hospital, where he underwent further surgery to have the wires removed.\n\nOn Monday, he was seen wearing a suit and a sling during his morning PE lesson, while introducing Rosie as his teaching assistant.\n\nJoe still led the class, describing each exercise verbally while Rosie demonstrated.\n\nHe joked that he even had a note from his mum to explain why he had to miss Monday's PE lesson.\n\n\"This is an open wound so doctors have said I can't be jumping around,\" he told viewers.\n\n\"And I have got a note saying 'Joe is unable to do PE today because I forgot to wash his PE kit. He was also bitten by a dragon on Friday.\"\n\nWicks had dressed up as a knight during Friday's lesson and his two children were in dragon costumes.\n\nThe YouTube star is donating his income from advertising on his PE lessons to the NHS - and says he has raised £200,000 so far.\n\nWriting on Instagram on Sunday evening, Wicks said: \"I've just got out of hospital with an infection in my hand and whilst high on morphine last night I sent [Rosie] a text saying 'Rosie I think I need your help, I can't do PE Monday, I'm in bits', to which she replied 'Don't worry darling, I'll do it with you'.\n\n\"This is way out of her comfort zone and I love her so much for it. What a special woman I've got ☺️ She's quite shy and feeling nervous now it's actually happening.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The Body Coach 'super grateful' to NHS after op", "Some major airlines are now requiring passengers to wear face masks on flights to limit the spread of viruses.\n\nMany big US airlines are bringing in new health and safety policies for both passengers and cabin crew this week.\n\nOther carriers around the world are also making mask wearing mandatory for when they restart flights.\n\nWhile around 90% of international flights have been cancelled, airlines hope to gradually resume air travel starting this month.\n\nFrom Monday, US carrier Delta said it requires passengers to wear a mask or other face covering in the check-in area, premium lounges, boarding gate areas and onboard planes for the whole flight.\n\nAmerican Airlines and United have also said that they will start requiring masks for passengers, along with cabin crew. The carriers say these are temporary measures as they slowly resume flights.\n\n“We are looking out for our customers’ well-being to give them peace of mind while they travel with us,” said Kurt Stache, a spokesman for American Airlines. “We’re moving quickly on these enhancements and we’ll continue to improve the travel experience for our customers and team members as we navigate these times together.”\n\n“Face coverings will be mandatory for all passengers, and (we) will provide masks to passengers for free,” said Maddie King, a spokeswoman for United Airlines.\n\nBut not all airlines are making passengers wear face masks. Qantas said there “are no requirements in Australia to wear masks. No decisions have been made by the Government or airlines about what measures will be put in place for travel once restrictions are lifted.”\n\nThe Australian national carrier said on its website: “While the risk of contracting coronavirus on board an aircraft is regarded as low, social distancing has been put in place across all flights.” It is currently following guidelines from Australia's chief medical officer.\n\nWhen it comes to a global policy for airlines to follow, there are a number of bodies that could offer guidance including the International Air Transport Association. (IATA). \"The use of face covering inflight is among the measures proposed in an industry roadmap for the restart of flights that we are discussing with industry stakeholders and governments,\" said an IATA spokesman.\n\nAirlines are bringing in a range of safety measures onboard to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus. It's unclear if these will be temporary measures or more long term.\n\nMajor pre-flight cleaning measures to disinfect heavily used areas are being widely used along with reducing the number of people on each flight.\n\nPassengers are also being encouraged to pack their own food and drinks to decrease contact.", "An NHS app aimed at limiting a second wave of coronavirus will be trialled on the Isle of Wight this week.\n\nIt will be the first place where the new contact-tracing app will be used before being rolled out more widely this month, said Transport Secretary Grant Shapps.\n\nThe government will be asking the whole of the UK to download it, he told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show.\n\n\"That will help with a lot of the automation of the tracking.\"\n\nEpidemiologists advising the NHS say that about 56% of the UK population - equating to about 80% of smartphone owners - need to use the app in order to suppress the virus.\n\nHowever, they add that the spread of the disease could still be slowed even if the take-up is lower.\n\nAt the government's daily briefing, Cabinet Minister Michael Gove said he hoped more than half of the 80,000 households on the Isle of Wight would download the app.\n\n\"When it comes to contract tracing, the more people who download the app developed by the NHS the better,\" he said. \"Knowing this is a contribution that all of us can make to helping to keep our communities and neighbours safe is a very powerful incentive.\"\n\nProf Stephen Powis, the medical director for NHS England, said the app was one component of a number that will be needed to try to bring the virus under control.\n\n\"It will need to sit aside other measures that we have become used to, such as if you have the virus you will need stay at home for a period.\"\n\nHowever, the Labour Party's Nick Thomas-Symonds said there were shortcomings in the government's plan as not everybody has a smartphone and there are issues around privacy and security.\n\n\"There are people for whom location services on their mobile devices are turned off for particular safety reasons,\" he told Sophy Ridge on Sky News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: What is contact tracing and how does it work?\n\nThe government has also promised to recruit 18,000 people to do manual contact tracing, as it pursues a track-and-trace strategy with a view to lifting the lockdown.\n\nUsing Bluetooth, the free smartphone app will track when its users come into contact with each other, automating the tracing process.\n\nIf a user develops coronavirus symptoms, the disclosure could trigger an anonymous alert to users with whom they have recently had contact, enabling those people to go into quarantine or be tested.\n\nIt has previously been suggested that areas that trial the contact-tracing app could also have some lockdown measures eased early.\n\nContact tracing has been credited with helping to lift restrictions in other countries, when combined with other measures.\n\nThe app has raised concerns about the government and third parties being given access to people's data.\n• None Essential workers in England to get virus tests", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grant Shapps said restrictions for those entering the UK were being considered.\n\nBusinesses could be asked to stagger employees' working hours when the coronavirus lockdown eases, the transport secretary has said.\n\nGrant Shapps told the BBC that the move would help to prevent crowded commutes.\n\nHe said more buses and trains would run but he hoped to encourage cycling and walking.\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove said a \"staged\" easing would mean measures could be reintroduced to tackle \"localised\" outbreaks.\n\nThe government is expected to announce the next steps in its response to the epidemic next Sunday.\n\nSpeaking at the government's daily coronavirus briefing, Mr Gove said consultations are under way with employers, trade unions and public health experts to ensure that people return to work in the \"safest possible\" environments and understand official guidance.\n\nBusiness groups and unions received draft government guidelines on Sunday, and have until 21:00 BST to respond.\n\nMr Gove stressed that the UK's approach would not be \"flicking a switch and going... back to the old normal\".\n\n\"A phased approach is one which allows us to monitor the impact that those changes are having on public health,\" he said.\n\n\"And - if necessary, in a specific and localised way - that means that we can pause or even reintroduce those restrictions that might be required in order to deal with localised outbreaks.\"\n\nIt comes as businesses called for a \"carefully phased\" plan for lifting lockdown restrictions to be set out immediately, as many say they need weeks to prepare for resuming operations.\n\nRail bosses said last month that social-distancing of any kind would be \"extraordinarily difficult\" to manage and police, and could reduce the capacity of an individual train by between 70% and 90%.\n\nEarlier, Mr Shapps told the Andrew Marr Show that the government was looking at a range of options for people to travel to work, including encouraging what he described as a \"massive expansion\" in interest in \"active travel\" such as cycling or walking.\n\n\"There are a series of different things that we can do including staggering work times, working with businesses and organisations to do that,\" he said.\n\nHe also said he was working with train companies and unions on maintaining social distancing rules on platforms and at bus stops.\n\nHand sanitiser could also be made available and one-way systems for passengers introduced, he told Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday.\n\nThe number of coronavirus-related deaths in the UK stands at 28,446 - an increase of 315 on Saturday's figure.\n\nThe government said only 76,500 coronavirus tests were carried out on Saturday, falling short of its daily target of 100,000.\n\nMr Gove said the dip in the number of tests was due to the fact that fewer people were at work over the weekend.\n\nDr Elisabetta Groppelli, a lecturer in global health at St George's, University of London, said that 76,500 was still a \"fantastic number\" and that the UK was \"becoming comparable\" to countries with similar population sizes.\n\n\"What is important is that the UK has steadily increased the number of tests that have been performed,\" she said.\n\nMr Shapps said with testing now available to all staff and residents, infection rates were now falling in care homes as well as other parts of the community.\n\nFor that reason, he said he hoped the country would avoid care homes transmitting the virus back into the rest of society.\n\nAsked whether fewer people would have died if testing capacity had been greater sooner, he said: \"Yes. If we had had 100,000 test capacity before this thing started and the knowledge that we now have retrospectively I'm sure many things could be different.\"\n\nBut he said that although the UK has a big pharmaceuticals industry, it does not have a testing industry like Germany's, making it more difficult to increase test numbers.\n\nDefending the decision not to close airports or introduce screening for international arrivals earlier in the pandemic, Mr Shapps said the advice was that a \"complete lockdown of the borders\" might only have delayed the virus by three to five days.\n\n\"We had millions of people abroad who needed to return home,\" he said.\n\nBut he said that now the infection rate was falling to a more manageable level, plans for screening and quarantining people travelling to the UK from abroad were \"a serious point under consideration\".\n\nChief executive Tim Alderslade said it would be a \"blunt tool measure\" that would \"completely shut off the UK from the rest of the world when other countries are opening up their economies\" and the UK should be leading the way on common standards such as health screening, which would enable the sector to restart.\n\nDo you have any concerns about returning to your workplace? Or are you happy to stop working from home? Tell us about 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:", "Conor Burns with Boris Johnson at the 2018 Tory conference\n\nConor Burns has resigned as a trade minister after a report found he used his position as an MP to intimidate a member of the public.\n\nThe Commons standards watchdog said he made \"veiled threats\" to use parliamentary privilege to \"further his family's interests\" in a financial dispute involving his father.\n\nIt had called for him to be suspended from Parliament for seven days.\n\nMr Burns said he accepted the sanction \"unreservedly and without rancour\".\n\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson after his resignation, he said the recommendation for a suspension made his decision to quit his post \"inevitable\".\n\nIn February, Mr Burns wrote to a member of the public connected to a company with whom his father was in dispute over the repayment of a loan.\n\nHe had written: \"I am acutely aware that my role in the public eye could well attract interest especially if I were to use parliamentary privilege to raise the case.\"\n\nParliamentary privilege protects MPs from being sued for defamation for speeches made in Parliament.\n\nThe Committee on Standards concluded Mr Burns had tried to intimidate the member of the public, and it was an abuse of his position as an MP which required a \"sanction more severe than apology\".\n\nIt added that the dispute related purely to \"private family interests\" and had \"no connection\" with Mr Burns's duties as a Member of Parliament.\n\nApologising to the committee in March, the Conservative MP for Bournemouth West said he should not have written to the member of the public \"in the terms I did\" using Commons-headed notepaper.\n\nHe said he had been motivated by a desire to resolve the \"long-running\" dispute, which he said had a \"significant\" impact on his father's health.\n\nBut in its report, the committee accused Mr Burns of being \"driven by a sense of anger which, in our view, has affected his judgement in this matter\".\n\nFirst elected to Parliament in 2010, Mr Burns was made a trade minister by Boris Johnson shortly after the prime minister entered Downing Street in July last year.\n\nHe was a campaigner for Brexit during the EU referendum in 2016 and was a close friend of former Conservative Prime Minister Lady Thatcher, in her final years.\n\nWriting to Mr Burns after his resignation, Mr Johnson thanked him for his \"unstinting loyalty over recent years\" and said he would \"continue to add much from the backbenches\".\n\nSeparately, another trade minister, Greg Hands, has been ordered to apologise to MPs for sending a Commons-headed letter to around 7,000 constituents in April 2019.\n\nThe standards committee said the mailshot had breached rules which say MPs should not use Parliamentary stationery to their political advantage.\n\nIt concluded that the letter, on topics including policing and transport, was \"unlikely\" to have been sent without regard to its \"political impact on potential voters\".\n\nIt also accused the Conservative MP for Chelsea and Fulham of dragging the process out until after the 2019 general election, after initially offering to resolve the case in October.", "Scientists in Beijing carrying out one of dozens of research projects into potential vaccines\n\nMore than $8bn (£6.5bn) has been pledged to help develop a coronavirus vaccine and fund research into the diagnosis and treatment of the disease.\n\nSome 40 countries and donors took part in an online summit hosted by the EU.\n\nEU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the money would help kickstart unprecedented global co-operation.\n\nShe said it showed the true value of unity and humanity, but warned much more would be needed in the days ahead.\n\nIn total, more than 30 countries, along with UN and philanthropic bodies and research institutes, made donations.\n\nDonors also included pop singer Madonna, who pledged €1m ($1.1m), said Ms von der Leyen, who set out the Brussels-led initiative on Friday.\n\nThe European Commission pledged $1bn to fund research on a vaccine. Norway matched the European Commission's contribution, and France has pledged €500m, as have Saudi Arabia and Germany. Japan pledged more than $800m.\n\nThe US and Russia did not take part. China, where the virus originated in December, was represented by its ambassador to the European Union.\n\nOf the money raised, $4.4bn will go on vaccine development, some $2bn on the search for a treatment and $1.6bn for producing tests, the EU said.\n\nIn her opening remarks at the summit, Ms von der Leyen said everyone must chip in to finance \"a truly global endeavour\".\n\n\"I believe 4 May will mark a turning point in our fight against coronavirus because today the world is coming together,\" she said.\n\n\"The partners are many, the goal is one: to defeat this virus.\"\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, another co-host of the conference, said the \"more we pull together\" in sharing expertise, \"the faster our scientists will succeed\" in developing a vaccine.\n\nMr Johnson, who spent three nights in intensive care with Covid-19, was to confirm the UK's pledge of £388m for vaccine research, testing and treatment during the conference.\n\nAlong with the European Commission, the conference is being co-hosted by the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway and Saudi Arabia.\n\nEmmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel, pictured last year, are among the world leaders who signed the letter\n\nItalian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are also among those who have signed up to the initiative.\n\nIn the open letter published in weekend newspapers, the leaders said the funds raised would \"kickstart an unprecedented global co-operation between scientists and regulators, industry and governments, international organisations, foundations and healthcare professionals\".\n\n\"If we can develop a vaccine that is produced by the world, for the whole world, this will be a unique global public good of the 21st Century,\" they added.\n\nAt the same time, the signatories gave their backing to the World Health Organization in the face of US criticism of its handling of the outbreak.\n\nThe UN says a return to normal life will only be possible with a vaccine.\n\nDozens of research projects trying to find a vaccine are currently under way across the world.\n\nEven with more financial commitment, it will take time to know which ones might work and how well.\n\nMost experts think it could take until mid-2021, about 12-18 months after the new virus first emerged, for a vaccine to become available.", "Universities have warned of financial collapse if some institutions cannot recruit enough students this year\n\nUniversity students in England will still have to pay full tuition fees even if their courses are taught online in the autumn, the government has said.\n\n\"We don't believe students will be entitled to reimbursement if the quality is there,\" universities minister Michelle Donelan said.\n\nBut the university sector's request for a £2bn bail-out has been rejected.\n\nUniversities had warned of financial danger from a reduction in overseas students because of coronavirus.\n\nUniversity campuses have been closed by the pandemic - and there is uncertainty for students whether there will be in-person teaching in the autumn or whether courses will be taught fully or partly online.\n\nThe universities minister said no formal decision had been taken on the next academic year, but if courses are taught online and \"students are really getting the quality, and they're getting a course which is fit for purpose\", they would not get a discount on fees.\n\n\"Universities are still continuing with their overheads and their expenses during this time, and it's no fault of their own,\" she said.\n\nIf students were not getting adequate teaching online, she said there were processes for them to complain.\n\nJake, an accountancy student in Leeds, told the BBC that charging full fees for online courses was so unfair that it made him want to drop out.\n\n\"There has clearly been no consideration of students with this decision. I pay tuition fees to go to my university in person, to be taught at my university in person, to access the facilities of the university - libraries, societies, sports facilities - in person.\n\n\"Expecting students to pay full fees for a service that they aren't receiving is frankly insulting,\" he said.\n\nRose, an international student from India studying in Manchester, said getting lessons online was not an adequate alternative - and regretted paying so much for her course.\n\n\"It's been a nightmare. First of all we had two strikes which lasted three to four weeks at a time and now this.\n\n\"I paid £19,000 for my course. We're not a rich family. That's all the money my family have. I feel so guilty for using it all up for this.\"\n\nIsobel, another student in Manchester, contacted the BBC to say: \"There has been no talk about a refund for the lack of lectures.\n\n\"I am finding it difficult not being able to access libraries, and ask questions. Yes, I know you can email stuff to lecturers but they're swamped.\"\n\nAn unimpressed student, Livi, posted on Twitter: \"So by September I'll have lost almost £3,000 to rent a house I'm not even living in, and tuition fees will still be max even if it's online - something about this seems unfair.\"\n\nTom Kendall, a member of the UK Youth Parliament, said: \"If we have to stay home and complete online lectures what about the students who are less fortunate and don't have a laptop or access to wi-fi?\"\n\nAs well as weighing up whether they want to study online, applicants will be waiting for information on how a reopened campus might function, in terms of social distancing, social activities and student accommodation.\n\nThe National Union of Students has highlighted how difficult it can be for current students to study online, with some struggling with a lack of computer equipment and broadband access and not having enough space in which to work.\n\nWhat would a university experience be like with social distancing?\n\nA study from the Sutton Trust suggests some applicants are reconsidering their university plans, in a year group that has already seen exams cancelled and replaced by estimated grades.\n\nThere is a \"huge degree of worry and uncertainty,\" says trust founder, Sir Peter Lampl.\n\nThere are particular financial worries for universities about an expected drop in overseas students, who pay a higher level of fees.\n\nLast month, Universities UK called for at least £2bn in emergency funding, saying that otherwise some institutions could go bust.\n\nMs Donelan has announced measures to stabilise university finances, but without the extra cash requested.\n\nTo help with cash flow, £2.6bn of tuition fee income and £100m of research funding will be brought forward and universities will be able to access the Treasury's support for businesses disrupted by coronavirus, worth another £700m.\n\n\"Should providers require further support the government will continue to review their financial circumstances,\" said the universities minister.\n\nThere will also be more flexibility in the clearing system, which matches applicants to empty places after results are issued.\n\nUniversities have been worried about \"volatility\" in applications and that some universities could be so short of recruits they would be financially unviable.\n\nTo stop such fluctuations, there will be controls on student numbers, designed to stop some universities adding many more students, while others could be be left with too few.\n\nThe higher education watchdog, the Office for Students, said it would impose financial penalties on universities using pressure selling tactics \"to increase student intake beyond normal levels\".\n\nThe Russell Group of leading universities said the \"big remaining challenge\" was funding for research.\n\n\"Universities face significant shortfalls in international students and other sources of income that we need to underpin vital work that otherwise goes under-funded,\" said chief executive, Tim Bradshaw.\n\nUniversities UK said the stability measures were a recognition of the important part universities would play in the \"recovery of the economy and communities\" in the wake of the pandemic and the \"severe financial storm\" it had created.\n\nThe universities body has said that in the forthcoming weeks current students and applicants will be given a clearer idea of arrangements for opening in the autumn.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nA number of Premier League club doctors have raised a range of concerns with league bosses over plans to resume the season, BBC Sport has learned.\n\nOne issue that the senior medics have sought assurances over includes their own liability and insurance cover if players contract the virus.\n\nThe Premier League has also been asked to provide some clarity over medical protocols, testing and player welfare.\n\nThe Premier League is hopeful of a potential 8 June resumption.\n\nThe 20 club doctors have been holding their own discussions about Project Restart - the label given to plans to resume action - with a view to feeding their thoughts into the Premier League's leadership.\n\nA Premier League source told the BBC that they viewed the move by the medics as a natural part of the process with clubs, and a means of reaching \"the best possible set of protocols\".\n\nThey also confirmed that the league was in talks with insurance companies over the issue of club and doctor liability, and that this would be brought up with government representatives this week.\n• None 'Hard to see fans returning to football anytime soon'\n• None If there are no fans at Premier League games next season, which club would suffer most?\n\nThe Premier League is represented on a cross-sport working group of medical experts and public health officials which will meet for the second time in a week on Wednesday.\n\nThe panel is devising the health and hygiene measures that players, managers and club staff will be asked to agree to before full training and then competition can resume, but only if the government deems it safe to do so.\n\nThe government is set to review its lockdown measures later this week, with the Premier League meeting to vote on the plans next Monday. A number of players and sports medics have already voiced their concerns about whether it is safe to return to action.\n\nEamonn Salmon, the chief executive of the Football Medicine and Performance Association (FMPA), has told BBC Sport that opinion among doctors and physios at English football clubs regarding resumption plans was varied.\n\nSpeaking last week, he said: \"I guess the views of our members will be a kind of snapshot of society really.\n\n\"There are those who think it can be done, there are those that are doubtful and there are those that probably suggest it is an impossible task.\n\n\"We have to wait, this is a waiting game all the time, it is such a changing landscape and fluctuating on a day to day basis.\n\n\"This is just the start in some respects, whatever proposals are put there it is then open to debate and for comment and opinion to feed into that.\"\n\nIf training is resumed before social distancing rules are relaxed, BBC Sport understands players will be tested for coronavirus twice a week and would be screened for symptoms every day.\n\nAll tests would be carried out by health professionals at a drive-through NHS testing facility that each club would have access to. Training grounds will be optimised for social distancing and high hygiene levels.\n• None Players must arrive at training grounds in kit and wear masks at all times.\n• None They must not shower or eat on the premises. If clubs want to provide players with food, it must be delivered as a takeaway to players' cars.\n• None Only essential medical treatment would be allowed, with all medical staff in full PPE.\n• None All meetings and reviews must take place virtually and off-site.\n\nIn Germany, where the Bundesliga is set to become the first major football league in Europe to return to competition, 10 positive results have been returned from 1,724 coronavirus tests from clubs in the top two divisions.\n\nCubs have been training in groups and the tests are being taken before a planned return to training as teams.\n\nMeasures including \"the isolation of the affected person\" have been taken, said the DFL.\n\nTop-flight side Cologne have had no further Covid-19 infections after three people tested positive last week.\n\nBundesliga officials suggested resuming on 9 May but the government delayed the decision and a restart may now be on 16 or 23 May.", "Last updated on .From the section American Football\n\nLegendary Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula has died at the age of 90.\n\nShula guided the Dolphins to successive Super Bowl victories in the 1970s, and holds the record for the most career wins as an NFL head coach with 347.\n\nHe guided the Dolphins to the NFL's only perfect season in 1972, winning all 14 regular season games, two play-off games and beating the Washington Redskins to win his first Super Bowl.\n\nThe Dolphins won the 1973 Super Bowl but Shula lost for other finals.\n\nOne of those was defeats was with the Batlimore Colts, who he coached from 1963 before moving to the Dolphins in 1970, where he remained until retiring in 1995. In all, he coached in a record 526 games across 33 seasons.\n\n“The Miami Dolphins are saddened to announce that head coach Don Shula passed away peacefully at his home this morning,” said a statement.\n\n“Don Shula was the patriarch of the Miami Dolphins for 50 years. He brought the winning edge to our franchise and put the Dolphins and the city of Miami in the national sports scene.”\n\nAs a player, Shula played as a defensive back for the Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Colts, and Washington Redskins across seven seasons.\n\nNFL commissioner Roger Goodell said Shula \"will always be remembered as one of the greatest coaches and contributors in the history of our game\".\n\nIn a statement, he added: \"He made an extraordinarily positive impact on so many lives. The winningest coach in NFL history and the only one to lead a team to a perfect season, Coach Shula lived an unparalleled football life.\"\n• None Read more - Shula's Dolphins team of 'misfits' who won the Super Bowl undefeated", "It is not clear what provoked the initial gunfire\n\nNorth and South Korea have exchanged gunfire in the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) which divides the two countries.\n\nSeoul's military said shots from the North hit a guard post in the central border town of Cheorwon. It said it returned fire and delivered a warning announcement.\n\nSuch incidents across the world's most heavily fortified border are rare.\n\nUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told US media the shots from the North were believed to be \"accidental\".\n\nMeanwhile South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted a government official as saying the shots were not likely to have been intentional.\n\nNo injuries were reported in the incident. Military officials in the South say there was no sign of unusual troop movements.\n\nThere's a \"low possibility\" that the shots fired by North Korea were intentional, according to the South Korean military. But at this stage it is unclear how they've made that assessment.\n\nEven if it was an accident or a miscalculation, it shows just how important it is for troops to keep level heads in the heavily fortified DMZ to ensure the situation isn't made much worse.\n\nIf it was a more tactical decision by North Korea then that's a very different matter.\n\nThe timing is interesting. It's just 24 hours since the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un re-appeared after a 21-day absence. There have also been a large number of military drills in the North in recent months to improve readiness to fight an \"actual war\", according to state media.\n\nPyongyang has sometimes used the tactic of escalate to de-escalate, using its military posturing as leverage in later negotiations.\n\nBut any sign of direct fire will be a disappointment to many in South Korea. There has been a lot of work in the last two years to ease tensions between the two countries after President Moon Jae-in met Kim Jong-un. The two sides signed a military agreement - any deliberate shots fired would breach that pact.\n\nThe last time the North opened fire on the South happened in 2017 when a North Korean soldier made a dash across the military demarcation line to defect.\n\nThe demilitarised zone (DMZ) was set up after the Korean War in 1953 in order to create a buffer zone between the two countries.\n\nFor the past two years, the government in Seoul has tried to turn the heavily fortified border into a peace zone.\n\nEasing military tensions at the border was one of the agreements reached between the leaders of the two countries at a summit in Pyongyang in September 2018.\n\nKim Jong-un's reappearance in public, reported by North Korean state media on Friday, followed an almost-three-week unexplained absence that sparked intense global speculation about his health.", "McDonald's has closed all its outlets in the UK\n\nMcDonald's is in talks with some of its landlords in the UK about cutting rent payments as the fast food chain prepares to reopen some of its sites.\n\nBusinesses face their next quarterly rent bill on 24 June when they are due to pay for the next three months.\n\nMcDonald's said it has paid in full for the current quarter.\n\nHowever, it said that \"given the unprecedented situation\", it was in talks with landlords about how they could \"offer support\" on rent.\n\nMcDonald's has closed all its outlets in the UK because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nA spokesman for the company said: \"We have opened dialogue with some of our landlords to discuss how they might offer support on rent and service charges for a short period due to our restaurants not trading.\"\n\nMcDonald's plans to reopen 15 outlets in the UK for delivery only services on 13 May.\n\nOther food chains such as Burger King and Yo! Sushi did not pay rent to landlords in the UK when it fell due in March.\n\nThe government has implemented some measures to help businesses who are struggling to pay their rent.\n\nBut shopping centre-owner Intu said recently that it was considering legal action against some big brands who have money but are \"not engaging\" in rent negotiations.\n\nIntu, which owns Manchester's Trafford Centre and the Lakeside in Essex, declined to name the brands.\n\nIn April, the British Retail Consortium and the British Property Federation both wrote to Chancellor Rishi Sunak seeking more support for shops and landlords.\n\nMcDonald's plans to reopen some UK sites in May for delivery-only orders\n\nThey want the government to support a \"furloughed space grant scheme\" where businesses would pay some rent, landlords would agree to a reduction and the state would make-up the shortfall.\n\nA spokesman for the Treasury said: \"We recognise the current challenges facing commercial landlords and the significant impact recent changes are having on their business models. We also recognise that many landlords are working closely with tenants to find solutions that work for both parties.\"\n\n\"Our package of support for businesses currently includes our new bounce back loans, which provide quick and easy support for eligible companies that is interest-free for the first 12 months, our job retention scheme and other measures such as protecting commercial tenants from eviction.\"\n\nLast week, McDonald's revealed that the coronavirus outbreak had sent first quarter like-for-like sales down 3.4%.\n\nIt said around three quarters of its outlets across the world remained opened and were serving people via drive-throughs, delivery or takeaway services.\n\nBut the UK is among a few of its markets where it has temporarily closed all of its sites. Others include France, Italy and Spain.", "An NHS worker arrives at a drive-in centre in a car park in Wolverhampton to be tested\n\nTesting for coronavirus fell sharply on Saturday, days after Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the government had met its daily target of 100,000 tests.\n\nIn the past 24 hours, ministers said just under 76,500 tests were carried out, a drop of more than a third on the 122,000 tests carried out on 30 April.\n\nNHS England medical director Prof Stephen Powis acknowledged that testing had taken a \"little bit of a dip\".\n\nOn Friday Mr Hancock described the 100,000 target as \"audacious\".\n\nThe health secretary set the goal on 2 April, when the UK was on 10,000 tests a day.\n\nAnnouncing the government's success, Mr Hancock suggested the 100,000 goal had a \"galvanising effect\", adding that the bolstered testing capacity would \"help us to unlock the lockdown\".\n\nHowever, the government came in for criticism for including 40,000 tests which were dispatched by post and may not have been taken.\n\nSince then, the number of tests has dropped by about 40,000, according to official statistics.\n\nAt the Downing Street briefing on Sunday, cabinet minister Michael Gove praised Mr Hancock's \"amazing achievement\" in reaching his target.\n\nMr Gove said the massive increase in tests had been an example of what \"the public sector and the private sector working together under a very strong political leadership can achieve\".\n\nHe said the dip in the number of tests was due to the fact that fewer people were at work over the weekend.\n\n\"Thanks to the hard work of so many across the NHS, Public Health England, our pharmaceutical sector and our universities, we have tested over 200,000 key workers and their families, allowing those who don't have the virus to go back to work and protecting those who do.\"\n\nAlso speaking at the briefing, Prof Powis said testing capacity \"had ramped up very quickly\".\n\n\"We are now at a very high level of testing, over 100,000 - a little bit of a dip in the weekend - but we anticipate that that testing capacity will continue to increase,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What it's like to test yourself for Covid-19\n\nDr Elisabetta Groppelli, a lecturer in global health at St George's, University of London, said 76,500 was still a \"fantastic number\" and that the UK was \"becoming comparable\" to countries with similar population sizes.\n\n\"What is important is that the UK has steadily increased the number of tests that have been performed,\" she said.\n\nTesting was expanded in England last week to millions more people with symptoms including over-65s, those who have to leave home to work, and people living with someone in these groups.\n\nIn Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced earlier that testing would be expanded to over-65s with symptoms and also all those in care homes where there had been an outbreak.\n\nAnd on Friday, the Welsh government extended coronavirus testing to people in care homes even if they are not showing symptoms of the disease.\n\nThe UK government is hoping the enhanced testing regime, alongside contact tracing and continued social distancing, can stay on top of transmission rates and prevent a second wave of infection.\n\nA \"comprehensive\" road map on a gradual easing of lockdown measures is expected at the end of next week.\n\nA total of 28,446 people have now died with coronavirus across the UK.\n\nThat number includes deaths in hospitals, care homes and the community, but only for those who have tested positive for Covid-19.", "Up to 450 prisoners are to be released early to prevent the spread of coronavirus after the Scottish government approved the move.\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the legislation was designed to free up more cells for single-use occupancy to help limit the number of cases.\n\nOnly those who have been sentenced to 18 months or less and have 90 days or less left to serve will be eligible.\n\nRestrictions will also be in place to exclude certain groups of prisoners.", "Piers Morgan has said he will temporarily step back from presenting Good Morning Britain after developing a \"mild\" coronavirus symptom.\n\nThe ITV programme will be hosted by Ben Shephard and Susanna Reid, as Mr Morgan awaits test results on Monday, he said.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Morgan said he was acting \"on medical advice, and out of an abundance of caution\".\n\nLast week, he was cleared of breaching TV watchdog Ofcom's rules after 4,000 complaints about his questioning.\n\nDuring an animated interview, he asked care minister Helen Whately for the number of health workers and care workers who had died from the illness.\n\nShe accused him of \"shouting at me and not giving me a chance to answer your questions\" and \"attempting to score points\".\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 Piers Morgan 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 Morgan defended his approach, saying it was not as \"uncomfortable\" as the conditions for the carers on the front line of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe presenter has also attracted positive publicity recently, as one of the famous faces taking on the 2.6 challenge, which replaced the London Marathon and raised money for struggling charities.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe prime minister's chief adviser Dominic Cummings has said he does not regret driving 260 miles from London during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nHe revealed he had not told Boris Johnson when he decided to take his family to County Durham after his wife developed Covid-19 symptoms.\n\nMr Cummings said he believed he had acted \"reasonably\" and within the law.\n\nMr Johnson said he understood \"the confusion, anger and pain\" felt and people \"needed to hear\" from his aide.\n\nHe added that Mr Cummings had acted \"reasonably\" and with \"integrity and care for others\", but Labour and the Liberal Democrats accused both men of double standards.\n\nMeanwhile, the government said the number of deaths among people who have tested positive for coronavirus, in all settings, had risen by 121 to 36,914.\n\nMr Cummings has faced several days of attacks in the media, with many people, including some Conservative MPs, calling for him to go.\n\nSpeaking in a press conference in the Downing Street rose garden - requested by the prime minister - he said he wanted to \"clear up the confusions and misunderstandings\".\n\nHe added that, despite days of criticism in the press, he had not considered resigning, saying: \"I don't regret what I did.\"\n\nDuring his statement, Mr Cummings revealed he had:\n\nMany people, including some Conservative MPs, have called for Mr Cummings to be sacked for making his car journey just four days after the lockdown started, while Labour said he had \"clearly broken the rules\".\n\nBut Mr Cummings told reporters: \"I don't think I am so different and that there is one rule for me and one rule for other people.\"\n\nHe added: \"I don't regret what I did.\"\n\nWhen he found out his wife was ill on 27 March and after \"briefly telling some officials in Number 10 what happened\", Mr Cummings said he \"immediately left the building, ran to my car and drove home\".\n\nAfter a couple of hours she \"felt a bit better\", he said, and \"there were many critical things at work, and she urged me to return in the afternoon and I did\".\n\nMr Cummings said he realised the family would have been left without childcare in London if, like his wife, he had fallen ill, so they decided to drive to County Durham that evening.\n\nBBC Newsnight's policy editor Lewis Goodall tweeted that the \"crux of the issue\" is whether he \"abused\" the guidelines by doing 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\nDominic Cummings' rose garden confessional was a bold move designed to take the drama out of a crisis.\n\nBut giving detailed answers to why he at the very least broke the spirit of the lockdown rules does not answer the fundamental question now - is his continued presence in Downing Street more of a hindrance than a help to Boris Johnson?\n\nTempers may have cooled slightly on the Conservative backbenches, but there are still calls for him to go, both private and public.\n\nAnd some senior Conservative MPs are still aghast at how much political capital the prime minister has burned through to keep Mr Cummings at his side. Opposition leaders still intend to push for his departure.\n\nThe man respected by Mr Johnson for judging the public mood has made himself famous for falling foul of that opinion.\n\nHis explanations may ease for some of the anger. But in Westminster and beyond, it will not disappear overnight.\n\nAnd when the prime minister is interrogated by senior MPs on Wednesday his decisions over Dominic Cummings will surely be on the list.\n\nHe said his sister and his nieces, who live on his parents' land, had offered to look after his four-year-old son if necessary.\n\nMr Cummings himself became ill the day after arriving in County Durham, with symptoms including a headache and fever.\n\nHe said he had isolated in a cottage around 50 metres from his parents' home but did not have any contact with the couple, in their 70s, other than shouted conversations.\n\nHe added that, while he had not informed the prime minister - who himself caught coronavirus - before he drove north: \"I did actually speak to him later but neither of us can remember what was said because we were both in pretty bad shape.\"\n\nMr Cummings also said his son had suffered a \"bad fever\" on 2 April. He had gone to hospital by ambulance but had not tested positive for coronavirus, and Mr Cummings had picked him up by car after an overnight stay because there were \"no taxis\".\n\nAsked about his trip to the tourist hotspot of Barnard Castle on 12 April, which included walking \"10 to 15 metres from the car to the riverbank\", he replied: \"I wasn't sightseeing.\"\n\nHe said: \"My wife was very worried, particularly as my eyesight seemed to have been affected by [Covid-19]. She did not want to risk a nearly 300-mile drive with our child, given how ill I had been.\n\n\"We agreed that we should go for a short drive to see if I could drive safely.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Cummings: \"I don't regret what I did... people may well disagree\"\n\nHowever, John Apter, chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales, tweeted that anyone concerned about their vision should not drive in order to \"test\" their ability to do so.\n\n\"It's not a wise move,\" he wrote.\n\nMr Cummings insisted he had not stopped during the journey from London to Durham but may have pulled in on the return to London to get petrol.\n\nHe had had to stop so his son could go to the toilet in a woods by the side of the road, he added.\n\nAnd he believed he had kept to government guidelines, which tell people who develop Covid symptoms to stay in their homes, because they allowed for some leeway in \"extreme\" circumstances.\n\nHe said he was not surprised that many were angry about his actions but it had been \"a complicated, tricky situation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson responds to a question about Dominic Cummings' drive to Barnard Castle to test his eyesight\n\nCommenting on Mr Cummings' appearance before the media, Mr Johnson said: \"To me, he came across as somebody who cared very much about his family and who was doing the best for his family.\"\n\nBut Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner said the hour-long Downing Street press conference had been \"painful to watch\".\n\n\"He clearly broke the rules,\" she said. \"The prime minister has failed to act in the national interest. He should have never allowed this situation with a member of his staff.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Labour Party added those hoping for an apology had \"got none\".\n\nActing Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey urged Mr Johnson to sack Mr Cummings, adding: \"His refusal to have the decency to apologise is an insult to us all. It reveals the worst of his elitist arrogance.\"\n\nSNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford MP echoed that sentiment, saying Mr Johnson had \"no option\" but to sack Mr Cummings, and his failure to do \"is a gross failure of leadership\".", "Labour has named David Evans as the party's new general secretary, with its leader saying he will help \"restore trust with the British people\".\n\nThe National Executive Committee met on Tuesday to choose its most senior official after the resignation of Jennie Formby earlier this month.\n\nSix candidates were shortlisted for the post, but Mr Evans was thought to be favoured by the leadership.\n\nSome unions were thought to have wanted someone from the left of the party.\n\nOne NEC source from the Labour left warned the leadership that \"members won't forgive them if they allow a hard-right general secretary to wage factional warfare\" against them.\n\nMr Evans - who worked for Labour under Tony Blair - said it was \"an honour and a privilege\" to be appointed, adding: \"We face a defining period in the history of our great party, with a global pandemic, an imminent recession and a mountain to climb to win the next election.\n\n\"Through the strength of our movement, I know we can rise to this challenge.\"\n\nOne of Mr Evan's first challenges will be responding to the findings of an inquiry by the equalities watchdog into Labour's handling of anti-Semitism cases within the party.\n\nThe Equalities and Human Rights Commission's report is due to be published soon, with the party's leader, Sir Keir Starmer, having already committed to accepting its recommendations and setting up an independent complaints process.\n\nLabour Against anti-Semitism spokesman, Euan Phillips, praised the appointment for being \"outside the hard left\", but said Mr Evans \"now has a huge job to tackle institutional anti-Jewish racism in the party\", adding: \"Actions not words will be the measurement of his success.\"\n\nMr Evans was regarded as the frontrunner in the contest, with his backers including Morgan McSweeney - Sir Keir's chief of staff.\n\nAs assistant general secretary of the party between 1999 and 2001, he played a leading role in Labour's victory in the 2001 election.\n\nSir Keir said Mr Evans would bring \"a wealth of experience to this crucial role and a clear understanding of the scale of the task ahead of us\".\n\nDeputy leader Angela Rayner said he would make \"a fantastic general secretary\", adding: \"Last year's election result was devastating for our movement.\n\n\"It is now our duty to work as a team to unite our party, reconnect with the British people and offer the better future that our country deserves.\"\n\nBut ahead of his appointment, some union leaders said Mr Evans - who left his previous position in the party to found a political research and consulting company - is a polarising figure who has historically sought to reduce the influence of the left.\n\nThe NEC source also said Sir Keir and Ms Rayner were \"responsible for making sure [Mr] Evans fulfils their election promise to bring our party together, not tear it apart\".\n\nMs Formby - who was a close ally of former leader Jeremy Corbyn - left the role after two years by \"mutual consent\" following Sir Keir's election as leader in April.\n\nThe choice of successor is seen as a crucial step in the new leader's attempts to unify the party after December's heavy election defeat and years of factional in-fighting.\n\nAllies of the new leader have a slim majority on the NEC after elections last month.\n\nBut the committee, which is made up of MPs and other elected officials, trade unionists and representatives of local parties, remains finely balanced, after years in which it was dominated by supporters of ex-leader Mr Corbyn.\n\nThe other candidates were Andrew Fisher, who worked as head of policy for Jeremy Corbyn, Karin Christiansen, a former general secretary of the Co-operative Party, Andrew Byron Taylor, the former head of the Labour group on Basildon Council, former MEP Neena Gill, and Amanda Martin, president of the National Education Union.", "The BBC is to broadcast classic Glastonbury performances this year in the music festival's absence.\n\nPrevious headline sets from Beyoncé, Adele, Coldplay, David Bowie and Jay-Z will be shown on BBC Two and BBC Four.\n\nA new pop-up channel will also appear on BBC iPlayer, which will feature more than 60 historic sets.\n\nThis year's festival, which was due to feature Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar and Sir Paul McCartney, was cancelled amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMore than 200,000 people, including 135,000 ticket-holders, would have descended on Worthy Farm in Somerset if the festival had gone ahead from 25 to 28 June.\n\nClara Amfo, Edith Bowman, Jo Whiley, Lauren Laverne and Mark Radcliffe will host four days of programming across the BBC.\n\nAt the centre of the BBC coverage will be three 90-minute programmes on BBC Two, broadcast on Friday 26, Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 June.\n\nThey will feature performances from Amy Winehouse, Arctic Monkeys, Blur, Dizzee Rascal, Lady Gaga, PJ Harvey, R.E.M. and The Rolling Stones.\n\nAdditional programming on BBC Four will feature some of the most memorable acoustic performances filmed in the BBC compound at previous festivals - including Ed Sheeran, Dua Lipa, Kano, Leon Bridges, Patti Smith, Richie Havens and Youssou N'Dour.\n\nTaylor Swift, Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar were due to top the bill on the Pyramid Stage this year\n\nArchive performances will also be played across BBC radio stations and available on the BBC Sounds app.\n\nOrganiser Emily Eavis will be interviewed by Lauren Laverne on her BBC 6 Music show on Friday 26 June.\n\nLorna Clarke, the controller of BBC Pop said: \"Even though Worthy Farm can't be full of thousands of music lovers this year, the BBC will celebrate with four days of memories and archive footage to give our audience a taste of the festival in their own homes.\"\n\nEavis added: \"There are so many memorable sets being played across the BBC over what would have been our 50th anniversary weekend.\n\n\"Personally, I'm looking forward to a weekend of reflecting on the history of our festival and going back to some classic performances from David Bowie, Adele, REM, Beyoncé, The Rolling Stones, Jay-Z, Billie Eilish and lots more.\n\n\"Me and my dad will definitely be watching!\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJunior minister Douglas Ross has resigned after Dominic Cummings' defence of his trip to County Durham during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe Scotland Office minister said the senior aide's view of the government guidance was \"not shared by the vast majority of people\".\n\nNo 10 said the prime minister regretted Mr Ross's decision to stand down.\n\nIt comes as more than 35 Tory MPs have called on Mr Cummings to resign.\n\nMr Cummings' decision in March to drive 260 miles from his London home to his parents' farm with his child and ill wife - which he explained on Monday was for childcare purposes - dominated the government's daily coronavirus press briefing.\n\nAsked by a member of the public whether ministers would review penalty fines imposed on families who travel for childcare, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"I will have to talk to my Treasury colleagues before I can answer [that] in full and we will look at it.\"\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg, citing a government source, said Mr Hancock did \"not announce a review\" but would pass the concern on to his colleagues.\n\nRev Martin Poole, a vicar from Brighton, said he asked the question of Mr Hancock because \"people feel a bit cheated\" and many feel a sense of \"unfairness\" about the story, adding: \"We want to all be treated on a level playing field.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock said it was \"perfectly reasonable\" to take away the question about lockdown fines\n\nDuring the No 10 briefing, Mr Hancock said he understood the \"anger that some people feel\" over Mr Cummings' actions, but added: \"My view is that what he did was within the guidelines.\"\n\nMr Ross, who remains Conservative MP for Moray, said Mr Cummings' \"intentions may have been well meaning\" - but that he could not tell constituents who had been unable to visit sick relatives during lockdown that \"they were all wrong and one senior adviser to the government was right\".\n\nMr Ross' decision was praised by Labour's shadow Scottish secretary Ian Murray and the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford, who called it the \"decent thing\" and a \"difficult decision\" respectively.\n\nBoris Johnson said he regretted Douglas Ross' decision to stand down\n\nAt a news conference on Monday afternoon, Mr Cummings said he did not regret his actions and believed he acted reasonably and legally.\n\nAsked why, once in County Durham, he drove his family to the town of Barnard Castle - 15 days after he had displayed coronavirus symptoms himself - Mr Cummings said he had experienced vision problems during his illness and was testing his eyesight to see if he could drive back to London.\n\nThe drip drip of Conservative MPs calling on Dominic Cummings to go has continued on Tuesday.\n\nNow surpassing 35, it is around 10% of the parliamentary party.\n\nHowever, what's notable is that there are those who, even if they're not calling on Mr Cummings to go, have felt it necessary to write long open letters explaining their thinking to constituents.\n\nPublic anger, it seems, has not been put to bed by Monday's extraordinary rose garden press conference.\n\nThe prime minister's chief aide does, of course, have his backers; people who believe he did what was right in difficult circumstances.\n\nAnd one government minister suggested to me that the story has been \"whipped up\" by those who simply do not like Mr Cummings, either politically or as a person.\n\nBut this saga is now into its fourth day, in a week when the prime minister wishes to communicate crucial messages about his plans for easing the lockdown.\n\nIt is - another minister conceded - a \"problem\" and \"distraction\".\n\nAnd on Tuesday, as yesterday, the question remains, how much political capital is Boris Johnson ready to expend on keeping his chief aide?\n\nBoris Johnson's spokesman reiterated the prime minister's support for Mr Cummings on Tuesday, saying the adviser had \"answered questions extensively\", while Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove said his account was \"exhaustive, detailed and verifiable\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Jackson Carlaw told the BBC Mr Cummings should resign as the row is \"distracting attention\" from efforts to combat the coronavirus.\n\nAmong the Tory MPs calling for Mr Cummings' resignation is former Attorney General Jeremy Wright, who said combating the coronavirus was \"more important than the position of any individual in Downing Street\".\n\nHe is joined by William Wragg, MP for Hazel Grove, who said it was \"humiliating\" to see ministers defending Mr Cummings, and Sir Roger Gale, MP for North Thanet, who said the adviser had sent out a \"dangerous message\".\n\nFormer Conservative health secretary Jeremy Hunt told his South West Surrey constituents that Mr Cummings' actions were \"a clear breach of the lockdown rules\" - but they were \"mistakes\" and he would not call for his resignation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carlaw: \"If it were me, I feel it would now be time to consider my position\"\n\nSix opposition leaders have said in a letter to the prime minister that removing Mr Cummings from his post \"without further delay\" is the only way to restore trust in public health advice.\n\nThe leaders of the SNP, Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru, SDLP, Green Party and Alliance Party said the issue \"transcends politics\".\n\n\"It has united people of every party and political persuasion, who believe strongly that it is now your responsibility as prime minister to return clarity and trust in public health messaging,\" the letter read.\n\nMeanwhile, the retired chemistry teacher who recognised Mr Cummings in County Durham on 12 April told BBC Radio Newcastle he has some regrets about his involvement.\n\nRobin Lees said he had had a \"difficult few days\" after his account of the encounter was initially rejected by Downing Street, but that he felt \"vindicated\" by the subsequent admission.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former teacher Robin Lees, who spotted Mr Cummings in County Durham, says Downing Street initially rejected his account\n\nLatest government figures show the number of people to die with coronavirus in the UK rose by 134 to 37,048 on Tuesday.\n\nThere were no Covid-19 related deaths reported in Northern Ireland for the first time since 18 March.", "Foreign visitors to Spain will no longer have to undergo a two-week quarantine from 1 July, the government has announced.\n\nIt said the measure had been finalised in a cabinet meeting on Monday.\n\nForeign Minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya had previously said the requirement would be lifted in July, without giving a date.\n\nThe news comes as the UK government prepares to bring in its own 14-day quarantine policy from 8 June.\n\nTravel firms and other industry bodies say the UK should relax the measure for visitors arriving from countries where people are at a lower risk of contracting the coronavirus.\n\nSpain normally attracts 80 million tourists a year, with the sector providing more than 12% of the country's GDP.\n\nOpening up the holiday market again before the summer season is over is seen as crucial to the Spanish economy.\n\nBut under the UK's new policy, any tourists returning home after taking holidays in Spain and most other foreign destinations would have to spend two weeks in self-isolation.\n\nSeveral airlines including EasyJet, Jet2 and Ryanair have announced that they plan to resume flights and holidays soon.\n\nEasyjet will be resuming flights from 22 airports across Europe from 15 June, as well as regional flights across the UK. But there will only be one international flight from the UK - from Gatwick to Nice in France.\n\nJet2 is planning to resume full services from 1 July, and will fly to several Spanish and Italian destinations, before opening up to Greece and Croatia later in the year.\n\nAnd Ryanair will be restoring 40% of its flights from 1 July and will resume flights from most of the 80 airports it flies from across Europe.\n\nBusiness groups wrote to Boris Johnson on Sunday saying the quarantine would have \"serious consequences\" for the economy and calling for \"air bridge\" deals to be struck with other nations.\n\nIn their letter to the prime minister, bosses of airlines EasyJet, Tui, Jet2 and Virgin Atlantic, as well as industry bodies Airlines UK, the British Chambers of Commerce, UK Hospitality and manufacturing association Made UK said they had \"serious reservations\" about a \"blanket approach\" to all arrivals into Britain.\n\nInstead, they are asking for a more \"targeted, risk-based\" approach when establishing air links with countries that have high infection rates from the pandemic.\n\n\"The alternative risks major damage to the arteries of UK trade with key industry supply chains, whilst pushing the UK to the back of the queue as states begin conversations for opening up their borders,\" says the letter.", "Coronavirus death registrations in the UK in the week to 15 May reached their lowest point since the beginning of April.\n\nBetween 11 and 15 May, there were 4,210 death registrations mentioning Covid-19, across the UK.\n\nDown from 4,426 the previous week, it is the lowest weekly figure since the 3,801 for the week ending 10 April.\n\nCoronavirus accounted for just over 25% of all deaths in the UK in the week to 15 May.\n\nIn the week to 17 April, when deaths from the virus reached their peak, this figure was just under 40%.\n\nLockdown measures were introduced across the UK on 23 March.\n\nDeath registrations mentioning Covid-19 fell in every setting in the week to 15 May.\n\nBut the total number of death registrations rose by 10%.\n\nThe bank holiday on Friday, 8 May, had meant deaths towards the end of that week had not been registered until at least 11 May, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nDon't read too much into the increase in the total number of deaths registered.\n\nBank holidays interrupt the normal order of business. A Friday bank holiday like the one on 8 May pushes deaths into the following week, leading to the artificial extra dip and spike we see in this week's figures.\n\nThe number of Covid-19 registered deaths continues to fall, despite this extra lot of registrations from the previous week, and are falling in every setting.\n\nSo the trends are moving in the right direction - but any week with an extra 5,000 deaths can hardly be described as normal.\n\nWe are still seeing far more deaths each week than would be expected at this time of year - all of which are concentrated in the over 45s.\n\nAlso in the week to 15 May, 44% of coronavirus deaths in England and Wales were in care homes, compared with 23% at the peak, when the virus was far more active in the general population.\n\nAs in the general population, the total number of deaths in care homes rose slightly while the number of Covid-19 registered deaths fell.\n\nThe ONS's publication also looked at \"excess deaths\" in England and Wales - how many more were registered in the first 20 weeks of 2020 compared with the five-year average for the same time of year.\n\nAnd an analysis of this data, by Prof Carl Heneghan, at the University of Oxford, found there was no additional risk of dying during that period for people under the age of 45.\n\nProf Heneghan said it wasn't until the 45-50 age band that excess deaths, over and above the five-year average, could be seen in the data.\n\nAnd for some age groups, particularly the younger ones, death rates had been slightly below average as lockdown had reduced other risks, including road-traffic accidents, violence and other respiratory infections.\n\nAfter the age of 45, however, the risk of dying had increased with age and had been significantly higher among the over-75s.\n\nThe ONS figures show in England and Wales there have been 53,960 excess deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.\n\nThe National Records of Scotland, meanwhile, said there had been 4,434 excess deaths between March 23 and May 17.\n\nAnd the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency said there had been 834 between March 21 and May 15.", "RNLI: 'Stop people going to beaches before more lives are lost'\n\nThe chief executive of the RNLI has called on the Government to restrict access to the coast after two people died in Cornwall on Monday. In an open letter, Mark Cowie said the lifting of lockdown restrictions in England had put the charity in an \"impossible situation\" in which they had to choose whether to put lifeguards or the public at risk. He wrote that - despite warning that no lifeguards were on patrol - lifeboat crews had their busiest weekend of the year so far due to crowded beaches, hot weather and large waves. On Monday, a 17-year-old girl died after a boat capsized near Wadebridge and a man died after being pulled from the water by a member of the public in Padstow. Mr Cowie wrote: \"Safety advice and warnings will only go so far when people are desperate to enjoy some freedom after weeks of lockdown. \"As a lifesaving charity, the RNLI cannot stop people going to beaches - but the government can - before more lives are lost around our coast this summer.\"", "Dominic Cummings' rose garden confessional was a bold move designed to take the drama out of a crisis.\n\nBut giving detailed answers to why he at the very least broke the spirit of the lockdown rules does not answer the fundamental question now - is his continued presence in Downing Street more of a hindrance than a help to Boris Johnson?\n\nTempers may have cooled slightly on the Conservative backbenches, but there are still calls for him to go, both private and public.\n\nAnd some senior Conservative MPs are still aghast at how much political capital the prime minister has burned through to keep Mr Cummings at his side. Opposition leaders still intend to push for his departure.\n\nThe man respected by Mr Johnson for judging the public mood has made himself famous for falling foul of that opinion.\n\nHis explanations may ease some of the anger. But in Westminster and beyond, it will not disappear overnight.\n\nAnd when the prime minister is interrogated by senior MPs on Wednesday his decisions over Dominic Cummings will surely be on the list.\n\nFor just as his adviser's decisions at the end of March are at issue, so too are Mr Johnson's instincts to allow him to stay.\n\nOf course the exploits of one man pale alongside the vast challenges for the country - for public health, and for the economy too.\n\nBut just at the moment when the government needs to build confidence for the country's slow emergence from lockdown to the world outside, its focus has been the behaviour and judgement of those on the inside, at the very top.", "Video of the incident in Minneapolis was posted on social media\n\nFour Minnesota police officers have been fired after the death of a black man who was taken into custody and seen on video being pinned down by his neck.\n\nMinneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo said the four officers were now \"former employees\".\n\nFootage shows the man, George Floyd, groaning and repeatedly saying \"I can't breathe\" to the white officer.\n\nThe incident echoed that of Eric Garner, a black man who died being arrested in New York City in 2014.\n\nThe FBI has said it will investigate the Minneapolis incident, which took place on Monday evening.\n\nGeorge Floyd repeatedly told the police officers who detained him that he could not breathe\n\nMinnesota police said 46-year-old Mr Floyd, who had worked providing security at a restaurant, died after a \"medical incident\" in a \"police interaction\".\n\nOn Tuesday afternoon, Mayor Jacob Frey confirmed the four officers involved in the incident had been \"terminated\".\n\n\"This is the right call,\" he tweeted.\n\nAt a press conference earlier, Mr Frey had described the incident as \"completely and utterly messed up\".\n\n\"I believe what I saw and what I saw is wrong on every level,\" he said. \"Being black in America should not be a death sentence.\"\n\nIt is the latest accusation of US police brutality against African Americans. Recent high-profile cases include an officer in Maryland who fatally shot a man inside a patrol car.\n\nThe incident in Minneapolis began with a report of a customer attempting to use a counterfeit $20 bill at a store.\n\nThe officers located the suspect in his car, police said in a statement. They were told the man, who has not been identified, was \"sitting on top of a blue car and appeared to be under the influence\".\n\nA protester prays in front of a memorial for George Floyd, whose death has reignited debate about police brutality in the US\n\nAfter being ordered to step away from the vehicle, the man physically resisted officers, according to police. \"Officers were able to get the suspect into handcuffs and noted he appeared to be suffering medical distress,\" the statement added.\n\nIn the 10-minute video filmed by a witness, the man is kept on the ground by the officer and, at one point, says: \"Don't kill me.\"\n\nWitnesses urged the officer to take his knee off the man's neck, noting that he was not moving. One says, \"His nose is bleeding\", while another pleads, \"Get off his neck.\"\n\nThe man then appears motionless before he is put on a stretcher and into an ambulance.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice said no weapons were used during the incident and that body camera footage had been handed to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), which is investigating the case.\n\nOn Tuesday evening, officers used tear gas to disperse a mass protest outside a police precinct in Minneapolis, according to local media.\n\nA journalist for the Star Tribune newspaper tweeted that he had been struck by a rubber bullet fired by police.\n\nA reporter for local KTSP-TV tweeted that demonstrators had smashed glass at the precinct building and sprayed graffiti on a police patrol car.\n\nPolice said in a statement earlier about the death of George Floyd: \"As additional information has been made available, it has been determined that the Federal Bureau of Investigation will be a part of this investigation.\"\n\nSpeaking to US media on Tuesday, Chief Arradondo said the force's policies \"regarding placing someone under control\" will be reviewed as part of the probe.\n\nAccording to the Associated Press news agency, Minneapolis police officers are allowed under the department's use-of-force policy to kneel on a suspect's neck as long as they do not obstruct the airway.\n\nAsked about the FBI's involvement, Chief Arradondo said he made the decision to include the agency after receiving \"additional information\" from a community source \"that just provided more context\".\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson for the FBI Minneapolis division said the agency's investigation woud focus on whether the police officers involved \"willfully deprived the individual of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States\".\n\nWhen completed, the agency will present its findings to the Minnesota state's attorney for possible federal charges. The Minnesota BCA, which investigates most in-custody deaths, will continue to conduct its own investigation, focusing on possible violations of state laws.\n\nMinnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar - who has reportedly been shortlisted as Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's running mate - issued a statement calling for a \"complete and thorough outside investigation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One thing Americans find hard to talk about\n\n\"Justice must be served for this man and his family, justice must be served for our community, justice must be served for our country,\" she said.\n\n\"I can't breathe\" became a national rallying cry against police brutality in the US after the July 2014 death of Eric Garner.\n\nGarner, an unarmed black man, uttered the phrase 11 times after being detained by police on suspicion of illegally selling loose cigarettes. They were the final words of the 43-year-old, who died after a police officer placed him in a chokehold.\n\nA city medical examiner ruled the chokehold contributed to Garner's death. The New York City police officer involved in Garner's deadly arrest was fired from the police force more than five years later, in August 2019. No officer was charged in that case.", "The coastguard helicopter landed on the beach between Porthtowan and Chapel Porth on Monday afternoon\n\nA teenage girl trapped beneath a capsized boat and a man who was pulled out of the sea off the Cornwall coast have died, police said.\n\nThe girl was with three others who survived after their boat capsized on the Doom Bar near Padstow at about 12:45 BST.\n\nIn a separate rescue, a man was pulled from the sea near Constantine by an off-duty RNLI lifeguard.\n\nPolice said it had been \"a very tough day for local emergency services\".\n\nThe two deaths were among multiple incidents reported to emergency services over the bank holiday.\n\nIt comes after the RNLI suspended lifeguard patrols on UK beaches in March due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nCh Insp Ian Thompson said: \"These are extremely upsetting circumstances and our thoughts go out to all involved.\n\n\"It has been a very tough day for local emergency services.\"\n\nThe girl died after being airlifted to hospital and the man who had been struggling in the water at Treyarnon Bay at about 12:30 BST was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nSigns at Chapel Porth warn beachgoers about RNLI lifeguards not being on duty\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn another incident a man is in a serious condition in hospital after being found face down in the water at Porthtowan.\n\nSteve England, from surf magazine Carve, who was surfing, said he and others gave the man CPR and pulled him out of the water while waiting for the coastguard helicopter and a lifeboat to arrive.\n\n\"If we had a lifeguard on the beach we would have got oxygen to the casualty within two minutes but we had to wait 20 minutes,\" he said.\n\nOther incidents were reported including some on social media at other locations such as one where a number of surfers struggled in a rip current and two kayakers got into difficulty on Sunday.\n\nA man is in a serious condition in hospital after being pulled from the sea at Porthtowan\n\nThe RNLI said it had been dealing with an increased number of call outs and urged people to follow safety advice \"if people chose to go into the water\".\n\nIn a statement, it said: \"We continue to do what we can to get a lifeguard service up and running as soon as possible.\n\n\"But it must be safe for our lifeguards and the public when the risk posed by coronavirus is still a very real threat.\"\n\nThe charity has since announced plans to patrol 70 beaches this summer rather than its usual 240 and is rolling out a reduced service \"in phases\" from the end of the month.", "Jaden Moodie moved from Nottingham to London with his mum for a \"new start\"\n\nA boy who was \"butchered\" in a drugs turf war after being groomed by drug dealers had been arrested in a crack den months earlier but police did not contact child exploitation staff, a report has found.\n\nJaden Moodie was 14 when he was knocked off his moped and stabbed to death in east London in January 2019.\n\nA serious case review found chances to protect him were missed by agencies.\n\nAyoub Majdouline was jailed in December for his murder.\n\nJaden's family said they agreed with \"many of the findings\" of the report.\n\nThe family's lawyer, Alice Hardy, said the report showed Jaden \"was failed by the system\".\n\n\"Jaden was both homeless and out of school at the time of his death, both of which could have been prevented,\" she said.\n\n\"The report shows there is no effective system in place to respond and help children at risk from exploitation through county lines.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThree months before his death, Jaden was found with an older boy in a flat in Bournemouth known to be used by county lines drug gangs with 39 wraps of crack cocaine, two packets of cocaine, a mobile phone and £325 in cash.\n\nAccording to the review, the appropriate adult who sat in on his police interview said he appeared to be \"a vulnerable young person frightened by what he was being groomed and coerced into by others\".\n\nHe gave the impression that \"he definitely wanted to find a way out of the mess he was getting into\", they said.\n\nFollowing his release, two Dorset Police officers drove him home to London but did not involve specialist child exploitation workers.\n\nA spokesman for the force said it \"liaised and worked with the family and social services in Waltham Forest and Dorset to find the best solution to returning Jaden home\".\n\n\"The most viable solution at that time was for Dorset Police to safely escort him home to his family,\" he said.\n\nIn the 12 months to August 2019, Dorset Police found 36 children from London in Bournemouth in similar circumstances to Jaden.\n\nJaden's school in Waltham Forest was not told about the arrest but excluded him for a separate incident.\n\nJaden pictured wearing his school uniform on his first day in Nottingham\n\nAt the time of his death Jaden was living with his grandmother in Leyton.\n\nHis mother, Jada Bailey, had been sleeping on friends' sofas while she waited to be rehoused.\n\nShe had told housing officers she was trying to keep her son out of trouble and was keen to find somewhere for them to live in Waltham Forest, the report said.\n\nShe was allocated a flat two weeks before Jaden was stabbed to death.\n\nThe review found Ms Bailey and Jaden's housing needs \"could have been handled in a timelier manner\", especially as his vulnerability to exploitation became clear.\n\nThe 14-year-old was stabbed to death in Bickley Road, Leyton\n\nJaden's father Julian Moodie was convicted of drug dealing in 2009 and deported to Jamaica a year later, when Jaden was a young boy.\n\nHe began getting into trouble after starting secondary school in Nottingham in 2015, the report said.\n\nHe ran away from home, was accused of bullying and Ms Bailey was threatened at knifepoint when someone came looking for Jaden.\n\nThe report said Jaden had only spent three of his last 22 months in school.\n\nIn November 2018, he was excluded from school in Waltham Forest after he was seen in a Snapchat video in his school uniform holding what appeared to be a gun.\n\nJaden pleaded guilty in court to possession of an imitation firearm in a public place.\n\nBy the end of December Jaden had been offered a place at a pupil referral unit and had committed social workers and youth offending workers trying to help him.\n\nBut \"tragically none of these people were provided with that opportunity\", the report concluded.\n\nThe review was led by John Drew, the former chief executive of the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales.\n\nMr Drew highlighted poor communication between Waltham Forest Council's social services, Dorset Police and the Met Police.\n\nHe called for a national system for responding to exploitation of children by county lines gangs, saying that every area needs a \"rescue and response\" system to protect young people.\n\nMr Drew concluded that \"no-one knew how little time\" there was to change Jaden's thinking.\n\nJaden's death \"could not have been anticipated,\" the report found\n\nJaden's death \"could not have been anticipated on the basis of what was known about [his] life at that time\", Mr Drew said.\n\n\"So while it is clear that [Jaden] was not protected either by the council, or its partners, or by any other person, from the ultimate danger that engulfed him, I do not find any major fault in the response to his circumstances.\"\n\nLeader of Waltham Forest Council, Clare Coghill, called the report \"an excellent piece of work\".\n\nThe council has \"taken on board all of the recommendations\", she said.\n\n\"We really hope the government takes on board the recommendations in relation to county lines. We need co-ordination and leadership form central government,\" she said.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Met Police said: \"Our thoughts and sympathies remain with Jaden's family.\n\n\"While no specific recommendations have been made for the Met Police, we continue to work closely with Waltham Forest Safeguarding Children's Board to ensure we are communicating and working with all other agencies in the best possible way to safeguard vulnerable children in the borough.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The animal was spotted in a resident's garden in East Finchley\n\nAn exotic pet cat sparked an armed police response when it was spotted in a back garden.\n\nThe large feline, thought to be a rare Savannah breed, caused alarm when it was seen in Winnington Road, East Finchley, north London.\n\nScotland Yard said firearms officers and an animal expert - to assess the threat posed by the leopard-spotted interloper - were sent to the scene.\n\nAfter it was deemed safe, the cat ran off. Its owner has yet to be found.\n\nThe Met said officers rushed to the neighbourhood - reportedly dubbed \"billionaire's row\" on account of the high property prices - at 21:00 BST on Monday.\n\nA resident's garden was sealed off, the force said, while the animal expert assessed whether the beast was a danger to the public.\n\nUpon viewing the cat, they concluded it was a hybrid, \"namely a cross-breed of a domestic cat and a Savannah cat\".\n\nThere have been no reports of attacks or injuries to members of the public, according to MPS Barnet.\n\nA Met Police spokesperson said the \"matter has been logged for intelligence purposes\" and \"no offences were disclosed\".\n\n\"Police have not been able to trace the cat's owner at this time,\" they added.\n\nIn most cases, Savannah cats, which are a cross between a domestic cat and a Serval wild African cat, are legal to own in the UK.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Abid's choice of clothing has led some to shame her posthumously\n\nA top model, presumed dead in a plane crash in Pakistan last week, has been attacked by online trolls, accusing her of having led an immoral life.\n\nZara Abid's social media accounts were deactivated after comments poured in criticising her clothes and lifestyle.\n\nThe 28-year-old was on board a PIA flight when it crashed in a residential part of Karachi on Friday, according to the manifest and her friends.\n\nVictims have not been named but authorities said only two men survived.\n\nInitial reports she had survived led her brother to issue a plea to people to stop spreading fake news, media reports said.\n\nHer Instagram, Twitter and Facebook accounts are no longer visible, though it is unclear if they were taken down by the social media sites or her family and friends.\n\nIn conservative Pakistani society, women are expected to be modest and many of those in the public eye are subjected to moral policing on social media.\n\nZara Abid worked with some of the biggest brands in Pakistani fashion and in January this year won \"Best Female Model\" at the Hum Style Awards.\n\nLeading designers paid tribute to her professionalism and style. She was set to make her debut as an actress later this year.\n\nAs news spread that she was thought to have been on the ill-fated flight on Friday, hundreds of comments were posted on her social media accounts by religious radicals questioning her faith and adherence to Islamic practises.\n\nMany of the comments suggested that she would be punished in the afterlife for her choices.\n\nPictures of her wearing clothes that would be considered revealing in Pakistan were being posted online as examples of her \"sinful\" behaviour.\n\nOne Twitter user said, \"Allah Pak doesn't like those women who are showing their body parts to everyone and jannat [heaven] is only for pure men and pure women\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mira Sethi 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\nProminent women can face abuse and even rape or death threats online in Pakistan in the name of morality or religious piety.\n\nThere were of course also many tributes to her from fellow models, designers and actors who called it a \"tragedy for the fashion industry\".\n\nSome said she had redefined conventional beauty standards with her tanned complexion. In Pakistan, like in much of South Asia, fair skin is considered beautiful and idolised.\n• None 'All I could see was fire' - Pakistan plane survivor", "The PM's chief advisor has given a press conference amid calls for him to resign, saying he wanted to \"clear up confusion and misunderstandings\" over his actions during lockdown.\n\nDominic Cummings started with a statement – which he said he should have given earlier, and which Boris Johnson had asked him to relay to the public.\n\nIn it Mr Cummings outlined events that saw him drive his family 260 miles to County Durham.\n\nRead more: 'I don't regret what I did,' says Cummings", "The coronavirus crisis has given the government an \"extraordinary opportunity\" to offer rough sleepers long-term help to get off the streets, the head of its homeless Covid taskforce has said.\n\nDame Louise Casey told the BBC £53m will be spent on support services.\n\nAlmost 15,000 rough sleepers have been housed in emergency accommodation since the start of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nShe says a \"national effort\" is needed to keep people off the streets.\n\nDame Louise was appointed by Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick last month to lead a specialist Covid-19 rough sleeping group support for rough sleepers during the pandemic.\n\nIn addition to the £53m, she says she has secured £160m from the £381m announced in the Budget for permanent homes for the homeless, which she says can be spent now on building and buying accommodation for them, with a plan for 3,300 beds in the next year.\n\nShe said the help being given to very vulnerable people may be a \"tiny silver lining\" to the \"horrific period\" the country is going through, adding she does not want to see those people go back to the streets.\n\nDame Louise Casey told the BBC £53m will be spent on support services to help get homeless people off the streets\n\nIn an exclusive interview with the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire, she said the government is not promising to find permanent homes for all rough sleepers in England, but that it is trying to \"provide the right solutions\" for people who have come in off the streets.\n\nShe says although the government has made a \"good start\" on allocating money for 6,000 new homes, it needs to \"do more\" in partnership with others.\n\nShe has called on all sectors of society, including businesses, faith groups and local communities, to join efforts to house rough sleepers and help them turn their lives around.\n\nThe Prince's Trust, as well as Prince Charles' charity Business in the Community, are already on board, and a deal is under way for the Youth Hostel Association (YHA) to provide 400 beds for six months.\n\nMeanwhile, charity St Martin-in-the-Fields is putting £1m into a support package for people moving to longer term accommodation.\n\nComic Relief is prioritising funding for frontline work at Crisis and Homeless Link.\n\nHighlighting the crucial role churches will play, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said: \"Rough sleeping is a tragedy that ought to belong in the past. Everyone deserves access to safe and stable housing; it is vital for human dignity, equality and justice.\n\n\"I am enormously proud of and grateful for the amazing contribution churches across the country make in supporting those who experience rough sleeping and homelessness.\"\n\nIn March, the government instructed councils in England to find emergency accommodation for all those who were sleeping rough on the streets.\n\nIt said such accommodation was offered to \"90% of known rough sleepers\".\n\nMr Jenrick said the government's work will not end once the pandemic is over, pledging it will do \"everything possible\" to ensure as few rough sleepers as possible return to the streets \"in order to reach our ultimate ambition of ending rough sleeping for good.\"\n\nOn Sunday, he announced funding for 6,000 new long-term housing units along with increased government funding for support services for rough sleepers.\n\nChallenged on whether the 6,000 housing units would be enough, Dame Louise said it was a \"fantastic start\", adding it was not \"the end\" but the \"beginning\" of work to support rough sleepers.\n\nSince the Conservatives came to power in 2010, the numbers of people sleeping rough has more than doubled.\n\nLatest figures suggested about 4,200 people were estimated to be sleeping rough on a \"typical\" night last year, although BBC research suggested that the true figure was five times higher - finding that nearly 25,000 people slept rough in England at some point in 2019.", "Alessandro Giardini is a consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, and spent seven days on a ventilator due to Covid-19. The doctor recovered and went on to donate plasma.\n\nThe plasma, the liquid portion of the blood, contains coronavirus antibodies and he has the highest antibody level of those measured so far.\n\nThe antibody rich plasma taken from people who have recovered can be transfused into people being treated for Covid-19.\n\nThree groups of donors - men, those over 35 and people who have had hospital treatment - are most likley to have antibody rich plasma.\n\nThe NHS is now urging people who have had coronavirus and are in one or more of those three groups to donate plasma for a treatment trial.", "A Welsh council’s Conservative group leader has said there are “more important issues” than Dominic Cummings’ trip to Durham during lockdown – but his fellow Tory councillors have voiced different opinions on the issue.\n\nThe prime minister’s chief adviser has said he does not regret the 260-mile journey from London and that he had acted reasonably.\n\nBut critics say the trip broke lockdown rules and have called for him to resign.\n\nNewport council’s Tory group leader, Councillor Matthew Evans, refused to be drawn on whether or not he backed Mr Cummings, adding he is “sick and tired of the whole thing”.\n\n“I have not defended him and I have not criticised him,” he said.\n\n“People locally have bigger concerns about their jobs and prospects and when they will be able to see their friends and family again.”\n\nBut Caerleon councillor Joan Watkins said Mr Cummings was right to put family first.\n\n“He is a father first and stand in that man’s shoes before you make judgements,” she said.\n\nAllt-yr-yn councillor Charles Ferris also backed Mr Cummings, saying he had given “a plausible explanation” about the trip.\n\nBut he conceded that the issue does risk undermining the UK government’s lockdown rules.\n\n“It does tend to undermine what we do,” he said.\n\n“But he wanted to protect his kids first and I think his instincts overrode that.”\n\nGraig councillor David Williams conceded that on reflection Mr Cummings might not have made “the best of decisions” – but he added that, as a parent, he “might have done the same thing\".\n\nDominic Cummings has said he behaved reasonably despite criticism of his trip to Durham Image caption: Dominic Cummings has said he behaved reasonably despite criticism of his trip to Durham", "The star said his \"small\" heart attack revealed more serious underlying problems\n\nQueen guitarist Brian May has revealed he \"could have died\" after being rushed to hospital following a heart attack.\n\nThe 72-year-old said he was \"shocked\" to discover he needed surgery after what he described as a \"small\" heart attack earlier this month.\n\nThe star's heart scare came a few days after a separate medical issue, when he thought he had ripped his glutes during a gardening accident.\n\nHe explained his latest health problem in a video posted to Instagram.\n\n\"I thought I was a very healthy guy,\" he said.\n\n\"But I turned out to have three arteries that were congested and in danger of blocking the supply of blood to my heart.\"\n\nMay was subsequently fitted with three stents - tiny tubes that can hold open blocked arteries - and says he is back in full health.\n\n\"I walked out with a heart that's very strong now, so I think I'm in good shape for some time to come.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe star made headlines earlier this month when he posted that he had torn a muscle in his gluteus maximus during a gardening accident.\n\nThe injury left him in \"relentless pain,\" which he later discovered was due to another injury.\n\n\"I told you I had a ripped muscle,\" he said in the seven-minute video he posted titled \"Sheer Heart Attack\" - a reference to the title of Queen's third album, released in 1974.\n\n\"That was the way I was diagnosed and we thought it was like a bizarre gardening accident.\n\n\"I didn't realise that was amusing, really. I kind of forgot anything to do with the bum people find amusing... but anyway, it turned out to be not really the case.\n\n\"Now a week later I'm still in agony. I mean real agony. I wanted to jump at some points. I could not believe the pain. And people were saying, 'That's not like a ripped muscle, you don't get that amount of pain,' so eventually I had another MRI.\n\n'But this time I had one of the lower spine and, sure enough, what did we discover but I had a compressed sciatic nerve, quite severely compressed, and that's why I had the feeling that someone was putting a screwdriver in my back the whole time. It was excruciating.\n\n\"So finally we started treating the thing for what it was. I'd been putting the ice packs in the wrong place for about 10 days.\n\n'That's one side of the story, and I'm a lot better now... But the rest of the story is a little more bizarre and a bit more shocking.\n\n\"I thought I was a very healthy guy. Everyone says, 'You've got a great blood pressure, you've got a great heart rate'. And I keep fit, I bike, good diet, not too much fat.\n\n\"Anyway, I had - in the middle of the whole saga of the painful backside - I had a small heart attack.\n\n\"It's not something that did me any harm. It was about 40 minutes of pain in the chest and tightness, and that feeling in the arms and sweating.\"\n\nHaving realised he was having a heart attack, he called his doctor, who drove him to hospital for tests that exposed his underlying health problems.\n\nQueen were due to be on tour with Adam Lambert this year before coronavirus put live music on hold\n\nGiven the choice between open heart surgery and having stents fitted, the musician chose the latter, and said the operation was remarkably straightforward.\n\nThe star added that his experience should be a lesson to other people in their \"autumn years\".\n\n\"What seems to be a very healthy heart may not be, and I would get it checked if I were you,\" he said.\n\n\"I was actually very near death [but] I didn't die. I came out and I would have been full of beans if it hadn't been for the leg.\"\n\nMay's health scare came shortly after Queen released a new version of We Are The Champions to raise money for the World Health Organization's Covid-19 fund.\n\nThe single was renamed You Are The Champions as a tribute to medical staff, and was recorded under lockdown.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "JK Rowling has surprised fans with the announcement of a brand new children's book, which she is publishing in daily instalments on her website for free.\n\nThe Ickabog is her first children's story not to be linked to Harry Potter. She wrote it over a decade ago for her own children and has now dusted it off.\n\nIt's for \"children on lockdown, or even those back at school during these strange, unsettling times\", she said.\n\nShe had previously referred to it only as an unnamed \"political fairytale\".\n\nChapters of The Ickabog are being published daily until 10 July on The Ickabog website.\n\nThe first two chapters, which went online on Tuesday, introduced King Fred the Fearless, ruler of Cornucopia, and five-year-old Bert Beamish.\n\nReaders also learned about the myth of a fearsome monster called The Ickabog, which is \"said to eat children and sheep\".\n\nThe author said she originally intended to release the story after the seventh and final Harry Potter novel came out in 2007.\n\nBut she decided to take a break from publishing, and put the manuscript in her attic.\n\n\"Over time I came to think of it as a story that belonged to my two younger children, because I'd read it to them in the evenings when they were little, which has always been a happy family memory,\" she wrote on her website.\n\nA few weeks ago, she suggested to her children that she might retrieve it from her loft.\n\n\"My now teenagers were touchingly enthusiastic, so downstairs came the very dusty box, and for the last few weeks I've been immersed in a fictional world I thought I'd never enter again.\n\n\"As I worked to finish the book, I started reading chapters nightly to the family again.\n\n\"This was one of the most extraordinary experiences of my writing life, as The Ickabog's first two readers told me what they remember from when they were tiny, and demanded the reinstatement of bits they'd particularly liked (I obeyed).\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by J.K. Rowling This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt was written to be read aloud, but is suitable to be read alone by children between seven and nine, she said.\n\nIt will be published as an actual book in English in November, with all author royalties going \"to help groups who've been particularly impacted by the pandemic\".\n\nShe has also asked young readers to draw their own illustrations, with the best pictures to be included in the published books.\n\n\"I want to see imaginations run wild!\" she wrote. \"Creativity, inventiveness and effort are the most important things: we aren't necessarily looking for the most technical skill!\"\n\nThe story is about truth and the abuse of power, Rowling explained.\n\n\"To forestall one obvious question: the idea came to me well over a decade ago, so it isn't intended to be read as a response to anything that's happening in the world right now.\n\n\"The themes are timeless and could apply to any era or any country.\"\n\nIt was in a 2007 interview with Time Magazine that she first said she was writing a \"political fairytale\". She later revealed she had written the text on her fancy dress outfit for her 50th birthday in 2015 - when she went as a lost manuscript.\n\nTuesday's announcement is confirmation she was referring to The Ickabog.\n\nA theme of inequality is clear from the story's first chapter.\n\nMost of Cornucopia was a \"magically rich land\" with happy people and fine, abundant food, readers are told.\n\nBut in the northern tip lived the Marshlanders, who scraped by on meagre resources. They had \"rough voices, which the other Cornucopians imitated\", and were the butt of jokes about \"their manners and their simplicity\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Experts warn remdesivir shouldn't be seen as a \"magic bullet\"\n\nA drug treatment called remdesivir that appears to shorten recovery time for people with coronavirus is being made available on the NHS.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said it was probably the biggest step forward in the treatment of coronavirus since the crisis began.\n\nRemdesivir is an anti-viral medicine that has been used against Ebola.\n\nUK regulators say there is enough evidence to approve its use in selected Covid-19 hospital patients.\n\nFor the time being and due to limited supplies, it will go to those most likely to benefit.\n\nThe US and Japan have already made similar urgent arrangements to provide early access to the medicine before they have a marketing agreement.\n\nThe drug is currently undergoing clinical trials around the world, including in the UK.\n\nEarly data suggests it can cut recovery time by about four days, but there is no evidence yet that it will save more lives.\n\nIt is not clear how much stock pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences has available to treat UK patients.\n\nAllocation of the intravenous drug will be based on the advice of doctors.\n\nMinister for Innovation Lord Bethell said: \"This shows fantastic progress. As we navigate this unprecedented period, we must be on the front foot of the latest medical advancements, while always ensuring patient safety remains a top priority.\n\n\"The latest, expert scientific advice is at the heart of every decision we make, and we will continue to monitor remdesivir's success in clinical trials across the country to ensure the best results for UK patients.\"\n\nDr Stephen Griffin from the University of Leeds Medical School, said it was perhaps the most promising anti-viral for coronavirus so far.\n\nHe said patients with the most severe disease would be likely to receive it first. \"Whilst this is clearly the most ethically sound approach, it also means that we ought not to expect the drug to immediately act as a magic bullet.\n\n\"We can instead hope for improved recovery rates and a reduction in patient mortality, which we hope will benefit as many patients as possible.\"\n\nOther drugs being investigated for coronavirus include those for malaria and HIV.\n\nTesting of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine has been halted in some trials because of safety fears.\n\nThe World Health Organization says the temporary suspension is a precaution, after a recent medical study found the drug might increase the risk of death and heart rhythm complications.\n\nIn the UK, the Recovery trial looking at using this drug in patients remains open, but another one, using it in frontline NHS staff to prevent rather than treat infections, has paused recruiting more volunteers.", "Cunningham (right) watches on as New York Gov Andrew Cuomo rings the market's opening bell earlier on Tuesday Image caption: Cunningham (right) watches on as New York Gov Andrew Cuomo rings the market's opening bell earlier on Tuesday\n\nNew York Stock Exchange (NYSE) President Stacey Cunningham has told BBC News that there was \"no pressure\" from the Trump administration to reopen the trading floor today after a two-month closure.\n\nCunningham said the decision to reopen was made to help the smaller independent traders who operate there and \"who've not been able to earn an income for their families\".\n\nShe told the BBC that only 25% of the trading floor has been allowed back, and that NYSE is working with health officials \"so that we can start a slow and cautious reopening with new precautionary measures in place so that we can limit the likelihood of an outbreak on the trading floor\".\n\nCunningham also appeared to give tacit backing to a bill passed by the US Senate last week that could block some Chinese companies from selling shares on American stock exchanges.\n\nAsked if it would be a blow to the NYSE, she said \"One of the things that makes the US capital markets so strong is the way they balance investor protections with investor choice. We do it better than anyone else in the world.\n\n\"Any legislation that we consider should balance those two things as well, certainly transparency is critical so we have a culture over here, very strongly of investors have transparent information. Any measures to enforce that are highly supported by us.\"", "Dominic Cummings has faced a media grilling over his decision during lockdown to drive his family 260 miles to his parent's property in Durham.\n\nWhile he was defending his actions, it emerged the family also took a 30-minute car trip to the town of Barnard Castle at the end of their 14-day quarantine for coronavirus symptoms.\n\nThey had not been sightseeing, he said.\n\nIt had been to test his eyesight, which had \"been affected\" by the virus, before the long drive home to London.\n\nHis boss, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, backed the claim, saying: \"On the point about eyesight, I'm finding I have to wear spectacles for the first time in years… so I'm inclined to think that's very, very plausible\".\n\nEye symptoms with the virus have been reported, says the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and the College of Optometrists.\n\nLike any upper respiratory tract infection, including colds and flu, it can cause irritation of the membrane covering the eye - a condition called conjunctivitis or sometimes pink or red eye (because the whites of the eyes become bloodshot).\n\nAnd the World Health Organization now includes this alongside other more common symptoms of the virus, such as cough, fever and loss of taste or smell.\n\nBut UK guidelines do not.\n\nViral conjunctivitis can make the eyes water and feel gritty and uncomfortable, rather than painful.\n\nIt does not usually interfere greatly with eyesight.\n\nBut if the front of the pupil and the iris (the coloured part of the eye), is also affected, there can be some blurring of vision.\n\nProf Robert MacLaren, an eye expert at the University of Oxford, said a recent study in Wuhan, China, where the coronavirus outbreak began, reported a range of eye problems, including swelling and sticky eye.\n\n\"Any of the above symptoms may affect vision and affected patients would be advised to drive with caution or not at all if there was significant blurring of vision or double vision,\" he said.\n\nA spokesman for Moorfields Eye Hospital said such cases were rare, and more evidence was needed to explore any link to coronavirus.\n\nThe RNIB says any sudden change in vision should be taken seriously and is a reason to seek immediate medical advice from an optometrist or NHS 111.\n\nConjunctivitis caused by other viruses and bacteria is highly contagious.\n\nCoronavirus can certainly enter the body through the eyes (as well as the nose and mouth).\n\nAnd it can be spread by coughs and sneezes.\n\nBut whether the eyes are a source of contagion is, as yet, unclear.\n\nItaly's first coronavirus patient, a 65-year-old woman, had conjunctivitis, a report in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine says.\n\nAnd swab samples of her tears revealed detectable levels of the virus.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The RNLI has been criticised for not having lifeguards on beaches after two people died in separate incidents in Cornwall.\n\nA 17-year-old girl trapped beneath a capsized boat and a man pulled from the sea died on Monday.\n\nA councillor urged the lifeguard service to restart \"as quickly as possible\" to help save lives.\n\nThe RNLI said it had been put in an \"impossible situation\" and was doing what it could to restart its service.\n\nBut in an open letter, the charity's chief executive Mark Dowie called on the government to restrict access to beaches \"before more lives are lost\".\n\nHe wrote: \"We're asking for help to manage an impossible situation - we're asking the public to heed our safety advice and we're asking the government to restrict access to the coast until we have lifeguard patrols back on beaches.\"\n\nThe deaths came after warnings about dangerous conditions over the bank holiday weekend.\n\nA man is in a serious condition in hospital after being pulled from the sea at Porthtowan\n\nThe local girl who died was with three others who survived after their boat capsized on the Doom Bar near Padstow, which is not an area that usually has lifeguard cover, at about 12:45 BST.\n\nA man was also pronounced dead after being pulled from the sea near Constantine by an off-duty RNLI lifeguard at about 12:25.\n\nIn a separate rescue, a man was pulled from the sea at Porthtowan by an off-duty RNLI lifeguard, and was taken to hospital in a serious condition.\n\nOliver Huntsman, from Bude Surf Lifesaving Club, said lifeguards were \"a front-line service\" and called for RNLI management to \"pull their socks up\".\n\n\"Paramedics did not stop for eight weeks to figure out how they can keep their paramedics safe,\" he said.\n\n\"[The RNLI] have had eight weeks of beaches being effectively closed to sort out a plan.\"\n\nSigns at Chapel Porth warn beachgoers about RNLI lifeguards not being on duty\n\nSteve England, from surf magazine Carve, was surfing when he became involved in rescuing his friend at Porthtowan.\n\n\"Nobody understands why the RNLI won't act,\" he said.\n\n\"The ex-lifeguards are here, they daren't leave the beach, they daren't stop watching the water.\"\n\nChris Lowry, from Porthtowan Surf Lifesaving Club, was also involved in that rescue and said lifeguards had been ready to intervene.\n\n\"It is a testament to our lifeguards how keen they are to get involved, they can't just sit idly by,\" he said.\n\nCornwall councillor Pete Mitchell said the authority contributed £1m a year to the RNLI for the lifeguard service.\n\n\"I can't really get to grips about why they are standing off,\" he said.\n\n\"I think they have really got to look at things very carefully and get back to the beaches as quickly as possible.\"\n\nBeaches were busy over the bank holiday weekend\n\nThe RNLI said it was \"incredibly sorry\" to hear about the incidents over the weekend and was doing all it could to get a lifeguard service up and running as soon as possible.\n\n\"It must be safe for our lifeguards and the public when the risk posed by coronavirus is still a very real threat,\" it added.\n\nMr Dowie said that restarting the service in a pandemic was not simple.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Cornwall that the RNLI needed \"time to train and prepare for ever-changing medical directions about what we can and can't do on the beach\".\n\n\"All of that has taken time which is why we said clearly that we would not be on the beach last weekend,\" he said.\n\nBut Mr Dowie said RNLI lifeguards would be on \"several\" Cornwall beaches this weekend.\n\n\"This is a major operation with 240 beaches normally and 1,600 people, it isn't as simple as putting one or two people on a beach and we are working as fast as we possibly can and that is all we can do,\" he 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. US President Donald Trump said he was taking hydroxychloroquine to ward off Covid-19\n\nTesting of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a possible treatment for coronavirus has been halted because of safety fears, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.\n\nTrials in several countries are being \"temporarily\" suspended as a precaution, the agency said on Monday.\n\nIt comes after a recent medical study suggested the drug could increase the risk of patients dying from Covid-19.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has said he has taken the drug to ward off the virus.\n\nThe US president has repeatedly promoted the anti-malarial drug, against medical advice and despite warnings from public health officials that it could cause heart problems.\n\nLast week, a study in medical journal The Lancet said there were no benefits to treating coronavirus patients with hydroxychloroquine, and that taking it might even increase the number of deaths among those in hospital with the disease.\n\nHydroxychloroquine is safe for malaria, and conditions like lupus or arthritis, but no clinical trials have recommended its use for treating Covid-19.\n\nResearchers say Covid-19 patients should not use hydroxychloroquine outside of clinical trials\n\nThe WHO, which is running clinical trials of various drugs to assess which might be beneficial in treating the disease, has previously raised concerns over reports of individuals self-medicating and causing themselves serious harm.\n\nOn Monday, officials at the UN health agency said hydroxychloroquine would be removed from those trials pending a safety assessment.\n\nThe Lancet study involved 96,000 coronavirus patients, nearly 15,000 of whom were given hydroxychloroquine - or a related form chloroquine - either alone or with an antibiotic.\n\nThe study found that the patients were more likely to die in hospital and develop heart rhythm complications than other Covid patients in a comparison group.\n\nThe death rates of the treated groups were: hydroxychloroquine 18%; chloroquine 16.4%; control group 9%. Those treated with hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine in combination with antibiotics had an even higher death rate.\n\nThe researchers warned that hydroxychloroquine should not be used outside of clinical trials.", "Joe Biden and his wife Jill visit the War Memorial Plaza in Delaware on Memorial Day\n\nUS Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has made his first public appearance after more than two months in quarantine amid the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nWearing a black face mask, the former vice-president laid a wreath at a ceremony in his home state of Delaware.\n\nIt was part of an event for Memorial Day - an annual holiday held on the last Monday of May in honour of those who died serving in the US military.\n\nThe date also marks the unofficial start of summer.\n\n\"It feels good to be out of my house,\" Mr Biden told reporters from a distance, and through his mask, adding: \"Never forget the sacrifices that these men and women made. Never, ever, forget.\"\n\nStanding alongside his wife Jill, the 77-year-old then presented a wreath of white roses at Delaware's War Memorial Plaza, before observing a moment of silence to commemorate the military personnel who fought in World War Two and the Korean War.\n\nMr Biden and his wife Jill pay their respects to fallen service members\n\nMr Biden has not made an official public appearance since he cancelled a rally in Cleveland on 10 March.\n\nThen, after defeating his Democratic rival Bernie Sanders in primary elections in Florida, Illinois and Arizona, the presidential candidate gave a webcam speech appealing for Mr Sanders' supporters from his home in Wilmington, Delaware, where he has continued his virtual campaign.\n\nMeanwhile, US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania also took part in a wreath-laying ceremony as part of Memorial Day commemorations.\n\nDonald Trump touches a wreath during ceremonies at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery\n\nThe president attended a \"socially distanced\" Memorial Day ceremony at Fort McHenry in Baltimore\n\nThe president visited Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia and then the historic Fort McHenry in Baltimore.\n\nMr Trump, who has been reluctant to wear a face mask but said recently he would do so \"where it's appropriate\", appeared without any face coverings at both events on Monday.\n\nThe US has more coronavirus cases than anywhere in the world. It has over 1.6 million known infections and is nearing 100,000 deaths linked to the virus.\n\nAll 50 US states have now partially reopened after a two-month shutdown. However, remaining restrictions vary across the country.", "UK supercar maker and Formula 1 team McLaren plans to cut more than a quarter of its workforce after the coronavirus crisis hit sales and advertising revenue.\n\nThe firm employs about 4,000 people, and of the 1,200 to be made redundant, the vast majority will be in the UK.\n\nFormula 1 racing has been suspended, while orders for McLaren's supercars have fallen because of the pandemic.\n\nMcLaren said it had been \"severely affected\" by the crisis.\n\nThe company said it had worked hard to cut costs and avoid layoffs.\n\n\"But we now have no other choice but to reduce the size of our workforce,\" McLaren chairman Paul Walsh said in a statement.\n\n\"This is undoubtedly a challenging time for our company, and particularly our people, but we plan to emerge as an efficient, sustainable business with a clear course for returning to growth.\"\n\nThe carmaker, which builds vehicles for racetracks and the road, operates from a facility at Woking, Surrey, that was designed by the architect Norman Foster's company. McLaren also has a composites technology centre in Sheffield.\n\nMcLaren's Formula 1 operation expects to lose about 70 people from its 800-strong workforce.\n\nHowever, there will be a second phase of redundancies in 2021 once the team has taken a recent sport-wide budget cap agreement into account.\n\nWhile the coronavirus crisis has driven the redundancies across the whole group, the cost-cap has been the biggest influence on the racing team.\n\nMany other teams - especially the big ones such as Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull - will also have to cut head count but there may be other ways of doing it for some, such as redeployment in the wider group for the big car companies.", "Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Ecuador to protest against the government's economic response to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nAround 2,000 people demonstrated in the capital Quito, defying restrictions aimed at combatting the virus.\n\nLast week, the president announced measures including the closure of some state-owned companies and cuts to public sector salaries.\n\nEcuador has been one of the worst-affected countries in South America.\n\nAround 37,000 cases have been confirmed and more than 2,000 people have died with the virus, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nProtesters wearing face masks and carrying flags attended demonstrations organised by trade unions and social organisations, following cuts announced by President Lenín Moreno.\n\nAccording to Mr Moreno, 150,000 jobs have been lost as a result of coronavirus.\n\nProtests were also held in the second city of Guayaquil, where authorities were last month so overwhelmed by the outbreak that hundreds of bodies remained unburied.\n\nProtests were also held in Guayaquil\n\n\"If the coronavirus doesn't kill us, the government will,\" the leader of a trade union in the city told Reuters news agency.\n\nThe mayor of Quito, Jorge Yundo Machado, called for \"good sense\" on Twitter. \"Let's look for different ways to protest, but not in person,\" he said, adding that there was a \"high risk of contagion, we are in a health emergency\".\n\nInterior Minister María Paula Romo told reporters that an estimated 4,000 people had taken part in demonstrations nationwide, and that one policeman had been injured.\n\nLast week, the World Health Organization (WHO) described South America as a \"new epicentre of the disease\".\n\nBrazil, which has recorded more than 23,000 deaths, has the second-highest number of confirmed infections in the world. Ecuador's neighbour Peru, meanwhile, has more than 120,000 cases.", "YouGov asked voters if they thought Dominic Cummings had breached lockdown guidance\n\nThe number of people who believe the prime minister's senior aide Dominic Cummings should resign after he drove 260 miles during lockdown increased following the news conference he gave on Monday, a poll has suggested.\n\nAccording to snap research by polling company YouGov, 59% of voters believe he broke coronavirus rules and should resign. A similar poll, carried out before his press conference, found 52% thought he should go.\n\nSome 71% of those surveyed said Mr Cummings had breached regulations.\n\nThe online poll of more than 1,000 people was conducted at the height of the row over the prime minister's aide's decision to drive his child and ill wife from London to County Durham in March.\n\nBoris Johnson has backed Mr Cummings, saying he acted reasonably and legally.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Cummings said at a Downing Street news conference that he did not regret his actions and believed he acted reasonably.\n\nSeparate research by polling company Savanta suggests Mr Johnson's net approval rating has fallen from +19% on Friday to -1%.\n\nThe findings come amid increasing pressure on the prime minister, who has stood by his senior advisor.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Boris Johnson has lost credibility\": Public on government handling of lockdown and Cummings row\n\nMeanwhile, the latest wave of an attitudes survey conducted by King's College London suggests trust and confidence in the government's handling of the coronavirus emergency was declining even before the row over Mr Cummings broke.\n\nThe poll compares attitudes at the end of last week with opinions at the beginning of April, a week after the lockdown was introduced.\n\nSeven weeks ago, more than two-thirds (69%) of people said they trusted the government to control the spread of the virus. The new poll suggests that has now fallen to 51%.\n\nThe survey finds a similar fall in the proportion of people who think government advice about the virus is helpful or effective.\n\nThe poll asked people if they were nervous about returning to their work\n\nTrust in what the government is saying about the virus also appears to have fallen, the survey suggests. In early April, 76% of people surveyed said they trusted official information. Now, the equivalent figure is 59%.\n\nWhen it comes to plans to ease the restrictions in England, more than half (54%) thought the controls were being lifted too quickly, with just 13% wanting lockdown lifted faster.\n\nA significantly greater proportion of people said it was more important to control Covid-19 than restore lost freedoms.\n\nSome 24% thought the restrictions were doing more harm than good but more than double that proportion (59%) thought the country should adopt whatever measures were necessary to stop the virus from spreading.\n\nAmong parents of school-age children, only a third (33%) appear \"comfortable\" about sending them back to the classroom. More than half (56%) said they were \"uncomfortable\" about the idea.\n\nPrimary schools in England are due to start lessons for some classes on 1 June, although teachers' unions have expressed concerns about safety, and the prime minister has accepted that not all will be ready to open as intended.\n\nA substantial minority of working adults (41%) said they were uncomfortable about the prospect of returning to work, although a slightly greater proportion (44%) reported being comfortable.\n\nSeparate surveys conducted by the Office for National Statistics in April and early May suggest 80% of adults were worried at the effect coronavirus was having on their life. This varied regionally, from 76% in Scotland and the East Midlands, to 87% in the North East of England.\n\nOne group of people with particularly high levels of anxiety were people aged 16 to 34 in the North East of England with 94% saying they were worried or very worried.\n\nAlmost one-third of people surveyed said they lived with someone who self-isolated because of the coronavirus pandemic during April.", "Dominic Cummings was never going to go quietly after being forced out of Downing Street at the end of last year.\n\nBut the number, and seriousness, of his claims about what went on at the heart of government, as ministers battled to get on top of the coronavirus crisis, are unprecedented in modern times.\n\nRarely has a former adviser made so many potentially damaging revelations about a sitting prime minister.\n\nHis critics say Mr Cummings is motivated by revenge against Boris Johnson, and will not rest until the PM has been removed from No 10.\n\nMr Cummings insists he is driven by a desire to make what he views as a broken and chaotic government machine work better in future.\n\nHe left his Downing Street role following an internal power struggle, amid claims the PM's then-fiancee had blocked the promotion of one of his allies, Lee Cain, after months of internal warfare.\n\nIn his final year at Downing Street, Mr Cummings had a £40,000 pay rise, taking his salary to between £140,000 and £144,999.\n\nThere was speculation that the 49-year-old would seek a post-politics career as the first head of Aria, the UK's new \"high risk\" science agency, which had been one of his pet projects.\n\nBut he appears to have a different career path in mind.\n\nIn February, he started a technology consultancy firm, Siwah Ltd. He is the sole director of the firm, according to Companies House, and it is registered at an address in his native Durham, in north-east England. This would appear to be a successor to Dynamic Maps, his previous tech consultancy.\n\nBut in recent months, most of his time appears to have been taken up with spilling the beans on his time in government.\n\nThe BBC did not pay Mr Cummings for his exclusive interview with political editor Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nAnd he has not yet taken the time-honoured route of selling his story to a newspaper, or signing a book deal.\n\nBut he has found a way of generating income through online platform Substack, where he has launched a newsletter.\n\nHe plans to give out information on the coronavirus pandemic and his time in Downing Street for free, but \"more recondite stuff on the media, Westminster, 'inside No 10', how did we get Brexit done in 2019, the 2019 election etc\" will only be available to subscribers who pay £10 a month.\n\nHe is also offering his marketing and election campaigning expertise, for fees that \"slide from zero to lots depending on who you are / your project\".\n\nThis new venture has incurred the wrath of Whitehall watchdog Lord Pickles, who chairs the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba), which vets jobs taken by former ministers and top officials.\n\nIn a letter to Cabinet Office Minister Micheal Gove, he says Mr Cummings has sought advice on working as a consultant.\n\nBut he adds: \"It appears that Mr Cummings is offering various services for payment via a blog hosted on Substack, the blog for which he is also receiving subscription payments.\n\n\"Mr Cummings has failed to seek the committee's advice on this commercial undertaking, nor has the committee received the courtesy of a reply to our letter requesting an explanation.\n\n\"Failure to seek and await advice before taking up work is a breach of the government's rules.\"\n\nThere are few repercussions for failing to consult Acoba, however.\n\nLittle was heard from Mr Cummings for several months after his departure from Downing Street - but that all changed in April.\n\nAfter being named in media reports as the source of government leaks, he launched a scathing attack on Mr Johnson via a 1,000-word blog post in April.\n\nAs well as denying he was behind the leaks, he went on to make a series of accusations against the PM and questioned his \"competence and integrity\".\n\nThe following month, Mr Cummings expanded on his criticisms at a seven-hour select committee appearance, declaring Boris Johnson \"unfit for the job\", and claiming he had ignored scientific advice and wrongly delayed lockdowns.\n\nHe also turned his fire on then-health secretary Matt Hancock, who he said should have been fired for lying.\n\nThis sparked a bitter war of words with Mr Hancock, who flatly denied all of Mr Cummings's allegations.\n\nIt thrust Mr Cummings back into the spotlight for the first time since his now infamous visit to County Durham, four days after the start of the first national lockdown, in March last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhile staying with his family at his father's farm, he made a 30-mile road journey to Barnard Castle, which he later said had been to test his eyesight before the 260-mile drive back to London.\n\nThis revelation - at a specially-convened press conference in the Downing Street garden - made Mr Cummings a household name and led to furious allegations of double standards at a time when the government had banned all but essential long-distance travel.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Cummings said that, during the Barnard Castle trip, he had been trying to work out \"Do I feel OK driving?\"\n\nHe also said he had decided to move his family to County Durham before his wife fell ill with suspected Covid because of security concerns over his home in London.\n\nAsked why he had given a story that was \"not the 100% truth\" when he held a special press conference in the Downing Street rose garden on 25 May, Mr Cummings admitted that \"the way we handled the whole thing was wrong\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cummings says he drove to Barnard Castle to test vision\n\nBoris Johnson stood by his adviser throughout the Barnard Castle episode - to the consternation of some of his supporters, who feared it was undermining his attempts to hold the country together during a national crisis.\n\nSome said the episode burned through the political capital the prime minister had generated months earlier during the 2019 general election.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson defends his senior adviser Dominic Cummings in May 2020\n\nBut it is hard to overstate how important Mr Cummings was to the Johnson project.\n\nThe two are very different characters - Mr Johnson likes to be popular, Mr Cummings appears indifferent to such concerns - but they formed a strong bond in the white heat of the 2016 Vote Leave campaign to get Britain out of the EU, which Mr Cummings led as campaign director.\n\nThe combination of Mr Johnson, the flamboyant household-name frontman, with Mr Cummings, the ruthless, data-driven strategist, with a flair for an eye-catching slogan, proved to be unbeatable.\n\nMr Cummings was credited with formulating the \"take back control\" slogan that appears to have struck a chord with so many referendum voters, changing the course of British history.\n\nYet some were surprised when Mr Cummings was brought into the heart of government as Mr Johnson's chief adviser, given his past record of rubbing senior Tory politicians up the wrong way.\n\nIt proved to be a shrewd move. It was Mr Cummings who devised the high-risk strategy of pushing for the 2019 election to be fought on a \"Get Brexit Done\" ticket, focusing on winning seats in Labour heartlands, something no previous Tory leader had managed to do in decades.\n\nMany of the policy ideas that have shaped the Johnson government's agenda have his fingerprints all over them.\n\n\"Levelling up\" - moving power and money out of London and the South East of England - is a Cummings project, as are plans to shake-up the civil service, take on the judiciary and reform the planning system.\n\nThe team that surrounded Mr Cummings at Downing Street, some of whom are Vote Leave veterans, were fiercely loyal to him and shared a sense that they were outsiders in Whitehall, battling an entrenched \"elite\".\n\nLee Cain, the former Downing Street and Vote Leave communications chief, left No 10 just before Mr Cummings did.\n\nMr Cummings watches the PM in action at a coronavirus briefing\n\nThere had been rumours of a rift between the Vote Leave veterans and other No 10 aides, who didn't like Mr Cummings's and Mr Cain's abrasive style.\n\nThere were tales of crackdowns on special advisers suspected of leaking to the media and angry, dismissive behaviour towards Tory MPs, civil servants and even secretaries of state.\n\nNone of this will have come as much of a surprise to veteran Cummings watchers.\n\nMr Cummings has been in and around the upper reaches of government and the Conservative Party for nearly two decades, and has made a career out of defying conventional wisdom and challenging the established order.\n\nBut he has never been a member of the Conservative Party, or any party, and appears to have little time for most MPs.\n\nA longstanding Eurosceptic who cut his campaigning teeth as a director of the anti-euro Business for Sterling group, Mr Cummings's other passion is changing the way government operates.\n\nHe grabbed headlines when he posted an advert on his personal blog for \"weirdos and misfits with odd skills\" to work in government, arguing that the civil service lacked \"deep expertise\" in many policy areas.\n\nThe Vote Leave bus was one of its most notable campaign tactics\n\nMr Cummings is a native of Durham, in the North East of England. His father, Robert, was an oil rig engineer and his mother, Morag, a teacher and behavioural specialist.\n\nHe went to a state primary school and was then privately educated at Durham School. He graduated from Oxford University with a first-class degree in modern history and spent some time in Russia, where he was involved with an ill-fated attempt to launch an airline, among other projects.\n\nHe is married to Spectator journalist Mary Wakefield, the daughter of aristocrat Sir Humphry Wakefield, whose family seat is Chillingam Castle, in Northumberland.\n\nAfter a stint as campaign director for Business for Sterling, Mr Cummings spent eight months as chief strategy adviser to then Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith, who fired him.\n\nHe played a key role in the 2004 campaign against an elected regional assembly in his native North East.\n\nIn what turned out to be a dry run for the Brexit campaign, the North East Says No team won the referendum with a mix of eye-catching stunts - including an inflatable white elephant - and snappy slogans that tapped into the growing anti-politics mood among the public.\n\nHe is then said to have retreated to his father's farm, in County Durham, where he spent his time reading science and history books in an effort to attain a better understanding of the world.\n\nMr Cummings facing questions from the media outside his home\n\nHe re-emerged in 2007 as a special adviser to Michael Gove, who became education secretary in 2010 and turned out to be something of a kindred spirit.\n\nThe pair would rail against what they called \"the blob\" - the informal alliance of senior civil servants and teachers' unions that sought, in their opinion, to frustrate their attempts at reform.\n\nHe left of his own accord to set up a free school, having alienated a number of senior people in the education ministry and the Conservative Party.\n\nHe once described former Brexit Secretary David Davis as \"thick as mince\" and as \"lazy as a toad\" and irritated David Cameron, the then prime minister, who called him a \"career psychopath\".\n\nBenedict Cumberbatch was widely praised for his portrayal of Dominic Cummings in Brexit: The Uncivil War\n\nHis appointment as head of the Vote Leave campaign - dramatised in Channel 4 drama Brexit: The Uncivil War - was seen as a risk worth taking by those putting the campaign together but he left a controversial legacy.\n\nVote Leave was found to have broken electoral law over spending limits by the Electoral Commission and Mr Cummings was held in contempt of Parliament for failing to respond to a summons to appear before and give evidence to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.\n\nLike most advisers, he shunned media interviews when he was in government, and his rare appearances before MPs were characterised by animosity on both sides.\n\nAll that has changed in recent weeks, but it would be a brave person who said he had now joined the ranks of the former Westminster insiders who make their living as pundits - a class he appears to view with as much disdain as he does his former colleagues in government.", "Gucci last held its Fall/Winter 2020/21 fashion show during Milan Fashion Week in February\n\nGucci has announced it will cut the number of fashion shows it holds every year in an effort to reduce waste.\n\nThe company says the concept of seasonal clothes has become obsolete and will now host just two \"seasonless\" catwalk shows annually.\n\nThe label said the traditional rota of spring/summer, autumn/winter, cruise and pre-fall shows was \"stale\".\n\n\"Clothes should have a longer life than that which these words attribute to them,\" Gucci's creative director said.\n\nThe label has no plans for a show in September, the time when it would traditionally show a new collection at the Milan fashion week.\n\nAlessandro Michele, the company's creative director, now imagines showing collections only in the autumn and spring, instead of five times a year.\n\n\"Two appointments a year are more than enough to give time to form a creative thought, and to give more time to this system,\" he said.\n\nGucci is the first major label to make an adamant declaration about supporting the move to a leaner, less wasteful fashion system. Its powerhouse status in the fashion and celebrity worlds could potentially make this decision a gamechanger.\n\nGucci's creative director Alessandro Michele: \"We went way too far\"\n\nYves Saint Laurent, also owned by Kering, the Gucci parent company, has previously suggested it was considering leaving the fashion calendar behind too.\n\nIn a statement last month its designer Anthony Vaccarello said the brand would \"take control\" of the fashion schedule \"conscious of the current circumstances and its waves of radical change\".\n\nThe coronavirus shutdown has hit fashion houses hard as the non-stop round of international fashion shows was stopped in its tracks.\n\nThe menswear and haute couture shows scheduled for June and July are off and a question mark hangs over September shows - if not any future catwalk events.\n\nBut the shutdown has also given fashion houses a window of reflection, not just on the value of endlessly churning out new styles but also on the rights and wrongs of consumption.\n\nMichele's video conference on Monday elaborated on earlier ideas to this effect that he had posted on Gucci's Instagram account on Sunday.\n\n\"Above all, we understand we went way too far,\" Michele wrote.\n\nHarry Styles in gender-defying Gucci at the Met Gala in 2019\n\n\"Our reckless actions have burned the house we live in. We conceived of ourselves as separated from nature, we felt cunning and almighty.\n\n\"We usurped nature, we dominated and wounded it. We incited Prometheus, and buried Pan.\n\n\"So much haughtiness made us lose our sisterhood with the butterflies, the flowers, the trees and the roots. So much outrageous greed made us lose the harmony and the care, the connection and the belonging.\"\n\nAmongst the general public, thoughts have been turning the same way, with many people revisiting their old clothes, with the term \"shopping in your wardrobe\" touted online.\n\nMichele said he hopes that ultimately designers will come together to adopt a new calendar and aim to fashion.\n\nGucci is the first major label to abandon the traditional fashion calendar\n\nPrevious champions of sustainability within the fashion industry include Dame Vivienne Westwood, who has been one of the most vocal campaigners on the issue.\n\nIn recent years that fashion world has increasingly had to bow to growing global concerns regarding over-consumption.\n\nTraditional gender-based clothing has also had something of an overhaul, with celebrities, models and designers reflecting a more \"gender fluid\" landscape.\n\nMichele himself has been at the forefront of more progressive way of thinking since he joined Gucci five years ago.\n\nOn the catwalk, his male models have worn pussy-bow silk blouses and dresses, he also dressed former One Direction star Harry Styles in earrings and Jared Leto in an evening gown at the Met Gala 2019.\n\nDries Van Noten has led a number of independent designers calling for a radical overhaul of the industry, with fewer fashion shows and less product.\n\nGiorgio Armani announced his men's and women's shows will be combined in September, and his couture show will be held in January in Milan instead of Paris.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Childcare-related lockdown fines may not be reviewed after all.\n\nIn his first answer during the daily briefing, Matt Hancock heard Martin from Brighton ask whether the government will review all penalty fines for families travelling for childcare purposes during lockdown. Hancock said it was “perfectly reasonable to take away that question” and said he would look at it with his Treasury colleagues. The question comes a day after the PM's chief aide said he travelled to Durham for childcare reasons - but he is accused of breaking lockdown rules and is facing calls to resign. However, it looks like all he may have been willing to do is pass the query on.", "People will make up their own minds after listening to Dominic Cummings' \"exhaustive\" account of his travels during the lockdown, Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove has said.\n\nThe prime minister's chief aide has defended driving 260 miles in March from his home to County Durham.\n\nHe said he acted reasonably and legally in going to stay on his parents' farm.\n\nHis statement on Monday overshadowed the PM's new plans to reopen all non-essential shops in England on 15 June.\n\nBoris Johnson said shops will be able to open if they meet safety guidelines.\n\nThey follow outdoor markets and car showrooms, which will be allowed to reopen from 1 June.\n\nRetailers have generally welcomed the announcement but some experts said more clarity was needed on how shops should keep staff and customers safe.\n\nMr Cummings has faced calls to resign after it emerged he had driven his child and ill wife from London to County Durham during lockdown.\n\nAt his news conference in the garden of 10 Downing Street on Monday afternoon, he said he did not regret his actions.\n\nOn the subject of why he then drove his family to the town of Barnard Castle - 15 days after he had displayed symptoms - Mr Cummings said he was testing his eyesight to see if he could make the trip back down to London. He explained that he had experienced some eyesight problems during his illness.\n\nFollowing the conference, several government ministers rallied in support of Mr Cummings, with many writing on Twitter that it was \"time to move on\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Gove said Mr Cummings' account of his actions was \"exhaustive, detailed and verifiable\".\n\n\"People will make their own mind up as they listened to Dominic's account,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"Most people will understand he was under pressure, and sought to put the health of his wife and son first, and took care to ensure they as a family unit were not in danger of infecting other people.\"\n\nOpposition MPs are due to meet later to discuss how to hold Boris Johnson and his senior aide to account.\n\nLabour has criticised Mr Cummings for failing to apologise for his actions, while other parties continue to call for him to be sacked.\n\nDominic Cummings' rose garden confessional was a bold move designed to take the drama out of a crisis.\n\nBut giving detailed answers to why he at the very least broke the spirit of the lockdown rules does not answer the fundamental question now - is his continued presence in Downing Street more of a hindrance than a help to Boris Johnson?\n\nTempers may have cooled slightly on the Conservative backbenches, but there are still calls for him to go, both private and public.\n\nAnd some senior Conservative MPs are still aghast at how much political capital the prime minister has burned through to keep Mr Cummings at his side. Opposition leaders still intend to push for his departure.\n\nThe man respected by Mr Johnson for judging the public mood has made himself famous for falling foul of that opinion.\n\nHis explanations may ease for some of the anger. But in Westminster and beyond, it will not disappear overnight.\n\nAnd when the prime minister is interrogated by senior MPs on Wednesday his decisions over Dominic Cummings will surely be on the list.\n\nBoris Johnson said he regretted the \"confusion and anger\" caused by the row, but continued to back Mr Cummings.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson responds to a question about Dominic Cummings' drive to Barnard Castle to test his eyesight\n\nMeanwhile, all shops in England will be allowed to reopen from 15 June provided they meet new social distancing and hygiene measures to protect customers and staff from the virus.\n\nMr Johnson said the change would depend on premises being \"Covid-secure\" and on the country making progress towards meeting the five tests set out by the government as being crucial to lifting the lockdown restrictions.\n\nCatherine Shuttleworth, chief executive of the retail consultancy Savvy, said some smaller retailers would want \"more clarity\" from safety guidelines, on things like how many people can be in a store at one time.\n\nShe also questioned whether there would be the appetite from the public to return to shops.\n\n\"Shopping is a social, fun experience a lot of the time and social distancing takes that away. It's going to be a very different way of shopping from what we're used to,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nSchools in England have also been told to prepare for a phased reopening from the beginning of June, beginning with pupils in Reception, Year 1 and Year 6.\n\nOn June 15, up to a quarter of Year 10 and Year 12 will be allowed \"some contact\" to help prepare for exams.\n\nHowever, the prime minister acknowledged some schools would not be ready to open then.\n\nLatest government figures show the number of people to die with coronavirus in the UK rose by 121 to 36,914 on Monday.", "Seven-year-old Emily Jones was stabbed as she played in Queen's Park, Bolton\n\nA woman has appeared in court charged with the murder of a seven-year-old girl who was stabbed in a park.\n\nEmily Jones was stabbed in front of her dad as she played in Queen's Park, Bolton on 22 March.\n\nEltiona Skana, formerly of Turnstone Road, Bolton, appeared at Manchester Magistrates' Court by video link.\n\nThe 30-year-old later appeared at the city's crown court and was remanded to custody until 15 September.\n\nShe is being detained under the Mental Health Act.\n\nMs Skana is also charged with possession of a blade - a craft knife - in a public place on the same date.\n• None Woman charged with murder of girl in park\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Women's Super League and Women's Championship seasons have been ended immediately, with the outcome of the WSL title and promotion and relegation issues still to be decided.\n\nThe joint WSL and Women's Championship board has sent various recommendations to the Football Association board to \"determine the most appropriate sporting outcome for the season\".\n\nAn FA statement said the decision came after \"overwhelming feedback from clubs\" and was made \"in the best interest of the women's game\".\n\nIt continued: \"This will also enable clubs, the Women's Super League and Women's Championship board and the FA to plan, prepare and focus on next season when football returns for the 2020-21 campaign.\"\n\nIt means all divisions of women's football in England have now been cancelled for the 2019-20 campaign.\n\nClubs had been assuming their season would not resume, several sources had told BBC Sport, leaving the 45 remaining fixtures in the WSL - and 36 in the Championship - outstanding.\n\nMonday's joint leagues board meeting came after a formal consultation process with clubs last week. The FA wrote to clubs on Wednesday to seek their formal views on whether to end the season and how to do so.\n\nWhat is still to be decided?\n\nManchester City were top of the table when the season was suspended in March because of the coronavirus pandemic, although second-placed Chelsea had a game in hand on the leaders.\n\nReigning champions Arsenal were three points further back in third place.\n\nShould final places in the Women's Super League be decided by an unweighted points-per-game ratio, Chelsea would climb above City to go top.\n\nAlso still to be confirmed are England's two representatives to take part in next season's Women's Champions League, which, the FA said in their statement, \"would be based on sporting merit\" from the WSL season.\n\nAt the foot of the WSL, Liverpool remain in danger of being relegated. The Reds are a point below second-from-bottom Birmingham and have played a game more.\n\nAston Villa are six points clear of Sheffield United at the top of the second-tier Championship.\n\nIt is understood no decision has yet been made regarding the conclusion of the Women's FA Cup, which had reached the quarter-final stage before March's suspension of elite football in England.\n• None Points-per-game is 'fairest way' to settle final WSL places - Beard\n\nManchester City said they \"now await the outcome of discussions regarding the final standings of the league table\".\n\nOn their website, the club added: \"While disappointed that we are unable to complete the season, we understand the complexities of the situation and support the FA's decision.\n\n\"Our priority remains the safety and wellbeing of our players and staff, and we will now move forward with preparations for next season.\"\n\nLiverpool said they believed they \"would have been able to meet the operational and financial obligations associated with a return to play, once detailed drafts and accurate protocols had been shared with clubs\",\n\nHowever, the club said they now \"await an equitable solution to those issues still to be decided in a campaign where a third of our league games were still to be played\".\n\nManchester United were fourth in their first season at WSL level, and said they \"understood\" and \"accepted\" the decision to bring the campaign to an early conclusion.\n\nUnited manager Casey Stoney said: \"It's obviously disappointing not to be able complete the season, but it is the right decision for the safety of everyone involved.\n\n\"Our focus now moves to our development for next season, which we have been continuously planning for throughout the year, and we can't wait to be back on the pitch again when it is safe to do so.\"\n\nWest Ham United boss Matt Beard said: \"While the preference was always to return to the pitch to determine the campaign if safe to do so, we completely understand the unique situation that we, and football, finds itself in.\n\n\"As always, the health and safety of our players, staff and fantastic supporters remains the priority at all times.\"\n\nBristol City manager Tanya Oxtoby added: \"The safety of the players, staff and public is the most important thing and, while it's disappointing that we cannot finish our eight remaining games, we appreciate that a decision has now been made.\"\n\nCrystal Palace, who were eighth in the 11-team Championship, posted on Twitter: \"Obviously a disappointing end to the season but the safety of our players and staff is paramount. We can now look forward to next season with no distractions.\"", "Coastguard crews have been asking people to stay away from the cliff's edge in Birling Gap\n\nPeople have been standing near cliff edges and posing for pictures prompting warnings from patrolling coastguards.\n\nLarge numbers of visitors travelled to the south coast on Monday and pictures from Birling Gap in East Sussex show people standing on the chalk cliffs.\n\nThe Maritime and Coastguard Agency said it was \"more important than ever\" to stay away from the crumbling coastline.\n\n\"Coronavirus hasn't gone away and your choices might put our frontline responders at risk,\" it said.\n\n\"We really can't stress enough how important it is to keep back from cliff edges, There is no 'safe' place to be and the cliffs along the UK coastline are continuously eroding. \"\n\nThe chalk cliffs at Birling Gap are prone to collapse\n\nRescue teams have been deployed to beaches, cliff and marinas across the country to \"look out for anyone in trouble and offer safety advice where needed,\" the agency said.\n\nIt said its pre-emptive measures were especially important while RNLI lifeguards provide a limited service due to coronavirus.\n\nOn Sunday a young girl was pictured peering over the edge at Birling Gap, prompting Wealden District Council to urge people to stay away from the cliff edge.\n\nThe council tweeted: \"Is it really worth risking your life for?\"\n\nA young girl was pictured peering over the edge at Birling Gap on Sunday\n\nThere have been significant cliff falls along the south coast in recent years.\n\nAt Seven Sisters, near Eastbourne, 50,000 tonnes of the cliff crumbled and fell to the beach below in 2017.\n\nThe following day a 23-year-old South Korean tourist fell to her death when she jumped in the air for a picture and lost her footing on the edge.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The hospital in Weston-super-Mare has temporarily stopped accepting new patients\n\nA hospital in Somerset has stopped accepting new patients due to a high number of coronavirus cases.\n\nWeston General Hospital implemented the temporary measures, which extend to its A&E department, at 08:00 BST to \"maintain patient and staff safety\".\n\nIts NHS trust described it as a \"precautionary measure\" and arrangements have been made for new patients to be treated elsewhere.\n\nMedical director Dr William Oldfield said the situation was under review.\n\n\"We currently have a high number of patients with Covid-19,\" he said.\n\n\"While the vast majority will have come into the hospital with Covid-19, as an extra precaution we have taken the proactive step to temporarily stop accepting new patients to maintain patient and staff safety.\"\n\nDr Oldfield, from the University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, said there was a \"robust\" coronavirus testing programme in place for patients and staff to identify cases quickly.\n\nHe added current hospital patients were continuing to receive care, while the trust's partners were working to give new patients treatment in \"the appropriate setting\".\n\nThe trust said alternative services included walk-in treatment facilities for minor injuries in Clevedon, Yate, and Bristol.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cosmic Girl pulls away as LauncherOne ignites: The rocket's flight terminated shortly after\n\nSir Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit company has tried unsuccessfully to launch a rocket over the Pacific Ocean.\n\nThe booster was released from under the wing of one of the UK entrepreneur's old jumbos which had been specially converted for the task.\n\nThe rocket ignited its engine seconds later but an anomaly meant the flight was terminated early.\n\nVirgin Orbit's goal is to try to capture a share of the emerging market for the launch of small satellites.\n\nIt's not clear at this stage precisely what went wrong but the firm had warned beforehand that the chances of success might be only 50:50.\n\nThe history of rocketry shows that maiden outings very often encounter technical problems.\n\n\"Test flights are instrumented to yield data and we now have a treasure trove of that. We accomplished many of the goals we set for ourselves, though not as many as we would have liked,\" said Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart.\n\n\"Nevertheless, we took a big step forward today. Our engineers are already poring through the data. Our next rocket is waiting. We will learn, adjust, and begin preparing for our next test, which is coming up soon.\"\n\nThe next rocket on the production line is in the late stages of integration\n\nThe company is sure to be back for another attempt pretty soon - depending on the outcome of the post-mission analysis. The second rocket is undergoing final integration at the company's Long Beach factory in California and could be ready to fly within weeks.\n\nMost publicity about Sir Richard's space activities has focussed on the tourist plane he is developing to take fare-paying passengers on joy rides above the atmosphere.\n\nHis satellite-launch venture is entirely separate.\n\nOrbit is chasing the growing interest in small spacecraft that are being designed for telecommunications and Earth observation.\n\nNew manufacturing techniques, often involving \"off-the-shelf\" components from the consumer electronics industry, mean these satellites can now be turned out for a fraction of their historic cost. But they need matching, inexpensive means of getting into space - and the air-launched system from Virgin Orbit is intended to meet this demand.\n\nThe 747, known as Cosmic Girl, left Mojave Air and Space Port to the north of Los Angeles shortly before midday Pacific time (19:00 GMT / 20:00 BST), carrying the rocket, dubbed LauncherOne, under its left wing.\n\nAt 35,000ft (10km), just west of the Channel Islands, the jet unlatched the liquid-fuelled booster to let it go into freefall.\n\nLauncherOne ignited its NewtonThree engine four seconds later to start the climb to orbit. But it seems it didn't get very far.\n\n\"LauncherOne maintained stability after release, and we ignited our first-stage engine, NewtonThree. An anomaly then occurred early in first-stage flight. We'll learn more as our engineers analyse the mountain of data we collected today,\" the company's Twitter feed reported.\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 Virgin Orbit 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\nSir Richard was not in attendance, but he was following events very closely, Orbit executives said.\n\nAlthough his space start-up is headquartered in California currently, he is keen to bring it to the UK also.\n\nOrbit is working through the possibilities with the US and British governments, the UK Space Agency and the local authorities in the southwest of England. Newquay Airport in Cornwall has been identified as an ideal location from which to base operations.\n\nBritain's enthusiasm is tied closely to that of its satellite manufacturing sector. The country is one of the biggest producers in the world of compact spacecraft.\n\nWill Whitehorn is president of the trade body UKSpace. He also initiated early design work on an air-launched rocket system when working for Sir Richard in the late 2000s.\n\n\"Everyone's attention right now is on the astronauts launching this week on a SpaceX rocket, but from an industrial perspective [Virgin Orbit] is just as significant,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"If the coronavirus has taught us anything it is that our world is changing and space is going to be a big part of that. We could put so much industry outside the atmosphere. Take just the example of server farms. We know we could put them in space to harness solar power. It all comes down to the cost of access to space and that will be revolutionised by this kind of system.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo rings the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange\n\nThe New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has reopened its trading floor after a two-month closure due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut as new social distance rules come into effect, the exchange looks and feels very different.\n\nThe NYSE is one of the few bourses to still feature floor trade - most have shifted to fully-electronic trading.\n\nNew York City has been hit hard by the outbreak with some 200,000 cases and more than 20,000 deaths.\n\nFinancial markets have continued to trade throughout the pandemic, but the exchange's trading floor was closed from 23 March and activity temporarily moved to fully-electronic trading to protect workers.\n\nNew York Governor Andrew Cuomo was on hand to ring the bell that re-started in-person trade, a sign of the symbolic weight attached to the reopening.\n\nUS shares gained on Tuesday amid investor enthusiasm about economic rebound, but the new NYSE rules are a reminder that a full return to business will take time.\n\nNew York Governor Andrew Cuomo at the New York Stock Exchange\n\n\"It's not about returning to normal,\" NYSE president Stacey Cunningham told the BBC. \"It's about living with this global pandemic until there's a vaccine.\"\n\nShe added that she had faced \"no pressure\" from the Trump administration, which follows financial markets closely and has generally supported a rapid reopening.\n\nUnder the NYSE changes, only a quarter of the normal number of traders will be allowed to return to work.\n\nTraders must also avoid public transport, wear masks and follow strict social distancing rules, with newly fitted transparent barriers to keep people apart.\n\nThey will also be screened and have their temperatures taken as they enter the building. Anyone who fails pass the check will be barred until they test negative for coronavirus or self-quarantine in accordance with US government guidelines.\n\nTo return to their jobs, floor traders also have to sign a liability waiver that prevents them from suing the NYSE if they get infected at the exchange.\n\nSome large financial companies, such as Morgan Stanley, have reportedly balked at signing, but Ms Cunningham defended the waiver as a way to ensure that traders, which are not employed by the exchange, abide by the new rules.\n\n\"We need to make sure that they're committed to following this new norm,\" she said.\n\nNYSE, which is owned by Intercontinental Exchange, is the world's largest stock exchange in terms of the total market capitalisation of listed companies.\n\nThe NYSE's high-profile market debut celebrations have been put on hold\n\nThe 228-year-old exchange last closed its doors on 29 October 2012 due to Hurricane Sandy. It also shut for four sessions in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001.\n\nBut the bourse resisted closing at the start of the pandemic and the closure reignited debate about the necessity of the floor in an era dominated by electronic activity.\n\nMs Cunningham said trading has functioned smoothly with the floor closed, but she believed reopening will further ease volatility and help smaller firms that rely on in-person trades for their business.\n\n\"We are relevant we are necessary and WE ARE BACK,\" floor trader Peter Tuchman wrote on Twitter ahead of the reopening.\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 Peter Tuchman 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\nFor most people outside the financial world, NYSE's trading floor is a rare glimpse into the seemingly opaque workings of the global markets as well as being a colourful setting for companies to showcase their stock market debuts.\n\nThe new regulations mean that the NYSE's high-profile opening bell events and stock market debut celebrations have been put on hold as visitors are banned.\n\nMedia organisations that usually broadcast from the trading floor won't be allowed back until further notice.\n\nIn the BBC interview, Ms Cunningham also addressed a proposal by US lawmakers to require companies that sell shares in the US to abide by American accounting rules and audits, or face de-listing.\n\nThe move, which comes as US-China tensions increase, is aimed at Chinese companies. The Senate passed the measure last week and the House is expected to take up the measure before the end of the summer.\n\nMs Cunningham in the past has said de-listing Chinese companies generally would simply shift their business elsewhere.\n\nOn Tuesday, she said lawmakers should \"balance\" investor protections and investor choice, but that the exchange backs efforts that would enhance the information supplied to investors.\n\n\"Any measures to enforce that are highly supported by us,\" she said.\n\nTrading - but not as we know it\n\nBefore the coronavirus, I was a regular on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.\n\nIt may be one of the great symbols of US capitalism, but it's also, just a workplace for hundreds of traders, market makers, and various bystanders such as journalists.\n\nAnd like so many offices and shop floors it's not somewhere that you would ever associate with social distancing, keeping two metres apart and wearing masks. Quite the reverse - face-to-face stock trading is sometimes close to a contact sport, as is reporting from the floor.\n\nSo the NYSE has to take its reopening very slowly. It will be a relief for some traders to be back to work, but it's not going to look like the trading floor we're all used to seeing for quite some time.", "It will take a generation for Welsh councils to pay for the coronavirus pandemic, according to the body representing them.\n\nCouncils have built up a deficit of about £173m during lockdown, due to a loss of income and increased costs.\n\nAnthony Hunt, from the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA), warned they were facing a \"recovery period of years\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had made £110m available for councils.\n\nOne of the concerns raised by local authorities is the spike in applications for council tax reduction, and the cost of the all-Wales \"Test, Trace and Protect\" initiative.\n\nMr Hunt, the WLGA's finance spokesman, and also leader of Torfaen council, said: \"There's a risk that the legacy of the coronavirus won't just be a medical one but will be a financial one that damages our communities as well.\"\n\nHe added: \"I think it's far too early to talk about council tax going up, and I think that's a very undesirable outcome given the strain on people's finances thanks to this.\"\n\nBut Rob Jones, leader at Neath Port Talbot council, warned increases were inevitable \"to keep pace with what is going on in the world\".\n\nCommunity hubs for childcare have added to council costs, according to one council leader\n\nHe added the potential cost of test and trace would be a \"heavy burden for financial and human resources\".\n\nAll 22 Welsh local authorities have been asked how the pandemic has impacted them, and 19 responded.\n\nSome said increased costs included PPE, community hubs for childcare, free school meals, extra costs in social services, contact tracing, the £500 bonus for care workers, and expenditure on hospitals.\n\nThe Welsh Government has so far funded additional expenditure incurred as a result of the crisis, with local authorities submitting claims on a monthly basis, as well as receiving two months' worth of its core funding in advance.\n\nAlthough some pointed to savings where services have been scaled back or stopped, four said loss of income - not currently covered by the Welsh Government - had been significant.\n\nThis is from things including leisure centres, sports and performance venues, parking fees, moving traffic offences, rent on industrial units, licenses and trade waste.\n\nGwynedd council said, depending on the duration of the crisis, its lost income could total between £5m and £16m.\n\nCardiff council said there had been more than 5,000 new applications for the council tax reduction scheme since April - up 1,807 on the same period to the end of June last year, with the increase costing them about £33.86m.\n\nGuto Ifan, a research associate at Cardiff University think-tank Wales Governance Centre (WGC), said even before the coronavirus crisis, funding for local government was 14% below what it had been in 2010, meaning there was \"very little resilience in the system already\".\n\nHe said increased demands on local authorities as a result of the crisis will be around for a \"number of years\", and that \"sustained increased investment\" would be required by both the UK and Welsh governments for a prolonged period of time.\n\n\"Relying on local governments increasing council tax might not be the answer,\" he added.\n\n\"We might have to look at using the more progressive income tax powers, for instance, that the Welsh Government now has, but those are debates to be had over the next few years.\"\n\nIf councils generate a deficit, they can sometimes use their reserves, provided they are not earmarked for other projects.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it recognised the funding pressures placed on local authorities.\n\nA spokesman added: \"We have made £110m available immediately to help local authorities with additional costs and brought forward £526m of revenue support grant payments from May and June to support them.\n\n\"We will publish a supplementary budget next week, which will include up to £78m of further funding for local authorities.\"\n\nA HM Treasury spokesman said the UK government announced £3.2bn of additional funding for all local authorities to \"respond to pressures across all their services as a result of Covid-19\".\n\nReserves: It may have to use reserves if expenditure exceeds the level it budgeted for.\n\nSpending: In March it received £52,000 to cover costs related to Covid-19. Its claim for April will be higher.\n\nBackground: More people have applied for the council tax reduction scheme since the outbreak, and the council expects to have to write off more council tax debt than normal because of the pandemic.\n\nMore homes on Anglesey are applying for council tax relief\n\nIt is too early to judge the full economic impact of the pandemic as the lockdown measures remain largely in place.\n\nThe council is in discussions with the Welsh Government about the financial challenges presented by the pandemic.\n\nAdditional spending: £5m as a direct result of the pandemic.\n\nReserves: May need to draw on reserves if financial pressures grow such as increase in applications for council tax support and current efforts to establish 'Test, Trace and Protect' services.\n\nBackground: No staff furloughed. Medium-term effects could place more pressure on the council and these may not be funded by Welsh Government.\n\nAdditional spending: £4.5m since April on social care, the provision of PPE, community hubs for childcare and free school meals.\n\nReserves: The use of them is under review in light of the pandemic.\n\nBackground: The majority of the council's services are still being offered although some have been scaled back. No staff furloughed yet.\n\nAdditional spending: More than £18m by end of June as a direct result of Covid-19.\n\nBackground: Further costs will come from work to establish 'Contact Track and Trace'. It has seen a significant increase in the number of applications for the council tax reduction scheme and is concerned about the ongoing recovery of costs as current funding arrangements are confirmed only until the end of June.\n\nCardiff is projected to spend an extra £18m by the end of June\n\nLost income: £1.1m by the end of June\n\nReserves: \"Sufficient reserves\" to cover any deficit for the immediate future.\n\nBackground: No impact on debt so far.\n\nIt said it was difficult to say what the financial consequences will be as it is uncertain how long the situation will last.\n\nThe council was waiting to hear what support it would get from the Welsh Government.\n\nThe council said it was inappropriate to provide information until it knows the level of support the Welsh Government intends to provide.\n\nIt added the position will become clearer in the coming weeks.\n\nAdditional spending: It has spent more on services such as social services.\n\nBackground: The council has seen a \"sharp increase\" in applications for the council tax reduction scheme and this, as well as income loss, are two main areas of cost exposure.\n\nA former day centre in Queensferry has been used as a night shelter on an occasional basis in Flintshire since lockdown began\n\nBackground: Depending on the duration of the crisis, the council said it could see losses of up to £16m. It said there is \"an obvious need\" for compensation for lost income from the Welsh Government, and that expected income is \"unlikely to recover for many years possibly\".\n\nReferred to the WLGA figures, which estimated the total income loss of all Welsh councils to be £95m and total additional spending to be £101m.\n\nLost income: £3.5m by the end of June.\n\nAdditional spending: £521,000 on costs relating to the pandemic.\n\nBackground: It has reduced expenditure by £634,000 where services are not operating or are reduced, and the council has furloughed 240 staff. Funding announced by the Welsh Government falls significantly short of budgetary projections and it wants the Welsh Government to ensure councils will be able to borrow money as a last resort.\n\nReserves: It has £18m of general reserves which would be exhausted by next April if there was no further support.\n\nBackground: \"Modest\" savings have been made through suspending services but future costs, such as the cost of keeping care homes running and contact tracing, needed to be considered.\n\nThe council estimates it would lose £7.5m through reduced council tax payments and has already borrowed £20m from Public Works Loan Board to make sure it could deliver Business Grants as quickly as possible.\n\nSuspending services in the Neath Port Talbot area has allowed \"modest\" savings to be made\n\nThe crisis is placing \"pressure\" on spending and income. The council said it was adjusting its financial forecasts because of the pandemic.\n\nLost income: £3.5m by the end of June.\n\nSpending: £3.8m by the end of June.\n\nBackground: Recovery will be lengthy and complex. The main concern is loss of income, as current Welsh Government funding only covers additional expenditure.\n\nReserves: Without further support its \"limited\" reserves could cover the deficit for four months.\n\nBackground: The pandemic has had an \"unprecedented impact\" and Powys could have a deficit of £10m by the end of June, leaving the council with a \"bleak\" financial future.\n\nThere is a risk the council \"may not be able to financially sustain itself\" for current financial year, while council tax receipts are down £600,000 from the start of the new financial year.\n\nPowys, home to part of the the Brecon Beacons National Park, could run into funding problems this financial year\n\nBackground: It also had additional costs due to Storm Dennis at the start of the year.\n\nAdditional spending: £2.4m of extra costs by the end of June including providing PPE, temporary homeless accommodation and free school meals vouchers.\n\nBackground: \"Non-essential\" spending has been stopped but no permanent decisions have been made to reduce services. It has had additional funding but it's \"too soon to say\" whether this will be enough to cover all losses.\n\nThe council said it was working with the Welsh Government and other councils.", "\"Local lockdowns\" will be introduced to tackle regional outbreaks of coronavirus in England in the future, the health secretary has said.\n\nMatt Hancock suggested restrictions will be introduced in areas with \"flare-ups\", but not others, as part of a system being put in place.\n\nHe did not specify a timeframe, but said the measures will be part of the test, track and trace system.\n\nIt comes as more than 35 Tory MPs have called on the PM's top aide to resign.\n\nThe government's daily coronavirus briefing on Tuesday was dominated by questions about Dominic Cummings travelling to County Durham during lockdown.\n\nBut concerns were also raised about the potential for second waves of infections. Asked what tools will be given to local officials to tackle outbreaks, Mr Hancock said: \"We will have local lockdowns in future where there are flare-ups.\"\n\n\"We have a system that we're putting in place with a combination of Public Health England and the new Joint Biosecurity Centre, along with the local directors of public health who play an absolutely crucial role in the decision-making in the system.\"\n\nUnder government plans to ease lockdown restrictions, the Joint Biosecurity Centre will identify changes in infection rates - using testing, environmental and workplace data - and advise chief medical officers.\n\nAs a result, schools, businesses or workplaces could be closed in areas that see spikes in infection rates, the government's plan says.\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick said if the system worked it would be used \"on quite a micro level\".\n\n\"If there is a flare-up in one particular community - and that could be on quite a small scale like a particular workplace or school - then measures can be introduced which hopefully the public will get behind, enable us to control the virus in that locality and enable the rest of the population to have more freedom to go about their daily business,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nEarlier this month Mr Jenrick said that it was the government's \"strong preference\" for lockdown measures to be lifted uniformly, but some restrictions could be reintroduced locally if necessary.\n\nBut he said the local interventions that could be considered are \"quite different from making major changes to lockdown measures in one part of the country versus another\".\n\nAlso speaking during Tuesday's briefing, Prof John Newton, leader of the government's Covid-19 testing programme, said \"many different organisations\", including councils and local businesses, will be involved in the response to local outbreaks.\n\n\"It is a whole-country effort. It has a national component, but it has a very important local component as well, which needs to reflect... the special characteristics of different parts of the country,\" he said.\n\nLatest government figures show the number of people to die with coronavirus in the UK rose by 134 to 37,048 on Tuesday.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with Covid-19 has been gradually declining since the peak over Easter.\n\nHowever, the picture is different across the UK's nations and regions, with numbers falling faster in some areas than others.\n\nCases were originally concentrated in London, the Midlands and the North West of England. But South Wales and parts of the North West and North East also have a high proportions of cases.\n\nLast week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said England will have a \"world-beating\" track and trace system in place from June - with 25,000 contact tracers, able to track 10,000 new cases a day.\n\nContact tracing is a system used to slow the spread of infectious diseases by identifying people patients have been in contact with. One method involves tracking by phone or email, while another uses a location-tracking mobile app.", "The hospital in Weston-super-Mare has temporarily stopped accepting new patients\n\nThe temporary closure of Weston General Hospital has left staff \"worried and confused\", a trade union has said.\n\nOn Monday, the hospital in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, stopped accepting new patients due to a high number of coronavirus cases.\n\nUnison representative Liz French said the staff are \"confused, they're worried\" but are \"pulling together to do their best\".\n\nThe hospital said new patients would be accepted \"as soon as possible\".\n\n\"It's not just the patients that have been diagnosed with Covid-19 but also lots of the staff because they've done lots of testing over the past week or so,\" Ms French added.\n\n\"They were unhappy but they were getting on with their jobs.\"\n\nShe said staff felt there was a lack of communication from bosses.\n\n\"Although the senior management team were meeting every couple of days to discuss the way forward but that wasn't getting down to the staff.\n\n\"That was the biggest problem and that's why they were so worried,\" she said.\n\nDr William Oldfield, medical director at the trust, said there was a \"high number\" of patients with coronavirus in the hospital, adding that there was also \"an emerging picture of asymptomatic staff\" testing positive for the virus.\n\n\"Any members of staff who have tested positive have self-isolated in line with national guidance,\" he said.\n\n\"We are also in the process of testing all staff in clinical areas at the hospital who may have had some patient contact.\"\n\nThe University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the hospital, has not commented regarding the union's concerns about the communication of information with staff.\n\nDr Oldfield said arrangements were in place for emergency referrals to go to other healthcare providers and that new patients would \"continue to have access to treatment and care in other appropriate healthcare settings\".\n\n\"We are continuing to take the necessary steps with the aim of reopening the A&E department and accepting new patients as soon as possible,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson announces date for non-essential shops in England to reopen\n\nAll non-essential retailers will be able to reopen in England from 15 June, Boris Johnson has announced, as part of plans to further ease the lockdown.\n\nHowever, the move is \"contingent on progress in the fight against coronavirus\", and retailers will have to adhere to new guidelines to protect shoppers and workers, the PM added.\n\nOutdoor markets and car showrooms will be able to reopen from 1 June.\n\nIt comes as the number of coronavirus deaths in the UK rose by 121 to 36,914.\n\nMr Johnson said new guidance had been published for the retail sector \"detailing the measures they should take to meet the necessary social distancing and hygiene standards\".\n\n\"Shops now have the time to implement this guidance before they reopen,\" he said.\n\n\"This will ensure there can be no doubt about what steps they should take.\"\n\nHe added: \"I want people to be confident that they can shop safely, provided they follow the social distancing rules for all premises.\"\n\nCommenting on the development, Business Secretary Alok Sharma said: \"Enabling these businesses to open will be a critical step on the road to rebuilding our economy, and will support millions of jobs across the UK.\"\n\nThe British Retail Consortium said it welcomed the announcement, adding it provided \"much-needed clarity on the route ahead\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC health correspondent Laura Foster explains how to keep safe while shopping\n\nA spokesman for the Confederation of British Industry added that the new guidance would help retailers to open \"safely and securely\".\n\nHowever, not all businesses are pleased with the announcement.\n\nThe British Association of Independent Retailers said many small shops had been preparing to open from next week, adding: \"It is therefore a little disappointing for the smaller retailers not to be able to open until June 15, especially as they can make it safe to do so.\"\n\nAnd analyst Catherine Shuttleworth, from the Savvy retail marketing agency, told the Today programme: \"It is fine saying the stores can open, but are we going to have the appetite to go back?\n\n\"Shopping is a social, fun experience a lot of the time and social distancing takes that away. It's going to be a very different way of shopping from what we're used to.\"\n\nThis is extremely welcome news for a sector that was struggling even before the pandemic.\n\nThe problem of falling footfall on the High Street looked like a walk in the park compared to months of shuttered windows.\n\nWhen 15 June comes around, shops will look rather different to what we've been used to, with limits to the number of people allowed in, and restrictions on how people move around shops.\n\nThere might also be screens in place, and hygiene products on arrival.\n\nHowever, some of these measures will be harder to implement than others - such as encouraging customers to avoid handling products while browsing.\n\nThe announcement at the daily Downing Street coronavirus briefing came after a lengthy press conference involving the PM's chief adviser, Dominic Cummings.\n\nMr Cummings has been facing calls to resign after it emerged he had driven his child and ill wife 260 miles from London to County Durham during lockdown.\n\nBut at the press conference, the former Vote Leave chief said he did not regret his actions and believed he had acted \"reasonably\" within the law.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn the subject of why he then drove his family to the town of Barnard Castle - 15 days after he had displayed symptoms - he said he was testing his eyesight to see if he could make the trip back down to London.\n\nAsked about the matter at the daily briefing, Mr Johnson said: \"Do I regret what has happened? Yes, of course I do regret the confusion and the anger and the pain that people feel.\"\n\nWould the easing of shopping restrictions make a difference to you? Do you own a shop or work in one? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "Kelly Morellon (right) and her mother Sylvie have designed a face mask with a transparent window\n\nIt's now part of daily life for many of us - struggling to work out what someone in a supermarket or at work is saying when they're wearing a face mask.\n\nBut for people who are deaf or have hearing loss, masks can prevent them understanding anything at all.\n\n\"You might as well be speaking in French,\" says Fizz Izagaren, a paediatric doctor in the UK who has been profoundly deaf since the age of two.\n\n\"I can hear one or two words but it's random, it makes no sense… When someone is wearing a face mask I've lost the ability to lip read and I've lost facial expressions - I have lost the key things that make a sentence.\"\n\nIt is a problem she shares with the some 466 million people around the world who, according to the World Health Organization, have disabling hearing loss.\n\nStandard face masks, which have become widespread as countries try to stop the spread of coronavirus, muffle words and obscure the mouth.\n\nBut now charities and manufacturers alike are coming up with a solution.\n\nFizz Izagaren says she feels isolated when everyone around her is wearing a standard mask\n\nMain dans la Main (Hand in Hand), an association which supports deaf and hearing impaired people in Chevrières, northern France, is among the organisations around the world that have created a mask with a transparent window.\n\nIts founder Kelly Morellon worked with her mother Sylvie to devise a design that covers the nose but makes the mouth visible, and can be washed at a high temperature to reduce infection.\n\n\"The basic aim of these transparent masks is to allow deaf and hearing impaired people to read the lips of someone speaking to them,\" Kelly told the BBC.\n\n\"But they are also very useful for autistic people, people with learning difficulties and small children who might be scared of masks or need to be able to see facial expressions.\n\n\"In any case, a transparent mask allows you to see each other's smiles, and at this sad time this could not be more important.\"\n\nThe clear screen in Kelly Morellon's design can be removed so the cloth can be washed\n\nUnlike some companies around the world - in Scotland, the US and Indonesia, for instance - Kelly and her mother are not able to produce their masks on a commercial basis.\n\nInstead, they are advising people on how to make their own and there are multiple guidelines online to help. Their top tip is to use a little washing up soap to stop the plastic screen fogging up.\n\nBut one setting where homemade masks are not suitable - but where both PPE and communication are vital - is in hospitals.\n\nThere is just one company in the US that has secured Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to make clear masks for clinical use.\n\nFive hundred of these masks are being used at Brigham and Women's hospital in the US city of Boston. At the moment they are being reserved for staff to wear when they are speaking to patients with hearing loss, or vice versa. Sign language interpreters, who use facial expressions and lip movements alongside body movements to create more complex and culturally rich signs, also wear them.\n\nJames Wiggins, an American Sign Language interpreter, is among the staff at the Brigham who have been wearing the transparent masks\n\n\"When we saw the Covid-19 pandemic beginning… we soon realised there was going to be a challenge because of the escalated use of PPE and how that would create communication barriers,\" said Dr Cheri Blauwet, who leads the disability task force at the Brigham.\n\n\"We've had glowing feedback from patients and we're getting broader requests from other parts of the hospital, especially the paediatric floors.\"\n\nIn the UK, there are no approved manufacturers providing clear masks to hospitals. And the sole US manufacturer is not taking any more orders as it deals with overwhelming demand.\n\nFizz Izagaren, a paediatric registrar at Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey in the UK who is also deaf, says standard masks prevent her from taking patients' histories verbally. She also says she feels isolated at work because she is not able to speak to her colleagues.\n\n\"Clear masks should be the norm for everyone in a healthcare setting,\" she says.\n\nThe elderly are both more at risk from coronavirus and more likely to have hearing loss\n\nShe is now working with a product designer to try to come up with a mask that the NHS could use widely. But even once a design and a manufacturer are found, this could take time to roll out.\n\nIn the meantime, there are concerns the current PPE could stop medical staff getting the required consent from patients.\n\nAn intensive care nurse working in London, who is profoundly deaf, told the BBC she had one experience where a patient, who also had hearing loss, was not able to understand her or her colleagues when they were explaining a procedure. The patient could not give consent and the procedure could not go ahead.\n\n\"[Clear masks] would make things a lot easier for me,\" she said.\n\n\"I would be able to do my jobs properly and safely. I would have more independence rather than having to rely on others.\"\n\nIn the UK, eight charities have written to NHS bosses calling for clear masks to be commissioned, warning of \"potentially dangerous situations\" arising from communication problems. NHS England has not yet responded to the letter, or to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nThe UK government says it is supporting CARDMEDIC, which provides digital flashcards and other communication aids to NHS Trusts. There are also apps that transcribe speech into text on a mobile phone.\n\nBut deaf workers say these workarounds are not always suitable for sensitive or emergency situations.\n\n\"As masks become more widespread in the community - it's going to get harder and harder,\" Dr Izagaren says.\n\n\"I'm worried the public are going to get more and more frustrated and there will be more discrimination towards the deaf community.\"\n\nIt is not just people with hearing loss who could benefit, she says.\n\nExperts suggest that other professions such as taxi drivers or even teachers may find clear masks useful as the coronavirus crisis continues.\n\nA niche product initially designed to help the deaf community, could in fact make everyone's lives better.", "There are warnings that children’s social services in England will face a large increase in demand as vulnerable children start to come out of lockdown.\n\nThe Association of Directors of Children's Services has told the BBC that as schools reopen, teachers will begin to see those needing help, after being at home for many weeks.\n\nSocial workers have tried to keep in contact with those already known to them - but limited access to some children during the pandemic could mean abuse, neglect or harm are going on behind closed doors.\n\nThe BBC's Frankie McCamley met some young people in desperate need of help as coronavirus hit the UK.", "Christian Cooper filmed Amy Cooper after she refused to stop her dog running through woodland\n\nA white woman who called the police after a black man asked her to put her dog on a leash in New York City's Central Park has been fired from her job with an investment firm.\n\nFranklin Templeton announced on Twitter on Tuesday it had sacked an employee, \"effective immediately\".\n\n\"We do not tolerate racism of any kind at Franklin Templeton,\" the tweet said.\n\nChristian Cooper, a bird watcher, asked the woman to leash her dog because he feared it could endanger wildlife.\n\nMr Cooper and the woman, identified as Amy Cooper (no relation) were in a part of Central Park called the Ramble, a popular area for bird watchers where dogs must be leashed at all times, according to the rules.\n\nMr Cooper said their exchange began when he noticed Ms Cooper's dog \"tearing through the plantings\" in the area.\n\n\"Ma'am, dogs in the Ramble have to be on the leash at all times. The sign is right there,\" Mr Cooper said he told her, but she refused to restrain her dog.\n\nWhen he began filming, Ms Cooper told him she would phone police and tell them \"there's an African-American man threatening my life\".\n\nShe then called the emergency operator and repeated, \"He's African-American\", before pleading for them to send an officer.\n\nA video filmed by Mr Cooper and posted on social media went viral on Monday, drawing tens of millions of views and prompting discussions about the high number of killings of black men by police in the US.\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 Melody Cooper This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Cooper later apologised, saying she had \"overreacted\". \"I sincerely and humbly apologise to everyone, especially to that man, his family,\" she told NBC News.\n\nMs Cooper also faced accusations of animal cruelty, after she appeared to choke the animal with its leash while restraining it to call the police. After the video went viral she returned the dog to a shelter.\n\n\"The dog is now in our rescue's care and he is safe and in good health,\" the organisation wrote on Facebook.\n\nHer now-deleted LinkedIn and Instagram profiles suggested she might be Canadian.\n\nFranklin Templeton initially suspended Ms Cooper while it investigated the incident, before announcing her sacking.\n\nSpeaking to NBC News, Mr Cooper raised the recent high-profile shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old black man who was out jogging when he was killed by two white men in February.\n\n\"We live in an age of Ahmaud Arbery, where black men are gunned down because of assumptions people make about black men, black people, and I'm just not going to participate in that,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Americans get wrong about 911", "President Emmanuel Macron announced a rescue plan for the French car industry during a visit to the Valeo car factory in Etaples on Tuesday\n\nThe French government has announced an €8bn (£7.1bn) rescue plan for its car industry, which has been severely impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron's proposal includes €1bn to provide grants of up to €7,000 to encourage citizens to purchase electric vehicles.\n\nIt also puts money toward investments to make France a centre for electric vehicle output.\n\nThe plan comes as the industry braces for thousands of job cuts.\n\nIn return for the relief, the two main French car producers Renault and PSA have promised to focus production in France.\n\n\"We need a motivational goal - make France Europe's top producer of clean vehicles by bringing output to more than one million electric and hybrid cars per year over the next five years,\" President Macron told reporters at a press conference at the Valeo car factory in Etaples, northern France on Tuesday.\n\nHe added that no car model currently produced in France should be manufactured in other countries.\n\nTo help sell the 400,000 vehicles languishing in car dealerships due to the coronavirus lockdown measures, President Macron said the government would also give people upgrading to a less polluting car a €3,000 bonus, as part of a scheme open to 75% of French households.\n\n\"Our fellow citizens need to buy more vehicles, and in particular clean ones. Not in two, five or 10 years - now,\" he stressed.\n\nLike in other countries, France's car industry has ground to a halt - with an 80% fall in sales and a backlog of nearly half a million new vehicles waiting for owners.\n\nPresident Macron - in his new post-virus spend-and-invest mode - wants to act now not just to rescue the industry from the immediate crisis, but also to prepare it for a future that will be both electric and he hopes much less dependent on foreign and in particular Chinese suppliers.\n\nTo boost demand now, the grants for households or companies that buy new electric cars are increased, as is the so-called conversion bonus for trading in a polluting car for a cleaner one.\n\nThe number of battery charge-points will be tripled to 100,000 by the end of next year.\n\nA billion euros in investment will be directed into research and modernising production, and there'll be a €5bn loan for Renault - part of the return for which is a promise by Renault to join a Franco-German consortium to develop car batteries.\n\nThe aim, Mr Macron said, is to have one million electric cars being made in France every year by 2025.\n\nAccording to IHS Markit, France was Europe's top producer of electric and hybrid cars in 2019, with almost 240,000 vehicles, but Germany is set to overtake it by the end of this year.\n\nThe €8bn plan does not include an expected €5bn loan for embattled French carmaker Renault, which in February reported its first annual loss in a decade.\n\nThe company has been planning to unveil a big restructuring plan on 29 May that was reportedly likely to see it close three factories in Choisy-le-Roi, Dieppe and Caudan. A fourth factory, Flins, will be converted into an electric battery factory.\n\nRenault workers protesting outside the Fonderie de Bretagne factory near Lorient on Monday\n\nMr Macron said on Tuesday that Renault had agreed to join a Franco-German project to produce electric batteries for the rechargeable auto industry, a step the government had set as a condition for the loan.\n\nBut Mr Macron said the government would not sign off on the deal until Renault's management and unions had concluded talks over the carmaker's French workforce and plants in France.\n\nMr Macron only guaranteed the future for employees of Renault's factories in Mauberge and Douai, however. And French daily national newspaper Le Figaro reported exclusively on Tuesday that Renault is planning to cut 5,000 jobs by 2024.\n\nThe 370 employees that work at the Fonderie de Bretagne, near Lorient in north-western France, are concerned that the carmaker intends to close the factory.\n\nThey have been protesting since Monday, blockading the factory, and told French national radio network Europe 1 that they intend to march on the streets of Lorient on Wednesday.", "Oscar Murillo's papier mache people were nominated for last year's prize\n\nThe Turner Prize, the most high-profile award in British art, will not be given out this year because of the upheaval caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nTate Britain, which has organised the prize since 1984, said it would be impossible to organise the annual nominees' exhibition.\n\nInstead, Tate will give bursaries each worth £10,000 to help 10 artists at this \"exceptionally difficult time\".\n\nThe last time it was not awarded was in 1990, after the award's sponsor went bankrupt.\n\nTate Britain director Alex Farquharson said: \"Gallery closures and social distancing measures are vitally important, but they are also causing huge disruption to the lives and livelihoods of artists.\n\n\"The practicalities of organising a Turner Prize exhibition are impossible in the current circumstances, so we have decided to help support even more artists during this exceptionally difficult time.\n\n\"I think JMW Turner, who once planned to leave his fortune to support artists in their hour of need, would approve of our decision.\"\n\nThe prize is named after the great painter, who hoped to leave part of his estate to help \"distressed landscape painters\" and \"poor and decayed male artists\" after his death in 1851.\n\nTai Shani was also among the four artists who opted to split the award last year\n\nFarquharson added: \"I appreciate visitors will be disappointed that there is no Turner Prize this year, but we can all look forward to it returning in 2021.\"\n\nThe move to give equal amounts of money to 10 artists follows last year's decision to split the usual £40,000 prize between the four shortlisted artists.\n\nThe nominated quartet successfully argued that their work was \"incompatible with the competition format, whose tendency is to divide and to individualise\".\n\nThe prize has been controversial in the past, gaining infamy in the 1990s with nominees and winners including Hirst's cows in formaldehyde, Tracey Emin's unmade bed and Martin Creed's empty room with lights going on and off.\n\nAccording to the Tate's announcement on Tuesday, this year's judging had been at an advanced stage.\n\n\"This year's jury has spent the past 12 months visiting hundreds of exhibitions in preparation for selecting the nominees,\" it said.\n\nBut the gallery said the decision to replace this year's prize with grants \"was made to help support a larger selection of artists through this period of profound disruption and uncertainty\".\n\nThe usual prize money has been supplemented by extra sponsorship to allow Tate to provide Turner Bursaries worth £100,000. The recipients will be announced in June.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Jann Tipping and Annalan Navaratnam were given special permission for the ceremony in London\n\nA nurse and doctor who had to cancel their wedding due to the coronavirus outbreak have got married at the hospital where they work.\n\nJann Tipping, 34, and Annalan Navaratnam, 30, tied the knot in the Grade II listed chapel at London's St Thomas' Hospital.\n\nGuests were able to enjoy their special day remotely as one of the witnesses live-streamed the service.\n\nThe couple said they decided to hold it \"while everyone was still healthy\".\n\nMs Tipping and Mr Navaratnam had cancelled their original plans to wed in August because they feared their families would not be able to travel safely from Northern Ireland and Sri Lanka for the day.\n\nInstead, the couple, from Tulse Hill in south London, decided to bring the wedding forward and got a special go-ahead for a private wedding ceremony.\n\nMs Tipping described the service as a \"surreal\" experience\n\nMs Tipping, an ambulatory emergency nurse, said they \"wanted to make sure we could celebrate while we were all still able to even if it meant our loved ones having to watch us on a screen\".\n\nShe described the wedding on 24 April as \"intimate\" and \"lovely\", but added it felt \"surreal\" getting married where they both work.\n\nMr Navaratnam, an acute medical registrar who has been working at St Thomas' for a year, said they were \"so happy that we have been able to commit ourselves to one another\".\n\nA virtual drinks reception, including a first dance and speeches, was hosted by the newlyweds.\n\nReverend Mia Hilborn, who held the service, said she was \"thrilled to be part of it\".\n\nAfter hearing about the wedding, Health Secretary Matt Hancock tweeted: \"This is lovely.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It remains uncertain how many schools will reopen on 1 June\n\n\"The coronavirus could be with us for a year or more\" so children cannot continue to stay out of school for \"months and months\" longer, says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nBut he told BBC Breakfast he recognised there would be \"initial nervousness\" among parents about children returning.\n\nTeachers' unions have warned it is not safe to open England's primary schools on 1 June.\n\nOn Sunday, Boris Johnson accepted some schools would not be ready to open.\n\nThe education secretary said the first steps for returning to school had to begin.\n\n\"We cannot be in a situation where we go for months and months where children are missing out on education,\" said Mr Williamson.\n\nChallenged over whether the row over Dominic Cummings had undermined the credibility of the government's health advice, he said \"safety was at the heart\" of planning for pupils to return.\n\nThis has not persuaded teachers' unions - with no sign of a resolution to the stand-off over bringing increasing numbers of children into schools.\n\nGavin Williamson did not accept that public trust in government health messages had been undermined\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said the government had \"not done a good job in building confidence in its plans\".\n\nMinisters were failing to win \"trust and confidence\", said Patrick Roach, leader of the Nasuwt teachers' union.\n\nMr Williamson told BBC Breakfast that he recognised there would be hesitation among parents.\n\n\"We do realise there will be an initial nervousness about the return of schools,\" he said.\n\nAnd he said it was right that there would be no penalties for parents who decided to keep children at home.\n\nAsked whether parents should now rely on their \"instincts\" rather than official guidance, he said he hoped that parents would start to send their children back to school.\n\nHe said the guidance for returning to school ensured a \"maximum amount of safety\" - and going back would be important for children's well-being as well as helping them to catch up on lost lessons.\n\nSchools have remained open for the children of key workers and vulnerable children - and the government's plan is for all pupils in Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 to return to school from 1 June.\n\nBut many local authorities have already indicated that their schools will not be ready to open, or that schools will have their own variations on which pupils will return.\n\nIf schools have to spread out classes, how will all year groups be able to return at the same time?\n\nMr Williamson said there was no reason why most schools should not open - but gave no indication of any sanctions for those that did not.\n\nThe first children returning to secondary school, in Years 10 and 12, will begin on 15 June.\n\nSchool leaders have questioned the feasibility of the next stage of reopening, which would have all primary children back in school together for the last month of term.\n\nThe Department for Education says this part of the plan is now \"under review\".\n\nIn Scotland and Northern Ireland there are plans for a phased return to school for pupils, starting in August.\n\nSchools in Wales will not go back on 1 June, but a date has not yet been set.", "There have been no Covid-19 related deaths reported by Northern Ireland's Department of Health in the past 24 hours.\n\nIt is the first day since 18 March - almost 10 weeks ago - that no deaths have been reported in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe latest figures from the department state the total number of people who have died remains the same as Monday's total of 514 deaths.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said it was \"a clear sign of progress\".\n\n\"We all have been waiting for a day like this,\" he told Stormont's daily press conference on Tuesday.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann urged people to stick to the government guidelines\n\nAlthough there was a clear downward trend, there were \"no grounds for complacency\", he added.\n\n\"If people get it into their heads that this emergency is over, the consequences will be catastrophic,\" he said.\n\nComplacency, said the minister, would be an \"insult to those who have lost their lives and to those mourning them\".\n\n\"A second wave of the virus is also expected in the months ahead so we must keep our defences up,\" he added.\n\nHe said a fourth testing site as part of the UK's national testing programme would be opened in Enniskillen later this week.\n\nThe minister said the easing of some lockdown restrictions meant there were now more \"legitimate reasons\" for people to be out of their homes, but said they should not forget the basic guidance.\n\nHe addressed ongoing concerns about Covid-19 in care homes and said 5,603 residents have now been tested, with more than 5,000 staff tested as well.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said she was heartened by the report of no new deaths.\n\n\"Let's keep working together to have more days like this,\" she tweeted.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, nine people with Covid-19 have died since Monday, a day where the country recorded no new Covid-19 linked deaths.\n\nThere have now been a total 1,615 coronavirus-related deaths in the country.\n\nIn other developments on Tuesday:\n\nThe total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Northern Ireland now stands at 4,637 - an increase of 28 on Monday's figures.\n\nThe Department of Health's dashboard also says there are 69 active outbreaks of Covid-19 in NI care homes.\n\nThese figures are one of two sets published in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe other are weekly statistics from Northern Ireland's Statistics and Research Agency (Nisra), which cover all fatalities where coronavirus has been recorded on the death certificate.\n\nThe latest Nisra figures show 664 deaths had occurred by Friday 15 May:\n\nThere is a considerable difference in the death tolls in the two sets of figures: the Department of Health - which records deaths of patients who tested positive for coronavirus and therefore mostly died in hospital - had only recorded 472 deaths by 15 May.\n\nOn Monday, the Republic of Ireland also reported there had been no Covid-19 related deaths in the past 24 hours, news welcomed by Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan as \"part of the downward trend\".\n\nThere have been a total of 1,606 coronavirus-related deaths in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nA further 59 new confirmed cases brings the country's total to 24,698.\n\nAcross the UK, coronavirus figures have fallen to a six-week low\n\nFewer deaths related to coronavirus were registered in the UK in the week to 15 May, than in any week since the beginning of April.\n\nBetween 11 and 15 May, there were 4,210 death registrations mentioning Covid-19.\n\nDown from 4,426 the previous week, it is the lowest weekly figure since the 3,801 for the week ending 10 April.\n\nCoronavirus accounted for just over 25% of all deaths in the UK in the week to 15 May.", "There were no new Covid-19 linked deaths in the Republic of Ireland in the last 24 hours.\n\nIn the same period there were 59 confirmed cases of the virus. The Republic has had 1,606 Covid linked deaths and 24,698 confirmed cases.\n\nIreland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan said the Republic has \"suppressed Covid-19 as a country\".\n\n\"It has taken strict measures to achieve this,\" he said.\n\n\"It will take another week to see any effect on disease incidence that might arise from the easing of measures in Phase One.\"\n\nThe chief medical officer said that although the recording of no new Covid-19-related deaths has not been seen since mid-March, there is always a \"weekend effect\" in terms of reporting and believes that this can result in delays.\n\nThe first phase of the Republic easing its lockdown measures got under way on 18 May.\n\nSome construction firms returned to work and businesses such as garden centres and hardware stores reopened.\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 Simon Coveney 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 Irish government will decide on 5 June whether to move to the second phase of the relaxation of the coronavirus lockdown restrictions.\n\nWork has begun on preparations for a possible second wave of Covid-19 this autumn or early winter.\n• None Ireland begins first phase of lifting the lockdown", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Tuesday evening. We'll have another update for you on Wednesday.\n\nDouglas Ross has resigned as a government minister after Dominic Cummings' defence of his trip to Durham during the coronavirus lockdown. The Scotland Office minister's decision to step back comes as more than 35 MPs called for Mr Cummings' resignation and six opposition leaders said removing the PM's chief adviser was the only way to restore trust in public health advice.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRemdesivir, an anti-viral medicine that appears to shorten recovery time for people with coronavirus, will be offered on the NHS. Speaking at the daily No 10 briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said it is \"probably the biggest step forward in the treatment of coronavirus since the crisis began\". But experts have cautioned the drug, previously used against Ebola, shouldn't be seen as a \"magic bullet\".\n\nCoronavirus deaths in the UK have fallen to a six-week low according to the latest weekly figures from the Office for National Statistics. Separately, the latest daily figures released by the Department of Health and Social Care show the number of people to die with coronavirus in the UK rose by 134 to a total of 37,048 on Tuesday.\n\nAs in the general population, the total number of deaths in care homes rose slightly while the number of Covid-19 registered deaths fell\n\nFollowing the announcement that all non-essential shops in England can reopen on 15 June, John Lewis says it is planning a phased reopening of its stores, using lessons it has learned on social distancing from the partnership's Waitrose shops. New safety measures will include having a customer service host to monitor numbers inside and answer queries, as well as fewer entrances.\n\nFans of JK Rowling's Harry Potter books may be pleased to learn the author has announced a new children's book which she will publish in daily instalments for free on her website. The Ickabog is her first children's story unrelated to Harry Potter, and she says it is intended for \"children on lockdown, or even those back at school during these strange, unsettling times\".\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and get all the latest via our live page.\n\nIn the latest instalment of his diary from the NHS front line, Dr John Wright describes some of the trials under way to find a cure for Covid-19.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The Welsh Government is \"working very hard\" to increase coronavirus testing capacity, the first minister has said.\n\nMark Drakeford said a community testing regime will be put in place over the next three weeks.\n\nThere is currently the capacity to do 2,350 tests a day in Wales.\n\nA leaked Public Health Wales (PHW) report suggested about 30,000 tests a day may be needed in a track and trace programme but the government believes much fewer tests will be needed.\n\nPHW has since said its analysis now suggests the number of tests needed would be in the range of 7,500 to 17,000 daily tests but that 10,000 tests a day would be a \"realistic requirement\".\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"We are working with our public health organisation here in Wales to prepare for the day when we need that test trace isolate regime.\n\n\"We are increasing the number of tests available every week here in Wales.\n\n\"I don't believe that the final report that we will see from PHW will have that 30,000 figure because that was if absolutely everybody needed to be tested and there were no other aspects of a regime in place.\n\n\"But there is a gap to be closed and we're working very hard to close it. The regime will need to be different.\n\n\"At the moment we just test key workers, people in care homes, people in hospitals, and we will be moving into community testing, we'll be using the next three weeks to get that regime firmly in place.\"\n\nWales and England have different policies on testing and Wales has not fixed a daily target for the number of tests carried out.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus in Scotland: First steps back to 'form of normality' in two weeks\n\nCoronavirus lockdown measures in Scotland could begin to be lifted from 28 May, Nicola Sturgeon has announced.\n\nThe first minister said this would mean people could meet someone from another household as long as social distancing is maintained.\n\nMore outdoor activities and sports like golf and fishing will also be allowed.\n\nMs Sturgeon also announced that coronavirus testing will be extended to everyone in Scotland over the age of five who is displaying symptoms.\n\nTests can be booked online and will be available at one of Scotland's five drive-in testing centres, or at one of the 12 mobile testing units.\n\nAlthough anyone can now request a test, priority will still be given to key workers.\n\nThe list of symptoms which would require someone to self-isolate was updated on Monday to include loss of smell or taste. The other symptoms are a new, continuous cough or a fever.\n\nThe Scottish government will publish more details on Thursday of its \"phased approach\" to easing the lockdown restrictions.\n\nThe first minister said that if progress was being made on suppressing the virus, the first phase would start from 28 May.\n\nShe said the aim would be to allow:\n\nMs Sturgeon said more information would also be given about when schools might reopen.\n\n\"Within two weeks, my hope is that we will be taking some concrete steps on the journey back to normality,\" she said.\n\n\"As I've said before, it won't be normality as we knew it because the virus will not have gone away, but it will be a journey to a better balance - I hope - than the one we have today.\"\n\nShe said that sticking with lockdown restrictions for \"a bit longer\" was important so the next steps could be taken with confidence.\n\nThe first minister added that current lockdown advice in Scotland remained in place.\n\nSome lockdown measures were eased in England last Wednesday, allowing people from different households to meet outdoors.\n\nPeople are also allowed to travel to other areas of England to visit destinations like parks and beaches.\n\nHowever, the changes did not apply to Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, who are working to their own timetables.\n\nThursday's \"route map\" will take into account the latest figures on the spread of the infection and the death rate data which will be published by the National Records of Scotland on Wednesday.\n\nOn Monday, Ms Sturgeon said 2,105 patients had now died in Scotland after testing positive for coronavirus, up two from 2,103 on Sunday.\n\nBut she issued a note of caution over the death figures, saying that registrations tend to be lower at the weekend.\n\nThere are now 1,427 patients in hospital with confirmed or suspected Covid-19, up 119 from 1,308 on Sunday.\n\nOf these, 63 are in intensive care, a rise of four.", "More than half a million people have accessed online training that aims to prevent suicide in the last three weeks alone, a charity has said.\n\nThe Zero Suicide Alliance said 503,000 users completed its online course during lockdown. It aims to help spot the signs that a person may need help.\n\nIt comes as health leaders warned front-line workers tackling coronavirus could suffer from mental ill health.\n\nThe surge in demand to complete the suicide prevention programme - funded in part by the Department of Health - means the Zero Suicide Alliance reached a total of one million participants worldwide since its launch in 2017.\n\nThe online training takes around 20 minutes and leads users through the skills they might need to help someone who may be considering suicide, tackling stigma and promoting open communication.\n\nA shorter introduction module - requiring five to 10 minutes - is also available.\n\nThe online training programme takes around 20 minutes to complete\n\nThe alliance's Joe Rafferty said the true impact of the coronavirus on mental health will not be known until the pandemic ends.\n\nBut he said \"the stress and worry of the coronavirus is bound to have impacted people's mental health\".\n\n\"Suicide is a serious public health issue and every single death by suicide devastates families, friends and communities,\" he added.\n\nThere were 6,507 suicides registered in the UK in 2018, with three-quarters of them among men, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nMeanwhile, medics are warning the pandemic is likely to lead to long-term mental health conditions that the NHS needs to prepare to address.\n\nThe NHS Clinical Leaders Network warned of the possible impact of the pandemic on the mental health of front-line and other workers.\n\nThe group wrote in a paper released on Monday that past outbreaks show \"we can expect notable increases in mental ill health and related issues for front-line workers as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic\".\n\nThey added: \"While preventing the spread of Covid-19 is still a public health priority, we're saying that this emergency will also leave a mental health legacy in its wake, a legacy that could inflict a damaging toll on NHS and other front-line staff as well as the public at large.\"\n\nThe group said an \"urgent call to action\" was needed so health leaders do not \"wait until this problem is upon us\".\n\nLaunching its staff mental health hotline last month, NHS England said more than 1,500 volunteers from charities such as the Samaritans will be on hand to support those who call.\n\nThe NHS has also partnered with Headspace, UnMind and Big Health to offer support via apps free of charge.\n• None ZSA Training by the Zero Suicide Alliance The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The owner of High Street restaurant chains Cafe Rouge and Bella Italia has filed intent to appoint administrators at the High Court.\n\nOwner Casual Dining Group, whose brands also include the Las Iguanas chain, employs about 6,000 people.\n\nThe company said the move would give it ten days' breathing space to consider \"all options\" for restructuring.\n\nRestaurants have been hit hard after shutting their doors in March as part of Britain's virus lockdown.\n\nEarlier on Monday, Casual Dining Group said that it is working with advisers from corporate finance firm AlixPartners over a potential restructuring programme.\n\nA Casual Dining Group spokeswoman said: \"As is widely acknowledged, this is an unprecedented situation for our industry and, like many other companies across the UK, the directors of Casual Dining Group are working closely with our advisers as we consider our next steps.\n\n\"These notifications are a prudent measure in light of the company's position and the wider situation.\"\n\nThe firm said the move would protect it from any threatened legal action from landlords.\n\nThe notice of intent to appoint administrators gives the firm ten days to put a restructuring plan into place.\n\nAfter that ten days is up, the firm could let the notice lapse, if there is a viable restructuring plan.\n\nBut if there is no feasible restructuring plan, the firm must either ask for another ten days to come up with one, or it could appoint administrators for the business.\n\nThe restructuring plan could involve so-called \"company voluntary arrangements\" (CVAs), which allow a firm to keep trading while reducing rents. It could also see one or more of the firm's brands put into administration.\n\nThe UK's casual dining chains had a tough few years even before the coronavirus pandemic arrived.\n\nMany struggled with a raft of increasing costs, including upwards-only rent reviews, business rates, a rising minimum wage and the apprenticeship levy.\n\nA rise in the cost of imported food following the sharp drop in the value of the pound amid Brexit uncertainty was another pressure point.\n\nSome well-known names, including Jamie Oliver's restaurant empire, the burger chain Byron, and the Chiquito and Frankie & Benny's owner have either closed sites or had to put in place emergency financial measures.", "A law to introduce a new post-Brexit immigration system for the UK has been given initial approval by MPs.\n\nThe immigration bill repeals EU freedom of movement and introduces the new framework - though not exact details - for who can come to live in the UK.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the government's plans will lead to a \"high skill\" economy.\n\nBut critics said the coronavirus pandemic has changed public attitudes towards those considered \"unskilled\".\n\nThe House of Commons approved the general principles of the law by 351 votes to 252 on Monday. It will now go on to receive further scrutiny.\n\nThe legislation will put EU and European Economic Area (EEA) citizens on an equal footing to immigrants from outside the bloc.\n\nIt also paves the way for the government to introduce a new points-based system, which some say will affect the ability of care workers to come to the UK.\n\nThe government announced proposals for the new system, suggesting points will be awarded for being able to speak English to a certain standard, having a job offer from an approved employer, and meeting a salary threshold of £25,600.\n\nOther points could be awarded for certain qualifications and if there is a shortage in a particular occupation.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said the earnings of frontline workers do not reflect their contribution to society.\n\n\"Those who clapped [for carers] on Thursday are only too happy to vote through a bill that will send a powerful message to those same people - that they are not considered by this government to be skilled workers,\" he said.\n\n\"Are shop workers unskilled? Are refuse collectors? Are local government workers? Are NHS staff? Are care workers? Of course they are not,\" he said.\n\nThe Scottish government's immigration minster, Ben Macpherson, has also written to Ms Patel, asking her to \"pause and reconsider\" the plans, saying the coronavirus outbreak has highlighted the need for immigration in frontline services.\n\nIntroducing the bill in the Commons, the home secretary said: \"The current crisis has shone a light on how we value those who provide compassionate care across health and social care.\"\n\nMs Patel said the changes in the bill \"will play a vital role in our recovery plans for the future\".\n\n\"It will end free movement and pave the way for a firmer, fairer and simpler system and will attract people we need to drive our country through the recovery stage of coronavirus, laying the foundation of a high wage, high skill productive economy,\" she said.\n\nThe legislation, the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill was first introduced in December 2018, but stalled amid a series of defeats for then PM Theresa May's minority government.\n\nThe bill is now being reintroduced to the Commons with Boris Johnson's 80-seat majority, meaning it is likely to pass.\n\nThe plan for a new points-based system will need to be separately approved by Parliament, and it is not clear how soon the formal changes to the current rules will come before MPs.\n\nKarolina Gerlich arrived in UK from Poland 12 years ago and has been working in the social care sector ever since.\n\nShe now works as the executive director of the Care Workers Charity, but says the points-based system the government plans to bring in would have ruled her out from coming to the country \"and supporting as many people as I have\".\n\nMs Gerlich tells the BBC she is \"angry\" about the proposals, saying: \"I think it's terribly heart-breaking that there is this level of misunderstanding about the importance of what care workers do, and the contribution that social care makes, both to the economy and to society in general.\"\n\nShe says the sector is \"quite heavily dependent\" on foreign workers, and limiting who can come to the UK based on their wages could be \"disastrous\", especially after the coronavirus outbreak.\n\n\"We've had over 130 care workers die because they were working on the front line,\" says Ms Gerlich. \"And it is going to be more difficult for the sector to recruit after the crisis. With so many people dying, why would anybody dream of going into work in care now?\"\n\nIn February, Ms Patel said people applying to come to the UK under the proposed system will need to meet strict skills criteria.\n\n\"We will no longer have the routes for cheap, low-skilled labour that obviously has dominated immigration and our labour market for far too long in this country,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel: No more routes for cheap, low-skilled labour\n\nA YouGov opinion poll commissioned by the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) suggests 54% of people now support looser immigration controls for workers regarded as essential during the pandemic.\n\nThe government list of critical workers during the crisis includes care staff, food processing staff, supermarket workers, and delivery drivers.\n\nJCWI's Satbir Singh said such workers \"are not 'unskilled' or unwelcome, they are the backbone of our country and they deserve the security of knowing that this place can be their home too\".\n\nFormer immigration minister and Tory MP Caroline Nokes called for \"a more nuanced and intelligent discussion about immigration in this country\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"We need to understand [immigration legislation] needs to be done with compassion and understanding…and we need to move away from the really blunt 'skilled' and 'unskilled' terms.\n\n\"To be quite frank, they are meaningless and actually really rude to those people who we have been so reliant on, not just in the last eight weeks, but for a very, very long time in this country. \"\n\nSNP immigration spokesman Stuart C McDonald criticised the bill, claiming it would \"split even more families apart\".\n\n\"It's a bill that will result in many thousands of EU nationals losing their rights in this country overnight and which will extend the reach of the hostile environment still further,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What people in Wanstead and Basildon thought of the new immigration bill in February\n\nA visa allowing doctors, nurses and health professionals from overseas to work in the NHS was introduced in March.\n\nThe Brexit transition period ends on 31 December - after which the new immigration rules will apply. Irish citizens' immigration rights will remain.", "Children from wealthier families are spending more time each day studying in the coronavirus lockdown compared with the poorest, according to new research.\n\nA survey of families in England suggests better-off children will have studied for around seven days more than their poorer peers by next month.\n\nChildren in the highest-income families spend six hours a day on education, but the poorest spend four and a half.\n\nThe government said it will do whatever it can to ensure no child falls behind.\n\nThe study of more than 4,000 families, carried out for the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), found the gap in time spent on education activities was slightly bigger for primary age children than older pupils.\n\nWhatever their income, more than half of parents said they were finding it hard to support their children learning at home.\n\nNearly two in three (64%) of secondary pupils in state schools from the richest households are offered some form of active help, compared with 47% from the poorest fifth of families, the study suggests.\n\nThe new analysis from the IFS found that children from more disadvantaged families have fewer educational resources and parental support for home learning.\n\nThe research also found poorer children were less likely to have a place to study.\n\nLess than a third (29%) of parents in the poorest families said they would send their child back to primary school given the choice, compared with 55% of the most affluent parents.\n\nMinisters have said some primary school pupils in England should be able to go back to school next month.\n\nBut teachers' unions have raised concerns over safety amid fears a rush to return to the classroom could spread the coronavirus in schools.\n\nPaul Whiteman, head of the National Association of Head Teachers, said teachers want to see pupils back in class - but they want to understand the scientific reasons as to why the government has said it is safe to return.\n\n\"Explain why and if you can pass that confidence test there will be no shortage of enthusiasm from members of the NAHT to bring children back into the classroom,\" he told BBC Radio 4 Today's programme.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden told BBC Breakfast that public safety was the \"number one consideration\" for the government, and ministers will \"continue to engage with the concerns... that teachers have\".\n\nResearchers have called on the government to address the disparities between children from different backgrounds during school closures, as they warn the crisis is likely to widen attainment gaps.\n\nLucy Kraftman, research economist at IFS and co-author of the report, added: \"These differences will likely widen pre-existing gaps in test scores between children from different backgrounds.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokeswoman said: \"We will do whatever we can to make sure no child, whatever their background, falls behind as a result of coronavirus.\n\n\"We have set out plans for a phased return of some year groups from 1 June at the earliest in line with scientific advice.\"", "Groups of up to six people who do not share a household in Northern Ireland will be allowed to meet outdoors, the executive has said.\n\nMinisters have agreed to ease more lockdown restrictions as part of the first step of their recovery plan, so long as social distancing is followed.\n\nGarden centres and recycling centres have already been allowed to reopen.\n\nChurches and places of worship can open for private prayer and some sports, such as golf and tennis, can restart.\n\nOther outdoor activities that do not involve shared contact with hard surfaces, including some water sports, will be permitted, as more and public sports venues and outdoors spaces can reopen.\n\nThe Golfing Union of Ireland has said golf will return in Northern Ireland on Wednesday.\n\nDrive-in church services and drive-in cinemas, as well as drive-in concerts, will also be permitted.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said the executive did not agree to allow people to visit immediate family indoors, where social distancing is possible, even though it is included in step one of the Pathway to Recovery plan.\n\nArlene Foster said the executive was considering the issue of small weddings and hoped a decision could be made soon\n\nShe said she understood that would be disappointing for some people, but she gave a \"commitment\" to keep the restriction under constant review.\n\n\"We would have liked to unlock the whole of step one but, quite simply, the reason why we haven't been able to move to indoor family gatherings is because of the medical advice,\" said Mrs Foster.\n\n\"The relaxations we've announced have been made made possible by the vast majority of you following advice.\n\n\"They have been hard-won freedoms and it's vital when you exercise them, it doesn't put anyone else's safety at risk.\"\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health announced six more Covid-19 related deaths in Northern Ireland, bringing its total to 482.\n\nA separate weekly report from the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (Nisra) showed that 599 deaths had been recorded, up to 8 May, in total, because its figures record all fatalities where coronavirus is mentioned on a death certificate.\n\n\"Bear with us,\" urged Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, who said as soon as the advice changed, the executive would move to lift the restriction on visiting family indoors.\n\nIn other developments on Monday:\n\n\"We will get there and we'll get there sooner, if we all keep doing what we're doing,\" she added.\n\nLast week, the executive published its five-phase blueprint for recovery in Northern Ireland, but it did not have a timetable.\n\nThe lockdown remains in place with a review due by 28 May, but some aspects of the first stage of the executive's plan were allowed to begin on Monday morning.\n\nDrive-through church services will now be allowed, in line with social distancing and public hygiene guidelines\n\nThere were lengthy queues at some recycling centres that reopened, with Derry City and Strabane District Council appealing, via social media, for people to put their journey off until later in the day.\n\nMarriage ceremonies where a person is terminally ill are also allowed.\n\nMrs Foster said the executive is considering the issue of small weddings and that she hoped the executive could make a decision on that \"in the very near future\".\n\nShe also said the decision to reopen religious venues for prayer, and golf courses, had been deemed \"sufficiently low-risk\".\n\n\"Golf clubs will be relieved players will be returning to their fairways,\" said the first minister.\n\nMs O'Neill said there would be \"no restrictions on travelling\" for any of these activities, but stressed that people availing of any services must use common sense as keeping at least 2m apart from non-household members still applies.\n\nThe Bishop of Derry, Donal McKeown, told BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme that he welcomed the decision to allow people to access spaces for personal prayer.\n\nHe said churches were taking many steps to ensure priests complied with health and safety guidelines, including installing CCTV cameras.\n\n\"It's important for people who've been bottled up for the past eight weeks to have a chance to talk to a priest, and ensure people can pray quietly should they wish to unburden themselves,\" he added.\n\nOn Monday, garden centres and recycling centres were allowed to reopen, with lengthy queues developing at some sites.\n\nSome recycling centres, which are managed by Northern Ireland's 11 councils, had already put safety measures in place and reopened ahead of the executive's announcement last week.\n\nDerry City and Strabane District Council appealed, via social media, for people to put their journey off until later in the day.\n\nQueues are developing at household recycling centres across Northern Ireland - this photograph was taken this morning in Bangor\n\nOn Monday, the Republic of Ireland began phase one of its recovery plan, and it is similar to that outlined by the Stormont Executive.\n\nBut people are only allowed to meet outdoors in small groups of up to four, and social distancing must also be observed.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nCrowd-control measures are in place at major stations as the frequency of rail services is increased. Security guards will be on duty and limits on platform and carriage capacity enforced. People are still being advised to work from home if possible and avoid using public transport if they really must travel. The BBC has spoken to some employees fearful about their return to work despite the UK reporting its lowest daily death toll since 24 March on Sunday.\n\nThe row over plans to reopen England's primary schools continues to rage - two weeks out from the proposed restart. A study suggests children in wealthier households are studying significantly more at home than their poorer counterparts, adding to worries about a growing divide. Universities, meanwhile, have been getting to grips with remote learning. We ask whether a remote teaching model could work long term.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove says there will be \"a staged and careful return\" of children to education\n\nGarden centres and recycling facilities reopen today in Northern Ireland - read more on the rules changes. Meanwhile, health minister at Stormont Robin Swann has announced that all care home staff and residents will be offered coronavirus tests by next month. The Irish Republic is also moving into the first phase of its recovery plan, meaning small groups of people can meet outdoors.\n\nItaly and Spain - two countries, alongside the UK, with Europe's highest death tolls - are significantly relaxing their months-long lockdown. Most businesses in Italy, including bars and hairdressers, will be free to reopen, and outside of Madrid and Barcelona, Spain will allow groups of up to 10 people to meet. Strict hygiene controls remain in place.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFrom breaking up fights among customers to battling to keep shelves filled, the BBC hears from independent shopkeepers who've been allowed to open about the challenges they've faced. And from retail to entertainment, we look at how creative minds have been coming up with ways to give us back some of the human connection we've lost.\n\nMohammed Junaid said scenes at Buywise had been \"crazy\" during lockdown\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and get all the latest via our live page.\n\nAs the UK government continues to face stinging criticism for its handling of coronavirus in care homes, we've taken a close look at what decisions were made and when.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The woman was found on King Street at about 15:00 BST\n\nA woman has died after a suspected shooting near a supermarket in Blackburn.\n\nOfficers were called to reports a woman had been found \"unresponsive\" after gunshots were heard at about 15:00 BST.\n\nArmed officers remain on King Street, close to Lidl, where she was discovered, Lancashire Police said.\n\nThe woman, who is believed to be a 19-year-old from Blackburn, was taken to hospital but later died.\n\nLancashire Police said it was reported that a vehicle, thought to be a light coloured or metallic green Toyota Avensis, was seen leaving the scene.\n\nA car matching that description was later recovered and officers are appealing for anyone who may have seen the vehicle to contact them.\n\nDet Supt Jonathan Holmes said: \"This is a truly shocking and senseless killing, which has robbed a young woman of her life.\n\n\"Although the victim has yet to be formally identified, we believe she was a young woman from the local area.\n\n\"Her family have now been informed of her death and they are understandably utterly, utterly distraught.\"\n\nHe added that he understood people may be reluctant to come forward, particularly if they had been breaching lockdown rules, but that the force's immediate concern was to find out what happened.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Students applying for university places in England must be told with \"absolute clarity\" how courses will be taught - before they make choices for the autumn, says the university watchdog.\n\nCourses might still be online - and Nicola Dandridge of the Office for Students warned against misleading promises about a \"campus experience\".\n\nUniversity campuses have been closed this term by the Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nBut universities can charge full fees even if courses are taught online.\n\n\"The important thing here is absolute clarity to students, so they know what they're getting in advance of accepting offers,\" Ms Dandridge told MPs on the education select committee.\n\n\"What we don't want to see are promises that it's all going to be back to usual - an on-campus experience - when it turns out that's not the case,\" said the chief executive of the Office for Student (OFS).\n\nThe OFS says this information should be provided for students before they make a firm choice in June - and \"certainly before\" the clearing process that follows students getting their A-level grades in August.\n\nIf universities have to update plans after students have made a decision, the OFS says universities should release students from any acceptances and allow them to \"change their minds\".\n\nApplicants this year will be waiting to see whether courses will be taught by distance learning or on campus, or a combination of both - and whether they will have accommodation, which might be limited by social distancing.\n\nMs Dandridge told MPs that before students make decisions they need to know \"what they are getting\".\n\nShe suggested a likely outcome would be \"much greater and more sophisticated use of blended learning so that's face-to-face plus online,\" she said - and that it must not only be \"bunging lectures online\".\n\nUniversities Minister Michelle Donelan has already said that even if their courses are only taught online, students would still be liable for the same full tuition fee as those being taught in-person.\n\nThe University of Manchester has said that its lectures will be online next term - but it wanted to allow small group teaching as soon as safely possible.\n\nOther universities are considering a delay to the start of the autumn term - and there have been suggestions that some more \"hands-on\" courses will be taught first on campus while others might remain online.\n\nUniversities are facing their own cash problems from an anticipated reduction in the number of overseas students.\n\nDebra Humphris, chair of the University Alliance group of universities, said the scale of the financial challenge would not really be clear until the end of the autumn admissions process.\n\nShe said support from the government would bring forward existing money to help with cashflow, but \"it's not additional funding\".\n\nJo Grady, leader of the UCU lecturers' union, told MPs there needed to be clear guidance from the government on how and when universities should reopen buildings in the autumn - and not to leave decision to institutions in competition with each other.\n\nShe warned that financial pressure could mean \"some universities will rush to re-open\".\n\n\"They will want to promise students that they will be re-opening next semester in order to attract those students, rather than have them go somewhere else\".\n\nDr Grady said that university campuses would not be easy places for social distancing - and that lecture halls would bring together \"two or three hundred people\".\n\n\"Students go from cafes to libraries to restaurants - everywhere is always rammed,\" she said.\n\nA spokeswoman for Universities UK said universities were \"already preparing for a range of scenarios - including periods of online study in the academic year 2020-21\".\n\n\"Institutions will be communicating their plans to prospective and current students in the weeks ahead.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA terminally-ill bride-to-be whose case persuaded authorities to allow weddings for people in her circumstances has thanked politicians, saying \"they do have hearts\".\n\nSamantha Gamble and Frankie Byrne, from County Down, had intended to get married at the end of May.\n\nBut coronavirus restrictions meant that weddings were not allowed.\n\nWhile Samantha was receiving treatment for a terminal cancer diagnosis, her family began to lobby politicians.\n\nLast week, Stormont's First and Deputy First Ministers, Arlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill, said they had agreed to allow marriage ceremonies in which a person is terminally ill as part of the first steps in lifiting lockdown measures after hearing those appeals.\n\nSamantha said she was unaware of the lobbying, which was co-ordinated over a period of ten days by her cousin Vivienne.\n\nThe first Samantha knew about it was when she was told to turn on the BBC's radio news in the hospital.\n\n\"That was the first I really was told anything about it. I cried, I couldn't believe it, I still can't believe it,\" she said.\n\nShe said the couple, who've been together for 12 years and are from Loughbrickland, had always intended to get married but her cancer diagnosis and treatment had disrupted their plans.\n\nShe said she had decided to speak publicly to thank the NHS nurses in the cancer ward, whose care and attention had allowed her to proceed with her special day.\n\nFrankie said Samantha had begun to think the wedding might never happen but he had told her: \"We're not giving in yet.\"\n\nThe couple said they had been inundated with help for Friday's wedding which will take place at their home.\n\nFrankie Byrne and Samantha Gamble said they had always intended to marry\n\nOnly six people can attend, including the bride and groom and the registrar. Samantha said her two children and a close friend of Frankie's will also be present.\n\nA video-link will allow other members of the family to participate.\n\nSamantha said Friday would mean \"everything\".\n\n\"Just to be able to say we did it. Through all this Frankie has stood beside me and been my rock and done everything for me.\"\n\nWhen asked if she had a message for the politicians, she said: \"Thank you, thank you, thank you, they'll never know what it means to us. They do have hearts.\"\n\nThe couple said they knew Samantha was very seriously ill, but did not want information about her prognosis.\n\n\"We don't want to know.\" Samantha said.\n\nSamantha said the wedding on Friday means \"everything\" to her\n\n\"I know the cancer has spread, it's into my lungs and into my spine and neck.\n\n\"I just take every day as it comes. I don't want them to say you've got such and such a time because I think that would just bring me down.\n\n\"Whereas, at the minute, I can just say I'm living each day as it comes and I'm thankful for breathing.\"\n\nThe couple said they were not aware of any other couples who might benefit from the change in the regulations but if anyone else was in the same circumstances they hoped it would help them too.", "Loss of smell or taste have been added to the UK's list of coronavirus symptoms that people should look out for and self-isolate with.\n\nUntil now, only a fever and cough were triggers for people to shut themselves away in self-isolation in case they had and could spread the infection.\n\nEar, nose and throat doctors had been warning for weeks that more symptoms should be included.\n\nScientific advisers told the government to update the advice.\n\nIf you or someone you live with has any of these symptoms - a new, continuous cough, fever or loss of smell or taste (also called anosmia) - the advice is stay at home for seven days to stop the risk of giving coronavirus to others.\n\nCough and loss of smell or taste can persist after seven days. You do not need to keep self-isolating after seven days, unless you have a high temperature or are unwell, says the advice.\n\nLoss of smell and taste may still be signs of other respiratory infections, such as the common cold. Experts say fever and cough remain important symptoms of coronavirus to look out for.\n\nUsing an app, researchers at King's College London have gathered symptom information from over 1.5m people in the UK who believe they might have had coronavirus.\n\nThey say there are even more symptoms - such as tiredness and stomach pain or diarrhoea - that could be included as possible coronavirus symptoms.\n\nSome other countries and the World Health Organization are already citing them.\n\nLead researcher Prof Tim Spector said: \"We list about 14 symptoms which we know are related to having a positive swab test.\n\n\"These are not being picked up by the NHS. This country is missing them all and not only underestimating cases but also putting people at risk and continuing the epidemic.\n\n\"There's no point telling people to be alert if they don't know the symptoms.\"\n\nProf Nirmal Kumar from ENT UK, the body that represents ear, nose and throat doctors, said the change was \"better late than never\".\n\n\"We had been asking for this almost eight weeks ago. The delay has not helped at all. Many, many people have contacted us with concerns about loss of smell and taste and whether these are symptoms they should act upon.\"\n\nEngland's deputy chief medical officer, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam said it was important to update advice at the right time \"when we think it's going to make a difference moving forwards to how we pick up cases\".\n\nDowning Street said the UK's chief medical officers were continually reviewing symptoms of the virus based on advice from experts.\n\n\"They are now confident that encouraging self-isolation with a loss of sense of smell or taste will pick up slightly more cases and help to further control the spread of the virus,\" the prime minister's official spokesman said.\n\nThe World Health Organization says along with the most common symptoms of fever, cough and tiredness, people may have:\n\nOn Monday, the Department for Health and Social Care announced 160 new deaths of people who had tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe overall UK death toll remains the highest in Europe, and was at 34,796 as of 17:00 BST on Sunday.\n• None Loss of smell and taste 'may be coronavirus'", "Aya Hachem was taken to hospital where she was pronounced dead a short time later\n\nA young woman shot dead near a supermarket was not the intended target, officers have said.\n\nAya Hachem was found with fatal injuries in King Street in Blackburn, close to Lidl, on Sunday.\n\nThe 19-year-old law student, described as \"truly remarkable\", was going to the shop at about 15:00 BST when she was shot from a passing car, police said.\n\nThree men, aged 33, 36, and 39 from Blackburn have been arrested on suspicion of murder and are in custody.\n\nA Toyota Avensis, believed to have been used in the killing, was later found abandoned on Wellington Road.\n\nA number of occupants were in the car, which has the registration number SV53 UBP, as it passed Ms Hachem, police said.\n\nDetectives have urged \"anyone with information to search their consciences and come forward\".\n\n\"There is no evidence to suggest Aya was the intended target of this attack and every indication is that she was an innocent passerby,\" the force said.\n\nPolice believe a Toyota Avensis was used to commit the offence\n\nMs Hachem's parents have paid tribute to the \"most loyal devoted daughter\" who \"dreamed of becoming a solicitor\".\n\n\"We are absolutely devastated by her death and would like to take this opportunity to plead with any members of the public who may have any information however small that may bring those responsible to justice,\" they said.\n\nMs Hachem was one of four siblings and lived in Blackburn after travelling to the UK about nine years ago, her cousin Hassan told the BBC.\n\nHer family was waiting for the investigation to finish so they could take her body back to Lebanon to be buried in her home village Qlaileh, he said.\n\nMs Hachem, who was a young trustee for the Children's Society, was described as a \"truly remarkable young woman, and an inspiring voice for children and young people\" by its chief executive Mark Russell.\n\nDr Janice Allan, Dean of Salford Business School, said Ms Hachem was \"a very popular and promising second year student whose contribution went beyond the classroom\".\n\nThe Asylum and Refugee Community, a charity working with asylum seekers and refugees in the Blackburn and Darwen area, said Ms Hachem had been the victim of \"a horrific senseless attack\".\n\n\"It is with great sadness and heartache we have to share with you that we have lost Aya, beloved eldest daughter of Samar and Ismael from Lebanon,\" it added.\n\nMs Hachem was found with fatal injuries in King Street at about 15:00 BST on Sunday\n\nThe family of Yousef Makki, who was stabbed to death in Hale Barns in 2019, have also paid tribute to the 19-year-old.\n\n\"Another act of senseless violence that has ripped apart another family, our hearts and thoughts go out to Aya and her family at this heart-breaking time,\" said the Makki family, who were friends with Ms Hachem's family.\n\nPolice said the force was not treating the killing as a terror-related incident and also did not believe it was racially-motivated.\n\n\"This is a truly shocking and senseless killing, which has robbed a young woman of her life,\" said Det Supt Jonathan Holmes.\n\n\"We appreciate this will have caused a lot of worry in the community, but we have deployed significant additional resources, including armed officers, to carry out high-visibility patrols in the area to provide reassurance to residents.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "While Scotland has been under lockdown, Glasgow's street artists have been trying to reflect the mood of the nation.\n\nUsing city centre buildings as their canvas, painted murals pay tribute to the NHS while others urge fellow citizens to stay safe.\n\nBut who are the artists responsible for the images that have brightened up the city's deserted streets?\n\nThe NHS is thanked in a mural on Battlefield Road\n\nArtwork on the windows of this restaurant in Shawlands urges people to stay safe\n\nOne of those behind some of the most striking paintings is known as The Rebel Bear.\n\nAcknowledging that his activities are \"not strictly legal\", he agreed to speak to BBC Scotland on the condition of anonymity.\n\nSince lockdown began in March, he has ventured out three times in the \"dead of night\" to create his artwork.\n\nThe first was an image of a couple pulling down their masks to share a kiss.\n\nThe Bear's first covid-themed street art was painted on a wall in Glasgow's west end\n\nPainted on the wall of a tenement in the city's West End, The Bear said he wanted to \"provoke hope\" of life after lockdown.\n\n\"And also to show the tightrope between fear and love that many of us are walking at the moment,\" he added.\n\nA second piece popped up on Bath Street in early April.\n\nIt shows a man chained to a bright green coronavirus particle, highlighting the frustration felt by everyone restricted by the virus.\n\nThis Bath Street scene highlights the frustration felt by many people under lockdown\n\nThe Bear's latest work - of a doctor in a blue protective mask and gloves - is on a bright white wall in Ashton Lane.\n\nHe said it was dedicated to all front-line medical workers and symbolised \"our collective gratitude\".\n\nHe posts his work on The Rebel Bear Instagram page, and has seen photographs of his work in national newspapers and websites.\n\n\"The reaction has been brilliant\", he said. \"I really appreciate the support and feel very lucky that people enjoy my work and are able to take something from it.\"\n\nHaving created street art in Glasgow and around the world for the past four years, The Bear has inevitably been described as the \"Scottish Banksy\".\n\n\"I feel like I am on my own path,\" he told BBC Scotland. \"Saying that, I still feel privileged to be labelled as the 'Scottish Banksy'.\n\n\"Banksy and other artists such as blek le rat etc have paved the way for street art and have inspired my journey.\"\n\nBut his main motivation is \"to make people think and hopefully raise a smile\".\n\nThe Bear says he lives in a cave high up in the wilderness and only ventures into the cities to do his street art - although we're not sure we believe him", "People in Wales have been told not to make non-essential journeys by car\n\nMinisters are considering increasing fines for breaching travel restrictions in Wales after reports of visitors flouting lockdown laws at the weekend.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said he will raise the level of fines if police evidence shows the current system is not \"effective\".\n\nWales has not followed England in allowing people to drive for exercise.\n\nBut fines in Wales are lower - £60 for a first offence compared to £100 for England.\n\nPolice forces have called for the fines in Wales to be increased to the same level.\n\nMeanwhile Mr Drakeford said he was concerned to hear reports of \"officers being coughed on, spat at and generally assaulted as they enforce the coronavirus regulations\".\n\n\"This is simply and absolutely unacceptable,\" he told the daily Welsh Government press conference.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police and Crime Commissioner, Plaid Cymru's Dafydd Llewellyn, said the difference in fines between England and Wales was \"perverse\" when Wales has stricter guidelines but lower sanctions.\n\nHe said police were noticing public spaces becoming increasingly busy.\n\n\"We've seen it incrementally getting busier since the lockdown went into force at the beginning of it and we're expecting that that will continue as the lockdown is eased,\" he added.\n\nDyfed-Powys has issued more than half the 799 fixed penalty notices issued in Wales between 27 March and 11 May:\n\nAt the weekend North Wales Police reported turning around tourists from Manchester, Norwich and London as they tried to visit parts of Snowdonia.\n\nMr Drakeford said that a family of four had travelled from Birmingham to walk up Pen y Fan and a man had travelled from Devon to buy dog food in Brecon.\n\nHe said these journeys from England to Wales should not have happened, and urged people in Wales \"not to travel distances to other parts of Wales\".\n\nBut the first minister said police forces told him traffic remains \"well below last year's level, and the number of fixed penalty notices, over the last week, was half of that issued over the bank holiday weekend\".\n\nEssential travel only: People are being warned not to come into Wales from England to exercise\n\nOn increasing fines, he said police chiefs had given him \"additional evidence\" on Monday which he would \"now consider to make sure that the regulations are working\".\n\nMr Drakeford earlier told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that if fines are \"not being effective, and the way to make them effective is to raise the level, then that's what we will do\".\n\nUnder the lockdown laws police in Wales can issue fixed penalty notices ranging from £60 for a first offence to £120 for subsequent offences.\n\nIn England, they start at £100 and double for each subsequent offence, to a maximum of £3,200.\n\nIn both countries the first fine is halved if paid within 14 days.", "The UK's daily coronavirus death figure has dropped to the lowest number since the day after lockdown began\n\nThe UK's daily figure for coronavirus deaths has dropped to 170 - the lowest since the day after lockdown began.\n\nThe announcement comes a week after the first easing of restrictions in England - and while numbers are typically lower on Sundays, the figure is almost 100 fewer than the 268 reported a week ago.\n\nBut the overall death toll remains the highest in Europe, and is now 34,636.\n\nMeanwhile in Spain, the daily number of deaths dropped below 100 for the first time since its lockdown started.\n\nThe UK death numbers announced on Sundays and Mondays are typically lower than the other five days of the week, due to fluctuations in how quickly deaths are reported by hospitals and care homes.\n\nSunday's figure is the lowest since 24 March, when 149 deaths were reported. The evening before that, Prime Minister Boris Johnson had introduced the lockdown.\n\nSpain, which introduced a strict lockdown on 14 March, announced 87 new deaths on Sunday. At its peak on 2 April, there were 961 deaths in a 24-hour period.\n\nItaly has also reported its lowest figure since its lockdown began, with a total of 145.\n\nLiker other government ministers during the week, Business Secretary Alok Sharma said the country was moving towards level three of the coronavirus alert system, which would see the gradual relaxation of restrictions, but \"to definitively conquer this disease we need to find a safe workable vaccine\".\n\nSpeaking at Sunday's Downing Street briefing, he said the clinical trial for a Covid-19 vaccine at the University of Oxford was progressing well and announced £93m to speed up a new vaccine research lab.\n\nThe government has already invested £47m in the Oxford vaccine and Mr Sharma committed to a further £84m of new funding.\n\nHe added that pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca had finalised a \"global licensing agreement\" with Oxford and the government.\n\nIt means if the trial is successful, 30 million doses will be available for the UK by this September, as part of a 100 million-dose agreement.\n\nMr Sharma said this would put the UK at the front of the queue for getting the vaccine.\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma says research to find a vaccine for coronavirus is progressing at unprecedented speed and with the UK leading it, British people should be at the front of the queue for getting the jab.\n\nPharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has signed a licensing agreement to make 30 million doses available by this September.\n\nBut that's incredibly ambitious and is conditional on immunisation actually working.\n\nExperts admit an effective coronavirus vaccine may never be found. Trials are under way with volunteers being vaccinated.\n\nIt will take months to be sure of success.\n\nThat's why researchers are also backing another horse - finding existing drugs and therapies that can be used to improve the survival odds of patients who become extremely ill with coronavirus.\n\nThe business secretary also said the opening of the UK's first vaccine manufacturing innovation centre is expected to take place in the summer of 2021, a year ahead of schedule, after the government's funding pledge.\n\n\"The centre, which is already under construction, will have capacity to produce enough vaccine doses to serve the entire UK population in as little as six months,\" he said.\n\n\"But if, and it is a big if, a successful vaccine is available later this year, we will need to be in a position to manufacture it at scale and quickly. So whilst assent is being built, the government will establish a rapid deployment facility thanks to a further investment of £38m.\"", "Italians were able to return to espresso counters on Monday as most businesses reopened\n\nItaly and Spain are among a number of European countries further easing their coronavirus lockdown restrictions on Monday.\n\nMost businesses in Italy, including bars and hairdressers, are reopening after more than two months of nationwide lockdown measures.\n\nSpain meanwhile has slightly eased restrictions on some of its least affected islands.\n\nThe measures follow consistent drops in the number of daily recorded deaths.\n\nOn Sunday, Italy recorded the fewest daily deaths since it entered lockdown in March.\n\nIt said 145 people had died with the virus in the previous 24 hours. This marked a significant drop from its highest daily death toll, which was more than 900 on 27 March.\n\nIn Spain, the daily death toll fell below 100 for the first time since it imposed its lockdown restrictions.\n\nBut officials are warning that complacency over the virus could lead to a second wave of infections.\n\nRestaurants, bars, cafes, hairdressers and shops have been allowed to reopen in Italy, providing social distancing is enforced.\n\nAlmost 32,000 people in Italy have died in the pandemic, and the economy is expected to shrink by nearly 10% this year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCatholic churches are resuming Mass, but there is strict social distancing and worshippers must wear face masks. Other faiths are also being allowed to hold religious services.\n\nBut health officials have warned of the continued dangers of large social gatherings.\n\nPope Francis held a private Mass at St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, which has been disinfected ahead of its reopening to tourists.\n\nThe Mass honoured the late Pope John Paul II, 100 years after his birth in Poland.\n\nThere was sorrow but relief too at morning mass in Milan's Santa Maria del Rosario: the first time that people could return to churches in 10 weeks.\n\nThey came for comfort and to pray for Italy's recovery. And they abided by strict measures: pews were disinfected before the service; worshippers sat apart; and the priest wore gloves to place the communion wafer in people's hands, not their mouths.\n\n\"It was strange to feel the body of Christ on these gloves,\" said Fr Marco Borghi, \"but it's so important for people to be able to get closer to God again at this time\".\n\nFrom restaurants and bars to museums and libraries, to hair salons and beauty parlours, Italy is reopening and emerging from the world's longest national lockdown.\n\nThere's a sense of optimism in the streets but also, still, astonishment at what has happened, particularly here in Italy's richest, most advanced region: over 15,000 people killed in Lombardy, almost half of all the Italian deaths.\n\nAnd the economic pain is intense. One in three businesses here say they won't be reopening today.\n\nIn Spain, some areas are also seeing restrictions ease.\n\nThe country has a four-phase system for reopening, which authorities are applying at different speeds in different regions.\n\nMost of Spain moved into phase one last week. Up to 10 people are allowed to meet together, provided they wear masks and socially distance, while bars and restaurants can open outdoor seating at half capacity. Cinemas, museums and theatres are also opening at reduced capacity.\n\nSome Spanish islands that have not been badly affected by the outbreak moved into phase two on Monday - allowing shopping malls to reopen and gatherings of up to 15 people.\n\nBarcelona, Madrid and parts of the north-west however remain in phase 0. Most restrictions will remain in place, but some small shops will be allowed to reopen on Monday and funerals can be held for groups of up to 10 inside and 15 outside. This has been dubbed \"phase 0.5\" - an intermediate step in these regions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Beach crowds as countries around the world ease lockdowns\n\nThe country is now \"very close\" to stopping the transmission of the virus, the head of the emergency health centre, Fernando Simon, said on Sunday.\n\nBut he warned that the risk of a second wave of cases was \"still very big\".", "The number of children crossing the Channel in dinghies is rising, Kent County Council says\n\nThe number of unaccompanied child migrants arriving in Kent has risen significantly in the past 12 months, the county council leader has said.\n\nRoger Gough claimed the number of young asylum seekers in the county had \"doubled in a little more than a year\".\n\nA drop in lorries crossing the Channel due to coronavirus had caused a rise in children arriving in dinghies, he said.\n\nIt has led to fears children are being trafficked into modern slavery, the Immigration Services Union said.\n\nWhen asylum-seeking children arrive unaccompanied in Kent, usually at Dover, they are passed into the care of the county council.\n\nThere were 450 child migrants in the council's care at the end of April, compared with 257 in April 2019.\n\nVolunteers say between 100 and 200 migrant children are camped in Calais\n\nAbout 20 children arrived in small boats over the bank holiday weekend, Mr Gough said.\n\nWhile stowing away on lorries had until recently been the \"typical route for a young person,\" he said they were \"to a large degree now coming in the boats\".\n\n\"What we are now seeing, particularly as you can imagine all the changes with lockdowns across Europe and a significant reduction in freight transport, is that actually the boats are becoming a route for those unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.\"\n\nThe increase in new arrivals was putting \"severe and growing pressure\" on the council's finances and social care services, he said.\n\nLucy Moreton, of the Immigration Services Union, said the age of children arriving unaccompanied \"does appear to be dropping\" and fears the journeys may be the result of human trafficking.\n\nSmugglers usually charged between £5,000 to £10,000 per head, she said, adding: \"Unaccompanied children do not have the financial resources to do this.\"\n\nMs Moreton fears organised crime groups may be \"bringing the children here for the purposes of modern slavery or sexual slavery\".\n\nNewly-arrived children must be watched closely by social services and not allowed to \"vanish\", as has sometimes happened with older children in the past, Ms Moreton said.\n\nPersonal hygiene in migrant camps had deteriorated, charities say\n\nVolunteers have said conditions in makeshift migrant camps in northern France have deteriorated during the pandemic because of a reduction in charities working in the area.\n\nCare4Calais volunteer Tia Bush said there were between 100 and 200 children living in Calais, who were mostly unaccompanied.\n\n\"The problem is the conditions have got so bad here with the virus that obviously people are more desperate to get to the UK,\" she said.\n\n\"They are not safe here, so they have nothing to lose,\" she said.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"The government takes the welfare of unaccompanied children very seriously and provides funding to local authorities, including Kent, as a contribution to the cost of supporting unaccompanied children and those who leave care.\"\n\nIt said it was working to dismantle the \"ruthless criminal gangs put people's lives in grave danger\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A workshop used by Dame Barbara Hepworth has been granted Grade II-listed status, Historic England says.\n\nThe Palais de Danse, a former cinema and dance hall she bought in 1961, was the sculptor's biggest work space in her adopted hometown of St Ives.\n\nShe used the space, which was opposite her home, to create prototypes of major commissions, often cast in bronze.\n\nThe announcement comes in the week marking the 45th anniversary of Hepworth's death in 1975, aged 72.\n\nThe building has been a navigation school, cinema, dance hall, auction room, concert venue and ballet school\n\nThe artist, who grew up in Wakefield, lived in Trewyn Studios in St Ives from 1949 until her death, caused by a fire, on 20 May 1975.\n\nAfter buying the the Palais de Danse, opposite Trewyn Studios, she used it to work on prototypes of some of her most prestigious public commissions.\n\nPieces worked on there included the famous Single Form, which was finished in 1963, which sits outside the United Nations Secretariat Building in New York.\n\nThe Palais and Trewyn \"represent almost all periods in Hepworth's personal and creative life\" and were \"an important legacy of her contribution to the public and artistic communities of St Ives\", Historic England said.\n\nThe Palais de Danse was given to the Tate St Ives gallery by Hepworth's family in 2015.\n\nBarbara Hepworth created the prototype of her piece Single Form (left, in 1961) and built some of the final sculpture (right, 1963) in the Palais de Danse\n\nThe building, dating back to the late 18th Century, was a navigation school in the early 19th Century and converted into a cinema in 1910, before becoming a dance hall in 1925.\n\nFrom 1939, it was used for auctions and concerts. It was briefly a ballet school, and continued to be used for dance until Hepworth bought it in 1961.\n\nIt has been largely undisturbed since her death.\n\nHistoric England regional director Rebecca Barrett said the listing would help maintain a building that provided \"a unique insight into Hepworth's creative process\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The virtual Chelsea Flower Show will be taking place throughout the week\n\nThe first ever virtual Chelsea Flower Show is under way with organisers billing it as being \"about sharing gardening knowledge\".\n\nThe event usually takes place annually at London's Royal Hospital Chelsea, but was cancelled for the first time since World War Two due to the lockdown.\n\nContent including tours of gardens by designers like Monty Don and demonstrations are being posted online.\n\n\"[The show is] happening, just not quite as we know it,\" said Don.\n\nMonty Don gave a tour of his garden on the first day of the event\n\nThe gates of Royal Chelsea Hospital have remained closed this year because of the lockdown\n\nDifferent themes will be followed each day, such as wildlife gardening, health and wellbeing, and growing plants in small or indoor spaces.\n\nExperts will be providing tips and hints about gardening throughout the week\n\nThere will also be potting demonstrations, a \"school gardening club\" and lunchtime Q&As with garden experts.\n\nChelsea pensioners from the hospital also feature in one of the behind-the-scenes tours\n\nKatherine Potsides, head of shows development at the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), told the BBC exhibitors who would normally be at the event would be \"showing us round the corners of their gardens\" and demonstrating \"what they're doing at this time to brighten up their own back yards\".\n\n\"Part of virtual Chelsea really is about sharing that gardening knowledge,\" she said.\n\nThe show normally attracts thousands of visitors\n\nIn a message to its organisers, the Queen said she and her family had \"always enjoyed visiting the show\" and she was \"pleased to hear that you will be providing gardening advice and virtual sessions on your website\".\n\n\"As you adapt to the present circumstances, I hope you find this unique event enjoyable and interesting,\" she said.\n\nThe Royal Family have been regulars at the event including King George V and Queen Mary in 1930\n\nThe Queen is a patron of the RHS\n\nRHS members will be able to see the content from Monday, with it being made available for everyone else over the rest of the week.\n\nSpecial programmes looking back at the best of the Chelsea Flower Show will also be shown on BBC One and BBC Two.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ray McDermott's family moved to England when she was 14 and she later moved to the United States\n\nAn elderly Welsh woman now living in the United States has spoken Welsh for the first time in 40 years after a lockdown social media appeal.\n\nRay McDermott, 96, who is originally from Carmarthenshire but who has lived in the US for 70 years, was worried she would never speak it again.\n\nBut Ray, of Ohio, has now been able to connect with Welsh speakers after her son, Keith, asked for help online.\n\n\"It actually brought tears to my eyes,\" she said.\n\nRay spent her childhood in Llandeilo, in Carmarthenshire, Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire, and Aberystwyth in Ceredigion, before marrying an American soldier, Jim McDermott, when she was 18 and later setting sail for a new life in the US.\n\nThe mother-of-two has not spoken Welsh since her mother died nearly four decades ago and recently told her son: \"I don't think I'll ever have a chance to speak Welsh again.\"\n\nRay married Jim McDermott, a Texan, when she was was 18\n\nKeith, 70, who lives in New York City, said he was desperate to help his mother speak her mother tongue as she has started to suffer short-term memory loss.\n\n\"The pandemic imposes the greatest loneliness on people. My mom is feeling that loneliness,\" he said.\n\n\"As her short-term memory gets worse, her long-term memory comes into focus.\n\n\"When we get in to discussions of the past and Wales, her memory is totally sharp and she has been yearning to speak Welsh.\"\n\nSo he put a message on Facebook for help for his \"very cool, great-humoured\" mother in the New York Welsh area and, within 30 minutes, he was deluged with responses.\n\nHe said he was \"touched\" and \"a little overwhelmed\".\n\n\"She was shocked, since she doesn't have a computer the whole world of internet is shocking to her,\" he added.\n\n\"I read each comment to her and she was very responsive when people included what part of Wales they are from.\"\n\nKeith McDermott said he was \"very touched\" by the offers of help for his mother Ray\n\nKeith went one step further, asking Melisa Annis - a director and playwright originally from Cardiff but living in New York - to give Ray a call.\n\n\"I saw Keith's post and thought 'that's something easy for me to do',\" she said.\n\n\"It's a very hard time at the moment and we are all feeling a little bit isolated and especially if you are older. I thought 'why not reach out?' I am a fluent Welsh speaker and very pro the Welsh language.\n\n\"It was a bit of a trip down memory lane for her, I think.\"\n\nRay said it was lovely to speak to someone who had visited the same places as her when she was a child and that speaking Welsh again was a very special moment.\n\nHer first words were: \"I used to talk in Welsh with my mum.\"\n\nShe told BBC Wales: \"My mother was the last person who spoke Welsh to me and she has been dead 40 years so it has been a long time.\n\n\"I didn't think I would get to speak Welsh again.\n\n\"It actually brought tears to my eyes. I don't cry very often. It was lovely, it really was.\"\n\nKeith hopes to set up more Welsh phone conversations for Ray and Melisa has promised to send Ray some short stories in Welsh to remind her of her life in Wales.", "Waterloo railway station has been quiet during the lockdown\n\nCommuters who will be using public transport to return to work are being warned to be \"prepared to queue\", in new guidance issued by the government.\n\nWith more workplaces opening up on Wednesday, people have been urged to avoid public transport if possible.\n\nBut for those who do have to use it, the guidance says: \"Travel may take longer than normal on some routes.\"\n\nPeople who do travel have been warned services will carry \"as few as a tenth of the usual number of passengers\".\n\nRobert Nisbet, of the Rail Delivery Group, which represents train operators and Network Rail, said: \"We need everyone's help to keep trains for those who really need them, so please only use the railway if you absolutely have to.\"\n\nThe government is asking people to consider cycling, walking or driving to work if possible.\n\n\"If you do travel, thinking carefully about the times, routes and ways you travel will mean we will all have more space to stay safe,\" its guidance adds.\n\n\"Plan ahead by identifying alternative routes and options in case of unexpected disruption.\"\n\nPassengers should keep 2m (6ft) apart from others wherever possible and avoid the rush hour where feasible. They are also being asked to wait for others to get off before boarding and to be prepared to queue or use a different entrance or exit at stations.\n\nPeople are also advised to wash their hands before and after travelling, and to be considerate to fellow commuters.\n\nThe guidance adds that passengers should, if possible:\n\nCommuters have also been asked to wear a face covering while travelling, if they can.\n\nAnthony Smith, chief executive of independent watchdog Transport Focus, said many passengers would welcome that advice.\n\nHe added: \"It's important that the transport industry now builds on this guidance so passengers using buses, trains and trams are clear what to expect from their operator as well as what's expected of them.\"\n\nTransport operators have been given guidance to ensure stations and services are regularly cleaned.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said: \"We can all play our part by following the advice and reducing pressure on public transport.\"\n\nService levels on public transport have been reduced to about 50% around the UK since the lockdown came in. They are due to rise to about 70% from next Monday.\n\nStaff at stations have been mobilised to help passengers, there is extra signage and more announcements are being made.\n\nCommuters have been advised to wear face masks\n\nHowever, rail unions have said they are worried about a rise in the number of people using the transport network.\n\nAt the start of May, before lockdown restrictions were slightly eased in England, the leaders of the Aslef, TSSA and RMT unions sent a joint letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nIt said: \"We have severe concerns over attempts by operators to increase service levels.\n\n\"It sends out a mixed message that it is OK to travel by train, despite official advice suggesting otherwise.\n\n\"We are not convinced that there is any basis at this time for a safe escalation of services.\"\n\nAnd one traveller told the BBC: \"I'm a key worker who relies on commuting to and from work. Are you telling me that I might have to wait hours to even get on the train, because non-key workers are being told to go back to work?\n\n\"I guess the livelihoods and wellbeing of the people I care for aren't important any more.\"", "The Archbishop of Canterbury has warned cuts to public spending after coronavirus \"would be catastrophic\".\n\nThe Most Reverend Justin Welby called for politicians to be \"brave and courageous\" as they sought to deal with the economic and social consequences of the lockdown.\n\nIn response to spiralling public debt he said \"going for austerity again would be the most terrible mistake\".\n\nEstimates suggest the crisis could cost up to £298bn for this financial year.\n\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility which keeps tabs on government spending, made the estimate for the figure for the final bill, for April 2020 to April 2021.\n\nThe prime minister reportedly told backbench Conservative MPs on Friday there was \"no question\" of cutting public sector pay.\n\nBoris Johnson has previously insisted the costs of the crisis would not mean a fresh round of austerity, saying: \"That will certainly not be part of our approach.\"\n\nMr Welby, who worked as an oil executive before being ordained, was speaking to the BBC ahead of Mental Health Awareness Week.\n\nHe called on government ministers to invest in mental health services and for a royal commission to be set up on social care.\n\n\"Borrowing costs are the lowest they've ever been in our entire history. Spending money on mental health will have a positive rate of return,\" he said.\n\n\"We can do it now in a way we've never been able to [before]. We must be brave and courageous in setting our vision for what society will be.\"\n\nHe went on: \"Just because we're in the middle of a crisis, it doesn't mean that we can't have a vision for a future where justice and righteousness are the key stones of our common life.\n\n\"So we fund mental health; we have a commission of inquiry into what we learn from this - not to blame, but to learn; we have a royal commission on how we look after social care.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Andrew Marr asked the archbishop what it was like to deliver an Easter sermon from his kitchen\n\nMr Welby has spoken openly of his own mental health struggles. He revealed he was suffering from depression last year in a Thought for the Day broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Today programme and separately said he was taking anti-depressants.\n\nSpeaking this week to the BBC's religion editor Martin Bashir, he described \"an overwhelming sense the world is getting more and more difficult and gloomy\".\n\nExplaining how his own mental health has affected his behaviour, he said: \"You turn inwards on yourself a lot. You become, frankly, narcissistic. And when you have good friends or family who spot it, they can say 'might it not be an idea to talk to someone'. Which I did.\"\n\nHe added: \"There is nothing pathetic about it. It is no more pathetic than being ill in any other way. And we just need to get over that.\"\n\nBoth the archbishop's parents were alcoholics and he said his childhood was \"disturbing\" and \"chaotic\". Later, while working in business, his seven-month-old daughter Johanna died in a car crash.\n\n\"As we will see as the recession takes hold, loss, grief, and anxiety are traumas. And trauma has to be gone through. You can't do it just with the stiff upper lip.\"\n\nHe said the whole country had been \"compulsorily fasting\" and that had caused \"huge suffering\" for many.\n\nAsked what how he hoped Britain would recover after the coronavirus crisis, he said: \"We don't do it with austerity. We don't do it with class fighting. We do it with community and the common good. And we're not afraid of spending money that will produce a better society.\"\n\nThe archbishop has chosen to repeat a theme that runs through his book \"Dethroning Mammon\" published four years ago: that wealth is not an idol to be worshipped but an asset to be deployed for the benefit of all people.\n\nHe's likely to enrage some politicians who will dismiss his remarks as irresponsible and failing to acknowledge the damaging effect of large deficits.\n\nBut he does have particular insights into the impact of austerity - with the Church of England educating one in five primary school children, running vast numbers of food banks and engaged in a range of social projects that seek to support the young and the old in deprived and disadvantaged areas of the country.\n\nIt is why he believes the burden of rebuilding post-pandemic Britain must not \"fall upon the shoulders of those who are already turning up at food banks\".", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPremier League clubs hope to give their players the go-ahead to return to training in small groups this week.\n\nBut there is a growing feeling the intended 12 June date for matches to start again will need to be pushed back.\n\nA vote is due to take place on training and medical protocols when the 20 top-flight clubs hold their next meeting on Monday.\n\nIf passed, players would be able to train in groups of five from Tuesday.\n\nThat would be on condition they observe social distancing rules and adhere to a series of strict criteria, which include getting changed at home and driving to training grounds on their own.\n\nAt least 14 of the 20 clubs must agree that safety protocols are sufficient for the plan to be approved.\n• None Restrictions in place for team training under 'Project Restart'\n• None Rush goalie? No offsides? Which playground rules would make Premier League better?\n\nLast week, the government said it had \"opened the door\" for the return of elite sport, but several hurdles remain before the Premier League can resume behind closed doors.\n\nClubs have been carrying out coronavirus testing this weekend to ensure there is no further delay, but a number of players - including Newcastle United defender Danny Rose and Watford skipper Troy Deeney - have expressed concerns about returning.\n\nPlayers have been asked to sign waivers and it is understood the Professional Footballers' Association has offered to get the agreements legally checked if anyone is uncertain.\n\nClub officials have been holding high-level meetings because the legal liability for any player who became seriously ill would fall on them.\n\nIt is anticipated a three-step return to action will be implemented. It is hoped to move into the second phase at the beginning of June, which would involve training in larger groups, before a return to contact training.\n\nAt the meeting on Monday, clubs will also be updated on talks with police and safety committees over the request to play matches at their own stadiums rather than at neutral grounds, as initially proposed.\n\nThey will also receive a report on the return of Germany's Bundesliga and will have been heartened to learn there were no instances of fans turning up at stadiums in significant numbers.\n• None 'Bizarre, sterile and haunting' - what it was like inside one of Germany's 'ghost games'\n\nManchester City forward Raheem Sterling said on Sunday that players would need a \"full four to five weeks\" of training before returning to competition.\n\nNewcastle manager Steve Bruce had earlier told the Sunday Telegraph the timescale was \"at least six weeks\", adding: \"I don't see how we can play games until the back end of June.\"\n\nThe Premier League is thought to be relaxed, viewing the restart as more important than the actual date.\n\nIt also knows that while Uefa hopes domestic leagues are completed by 31 July, there are spare days in August free from European competition to allow outstanding fixtures to be played.\n\nWhat happens next?\n• None 19 May: Players may return to group training under socially distancing protocols\n• None 25 May: Uefa deadline for leagues to have finalised plan for restarting seasons\n• None 1 June: Government date for possible return of elite sport behind closed doors\n• None 12 June: Premier League aiming to return with first fixture\n\nFurther talks in the EFL\n\nIn addition to the Premier League meeting, League One clubs will hold further talks about how to proceed with their season after a meeting on Friday ended in deadlock.\n\nMany clubs want the season to end now because of the costs involved but at least seven - including Peterborough, Sunderland, Ipswich and Portsmouth - want to continue.\n\nThey hope to have a plan to put before Wednesday's meeting of the EFL board, which will also have to assess League Two's proposals for terminating the season.\n\nIt is thought unlikely the request to not relegate anyone to the National League will be endorsed, with a number of Championship clubs making it clear they would not agree with any decision that undermines the concept of promotion to the Premier League.", "Celtic captain Scott Brown has sprouted a head of hair in time to celebrate another title Image caption: Celtic captain Scott Brown has sprouted a head of hair in time to celebrate another title\n\nIt's been another eventful, landmark day in Scottish football, with Celtic crowned league champions and Hearts relegated from the top flight after the Scottish Professional Football League board agreed to end the Premiership season.\n\nAs Celtic fans on the whole heeded club calls not to celebrate at the club's stadium, chief executive Peter Lawwell said \"no-one can deny\" that Neil Lennon's team, who were 13 points clear of Rangers when the Covid-19 crisis halted fixtures, deserve to win their ninth title in a row.\n\nHowever, Hearts, who were four points behind Hamilton Academical, have left the door open to a possible legal challenge.\n\nClub chair Ann Budge was last week given approval to work on a proposal for temporary league reconstruction, which would involve expanding the top flight, and Hearts today said they hope this will \"avoid the need to go down\" the legal route.\n\nRead more here about Scottish football's unresolved issues.", "Celtic have been confirmed as Scottish champions for the ninth season in a row and Hearts have been relegated after the SPFL ended the season.\n\nThe decision was taken at a board meeting on Monday after the 12 clubs agreed at the end of last week that completing the campaign was unfeasible.\n\nAverage points per game played has been used to determine final placings.\n\nThe only change to the table from when football was halted on 13 March is that St Johnstone go sixth, above Hibernian.\n• None Celtic will go 'all out' for 10 in row\n• None How does the final Premiership table look?\n\nCeltic were 13 points ahead of nearest challengers Rangers - having played a game more - when the season was put into abeyance. Like most teams in the division, Neil Lennon's side still had eight games to play.\n\nHearts were four adrift of Hamilton Academical at the bottom with a possible 24 points available.\n\nHowever, the Tynecastle club do hold slim hopes of a reprieve after chair Ann Budge was given approval to work on a proposal for temporary league reconstruction, which would involve expanding the top flight.\n\nSPFL chairman Murdoch MacLennan congratulated Celtic commiserated with Hearts and said the league were left with \"no realistic option but to call\" the season.\n\nSPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster added the \"clear and unanimous view\" of the clubs was that the games could not be played and that the league can now pay out around £7m of prize money immediately.\n\n\"The focus will now turn to how we get football up and running again safely as soon as possible,\" he said. \"Nobody should be under any illusion as to how complicated and difficult a challenge it will be to return Scottish football to normality.\"\n\nThe decision was taken by the SPFL board after a controversial April vote - backed by 81% of clubs - granted them the power to do so should they deem the 49 outstanding games unplayable.\n\nFootball at all levels in Scotland is suspended until at least 10 June and Uefa had asked associations to either declare their season or lay out their resumption plans by 25 May.\n\nDoncaster reiterated that the League Cup is scheduled to begin in mid-July, with the new league season due to begin on 1 August.\n\nHow did we reach this point?\n\nBy way of several weeks of turmoil.\n\nOn 8 April - little over three weeks after football was halted - the SPFL asked clubs to vote on whether the lower-league season should be ended. If more than 75% of the 42 clubs backed the plan, the league would have the right to call the Premiership.\n\nThe proposal passed, but only after Dundee voted, withdrew their ballot, then voted the other way several days after the requested deadline. That meant Dundee United, Raith Rovers and Cove Rangers were declared champions of their respective divisions, with Partick Thistle and Stranraer relegated.\n\nThe league commissioned auditors Deloitte to conduct an investigation into the circumstances surrounding Dundee's belatedly decisive vote, which found no evidence of wrongdoing. But Rangers said the scope was \"too narrow\".\n\nIn the meantime, a taskforce was set up to look at expanding the top flight but that collapsed after a majority of Premiership clubs indicated they would not support league reconstruction this summer.\n\nThen, weeks of claim and counterclaim culminated in last Tuesday's SPFL EGM - forced by Rangers, Hearts and Stranraer. All 42 clubs voted on whether an inquiry was needed into the process, with 13 supporting the proposal, 27 against and two abstentions.\n\nThen, on Friday, the SPFL hosted a meeting of top-flight clubs at which they agreed that it would not be possible to finish the season and that it should be called.", "The first hints that a vaccine can train people's immune system to fight coronavirus have been reported by a company in the US.\n\nModerna said neutralising antibodies were found in the first eight people who took part in their safety trials.\n\nIt also said the immune response was similar to that in people infected with the actual virus.\n\nLarger trials to see whether the jab protects against infection are expected to start in July.\n\nWork on a coronavirus vaccine has been taking place at unprecedented speed, with around 80 groups around the world working on them.\n\nModerna was the first to test an experimental vaccine, called mRNA-1273, in people.\n\nThe vaccine is a small snippet of the coronavirus's genetic code, which is injected into the patient.\n\nIt is not capable of causing an infection or the symptoms of Covid-19, but is enough to provoke a response from the immune system.\n\nThe vaccine trials, run by the US government's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, showed the vaccine led to the production of antibodies which can neutralise the coronavirus.\n\nHowever, testing for these neutralising antibodies has only taken place on the first eight, out of 45, people on the trial.\n\nThe people on the trial were taking either a low, middle or high dose. The highest dose was linked to most side-effects.\n\nHowever, Moderna said that even people taking the lowest dose had antibodies at the same levels seen in patients who recover from Covid-19.\n\nAnd antibodies \"significantly exceeded\" those in recovered patients for people on the middle dose.\n\nThe study is known as a phase 1 trial as it is designed to test whether the vaccine is safe, rather then whether it is effective.\n\nIt will take larger trials to see if people are protected against the virus. However, experiments on mice showed the vaccine could prevent the virus replicating in their lungs.\n\n\"These interim phase 1 data, while early, demonstrate that vaccination with mRNA-1273 elicits an immune response of the magnitude caused by natural infection,\" said Dr Tal Zaks, chief medical officer at Moderna.\n\n\"These data substantiate our belief that mRNA-1273 has the potential to prevent Covid-19 disease and advance our ability to select a dose for pivotal trials.\"\n\nModerna said it was hoping to start a large-scale trial in July, and that it was already investigating how to manufacture the vaccine at scale.\n\nA vaccine pioneered by the University of Oxford is also being tested in people, but there are no results from those trials yet.\n\nHowever, concerns have been raised about the results of experiments in monkeys.\n\nTests showed vaccinated animals had less severe symptoms and did not get pneumonia. However, they were not completely protected from the virus and signs of it were detected at the same level in the monkeys' noses as in unvaccinated animals.\n\nProf Eleanor Riley, from the University of Edinburgh, said: \"If similar results were obtained in humans, the vaccine would likely provide partial protection against disease in the vaccine recipient but would be unlikely to reduce transmission in the wider community.\"\n\nHowever, until human trials have been performed it is impossible to know how the vaccine will perform in people.", "ITV's Isolation Stories was one of the few dramas to be filmed under lockdown\n\nActors will have to stand 2m apart and film in front of green screens more often when TV shows resume, according to new guidance.\n\nThe measures form part of a back-to-work blueprint issued by the UK's biggest broadcasters on Monday.\n\nThey have been adopted by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky to protect actors and crews during the pandemic.\n\nIt is hoped that soaps including EastEnders and Coronation Street will start filming again in June.\n\nWilliam Roache, who plays Ken Barlow in Corrie, told BBC Radio Derby on Monday that cast members had been told filming should re-start in mid-June.\n\n\"They've said it's all going to be very, very different,\" he said. \"Scenes will be about the lockdown, so people will be isolating. Scenes will be shot more simply with less people.\n\n\"Obviously cameras and booms will be placed where there's the required distance. So it's all going to be very, very different when we do get back.\"\n\nHowever, Roache, 88, added that older residents of the street would not return immediately for health reasons.\n\n\"Senior members of the cast will not be called back for some time, sadly. I'd like to get back,\" he said.\n\nAmong the measures recommended in the 15-page guidelines are:\n\nThe guidelines also urge caution over high-risk scenarios involving stunts or special effects, saying producers should consider the \"potential demands on emergency services\".\n\nMental health is also addressed, with producers advised to schedule down-time, along with access to support.\n\nAlthough some TV shows have continued to film during the lockdown, most major productions have been shut down.\n\nLast week, the BBC said production would restart on Top Gear and EastEnders by the end of June, while plans are also being drawn up to resume shoots on other independently-produced shows.\n\n\"We can only move forward with the right safety measures in place,\" said BBC director general Tony Hall. \"This guidance is an attempt to get that right.\"\n\nITV chief executive Carolyn McCall said: \"ITV has been at the heart of informing, entertaining and connecting the UK through the Covid-19 crisis.\n\n\"Our production teams are now working hard to bring many more much loved shows back for viewers.\"\n\nThe new guidelines were welcomed by the government, with Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden calling them \"a significant step forward in getting our favourite shows back into production\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Electric bikes can slash transport emissions and offer workers a way to return to the workplace during coronavirus, a new study has found.\n\nIf e-bikes took off in the same way in the UK, as in many European cities, it would reduce congestion, improve mobility, and save CO2, the study says.\n\nIt said the UK government hadn’t yet realised the strategic importance of e-bikes, push-bikes with electric motors.\n\nThe greatest impact would be in areas with poor public transport, it found.\n\nThat's because a wider range of people would be able to use e-bikes, it said.\n\nThe research comes from the publicly funded Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions (Creds), based in Oxford.\n\nThe researchers say that in Denmark, where cycling has been strongly encouraged for decades, e-bike routes are already linking cities to towns and villages.\n\nThe research comes at a time when ministers are desperate for solutions which allow people to get to work without risking their health on public transport, but also without increasing carbon emissions.\n\nSo far the main emphasis has been on bringing people into city centres, where popup cycle lanes are being introduced.\n\nBut the Creds paper says e-bikes can be particularly effective in economically-deprived areas where people can’t afford cars, but bus services are poor.\n\nThis could be in suburban or semi-rural areas.\n\nIt says the UK government should find ways to incentivise the use of e-bikes.\n\nProfessor Nick Eyre from Creds told BBC News: \"E-bikes give us an exciting new opportunity to reduce energy use and carbon emissions.\n\n“They need to be part of the plan for the major investment we need in transport to get people moving safely again in ways that are economically and environmentally sustainable.\"\n\nCritics could say that creating a major network of e-bike lanes would be expensive and sometimes not feasible.\n\nThere will also be problems with bike theft – and of culture in places where there is little history of cycling.\n\nProfessor Eyre said: “We know cycling is culturally dependent. There’s much more cycling here in Oxford than in Leeds, for example.\n\n\"It’s partly because Leeds is bigger and hillier, but it’s partly because in Oxford cycling is just something we do.\n\n“[But] the last few weeks have shown us there’s much more capacity for people to change than we previously thought.”\n\nSome planners believe the UK is on the brink of an urban transport revolution.\n\nThe government is currently consulting the public on the use of electric scooters on Britain’s streets.\n\nHowever, a wide range of organisations, from pedestrians to motorists, have expressed their fears about the potential dangers of e-scooters, whether on the pavement or on the road.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video taken by an eyewitness shows the jet taking off, it went on to crash shortly after\n\nAt least one person has died after an aerobatic Canadian air force jet crashed into a residential neighbourhood.\n\nAnother crew member was injured when the plane hit a house in the city of Kamloops, British Columbia.\n\nOne pilot was able to eject before the crash on Sunday, video showed.\n\nThe Snowbirds jet had been on a tour \"to salute Canadians doing their part to fight the spread of Covid-19\", according to the team's website.\n\nThe Snowbirds perform aerobatic stunts for the public, similar to Red Arrows in the UK or the US Blue Angels.\n\nThe jet was part of the Canadian air force's Snowbirds display team\n\nThe crash happened on Sunday morning, shortly after the jet took off.\n\n\"It is with heavy hearts that we announce that one member of the CF Snowbirds team has died and one has sustained serious injuries,\" the Royal Canadian Air Force said in a tweet.\n\nThe Air Force later said that the crew member's injuries were not thought to be life threatening.\n\nThe Canadian Armed Forces identified Capt Jennifer Casey as the pilot killed.\n\nShe joined the armed forces in 2014 after a career in journalism, and served with the Snowbirds since 2018.\n\nCapt Richard MacDougall was injured but expected to recover.\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 Royal Canadian Air Force 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\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau said he was \"deeply saddened by the tragic loss\".\n\n\"For the past two weeks, the Snowbirds have been flying across the country to lift up Canadians during these difficult times,\" he said.\n\n\"Their flyovers across the country put a smile on the faces of Canadians everywhere and make us proud. Sophie and I join all Canadians in offering our heartfelt condolences to the family and loved ones of Captain Jennifer Casey.\"\n\nVideo posted on Twitter showed two jets climbing into the air from what is believed to be the Kamloops Airport before one catches on fire.\n\nWitness Annette Schonewille told CBC News: \"The one plane continued and the other one, there was two puffs, it looked like puffs of smoke and one... was a ball of fire,\" she said.\n\n\"No noise, it was strange, and then the plane just did a cartwheel and fell right out of the sky. Just boom, straight down, and then a burst of black, black smoke.\"\n\nA plume of smoke can be seen rising from the scene of the crash\n\nAfter it hit the front garden of a home in Kamloops, residents ran outside in an attempt to put out the fire.\n\n\"I just started running down the street. And I got there maybe a minute after it crashed and there was a couple of residents that had their hoses out and they were trying to put the flames out because it hit a house,\" neighbour Kenny Hinds told the Associated Press.\n\n\"It looked like most of it landed in the front yard, but maybe a wing or something went through the roof.\"\n\nThe Snowbirds perform acrobatic stunts for the public\n\nMeanwhile, resident Nolyn McLeod told CBC he saw the plane curve into the street and hit the bedroom window of his neighbour's house.\n\nPhotos published in Canadian media appeared to show a parachute on the roof of the house.\n\nThe city of Kamloops is around 200 miles (320km) northeast of Vancouver in the West Coast Canadian province. It has a population of 90,000.\n\nIn October, a Snowbirds jet crashed into an uninhabited area before an air show in the US city of Atlanta, after the pilot ejected.", "The Atlas V rocket launched from Cape Canaveral on Sunday\n\nThe US Air Force has successfully launched its Atlas V rocket, carrying a X-37B space plane for a secretive mission.\n\nThe rocket launched on Sunday from Cape Canaveral, a day after bad weather halted plans for a Saturday launch.\n\nThe aircraft, also known as an Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), will deploy a satellite into orbit and also test power-beaming technology.\n\nIt is the plane's sixth mission in space.\n\nThe launch was dedicated to front line workers and those affected by the pandemic. A message including the words \"America Strong\" was written on the rocket's payload fairing.\n\nX-37B is a classified programme and United Launch Alliance, which operates the Atlas rocket, was required to end its webcast earlier in the flight than it would normally do.\n\nThe Pentagon has revealed very few details about the reusable vehicle's missions and capabilities in the past, but Secretary of the Air Force, Barbara Barrett, said earlier this month: \"This X-37B mission will host more experiments than any other prior mission.\"\n\nIt's known that one of the onboard experiments will test the effect of radiation on seeds and other materials.\n\nThe X-37B programme is classified and very little is known about previous missions\n\nThe X-37B programme started in 1999. The vehicle (the project has two) resembles a smaller version of the crewed space shuttles that were retired by the US space programme in 2011. It can glide back down through the atmosphere to land on a runway, just as the shuttle did.\n\nBuilt by Boeing, the plane uses solar panels for power in orbit, measures over 29ft (9m) long, has a wingspan of nearly 15ft and a weight of 11,000lbs (5,000kg).\n\nThe first plane flew in April 2010 and returned after an eight-month mission.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The pictures, released by 30th Space Wing, give little away about the plane's purpose\n\nThe most recent mission ended in October 2019, after 780 days in orbit, bringing the X-37B programme's time in space to more than seven years.\n\nThe length of this latest mission is currently unclear.", "Since Veolia Household Recycling Centre in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, reopened, it's led to huge queues of cars on the roads in the local area.\n\nLocal businesses situated near the site have raised concerns.\n\nPhil Taylor, who owns a plumbing supplies store, described it as \"horrendous\".\n\nHe said: \"We've not been able to get deliveries in. Customers haven't been able to get into here.\"\n\nBirmingham City Council said residents should only visit the waste centres if it was \"absolutely essential\".", "We spoke to three new mothers about giving birth and caring for their new child during a pandemic.\n\nHere are their stories.\n\nBrooke Young Russell is in New York City. She had her son on 12 April, and had to wear a mask while giving birth to him as she was right next to coronavirus patients in the hospital.\n\nShe was initially told that her partner couldn't be with her for the birth, but then thousands signed a petition to get the hospital to reverse its decision, which it did.\n\n\"My mom hasn't met my son yet and that is traumatising for me... my family's absence feels so much stronger now because there's no way that they can be here. The fact that my mother hasn't been able to hold her grandson yet just kills me every time.\"\n\nSalma Ishaq is in London. She gave birth on 10 March, at 27 weeks. Her baby is in hospital and, before lockdown, she and her husband could visit the neonatal unit 24 hours a day.\n\n\"When the lockdown came in, the hospital policies changed. In the unit I'm in, dads are not able to visit at all and mums only for two hours.\n\n\"Twice he's had to be resuscitated and having to go in by yourself, without your husband being allowed, and going and seeing your baby in an incubator, having the ventilator... I'd kind of gone into this survival mode. Now that it's been two months I've started to process it a bit more.\"\n\nVicky Kavanagh is in Dublin, and gave birth in January.\n\n\"We live very near to my in-laws and we're very lucky - they're very involved in our lives. They were able to spend a bit of time with their granddaughter before everything kicked in.\"\n\n\"I always think of all the things she's missing out on. The closeness she should have had with her grandparents.\n\n\"There's this whole chapter of her life that only me and her father have witnessed and it's been very isolating for the three of us going through that.\"\n\nYou can listen to the full story here.", "Testing will be rolled out to everyone over the age of five with symptoms of coronavirus\n\nEveryone aged five and over in the UK with symptoms can now be tested for coronavirus, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced.\n\nHe was speaking in Parliament after the loss of taste or smell was added to the list of Covid-19 symptoms, alongside a fever and a new persistent cough.\n\nMr Hancock said the government was \"expanding eligibility for testing further than ever before\".\n\nHe added 100,678 tests had been conducted on Sunday.\n\nTesting in England and Scotland has been limited to people with symptoms who are key workers and their families, hospital patients, care home residents, over-65s and those who need to leave home to work.\n\nIn Wales and Northern Ireland it was just key workers, hospital workers and care home residents.\n\nMr Hancock said that priority for testing would still be given to NHS staff and care home workers and residents to \"protect our most vulnerable\".\n\nA further 160 coronavirus deaths have been recorded in the UK as of 17:00 BST on Sunday taking the official total to 34,796 - the highest figure in Europe.\n\nEarlier, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced the extension of testing there as she revealed lockdown measures would be eased from 28 May.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland has also announced an easing of lockdown including new rules to allow groups of four to six people who do not share a household to meet outdoors.\n\nThe UK government has ramped up testing and made it part of its five goals to meet in order to leave lockdown.\n\nThe prime minister has set a target for a daily capacity of 200,000 by the end of the month and last week the UK had reached a capacity of 150,000 a day.\n\nSo far the most tests done in a day is 136,000, on Friday, but this included kits posted out and not necessarily returned.\n\nHealth professionals have raised concerns about the accuracy of some tests as well as the time it takes for results to be returned to patients.\n\nNHS Providers, the association of NHS trusts in England, said the average test return was five days with the longest wait being 13 days.\n\nChief executive Chris Hopson said the testing regime was \"still a very long way from being fit for purpose\" and said that the gap between the tone struck in public statements and the reality on the ground was \"painfully wide\".\n\nOne person who had been tested at Lea Valley in north London, Michael Saunders, told the BBC's Hugh Pym it was \"disappointing\" that he had been waiting for five days for his result.\n\n\"If you are going to make testing a central part of how we deal with this virus you have got to make it right,\" he said.\n\nShadow health and social care secretary Jonathan Ashworth pressed the government on the time taken for results to be received on whether someone had Covid-19 or not.\n\nHe also asked if facilities could be set up to allow poorer people to be able to self-isolate if they are required to do so and whether those in insecure work would be guaranteed sick pay if they were asked to isolate.\n\nThe expansion of the testing programme may grab the headlines.\n\nIt is a significant milestone - in less than two months the UK has gone from only being able to test hospital patients and health and care staff to offering it more or less population-wide.\n\nBut it should not mask the difficulties that remain getting the test, track and trace system up-and-running.\n\nThis will be essential to contain local outbreaks as we ease ourselves out of lockdown.\n\nTests are still taking too long to turnaround for some - significant numbers are thought to be waiting several days - while the piloting of the tracking app on the Isle of Wight is not yet finished.\n\nOne particular concern is that the app does not yet let users know if the person they have had contact with ends up testing positive. Instead, it has only let them know if the contact has developed symptoms.\n\nThat is a major problem. It means people have been left in limbo and incorporating that feature into the app will be important.\n\nProgress is being made, but getting a workable and efficient system in place soon is still a monumental challenge.\n\nMr Hancock also said the government is in the \"closing stages\" of negotiations to purchase new Covid-19 antibody tests.\n\nA test developed by Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche was approved for use by Public Health England last week.\n\nMr Hancock said developments in tracking and tracing meant England was on course to meet the requirements for the next stage of easing lockdown restrictions on 1 June.\n\nHe told parliament 21,000 people had been recruited to conduct contact-tracing in England, including 7,500 healthcare workers.\n\nThis is when people who have come into contact with someone with the virus are tracked down and potentially asked to self-isolate.\n\nThe new recruits will be trained to identify people and advise them on whether to isolate.\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street press briefing, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab defended the government's record on testing and the development of the test and trace app.\n\nHe said: \"We are learning all the way as we go through this pandemic, not just on the scientific side but on the innovation that we need to get a grip on it.\n\n\"We are making good progress on the testing and on the tracing and on the pilot in the Isle of Wight in relation to the app.\"\n\nThe foreign secretary said the app would be ready in \"the coming weeks\" but could not confirm it would be ready before children start returning to school.\n\nEngland's deputy chief medical officer Prof Jonathan Van-Tam told Monday's press briefing that only once there was a vaccine \"really capable of suppressing disease levels\" will the country be \"out of this\".\n\n\"So from that perspective we may have to live, and learn to live, with this virus in the long-term, certainly for many months to come if not several years,\" he said.\n\nHe added it was unclear if there was seasonality to the virus and whether it would come back in autumn and winter.\n\nOn Sunday the government announced it had an agreement for 30 million doses of a vaccine if a trial at the University of Oxford was successful.\n\nThe first hints that a vaccine can train people's immune system to fight coronavirus have been reported by a US company.\n\nAnosmia - the loss of smell - has officially been added to the main symptoms of Covid-19 but Prof Van-Tam said it was rare for it to be present without other symptoms.\n\nTesting eligibility, like lockdown measures, is devolved for individual nations to set their own rules. Mr Hancock made his announcement on the extension of testing across the UK after all four nations agreed to the change.", "Germany's Angela Merkel and France's Emmanuel Macron discussed the fund via video link\n\nFrance and Germany are proposing a €500bn ($545bn; £448bn) European recovery fund to be distributed to EU countries worst affected by Covid-19.\n\nIn talks on Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed that the funds should be provided as grants.\n\nMr Macron said it was a major step forward and was \"what the eurozone needs to remain united\".\n\n\"I believe this is a very deep transformation and that's what the European Union and the single market needed to remain coherent,\" Mr Macron said following discussions via video link.\n\nMrs Merkel, who had previously rejected the idea of nations sharing debt, said the European Commission would raise money for the fund by borrowing on the markets, which would be repaid gradually from the EU's overall budget.\n\nGrants provided by the proposed recovery fund should also be used to help finance the bloc's investment in a greener future, the two leaders said.\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the proposal \"acknowledges the scope and the size of the economic challenge that Europe faces\".\n\nEuropean Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde said the plan was \"ambitious, targeted and welcome\".\n\nOther EU countries must agree with the proposal, however, and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz later insisted that his country backed providing loans to member nations hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, rather than grants.\n\n\"Our position remains unchanged,\" Mr Kurz wrote in a tweet, adding: \"We expect the updated [EU budget] to reflect the new priorities rather than raising the ceiling.\"\n\nIn EU political terms this is huge.\n\nChancellor Merkel has conceded a lot. She openly agreed with the French that any money from this fund, allocated to a needy EU country, should be a grant, not a loan. Importantly, this means not increasing the debts of economies already weak before the pandemic.\n\nPresident Macron gave ground, too. He had wanted a huge fund of a trillion or more euros. But a trillion euros of grants was probably too much for Mrs Merkel to swallow on behalf of fellow German taxpayers.\n\nThe resulting compromise: a win-win for the two leaders. They hope.\n\nThey got to demonstrate that the famed Franco-German motor of Europe still has some va-va-voom. Mr Macron badly needs to polish his European credentials at home. He already has an eye on his re-election bid and so far the self-styled Mr Europe's attempt at European reform has failed rather spectacularly to take off.\n\nChancellor Merkel, meanwhile, is in her last term of office. She's clocked the headlines predicting the EU's demise in view of the bickering and a lack of EU solidarity during the pandemic. She has her political legacy in mind.\n\nItaly and Spain had previously urged their partners in the 27-member bloc, especially the richer countries of northern Europe, to show more solidarity by sharing debt that all EU nations would help to pay off.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Beach crowds as countries around the world ease lockdowns\n\nThe two countries are among a number of European nations to further ease their coronavirus lockdown restrictions on Monday.\n\nBut while businesses reopen following more than two months of nationwide lockdown measures, the coronavirus pandemic has already hit economies hard.", "Ten weeks after imposing the world’s first national lockdown of the coronavirus pandemic, Italy is reopening shops, restaurants and hairdressers, and restarting church services.\n\nIt marks the country’s next stage of recovery.\n\nAs cases have dropped, some hotels have taken in people infected with the virus who need to be isolated to further stop the spread.\n\nOur correspondent Mark Lowen has visited one in Milan.", "Mr Gaiman left his wife Amanda Palmer and son behind in Auckland\n\nPolice have spoken to author Neil Gaiman after he admitted breaking Scotland's lockdown rules by travelling 11,000 miles from New Zealand to Skye.\n\nThe Good Omens and American Gods writer left his wife and son in Auckland so he could \"isolate\" at his island retreat.\n\nHe wrote on his online blog: \"Hullo from Scotland, where I am in rural lockown on my own.\"\n\nPolice Scotland said officers had visited Mr Gaiman at his holiday home on Skye.\n\nInsp Linda Allan said the officers spoke to the author \"about his actions\".\n\nShe said: \"He has been given suitable advice about essential travel and reminded about the current guidelines in Scotland.\"\n\nThe science fiction and fantasy author has been criticised for \"endangering\" local people\".\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford, who is the MP for the island, told the Sunday Times the author's journey was unacceptable.\n\nHe said: \"What is it about people, when they know we are in the middle of lockdown that they think they can come here from the other side of the planet, in turn endangering local people from exposure to this infection that they could have picked up at any step of the way?\"\n\nKate Forbes, SNP MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch, also criticised the writer's actions.\n\nShe said: \"The remarkable thing is that he posted a blog post about his travel to Skye - evidently oblivious to local residents' concerns and outrage about people breaking lockdown and putting their community at risk.\n\n\"The Highlands does not exist for anybody's personal self-isolation needs.\"\n\nMr Gaiman - whose main family home is in Woodstock in the USA - has owned the house on Skye for more than 10 years.\n\nThe English-born author wrote on his blog that until two weeks ago he had been living in New Zealand with his wife, the singer Amanda Palmer, and their four-year-old son.\n\nHe said the couple agreed \"that we needed to give each other some space\".\n\nThe 59-year-old said he flew \"masked and gloved, from empty Auckland airport\" to Los Angeles.\n\nHe then caught a British Airways flight to London before borrowing a friend's car and heading for Skye.\n\n\"I drove north, on empty motorways and then on empty roads, and got in about midnight, and I've been here ever since,\" he said.\n\n\"I needed to be somewhere I could talk to people in the UK while they and I were awake, not just before breakfast and after dinner. And I needed to be somewhere I could continue to isolate easily.\n\n\"It's rough for almost everyone right now - some people are crammed together and wish they weren't, some are alone and crave companionship, pretty much all of us are hurting in one way or another. So be kind.\"\n\nMr Gaiman, whose best known works include American Gods, Good Omens and the children's novel Coraline, has described Skye as his favourite place in the world and the best place for him to write.", "Around 30,000 coronavirus tests a day could be needed if the Welsh NHS begins testing everyone with symptoms, a leaked report says.\n\nThe Welsh Government wants a system of surveillance to help ease Wales out of lockdown.\n\nBut a Public Health Wales plan has revealed the potential scale of the task ahead.\n\nPlaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth said the document contains \"as many questions as answers\".\n\n\"This is a draft overarching strategy and we are working with our partners this week on the detailed delivery plan,\" a Welsh Government spokesman said.\n\nMinisters want to track and trace infections as a way to ease the stay-at-home restrictions, and have said that a large increase in tests would be needed.\n\nA draft plan has been drawn up on how that could work - saying that as many as 94 teams across the country would be required with a total workforce of up-to 1,600.\n\nIt says if all \"symptomatic members of the population\" were to be tested, this would generate a demand of \"approximately 30,000 tests\" per day.\n\n\"Until effective coronavirus vaccines or drugs are available, testing will remain a powerful way to monitor and manage the pandemic,\" the report said.\n\nBut it adds that the \"global demand for testing resources during the Covid pandemic has put significant strain on traditional supply chains and there is continuing uncertainty about both availability and delivery timelines for equipment, reagents and test kits\".\n\nMinisters have discussed using apps to help trace the virus\n\nEarlier on Monday First Minister Mark Drakeford said the Welsh Government was considering using a experimental app, being trailed in the Isle of Wight, as part of the project.\n\nThe app would assist the process of contact tracing by using Bluetooth signals on smartphones.\n\nBut the process would also need people. The report says the contact tracing operation will be led by 94 teams spread across the country, with each team responsible for an area with a population of roughly 30,000.\n\nEach of the 94 teams will have between 15 to 17 members amounting to a total workforce of 1,400 to 1,600 full time employees on duty across the country seven days per week.\n\nPublic Health Wales will also provide a \"National Contact Centre\", which will provide extra support with the contact tracing effort via telephone.\n\nPlaid Cymru health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said: \"This outline document contains as many questions as answers.\n\n\"Worryingly, there is no clear commitment let alone a coherent strategy to drive transmission rates down to as close to zero as possible, in line with the 'disease elimination' strategy followed successfully by the likes of South Korea and New Zealand.\"\n\nAngela Burns, Welsh Conservative health spokeswoman, said: \"The Welsh Government scrapped their testing targets when they realised they couldn't hit them and are being coy with joining the UK's track and tracing app.\n\n\"How is Wales meant to be able to come out of the restrictions when there's this mammoth testing target the Welsh Government needs to hit.\"\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said the Welsh Government is looking at an experimental app\n\nThe report indicates many workers will come from councils and local health boards.\n\n\"A workforce of this size cannot be met from the health protection resources within Public Health Wales or Local Government,\" the document says.\n\n\"However, the nature of the patient identifiable information collected and distributed will mean that the resource will have to come from redeployment of existing public sector workers.\"\n\nIt suggests that non-specialist workers would be needed to free up resources in Environmental Health and Public Health Wales, allowing them to focus on more \"complex tasks and outbreaks\".\n\nThe report says the process of recruitment needs to start on Thursday.\n\nThe document, dated last Wednesday, said that the UK government's scientific advisory group SAGE believes the reproduction rate in Wales is 0.9.\n\nIt estimated that 60-70% of the population is complying with social distancing, estimating that by the end of May this year there will be around 1000 to 1,500 cases in Wales.\n\nUnder the contact system the plan estimates that each day, between 7,500 and 30,000 new contacts will be identified.\n\nAbout 105,000 and 400,000 cases at any one time could need to be tracked.\n\nThe challenge for the Welsh Government is huge. They may have to find the daily capacity for tens of thousands of tests from a base of just 2,100.\n\nThey have to do this at a time when the supply chains for the chemicals and equipment are under huge strain.\n\nThey also have to recruit staff to run a complex tracking and tracing system that is being set up in very short order.\n\nThe first minister has talked about the importance of Welsh citizens having confidence in the process of easing the Coronavirus restrictions.\n\nMaking this proposed new system work will be key to achieving that.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRyanair has said it expects passenger numbers to halve in the current financial year as the coronavirus crisis continues to blight air travel.\n\nThe airline said it expected numbers to fall below 80 million, down from its original target of 154 million.\n\nBut it said it would weather the pandemic and emerge stronger.\n\nChief executive Michael O'Leary said Ryanair still planned to ramp up flights in July and said UK government quarantine plans were \"idiotic\".\n\nThe prediction of lower passenger numbers came as Ryanair announced profits of just over €1bn (£894m) for the financial year to the end of March.\n\nThe airline's profit was 13% up on the previous year's figure of €885m.\n\nRyanair is set to cut 3,000 jobs - 15% of its workforce - as it restructures to cope with the coronavirus crisis.\n\nChief executive Michael O'Leary told the BBC's Today programme that Ryanair still intended to restart large numbers of flights from July, despite government plans to introduce a 14-day quarantine for people arriving in the UK, including returning holidaymakers.\n\nMr O'Leary repeated his criticism of the quarantine plan, saying: \"It's idiotic and it's un-implementable. You don't have enough police in the UK.\"\n\nHe said the policy had \"no credibility\" and predicted that it would be gone by June.\n\nRyanair said 2021 would be a \"difficult\" year as it worked hard to return to scheduled flying.\n\nBut it said its balance sheet was one of the strongest in the industry, with cash reserves of more than €4bn.\n\n\"Unlike many flag carrier competitors, Ryanair will not request or receive state aid,\" it added.\n\nRyanair said it could not provide any profit guidance for the current financial year, but it expected to report a loss of more than €200m in the April-to-June period.\n\n\"As we look beyond the next year, there will be significant opportunities for Ryanair's low-cost growth model as competitors shrink, fail or are acquired by government bailed-out carriers,\" it said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Frederick Barclay's nephew is allegedly seen handling a bugging device at London's Ritz hotel\n\nCCTV footage allegedly showing Sir Frederick Barclay's nephew handling a bugging device at London's Ritz hotel has been released.\n\nThe footage is at the centre of a bitter legal row between the families of the billionaire Barclay twins.\n\nSir Frederick, 85, and his daughter Amanda are suing three of Sir David Barclay's sons for invasion of privacy.\n\nThey claim the surveillance gave the men commercial advantage and they sold the Ritz for half its market value.\n\nThe Barclay brothers' businesses include the Telegraph Media Group, the online retailer Very Group, the delivery business Yodel, and - at the time of the bugging - the Ritz hotel in London.\n\nSir Frederick, the elder twin by 10 minutes, and his daughter Amanda are suing Sir David Barclay's sons - Alistair, Aidan and Howard, Aidan's son Andrew, and Philip Peters, a board director of the Barclay group for invasion of privacy, breach of confidence and data protection laws.\n\nThe claim stems from a falling out between the children of the famously private twins.\n\nSir David Barclay and his twin brother Sir Frederick collecting their knighthoods in 2000\n\nSubstantial parts of the brothers' empire are now owned by trusts in which their children are beneficiaries. That means Sir David's three sons exercise a controlling interest as compared with Sir Frederick's daughter Amanda.\n\nThe CCTV footage allegedly shows Alistair Barclay handling a bugging device at the Ritz hotel on 13 January this year. The recording shows Mr Barclay inserting a plug adaptor, which is claimed to contain a listening device, into a socket.\n\nIn court documents lodged by Sir Frederick and Amanda Barclay, it is claimed the bug - which was placed in the hotel's conservatory where Sir Frederick liked to conduct business meetings and smoke cigars - captured more than 1,000 separate conversations amounting to some 94 hours of recordings\n\nThe pair claim the recordings amount to \"commercial espionage on a vast scale\".\n\nLast week the high court declined to order the release of the footage to the media in part because \"the material is in the hands of the claimants, and available to them to provide to the media, if they so choose\".\n\nThe CCTV footage has now been released by Sir Frederick.\n\nIn a statement he said: \"The decision to release this video of this deliberate and premeditated invasion of my privacy is in the public interest.\n\n\"I do not want anyone else to go through the awful experience of having their personal and private conversations listened to by scores of strangers.\n\n\"It is surely in everyone's interests for the law to be changed to prevent people outside the authorities using sophisticated spying devices that have such an intrusive impact.\"\n\nSir Frederick's case documents allege that the defendants obtained knowledge of his \"conversations with Sidra Capital, which at the time had made an initial offer of some £1.3bn for the acquisition of the Ritz hotel\".\n\nCCTV footage from the Ritz is at the centre of a legal battle between the families of the Barclay brothers\n\n\"Despite this, the defendants sold the Ritz hotel to another buyer from Qatar at a price that appears to be half the market price. One is left to speculate why.\"\n\nThe hotel was sold by Sir David's side of the family in March to the Qatari businessman Abdulhadi Mana al-Hajri.\n\nSir Frederick had threatened legal action if the Ritz was sold for less than £1bn. The once inseparable brothers, who used to live together in a mock gothic castle on the Channel island of Brecqhou, purchased the five star hotel for £75m in 1995.\n\nShortly after Alistair Barclay, a former racing car driver, was caught on film handling the alleged bugging device, Amanda was removed as a director of the Ritz. On the same day, two of David's other sons, Aidan and Howard were made directors of the Ritz.\n\nIt is also claimed a separate Wi-Fi bug was supplied by private investigation firm Quest Global. Its chairman is former Metropolitan Police commissioner Lord Stevens.\n\nThe claimants' documents say that Quest invoiced for 405 hours of listening and transcribing.\n\nThe recordings, it is alleged, captured \"private, confidential, personal and Sir Frederick's privileged conversations with his lawyers, and with his daughter's trustees, bankers and businesspeople\".\n\nThe business conversations also touched on details of Sir Frederick's divorce and his granddaughter's special needs, the documents allege.\n\nAccording to the claimants' documents, the recordings took place \"when there were significant ongoing commercial disputes between the parties concerning - among other things - the sale of the Ritz hotel, the financial performance and management of the group, C2 (Amanda Barclay's) continuing financial interests in the group, and C1 (Sir Frederick's) divorce proceedings\".\n\nIt is said that the defendants were able to \"anticipate (Sir Frederick's) every move in advance, plan their business strategy around that… at this crucial time when their business and personal relationships had broken down, and the respective interests of the claimants and the defendants were in conflict\".\n\nLate last year, Sir David's side of the family tightened its hold on the Barclay empire. His sons Aidan and Howard were appointed as \"persons with significant control\" of Ellerman Holdings, the holding company for the Barclays' UK interests.\n\nAidan Barclay is also the chairman of Telegraph Media Group - publishers of the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph.\n\nEllerman holdings has previously said that it was focused on obtaining best value for its shareholders in relation to the sale of the Ritz.\n\nSir Frederick is described in the court documents as \"a man now left to contemplate his nephews' betrayal and a father who's witnessed the prejudicial treatment of his daughter\".\n\nHeather Rogers, the lawyer for the defendants, told the hearing on 6 May that Sir Frederick and Amanda's claims had been put in an \"eye-catching and emotive\" way.\n\nShe said: \"This is a dispute about family members and, from the defendants' point of view, it is unfortunate that they are being canvassed in public rather than resolved in the family.\"\n\nA defence to the action has yet to be filed and a trial will take place at a later date.\n• None Who are the Barclay brothers?\n• None Telegraph owners to put paper up for sale", "We've been asking you to nominate your lockdown heroes and Maria Walton, from Ilkley, has been in touch to tell us how Claudia Jayne Chesworth's workouts have motivated her.\n\nClaudia, 19, from Shropshire, came up with a 14-day workout for her family and friends to follow on facebook live.\n\nBut it proved so popular she's kept it up for the last six weeks and has up to 100 people joining in each day from as far afield as Australia and India.\n\n\"I had such great feedback that I decided to open it up to everyone,\" she said. \"We work as a team, everyone supporting each other and there's loads of positivity in the group.\"\n\nMaria said: \"I have been in isolation in Spain for two months under very strict conditions.\n\n\"Last week was my first time I was allowed out to walk or run for one hour so it’s been very hard mentally. It was too late for my daughters to travel to be with me.\n\n\"I started putting Claudia’s live on to motivate myself to do my workout. She has a natural power that when you really don’t want to do anything that day you just do it which I find extraordinary.\n\n\"She's shared this unique gift to help so many people feel happy and proud of their achievements through this very difficult time. I never want it to stop.\"", "Staff at Saint-Pierre Hospital in Brussels have turned their backs on Belgian Prime Minister Sophie Wilmès during an official visit.\n\nBelgium's government has been criticised for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic and the country's high mortality rate.\n\nThe PM has previously suggested that Belgium may be over-reporting the actual number of cases.", "An Afghan journalist and refugee locked down in one of Europe’s migrant camps has been investigating conditions there during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nEarly action by the Greek government has kept infection rates low, and there have been no deaths in the camps. But as Reza Adib reports, fear of the virus has had a profound effect.\n\nWatch: Viewers in the UK can see more on Coronavirus Crisis: Europe’s Migrant Camps on Panorama on BBC One on 18 May at 19:30, or later on the BBC iPlayer", "Tracking and tracing coronavirus cases in Wales is a \"mammoth\" task, the leader of the Welsh Local Government Association has said.\n\nAndrew Morgan said councils would need \"significant additional resources\" for the \"vital\" work.\n\nThe Welsh Government wants its \"Test, Trace, Protect\" programme (TTP) operational by the end of May.\n\nIt acknowledged this would require \"significant resources\" and said it was working with local authorities.\n\nTTP involves testing people who have symptoms and identifying others with whom they have been in close contact and asking them to self-isolate.\n\nThe government's lockdown exit plan made clear TTP's success was central to making the easing of lockdown measures possible.\n\nIt would involve increasing testing capacity for those in hospital, care homes and key workers to about 10,000 by the end of the month.\n\nA further 10,000 tests a day may be needed for the general public, mainly done by home-test kits.\n\nTesting capacity is currently about 5,000 a day and 1,421 tests were done on Thursday 14 May.\n\nThe government thinks some 1,000 staff would initially be needed, including people working for local authorities.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said a trial of the plan would begin in some parts of the country next week.\n\nAndrew Morgan: \"Mammoth work to manage the disease in local communities\"\n\nAndrew Morgan, who is also leader of Rhondda Cynon Taf council, said the Welsh Government's plan was \"ambitious and will require significant additional resources\" to be successfully delivered.\n\n\"Alongside specially-trained council public protection officers, and partners in health, other non-clinical staff will need to be either recruited or redeployed to support the mammoth work to manage the disease in local communities,\" he said.\n\n\"Welsh Government has recognised that this work will come at a cost, and councils will continue to work with ministers to explore the implications and the funding required.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Our Test, Trace, Protect strategy will require significant resources to deliver.\n\n\"We will be working closely with partners.\n\n\"Our approach will bring together and build on the existing contact tracing expertise of our local health boards and particularly our local authorities to delivery this strategy on the ground.\"\n\nOfficials also confirmed the Welsh Government would be working with Westminster to help \"increase testing capacity further by drawing on the UK-wide testing programme for the general public and critical workers\".\n\n\"In order to deliver our 'Test Trace Protect' strategy and ramp up contact tracing and testing to the general public, we now need to look at greater integration with UK-wide digital platforms and processing systems,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"Further detail on this will be announced next week.\"\n\nWelsh Secretary Simon Hart MP said it was \"welcome news\" and an \"important step\".\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.", "The Genette Tate case was one of the most high-profile police investigations of its time\n\nThe father of a schoolgirl who disappeared while delivering newspapers nearly 42 years ago has died.\n\nJohn Tate's 13-year-old daughter Genette went missing while riding her bike in a Devon village in August 1978.\n\nAlthough it was one of the most high-profile police investigations of its time, no body was ever found and no-one was charged with her murder.\n\nMr Tate, 77, spent more than half his life trying to discover what had happened to Genette.\n\nThe Tate family lived in Aylesbeare, near Exeter, at the time of her disappearance.\n\nIn the last years of his life, Mr Tate believed that serial child-killer Robert Black was likely to be behind his daughter's disappearance.\n\nBlack, who was serving a whole-life sentence after being convicted of killing four young girls, died in January 2016 before he could be charged by police in the Genette Tate case.\n\nNonetheless, four months later police submitted a murder file against Black, who was originally from Grangemouth in east Stirlingshire, to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).\n\nRobert Black always denied any involvement in Genette's disappearance\n\nAt the time, a senior Devon and Cornwall Police source told the BBC that the force hoped for a \"clear statement\" from the CPS over whether it would have charged Black with Genette's murder had he been alive.\n\n\"It's the closest we can now get to justice and might offer some comfort to her family and the community,\" the source said.\n\nThe CPS never provided such a statement, saying only that it would not make a decision on the file because Black was dead.\n\nMr Tate and Genette's mother Sheila Cook were also shown the 500-page police dossier and, after reading it, Mr Tate said: \"I am now convinced that Robert Black was the culprit.\n\n\"Black had committed the same sort of offences against young girls.\n\n\"They also knew he was in the immediate area driving a red van. The police believe they know the way he came in and out of Aylesbeare.\"\n\nRobert Black was convicted of murdering (clockwise from top left) Jennifer Cardy, Sarah Harper, Susan Maxwell and Caroline Hogg\n\nHowever, in his last main interview, in 2018, Mr Tate said he was not entirely certain of Black's guilt.\n\n\"My life is coming to an end. I dearly want to know where Ginny is. Just to know that she has been found and given a Christian burial would be enough.\n\n\"There is no closure. We will probably never have closure, especially now the only suspect is dead.\n\n\"I am not 100% sure Black did it. But if he didn't do it, it means there is another killer still on the loose.\n\n\"I suppose I just don't want to accept she is dead. But I need proof that Black killed her. If we could just find her body that would give me the proof I need.\"\n\nMr Tate, who died in hospital in Manchester last month, had suffered a major stroke that left him very weak and needing care. He was also diabetic and had prostate cancer.", "Prof Sian Griffiths OBE is also chair of Staffordshire University's Centre for Health and Development\n\nWales must work closely with other UK nations to secure enough resources to deal with coronavirus, an expert has said.\n\nProf Sian Griffiths, who helped lead Hong Kong's investigation into Sars, said UK nations needed to band together to compete in the global market for testing supplies.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would now consider \"greater integration\".\n\nA spokesman said it was working \"closely\" with the UK government.\n\nProf Griffiths, emeritus professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said it would probably be \"more sensible\" for a four-nations approach to securing items such as reagents - substances used in chemical analysis - and swabs.\n\n\"Otherwise, you've got little itty bits going in against much larger groups, such as the US.\n\n\"So working together is probably a more effective way of increasing the availability of reagents - and then the vaccine when it's ready.\"\n\nIn March, the Welsh Government said a deal for 5,000 extra daily coronavirus tests to be delivered by pharmaceutic giant Roche had collapsed, though the Swiss firm denied there had been an agreement.\n\nPublic Health Wales (PHW) later confirmed Wales was instead receiving 19% of Roche's UK allocation, or about 900 tests per day.\n\nWelsh ministers have subsequently been reluctant to set testing targets.\n\nSpeaking last week about the abandoned testing targets, First Minister Mark Drakeford implied efforts had been hampered by kit coming in from abroad.\n\nOfficial data suggests testing for coronavirus per head of population in Wales has fallen behind that in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nAs of 18 May, 16 people had been tested per 1,000 of the Welsh population, according to figures from PHW.\n\nThat is compared with about 27 per 1,000 of the population in the UK.\n\nProf Griffiths said she believed testing strategy in Wales and the rest of the UK was \"being driven by the resources and availability\".\n\nShe said the UK had been disadvantaged by its lack of a testing industry and that places in the far east, such as Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and China, have all done many more tests because of their previous experience of Sars.\n\n\"They know that the way to get through this is to be able to identify cases, track their contacts, put them in isolation and break the chain of transmission,\" she added.\n\nLast week, the Welsh Government published the outline of its test, track and trace strategy, which included an ambition to move testing capacity up to 10,000 by the end of the month.\n\nProf Gabriel Scally is a member of the independent Sage group, set up to shadow the scientific advisory group to the UK government\n\nThat will be a \"big challenge\", according to Prof Gabriel Scally, president of the epidemiology and public health section at the Royal Society of Medicine.\n\nHe said Wales started down this path \"months ago\" and \"we should be there by now really, or very close\".\n\n\"It is certainly achievable, notwithstanding all the difficulties of getting reagents or buying testing kits, re-purposing machinery and maybe getting new machinery,\" he said.\n\nHowever, Prof Scally said any increase in testing needed to be accompanied by contact tracing.\n\nOn Saturday, the Welsh Government announced it would be expanding testing to all care home residents and staff following criticism, while in England the Health Secretary Matt Hancock has pledged to test everyone at care homes by early June.\n\n\"My concern is more that we have a full system in place to test and trace every case,\" said Prof Scally.\n\n\"Without that, simply saying 'we're going to test everyone in a care home by June' is tokenistic.\n\n\"It may tell you the extent of infection within care homes, but what you then do with that information is more important.\"\n\nAs well as tests to find out if someone has coronavirus, countries are expected to soon need newly developed antibody tests, which can show if people have previously been infected.\n\nProf Griffiths said it was \"good news\" an antibody test was on the horizon, but Welsh authorities needed to ensure they could get enough of them.\n\n\"I don't know what negotiations are going on there, but that will be an important balance to this need to ramp up testing.\"\n\nTensions between the Welsh and UK governments have been apparent during the pandemic, particularly over the handling of the lockdown.\n\nOn Sunday, Labour leader Keir Starmer said different approaches across the four UK nations to tackling coronavirus were not going to \"help us out of this crisis\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would \"now need to look at greater integration with UK-wide digital platforms and processing systems\" to deliver its test, trace and track strategy.\n\nA spokesman added: \"We work closely with the UK government as part of the UK-wide response to this pandemic, including testing.\n\n\"Our test, trace, protect strategy outlines how we will increase testing capacity further by drawing on the UK-wide testing programme for the general public and critical workers.\"\n\nThe UK government has been asked to comment.", "Hurrah! Lockdown Freedom Beckons. That was the Daily Mail headline on Thursday, which Downing Street has poured cold water on ever since and may have been among the newspaper articles described as \"unhelpful\" by Nicola Sturgeon today.\n\nHowever, Jason Groves, the Mail's political editor, is sticking with his story, telling BBC Scotland he believes the 'stay at home' message is going to be \"scrapped\" by the UK government and replaced by a \"slightly more relaxed\" one.\n\nSocial distancing VE Day street parties were held in the UK on Friday Image caption: Social distancing VE Day street parties were held in the UK on Friday\n\nHe predicts that permitting sunbathing in parks and being allowed out more than once a day to exercise will be among the \"minor changes\" to lockdown measures announced by Boris Johnson on Sunday.\n\n\"Number 10 didn't like the headline,\" Groves admits. \"But the story doesn't say lockdown is over. Messaging is very difficult at the moment. They want to signpost that we are going to gradually come out of this.\"\n\nQuote Message: It's a question of emphasis. In terms of the substance, I don't think there's a huge amount of difference in what is being said in Scotland and Westminster.\" from Jason Groves Daily Mail Political Editor It's a question of emphasis. In terms of the substance, I don't think there's a huge amount of difference in what is being said in Scotland and Westminster.\"", "Thank you for your company today.\n\nWe have enjoyed seeing all of your photos and hearing about how you have celebrated the 75th anniversary of VE Day in lockdown.\n\nLet me leave you with an extract from this soundscape by the Imperial War Museum - called Voices of War - recounting the experiences of those who witnessed the event.\n\nPatricia Fitzgerald recalls: \"You suddenly thought everything is going to be beautiful tomorrow.\n\n\"It took an awfully long time actually but there was definitely a feeling of, a lifting you know, you could start to live again.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Friday morning. We'll have another update for you tomorrow.\n\nThe government is telling people to keep obeying lockdown rules this VE Day bank holiday, despite the forecast of sunny weather in some areas. It comes after newspaper reports earlier this week suggested some measures could be eased on Monday, and concerns were raised the public may be getting \"mixed messages\".\n\nAt the moment, only half of normal rail services have been running due to the lockdown, but there are now plans to increase services from 18 May. The BBC has heard from rail bosses and government sources that trains will be increased to about 70% of their normal timetable. The idea is to get railways ready for whenever lockdown restrictions are eased.\n\nMore than 60 organisations - including Iceland Foods, The Body Shop, Ben and Jerry's and the National Trust - are calling on Boris Johnson to prioritise a green economic recovery. They've suggested that industries \"without a proper climate plan\" should be excluded from any government help. Could coronavirus crisis spur a green recovery?\n\nIn Russia's capital Moscow, front-line medics have access to all the resources they need. But hospitals in the country's provinces - which are often old and ill-equipped - are suffering from PPE shortages and some medics say they are working without masks. The number of medical workers getting sick from coronavirus and dying is growing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Russian hospital staff say they are \"working without masks\"\n\nLast night it was the seventh time people across the UK stood at their doors and windows to applaud NHS staff and other key workers. Here's our round-up of the clap, including some bus drivers in Antrim, Northern Ireland, showing off their parking skills.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bagpipes, Boris Johnson and bus drivers: UK claps for carers for the seventh week\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page, and follow all the latest development via our live page.\n\nReality Check examine why more people from BAME backgrounds are dying from the virus.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played.", "A father has been charged with murdering his one-year-old daughter and three-year-old son.\n\nPavinya Nithiyakumar, aged 19 months, and Nigish Nithiyakumar were both found with stab wounds in Aldborough Road North in Ilford, east London, on 26 April.\n\nPavinya died at the scene and Nigish was taken to hospital, but died shortly after arriving.\n\nNadarajah Nithiyakumar, 40, has been charged with two counts of murder.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said he appeared in custody at Thames Magistrates' Court on Friday.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government had earlier announced special trains for migrants who need to return home from cities\n\nIndian officials have ordered an investigation after 16 people were run over by a freight train in the state of Maharashtra.\n\nThe dead were migrant workers who had fallen asleep on the tracks, while attempting to walk to a station, from where they were hoping to get a train home.\n\nIndia has organised special trains to take migrants to their home villages.\n\nTens of thousands of them fled cities on foot when India went into lockdown.\n\nIndia's migrant workforce comprises people who move to big cities from rural areas in search of better income prospects.\n\nRailway officials say the workers walked on the road towards Aurangabad, and later on railway tracks leading to Aurangabad.\n\nAfter walking for 22 miles (36km), they were exhausted and decided to rest.According to local reports, the workers assumed that trains would not be running because of the lockdown, and therefore slept on the tracks. Images on social media show pieces of roti (Indian bread) strewn near the tracks.\n\nWhen industries shut down overnight on 24 March, many of migrant workers feared they would starve and attempted to walk back to their home villages.\n\nMany had no choice but to walk, as bus and train services were halted overnight. Their plight had caused outrage within the country.\n\nWith the easing of restrictions earlier this month, the government announced that migrants would be able to return to their home states on special trains and buses.\n\nIndian prime minister Narendra Modi said he was \"extremely anguished by the loss of lives due to the fatal accident in Aurangabad, Maharashtra\".\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 Narendra Modi This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nicola Sturgeon says she must extend the lockdown in Scotland to stop a resurgence of the virus.\n\nBecause the rate of infection (the now famous R number) is still at or around one in Scotland, possibly slighter higher than in other parts of the UK, she says any easing of the current restrictions would be \"very very risky\" indeed.\n\nThis may not be the same message we hear from Boris Johnson on Sunday.\n\nThat means we could soon see different parts of the UK operating under different lockdown rules.\n\nAlready there has been some variation between the UK's four nations.\n\nThe Scottish government have advised everyone to wear a face covering in busy places where social distancing is not possible, like on public transport or in supermarkets.\n\nAll non essential building sites in Scotland have been closed but housebuilders have reopened sites in England.\n\nNicola Sturgeon announced school closures before the UK government. And it is very likely that Scottish schools will return to normal operations after those in England.\n\nDespite these differences UK politicians often talk about a \"four nations\" approach to dealing with coronavirus. They seem to agree it is desirable that the whole of UK operates under the same rules. But it's clear that if they can't agree on what those rules should be then some divergence is inevitable.\n\nNicola Sturgeon is obviously concerned that the prime minster may lift some lockdown restrictions earlier than she believes would be wise for Scotland\n\nThese decisions are, she says, quite literally a matter of life and death. So she will not be rushed or pressured into moving more quickly than she believes is safe.\n\nHer view is that if we are to maintain a UK-wide approach then all parts of the UK will have to agree to move at the pace of the slowest nation. If the prime minister wants to move faster he can do so for England but he can't make any of the other UK nations do the same.\n\nDespite her caution Nicola Sturgeon has already made public more details of how lockdown could eventually be lifted.\n\nThese include proposals for allowing more outdoor activities, allowing people to meet up with others from outside their households and getting the NHS back to normal operations, while simultaneously saying the rule for now remains \"Stay Home\".\n\nShe doesn't seem to be concerned that this sends mixed messages about what we are and are not allowed to do. But if the restrictions diverge significantly across the country it may become more confusing.", "Environment minister George Eustice urged people to abide by the current rules to stay home\n\nThe public has to be \"realistic\" about the easing of lockdown restrictions, the environment secretary has said.\n\nGeorge Eustice also urged the public to abide by the current coronavirus measures over the weekend, with the PM due to deliver an update on Sunday.\n\nGarden centres in England will be permitted to reopen from Wednesday, a senior government source has said.\n\nMr Eustice also announced a £16m fund to deliver millions of meals to those struggling during the pandemic.\n\nA further 626 coronavirus deaths were confirmed on Friday, taking the UK total to 31,241, including a six-week-old baby with an underlying health condition.\n\nAsked by the BBC's Ben Wright about whether Boris Johnson would ease restrictions in line with an announcement from Wales, Mr Eustice said there would be \"no dramatic overnight change\" and the government would be \"very, very cautious as we loosen the restrictions we have\".\n\nSpeaking at the No 10 daily briefing, he reiterated that the \"stay at home\" message remained in place over the \"sunny bank holiday weekend\".\n\nHe also said that while each of the devolved nations might take slightly different approaches, they were working together \"to try to have a broadly similar UK approach\".\n\nWales will allow people exercise more than once a day and Scotland is considering similar measures\n\nMeanwhile, UK airlines have said the government is set to impose a 14-day travel quarantine on arrivals from any country apart from the Republic of Ireland, a move which is expected to take effect at the end of the month.\n\nPeople arriving in the country would have to self-isolate at a private residence and it is not clear how long the measure may be put in place.\n\nEarlier, it was confirmed that garden centres in Wales would be able to reopen from Monday and the government has now confirmed similar plans for England.\n\nSocial-distancing measures will have to be obeyed but a senior government source said they were \"typically open large open-air spaces where the risk of transmission of coronavirus is lower\".\n\nAny cafes or playgrounds associated with the retail space will have to remain closed, it is understood.\n\nAt the government's daily briefing, Mr Eustice said the government was considering changing the restrictions on funerals but said he did not want to prejudge what Mr Johnson would say on Sunday evening.\n\n\"People want the opportunity to pay their last respects - obviously we have to be very conscious of large social gatherings but it is something we are giving consideration to,\" he said.\n\nCurrently lockdown measures allow members of the deceased's household and close family members or friends, to be present at a funeral, alongside the funeral staff and chapel attendant.\n\nThe environment secretary also said it was safe for takeaway food shops to reopen, adding that McDonald's drive-thru restaurants were \"made for social distancing\".\n\nMany high street chains including McDonald's, Greggs and KFC chose to shut their doors during the lockdown - although some have begun the process of reopening.\n\n\"I think it is quite possible for these venues to reopen and reopen safely, we never mandated that they should close,\" he added.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have the power to make their own decisions on lockdown regulations - and could lift restrictions at a different rate.\n\nEarlier, Wales First Minister Mark Drakeford said he wanted the nation to move in step with the rest of the UK when he announced the changes to its lockdown, which included allowing garden centres and libraries to reopen as well as letting people exercise outside more often.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Friday the only change she was considering in the immediate term was on the limits to outdoor exercise.\n\nMs Sturgeon said there had been a \"helpful recognition\" from the prime minister that the four UK nations \"may well move at different speeds if our data about the spread of the virus says that that is necessary to suppress it\".\n\nArlene Foster, Northern Ireland's First Minister, said there would only be \"nuanced changes\" to measures in the region.\n\nThe government announced 97,029 tests had been delivered in the 24 hours to 09:00 BST on Friday, just shy of the 100,000 target Health Secretary Matt Hancock set for the end of April.\n\nThat aim was achieved on 30 April and 1 May but has not been reached since.\n\nWhen asked why in some cases it was taking up to 10 days for people to get their test results back, Mr Eustice said there would be daily fluctuations in availability of tests in any given area.\n\n\"You will get some days of surplus tests where people haven't come forward to take them in some areas, and you will have other areas where you don't have quite enough capacity for that local demand,\" he said.\n\nThe prime minister has set a target of increasing testing capacity to 200,000 by the end of May.\n\nAsked whether the R rate - the rate at which the virus spreads - had to remain universally low before lockdown could be lifted, Prof Stephen Powis, national medical director of NHS England, said it would vary from place to place but \"the important thing is that as a whole it stays below one\".\n\nThe R rate is the number of people that one infected person will pass the virus on to on average.\n\nProf Powis also told the briefing that data would be published on the deaths of those with learning disabilities and autism who had tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nHe said: \"We're looking at how we can report on those groups and I'll commit that from next week we will be publishing data on learning disabilities, autism and mental health patients who died in acute hospitals, and we'll do that on an ongoing basis.\"\n\nMr Eustice announced more support for vulnerable people, saying millions of meals would be delivered over the next 12 weeks to help during \"this enormously challenging time\".\n\nAt least 5,000 frontline charities across England will benefit from the £16m fund which comes from the £750m pot announced for charities by Chancellor Rishi Sunak on 8 April.\n\n\"These are extraordinary times but I think that £750m is very welcome and it's helped a lot of charities with the additional burdens that they have as a result of the coronavirus,\" Mr Eustice added.", "As coronavirus spreads more widely in Russia’s provinces, hospitals - often old and ill-equipped - have become infection \"hot spots\". The number of medical workers getting sick, and dying, is growing.\n\nPresident Putin admitted that there was a shortage of PPE and ordered an increase in production. But even now, many Russian healthcare staff are scared to complain publicly about having to work without proper protection.", "The masks were destined for the NHS and care home staff\n\nThieves have stolen 80,000 face masks which were destined for the NHS and front-line workers.\n\nThe £166,000 worth of personal protective equipment (PPE) was taken when three people broke into a warehouse in Salford on Wednesday.\n\nDet Insp Chris Mannion, from Greater Manchester Police, said it was a \"particularly sickening crime\".\n\nThe masks were to be supplied to the NHS, along with councils and care homes, in West Yorkshire.\n\nDet Insp Chris Mannion said the thefts were shocking\n\nThe high-quality n95 respirator masks were taken from the warehouse of a medical supplies firm at the Trafalgar Business Park overnight.\n\nThe gang spent about two hours at the premises, first cutting a hole in the warehouse steel shutters so as not to trigger burglar alarms by lifting up the door.\n\nThey then removed 320 boxes, or 10 pallets' worth, of the masks.\n\nOther medical equipment, including cheaper quality masks also housed at the site, were left untouched.\n\nPolice want to trace three offenders - two men and a third person, possibly a woman, who were all wearing dark clothing - who made off with the haul in three vehicles, a white Mercedes Sprinter van, a grey Volkswagen Caddy van and a grey silver estate vehicle.\n\nDetectives believe they were at the site between 21:30 BST on Wednesday and 00:20 on Thursday, when the alarm was raised by a security guard.\n\n\"It is shocking there are people prepared to steal the equipment which protects vulnerable people and front-line workers,\" Det Insp Mannion said.\n\n\"This is a particularly sickening crime when you consider that the PPE was intended for the NHS and for care home workers and at a time when we are trying to protect the NHS and one another against one common enemy in Covid-19.\n\n\"Clearly there's an open market there and there's any number of ways that these people can sell on the goods stolen from here.\"", "Two rescued from the cliff ledge had suffered cuts and scrapes\n\nThree people who travelled from Berkshire to the Dorset coast for a day out sparked a major rescue operation after getting cut off by the tide.\n\nLifeboats, a helicopter, ambulance and police were involved in the rescue of two of them from cliffs at Old Harry Rocks near Swanage on Thursday evening.\n\nThe third person had swum to Studland Bay to raise the alarm.\n\nSwanage Coastguard said the apparent breach of lockdown restrictions was being dealt with by Dorset Police.\n\nThe coastguard report said the three had travelled from Slough and walked from Studland to the famous rock formation when they got cut off by the tide and ended up in the sea.\n\nA call was made to emergency services at about 19:45 BST.\n\nSwanage RNLI said the two rescued from the cliff ledge had suffered cuts and scrapes and all three were checked over by paramedics after spending some time in the water.\n\n\"To help protect the public and our volunteers, we urge people to take care at the coast and follow government guidelines to travel and exercise close to home,\" an RNLI spokesman said.\n\nA Dorset Police spokesman said the three men were reported for \"a breach of COVID-19 regulations \".\n\nA third person had swum to Studland Bay to raise the alarm\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Passengers travelling through some UK airports are being told to cover their faces and wear gloves due to Covid-19.\n\nThe new rules will apply to those travelling through Manchester, Stansted and East Midlands airports from Thursday.\n\nManchester Airports Group (MAG), which owns the sites, said the measure will show \"one way in which air travel can be made safe\".\n\nThe announcement comes as the aviation sector struggles with coronavirus.\n\nThe three airports are believed to be the first in the UK to introduce such strict hygiene rules.\n\nThose passing through the airport will be given face coverings or masks as well as gloves during the initial stages of the trial. All airport staff serving passengers will also be required to wear the items.\n\nMAG boss Charlie Cornish said: \"It's clear that social distancing will not work on any form of public transport. But we're confident that when the time is right, people will be able to travel safely. We now need to work urgently with government to agree how we operate in the future.\"\n\nHe added: \"This has to be a top priority so that people can be confident about flying, and to get tourism and travel going again.\"\n\nTemperature screening trials will also be conducted at Stansted over the next few weeks to test equipment. It follows the boss of Heathrow airport confirming on Wednesday that it is trialling large-scale temperature checks.\n\nChief executive John Holland-Kaye said they are already being carried out at departure gates on people going to places where this is a requirement.\n\nHe also urged the government to produce a plan on what common standards UK airports should adopt, so that the aviation sector could \"get started again\".\n\nMany airlines have been struggling as the coronavirus pandemic has brought global travel to a virtual standstill.\n\nOn Thursday, British Airways owner IAG has said it is hoping for a \"meaningful return\" of flights in July at the earliest if lockdown measures are relaxed.\n\nHowever, IAG - which also owns Iberia and Aer Lingus - said these plans were \"highly uncertain\", and were subject to various travel restrictions.\n\nIAG said it did not expect passenger demand, which has been hit by the pandemic, to recover before 2023.\n\n\"We will adapt our operating procedures to ensure our customers and our people are properly protected in this new environment,\" chief executive Willie Walsh said.\n\nThe group said that even if flights resumed in the summer it expected that passenger capacity would still only be half the usual level in 2020.\n\nSince late March, capacity has fallen by 94%, with most of the group's aircraft grounded.\n\nThe announcement came as IAG reported losses after tax hit €1.68bn (£1.47bn) during the first three months of the year, which included a €1.3bn charge for fuel hedges.\n\nMany airlines are struggling during the pandemic\n\nIAG also reported an operating loss of €535m (£466.6m) for the quarter, down from a €135m profit in 2019.\n\nThe group added that it expected the second quarter to be \"significantly worse\".\n\nIn an attempt to shore up cash during the coronavirus crisis, IAG said that it expected to defer deliveries of 68 aircraft.\n\nAlthough IAG is planning for a resumption of some services, it says it will still need to let go of many staff.\n\nLast month, BA said it was set to cut up to 12,000 jobs from its 42,000-strong workforce. It also told staff that its Gatwick airport operation might not reopen after the pandemic passes.\n\nIAG chief executive Willie Walsh will delay his retirement until September\n\nIAG chief executive Willie Walsh had been due to retire in March, but will stay on until September \"to focus on the immediate response to the crisis\".\n\nLuis Gallego, head of the group's Spanish division, Iberia, since 2014, will succeed him.\n\nOn Wednesday, other aviation bosses called for additional support for the sector from the UK government.\n\nSpeaking to MPs on the Transport Select Committee, Heathrow Airport chief executive John Holland-Kaye argued that the French, German and US governments had provided large, bespoke rescue packages for their aviation industries as they saw them as \"fundamental\", and suggested that was not the case in the UK.\n\nAir France KLM, for example, won a €7bn loan package from the French government in April.\n\nHowever, IAG's competitor has reported that it made a loss in its day-to-day business of €815m in the three months of the year due to travel grinding to a halt.\n\nSeveral other firms posted trading updates on Thursday which detailed how they had been affected by the coronavirus pandemic.", "A woman was stunned to discover orders her brother-in-law received telling him of Germany's surrender on VE Day in 1945.\n\nLester Saul was a Merchant Navy master mariner honoured for bravery during the Atlantic convoys.\n\nShirley Ballard, 84, of Cardiff, was going through papers left by her late sister Grace when she made the find.\n\nThey were in Morse code and sent on 8 May 1945.\n\nThe message read: \"Germany has surrendered unconditionally. Cease fire has been ordered from 22:01 GMT 8th May. Repeat 22:01 GMT 8th May.\n\n\"Pending further orders all existing instructions regarding the defence, security and control of merchant shipping are to remain in force.\n\n\"Ships at sea, whether in convoy or sailing independently are to continue their voyage as previously ordered.\n\nMaster Saul was also told U-boats were \"apparently complying\" with orders to remain on the surface displaying a black flag or navigation lights.\n\nHe was advised to give them a \"wide berth\" and report their position, speed and course by radio.\n\nA retired secretary was stunned to discover orders her brother-in-law received telling him of Germany's surrender Image caption: A retired secretary was stunned to discover orders her brother-in-law received telling him of Germany's surrender", "The NHS is running an awareness campaign to promote the app\n\nThe NHS has released the source code behind its coronavirus contact-tracing app.\n\nMore than 40,000 people have installed the smartphone software so far.\n\nThe health service is targeting the Isle of Wight only, at this stage, but it says this is the first stage of the app's rollout - not a test.\n\nTests carried out on behalf of BBC News confirm the developers have found a way to work round restrictions Apple places on the use of Bluetooth in iPhones.\n\nIn a related development, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced that Baroness Dido Harding will head up the wider test, track and trace programme.\n\nThe appointment has surprised some given that when she was chief executive of TalkTalk, the internet provider suffered a major data breach and failed to properly notify affected customers.\n\nThe NHS Covid-19 app is designed to use people's smartphones to keep track of when they come close to each other and for how long, by sending wireless Bluetooth signals.\n\nAbout a third of over-16s living on the Isle of Wight have downloaded the NHS Covid-19 app so far\n\nIf one of them falls ill, they can anonymously trigger an upload of the records so alerts can be cascaded to others they might have infected, asking them to self-isolate, if deemed necessary, potentially before they have any symptoms but are still highly contagious.\n\nAlong with other measures, including manual contact tracing, this may allow lockdown measures to be eased without causing another spike in cases.\n\nNHSX, the health service's digital innovation unit, has opted for a centralised system to power the app, so the contact-matching process happens on a UK-based computer server rather than individuals' smartphones.\n\nAnd there has been a lot of speculation this decision would mean the app was doomed to work badly on iPhones.\n\nApple limits the extent to which third-party apps can use Bluetooth when they are off-screen and running in the background, although it has promised to relax this rule for contact-tracing apps that use a decentralised system it is co-developing with Google.\n\nAnd Singapore and Australia have signalled they will switch from centralised to decentralised apps, for that reason.\n\nBut NHSX had said it had come up with its own solution.\n\nAnd preliminary tests by a cyber-security company suggest it has succeeded.\n\nPen Test Partners installed the app on a handful of \"jailbroken\" iPhones - altered to allow them to monitor activity normally hidden from users.\n\nA cyber-security team analysed when Bluetooth \"handshakes\" were made between the devices it tested\n\n\"When first placed in proximity to each other, the phones would start to 'beacon' over Bluetooth at either eight- or 16-second intervals,\" co-founder Ken Munro said.\n\n\"Others had expressed concern about the app not being effective when 'backgrounded'.\n\n\"Our tests showed that this did not appear to affect the beaconing, whether the phones had encountered each other for the first time or subsequently been physically moved out and then back into range.\"\n\nA second company, Reincubate, found the app would sometimes \"go quiet\" when run undisturbed in the background for more than 90 minutes but suggested this should not be too big an issue in real-world conditions.\n\n\"A number of reasonable factors can trigger this window being extended, including other use of Bluetooth, the presence of Android devices and the effectiveness of notifications [asking the user to reopen the app],\" it blogged.\n\n\"In our tests, the iOS devices we've run the app on have continued to keep the background service running overnight.\"\n\nThere will be further scrutiny of the app now the source code has been published to Github, allowing others to see how the workarounds were achieved.\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\nEarlier this week, the Joint Human Rights Committee heard evidence that despite the app anonymising users' identities, they could in theory be re-identified, which might allow the authorities - or even hackers - to reveal people's social circles for other purposes.\n\nAnd the committee said a new watchdog should be created to oversee use of the app and the measures taken to keep the data safe.\n\nHarriet Harman, who chairs the committee, said: \"Assurances from ministers about privacy are not enough.\n\n\"There must be robust legal protection for individuals about what that data will be used for, who will have access to it, and how it will be safeguarded from hacking.\"\n\nCritics say a decentralised approach - where contact-matching happens on handsets - would better protect users' privacy.\n\nAnd BBC News has been told members of an ethics group advising NHSX on the app are calling for it to better explain the advantages of a centralised system.\n\nOxford University's Prof Christophe Fraser has been advising NHSX and other health authorities on their contact-tracing apps\n\nProf Christophe Fraser- an epidemiologist advising NHSX - told BBC News the two main benefits were:\n\nBut he added talks were continuing with Apple and Google.\n\nAnd analysis of how the app was being used in the Isle of Wight would inform decisions on how best to proceed.\n\n\"There's been a lot of discussion of privacy, and rightly so,\" he said.\n\n\"But there is also your ability to save lives.\n\n\"And there is the ability not to be quarantining millions of people.\n\n\"Figuring out how we can find the optimal system that trades off these different requirements is a bit of an open question at this stage.\"", "The Nigerian-British musician died on Thursday after contracting pneumonia while recovering from coronavirus.\n\nTy was known for a witty, mature style that owed more to the old-school US rappers than the grittier street sounds of London.\n\nIn 2004, Ty's second album, Upwards, was nominated for the Mercury Prize alongside Amy Winehouse, The Streets and eventual winners Franz Ferdinand.\n\nTy contracted coronavirus earlier this year, and a fundraising page set up in April said he had been \"put in a medically induced coma to temporarily sedate to help his body receive the appropriate treatment\".\n\nHe later left intensive care after his condition seemingly improved - but on Thursday, his press team confirmed he had died.\n\nWriting on the fundraising page, Ty's friend Diane Laidlaw confirmed he had contracted pneumonia while recovering from coronavirus.\n\n\"Ty's condition had been improving but last week while on a normal ward he had contracted pneumonia which worsened his recovery and ultimately Ty's body couldn't fight back anymore,\" she wrote.\n\nHis death was mourned by stars including Ghetts and Roots Manuva.\n\nDJ Charlie Sloth called him \"a friend, a role model and a true foundation to UK rap\".\n\n\"This brother here was truly a good person. Sad to see you ascend from this realm so soon,\" wrote Posdnuos, from US rap trio De La Soul, who appeared on Ty's third album, Closer, in 2006.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Big Dada This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nBorn Ben Chijioke in London in 1972, he grew up with his sister in a strict household where he was expected to become a doctor or a lawyer.\n\nBut he fell in love with hip-hop and decided to pursue a career as an MC.\n\n\"They didn't take to it very well at all,\" he told the Independent in 2008. \"I knew that it was going to happen, but I just continued to do what I did - they just made me do it in secret.\"\n\nAfter finding a job as a sound engineer, he started recording in the mid-90s, appearing on tracks produced by IG Culture's New Sector Movement and DJ Pogo, as well as hosting a hip-hop night called Lyrical Lounge.\n\nHe released his debut album Awkward in 2001, but it was Upwards - with its mixture of Afro-funk, Jamaican dub, Latin shuffles and dextrous wordplay - that brought him to mainstream attention.\n\nThe album showcased his relaxed, storytelling style, whether he was talking about relationship problems on Wait A Minute, or the more serious dilemma of gun crime on Rain.\n\nHe went on to record three further solo albums, the most recent being A Work of Heart in 2018, and collaborated with dozens of artists from afro-beat drummer Tony Allen to Soweto Kinch and US hip-hop outfit Arrested Development.\n\nRapper Ghetts was among the rappers paying tribute, writing on Instagram: \"RIP TY. This ones deep I had a lot of respect for.\n\nHe added that Ty was \"one of the first from the older generation to embrace me and show me love\".\n\nRoots Manuva simply wrote: \"Rest my Brother. You did good\".\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 GHETTS This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City and England defender Kyle Walker says he feels he is \"being harassed\" after it was reported he had broken social distancing rules again.\n\nWalker, 29, confirmed he went to Sheffield to see his sister on Wednesday to give her a birthday present and hugged her.\n\nHe then admitted he travelled to his parent's house to \"pick up some home-cooked meals\".\n\nCity will not take any disciplinary action against Walker.\n\nThe Premier League club feel there were some personal circumstances surrounding his trip which provide important context.\n\nThe player is already facing disciplinary action from City for a lockdown breach in early April.\n\nWalker was reported to have hosted a party involving two sex workers and City said the right-back's actions had \"directly contravened\" his responsibility as a role model.\n\nThe defender apologised and urged people to \"stay home, stay safe\" during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOn Thursday, the Sun reported Walker broke lockdown three times in 24 hours this week with visits to his sister, his parents and a cycle ride with a friend.\n\nWalker responded in the early hours of Friday with a social media post explaining his actions. He said the reports were affecting his and his family's mental health, adding: \"At what stage do my feelings get taken into consideration?\"\n\nThe government has put social distancing restrictions in place to combat coronavirus. According to the latest figures, 30,615 people in the UK have died with coronavirus in hospitals, care homes and the wider community.\n\n\"I have recently gone through one of the toughest periods of my life, which I take full responsibility for,\" Walker said.\n\n\"However, I now feel as though I am being harassed. This is no longer solely affecting me, but affecting the health of my family and my young children too.\"\n\nHe added: \"At a time when the focus is understandably on Covid-19, at what point does mental health get taken into consideration?\n\n\"I am a human being, with feelings of pain and upset like everybody else. Being in the public eye does not make you immune to this.\n\n\"It is sad, but I feel as though my life is being scrutinised without any context.\n\n\"I understand if people are upset or angry with me, but it was important for people to have a better understanding of my life.\"\n• None Everton striker Moise Kean is set to be disciplined by the club after being filmed at a house party.\n• None Aston Villa captain Jack Grealish was pictured at the scene of a car crash, after going to \"see a friend\". He apologised and said he was \"deeply embarrassed\".\n• None Tottenham's Serge Aurier and Moussa Sissoko apologised for training together despite the coronavirus restrictions.\n• None Spurs manager Jose Mourinho \"accepted his actions were not in line with protocol\" after being pictured holding a one-on-one training session in a park with midfielder Tanguy Ndombele.\n• None Arsenal spoke to all their players after Alexandre Lacazette, David Luiz, Nicolas Pepe and Granit Xhaka were pictured breaking social distancing guidelines.\n• None Chelsea midfielder Mason Mount was pictured having a kickabout with West Ham's Declan Rice despite team-mate Callum Hudson-Odoi testing positive for coronavirus and Mount being told to self-isolate for 14 days.", "Seventy-five years ago, villages, towns and cities across the UK resonated to the cheers of people out on the streets, celebrating what became known as Victory in Europe (VE) day.\n\nOn Friday, the marking of this historic moment will be somewhat more subdued.\n\nThe coronavirus lockdown has put paid to plans for mass gatherings and big public celebrations.\n\nOrganisers have had to think fast on their feet about what to do instead to celebrate that momentous day.\n\nJenny Haslett is manager of Belfast's War Memorial Museum and has been involved in putting some of the VE Day events together.\n\n\"We had a concert planned for St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast with singer Peter Corry and we had to cancel that.\n\n\"We had street parties and family gatherings set up but due to the lockdown we had to very quickly get our heads around the fact that it wasn't going to happen.\n\n\"Then we had to think what could we still do for our audiences while working from home?\"\n\nThe museum, which is located in the shadow of St Anne's in the Cathedral Quarter, has an array of war-time memorabilia and child-friendly hands-on displays in its premises.\n\nBut they will remain untouched by curious hands for now.\n\nIn the meantime, the museum staff have been focusing their energies on creating more free learning resources online for young people to help teach them what VE Day was like 75 years ago.\n\nSimilarities will also be drawn with the situation now during the pandemic and what it was like back then.\n\nAs Jenny prepares to don her apron for an online \"wartime cookery class\" she explains the need to get through to people, young and old, during this period of lockdown.\n\n\"I'm going to show them how to make carrot biscuits just like they did during the war when these were a bit of a treat.\n\n\"We are trying to get the children to engage with the celebrations but in the safety of their own homes by teaching them how to make VE Day decorations and explaining wartime recipes.\"\n\nBut while the children can have fun flinging flour around their parent's kitchens there is something for the older generation too.\n\n\"People can access all of this through our website by clicking on the learning tab. You can also get through on Facebook and YouTube,\" says Jenny.\n\n\"We are also compiling a CD which is dementia friendly and combines music with memories for those people in care homes.\"\n\nChris Wilson, who lives outside Limavady, was a schoolboy when victory in Europe was declared.\n\nHe remembers that day well and was looking forward to the celebrations tomorrow. He feels it is a shame they had to be scaled back.\n\n\"I think it's sad the effect lockdown is having on this particular day but the great thing about the war years was, to use a great Ulster expression, we mucked in.\n\n\"No matter who we were, we all helped one another and that's what is happening today.\n\nHarry McMullan broadcasts for the BBC in Belfast on VE Day, 75 years ago\n\n\"There is a great movement throughout the country of people helping people. And that is what happened during World War Two.\"\n\nJenny is keen to stress that the day will still be marked with a minutes silence at 11:00 BST and a \"raise a glass\" moment at 15:00 the time when Prime Minister Winston Churchill made his famous speech to the nation.\n\nGiven the extraordinary times we are currently living through, thoughts will inevitably turn to the heroes of the NHS.\n\nA photograph from the Northern Whig newspaper of people celebrating in Northern Ireland\n\n\"There are so many similarities there with nurses and doctors working through World War Two and the doctors and nursing staff working today,\" Ms Haslett says.\n\n\"I think this is a time to thank the heroes of today and the heroes of 75 years ago,\" she adds.", "Athletes will be hoping to compete in the Tokyo Paralympics next year Image caption: Athletes will be hoping to compete in the Tokyo Paralympics next year\n\nDisability sport will have a important part to play in building a \"new normal\" when the coronavirus crisis eases, says the head of the International Paralympic Committee.\n\nThe Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games was postponed until 2021 because of the pandemic, although IPC president Andrew Parsons insists it will not threaten the sport's future.\n\n\"We are looking at the positives, what the new world will be when it comes to inclusion and diversity,\" Parsons told BBC Sport.\n\n\"We don’t want to go back to normal, normal has failed. We want to build a new normal.\n\n\"We need a world that is built by all, for all, and I think the Paralympics will have a very strong message here.\"\n\nParsons also says there is \"a need for more discussion\" about the impact of Covid-19 on people with impairment and disability, adding the IPC is lobbying national governments to discuss the issue more.", "Young men are more likely than young women to break lockdown rules, psychologists suggest.\n\nA team from the University of Sheffield and Ulster University questioned just under 2,000 13-24 year olds.\n\nHalf of the men aged 19-24 had met friends or family members they did not live with during lockdown, compared to 25% of women.\n\nThe researchers called on the government to better target messages for young people.\n\nJust under half of all those questioned - 917 young people - said they were feeling significantly more anxious during the lockdown - particularly if they had a parent who was a key worker.\n\nThose with depression were more likely to flout lockdown rules by meeting up with friends and leaving the house unnecessarily; while those with anxiety were more likely to practise social distancing and regularly wash their hands.\n\nDr Liat Levita from the University of Sheffield says mental health is no justification for not following the rules, but it might help us understand why it's difficult for certain people to comply.\n\n\"The more someone is depressed, the less compliant and de-motivated they are.\n\n\"So if you need to hand-wash more often and need to make an effort in following the guidelines, it's not something that you're actually going to be able to do very well.\"\n\nProfessor of Clinical Psychology and Rehabilitation from Kings College London, Prof Dame Til Wykes says feeling anxious is pretty normal with so much uncertainty and a loss of social support.\n\n\"The crucial questions are how long this lasts and what support young people need.\n\n\"This [situation] can have a serious impact on those with pre-existing mental health problems and some will certainly need some formal psychological treatment.\"\n\nDr Levita agrees it's important we don't wait to help young people with their mental health during the coronavirus crisis.\n\n\"If you have a broken leg, you don't wait two months before you go to the hospital to get it fixed.\"\n\nThis research found 150 out of 281 men aged 19-24 had met with a group of friends during lockdown, while a fifth had been reprimanded by police - either dispersed, fined or arrested as a result of breaking the rules\n\nThis male group was also more likely to think they weren't at risk of catching Covid-19 or spreading it to others, and that following the government's guidelines was not worthwhile.\n\nDr Levita says \"we know that males in general take more risks and evolutionary psychologists have always explained that in terms of males trying to show off.\n\n\"They will take more risks and their decision-making processes are shaped by that so their behaviour actually makes sense to them.\"\n\nThe findings come after recent statistics from the National Police Chief's Council that found a third of those fined by police for breaking lockdown rules were aged 18-24 and eight out of 10 were men.\n\nAcross all ages, the study showed the majority were not complying with basic hygiene recommendations such as washing hands regularly, but most said they intended to follow the guidelines in future weeks.\n\nThe psychologists say the government must do more to explain the reasons for ongoing physical distancing to help young people understand lockdown rules.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care has highlighted the government's campaign urging people to stay at home and the advice ministers give at the daily press briefing.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People in lockdown are more worried about their mental wellbeing than their general health, an Office for National Statistics survey suggests.\n\nJust under two-thirds of 16- to 69-year-olds surveyed were most affected by boredom, stress and anxiety, and the inability to make plans.\n\nAnd those aged over 70 were even less likely (6%) than the under-70s (13%) to say their overall health was affected.\n\nMost of the under-70s did worry about their loved ones' health.\n\nBut, in general, those surveyed were considerably more worried about their friends and family's mental wellbeing.\n\nAnd the over-70's were much more likely to be worried about their family's work (62%) being affected than their health (27%).\n\nTheir own access to groceries, medication and other essentials was another major worry for the over-70s.\n\nBut the under-70s were more concerned about the impact on their work.\n\nJust under three-quarters of all the people surveyed said the pandemic had reduced their household income.\n\nJust over a third said they were using savings to cover their living costs.\n\nAnd when asked how the pandemic was affecting their own wellbeing, more people expressed concern about the future than other, more immediate, worries such as being alone, strain on personal relationships or challenges working from home.\n\nMore than 85% said they had enough information to protect themselves from the virus.\n\nBut only about half said they had enough information about the UK government's plan for dealing with it.\n\nAlthough there were high levels of support for and compliance with lockdown measures, only 24% of those self-isolating for the past seven days had not left their home for the whole period.\n\nThe survey, conducted among households in England and Wales, excluded people staying in hospitals, care homes or other residential facilities.\n\nThe results were weighted to reflect the make-up of the population of Britain, including the proportions of key workers and people with health conditions.\n\nThe proportion of adults with high levels of anxiety fell from a high of 50% at the end of March to 37% between 17 and 27 April.\n\nBut a separate survey, by University College London, suggests it has risen again in the past week.\n\n\"Life-satisfaction ratings had been returning to pre-Covid-19 levels but this improvement has now halted,\" it says, linking this to the uncertainty created by speculation around exiting lockdown.\n\nOne in 12 of the 80,000 people surveyed by UCL was worried about their future and twice as many about their finances.\n\nAnd these figures were even higher among those under the age of 60, with lower household incomes or a mental-health diagnosis.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We are still a nation those brave soldiers, sailors and airmen would recognise and admire\"\n\nThe Queen has given a poignant address to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, praising Britain's response to the coronavirus epidemic that has filled empty streets with \"love\".\n\nIn the broadcast, she said: \"Today it may seem hard that we cannot mark this special anniversary as we would wish.\n\n\"Instead we remember from our homes and from our doorsteps.\"\n\nIt aired exactly 75 years on from her father King George VI's address at the end of the Second World War in Europe.\n\nThanking the wartime generation, the Queen, 94, said: \"They risked all so our families and neighbourhoods could be safe.\"\n\n\"We should and will remember them.\"\n\nVictory in Europe (VE) Day marks the day in 1945 when Britain and its allies accepted the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany, bringing the war in Europe to an end.\n\nThis year's celebration has been limited due to the lockdown conditions in place across Europe because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nDespite this, the Queen said, \"our streets are not empty, they are filled with the love and the care that we have for each other\".\n\n\"And when I look at our country today and see what we are willing to do to protect and support one another, I say with pride that we are still a nation those brave soldiers, sailors and airmen would recognise and admire.\"\n\nIn the pre-recorded message from Windsor Castle, her second televised address of the coronavirus pandemic, the Queen described the Second World War as a \"total war\" where \"no one was immune from its impact\".\n\n\"At the start, the outlook seemed bleak, the end distant, the outcome uncertain,\" she said.\n\n\"But we kept faith that the cause was right and this belief, as my father noted in his broadcast, carried us through.\n\n\"Never give up, never despair, that was the message of VE Day.\"\n\nPaying tribute to those who were killed during the conflict, she said: \"They died so we could live as free people in a world of free nations.\n\n\"They risked all so our families and neighbourhoods could be safe.\"\n\nReflecting on her own memories of VE Day, the Queen said she \"vividly\" remembered the \"jubilant scenes my sister and I witnessed with our parents and Winston Churchill from the balcony of Buckingham Palace\".\n\nPrime Minister Winston Churchill stands on the balcony of Buckingham Palace alongside the Royal Family (with the Queen, then Princess Elizabeth, on the left) on 8 May 1945\n\nThe Queen, then 19, later slipped into the crowds outside Buckingham Palace, unnoticed, with her 14-year-old sister Princess Margaret, where the pair joined thousands of other revellers.\n\nThe khaki-coloured Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) cap she wore to disguise herself from the public that day laid in front of her as she made her address on Friday evening.\n\nIt was in the ATS that Princess Elizabeth qualified as a driver and the cap was part of her uniform when she undertook national service in 1945.\n\nThe Queen, sitting behind a desk in Windsor's white drawing room, also surrounded herself with other historic personal mementos from the war years, including wearing two aquamarine and diamond clip brooches.\n\nThe art deco-style pieces were an 18th birthday present from her father in April 1944 - just over a year before VE Day.\n\nAlso visible were framed photographs of her father George VI and the Royal Family standing on the Buckingham Palace balcony on VE Day with Prime Minister Winston Churchill.\n\nThe monarch's broadcast marked the culmination of a raft of events throughout Friday remembering the war and celebrating its end in Europe.\n\nEarlier, the UK held a two-minute silence, led by the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, to honour the war's servicemen and women.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson thanked the VE Day generation, saying \"our gratitude will be eternal\".\n\nHe said: \"We can't hold the parades and street celebrations we enjoyed in the past, but all of us who were born since 1945 are acutely conscious that we owe everything we most value to the generation who won the Second World War.\"\n\nIn Westminster, Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle laid a wreath on behalf of the House of Commons.\n\nThe Royal Air Force display team the Red Arrows staged a flypast over London, while RAF Typhoon jets flew over Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast.\n\nThe Red Arrows flew over Horse Guards Parade in central London\n\nMr Johnson said the coronavirus outbreak demanded \"the same spirit of national endeavour\" as shown during wartime\n\nVeteran Signalman Eric Bradshaw, who is isolating after testing positive for Covid-19, has been celebrating VE Day at his care home in Oldham, Greater Manchester\n\nIn the afternoon, solo buglers, trumpeters and cornet players across the country played the Last Post from their homes.\n\nExtracts from Sir Winston Churchill's VE Day speech were broadcast, 75 years after it was first heard and people were encouraged to join in a toast from their homes.\n\nLater in the evening, Welsh soprano Katherine Jenkins, actor Adrian Lester and singer Beverley Knight, performed well-known songs from the 1930s and 40s and the public joined in a sing-along to Vera Lynn's wartime classic, We'll Meet Again.", "Nicola Sturgeon has warned it could be \"catastrophic\" to drop the stay at home message as she announced that the lockdown is to be extended in Scotland.\n\nIt has been suggested that Boris Johnson could scrap the slogan as part of moves to ease some lockdown rules.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the Scottish government may be prepared to allow people to spend more time outdoors.\n\nBut she said scrapping the \"clear, well understood\" stay at home message was \"a potentially catastrophic mistake\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would prefer all four nations to make changes together because that would help give consistent messages to the public.\n\nHowever, she said it was possible to go \"different ways\" if they were at different stages.\n\nFollowing a call between Ms Sturgeon and the prime minister, a spokeswoman for Mr Johnson acknowledged that different parts of the UK could \"move at slightly different speeds\", with \"decisions made based on the science for each nation\".\n\nBoth the Scottish and UK governments formally extended their coronavirus lockdown measures on Thursday.\n\nHowever Mr Johnson - who will make a televised address about the future on Sunday evening - has suggested some measures could start to be lifted from Monday.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she was open to relaxing the rules around outdoor exercise, but said no other measures should be eased at this \"critical juncture\".\n\nScrapping the \"stay at home message\" could confuse people, she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronoavirus: Changing message now could be 'catastrophic'\n\nShe said: \"Extreme caution is required at this critical juncture to avoid a rapid resurgence of the virus.\n\n\"It is not an exaggeration to say decisions now are a matter of life and death.\n\n\"That is why they weigh so very, very heavily and why they must be taken with great care, and it is why as I take them I will continue to err on the side of caution.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was thought that Scotland's infection rate might still be higher than in other parts of the UK, potentially because the first cases of Covid-19 north of the border came later than in England.\n\nShe said she \"will not be pressured into lifting restrictions prematurely\" and would \"make judgements, informed by the evidence, that are right and safe for Scotland\".\n\nThe prime minister's spokeswoman said Mr Johnson had \"emphasised that this is a critical moment in the fight against coronavirus\" in a call with the leaders of the devolved administrations.\n\nShe said: \"He reiterated his commitment to continuing our UK-wide approach to tackling coronavirus, even if different parts of the UK begin to move at slightly different speeds. Those decisions will be made based on the science for each nation.\n\n\"They all agreed that continued engagement between our administrations is vital and to remain in close contact in the days and weeks ahead.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon says she must extend the lockdown in Scotland to stop a resurgence of the virus.\n\nBecause the rate of infection (the now famous R number) is still at or around one in Scotland, possibly slighter higher than in other parts of the UK, she says any easing of the current restrictions would be \"very very risky\" indeed.\n\nThis may not be the same message we hear from Boris Johnson on Sunday.\n\nThat means we could soon see different parts of the UK operating under different lockdown rules.\n\nRead more from Sarah Smith here.\n\nThe Scottish government has published a paper of options for starting to lift restrictions, although no dates are suggested in it.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she \"may be prepared to agree to a change to guidance limiting outdoor exercise to once a day only\". It has been rumoured that such a move is being considered by UK ministers.\n\nHowever, the first minister said this \"would not change the overall message\" that people should remain close to home and not mix with other households.\n\nShe said: \"The other possible changes that are reported in the media, such as encouraging more people back to work now, opening beer gardens, or encouraging more use of public transport, would not in my judgment be safe for us to make yet.\n\n\"What I do not want a few weeks from now is for us to see a resurgence of this virus, and for you to be asking me 'why on Earth did you start to ease lockdown a week or a couple of weeks too early'?\"", "The Royal Hospital Chelsea says 58 more residents have so far recovered from the virus\n\nNine Chelsea Pensioners have died after contracting coronavirus, the Royal Hospital Chelsea has confirmed.\n\nThe home for military veterans, which has been in existence for more than 300 years, said a further 58 residents had so far recovered after testing positive or showing symptoms.\n\nSome 290 army veterans live at the Royal Hospital, famous for its red tunic uniform.\n\nThe deaths were announced a day before the 75th anniversary of VE Day.\n\nOf the hospital's residents, 47 served in World War Two, while others were deployed in Korea, the Falkland Islands, Cyprus and Northern Ireland.\n\nAmong those who died was 75-year-old Fred Boomer-Hawkins.\n\nFred Boomer-Hawkins is pictured taking a selfie with other Chelsea pensioners during a trip to Durham in 2018\n\nHe moved to the Royal London Chelsea Hospital in 2017 and was \"extremely proud\" to wear the retirement home's famous uniform, his son Terry Hawkins, 49, said.\n\n\"He was a very popular man, loving, generous, honourable and loyal,\" Mr Hawkins told the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\n\"He was everything you could want from a dad.\n\n\"We can only have ten people at the funeral but know more than 300 would want to be there if they could. The outpouring of love for him since his death was announced has been overwhelming.\"\n\nMr Boomer-Hawkins, a father-of-three, was originally from Tottenham and joined the army aged 17.\n\nA keen boxer, he won tournaments including the Regimental Boxing Finals, and later went on to coach.\n\nHis first posting in the army was as a Royal Green Jacket in Colchester, where he met first wife, Jean.\n\nHe was later stationed in Malaysia, Germany and Tidworth, completed two tours of Northern Ireland, was a UN peacekeeper in Cyprus and spent two years in Berlin.\n\nHe first became ill in the last week of March.\n\nAs his breathing worsened and he was moved to hospital in the days before his death, he sent his son a text reading: \"Prepare yourself, I fear the worst now.\"\n\nMr Hawkins added: \"We were able to go in on that final day and the doctors told us he only had between two and eight hours left. We never thought it would come to that, it was heartbreaking.\n\n\"It just shows this virus can take anyone.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Help for Mr Wong (R) finally came in the form of the Fijian Navy (L)\n\nOne man's dream to spend three years sailing solo around the Pacific nearly turned to disaster after borders started closing around the region, leaving him stranded alone at sea for three months.\n\nWhile people around the globe were panic buying and stocking up, he was running low on food and fuel as he sailed between islands trying to find somewhere to dock.\n\nWong - he only wanted to share his surname - set off from his home country Singapore on 2 February.\n\nIt was an adventure the 59-year-old experienced sailor had been meticulously planning for years - everything from the exact amount of fuel he would need to the weather conditions of the places he was intending to visit.\n\nThe plan was to sail from Singapore to Polynesia, a journey that would take about four months, in his yacht. Once there, he would spend time exploring the region by land and sea.\n\nBut he would soon learn that even the best laid plans could go awry - especially in the face of a global pandemic.\n\nFor the first leg of his journey, Wong was joined by two friends who accompanied him in the initial stages of his journey.\n\nIn late February, they disembarked in Indonesia as scheduled and Wong headed on alone to his destination of Papua New Guinea (PNG), where he planned to stock up on fuel and food.\n\nBut a few days in, his auto-pilot broke.\n\n\"I was still in Indonesian waters then so I wanted to anchor and take a break and repair my boat. But I was chased away - they said the lockdown had already begun,\" he told the BBC. \"So I thought OK I would just continue on.\"\n\nA broken autopilot meant he needed to man the ship at all times. At night, he would set his alarm to ring once every hour, so he could wake up to check his whereabouts.\n\nAnd his luck did not improve. As he neared PNG, he found out from his family - whom he kept in touch with by satellite phone - that it had also closed its borders.\n\nMr Wong had been sailing the seas for years before deciding to make the long voyage\n\nHe decided he would stop at a small island close by instead.\n\n\"It was a small island, only around 20-30 families lived there. There was no telephone, no television, nothing,\" he said.\n\n\"But even they had heard of the lockdown, so they chased me away. I approached several other islands but they all chased me away.\n\n\"It was then that I got news that the South Pacific islands were all in lockdown, but I was already halfway there - I couldn't really turn back. So I decided to just continue to Tuvalu.\"\n\nThat leg of the journey would take the next 13 days.\n\nIt was 21 April when he reached Tuvalu. By this time, he had already spent weeks alone on his boat, and his supplies were running dangerously low.\n\n\"My initial plan, if there was no virus, was that I would stop at each country for a while, buy some fuel and food,\" he said.\n\n\"By this time, the vegetables were all spoilt but I still could keep things like meat and things like potatoes as I had a fridge on board.\"\n\nHe was about two hours from Tuvalu waters when he was discovered by maritime officials - who again, told him to leave.\n\n\"I pleaded with them and said 'Please, I don't have any more fuel and food. I won't anchor and step on land, just let me stay in your waters,'\" he said.\n\n\"I said I didn't have anywhere to go and they said to head back to the ocean. At last I said ok at least help me buy some food and fuel.\"\n\nHe passed them nearly US$1,400 (£1,133) in exchange for 1,000 litres of diesel and approximately a month's worth of food.\n\nA boat carrying both these things eventually arrived, but they couldn't approach Wong due to social distancing rules.\n\nMr Wong had to use a small rubber float to get his food items across\n\n\"I pulled out my small rubber boat and pushed it their way, and they put the goods there and I would tow it back. We took a lot of time pulling it back and forth.\"\n\nHe received eggs, meat pies and lots of instant noodles among other things\n\nSo he left, deciding to head towards Fiji. During this time, his family back home in Singapore got in touch with Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and tried to secure a place for him to dock in Fiji.\n\nAll he could do then was wait and hope for the best. His options were running low but then he hit a real low point after his boat hit coral.\n\n\"It was sometime in April that my propeller was damaged. I remember on that day, huge winds started picking up - they were really strong,\" he said. He later found out that he was some 500 nautical miles (926 km) away from Cyclone Harold - the storm that ravaged the Pacific Islands, killing dozens.\n\n\"I was very far away but I still felt it. The winds blew my boat and it hit something, causing one of my propellers to spoil,\" he said.\n\nBut thankfully, he soon received word that the Fiji government had agreed to take him in.\n\n\"I was so happy and relieved when Fiji let me in, I was really thankful to the Fijian government and to Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs for co-ordinating,\" he said.\n\nA navy boat was sent out to tow him in and he eventually docked in Fiji on 29 April - after almost three months of wandering the sea.\n\n\"Mr Wong was fatigued after incurring damages to his yacht and had minimal rest and [was] running short of food supplies,\" Commander Tim Natuva of the Fiji Navy told BBC News.\n\nCmdr Natuva said the rescue effort required co-ordination from Singapore and multiple ministries in Fiji including customs, immigration, navy and the ministry of health.\n\nFiji, which has a population of about 880,000, currently has 18 confirmed cases of the virus - one of the few nations in the South Pacific to have any reported virus cases.\n\nCmdr Natuva said the rescue itself was \"fairly simple\" but \"needed some adjustments\" because of the virus restrictions.\n\nBut it was a success - Wong eventually managed to dock. He was taken to hospital where he had to undergo a swab test. The test, of course, came back negative.\n\n\"If it had come back positive - I really don't know how that would have happened! I hadn't seen anyone for months at that point!\" he joked.\n\nWhen asked how he felt about being rejected from every country, his tone remained upbeat, saying: \"Those countries did what they had to do. If they had let me in and someone had gotten the virus from me, how could they explain the incident to their citizens?\n\n\"One thing that surprised me was that even those small islands with no wifi and television, even they felt the effects of the virus so strongly. I really felt for them.\"\n\nWong has since been discharged but remains in Fiji working on repairing his yacht, waiting for the chance to resume his trip.\n\n\"I hope this outbreak is something we'll all be able to get through,\" he said. \"And after this all ends, I will continue my voyage.\"", "Mr Shapps is expected to say that the lockdown is an \"opportunity\" to change the way we get to work\n\nWe need to protect the public transport network as lockdown is lifted, the UK's transport secretary is expected to say at a press conference on Saturday.\n\nThe BBC understands Grant Shapps will encourage the public to continue to work from home if they can.\n\nThose who need to travel to work will be urged to consider more active ways to travel like walking and cycling.\n\nExtra funding is likely to be announced for English local authorities to help alter road networks to facilitate this.\n\nThe intention is to take pressure off roads and public transport networks.\n\nThis is a devolved issue and in Wales the assembly is suggesting a number of new policies including road and lane closures with filters for cyclists. Scotland announced funding for \"active travel infrastructure\" in April. No specific measures have been announced yet in Northern Ireland although the infrastructure minister is expected to appoint a cycling and walking champion.\n\nIt is believed that Mr Shapps will talk about using the unique \"opportunity\" of the lockdown restrictions to change the way we get to work.\n\nHow we will travel while maintaining social distancing is one of the biggest challenges the government faces as it seeks to start to lift the lockdown.\n\nMaintaining the two-metre rule will mean buses, trains and tubes will be able to carry far fewer passengers.\n\nTheir capacity could be reduced by as much as 90%, according to some estimates.\n\nThere have been fewer buses and trains scheduled during the lockdown, so it will take time to restore normal services.\n\nMany commuters will also be concerned about the safety of crowded buses and trains but, if more people try to commute into work in their cars, the roads are likely to become choked with traffic.\n\nThe solution, Grant Shapps is expected to say, is for us all to walk and cycle more.\n\nThe BBC understands that the proposal to increase what the government is calling \"active travel\" will be presented as an opportunity for us all to live \"cleaner, greener, healthier lives\".\n\nMr Shapps is likely to announce extra funding for local authorities to pay for alterations to the road network to facilitate this move to more active ways to get around.\n\nHe is also expected to announce plans to give local authorities new powers to change the road network and designate extra space for cyclists and pedestrians.\n\nThe mayors of London and Manchester - Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham - announced last week that they were planning to close some roads to cars to create dedicated pedestrian and cycle routes.\n\nBBC transport correspondent Tom Burridge said Mr Shapps was also set to announce that trials of e-scooters will be fast-tracked to any area of Britain that wanted to attempt one.\n\nCurrently, trials are limited to a small number of areas.\n\nThe transport secretary's announcement comes as a coalition of nine environmental and transport pressure groups have written to the government to demand a big increase in spending on walking and cycling.\n\nTheir letter calls for a fundamental redesign of the transport network to improve public health, clean the air and protect the climate.\n\nIt also points out that the lockdown has led to a dramatic improvement in air quality in Britain's towns and cities.\n\nSome of Britain's largest cities have seen a 60% reduction in levels of nitrogen dioxide, a harmful pollutant gas associated with traffic.\n\nThe letter's signatories include Greenpeace, the countryside charity the CPRE (Campaign to Protect Rural England), and seven other environment and transport organisations.\n\nThey argue that making a permanent switch towards more active travel would help protect these improvements in the local environment.\n\nToxic air is responsible for thousands of premature deaths in the UK every year, the letter says.\n\n\"It would be completely absurd if, after the unprecedented efforts and sacrifices made to save thousands of lives from Covid-19, we allowed thousands more to be cut short by the devastating impacts of toxic pollution,\" it reads.\n\nThe organisations recommend that local authorities widen pavements and increase cycle lanes, as well as giving priority to people who walk and cycle.\n\nThey call for the speed limit to be cut to 20 mph in all built-up areas except where segregated cycle lanes are in place. They also demand £6bn in additional funding over the next five years to invest in new transport infrastructure.", "Major credit card companies should block payments to pornographic sites, according to a group of international campaigners and campaign groups who say they work to tackle sexual exploitation.\n\nA letter seen by the BBC, signed by more than 10 campaigners and campaign groups, says porn sites \"eroticise sexual violence, incest, and racism\" and stream content that features child sexual abuse and sex trafficking.\n\nOne leading site, Pornhub, said \"the letter [was] not only factually wrong but also intentionally misleading.\"\n\nMastercard told the BBC they were investigating claims made in the letter on pornography sites and would \"terminate their connection to our network\" if illegal activity by a cardholder was confirmed.\n\nThe letter was sent to 10 major credit card companies, including the \"Big Three\", Visa, MasterCard and American Express. The signatories from countries including the UK, US, India, Uganda and Australia have called for the immediate suspension of payments to pornographic sites.\n\nThe signatories of the letter include the anti-pornography non-profit group the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) in the US, and other faith-led or women and child rights' advocacy groups.\n\nThe letter alleges it is impossible to \"judge or verify consent in any videos on their site, let alone live webcam videos\" which \"inherently makes pornography websites a target for sex traffickers, child abusers, and others sharing predatory nonconsensual videos\".\n\n\"We've been seeing an increasingly global outcry about the harms of pornography sharing websites in a number of ways in recent months,\" said Haley McNamara, the director of the UK-based International Centre on Sexual Exploitation, the international arm of the NCOSE and a signatory of the letter.\n\n\"We in the international child advocacy and anti-sexual exploitation community are demanding financial institutions to critically analyse their supportive role in the pornography industry, and to cut ties with them,\" she told the BBC.\n\nA report on the appetite for child abuse videos on pornography sites was published in April by India Child Protection Fund (ICPF). The organisation said there had been a steep increase in demand for child abuse searches on pornography sites in India, particularly since coronavirus lockdown.\n\nPornhub, the most popular pornography streaming site, is named in the letter. In 2019, it registered more than 42 billion visits, the equivalent of 115 million a day.\n\nPornhub was under scrutiny last year when one of its content providers - Girls Do Porn - became the subject of an FBI investigation.\n\nThe FBI charged four people working for the production company that created the channel of coaxing women into making pornographic films under false pretences. Pornhub removed the Girls Do Porn channel as soon as the charges were made.\n\nCommenting to the BBC in February regarding this case, Pornhub said its policy was to \"remove unauthorised content as soon as we are made aware of it, which is exactly what we did in this case\".\n\nIn October last year a 30-year-old Florida man, Christopher Johnson, faced charges for sexually abusing a 15 year old. Videos of the alleged attack had been posted on Pornhub.\n\nIn the same statement to the BBC in February, Pornhub said its policy was to \"remove unauthorised content as soon as we are made aware of it, which is exactly what we did in this case\".\n\nThe Internet Watch Foundation, a UK organisation that specialises in monitoring online sexual abuse - particularly of children - confirmed to the BBC that they had found 118 instances of child sexual abuse and child rape videos on Pornhub between 2017 and 2019. The body works in partnership with global police and governments to flag illegal content.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, a spokesperson for Pornhub said they had \"a steadfast commitment to eradicating and fighting any and all illegal content, including non-consensual and under-age material. Any suggestion otherwise is categorically and factually inaccurate.\"\n\n\"Our content moderation system is at the forefront of the industry, utilising leading technologies and moderation techniques that create a comprehensive process to detect and rid the platform of any illegal content.\n\nPornhub said the letter was sent by organisations \"who attempt to police people's sexual orientation and activity - are not only factually wrong but also intentionally misleading.\"\n\nAmerican Express has had a global policy in place since 2000 that says it prohibits transactions for adult digital content where the risk is deemed unusually high, with a total ban on online pornography. In an interview with the Smartmoney website in 2011, a spokesperson for American Express at the time said this was due to high levels of disputes, and an additional safeguard in the fight against child pornography.\n\nYet, the organisations also sent the letters to American Express, because they say American Express payment options have been offered on pornography sites - including one that specialises in teenage themed content.\n\nA spokesperson for American Express told the BBC that while the global policy still stood, American Express had a pilot with one company that allowed for payment to certain pornography streaming websites if the payment was made within the US and on a US consumer credit card.\n\nOther major credit card companies, including Visa and MasterCard, do allow both credit and debit card holders to purchase online pornography.\n\nIn an email to the BBC, a spokesperson for Mastercard said they were \"currently investigating the claims referred to us in the letter.\n\n\"The way our network works is that a bank connects a merchant to our network to accept card payments.\n\n\"If we confirm illegal activity or violations of our rules (by card holders), we will work with the merchant's bank to either bring them into compliance or to terminate their connection to our network.\n\n\"This is consistent with how we have previously worked with law enforcement agencies and groups like National and International Centers for Missing and Exploited Children.\"\n\nSome moves have been made by online payment companies to distance themselves from the pornography industry.\n\nIn November 2019, Paypal, the global online payment company, announced it would no longer be supporting payments to Pornhub as their policy forbids supporting \"certain sexually oriented materials or services\".\n\nIn a blog on their site, Pornhub said they were \"devastated\" by the decision and the move would leave thousands of Pornhub models and performers who relied on subscription from the premium services without payment.\n\nA pornography performer who shares material on Pornhub, and who asked to remain anonymous, said a payment freeze would have devastating implications for her earnings.\n\n\"Honestly, it would be a body blow,\" she said. \"It would wipe out my entire income and I wouldn't know how to earn money, especially now in lockdown.\"\n\nFollowing mounting pressure for more accountability from pornographic sites, Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska sent a letter to the US Department of Justice in March asking Attorney General William Barr to investigate Pornhub for allegedly streaming acts of rape and exploitation.\n\nIn the same month, nine Canadian multi-party parliamentarians wrote to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calling for an investigation into MindGeek, the parent company of Pornhub which has its headquarters in Montreal.\n\nAfrican Network for the Prevention and Protection against Child Abuse and Neglect, Liberia", "Grace Millane's family have donated hundreds of care packages to hospitals in her memory\n\nThe family of a British backpacker murdered in New Zealand has given hundreds of care packages to patients, nurses, doctors and carers battling coronavirus.\n\nGrace Millane's family has donated more than 300 bags full of toiletries to hospitals and care homes across Essex.\n\nThe 22-year-old from Wickford in Essex was killed in December 2018.\n\nHer cousin said it was nice to be doing \"something so positive\" in her name.\n\nThese carers said the bags had given them a boost when they really needed it\n\nHannah O'Callaghan said: \"We've had so many messages thanking us, it's been lovely to read them as a family. It is helping us get through some difficult times and given us a purpose.\"\n\nThe family set up a campaign called Love Grace x, focused on domestic abuse victims, before the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt had already donated 6,500 handbags packed with toiletries to refuges across the world, including many in New Zealand.\n\nSeven family members have been involved, including Gillian Millane, Grace's mother.\n\nThe bags are delivered with a tag which has Grace's handwriting and a flower that she drew, on one side\n\nThe other side has a note explaining what happened to Grace and more about the initiative\n\nMedics said they were moved to tears after receiving the care packages\n\nMrs O'Callaghan said: \"Grace would have been really proud of us. She would have wanted to get involved. She was more like a little sister to me than a cousin. She was very family-orientated and we had so many happy times together as a family.\n\n\"I'm a Geography teacher and she loved to travel, we had that in common. She was very good at art, so it was important to us to reflect that on the tags.\"\n\nGrace's cousin Hannah O'Callaghan (left) and mother Gillian Millane (right) wanted to do something positive in her name\n\nMore than 6500 handbags have been donated to refuges across the world\n\nThe bags are delivered with a tag which says \"Love Grace x\" in Grace's handwriting and a flower that she drew, on one side. The other side has a note explaining what happened to her and more about the initiative.\n\nDomestic abuse victims have been in touch with the family to thank them. Many had to leave home in a rush and had no toiletries, while others had never owned a handbag before, Mrs O'Callaghan said.\n\n\"We want to go back to concentrating on refuges when this is over. Domestic violence is rising during the lockdown, and I think the handbags will be needed more than ever.\n\n\"We are asking people who might be having a spring clean to keep their old handbags and take them to one of our collection points when restrictions are lifted,\" she said.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson needs to prioritise a green UK economic recovery following the coronavirus crisis, say bosses from leading firms.\n\nThey called for polluting industries \"without a proper climate plan\" to be excluded from government help.\n\nGovernment advisors recently warned that the UK must not fall into a deeper climate crisis.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to make a speech on Sunday which may lead to a limited relaxation of lockdown rules.\n\nThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said the government \"remains committed to being a world leader in tackling the great global challenges we face in climate change and biodiversity loss.\"\n\nAs the UK eases restrictions and tries to repair damage to the economy from the crisis, the chief executives of more than 60 British organisations called on the government to:\n\nThe signatories to an open letter to Boris Johnson included Iceland Foods, Barratt Developments, The Body Shop, Ben and Jerry's, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), the National Trust and Greenpeace UK.\n\nRichard Walker, the managing director of Iceland Foods, said: \"The economic recovery from this global health crisis must put the restoration of nature at its heart - because that is the only way we can continue to power our human endeavour sustainably. If nature is protected, we are protected.\"\n\nClimate change protesters surfing on the River Thames in March to raises awareness on the need to combat climate change\n\nBeccy Speight, the chief executive of the RSPB, said: \"Humanity's future is inextricably bound to the health of our planet. No part of the world is untouched by human activity, and as we continue our destruction of nature, we make our own planet less habitable for people as well.\"\n\nHilary McGrady, director-general at the National Trust, said: \"Right now, the nation's attention is rightly focused on dealing with the immediate and profound impact of coronavirus on health, social fabric and livelihoods.\n\n\"But as governments around the world turn their thoughts to economic recovery, their plans must respond to what the lockdown has clearly shown; that people want and need access to nature-rich green spaces near where they live.\"\n\nThe letter comes after government advisors warned that the UK must avoid falling from the coronavirus crisis into a deeper environmental crisis.\n\nThey said on Wednesday that ministers should ensure funds earmarked for a post-coronavirus economic recovery go to firms that will reduce carbon emissions.\n\nThe UK is already making representations to other countries that tackling climate change must be woven into the solution to the coronavirus economic crisis.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"As we rebuild our economy in response to the coronavirus pandemic, we must continue to shape an economy and society that are cleaner, greener and more resilient.\n\n\"Our ambitious environment, fisheries and agriculture bills will enable us to protect and recover our precious natural environment and diverse ecosystems in line with our 25 year environment plan.\"", "Experts say that mass testing will help officials plan better\n\nAs India continues to fight the spread of coronavirus, a few 'successful' efforts at containing the infection have been touted as 'models', celebrated and mimicked across the country. But experts say such premature euphoria can be dangerous. The BBC's Vikas Pandey reports.\n\nThe northern Indian city of Agra, home to the iconic Taj Mahal, was one of the first Indian cities to report a positive case of coronavirus back in early March.\n\nIt continued to report cases throughout the month but managed to slow down the spread - and that is how the \"Agra model\" was born.\n\nIt trended as a hashtag on social media, the federal government was full of praise and Uttar Pradesh state chief minister Yogi Adityanath was credited for its success.\n\nBut things changed within days. As the month of April started, the number of cases started doubling quickly and the early success started to unravel. The model had relied heavily on strictly containing affected areas and isolating suspected cases. But as the virus spread to newer areas, authorities had to look for other options, like aggressive testing.\n\nThe city now has more than 600 cases - more than any other city in the state and the much-feted Agra model disappeared from the news cycle.\n\nIt just goes to prove such early celebrations involve \"great risks\", says prominent virologist Dr Shahid Jameel.\n\nAgra has seen a sharp rise in the number of cases\n\n\"Such euphoria makes people let their guard down and that can be dangerous,\" he says.\n\nSeveral experts, including Dr Jameel, point out that there is so little known about the novel coronavirus, the existence of which was only discovered late last year, meaning scientists haven't had enough time to study it properly.\n\n\"That makes Covid-19 so dangerous,\" he adds.\n\nTake, for example, the discovery that \"the virus can be found in the sputum\" of those affected for up to 30 days.\n\n\"So you can't feel victorious even after you have successfully treated all your patients. Being vigilant is the only option.\"\n\nIn Agra, authorities were quick to define containment zones and they went for aggressive contact tracing.\n\n\"But it didn't call for a celebration because it ran the risk of undoing all the good work authorities had done,\" Dr Jameel adds.\n\nAnother problem of celebrating such models is that other states and districts rush to replicate it.\n\n\"Such models are area specific and cannot be replicated. One size doesn't fit all. We can of course learn from different models,\" he adds.\n\nTake the example of Kerala: the state has been investing heavily in its healthcare network for years. When coronavirus hit the state, it was well prepared.\n\nOfficials were quick to identify, isolate and treat patients. It also used technology in contact tracing and also in finding suspected hotspots quickly to halt the spread.\n\nBut does that make Kerala a success model?\n\nDr A Fathahudeen, who is the nodal officer for COVID-19 treatment in Ernakulam district, is against the idea of calling any place a success model yet.\n\nContact tracing has been an important part of the government's strategy\n\n\"We have seen resurgence of cases in some areas of Kerala. There are some cases where we haven't been able to find the source of the infection,\" he says.\n\nHe argues that things change \"so fast with this virus\" that nobody can afford to relax.\n\n\"If you celebrate such models, then you will have dead bodies to answer for.\"\n\nDr Fathahudeen says such models should be studied by scientists but they haven't had enough time to do that.\n\nThe problem starts, he adds, when \"politicians start declaring successes without any scientific approval\".\n\n\"They (politicians) often don't realise that what worked in Kerala will not work in a densely populated slum like Dharawi in Mumbai,\" he said.\n\nPeople are not allowed to leave containment zone\n\nIndeed, Dr Kant believes that most of these models rely on \"containing people from going out\", but we are still \"far away from containing the virus\".\n\n\"So that distinction has to be made,\" he says. \"Behaviour of individuals, population density, travel history and health infrastructure - all these factors come into play. So, models can be adapted, but not adopted.\"\n\nPublic health expert Anant Bhan agrees. He believes that each state, and possibly each district, needs to evaluate its own response.\n\n\"There can't be a uniform model in such a diverse country like India,\" he adds.\n\nMr Bhan says that euphoria over such success models can also put frontline workers at risk.\n\n\"The possibility of complacency become real when people, including frontline workers, get false hope of a success,\" he adds.\n\nAnd that is why you need to acknowledge and learn from the positives when any place does well, but \"definitely not celebrate it as an end\".\n\nSeveral Indian states have been trying to ramp up testing\n\nThe state of Rajasthan is an example that shows why one model cannot be applied in two places. While the state government has been able to contain the spread in the town of Bhilwara, it has struggled to do the same in the capital Jaipur, which has been ravaged by the virus.\n\nAnd then there are global models that have also been celebrated, and Singapore is one of them.\n\nHeadlines across the world congratulated Singapore for containing the spread. But the country saw a second wave and had to announce a lockdown.\n\nDr Leong Hoe Nam, an infectious diseases expert at Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Novena hospital, says Singapore did well with measures like social distancing.\n\n\"But this virus is sneaky, the risk was always there and it made a comeback,\" he adds.\n\nHe adds that \"shortcuts or celebrations\" can quickly come back to haunt you.\n\n\"All it takes is a super-spreader to reverse your success and no country in the world can afford to do that.\"", "Milan's mayor has threatened to close the popular Navigli district as crowds gather\n\nItaly has become the first country in the European Union to register more than 30,000 coronavirus-related deaths.\n\nIt reported 243 new fatalities on Friday - down from 274 the day before - taking the total to 30,201.\n\nThe daily number of confirmed new cases fell slightly to 1,327, bringing the total number of infections to 217,185.\n\nRestrictions have begun to ease around the county, but one doctor described the city of Milan as a \"time bomb\", according to local media.\n\nItaly has the third highest number of officially recorded coronavirus deaths in the world, after the United States and the UK - which is no longer a member of the EU.\n\nBritain passed the 30,000 mark on Wednesday. Spain is Europe's third worst-affected country with more than 26,000 deaths.\n\nItaly was the first country in Europe to impose a lockdown when coronavirus cases began to surface in northern regions in February.\n\nSome lockdown measures have been rolled back. This week, Italians have been able to exercise for the first time in weeks, as long as they respect rules on physical distance and wear masks where distancing is difficult. They are able to visit relatives - but not friends - within their region.\n\nCatholic churches are also preparing for the resumption of Mass on 18 May, but there will be strict social distancing and worshippers must wear face masks. Other faiths will also be allowed to hold religious services.\n\nMore people have been out and about in Rome since restrictions were eased\n\nHowever, schools, cinemas and most shops will stay shut, and all public gatherings are still banned. Bars and restaurants are due to start allowing customers to sit at tables in June.\n\nWhile some restrictions remain in place, images shared on social media show people in busy areas ignoring distancing rules and not wearing protective masks, leading to an outcry.\n\nMassimo Galli, head of the infectious diseases department at Milan's Sacco hospital, told La Reppublica newspaper it was clear that lockdown easing \"may present problems\".\n\nHe said: \"We have a very high number of infected people returning to circulation.\"\n\nCoronavirus commissioner Angelo Borrelli warned the public that containment measures would \"be stiffened\" if the virus showed signs of taking off again.\n\n\"We are monitoring things carefully,\" he said on Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We risked everything to survive\" - Naples resident Filomena\n\nPolice in the capital Rome said they were setting up checkpoints on roads leading to the coast, lakes and tourist spots in the countryside over the weekend.\n\nThey said they would also be monitoring areas where nightlife is popular.\n\nThe Mayor of Milan, Giuseppe Sala, issued an \"ultimatum\" on Friday after footage emerged of crowds of people - most of them young - adopting neither face masks or social distancing in the city's popular Navigli area.\n\nMilan, the capital of the Lombardy region, was the epicentre of the Italian outbreak.\n\n\"I will take measures, I will close the Navigli,\" Mr Sala threatened, describing the scenes as \"disgraceful\".\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 Antonello Guerrera This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn another development, an Italian government agency has warned that the cash-starved tourism industry is vulnerable to incursions by mafia organisations as the lockdown eases.\n\nA report by the Covid-19 criminal infiltration monitoring body said the tourism and catering sectors would have a \"lack of liquidity that will expose them to loan-sharking\".\n\nIt said the mafia groups would be looking to invest in struggling businesses such as hotels and restaurants with the aim of laundering money.", "Facebook and Google have said they will let employees continue working from home for the rest of the year.\n\nThe tech giants have announced plans to reopen their offices soon but are allowing more home working flexibility.\n\nGoogle originally said it would keep its work from home policy until 1 June, but is extending it for seven more months.\n\nFacebook said it would reopen its offices on 6 July as coronavirus lockdowns are gradually lifted.\n\nGoogle chief executive Sundar Pichai said that employees who need to return to the office will start being able to do so from July with enhanced safety measures in place.\n\nBut the majority of employees who can carry out their jobs from home will be able to do so until the end of the year, Mr Pichai added.\n\nThe announcement coincides with Facebook's as more companies start rolling out their back-to-work strategies.\n\n\"Facebook has taken the next step in its return to work philosophy. Today, we announced anyone who can do their work remotely can choose to do so through the end of the year,\" a spokesman said. \"As you can imagine this is an evolving situation as employees and their families make important decisions re: return to work.\"\n\nFacebook is still determining which employees will be asked to come in, the spokeswoman added.\n\nThe social media platform was among the first tech firms to ask its employees to begin working remotely. Facebook gave employees $1,000 (£807) bonuses for their work-from-home and childcare costs.\n\nThe trend for working from home may suit some companies while they redesign their office spaces to cater to new social distancing guidelines. Some employees are nervous about returning to work in the middle of a global pandemic.", "More people are using their cars despite the coronavirus lockdown, the RAC motoring group says.\n\nIts analysis suggests there are 11% more vehicles on the road this week than in the second week of lockdown.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of emergency callouts rose 18% over the same period.\n\n\"There is now mounting evidence that people are venturing back out in their vehicles,\" said RAC head of roads policy Nicholas Lyes, who blamed it on \"lockdown fatigue\".\n\nHe also said boredom and \"the sunny spring weather might also be enticing drivers back into their vehicles\".\n\n\"Additionally, some who are indoors might have chosen to carry out home maintenance and DIY, so have taken an opportunity to visit DIY stores that are now open.\"\n\nThe report follows comments from AA boss Simon Breakwell, who told the Financial Times: \"Far more cars are getting back on the road.\"\n\nHe said about half the current AA call-outs are for people unable to start their cars on the driveway, often with flat batteries after weeks of vehicles sitting idle.\n\nThe RAC analysed \"black box\" driving data, breakdown numbers and route planning figures since the lockdown began to come up with its figures.\n\nComparing the second week of lockdown with last week, 11% more cars were on the road and 23% more daily miles were driven.\n\nVehicle breakdowns attended by RAC patrols climbed nearly a fifth across the same period.\n\nThe number of routes planned via the RAC Routeplanner is also increasing, suggesting a rise in trips being taken by drivers.\n\nMore routes were planned on Monday 5 May 2020 than on any other day during the lockdown, with 16% more planned on that day than just a week earlier.\n\n\"Our data clearly shows a slight, but nonetheless steady, rise in the number of drivers using their vehicles, and the distances they are travelling in them on a daily basis, compared with earlier in the lockdown,\" said Mr Lyes.\n\nA new survey by the RAC suggests that two out of five drivers are now using their vehicles more frequently than earlier in the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe top reason given for using a car more was for food and grocery shopping, with almost a quarter of drivers naming it.\n\nAround one in 10 said that they were driving more to pick up essential supplies or for trips to a pharmacy.\n\nBut worryingly, one in 20 said they were using their vehicle more now to specifically purchase alcohol, or going out in the car specifically to visit DIY stores.\n\n\"The current advice remains to only go out when necessary for essential purposes, or where you cannot work from home,\" pointed out Mr Lyes. \"The question drivers should ask themselves before venturing out is, 'Do I really need to?'\n\n\"By only using the car for essential journeys at this time, we're not only helping prevent the virus spreading, but are also reducing the risk of being involved in a road collision and avoiding putting any further pressure on the NHS.\"", "UK airlines say they have been told the government will bring in a 14-day quarantine for anyone arriving in the UK from any country apart from the Republic of Ireland in response to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe new restriction is expected to take effect at the end of this month.\n\nIndustry body Airlines UK said the policy needed \"a credible exit plan\" and should be reviewed weekly.\n\nPeople arriving in the UK would have to self-isolate at a private residence.\n\nGovernment and aviation sources told BBC News that the quarantine would mean people might be expected to provide an address when they arrive at the border.\n\nIt is not clear how long the new travel restriction would be in place and whether non-UK residents would be allowed to stay in rented private accommodation.\n\n\"We need to see the details of what they are proposing\", said Airlines UK, which represents British Airways, EasyJet and other UK-based airlines, in a statement.\n\nIt is not clear whether there are plans to quarantine people arriving to the UK via other modes of transport. Eurostar and P&O ferries declined to comment, while other firms have not yet responded to the BBC's queries.\n\nAviation minister Kelly Tolhurst is expected to clarify the policy to airline and airport representatives in a conference call scheduled for Sunday morning.\n\nA spokeswoman for Belfast International Airport said it had written to the government to clarify what the plans were - adding that the airport had not been consulted on the move.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said Labour had been asking the government for weeks to clarify \"mixed messages\" about what people should do on arrival to the UK.\n\n\"People have been brought back in relatively large numbers and many of them are telling us that they have no information or advice given out about what they should be doing when they get home,\" she said.\n\nUK airports suggested that a quarantine \"would not only have a devastating impact on the UK aviation industry, but also on the wider economy\".\n\nKaren Dee from the Airport Operators Association, which represents most UK airports, said the measure should be applied \"on a selective basis following the science\" and \"the economic impact on key sectors should be mitigated\".\n\nBBC News understands that key workers such as lorry drivers who transport goods and people working in the shipping industry would be exempt.\n\nA Heathrow spokesman said any measures agreed must be medically effective, meet public expectations and be deliverable by airports.\n\n\"We will continue to do everything we can to support the government in tackling the health crisis whilst keeping vital trading routes open for British businesses in every corner of the UK,\" he added.\n\nLast Sunday, Andrew Marr asked the transport secretary whether the UK would introduce a quarantine on people arriving in the UK.\n\nGrant Shapps said he was \"actively looking at these issues, right now, so that when we have infection rates within the country under control we're not importing\".\n\nHe said it was important \"that we do ensure that the sacrifices, in a sense, social distancing, that we're asking the British people to make are matched by anyone who comes to this country\".\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"We do not comment on leaks. The focus remains on staying at home to protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nIf a quarantine is needed now, some will question why it was not necessary weeks ago.\n\nTens of thousands of people have flown into the UK during the pandemic, although the government says the vast majority were returning home.", "People should not expect big changes to the coronavirus lockdown in Boris Johnson's speech to the nation on Sunday, a cabinet minister has said.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden told BBC Breakfast the speech would set out a \"cautious\" road map for the UK, rather than immediate alterations.\n\nWales announced \"modest\" changes to its lockdown from Monday, which will allow people to exercise outside more often.\n\nMeanwhile, a six-week-old baby with coronavirus died in England.\n\nThe NHS said the baby had an underlying health condition and died on 3 May at an undisclosed hospital.\n\nThe most recent figures from Thursday show the total number of people who have died with coronavirus in hospitals, care homes and the wider community in the UK is 30,615 - a daily increase of 539.\n\nAnnouncing the plans for Wales' lockdown, First Minister Mark Drakeford said he wanted Wales to \"move in step with the other nations of the United Kingdom\".\n\nThe new measures will allow people to exercise outside more than once a day, while some garden centres and recycling centres will reopen.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Friday the only change she was considering in the immediate term was to outdoor exercise.\n\nMr Dowden said the PM's speech, at 19:00 BST on Sunday, would cautiously begin to look to the future, with limited amendments to restrictions to begin with.\n\n\"On Sunday, what the prime minister will do is set out the road map ahead,\" he said.\n\n\"So we can start to look to the future, but we'll have to do so in a very tentative and cautious way. People should not expect big changes from the prime minister on Sunday.\n\n\"But what they should expect, and this is what people have been asking for some time, tell us where we're going. Give us a road map ahead. And that is what the prime minister will do.\"\n\nHe added: \"The worst thing that could happen is that after the huge effort we've all put in… we don't want to have a second peak that overwhelms the NHS.\"\n\nNewspapers reported UK government sources saying some lockdown measures will be lifted as early as Monday and the BBC's political editor Laura Kuennsberg reported the \"stay at home\" slogan is on the way out.\n\nMr Johnson had also said in the Commons on Wednesday he wanted to possibly \"get going\" with some measures to ease lockdown on Monday.\n\nBut BBC Newsnight's political editor Nicholas Watt said the government \"had a wobble\" after Mr Johnson \"gave the impression to some people that more significant changes were on the way\".\n\nAnd the Welsh and Scottish governments suggested No 10 had sent \"mixed messages\" about the lockdown.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have the power to make their own decisions on lockdown regulations:\n\nNo 10 has said Mr Johnson is in favour of a UK-wide approach, even if different parts begin to move at slightly different speeds based on the evidence for each nation.\n\nMr Johnson says the UK government will act with \"maximum caution\" when beginning to ease the lockdown\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab told Thursday's No 10 briefing the virus' reproduction value - known as the R number - was between 0.5 and 0.9. UK public health bodies want the R number to stay below one.\n\nJohn Edmunds, professor of infectious disease modelling at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told MPs he believed the R number had risen in the past two weeks, despite the lockdown.\n\nHe said latest estimates put it currently between 0.75 and one.\n\nOffice for National Statistics chief Sir Ian Diamond Thursday's briefing the assessment that the number had risen was driven by the spread in care homes.\n\n\"That gives us a real challenge to reduce the epidemic in care homes and it's one that I think - over the next few weeks from what I see happening - will happen,\" Sir Ian said.\n\nSocially distanced residents in Northampton take part in the seventh Clap for Carers\n\nMet Police officers patrol Westminster Bridge, after crowds congregated there during the weekly clap\n\nNorth of England ballroom champions Roman Sukhomlyn and India Phillips obey the lockdown and practise at home\n\nHow have you been affected by coronavirus? Are you among those shielded or being tested? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "Leon and June were together for 62 years\n\nGogglebox star June Bernicoff has died at the age of 82, Channel 4 has announced.\n\nThe broadcaster said she was \"at home with her family by her side\" and died on Tuesday after a short illness - which was not related to coronavirus.\n\nBernicoff appeared on the reality TV show with her late husband Leon.\n\n\"As the first couple to be cast for Gogglebox back in 2013, June and her husband Leon were a huge part of the programme's success,\" Channel 4 said.\n\n\"Their warmth, wit and contrasting personalities endeared them to the nation during the course of the first 10 series.\"\n\nWriting on Twitter, Gogglebox producer Tania Alexander said: \"June and Leon were the Gogglebox originals & a huge part of the show's success. I adored them both. Big kiss June darling.\"\n\nThe Bafta-winning show features people sitting in their living rooms watching and reacting to television programmes.\n\nJune left the show after Leon's death in December 2017 at the age of 83. She went on to write her first book about their 60-year love affair, titled Leon And June: Our Story.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with June's family - Helen and Ian, Julie and Marc, and her beloved grandchildren Frances, Sam and Faye,\" Channel 4's statement said.\n\nLeon and June were the first people to be cast for Gogglebox when the show started in 2013\n\n\"The family would like to ask for privacy at this sad time, but would like to thank the hospice staff that supported them and cared for June so wonderfully and with such compassion in her final weeks.\"\n\nIt added June was a \"remarkably independent, principled woman with a vivacious sense of humour and a huge passion for life\".\n\n\"Despite her departure from the show in 2017, she remained a passionate supporter of the programme, watching it every week, and she was in regular contact with the production team.\"\n\nThe Bernicoffs appeared on the show from their home in Allerton, Liverpool, although June reportedly moved to be near her family in Warwickshire last year.\n\nGogglebox star Stephen Webb tweeted: \"Rest in peace our June, reunited with Leon! Forever in our hearts.\"\n\nSky News presenter Kay Burley said: \"So very sad to hear that June Bernicoff has died after a short illness. Together with Leon, who passed away two years ago, she was a brilliant addition to Gogglebox.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Airlines have reacted angrily to government suggestions that the UK could implement a 14-day quarantine for anyone arriving in the country.\n\nTransport secretary Grant Shapps said he was \"actively looking at these issues so that when we have infection rates within the country under control we're not importing\".\n\nBut Airlines UK said such a measure \"would effectively kill air travel\".\n\nIt warned that the UK risked shutting itself from the rest of the world.\n\nMr Shapps told the Andrew Marr Programme that as the coronavirus infection rate in the UK decreases, it was important \"that we do ensure that the sacrifices...that we're asking the British people to make are matched by anyone who comes to this country\".\n\nHowever, Airlines UK, which represents the likes of British Airways, Easyjet, Virgin Atlantic and Ryanair, said a quarantine would \"completely shut off the UK from the rest of the world when other countries are opening up their economies\".\n\nIts chief executive, Tim Alderslade, said: \"The danger is it would be a blunt tool measure when what the UK should be doing is leading internationally with health and aviation authorities on common standards, including health screening, which will enable our sector to restart and give people assurances that it's safe to travel.\"\n\nAir travel has ground to a halt because of the global coronavirus pandemic, prompting steep jobs cuts by the industry.\n\nLast week, Ryanair said it planned to axe 3,000 workers and ask remaining staff to take a pay cut.\n\nBA said it would cut 12,000 of its workforce and warned that it may not reopen at Gatwick once the pandemic passes.", "A member of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) Marjorie drove a general to the signing of the treaty in Reims\n\n\"There was singing and great great joy, there was no question it was all over.\"\n\nStanding in the packed streets of Versailles, France, 75 years ago, Marjorie Morgan celebrated VE Day.\n\nJust hours before, she had driven an Allied general to Reims, and stood outside as a German general signed the unconditional surrender to end World War Two in Europe.\n\n\"To me it was just a job, it was something you think about afterwards\", she said.\n\nWhile the 98-year-old believes there was nothing remarkable about her role during the war, hers is one of the many incredible stories of sacrifice made by people from communities across Wales all those years ago.\n\nToday, like others who remember that time, Marjorie will celebrate the anniversary of VE Day on a much smaller scale, unable to see her family in person due to the coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eva May Cotter, who turns 100 on Monday, recalls the \"whirlwind\" of VE Day\n\n\"I've got to be honest, I think this thing we're going through now is worse than the war,\" she said. \"At least we knew who our enemy was.\"\n\nThe great-grandmother of 14 will be joining in the celebrations going on across Wales, including a sing-along, raising a toast and enjoying scones in a socially-distanced party with her neighbours on her street in Barry in south Wales.\n\nAfter VE Day Marjorie went on to Frankfurt and to the British Army headquarters in Berlin\n\nMarjorie, like thousands of women, joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), the women's branch of the British Army during the war effort.\n\nAfter spending years as an army driving instructor, by 1945 she was driving generals, and ended up driving to the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) in Reims, where General Alfred Jodl, German Chief of Operations, signed the unconditional surrender.\n\nBut when her car was requisitioned by another general of a higher rank, Marjorie described how the general \"stole\" a jeep to get there instead, but the gearstick was stuck, and she had to drive all the way there in first gear.\n\nThe surrender in Reims was signed in the early hours of 7 May. There was supposed to be a 36 hour embargo so generals could inform their troops, but it was leaked by the press a day early - so VE Day fell on 8 May.\n\nMarjorie said for her that VE Day \"was a day of fun\" and \"then it was back to work again\"\n\nAfterwards, she was invited by the general to go on a tour of a Champagne cave, before heading back to Versailles, where the streets were \"packed\".\n\n\"It was tremendous as you can imagine,\" she said.\n\nShe said the war was \"very grim\", and she remembers the bombs falling in London, when she worked at the War Office, but she felt \"very detached from it\".\n\n\"The bombs had a very specific droning noise, when the engine cut out, and it cut out dead, you knew it was coming down, and you'd hear a thud where it landed,\" she recalled.\n\n\"You don't get scared for long ever, about a quarter of an hour. In the end, you felt almost blase about it, you don't stay terrified, it's hard to believe but it's a fact.\"\n\n\"A lot of my men of my age were shot, torpedoed, bombed on that beach\", says William Davies as he remembers fighting in Arromanches, in Normandy.\n\nMr Davies, an RAF veteran who described himself as a \"rookie\", landed in France just after D-Day, in June 1944.\n\nThe 97-year-old, from Tregaron, Ceredigion, went back to the beach last year, in an emotional trip, where he remembered his friends who lost their lives.\n\nDuring the visit, his nephew found his name on a statue with veterans' names listed.\n\n\"There it was, 'William Davies,'\" he said, \"all the names of the boys who were in Creully.\"\n\n\"I though the French people of Creully putting our names up there was something very, very special to me, and I have never forgotten that.\"\n\nThis year William will not be celebrating VE Day due to the pandemic, but paid tribute to the NHS.\n\n\"We've got to admire these people that go and help people,\" he said. \"They are much braver than some of us war veterans.\"\n\nDraped in a cloak, Betty Hughes was crowned \"Victory Queen\" in Holyhead, Anglesey.\n\nThe 96-year-old, who was just 21 back then, was living with her grandmother and working as an ambulance driver when the war ended.\n\nWith little money, she said the community rallied around to help her fit the part for the big day, with her family giving their ration coupons so she could afford the beautiful satin, which she picked out in Hendersons, in Liverpool.\n\nA dress was made, a cloak hired and her crown paid for by the council.\n\nNow 96, Betty Hughes remembers being driven around Holyhead to different celebrations\n\nWhen the day came she was crowned by \"Mrs Darcie of Bangor\".\n\n\"I was driven around in the Lord Mayor's car, to street parties,\" she said.\n\n\"I had to attend as many as I could and have a cup of tea at each one,\" she said.\n\nEva May Cotter, 100 on Monday, remembers people's excitement on VE Day\n\nEva May Cotter heard about the German surrender on the TV, and remembers people partying in the streets.\n\nThe 99-year-old, who turns 100 on Monday, said VE Day was a \"whirlwind\", with \"tables all up the road\" where she lived in Cynon Valley.\n\n\"We all had caps with red, white and blue, we made sandwiches and cakes and everything for the children,\" she said.\n\nEva, who now lives in Mountain Ash, had just left school when the war broke out, and she was called up to make shells in a munitions factory in Abercynon.\n\nShe gave birth to her son after her husband, Dennis, visited while on leave, and she said doing it on her own \"wasn't easy\".\n\nWhen Dennis returned he worked as a colliery shift engineer, but Eva said after the war things were hard.\n\n\"People were poor,\" Eva said. \"It was a struggle, no one was rich, but we all survived.\"", "New York, the US financial capital, is also one of the US hotspots for the coronavirus\n\nThe US unemployment rate has risen to 14.7%, with 20.5 million jobs lost in April, as the coronavirus pandemic devastated the economy.\n\nThe rise means the jobless rate is now worse than at any time since the Great Depression of the 1930s.\n\nSince the pandemic began, the US has suffered its worst growth numbers in a decade and the worst retail sales report on record.\n\nJust two months ago, the unemployment rate was at 3.5%, a 50-year low.\n\n\"It is historically unprecedented,\" said economist Erica Groshen, former head of the government's Bureau of Labor Statistics, who now teaches at Cornell University. \"We have put our economy into a medically induced coma in order to heal it from the pandemic... and that has led to the most precipitous loss of jobs seen in any of the modern data.\"\n\nThe report from the Labor Department showed declines in every sector of the economy.\n\nLeisure and hospitality was hit especially hard, with payrolls falling by 7.7 million or 47%. Employers in education and health services cut 2.5 million positions, while retailers shed 2.1 million.\n\nThe Labor Department said more than three-quarters of those without jobs described themselves as temporarily laid off, a sign that many of those currently without work are hopeful that the economy will be able to rebound.\n\nBut economists warned that the pandemic is likely to force major changes to businesses - such as limits on how many people may be in a restaurant at one time - that could reduce the need for workers. And the longer the shutdown lasts, the more likely it is that a business will not survive.\n\n\"Even a temporary layoff can turn into a permanent one if the business doesn't survive or if the business has to change its business model so dramatically that it needs different numbers or a different kind of worker,\" Ms Groshen said.\n\nThe economic crisis is not unique to the US. In the UK, the Bank of England has warned of the sharpest recession on record, while Canada on Friday reported its unemployment rate had increased 5.2 percentage points to 13% last month.\n\nStatistics Canada estimated that about a third of the workforce was either out of work, or working less than half of their usual hours.\n\nIn an appearance on the Fox News channel, US President Donald Trump shrugged off the 20.5 million jobs lost in the US as \"totally expected\" and \"no surprise\".\n\n\"Even the Democrats aren't blaming me for that. What I can do is I can bring it back,\" he said as the figures were released.\n\nBut bankruptcies have already claimed retailers such as J Crew and Neiman Marcus, as well as many firms in the energy sector, where a collapse in oil prices, due in part to a pandemic-related drop in demand, has worsened the strains.\n\nThe jobless rate for black workers is the highest since 2010, and is at a record among Hispanics\n\nWhile some states have already started to relax restrictions, re-starting the economy is likely to be difficult, as workers worry about the risk of infection and grapple with the impact of school closures.\n\n\"I'm not certain what's going to happen next,\" said Tanya Nikolaevskaya, a legal assistant in New York, who was furloughed last month, after working from home in March.\n\nMs Nikolaevskaya hopes to return to what she described as her dream job, but she has a medical condition that makes her worried about infection and is a single mother, whose 8-year-old daughter will need care if schools do not reopen.\n\n\"It's all about, 'Is there childcare,'\" she said. \"If I will not have childcare, I will not be able to go back.\"\n\nThe number of people in the labor force - working or looking for work - fell 2.5% last month, to its lowest level since 1970, while those reporting reduced hours or an inability to find a full-time job nearly doubled.\n\nThe Labor Department warned that the situation might be worse than estimated, pointing to the spike in the number of people who said they were employed but \"absent from work\". Including those responses suggests an unemployment rate closer to 20%, it said.\n\nAmong black workers, the unemployment rate jumped to 16.7%, the highest since 2010. Among Hispanics, it surged to a record 18.9%, while it climbed to a lower - but still record-setting - 14.2% among white workers.\n\nOverall, the unemployment rate was the highest recorded in data back to 1948, while the over-the-month jobs decline was the largest reported in data back to 1939.\n\n\"The scale of the challenge cannot be overstated,\" said Robert Alster, head of investment services at wealth manager Close Brothers Asset Management.", "It is dangerous to draw too many parallels between coronavirus and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, that killed at least 50 million people around the world.\n\nCovid-19 is an entirely new disease, which disproportionately affects older people. The deadly strain of influenza that swept the globe in 1918 tended to strike those aged between 20 and 30, with strong immune systems.\n\nBut the actions taken by governments and individuals to prevent the spread of infection have a familiar ring to them.\n\nPublic Health England studied the Spanish flu outbreak to draw up its initial contingency plan for coronavirus, the key lesson being that the second wave of the disease, in the autumn of 1918, proved to be far more deadly than the first.\n\nWomen from the Department of War take 15-minute walks to breathe in fresh air every morning and night to ward off the influenza virus during World War I, c. 1918. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)\n\nBritain was still at war when the virus claimed its first recorded victim, in May 1918. The government, like many others, was caught on the hop. It appears to have decided that the war effort took precedence over preventing flu deaths.\n\nThe disease spread like wildfire in crowded troop transports and munitions factories, and on buses and trains, according to a 1919 report by Sir Arthur Newsholme for the Royal Society of Medicine.\n\nBut a \"memorandum for public use\" he had written in July 1918, that advised people to stay at home if they were sick and to avoid large gatherings, was buried by the government.\n\nSir Arthur argued that many lives could have been saved if these rules had been followed, but he added: \"There are national circumstances in which the major duty is to 'carry on', even when risk to health and life is involved.\"\n\nThe flu did not originate in Spain, but Spain was the first country to report deaths from it, leading to the assumption that it must have started there. Spain's newspapers were not subject to wartime censorship, because it was a neutral country. News of the epidemic was initially suppressed in other countries to avoid damaging morale.\n\nIn 1918, there were no treatments for influenza and no antibiotics to treat complications such as pneumonia. Hospitals were quickly overwhelmed.\n\nThere was no centrally imposed lockdown to curb the spread of infection, although many theatres, dance halls, cinemas and churches were closed, in some cases for months.\n\nPubs, which were already subject to wartime restrictions on opening hours, mostly stayed open. The Football League and the FA Cup had been cancelled for the war, but there was no effort to cancel other matches or limit crowds, with men's teams playing in regional competitions, and women's football, which attracted large crowds, continuing throughout the pandemic.\n\nStreets in some towns and cities were sprayed with disinfectant and some people wore anti-germ masks, as they went about their daily lives.\n\nPublic health messages were confused - and, just like today, fake news and conspiracy theories abounded, although the general level of ignorance about healthy lifestyles did not help.\n\nIn some factories, no-smoking rules were relaxed, in the belief that cigarettes would help prevent infection.\n\nDuring a Commons debate on the pandemic, Conservative MP Claude Lowther asked: \"Is it a fact that a sure preventative against influenza is cocoa taken three times a day?\"\n\nPublicity campaigns and leaflets warned against spreading disease through coughs and sneezes.\n\nIn November 1918, the News of the World advised its readers to: \"wash inside nose with soap and water each night and morning; force yourself to sneeze night and morning, then breathe deeply. Do not wear a muffler; take sharp walks regularly and walk home from work; eat plenty of porridge.\"\n\nNo country was untouched by the 1918 pandemic, although the scale of its impact, and of government efforts to protect their populations, varied widely.\n\nIn the United States, some states imposed quarantines on their citizens, with mixed results, while others tried to make the wearing of face masks compulsory. Cinemas, theatres and other places of entertainment were closed across the country.\n\nNew York was better prepared than most US cities, having already been through a 20-year campaign against tuberculosis, and as a result suffered a lower death rate.\n\nNevertheless, the city's health commissioner came under pressure from businesses to keep premises open, particularly movie theatres and other places of entertainment.\n\nA New York city street sweeper wears a mask to help check the spread of the influenza epidemic, October 1918. In the view of one official of the New York Health Board, it is 'Better be ridiculous, than dead'. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)\n\nThen, as now, fresh air was seen as a potential bulwark against the spread of infection, leading to some ingenious solutions to keep society going.\n\nCourt is held outdoors in a park due to the epidemic, San Francisco, 1918. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)\n\nBut it proved impossible to prevent mass gatherings in many US cities, particularly at places of worship.\n\nThe congregation praying on the steps of the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption, where they gathered to hear Mass and pray during the influenza epidemic, San Francisco, California.\n\nBy the end of the pandemic, the death toll in Britain was 228,000, and a quarter of the population are thought to have been infected.\n\nEfforts to kill the virus continued for some time, and the population were more aware than ever of the potentially deadly nature of seasonal influenza.\n\nA man sprays a bus of the London General Omnibus Co, with anti-flu preparation in March 1920. (Photo by H. F. Davis/Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)", "People across the UK have marked the 75th anniversary of VE Day amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMillions of people throughout the country fell silent at 11:00 BST on Friday to remember those who served in World War Two.\n\nFriday marks 75 years since the formal acceptance by Britain and its allies of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender.\n\nThe RAF staged flypasts across the country, with the Red Arrows soaring through the sky above Buckingham Palace and the London Eye\n\nThe RAF, seen here above the Houses of Parliament, also flew Typhoon jets over Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast\n\nBuildings around the country, including No 10, have been decorated in bunting to mark the occasion\n\nVeteran Lou Myers, 93 bows his head at the Cenotaph on Whitehall in central London as he takes part in a national two minute silence\n\nMembers of the armed forces took part in a service at the Cenotaph\n\nMax Panton, seven, and his five-year-old brother Theo joined the silence wearing their replica RAF Red Arrows uniforms\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon marks the silence outside St Andrew's House in Edinburgh\n\nFormer soldier Ralph Harvey, 89, heads out on VE Day in Redcar, North Yorkshire\n\nResidents of Cambrian Road in Chester dressed up in period costume take part in a socially distanced street party\n\nResidents of Portola Close in Grappenhall, Cheshire, celebrate VE Day in a model tank\n\nAll pictures are subject to copyright.", "The issue of biosecurity is set to become increasingly important to prevent alien invasive pathogens entering UK habitats\n\nA study suggests that some types of environment help block the spread of ash dieback disease, which threatens millions of ash trees in the UK.\n\nLandscapes with hedgerows and woods made up of several types of tree resisted the pathogen better than areas where ash trees predominated.\n\nThe deadly fungus had been present in Europe for a number of decades before it arrived in the UK in 2012.\n\nThe findings have been published in the Journal of Ecology.\n\nAsh trees are one of the UK's most abundant tree species. And it's estimated that ash dieback, could cost the UK economy billions of pounds.\n\nThe fungus that causes ash dieback causes the loss of leaves and leads to parts of the tree dying.\n\nThe researchers looked at the disease's progress in an area of north-eastern France, monitoring the initial stages of its spread during 2012, which was about two years after the fungus was first recorded in the area.\n\nThey then assessed the same area again between 2016 and 2018 once the disease had a chance to establish itself in the countryside.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBenoit Marcais, director of research at the French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE) explained that understanding how the landscape affected the spread and severity of the tree disease was important from a scientific and practical point of view.\n\n\"(The) arrival of ash dieback close to my lab in a diversified landscape, with ashes in contrasting situations, offered a good opportunity to make some progress in the question,\" he said.\n\nReferred to as the common or European ash, the tree - the UK's only native ash species - is scientifically known as Fraxinus excelsior.\n\nWithin the UK, it is the third most abundant species of broadleaved tree (after oak and birch), covering 129,000 hectares of woodland.\n\nAsh is a highly important species within the UK's hedgerows and accounts for about 10% of the nation's estimated 123 million \"non-woodland\" trees.\n\nAsh dieback first arrived on UK shores back in March 2012, when it was found on some ash trees in a nursery. In October of that year, tree lovers' worst fears were realised when it was found in the wild, within a woodland in Norfolk.\n\nSince then, the disease has spread to all parts of the UK. A recent estimate suggested that ash dieback would cost the UK economy £15bn. This estimate arises from the cost of clearing up dead and dying trees and includes lost benefits provided by the trees; through water and air purification and locking in carbon from the atmosphere.\n\nThere were fears that ash, as a species, could have been wiped from our landscapes as a result of dieback\n\nDr Marcais and his team monitored a network of plots in north-eastern France, looking for evidence of dieback on trees, as well as the presence of the fungus that causes the disease - Hymenoscyphus fraxineus - in the forest litter (the mixture of leaves and other organic material on the forest floor).\n\nHe told BBC News that the micro-organism spread quickly and efficiently throughout the study area within a few years of being first recorded.\n\nThe study revealed surprising results, as Dr Marcais explained: \"Ash dieback, however, shows very contrasting severity depending on the environment, remaining mild on trees in open canopies (hedges, isolated trees) or on trees in forest with a mixture of tree species and just a few ashes,\" Dr Marcais observed.\n\nHowever, locations that had a high density of ash trees, such as ash woodland, did display the consequences of being severely affected by dieback.\n\nDiseased saplings typically display dead tops and side shoots. Lesions are often found at base of dead side shoots. Meanwhile, lesions on branch or stem can cause wilting of foliage above. The disease affects mature trees by killing off new growth.\n\nDr Marcais said it was surprising to record a high amount of the fungal pathogen in the forest litter yet seeing such as contrast between areas with a high density of ash trees and those areas, such as hedgerows, with a lower density of the trees.\n\nYoung and susceptible ash trees quickly succumb to the pathogen\n\nReassuringly, the findings from the study seemed to support the growing scientific view that the disease will not wipe out ash trees from the landscape in Europe.\n\nBut, he added: \"The work helps identify the situations where ash is little-affected by ash dieback.\n\n\"In particular, we identify that under a certain ash density, the disease will remain mild.\"\n\nThe findings will be welcomed by foresters and policymakers alike, who have been \"keen to have more precise thresholds of ash density to improve management, as ash is already common in mixed tree species stands\".\n\nHowever the silver lining this study provides still surrounds a very dark cloud, which tells us that pure ash woodlands are \"very harshly struck by the disease\".", "Terry Clark fought in the Battle of Britain in summer 1940\n\nOne of the last survivors of the Battle of Britain, Flight Lieutenant Terry Clark, has died aged 101.\n\nMr Clark, originally from Croydon, had been living at a North Yorkshire care home where he died on Thursday, the eve of the 75th anniversary of VE Day.\n\nHis death leaves John \"Paddy\" Hemingway as the last member of \"The Few\" who took to the skies in summer 1940.\n\nMr Clark served as a radar operator during World War Two, defending the UK against Luftwaffe attacks.\n\nThe Battle of Britain led to the deaths of 544 RAF pilots and aircrew out of a group of 3,000.\n\nTheir bravery and sacrifice in withstanding the greater numbers of German pilots of the Luftwaffe and a possible invasion was recognised by then Prime Minister Winston Churchill.\n\n\"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few,\" he told MPs.\n\nRAF Benevolent Fund controller Air Vice-Marshal Chris Elliot said: \"Our condolences go to Terry's family and friends at this sad time.\n\n\"This news is especially poignant as we remember the bravery and sacrifice of all those who fought for us today, the 75th anniversary of VE Day.\n\nThe RAF Benevolent Fund said Mr Clark \"answered their country's call without question\"\n\n\"Terry belonged to a generation of servicemen and women who answered their country's call without question.\n\n\"We owe a debt of gratitude to every one of them and their legacy must be to remember their service.\"\n\nShe added: \"John 'Paddy' Hemingway is now the last surviving member of The Few and in September we will mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the battle.\n\n\"The RAF Benevolent Fund will be paying tribute to those pilots and air crew who 'gave so much to so many'.\"\n\nThe Battle of Britain Memorial said Mr Clark joined No 615 Squadron of the Auxiliary Air Force at Kenley in March 1938 as an aircrafthand, before training to become an air gunner, flying Hawker Hectors on Army Co-operation duties.\n\nHe joined No 219 Squadron at Catterick on 12 July 1940, two days into the Battle of Britain, and later trained on radar as a Radio Observer, flying in Beaufighters.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "There is \"no headroom\" to lift any Covid-19 lockdown restrictions in NI yet, the first and deputy first ministers have said.\n\nIt had been hoped the executive would publish a recovery plan on Thursday.\n\nMichelle O'Neill later tweeted the Executive had agreed to extend restrictions for three more weeks.\n\nShe and Arlene Foster also recommended face coverings be worn in enclosed spaces, if social distancing was not possible.\n\n\"The best way\" to honour World War Two veterans and VE Day on Friday was to stay home, added Mrs Foster, the first minister.\n\nExecutive ministers met for more than three hours on Thursday, ahead of a call between the PM and leaders of the devolved institutions.\n\nThey agreed to recommend that people in Northern Ireland should now wear face coverings when they were in enclosed spaces for short periods of time, where social distancing is not possible.\n\nThe decision was taken in line with scientific advice, Mrs Foster told the Executive's daily press conference.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann later said that while evidence on the overall protection provided by face coverings \"is not conclusive, on balance it is sufficient to recommend that members of the public consider using them in particular circumstances\".\n\n\"In practice, these circumstances will largely relate to public transport and retail environments,\" he added.\n\n\"Their use will not be mandatory. Crucially, face coverings must not lead to any false sense of security about the level of protection provided.\"\n\nOn Sunday night, Boris Johnson will set out his own plan aimed at beginning to ease the UK lockdown.\n\nThe Executive had to review its coronavirus legislation by Saturday, and will not make any changes to it at this stage.\n\nThe regulations initially took effect in Northern Ireland on 28 March, and have already been extended once.\n\nSocial distancing measures have been introduced to slow the spread of coronavirus\n\nMs O'Neill, who had previously said she wanted a recovery plan published on Thursday, said she recognised \"many people will be disappointed\".\n\n\"Every decision we will make will have an impact, we're in a precarious situation and we're not in a position today where we're able to relax anything at this time.\"\n\nThe deputy first minister outlined specific criteria that must be met before the lockdown can be eased:\n\nMinisters will consider making a \"minor number of changes\" to the legislation next week, added Mrs Foster.\n\nNorthern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have the power to diverge from what the government at Westminster decides on the lockdown - and could lift restrictions at a different rate.\n\nEarlier, Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has said her preference was for the four parts of the UK to move together, but said any decisions \"must be taken with great care\".\n\nIt comes as four more deaths of people with coronavirus have been confirmed in Northern Ireland, bringing the total to 422. The Department of Health figures relate mostly to hospital deaths and are likely to increase.\n\nIn other developments on Thursday:\n\nA number of Stormont ministers have said they do not support placing projected dates on phases of lifting lockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland, in case certain measures need to be re-imposed.\n\nLast week, Agriculture and Environment Minister Edwin Poots called for churches and garden centres to reopen on a controlled basis.\n\nThe executive recognises the lifting of any restrictions will not be without risk, and is concerned that if some measures are relaxed too quickly, it could lead to another surge of infections.\n\n\"We want to be clear and give reassurance, we hope in the next few days to publish that roadmap, and give you phases for the next few weeks and months,\" said Ms O'Neill.\n\nMrs Foster added that the executive would continue its work on a recovery blueprint over the next few days, and stressed that people should not be complacent this weekend.\n\nAhead of the 75th anniversary of VE day on Friday, which marks the day peace emerged after World War Two, the first minister warned the public against celebrating with others.\n\n\"The best way we can honour those in World War Two who fought for freedom and won, the best way we can honour those who are fighting for us today on the health front line is to stay at home as much as possible,\" Mrs Foster said.\n\n\"Our world is a long way away from its VE day in the fight against coronavirus, and compared to the sacrifices asked of our parents and grandparents, what is being asked of us now is very small, but is hugely important.\"\n\nOn Thursday, a further four deaths related to Covid-19 in Northern Ireland were reported by the Department of Health.\n\nIt brings the department's total death toll, mostly comprised of hospital fatalities, to at least 422.\n\nTwo sets of figures are published in Northern Ireland:\n\nNorthern Ireland's overall death toll will be higher when all deaths in the community are recorded.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, it was announced on Thursday that a further 29 people with Covid-19 had died, bringing the death toll there to 1,403.", "The messages give us insight into \"the real people behind the machinery of war\", says GCHQ's historian\n\nThe last German military communications decoded at Bletchley Park in World War Two have been revealed to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day.\n\nThey were broadcast on 7 May 1945 by a military radio network making its final stand in Cuxhaven on Germany's North Sea coast.\n\nThe message reports the arrival of British troops and ends: \"Closing down for ever - all the best - goodbye.\"\n\nAfter Germany surrendered, VE Day was declared the next day.\n\nIn 1944, this German military radio network, codenamed BROWN, had extended across Europe sending reports about the development of experimental weapons.\n\nBut a year later, as the Allies entered the town and closed in on his position, a radio operator at his post signed off to any colleagues who might still be listening.\n\nHis words - sent at 07:35 on 7 May - would be the last from the German military intercepted by codebreakers at Bletchley Park before the surrender.\n\n\"British troops entered Cuxhaven at 1400 on 6 May. From now on all radio traffic will cease - wishing you all the best,\" the message from a Lieutenant Kunkel said.\n\nThis was immediately followed by: \"Closing down for ever - all the best - goodbye\".\n\n\"Auf Wiedersehen\" says the last message intercepted by Bletchley Park\n\nIn another message intercepted a few days earlier - also released by Bletchley Park's successor organisation GCHQ as part of the VE Day anniversary celebrations - a German soldier based on the Danish coast asked his radio control whether they had any spare cigarettes.\n\n\"No cigarettes here,\" came the reply.\n\nThe material is being digitised by the Bletchley Park Trust and will eventually be available in its entirety.\n\n\"These transcripts give us a small insight into the real people behind the machinery of war,\" says GCHQ historian Tony Comer.\n\nBletchley Park's war-time work breaking enemy codes - most famously those made by the Enigma machine - was kept entirely secret, not just during the war, but for many years after.\n\nThe intelligence it produced was credited with shortening the conflict and saving many lives.\n\nThe transcripts are being digitised by the Bletchley Park Trust\n\nBut even as the war in Europe ended, Bletchley Park carried on working - deciphering Japanese codes as well as monitoring German communications to confirm that Nazi forces were surrendering and that there would be no attempt to mount a last stand.\n\nAlmost 9,000 people were working at Bletchley Park in the spring of 1945, the majority of them women. Helen Andrews, who began working at Bletchley Park when she was 17 and who is now a Chelsea pensioner aged 94, said she remembered a festive atmosphere on VE Day.\n\n\"A bloke came into the room where we were working and said: 'It's all over. They've surrendered.'\"\n\nFormer codebreaker Helen Andrews - now a Chelsea pensioner - hitched to London to celebrate the first VE Day\n\nThere was a tea party followed by music and dancing, she said. She described her emotions as a release from anxiety coupled with exhaustion.\n\nAlong with some friends she worked with, Mrs Andrews hitched a lift to London and headed down to Trafalgar Square, where people were singing and jumping in the fountains.\n\nShe then hitched back in a lorry after midnight. She returned to work at Bletchley after VE Day - but did not talk about what she did there for another 70 years.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trevor Weston \"showed great bravery,\" police said at the time\n\nA would-be mugger who fled when his 77-year-old victim fought back has been jailed for three-and-a-half years.\n\nTrevor Weston was using a cash machine at Sainsbury's in Roath, Cardiff, on 5 February when he was told to hand over money in what prosecutors said was a \"cowardly\" attack.\n\nBut instead of handing it over, CCTV shows Mr Weston put up his fists.\n\nMichael Leonard Collins, 40, from Tremorfa, Cardiff, was sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court on Thursday.\n\nCollins, who had earlier admitted attempted robbery, had told Mr Weston \"give me your money and card or I'll stab you,\" said Tim Evans, prosecuting.\n\nBut flat-capped Mr Weston put up his fists and said: \"Do you want some of this pal?\"\n\nMr Weston said his granddaughter kept wanting to watch the footage\n\n\"To deliberately target an obviously elderly gentleman alone at twilight is not only an aggravating feature but is also plainly a cowardly attack,\" Mr Evans added.\n\n\"This particular coward picked on the wrong man. He wanted the victim's cash. Instead he got a left hook.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Wales before the case, Mr Weston, also of Tremorfa, had said he had managed to catch Collins on the jaw.\n\n\"I cracked him a couple of times and he looked stunned, like he couldn't believe what I was doing,\" he had said.\n\n\"And, to be honest, neither could I.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trevor Weston said just because people are \"old\" they are \"not there for the taking\".\n\nMr Weston later made a victim impact statement, in which he said: \"I went home. I sat down and ate breakfast. I was watching the TV and it suddenly dawned on me what could have happened.\n\n\"I was very shaky. I think I was shocked. Looking back at this time I am thankful that nothing worse happened.\"\n\nPolice studied the CCTV and an officer recognised Collins - but he denied it when he was arrested.\n\nCardiff Crown Court heard he has 57 previous convictions for 156 offences.\n\nSentencing Collins, Judge Richard Williams praised Mr Weston for his \"courage\" and \"determination\".\n\n\"You chose someone who you presumed wrongly to be vulnerable,\" he told Collins.", "Clive Hubbard had visited wife Doreen every day in her care home until he suffered a fall at home\n\nA devoted couple who were married for 63 years died within days of each other after developing coronavirus.\n\nClive Hubbard, 84, had a fall at home in Lowestoft, Suffolk and wife Doreen, 83, suffered dehydration, with both spending time in hospital.\n\nMrs Hubbard died of Covid-19 at her care home on 17 April. Her husband passed away eight days later.\n\nTheir daughter, Lorraine Radway, said: \"I'm devastated that they had to die alone.\"\n\n\"Theirs was a true love story - they absolutely adored each other,\" added Mrs Radway, who lives in Carlton Colville, near Lowestoft.\n\n\"It was so upsetting that we could not be with them when they needed us most.\"\n\nHer father had visited his wife every day at her care home in nearby Oulton Broad, having previously looked after her when she developed Alzheimer's.\n\nOn 16 March, he fell and dislocated his shoulder and was admitted to the James Paget Hospital, in Gorleston, Norfolk, where he needed surgery.\n\nDaughter Lorraine said it was awful the family could not be with Doreen and Clive when they needed them most\n\nDoreen and Clive had been together since their teens\n\nMrs Radway said he developed the symptoms of Covid-19 during his month-long stay and was unable to see his wife when she became ill.\n\nShe was brought to the same hospital for dehydration and would go on to suffer virus symptoms.\n\n\"Dad was on a ventilator after his operation. If not, he could have been to see her. He never got to see her again,\" said Mrs Radway.\n\nThe couple, pictured at a wedding anniversary party, were devoted to each other, their daughter said\n\nHe was sent home on 17 April, the same day his wife died - without her family or husband by her side due to lockdown rules.\n\nGrieving the love of his life and with his symptoms worsening, Mr Hubbard was re-admitted to hospital on 21 April.\n\nHis daughter was hopeful he would come home and had a video call with him on 25 April.\n\n\"He was on a ventilator so he couldn't really speak to us,\" she said.\n\n\"We told him we loved him and we wanted him to get better.\n\nA joint funeral will be held on 27 May, with the family keen to commemorate the couple at a later date.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brian May on re-making We Are The Champions for the NHS\n\nBrian May has said he is in \"relentless pain\" following a gardening mishap during lockdown.\n\n\"I managed to rip my Gluteus Maximus to shreds in a moment of over-enthusiastic gardening,\" the Queen star explained in an Instagram post on Thursday.\n\nMay said he had to go to hospital for a scan and would not be able to walk without assistance for a while.\n\nHe said he would \"need a complete break\" while he recovered from the injury.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by brianmayforreal This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe incident comes after Queen released a new version of We Are The Champions to raise money for the World Health Organization's Covid-19 fund.\n\nThe single, which has been renamed You Are The Champions as a tribute to medical staff, features May, drummer Roger Taylor and US singer Adam Lambert, and was recorded under lockdown.\n\nMay told the BBC last week that he was \"angry and sad\" that healthcare workers in the UK were \"expected to go in and risk their lives\" without proper protective equipment.\n\nA recent BBC Panorama investigation discovered that there were no gowns, visors, swabs or body bags in the government's pandemic stockpile when Covid-19 reached the UK.\n\nMore than 100 NHS and healthcare workers are known to have died with the virus during the outbreak.", "The public have been warned to stay vigilant to criminals selling fake coronavirus-related products.\n\nThe Local Government Association said some councils have seen a \"significant surge\" in reports of scams by those seeking to exploit virus fears.\n\nMore than 500,000 sub-standard masks were seized by a London council, while other criminals have attempted to trick people into giving personal details.\n\nThe LGA is calling on the public to report scams to their local council.\n\nFraudsters are seeking to take advantage of public fears by selling bogus medical products and other counterfeit items.\n\nThe LGA - which represents councils in England and Wales - said criminals have been preying on vulnerable and older people who are self-isolating.\n\nIn one case, a woman in her 80s answered the door to a man who demanded £220 to complete a health and safety check.\n\nMeanwhile, a telephone conman is being investigated after posing as a Swindon Council worker sorting lockdown food parcels, in a bid to obtain a pensioner's personal details.\n\nA car repair garage was reported after allegedly trying to sell coronavirus testing kits to customers.\n\nIn Ealing, 2,600 illegal bottles of hand sanitiser as well as 500,000 substandard face masks were taken off the market by the local council, according to the LGA.\n\nResidents are being tricked into buying goods online, door-to-door, by phone, text and email, the LGA said, with councils advising people not to accept services from strangers or cold callers.\n\nSimon Blackburn, chairman of the LGA's Safer and Stronger Communities Board, warned the public to be \"cautious\", adding: \"If something doesn't seem right or sounds too good to be true, don't hesitate to end a phone call, bin a letter, delete an email or shut the door.\"\n\nHe advised people to report scams to avoid others becoming victims of these \"despicable crimes\" and so fraudsters could be brought to justice, with councils seeking \"the toughest penalties\".\n\nIt comes after the National Crime Agency (NCA) warned the virus was increasingly being used as a \"hook to commit fraud\" and that such scams were \"likely to increase\" during the pandemic.\n\nAnd it's not just bogus health products being sold by fraudsters.\n\nSome people hoping to buy kittens and puppies during the lockdown are being conned with fake online advertisements, according to Action Fraud, with victims losing more than £280,000 in two months.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Any lockdown changes will be \"modest\", says Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab\n\nThe PM says the government will proceed with \"maximum caution\" when considering easing coronavirus restrictions.\n\nBoris Johnson is due to announce plans for England's lockdown on Sunday, but ministers have insisted short term changes to measures will be \"modest\".\n\nAt the government's daily briefing, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab described media reports on easing restrictions as \"not a reliable guide\".\n\nHe added that changes may vary between the different nations.\n\nIt comes after Scotland's lockdown was formally extended and the Northern Ireland Executive said there was \"no headroom\" yet to ease the lockdown.\n\nWales is due to announced its the nation's lockdown plans on Friday, after the Welsh government warned media reports speculating how Mr Johnson might ease lockdown measures risked sending \"mixed messages\" to the public.\n\nSome newspapers suggested the rules on exercise could be relaxed and more people encouraged to return to work.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have the power to make their own decisions on lockdown regulations - and could lift restrictions at a different rate.\n\nThe prime minister has told leaders of the devolved nations that he is committed to a UK-wide approach to tackling coronavirus \"even if different parts of the UK begin to move at slightly different speeds\", Downing Street said.\n\n\"Those decisions will be made based on the science for each nation,\" a No 10 spokesman added.\n\nThe latest figures show the total number of people who have died in hospitals, care homes and the wider community in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus is 30,615 - a daily increase of 539.\n\nThe UK provided some 86,583 tests in 24 hours to 09:00 BST on Thursday - meaning the government missed its 100,000-per-day target for the fifth consecutive day.\n\nThere were reports restrictions on outdoor exercise could be lifted in England from Monday\n\nPeople all over the UK joined in the weekly clap for NHS staff and other key workers on Thursday evening\n\nAt the briefing, Mr Raab said any short term changes to restrictions would be \"modest, small, incremental and very carefully monitored\".\n\nHe stressed that the existing rules would still apply over the bank holiday weekend and urged people to \"continue to follow the guidance\".\n\nFacing pressure over media reports suggesting the lockdown would be eased, the foreign secretary said that reports were \"not a reliable guide\" to future policy decisions.\n\nHe added that future decisions would be based on the reproduction number - known as the R level - which represents the average number of people that an infected person will pass the virus on to.\n\n\"If we find in the future the R level goes back up or that people aren't following the rules, we must have the ability then to put back measures in place,\" he said.\n\nMr Raab said the R number was somewhere between 0.5 and 0.9. However, Prof John Edmunds, who is advising the government, said earlier that it had actually risen slightly - to between 0.75 and one.\n\nAn R number greater than one would result in exponential growth in the number of cases. But if the number stays lower than one, the disease will eventually peter out as not enough new people are being infected to sustain the outbreak.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the R number and what does it mean?\n\nSir Ian Diamond, the chief statistician for the Office for National Statistics, said the current R number was below one.\n\nHowever, he said R had increased since the last estimates due to the rise in virus transmission in care homes.\n\nThe R number can be different in different parts of the country or in different settings, says the BBC's health reporter Rachel Schraer.\n\n\"The question is how contained they are or whether the epidemic in care homes will spread back into the community,\" she said.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the government was \"right to extend the lockdown\" until the infection rate was under control, saying that \"the health and safety of the nation needs to come first\".\n\nHe added that \"there needs to be absolute clarity that we must follow the rules\".\n\nWith much speculation about Sunday's announcement, the government seems keen to manage expectations.\n\nDominic Raab's emphasis was on gradual steps; he spoke of this being a delicate and dangerous moment with the virus remaining deadly.\n\nHe said the prime minister would set out a road map of how the country might come out of this lockdown, but the government doesn't want to release the handbrake and see the car race away just yet.\n\nToday's press conference seemed designed to both offer a glimmer of hope about how the country might move on from lockdown, and to shroud it in caution - with emphasis that current measures still remain in place.\n\nWhether that message comes across as clear, or confused, is the key question at what could be a crucial moment in managing this pandemic.\n\nBy law, the government must review the restrictions every three weeks, and Thursday marks the latest deadline.\n\nAlthough the lockdown - first announced on 23 March - will largely stay in place, the \"stay at home\" message is expected to be scrapped and it is likely more outdoor activities will be permitted. The prime minister will make his address at 19:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nMr Johnson has told opposition leaders he will deliver a statement in the House of Commons on the government's next steps on Monday.\n\nIn Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned it could be \"catastrophic\" to drop the stay at home message as she announced that the nation's lockdown was to be extended.\n\nShe said any easing of restrictions would be \"very risky\" at this stage, but said the Scottish government may be prepared to allow people to spend more time outdoors.\n\nScotland has already set out a number of options for lifting the lockdown.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would prefer the UK to make changes as a whole, but said the four nations could decide in a \"grown-up\" manner if they \"want to go different ways\".\n\nShe added that media reports about the prime minister planning to ease the lockdown had not been discussed with the Scottish government.\n\nEarlier, a Welsh government spokesman said it was \"crucially important\" people in Wales were \"informed clearly and accurately\" about any changes to the current restrictions.\n\n\"Some of the reporting in today's newspapers is confusing and risks sending mixed messages to people across the UK,\" he added.\n\nIt comes as the UK became the first country in Europe to record more than 30,000 people dying with coronavirus.\n\nIt has been just over nine weeks since the UK recorded its first death on 2 March. The personal stories of those who have died are continuing to emerge.\n\nAmong those was Dr Tariq Shafi, 61, who was the lead consultant for haematology for 13 years at Darent Valley Hospital in Dartford, Kent.\n\nDr Tariq Shaf was described as a \"dedicated and respected\" doctor\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Black men and women are nearly twice as likely to die with coronavirus as white people in England and Wales, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nThe analysis shows the inequality persists after taking into account age, where people live and some measures of deprivation and prior health.\n\nPeople from Indian, Bangladeshi and Pakistani communities also had a significantly higher risk of dying.\n\nThe government has launched a review into the issue.\n\nThe analysis by the ONS combined data on deaths involving Covid-19 with information on ethnicity from the 2011 census.\n\nTaking into account age, location and some measures of deprivation, disadvantage and prior health, it found black people were 90% more likely to die with Covid-19 than white people.\n\nMen and women from Indian, Bangladeshi and Pakistani communities had an increased risk of between 30% and 80%, the analysis found.\n\nThe ONS suggested some of the risk might be caused by other social and economic factors that are not included in the data.\n\nAnd it said that some ethnic groups may be \"over-represented in public-facing occupations\" and so more at risk of being infected while at work.\n\nThe ONS plans to examine the link between coronavirus risk and occupation.\n\nWithout taking into account factors such as prior health and location, the analysis found black people were more than four times as likely to die after contracting the virus.\n\nBut Prof Keith Neal, emeritus professor of the epidemiology of infectious diseases at the University of Nottingham, said that figure was \"misleading\".\n\nHe said not adjusting for \"known factors\" like whether groups were living in areas with more coronavirus cases could make the difference in risk appear even bigger than it was.\n\nAfter factoring in these issues, the death rate among black men and women was 1.9 times as high as white men and women. For Bangladeshi and Pakistani men the risk was 1.8 times higher, and for women in those communities it was 1.6 times higher.\n\nOne expert in communicable diseases said the NHS should pull BAME staff at greater risk of infection \"out of the front line\".\n\nDr Bharat Pankhania from the University of Exeter told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"Now that we know, we can say, we need to reduce your face-to-face consultations. Where face-to-face consultations are absolutely necessary, we are going to give you enhanced personal protective equipment to protect yourselves.\"\n\nAfterwards, he said, experts could investigate further whether the issue was caused by other health problems prevalent in ethnic minority communities, such as heart disease or diabetes, or whether there was another explanation.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab told the daily coronavirus briefing in Downing Street that Public Health England was investigating what \"interventions can sensibly be made\" to protect BAME frontline workers.\n\n\"We're very concerned about it, it's something we take very seriously,\" he said.\n\nThe raw numbers on coronavirus deaths in England and Wales and ethnicity are stark.\n\nPeople from black backgrounds make up just over 3% of the population but account for 6% of coronavirus deaths.\n\nBut what's causing this? Raw numbers don't give the reason why. You need to take account of the differences between communities that could explain it.\n\nMore people from black, Asian or minority ethnic communities live in cities where the epidemic has been worst. But white communities are older on average, and the coronavirus hits older people harder.\n\nIf you take account of age differences, but not of other factors, black people are four time more likely to die with coronavirus.\n\nIf you also take account of where people live, that difference falls but doesn't disappear: black people are just over twice as likely to die with coronavirus.\n\nAccounting for rough measures of health and wealth changes it a little, bringing the risk down to just under twice as likely. But the analysis doesn't address the impact of exposure at work or current health conditions.\n\nDavid Lammy, the shadow justice secretary, said the greater risk faced by black people was \"appalling\".\n\n\"It is urgent the causes of this disproportionality are investigated. Action must be taken to protect black men and women - as well as people from all backgrounds - from the virus,\" the Labour MP for Tottenham said on Twitter.\n\nNicole Andrews, a lecturer in health and social care at Newman University in Birmingham, told the BBC the figures were \"completely devastating\" but not surprising, as \"there is a long legacy of poor health outcomes for our communities\" in the UK.\n\nBlack and minority ethnic workers were more likely to be in front-line positions with more contact with the public, leading to a greater risk of the exposure to the virus, Dr Andrews said.\n\nResearch by the Health Foundation found that in London, while black and Asian workers made up 34% of the overall working population, they represented 54% of workers in food retail, 48% of health and social care staff, and 44% of people working in transport.\n\nHelen Barnard, acting director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, said workers from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds were also more likely to live in overcrowded homes, increasing the risk of the virus spreading to their families.\n\nShe said that the UK entered the crisis with \"a rising tide of low pay, insecure jobs and spiralling living costs\" and \"we must ask ourselves what kind of society we want to live in after the virus passes\".\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokeswoman said it had commissioned Public Health England to examine different factors such as ethnicity, obesity and geographical location that may influence the effect of the virus.\n\n\"It is critical we find out which groups are most at risk so we can take the right steps to protect them and minimise their risk,\" she said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. No quick return to normality, says Bank of England chief\n\nThe Bank of England has warned that the UK economy is heading towards its sharpest recession on record.\n\nThe coronavirus impact would see the economy shrink 14% this year, based on the lockdown being relaxed in June.\n\nScenarios drawn up by the Bank to illustrate the economic impact said Covid-19 was \"dramatically reducing jobs and incomes in the UK\".\n\nBank governor Andrew Bailey told the BBC there would be no quick return to normality.\n\nHe described the downturn as \"unprecedented\", and said consumers would remain cautious even when lockdown restrictions are lifted.\n\nMr Bailey said: \"Not all of the economic activity comes back. There's quite a sharp recovery. But we've also factored that people will be cautious of their own choice.\n\n\"They don't re-engage fully, and so it's really only until next summer that activity comes fully back.\"\n\nAlso on Thursday, policymakers voted unanimously to keep interest rates at a record low of 0.1%. However, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) that sets interest rates was split on whether to inject more stimulus into the economy.\n\nTwo of its nine members voted to increase the latest round of quantitative easing by £100bn to £300bn.\n\nThe Bank's analysis, published on Thursday, was based on the assumption that social distancing measures are gradually phased out between June and September.\n\nIts latest Monetary Policy Report showed the UK economy plunging into its first recession in more than a decade. The economy shrinks by 3% in the first quarter of 2020, followed by an unprecedented 25% decline in the three months to June.\n\nThis would push the UK into a technical recession, defined as two consecutive quarters of economic decline.\n\nThe Bank said the housing market had come to a standstill, while consumer spending had dropped by 30% in recent weeks.\n\nFor the year as a whole, the economy is expected to contract by 14%. This would be the biggest annual decline on record, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data dating back to 1949.\n\nIt would also be the sharpest annual contraction since 1706, according to reconstructed Bank of England data stretching back to the 18th Century.\n\nWhile UK growth is expected to rebound in 2021 to 15%, the size of the economy is not expected to get back to its pre-virus peak until the middle of next year.\n\nThe UK government is expected to start easing lockdown restrictions next week.\n\nThe Bank stressed that the outlook for the economy was \"unusually uncertain\" at present and would depend on how households and businesses responded to the pandemic.\n\nMr Bailey said he expected any permanent damage from the pandemic to be \"relatively small\". The economy was likely to recover \"much more rapidly than the pull back from the global financial crisis,\" he said.\n\nHe also praised the action by the government to support workers and businesses through wage subsidies, loans and grants. He said the success of these schemes and the Bank's own stimulus meant there would be \"limited scarring to the economy\".\n\n\"The furloughing scheme really does enable people to come back into the economy more quickly so it's a much quicker recovery that we've seen in the past.\"\n\nJames Smith, research director at the Resolution Foundation, said the hit to the economy this year was equivalent to £9,000 for every family in Britain.\n\nHe said: \"Faced with this huge economic hit, both the Bank and the government have made the right call in taking bold action to protect firms and families as much as possible.\"\n\nAverage weekly earnings are expected to shrink by 2% this year, reflecting the fall in wages for furloughed workers.\n\nThe Bank said sharp increases in benefit claims were \"consistent with a pronounced rise in the unemployment rate\", which is expected to climb above 9% this year, from the current rate of 4%.\n\nUnder the Bank's scenario, inflation, as measured by the consumer prices index (CPI) falls to zero at the start of next year amid the sharp drop in energy prices.It is also expected to remain well below the Bank's 2% target for the next two years.\n\nThe Bank's latest Financial Stability Report said the Bank's scenario was consistent with a 16% drop in house prices. Latest figures published by UK finance show one in seven mortgage holders has taken a payment holiday due to the coronavirus.\n\nThe Bank said the number of new mortgage deals on offer had halved in just over a month as banks focused on the deluge of payment holiday requests. This includes a huge contraction in deals for buyers with a deposit of less than 40% of the purchase price.\n\nThe MPC also highlighted the stark drop in consumer spending. It said spending on flights, hotels, restaurants and entertainment had dropped to a fifth of their previous levels.\n\nShopping at High Street retailers had dropped by 80%, while business confidence was described as \"severely depressed\".\n\nPhilip Shaw, an economist at Investec, described the Bank's scenario as \"optimistic\", particularly its assumption that unemployment would fall back to its pre-crisis low in two years.\n\n\"Exactly how the economy evolves will depend critically on how the government calibrates its policies and how they are unwound and tapered,\" he said. \"There is plenty that could go wrong.\"\n\nThe Bank of England itself has minimal staff, but they have applied themselves to try to work out what is happening in the economy. They are not sufficiently confident that the numbers they have run, the charts that they have published, constitute what they would call a \"forecast\".\n\nBut they do give the clearest indication that we are in recession, after the sharpest, fastest economic contraction in the three-century history of the Bank looking at these things.\n\nFaster than the financial crisis, and the Great Depression, and the earlier 1920s depression just before, the only things which come close.\n\n\"It is unprecedented in the recent history of this institution,\" Governor Andrew Bailey told me. \"What it really means is that obviously the very sharp sort of downturn, a product of the situation we've been in since March, and the restrictions that are in place, affect economic activity very severely,\"", "There are plans to increase train services from Monday 18 May across Britain in preparation for the eventual easing of travel restrictions.\n\nThe move will ensure the railways are able to cope with a rise in passengers when some people return to work.\n\nRail bosses and government sources told the BBC that services will be increased to about 70% of the normal timetable.\n\nAt the moment, only half of normal rail services are running due to the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nAdopting a new timetable and reintroducing more trains requires a lot of planning, so preparations are being made for an increase to - on average - around 70% of the full timetable.\n\nRail bosses say staff shortages within the industry due to illness or people self-isolating means the new timetable is the maximum level of service they can provide.\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Transport said: \"We are examining a range of options on how transport can respond to support the recovery in a timely way when the time comes and it is safe to do so.\n\n\"We continue to prepare for any scenario we might be asked to support.\"\n\nResources are likely to be focused on urban commuter lines, rather than long distance intercity routes.\n\nWhile services will be increased, this does not mean that large numbers of people will be returning to work on 18 May.\n\nThe easing of travel restrictions is likely to be done gradually - the government has suggested that working hours might be staggered to limit passenger numbers.\n\nIf maintained, two-metre social distancing measure would cut capacity on trains by up to 90%, so managing any increase in the number of commuters will be a real challenge.\n\nTransport campaigners said retaining customer confidence in the network beyond the pandemic would be vital, but there are still many questions about how this will be achieved.\n\nDarren Shirley, chief executive of the the Campaign for Better Transport, said: \"Will everyone be required to purchase tickets in advance? Must all seats be pre-booked? Does social distancing still apply? Is PPE necessary or required?\n\n\"There are questions that passengers will want to know the answer to and the industry should be make clear before lockdown ends and the rail network seeks to ramp up,\" he said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to make a speech on Sunday which may lead to some relaxation of lockdown rules.\n\nThe RMT union said some members of the rail industry had been asked to prepare for a possible rise in passenger numbers on Monday 11 May, following the speech.\n\nHowever, the prime minister's spokesman said: \"We are examining a range of options for how transport can respond to support the UK's recovery in a timely way but that this will only be done when it is safe to do so and would be done in preparation for, not in anticipation of, any change in advice.\n\n\"The Business Secretary has been engaging with unions, and DfT has been working with transport unions, on their concerns and we want to ensure that services are safe for both customers and those who operate them.\"\n\nA DfT spokesperson said: \"We are examining a range of options on how transport can respond to support the recovery in a timely way over the coming weeks, when the time comes and it is safe to do so. We continue to prepare for any scenario.\"", "People are leaving painting pebbles to say thank you to the NHS and other key workers\n\nAs summer approaches, England's beaches are looking very different places from the ones we are used to.\n\nThe deckchairs, buckets and spades have gone, while dogs - usually banned on tourist beaches at peak times - have been allowed by some councils to stay.\n\nSome spots have become a place where only locals can exercise while others are seeing some unusual wildlife.\n\nAnd few people have been stopping, except perhaps to contribute to artworks made in the pebbles and sand.\n\nIn Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, dogs would usually be banned on the beaches from 1 May to 1 September but this year, to help with social distancing measures, the restrictions have been temporarily eased.\n\nBeaches in Morecambe in Lancashire and Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, as well as Skegness, Mablethorpe and Sutton on Sea in Lincolnshire, are among others to have their seasonal dog bans lifted or relaxed.\n\nNorth Somerset councillor Mike Bell said opposing views on dog restrictions made it a \"Marmite issue\" but added: \"We feel it's appropriate to enable everyone to use the spaces available to conduct their daily exercise.\"\n\nWhitley Bay in North Tyneside has been taken over by pebble stacks\n\nIn North Tyneside, locals have been building pebble stacks on the beach at Whitley Bay, creating a huge, evolving art installation.\n\nPhotographer Owen Humphries said: \"The pebble stacks keep growing as people add them on their daily exercise where hundreds, if not a thousand, have been built.\"\n\nDorset Wildlife Trust said the grey seal had hauled itself onto the normally busy beach\n\nThe seal made the most of the deserted beach on the Hampshire-Dorset border\n\nIn Highcliffe, Dorset, a grey seal was seen on the normally busy beach below Hoburn Naish Holiday Park, which has been temporarily closed.\n\nImogen Rayner, who photographed the seal, said: \"It was a very special moment in these odd times.\"\n\nThe tribute on Torquay beach was signed by the Torquay Sand Man\n\nArt has appeared in Sandy Bay - known locally as Coney Beach - in Porthcawl\n\nElsewhere, artwork has been appearing on beaches, much of it dedicated to the NHS.\n\nThe Torquay Sand Man, known for creating elaborate sand art in the Devon resort, created a huge motif on the beach.\n\nSand art tributes have also appeared in Blackpool, Bournemouth, Porthcawl in south Wales and Bamburgh Castle in Northumberland.\n\nAvon Beach, in Dorset, has become the site of a growing collection of painted pebbles dedicated to key workers.\n\nThe stones have been appearing on a piece of driftwood alongside the promenade near Mudeford.\n\nPeople are painting stones and leaving them on Avon Beach, near Christchurch", "Customers of Barclays Bank have been struggling to get emergency money from the Bounce Back Loan scheme which launched on Monday.\n\nSome said they were in despair about being told repeatedly to try again later.\n\nThe loans are 100% guaranteed by the government and designed to keep small businesses alive.\n\nBarclays said the vast majority of customers were managing to apply online.\n\nBut Nicky New, who runs Rascals Childcare in Essex, has been trying to get a loan since yesterday morning.\n\n\"It's absolutely vital. Without this loan we can't cover any of our overheads,\" she said. \"We can't survive - I'll be potentially laying off people.\"\n\nFirms can apply for between £2,000 and £50,000 to be credited to bank accounts within 24 hours.\n\nThere are no interest payments or charges for the first year and interest is fixed at 2.5% for the rest of the term of up to six years.\n\nMore than 100,000 businesses applied to the major banks for Bounce Back Loans on Monday, with NatWest and RBS processing 58,000 applications and Lloyds more than 32,000. HSBC has processed nearly 32,500.\n\nBarclays said it had approved more than 32,000 of the loans as of 16:00 on Tuesday.\n\nAnother customer, Nick, who runs an oil and gas technology consultancy in Berkshire, started trying to apply for a Barclays loan at 8am on Monday but has repeatedly had the message \"something went wrong\" flash up on his screen.\n\n\"I feel incredibly pressured. I have people crying their eyes out,\" he said. \"The bulk of my people are at home. There are serious mental health issues with the worry about livelihoods and food.\"\n\nSome customers are reporting difficulties in applying for so-called Bounce Back loans\n\nNick is an expert in IT systems and believes that Barclays systems are completely overloaded.\n\nHe wants to apply for a £42,000 loan to tide his business over the next few months.\n\nBarclays customers have been complaining in large numbers on Twitter and other social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ruth Smith This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBarclays UK chief executive, Matt Hammerstein, told MPs on the Treasury Select Committee on Monday that his systems were \"definitely not down\" but that \"some who wanted immediate access may not have been able to.\"\n\nHe said Barclays would \"throttle up access\" but problems with the online applications have persisted.\n\nA spokesperson for Barclays said: \"Over the last 24 hours we have approved thousands of Bounce Back Loans to get hundreds of millions of pounds into the hands of small businesses.\n\n\"Since we went live yesterday, the vast majority of our customers have been able to apply online and get same-day approval so that we will have the funds in their account by tomorrow at the latest.\n\n\"There are some exceptions where customers will need to confirm additional details and we're reaching out to them shortly to confirm next steps.\"", "Scientists advising ministers on Covid-19 feared people would deliberately try to catch the disease or buy fake test results if \"immunity passports\" were introduced, newly released papers show.\n\nDocuments from the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) suggest there were fears about people \"gaming\" the system and returning to work.\n\nThe 16 Sage documents cover the science and ethics advice around coronavirus.\n\nThe release comes a day after the committee's membership was made public.\n\nThe Sage papers say that while antibody testing - a blood test to check if people have had the virus in the past and now have some immunity - has the potential to help get people back into the workplace and out of lockdown, there are risks.\n\nThe idea of immunity passports - where people carry documented proof that they have immunity because of a past infection - has been suggested as an option in the UK if a reliable antibody test can be found and mass produced.\n\nExperts on the scientific pandemic influenza group on behaviours (SPI-B), which feeds into Sage, were worried that the tests may not be accurate enough, meaning some people might go back to work thinking they had immunity when they did not.\n\nThere was also concern that those who believed themselves to have immunity may stop washing their hands.\n\n\"There is some evidence from previous public health crises that misunderstanding test results can affect adherence to risk-reducing behaviours,\" says the document.\n\nThe advisers add that people who are tested and who have no immunity might try to hide away and perhaps \"seek to avoid attendance at work entirely. \"\n\nThe group also suggested some people might try to game the system, buying fake test results for their immunity passport or purposely seeking to catch coronavirus.", "The UK's economy is on track for its deepest downturn \"in living memory\", according to a closely watched survey, as businesses suffer from the lockdown.\n\nThe survey from IHS Markit/CIPS found the UK's dominant services sector contracted at a record pace last month.\n\nAround 79% of services, such as cafes and hairdressers, reported a fall in business activity amid mass shutdowns in response to the coronavirus.\n\nIHS Markit said UK GDP could fall at a quarterly rate of 7%.\n\nHowever, it also warned that the decline could be even greater.\n\nTim Moore, economics director at IHS Markit, said the data \"highlights that the downturn in the UK economy during the second quarter of 2020 will be far deeper and more widespread than anything seen in living memory\".\n\n\"The April survey reading is consistent with the economy falling at a quarterly rate of approximately 7%, but we expect the actual decline in GDP could be even greater, in part because the PMI excludes the vast majority of the self-employed and the retail sector.\"\n\nThe Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) services index showed a record-low reading of just 13.4 in April, down from 34.5 in March. A figure below 50 indicates contraction. The final reading was slightly better than a preliminary - or \"flash\" - estimate of 12.3 that had been produced late last month.\n\nMarkit said it was \"by far the lowest recorded since the series began in 1998\".\n\nPurchasing managers - senior employees in businesses who keep across what is happening to a company's orders and its supplies - see before anyone else if activity is slowing.\n\nPrior to the last two months, the survey's record low stood at 40.1 in November 2008, the period of the credit crisis.\n\nSamuel Tombs, economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said any pick up throughout the summer would be weak.\n\n\"With several sectors of the economy set to remain closed for business throughout the summer, and consumers' confidence torn to pieces by Covid-19, we expect only about half of the second quarter's huge drop in GDP to be reversed in the third quarter.\"", "More than 70 trespassing incidents have been recorded on Scotland’s railways since the country’s schools closed due to Covid-19.\n\nNetwork Rail said one case, near Neilston, Renfrewshire, involved two adults and a child.\n\nAnother featured a group of teenagers trespassing on the line near Coatdyke, Coatbridge.\n\nAnd trains near Hamilton West were delayed last week after three youths were spotted on the line.\n\nNetwork Rail, which has launched a new awareness campaign , said the problem has increased across the country since 20 March.", "The US has said it wants to borrow a record $3tn (£2.4tn) in the second quarter, as coronavirus-related rescue packages blow up the budget.\n\nThe sum is more than five times the previous quarterly record, set at the height of the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nIn all of 2019, the country borrowed $1.28tn. The US has approved about $3tn in virus-related relief, including health funding and direct payouts.\n\nTotal US government debt is now near $25tn.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We used to donate to this food bank, now we rely on it'\n\nThe latest spending packages are estimated to be worth about 14% of the country's economy. The government has also extended the annual 15 April deadline for tax payments, adding to the cash crunch.\n\nThe new borrowing estimate is more than $3tn above the government's previous estimate, a sign of the impact of the new programmes.\n\nDiscussions are under way over further assistance, though some Republicans have expressed concerns about the impact of more spending on the country's skyrocketing national debt.\n\nThe US borrows by selling government bonds. It has historically enjoyed relatively low interest rates since its debt is viewed as relatively low-risk by investors around the world.\n\nBut even before the coronavirus, the country's debt load had been climbing toward levels many economists consider risky for long-term growth, as the country spent more than it took in.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: When might Hollywood reopen for business?\n\nThe US Congressional Budget Office last month predicted the budget deficit would hit $3.7tn this year, while the national debt soared above 100% of GDP.\n\nLast week, the chair of America's central bank, Jerome Powell, said he would have liked to see the US government's books be in better shape before the pandemic.\n\nHowever, he said spending now was essential to cushion the economic blow, as orders to shut businesses to slow the spread of the virus cost at least 30 million people their jobs.\n\n\"It may well be that the economy will need more help from all of us if the recovery is to be a robust one,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Armel Omatoko has moved his dance classes online so people can stay involved during lockdown.\n\nAs part of its own relief efforts, the Federal Reserve has bought more than $1tn in treasuries in recent weeks.\n\nInvestors from foreign countries are also historically significant holders of US debt, with Japan, China and the UK at the top of the pack as of February.\n\nIncreased tensions between the US and China in recent years have renewed scrutiny of America's debt position. According to the Washington Post last week, Trump administration officials had discussed cancelling debt obligations to China, but US President Donald Trump reportedly played down the idea, saying \"you start playing those games and it's tough\".\n\nFor now, continued low rates suggest investor appetite for US debt remains, allowing for a borrowing increase, Alan Blinder, a professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University, told the BBC last month.\n\n\"So far, the answer has been everything is fine, as to how much borrowing the United States government can do before investors start to feel satiated with US debt,\" he said. \"But there is a legitimate question.\"", "Tens of millions of animals are farmed for their fur around the world, including raccoon dogs\n\nMink have contracted coronavirus, adding to the list of animals known to be at risk of catching the virus.\n\nMink at two fur farms in the Netherlands tested positive for Covid-19 a week ago.\n\nAnd last month, it was revealed that lions and tigers at a New York zoo had caught the disease from their keepers.\n\nCoronavirus could be \"catastrophic\" for endangered wildlife and we must act now to protect them, said Dr Peta Hitchens of the University of Melbourne.\n\nThis includes thorough regulation of wildlife trade and trafficking, as well as protection of ecosystems where human encroachment and destruction \"has resulted in increased interactions between us and wild animals\".\n\nMink farmers are on alert for signs of the diseases\n\nIt's not surprising that mink have been infected, she added. The list of mammal species infected during the 2003 Sars (severe acute respiratory syndrome) outbreak numbers at least 16, including mink, palm civets, fruit bats, several species of horseshoe bat, red fox, wild boar, raccoon dog, and domestic cats and dogs.\n\nOfficials in The Netherlands believe mink contracted the illness from farm workers and the farms have since been put into quarantine.\n\nThe creation of new mink farms was banned there in 2013, while existing mink fur farms have until 2024 to close.\n\nAnimal rights organisation Peta has written a letter to ministers calling for the farms to be shut down immediately: \"Allowing mink farms to maintain business as usual for nearly four more years - in the face of a global crisis stemming from animal exploitation - would be inexcusable from the perspective of both the risk posed to humans and the harm inflicted on the mink themselves.\"\n\nAnimal protection charity Humane Society International, which campaigns for a global end to the fur trade, has warned of the risk in other countries, where tens of millions of mink, fox, raccoon dogs, chinchillas and rabbits are farmed.\n\nClaire Bass, executive director of Humane Society International/UK, said in addition to animal suffering, the potential for disease spread is another reason for all fashion companies to go fur-free and for governments to shut down \"this dirty trade\".\n\n\"One of the lessons we must learn from Covid-19 is that we cannot carry on pushing animals to the limit of their endurance without serious consequences for both animal and human health,\" she said.\n\n\"We urge the Netherlands and other countries in the process of phasing out fur farming to speed up their industry closures, and countries yet to commit to bans, including China and Finland, to do so now.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the British Fur Trade Association said: \"The case in the Netherlands demonstrates the efficiency of fur farming bio security measures in Europe and the rigorous controls that are in place. The Dutch authorities confirm that there is no further spread of the virus and that the risk of onward transmission is negligible. \"\n\nAccording to a 2016 report released by the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 75% of China's wildlife trade is dominated by fur production with animals farmed for their fur, such as raccoon dogs, foxes and mink, often ending up at wildlife wet market.", "Emergency services were called to the farm near Usk\n\nA man has died after a water buffalo attacked three people at a commercial property.\n\nThe 57-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene, after police officers were called to the address at Gwehelog, near Usk, Monmouthshire.\n\nA man, 19, was also critically injured and taken to Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales by air ambulance.\n\nA woman, 22, suffered a serious leg injury and is being treated at Newport's Royal Gwent Hospital.\n\nGwent Police said they were called to the property at about 14:50 BST on Tuesday and received support from the National Police Air Service.\n\nWater buffalo are usually used for tilling rice fields in Asian countries, while their milk is rich in fat and protein\n\nThe water buffalo has been destroyed.\n\nA neighbour said the herd were a familiar sight on the farm and were often seen in the fields with the horses.\n\nThey added the buffalo always appeared to be quite quiet, and that the owners had been seen stroking them.", "Customers can order from a range of about 130 M&S food and household items through Deliveroo.\n\nM&S has kept its Simply Food stores and food halls open during the coronavirus pandemic, but the delivery service will make its products available more widely to those confined to their homes.\n\nDeliveroo has added 20 M&S stores in city and town locations - and is providing a more extensive range.\n\nThe service, which costs £4.99, is available from 142 M&S outlets across the country.\n\nRival Sainsbury's recently introduced a one-hour delivery service called Chop Chop, which allows customers to order a top-up shop of up to 20 items. It too charges a £4.99 delivery fee.\n\nM&S is one of the few big food retailers without its own internet-based delivery service. This has hampered the chain as it struggles with the decline of bricks-and-mortar High Street stores and the move to online shopping. It is planning to launch a new delivery service with Ocado in four months' time.\n\nThe coronavirus outbreak has accelerated this trend. Online sales now account for 10.2% of the grocery market, up from 7.4% before the pandemic, according to latest data from Kantar.\n\nRetail analyst Richard Hyman said M&S's arrangement with Deliveroo was a \"pragmatic move\" that felt more tactical than strategic.\n\n\"It sells niche products which have often been used as a top-up to the main food shop for treats,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"In this constrained period, if people are going to have to queue to get into the shop, they may well jettison their top-up.\"\n\nMr Hyman said bigger M&S stores were likely to be \"right at the heart of the country's population centres, where everything else is shut, and that will have impacted footfall\".\n\nDave Gill, national officer for the shopworkers' union, Usdaw, said the company needed to be mindful of its workforce: \"We understand that retailers are having to introduce new working practices and services to help keep our communities fed during the Coronavirus emergency.\n\n\"These innovations are welcome, as we all try adapt to the 'new normal', but they must be done safely and that is best achieved when working with a trade union.\"\n\nHe pointed out that Marks and Spencer have a tradition of not engaging with unions.\n\nM&S announced last year that it would go into partnership with Ocado from September this year, replacing the online grocer's existing deal with Waitrose.\n\nUnder the deal, M&S is buying a 50% share of Ocado's retail business for £750m.\n\nOcado will also continue to supply its own-label products and big-name branded goods.", "The pandemic has led to the closure of job centres\n\nNearly two million people have applied for universal credit benefits since the government advised people to stay at home due to coronavirus.\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey said there had been more than 1.8 million claims since 16 March.\n\nMs Coffey told MPs that figure was six times the normal claimant rate, and in one week there had been a \"tenfold\" increase in claims.\n\nShe said about 8,000 staff had been redeployed to deal with the claims.\n\nThe figures show the growing increase in demand on the benefit system since the government urged people to avoid non-essential travel and contact with others to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nMs Coffey told MPs there had also been more than 250,000 claims for Jobseeker's Allowance and over 20,000 claims for Employment Support Allowance.\n\n\"Overall, this is six times the volume that we would typically experience and in one week we had a tenfold increase\".\n\nShe said that the rate for universal credit had appeared to have stabilised at about 20,000 to 25,000 claims per day, which she said was \"double that of a standard week pre Covid-19.\"\n\nShe added: \"We've also issued almost 700,000 advances to claimants who felt that they could not wait for their routine payment and the vast majority of these claimants received money within 72 hours.\"\n\nUniversal credit is a consolidated monthly payment for those of working-age, which replaced a host of previous benefits including income-based Jobseeker's Allowance, housing benefit, child tax credit and working tax credit.\n\nIn October 2019, there were 2.6 million universal credit claimants - just over a third of whom were in work.\n\nLabour's Jonathan Reynolds said the government needed to \"widen the safety net\" of support for everyone who needs it.\n\nThe shadow work and pensions secretary said: \"The social security system we had going in to this crisis was a safety net with too many holes in it\".\n\nMr Reynolds said that the amount universal credit claimants receive had been significantly increased since the lockdown began, but asked when people on legacy benefits such as Jobseekers Allowance would see the same increases.\n\nHe highlighted calls from charities and anti-poverty campaigners to temporarily suspend the benefit cap, which puts a limit on the overall amount working age families can claim.\n\nAnd he said the two-child limit, which restricts the child element in universal credit and tax credits - worth £2,780 per child per year - to the first two children should be lifted.\n\n\"People three years ago could not have been expected to make family choices based on the likelihood of a global pandemic shutting down our economy,\" said Mr Reynolds.\n\n\"The government has suspended sanctions during the crisis but the two-child limit is effectively an 18-year sanction on the third and fourth child in a family and surely it should go too.\"\n\nMr Reynolds also said the five-week wait for the first payment of universal credit, another issue highlighted by charities as a cause of hardship despite the availability of advance loans, \"should not exist at all\".\n\nAnd he raised concerns over the impact of universal credit on maternity allowance, warning it could result in a \"low-paid pregnant woman being as much as £4,000 a year worse off\".\n\nMPs thanked front line staff for their work processing the unprecedented increase in the number of claims for support.\n\nMs Coffey said that average waiting times for calls to DWP helplines were \"now below five minutes\".\n\nThe work and pensions secretary also said a new government website had been set up to advertise new jobs, which had 58,200 vacancies on offer.", "The UK and US have issued a joint warning cyber-spies are targeting the health sector.\n\nHackers linked to foreign states have been hunting for information, including Covid-19 data and vaccine research, they say.\n\nUK sources say they have seen extensive activity but do not believe there has been any data theft so far.\n\nThose behind the activity are not named in the alert but are thought to include China, Russia and Iran.\n\nThe three countries have all seen major outbreaks of the virus but have denied previous claims of involvement in such activity.\n\nThe joint advisory says the UK and US are currently investigating a number of incidents in which other states are targeting pharmaceutical companies, medical-research organisations, and universities, looking for intelligence and sensitive data, including research on the virus.\n\nUnderstanding how other countries are dealing with the Covid-19 crisis and progress in research has become a high priority for intelligence agencies around the world.\n\nIn a crisis, every state will want to use its intelligence capability to better inform itself.\n\nAnd in a locked-down world, cyber-espionage is more practical than traditional human espionage, making it another field where an existing trend towards online working may be accelerated.\n\nAnalysts say they are seeing a particular rise in aggressive operations from a range of states at the moment.\n\nAnd this has meant organisations that might not have considered themselves to be top targets for hackers from foreign states are now in their sights.\n\nThe UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has been working with these organisations since the start of the crisis, to offer advice and protection.\n\nAnd the new public advisory, issued jointly with its US equivalent, the Cyber-security and Infrastructure Security Agency(CISA), aims to further increase awareness of the threat.\n\n\"In today's world, there is nothing more valuable or worth stealing than any kind of biomedical research that is going to help with a coronavirus vaccine,\" senior US intelligence official Bill Evanina told BBC News last week.\n\nAt Tuesday's daily briefing, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said: \"As well as providing practical advice, the UK will continue to counter those who conduct cyber-attacks.\n\n\"And we're working very closely with our international partners both to respond to the threats but also to deter the gangs and the arms of state who lie behind them.\"\n\nUK authorities are understood to have offered advice to Oxford University, at the leading edge of developing a vaccine, and Imperial College in London, which has played a key role in the epidemiological modelling that has shaped policy responses.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe advisory warns cyber-spies are targeting supply chains and taking advantage of people remotely working, with a technique called password-spraying - in which they try to use commonly used passwords to access accounts.\n\nAnd cyber-criminals could target healthcare providers, knowing they may be even more willing than usual to pay a ransom for the return of their data.\n\n\"Protecting the healthcare sector is the NCSC's first and foremost priority at this time and we're working closely with the NHS to keep their systems safe,\" operations director Paul Chichester said.\n\nMeanwhile, Western spies will be focusing hard on China as they seek to understand what Beijing may know of the virus's origins - with the US administration pushing the theory it may have escaped from a lab - as well as looking for any data on the true extent of the outbreak in the country.", "Fourteen people from one County Antrim care home have died from Covid-19 related symptoms, the BBC has learned.\n\nThe patients were residents of Glenabbey Manor in Glengormley.\n\nHowever, as there is no clear breakdown of figures relating to deaths or confirmed cases in individual care homes, it is not clear whether Glenabbey is the worst affected in NI.\n\nNI's health minister has said care homes were now the front line in the fight against the virus.\n\nWhile the number of hospital admissions due to coronavirus was falling since 16 March, there had been 125 acute respiratory outbreaks in care homes, Robin Swann said on Tuesday.\n\nSeventy-two of those were confirmed as Covid-19 clusters and the remainder were flu-related, said Mr Swann, adding:\n\nFigures show that in the week from 18-24 April, 58% of all Covid-19 related deaths were reported to have happened in care homes.\n\nGlenabbey Manor, which is owned by Runwood Homes, confirmed on Tuesday that five residents who had tested positive for Covid-19 had died at the home.\n\nAnother five residents had died in hospital, while a further four passed away either at home or in the hospital, but were only suspected of having Covid-19, the company told BBC News NI.\n\nRunwood Homes expressed its sincere condolences to the families and friends affected.\n\nBut the BBC understands that at least 109 homes are now caring for vulnerable older people with coronavirus or flu-like symptoms which are logged each day in care homes' forms about virus activity.\n\nMeanwhile, there have been calls for a rolling programme of testing, with the Commissioner for Older People, Eddie Lynch, calling for universal testing of all care homes.", "A number of early cases in the pandemic were linked to the Wuhan Seafood Market\n\nIt was a matter of \"when not if\" an animal passed the coronavirus from wild bats to humans, scientists say.\n\nBut it remains unclear whether that animal was sold in the now infamous Wuhan wildlife market in China.\n\nThe World Health Organization says that all evidence points to the virus's natural origin, but some scientists now say it might never be known how the first person was infected.\n\nTrade in wild animals is under scrutiny as source of this \"spillover\".\n\nBut when wildlife is bought and sold in almost every country in the world, controlling it - let alone banning it - is far from straightforward. Tackling it on a global scale could be the route to stopping a future pandemic before it starts.\n\nThe virus originated in bats and was probably passed to humans via an 'intermediate host'\n\nGlobal health researchers have, for many years, understood how the trade in wild animals provides a source of species-to-species disease transmission. As life-changing as this particular outbreak has been for so much of the global population, it is actually one of many that the trade has been linked to.\n\nAs the WHO's technical lead on Covid-19, Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, told the BBC: \"We were preparing for something like this as it's not a matter of if, it is a matter of when.\"\n\nInfectious disease experts agree that, like most emerging human disease, this virus initially jumped undetected across the species barrier.\n\nProf Andrew Cunningham, from the Zoological Society of London, explained: \"We've actually been expecting something like this to happen for a while.\n\n\"These diseases are emerging more frequently in recent years as a result of human encroachment into wild habitat and increased contact and use of wild animals by people.\"\n\nOfficials seize civet cats in Xinyuan wildlife market in Guangzhou to prevent the spread of Sars\n\nThe virus that causes Covid-19 joins a murky list of household name viruses - including Ebola, rabies, Sars and Mers - that have originated in wild bat populations.\n\nSome of the now extensive body of evidence about bat viruses, and their ability to infect humans, comes from seeking the source of the 2003 outbreak of Sars, a very closely related coronavirus. It was only in 2017 though that scientists pinned down the \"rich gene pool of bat Sars-related coronaviruses\" in a single cave in China. - the possible source of the pandemic.\n\nThese viruses have resided in the bodies of bats for millennia, but are pre-programmed with the ability to infect a humans; the key that unlocks some of our cells, where they can replicate.\n\n\"In the case of Sars-CoV-2 the key is a virus protein called Spike and the main lock to enter a cell is a receptor called ACE2,\" explained Prof David Robertson, a virologist from the University of Glasgow. \"The coronavirus is not only able to fit that ACE2 lock, \"it's actually doing this many times better than Sars-1 [the virus that caused the 2003 outbreak] does\", he said.\n\nThat perfect fit could explain why the coronavirus is so easily transmitted from person to person; its contagiousness has outpaced our efforts to contain it. But bringing the bat virus to the door of a human cell is where the trade in wildlife plays an important role.\n\nMost of us have heard that this virus \"started\" in a wildlife market in Wuhan. But the source of the virus - an animal with this pathogen in its body - was not found in the market.\n\n\"The initial cluster of infections was associated with the market - that is circumstantial evidence,\" explained Prof James Wood from the University of Cambridge.\n\n\"The infection could have come from somewhere else and just, by chance, clustered around people there. But given that it is an animal virus, the market association is highly suggestive.\"\n\nProf Cunningham agreed; wildlife markets, he explained, are hotspots for animal diseases to find new hosts. \"Mixing large numbers of species under poor hygienic and welfare conditions, and species that wouldn't normally come close together gives opportunities for pathogens to jump species to species,\" he explained.\n\nAnimals rescued from the exotic pet trade often have to be protected from human disease\n\nMany wildlife viruses in the past have come into humans via a second species - one that is farmed, or hunted and sold on a market.\n\nProf Woods explained: \"The original Sars virus was transmitted into the human population via an epidemic in Palm civets, which were being traded around southern China to be eaten.\n\n\"That was very important to know because there was an epidemic in the Palm civets themselves, which had to be controlled to stop an ongoing spillover into humans.\"\n\nIn the search for the missing link in this particular transmission chain, scientists found clues pointing to mink, ferrets and even turtles as a host. Similar viruses were found in the bodies of rare and widely trafficked pangolins, but none of these suspect species has been shown to be involved in this outbreak. What we do know is that our contact with, and trading of, wild animals puts us in the path of new diseases that are silently seeking a host.\n\nCamels can harbour the novel coronavirus, Mers\n\n\"Trying to make sure that we are not bringing wildlife into direct contact with ourselves or with other domestic animals is a very important part of this equation,\" said Prof Wood.\n\n\"And there have been various campaigns to ban all trade in animals and all contact with wildlife,\" he added, \"but what you do then is penalise some of the poorest people in the world. In many cases, by introducing measures like that you drive trade underground, which makes it far harder to do anything about.\"\n\nThe WHO has already called for stricter hygiene and safety standards for so-called wet markets in China. But in many cases - such as the trade in bush meat in Sub-Saharan Africa, which was linked with the Ebola outbreak - markets are informal and therefore very difficult to regulate.\n\n\"You can't do it from an office in London or in Geneva; you have to do that locally on the ground in every country,\" added Prof Wood.\n\nDr Maria Van Kerkhove agreed: \"It's very important we work with population and people who are working at the animal/human interface - people who work with wildlife.\"\n\nWhat that will be is a truly global and highly complicated effort. But the Covid-19 outbreak appears to have shown us the cost of the alternative.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Victoria Gill looks at the wildlife species enjoying lockdown", "Draft guidance for getting people back to work during the coronavirus pandemic could compromise worker safety, the head of the TUC has warned.\n\nFrances O'Grady, who leads the group representing UK unions, said it cannot back the advice in its \"current form\".\n\nShe said there were \"huge gaps\" over protective kit and testing.\n\nReduced hot-desking and alternatives to social distancing where it is not possible are among measures being considered by the government.\n\nThe document, seen by the BBC, is one of seven draft plans to ease anti-virus restrictions.\n\nIt also urges employers to minimise numbers using equipment, stagger shift times and maximise home-working.\n\nThe guidance covers the whole of the UK - but the devolved governments have the power to make their own decisions on how businesses can get back to work.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of coronavirus-related deaths in the UK stands at 28,734, an increase of 288, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said at the Downing Street briefing.\n\nThe health secretary outlined the coronavirus contact-tracing app at the Downing Street briefing\n\nThe daily increase in deaths is lower than at any point since the end of March, but the figures reported at the weekend tend to be lower and are expected to rise, Mr Hancock said.\n\nA total of 13,258 people are currently being treated in hospital, while 85,186 coronavirus tests took place on Sunday.\n\nHowever, hospital admissions have fallen, along with the number of critical care beds being used.\n\nA coronavirus contact-tracing app aimed at limiting a second wave of coronavirus will be trialled on the Isle of Wight this week, before being rolled out more widely in the UK, as part of the government's test, track and trace effort.\n\nMr Hancock said creating the system was a \"huge national undertaking\" and would allow the UK to take a \"more targeted approach to lockdown while still safely containing the disease\".\n\nBuzzfeed has seen all seven draft documents on getting people back to work.\n\nMs O'Grady said the Trades Union Congress had seen some of the documents on Sunday.\n\nShe said workers' safety must not be compromised and called for \"robust direction and enforcement\" so employers can \"do the right thing\" and action can be taken against those who do not.\n\nFrances O'Grady is general secretary of the TUC which represents many UK trade unions\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's The World at One: \"The problem is the government is asking us to trust to employer discretion, use words like 'consider social distancing', 'consider having hand sanitiser or soap available', and frankly that's just not good enough.\"\n\nAsked whether the government's current advice will compromise worker safety, Ms O'Grady said No 10 has time to \"get this right\" and it should work with unions to ensure \"a proper job\" and \"not a botched job\".\n\nAccording to one of the seven draft documents seen by the BBC, firms are told to enact additional hygiene procedures, as well as physical screens, and protective equipment should be considered where maintaining distancing of 2m (6ft) between workers is impossible.\n\nHowever, the section marked personal protective equipment (PPE) contains only a promise that \"more detail\" will follow.\n\nDuring the Downing Street briefing, BBC health editor Hugh Pym asked where those businesses required to have PPE for their staff would source it, and whether they would be in competition with the NHS.\n\nMr Hancock said the \"first call\" on PPE must be for NHS and social care staff, as well as those \"essential services who need it to keep the people delivering those services safe\".\n\nHe reiterated PPE was one of the government's five tests for adjusting the lockdown.\n\nThe BBC has also seen a second document with advice for the hospitality industry, which says bar areas, seated restaurants and cafe areas must be closed, with all food and drink outlets serving takeaway food only.\n\nIt adds hotels should consider \"room occupancy levels to maintain social distancing, especially in multi-occupancy dormitories\".\n\nIt also says \"guidance to follow\" on the use of PPE and face masks.\n\nSome of the other guidance featured in the document includes:\n\nBoris Johnson is to reveal a \"roadmap\" out of lockdown on Sunday, but in a video message on Monday he said the the UK must not lift restrictions too soon.\n\nIn the video, posted on Twitter, Mr Johnson said: \"The worst thing we could do now is ease up too soon and allow a second peak of coronavirus.\"\n\nMr Johnson said the UK would only be able to move on to \"the second phase of this conflict\" when the government's five tests had been met, including a sustained and consistent fall in daily deaths and being confident any adjustments would not risk a second peak which could overwhelm the health service.\n\nMany companies have been shut since widespread limits on everyday life were imposed on 23 March, in a bid to limit the effects of the virus's spread on the NHS.\n\nMinisters are obliged to review those restrictions by Thursday.\n\nLondon's NHS Nightingale was built in just nine days\n\nMeanwhile, London's NHS Nightingale hospital is expected not to admit any new patients and be placed on standby in the coming days.\n\nThe ExCel Centre was turned into a 4,000-bed facility to increase the NHS's capacity for treating patients with Covid-19.\n\nIn a briefing to staff, the hospital's chief executive said it was \"likely\" the hospital would not need to admit patients in the coming days while the virus remained under control in London.\n\nThe BBC understands fewer than 20 people are currently being treated there.\n\nHow have you been affected by coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "The number of people killed by coronavirus in London in the four weeks to 24 April was significantly higher than the number of civilians killed during the worst four-week period of aerial bombing of the city during the Blitz.\n\nRegistered deaths in London attributed to Covid-19, in the four weeks to 24 April this year, reached 5,901 according to data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nFigures held in the National Archives, and collated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, show that 4,677 people were killed during the Blitz in the 28 days to 4 October 1940.\n\n\"These are the best figures available for the civilian deaths in the Blitz,\" said Prof Richard Overy from the University of Exeter.\n\n\"This dramatic war on civilians has come to symbolise the horrors of total war, with the images of burning and ruined buildings and bodies dug out from the rubble.\n\n\"All the more poignant is the contrast with the current epidemic which has killed considerably more people in 28 days in London's hospitals and care homes.\"\n\nYou can read more about the latest death figures across the UK here.", "Maurice Dunnington, son Keith and wife Lillian all died with coronavirus within weeks of each other\n\nThree members of the same family have died within weeks of each other after contracting coronavirus.\n\nKeith Dunnington, 54, a nurse for more than 30 years, died at his parents home in South Shields on 19 April.\n\nHis mother Lillian, 81, died on 1 May and her husband Maurice, 85, died days later at South Tyneside Hospital.\n\nKeith's cousin Debbie Harvey said her family was heartbroken but praised the \"absolutely amazing\" NHS staff who \"could not do enough\" for the family.\n\nShe said front-line hospital staff pushed Mr and Mrs Dunnington's beds together so they could hold hands.\n\nDad-of-two Keith, who passed away last month, worked at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead.\n\nDebbie said her uncle Maurice Dunnington was a \"larger that life\" character\n\nYvonne Ormston MBE, chief executive of Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust, said he was \"a popular and hard-working\" nurse.\n\nMrs Harvey said the funeral of all three would be held later this month.\n\n\"I'm still in disbelief, Keith's children are absolutely devastated and then to lose their nanny and granddad as well. Keith gave 200% to everything he did,\" she said.\n\n\"He looked after people so well and stood up for them. My children are also absolutely heartbroken.\n\n\"Lillian was always ready with a wise word and a cuppa if we needed a shoulder to cry on. She was the strongest woman I've ever known.\"\n\nMrs Harvey said Maurice was well-known in South Shields after working for Stagecoach both on the buses and at the depot.\n\nShe said the \"larger than life character\" was also a devoted supporter of the British Legion.\n\n\"The hospital staff were absolutely amazing,\" Mrs Harvey said.\n\n\"The staff could not do enough for them and when they realised that my aunty was slipping away they pushed their beds together so that they could hold each other's hand.\n\n\"My auntie just slipped away peacefully holding my uncle's hand and listening to their favourite songs on their phones.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The first minister says reopening schools too soon could overwhelm hospitals within weeks\n\nFully reopening primary schools in Scotland would \"most likely\" see the NHS overwhelmed by coronavirus within two months, Nicola Sturgeon has warned.\n\nThe Scottish government has published a new paper of options for starting to lift the virus lockdown.\n\nThey include some year groups returning ahead of others, pupils attending school part-time, and a combination of in-school and home learning.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the government would not compromise children's safety.\n\nAnd she said any return to school \"might not be possible at all ahead of the summer holidays\", which begin in June and end in August.\n\nA group of major teaching unions had written to education secretaries across the UK urging \"significant caution in any consideration of reopening schools\".\n\nThe new Scottish government paper sets out options for gradually easing the social distancing restrictions that have been in place since March, but notes that \"extreme caution\" will have to be exercised.\n\nIt warns that there are estimated to be approximately 26,000 infectious people in Scotland, with the number \"much too high at present to consider the virus under control\".\n\nA range of options for lifting restrictions is suggested, from allowing people to spend more time outdoors to starting to re-open some businesses - and a \"phased approach to returning pupils to school\".\n\nSchools are not currently set up for social distancing\n\nThe paper warns that \"we do not consider it likely that schools will re-open fully in the foreseeable future - indeed, we are not yet certain that they can re-open at all in the near future\".\n\nA group chaired by Education Secretary John Swinney is examining how a phased return could work.\n\nThe options could include \"priority groups\" - such as vulnerable pupils, those who are transitioning from primary to secondary, and those who are starting national qualification courses in S3 to S6 - returning to schools first.\n\nThe paper says a \"new approach to schooling\" will be needed to maintain physical distancing, with \"most pupils likely to have a blend of in-school and at-home learning\".\n\nWhere children do return to schools in person, they could do so in small groups for blocks of a few days or a week at a time, which would allow deep cleaning of classrooms between groups.\n\nLearning at home would be supported by \"consistent, high quality online materials\" which would be developed to support the curriculum.\n\nMs Sturgeon said there were \"really difficult decisions\" to be made, but that it was important to make the choices clear as people would not send their children back to school unless they had confidence in the system.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said changes would only be made when it is safe to do so\n\nThe paper also outlines the risks of re-opening schools too quickly - echoing concerns raised by teachers.\n\nA group of 10 teaching unions, including the EIS, NASUWT and SSTA, had written to Mr Swinney and UK Education Secretary Gavin Williamson warning of the \"very real risk of creating a spike in the transmission of the virus by a premature opening of schools\".\n\nThe letter said \"significant operational changes\" should be in place to ensure effective social distancing, \"strong hygiene routines\" and appropriate PPE available where required.\n\nThe Scottish government said that studying data from across the world, the \"most likely\" outcome of fully re-opening primary schools and nurseries now would be \"a resurgence in the virus such that hospital capacity in Scotland would be overwhelmed in less than two months\".\n\nThe paper said this illustrated \"the risks we face in considering various options, and the merit in delaying a decision to re-open until transmission of the virus is much reduced from the current level\".\n\nAll of the options in the paper are currently under consideration, but Ms Sturgeon stressed that \"we are not recommending these options at the moment but offer them as examples of what may come next and the kind of preparations that are under way\".\n\nShe said: \"I want to be crystal clear that while we will of course take the greatest care in all of this, that that is particularly the case with schools. We will not compromise the safety of your children.\n\n\"Lifting the lockdown will not be like flicking a switch. It will be a gradual process which will happen in phases.\n\n\"What we are seeking to do is find a path to a new normal - one which is less restrictive than the current lockdown, but which doesn't risk the virus running rampant again.\"", "An outbreak was detected at Home Farm care home last week\n\nTwo residents have died at a care home on the Isle of Skye where 57 people have tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe outbreak was first detected at Home Farm independent care home in Portree last week.\n\nThe company which runs the home, HC One, said 30 of the home's 34 residents - including the two who died - and 27 staff were confirmed to have the virus.\n\nAn Army-run mobile testing unit has been set up on Skye following the outbreak.\n\nA spokesman for the home said its thoughts and sympathies were with the families who had lost loved ones.\n\nScottish Health Secretary Jeane Freeman told the Scottish government's daily briefing that all residents had been isolated in their rooms while the local GP and advanced nurse practitioner undertook \"medical assessments\".\n\nThe health secretary said her \"best thoughts and good wishes\" went out to those who have tested positive at Home Farm and other care homes across the country.\n\nThe GMB union later called for an investigation into the scale of the outbreak at Home Farm.\n\nDrew Duffy, senior GMB organiser for public services, told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime with John Beattie: \"The numbers involved in the Isle of Skye is just a tragedy, so we do need to immediately look at what was put in place for residents and staff, but clearly this has just highlighted years of underfunding within social care.\n\n\"The private sector care homes having been running on minuscule budgets, cutting corners and the crisis has just highlighted the disease that has been austerity for years - they just cannot cope.\"\n\nA Care Inspectorate report in January - before the UK coronavirus outbreak - raised some concerns about cleaning and staffing at the home.\n\nBut the care home insisted these were \"swiftly resolved\" and it had sufficient staff to maintain \"high standards of cleanliness\" .\n\nA spokesperson added: \"In response to the coronavirus outbreak in the UK, which we have been planning for since February, all colleagues completed additional, specific coronavirus training and infection control training.\"\n\nA mobile testing unit, run by the Army, has been sent to Skye\n\nLocal MSP Kate Forbes, who is the Scottish government's finance secretary, earlier told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that contact tracing could be used on the island to track the spread of the virus.\n\n\"Skye, as a self-contained island community, shows the advantages of contact tracing and I think that contact tracing is going to be an important part of our capability on Skye in dealing with the outbreak,\" she said.\n\n\"That will form a vital part of NHS Highland's response, as you can see from that increased testing capacity and the way that they have already started to make contact, not just with those who have tested, but with their households as well.\"\n\nMs Forbes said some members of staff had part-time jobs in the community as well as their work at the care home, making contact tracing an \"important\" way of containing the virus.\n\nFormer Scottish Tory leader Baroness Goldie, speaking on the same programme, said the testing strategy on the island should be designed to \"absolutely ensure the safety of residents\".\n\nDespite the situation on Skye, the defence minister said it was clear that the UK was \"past the peak\" of the virus.\n\nShe said: \"I don't want to in any way diminish the gravity and the horror of what's been happening in the care home, that's been a very tragic and worrying situation.\n\n\"But the data now shows that the peak is past.\n\n\"We see deaths beginning to fall, we see rates of infection beginning to fall, we see hospital admissions beginning to fall, but that is not a sign that we can relax the restrictions.\"\n\nBaroness Goldie urged people to adhere to the restrictions put in place to control the virus, saying it was important that the measures were not lifted too early.\n\nLast week, soldiers set up mobile testing sites in Dunoon, Motherwell, Prestwick Airport, Elgin, Galashiels, Stranraer and Peterhead.\n\nA further three sites will be added this week in Peterhead, Thurso and Arbroath.", "Prof Neil Ferguson has quit as a government adviser on coronavirus after admitting an \"error of judgement\".\n\nProf Ferguson, whose advice to the prime minister led to the UK lockdown, said he regretted \"undermining\" the messages on social distancing.\n\nThe Telegraph reported that a woman he was said to be in a relationship with visited his home in lockdown.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said it was \"extraordinary\" and that he \"took the right decision to resign\".\n\nHe told Sky News that it was \"just not possible\" for Prof Ferguson to continue advising the government.\n\nMr Hancock said the social distancing rules \"are there for everyone\" and are \"deadly serious\".\n\nScotland Yard said Prof Ferguson's behaviour was \"plainly disappointing\" but officers \"do not intend to take any further action\".\n\nNo 10 said the prime minister agreed with his decision to resign but Prof Ferguson was not told to do so and made the decision himself.\n\n\"Social distancing regulations are there for a very clear purpose,\" the prime minister's spokesman added.\n\nProf Ferguson's modelling of the virus's transmission suggested 250,000 people could die without drastic action.\n\nThis led Prime Minister Boris Johnson to announce on 23 March that he was imposing widespread curbs on daily life aimed at stopping the spread of the virus.\n\nUnder those measures people were told to go out as little as possible, with partners who live separately later being told they should \"ideally\" stay in their own homes.\n\nIn a statement, Prof Ferguson said: \"I accept I made an error of judgement and took the wrong course of action.\n\n\"I have therefore stepped back from my involvement in Sage (Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies).\n\n\"I acted in the belief that I was immune, having tested positive for coronavirus and completely isolated myself for almost two weeks after developing symptoms.\n\n\"I deeply regret any undermining of the clear messages around the continued need for social distancing.\"\n\nProf Neil Ferguson appeared before the Science and Technology Committee in March\n\nHe also called the government advice on social distancing \"unequivocal\", adding that it was there \"to protect all of us\".\n\nThe Telegraph reported that Antonia Staats visited his home on at least two occasions during the lockdown.\n\nDespite Prof Ferguson's comments, it is currently unclear whether people who have recovered from the virus will be immune or able to catch it again.\n\nBBC medical correspondent Fergus Walsh said \"Neil Ferguson will know the science is very much developing\" on immunity - and the government was not advising people to carry on as normal if they had already had the disease.\n\nOur correspondent added that Prof Ferguson's resignation was \"a really big deal\", calling him \"the most influential scientist\" in the virus outbreak apart from the UK's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, and chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance.\n\nHowever, Sir Robert Lechler, president of the Academy of Medical Sciences, said he did not think Prof Ferguson's resignation would \"have any material impact\" on the work of Sage, which is advising the government on the pandemic.\n\nHe told the BBC that Prof Ferguson had made \"an important contribution\" but he was sure the group would \"continue to provide valuable input\".\n\nSecurity minister James Brokenshire told the BBC that \"a range of experts\" will continue to support ministers following Prof Ferguson's resignation.\n\nIt comes after the number of people who have died with coronavirus in the UK reached 29,427 on Tuesday - the highest number of virus deaths in Europe.\n\nHowever, figures from the Office for National Statistics - which includes deaths where the virus is suspected, not just where tests have been carried out - brings the total number to more than 32,000.\n\nChallenged during Prime Minister's Questions over how the UK's death toll had become so high, Mr Johnson said every death was \"a tragedy\".\n\nHowever, he said the data was not yet available to draw conclusions on international comparisons.\n\nHe added that \"there will of course be a time to look at what decisions we took and whether we could have taken different decisions\" but \"what the people of this country want us to do now is to suppress the disease... and begin the work of getting our country's economy back on its feet\".\n\nA further 331 deaths were announced in England on Wednesday, along with 21 more in Wales and another 14 in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe latest UK-wide figures - which use a different timeframe to those of individual nations - will be published later.\n\nMeanwhile, the weekly coronavirus death toll in Scotland has fallen for the first time, according to figures from the National Records of Scotland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I don’t think you can make the international comparisons you're suggesting at this stage\" - Dominic Raab\n\nProf Ferguson's resignation comes a month after Scotland's chief medical officer, Dr Catherine Calderwood, quit when it was revealed she had broken lockdown rules by making two trips to her second home.\n\nScottish National Party MP Philippa Whitford told BBC Newsnight that both cases were examples of telling the public \"to do something really difficult but it's as if it doesn't count for you\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he believed it was right that Prof Ferguson had resigned.\n\n\"We all have a role to play in the fight against the virus,\" Sir Keir's spokesman said. \"That means taking responsibility and following the official advice.\"\n\nProf Neil Ferguson is one of the world's most influential disease modellers.\n\nHe is director of the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis.\n\nThe centre's mathematical predictions advise governments and the World Health Organization on outbreaks from Ebola in West Africa to the current pandemic.\n\nIt was that group's work, in early January, that alerted the world to the threat of coronavirus.\n\nIt showed hundreds if not thousands of people were likely to have been infected in Wuhan, at a time when Chinese officials said there were only a few dozen cases.\n\nBut he shot to public attention as \"Professor Lockdown\".\n\nIn mid-March, the maths showed the UK needed to change course or a quarter of a million people would die in a \"catastrophic epidemic\".\n\nThose calculations helped transform government policy and all lives.\n\nOn Tuesday, a new NHS contact-tracing app was launched to key workers on the Isle of Wight\n\nAfter initially reaching its target of 100,000 tests, for the past three days the government failed to hit it\n\nConservative MP Sir John Redwood suggested the circumstances behind Prof Ferguson's resignation would not matter to the public.\n\n\"What matters to the nation is are we getting the right advice and how do we get through this dreadful crisis?\" he said.\n\nProf Ferguson led Imperial College London's Covid-19 response team. He has carried out mathematical modelling to provide information on outbreaks including foot-and-mouth in 2001, bird flu in 2006 and swine flu in 2009.\n\nA statement from the university said Prof Ferguson \"continues to focus on his important research\".", "Teaching unions across the UK and Ireland are warning national leaders not to reopen schools too early.\n\nThe British Irish Group of Teacher Unions has written to the education ministers of all five nations in which the million staff it represents work.\n\nIts letter warns the ministers of the \"very real risk of creating a spike in the transmission of the virus by a premature opening of schools\".\n\nTest and trace measures must be fully operational before reopening, it says.\n\nThe letter was signed by leaders of 10 teaching unions, including the National Education Union (NEU), the National Association of Schoolmasters and Women Teachers, which between represents the bulk of teachers in England and Wales, and Scottish and Irish teaching unions.\n\nScotland and Wales have already sketched out plans for a phased return of schools, with England's Education Secretary, Gavin Williamson, saying he will take a phased approach too and head teachers will be given plenty of notice.\n\nAsked by the newly appointed shadow secretary of state for education, Rebecca Long Bailey, in the Commons, on Tuesday morning, when there would be clarity over schools reopening, Mr Williamson said: \"In terms of the return of schools, obviously she, I'm sure, shares a desire with me to see children being given the opportunity of returning to school when it is the right time to do so - and this will be based on the scientific and medical advice that we receive.\n\n\"I can assure her that we will take a phased approach in terms of opening schools and we will always aim to give schools, parents and, of course critically important, children the maximum amount of notice in terms of when this is going to happen.\"\n\nMr Williamson also acknowledged there was \"no substitute for a child being in a classroom, learning directly from a teacher\".\n\nIt is expected children in the last year of primary school and then those in the pre-GCSE year will be prioritised.\n\nReports have suggested 1 June would be the earliest reopening date in England.\n\nSchools in England, Wales and Northern Ireland were closed in the last week of March, with Irish schools shutting a little earlier.\n\nMeanwhile, of 1,931 NEU members surveyed - all of whom are regularly working in school during lockdown:\n\nNEU joint general secretary Kevin Courtney said much more needed to be done to \"equip schools for the road ahead\" and he accused the government of being \"premature in its off-the-record briefings about school reopenings\".\n\n\"There should be no mad rush to reopen schools,\" he said.\n\n\"It must be done with great care and alongside a profession who feel confident about safety measures being adequate and fit for purpose.\n\n\"Parents also agree with us - they have shown immense patience in recent weeks, for which all school staff are grateful.\n\n\"But that goodwill and effort from the public will be squandered by returning pupils too hastily.\n\n\"Safety must come first.\"\n• None Schools will reopen in phases, says Williamson", "A test version of the NHS's coronavirus contact-tracing app has been published to Apple and Google's app stores.\n\nCouncil staff and healthcare workers on the Isle of Wight will be invited to install it on Tuesday, ahead of a wider roll-out on the island on Thursday.\n\nProject chiefs have said their so-called \"centralised\" approach gives them advantages over a rival scheme advocated by the US tech giants and some privacy experts.\n\nBut fresh concerns have been raised.\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office has declared that \"as a general rule, a decentralised approach\" would better follow its principle that organisations should minimise the amount of personal data they collect.\n\nThe House of Commons' Human Rights Select Committee also discussed fears about plans to extend the app to record location data.\n\n\"There is an inherent risk that if you create a system that can be added to incrementally, you could do so in a way that is very privacy invasive,\" cautioned law professor Orla Lynskey.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock said Isle of Wight residents using the app \"will be saving lives\"\n\nBut NHSX - the health service's digital innovation unit - has stressed that:\n\n\"Please download the app to protect the NHS and save lives,\" Health Secretary Matt Hancock urged Isle of Wight residents.\n\n\"By downloading the app, you're protecting your own health, you're protecting the health of your loved ones, and the health of the community.\"\n\nThe NHS Covid-19 app is intended to supplement medical tests and contact-tracing interviews carried out by humans, in order to prevent a resurgence of Covid-19 when lockdown measures are eased.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: What is contact tracing and how does it work?\n\nIt works by using Bluetooth signals to detect when two people's smartphones are close to each other. If one person later registers themselves as being infected, an alert can be sent to others judged to be at high risk of contagion. This might be based on the fact they were exposed to the same person for a long period of time or that there had been multiple instances of them being in the vicinity of different people.\n\nThe trial on the Isle of Wight will help NHSX test how well the system works in practice, as well as judge how willing a population is to install and use the software. It follows a smaller experiment on an RAF base.\n\nAlthough the app is live, it is effectively hidden on the iOS and Android marketplaces, and residents will need to follow a set of instructions to install it.\n\nUsers will be asked to enter the first part of their postcode but not their name or other personal details\n\nWhile in theory there is nothing to prevent the details being shared and used by others elsewhere, NHSX hopes this will not happen as it could confuse the feedback it receives.\n\nAhead of the trial, NHSX chief Matthew Gould acknowledged that there would \"inevitably be unintended consequences\" and that \"if we think there is a better way of doing what we need to do, we won't hesitate to change\".\n\nBut he added that if citizens \"want to carry on saving lives, protecting the NHS and get the country back on its feet, then downloading the app is one way they can do that\".\n\nNHSX's app will send back details of the logged Bluetooth \"handshakes\" to a UK-based computer server to do the contact matching, rather carrying out the process on the handsets themselves.\n\nApple, Google and hundreds of privacy advocates have raised concerns that this risks hackers or even the state itself being able to re-identify anonymised users, and thus learn details about their social circles.\n\nBut NHSX has consulted ethicists and GCHQ's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) on the matter, and believes safeguards are in place to minimise the risk of this happening.\n\nFurthermore, it believes any such concerns are outweighed by the benefits of adopting a centralised approach.\n\nIt says a centralised app will let it:\n\nNHSX believes another major benefit is that its app can make use of people self-diagnosing themselves before they obtain test results.\n\nThe app will allow people to self-diagnose themselves by answering a series of questions\n\nThis would only be possible, Mr Gould explained, because NHSX could spot \"anomalous patterns of activity\" indicating that people were lying to the app for malicious reasons.\n\nBut the DP3T group - which promotes the decentralised approach - believes this claim is misleading.\n\n\"I have not seen any evidence that this would do anything but spot very large-scale and quite clumsy attacks,\" explained Prof Michael Veale.\n\n\"The only way to make sure that people can be held to account for submitting false reports is to identify them [which takes you down] a slippery slope.\"\n\nAnother criticism of NHSX's approach is that it puts the UK at odds with Ireland, Germany, Switzerland and a growing list of other nations, which are pursuing decentralised apps.\n\nThe fear is that UK citizens may face tougher restrictions on international travel if its system is not interoperable with others.\n\nMr Gould said that NHSX was \"talking to a range of countries [to] make sure that systems can talk to each other,\" adding that France and Japan were among others developing centralised apps.\n\nBut Prof Veale warned that any attempt to try to join up the two systems risked \"the worst of both worlds\".\n\n\"I don't think it's just a mater of political will. It would be a matter of sacrificing the privacy-by-design within both systems.\"\n\nThe Isle of Wight's Green Party - which has nine locally-elected councillors - has also expressed its doubts.\n\n\"The Isle of Wight has a significantly older and more vulnerable population [and] the island's one hospital could be overwhelmed if... people feel they do no need to stick to lockdown measures due to the rolling out of this app,\" it said.\n\nBut the government's coordinator for testing said the island was \"well-equipped\" to cope.\n\n\"It's quite a large population and there is a benefit in the fact that travel on and off the island is relatively restricted - the ferries are there, but they're running relatively infrequently,\" added Public Health England's Prof John Newton.\n\n\"So it is an ideal place to look at the epidemiology and see the impact.\"", "Piers Morgan said he had tested negative for coronavirus\n\nPiers Morgan has said he has tested negative for coronavirus after showing potential symptoms of the illness.\n\nBen Shephard deputised for him on Monday's Good Morning Britain, alongside regular co-host Susanna Reid, while Morgan awaited his test results.\n\nIn a tweet, Morgan said he would be back on the show \"as soon as my doctor advises I'm OK to return to work\".\n\nHe said he was advised to take a test after developing possible symptoms and was eligible as an essential worker.\n\nDespite the result, Shephard filled in for him again on Tuesday.\n\nLast week, Morgan was cleared of breaching broadcasting watchdog Ofcom's rules after 4,000 complaints about his questioning of care minister Helen Whately.\n\nDuring an animated interview he asked her to say the number of health workers and care workers who had died with coronavirus.\n\nShe accused him of \"shouting at me and not giving me a chance to answer your questions\" and \"attempting to score points\".\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.", "People who have lost income from shuttered businesses are feeling the most anxiety\n\nNearly half of people in Britain experienced \"high anxiety\" as the country's lockdown began, an Office for National Statistics survey suggests.\n\nAnxiety levels were highest among an estimated 8.6 million people whose income fell, according to the weekly survey on the impact of coronavirus.\n\nRenters and the self-employed were also particularly affected.\n\nMeasures of well-being were at their lowest levels since records began in 2011, the ONS said.\n\nThe survey's finding suggested that more than 25 million people - 49.6% of over-16s in Britain - rated their anxiety as \"high\", more than double the amount who did so at the end of 2019.\n\nThose suffering the greatest level of worry were an estimated 2.6 million people who said they were struggling to pay bills.\n\nThe survey data suggested that 8.6 million people had seen their income fall, with this group also reporting anxiety levels 16% higher than average.\n\nWomen reported anxiety levels 24% higher than men on average, with the ONS saying the difference might be because a larger proportion of women were either economically inactive, in lower paid jobs or working part time.\n\nDavid Shaw, who has been signed off work with anxiety, is trying to juggle providing for his family with the care of his severely disabled 16-year-old daughter, who has scoliosis.\n\nMr Shaw, who manages a supermarket in Brandon, Suffolk, said: \"My daughter would be extremely vulnerable to the virus and I can't risk bringing the virus home to her.\"\n\nThe 43-year-old said his employer was a good company and gave him two weeks carers' leave, but he added he was no longer being paid.\n\nDavid Shaw said he did not feel safe going to work in case the virus infected his daughter\n\nMr Shaw said: \"I can get a mortgage holiday but that is just one bill. I am not sure if the doctor will keep signing me off so I don't know what I will do.\"\n\nHe added he felt guilty that his colleagues were working while he was not but that he had to put his daughter's safety first.\n\nLucy Tinkler, head of the quality of life team at the ONS, said: \"All measures of personal well-being, which include anxiety and happiness, are at their worst levels since we began collecting data in 2011.\"\n\n\"The most recent data showed a slight improvement in anxiety compared to previous weeks, but remained much higher than before the pandemic.\"\n\nThe ONS is carrying out a weekly opinions and lifestyle survey of about 1,500 people to understand the impact of the coronavirus on Britain, and comparing it with the results of a similar survey it normally carries out monthly.\n\nIt found the average reported anxiety level rose from 2.97 out of 10 at the end of 2019 to 5.18 at the end of March as the lockdown was beginning.\n\nIn the most recent survey, from 9 April to 20 April, that fell slightly to 4.2.\n\nMost people feel anxious from time to time but if it is affecting your life then there are things you can do to help yourself and ways to seek help.\n\nSymptoms of anxiety can include headaches, a faster heartbeat, feeling tense, difficulty sleeping, problems concentrating and not being able to enjoy leisure time.\n\nThe NHS suggests ways to manage anxiety including breathing exercises, eating healthily and exercising. More advice is available from mental health charity Mind which has published wellbeing advice for the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe proportion of Britons reporting low happiness also rose sharply from 8.4% at the end of 2019 to 20.7% at the end of March.\n\nFinances were the biggest worry for an estimated 5.3 million people, while 6.2 million were most concerned about their work and 8.5 million most concerned about their well-being, the survey suggested.\n\nLucretia Thomas, a project adviser at Citizens Advice Enfield, said it had had a \"spike\" in people asking for advice about employment, benefits and debt issues as the pandemic prevented many people from working.\n\n\"The loss of income has really had a devastating effect on families, because their normal household expenses have increased,\" she said, explaining that families were often missing out on free school meals.\n\nPeople were also reporting that landlords had been issuing notices in preparation for when evictions might resume in June, she said, adding to the stress for some families.\n\nOthers are saying that their employers are preparing to make them redundant once the furlough period is over.\n\n\"People are ringing us for reassurance, thinking that we might have a timeline for when this is over. A client asked me, 'When do you think my husband might be able to go back to work?' I'm not able to answer that question,\" Ms Thomas said.", "\n• A medical test that can show if a person has had the coronavirus and now has some immunity. The test detects antibodies in the blood, which are produced by the body to fight off the disease.\n• Someone who has a disease but does not have any of the symptoms it causes. Some studies suggest some people with coronavirus carry the disease but don't show the common symptoms, such as a persistent cough or high temperature.\n• The first part of the UK's strategy to deal with the coronavirus, which involved trying to identify infected people early and trace anyone who had been in close contact with them.\n• One of a group of viruses that can cause severe or mild illness in humans and animals. The coronavirus currently sweeping the world causes the disease Covid-19. The common cold and influenza (flu) are other types of coronaviruses.\n• The disease caused by the coronavirus first detected in Wuhan, China, in late 2019. It primarily affects the lungs.\n• The second part of the UK's strategy to deal with the coronavirus, in which measures such as social distancing are used to delay its spread.\n• A fine designed to deal with an offence on the spot, instead of in court. These are often for driving offences, but now also cover anti-social behaviour and breaches of the coronavirus lockdown.\n• Health experts use a line on a chart to show numbers of new coronavirus cases. If a lot of people get the virus in a short period of time, the line might rise sharply and look a bit like a mountain. However, taking measures to reduce infections can spread cases out over a longer period and means the \"curve\" is flatter. This makes it easier for health systems to cope.\n• Short for influenza, a virus that routinely causes disease in humans and animals, in seasonal epidemics.\n• Supports firms hit by coronavirus by temporarily helping pay the wages of some staff. It allows employees to remain on the payroll, even though they aren't working.\n• How the spread of a disease slows after a sufficiently large proportion of a population has been exposed to it.\n• A person whose body can withstand or fend off a disease is said to be immune to it. Once a person has recovered from the disease caused by the coronavirus, Covid-19, for example, it is thought they cannot catch it again for a certain period of time.\n• The period of time between catching a disease and starting to display symptoms.\n• Hospital wards which treat patients who are very ill. They are run by specially-trained healthcare staff and contain specialist equipment.\n• Restrictions on movement or daily life, where public buildings are closed and people told to stay at home. Lockdowns have been imposed in several countries as part of drastic efforts to control the spread of the coronavirus.\n• The third part of the UK's strategy to deal with the coronavirus, which will involve attempts to lessen the impact of a high number of cases on public services. This could mean the NHS halting all non-critical care and police responding to major crimes and emergencies only.\n• The NHS's 24-hour phone and online service, which offers medical advice to anyone who needs it. People in England and Wales are advised to ring the service if they are worried about their symptoms. In Scotland, they should check NHS inform, then ring their GP in office hours or 111 out of hours. In Northern Ireland, they should call their GP.\n• Multiple cases of a disease occurring rapidly, in a cluster or different locations.\n• An epidemic of serious disease spreading rapidly in many countries simultaneously.\n• This is when the UK will start to lift some of its lockdown rules while still trying to reduce the spread of coronavirus.\n• PPE, or personal protective equipment, is clothing and kit such as masks, aprons, gloves and goggles used by medical staff, care workers and others to protect themselves against infection from coronavirus patients and other people who might be carrying the disease.\n• The isolation of people exposed to a contagious disease to prevent its spread.\n• R0, pronounced \"R-naught\", is the average number of people who will catch the disease from a single infected person. If the R0 of coronavirus in a particular population is 2, then on average each case will create two more new cases. The value therefore gives an indication of how much the infection could spread.\n• This happens when there is a significant drop in income, jobs and sales in a country for two consecutive three-month periods.\n• Severe acute respiratory syndrome, a type of coronavirus that emerged in Asia in 2003.\n• Staying inside and avoiding all contact with other people, with the aim of preventing the spread of a disease.\n• Keeping away from other people, with the aim of slowing down transmission of a disease. The government advises not seeing friends or relatives other than those you live with, working from home where possible and avoiding public transport.\n• Measures taken by a government to restrict daily life while it deals with a crisis. This can involve closing schools and workplaces, restricting the movement of people and even deploying the armed forces to support the regular emergency services.\n• These can be used by government ministers to implement new laws or regulations, or change existing laws. They are an easier alternative to passing a full Act of Parliament.\n• Any sign of disease, triggered by the body's immune system as it attempts to fight off the infection. The main symptoms of the coronavirus are a fever, dry cough and shortness of breath.\n• A treatment that causes the body to produce antibodies, which fight off a disease, and gives immunity against further infection.\n• A machine that takes over breathing for the body when disease has caused the lungs to fail.\n• A tiny agent that copies itself inside the living cells of any organism. Viruses can cause these cells to die and interrupt the body's normal chemical processes, causing disease.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I don’t think you can make the international comparisons you're suggesting at this stage\" - Dominic Raab\n\nThe UK now has the highest number of coronavirus deaths in Europe, according to the latest government figures.\n\nThere have been 29,427 deaths recorded across the UK - a figure Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said was \"a massive tragedy\".\n\nThe latest total for Italy, previously the highest in Europe, now stands at 29,315.\n\nBut experts say it could be months before full global comparisons can be made.\n\nBoth Italy and the UK record the deaths of people who have tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nBBC head of statistics Robert Cuffe said Britain reached this figure faster in its epidemic than Italy.\n\nBut he said there are caveats in making such a comparison, including the UK population being about 10% larger than Italy's.\n\nEach country also has different testing regimes, with Italy conducting more tests than the UK to date.\n\nSpeaking at the daily coronavirus briefing, Mr Raab said the 29,427 lives lost was \"a massive tragedy\" the country has \"never seen before... on this scale, in this way\".\n\nBut he would not be drawn on international comparisons, saying: \"I don't think we will get a real verdict on how well countries have done until the pandemic is over, and particularly until we get comprehensive international data on all-cause mortality.\"\n\nProf Sir David Spiegelhalter, of the University of Cambridge, said we can be \"certain\" that all reported figures are \"substantial underestimates\" of the true number who have died with the virus.\n\nHe said: \"We can safely say that none of these countries are doing well, but this is not Eurovision and it is pointless to try and rank them.\"\n\nHe added the \"only sensible comparison is by looking at excess all-cause mortality, adjusted for the age distribution of the country\" [but] \"even then it will be very difficult to ascribe the reasons for any differences.\"\n\nThis is a sobering moment. Italy was the first part of Europe to see cases rise rapidly, and the scenes of hospitals being overwhelmed were met with shock and disbelief.\n\nBut we should be careful how we interpret the figures.\n\nOn the face of it, both countries now count deaths in a similar way, including both in hospitals and the community.\n\nBut there are other factors to consider.\n\nFirst, the UK has a slightly larger population. If you count cases per head of population, Italy still comes out worse - although only just.\n\nCases are confirmed by tests - and the amount of testing carried out varies.\n\nThe geographical spread looks quite different too - half of the deaths in Italy have happened in Lombardy.\n\nIn the UK, by comparison, they have been much more spread out. Less than a fifth have happened in London, which has a similar population to Lombardy.\n\nThen, how do you factor in the indirect impact from things such as people not getting care for other conditions?\n\nThe fairest way to judge the impact in terms of fatalities is to look at excess mortality - the numbers dying above what would normally happen.\n\nYou need to do this over time. It will be months, perhaps even years, before we can really say who has the highest death toll.\n\nMeanwhile, the personal stories of those who have died are still emerging. They include three members of the same family who died within weeks of each other after contracting the virus.\n\nKeith Dunnington, 54, a nurse for more than 30 years, died at his parents home in South Shields on 19 April. His mother Lillian, 81, died on 1 May and her husband Maurice, 85, died days later.\n\nMomudou Dibba had worked at Watford Hospital for seven years\n\nMeanwhile, Momudou Dibba, a house-keeper at Watford Hospital who went \"above and beyond\" in his job, died with the virus on 29 April.\n\nIn a statement, West Hertfordshire NHS Trust said Mr Dibba, known as Mo, was \"kind, caring and considerate\".\n\nMeanwhile, 14 people from the same care home in Northern Ireland have died from Covid-19 related symptoms.\n\nThere have now been 1,383,842 tests for coronavirus across the UK, including 84,806 tests yesterday, Mr Raab told the No 10 briefing.\n\nFor the third day in a row, the government has failed to hit its target of 100,000 daily tests.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock set the target at the beginning of April and the government announced on Friday and Saturday that it had hit the 100,000-plus mark.\n\nSeparately, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published data on Tuesday showing that by 24 April there were 27,300 deaths where coronavirus was mentioned on the death certificate.\n\nIncluding deaths reported to the ONS since 24 April, it brings the total number to more than 32,000.\n\nThese figures can also include cases where a doctor suspects the individual was infected, but a test was not carried out - whereas the daily government figures rely on confirmed cases.", "The Scottish government has set out options for lifting the coronavirus lockdown - but has warned that \"extreme caution\" will have to be exercised.\n\nStrict social distancing restrictions are due to be reviewed on Thursday, but significant changes are unlikely.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon unveiled a paper on the options which are being considered, including relaxing rules on daily exercise and meeting people.\n\nIt also suggests ways that schools could eventually start to reopen.\n\nThis could include some year groups returning ahead of others, pupils attending school part-time, and a combination of in-school and home learning.\n\nThe new paper warns that re-opening primary schools and nurseries fully at this point would likely see a new spike in infections which would overwhelm the NHS within two months.\n\nIt also stresses that the wider coronavirus restrictions will not change \"until it is safe to do so\". The paper warns that there are still approximately 26,000 infectious people in Scotland, with the number \"much too high at present to consider the virus under control\".\n\nAny changes to lockdown will depend on how the spread of Covid-19 can be suppressed, and ministers have warned that \"no significant change\" is likely this week.\n\nThe paper says there is \"some evidence\" that the infection rate in Scotland is \"slightly above that elsewhere in the UK\", and says \"we must continue to proceed with extreme caution\".\n\nIt sets out a series of options for gradually lifting restrictions, moving towards a \"new normal\" which could remain in place for the foreseeable future.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said changes would only be made \"when it is safe to do so\"\n\nIt says people could be allowed to leave their homes more often, while staying within their local area and only mixing with their own household group.\n\nOfficials are also considering whether people could be allowed to meet with \"a small number of others\" from outside their household, initially in \"a group or 'bubble' that acts as a single, self-contained unit. These could be outdoor meetings at first.\n\nOptions for resuming NHS services which were suspended at the outbreak of the pandemic are also being examined, so some procedures and screening services can begin again where safe.\n\nSome workplaces could be allowed to re-open, but the paper warns that \"restrictions are likely to remain in place for some business activity for some time to come, especially where safe working is harder to achieve\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said \"particular consideration\" was being given to sectors such as construction, retail and manufacturing - but said \"where home working is possible we are likely to insist on that for the foreseeable future\".\n\nSchools are not currently set up for social distancing\n\nMinisters are considering \"a phased approach to returning pupils to school, when it is safe to do so\".\n\nThis could see a list of \"priority groups\" - including vulnerable pupils, those transitioning from primary to secondary school, and those beginning qualification courses in S3-S6 - resume classes ahead of other pupils.\n\nIt would also require \"a new approach to schooling\", likely with \"a blend of in-school and at-home learning\". This would see pupils attend school part-time in blocks of a few days, with schools being deep-cleaned between groups, and \"consistent, high-quality online materials\" provided for those learning at home.\n\nMs Sturgeon said a return to school \"might not be possible at all ahead of the summer holidays\", and said \"we will not compromise the safety of your children\".\n\nThe paper warns that re-opening primary schools and nurseries too early could cause \"a resurgence in the virus\" - saying that in the \"most likely scenario\", a full re-opening would risk it spreading so fast that \"hospital capacity in Scotland would be overwhelmed in less than two months\".\n\nMs Sturgeon urged people to continue to abide by lockdown rules\n\nAll of the options in the paper are currently under consideration, but Ms Sturgeon stressed that \"we are not recommending these options at the moment but offer them as examples of what may come next and the kind of preparations that are under way\".\n\nShe said: \"We will only make changes to lockdown rules when we believe it is safe to do so, whether that is in reopening schools or businesses or increasing social interaction.\n\n\"The most important task for all of us in the here and now is to get the virus under more control than it is right now. I cannot stress enough that we really are at a critical stage.\n\n\"That means asking you again to stick rigorously to the current rules, to think about your own compliance, and tightening that if anything, not easing up on it. If you have been going out a bit more than you should, please rectify that.\n\n\"Please stay home except for essential purposes.\"\n\nThe Scottish government is also appealing for people to contribute to the debate about the best path forward, and has set up a special website for these to be submitted.", "The Stranglers keyboard player Dave Greenfield has died at the age of 71 after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nGreenfield died on Sunday having contracted the virus after a prolonged stay in hospital for heart problems.\n\nHe penned the band's biggest hit, Golden Brown, a song about heroin, which went to number two on the UK singles chart in 1982.\n\nThe Stranglers bass player Jean-Jacques \"JJ\" Burnel paid tribute to Greenfield as a \"musical genius\".\n\nHe said: \"On the evening of Sunday May 3rd, my great friend and longstanding colleague of 45 years, the musical genius that was Dave Greenfield, passed away as one of the victims of the Great Pandemic of 2020.\n\n\"All of us in the worldwide Stranglers' family grieve and send our sincerest condolences to [Greenfield's wife] Pam.\"\n\nDrummer Jet Black added: \"We have just lost a dear friend and music genius, and so has the whole world.\n\n\"Dave was a complete natural in music. Together, we toured the globe endlessly and it was clear he was adored by millions. A huge talent, a great loss, he is dearly missed.\"\n\n(Left to right) Dave Greenfield, Jean-Jacques Burnel, Jet Black and Hugh Cornwell of The Stranglers in 1980\n\nThe Stranglers formed in 1974 in Guildford, Surrey. Greenfield, who originated from Brighton, joined within a year and they went on to be associated with the punk era.\n\nHe was soon known for his distinctive sound and playing style on instruments including the harpsichord and Hammond electric organ. Critics compared his sound to that of Ray Manzarek from The Doors.\n\nIn an interview with the band's website, however, the man himself said he was more influenced by a couple of other famous keyboard players.\n\n\"The only tracks by the Doors I knew were Light My Fire & Riders on the Storm,\" said Greenfield. \"Before I joined my main influences were probably Jon Lord [Deep Purple] and then Rick Wakeman [Yes].\"\n\nIn the same interview he said he always considered the Stranglers to be \"more new wave, than punk\", and also admitted to having had an interest in the occult, evident from him wearing a pentagram pendant in many early band pictures.\n\n\"The Pentagram represents the microcosm (as opposed to the macrocosm),\" he said. \"The relation between the self and the universe. I studied (not practiced) the occult quite intensively in those days.\"\n\nGolden Brown, perhaps Greenfield's finest moment, eventually won them an Ivor Novello award; however his bandmates initially discarded the song and did not consider it a single.\n\nThe band's other hits include No More Heroes, Peaches and Something Better Change. They continued touring and recording after original frontman Hugh Cornwell left in 1990.\n\nCornwell posted on Twitter he was \"very sorry\" to hear of his old bandmate's passing.\n\n\"He was the difference between The Stranglers and every other punk band,\" wrote Cornwell.\n\n\"His musical skill and gentle nature gave an interesting twist to the band. He should be remembered as the man who gave the world the music of Golden Brown.\"\n\nCurrent vocalist and guitarist Baz Warne described Greenfield as \"a true innovator\" and a \"musical legend\".\n\n\"The word genius is bandied around far too easily in this day and age, but Dave Greenfield certainly was one,\" said Warne.\n\nThe band recently postponed their farewell tour from this summer due to the pandemic.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Airlines across the world have grounded aircraft as passenger numbers collapse\n\nBritish Airways has told staff that its Gatwick airport operation may not reopen after the coronavirus pandemic passes.\n\nThe admission came in a memo, written by the head of BA's Gatwick hub and seen by BBC News.\n\nBA's Gatwick operation, which is currently suspended, is roughly a fifth as big as its Heathrow hub.\n\nIn a separate letter to pilots, BA said it cannot rule out suspending the rest of its Heathrow operation.\n\nIn the memo to Gatwick's staff, the company says: \"As you know, we suspended our Gatwick flying schedule at the start of April and there is no certainty as to when or if these services can or will return.\"\n\nIn the letter to pilots, BA notes that some of its rivals abroad are facing tough competition. It adds that a quarter of BA's 4,300 pilots are set to lose their jobs.\n\n\"We need to ensure that our remaining operation is efficient, flexible and cost-competitive to enable us to survive in an increasingly lean and unpredictable industry,\" says the letter from senior management.\n\nOn Tuesday, BA said it was set to cut up to 12,000 jobs from its 42,000-strong workforce because of a collapse in business due to the Covid-19 lockdown.\n\nThe airline's parent company, IAG, said it needed to impose a \"restructuring and redundancy programme\" until demand for air travel returns to 2019 levels.\n\nThe pilots' union Balpa said it was \"devastated\" and vowed to fight \"every single\" job cut.\n\nBA has been flying from Gatwick for decades. Before its merger with BOAC in 1974 to form BA, BEA flew its first routes from the hub in 1950.\n\nPlane-makers and airlines alike have been struggling to cope with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on their businesses.\n\nOn Monday, aerospace giant Airbus announced it was furloughing 3,200 staff at its north Wales site.\n\nHours earlier, Airbus chief executive Guillaume Faury had warned the company was \"bleeding cash at an unprecedented speed\".\n\nMr Faury also told Airbus' 135,000 staff to brace for potentially deep job cuts and warned that its survival was at stake without immediate action.\n\nMeanwhile, US aircraft manufacturer Boeing announced that it would cut 10% of its workforce after it said the lockdown had delivered a \"body blow\" to the business.\n\nOther airlines, including BA's close rival Virgin Atlantic, have been seeking UK government help.\n\nThe aviation industry as a whole has also been lobbying the government for assistance.\n\nOn Monday, industry body Airlines UK urged Chancellor Rishi Sunak to extend his job retention scheme beyond June.\n\nIt said airlines hit by coronavirus would face \"a renewed cash crisis\" if the scheme were withdrawn prematurely.", "Virgin Atlantic has seen passenger numbers slump as countries close borders and enact travel bans\n\nVirgin Atlantic has announced it is to cut more than 3,000 jobs in the UK and end its operation at Gatwick airport.\n\nThe shock announcement comes after rival British Airways said it could not rule out closing its Gatwick operation. Pilots' union Balpa described it as \"devastating\".\n\nMany airlines have been struggling as the coronavirus pandemic has brought global travel to a virtual standstill.\n\nThe airline currently employs a total of about 10,000 people.\n\nVirgin Atlantic, which is in the process of applying for emergency loans from the government, said that jobs will be lost across the board.\n\n\"We have weathered many storms since our first flight 36 years ago but none has been as devastating as Covid-19 and the associated loss of life and livelihood for so many,\" said Virgin Atlantic chief executive Shai Weiss.\n\nBalpa the union said: \"This is another terrible blow for the industry and is evidence of the dire situation facing UK aviation.\n\nBalpa general secretary, Brian Strutton, said: \"Our members and all staff in Virgin Atlantic will be shocked by the scale of this bombshell. We will be challenging Virgin very hard to justify this.\"\n\nVirgin Atlantic also said it will move its flying programme from Gatwick to Heathrow. It said it intended to keep its slots at Gatwick \"so it can return in line with customer demand\".\n\nHowever, Mr Weiss said there was no certainty when the air travel industry would recover from the coronavirus crisis.\n\n\"After 9/11 and the global financial crisis, we took similar painful measures but fortunately many members of our team were back flying with us within a couple of years.\n\n\"Depending on how long the pandemic lasts and the period of time our planes are grounded for, hopefully the same will happen this time.\"\n\nGatwick said the company was \"very saddened\" to hear of Virgin Atlantic's plans.\n\nThe airline has flown from the airport since 1984, and Gatwick said: \"Virgin Atlantic will always be welcome at Gatwick and we will continue our efforts to explore ways to restart the airline's operations as soon as possible, in the knowledge that they intend to retain their slot portfolio at Gatwick for when demand returns.\"\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of aviation industry group Airlines UK, said: \"The challenges facing UK aviation cannot be overstated. There is currently close to zero passenger demand and many airlines have ceased operations altogether.\n\n\"We do not know when countries will start to reopen their borders, or whether restrictions will remain in place for some time.\n\n\"Airlines are having to adapt to a sector that will be smaller and leaner in future, with no guarantees as to when we will return to pre-crisis levels.\"\n\nIt was 28% at British Airways. Now 30% of jobs will be lost at Virgin Atlantic.\n\nThe UK's aviation sector is shrinking in size. No airline or airport is immune.\n\nVirgin Atlantic was Gatwick's ninth-largest airline, so it's a blow, but not a knock-out punch.\n\nHowever, British Airways, which is Gatwick's second-biggest customer, has indicated that it also might not restart its Gatwick operation.\n\nIf BA does pull out, it would carry deeper ramifications.\n\nJust a few weeks ago, several UK airports had elaborate, expensive and very controversial expansion plans in the pipeline. The big ones were operating at or very near capacity.\n\nBut the whole aviation sector is living a new reality.\n\nWhen lockdown restrictions ease and flight schedules are increased again, there will be fewer passengers, fewer and probably more expensive flights and sadly thousands of cabin crew, pilots and ground staff will have lost their jobs.\n\nAnd the consensus is that it will take years for the aviation sector to bounce back to where it was before the pandemic.\n\nCommenting on its own future, Gatwick said: \"We remain very optimistic about the long-term prospects of Gatwick Airport and our resilience as a business, and having remained open throughout this pandemic we are in a strong position to extend our current operations quickly to meet demand.\"\n\nOther airlines have already announced that they intend to cut jobs because of the collapse in demand for travel due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLast week, British Airways said it was set to cut up to 12,000 jobs from its 42,000-strong workforce. It also told staff that its Gatwick airport operation might not reopen after the pandemic passes.\n\nRyanair has also said it will cut 3,000 jobs - 15% of its workforce - with boss Michael O'Leary saying the move was \"the minimum that we need just to survive the next 12 months\".\n\nVirgin Atlantic said it had begun a 45-day consultation period on the job losses with unions Balpa and Unite.\n\nVirgin Atlantic also plans to reduce the size of its fleet of aircraft from 45 to 35 by the summer of 2022.\n\nIt hopes to restore about 60% of its pre-pandemic flying capacity by the end of 2020.\n\nMeanwhile, the airline industry has said it must be ready with a series of measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus before air travel can resume.\n\nThe International Air Transport Association (IATA) said it recommended mandatory face-coverings for passengers and masks for crew, as one of several actions to reduce what it called \"the already low risk of contracting Covid-19 on board aircraft\".\n\nAre you a Virgin Atlantic employee? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "A woman has been charged along with her husband and son with killing a security guard who refused her daughter entry to a shop because she was not wearing a face covering.\n\nCalvin Munerlyn, 43, was shot in the back of the head on Friday at the Family Dollar store in Flint, Michigan, one of the US states hardest hit by the pandemic.\n\nHe was attacked after telling 45-year-old Sharmel Teague's daughter she could not come into the shop without a state-mandated mask.\n\nThe mother's husband, Larry Teague, 44, and son, Ramonyea Bishop, 23, are accused of going to the store shortly afterwards and fatally attacking Mr Munerlyn.\n\nSharmel Teague has been arrested, but the two other suspects remain at large. All three face first-degree premeditated murder and firearms charges.\n\nLarry Teague is also charged with violating the governor's order requiring face coverings inside stores in order to prevent coronavirus transmission.\n\nHer daughter has not been charged.\n\nAfter the initial verbal altercation at the store, Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton told a news conference on Monday, Sharmel Teague shouted at and spat on Mr Munerlyn before driving away in a red GMC Envoy.\n\nShe returned a short while later with her son and husband before the fatal confrontation ensued, according to officials.\n\nIt was the son who allegedly pulled the trigger.\n\nThe prosecutor told reporters: \"The death of Calvin Munerlyn is senseless and tragic, and those responsible will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.\"\n\nMr Munerlyn's mother, Bernadett, told the Associated Press news agency: \"All my baby was doing was his job.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michigan protesters last week demanded an end to the Covid-19 lockdown\n\nA GoFundMe page set up for Mr Munerlyn's funeral has raised nearly $100,000 (£80,000). According to the page, he leaves behind eight children.\n\nMichigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has ordered all residents in the Midwestern state to wear face coverings when inside business premises in order to fight Covid-19. Stores can refuse service to anyone who does not comply with this rule.\n\nAs of Monday the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Michigan stood at 43,950, including 4,135 deaths, state officials said.\n\nLast week, hundreds of protesters, some of them armed, converged on the statehouse in Lansing and demanded an end to the governor's stay-at-home order.\n\nThere has been angry resistance elsewhere in the US to rules imposed to deter the virus' spread.\n\nAn order that went into effect on Friday in an Oklahoma town requiring the use of face masks in business premises was rescinded within hours amid a furious backlash from customers.\n\nStore employees in Stillwater reported threats of violence, including one involving a gun. Mayor Will Joyce swiftly amended the order to strongly encourage, but not mandate, the wearing of face masks.", "Unless greenhouse gas emissions fall, large numbers of people will live in places with average temperatures of 29C\n\nMore than three billion people will be living in places with \"near un-liveable\" temperatures by 2070, according to a new study.\n\nUnless greenhouse gas emissions fall, large numbers of people will experience average temperatures hotter than 29C.\n\nThis is considered outside the climate \"niche\" in which humans have thrived for the past 6,000 years.\n\nCo-author of the study Tim Lenton told the BBC: \"The study hopefully puts climate change in more human terms\".\n\nResearchers used data from United Nations population projections and a 3C warming scenario based on the expected global rise in temperature. A UN report found that even with countries keeping to the Paris climate agreement, the world was on course for a 3C rise.\n\nAccording to the study, human populations are concentrated into narrow climate bands with most people residing in places where the average temperature is about 11-15C. A smaller number of people live in areas with an average temperature of 20-25C.\n\nPeople have mostly lived in these climate conditions for thousands of years.\n\nHowever should, global warming cause temperatures to rise by three degrees, a vast number of people are going to be living in temperatures considered outside the \"climate niche\".\n\nAreas projected to be affected include India and sub-Saharan Africa\n\nMr Lenton, climate specialist and director of the global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter, conducted the study with scientists from China, the US and Europe.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"The land warms up faster than the ocean so the land is warming more than three degrees. Population growth is projected to be in already hot places, mostly sub-Saharan Africa, so that shifts the average person to a hotter temperature.\n\n\"It's shifting the whole distribution of people to hotter places which themselves are getting hotter and that's why we find the average person on the planet is living in about 7C warmer conditions in the 3C warmer world.\"\n\nAreas projected to be affected include northern Australia, India, Africa, South America and parts of the Middle East.\n\nThe study raises concerns about those in poorer areas who will be unable to shelter from the heat.\n\n\"For me, the study is not about the rich who can just get inside an air-conditioned building and insulate themselves from anything. We have to be concerned with those who don't have the means to isolate themselves from the weather and the climate around them,\" Mr Lenton said.\n\nMr Lenton says the main message from the team's findings is that \"limiting climate change could have huge benefits in terms of reducing the number of people projected to fall outside of the climate niche.\n\n\"It's about roughly a billion people for each degree of warming beyond the present. So for every degree of warming, we could be saving a huge amount of change in people's livelihoods.\"", "The health secretary has set out the UK's plan to test its contact-tracing app across the Isle of Wight.\n\nSpeaking at the daily coronavirus briefing, Matt Hancock said the phone software will allow the government to take a \"more targeted\" approach to the lockdown while containing the virus.", "It would have been \"beneficial\" to have ramped up Covid-19 testing quicker, the UK's chief scientific adviser has told MPs assessing the coronavirus response.\n\nBut Sir Patrick Vallance added testing alone would not control the virus.\n\nEngland's deputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries said \"things would have been done differently\" if capacity had not been limited at the time.\n\nData released on Tuesday showed there were 27,300 coronavirus-related deaths in England and Wales by 24 April.\n\nIt came as the UK surpassed Italy's reported coronavirus death toll on Tuesday, after deaths across hospitals, care homes and the wider community rose to 29,427 versus Italy's 29,315.\n\nThe government moved away from community tests and contact tracing on 12 March, as ministers decided to focus testing on patients with suspected Covid-19 in hospitals, care homes and prisons.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock later announced a goal of 100,000 coronavirus tests a day by the end of April, saying it was \"what the nation needs\". The government once more failed to hit the target on Tuesday, despite an initial success.\n\nAsked what he would change about the UK's response to the virus, Sir Patrick told the committee: \"I think that probably we, in the early phases, and I've said this before, I think if we'd managed to ramp testing capacity quicker it would have been beneficial.\n\n\"And, you know, for all sorts of reasons that didn't happen.\n\n\"I think it's clear you need lots of testing for this, but to echo what Jenny Harries has said, it's completely wrong to think of testing as the answer.\n\n\"It's just part of the system that you need to get right. The entire system needs to work properly.\"\n\nMuch like the problems getting personal protective equipment for staff, the UK's record on testing is going to come under scrutiny for years to come.\n\nThere are many reasons why other countries, such as South Korea and Germany, had a better testing infrastructure to start with.\n\nBut what remains more difficult to understand is why the UK did not act sooner to rectify that.\n\nCertainly rapid progress was made from the start of April when Health Secretary Matt Hancock set the 100,000 tests-a-day target.\n\nBut why it took until then to turbo-boost the effort is unclear. The first confirmed case was at the end of January.\n\nBy mid-March the UK had to virtually abandon testing in the community - it did not have the capacity, so had to prioritise patients in hospital.\n\nOne school of thought is that because the policy at the time was to slow the spread of the virus in the community, rather than suppress it as is the case with lockdown, widespread testing was not needed to contain outbreaks and suppress the epidemic.\n\nDr Harries said a balance needed to be struck in terms of testing and ramping up capacity in the NHS, adding that \"if we had unlimited capacity, and the ongoing support beyond that, then we perhaps would choose a slightly different approach\".\n\nAsked when test results would be returned within 24 hours, Dr Harries said the time period for test returns was \"decreasing all the time\". She said she could not put a figure on it but stressed she was aware those testing times \"are coming down\".\n\nMeanwhile, the PM's spokesman said the government would set out how lockdown restrictions could be eased in some ways and strengthened in others this week \"once we have the scientific evidence and we have completed the review process\".\n\nAsked about a suggestion by Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon that people there could be allowed to meet up with \"small defined groups\" outdoors, the PM's spokesman said: \"Broadly the scientific and medical experts have been clear that there is is less likelihood of transmission of this disease outdoors than indoors.\n\n\"That will obviously be something we are considering as part of the review.\"\n\nAccording to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), by 24 April there were 27,300 deaths where coronavirus is mentioned.\n\nIncluding deaths reported to the ONS since 24 April, it brings the total number to more than 32,000.\n\nThese figures can also include cases where a test has not been carried out but because a doctor suspect the individual was infected. The daily government figures rely on confirmed cases.\n\nThe data goes up to 24 April - delays in reporting and completing death certificates means it lags behind the daily figures.\n\nDuring the week up to 24 April there were 2,794 coronavirus deaths in care homes, up from just over 2,000 the week before.\n\nIt brings the total to nearly 6,000 in care homes since the epidemic started.\n\nDeath certificates analysis in Scotland and Northern Ireland bring the UK total to nearly 30,000 by late April. That is about a quarter higher than the daily government figures showed at that time.\n\nDepartment of Health figures on Tuesday showed number of coronavirus-related deaths in the UK reached 29,427, an increase of 693.\n\nSir Patrick told the Health Select Committee that evidence face masks or coverings prevent the spread of infection from one person to another is \"marginal but positive\", adding: \"So there is some evidence they can do that.\"\n\nHe said: \"It looks like the major root of infection in this disease is probably droplet spread, rather than through aerosol, but there may be some aerosol components as well.\n\n\"Masks may have a marginal positive effect in that situation, or face coverings of some sort might do.\"\n\nThe new NHS app aims to quickly trace recent contacts of anyone who tests positive for the virus and will be available to people on the Isle of Wight this week.\n\nIt is part of the government's strategy for coming out of lockdown, which aims to have widespread testing and contact tracing in place to monitor and reduce any future outbreaks.\n\nIf the trial is successful, the app will be rolled out across the whole of the UK by the middle of May, Mr Hancock said.\n\nBut the \"centralised\" model of the app - meaning there is a central computer server which works out which phones have matched - has raised some privacy concerns.", "New car registrations almost ground to a halt in April after coronavirus lockdown measures were introduced, the motor industry has said.\n\nFigures from industry body the SMMT show only 4,321 cars were registered, the lowest monthly level since 1946.\n\nApril's figure marked a 97% plunge in sales from the same month last year.\n\nThe closure of car dealerships as part of measures to try to combat the disease has hit consumer registrations.\n\nThe Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said that of the registrations made last month, 70% were by companies buying for their fleets. The cars would most likely have been on order before the lockdown, said Mike Hawes, SMMT chief executive.\n\n\"If you are told to close all your car showrooms for the entirety of April it's no surprise sales are almost non-existent,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMany of the 4,000 cars sold last month were needed to support key workers and for those who had a pressing need for them, an SMMT spokesman said.\n\nThose cars would not have been bought from dealerships, but instead, for example, from wholesalers, or directly from manufacturers.\n\nThe 4,000 figure for April compares to 161,064 new cars that were registered in same month last year.\n\nThe industry body said it now expects 1.68 million new car registrations in 2020 compared with 2.3 million in 2019.\n\nStaff at some UK car manufacturers began returning to work this week, although the start of full production is a long way off, Mr Hawes said. The supply chain is also starting to re-open.\n\n\"Manufacturers are trying to figure out how to start operations in a safe environment,\" he said. \"But it will be slow and production will be ramped up very slowly.\"\n\nThe coronavirus crisis has come at what was already a difficult time for the motor industry, which had been struggling with falling sales and a collapse in demand for diesel vehicles, while struggling to meet tough new emissions targets.\n\nThe figures are certainly dramatic, expected to be the lowest sales since February 1946.\n\nBut since virtually the entire motor industry ground to a halt when the lockdown was introduced, they are not entirely unexpected.\n\nWhat matters now is what happens when the restrictions are eased and customers are allowed back into the showrooms.\n\nYou would expect there to be some pent-up demand - after all, dealerships began to close in mid-March, traditionally one of the strongest months of the year for new car sales.\n\nHowever, since then harsh economic realities have come into play. Huge swathes of the workforce have been furloughed, and the signs are the country is heading into a deep recession.\n\nUnder those circumstances, with so much uncertainty and so many jobs at risk, how many people will really be willing to buy a new car?\n\nWe can expect a wave of incentive programmes - and quite possibly a wave of new scrappage schemes - as car companies start fighting tooth and nail for every single sale.\n\nAll of the UK's major car factories suspended work in March, and it is not yet clear when they will reopen.\n\nIan Plummer, commercial director at online marketplace Auto Trader, said: \"With retailers forced to close the doors to their physical forecourts, it'll come as no surprise to anyone to see just how dramatic an impact it's had on the new car market.\n\n\"Some brands have been able to sell remotely, but uncertainty in the government's guidelines or a lack of the required infrastructure to operate home delivery in a safe way, has limited it to all but a handful of retailers.\"\n\nHowever, he said Auto Trader data indicated that the market had been paused, rather than stopped.\n\nHe added that there would be a chance \"for the industry to accelerate the adoption of low emission vehicles\" when restrictions lift.\n\n\"However, it'll be essential for manufacturers to push more electric vehicles into their UK networks along with greater financial incentives,\" such as scrappage schemes, he said.", "A group of Tory MPs are calling on the Church of England to ease restrictions during the coronavirus outbreak to allow small-scale funerals in churches.\n\nA letter signed by 36 MPs suggests clergy be allowed to enter their churches to officiate at funerals while observing safety measures.\n\nChurches closed in March, with funerals only permitted to take place at the graveside or the crematorium.\n\nThe Church of England said its advice came after safety concerns.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said the issue was \"ultimately a matter for the Church of England\" but added that the guidance was \"clear that funerals are able to go ahead in places of worship and crematoria where it is possible to do so\".\n\nHe said funerals should take place in line with social distancing guidelines.\n\nIn a letter addressed to the Lord Archbishops and Diocesan Bishops of the Church of England, the MPs say they are concerned \"that the wishes of the deceased and bereaved are not being fulfilled with a proper committal in the church of their wish\".\n\nConservative MP for West Dorset Chris Loder is the lead signatory on the letter which has also been signed by ex-cabinet ministers Liam Fox and Theresa Villiers.\n\nIt says the government guidance on funerals \"is clear\" and that services can take place with \"proper measures in place\".\n\n\"It is now a matter for you to decide, and is within your ability, to enable small-scale funerals within the Church of England to now take place.\"\n\nThe MPs say the Church should \"consider, most intently, the pain and anguish of those families unable to have a funeral\", asking for their compassion \"to shine through in your considerations and deliberations today\".\n\n\"Therefore, we write to ask that you give permission, in line with the law and government guidance, for clergy to enter their church and to officiate at funerals within the church building, while observing necessary safety measures.\"\n\nOn its website, the Church of England says funerals can only happen at a crematorium or at the graveside and only immediate family members can attend.\n\nFollowing a meeting on Wednesday, the House of Bishops agreed a three stage plan to gradually re-open church buildings \"in time and in parallel with the government's approach\".\n\nThis three stage process would start with allowing services to be streamed from church, followed by widening access for some rites and ceremonies - and finally opening up churches for services with limited congregations.\n\nResponding to the letter, the Reverend Dr Brendan McCarthy, the Church of England's adviser on healthcare policy, said: \"The death of a loved one is painful under any circumstances and the current situation has made this all the more difficult for those who have been bereaved.\n\n\"The House of Bishops has been meeting frequently and advice is reviewed regularly and updated as circumstances allow.\n\n\"The Church of England has consistently stated that it will always ensure that, where requested, a priest is present to conduct a funeral service, either at a crematorium or at the churchyard.\n\n\"Any suggestion that the Church of England is responsible for 'direct cremation' could not be further from the truth - that is against both Government guidance and the Church's commitment to provide pastoral care for all.\n\n\"The advice not to conduct funeral services in church buildings - and it is advice, not instruction - was given because of concerns about parishes having capacity to conduct funerals safely, including being able to deep-clean church buildings between services.\"", "Disney's Florida theme park has been shut since mid-March\n\nWalt Disney Co suffered a $1.4bn (£1.1bn) hit to profits in the first three months of the year, as it closed its parks, cancelled movie releases and reduced advertising sales.\n\nEvery part of its business was affected by coronavirus, nearly wiping out profits for the quarter.\n\nDisney chairman Bob Iger said the firm was facing \"unprecedented\" challenges but he was confident of recovery.\n\nThe firm is already planning to open its Shanghai park on 11 May.\n\nChief executive Bob Chapek said the company would take a \"phased approach\", requiring advance reservations to limit attendance.\n\nIt said it would require health measures, such as masks and temperature checks.\n\n\"We are seeing encouraging signs of gradual return to some semblance of normalcy in China,\" he said.\n\n\"While it's too early to predict when we'll be able to begin resuming all of our operations, we are evaluating a number of different scenarios to ensure a cautious, sensible and deliberate approach to the eventual reopening of our parks.\"\n\nThe parks and cruise division has been a reliable profit driver for Disney in recent years, as the firm's giant media business tries to adapt to online competition and declines in paid-TV subscriptions and movie theatre attendance.\n\nBut the parks business was hammered by the closings, accounting for $1bn of the $1.4bn hit to operating income, as the firm shut its parks in Shanghai and Hong Kong in January, in Tokyo in February and in the US and France in March. Its cruise lines have also suspended operations.\n\nMr Chapek said he thought there was enough pent-up demand that people would come once the firm does re-open in a limited way. But outside of Shanghai, executives warned that the timing of re-opening remains unclear.\n\nThe firm's advertising business - which supports its television output - is also seeing significant declines, as companies slash marketing budgets and a lack of live sports reduces viewers on Disney's ESPN sports channel.\n\nDisney last year launched a new streaming service, Disney+, which had attracted 54.5 million subscribers as of 4 May - up from about 50 million on 8 April. But it remains loss-making.\n\nThe direct-to-consumer and international unit, which includes Disney+, posted a loss of $812m in the quarter.\n\n\"It's difficult to think of a company which better illustrates the ups and downs of the coronavirus outbreak and its effect on companies,\" said Nicholas Hyett, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown. \"While we think the business ... has one of the best asset bases of any listed company ... the damage the current crisis will do remains unclear.\"\n\nDisney said it was taking numerous steps to shore up its finances, including reducing capital investment plans by $900m and suspending a planned dividend payment.\n\nLast month, it stopped paying nearly half of its workforce, furloughing more than 100,000 employees, many of them park and hotel workers.\n\nQuarterly revenues were up 21% year-on-year at $18bn - beating analyst expectations. But profits fell to $460m from $5.4bn in the prior year, a 91% drop.\n\n\"I have no doubt that we will get through this but it will take some time,\" Disney chairman Bob Iger said.", "US researchers report the first known case of placental infection with pandemic coronavirus, also known as Sars-CoV-2. The experts from Yale School of Medicine say the 35-year-old woman was in the middle stage of her pregnancy (the second trimester) when she developed complications and needed hospital treatment.\n\nShe had very high blood pressure and some bleeding from her vagina -worrying signs in anyone expecting a baby. Ten days before that she had had the classic coronavirus fever and cough that we are all being told to look out for. An X-ray revealed signs of infection in her lungs.\n\nHer blood pressure remained dangerously high - a condition that is called pre-eclampsia in pregnant women and can be fatal for the mother and the baby. The woman decided to opt for a termination of her pregnancy, which was at 22 weeks’ gestation, as her life was in danger.\n\nHer doctors then sent off the placenta for further examination and found evidence of the virus. Experts say the pre-print publication, which is available online (but has not yet been peer-reviewed) is interesting but it is too soon to know what impact, if any, coronavirus has on pregnancies.\n\nProf Marian Knight, an expert in maternal health at the University of Oxford in the UK, advises: “The most important message for women must be that they should continue to attend for their antenatal check-ups while being vigilant about social distancing, particularly in the third trimester of pregnancy\".", "Author Colson Whitehead has won his second Pulitzer Prize for fiction\n\nUS author Colson Whitehead has become only the fourth writer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction twice.\n\nThe African-American author was honoured for The Nickel Boys, which chronicles the abuse of black boys at a juvenile reform school in Florida.\n\nWhitehead, a 50-year-old New Yorker, won the 2017 prize in the same category for his book The Underground Railroad.\n\nBefore him, only Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner and John Updike had won the Pulitzer for fiction twice.\n\nThe 2020 awards, postponed for several weeks due to the coronavirus, were announced remotely this year in the living room of Pulitzer administrator Dana Canedy.\n\nShe noted that the first Pulitzers were awarded in 1917, less than a year before the outbreak of the Spanish Flu.\n\nThey are among the highest honours for US-based journalists and authors.\n\nWhitehead has previously said he grew up wanting to be the black version of horror writer Stephen King.\n\nHis Nickel Boys was inspired by the real-life horror story of the Dozier School for Boys in the Florida panhandle, where children convicted of minor offences were subjected to violent abuse.\n\nThe Harvard graduate's novel was praised by the Pulitzer committee for its \"spare and devastating exploration of abuse at a reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida that is ultimately a powerful tale of human perseverance, dignity and redemption\".\n\nThe New York Times newspaper topped the list of publications for journalism honours with three awards, including the prestigious investigative reporting prize for Brian Rosenthal's expose of New York City's taxi industry, showing how predatory lenders exploited vulnerable drivers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn collaboration with ProPublica, the Anchorage Daily News won what is widely regarded as the most coveted Pulitzer, for public service journalism, in recognition of its work on the lack of police coverage in many small towns in Alaska.\n\nThe honour for breaking news photography went to staff at Reuters news agency for their images of last year's Hong Kong protests.\n\nAnd, for the first time in its history, the Pulitzer committee bestowed a prize in audio reporting, which was awarded to This American Life for its episode The Out Crowd, which examined US President Donald Trump's policy requiring thousands of asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their claims are adjudicated.\n\nThe episode was a collaboration with Molly O'Toole of the Los Angeles Times and Emily Green of Vice News, who will also share the prize.\n\nA posthumous special citation was awarded to African-American civil rights activist and early champion of investigative journalism Ida B Wells, who died in 1931, for her \"outstanding and courageous reporting\" on lynching. The citation comes with a donation of at least $50,000 (£40,100) in support of Ms Wells' mission, with recipients to be announced.\n\n\"It goes without saying that today we announce the Pulitzer winners in deeply challenging times,\" Ms Canedy said on Monday. She added that journalism was as valuable as ever, with the arts continuing to \"sustain, unite and inspire\".", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEnglish Football League chairman Rick Parry has said the current season needs to be concluded before 31 July and that clubs face a \"£200m hole\" by September.\n\nThe former Liverpool chief executive admitted the EFL needed a \"proper reset post-Covid\", with clubs currently \"stacking up creditors\".\n\nParry said it was \"difficult to answer\" how many might go out of business.\n\nHe was giving evidence to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee about the impact of coronavirus.\n• None what should happen with promotion and relegation\n\nElite football has been suspended since 13 March and, while the Premier League and EFL has said it intends to complete the 2019-20 season, it remains uncertain how or when.\n\n\"Our end date realistically is 31 July because of the situation with contracts,\" said Parry. \"We can't go beyond July.\n\n\"Players and staff have been furloughed and to expect clubs to bring them back in now, to forgo the furlough, only to then find in a month they can't play would be a complete mess.\n\n\"We need within days to be taking decisions.\"\n\nHe added: \"We have a great deal of uncertainty around next season and the undetermined matter of when we'll be able to return with crowds, which for the EFL is absolutely critical. We're much more dependent upon the revenue and atmosphere generated by crowds than the Premier League.\"\n\nParry, who was giving evidence alongside England and Wales Cricket Board chief executive Tom Harrison and Rugby Football Union CEO Bill Sweeney, said he still expected three clubs to be promoted from the Championship to Premier League.\n\nHe added that it could get \"very messy\" if the threat of relegation from the top flight was removed - as has been reported.\n\n\"The Premier League is aware of our position on that,\" he stated, going on to suggest \"lawyers are going to get wealthy\" if the Premier League opted not to relegate three teams.\n\n\"There would be a degree of outrage from a number of clubs in the Championship and it would be a breach of the tripartite agreement,\" Parry continued.\n\nFinishing the season behind closed doors would primarily be about \"sporting integrity\" rather than generating revenue for clubs, said Parry.\n\n\"If we were starting behind closed doors it would be finely balanced economically,\" he explained. \"It's almost neutral but for many clubs it would actually cost them to play.\n\n\"We stand to lose an element of broadcast revenue if we're unable to complete the season, but given the broadcast contract is nowhere near that of the Premier League it's a relatively small contribution.\"\n\nParry said he supported the Professional Footballers' Association's appointment of financial services firm Deloitte to look at club accounts and assesses if there was a genuine need for wages to be deferred.\n\n\"Our approach really is to say we're all part of the problem and so we all need to be part of the solution; the clubs, the players and the owners,\" he said. \"We all need to share the pain.\n\n\"We're having an open-book policy. We're absolutely on board with the Deloitte process.\"\n\nExplaining the situation around player contracts, Parry said the \"landscape going forwards has got to change\".\n\n\"We have 1,400 players coming out of contract at the end of June,\" he said. \"That is a train coming down the tunnel very quickly.\n\n\"They are going to be extremely concerned about their futures.\"\n\nParry said he \"completely agreed\" that a rescue package would now be needed to help support EFL clubs.\n\n\"The Premier League has said if they're allowed to play then they will be in a position to talk to us about support for the lower leagues,\" he added.\n\n\"We await that day - discussions to date, I think it's fair to say, have been limited.\"\n\nParry also said they could not just rely on going from \"one bailout to another bailout\", suggesting a \"complete reset\" was now needed in terms of the redistribution of revenue within the game.\n\n\"Parachute payments are an evil that needs to be eradicated,\" he said.\n\n\"We have six clubs in the Championship receiving parachute payments giving them an average of £40m per club. The other 18 clubs get £4.5m each, so they're then struggling to keep up.\n\nHe added: \"We need to know where we're heading in two and three years. We need hope, we need a plan and we need some clarity on the longer-term future.\"\n\n\"Parachute payments are a vital mechanism to give relegated clubs financial support while adjusting to significantly lower revenues and having a higher cost base related to their playing squads,\" the statement said.\n\n\"We see no evidence that parachute payments distort performance at that level and are an essential part of this highly competitive environment.\"", "Florence Welch sang from her home during an online Met Ball event\n\nIt's usually one of the THE highlights of the fashion calendar.\n\nBut like most events, the annual Met Gala - which had been due to take place in New York on Monday - was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt normally sees stars like Lady GaGa, Billy Porter and Katy Perry gracing the red carpet in elaborate outfits.\n\nAll was not lost, however, as celebrities including Julia Roberts and Amanda Seyfried dressed up regardless while in isolation.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of youtube video by The Florence + the Machine Fan Club\n\nWintour told viewers at home: \"This is a time of grief and of hardship for millions, and the postponement of a party is nothing in comparison.\n\n\"And yet, one thing that we have learned through this difficult time is that we need each other, that community is essential to who we are.\n\n\"If we are to come out of this pandemic stronger and more resilient, we must emerge from it connected as never before.\"\n\nShe also asked for donations to the Met and the Common Thread, an initiative to help those struggling in the fashion industry.\n\nCardi B also popped up to lend support from home, saying: \"I know I had my outfit… we had something really cooking that I know was going to impact… I cannot wait so we can come next year stronger than ever.\"\n\nShe then introduced an \"after party\" DJ set from US fashion designer and DJ Virgil Abloh.\n\nVogue also held a #MetGalaChallenge, with many posting images of outfits modelled on previous Met Ball celebrity looks.\n\nHere's someone re-creating Cardi B's 2019 outfit, which was one of last year's stand-out costumes.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Angela Schlegel said having no visitors was extremely difficult during her five weeks in hospital\n\nA woman says contracting coronavirus ended up saving her life, when Covid doctors discovered she had an undiagnosed heart condition.\n\nAngela Schlegel was hospitalised after 11 days of coronavirus symptoms.\n\nHer heart condition - which medics said could have proved fatal - came to light while she was in intensive care at London's Royal Brompton Hospital.\n\nThe 36-year-old said: \"It just blew my mind as I was told my heart was not functioning the way it should be.\"\n\nShe had initially been taken to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, on 22 March, where scans showed fluid around her lungs and heart.\n\nShe was transferred to the Royal Brompton and diagnosed with eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) - a condition that can damage various organ systems in the body including the heart, joints, lungs, and nerves.\n\nAngela said being on the ICU wards was an \"overwhelming experience\"\n\nMs Schlegel said she had been \"going back and forward to the doctor with asthma\" for two years but had \"no idea my heart was in trouble.\"\n\n\"If the EGPA was left undiagnosed I could have just dropped dead.\n\n\"Coronavirus was putting my body and my heart under a lot of stress and doctors said it had accelerated my EPGA.\n\n\"It saved my life in the long term, but in the short term coronavirus did nearly kill me.\"\n\nAngela Schlegel's recovery was a morale boost for hospital staff, a consultant said\n\nMs Schlegel, who spent five weeks in hospital, described the NHS staff who treated her as \"just outstanding\".\n\nOne of her consultants, Dr Pujan Patel told BBC Breakfast that watching Ms Schlegel recover had a \"huge impact\" on staff morale.\n\n\"When you do see that patient getting up on their on two feet and smiling it makes a tremendous impact,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Keir Starmer has said much more needs to be done to reassure people they are safe to return to work when the UK begins to move out of lockdown.\n\nThe Labour leader said government plans were \"full of gaps\" and a \"national consensus\" was needed between political parties, employers and unions.\n\nHe is calling for new safety standards in the workplace to reassure people \"very anxious\" about returning to work.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said any new measures had to be \"practical\".\n\nBoris Johnson is expected to reveal a \"road map\" out of lockdown on Sunday.\n\nMinisters are required by law to review the UK's lockdown restrictions every three weeks, with the next review due by Thursday. Mr Johnson has warned the UK must not lift restrictions too soon.\n\nMany companies have been shut since widespread limits on everyday life were imposed on 23 March in a bid to limit the effects of the virus's spread on the NHS.\n\nSir Keir, who took over as leader of the party last month, told the BBC that Labour supported the restrictions being extended and pledged to work \"constructively\" with the government.\n\nBut he said it was \"not unreasonable\" to ask for more clarity on what was expected of businesses and their staff to minimise the risk of the infection rate going back up again.\n\nSir Keir, who will hold talks with the PM and other opposition leaders later this week, set out out seven \"core principles\" which he believed should be considered by the government as part of its planning for an exit strategy.\n\nThese include bringing in a \"national safety standard\" for businesses and schools, in order to address the TUC's concerns about the government's draft guidance on getting people back to work.\n\n\"The government put out a consultation document out at the weekend which was very vague, with lots of gaps in it,\" he told Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"We need something stronger.\n\n\"Reassurance really matters here. I think the vast majority of people are really anxious about going back to work.\n\n\"I think people are more likely to be reassured and have confidence if they see political parties, trade unions and businesses lining up behind a standard they think is right and enforceable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus vaccine: How close are you to getting one?\n\nAnd he said ministers should urgently make the existing furlough scheme \"more flexible\" to manage people's gradual return to work.\n\nUp to 6.3 million workers - 23% of the UK's employed workforce - have been placed on the scheme, in which the state pays up to 80% of their wages.\n\nSir Keir said he agreed with Chancellor Rishi Sunak that this could not go on indefinitely and industries expected to return sooner needed more help so they can get their workers \"ready to go back to business\".\n\nSir Keir said it was \"inevitable\" people will \"probably\" have to wear face coverings in places where social distancing cannot be guaranteed after lockdown while it was likely more train services would have to be laid on.\n\nOn vaccines, Sir Keir said the government should set out how it intends to ensure the manufacture and distribution of any vaccine, while ministers should also publish a national plan for the winter flu season.\n\nA plan to ensure supply chains for protective equipment for key workers were guaranteed and a \"structured approach to easing and tightening restrictions\" must also be formed, he said.\n\nMr Hancock told the BBC that the government was consulting with unions and employers on the way forward.\n\n\"Clearly it is absolutely vital that people are as safe as possible when they're at work. We've got to do that in a way that's practical,\" he said.\n\nIn a video message posted on Twitter on Monday, Mr Johnson said the the UK must not lift restrictions too soon.\n\nThe prime minister said the UK would only be able to move on to \"the second phase of this conflict\" when the government's five tests had been met, including a sustained and consistent fall in daily deaths and being confident any adjustments would not risk a second peak which could overwhelm the health service.", "Scientists in Beijing carrying out one of dozens of research projects into potential vaccines\n\nMore than $8bn (£6.5bn) has been pledged to help develop a coronavirus vaccine and fund research into the diagnosis and treatment of the disease.\n\nSome 40 countries and donors took part in an online summit hosted by the EU.\n\nEU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the money would help kickstart unprecedented global co-operation.\n\nShe said it showed the true value of unity and humanity, but warned much more would be needed in the days ahead.\n\nIn total, more than 30 countries, along with UN and philanthropic bodies and research institutes, made donations.\n\nDonors also included pop singer Madonna, who pledged €1m ($1.1m), said Ms von der Leyen, who set out the Brussels-led initiative on Friday.\n\nThe European Commission pledged $1bn to fund research on a vaccine. Norway matched the European Commission's contribution, and France has pledged €500m, as have Saudi Arabia and Germany. Japan pledged more than $800m.\n\nThe US and Russia did not take part. China, where the virus originated in December, was represented by its ambassador to the European Union.\n\nOf the money raised, $4.4bn will go on vaccine development, some $2bn on the search for a treatment and $1.6bn for producing tests, the EU said.\n\nIn her opening remarks at the summit, Ms von der Leyen said everyone must chip in to finance \"a truly global endeavour\".\n\n\"I believe 4 May will mark a turning point in our fight against coronavirus because today the world is coming together,\" she said.\n\n\"The partners are many, the goal is one: to defeat this virus.\"\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, another co-host of the conference, said the \"more we pull together\" in sharing expertise, \"the faster our scientists will succeed\" in developing a vaccine.\n\nMr Johnson, who spent three nights in intensive care with Covid-19, was to confirm the UK's pledge of £388m for vaccine research, testing and treatment during the conference.\n\nAlong with the European Commission, the conference is being co-hosted by the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway and Saudi Arabia.\n\nEmmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel, pictured last year, are among the world leaders who signed the letter\n\nItalian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are also among those who have signed up to the initiative.\n\nIn the open letter published in weekend newspapers, the leaders said the funds raised would \"kickstart an unprecedented global co-operation between scientists and regulators, industry and governments, international organisations, foundations and healthcare professionals\".\n\n\"If we can develop a vaccine that is produced by the world, for the whole world, this will be a unique global public good of the 21st Century,\" they added.\n\nAt the same time, the signatories gave their backing to the World Health Organization in the face of US criticism of its handling of the outbreak.\n\nThe UN says a return to normal life will only be possible with a vaccine.\n\nDozens of research projects trying to find a vaccine are currently under way across the world.\n\nEven with more financial commitment, it will take time to know which ones might work and how well.\n\nMost experts think it could take until mid-2021, about 12-18 months after the new virus first emerged, for a vaccine to become available.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nA number of Premier League club doctors have raised a range of concerns with league bosses over plans to resume the season, BBC Sport has learned.\n\nOne issue that the senior medics have sought assurances over includes their own liability and insurance cover if players contract the virus.\n\nThe Premier League has also been asked to provide some clarity over medical protocols, testing and player welfare.\n\nThe Premier League is hopeful of a potential 8 June resumption.\n\nThe 20 club doctors have been holding their own discussions about Project Restart - the label given to plans to resume action - with a view to feeding their thoughts into the Premier League's leadership.\n\nA Premier League source told the BBC that they viewed the move by the medics as a natural part of the process with clubs, and a means of reaching \"the best possible set of protocols\".\n\nThey also confirmed that the league was in talks with insurance companies over the issue of club and doctor liability, and that this would be brought up with government representatives this week.\n• None 'Hard to see fans returning to football anytime soon'\n• None If there are no fans at Premier League games next season, which club would suffer most?\n\nThe Premier League is represented on a cross-sport working group of medical experts and public health officials which will meet for the second time in a week on Wednesday.\n\nThe panel is devising the health and hygiene measures that players, managers and club staff will be asked to agree to before full training and then competition can resume, but only if the government deems it safe to do so.\n\nThe government is set to review its lockdown measures later this week, with the Premier League meeting to vote on the plans next Monday. A number of players and sports medics have already voiced their concerns about whether it is safe to return to action.\n\nEamonn Salmon, the chief executive of the Football Medicine and Performance Association (FMPA), has told BBC Sport that opinion among doctors and physios at English football clubs regarding resumption plans was varied.\n\nSpeaking last week, he said: \"I guess the views of our members will be a kind of snapshot of society really.\n\n\"There are those who think it can be done, there are those that are doubtful and there are those that probably suggest it is an impossible task.\n\n\"We have to wait, this is a waiting game all the time, it is such a changing landscape and fluctuating on a day to day basis.\n\n\"This is just the start in some respects, whatever proposals are put there it is then open to debate and for comment and opinion to feed into that.\"\n\nIf training is resumed before social distancing rules are relaxed, BBC Sport understands players will be tested for coronavirus twice a week and would be screened for symptoms every day.\n\nAll tests would be carried out by health professionals at a drive-through NHS testing facility that each club would have access to. Training grounds will be optimised for social distancing and high hygiene levels.\n• None Players must arrive at training grounds in kit and wear masks at all times.\n• None They must not shower or eat on the premises. If clubs want to provide players with food, it must be delivered as a takeaway to players' cars.\n• None Only essential medical treatment would be allowed, with all medical staff in full PPE.\n• None All meetings and reviews must take place virtually and off-site.\n\nIn Germany, where the Bundesliga is set to become the first major football league in Europe to return to competition, 10 positive results have been returned from 1,724 coronavirus tests from clubs in the top two divisions.\n\nCubs have been training in groups and the tests are being taken before a planned return to training as teams.\n\nMeasures including \"the isolation of the affected person\" have been taken, said the DFL.\n\nTop-flight side Cologne have had no further Covid-19 infections after three people tested positive last week.\n\nBundesliga officials suggested resuming on 9 May but the government delayed the decision and a restart may now be on 16 or 23 May.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The incident came as \"quite a shock\" to the village, a local councillor said\n\nA woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after one man died and three others were hurt in a \"stabbing\" at a shop in south Wales.\n\nSouth Wales Police and ambulance crews were called to the Co-op in Tylacelyn Road, Penygraig, at about 13:45 BST.\n\nAn elderly man died and another man is in a stable condition at Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales.\n\nTwo others have non-life threatening injuries and a 29-year-old woman from Porth is in custody.\n\nAn eyewitness said her husband was told there was a woman inside the Co-op \"stabbing people\".\n\nShe said: \"I just saw a hat and cans on the floor outside the Co-op as I was pulling up and thought 'that's strange', then paramedics arrived.\n\n\"My husband went to go into the Co-op but got stopped by people who told him that there was a woman inside with a knife who was stabbing people.\n\n\"I stayed in the Jeep and more police and paramedics arrived and they went to a man who was in the van parked in front of my Jeep.\n\n\"This was the man who had been stabbed repeatedly, they took him out of the van and placed him into the ambulance.\"\n\nRavi Raj, 35, manager at Penygraig post office, said he had seen people running from the Co-op, some bleeding.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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I wasn't inside the shop but I walked down the road when the people were running out so I just wanted to see what had happened,\" he added.\n\n\"I couldn't go inside because it was already blocked.\"\n\nA takeaway owner said a woman came into his shop bleeding following the incident, though he was not present at the time.\n\n\"She told my nephew, 'Put the shutters down, put the shutters down' - she was bleeding and he called the police and ambulance straight away.\"\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 Chris Bryant This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLocal businesses said they were told to lock their doors as police and ambulances arrived at the scene, but added they were not given \"concrete\" information.\n\n\"They've closed down Penygraig. All the shops are closed on the high street,\" said one shopkeeper, who works on the high street.\n\nRhondda MP Chris Bryant told BBC Radio Wales a \"stabbing took place in the Co-op\" which would be \"utterly shocking\" for residents but speculation about the circumstances would not help.\n\nHe added: \"This isn't what you expect to happen in the Co-op in Penygraig. In fact, members of my staff often pop up there for a sandwich at lunchtime.\n\n\"Everyone will be quite shocked. We don't know the circumstances at all, police are trying to track down all the elements of it at the moment.\n\n\"You couldn't get more ordinary or normal than the Co-op in Penygraig could you?\n\n\"It is slap bang in the middle of the community and everyone knows where it is, so everyone will be saying to themselves 'my god that could have been me.'\"\n\nRhondda AM Leanne Wood added: \"It's my local grocery store, it's where my family get most of our day to day goods.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by South Wales Police | #StayHomeSaveLives This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We know the staff there, we know a lot of the shoppers who will be using not just the Co-op but the whole of the Penygraig main road, and it's not something any of us expect to happen in our community, it's something you see in the news happening in another place, but you don't expect it to happen on your own doorstep.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Mark O'Shea, of South Wales Police's major crime investigations team, said the force was not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident.\n\nHe added: \"This incident will have understandably caused a lot of shock in the local community and I want to reassure residents that a full investigation has been launched.\"\n\nThe force said it would refer the incident to the Independent Office of Police Conduct, which in turn said it would assess it before deciding whether to launch an investigation.\n\nA Welsh Ambulance Service spokesman said: \"Four people were taken by road to Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales and the Royal Glamorgan Hospital.\"\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf council leader Andrew Morgan said: \"Council services stand ready, working alongside South Wales Police, to provide reassurance and support to the community at this very difficult time.\"\n\nPenygraig is normally a busy village in the lower Rhondda. This afternoon it is quiet. All that can be heard is the rustling of the police cordons in the wind and the occasional sounds coming from police radios.\n\nPeople I have spoken to have been shocked. One woman said her daughter had been in the Co-op just five minutes before the stabbings took place and she could not believe what had happened.\n\nWe know the incident began this afternoon and centred on the Co-op.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook video by Jason This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nIt is the largest food shop in the town.\n\nThe area around the Co-op, the main street in Penygraig and many other streets in the area have been sealed off by police.\n\nWitnesses have told me that the police arrived very quickly and that there were a lot of them.\n\nThere are forensic officers here in their white suits examining in the scene. They and other emergency services and investigators will continue to be here quite clearly for some time to come.", "Daniel Radcliffe has delighted fans by returning to the world of Harry Potter to record himself reading the first chapter from JK Rowling's first book.\n\nRadcliffe, who played the boy wizard in the film series, is taking part in the starry lockdown reading initiative Harry Potter At Home.\n\nEddie Redmayne and Stephen Fry are among the other celebrities involved.\n\nThe videos will feature on Rowling's online hub to help children, parents, carers and teachers through the crisis.\n\nAudio versions will also be available on Spotify.\n\nEach celebrity will read a different section of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - known as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the US.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nReadings of all 17 chapters of the book will be released weekly between now and the middle of the summer.\n\nHarry Potter at Home was launched by Rowling and Wizarding World Digital as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and offers quizzes, puzzles and a fan club.\n\nSpeaking last month, the author said she launched it because \"parents, teachers and carers working to keep children amused and interested while we're on lockdown might need a bit of magic\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "For an app with so much riding on it, NHS Covid-19 is at first sight very simple and extraordinarily unexciting.\n\nAt this stage, it is available to only NHS and council workers on the Isle of Wight.\n\nOn Thursday, other residents of the island will receive a leaflet containing a link that will trigger a download.\n\nAnd eventually anyone will be able to download it directly from the UK versions of Apple's App Store and the Google Play Store.\n\nI have been given special early access.\n\nWhen you install it, you are asked to enter the first half of your postcode.\n\nThen, you are asked to set up app permissions.\n\nFirst, you have to allow the app to use Bluetooth Low Energy to determine when it is near another phone using the app, keeping Bluetooth on at all times.\n\nNext, you approve push notifications so the app can alert you if you have been near someone with symptoms of the virus.\n\nFinally, you end up on a very simple home screen.\n\nIt offers the current advice on stopping the spread of the virus and asks a question: \"How are you feeling today?\"\n\nThere is a menu option: \"I feel unwell - I have a high temperature or continuous cough and want to know what to do next.\"\n\nIf you choose this, you are asked whether you have a high temperature or a continuous cough.\n\nIf you answer yes to either question, you are asked when the symptoms started.\n\nIf you are not on the Isle of Wight, you can submit this information but, at the moment, nothing more happens.\n\nThe symbol for the NHS app should soon become a common sight on people's smartphones\n\nBut if you are on the island, you are told to self-isolate and to call an 0800 number to have a swab test delivered to your home.\n\nIt also triggers alerts to those people with the app whose phones have been in contact with yours in recent days.\n\nAt first, these will be fairly cautious messages about observing social distancing.\n\nBut if a test comes back positive, contacts will be told to self-isolate.\n\nMost of the time, however, there will be hardly any reason to interact with the app at all.\n\nSome technical experts have said the NHS app will not work properly on an iPhone unless it is kept open and running in the foreground.\n\nThe team behind it insists this is not the case - although that is impossible for me to verify.\n\nUsers will be asked to enter the first part of their postcode but not their name or other personal details\n\nWhat I can say is it does not appear to be a power hog, with just 2% of my battery used by the app over the past few hours.\n\nBy contrast, you won't be surprised to hear Twitter accounted for 25%.\n\nOf course, as I am the only person for miles around with the app, I have not been having Bluetooth interactions with others, so I don't know whether that would have made a difference.\n\nBut VMWare Pivotal Labs - the software company contracted to build the product - told BBC News it should not change things significantly and battery usage should remain \"very low\".\n\nThere has also been concern the app might trigger too many false positives or fall victim to mischievous people claiming they had symptoms when they had none.\n\nBut there could be the opposite problem.\n\nI have been told users should receive, on average, only one alert every six months, to say they had probably been in contact with someone infected.\n\nWith the Isle of Wight having a relatively low rate of infection, the trial could end up producing very little data - and might leave users wondering what all the fuss was about.\n\nOne thing I have learned is the decision on when to send alerts isn't quite as simple as it's sometimes been described.\n\nSo it's not just a case of: if Jack was within 2m (6ft) of Jill for 15 minutes or longer, then send an alert if he becomes ill.\n\nInstead, the app uses three metrics to work out a risk score:\n\nFurthermore, the score is calculated by taking into account all the risky interactions an app user has had over a period of two weeks, rather than on just one occasion.\n\nAnother discovery is the developers have taken into account the fact some users will sometimes be wearing personal protective equipment.\n\nThis message has been placed in the app, for healthcare workers\n\nA section marked \"important instructions for healthcare workers\" tells them to turn off Bluetooth \"when you put on your PPE\", to prevent those obviously in close contact with infected patients being told to stay home.", "A laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology is at the centre of the allegations\n\nWhile the Trump administration has publicly pushed the line that the coronavirus outbreak originated in a laboratory accident in China, some of its close allies are more cautious.\n\nUK officials believe it is not possible to be absolutely sure about the origins but point to scientific opinion suggesting the most likely scenario is that it was from a live animal market. However, they add that it is impossible to rule out the theory of an accidental release from a lab without a full investigation.\n\nTheir view echoes comments on Tuesday by Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who said: \"We can't rule out any of these arrangements... but the most likely has been in a wildlife wet market.\"\n\nIn the US, the intelligence community has also been more cautious in its public position than its political leaders and, last week, it issued a carefully worded statement.\n\nIt said that it concurred with the \"wide scientific consensus\" that Covid-19 was not man-made or genetically modified. It then added it would \"continue to rigorously examine emerging information and intelligence to determine whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or if it was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan\".\n\nHowever, both President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have since pointed strongly towards the lab accident theory without providing any specific evidence. Mr Pompeo said the evidence was \"enormous\". It is possible that there could be lines of intelligence which could be used to support that theory, but they may not be confirmed or reflect the overall balance of evidence.\n\nUS intelligence, like other countries, has devoted extensive resources to try and understand what has been happening within China, and some of the information could be highly sensitive.\n\nDr Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told National Geographic on Monday that he did not entertain the lab theory. The World Health Organization (WHO) also says it has not received any evidence from the US to back up the lab theory.\n\nIntelligence may well point to China having tried to play down or hide details of the initial outbreak, although this is different from hiding the exact origin of the virus. However, it may well add to the confusion and suspicion. China so far does not appear willing to allow an international, transparent investigation despite growing calls for one.\n\nUK politicians and officials have been wary of speaking openly about their view of the virus origins, largely because of the risk of highlighting differences with Washington or getting into a diplomatic row with China - the latter is something the Trump administration is less concerned about, and may well positively welcome as an issue in an election year.\n\nOn Monday, UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said he would not comment on intelligence information but added that China did have to answer questions about how quickly it had reported the outbreak, and needed to be \"open and transparent\" about what it learned.\n\nUK officials also say they are unaware of a \"Five Eyes\" report that was referenced over the weekend in Australian media - Five Eyes is the intelligence alliance consisting of the US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. The media report talked of a 15-page document detailing China's covering up of the early stages of the outbreak.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some patients, like David, have seen their symptoms change since lockdown began\n\nIsolation during lockdown is exacerbating psychosis in some patients, a consultant psychiatrist at a leading mental-health trust warns.\n\nSteve Church said the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust had now had to shift its focus to crisis management.\n\nHe leads the psychosis recovery team, one of the trust's five teams helping patients struggling with their mental health during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSome have had to move homes to isolate and many no longer visit the clinic.\n\nDr Church, who has been working in the field for almost three decades, said: \"In normal times, and we're not in normal times, the whole treatment is about trying to help people not self-isolate, trying to help people to re-engage with society.\n\n\"Self-isolation is one of the red flag-hallmarks of somebody becoming unwell in the first place, where they take themselves into a psychosis-induced lockdown.\"\n\nOne of his patients, Tracey, told Dr Church, in a phone consultation, staying at home had increased her hallucinations.\n\n\"It's been quite daunting,\" she said.\n\n\"I do hear the voices a little bit more now.\n\n\"They're domineering - they tell me to run across the road and they're following me and they say horrible and nasty things.\"\n\nFor the patients whose conditions are even more serious, phone consultations are not enough.\n\nAnd the team has to had to undertake outreach work - including doorstep assessments and those made while walking with patients in open spaces - to make sure they are coping.\n\nIt also encourages \"crisis self-presentation\", for patients whose mental health has deteriorated.\n\nOne of these, David, said he had decided he had to visit the clinic in person because being isolated had led to him hearing more and louder voices giving him commands.\n\n\"The voice at the moment is showing me a very difficult path,\" he said.\n\n\"The command is something new and the doctor is going to work through with me for me to understand why the command is only negative.\"\n\nThe 'Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey 2014', which was published in September 2016, estimated the prevalence of psychotic disorder in England at 0.7% of adults aged 16 and over.\n\nAnd before lockdown, most were receiving treatment and able to live a normal life.\n\nSteve Church says in normal times the treatment for psychosis discourages isolation\n\nBut community psychiatric nurse Abi Smith, another member of the team, worries patients with severe mental health could now spiral out of control.\n\n\"Having a support network really helps them,\" she said.\n\n\"The point when that's not there, you know they're having to deal with far more than the average individual would be managing at the moment.\"\n\nCorrection 22 November, 2022: This article was edited to reflect that the estimated prevalence of psychotic disorder in England is 0.7% of adults aged 16 and over.", "Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary has cut his pay by 50% for the rest of the year\n\nRyanair boss Michael O'Leary has said it will take up to six months to refund passengers for flights cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe told the BBC the airline was struggling to process a backlog of 25 million refunds with reduced staff.\n\nHowever, he pledged: \"If you want a cash refund, you will receive a cash refund.\"\n\nRyanair is set to cut 3,000 jobs - 15% of its workforce - as it restructures to cope with the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt said the 3,000 posts under threat were mainly pilot and cabin crew jobs.\n\nThere are likely to be pay cuts of up to 20% for remaining staff, the airline added.\n\nMr O'Leary told the BBC that the planned cuts were \"the minimum that we need just to survive the next 12 months\".\n\nHe said that if a vaccine was not found, \"we may have to announce more cuts and deeper cuts in future\".\n\nBrian Strutton, the general secretary of pilots' union Balpa, said: \"There has been no warning or consultation by Ryanair about the 3,000 potential job losses and this is miserable news for pilots and staff who have taken pay cuts under the government job retention scheme.\n\n\"Ryanair seems to have done a U-turn on its ability to weather the Covid storm.\"\n\nThe restructuring could involve closing some UK regional hubs, Mr O'Leary said, but he would not say which ones were at risk.\n\nHe said Ryanair hoped to announce details of job losses and pay cuts by 1 July.\n\nMr O'Leary, whose pay was cut by 50% for April and May, has now agreed to extend it for the remainder of the financial year to March 2021.\n\nLitigation lawyer Jonathan Compton, a partner at law firm DMH Stallard, took issue with the idea that ticket refunds could be delayed.\n\n\"Where a flight is cancelled, the legal position is clear, the airline must provide a full refund within seven working days,\" he said.\n\n\"Regulators need to get more active here. The relevant regulator is the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). The CAA must start instructing airlines to start making refunds, no ifs or buts, and it needs to do this now.\"\n\nRyanair said it expected to report a net loss of more than €100m (£87m) for the first three months of the year, with further losses in the second quarter.\n\nIn a sideswipe at rivals, it said its return to scheduled services would be rendered more difficult by competing with flag carrier airlines, \"who will be financing below cost selling with the benefit of over €30bn in unlawful state aid, in breach of both EU state aid and competition rules\".\n\nRyanair said it had entered the coronavirus crisis with reserves of almost €4bn in cash and continued to \"actively manage\" those resources in order to survive the pandemic.\n\nMr O'Leary described airlines such as Lufthansa, Air France and Alitalia as \"subsidy junkies running around Europe hoovering up state aid\".\n\nMeanwhile, Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air is resuming flights from Luton airport starting on Friday, but passengers will be required to wear masks while on board.\n\nThe airline is among the first European carriers to begin restoring services that have been suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe flights will be heading for destinations in Spain, Portugal, Israel, Slovakia, Serbia, Romania and Hungary.\n\nBut Wizz Air warned that because of \"rapid changes in travel restrictions, the list might be adapted\".\n\nThe move comes despite unchanged advice from the Foreign Office against all foreign non-essential travel.\n\nIn another development, London's Heathrow airport, normally the busiest in Europe, has said it expects passenger numbers to have fallen 97% in April as demand slumped.\n\nNumbers fell 18.8% to 14.6 million during the first three months of the year, the airport said.\n\nBut it added: \"Heathrow remains open - and continues operating safely to help people get home and to secure vital supply lines for the UK.\"\n\nFinancially, it was \"robust\", it said.\n\n\"Heathrow has £3.2bn in liquidity, sufficient to maintain the business at least over the next 12 months, even with no passengers,\" it added.\n\nHeathrow chief executive John Holland-Kaye told the BBC's Today programme that until a coronavirus vaccine could be developed, airports would have to introduce measures to minimise infection once lockdowns started to ease.\n\n\"What this might include - and this needs to be agreed with governments and the aviation sector - is a combination of measures and that might include some kind of health screening as you come into the terminal so that perhaps if that's a temperature check, if you have a high temperature, you may not be allowed to fly,\" he said.\n\n\"As you go through the airport, you will probably be wearing a face mask, as people from Asia have been doing ever since Sars came out.\"\n\nHave you been affected by job losses at Ryanair? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government is now paying the wages for nearly a quarter of UK jobs under a programme aimed at helping people put on leave due to the virus pandemic.\n\nAbout 2.5 million people registered last week for the scheme, bringing the total claims to 6.3 million - 23% of the employed workforce.\n\nThe job retention scheme funds 80% of workers' wages, up to £2,500 a month.\n\nSeparately, the Department of Work and Pensions reported another 1.8 million new Universal Credit claims.\n\nThe spike in the numbers of people seeking assistance comes as the world braces for the most severe economic crisis since the 1930s. Forecasts suggest the UK economy will contract 6.5% or more this year.\n\n\"The 6.3 million jobs being furloughed shows in stark terms the scale of the economic shutdown that Britain is living through,\" said Torsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation.\n\n\"If this kind of volume of workers stay on the scheme for several months the cost will run into the tens of billions of pounds And that is a cost very much worth paying.\"\n\nThe Government said about 800,000 employers have reported furloughing workers since 20 April, when the programme started.\n\nIt said it had distributed £8bn so far, with an average payout of £1,269 - about half of the £2,500 maximum. The scheme is due to run through June, suggesting the total cost could exceed £30bn.\n\nSome business groups have urged the government to extend the scheme, in which the state covers up to 80% of pay for workers put on leave due to the virus.\n\nHowever, in a television interview, Chancellor Rishi Sunak sounded a cautionary note, saying that level of expenditure was \"not sustainable\".\n\n\"I am working as we speak to figure out the most effective way to wind down the scheme and ease people back into work in a measured way,\" he said.\n\n\"But as some scenarios have suggested we are potentially spending as much on the furlough scheme as we do on the [National Health Service] for example. Now clearly that is not a sustainable solution.\"", "The boss of one of the UK's biggest cinema chains is hopeful the business can reopen in mid-July.\n\nVue Cinemas' chief executive Tim Richards told the BBC he is still talking to the authorities about social distancing measures.\n\nBut if all goes to plan, the chain could be back in business for the launch of director Christopher Nolan's action movie Tenet on 17 July, he said.\n\n\"We can control how many people come into our cinemas,\" he said.\n\nThe coronavirus lockdown forced the closure of cinemas across the UK and elsewhere in the world.\n\nAny reopening of the UK's cinemas could only come as part of a government-sanctioned relaxation of lockdown measures.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to make a statement on Sunday about plans for easing the restrictions.\n\n\"We are seeing our markets in Europe opening before ours,\" Mr Richards said. \"We are trying to work with the government to demonstrate we are not like sporting fixtures and pop concerts.\n\n\"We can control how many people come into our cinemas at any one time - we have the ability to control the exit and entrance.\"\n\nTrolls World Tour went straight to streaming in many countries\n\nCinemas, he said, were a big part of the UK's social fabric and research pointed to film-going as one of the main activities people wanted to do after the lockdown is lifted.\n\nThe closure of cinemas in many countries meant some movies were released simultaneously on streaming platforms and in those outlets still open.\n\nThis dual release for Trolls World Tour caused a huge dispute between Odeon and film studio Universal.\n\nOdeon Cinemas said last week it was banning all Universal films as a result, accusing Universal of \"breaking the business model and dealings between our two companies\".\n\nSimultaneous releases of this kind are damaging to cinemas, as it will make it less likely people will visit a public screening.\n\nBut Mr Richards did not see this way of releasing films becoming a trend. The \"big screen\" was still how people preferred to see big releases, he said.\n\n\"Can you imagine watching the new Bond film on a 27-inc Mac?,\" he asked.\n\nHe said he had sympathy with Universal over the release of Trolls. \"They had already invested heavily in marketing and promotion, and suddenly they had no screens [to show it on],\" Mr Richards said.\n\n\"What [Universal] did does not mean there is a new direction of travel. We are not seeing any change,\" he said.", "NBC's Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon has apologised for wearing blackface in a Saturday Night Live skit from 2000.\n\nThe clip went viral on Monday, and led to calls for Fallon to quit the show.\n\nIn his apology on Tuesday, Fallon said there was \"no excuse\" for his actions, and thanked the public \"for holding me accountable\".\n\nSeveral politicians and media figures, as well as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, have been embroiled in recent blackface scandals.\n\nIn the skit, Fallon wore blackface to impersonate fellow Saturday Night Live cast member Chris Rock, who is African American, depicting him as making a joke about crack cocaine.\n\nAs the hashtag #JimmyFallonIsOverParty trended on Twitter on Tuesday, Fallon released a statement apologising for the 20-year old skit.\n\n\"In 2000, while on SNL, I made a terrible decision to do an impersonation of Chris Rock while in blackface,\" he wrote.\n\n\"There is no excuse for this. I am very sorry for making this unquestionably offensive decision and thank all of you for holding me accountable.\"\n\nChris Rock has not yet made any public statement about the sketch.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by jimmy fallon 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\nSaturday Night Live, which has been on air since 1975, has a history of having non-black actors portray African-Americans.\n\nThe LA Times reports other famous black figures impersonated by non-black actors include former President Barack Obama, civil-rights activist Jesse Jackson, Michael Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray and musician Sammy Davis Jr.\n\nThe controversy also drew some social media commentators to point out that other comedians, such as late night host Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman have also performed televised comedy sketches in blackface.\n\nNBC, the network that employs Fallon, fired news anchor Megyn Kelly in 2018 after she made controversial comments defending the use of blackface.\n\nMore recently, the Canadian prime minister and Virginia Governor Ralph Northam have both successfully resisted calls to resign for wearing blackface when they were younger.\n\nBlackface has a history of perpetuating offensive and racist stereotypes of African Americans dating back more than 200 years in the United States.\n\n\"It's a tradition rooted in racism which is very much about the fear of black people and the laughing at black people,\" Dr Kehinde Andrews, Associate Professor in Sociology at Birmingham City University told the BBC in 2017.", "President Trump has taken the extraordinary step of threatening to close down social media platforms.\n\nThe threat came after Twitter added fact-check links to his tweets for the first time.\n\nThe battle between the president and the social-media companies has been brewing for a time.\n\nBut now it feels as though an all-out war is looming between Donald Trump and Twitter ahead of the US presidential election, in November.\n\nLast night, a couple of Trump tweets raging about \"fraudulent\" postal ballots in US elections featured - for some users but not all - a strapline linking to what Twitter called \"facts about mail-in ballots.\"\n\nThis then led to a page debunking the president's claims but featuring articles from two organisations he regards as his sworn enemies, CNN and the Washington Post.\n\nIt took him no time to fight back, tweeting: \"Twitter is completely stifling free speech, and I, as President, will not allow it to happen.\"\n\nThen, on Wednesday morning, the president woke up and raised the temperature even further with this two-part tweet:\n\n\"We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen.\n\n\"We saw what they attempted to do, and failed, in 2016.\n\n\"We can't let a more sophisticated version of that... happen again - just like we can't let largescale mail-in ballots take root in our country.\n\n\"It would be a free-for-all on cheating, forgery and the theft of ballots.\n\n\"Whoever cheated the most would win.\n\n\"Clean up your act, now.\"\n\nSo does he mean any of this?\n\nIt is very hard to see Congress passing laws to strongly regulate or close down social-media platforms.\n\nBut as a private company, Twitter is free to police its platform as it sees fit.\n\nNevertheless, for Twitter's chief executive, Jack Dorsey, this is undoubtedly just the start of a clash that will continue right up until the November election.\n\nIn recent days, he has been under huge pressure to do something about President Trump's tweets.\n\nNow, he has acted but not in a way that might have been expected.\n\nThere has been a furore over the way the president has used Twitter seemingly to endorse a baseless conspiracy theory about one of his critics, the TV presenter and former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough.\n\nTwitter chief Jack Dorsey has resisted pressure to delete some of President Trump's previous tweets\n\nPresident Trump has repeatedly suggested the death in an accident, in 2001, of one of the Congressman's aides, Lori Klausutis, is a \"cold case\" that deserves to be reopened by the police.\n\nAnd that led the widower of Ms Klausutis to write to Jack Dorsey, pleading with him to remove the president's tweets because of the pain they were causing her family.\n\nSo far, Mr Dorsey has refused, apparently convinced the president's Twitter feed has protected status because it is part of the public record.\n\nNor was there any attempt to correct the inaccuracies in the tweets.\n\nAdding a fact-check to the tweets about mail-in ballots appears to fit in with a new Twitter policy on protecting elections.\n\nIt warns users they may not post or share content that may interfere in elections or might suppress participation.\n\nLast night, another baseless conspiracy theory - this time about a made-up crime involving Donald Trump in 2000 - was posted by an account called TheTweetofGod.\n\nIt too has neither been removed nor fact-checked, perhaps because Twitter realises it would be accused of inconsistency.\n\nThe president's Facebook page also features his diatribes about mail-in ballots and Joe Scarborough, with no sign of any fact-checking or limits on sharing such material.\n\nBut that's not to suggest it will escape his ire.\n\nLast week, the president tweeted: \"The radical left is in total command and control of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Google.\"\n\nAnd he intended to \"remedy this illegal situation\".\n\nThere have since been reports the White House might set up a special commission to investigate the claim.\n\nWhatever the social-media companies do about their most famous and controversial user is bound to cause anger on one side or another.\n\nThey can look forward to a long hot summer.", "Labour has named David Evans as the party's new general secretary, with its leader saying he will help \"restore trust with the British people\".\n\nThe National Executive Committee met on Tuesday to choose its most senior official after the resignation of Jennie Formby earlier this month.\n\nSix candidates were shortlisted for the post, but Mr Evans was thought to be favoured by the leadership.\n\nSome unions were thought to have wanted someone from the left of the party.\n\nOne NEC source from the Labour left warned the leadership that \"members won't forgive them if they allow a hard-right general secretary to wage factional warfare\" against them.\n\nMr Evans - who worked for Labour under Tony Blair - said it was \"an honour and a privilege\" to be appointed, adding: \"We face a defining period in the history of our great party, with a global pandemic, an imminent recession and a mountain to climb to win the next election.\n\n\"Through the strength of our movement, I know we can rise to this challenge.\"\n\nOne of Mr Evan's first challenges will be responding to the findings of an inquiry by the equalities watchdog into Labour's handling of anti-Semitism cases within the party.\n\nThe Equalities and Human Rights Commission's report is due to be published soon, with the party's leader, Sir Keir Starmer, having already committed to accepting its recommendations and setting up an independent complaints process.\n\nLabour Against anti-Semitism spokesman, Euan Phillips, praised the appointment for being \"outside the hard left\", but said Mr Evans \"now has a huge job to tackle institutional anti-Jewish racism in the party\", adding: \"Actions not words will be the measurement of his success.\"\n\nMr Evans was regarded as the frontrunner in the contest, with his backers including Morgan McSweeney - Sir Keir's chief of staff.\n\nAs assistant general secretary of the party between 1999 and 2001, he played a leading role in Labour's victory in the 2001 election.\n\nSir Keir said Mr Evans would bring \"a wealth of experience to this crucial role and a clear understanding of the scale of the task ahead of us\".\n\nDeputy leader Angela Rayner said he would make \"a fantastic general secretary\", adding: \"Last year's election result was devastating for our movement.\n\n\"It is now our duty to work as a team to unite our party, reconnect with the British people and offer the better future that our country deserves.\"\n\nBut ahead of his appointment, some union leaders said Mr Evans - who left his previous position in the party to found a political research and consulting company - is a polarising figure who has historically sought to reduce the influence of the left.\n\nThe NEC source also said Sir Keir and Ms Rayner were \"responsible for making sure [Mr] Evans fulfils their election promise to bring our party together, not tear it apart\".\n\nMs Formby - who was a close ally of former leader Jeremy Corbyn - left the role after two years by \"mutual consent\" following Sir Keir's election as leader in April.\n\nThe choice of successor is seen as a crucial step in the new leader's attempts to unify the party after December's heavy election defeat and years of factional in-fighting.\n\nAllies of the new leader have a slim majority on the NEC after elections last month.\n\nBut the committee, which is made up of MPs and other elected officials, trade unionists and representatives of local parties, remains finely balanced, after years in which it was dominated by supporters of ex-leader Mr Corbyn.\n\nThe other candidates were Andrew Fisher, who worked as head of policy for Jeremy Corbyn, Karin Christiansen, a former general secretary of the Co-operative Party, Andrew Byron Taylor, the former head of the Labour group on Basildon Council, former MEP Neena Gill, and Amanda Martin, president of the National Education Union.", "An early decision is made to delay to Saturday the first US astronaut launch in the US for nine years.\n\nPoor weather has forced SpaceX to call off the launch of Nasa astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the International Space Station (ISS).\n\nThe two men were due to go up from the Kennedy Space Center in one of the company's new Dragon capsules at 16:33 local time (21:33 BST).\n\nBut unfavourable atmospheric conditions prompted controllers to call a stop to flight preparations for the day.\n\nA tropical storm is also forming out over the Atlantic.\n\nThis would have been very close to the path of the astronauts' spaceship as it made its ascent to orbit.\n\nSpaceX and Nasa will now have to wait until the space station is back in the right part of the sky to attempt another launch.\n\nThe earliest this can be is Saturday. If that's no good, there would be a third opportunity on Sunday.\n\nThere is great interest in this launch. Not since the retirement of the shuttles in 2011 has America been able to launch its own astronauts into space - a big gap in which the US has had to rely on Russian Soyuz vehicles.\n\nBut Hurley's and Behnken's mission is about more than just pride.\n\nNasa is giving up its past practice of owning and operating the space systems it uses low-Earth orbit and intends in future simply to buy crew transport services from the private sector – much like a company might outsource its payroll or HR needs.\n\nSpaceX is the first of these new service providers.\n\nNasa Administrator Jim Bridenstine believes the approach will save his agency money that can then be spent on missions to the Moon and Mars.\n\n“We envision a future where low-Earth orbit is entirely commercialised, where Nasa is one customer of many customers, where we have numerous providers that are competing on cost, on innovation and safety,\" he said.\n\n\"We are proving out a business model that ultimately enable us to go to the Moon this time sustainably. In other words we’re going to go to the Moon to stay.”", "On Tuesday's Newsnight, Emily Maitlis said the row had caused \"a deep national disquiet\"\n\nThe BBC has said an introduction about Dominic Cummings on Tuesday's Newsnight did not meet the required standards of due impartiality.\n\nThe programme began with presenter Emily Maitlis saying \"the country can see\" he had \"broken the rules\".\n\nIt should have made clear the remarks were \"a summary of the questions we would examine\" about the prime minister's aide, the corporation said.\n\nThe BBC said the news programme's staff had been reminded about its guidelines.\n\nAt the beginning of the BBC Two programme, Maitlis said the country was \"shocked\" that the government could not see that Boris Johnson's aide had broken the rules by travelling from London to County Durham during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nShe said the \"public mood\" was \"one of fury, contempt and anguish\", and that Mr Cummings had made people who struggled to keep to the government's rules \"feel like fools\".\n\nShe continued: \"The prime minister knows all this. But despite the resignation of one minister, growing unease from his backbenchers, a dramatic early warning from the polls and a deep national disquiet, Boris Johnson has chosen to ignore it.\n\n\"Tonight we consider what this blind loyalty tells us about the workings of Number 10.\"\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, the BBC said it had \"reviewed the entirety of last night's Newsnight, including the opening section\".\n\n\"While we believe the programme contained fair, reasonable and rigorous journalism, we feel that we should have done more to make clear the introduction was a summary of the questions we would examine, with all the accompanying evidence, in the rest of the programme,\" it continued.\n\n\"As it was, we believe the introduction we broadcast did not meet our standards of due impartiality.\"\n\nMr Cummings' 260-mile journey has been the focus of intense media scrutiny since coming to light last week.\n\nOn Monday, the prime minister's most senior adviser explained that he decided to make the trip because he felt it would be better to self-isolate in a place where he had options for childcare if required.\n\nOn Wednesday, Boris Johnson ruled out an inquiry into his adviser's conduct, insisting it was time to \"move on\" from the row.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The cuckoos' journeys have been avidly followed on social media\n\nOne of the longest migrations recorded by any land bird is about to be completed.\n\nUsing a satellite tag, scientists have monitored a cuckoo that has just flown more than 7,500 miles (12,000km) from southern Africa to its breeding ground in Mongolia.\n\nThe bird has survived ocean crossings and high winds after traversing 16 countries.\n\nIt has been, say scientists, \"a mammoth journey\". The satellite-tagged common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), named Onon after a Mongolian river, set off from its winter home in Zambia on 20 March.\n\nOnon is one of five Cuckoos that were satellite tagged in Mongolia last summer by the Mongolia Cuckoo Project - a joint venture between local scientists and the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) to monitor long-distance migration.\n\nOnon has crossed thousands of kilometres of the Indian Ocean without stopping, flying at an average speed of 60km/h and traversing countries as far apart as Kenya, Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh.\n\nYet out of the five birds tagged, Onon is the only one to have been recorded as finishing its astonishing return journey.\n\nAnother tagged cuckoo, named Bayan, which spent part of the winter next to Mt Kilimanjaro in East Africa, got as far as Yunnan in China - but then is believed to have either died from exhaustion or been killed for food.\n\nIt flew 10,000km in just two weeks, prompting scientists to believe it would have arrived so hungry and tired it may not have been sufficiently vigilant to stay out of danger.\n\nThe BTO's Dr Chris Hewson says the satellite tagging project has revealed much about long-distance migration.\n\n\"I think the big takeaway is that the birds are able to travel so far and often so fast that they must be able to find suitable conditions for fattening and also know exactly where to go to get favourable wind conditions to help them, for instance, to cross the Indian Ocean,\" he said.\n\n\"So the costs of migration clearly aren't as great as we thought in the past.\"\n\nBut the dangers for these migrating birds are ever-present, from predators, including poachers, to storms, to starvation.\n\nYet - as Dr Hewson points out - at a time when very few of us are able to fly anywhere due to the coronavirus, there is something reassuring about a bird travelling such huge distances, showing that the globe is still working.\n\nThe birds' journeys have been avidly followed by many on social media. One user tweeted in response to Onon's safe arrival in Mongolia: \"Love this… the little guy is doing all the flying we can't do! Bringing us places. Thanks for sharing!\"\n\nBBC Security correspondent Frank Gardner is President of the British Trust for Ornithology.\n\nMore details of the cuckoos' journey can be found at www.birdingbeijing.com\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nearly 13,000 Boeing workers, mostly in the US, are set to lose their jobs in the coming weeks, as cuts at the American aerospace giant take effect.\n\nMore layoffs are expected, some of which may affect the UK.\n\nThe reductions had been expected since Boeing revealed plans last month to slash its global workforce by 10% - or roughly 16,000 jobs.\n\n\"I wish there were some other way,\" chief executive Dave Calhoun wrote in an email to staff.\n\nBoeing has been reeling from a drop in demand for aircraft, as travel plunges amid the pandemic and worsens the pressures on the company, which was already in crisis following two fatal crashes of its 737 Max plane and the global grounding of the plane last year.\n\nIn April, customers cancelled more than 100 orders for the 737 and the firm said it had received no new reservations.\n\nBoeing on Wednesday said it had resumed making 737 Max planes at its Renton, Washington factory at a \"low rate\" and noted that some airlines were reporting signs of recovery.\n\n\"But these signs of eventual recovery do not mean the global health and economic crisis is over,\" Mr Calhoun said. \"Our industry will come back but it will take some years to return to what it was just two months ago.\"\n\nEven before the pandemic, the crisis at Boeing, which forced it to halt 737 manufacturing in January, was expected to be a major drag on the US economy. Suppliers such as General Electric and Spirit AeroSystems Holdings have also announced major job cuts.\n\nThe job losses confirmed on Wednesday include 6,670 involuntary cuts and 5,520 voluntary redundancies in the US.\n\nThe firm, which has about 18,000 international staff including more than 2,500 in the UK, said it also announced 400 reductions its factory in Winnipeg, Canada and another 230 near Melbourne, Australia. Both plants produce parts for the firm's commercial aviation business.\n\nBoeing said \"several thousand remaining layoffs will come in much smaller additional groups over the next few months.\"\n\n\"This may involve a reduction in numbers in some parts of Boeing's UK workforce,\" the company told the BBC. \"Our team is our priority and we will actively support colleagues into new roles wherever we can. We are committed to the UK.\"", "JK Rowling has surprised fans with the announcement of a brand new children's book, which she is publishing in daily instalments on her website for free.\n\nThe Ickabog is her first children's story not to be linked to Harry Potter. She wrote it over a decade ago for her own children and has now dusted it off.\n\nIt's for \"children on lockdown, or even those back at school during these strange, unsettling times\", she said.\n\nShe had previously referred to it only as an unnamed \"political fairytale\".\n\nChapters of The Ickabog are being published daily until 10 July on The Ickabog website.\n\nThe first two chapters, which went online on Tuesday, introduced King Fred the Fearless, ruler of Cornucopia, and five-year-old Bert Beamish.\n\nReaders also learned about the myth of a fearsome monster called The Ickabog, which is \"said to eat children and sheep\".\n\nThe author said she originally intended to release the story after the seventh and final Harry Potter novel came out in 2007.\n\nBut she decided to take a break from publishing, and put the manuscript in her attic.\n\n\"Over time I came to think of it as a story that belonged to my two younger children, because I'd read it to them in the evenings when they were little, which has always been a happy family memory,\" she wrote on her website.\n\nA few weeks ago, she suggested to her children that she might retrieve it from her loft.\n\n\"My now teenagers were touchingly enthusiastic, so downstairs came the very dusty box, and for the last few weeks I've been immersed in a fictional world I thought I'd never enter again.\n\n\"As I worked to finish the book, I started reading chapters nightly to the family again.\n\n\"This was one of the most extraordinary experiences of my writing life, as The Ickabog's first two readers told me what they remember from when they were tiny, and demanded the reinstatement of bits they'd particularly liked (I obeyed).\"\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\nIt was written to be read aloud, but is suitable to be read alone by children between seven and nine, she said.\n\nIt will be published as an actual book in English in November, with all author royalties going \"to help groups who've been particularly impacted by the pandemic\".\n\nShe has also asked young readers to draw their own illustrations, with the best pictures to be included in the published books.\n\n\"I want to see imaginations run wild!\" she wrote. \"Creativity, inventiveness and effort are the most important things: we aren't necessarily looking for the most technical skill!\"\n\nThe story is about truth and the abuse of power, Rowling explained.\n\n\"To forestall one obvious question: the idea came to me well over a decade ago, so it isn't intended to be read as a response to anything that's happening in the world right now.\n\n\"The themes are timeless and could apply to any era or any country.\"\n\nIt was in a 2007 interview with Time Magazine that she first said she was writing a \"political fairytale\". She later revealed she had written the text on her fancy dress outfit for her 50th birthday in 2015 - when she went as a lost manuscript.\n\nTuesday's announcement is confirmation she was referring to The Ickabog.\n\nA theme of inequality is clear from the story's first chapter.\n\nMost of Cornucopia was a \"magically rich land\" with happy people and fine, abundant food, readers are told.\n\nBut in the northern tip lived the Marshlanders, who scraped by on meagre resources. They had \"rough voices, which the other Cornucopians imitated\", and were the butt of jokes about \"their manners and their simplicity\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Dominic Cummings has faced a media grilling over his decision during lockdown to drive his family 260 miles to his parent's property in Durham.\n\nWhile he was defending his actions, it emerged the family also took a 30-minute car trip to the town of Barnard Castle at the end of their 14-day quarantine for coronavirus symptoms.\n\nThey had not been sightseeing, he said.\n\nIt had been to test his eyesight, which had \"been affected\" by the virus, before the long drive home to London.\n\nHis boss, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, backed the claim, saying: \"On the point about eyesight, I'm finding I have to wear spectacles for the first time in years… so I'm inclined to think that's very, very plausible\".\n\nEye symptoms with the virus have been reported, says the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and the College of Optometrists.\n\nLike any upper respiratory tract infection, including colds and flu, it can cause irritation of the membrane covering the eye - a condition called conjunctivitis or sometimes pink or red eye (because the whites of the eyes become bloodshot).\n\nAnd the World Health Organization now includes this alongside other more common symptoms of the virus, such as cough, fever and loss of taste or smell.\n\nBut UK guidelines do not.\n\nViral conjunctivitis can make the eyes water and feel gritty and uncomfortable, rather than painful.\n\nIt does not usually interfere greatly with eyesight.\n\nBut if the front of the pupil and the iris (the coloured part of the eye), is also affected, there can be some blurring of vision.\n\nProf Robert MacLaren, an eye expert at the University of Oxford, said a recent study in Wuhan, China, where the coronavirus outbreak began, reported a range of eye problems, including swelling and sticky eye.\n\n\"Any of the above symptoms may affect vision and affected patients would be advised to drive with caution or not at all if there was significant blurring of vision or double vision,\" he said.\n\nA spokesman for Moorfields Eye Hospital said such cases were rare, and more evidence was needed to explore any link to coronavirus.\n\nThe RNIB says any sudden change in vision should be taken seriously and is a reason to seek immediate medical advice from an optometrist or NHS 111.\n\nConjunctivitis caused by other viruses and bacteria is highly contagious.\n\nCoronavirus can certainly enter the body through the eyes (as well as the nose and mouth).\n\nAnd it can be spread by coughs and sneezes.\n\nBut whether the eyes are a source of contagion is, as yet, unclear.\n\nItaly's first coronavirus patient, a 65-year-old woman, had conjunctivitis, a report in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine says.\n\nAnd swab samples of her tears revealed detectable levels of the virus.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It's an uncanny and almost tragically perfect piece of symmetry.\n\nThe number of US servicemen and women killed in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan - over an aggregate 44 years of fighting - is almost exactly the same as the number of Americans who've now lost their lives to coronavirus in just three months of America's war against the hidden enemy, as Donald Trump likes to refer to Covid-19.\n\nHe also calls it the Chinese virus, but we'll come to that.\n\nNow I know you could replace the Covid-19 deaths with US cancer deaths or road crash victims and come up with similarly stark or perhaps even more dramatic statistics. But sadly, fatal car accidents and terminal tumours have always been with us. A global pandemic has not. And out of nowhere 100,000 American families are this spring mourning loved ones, whose lives have been cut short by this virus. 1.5m Americans have been infected. Many millions more have lost their jobs.\n\nOne of Donald Trump's first acts when he moved into the Oval Office in 2017, was to restore to a central position the bust of Winston Churchill that Barack Obama had moved out in favour of a bronze of Martin Luther King Jr.\n\nAnd in this fight against coronavirus, Donald Trump does see himself as a war leader; the property tycoon who could work a shovel on a Manhattan building site was also going to be shown to be a man of destiny - the untried field-marshal, with a baton in his knapsack ready to command the troops to get the job done. But also keeping the home fires burning, and lifting the morale of a frightened nation. It has all been far more jagged than that.\n\nDonald Trump is not imbued with the gift of soaring Churchillian rhetoric; there have been no \"we shall fight them on the beaches\" moments. Nor has he conjured the Rooseveltian calm when delivering one of his fireside chats. There have been days of infamy, but they have been invariably generated by things that the president has said, rather than what has been done to the United States.\n\nAnd anyway, for a self-styled war leader he must at least face the charge of ignoring the warnings about the enemy he was confronting in the early stages, appearing more Neville Chamberlain than Winston Churchill.\n\nThe initial period of the US effort against the virus was marked by one significant action in late January, when the president stopped non-American visitors from China entering the United States. That was smart and decisive (although some have argued, to my mind unfairly, that Trump should have stopped anyone and everyone coming from China). But any tactical advantage that had given the administration was squandered in February where there was a month of inaction and incompetence.\n\nAttempts to roll out testing were woeful (the president was badly let down by the Centers for Disease Control). Procurement of PPE was weak. The federal emergency stockpile of vital equipment was like Old Mother Hubbard's cupboard: bare. The president had also disbanded the entire global-health-security unit of the National Security Council. He also eliminated the US government's $30m (£23m) Complex Crises Fund. These were decisions that badly undermined the American ability to counter the disease.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The lost six weeks when the US failed to control the virus\n\nAll while he was on a determined mission to tell America that this thing from China was no biggie, and certainly was not going to upend the economy - the centrepiece of his strategy for re-election in November.\n\nIt is worth just going through the president's quotes from these critical few weeks.\n\nJan 22: \"It's one person coming in from China and we have it under control. It's going to be just fine.\"\n\nFeb 2: \"We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.\"\n\nFeb 10: \"Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away. I hope that's true. But we're doing great in our country. China, I spoke with President Xi, and they're working very, very hard. And I think it's going to all work out fine.\"\n\nFeb 11: \"In our country, we only have, basically, 12 cases and most of those people are recovering and some cases fully recovered. So it's actually less.\"\n\nFeb 24: \"The coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC and World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock market starting to look very good to me!\"\n\nFeb 26: \"When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that's a pretty good job we've done.\"\n\nBut in March the contours became clearer, and it was not pretty. The news was all grim. Because of a lack of testing, there had been extensive community transmission - people were coming down with coronavirus, but it wasn't clear where they'd contracted it, who they'd caught it from, how they'd got it. The \"track and trace\" (the language of coronavirus that we've all now become so familiar with) was now impossible.\n\nAlthough the first reported outbreak was out on the West Coast in Washington state, Covid-19 was playing a mean sleight of hand on us all. This pesky virus got us to look in one direction, when we really should have been focused on the other. Where Covid-19 was really letting rip was on the East Coast, especially in the biggest, richest and most densely populated city in the US, New York, with devastating consequences.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Trump voters think of his handling of the virus outbreak\n\nIf the city was quickly to become the most worrying centre of the outbreak, the borough of Queens became the epicentre of the epicentre - the district where Donald Trump had grown up. And the visuals from there drove home to Americans - and to the president - the scale of the unfolding disaster. At Elmhurst Hospital, refrigerated container lorries were parked to store bodies that the morgue had no way of dealing with. I interviewed a young doctor from there at the height of the pandemic who painted a harrowing picture of daily life and death.\n\nIn the richest city of the wealthiest country on the planet, we saw nurses heading into intensive care units to treat Covid patients wearing bin liners as PPE, because that is all they had. We saw the ER consultant putting on his ski goggles to examine a patient, because the hospital didn't have the right face masks. We saw mass graves being dug on a small island in the Bronx to accommodate all those who'd died with no next of kin, or with no money for a funeral. Like the inscription on the tomb of the unknown soldiers in the Commonwealth war graves: \"known unto God\".\n\nAmerica, this all-mighty superpower, with enough weaponry to blow the planet to smithereens many times over, was looking ragged and not in control of events in its own backyard. It's hard to see this chapter of America's story going down as another moment of this nation's greatness.\n\nRefrigerator lorries are being used as makeshift mortuaries in New York\n\nIf Queens is where Donald Trump grew up, Manhattan is where he made his money - and nothing says money like Wall Street, the pulse and oxygen monitor of the US economy. And the president likes to stand over its bed to take its vitals hourly. But as it became clear that the US economy was going to have to shut down, so the Dow Jones index went diving downwards - vertiginous drops, causing circuit-breakers to kick in, and causing the president and his advisers to fret that his whole re-election strategy had gone up in flames.\n\nBut then the precipitous falls would be followed by dizzying rises as word came from Capitol Hill that lawmakers might be close to some agreement to inject gazillions into the cryogenically frozen economy.\n\nMore than 25,000 of the deaths have come from New York state, and Governor Andrew Cuomo became coronavirus's first political superstar. His daily factual and highly detailed presentation of what was happening, where it was happening, what was being done to mitigate, and what still needed to be done, became appointment-to-view television across the US. Cometh the hour and all that.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis lifelong Democrat - who also grew up in Queens - was drawing admiring glances from a lot of Republicans, and with many Democrats quietly thinking: \"I wish he was our candidate for president in November, and not Joe Biden.\" Like an old-fashioned newspaper, he delineated clearly what was fact and what was opinion. In the space of 45 highly polished minutes he would deliver the news stories of New York's descent into the abyss, and then give you his op-ed column. He admitted his response wasn't perfect, acknowledging he could have acted earlier. And he also gave praise to Donald Trump where he thought it was due; he tweaked the tail of the administration when he thought it needed a bit of a kicking.\n\nAt around the same time as Cuomo was capturing the nation's attention, Donald Trump decided he would go daily with a White House briefing too. It is hard to overstate how much Donald Trump loves - and needs - the roar of the crowd. Governing is dull. Campaigning - and the adoration from his rallies - is what gives him energy. It's what gets his heart pumping and the blood circulating.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump gets in spat with Asian American reporter over \"nasty question\"\n\nAnd because of the lockdown, here was a president who was deprived of the two things he yearns for most - a day out playing golf, and an evening rally addressing raucous, loving crowds. There were also no heads of states visiting him, where the cameras would record his thoughts on whatever was the subject du jour. He was being starved of the oxygen of publicity, and so daily to the briefing room he would come, with us reporters playing the most unlikely role as his ventilator. Being intubated to a bunch of journalists he's never trusted was never going to end well.\n\nVice President Mike Pence had been given the task of heading the coronavirus taskforce. A poisoned chalice it may have been, but it's a task he's performed with aplomb. He is across the detail of everything, and was the perfect link person between the different branches of government and the White House; between the different branches of government and the governors of the 50 states. And two other things he did with considerable deftness. He never forgot to praise the president to the hilt, saluting him for his leadership. Woe betide you if you don't. And he never forgets to display empathy - talking about the suffering of the American people, expressing condolences to those who'd lost loved ones. That is something that came easily to Mr Pence and is something Donald Trump hardly ever does.\n\nThough there would be a revolving cast of characters in the briefing room - the two other stalwarts were Dr Anthony Fauci, the independent-minded head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Dr Deborah Birx, who used to head the fight against Aids for the Obama administration, and was made the coronavirus response co-ordinator. These were the scientists who wanted to ensure that the judgements the president made were evidence based. They had limited success.\n\nNo sooner had the US economy gone into shutdown than other, more business-minded voices were in Donald Trump's other ear telling him that the remedy his doctors were prescribing was worse than the disease. Let people go back to work. Reopen the economy. The loss of jobs, the recession, depression, the devastation of the US economy will be worse than the death toll. And you could see where the president's sympathies lay. First he advocated that the US should reopen by Easter, with churches packed. Only to have that kyboshed by doctors Birx and Fauci. When asked about this Dr Fauci gave an object lesson in disagreeing with the president without disagreeing: \"You don't set the timeline, the virus does,\" he told reporters. Masterful.\n\nBut the impetus to reopen became overwhelming. The jobless totals were soaring, and Donald Trump saw his \"strong economy\" election strategy disappearing down the plug-hole.\n\nAnd all the while the death toll was mounting, ever, ever higher. What started as a trickle at the end of February became a gradual flow. The gradual flow then became a steady stream. And by late April the stream became a torrent.\n\nAfrican American communities in New Orleans have been hit hard\n\nCoronavirus was indiscriminating about who it infected, but selective with who it killed. The statistics were striking - if you were black or Latino you were much more likely to die. Longstanding health inequalities came to the fore. If you'd grown up in an impoverished background, you were more likely to have the pre-existing conditions - the co-morbidities, as they say in the US - that would prove so deadly with coronavirus: hypertension, diabetes, obesity, heart disease. And if you live in densely packed, multi-generational households, and work in factories or meat-packing plants where social distancing is impossible, then - surprise, surprise - you're more likely to contract the disease.\n\nThe US Surgeon General, Admiral Jerome Adams - himself African American - addressed this directly, and spoke powerfully about it. But he seemed to pay a price for doing so - he was not seen again at another White House news conference. Someone must have taken exception to what he said.\n\nThe president's own erratic performances at these briefings were coming to be seen as counterproductive by Republican strategists. The president's poll numbers were going down. I was at a couple of the most extraordinary briefings. There was the one where the president made it all about himself. His staff had produced a lengthy campaign style video detailing how brilliantly he'd handled the outbreak - for the first 45 minutes of this over two-hour-long news conference, Donald Trump spoke about himself. He spoke about how unfair the media was to him. It was \"poor me\". Not once in those first 45 minutes did he talk about those who'd died, nor about those who'd been infected. Nor about the millions who were fretting about how they were going to pay the bills having lost their jobs.\n\nI was also at the briefing where the president spoke about injecting disinfectant to treat coronavirus. Dr Birx, who was sitting at the side of the briefing room, looked like she was in some kind of gastric agony as she listened to the president, but never felt she had the space to stand up and say: \"This is dangerous nonsense.\" His performance was lampooned and ridiculed.\n\nBut as the criticism piled up against the president, so Donald Trump bristled.\n\nAnd there were two culprits who'd be forced onto the perp walk of shame. The first was China. Despite his early praise for President Xi, China was now in Donald Trump's cross-hairs. China had lied and covered up. This was the Wuhan flu, the city where the outbreak originated. The Chinese had taken actions to protect themselves, but not anyone else. Worse still in Donald Trump's eyes, China had intimidated the World Health Organization, and its weak, pusillanimous leadership had allowed itself to be cowed by Beijing, and therefore had failed to warn the world sufficiently of the dangers that this new strain of virus presented. In this, sure, there was blame shifting - but President Trump had a point, both about shortcomings of the WHO, and the candour of the Chinese leadership.\n\nAll of this fired up the Trump base, but it was as nothing compared with the president shifting firmly in favour of reopening the US economy. Wild demonstrations sprang up - particularly in Democrat-run states, which the president did nothing to tamp down. In California, surfer dudes, backed by libertarian Republicans and small business owners, protested at beachside locations in a bizarre Baywatch meets the Tea Party moment. In Michigan, heavily armed men carrying assault rifles and dressed as though they were auditioning as extras for a movie about mercenaries laid siege to the State House.\n\nA public health emergency, with a virus that is no respecter of whether you are a Democrat or Republican, Trump lover or Trump hater, had divided and bitterly polarised the country. Like everything else.\n\nIf you want the country to reopen you're with Trump (broadly); if you're wary about reopening too soon you're a Dem (broadly). If you love the fact that the president has ignored the advice of the Food and Drug Administration over the dangers of hydroxychloroquine, and decided to take it anyway, then you are firmly in his camp.\n\nAnd although the president has publicly stated that everyone ought to wear a mask, the fact that he chooses not to is taken as a clear dog-whistle to his supporters that you really don't have to. In the face - so to speak - of all medical advice, the mask is being seen by some as an act of provocation, a symbol of the nanny state.\n\nShopkeepers who insist that customers wear a mask are being intimidated by thuggish gangs patrolling outside their premises. It is grotesque. They are being ripped up and destroyed as though a symbol of oppression by the \"Deep State\", rather than a small effort to halt the spread of the disease. Our film crews have been jostled and abused for wearing face masks while filming these protesters. Needless to say, these people are no respecters of social distancing.\n\nAnd now that America has reached this grim milestone of 100,000 dead, what of the future?\n\nIn public opinion there does seem to be a battle going on between head versus heart. Science pitted against gut instinct. The role of the state against the rights of the individual.\n\nIf a phone app that can track and trace your movements is the vital tool to prevent a second wave of the virus, it relies on a sizeable majority of the population handing over their personal data for it to be effective. Will that happen? In a country whose founding fathers fretted about the dangers of the state becoming too mighty, I just cannot see it (and this goes far wider than pro- and anti-Trump). And what if, please God, an effective vaccine is found? You can be sure that the anti-vaxx brigade (and remember Donald Trump was once one of its advocates) will be out in force, stirring up doubts about the science, the medicine, the state, Big Brother, you name it.\n\nDonald Trump has boasted repeatedly in the past couple of months that no country has done more coronavirus testing that then USA. \"It's not even close,\" he says. No country has built more ventilators or supplied so much PPE to its front-line workers, he says. The president has claimed that other world leaders are jealous of what the US has managed to achieve. Really? Germany, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, Greece: envious?\n\nNo country has had more deaths, more infections. Anywhere else, so far, is not even close.", "\"Local lockdowns\" will be introduced to tackle regional outbreaks of coronavirus in England in the future, the health secretary has said.\n\nMatt Hancock suggested restrictions will be introduced in areas with \"flare-ups\", but not others, as part of a system being put in place.\n\nHe did not specify a timeframe, but said the measures will be part of the test, track and trace system.\n\nIt comes as more than 35 Tory MPs have called on the PM's top aide to resign.\n\nThe government's daily coronavirus briefing on Tuesday was dominated by questions about Dominic Cummings travelling to County Durham during lockdown.\n\nBut concerns were also raised about the potential for second waves of infections. Asked what tools will be given to local officials to tackle outbreaks, Mr Hancock said: \"We will have local lockdowns in future where there are flare-ups.\"\n\n\"We have a system that we're putting in place with a combination of Public Health England and the new Joint Biosecurity Centre, along with the local directors of public health who play an absolutely crucial role in the decision-making in the system.\"\n\nUnder government plans to ease lockdown restrictions, the Joint Biosecurity Centre will identify changes in infection rates - using testing, environmental and workplace data - and advise chief medical officers.\n\nAs a result, schools, businesses or workplaces could be closed in areas that see spikes in infection rates, the government's plan says.\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick said if the system worked it would be used \"on quite a micro level\".\n\n\"If there is a flare-up in one particular community - and that could be on quite a small scale like a particular workplace or school - then measures can be introduced which hopefully the public will get behind, enable us to control the virus in that locality and enable the rest of the population to have more freedom to go about their daily business,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nEarlier this month Mr Jenrick said that it was the government's \"strong preference\" for lockdown measures to be lifted uniformly, but some restrictions could be reintroduced locally if necessary.\n\nBut he said the local interventions that could be considered are \"quite different from making major changes to lockdown measures in one part of the country versus another\".\n\nAlso speaking during Tuesday's briefing, Prof John Newton, leader of the government's Covid-19 testing programme, said \"many different organisations\", including councils and local businesses, will be involved in the response to local outbreaks.\n\n\"It is a whole-country effort. It has a national component, but it has a very important local component as well, which needs to reflect... the special characteristics of different parts of the country,\" he said.\n\nLatest government figures show the number of people to die with coronavirus in the UK rose by 134 to 37,048 on Tuesday.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with Covid-19 has been gradually declining since the peak over Easter.\n\nHowever, the picture is different across the UK's nations and regions, with numbers falling faster in some areas than others.\n\nCases were originally concentrated in London, the Midlands and the North West of England. But South Wales and parts of the North West and North East also have a high proportions of cases.\n\nLast week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said England will have a \"world-beating\" track and trace system in place from June - with 25,000 contact tracers, able to track 10,000 new cases a day.\n\nContact tracing is a system used to slow the spread of infectious diseases by identifying people patients have been in contact with. One method involves tracking by phone or email, while another uses a location-tracking mobile app.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaking to reporters during a press conference, Sally Challen said: \"I still love Richard and miss him dreadfully\"\n\nAn abused woman who won an appeal after killing her controlling husband with a hammer can inherit his estate, a judge has ruled.\n\nSally Challen, 65, was found guilty of murdering 61-year-old Richard in Surrey and jailed for life in 2011.\n\nShe was freed after her conviction was quashed in February last year and prosecutors later accepted her manslaughter plea.\n\nJudge Paul Matthews has now ruled that Mrs Challen can inherit his estate.\n\nHe concluded that a rule barring people who kill from inheriting their victim's estate should be waived in Mrs Challen's case.\n\nSally Challen had never denied killing her husband in 2010\n\nThe judge analysed arguments about Mrs Challen's inheritance claim at a High Court hearing in Bristol earlier this month before announcing his decision.\n\nMr Challen had left no will and a major asset, the home the Challens shared, had been jointly owned.\n\nJudge Matthews said his decision would mean that Mrs Challen, not the couple's sons, would inherit the estate.\n\nHe added: \"I emphasise that the facts of this terrible case are so extraordinary, with such a fatal combination of conditions and events, that I would not expect them easily to be replicated in any other.\"\n\nSally and Richard Challen had two sons and had been married for 31 years\n\nMrs Challen, of Claygate in Surrey, was given a life term after being convicted of murder at a trial at Guildford Crown Court in summer 2011.\n\nAppeal judges quashed that murder conviction in February last year and ordered a new trial.\n\nA judge had been due to oversee a new trial but Mrs Challen was released following a preliminary hearing at the Old Bailey, after prosecutors accepted her plea to manslaughter.\n\nThe lesser charge was accepted on the grounds of diminished responsibility after a psychiatric report concluded Mrs Challen was suffering from an \"adjustment disorder\".\n\nMr Justice Edis said the killing came after \"years of controlling, isolating and humiliating conduct\" with the added provocation of her husband's \"serial multiple infidelity\".\n\nHe imposed a new sentence of nine years and four months for manslaughter, but concluded that she had already served her time.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The development would have built 1,500 new homes on Westferry Road, the Isle of Dogs\n\nThe 1,500-home development on the Isle of Dogs, Tower Hamlets, was approved on 14 January - the day before community charges placed on developments were increased.\n\nThe timing of the decision meant Conservative Party donor Richard Desmond avoided paying around £40m.\n\nMr Jenrick accepted his decision was unlawful but denies any bias.\n\nThe government's own planning inspector advised against the scheme saying it needed to deliver more affordable housing in what is London's poorest borough.\n\nThe inspector also said that with buildings up to 44 storeys high, the development harmed the character of the area and views of Tower Bridge.\n\nRobert Jenrick accepted the decision was technically unlawful but maintains there was no bias\n\nMr Jenrick rejected that advice and approved planning permission for the project.\n\nLocal councillors asked the High Court to order the government to disclose emails and memos around the deal.\n\nRather than disclosing the correspondence, the Housing Secretary's lawyers conceded the timing of his decision \"would lead the fair-minded and informed observer to conclude that there was a real possibility\" that he had been biased.\n\nMr Jenrick accepted the original decision was technically unlawful but maintains there was no actual bias towards Mr Desmond.\n\n\"We don't believe there was any bias,\" Mr Jenrick told the BBC.\n\n\"But to ensure there was complete fairness we judged it was right for the decision to be re-determined.\"\n\nTower Hamlets Council and the Greater London Authority have welcomed the announcement that a different government minister will now decide upon the project.", "President Emmanuel Macron announced a rescue plan for the French car industry during a visit to the Valeo car factory in Etaples on Tuesday\n\nThe French government has announced an €8bn (£7.1bn) rescue plan for its car industry, which has been severely impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron's proposal includes €1bn to provide grants of up to €7,000 to encourage citizens to purchase electric vehicles.\n\nIt also puts money toward investments to make France a centre for electric vehicle output.\n\nThe plan comes as the industry braces for thousands of job cuts.\n\nIn return for the relief, the two main French car producers Renault and PSA have promised to focus production in France.\n\n\"We need a motivational goal - make France Europe's top producer of clean vehicles by bringing output to more than one million electric and hybrid cars per year over the next five years,\" President Macron told reporters at a press conference at the Valeo car factory in Etaples, northern France on Tuesday.\n\nHe added that no car model currently produced in France should be manufactured in other countries.\n\nTo help sell the 400,000 vehicles languishing in car dealerships due to the coronavirus lockdown measures, President Macron said the government would also give people upgrading to a less polluting car a €3,000 bonus, as part of a scheme open to 75% of French households.\n\n\"Our fellow citizens need to buy more vehicles, and in particular clean ones. Not in two, five or 10 years - now,\" he stressed.\n\nLike in other countries, France's car industry has ground to a halt - with an 80% fall in sales and a backlog of nearly half a million new vehicles waiting for owners.\n\nPresident Macron - in his new post-virus spend-and-invest mode - wants to act now not just to rescue the industry from the immediate crisis, but also to prepare it for a future that will be both electric and he hopes much less dependent on foreign and in particular Chinese suppliers.\n\nTo boost demand now, the grants for households or companies that buy new electric cars are increased, as is the so-called conversion bonus for trading in a polluting car for a cleaner one.\n\nThe number of battery charge-points will be tripled to 100,000 by the end of next year.\n\nA billion euros in investment will be directed into research and modernising production, and there'll be a €5bn loan for Renault - part of the return for which is a promise by Renault to join a Franco-German consortium to develop car batteries.\n\nThe aim, Mr Macron said, is to have one million electric cars being made in France every year by 2025.\n\nAccording to IHS Markit, France was Europe's top producer of electric and hybrid cars in 2019, with almost 240,000 vehicles, but Germany is set to overtake it by the end of this year.\n\nThe €8bn plan does not include an expected €5bn loan for embattled French carmaker Renault, which in February reported its first annual loss in a decade.\n\nThe company has been planning to unveil a big restructuring plan on 29 May that was reportedly likely to see it close three factories in Choisy-le-Roi, Dieppe and Caudan. A fourth factory, Flins, will be converted into an electric battery factory.\n\nRenault workers protesting outside the Fonderie de Bretagne factory near Lorient on Monday\n\nMr Macron said on Tuesday that Renault had agreed to join a Franco-German project to produce electric batteries for the rechargeable auto industry, a step the government had set as a condition for the loan.\n\nBut Mr Macron said the government would not sign off on the deal until Renault's management and unions had concluded talks over the carmaker's French workforce and plants in France.\n\nMr Macron only guaranteed the future for employees of Renault's factories in Mauberge and Douai, however. And French daily national newspaper Le Figaro reported exclusively on Tuesday that Renault is planning to cut 5,000 jobs by 2024.\n\nThe 370 employees that work at the Fonderie de Bretagne, near Lorient in north-western France, are concerned that the carmaker intends to close the factory.\n\nThey have been protesting since Monday, blockading the factory, and told French national radio network Europe 1 that they intend to march on the streets of Lorient on Wednesday.", "A company led by a former Apprentice contestant has had three social media adverts banned by the Advertising Standards Authority over misleading Covid-19 claims.\n\nThe ASA said Revival Shots, founded by Daniel Elahi, had suggested its Vitamin C rehydration sachets could boost immunity and help cure the disease.\n\nThe firm has now removed one advert from Facebook and two from Instagram.\n\nIt noted other posts had said its goods could not be used to treat the virus.\n\nThe ASA's investigation was fast-tracked as part of the watchdog's focus on ads that exploit health concerns during the current Covid-19 crisis.\n\nIt said one of the examples had made claims that vitamin C was being tested in the US and China as a possible cure for Covid-19.\n\nDaniel Elahi appeared on 2018's series of The Apprentice\n\nThe post was accompanied by a caption that said each sachet contained 500mg of vitamin C.\n\nA spokesman for the ASA said: \"We considered the ad, therefore, implied that consuming Revival Shots could, through their vitamin C content, help to cure Covid-19.\"\n\nAnother advert featured a user review that claimed their headache and sore throat lessened almost immediately after consumption.\n\nBoth are listed by the NHS as potential symptoms of Covid-19.\n\n\"Given that the ad was posted in mid-April 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic, referred to symptoms sometimes associated with Covid-19 and the reviewer's 'paranoia' about those symptoms, and included the hashtag '#staysafe' which was commonly associated with the pandemic, we considered consumers would understand that the claims in the review were intended to be understood to relate to Covid-19,\" said the watchdog.\n\nThe ASA also found the company could not support claims that its product's vitamin C content could boost immunity.\n\n\"Revival Shots had not provided any evidence to demonstrate that their products contained any vitamin in amounts sufficient that they could use any of those authorised health claims in advertising for their products,\" added the ruling.\n\n\"The ads must not appear again in the form complained about.\"\n\nMr Elahi runs Revival and is one of its two directors.\n\nHe acknowledged the ASA's complaint but noted that the firm's site also featured other posts \"stating clearly that our products cannot be used in the treatment of Covid-19\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJunior minister Douglas Ross has resigned after Dominic Cummings' defence of his trip to County Durham during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe Scotland Office minister said the senior aide's view of the government guidance was \"not shared by the vast majority of people\".\n\nNo 10 said the prime minister regretted Mr Ross's decision to stand down.\n\nIt comes as more than 35 Tory MPs have called on Mr Cummings to resign.\n\nMr Cummings' decision in March to drive 260 miles from his London home to his parents' farm with his child and ill wife - which he explained on Monday was for childcare purposes - dominated the government's daily coronavirus press briefing.\n\nAsked by a member of the public whether ministers would review penalty fines imposed on families who travel for childcare, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"I will have to talk to my Treasury colleagues before I can answer [that] in full and we will look at it.\"\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg, citing a government source, said Mr Hancock did \"not announce a review\" but would pass the concern on to his colleagues.\n\nRev Martin Poole, a vicar from Brighton, said he asked the question of Mr Hancock because \"people feel a bit cheated\" and many feel a sense of \"unfairness\" about the story, adding: \"We want to all be treated on a level playing field.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock said it was \"perfectly reasonable\" to take away the question about lockdown fines\n\nDuring the No 10 briefing, Mr Hancock said he understood the \"anger that some people feel\" over Mr Cummings' actions, but added: \"My view is that what he did was within the guidelines.\"\n\nMr Ross, who remains Conservative MP for Moray, said Mr Cummings' \"intentions may have been well meaning\" - but that he could not tell constituents who had been unable to visit sick relatives during lockdown that \"they were all wrong and one senior adviser to the government was right\".\n\nMr Ross' decision was praised by Labour's shadow Scottish secretary Ian Murray and the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford, who called it the \"decent thing\" and a \"difficult decision\" respectively.\n\nBoris Johnson said he regretted Douglas Ross' decision to stand down\n\nAt a news conference on Monday afternoon, Mr Cummings said he did not regret his actions and believed he acted reasonably and legally.\n\nAsked why, once in County Durham, he drove his family to the town of Barnard Castle - 15 days after he had displayed coronavirus symptoms himself - Mr Cummings said he had experienced vision problems during his illness and was testing his eyesight to see if he could drive back to London.\n\nThe drip drip of Conservative MPs calling on Dominic Cummings to go has continued on Tuesday.\n\nNow surpassing 35, it is around 10% of the parliamentary party.\n\nHowever, what's notable is that there are those who, even if they're not calling on Mr Cummings to go, have felt it necessary to write long open letters explaining their thinking to constituents.\n\nPublic anger, it seems, has not been put to bed by Monday's extraordinary rose garden press conference.\n\nThe prime minister's chief aide does, of course, have his backers; people who believe he did what was right in difficult circumstances.\n\nAnd one government minister suggested to me that the story has been \"whipped up\" by those who simply do not like Mr Cummings, either politically or as a person.\n\nBut this saga is now into its fourth day, in a week when the prime minister wishes to communicate crucial messages about his plans for easing the lockdown.\n\nIt is - another minister conceded - a \"problem\" and \"distraction\".\n\nAnd on Tuesday, as yesterday, the question remains, how much political capital is Boris Johnson ready to expend on keeping his chief aide?\n\nBoris Johnson's spokesman reiterated the prime minister's support for Mr Cummings on Tuesday, saying the adviser had \"answered questions extensively\", while Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove said his account was \"exhaustive, detailed and verifiable\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Jackson Carlaw told the BBC Mr Cummings should resign as the row is \"distracting attention\" from efforts to combat the coronavirus.\n\nAmong the Tory MPs calling for Mr Cummings' resignation is former Attorney General Jeremy Wright, who said combating the coronavirus was \"more important than the position of any individual in Downing Street\".\n\nHe is joined by William Wragg, MP for Hazel Grove, who said it was \"humiliating\" to see ministers defending Mr Cummings, and Sir Roger Gale, MP for North Thanet, who said the adviser had sent out a \"dangerous message\".\n\nFormer Conservative health secretary Jeremy Hunt told his South West Surrey constituents that Mr Cummings' actions were \"a clear breach of the lockdown rules\" - but they were \"mistakes\" and he would not call for his resignation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carlaw: \"If it were me, I feel it would now be time to consider my position\"\n\nSix opposition leaders have said in a letter to the prime minister that removing Mr Cummings from his post \"without further delay\" is the only way to restore trust in public health advice.\n\nThe leaders of the SNP, Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru, SDLP, Green Party and Alliance Party said the issue \"transcends politics\".\n\n\"It has united people of every party and political persuasion, who believe strongly that it is now your responsibility as prime minister to return clarity and trust in public health messaging,\" the letter read.\n\nMeanwhile, the retired chemistry teacher who recognised Mr Cummings in County Durham on 12 April told BBC Radio Newcastle he has some regrets about his involvement.\n\nRobin Lees said he had had a \"difficult few days\" after his account of the encounter was initially rejected by Downing Street, but that he felt \"vindicated\" by the subsequent admission.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former teacher Robin Lees, who spotted Mr Cummings in County Durham, says Downing Street initially rejected his account\n\nLatest government figures show the number of people to die with coronavirus in the UK rose by 134 to 37,048 on Tuesday.\n\nThere were no Covid-19 related deaths reported in Northern Ireland for the first time since 18 March.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPoor weather has forced SpaceX to call off the launch of Nasa astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the International Space Station (ISS).\n\nThe two men were due to go up from the Kennedy Space Center in what would have been the first orbital mission from the US in nine years.\n\nBut unfavourable atmospheric conditions prompted controllers to call a stop just 16 minutes before lift-off.\n\nThe next opportunity for SpaceX and Nasa will come on Saturday.\n\nIf that's no good, there would be a third opportunity on Sunday.\n\nThe frustration was that conditions just an hour after the designated launch time of 16:33 EDT were probably acceptable.\n\nDark, threatening clouds shrouded Kennedy through much of the day\n\nBut this was an instantaneous launch window where the SpaceX Falcon rocket and its Dragon crew capsule had to leave on time or they wouldn't be able to catch the space station.\n\nIt meant everyone had to stand down, including President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, and VP Mike Pence and his wife, Karen. They'd all flown in to watch the historic launch.\n\n\"I know there's a lot of disappointment today. The weather got us,\" reflected Nasa Administrator Jim Bridenstine. \"But this was a great day for Nasa and for SpaceX. Our teams worked together in a really impressive way, making good decisions all along. So, let's go; let's go get this done. Saturday is going to be a great day.\"\n\nThe astronauts will come back on Saturday for another go\n\nThere is great interest in this mission. Not since the retirement of the shuttles in 2011 has America been able to launch its own astronauts into space - a big gap in which the US has had to rely on Russian Soyuz vehicles.\n\nBut Hurley's and Behnken's mission is about more than just pride.\n\nNasa is giving up its past practice of owning and operating the space systems it uses in low-Earth orbit and intends in future simply to buy crew transport services from the private sector - much like a company might outsource its payroll or HR needs.\n\nSpaceX is the first of these new service providers.\n\nMr Bridenstine believes the approach will save his agency money that can then be spent on missions to the Moon and Mars.\n\n\"We envision a future where low-Earth orbit is entirely commercialised, where Nasa is one customer of many customers, where we have numerous providers that are competing on cost, on innovation and safety,\" he said.\n\n\"We are proving out a business model that ultimately will enable us to go to the Moon, this time sustainably. In other words, we're going to go to the Moon to stay.\"\n\nWednesday's launch attempt went ahead against the background of the coronavirus crisis. Crowds were encouraged not to assemble near the Kennedy complex, and Nasa itself severely limited the number of guests invited on to the site.\n\nAs for the astronauts, they would ordinarily observe a quarantine before flight. But again Nasa reduced the number of people the men could come into contact with, and those that had to get close were instructed to wear masks.\n\nSaturday's opportunity, if taken, will be at 15:22 EDT.\n\nGuests at Kennedy were limited in number and wore masks because of coronavirus\n\nDoug Hurley and Bob Behnken got in the capsule and closed the hatch\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Planning permission has been granted for a replacement for Barlinnie Prison, which should open in 2025\n\nScotland's largest jail is no longer fit for purpose, according to the prisons watchdog.\n\nAn inspection of Barlinnie prison in Glasgow before the coronavirus pandemic found overcrowding could be in breach of UN human rights agreements.\n\nThe inspectorate said interim solutions must be sought before a replacement prison is opened in 2025.\n\nThe Scottish Prison Service (SPS) said the population had now reduced by 29%, as a result of the lockdown.\n\nThe inspection was carried out in September last year, six months before the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nReception cells in Barlinnie were first criticised by HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIPS) in 1995 and successive reports have continued to highlight problems there.\n\nInternational inspection organisations have also condemned some of the facilities in the jail.\n\nThe European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) have both severely criticised the holding cells as breaching the human rights of prisoners.\n\nHMIPS said it was deeply concerning the holding cells, which were first condemned 25 years ago, remained in use.\n\nThe chief inspector of prisons, Wendy Sinclair-Gieben said: \"The SPS is at risk of ignoring repeated advice to improve Reception.\n\n\"Both the 2003 and 2006 Inspectorate reports gave guidance in the strongest possible terms, including reference to a report in 2004 by The Committee for the Prevention of Torture.\n\nAt the time of the inspection Barlinnie was 40% over capacity, with prisoners doubling up in cells designed for one man\n\n\"My report recommends that a new Reception facility should be created as I do not feel that improvement or refurbishment is either realistic or desirable.\"\n\nShe added: \"The reality is that the ageing and fragile physical infrastructure means that the prison is no longer fit for purpose.\"\n\nShe highlighted overcrowding at Barlinnie which held 1,489 prisoners at the time of her inspection - more than 40% over its design capacity.\n\nThis meant significant numbers of prisoners were forced to share cells designed for single occupancy.\n\nBut she said the inspectorate was impressed with the positive and compassionate attitudes of the staff and the dynamic leadership of the management teams.\n\nThe SPS said since the beginning of the pandemic numbers had come down dramatically.\n\nOn May 25, there were 1 ,059 men in Barlinnie - a 29% reduction since the inspection took place.\n\nA spokesman said the early release of short-term prisoners and smaller numbers being sent from the courts which are not functioning normally because of the lockdown had contributed to this.\n\nHe said 79% of the cells had now returned to single occupancy.\n\nGlasgow City Council granted planning permission in February 2020 for a replacement for Barlinnie at Provanmill, which is hoped to be open in 2025.\n\nThe SPS said it had also developed plans to refurbish the reception area and health centre at the existing jail by 2022.", "Nasa astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken have lifted off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, heading for the International Space Station.\n\nThe mission is the first crewed outing from American soil in nine years, with the pair heading to orbit in a SpaceX Falcon rocket and Crew Dragon capsule.\n\nThis is the second attempt after weather conditions forced the launch to be postponed earlier in the week.", "Students have faced \"unprecedented\" challenges after exams were cancelled\n\nSome coursework could be removed and courses streamlined for pupils due to sit A-level and GCSE exams next year, regulator Qualifications Wales said.\n\nExams in schools have been cancelled this summer due to coronavirus, though there are concerns over \"forgotten\" Year 10 and 12 students.\n\nOne teenager has petitioned the Senedd Cymru - Welsh Parliament claiming arrangements for Year 12s are unfair.\n\nStudents due to complete A-level, AS and GCSE qualifications this summer will receive a grade based on teacher assessment and work already completed.\n\nHowever the impact on those students half way through those courses remains unclear.\n\nAS students have been told their grade - which normally counts for 40% of the final mark - will not contribute to the final A-level result. That has angered some pupils and parents.\n\nSian Williams, 17, from Llangollen, in Denbighshire, said she felt \"frustrated and disappointed\" and set up a petition calling for the decision to be reviewed.\n\nSian Williams set up a petition querying the decision AS grades would not count towards A-level results\n\n\"You feel that all of that work has been for nothing,\" she said.\n\n\"The prospect for next year now is a year that's going to be already full of stress… looking for universities, trying to get the grades to go to universities.\n\n\"But for Year 12s in Wales, we can't go to open days for universities, we're not going to have that assistance to create our Ucas applications, to write our personal statements, and we don't have the 40% of our AS grades that's been there traditionally in Wales to carry forward.\"\n\nExams watchdog Qualifications Wales said while it can issue a stand-alone AS grade, it cannot calculate a mark which fairly contributes to the overall A-level.\n\nSian's mother, Susan Williams, said she was worried about the impact of the disruption on her daughter and classmates.\n\n\"The part we object to is that Sian and lots of other students have worked tirelessly and she was ready,\" said Mrs Williams.\n\n\"I feel Year 12 is going to be like a forgotten year and if we're not careful, their health and well-being, they're going to really struggle. It's just going to be very, very hard for them.\"\n\nSome pupils find studying at home \"difficult\", said Evan Burgess\n\nIt is a similar story for Year 10 students half way through their GCSEs who are missing out on important time with teachers.\n\nEvan Burgess, the Welsh Youth Parliament member for Aberconwy, said he feels he has made good progress with his work but knows others are struggling.\n\n\"Some people have found it really difficult to work at home,\" he said.\n\n\"Perhaps they're struggling with the technology or are finding it really difficult to concentrate, perhaps there's a lot of noise at home. It's important there is support.\"\n\nA-level results will be published on 13 August and GCSEs on 20 August\n\nThe regulator Qualifications Wales said it was looking at how changes could be made to next summer's exams.\n\n\"The situation is a complex one and it's almost certain that there won't be a one-size-fits-all solution,\" said Emyr George.\n\n\"We need to take each qualification and look at it on its own merits.\n\n\"Some of the steps we're considering include whether non-exam assessment or coursework might be reduced or indeed withdrawn, so learners can focus on the examined elements of their courses.\n\n\"Or we're looking at whether some elements of content from courses can be taken out for this year's Year 10 and Year 12 students, so they've got a more manageable course to complete by the end of the year.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government has suggested that Year 10 and 12 students could be prioritised as pupils start returning to school, but it is unlikely they would return to a full timetable immediately.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Durham police issued fines to two people - from different households - who travelled together from London to County Durham during lockdown.\n\nThe force is currently considering whether to take action against the prime minister's chief aide Dominic Cummings over a similar journey.\n\nMr Cummings made the 260-mile trip from London to Durham with his wife and four-year-old son.\n\nThe two individuals fined by the force travelled to nearby Peterlee.\n\nMr Cummings has defended his decision to make the journey to Durham, insisting it was legal and within the guidelines.\n\n\"The rules made clear that if you are dealing with small children that can be exceptional circumstances,\" he said at a press conference on Monday.\n\n\"And I think that the situation that I was in was exceptional circumstances, and the way that I dealt with it was the least risk to everybody concerned if my wife and I had both been unable to look after our four-year-old.\"\n\nHe has been backed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who has said it is time to \"move on\" from the row and focus on the public's \"needs, rather than on a political ding-dong about what one adviser may or may not have done\".\n\nThe lockdown fines were uncovered in Freedom of Information requests made to police forces around the country before news of Mr Cummings' journey emerged.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC is seeking further details from Durham Constabulary about the two individuals who were fined for travelling from London to Peterlee, about 13 miles east of Durham, on 8 April, a week after Mr Cummings made his trip.\n\nDurham Constabulary is investigating whether Mr Cummings broke lockdown rules with his journey from London to Durham and a subsequent trip to Barnard Castle, about 30 miles from Durham.\n\nOfficers have reportedly spoken to the man who told the Guardian and Daily Mirror he had seen Mr Cummings in Barnard Castle, on Easter Sunday, as part of their investigation.\n\nA government spokesperson said \"We are confident the police will use their common sense, discretion and experience.\"\n\nPolice powers to enforce protection came in to force in England on 26 March.\n\nBy 11 May, 13,445 Fixed Penalty Notices had been handed out in England and 799 in Wales.\n\nThe BBC's Freedom of Information requests covered the first two and a half weeks of the regulations, including the Easter Weekend.\n\nIn this period, police forces in England issued 3,203 FPNs - an initial fine of £60, halved if you paid within two weeks.\n\nIn one case, a man in Leicestershire was issued with an FPN after being stopped on the motorway.\n\nHe told officers he was \"travelling home to London after visiting a sick relative\" in Nottinghamshire.\n\nAnother FPN was given to a man who was \"taking his motorbike for a ride\" 10 miles from his home address.\n\nThere is no appeal process for FPNs issued under the coronavirus regulations.\n\nCivil liberties campaigners say there is no consistency in how the rules have been applied and are calling for a review of the \"unjust\" fines.\n\nRosalind Comyn, policy and campaigns officer at the rights group Liberty, said: \"Such broad police powers and vague government guidance are a recipe for discrimination and injustice, which is why Liberty along with many other groups have been consistently calling for a review.\n\n\"It's now clear how unevenly the powers have been applied - particularly when, as recent events show, they don't apply to the very people who wrote them.\n\n\"The government urgently needs to pare back the powers, create a right to appeal and review every fine issued.\"\n\nKirsty Brimelow QC, a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, said: \"In light of Mr Cummings' actions being upheld by the government as legal and within both law and guidance, there needs to be an official review of all these fines.\n\n\"If Mr Cummings' actions amounted to a 'reasonable excuse', including his test drive or day trip, how does this affect those convicted who might have put forward similar reasons?\"\n\nMs Brimelow encouraged those who have been issued with fines to seek further guidance.\n\nOn Tuesday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock was asked by a member of the public at the daily coronavirus press briefing whether the government would review fines for people travelling for \"childcare purposes\".\n\nMr Hancock said it was \"perfectly reasonable to take away that question\" and he would look at it with his Treasury colleagues.\n\nBut government sources later clarified that there would be no review of fines issued under the coronavirus regulations.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said police forces were asking their officers to \"engage in the first instance, to explain and to resort to fines only when absolutely necessary\".", "Residents saw flames and smoke coming from the phone mast on Brodie Avenue\n\nA 5G mast has been damaged in an arson attack only days after it was put up.\n\nFirefighters were called to the blaze in Mossley Hill, Liverpool, shortly before midnight on Tuesday.\n\nPeople nearby reported hearing a \"loud bang\" and seeing flames and smoke coming from the base of the phone mast. Merseyside Fire Service said the fire was started deliberately.\n\nA man in dark clothing was seen at the mast shortly before the fire and left on an electric bicycle, police said.\n\nAttacks on 5G phone masts have been fuelled by a conspiracy theory wrongly linking 5G and coronavirus.\n\nAttacks on 5G phone masts have been fuelled by a conspiracy theory wrongly linking 5G and coronavirus\n\nDet Sgt Richie Shillito, of Merseyside Police, said: \"These are challenging times for everyone, and members of the public are more dependent than ever on technology such as mobile phones to keep in touch with their friends and family.\n\n\"For many vulnerable people isolating and shielding, it is their only means of contact with the outside world.\n\n\"People may also need to use their phone to contact the emergency services, and extremely reckless acts like this could leave them with no signal and put someone's life at risk.\"\n\nEarlier this month, a 47-year-old man was told he faced a jail term after he pleaded guilty to an arson attack on a mast in Kirkby.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nBoris Johnson will be grilled by senior MPs about the government's handling of the pandemic later. Inevitably, there'll be plenty of questions about senior adviser Dominic Cummings too, as anger over his decision to travel hundreds of miles during lockdown refuses to die down. More than 35 Tory MPs have now called for Mr Cummings to resign or be fired. Read more on what the PM's top aide did and his claim that coronavirus affected his eyesight.\n\nDominic Cummings and Boris Johnson, pictured in October 2019, are refusing to budge despite widespread criticism\n\nWe'll get more details today on plans to impose local lockdowns to deal with flare-ups of the virus in parts of England in the coming months. They could see schools, workplaces or wider areas shut down. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the idea was part of the test, track and trace system designed to prevent a second wave of infections. Scotland will launch its \"test and protect\" strategy on Thursday.\n\nSalons and barber shops are calling for ministers to bring forward the date when they're allowed to reopen - currently 4 July at the earliest. The Hair and Barber Council says its 11,000 members would be ready to operate by the middle of next month, taking the necessary precautions. See how measures have been introduced in salons in Paris.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why barber shops matter to the community during lockdown\n\nThe charity that runs the national domestic abuse helpline is reporting a 957% increase in visitors to its website over the past two weeks. Refuge says lockdown \"can aggravate pre-existing behaviours in an abusive partner\".\n\nThe National Domestic Abuse Helpline can be contacted online as well as by phone\n\nJust like schools, many childminders kept working when lockdown was imposed, looking after the children of key workers and those classed as vulnerable. How have they approached social distancing and hygiene? And elsewhere, read more on the struggles families with disabled children have faced without their usual support networks.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and get the latest in our live page.\n\nPlus, a BBC team tracking coronavirus misinformation has found links to assaults, arsons and deaths around the world. Find out more.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There are concerns over a potential rise in lockdown abuse\n\nThe charity which runs the national domestic abuse helpline has had a 10-fold increase in visits to its website in the past two weeks.\n\nRefuge said numbers have \"spiked again significantly\" since it started recording rises during lockdown.\n\nThe charity said the lockdown itself does not cause domestic abuse but \"can aggravate pre-existing behaviours in an abusive partner\".\n\nFears that social conditions created by the coronavirus lockdown could result in a spike in domestic abuse led the government to boost funding for services by £76m.\n\nThe National Domestic Abuse Helpline can be contacted online as well as by phone\n\nRefuge said that over the past three consecutive weeks it recorded a 66% increase in calls to its helpline and recorded a 957% increase in web traffic over the past two weeks.\n\nSandra Horley, chief executive of Refuge, said the lives of women suffering with domestic abuse depend on the helpline and website, which allows them to request a safe time to be contacted.\n\n\"The sheer numbers of women seeking specialist support show just how vital Refuge's services are,\" she added.\n\nData from 41 UK police forces, released to the BBC under freedom of information laws, shows 19 recorded more calls about domestic abuse in March 2020 compared with the same month last year, while 22 recorded a fall.\n\nThe figure only includes the first full week of the lockdown, announced on 23 March.\n\nSuffolk Police received 1,114 calls in March 2020, 58% up on the 703 in the same month last year.\n\nHowever the force told the BBC the rise was due to a recent change in the way it records domestic abuse.\n\nIn a statement, Suffolk Police said: \"Previously we would record an 'obvious' domestic incident as a domestic but where, for example, an assault was reported and it was not an obvious domestic related incident, it may have been closed without the domestic tag being added.\n\n\"The modification we made in January now sees those less obvious reports also being tagged as domestic incidents.\"\n\nDomestic abuse consultant Clare Walker said the disparity was caused partly by some police forces failing to recognise coercive control as a form of abuse.\n\nCoercive control, which was made a criminal offence in 2015, can involve the abuser using non-violent methods such as intimidation and humiliation to deprive their victim of independence and to regulate their everyday behaviour.\n\nMs Walker said: \"The police record domestic abuse wrongly - I know they do from reading their logs… name calling and the like are not logged as domestic abuse.\"\n\nNottinghamshire Police saw the largest proportional year-on-year drop of with 1,824 calls in March 2019 and 1,161 in the corresponding month in 2020, a fall of 36%.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Louisa Rolfe, who is the National Police Chiefs Council lead for domestic abuse, said forces across the country were \"doing a lot of proactive, innovative work\".\n\n\"A lot of other crime has fallen dramatically, while domestic abuse has stayed at a level that we would expect,\" she said.\n\n\"It is difficult, at this stage, to fully assess whether these demand surges to helplines are driven by the prevalence of domestic abuse in communities, or by increased awareness and communication, or other factors.\n\n\"It could, at least partially, be the fact that helplines provide a much broader range of services than policing, which is focused on protection and prosecution.\"\n\nOnline webchats and text services are also available.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pham Thi Tra My, 26, and Nguyen Dinh Luong, 20, were among the victims\n\nTwenty-six people have been arrested in Belgium and France in an operation prompted by the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants in a lorry in the UK in 2019.\n\nA UK report found the migrants all died from asphyxia and hypothermia.\n\nThirteen people, including Moroccans and Vietnamese, were held in Brussels and 13 more in Paris, authorities say.\n\nBelgian prosecutors said the suspects had probably \"transported up to several dozen people every day for several months\".\n\nThe smuggling network, they said, was suspected of having made the October 2019 trip possible.\n\nHowever, Essex Police, quoted by Irish public broadcaster RTÉ, later said the arrests were not directly linked to its investigation.\n\nThe EU's Agency for Criminal Justice Co-operation (Eurojust) said police had carried out cross-border raids on Tuesday morning in an operation that involved four nations - the UK, France, Belgium and Ireland - along with Europol.\n\nA number of people had earlier been arrested in connection with the deaths, including several in Vietnam.\n\nThe driver of the lorry, Maurice Robinson, pleaded guilty last month to 39 counts of manslaughter.\n\nThe 39 dead included two 15-year-olds and eight other teenagers\n\nAt the same hearing at London's Old Bailey, co-defendant Gheorghe Nica denied 39 counts of manslaughter. Another three men charged with other offences in connection with the deaths also appeared via video-link.\n\nA trial on remaining charges is scheduled to begin on 5 October.\n\nThe bodies of the Vietnamese nationals were discovered at an industrial estate soon after the lorry arrived in the UK on a ferry from Zeebrugge in Belgium.\n\nAmong the men, women and children were 10 teenagers, two of them 15-year-old boys.\n\nAmong those who died was 26-year-old Pham Thi Tra My, who sent her family a message on 22 October saying she could not breathe and her \"trip to a foreign land has failed\".", "The BBC is to broadcast classic Glastonbury performances this year in the music festival's absence.\n\nPrevious headline sets from Beyoncé, Adele, Coldplay, David Bowie and Jay-Z will be shown on BBC Two and BBC Four.\n\nA new pop-up channel will also appear on BBC iPlayer, which will feature more than 60 historic sets.\n\nThis year's festival, which was due to feature Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar and Sir Paul McCartney, was cancelled amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMore than 200,000 people, including 135,000 ticket-holders, would have descended on Worthy Farm in Somerset if the festival had gone ahead from 25 to 28 June.\n\nClara Amfo, Edith Bowman, Jo Whiley, Lauren Laverne and Mark Radcliffe will host four days of programming across the BBC.\n\nAt the centre of the BBC coverage will be three 90-minute programmes on BBC Two, broadcast on Friday 26, Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 June.\n\nThey will feature performances from Amy Winehouse, Arctic Monkeys, Blur, Dizzee Rascal, Lady Gaga, PJ Harvey, R.E.M. and The Rolling Stones.\n\nAdditional programming on BBC Four will feature some of the most memorable acoustic performances filmed in the BBC compound at previous festivals - including Ed Sheeran, Dua Lipa, Kano, Leon Bridges, Patti Smith, Richie Havens and Youssou N'Dour.\n\nTaylor Swift, Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar were due to top the bill on the Pyramid Stage this year\n\nArchive performances will also be played across BBC radio stations and available on the BBC Sounds app.\n\nOrganiser Emily Eavis will be interviewed by Lauren Laverne on her BBC 6 Music show on Friday 26 June.\n\nLorna Clarke, the controller of BBC Pop said: \"Even though Worthy Farm can't be full of thousands of music lovers this year, the BBC will celebrate with four days of memories and archive footage to give our audience a taste of the festival in their own homes.\"\n\nEavis added: \"There are so many memorable sets being played across the BBC over what would have been our 50th anniversary weekend.\n\n\"Personally, I'm looking forward to a weekend of reflecting on the history of our festival and going back to some classic performances from David Bowie, Adele, REM, Beyoncé, The Rolling Stones, Jay-Z, Billie Eilish and lots more.\n\n\"Me and my dad will definitely be watching!\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Louise Smith was reported missing on 8 May\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a teenager whose body was found in woodland.\n\nLouise Smith, 16, was found dead at Havant Thicket, Hampshire, on Thursday, 13 days after she was reported missing.\n\nA man and a woman, both aged 29, were previously arrested on suspicion of kidnap and released on bail.\n\nThe man has been rearrested on suspicion of murder and the woman is being held on suspicion of assisting an offender, police said.\n\nThe teenager's body was discovered in Havant Thicket on Thursday\n\nLouise, from Leigh Park, had not been in touch with her friends or family since being seen in Somborne Drive at about midday on 8 May, detectives previously said.\n\nPolice made the first arrests on 14 May, seven days before the teenager's body was found.\n\nA police cordon remains at Havant Thicket where officers are continuing a fingertip search of the area.\n\nA police map indicates where Louise was staying, and the place where her body was found\n\nDetectives have also searched a flat in Somborne Drive and blacked out the property's windows.\n\nNeighbours previously said they believed Louise had been staying with a couple at the address.\n\nDet Ch Supt Scott Mackechnie said: \"We have read the tributes that have been paid to Louise and we know just how much she meant to the community.\n\n\"I want to reassure you that we are doing all we can to find out who is responsible, to bring justice for her and for her family.\"\n\nDet Ch Supt Scott MacKechnie appealed for information to trace Louise's movements on 8 May\n\nHe appealed for CCTV or dashcam footage from the afternoon of 8 May - VE Day - when the teenager was last seen alive.\n\nMandy Ferdinando, who laid flowers at the thicket when Louise's death was announced, previously told reporters the teenager was \"a lovely girl with a heart of gold\".\n\nA post-mortem examination has taken place, but police have not yet released any of its results.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Joyce Richardson said she was \"standing up\" for Herriot Hospice Homecare because she wanted to help other people on her birthday\n\nA woman who struggles to stand up will aim to do it 100 times before her 100th birthday in June to raise money for the hospice which cared for her dying son.\n\nJoyce Richardson, who served in the Women's Land Army during World War Two, nearly lost the use of her legs after developing sepsis last year.\n\nShe set herself the challenge to raise money for Herriot Hospice Homecare.\n\nThe great-great grandmother said she wanted to thank the charity for \"the wonderful support\" her family received.\n\nMrs Richardson, from Thirsk, North Yorkshire, said: \"It may not seem much to most people but, believe you me, hauling myself up out of the chair is a huge struggle every time.\"\n\nDuring World War Two, Mrs Richardson served in the Women's Land Army in Ripon\n\nShortly after her 99th birthday, Mrs Richardson developed sepsis and had to be treated in hospital.\n\nSince then she has struggled with the use of her legs and cannot stand for any length of time.\n\nHowever, ahead of her milestone birthday next month, Mrs Richardson aims to stand 100 times for 10 seconds each time.\n\nShe is raising funds through a Justgiving page, where she shared a picture of herself as a 21-year-old in the Women's Land Army in 1941.\n\nMrs Richardson added: \"The challenge would have been easy for me too, in those days.\"\n\nHerriot Hospice Homecare looks after patients with life-limiting illnesses in the Hambleton and Richmondshire areas.\n\nMrs Richardson's eldest son Gill, 74, was cared for by the charity before his death in October last year.\n\nThe 99-year-old set out to raise £1,000 for the charity and has already received more than £3,500 in donations.\n\nChief executive Tony Collins said: \"We'd like to wish Joyce a wonderful and very happy 100th birthday, and send lots of good luck for the remainder of her challenge.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Experts warn remdesivir shouldn't be seen as a \"magic bullet\"\n\nA drug treatment called remdesivir that appears to shorten recovery time for people with coronavirus is being made available on the NHS.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said it was probably the biggest step forward in the treatment of coronavirus since the crisis began.\n\nRemdesivir is an anti-viral medicine that has been used against Ebola.\n\nUK regulators say there is enough evidence to approve its use in selected Covid-19 hospital patients.\n\nFor the time being and due to limited supplies, it will go to those most likely to benefit.\n\nThe US and Japan have already made similar urgent arrangements to provide early access to the medicine before they have a marketing agreement.\n\nThe drug is currently undergoing clinical trials around the world, including in the UK.\n\nEarly data suggests it can cut recovery time by about four days, but there is no evidence yet that it will save more lives.\n\nIt is not clear how much stock pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences has available to treat UK patients.\n\nAllocation of the intravenous drug will be based on the advice of doctors.\n\nMinister for Innovation Lord Bethell said: \"This shows fantastic progress. As we navigate this unprecedented period, we must be on the front foot of the latest medical advancements, while always ensuring patient safety remains a top priority.\n\n\"The latest, expert scientific advice is at the heart of every decision we make, and we will continue to monitor remdesivir's success in clinical trials across the country to ensure the best results for UK patients.\"\n\nDr Stephen Griffin from the University of Leeds Medical School, said it was perhaps the most promising anti-viral for coronavirus so far.\n\nHe said patients with the most severe disease would be likely to receive it first. \"Whilst this is clearly the most ethically sound approach, it also means that we ought not to expect the drug to immediately act as a magic bullet.\n\n\"We can instead hope for improved recovery rates and a reduction in patient mortality, which we hope will benefit as many patients as possible.\"\n\nOther drugs being investigated for coronavirus include those for malaria and HIV.\n\nTesting of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine has been halted in some trials because of safety fears.\n\nThe World Health Organization says the temporary suspension is a precaution, after a recent medical study found the drug might increase the risk of death and heart rhythm complications.\n\nIn the UK, the Recovery trial looking at using this drug in patients remains open, but another one, using it in frontline NHS staff to prevent rather than treat infections, has paused recruiting more volunteers.", "Bob Behnken (L) and Doug Hurley arrived in Florida on 20 May to prepare for launch\n\nTwo US astronauts have achieved a world first by travelling to the International Space Station (ISS) and back aboard a spacecraft built by Elon Musk's SpaceX. Here, BBC News profiles the crew members.\n\nOn 30 May 2020, Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken broke a nine-year hiatus for Nasa, becoming the first astronauts to launch from US soil since the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011.\n\nIn the intervening years, Nasa bought seats for its astronauts - at a cost of tens of millions of dollars per flight - on the Russian Soyuz.\n\nBut officials have also worked with Elon Musk's company SpaceX and aerospace giant Boeing to develop new, American spacecraft capable of ferrying humans to and from the ISS - under the space agency's Commercial Crew Program.\n\nMusk's vehicle was first to fly; Hurley and Behnken travelled to the ISS in the sleek Crew Dragon spacecraft.\n\nThe Crew Dragon undergoes final processing prior to the Demo-2 launch\n\n\"It's well past time to be launching an American rocket from the Florida coast to the International Space Station and I am certainly honoured to be a part of it,\" Hurley, 53, said at the beginning of May, before the flight.\n\nBehnken, 49, added: \"On my first flight... I didn't have a son, so I'm really excited to share the mission with him.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nasa's Dr Michael Barratt explains what qualities are required of today's astronauts.\n\nNasa chose two of its most experienced astronauts to help California-based SpaceX ready the Crew Dragon for launch. The two are also longstanding friends.\n\n\"Being lucky enough to fly with your best friend... I think there's a lot of people who wish they could do that,\" says Hurley.\n\nWhen they launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket, their spouses knew exactly what they were going through. That's because they're astronauts too.\n\nMarine Colonel Hurley's wife Karen Nyberg flew into space twice - aboard the shuttle and the Soyuz - retiring from Nasa this year. They have a 10-year-old son, Jack, whose formative years were shaped by space travel.\n\nHurley and Nyberg take their son for a stroll in Red Square, just prior to Nyberg's 2013 flight\n\nNyberg began training for a six-month space station mission just a few months after Jack's birth. In the meantime, Hurley was preparing for his own flight - piloting the last ever shuttle mission. Sometimes, Nyberg took Jack to Russia, at other times he stayed at home in Texas.\n\n\"Literally from the time Jack was old enough to comprehend things, he was either going to Russia or Skyping with mommy. That's just the way it was,\" Hurley told the Houston Chronicle in 2013.\n\nAir Force Colonel Behnken is married to Megan McArthur, who flew on the last mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope in 2009.\n\nAs an active member of the astronaut corps, she is a potential candidate to be the first woman on the Moon when Nasa returns in 2024. Their son, Theo, is six.\n\nHurley, Behnken, Nyberg and McArthur all graduated from the same astronaut class (2000) and attended each other's weddings. The men are so used to each other's company, they now have a spooky rapport.\n\nBehnken in 2009, training for the STS-130 shuttle mission\n\nThey \"can predict - almost by body language - what the person's opinion is or what their next action is going to be,\" Behnken told CNN before the launch. \"We've just been doing this so long that it's kind of like having a second set of hands.\"\n\nHurley says of Behnken: \"I know instantaneously when I've not done something correctly - just put it that way. He doesn't have a good poker face.\"\n\nBut Behnken admits Hurley is the more organised of the two.\n\nThe older of the two men was raised in the hamlet of Apalachin, in upstate New York. \"It was just a great small town existence... we didn't get a stoplight until I was, I think, in college,\" Hurley said in 2009.\n\nBehnken hails from St Ann, a suburb of St Louis, Missouri. In 2010, he described it as \"a blue collar kind of a neighbourhood\", adding: \"I guess, in my bag of tricks... I'm more of a working class sort of a person.\"\n\nHurley piloted the final flight of the shuttle era, in 2011\n\nHe took jobs in construction before deciding that working outdoors in the summer heat wasn't for him.\n\nBoth men went to college on military scholarships and gained undergraduate degrees in engineering. While Behnken went on to complete a PhD at Caltech - the elite institute featured in the Big Bang Theory television show - Hurley became an officer in the Marines.\n\nThey both subsequently trained as military test pilots - at different training schools. It's been the archetypal background for Nasa's astronauts since the days of its first intake - the Mercury Seven.\n\n\"When I showed up [at Nasa] it was like: 'Well, I have a PhD and an MD,' and I'm sitting there going, 'Mmm, wow! Maybe I was a bit of a slacker',\" said Hurley.\n\n\"But you know, your professional development as a pilot and the thousands of hours you get as a pilot... brings something to the table.\"\n\nHurley and Behnken were selected as astronaut candidates three years before the shuttle Columbia broke up on re-entry, killing seven crew members. After the disaster, Nasa decided it would retire the shuttle, handing over space station transport to private firms.\n\nBehnken (L) and Hurley pose for pictures in front of the Crew Dragon\n\nThus, when the two men were finally assigned their flights, the shuttle programme was in its final phase. Their missions focused on fulfilling Nasa's prior commitments to complete construction of the ISS, including the delivery of crew compartments designed to fit in the shuttle's payload bay.\n\nWhen the spaceplane was retired, the pair were assigned to the Commercial Crew Program. In August 2018, Hurley and Behnken were announced as the prime crew for Demo-2, the first flight of SpaceX's vehicle with humans onboard.\n\n\"Bob and I, the last two years, have essentially been living in California, working hand-in-hand with the folks at SpaceX to get us to this point,\" Hurley said this month.\n\nThey've had to get used to the Crew Dragon's touchscreen controls after previously working with the chunky buttons on shuttle instrument panels.\n\nHurley says a background in evaluating military aircraft as test pilots proved crucial in their work with SpaceX.\n\n\"That, in and of itself, helped both of us tremendously, because all along the process that you see in the military, there are delays, there are technical challenges, there are things that you don't expect and you have to work through them,\" he explained.\n\nSetbacks - including two spectacular explosions that destroyed a rocket and one of the Crew Dragon capsules - have seen the mission slip by nearly four years from its original date of October 2016.\n\n\"We were well-prepared for that part of it, when I think it caused some frustration within Nasa as launch dates weren't made,\" explained Hurley.\n\nDespite bumps in the road, Behnken's enthusiasm remained undimmed: \"It's probably the dream of every test pilot school student to have the opportunity to fly on a brand new spaceship.\"\n\nHurley told CNN: \"From a first flight standpoint, certainly, there might be some greater quantifiable risk to some degree.\n\n\"But probably no different to any other spaceflight we've flown humans on before.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US President Donald Trump said he was taking hydroxychloroquine to ward off Covid-19\n\nTesting of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a possible treatment for coronavirus has been halted because of safety fears, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.\n\nTrials in several countries are being \"temporarily\" suspended as a precaution, the agency said on Monday.\n\nIt comes after a recent medical study suggested the drug could increase the risk of patients dying from Covid-19.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has said he has taken the drug to ward off the virus.\n\nThe US president has repeatedly promoted the anti-malarial drug, against medical advice and despite warnings from public health officials that it could cause heart problems.\n\nLast week, a study in medical journal The Lancet said there were no benefits to treating coronavirus patients with hydroxychloroquine, and that taking it might even increase the number of deaths among those in hospital with the disease.\n\nHydroxychloroquine is safe for malaria, and conditions like lupus or arthritis, but no clinical trials have recommended its use for treating Covid-19.\n\nResearchers say Covid-19 patients should not use hydroxychloroquine outside of clinical trials\n\nThe WHO, which is running clinical trials of various drugs to assess which might be beneficial in treating the disease, has previously raised concerns over reports of individuals self-medicating and causing themselves serious harm.\n\nOn Monday, officials at the UN health agency said hydroxychloroquine would be removed from those trials pending a safety assessment.\n\nThe Lancet study involved 96,000 coronavirus patients, nearly 15,000 of whom were given hydroxychloroquine - or a related form chloroquine - either alone or with an antibiotic.\n\nThe study found that the patients were more likely to die in hospital and develop heart rhythm complications than other Covid patients in a comparison group.\n\nThe death rates of the treated groups were: hydroxychloroquine 18%; chloroquine 16.4%; control group 9%. Those treated with hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine in combination with antibiotics had an even higher death rate.\n\nThe researchers warned that hydroxychloroquine should not be used outside of clinical trials.", "Demand from property hunters rebounded as curbs on the sector were lifted in England - but the trend may be short-lived, analysis suggests.\n\nBuyer demand rose by 88% in the week estate agents were told they could resume viewings and people could move again, property portal Zoopla said.\n\nHowever, actual sales remained sluggish, and the analysis suggests demand could fall again.\n\nA tough outlook for jobs could affect people's ability to move home.\n\nFor those who do still have the money to move, Zoopla echoed others in suggesting residents may have spent lockdown rethinking what they want from their home.\n\nAnother property portal, Rightmove, reported a return to pre-crisis levels of browsing and enquiries from people looking to buy a home at the point restrictions were lifted in England on 13 May.\n\nNow, Zoopla's UK Cities House Price Index has said that the rebound in demand went beyond the level seen at the start of March.\n\nPortsmouth, Southampton, Oxford, Liverpool and Manchester all saw demand rise.\n\nThis trend was far more muted where the restrictions remained - in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland - and also in London, where the market had already been relatively slow.\n\nThe analysis found the rebound would be temporary, after people who had been stuck at home and thinking of moving met with the realities of less settled job prospects.\n\n\"Many households are likely to have re-evaluated what they want from their home. This could well explain the scale of the demand returning to the market,\" said Richard Donnell, director of research at Zoopla.\n\nHe said economic uncertainty was building and that would eventually lead to greater caution among buyers and sellers.\n\nA small survey, as part of the research, found that 41% of those asked had put moving plans on hold owing to the uncertainty, loss of income, or future prospects for their finances.\n\nLockdown had meant thousands of people put house sales on hold.\n\nResidential property sales in the UK in April hit their lowest monthly level since comparable records began in 2005, with 38,060 transactions during the month, according to provisional numbers from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).\n\nThis was less than half the level seen in the same month the previous year.\n\nGreat uncertainty remains over the level of recovery in sales, as well as prices.\n\nMeanwhile, Rightmove said that, in the week after restrictions in England were lifted, interest from those looking to move in the private rental sector had increased ahead of the level seen at the same time last year.\n\nMonday 18 May saw its highest level of rental demand in a single day.\n\nThe biggest increases in rental searches compared with a year ago were in Rotherham, Cambridge and St Helens, it said.\n\n\"A week's worth of data should only be taken as an early indication of activity, but it's certainly encouraging,\" said Miles Shipside, from Rightmove.", "Cardiff and Vale health board has said two of their members of staff died in the same week after contracting coronavirus.\n\nNurse Dominga David and theatre assistant Allan Macalalad died after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nIn a letter to colleagues, chief executive Len Richards offered condolences to their families.\n\nDominga David, 62, had worked at University Hospital of Llandough since 2004 and Mr Richards said she “will be remembered as an exceptionally hard worker and a respectful, kind and compassionate person when interacting with patients, families and colleagues alike.\n\n“The teams say she was part of their family and she was well-loved by everyone. She is survived by her son Renzie, to whom we send our deepest condolences.”\n\nTheatre assisant Allan Macalalad, 44, worked in ophthalmology theatres. He was a carpenter by trade and settled in Cardiff with his wife, Elsie, who is a nurse with a neighbouring health board. He is survived by Elsie and his son, Justin.\n\n“The ophthalmology theatres and SSSU team are a close knit team and were shocked and saddened to hear of Allan’s passing,\" Mr Richards wrote.\n\nHe described Mr Macalalad as a perfect gentleman, sociable, hardworking, and a loyal team player.\n\n“It is absolutely heart-breaking to have lost two colleagues in the same week to Covid-19,\" executive nurse director Ruth Walker said.\n\n\"Both Allan and Dominga were valued members of our team here in Cardiff and Vale UHB and we will miss them profoundly and we send our condolences to their respective families.\n\n“Our thoughts are with Allan and Dominga’s teams in UHB, and their loved ones both here in the UK and the Philippines.”", "Claire Foy and Matt Smith first appeared in Lungs at the Old Vic in 2019\n\nClaire Foy and Matt Smith will reunite in a socially-distanced play to be streamed from an empty Old Vic theatre.\n\nThe pair co-starred in Netflix's The Crown before appearing together in Lungs at the London venue last year.\n\nThey will reprise their roles as the couple in Duncan MacMillan's play for several live performances next month.\n\nViewers will be asked to pay between £10-£65 to watch online. The Old Vic has warned it is in a \"seriously perilous\" financial position.\n\nLike all theatres, it has been shut since the lockdown began in mid-March. However, it is not eligible for Arts Council England's £160m emergency relief fund.\n\nThe Old Vic has the words \"We'll be back\" on the front of its building\n\n\"Significant support is urgently needed if we are to emerge from this crisis still able to deliver exciting entertainment and social benefit,\" the theatre said in a statement.\n\nThe revival of Lungs will launch the famous theatre's Old Vic: In Camera series, which will feature other well-known actors in rehearsed play-readings - all streamed online.\n\n\"This series is both an exciting creative experiment and also crucial in igniting the box office now all our usual channels of revenue have been entirely wiped out and we fight to preserve this beloved theatre for our audiences,\" the statement said.\n\nEach performance of Lungs will be limited to 1,000 viewers - mimicking the venue's actual capacity.\n\nVirtual theatre-goers will select a seat and ticket price as normal, but will in reality all have the same view.\n\nMany theatre companies have released shows online in recent months - but they were either recorded before lockdown, or have been filmed in actors' homes, rather than in the empty venues themselves.\n\nEntertainment venues could potentially reopen to audiences from 4 July at the earliest, according to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's three-stage plan to reopen the country.\n\nBut that date rests on a lot of things, not least whether it will be financially viable to reopen if social distancing is still in place.\n\nSir Cameron Mackintosh recently told the BBC that West End and Broadway theatres are unlikely to be able to stage musicals until early next year.\n\nOn Wednesday, Sir Cameron and Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's planned 14-month tour of The Phantom of the Opera - which was forced to shut after its opening night in Leicester in March - was called off completely.\n\nA statement said: \"The great uncertainty around the duration of social distancing requirements and the perilous financial situation in which many regional theatres find themselves have conspired to make re-routing an entire major tour like Phantom impossible for some time as so many existing tours are needing to reschedule.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The International Labour Organisation has said young people are disproportionately being affected by the coronavirus health crisis.\n\nIn a new report the ILO, which is a United Nations agency, warns there is a risk they could be scarred throughout their working lives.\n\nThey could become what the report calls a \"lockdown generation\".\n\nIt says young women have been especially hit by the increase in unemployment.\n\nYoung people have been affected by what the report calls \"a triple shock\".\n\nThe virus, it says, is destroying their employment, disrupting education and training and putting obstacles in the way of those who want to start work or change jobs.\n\nOne in five have stopped work since the onset of the pandemic.\n\nAmong those who have remained in employment, working hours have declined by almost a quarter.\n\nBefore the crisis, more than 40% of young people were working in hard-hit sectors such as accommodation, food services and retailing.\n\nThree quarters were in informal employment and therefore had little protection if they do lose their jobs. In Africa, the figure is more than 90%.\n\nEducation and training, including \"on the job\" programmes are suffering massive disruption, the ILO says.\n\nA great deal of training is now being done at a distance, online. But the ILO says few low-income countries have managed to make that transition.\n\nThe agency calls for targeted intervention by governments to guarantee employment and training for young people in low and middle-income countries that may need foreign support both for finance and implementation.\n\nThe report also says that rigorous testing and tracing of infections strongly translates to lower labour market disruption than do confinement and lockdown measures.\n\nThe ILO argues that testing and tracing improves the chances of what it calls an employment-rich recovery.", "The spacesuits worn by astronauts for the Crew Dragon mission have been getting a lot of attention. How do they differ from other astronaut attire down the years?\n\nThe futuristic flight suits worn by Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken during Saturday's successful launch look a world away from the bulky orange shuttle flight suits worn when astronauts last launched from Florida's Kennedy Space Center.\n\nThe helmets are 3D-printed and the gloves are touchscreen-sensitive.\n\nBut their primary purpose remains the same - to protect crew members from depressurisation, where air is lost from the capsule. The suits also ensure astronauts have sufficient oxygen and regulate their temperature. A communications link and breathable air are provided via a single \"umbilical\" cable in the seat that plugs in to the suit.\n\nBob Behnken suits up in the sleek SpaceX suit\n\nThe Starman suits, as they've been called, are all in one piece and customised for the astronaut. Their look was conceived by Hollywood costume designer Jose Fernandez, who has worked on Captain America: Civil War and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.\n\nBut they are just designed for use inside the SpaceX capsule, known as the Crew Dragon, and are not suitable for use on spacewalks.\n\nAerospace giant Boeing also has a contract with Nasa to carry astronauts to the space station in its CST-100 Starliner spacecraft. It has developed a pressure suit to protect astronauts during the key phases of launch and re-entry.\n\nThe Boeing Blue suit, as worn by Nasa astronaut Chris Ferguson\n\nThe Boeing Blue suits are about 40% lighter than earlier generations of spacesuits worn by American astronauts - and more flexible.\n\nThey contain different internal layers to keep astronauts cool. The suit also has touchscreen-sensitive gloves - so astronauts can work with tablets in the spacecraft. The soft, hood-like helmet features a wide polycarbonate visor to give Starliner passengers better peripheral vision throughout their ride to and from space.\n\nZips in the torso area will make it easier for astronauts to comfortably transition from sitting to standing.\n\nIn October 2019, Nasa shared a close-up look at two next-generation suits for the agency's Artemis programme. Under this effort, Nasa will seek to return astronauts to the Moon by 2024, using the agency's Orion spacecraft.\n\nThe Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit, or xEMU, (L) and the Orion Crew Survival Suit being revealed in 2019\n\nOne of the suits is called the Orion Crew Survival System, and is comparable to the suits used by SpaceX and Boeing. It recalls the so-called Pumpkin suits used by space shuttle astronauts, but is more lightweight.\n\nThe other suit, called the Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU) suit is designed to be worn on the surface of the Moon. It is much bulkier than the pressure suits designed to be worn inside spacecraft.\n\nThis is because it needs to protect the wearer from temperature extremes outside the walls of the spacecraft. It is also designed to provide some shielding against micrometeorites and other small particles of space debris. In these respects, it is similar to suits previously used for spacewalking at the International Space Station (ISS).\n\nCosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov wearing the Orlan suit outside the space station in 2014\n\nThere are two suits used for spacewalking at the ISS. One is the Russian Orlan type, which was first used in December 1977.\n\nThe Orlan is a one-piece spacesuit. The \"backpack\" opens like a fridge door, allowing the spacewalker to climb inside.\n\nNasa's Extravehicular Mobility Suit (EMU) was introduced in 1981 and is the other suit used at the space station.\n\nSwedish astronaut Christer Fuglesang on a spacewalk in the EMU\n\nUnlike the Orlan, the EMU comes in separate pieces, with a bottom and top half. The semi-rigid suit provides around 8.5 hours of life support for its wearer outside in the vacuum of space.\n\nAstronauts travelling to the ISS train with both suits.\n\nThe suit worn by Apollo astronauts on the Moon was also called the EMU - though it's different from the modern design. It was the result of years of development.\n\nBuzz Aldrin on the Moon in 1969\n\nSpacesuits have come a long way since the first spacewalk by the late cosmonaut Alexei Leonov in March 1965.\n\nLeonov's suit inflated after he stepped out into the vacuum, so that his hands came out of his gloves. Only by bleeding air out of the suit, which put the cosmonaut at risk of the bends, was he able to get back inside the spacecraft.\n\nA painting by Alexei Leonov of his spacewalk in 1965", "Andy Byford started his career as a uniformed station foreman for London Underground\n\nAndy Byford has been appointed the new commissioner of Transport for London.\n\nMr Byford, 54, who was previously president and chief executive officer of New York City Transit Authority, will begin his role on 29 June.\n\nHe said he was delighted to be appointed to the role following an international recruitment process.\n\nThe mayor of London said Mr Byford's experience would help London's transport industry to recover following the impact of Covid-19.\n\nMr Byford, who has spent 30 years in the transport industry, including as director of operations at Southern Railway, said his new role would be a \"huge challenge\" but that Transport for London (TfL) had \"some of the best people in the world\".\n\nWhat a time for a transport commissioner to be taking over.\n\nSo is Andy Byford the man for a crisis? He's just left the New York Subway which he started to improve and upgrade.\n\nHe picked up the nickname \"The Train Daddy\" and it seems he was well respected.\n\nVery much a transport man, Mr Byford began his career as a graduate at London Underground.\n\nBut he now faces challenges bigger than those in the Big Apple:\n\n\"In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, all transport authorities around the world will need to reimagine how their services and projects contribute to the safe and sustainable re-start of the social and economic lives of the cities they serve,\" Mr Byford said.\n\n\"We will meet these challenges and will together help build an even better city for everyone.\"\n\nThe current commissioner, Mike Brown MVO, will stay on until 10 July.\n\nMr Brown is to begin a role overseeing the renovation of the historic Houses of Parliament.\n• None Can this Brit fix New York's subway?", "Has the US conducted the most Covid-19 tests?\n\nUS President Donald Trump has tweeted that the country has tested 15.5 million people for Covid-19, and that the figure is \"by far the most in the world\". But does this claim stand up to scrutiny? In fact, the BBC Reality Check team has fact-checked the president's claims on testing before, and found them wanting. It is difficult to find truly accurate numbers for global testing because different countries have different ways of conducting and counting tests. This means that in order to compare numbers, we have to decide whether figures from around the world are comparable, or even trustworthy. According to figures from China's state news agency Xinhua, the combined number of people tested in just two areas totals around 17 million – that's 10.41 million in the province of Guangdong and 6.5 million in Wuhan , where the city authorities say they plan to test the entire population of around 11 million. To attain these figures, the Chinese authorities have been \"batch testing\" - testing multiple samples in groups. They expect the vast majority of Covid-19 tests to be negative, which makes sense statistically, but if samples within a certain batch test positive, the samples are then tested individually. So, the total for the whole of China's estimated 1.4 billion population is likely to be much higher than Mr Trump's 15.5 million. But according to BBC China analyst Kerry Allen, there's no way to independently check how many individual tests have been carried out.", "Kramer helped found both Gay Men's Health Crisis and Act Up\n\nStars including Sir Elton John, Julia Roberts and Lin-Manuel Miranda have paid tribute to US playwright, author and Aids activist Larry Kramer.\n\nKramer died this week at the age of 84.\n\nHe was a pivotal and confrontational figure during the Aids crisis in the 1980s, and depicted the era in his landmark 1985 play The Normal Heart.\n\nSir Elton John tweeted that it was \"the saddest news\" and that the world had \"lost a giant of a man who stood up for gay rights like a warrior\".\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 Elton John 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\nRoberts, who starred alongside Mark Ruffalo in the movie adaptation of The Normal Heart, told Variety: \"He was ferocious and tireless in his beliefs.\n\n\"A true hero that so many people owe their lives to today. I was honoured to spend time in his orbit.\"\n\nKramer had made his name as a screenwriter, earning an Oscar nomination in 1971 for adapting DH Lawrence's Women in Love.\n\nHe also published the best-selling but controversial novel Faggots in 1977.\n\nAt the start of the 1980s, he put his energies into rallying support and awareness for the fight against HIV and Aids.\n\nHis other plays included 1992's autobiographical The Destiny of Me.\n\nHamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda posted that the \"extraordinary writer\" touched the lives of all those who saw his work. \"Thank you, Larry Kramer,\" he wrote.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Lin-Manuel Miranda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Larry Kramer changed my core,\" said actress Ellen Barkin, who won a Tony Award in 2011 for her role in a Broadway revival of The Normal Heart.\n\nDirector and producer Ryan Murphy, who brought the groundbreaking play to the big screen, remembered Kramer as \"the single greatest and most important gay activist of all time\".\n\nKramer first became aware of HIV and Aids after friends living next door in New York died. \"No-one was saying anything,\" he later said.\n\n\"I often make the comparison with a war reporter whose parachute drops behind enemy lines and he realises he's faced with the greatest story he can tell. I was not a political person before all this.\"\n\nAfter a meeting of about 80 people in his apartment in 1982, he helped found Gay Men's Health Crisis and began fundraising, campaigning and writing about the subject.\n\n\"You should have seen the faces,\" he said of that meeting. \"We all had friends who died... If one of us had it, we all had it.\"\n\nHe later formed Act Up, a radical protest group, and in 1989 learned he was HIV positive himself and suffering from liver damage.\n\nHe had a liver transplant in 2001 and was given experimental HIV drugs by Anthony Fauci - the medical researcher now leading the fight against the coronavirus in the US.\n\nDr Fauci told the New York Times: \"Once you got past the rhetoric, you found that Larry Kramer made a lot of sense, and that he had a heart of gold.\"\n\nKramer's friend and literary executor Will Schwalbe said the playwright's death was not related to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nAsked by the BBC World Service in 1995 whether it was possible to be both an activist and a writer, Kramer replied: \"Why not? The question that occurs to me all the time is why so few other writers are.\n\n\"What annoys me so much about England and America is most of the writers are so removed from politics.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A pensioner has set out to ride a total of 80 miles around West Sussex on a tricycle.\n\nTheo Ellert is riding a mile a day around the Littlehampton area, aiming to reach her target by her 80th birthday on 18 August.\n\nThe money raised is for a charity she founded called Miracles , which provides caravan holidays in Selsey for families in crisis.\n\nTheo says she took up tricycling nearly a decade ago after a failed attempt at cycling.\n\nQuote Message: My son gave me a bicycle when I was 70, but unfortunately I kept falling off it, every bush, every ditch, I’m there. So my husband bought me a tricycle”. from Theo Ellert My son gave me a bicycle when I was 70, but unfortunately I kept falling off it, every bush, every ditch, I’m there. So my husband bought me a tricycle”.\n\nTheo hopes her 80 mile challenge will be complete by her 80th birthday Image caption: Theo hopes her 80 mile challenge will be complete by her 80th birthday\n\nTheo is writing a blog about her ride, and hopes to raise £25,000.", "Video of the incident in Minneapolis was posted on social media\n\nFour Minnesota police officers have been fired after the death of a black man who was taken into custody and seen on video being pinned down by his neck.\n\nMinneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo said the four officers were now \"former employees\".\n\nFootage shows the man, George Floyd, groaning and repeatedly saying \"I can't breathe\" to the white officer.\n\nThe incident echoed that of Eric Garner, a black man who died being arrested in New York City in 2014.\n\nThe FBI has said it will investigate the Minneapolis incident, which took place on Monday evening.\n\nGeorge Floyd repeatedly told the police officers who detained him that he could not breathe\n\nMinnesota police said 46-year-old Mr Floyd, who had worked providing security at a restaurant, died after a \"medical incident\" in a \"police interaction\".\n\nOn Tuesday afternoon, Mayor Jacob Frey confirmed the four officers involved in the incident had been \"terminated\".\n\n\"This is the right call,\" he tweeted.\n\nAt a press conference earlier, Mr Frey had described the incident as \"completely and utterly messed up\".\n\n\"I believe what I saw and what I saw is wrong on every level,\" he said. \"Being black in America should not be a death sentence.\"\n\nIt is the latest accusation of US police brutality against African Americans. Recent high-profile cases include an officer in Maryland who fatally shot a man inside a patrol car.\n\nThe incident in Minneapolis began with a report of a customer attempting to use a counterfeit $20 bill at a store.\n\nThe officers located the suspect in his car, police said in a statement. They were told the man, who has not been identified, was \"sitting on top of a blue car and appeared to be under the influence\".\n\nA protester prays in front of a memorial for George Floyd, whose death has reignited debate about police brutality in the US\n\nAfter being ordered to step away from the vehicle, the man physically resisted officers, according to police. \"Officers were able to get the suspect into handcuffs and noted he appeared to be suffering medical distress,\" the statement added.\n\nIn the 10-minute video filmed by a witness, the man is kept on the ground by the officer and, at one point, says: \"Don't kill me.\"\n\nWitnesses urged the officer to take his knee off the man's neck, noting that he was not moving. One says, \"His nose is bleeding\", while another pleads, \"Get off his neck.\"\n\nThe man then appears motionless before he is put on a stretcher and into an ambulance.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice said no weapons were used during the incident and that body camera footage had been handed to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), which is investigating the case.\n\nOn Tuesday evening, officers used tear gas to disperse a mass protest outside a police precinct in Minneapolis, according to local media.\n\nA journalist for the Star Tribune newspaper tweeted that he had been struck by a rubber bullet fired by police.\n\nA reporter for local KTSP-TV tweeted that demonstrators had smashed glass at the precinct building and sprayed graffiti on a police patrol car.\n\nPolice said in a statement earlier about the death of George Floyd: \"As additional information has been made available, it has been determined that the Federal Bureau of Investigation will be a part of this investigation.\"\n\nSpeaking to US media on Tuesday, Chief Arradondo said the force's policies \"regarding placing someone under control\" will be reviewed as part of the probe.\n\nAccording to the Associated Press news agency, Minneapolis police officers are allowed under the department's use-of-force policy to kneel on a suspect's neck as long as they do not obstruct the airway.\n\nAsked about the FBI's involvement, Chief Arradondo said he made the decision to include the agency after receiving \"additional information\" from a community source \"that just provided more context\".\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson for the FBI Minneapolis division said the agency's investigation woud focus on whether the police officers involved \"willfully deprived the individual of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States\".\n\nWhen completed, the agency will present its findings to the Minnesota state's attorney for possible federal charges. The Minnesota BCA, which investigates most in-custody deaths, will continue to conduct its own investigation, focusing on possible violations of state laws.\n\nMinnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar - who has reportedly been shortlisted as Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's running mate - issued a statement calling for a \"complete and thorough outside investigation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One thing Americans find hard to talk about\n\n\"Justice must be served for this man and his family, justice must be served for our community, justice must be served for our country,\" she said.\n\n\"I can't breathe\" became a national rallying cry against police brutality in the US after the July 2014 death of Eric Garner.\n\nGarner, an unarmed black man, uttered the phrase 11 times after being detained by police on suspicion of illegally selling loose cigarettes. They were the final words of the 43-year-old, who died after a police officer placed him in a chokehold.\n\nA city medical examiner ruled the chokehold contributed to Garner's death. The New York City police officer involved in Garner's deadly arrest was fired from the police force more than five years later, in August 2019. No officer was charged in that case.", "The animal was spotted in a resident's garden in East Finchley\n\nAn exotic pet cat sparked an armed police response when it was spotted in a back garden.\n\nThe large feline, thought to be a rare Savannah breed, caused alarm when it was seen in Winnington Road, East Finchley, north London.\n\nScotland Yard said firearms officers and an animal expert - to assess the threat posed by the leopard-spotted interloper - were sent to the scene.\n\nAfter it was deemed safe, the cat ran off. Its owner has yet to be found.\n\nThe Met said officers rushed to the neighbourhood - reportedly dubbed \"billionaire's row\" on account of the high property prices - at 21:00 BST on Monday.\n\nA resident's garden was sealed off, the force said, while the animal expert assessed whether the beast was a danger to the public.\n\nUpon viewing the cat, they concluded it was a hybrid, \"namely a cross-breed of a domestic cat and a Savannah cat\".\n\nThere have been no reports of attacks or injuries to members of the public, according to MPS Barnet.\n\nA Met Police spokesperson said the \"matter has been logged for intelligence purposes\" and \"no offences were disclosed\".\n\n\"Police have not been able to trace the cat's owner at this time,\" they added.\n\nIn most cases, Savannah cats, which are a cross between a domestic cat and a Serval wild African cat, are legal to own in the UK.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There is still no decision on whether all primary children will really be asked back to school next month, schools minister Nick Gibb told MPs.\n\nAfter the first wave of pupils return on 1 June in England, ministers aim for all primary year groups to go back for four weeks before the end of term.\n\nMr Gibb was pressed by MPs on the education select committee whether this full return in mid-June was \"unlikely\".\n\n\"It is difficult to say,\" the minister told the select committee.\n\nThe minister for school standards was challenged by MPs about whether plans to bring all primary year groups back into school for the last month of term were still going ahead.\n\n\"Is it unlikely that the government's ambition for all children in primary school to return before the summer is going to happen?\" asked committee chair, Robert Halfon.\n\n\"I think you need to give some steer,\" Mr Halfon urged the minister.\n\n\"It is difficult to say. It will be totally led by the science,\" said Mr Gibb.\n\nHe told MPs the decision - which would mean more than another two million children returning to primary school - would depend on the level of coronavirus infection over the \"next few weeks\".\n\nHead teachers, uncertain about what they should be planning, have questioned the plausibility of accommodating all years in primary school, when they will be limited to 15 pupils per classroom.\n\nCommittee member Christian Wakeford MP said that in some schools there was \"literally no room\" for that to be done safely.\n\nThe minister suggested there could be a rota system - but also spoke of the importance of full-time lessons so that parents would be able to go to work.\n\n\"It's better for children to have full-time education consistently, \" he told MPs.\n\nMr Gibb was challenged over whether the row over Dominic Cummings had damaged the credibility of the government's health messages - which could reduce trust in the safety of returning to school.\n\n\"The government's message has been undermined - and even though the law may not have been broken, the spirit of the law has indeed been broken,\" said Conservative MP Jonathan Gullis.\n\nHe asked how the Department for Education could \"rebuild and regain confidence\".\n\nMr Gibb said that: \"The reason we can even have this discussion is because of the success of people's commitment to social distancing.\"\n\nHe told MPs: \"The more we all adhere to the rules the more that we'll be able to make further progress in reopening schools.\"\n\nThere were later warnings about public trust being undermined from the Early Years Alliance, representing nurseries, pre-school providers and child minders.\n\nChief executive Neil Leitch said childcare providers were working hard to reopen and were concerned their efforts were going to be damaged by the Cummings row, with parents losing confidence in the credibility of the government's safety assurances.\n\n\"Anything that erodes public faith in the government's public health messages - and, in turn, risks damaging parents' trust in the government's rationale for asking childcare providers to reopen - is of course going to be of concern,\" he said.\n\nMr Gullis, a former teacher, went on to tell Mr Gibb at the committee hearing that he was \"baffled\" that the DfE had not opted to bring back Year 5 age group in England, seeing as they faced national curriculum tests, or Sats, next year.\n\nMr Gibb said Sats were primarily an accountability measure for primary schools and were \"not qualifications for young people like GCSEs and A-levels - they're not qualifications that that affect their future\".\n\n\"No-one asks how young people did in their Sats like they do GCSEs, A-levels, degree and technical qualifications.\"\n\nMPs also raised concerns that boys and children from ethnic minorities in Years 11 and 13 - who will receive their GCSE and A-levels results on the basis of teacher predictions and rankings - might be unfairly disadvantaged because of unconscious bias.\n\nMr Gibb said he and the exams watchdog, Ofqual, had consulted widely and had devised a system that was \"the best way to deliver fair results\".\n\n\"Ultimately, the head teacher will sign off that calculated, estimated grades are fair and right and that the rank order of pupils is fair and right.\n\n\"The onus is on teachers to be as fair and accurate as they can be and, given their professionalism, I'm sure they will be.\"\n\nCommittee chair Mr Halfon asked if children in Years 11 and 13 would receive any help from their school if they opted to take resits in the autumn.\n\n\"For many young people retaking their GCSEs, it will be about revision, I'm afraid, at home and it will depend on the relationship that they have with their school, particularly if they've left,\" Mr Gibb said.\n\n\"Some won't have have left, some will be going into the sixth form in the school and will still have the relationship with the school.\n\n\"But these are issues that we are addressing because we want to make sure that this system is as fair as possible for all young people.\"\n\nMr Gibb also revealed that he was having discussions about possible summer school catch-up sessions.\n\n\"We are talking to the sector, to education charities, to those engaged in teacher training and so on, with a view to coming forward with a package of catch-up over the summer.\n\n\"I'm being a bit coy with details because we are still having these discussions now and we will be able to say something fairly soon about the outcome of those discussions.\"\n\nAsked about the problems many families faced over the free school meal vouchers, Mr Gibb acknowledged the scheme had had \"a bumpy start\", but said it had delivered millions of pounds worth of food.\n\nThe cost of the national voucher scheme would be met by the department over the half term break, he said.\n\nIs your child going back to school on 1 June? Share your thoughts by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "A group representing hairdressers in the UK says politicians are taking too long to give salons permission to open.\n\nThe Hair and Barber Council, which represents 11,000 salons, estimates most of its members would be ready by mid-June.\n\nThe Department for Business has told Radio 1 Newsbeat that 4 July remains the earliest date they can open in England.\n\nSalons have been closed since the lockdown began on 24 March.\n\nKeith Conniford, the CEO of the Hair and Barber Council, says many salon owners want to open on June 15, alongside other non-food retail outlets.\n\nHe says: \"I have spoken to a number of practitioners I know within barbering and hairdressing and resoundingly they said yes.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. FabHair London is one of the salons that say it could open safely before 4 July\n\nThe July date applies only in England - Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are setting their own strategy for opening up businesses.\n\nBut Keith says if any national government in any part of the UK gives them two weeks notice then they will be ready to open.\n\nBusinesses are being asked to be \"Covid-ready\" before opening.\n\nThe UK government told Newsbeat they are currently working with the industry to provide more specific advice, but have set out some initial guidance for situations where people cannot work 2m apart. These include:\n\nBaz Rifat's salon in north London has spent thousands of pounds getting Covid-ready.\n\nThe owner has created booths and knocked down walls and introduced a text system with customers to confirm they have had no symptoms.\n\n\"We've been spacing it out so we've got social distancing.\"\n\nBaz tells us customers will be asked to wear face coverings, while she will wear a shield.\n\nThere will be no waiting area and staff will work in teams so if someone gets ill one team will isolate while the other keeps the salon open.\n\nFewer staff will make contact with people's hair when they come in.\n\n\"Normally we have assistants washing our clients' hair but I will be doing everything\".\n\nKeith Conniford from the Hair and Barber Council wants to reopen salons in June\n\nThe Hair and Barber Council lobby MPs to promote industry-wide standards but the group is concerned any additional rules to the ones already out there will stop hairdressers being able to do their job.\n\nA Department for Business spokesperson told us: \"The Government has set up taskforces to work with industry representatives to develop safe ways for businesses such as hairdressers to open at the earliest point at which it is safe to do so.\"\n\nThere is pressure to get the economy moving by allowing businesses to reopen so the government can stop paying the wages of tens of thousands of workers under the furlough scheme.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Bob Behnken (L) and Doug Hurley (R) are beginning a new era in human spaceflight\n\nThe California company SpaceX is launching a mission to the International Space Station (ISS). It's something the firm has done many times before, taking cargo to the sky-high laboratory. But on this occasion, the firm will be transporting people.\n\nIt's one of those seminal moments in the history of spaceflight.\n\nWhen Nasa astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken lift off atop their Falcon-9 rocket, inside their Crew Dragon capsule, it will mark the first time humans have left US territory to reach low-Earth orbit in almost nine years.\n\nBut more than that, it sees a shift to the commercialisation of human space transportation - of companies selling \"taxi\" rides to government and anyone else who wants to purchase the service.\n\nThis page details the key phases in the mission sequence.\n\nLaunch will occur from the Kennedy Space Center's Complex 39A. This is the famous Florida pad from where the Apollo 11 moonwalkers and the very first shuttle, Columbia, also began their missions.\n\nTiming is precise. The Falcon must leave the ground at 15:22 EDT (19:22 GMT / 20:22 BST), or the astronauts won't be able to catch the ISS which passes overhead at 27,000km/h (17,000mph).\n\nFalcon-9 is a two-stage rocket. Its lower-segment will fire for 2.5 minutes before shutting down and separating. This will leave the second stage to burn for a further six minutes to get Dragon into orbit. Once detached, the capsule will then make the rest of the journey to the ISS using its own thrusters.\n\nThe second stage of the rocket will be commanded to burn up in the atmosphere. The lower-segment of the booster aims to touch down on a drone ship in the Atlantic. This is a SpaceX speciality that sets its Falcon apart from all other orbital rockets in use today.\n\nIt seems remarkable but Nasa astronauts have not had the use of a brand new spaceship design for 39 years. Not since John Young and Bob Crippen climbed aboard the Columbia orbiter. Their shuttle had dials, switches and a control stick. Dragon is all touchscreen.\n\nIt's an automated vessel so it plots a path to ISS by itself, but Hurley and Behnken must practise manual flying in case there is some sort of anomaly.\n\nThe Dragon capsule was conceived to handle every imagined scenario, including a failure of the rocket on the pad or in flight. If this happens, the ship will use a powerful in-built propulsion system to push itself to a safe distance. SpaceX has rehearsed this possibility both on the ground and in mid-air.\n\nThis mission should see Dragon reach the ISS after about 19 hours of flight. The capsule will line itself up with the bow of the space station and approach at a relative speed of just a few centimetres per second. Once attached, hooks make an airtight seal.\n\nThe length of Hurley's and Behnken's stay aboard the 420km-high ISS is not yet fixed.\n\nIt should be more than a couple of months but is unlikely to be longer than 120 days. Engineers say the solar cells on the Dragon degrade in orbit and so Nasa is sure to bring the crewmen home well before the hardware's performance is compromised.\n\nThe descent to Earth won't be rushed. The astronauts plan a two-hour free-flight to further test onboard systems and procedures. When the de-orbit burn is eventually called, Dragon will be protected in its fall through the atmosphere by a heat shield. Four big parachutes will slow the spacecraft to a gentle splashdown in the Atlantic, just off the American coastline.\n\nSpaceX teams have gone over the process of retrieving the capsule many times.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Of the many details about travel plans, eye tests, and drives made at Dominic Cummings's Rose Garden press conference on Monday, one thing stood out to me that does matter, and will matter well beyond the future of one adviser.\n\nOne of the absolutely core issues in assessing the government's early performance in combating the pandemic, is whether it left it too late to impose the lockdown.\n\nScientists involved in pandemic planning have pinpointed a specific error - that it was too reliant on existing mathematic modelling of the pandemic based on influenza. They say it had not accounted for the fact that coronavirus was a different virus.\n\nThis had two principal vital differences.\n\nCoronavirus is far more contagious than the influenza models, and, unlike flu, there are no approved existing vaccines or treatments.\n\nThis rendered the available pandemic stockpiles of treatments and pre-purchase of tens of millions of vaccines unusable. So only testing, tracing, or forms of social distancing and lockdown were going to work.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Cummings: \"I believe that in all the circumstances, that I behaved reasonably and legally\"\n\nSo for the PM's chief adviser to claim, in the middle of his defence, \"only last year I wrote explicitly about the danger of coronaviruses\" is worthy of some inspection. Such prescience would indeed have been impressive and helpful, and he does have a long-standing and well-known interest in mathematical modelling and big data.\n\nLooking at his blog, there is one reference to coronavirus, and it was indeed in a blog written in March last year. But it wasn't quite as billed. It is a blog about the risk of a pandemic starting from a leak from a biological lab.\n\nThe point of it is that governments should pay money to \"Red Teams\" to try to break security at such institutions, including £1m to \"honey trap\" the security bosses.\n\nIf this is the writing that \"explicitly\" warned of the danger of coronaviruses, then it rather suggests that a key No 10 figure believes that biolab security is the relevant issue.\n\nBut then things get even stranger.\n\nThe internet archive Wayback Machine, which tracks the changing versions of publicly available websites, shows that the blog was edited some time between 9 April and 3 May this year (after the pandemic started) to insert the reference to coronavirus and Chinese labs. This was first pointed out by a data scientist Jens Wiechers on social media, and can be seen here.\n\nIt is in the form of a new quote from an article already linked to in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. It was not in the original blog.\n\nAnd the sitemap of Mr Cumming's blog corroborates this, showing that this post was indeed edited at 20:55:20 on the evening of 14 April this year, still available here. This happens to be the day Mr Cummings returned to work from his Durham trip.\n\nIt is a mystery why he felt the need to burnish his credentials as a coronavirus sage so much that he pointed to having explicitly warned about something that was only added to his blog after the event.\n\nThere is no other reference to coronavirus or Sars or Mers on his blog. There is a page on the mathematics of pandemic modelling and \"herd immunity\" in a long essay written on the education system in 2013, but no references to coronaviruses.\n\nIt is difficult to see why editing a year-old personal blog would have been on any list of priorities for any No 10 official on a day like that - in the middle of the period where hospital deaths had peaked the previous week, but care home deaths were still mounting.\n\nBut Mr Cummings clearly felt the need on Monday to point to examples of prescience on this specific issue.\n\nThe context of his quote on coronavirus was to help disprove the allegation, first made in the Sunday Times, that he had backed a so-called \"herd immunity\" strategy.\n\nI've asked No 10 for a response on the change to his blog, the reference to Chinese biolabs, and whether he stands by the idea he explicitly wrote about the dangers of coronaviruses.\n\nA source acknowledged that the blog was updated and pointed to the fact that the original blog from last year linked to the separate article [in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists] which did discuss coronaviruses.", "Local lockdowns are not being considered in Wales in a bid to maintain clarity about coronavirus\n\nLocal lockdowns are not being considered in Wales to maintain a \"clear message\" about coronavirus, the Welsh Government says.\n\nFinance minister Rebecca Evans said imposing different rules could cause a \"great deal of confusion.\"\n\nThis is not the case in England where local lockdowns could be used to suppress \"flare ups\" of coronavirus.\n\nThat was the message delivered by UK Government health minister Matt Hancock.\n\nBut at a Welsh Government press conference Ms Evans said: \"At the moment we're not considering differential lockdowns across different parts of Wales.\"\n\nFinance minister Rebecca Evans announced the plan, which contrasts with that in England\n\nShe said \"one of the strengths\" of the Welsh Government's message was that \"a very clear message\" applies \"equally\" across Wales.\n\n\"I think that if you do look for differential lockdowns, or lock downs in particular small areas, then there is a potential for a great deal of confusion,\" Ms Evans said.\n\n\"I think the testing, and tracing work will be really important in terms of negating the need for that kind of local lockdown in future, because it will be about tracking those individuals who have had contact with somebody who has been proven to have the coronavirus.\n\n\"I think that that will be a much more useful, clear and understandable way to move forward rather than those locally different approaches.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government has also announced contacts of people who receive a positive coronavirus test result in Wales will be traced from 1 June.", "Local lockdowns could see schools and workplaces targeted in areas of England that have \"flare-ups\" of coronavirus, the communities secretary has said.\n\nRobert Jenrick said restrictions could be introduced at \"a micro level\" to control the virus in particular communities.\n\nThe measures will be part of the test and trace system, which will be ready by next week, he said.\n\nMr Hancock first mentioned the \"local lockdowns\" during Tuesday's coronavirus briefing.\n\nMeanwhile, Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be questioned by senior MPs later amid continued calls for his top adviser to resign.\n\nAround 40 Tory MPs have called for Dominic Cummings to stand down or be fired after details of his 260-mile journey to County Durham during lockdown came to light.\n\nMr Jenrick said the government's test and trace system would have a \"local element\" and identify flare-ups in particular places, such as parts of towns, schools, hospitals and workplaces.\n\n\"That enables us then to take action in that place which will be restrictive on the individuals who live and work there... but as a result of that we'll be able to provide greater freedom to millions of other people across the country, enabling us to continue to ease the lockdown, ease the return to school, to work and to the daily activities that we all want to get back to,\" he told the BBC.\n\nUnder government plans to ease lockdown restrictions, the Joint Biosecurity Centre will identify changes in infection rates - using testing, environmental and workplace data - and advise chief medical officers.\n\nAs a result, schools, businesses or workplaces could be closed in areas that see spikes in infection rates, the government's plan says.\n\nA testing, tracking and tracing system is regarded as vital if the virus is to be kept in check while lockdown restrictions are eased.\n\nNHS leaders are concerned there could be a second spike of infections.\n\nWidespread testing will be followed up by contact tracing of anyone who has been in recent contact with individuals testing positive - they could be told to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nThe system will help detect where there may be local outbreaks - and that could result in local restrictions such as workplace and school closures.\n\nBut the ability of the current testing system to get back results quickly is still questionable. Making contact tracing work through national call centres and local authority teams will be a complex task.\n\nEarlier this month Mr Jenrick said that it was the government's \"strong preference\" for lockdown measures to be lifted uniformly, but some restrictions could be reintroduced locally if necessary.\n\nBut he said the local interventions that could soon be considered are \"quite different from making major changes to lockdown measures in one part of the country versus another\".\n\nLatest government figures show the number of people to die with coronavirus in the UK rose by 412 to 37,460 on Wednesday.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with Covid-19 has been gradually declining since the peak over Easter.\n\nHowever, the picture is different across the UK's nations and regions, with numbers falling faster in some areas than others.\n\nCases were originally concentrated in London, the Midlands and the North West of England. But South Wales and parts of the North West and North East also have a high proportions of cases.\n\nLast week, Mr Johnson said England will have a \"world-beating\" test, track and trace system in place from June - with 25,000 contact tracers, able to track 10,000 new cases a day.\n\nBut Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents hospitals and other NHS trusts in England, said such assertions were \"really not helpful\" when local authorities \"only got to start working on the plans five days ago\".\n\nHe warned the government to be \"very careful\" about easing lockdown measures before a local test, track and trace infrastructure is in place.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have set out their own plans for testing and tracing.\n\nContact tracing is a system used to slow the spread of infectious diseases by identifying people patients have been in contact with. One method involves tracking by phone or email, while another uses a location-tracking mobile app.\n\nEarlier in May, the PM said his \"ambition\" was to hit 200,000 tests \"by the end of this month - and then go even higher\".\n\nDowning Street said it remains confident of hitting that target - which the BBC's health editor Hugh Pym, citing government sources, said refers to lab capacity rather than individual tests - by Monday, with that ability standing at 154,120 in the 24 hours up to 09:00 BST on Tuesday.", "Boris Johnson has ruled out an inquiry into the conduct of his top adviser at the height of lockdown, insisting it was time to \"move on\" from the row.\n\nDominic Cummings is accused of breaking lockdown rules by travelling from London to County Durham.\n\nThe prime minister rejected claims he had damaged his own authority and the government's coronavirus message by not sacking Mr Cummings.\n\nHe said the public had had enough of the \"political ding-dong\" over it.\n\nAround 40 Tory MPs have called for Mr Cummings to resign or be fired after his 260-mile journey came to light.\n\nAnd Cabinet Office Minister Penny Mordaunt has reportedly said there are \"inconsistencies\" in Mr Cummings' account of his actions during lockdown and there was \"no doubt\" he took risks.\n\nIn an email to her Portsmouth North constituents, seen by The Guardian, she said: \"Other families have been faced with the same situation Mr Cummings and chosen to stay put.\"\n\nShe did not call for Mr Cummings to be sacked - but apologised for the way the past few days have \"undermined key public health messages\".\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said the prime minister had given \"no credible explanation\" why evidence had not been passed on to the cabinet secretary to investigate.\n\nThe Labour MP added that the prime minister's handling of the story had \"undermined the public health message he is trying to put forward\".\n\nSajid Javid, who resigned as chancellor in February after Mr Johnson ordered him to fire his team of aides, also called on Mr Cummings to apologise.\n\nIn a letter to constituents first reported by the Bromsgrove Standard, he said he did not believe the aide's trip to County Durham was \"necessary or justified\".\n\nOn Tuesday, junior minister Douglas Ross resigned in protest at Mr Cummings' defence of his behaviour, saying that his interpretation of the government guidance was \"not shared by the vast majority of people\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour's Yvette Cooper: \"We need you to get this right\"\n\nAt an appearance before the Commons Liaison Committee, Mr Johnson said he \"did not propose to add\" to his previous statements on Mr Cummings - or what he described as the \"autobiography\" the aide delivered on Monday.\n\nThe prime minister used the phrase \"move on\" five times in 20 minutes, as he faced hostile questions from select committee chairs.\n\nAsked whether the Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill, the UK's top civil servant, should investigate Mr Cummings' actions, he said: \"Quite frankly, I am not certain that right now an inquiry into that matter is a very good use of official time.\n\n\"We are working flat out on coronavirus.\"\n\nHe said the public wanted the government to \"focus on them and their needs, rather than on a political ding-dong about what one adviser may or may not have done\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pete Wishart: 80% of people think his chief adviser broke the rules\n\nAsked whether the government's \"moral authority\" had been undermined by Mr Cummings' actions and his own defence of them, Mr Johnson said: \"I, of course, am deeply sorry for all the hurt and pain and anxiety that people have been going through throughout this period - this country has been going through a, frankly, most difficult time.\n\n\"We are asking people to do quite exceptionally tough things, separating them from their families.\"\n\nWhile Mr Johnson was taking part in a video conference with the panel of senior MPs, Conservative MP Giles Watling tweeted: \"I've been listening to the PM in the Liaison Committee. I applaud him for sticking by his man, but I'm afraid Mr Cummings should stand down.\n\n\"His continued presence at the heart of government at this time is an unwanted distraction.\"\n\nWednesday's session was the first time the prime minister has faced questions from MPs since the allegations against Mr Cummings emerged at the end of last week.\n\nHe used his appearance at the committee to announce that NHS England's test and trace system would be up and running from Thursday.\n\nHe was also quizzed about schools, care homes and the economy.\n\nMr Cummings' decision in March to drive from his London home to his parents' farm in County Durham with his wife - who had coronavirus symptoms - and his son has dominated the headlines since the story broke on Friday night.\n\nThe PM's chief adviser gave a news conference on Monday, explaining that he decided to make the trip because he felt it would be better to self-isolate in a place where he had options for childcare if required.\n\nHe has received the continued support of the prime minister, who said that his aide had acted legally and with integrity.\n\nOn Wednesdays Mr Johnson would ordinarily face Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's Questions, but MPs are currently on recess.\n\nThe Liaison Committee - a panel of 37 MPs who chair various select committees - is the only Commons committee that can question the prime minister.\n\nThis was Mr Johnson's first appearance before the committee since he became PM last July.\n\nContent available only in the UK", "Hearts owner Ann Budge's league reconstruction proposal is to be discussed by all 41 other clubs, the Scottish Professional Football League board has confirmed.\n\nShe proposes a 14-14-14 set-up for the next two seasons to replace the 12-10-10-10 version.\n\nHearts, relegated when the top flight was curtailed because of the Covid-19 crisis, would avoid demotion if the proposal gains sufficient support.\n\nIn a statement, the SPFL said separate meetings involving the clubs from the four current divisions will be held from Monday to discuss the plan.", "Mums appear to be doing most of the housework and childcare during lockdown, according to a new study.\n\nResearch suggest that in homes where there is a working mother and father, women are doing more chores and spending more time with children.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and University College London (UCL) interviewed 3,500 families.\n\nThey found that mums were only able to do one hour of uninterrupted work, for every three hours done by dads.\n\n\"Mothers are doing, on average, more childcare and more housework than fathers who have the same work arrangements,\" said Lucy Kraftman, a research economist at the IFS.\n\nShe said the finding applied to families where a mother and father were both working, as well as to families where both parents were furloughed or out of work.\n\n\"The only set of households where we see mothers and fathers sharing childcare and housework equally are those in which both parents were previously working, but the father has now stopped working for pay, while the mother is still in paid work,\" she said.\n\n\"However, mothers in these households are doing paid work during an average of five hours a day, in addition to doing the same amount of domestic work as their partner.\"\n\nPaula Sheridan, a coach whose firm Unwrapping Potential works with professional women, says her clients \"almost universally\" report that they are the ones planning meals, creating timetables and downloading learning resources for children - along with dozens of other tasks.\n\n\"I'm the main wage earner and yet I also seem to be the one who stops work to make lunch and dinner, because he wouldn't think of doing it,\" one client told her.\n\nPaula Sheridan, a business and performance coach, says almost all of her clients have complained that they are the ones doing most of the childcare in the family\n\nAnother told her: \"[My partner] is furloughed and yet my work telephone calls are interrupted by the children asking questions, while daddy is just watching Netflix.\"\n\nMs Sheridan believes the different approach to household tasks and childcare responsibilities begins during maternity leave.\n\nOnly 2% of new mums and dads split their entitlement to parental leave. This generally leaves woman in charge of establishing a routine and learning how to be a parent - usually by trial and error, she says.\n\nBeing a parent involves making sure there's food in the house, cooking, arranging childcare where necessary. And as children grow older, keeping track of after-school activities and making sure the kids make it to birthday parties, hopefully with the right gift.\n\n\"It isn't a man versus women thing at all,\" Ms Sheridan says. \"The partner has no idea that all of this stuff even happens, because he has never needed to.\"\n\nMums still tend to be the ones organising how time is spent at home under lockdown, she adds.\n\nAs a result, mothers in two-parent households are only doing, on average, a third of the uninterrupted paid-work hours of fathers, UCL and the IFS found.\n\nBefore lockdown, mothers completed on average around 60% of the uninterrupted work hours that fathers did.\n\n\"A risk is that the lockdown leads to a further increase in the gender wage gap,\" said Alison Andrew from the IFS.\n\nBut her colleague, Sonya Krutikova, points to some cause for hope that the lockdown may lead to a more equal sharing of household tasks between parents.\n\n\"Fathers, on average, are doing nearly double the hours of childcare they were doing prior to the crisis,\" she said.\n\n\"This may bring about changes in the attitudes of fathers, mothers, children and employers about the role of fathers in meeting family needs for childcare and domestic work during the working week.\"", "Elon Musk's SpaceX is flying people to and from the International Space Station (ISS), using the Crew Dragon vehicle. But why is Nasa paying a private company to launch its astronauts?\n\nTo understand the background to the Crew Dragon missions, we need to go back almost 20 years to a tragic accident.\n\nOn 1 February 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke apart while re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. All seven astronauts aboard perished in the disaster.\n\nThe loss of Columbia and its crew was the trigger for a dramatic shift in direction for America's human spaceflight programme.\n\nOn 14 January 2004, President George W Bush announced that the space shuttle would be retired after completion of the International Space Station (ISS). In its place, America would build a new vehicle capable of returning astronauts to the Moon.\n\nArtwork: Nasa conceived of the Orion spacecraft as a replacement to the shuttle\n\nThe following year, then-Nasa chief Mike Griffin announced that the completion of the ISS would, for the first time, open up commercial opportunities for the routine transportation of cargo and astronauts to low-Earth orbit.\n\nThis, Griffin reasoned, was required to free up enough funds to achieve a Moon return. Nasa established a Commercial Crew & Cargo Program Office (C3PO) to oversee the effort.\n\nAt the time, SpaceX, the company started by South African-born entrepreneur Elon Musk was just a few years old. Musk had lofty ambitions about bringing down the cost of spaceflight by re-using space hardware and settling humans on Mars.\n\n\"SpaceX was founded to make life multi-planetary,\" says Jessica Jensen, director of Starship mission hardware and operation at SpaceX.\n\nBut, she adds: \"We were a very small company for several years. So we had to look for opportunities - how do you go from being a small company to actually putting people into orbit. When Nasa came out with the need to fly cargo to and from the International Space Station, we jumped on that.\"\n\nThe Dragon 1 spacecraft was designed to carry cargo to and from the space station\n\nSpaceX was shortlisted for evaluation under the Nasa cargo programme in 2006. But by 2008, SpaceX and Tesla, the electric car manufacturer in which Musk had invested, were running low on cash. Musk was faced with an impossible choice: \"I could either split the funds that I had between the two companies, or focus it on one company - with certain death for the other,\" he told Business Insider in 2013.\n\n\"I decided in the end to split what I had and try to keep both companies alive. But that could have been a terrible decision that could have resulted in both companies dying.\"\n\nFortunately, on 23 December 2008, Nasa awarded SpaceX with a $1.6bn contract to ferry cargo and supplies to the ISS. Describing his reaction, Musk said: \"I couldn't even maintain my composure, I was like: 'I love you guys'.\"\n\nThe company's Dragon 1 capsule could carry cargo and supplies, but not humans. Nevertheless, it represented a milestone for the company.\n\nIn November 2008, Barack Obama had been elected president. His administration kicked off a review of the human spaceflight programme, which led to the cancellation of his predecessor's plan to return to the Moon (known as Constellation).\n\nSpaceX performed a successful flight to the space station without crew in 2019\n\nHowever, the Obama administration favoured the continued commercialisation of space, backing the development of private crew vehicles. But it would take time and, after the space shuttle was retired, Nasa had to fill the gap by paying Russia tens of millions of dollars per seat to fly its astronauts to the ISS on the Soyuz vehicle, which launches from Baikonur in Kazakhstan.\n\nCongress was initially sceptical about the Commercial Crew Program and did not provide sufficient funds at first. But Charles Bolden, the former astronaut who took over from Griffin as Nasa chief under Obama, persisted and eventually secured the support he needed.\n\nFrom their initial $50m investment in the programme in 2010, the space agency whittled several competing companies down to two - SpaceX and Boeing - in 2014.\n\nSince then, they have been refining and testing their spacecraft designs.\n\nIn March 2019, SpaceX performed a triumphant launch of the Crew Dragon without astronauts. Using automated procedures, the capsule successfully approached and docked with the space station.\n\nIt was carrying a mannequin called Ripley - after Ellen Ripley, the protagonist in the Alien movies - decked out with sensors to measure the G forces experienced during flight, particularly the launch and return phases.\n\nElon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 with the aim of taking humans to other planets\n\nDespite this success, and others along the way, it hasn't always been plain sailing for SpaceX. In 2016, a Falcon 9 rocket blew up on the launch pad. And in April 2019, a Crew Dragon capsule exploded during a so-called static fire test on the ground. No one was hurt in either event.\n\nThe spacecraft was also having problems with the parachute system designed to bring it back safely to Earth.\n\nThese mishaps, along with earlier funding shortfalls for the Commercial Crew Program, had introduced delays to an original timeline that would have seen SpaceX launch crew to the ISS in October 2016.\n\nFrustrated by the hold ups and the time SpaceX was spending on its Starship project to build a super heavy-lift launch vehicle, Nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine tweeted:\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 Jim Bridenstine 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\nBridenstine sent the tweet the night before a major Starship media event where Musk was due to speak.\n\nThe next day, Musk shot back with a dig at the agency's own timelines. Asked about the tweet by CNN, Musk answered: \"Did he (Bridenstine) say Commercial Crew or SLS?\"\n\nThe SpaceX founder was referring to Nasa's Space Launch System rocket - designed to launch humans to the Moon - which has also been hit by delays and cost overruns.\n\nMusk's company wasn't alone in experiencing challenges, however. A timing anomaly prevented Boeing's spacecraft - the CST-100 Starliner - from docking with the space station during an uncrewed test flight last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Go Nasa, go SpaceX. God speed Bob and Doug\"\n\nHowever, a successful in-flight test of the Crew Dragon's launch abort system in January 2020 helped clear the way for the historic first lift-off with astronauts from Florida's Kennedy Space Center on 30 May.\n\nNasa's Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken spent two months aboard the ISS before returning to Earth safely in the capsule.\n\nIn the post-launch press conference, both Bridenstine and Musk struck more conciliatory tones, in contrast to the tensions over the Starship project.\n\n\"If you would have told me then (eight months prior, when he sent the tweet) that we would be right here today, I don't know that I would have believed it,\" said Bridenstine.\n\n\"Since that day, Elon Musk and SpaceX have delivered on everything Nasa has asked them to deliver on - and at a speed that we never would have guessed.\"\n\nThe Nasa chief also congratulated SpaceX on its safety culture. Musk replied: \"Nasa made us way better than we would otherwise have been - and of course, we couldn't even have got started without Nasa.\"", "A crowd gathered in Buckingham Park where the music video was being filmed\n\nRapper Sneakbo has been criticised after \"up to 200 people\" gathered as he filmed a music video during lockdown.\n\nThe artist was seen shooting the video in Buckingham Park, Aylesbury, on Friday, as The Bucks Herald reported.\n\nA crowd gathered in the area after the Brixton rapper said online he wanted \"to see everyone on the block\".\n\nThames Valley Police said officers spoke to those involved and \"encouraged them to leave the area and to comply with social distancing guidelines\".\n\nA video in which Sneakbo called on people to attend the shoot was shared on Instagram by another rapper, who also features in the music video.\n\nSneakbo, who has been contacted for comment, released his first UK single The Wave in 2011. It peaked at 48 in the UK charts.\n\nHe has since appeared on three tracks which entered the top 40 and released his second album 9 Lives in April.\n\nSneakbo performed at The Ends Festival in Croydon in 2019\n\nOne local resident, who did not wish to be named, said people were \"really peeved\" the rapper had come from London to film the video.\n\n\"It completely went against government guidelines,\" he said.\n\n\"There was probably 50 people there for the video, then about 20 residents came out and more people kept coming. It was up to about 200 people.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Thames Valley Police said no arrests were made\n\nA spokeswoman for Thames Valley Police said: \"Officers were called at about 17:40 BST following reports of a large gathering in the Buckingham Square area of Aylesbury.\n\n\"A number of officers attended the scene and spoke to those involved. Officers engaged with them and encouraged them to leave the area and to comply with social distancing guidelines.\"\n\nShe added that no arrests were made and the gathering had dispersed by 20:30.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPremier League clubs have unanimously voted to resume contact training as four more individuals from three sides have tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nA total of 1,008 players and staff were tested in the third round of testing.\n\nPhase two of 'Project Restart' will see players \"train as a group and engage in tackling while minimising unnecessary close contact\", the league said.\n\nDiscussions continue on plans to resume the season when \"conditions allow\", it added.\n\nSo far 12 people have tested positive after 2,752 tests across the league.\n\nPremier League players and staff will continue to be tested twice a week for coronavirus, with the capacity increased from 50 to 60 tests available per club for the fourth round of testing.\n\nAny players or staff to test positive must self-isolate for a period of seven days.\n\nThe decision to return to contact training was agreed following consultation with clubs, players, managers, the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA), the League Managers' Association (LMA) and the government.\n\nWatford captain Troy Deeney, who had not joined his team-mates in returning to training over fears for his family's health, is expected to resume his training next week.\n\nPlans for the third phase of Project Restart include a step towards normal training and build-up to competitive games.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, Premier League chief executive Richard Masters told BBC Sport the league was \"as confident as we can be\" about resuming the season in June, with 92 fixtures still to play.\n\nSquads started non-contact training last week for the first time since the Premier League was suspended on 13 March because of the pandemic.\n\nClubs will discuss further issues on Thursday including the use of neutral stadiums, how to decide the season in the event of curtailment and voting on rebates to broadcasters.\n\nThis is a significant step on the timeline towards the resumption of the season, but brings with it a heightened risk of transmission.\n\nThis next stage would enable clubs to do 11 v 11 close-contact training, and clearly they will need to do that to get to a point where they are ready to play competitive matches again.\n\nBut it is yet to be explained who else would need to isolate if a player tests positive and had been training with several of their team-mates. It is likely to come down to the type of contact and length of contact with that person, using GPS trackers to determine this.\n\nSocial distancing will still need to be maintained off the field, and players and staff will have to actively opt-in to agree to the strict requirements - but also the added risks - that come with entering this next phase.", "Jann Tipping and Annalan Navaratnam were given special permission for the ceremony in London\n\nA nurse and doctor who had to cancel their wedding due to the coronavirus outbreak have got married at the hospital where they work.\n\nJann Tipping, 34, and Annalan Navaratnam, 30, tied the knot in the Grade II listed chapel at London's St Thomas' Hospital.\n\nGuests were able to enjoy their special day remotely as one of the witnesses live-streamed the service.\n\nThe couple said they decided to hold it \"while everyone was still healthy\".\n\nMs Tipping and Mr Navaratnam had cancelled their original plans to wed in August because they feared their families would not be able to travel safely from Northern Ireland and Sri Lanka for the day.\n\nInstead, the couple, from Tulse Hill in south London, decided to bring the wedding forward and got a special go-ahead for a private wedding ceremony.\n\nMs Tipping described the service as a \"surreal\" experience\n\nMs Tipping, an ambulatory emergency nurse, said they \"wanted to make sure we could celebrate while we were all still able to even if it meant our loved ones having to watch us on a screen\".\n\nShe described the wedding on 24 April as \"intimate\" and \"lovely\", but added it felt \"surreal\" getting married where they both work.\n\nMr Navaratnam, an acute medical registrar who has been working at St Thomas' for a year, said they were \"so happy that we have been able to commit ourselves to one another\".\n\nA virtual drinks reception, including a first dance and speeches, was hosted by the newlyweds.\n\nReverend Mia Hilborn, who held the service, said she was \"thrilled to be part of it\".\n\nAfter hearing about the wedding, Health Secretary Matt Hancock tweeted: \"This is lovely.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary is intrigued by a group of amateur singers who experienced a viral illness with familiar symptoms long before the first recorded case in the UK.\n\nOne of the unexpected benefits of Covid-19 is that, finally, everyone knows what an epidemiologist does. I no longer get mixed up with a dermatologist and asked to look at people's skin rashes.\n\nAn epidemiologist is a medical detective, and like all detectives, the three key clues we are looking for are always: person, place and time.\n\nSo when I got an email out of the blue from a Bradford resident saying that she and her friends may have been infected with Covid-19 in January - nearly two months before the first confirmed case of transmission in the UK - I looked for these clues and decided to investigate further.\n\nJane Hall is a member of two choirs - the Voices of Yorkshire choir and the All Together Now Community Choir - and she says that Covid-like symptoms affected members of both, starting in early January.\n\nAmong the first singers to get ill was the partner of a man who returned from a business trip to Wuhan on 17 or 18 December and developed a hacking cough.\n\nSuzanne Smith: \"This was before Covid-19 was widely talked about\"\n\n\"My friend from the choir became ill mid-January. Then my best friend, Christine, became ill, and then I became ill in the first weekend of February,\" Jane said.\n\nShe went on to describe her symptoms.\n\n\"I had a throat that felt like I had swallowed broken glass, a high temperature, headaches... I was totally fatigued - I slept for two whole days which was totally unlike me. I had a high temperature and a dry unproductive cough.\"\n\nWith the passing of time, a new symptom emerged.\n\n\"It was like breathing through treacle - I was really struggling to breathe and it felt like there was a lot of gunk I was trying to breathe through.\"\n\nProf John Wright, a medical doctor and epidemiologist, is head of the Bradford Institute for Health Research, and a veteran of cholera, HIV and Ebola epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa. He is writing this diary for BBC News and recording from the hospital wards for BBC Radio 4's The NHS Front Line\n\nAnd later Jane noticed yet another symptom - an impaired sense of smell. Already on the mend, she visited her friend, Simon, a member of the All Together Now Community choir, who was also ailing. She made him a hot drink.\n\n\"And the milk curdled when I put milk in the tea. And I said, 'Oh, isn't the milk off?' And he said, 'Oh well, I had some this morning and it did the same but I couldn't taste any different.' So I smelled the milk, and I couldn't smell anything. And I couldn't understand how come I couldn't smell it - the milk was off.\"\n\nJane was describing some of the classical symptoms people can experience with Covid-19. On most occasions when people contact me to say they had an illness like this last year, I reassure them that it was probably a different viral infection. But Jane's story, with the link to Wuhan in mid-December, is very interesting.\n\nChris Kemp has kept the choir active online, singing in an imaginary Covid holiday resort\n\nChris Kemp, who runs the All Together Now Community Choirs, was also among the first to get ill, with a cough and a feeling of exhaustion. He says he first felt poorly on 27 December, and didn't feel properly better until early February.\n\nA singer in the choir, Suzanne Smith, points out that its \"Christmas\" party takes place in January, and that people could have infected one another with the mystery illness there. She herself came down with it later in the month. But at that point, awareness of Covid-19 was low.\n\n\"We didn't really know about Covid,\" she says. \"I work in a doctor's surgery but this was before it was widely talked about. I think it could have been what we had. It is intriguing.\"\n\nSimon Rochester, who drank the tea Jane made with sour milk on 8 February, says choir members had noticed how many of them were coming down with a similar illness, but didn't make a connection with the coronavirus.\n\nChristine Mclay experienced vomiting, as well a sore throat and a temperature\n\n\"If it was something we'd heard of it was in the news, like 'China had this problem and blah, blah, blah,'\" he says. \"So we didn't really recognise that there was any possibility that we would have anything.\"\n\nBy all accounts, the members of the choir are very friendly. They socialise as well as sing, and there is plenty of hugging. Simon Rochester describes it as \"an ideal breeding ground\" for infection. And it's likely they passed their virus to some outside the choir as well.\n\nJuanita Kearns runs the Bulls Head pub in Baildon, just north of central Bradford, the destination for Altogether Now choir members after their weekly practice session in a church hall nearby. Towards the end of January she collapsed, barely able to breathe, and went to bed, sweating profusely. Her doctor called an ambulance.\n\n\"My doctor asked if I'd been to China, the ambulance people asked if I'd been to China and the hospital asked me the same. I said no, and explained again about being a pub landlady. They said I appeared to have a lung condition and sent me home,\" she says.\n\n\"I think they need to test us all, so many of us have been so ill. It's like nothing I've ever known. The entire choir are always in here, we are all friendly together. I'm only 53, no underlying health conditions and never ill. This was really strange and I'm convinced we all had it.\"\n\nThese experiences are fascinating. We have to be cautious about assuming that this is Covid-19 - there will have been lots of other seasonal viral illnesses circulating - but what interests me in this case is the pattern of transmission, the timeframe and what's been described about the initial link to what we think was happening in Wuhan.\n\nCarol and Keith Brown had a cough, a headache, a \"tight feeling\" in the chest and a tingling sensation in their mouths\n\nIn all epidemics, when you start tracking back, you find that there were cases much earlier than expected. The nature of epidemics is they do start very, very slowly - one or two people, gradually increasing - and before it hits people's radar it's been lurking just below it for some time.\n\nSo I'm sure there will be cases where people have travelled to Wuhan, who have been exposed to the virus before it was officially announced by the Chinese government, and who have come back and had symptoms (or have been infected but asymptomatic).\n\nThe test for Covid-19 we have at present only tells us whether someone is infected at the time the test is carried out. We haven't yet, in the NHS, got a reliable test that reveals whether someone had it in the past, but we hope to have one in the next few weeks.\n\nWhen we do, it will be very interesting to see whether Juanita and Jane and her choral friends had a normal winter virus - or were among the first in the UK to experience the Covid-19 pandemic.", "The Independent Monitoring Board at HMP Wayland in Norfolk said it was prevent from attending some meetings\n\nA prison watchdog barred from healthcare meetings said it was \"very concerned\" and had \"a right to attend\".\n\nThe Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) at HMP Wayland in Norfolk claims it has been \"prevented\" from attending meetings on health service provision.\n\nThe board raised the issue in its annual report and said it planned to escalate its concerns.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said it had been excluded because \"commercially sensitive\" matters were discussed.\n\nIn its report, the IMB said the decision to ban it from the quarterly meetings followed a change in healthcare provider at the 1,000-capacity men’s prison, near Thetford.\n\nThe report said: \"It is to be regretted that since the change of healthcare provider, the IMB has been excluded from attending healthcare meetings, in contravention of our right to attend any meetings.\n\n\"Consequently, it has been difficult to monitor healthcare as closely as we should like and to get accurate healthcare statistics.\"\n\nIMBs comprise independent, unpaid volunteers who monitor day-to-day life at prisons to ensure proper standards of care and decency are maintained.\n\nWayland IMB chairman Mike Gander told the BBC: \"We are very concerned at our exclusion and we are thinking of taking this to a high level within Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service.\"\n\nHe said the IMB only wanted to attend the meetings as observers.\n\nHe questioned the cited concerns over \"commercial sensitivity\", claiming a number of providers were present at the meetings - which cover health provision at three Norfolk prisons - meaning they were unlikely to disclose sensitive information in front of other companies.\n\nIn addition, he said, IMB members were required to sign the Official Secrets Act, meaning they would not share such information, even if it was raised.\n\nThe BBC asked the MoJ whether the IMB had a right to attend, and whether it accepted monitoring healthcare and having accurate healthcare statistics was an important part of the IMB’s role.\n\nThe MoJ has yet to respond in detail, but did say the IMB should have access to minutes of healthcare meetings and relevant healthcare data.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The aviation watchdog has warned airlines that they are legally required to provide refunds to customers who had their flights cancelled because of the coronavirus.\n\nBy law, plane operators must refund customers within seven days if their flight is cancelled.\n\nBut with fewer than 10% of UK flights taking off, airlines are struggling to deal with all the requests for refunds.\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said it could take action against airlines.\n\n\"We are reviewing how airlines are handling refunds during the coronavirus pandemic, and will consider if any action should be taken to ensure that consumer rights are protected,\" the regulator said in a statement.\n\nLast month, consumer group Which? said it had received thousands of complaints from people struggling to secure a refund for their cancelled travel. Instead, airlines were offering customers vouchers to be used when lockdown are lifted.\n\nThe travel industry's own estimates suggested £7bn of travellers' money was affected, Which? said.\n\nNow the CAA has stepped in. \"Under the law, consumers are entitled to receive a refund for their cancelled flights, despite the challenges the industry is currently facing,\" it said.\n\n\"We support airlines offering consumers vouchers and rebooking alternatives where it makes sense for the consumer.\n\n\"But it is important that consumers are given a clear option to request a cash refund without unnecessary barriers.\"\n\nThe regulator said it did not expect airlines to \"systematically\" deny consumers their right to a refund.\n\n\"We expect airlines to provide refunds for cancelled flights as soon as practically possible, whilst appreciating there are operational challenges for airlines in the current circumstances.\"\n\nRyanair boss Michael O'Leary has said it will take up to six months to refund passengers for flights cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nRyanair boss Michael O'Leary has cut his pay by 50% for the rest of the year\n\nHe told the BBC that the airline was struggling to process a backlog of 25 million refunds with reduced staff.\n\nAirlines have been forced to ground the majority of their fleets because of the crisis, which has all but eliminated demand for air travel.\n\nAs a result, British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and Ryanair have all announced thousands of job cuts.\n\nAirlines have also said that plans to introduce a 14-day quarantine period for anyone arriving in the UK from any countries apart from the Republic of Ireland and France will further hurt demand.\n\nUK airports suggested that a quarantine \"would not only have a devastating impact on the UK aviation industry, but also on the wider economy\".\n\nKaren Dee from the Airport Operators Association, which represents most UK airports, said the measure should be applied \"on a selective basis following the science\" and \"the economic impact on key sectors should be mitigated\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: ‘It’s getting harder but let’s keep supporting each other’\n\nPeople who travel to Scotland for anything other than essential purposes are \"potentially in breach of the law\", Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nThe Scottish first minster said there was no need for \"confusion\", even as different lockdown rules come into effect in different parts of the UK.\n\nBoris Johnson has urged more people to return to work as part of a plan to gradually ease restrictions in England.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said that in Scotland, \"lockdown remains in place for now\".\n\nShe said: \"If you are in Scotland, then the law in Scotland applies - and the law says that just now you can only be out of your own home for essential reasons.\"\n\nAnd she stressed that \"it is not OK to drive into Scotland to beauty spots to visit places and for leisure\".\n\nThe prime minister is to set out further details about his \"roadmap\" towards lifting the virus lockdown later on Monday, having unveiled the \"first careful steps\" in a television address on Sunday evening.\n\nHe said people in England who cannot work from home should start to return to the workplace, while rules around outdoor exercise and recreation are to be eased.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the law and guidance in Scotland had not changed, and said: \"I would hope all employers would respect that.\"\n\nIn a televised statement on Monday evening, she added that restrictions would \"gradually\" be relaxed as the infection rate falls - but said it was \"vital\" to do this carefully so as not to \"jeopardise\" progress made so far.\n\nNicola Sturgeon urged people in England not to travel to Scottish beauty spots\n\nWhile people are now allowed to go out more than once a day for exercise, Scots are still expected to stay at home other than for essential work, to buy food or medicine, or for exercise.\n\nAt her daily media briefing, the first minister was asked about people who live near the border with England.\n\nShe said: \"If you live in the Scottish Borders and you come across the border to go to the supermarket, you would certainly not be breaking the law if you were getting food, that's an essential purpose.\n\n\"If you live just south of the border and you work in an essential job then equally that is perfectly legitimate.\n\n\"But if you are coming to Scotland and are not covered by those essential purposes, then you potentially would be in breach of the law.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"If you live in Scotland right now and you're not working at the moment, or working from home, then my advice is you should continue with that right now. We are not encouraging more people to go back to work right at the minute.\"\n\nThe first minister said she did not think there was any plan or need for \"increased policing\" at the border, but warned people in England not to travel to Scottish beauty spots for recreation.\n\nThe UK government's guidance paper for people in England states: \"When travelling to outdoor spaces, it is important that people respect the rules in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and do not travel to different parts of the UK where their intended activities there would be prohibited by legislation passed by the relevant devolved administration.\"\n\nThe four nations of the UK will not leave lockdown in lockstep as the UK government had wanted.\n\nInstead, Boris Johnson has decided to set the pace in England, accepting that Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will proceed at the speeds their devolved governments judge is right.\n\nThere were lots of questions for Nicola Sturgeon today about the science behind these different approaches and the practical difficulties divergence might cause.\n\nBut I thought one of her most interesting answers stressed a continuing search for convergence and clarity in what could become an increasingly confusing situation.\n\nThe first minister said she was \"very open\" to considering the UK government's proposals for England with an interest in adopting the same \"system of phasing\" for lifting lockdown, if not the same timetable.\n\nSeparately, the Scottish Secretary Alister Jack has told me he hopes that as Scotland continues to suppress coronavirus it might be able to \"catch up\" with the dates pencilled in for England.\n\nGetting all the governments of the UK to agree on everything has not proved possible - but attempts to coordinate between the four nations have not been abandoned.\n\nThe UK government has accepted that there could be \"modest divergences\" as \"different parts of the UK move at slightly different speeds\".\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab told BBC Scotland that \"we will see different nations move at slightly different speeds, and that's reflective of the fact that the prevalence and the transmission rate of the virus is at different stages in different parts of the UK\".\n\nMs Sturgeon also said the fact that Scotland could be on a \"slightly different timeline\" to the rest of the UK was not \"for any political reason\".\n\nShe said it was because \"the Scottish government is not yet confident that these changes can be made safely in Scotland yet, without running the risk of the virus potentially running out of control again\".\n\nThe first minister said the rate at which the virus was spreading - the \"R number\" - was still \"slightly higher in Scotland than the rest of the UK on average\", justifying differing approaches.\n\nShe said: \"Moving at different speeds in different parts of the UK, for good evidence based reasons, need not be a cause for confusion.\n\n\"Confusion only arises if we as politicians, and the media who report on us, are either unclear in what we are asking people to do, or if we give a misleading impression, even by omission, that decisions that apply to one nation only are actually UK-wide.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nThe Premier League is set for a decisive few days in establishing whether it is possible to resume and complete the current season.\n\nClub officials will meet on Monday to continue talks on \"Project Restart\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson did not mention professional sport in unveiling plans to reopen society on Sunday.\n\nThe government is expected to announce on Monday that some elite athletes can start an initial phase of restricted group training later this week.\n\nThat will depend on medical protocols being finalised and accepted.\n\nFootballers have so far been limited to individual training.\n\nOn Monday, Alison McGovern, the shadow sports minister, wrote to Sports Minister Nigel Huddleston asking 20 questions about \"Project Restart\".\n\nThey request transparency around plans and medical protocols, health risk assessments, numbers of people allowed at games, measures if there are positive tests, personal protective equipment for medical staff, non-playing staff, referees and the media, and ticket refunds for fans.\n\n\"The government's recent media announcements have placed great emphasis on the morale impact of the return of the Premier League,\" McGovern writes.\n\n\"Leaving aside the focus on elite sport rather than grassroots participation, this strategy raises many questions. The public will rightly wish the government to be open about its plans.\"\n\nA vote on whether to use neutral venues is not planned during Monday's Premier League meeting - a sign that an estimated six or seven clubs remain opposed to the idea.\n\nBut the talks represent a major step towards establishing whether there is an appetite for playing out the season.\n\nLeague bosses do not believe there is wide support for scrapping relegation, and are confident there is a consensus for returning to training, regardless of when the permission to play again is given.\n\nThe league has been suspended since 13 March because of the coronavirus pandemic but is aiming to resume in June, with most clubs having nine games to play.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden is due to meet football authorities on Thursday.\n\nLater this week, the Premier League will also hold talks with the Professional Footballers' Association and the League Managers Association after they have digested the medical protocols needed for a return to firstly phased training and then full competition, and have received feedback from their members.\n\nOn Sunday, the PM said people in England will be able to \"play sports but only with members of your own household\".\n\nDowden posted on social media that the government will \"imminently allow\" some sports like golf, basketball, tennis and fishing to resume \"in the least risky outdoor environments\", and only for those taking part alone or in their own households.\n\nThe Premier League still faces several challenges around \"Project Restart\".\n\nA third, unnamed Brighton player tested positive for coronavirus on Sunday, after two others tested positive earlier in the pandemic.\n\nPrivately conducted coronavirus tests are reckoned to cost between £150 and £180 and it is understood the protocols being worked on in football insist on twice-weekly tests.\n\nFor the Premier League to complete the remaining 92 matches, that could be about 40,000 tests at a cost of about £30,000 a week.\n\nCrystal Palace chairman Steve Parish, who is backing \"Project Restart\", told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show that initial plans to stage league matches again from June may prove unfeasible.\n\nAston Villa, Brighton and Watford have all publicly opposed using neutral venues to complete the season, while club doctors have raised concerns over aspects of the proposals.\n\nA vote on neutral venues is likely to be held later in May and 14 of the 20 clubs must vote in favour for it to be adopted.\n\nBefore voting, league bosses are also awaiting government guidance on the criteria for bio-security at events and ground-safety licensing, which is expected later this week.\n\nMonday's Premier League meeting will feature a vote on whether player contracts are to be extended until the end of the rescheduled season.\n\nEuropean leagues have until 25 May to tell governing body Uefa whether they want to complete or cancel their seasons.\n\nPremier League chief executive Richard Masters has previously predicted a loss of \"at least £1bn\" if the Premier League fails to complete the 2019-20 campaign.", "Funeral services in churches have not been possible since lockdown measures were rolled out in the UK\n\nFamilies are opting for simpler, cheaper funeral services amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to UK funeral services group Dignity.\n\nAlthough its first-quarter revenues rose 2%, by April it made less money per funeral as services shrunk in size and extras such as limousines were cut.\n\nAbout 60% of Dignity's funerals are now simple services, up from 20% last year.\n\nAverage income per funeral - excluding ancillary revenues - has dropped to £2,200, down from £2,648 in January.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) said in April that the number of deaths in England and Wales was nearly double what would normally be expected, hitting a 20-year high.\n\nThere were around 20,000 \"excess deaths\" recorded in a single week in March, Dignity said\n\nDignity reported an 11% fall in operating profit for the first three months of 2020, with customers choosing lower-cost funerals as the coronavirus pandemic grew.\n\nUnderlying revenue for the period rose 2% to £83.1m as the number of deaths in the 13 weeks of the year increased 1% to 161,000.\n\nThe figures include only the first few days of the UK's lockdown which Prime Minister Boris Johnson put into effect from 23 March.\n\nDignity said the possible number of deaths from Covid-19 was \"a matter of substantial speculation\".\n\nAlthough the government did not put a maximum number on the number of funeral attendees, it said only close family should attend services and all should observe social distancing throughout.\n\nDuring April, Dignity said average income for its full funeral services had fallen to £3,150 after it decided to withdraw limousine options and church services also ended.\n\nThe funeral provider said it would not provide any financial forecasts for the rest of the year.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nThe suspect in the crash which killed Harry Dunn is \"wanted internationally\", a family spokesman said.\n\nMr Dunn 19, died after a crash in Northamptonshire in August and US national Anne Sacoolas is suspected of causing his death by dangerous driving.\n\nA Home Office extradition request was rejected by the US in January.\n\nA family spokesman said Northants Police had told them Mrs Sacoolas was \"wanted\" but the force denied saying an Interpol Red Notice had been issued.\n\nMr Dunn's parents received an email from police stating that \"wanted circulations should be enacted\" if Mrs Sacoolas left the US, according to the spokesman.\n\nHe said this had led the family to believe an Interpol Red Notice had been issued.\n\nReacting to the news, Mr Dunn's mother Charlotte Charles said: \"It's been a terrible time for us. We are utterly bereft and heartbroken and miss our Harry every minute of every single day.\"\n\nShe said the latest development was \"important news\" and the family were \"in pieces\".\n\n\"I just want to urge Mrs Sacoolas to come back to the UK and do the right thing,\" she said.\n\n\"Face justice and maybe then our two families can come together after the tragedy and build a bridge.\"\n\nMotorcyclist Mr Dunn died in a crash with a car near US military base RAF Croughton on 27 August.\n\nMrs Sacoolas, the wife of a US intelligence official, claimed diplomatic immunity and returned home.\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003, cited diplomatic immunity after the crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nThe 42-year-old was charged with causing death by dangerous driving in December, but an extradition request was rejected.\n\nIn a statement, Northamptonshire Police said: \"We wish to make it absolutely clear that, at no point, has Northamptonshire Police informed the family spokesperson for the Dunns, Radd Seiger, that an Interpol Red Notice has been issued in respect of Mrs Anne Sacoolas.\n\n\"Given that this remains a live case it would be inappropriate to comment further. However, Northamptonshire Police continues to support the Dunn family at this difficult time.\"\n\nInterpol said it would not confirm whether a red notice had been issued.\n\nAn Interpol Red Notice is a request to law enforcement worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest a person pending extradition, surrender, or similar legal action.\n\nOn its website, Interpol states a red notice \"is an international wanted persons notice, but it is not an arrest warrant\".\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said the government had \"worked throughout to try to get justice for Harry Dunn and his family and we have been clear throughout that Ann Sacoolas should return to the UK to face justice\".\n\nHe said the UK Government had made it clear to the United States and to President Donald Trump that it considered the rejection of an extradition request for Mrs Sacoolas to be \" a denial of justice\".\n\nUpdate 14 May 2020: This story has been updated to reflect a Northamptonshire Police statement issued on 13 May in which the force denied informing the family that an Interpol Red Notice had been issued.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There are concerns over the ability to maintain social distance while visiting popular areas, such as Newquay in Cornwall pictured this weekend\n\nPeople have been told to stay away from beauty spots and beaches amid fears relaxed rules allowing longer car journeys would leave areas \"inundated with visitors\".\n\nBoris Johnson said people could travel by car for \"unlimited outdoor exercise\" from Wednesday and sit in parks.\n\nCumbria Police urged people not \"to rush to the Lake District\" and Visit Cornwall said messages were confusing.\n\nA 50-page supporting document has been published by the government.\n\nEarlier, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said people were free to move around within England.\n\nHe said: \"You can drive as far as you want to, for example, to go and walk in a particular area that you are fond of, as long as you maintain the social distancing.\"\n\nSome rural areas, including Cumbria and the Lake District, have had relatively high rates of infection and tourism bosses in those areas urged people not to visit.\n\nCumbria Tourism said it was \"shocked by the timing and short notice\" of the prime minister's announcement and stressed tourism businesses in the area remained closed.\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\nSouth Lakes Police said people should \"take a long, hard look at your own conscience\" if planning to visit the area.\n\nIn areas like the South West where infection rates have been lower, there were concerns infrastructure could become overwhelmed if visitors caused the spread to increase.\n\nMr Johnson announced police would be able to hand out bigger fines to those flouting the rules.\n\nAndy Slattery, Cumbria's Assistant Chief Constable, said he was surprised at the announcement saying it was a \"very significant change\" for the county and urged people to \"still don't rush to the Lake District\".\n\nBrian Booth, chairman of the West Yorkshire Police Federation, called the guidance \"woolly\" and said the announcement had made policing the restrictions \"impossible\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Welsh Government has urged people not to drive across the border into Wales and the UK Government has told people in England not to travel to Scotland.\n\nVisit Cornwall officials said they had been contacted by people asking if they could travel to the county since the speech.\n\nChief executive Malcolm Bell said it \"added more confusion than clarity\" and reiterated the message for people to \"stay away\".\n\nTourists are still advised to stay away from the Lake District\n\nSteve Double, Conservative MP for St Austell and Newquay in Cornwall, said the guidance was \"clear\" and referred to what was part of people's daily exercise allowance.\n\n\"This certainly does not give the green light for people to flock to Cornwall to come and have a holiday or move location to their second home,\" he said.\n\nIn Somerset resort Weston-super-Mare, Tourism Manager Caroline Darlington said it would be \"counterproductive to encourage people from further afield to come here when effectively the resort is still closed.\n\n\"We are not out of the woods yet and it would be immoral for us to say 'yes, come to Weston, buy your candyfloss'.\"\n\nRichard Leafe, chief executive of the Lake District National Park, tweeted that the announcement could be \"very difficult\" for the area and pleaded with people not to \"rush to visit us\".\n\nLockdown restrictions have been eased by the government but the changes could be reversed\n\nIn North Yorkshire, Scarborough and Whitby's Conservative MP Robert Goodwill said he had been contacted by concerned constituents, adding \"we do not want to be inundated with visitors\", according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nHe added: \"I had someone from Castleton worrying that if someone from Middlesbrough decided to go there for a walk, then they pop into the shop and all of a sudden there is a risk of the virus spreading.\n\n\"If people can use common sense then the risk is not increased but if it is used by people who do just want to break the rules then it could be dangerous.\"\n\nThe leader of Brighton and Hove City Council Nancy Platts said she was concerned about how residents would be able to maintain physical distancing \"if we have an influx of visitors\".\n\nWhile Sarah Butikofer, the leader of North Norfolk District Council - the authority with the oldest demographic in the UK - said any potential influx to the area was \"very worrying\".\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\nRay Perry, a director at Rudyard Lake in Staffordshire, said they had been inundated with messages from people wanting to come since Sunday evening.\n\nHe said the attraction remained locked down for all activities apart from walking, and they \"need clarity\" over the guidance.\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. Boris Johnson speaks of the \"good solid British common sense\" to combat coronavirus\n\nBoris Johnson wasn't short of words last night when he spoke to the country.\n\nBut he was short on detail about exactly how the gradual easing of the lockdown will work in England in the coming weeks and months.\n\nIt might not sound like much, but a gap of even a few hours between saying changes were on the way, and spelling out precisely what they were, was enough to create lots of question marks among members of the public - and political anxiety too: tensions with the devolved governments, and interestingly, private worries on the Tory backbenches.\n\nThrough the course of the day, however, forests of paper emerged in government documents that have gone a long way to fill in some of the blanks.\n\nAnd it's worth reading about all of the tweaks to the rules in England here.\n\nNotably tonight the TUC, the umbrella union organisation, said the plans were a \"step in the right direction\", and with the help of the government's most senior scientists, the prime minister had to answer some of the questions from the public directly on primetime TV.\n\nThere are still anomalies, but ministers have gone some way to answer some of the doubts.\n\nBut in this new phase, where lockdown is at the start of a phased withdrawal, the message will continue to be more complicated for the government to communicate.\n\nThe sequencing on this first outing of the new message and alert system has been bumpy too.\n\nAnd as part of this next era, it will become more contingent on the public to make decisions for themselves.\n\nIt's easy for the prime minister to say it's a case of \"British common sense\"; harder to make sure that happens without division and discontent.\n\nThe broad political consensus that has largely cushioned the government so far has been punctured.\n\nSome of the latitude the government's been given in this emergency has gone.", "Sir Richard Branson is selling a stake in Virgin Galactic to raise $500m to prop up his other businesses including Virgin Atlantic.\n\nThe billionaire has been criticised for seeking financial help from the taxpayer for the airline.\n\nSir Richard will now sell a share of his space tourism business.\n\nVirgin Group said it will use the proceeds to support its \"leisure, holiday and travel businesses\" hit by \"the unprecedented impact\" of Covid-19.\n\nVirgin Atlantic said last week it would cut more than 3,000 jobs and end its operation at Gatwick.\n\nThe airline industry has been struggling as the coronavirus pandemic brought global travel almost to a halt.\n\nCoronavirus-related travel restrictions has seen airlines cancel thousands of flights\n\nIn April, Sir Richard - who owns 51% of Virgin Atlantic - offered to put his luxury Necker Island resort up as collateral to secure a UK government loan, believed to be around £500m.\n\nThose talks with the government are continuing. But Virgin Atlantic, which is a private company, has been focusing on discussions with investors.\n\nIt was reported at the weekend that potential investors include private equity firms Greybull Capital, which came under scrutiny after the collapse of British Steel, and Apollo Global Management.\n\nIn March, Chancellor Rishi Sunak wrote to airlines and airports urging them to find other forms of funding, and that the government would only step in as \"a last resort\" during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe airline has also lined up restructuring specialists Alvarez and Marsal to draw up contingency plans in case of insolvency.", "The White House has sent a memo to staff directing more aides to wear masks when in the West Wing or avoid President Trump's office altogether if possible.\n\nThe memo was obtained by US media moments before Trump is due to deliver remarks from the White House on the role of testing in the effort to reopen the country's economy.\n\nIt also comes as three high-ranking members of the White House coronavirus taskforce - including top disease expert Anthony Fauci - are in self-isolation after two White House staff members tested positive.\n\nAccording to US media, the latest White House memo on masks is unlikely to apply to Trump, who has so far not worn one during the pandemic.\n\nTrump aides are wearing masks in the White House Rose Garden Image caption: Trump aides are wearing masks in the White House Rose Garden\n\nOur colleague Anthony Zurcher is at the White House, where he says the number of Trump aides wearing masks has already risen since last week.\n\nHe says all of the press aides are donning masks for Trump's briefing.", "A cafe and bakery has used donations from customers to send out meals and essential food to those in need while its doors are closed to the public.\n\nThe Little Shoe brasserie in Liverpool has produced more than 100 care packages for those struggling during the pandemic.\n\nHead chef Paul Durand said: \"We wanted to pass on good home-cooked food to people either unable to get out, unable to cook for themselves or just needing some extra help to get their family fed.\n\n\"We have so many great customers who we knew would want to answer the call to help others and keep us cooking.\"\n\nMr Durand said the packages had been distributed through local charities and schools.", "This is the start - the country's doors being edged open a crack.\n\nMore time in the fresh air for exercise everywhere this week, and a timetable of a sort from Boris Johnson for an achingly gradual return to a recognisable life.\n\nIn England at least, if you work in construction or manufacturing, or can't do your job from home, you'll be encouraged to go back to work as long as you can keep your distance from others this week.\n\nYou'll be able, from Wednesday too, to take unlimited exercise; to meet one person from outside your own household as long as you stay two metres apart; you can go and sit in your local park, to sunbathe, or to take part in sport with others from your household.\n\nBut importantly there will be NO change for the many people who are more vulnerable to the disease who are therefore \"shielding\".\n\nBut progress beyond the next few days is a series of big ifs. The ambition is to start bringing back some primary school years from the start of June, but it depends how the outbreak progresses.\n\nThe plan is for some secondary school pupils to be able to see their teachers occasionally before the end of the term. But there is no intention though to reopen them before the summer.\n\nThere is a hope that from July, some parts of the hospitality trade might be able to open up. But don't take that to mean that pubs will be back in business - rather some limited firms that are able to trade outdoors could be allowed to return. \"If\" was the word the prime minister said again and again.\n\nThe difficult reality for the government though, and for the public trying to understand what these next phases of the pandemic look like, is that different parts of our social life, different parts of the public sector, and different parts of the economy have to move at different paces because there are different levels of risk.\n\nBut despite the prime minister's lengthy address there are as many questions raised as answered.\n\nWorkers in some sectors have been advised to go to work on Monday but told to avoid public transport. What are employers meant to be telling their staff? What are workers meant to do if their only way of getting to work is by limited public transport? What should the parents of secondary school pupils do if they can go back to work, but their children have no prospect of a proper return?\n\nThere was no mention of face coverings, even though the government has been talking about them being a possible part of their plans.\n\nNor was there a fixed date or detail of when people travelling to the UK by plane will be asked to go into some kind of quarantine.\n\nImportantly for so many members of the public, there was vanishingly little detail of when people might be able to see their extended families again.\n\nAnd the prime minister's approach is also creating a very real political tension between Westminster and the devolved administrations.\n\nWith what are thought to be higher rates of the infection in Scotland and Wales, Nicola Sturgeon and Mark Drakeford have made no bones about their reluctance to move from the \"stay at home\" message.\n\nThe governments have been trying to stick together in the last few weeks but there is very obvious division now - not just over the message and communication, but over the attitude to the workplace.\n\nAny clash like that creates confusion and uncertainty too.\n\nThis is what the prime minister described as the \"sketch of a plan\" - sketches are rough, and can easily be rubbed out.\n\nAnd it's dependent, at every stage, on how this relatively unknown disease progresses throughout the country.\n\nOn Monday a document of 50 pages or so will be published that will answer some of Sunday night's questions.\n\nThe prime minister's statement was designed to try to reassure, to show the country that there is the beginning of a way out of this crisis. Yet it has prompted questions and provided only limited answers.\n\nDoubts about Downing Street's approach are spreading beyond the opposition, with one normally loyal senior MP saying: \"The backbenches are getting restless; the PM needs to lead.\"", "The justice secretary has indicated there may be changes to lockdown rules which has led to weddings being cancelled due to the coronavirus.\n\nRobert Buckland told BBC Radio 4 he was giving \"anxious consideration\" to the effect of potential changes.\n\nWeddings, baptisms and other ceremonies have been put on hold because of the ban on gatherings of more than two people to stop the disease spreading.\n\nMr Buckland was questioned after PM Boris Johnson's TV address on Sunday.\n\nHe used the broadcast to outline a \"conditional plan\" to reopen society in England.\n\nIt did not mention weddings or any other large social gatherings.\n\nThe issue of weddings came up on BBC Radio 4's Westminster Hour, when panellist Katy Balls, the Spectator's deputy political editor, told the programme she was due to be going on honeymoon.\n\nMs Balls had planned to go away a week after getting married, but said \"both things are going to have to wait\" which she believes could be \"for quite some time\" after listening to Mr Johnson's speech.\n\nMr Buckland said he was giving a \"lot of anxious consideration to the effect of the potential changes\" to rules on marriage ceremonies, urging people to \"watch this space, we're working on it.\"\n\nHe added there are some people who really want to get married \"because things are happening in their life that means they might not be together for a long time\".\n\nOne such case is that of Roy Wilson, who has terminal bone cancer. He married his long-term partner in hospital after he began showing symptoms of Covid-19.\n\nMr Wilson, who tested negative for the virus, married Jill Hird after securing special dispensation from the Archbishop of Canterbury.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBefore the government announced the lockdown on 23 March, the Church of England restricted wedding ceremonies to five people - including the bride and groom, the priest and two witnesses.\n\nSome couples have opted to hold virtual wedding ceremonies, inviting their friends and family to watch them via video conferencing apps.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Employers will not be allowed to get away with forcing people to work in conditions that are not Covid-secure\"\n\nA \"sudden big flood\" of people returning to work is not expected after the release of new coronavirus guidance, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe PM said measures, including encouraging people in England to return to work if safe, were \"baby steps\".\n\nHe also said employers should be sympathetic to workers who do not have access to childcare.\n\nIt came as new rules said people in England can soon meet one person from outside their household, at a distance.\n\nFrom Wednesday, people can socialise in open spaces or play one-to-one sport such as tennis with another person, as long as they stay 2m apart.\n\nMr Johnson used Monday's daily Downing Street briefing to clarify his return to work message, saying employers would need to prove they met a new safety standard, dubbed \"Covid secure\".\n\nHe said: \"I don't think any of us expect that tomorrow or for the rest of this week there is going to be a sudden big flood of people back to work.\n\n\"I think a lot of people will now start to think whether they fall into that category, whether they could think about going back to work.\"\n\nHe told people in England their workplaces \"must be safe, must be Covid secure and employers will not be allowed to get away with forcing people to work in conditions that are not Covid secure\".\n\n\"Everyone must obey social distancing and we're going to have a lot more inspections by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), we'll have a random spot inspections to check that companies are doing the right thing,\" he said.\n\n\"If people find themselves in conditions that they think are unsafe, then they should immediately report it and we will take action, and that goes for all work.\"\n\nIt comes as a further 210 people have died in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus, taking the total number of deaths recorded to 32,065.\n\nAfter eight days of missing its goal of 100,000 tests a day, on Monday the government counted 100,490 tests on 10 May.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the UK government's chief scientific adviser, told the Downing Street briefing that Office for National Statistics data suggests an estimated 136,000 people were currently infected with coronavirus in the UK.\n\nHe said the amount of time it may take for this number to halve is around two weeks on current infection rates.\n\nEarlier, the government published new guidance for the public, as well as a lengthy strategy document, on the next steps in its coronavirus response in England.\n\nThe information includes new advice for people in England to wear face coverings while on public transport and in some shops.\n\nIt also set out how, from Wednesday, people in England will be allowed to meet one person from outside their household as long as they stay outdoors and stay 2m apart.\n\nSage, the government's group of scientific advisers, said the risk of infection outside is significantly lower than inside, according to the strategy document.\n\nMr Johnson told Parliament the public should exercise \"good, solid, British common sense\" in adapting their lives to the next phase of the coronavirus response.\n\nBut Mr Johnson defended the differing approaches between the UK nations after leaders in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland said \"stay at home\" messages remained in place there.\n\n\"For those who think that the 'stay alert' is not the right message, I think it is absolutely the right message for our country now,\" he said.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all have devolved powers over their own lockdown restrictions.\n\nIt comes as the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy released new guidance for UK employers on how to implement social distancing measures, with eight separate documents published for sectors which can now reopen.\n\nThe HSE has been given £14m in funding for extra call-centre workers, inspectors and equipment.\n\nThe guidance for employers says they could be Covid secure by re-designing workplaces with 2 metre (6ft) distances in mind, staggering start times, building one-way systems and publishing detailed risk assessments.\n\nThe Trades Union Congress said the new guidelines were \"a step in the right direction\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer used an official response to the PM's coronavirus address on Sunday to urge further clarity and reassurance for workers and parents that returning to work and school would be safe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a recorded statement, Sir Keir Starmer said the UK couldn't \"go back to business as usual\" after coronavirus\n\nThe new guidance said the government's ambition was for all primary school children in England to return to school for a month before the summer. Childminders in England will also be permitted to look after children again.\n\nFresh guidance published for primary schools on Monday night said class sizes should be limited to 15 and drop-off and pick-up times staggered when they are able to return.\n\nAsked during the Downing Street briefing what people should do in the meantime if they do not have access to childcare and cannot work from home, Mr Johnson said he was sure employers would be understanding.\n\n\"If people don't have access to childcare and they have a child who isn't back in school then I think that's only fair to regard that as an obvious barrier to their ability to go back to work and I am sure employers will agree with that,\" he said.\n\nThe PM told Parliament the government's \"roadmap\" would help control Covid-19\n\nMeanwhile, the guidance confirmed garden centres will also be able to reopen on Wednesday with distancing measures in place.\n\nIt is likely that the government will continue to advise people who are clinically extremely vulnerable to continue to shield beyond June, the strategy document added.\n\nThe 60-page document also said:\n\nFines for those who do not follow the rules in England will increase from £60 to £100 from Wednesday, with maximum total penalties for repeat offenders of £3,200.\n\nSpeaking about potential future measures, Mr Johnson told MPs the government was exploring how to safely allow people to expand their household to include one other \"on a strictly reciprocal basis\".\n\nThe new guidance also reflected the government's three-step plan, announced by the PM on Sunday night.", "A BBC investigation has uncovered evidence the lockdown measures have not stopped some sex workers from travelling around the country to meet up with clients.\n\nBBC reporter Jonathan Gibson spoke to sex workers including Tiffany, in Birmingham, who said she had travelled to Bristol and further afield to visit clients' homes and offices.\n\nThe investigation also revealed some brothels were still trading, despite calls for social distancing.\n\nThe English Collective of Prostitutes said most sex workers were mothers and if they were working, it was because they were desperate for money.", "Avianca planes have been grounded since March\n\nColombia's national airline, Avianca, has filed for bankruptcy protection in a US court.\n\nThe carrier is the second-largest in Latin America, but its passenger operations have been grounded since March because of coronavirus.\n\nIt said the pandemic had cut more than 80% of its income, and it was struggling with high fixed costs.\n\nIf it fails to come out of bankruptcy, Avianca will be the first major airline to go under amid the pandemic.\n\nIn a statement, the firm said it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a court in New York. The process postpones a US company's obligations to its creditors, giving it time to reorganise its debts or sell parts of the business.\n\nChief executive Anko van der Werff said the move was needed to ensure the New York-listed airline emerge as a \"better, more efficient airline that operates for many more years\".\n\nMore than 140 of its aircraft have been grounded since Colombian President Ivan Duque closed the country's airspace in March. Most of its 20,000 employees have been put on unpaid leave.\n\nBehind KLM, Avianca is the second-longest continually running airline in the world.\n\nIt previously filed for bankruptcy in the early 2000s, and was rescued by a deal with Bolivian oil tycoon German Efromovich. The airline grew quickly under his stewardship, but its growing debt led to a successful boardroom coup against Mr Efromovich last year. It is now run by Kingsland Holdings.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic has dealt a huge blow to the international aviation industry, as governments impose travel restrictions and confinement measures.\n\nGlobal air travel has fallen by 90%, according to the International Air Transport Association. The body predicts Latin American airlines will lose $15bn (£12bn; €13.9bn) in revenues this year - the biggest drop in the industry's history.", "Comedian Jerry Stiller, best known for his recurring role as George Costanza's father on TV's Seinfeld, has died aged 92, his actor son Ben has confirmed.\n\n\"I'm sad to say that my father passed away from natural causes,\" Ben wrote on Twitter, calling him \"a great dad and grandfather\" and \"dedicated husband\".\n\nJason Alexander, who played George on Seinfeld, called him \"a great actor, a great man [and] a lovely friend\".\n\nStiller spent many years in a comic duo with wife Anne Meara, who died in 2015.\n\nHis other roles included Arthur Spooner in TV sitcom The King of Queens.\n\nStiller appeared with son Ben in several film comedies, among them Zoolander, Zoolander 2 and The Heartbreak Kid.\n\nHe also had roles in both the original 1988 film of Hairspray and the musical adaptation that followed in 2007.\n\nFor many, though, he will be best remembered as Alexander's on-screen father in Seinfeld, a role he played for six years.\n\nHis role as the volatile and cantankerous Frank Costanza saw him nominated for a Primetime Emmy in 1997.\n\nJohn Randolph was originally cast in the part but only made one appearance before Stiller replaced him.\n\nStiller and Anne Meara were married for 61 years\n\n\"I'll never forget, on the first day of the shoot in front of the audience... the whole cast surrounded me, wishing me well,\" he remembered in 2005.\n\n\"They were rooting for me. They were protecting me from the fear... From that day on, those were the best years of my life as an actor.\"\n\nWriting on Twitter, Alexander remembered his \"beloved friend\" as \"perhaps the kindest man I ever had the honour to work beside\".\n\n\"He made me laugh when I was a child and every day I was with him,\" he continued. \"I adored this man.\"\n\nStiller met Meara at a New York casting call in 1953 and they married the following year.\n\nThey toured the US as a double act and made more than 30 appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, CBS's top-rated variety programme.\n\nIn 2007 Stiller and Meara were given a joint star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles.\n\nThree years later the couple hosted a web-based chat show, shot in their home in Manhattan's Upper West Side.\n\nActor Josh Gad, best known for voicing Olaf the snowman in Disney's Frozen, was among those to pay tribute on social media.\n\n\"Thank you Jerry for your brilliant comedic prowess,\" he tweeted, saying there was \"nobody who quite turned a phrase\" like him.\n\nComedian Gilbert Gottfried, another Disney voice actor, also paid homage. \"On stage or off he could put a smile on your face,\" he wrote.\n\nStar Trek's William Shatner, meanwhile, remembered Stiller as \"a comedic genius, fellow actor & friend\", adding: \"He will be missed.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Charles Darwin was aboard HMS Beagle when he made discoveries that led to his theory of natural selection\n\nThe remains of a rare 19th Century dock built for Charles Darwin's ship HMS Beagle has been recognised as a site of national importance.\n\nThe submerged mud berth on the River Roach in Rochford, Essex, will now be protected against unauthorised change.\n\nThe ship, launched in 1820, allowed Darwin to make observations that led to his theory of natural selection.\n\n\"We are glad to see this site in a quiet corner of Essex given national protection,\" said Historic England.\n\n\"This is a fascinating example of a rare piece of maritime history.\"\n\nPaglesham mudflats, near Southend, was thought to be the last resting place of the Beagle and investigations into the site began last year.\n\nThe team from Wessex Archaeology were able to reveal the outline of the dock using a drone fitted with a specialist camera.\n\nHistoric England commissioned the team to research the area ahead of the bicentenary of the vessel's launch this month.\n\nDarwin was aboard the ship on its second great voyage between 1831 and 1836 to survey the South American coast and the Galapagos Islands.\n\nFollowing the Beagle's third and final exploratory voyage in 1843, it was refitted as a static watch vessel for the coastguard in 1845, until sold in 1870.\n\nHistoric England said documentary evidence showed the ship was in the Rochford dock in 1870 and was likely dismantled there.\n\nArchaeologists used specialist technology to carry out their research\n\nThe site has been designated as a scheduled monument by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on the advice of Historic England.\n\nRochford District Council also plan to build a new observation platform at the RSPB Wallasea Island Wild Coast Project, overlooking the River Roach where the ship was moored.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A police officer has been charged with murdering a woman in a pub car park.\n\nClaire Parry, 41, from Bournemouth, was found unconscious at the Horns Inn in West Parley, Dorset, on Saturday afternoon.\n\nShe later died in hospital from a brain injury caused by \"compression of the neck\", police said.\n\nPC Timothy Brehmer, 41, an officer seconded to the National Police Air Service, is due to appear before Poole magistrates on Tuesday.\n\nThe Dorset constable, who knew Mrs Parry, was not on duty at the time of the incident, police said.\n\nDetectives were called to the pub at 15:39 BST following a report of two people requiring medical treatment.\n\nMrs Parry was taken to the Royal Bournemouth Hospital where she died on Sunday morning.\n\nMr Brehmer was treated at Poole Hospital for injuries to his arms.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mark Callaghan said: \"We have kept the family of Mrs Parry updated throughout the investigation and family liaison officers continue to support them.\n\n\"Our thoughts remain with her family and friends at this very difficult time.\"\n\nDorset Police said the case had been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct due to PC Brehmer's occupation and the seriousness of the charge.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Old Bailey will be one of the first courts to resume with juries\n\nJury trials in England and Wales will resume from next week, almost two months after being put on hold amid coronavirus lockdown measures.\n\nThe first courts where new juries will be sworn in include the Old Bailey in London and Cardiff Crown Court.\n\nFacilities are being assessed at other courts with a view to gradually increasing cases when safe to do so.\n\nSpecial arrangements are in place to maintain social distancing alongside other safety measures.\n\nLord Chief Justice Lord Burnett said: \"It is important that the administration of justice continues to function whenever it is possible in an environment which is consistent with the safety of all those involved.\n\n\"Jury service is an essential part of criminal justice and jurors perform a vital duty.\"\n\nThe announcement was made following Prime Minister Boris Johnson's address to the nation on Sunday, which outlined a gradual easing of the lockdown over the coming weeks and months.\n\nAll new jury trials had been suspended on 23 March due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Since then, work has been carried out to explore options for conducting trials in a safe manner.\n\nCourts around the country are being assessed, with the facilities at each location being \"carefully considered\" in line with safety guidelines.\n\nArrangements to allow social distancing measures to be maintained include providing a second courtroom with CCTV to enable journalists and others to watch proceedings, and another courtroom in use for jury deliberations.\n\nCourt staff will also be tasked with ensuring entrances and exits are carefully supervised and that all necessary cleaning takes place.\n\nIn a statement, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland said he was grateful to all those involved in the discussions, adding: \"Coming together in that spirit of collaboration will ensure that justice can continue to be done in a way that is safe for all court users.\"\n\nIn response to the announcement, Amanda Pinto QC, chairwoman of the Bar Council, which represents 18,000 barristers in England and Wales, said \"the decision has not been made lightly\".\n\nShe added: \"It is reassuring that efforts to restart jury trials have involved a painstaking and cautious approach, that prioritises practical measures to ensure the safety of all those involved in the delivery of criminal justice.\"\n\nThe trials will go ahead with 12 jurors, despite Lord Burnett previously telling the BBC he would support a move to reduce the number of jurors if necessary during the pandemic.\n\nJury trials involve at least 20 people, but sometimes considerably more, often in a relatively confined space.\n\nShadow Justice Secretary David Lammy said Labour welcomed the resumption of a limited number of jury trials but said the government could also make use of many public buildings currently sitting empty to carry out more.\n\nHe added: \"During the crisis, as in normal times, jury trials must be accessible to the public. If it is not possible for the public to attend jury trials that are usually publicly observable, they should be streamed online.\"\n\nThe Bar Council says the pandemic has had a \"devastating\" impact on lawyers across England and Wales and that an urgent rescue package is needed from the Treasury.\n\nMs Pinto QC said: \"We have written to the Treasury, setting out the risks of not stepping in to save the justice system and highlighting the fact that existing measures to help barristers do not go far enough.\n\n\"We must make the case to ensure that these essential workers - barristers - who have been instrumental in making sure law and order is maintained throughout this crisis, have not disappeared when we resurface from Covid-19.\"\n\nThe Bar Council's research claims 53% of self-employed barristers cannot survive for six months, and 74% will not survive for a year, unless the government provides more support.", "Primary schools in England could reopen to some year groups from 1 June \"at the earliest\", says Boris Johnson.\n\nThe prime minister said a phased return to school would begin with pupils in Reception, Year 1 and Year 6, if infection rates and the government's other tests at the time allow it.\n\nFor most pupils, schools have been closed since 20 March.\n\nBut the National Education Union said the reopening plan was \"nothing short of reckless\".\n\n\"At the earliest by June 1, after half term, we believe we may be in a position to begin the phased reopening of shops and to get primary pupils back into schools, in stages,\" said Mr Johnson, in an address to the nation.\n\nOnly secondary pupils with exams next year are likely to go back to school before the autumn\n\nSecondary schools are likely to stay closed until September.\n\nBut the prime minister said there was an \"ambition\" that secondary pupils facing exams next year - such as Years 10 and 12 - would get some time in school before the summer holidays.\n\nThese were the \"first careful steps\" and the timetable for reopening would be delayed if necessary, he said.\n\n\"If we can't do it by those dates, and if the alert level won't allow it, we will simply wait and go on until we have got it right,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\n\"If there are problems we will not hesitate to put on the brakes,\" said the prime minister.\n\nMr Johnson set out how schools in England would begin to reopen, beyond the children of key workers and vulnerable children who are currently attending.\n\nThe oldest and some of the youngest in primary school would go back first - Year 6 who would soon be moving to secondary school and the Reception class and Year 1.\n\nHead teachers have warned that social distancing would mean schools would not have the capacity to teach all year groups at the same time.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said it was important the reopening date was not \"set in stone\", because it was not yet clear how the proposed numbers of pupils could be \"safely managed\".\n\nIn Denmark primary schools have reopened, with a big emphasis on hand washing and keeping groups of children apart\n\nPaul Whiteman, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers, said the government's announcement had not passed the \"confidence test\" with parents and teachers.\n\n\"It will all be in vain if many parents still decide to keep their children at home,\" he warned.\n\nMary Bousted, co-leader of the National Education Union, rejected the prime minister's plan, saying infection rates were too high for it to be safe.\n\nA snap poll of the teachers' union members, carried out after the prime minister's announcement, found 92% \"would not feel safe with the proposed wider opening of schools\".\n\nParents on the BBC's Family and Education Facebook page questioned how practical it would be to apply social distancing with young children.\n\n\"Reception and Year 1 will totally understand social distancing, right?\" posted Rachel Marshall.\n\nLeona Shergold said: \"There is no way of keeping 4-5 year olds two metres apart from their friends.\"\n\nSchools closed for most pupils on 20 March, with lessons moving online\n\nBringing back Year 6 pupils \"makes sense\", posted Rachel Burrows. \"They could do social distancing.\" But she did not think that would work with Reception and Year 1.\n\nIn countries which have already begun to reopen schools, such as Denmark, teachers have reported that social distancing can be hard to enforce - and instead have focused on keeping children in small, separate groups and using lots of hand washing.\n\nIn Wales, the First Minister Mark Drakeford has already ruled out following the same timetable as England.\n\n\"We're not going to be reopening schools in Wales in the next three weeks, or indeed in June,\" he said.\n\nIn Scotland, the government has warned that fully reopening primary schools ran the risk of \"overwhelming\" the NHS.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, Education Minister Peter Weir has spoken of a possible phased return of schools in September.", "The supermarket is cutting its petrol price to below £1 per litre across the UK\n\nMorrisons has become the first major retailer to cut the price of petrol to below the £1 per litre threshold at all of its forecourts across the UK.\n\nThe move comes after oil prices fell to an 18-year low last month, with some questioning why it took retailers so long to pass on the saving.\n\nThe AA said it hoped more retailers would follow Morrisons' move.\n\nThe RAC said the lower price was \"much more reflective of what the retailer is itself paying to buy the fuel in\".\n\nMorrisons said for a typical 50-litre fill up, customers will save £4.50 compared to the current national average price of petrol.\n\nIn April, some filling stations around the country had been reportedly offering petrol at less than £1, but this is thought to be the first time a national chain has sold petrol throughout the UK below the threshold since February 2016.\n\nIn January, the price of a barrel of Brent Crude had touched $70.\n\nBy mid-March a price war between oil producers Saudi Arabia and Russia led to increased production and pushed prices to fall to close to $30 a barrel.\n\nThe oversupply of oil coincided with a steep drop in demand thanks to the global coronavirus pandemic which shut factories, grounded airline fleets and meant cars stayed in garages rather than out on the road.\n\nAs these issues combined the price of Brent Crude - the benchmark used by Europe - fell to just above $20 a barrel - its lowest level since 2002.\n\nThe AA said that reductions in the wholesale price of petrol many weeks ago should have brought the UK's average pump price down to £1 a litre already.\n\nDuring the lockdown, retailers told drivers that they needed to keep prices high to compensate for lower fuel volumes.\n\nHowever, on Sunday night Prime Minister Boris Johnson began encouraging more people to leave their homes, but avoid public transport, which is likely to see more cars on the road.\n\nAA spokesperson Luke Bosdet said: \"Drivers can only hope that Morrisons price move this morning will now break the logjam on pump prices. At least, essential workers will no longer feel penalised for having to drive to protect people and keep the country running during the lockdown.\"\n\nAnother factor propping up the price of fuel is that the biggest proportion of the money you hand over for a litre of petrol goes to the government in the form of tax.\n\nFuel duty is charged at 57.95p per litre.\n\nOn top of that, consumers also have to pay VAT at 20%.", "Violent behaviour and aggression shown towards NHS workers was a concern over the bank holiday weekend.\n\nHelen Whyley, director of the Royal College of Nursing in Wales, has been speaking to Gareth Lewis on BBC Radio Wales to explain the situation.\n\n“Unfortunately nurses and other clinicians have been experiencing violence and aggressive behaviour towards them over this weekend,” she said.\n\n“It's not something that comes as unusual for them because it happens often when we have a bank holiday or large celebrations when certain parts of our society do drink too much and this can result in bad behaviour.\n\n“I guess what it reminds is we don't just need people clapping on a Thursday night about carers and showing them the respect and value from doing that, but pulling that right through to their everyday behaviour and remembering people go to work to help others and that it's really not appropriate to act in any way that doesn't show respect and value for those around you.\n\n“Clearly social distancing rules are there for a reason - they're about slowing down the spread of this virus across our communities so if people have not been following these over the weekend and coming together to have parties, then clearly there is a heightened risk of increased spread.\"\n\nThe comments come after Wales’ First Minister Mark Drakeford said that the police saw an increase in alcohol-related violence associated with VE Day celebrations and increased traffic across many areas of the road network.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robert Jenrick: \"Stay alert will mean stay alert, by staying home as much as possible\"\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick has insisted now is the right time to update the government's coronavirus message from \"stay at home\" to \"stay alert\", amid widespread criticism.\n\nPM Boris Johnson announced the slogan for England, telling people to \"stay alert, control the virus, save lives\", ahead of his national address.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are sticking with \"stay at home\".\n\nScotland's Nicola Sturgeon said: \"I don't know what 'stay alert' means.\"\n\nThe first minister added at the daily briefing in Edinburgh: \"For Scotland right now, given the fragility of the progress we've made, given the critical point that we are at, then it would be catastrophic for me to drop the 'stay at home' message.\n\n\"I am particularly not prepared to do it in favour of a message that is vague and imprecise.\"\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth warned people might be \"puzzled\" by the change.\n\nBut Mr Jenrick told the BBC's Andrew Marr: \"Stay alert will mean stay alert by staying home as much as possible, but stay alert when you do go out, by maintaining social distancing, washing your hands, respecting others in the workplace and the other settings that you'll go to.\"\n\nA further 269 people have died in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus, taking the total number of deaths recorded to 31,855.\n\nThe number of deaths recorded tends to be lower over the weekend because of reporting delays.\n\nThe government has also missed its target of 100,000 coronavirus tests a day for the eighth day in a row, with 92,837 tests on Saturday.\n\nThe prime minister shared the new government slogan on Twitter, detailing some of the guidance issued to the public.\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 Boris Johnson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA No 10 spokesman added: \"Everyone has a role to play in keeping the rate of infection (R) down by staying alert and following the rules.\"\n\nMr Ashworth called on the government to clarify what the new slogan meant.\n\n\"When you're dealing with a public health crisis of this nature, you need absolute clarity from government about what the advice is. There is no room for nuance,\" he said.\n\n\"The problem with the new message is that many people will be puzzled by it,\" he added.\n\nMr Jenrick said the updated message was a \"cautious\" one, because the rate of infection remained high and the public were \"understandably anxious\".\n\nHe dismissed Mr Ashworth's concerns, saying: \"The public are capable of understanding a broader message as we move into the next phase of the virus.\"\n\nHowever, the Liberal Democrats' acting leader Sir Ed Davey said changing the slogan \"makes the police's job near-impossible and may cause considerable alarm\" as he urged the government to publish the evidence that has informed the new strategy.\n\nAnd on social media, Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham called the updated advice \"too ambiguous\" and \"unenforceable\".\n\nThe UK government's new slogan is part of moving into the next phase of the response to coronavirus.\n\nStaying at home where possible will remain part of the strategy, but ministers want to \"broaden the message\".\n\nSome are worried the new campaign is ambiguous and muddies the water.\n\nIn Wales and Scotland, the devolved governments who control health have made clear they will keep the original slogan - stay at home, protect the NHS, save lives.\n\nSo from tomorrow, messaging will be different in different parts of the UK. And I understand there are real concerns in the Scottish government about how people will react - and fears it will be harder to get them to follow their advice to stay at home unless essential.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she would continue to use the \"stay at home\" message in Scotland and later said she had asked the UK government \"not to deploy\" the new slogan there.\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 Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLeaders of the devolved nations - which have the power to set their own lockdown regulations - said they had not been consulted over the \"stay alert\" message.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the first she heard of the updated guidance was in newspaper reports.\n\nGiving Scotland's daily coronavirus briefing, she said that, other than allowing people to leave home for exercise more than once a day, the rules there had not changed. \"We remain in lockdown for now and my ask of you is to remain at home\", she said.\n\nBehavioural expert Professor Susan Michie, who is part of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), warned some people might take the more generalised \"alert\" slogan as a \"green light\" to socialise.\n\n\"I do not think this is a helpful message in terms of guiding behaviour. It does not give advice as to what people should do,\" she told the PA news agency.\n\nMeanwhile, the government's pandemic response has been called \"wishy-washy\" by a body representing police officers in London.\n\nIt comes after a police force in east London shared an image of a crowded park in Hackney on Saturday, where hundreds of people, they said, were eating and drinking alcohol.\n\nKen Marsh, from the Metropolitan Police Federation, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme authorities \"needed to be firmer right from the beginning\" and that if authorities had been more stringent from the outset \"we would have a better result now\".\n\nBut another adviser to Sage, Prof Mark Woolhouse of Edinburgh University, told BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend outdoor activities posed a \"relatively low risk\" so long as people with symptoms were not going out and that those who needed to quarantine themselves did so.\n\nIn his address, the prime minister announced the launch of an alert system for tracking coronavirus in England and unveiled a \"conditional plan\" to reopen society, allowing people in England to spend more time outdoors from Wednesday.\n\nMr Johnson also said people who could not work from home should return to the workplace - but avoid public transport.\n\nThe lockdown has already been extended for another three weeks in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to 28 May.", "Michael Zammit Tabona (left) presented his \"letters of credence\" to Finnish President Sauli Niinistö in 2014\n\nMalta's ambassador to Finland has resigned after comparing German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, local media say.\n\nMichael Zammit Tabona reportedly wrote on his Facebook page: \"Seventy-five years ago we stopped Hitler. Who will stop Angela Merkel? She has fulfilled Hitler's dream! To control Europe.\"\n\nThe post has since been deleted.\n\nMaltese Foreign Minister Evarist Bartolo said Germany would receive an apology, the Times of Malta reports.\n\nMr Bartolo told the newspaper that he had instructed the ambassador to remove the comment \"as soon as I was alerted to it\".\n\nMr Zammit Tabona, who became Malta's ambassador in Finland in 2014, has so far made no comment on the row.\n\nHe is reported to be a political appointee - not a career diplomat.", "People working in social care in England and Wales have been twice as likely to die with coronavirus as the general working-age population, Office for National Statistics figures show.\n\nBut healthcare workers have been no more likely to die than other workers.\n\nNearly two-thirds of the 2,494 20- to 64-year-olds whose deaths were linked to Covid-19 were men.\n\nAnd 63 were male security guards, making them almost twice as likely to die as even men working in social care.\n\nThe ONS analysis, up to 20 April, factored in age but did not take account of people's ethnicity, location, wealth or underlying health conditions.\n\nAs a result, it cannot prove the deaths were caused by the jobs people do or by other factors.\n\nBeing male, from an ethnic minority and having other health problems increase the risk of dying with Covid-19.\n\nOf the 2,494 deaths analysed, 131 were care workers - 86 female and 45 male.\n\nBut because many more social care workers are female, this equates to a death rate of 23.4 per 100,000 for men and 9.6 per 100,000 for women.\n\nHowever, despite their close proximity to patients, healthcare workers, including doctors and nurses, had much lower death rates.\n\nThis may be because they had better access to personal protective equipment (PPE) than other workers.\n\nThe overall death rate for men aged 20-64 in England and Wales linked to Covid-19 was 9.9 deaths per 100,000, compared with 5.2 for women.\n\nFor male security guards, it was 45.7.\n\nAmong men, some specific occupations had noticeably higher death rates linked to Covid-19, including:\n\nAnd men in low-skilled jobs were more likely to die with Covid-19 than other groups, including managers, skilled tradesmen and professionals.\n\nDr Michael Head, senior research fellow in global health, from the University of Southampton, said: \"The forthcoming guidance for safe working simply has to provide extensive detail on how each sector is expected to manage their staff and working environments.\"\n\nProf Keith Neal, emeritus professor in the epidemiology of infectious diseases, at the University of Nottingham, said the higher male death rates in many occupations could be \"contributing to the higher overall mortality in men\".\n\n\"The higher rate in the confined spaces of taxis and similar vehicles is consistent with what we know about indoor transmission,\" he said.\n\nAnd this had \"important policy implications for restarting work\".", "A care home in the Netherlands has found an innovative way to bring people together during the lockdown.\n\nThe BBC's Anna Holligan speaks to a family whose relative is a resident.", "Passengers arriving from France will be exempt from forthcoming UK coronavirus quarantine measures.\n\nBoris Johnson said on Sunday the rules would be imposed on people coming into the UK, to prevent Covid-19 being brought in from overseas.\n\nAs yet, no start or end date for the measures has been announced.\n\nThe government has already indicated that people arriving from the Republic of Ireland will not be made to go into quarantine.\n\nHowever, the measures will apply to UK holidaymakers returning from other destinations.\n\nIn updated advice issued on Monday, the government confirmed that people will be asked to self-isolate for 14 days and to provide an address when they arrive at the border, other than those exempted.\n\nThe World Travel and Tourism Council expressed concern about the new measures, saying they would damage confidence among would-be travellers.\n\nIn his address to the nation on Sunday, the prime minister said: \"I am serving notice that it will soon be the time - with transmission significantly lower - to impose quarantine on people coming into this country by air.\"\n\nThe government later clarified that the rules would apply not just to air passengers, but also those arriving by other means of travel such as train or ferry.\n\nFollowing Mr Johnson's speech, No 10 confirmed a reciprocal deal with the government in Paris meant restrictions would not apply to passengers from France.\n\nIn a joint statement, the UK and French governments said they had agreed to \"work together in taking forward appropriate border measures\", adding: \"This co-operation is particularly necessary for the management of our common border.\"\n\nThe statement added: \"No quarantine measures would apply to travellers coming from France at this stage; any measures on either side would be taken in a concerted and reciprocal manner.\n\n\"A working group between the two governments will be set up to ensure this consultation throughout the coming weeks.\"\n\nHowever, the announcement has raised questions about whether international travellers could avoid 14-days in isolation by passing through France on their way to the UK.\n\nNumber 10 says further details of the new rules will be set out before they come into force.\n\nWillie Walsh, chief executive of British Airways owner IAG, said it was more bad news for the travel industry.\n\n\"There's nothing positive in anything I heard the Prime Minister say yesterday,\" he told MPs on parliament's Transport Select Committee.\n\nWhen asked why travellers from France will not be quarantined over, for example, Germany, he said: \"That's the bit I don't understand.\n\nWillie Walsh, boss of British Airways' parent IAG, was questioned by MPs\n\n\"We will have to wait and see the final details of what the Prime Minister intends to do.\"\n\nHe added that the quarantine measures will mean his company will have to review its plan to return to 50% capacity by July.\n\nVirginia Messina, managing director of the World Travel and Tourism Council, told the BBC's Today programme she was \"concerned\" about the government's new policy.\n\n\"Quarantines work when implemented early, so it should have probably been applied much earlier in the UK,\" she said.\n\n\"We believe this is going to highly damage the confidence of people who are wishing to travel or at least make some plans in the near future.\"\n\nMs Messina pointed out that some airports in other countries were testing passengers for the virus on arrival and exempting them from quarantine if they tested negative.\n\nAirline and airport bosses spoke to the aviation minister on Sunday about the new measures.\n\nHowever, they told the BBC that they were still in the dark over basic details such as when they would come into force, when they would end and whether they would be continuously reviewed.\n\nAirlines are calling for additional government support after the prime minister confirmed a quarantine period will come into force.\n\nAirlines UK chief executive Tim Alderslade said: \"We all, including government, need to adapt to the new normal, but closing off air travel in this way is not the way to achieve this.\"\n\nThe government faces a two-pronged attack over its travel quarantine, even though the detail on the policy is still sparse.\n\nThe pandemic is already causing acute damage to the UK's aviation sector, and airline and airport bosses believe the quarantine will make things a whole lot worse.\n\nThey did not receive the reassurances they wanted during a call with the aviation minister earlier on Sunday.\n\nOpposition MPs are also wading in with the question: \"If now, why not before?\"\n\nIt's estimated that about 100,000 people have arrived in the UK since 23 March, when the lockdown was brought in.\n\nMany people coming home in recent weeks have been left confused over whether they were supposed to self-isolate.\n\nGovernment advice that people arriving from China and Italy who didn't have symptoms should stay at home for two weeks was withdrawn on 13 March.\n\nHeathrow airport said it supported the government's aim of avoiding a second wave of infection, even though a 14-day quarantine plan amounted to a temporary closure of borders.\n\nHowever, the airport's chief executive, John Holland-Kaye, said the government \"urgently\" needed to lay out a roadmap for how it would reopen borders once the disease had been beaten.\n\nAir travel has ground to a halt because of the global coronavirus pandemic, prompting steep job cuts by the industry.\n\nRyanair has said it plans to axe 3,000 workers and has asked remaining staff to take a pay cut.\n\nBA has said it will cut 12,000 of its workforce and has warned that it might not reopen at Gatwick Airport once the pandemic passes.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the advice in Scotland remains \"stay at home\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has stressed the \"stay at home\" message remains in place in Scotland after Boris Johnson announced his \"conditional plan\" to reopen society.\n\nDuring his statement, the prime minister urged people to \"stay alert, control the virus and save lives\".\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said there should be a \"simpler\" message and that people in Scotland should still stay at home.\n\nThe once-a-day exercise limit will be removed in Scotland from Monday.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said people must still stay close to home and emphasised the move does not extend to picnics, sunbathing or barbeques.\n\nDuring his address on Sunday evening, Mr Johnson said people in England who could not work from home should return to the workplace - but avoid public transport.\n\nThe first minister stressed that the advice to businesses in Scotland had not changed.\n\n\"I am not, at this stage, asking anybody who is not working to go back to work, although we have said we are looking, with priority, at the construction sector, the retail sector and the manufacturing sector,\" she told BBC Scotland.\n\nShe said different parts of the UK were at different stages of the infection curve, and that the \"all-important R number\" was thought to be higher north of the border.\n\nMs Sturgeon also said the prime minister should have stressed \"more strongly\" that most of the changes he referred to in his speech applied to England.\n\n\"When he talks about things like border control, he is talking for the whole UK, but really all of us have a duty right now to be as clear as possible and, having watched the prime minister, I think there is still some room for some simpler messages,\" she said.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the Scottish government was being \"deliberately cautious\" and was taking \"baby steps\".\n\nAnd she added: \"If you change the message from stay at home to something vaguer then you don't give clear messages to the public.\"\n\nWe are now getting two quite different messages as a result of the announcement by the prime minister and the response from the first minister.\n\nBusinesses deciding whether to go back to work in construction or manufacturing are being encouraged to do so south of the border. However, you're being pretty strongly discouraged if it's not essential work north of the border.\n\nThat's going to lead to employers having different expectations of their staff depending on where that employer is based.\n\nEmployers are looking for answers about how much money will be available and for how long.\n\nThe furlough system has been absolutely essential to avoiding redundancies soaring. In Scotland, around 370,000 jobs are estimated to have stayed on the payroll rather than becoming redundant.\n\nSo what's going to happen to that once the money stops as it is currently scheduled to do at the end of June?\n\nThe first minister had earlier said that she had first learned about the UK government's new slogan in the Sunday papers and admitted: \"I do not know what 'Stay Alert' means.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon accepted the need for other parts of the UK to move at different speeds, based on scientific evidence and said she is committed to the closest possible cooperation.\n\nBut she added: \"We should not be reading of each other's plans for the first time in newspapers and decisions that are taken for one nation only, for good evidence based reasons, should not be presented as if they apply UK-wide.\n\n\"Clarity of message is paramount if we expect all of you to know what we are asking of you and as leaders we have a duty to deliver that clarity to those that we are accountable to, not to confuse it.\n\n\"To that end I have asked the UK government not to deploy their 'stay alert' advertising campaign in Scotland.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Sturgeon added that the message in Scotland is not \"stay at home if you can\" but rather \"stay at home full stop\".\n\nShe was speaking after latest figures show the number of deaths has increased by 10 to 1,587, while the number of positive cases is now 13,486.\n\nThe first minister said the new guidelines governing exercise in Scotland were not a \"licence to meet up in groups\" at parks or beaches.\n\nShe also emphasised the ongoing need for people to maintain social distancing and not mix with other households.\n\nGuidelines concerning the range of outdoor activities, reopening garden centres and the resumption of some outdoor work will also be considered in the coming days.\n\nThe Scottish government will also be speaking to councils about the prospect of re-opening waste and recycling centres.\n\nThe first minister said an update on these developments will be issued next weekend.", "Ch Supt Phil Dolby returned home after three weeks in hospital\n\nA senior police officer who spent more than three weeks in hospital with coronavirus said he is \"very disturbed\" at some people's attitude to lockdown.\n\nCh Supt Phil Dolby, of West Midlands Police, was admitted to Worcester Royal Hospital on 29 March and later placed on a ventilator for 13 days.\n\nIn a post on Twitter, he criticised \"increasingly blasé\" behaviour.\n\nHis comments come as forces around England reported multiple instances of people ignoring lockdown rules.\n\nMr Dolby told the BBC he was prompted to speak out about people ignoring lockdown restrictions after his own experience of the virus which \"nearly killed\" him.\n\nMr Dolby was put in an induced coma and on a ventilator while in hospital\n\n\"I've been pretty disappointed and shocked to see so many people being quite blasé about the lockdown and the social distancing,\" he said.\n\n\"You can see queues of people getting into parks, queues of cars driving to beaches, lots of activity that seems to me to be against the medical advice.\n\n\"I've felt that a missing voice in all of that was someone who'd been through it, was still going through it in a sense.\n\n\"As a 45-year-old fairly healthy person with no real health issues, the virus nearly killed me.\n\n\"As a result, not only have I been a victim, my family have been through an awful lot of trauma as well, we are also concerned about what that means for us going forward, so I felt an extra voice adding to that debate would be useful for people to think about what they were doing.\"\n\nThe have been reports from forces across England about people breaching lockdown rules over the weekend, including:\n\nElsewhere, seven people were arrested when police tried to stop a birthday party with about 40 attendees in Bolton, Greater Manchester.\n\nIn East Sussex, a couple camping at Cow Gap sparked a search involving police, the coastguard and a volunteer lifeboat after leaving their car at nearby Beachy Head.\n\nMeanwhile, Derbyshire Police tweeted that there were a number of non-essential journeys in Matlock Bath.\n\nThey added: \"We aren't the fun police but looking at Twitter it feels like a growing minority are risking undoing all the good work previously done.\"\n\nAnd Liz Stone, from Fawley, Hampshire, took pictures of a number of cars parked at Lepe Beach on Saturday while travelling back from feeding her horse, which is permitted under restrictions.\n\n\"It was crazy,\" she said. \"People were walking around, sitting on the beach, some were paddling. They were just having a normal day at the beach.\"\n\nMr Dolby's original Twitter post has been retweeted more than 3,000 times and had hundreds of replies, including one from a nurse who said they were \"increasingly baffled, frustrated and saddened\" by the behaviour of some people.\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 Ch Supt Phil Dolby 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\nMeanwhile, a body representing police officers in London said the government's pandemic response was \"wishy-washy\".\n\nKen Marsh, from the Metropolitan Police Federation, told BBC Radio 4 authorities \"needed to be firmer right from the beginning\".\n\nAt the government's daily coronavirus briefing on Saturday, transport secretary Grant Shapps was asked about the apparent rise in people going outside, which came after warnings against sending out \"mixed messages\" with newspaper reports suggesting sunbathing and picnics could be permitted as early as Monday.\n\nHe dismissed allegations the government's messaging strategy was confusing, and said: \"I think that most people are more than capable of understanding what is meant.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A trial of potential coronavirus drugs aimed at over-50s, who are vulnerable to developing serious symptoms, is looking to recruit more UK volunteers.\n\nOver 500 GP surgeries are asking those with a new, continuous cough or high temperature to test existing drugs.\n\nPatients aged over 65 or over 50 with an underlying health condition can fill out an online questionnaire at home to see whether they can be included.\n\nPatients can also contact participating GPs to discuss their suitability.\n\nThe trial, led by a team at Oxford University, will compare with the current best available care a number of low-risk treatments recommended by an expert panel advising the chief medical officer for England, including:\n\nThe participants will still be able to take paracetamol to alleviate their symptoms.\n\nAnd every day, for up to four weeks, they will be asked to answer some online questions about them.\n\nProf Fiona Watt, executive chair of the Medical Research Council, which is funding the trial, with the National Institute for Health Research, said: \"We need more people to join the trial to see if we can identify a drug that helps prevent people reaching hospital and speeds up their recovery.\"\n• None Which treatments work best against Covid?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gardening enthusiasts say they are relieved to see gardening centres allowed to reopen in Wales.\n\nSpeaking at Brynawel Fuchsia and Garden Centre in the Vale of Glamorgan on Monday, one customer said it was \"absolutely fabulous\" to be able see the business open again.\n\nAnother said her garden was her \"happy place\" and praised the Welsh Government's decision to allow the centres to reopen - provided social distancing is observed.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has advised all over-70s to stay at home due to their vulnerability to Covid-19, and has banned all but essential travel.", "The number of shoppers visiting UK High Streets, retail parks and shopping centres fell at its fastest rate ever in April as the lockdown forced people to stay indoors, industry figures show.\n\nFootfall fell by more than 80% after all but essential shops closed their doors, according to Springboard.\n\nThat was almost double the level of March's downturn when there was a 41.3% drop in visits to shopping locations.\n\nSpringboard said the April slump was a \"decline of unprecedented magnitude\".\n\nShopping centres were the worst hit by the drop in footfall, as visits fell by 84.8%.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of visits to High Streets around the country fell by 83.3% and footfall at retail parks was 68.1% lower.\n\nThe presence of supermarkets and wide-open spaces, which allowed for better social distancing, meant retail parks performed slightly better than other areas, according to the retail analyst company.\n\n\"What has become clear, but what is not obvious from the headline rate, is the shift in consumer behaviour away from large towns and cities to smaller more local centres,\" said Diane Wehrle from Springboard.\n\nAt 20 smaller town centres, including Harold Hill, Prescot, Kenilworth and Dudley, footfall decreased by less than 60%.\n\nMeanwhile, major city centres such as Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, Bristol and London were among the 20 areas that saw the biggest drops in footfall.\n\n\"The overriding focus on safe shopping and the greater emphasis on community that has come to the fore means that trips to larger towns and cities have been curtailed,\" said Ms Wehrle.\n\n\"Indeed, it is the first evidence available that suggests how consumers may respond to easing of restrictions.\"\n\nShe said it was a contrast to \"pre-coronavirus days\" when small High Streets faced an increasing struggle to attract shoppers.\n\n\"The path of recovery for retail may well be led by smaller high streets which can offer both safety and community benefits.\n\n\"For larger destinations, the emphasis on safety suggests that those environments that have the capability to control shopper numbers - such as retail parks and shopping centres - will be the next phase of recovery, followed by large towns and cities which inevitably face issues around pedestrian congestion.\"", "More than 1,000 members of staff at P&O Ferries are set to be made redundant\n\nP&O Ferries has announced plans to make 1,100 of its staff redundant.\n\nThe ferry operator, based in Dover, Kent, said the reduced number of vessels and downturn in business had forced its decision to lay off staff.\n\nA spokesperson for the firm said \"right-sizing\" the business was a necessary step to create a viable and sustainable P&O Ferries.\n\nThe owners of P&O Ferries had previously stated the business needed £257m in aid to avoid collapse.\n\nNatalie Elphicke MP has called on P&O's owners to \"stump up or sell to better owners\"\n\nNatalie Elphicke, MP for Dover and Deal, said the news was \"disappointing\" and urged P&O's owners to \"stump up or sell to better owners\".\n\nShe said: \"Let's remember that P&O, which is owned by the Sovereign State of Dubai, has received millions of pounds of financial support from our government in recent weeks. There can be no doubt that Dubai has more than enough money to keep P&O going in full.\n\n\"It cannot be right for them to have taken millions of pounds from the hard-working British taxpayer in furlough and freight support payments and then decide to pull the rug.\"\n\nIn April, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem told the BBC the company had applied to the UK government for £150m.\n\nP&O Ferries is now working towards making 614 staff on the Dover to Calais line redundant, with a further 122 job losses on the lines between Hull and Zeebrugge and Rotterdam. The remainder are officers and shore-side staff on the same routes.\n\nMick Cash, general secretary of the RMT union, said it was \"utterly shameful\" P&O was kept afloat by the taxpayer.\n\nHe said: \"This is an attack on British seafarers and crew, and the biggest fear is that these jobs will never return to Dover or Hull.\n\n\"But you can guarantee that P&O ferries will still be running passenger ferry services from those ports to protect their owner's profits at the country's expense.\"\n\nP&O said a consultation period was now under way.\n\nIt said: \"Since the beginning of the crisis, P&O Ferries has been working with its stakeholders to address the impact of the loss of the passenger business.\n\n\"It is now clear that right-sizing the business is necessary to create a viable and sustainable P&O Ferries to get through Covid-19.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The general secretary of the Unite trade union has said workers \"should refuse\" to return to work if there is no \"safe environment\" for them.\n\nLen McCluskey was speaking to the BBC after Boris Johnson unveiled a \"conditional plan\" to reopen society.\n\nThe prime minister said those who could not work from home should be \"actively encouraged to go to work\" in England.\n\nMeanwhile, business groups have called for clarity on what will need to change in the workplace.\n\nMr McCluskey said it was every worker's \"statutory right\" to have such an environment and any worker \"unsure\" of having that available \"should not be pressured in going back to work\".\n\nHe also said that he did not believe there should be any \"need for that\", as long as \"employers and government embrace expertise\".\n\nHe added that the economy had to be restarted: \"Otherwise we'll be faced with mass unemployment, which will impact on everybody.\"\n\nBusiness groups including the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) have urged the government to provide clear guidance on the relaxation of coronavirus lockdown restrictions.\n\nHe added: \"It is imperative that companies have detailed advice on what will need to change in the workplace, including clarity on the use of personal protective equipment (PPE),\" said BCC director Adam Marshall.\n\nFederation of Small Businesses national chairman Mike Cherry said: \"Small businesses will need time to adapt after the workplace guidance is published, and for smaller businesses it must be proportionate and focused on the overall outcome of maintaining safe working environments, achieved as straightforwardly as possible.\"\n\nIn a televised address, Mr Johnson said he wanted those in the construction and manufacturing industries to return to work this week.\n\nCaution was, however, urged by other trade groups, such as the Institute of Directors (IoD).\n\nIts director general, Jonathan Geldart, said it was vital the guidance was clear so that companies could plan how to return safely.\n\n\"As people with ultimate legal responsibility, directors need to have confidence that it's safe, and that if they act responsibly they won't be at undue risk. Businesses should consult with their people to put in place robust policies, which in many cases might not be an overnight process.\"\n\nCarolyn Fairbairn, the director general of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) said businesses were \"keen to open and get the economy back on its feet\".\n\n\"But they also know putting health first is the only sustainable route to economic recovery. The message of continued vigilance is right,\" she said.\n\nShe added: \"While stopping work was necessarily fast and immediate, restarting will be slower and more complex. It must go hand in hand with plans for schools, transport, testing and access to PPE. Firms will want to see a roadmap, with dates they can plan for.\"\n\nVery little has changed in terms of the regulations and prohibitions first announced in March. The lockdown remains. Closed shops, for example, won't reopen.\n\nWhat we did get was a \"change of emphasis\" - that people should assume they should go back to work, rather than presume they should not.\n\nSome in government and in industry fear that the \"stay at home\" message has now deeply embedded itself in the minds of millions of workers.\n\nThe prime minister's replacement of that message with \"stay alert\" in England is designed to get businesses to use the existing discretion in the lockdown regulations.\n\nThe practicalities of that are not easy, however, with business groups and unions not agreeing on what constitutes a \"Covid-safe\" workplace.\n\nThe government acknowledges that there won't be enough public transport options for people to return to work. Many workers will also face problems with childcare.\n\nOn top of that, to the extent that some industries will reopen - such as construction and perhaps some forms of hospitality by July, any increase in the rate of infection could see the brakes applied quickly.\n\nThe path ahead will be a delicate, difficult and constant balancing act between health and the economy. For now, the economy is definitively second priority.\n\nDuring his address, Mr Johnson added that workplaces would receive guidance on how to become \"Covid secure\".\n\nFrances O'Grady, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, called for those guidelines to be published.\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 Frances O'Grady This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBBC News previously reported that reduced hot-desking and alternatives to social distancing where it is not possible were among measures being considered to let workplaces reopen.\n\nOne of seven draft plans to ease anti-coronavirus restrictions, seen by the BBC, also urged employers to minimise numbers using equipment, stagger shift times and maximise home-working.\n\nMany companies have been shut since widespread limits on everyday life were imposed on 23 March, in a bid to limit the effects of the virus's spread on the NHS.\n\nAs a result, the government is now paying the wages for nearly a quarter of UK jobs under a programme aimed at helping people put on leave due to the virus pandemic.\n\nUnder the job retention scheme, it funds 80% of workers' wages, up to £2,500 a month.\n\nOn Sunday, business groups also urged caution when it came to any future withdrawal of the support.\n\nAre you planning to return to work this week following lockdown? Share your stories 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:", "Saudi Arabia is tripling its value added tax (VAT) as part of austerity measures to support its coronavirus-hit economy.\n\nThe government in Riyadh also said it will suspend its cost of living allowance to shore up state finances.\n\nThe oil-rich nation has seen its income plummet as the impact of the pandemic has forced down global energy prices.\n\nThe kingdom first introduced VAT two years ago as part of efforts to cut its reliance on world crude oil markets.\n\nSaudi Arabia's state news agency said VAT will increase from 5% to 15% as of 1 July, while the cost of living allowance will be suspended from 1 June.\n\nThe allowance of 1,000 riyals ($267; £217) per month to state employees was introduced in 2018 to help offset increased financial burdens including VAT and a rise in the price of petrol.\n\n\"These measures are painful but necessary to maintain financial and economic stability over [the] medium to long term... and overcome the unprecedented coronavirus crisis with the least damage possible,\" finance minister Mohammed al-Jadaan said in the statement.\n\nThe announcement came after state spending outstripped income, pushing the kingdom into a $9bn (£7.2bn) budget deficit in the first three months of the year.\n\nThat's as oil revenues in the period fell by almost a quarter from a year earlier to $34bn, pulling down total revenues by 22%.\n\nAt the same time Saudi Arabia's central bank saw its foreign reserves fall in March at their fastest rate in at least two decades and to their lowest level since 2011.\n\nThe measures to fight the impact of coronavirus are expected to slow the pace and scale of economic reforms launched by Crown Price Mohammed bin Salman.\n\nLast year Saudi Arabia raised a record $25.6bn in the initial public offering of shares in state-owned oil giant Aramco in Riyadh.\n\nThe share sale was at the heart of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's plans to modernise the economy and wean it off its dependence on oil.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nNo professional sport, even behind closed doors, will be staged in England until 1 June at the earliest, the UK government has announced.\n\nThe government has published a 50-page guidance document detailing how England will begin to ease lockdown measures.\n\nStep two of that plan - which will not be allowed to start before 1 June - includes \"permitting cultural and sporting events to take place behind closed doors for broadcast, while avoiding the risk of large-scale social contact\".\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons on Monday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said being able to hold sporting events behind closed doors could \"provide a much-needed boost to national morale\".\n\nThe document states that reopening venues that attract large crowds, such as sports grounds, \"may only be fully possible significantly later depending on the reduction in numbers of infections\".\n\nPremier League clubs are meeting on Monday to continue discussions on Project Restart.\n\nThe top flight has been suspended since 13 March because of the coronavirus pandemic but is aiming to resume in June, with 92 of its 380 fixtures left to play.\n\nThere will be no cricket played in England and Wales until at least 1 July, following a decision by the England and Wales Cricket Board.\n\nOn Monday British horse racing's executive committee said it was committed to planning for a resumption of racing on 1 June.\n\nPremiership Rugby is aiming for a resumption in early July, with nine rounds of matches remaining.\n\nFormula 1 is hoping to race at Silverstone on 19 and 26 July.\n\nUnder proposed rules for boxing to resume behind closed doors in July, fighters at British shows will wear protective masks during ring walks and could be banned from using a spit bucket between rounds.\n\nThe government's current aim is to introduce step two of its plan on 1 June but only if sufficient progress is made in \"successfully controlling the spread of the virus\" and the lifting of restrictions could be delayed.\n\nSporting events involving international travel could be affected by the government's planned requirement for all international arrivals \"not on a short list of exemptions\" to self-isolate for 14 days after arrival in the UK.\n\nFour English teams remain in European football competitions this year - Chelsea and Manchester City in the Champions League and Manchester United and Wolves in the Europa League.\n\nF1 bosses are in talks with the government seeking an exemption for staff from the planned rules on international arrivals.\n• None Golf is back - but not as we know it\n\nDo we know when fans will be able to return?\n\nIt is unclear when spectators may be able to attend sporting events again.\n\nUnder step three of the plan, which will not start until 4 July at earliest, the government is aiming to reopen some of the remaining businesses that have been forced to close, including hospitality and leisure facilities.\n\nHowever, it adds: \"Some venues which are, by design, crowded and where it may prove difficult to enact distancing may still not be able to reopen safely at this point, or may be able to open safely only in part.\n\n\"In order to facilitate the fastest possible reopening of these types of higher-risk businesses and public places, the government will carefully phase and pilot reopenings to test their ability to adopt the new Covid-19 secure guidelines.\n\n\"The government will also monitor carefully the effects of reopening other similar establishments elsewhere in the world, as this happens.\"\n\nThe document also states that \"only the development of a vaccine or effective drugs can reliably control this epidemic and reduce mortality without some form of social distancing or contact tracing in place.\"\n\nFrom Wednesday, people in England may exercise outside as many times as they wish, though playgrounds, outdoor gyms and ticketed outdoor leisure venues will remain closed.\n\nThey will also be allowed to meet one person from outside their household as long as they stay outdoors and stay two metres apart.\n\nSo one-on-one sport with someone from outside your household, such as tennis or cricket nets, will be allowed provided participants adhere to social distancing rules.\n\nHowever, team sports are not permitted, except with members of your own household.\n\nThe Lawn Tennis Association said that following clarifications from the government, tennis activity will resume outdoors in England from Wednesday with \"singles play only\" unless all players are from the same household \"in which case they can play doubles\".\n\nGolf courses in England will reopen on Wednesday with people allowed to play with members of the same household or with one other person from a different household.\n\nFacilities such as tennis courts and golf courses will remain closed in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.", "Talks between the UK and EU over a post-Brexit trade deal will enter their third round later, ahead of a decisive summit next month.\n\nBoth sides are due to decide by the end of June whether the current deadline for negotiating an agreement should be extended beyond the end of December.\n\nThe UK has said it will not agree to an extension, even if the EU requests one.\n\nThe latest round of talks, to be held via video link, will end on Friday.\n\nAfter the latest round in April, EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier said progress had been disappointing, whilst the UK said only \"limited progress\" had been made.\n\nThere are differences between the two sides on fisheries, competition rules, police co-operation, and how a deal would be enforced.\n\nBBC Europe Editor Katya Adler said the EU accuses the UK of concentrating on its priorities whilst going slow on issues more important to the 27-member bloc.\n\nShe added that the UK wants to first settle a core trade deal alongside deals on aviation and energy, whilst the EU is keen to focus on fishing quotas and competition rules.\n\nShe added that although the UK has ruled out extending the talks, leaving tricky areas to the autumn could be risky if coronavirus infections peak again.\n\nNegotiations have been held using video-conferencing technology since last month after face-to-face meetings were cancelled due to the pandemic.\n\nThe UK has rejected the suggestion it is not engaging in all negotiating areas, accusing the EU of making demands not required of its other trade partners.\n\nThe UK is currently in a transition period under which it must follow most EU regulations, following its legal withdrawal from the bloc on 31 January.\n\nBoth sides exchanged legal text on a future trade deal in March. After the negotiations this week, a fourth round of talks is scheduled to begin on 1 June.\n\nUnder the UK's withdrawal agreement with the EU, both sides currently have until 31 December to ratify a trade deal and rules for future co-operation.\n\nAn extension to the December deadline should be made by the UK-EU \"joint committee\" overseeing the agreement by 1 July.\n\nOpposition parties including the Liberal Democrats and the SNP have both called on the UK government to extend the transition period beyond December.\n\nShortly after becoming Labour leader last month, Sir Keir Starmer said the UK should prolong talks beyond December if \"necessary to do so\".\n\nHe added that the December deadline was \"going to be very, very tight,\" and he thought it \"unlikely\" the government would finish talks in time.\n\nBut the government insists it is committed to agreeing a deal by December 2020, and an extension would simply prolong disruption for businesses.\n• None What happens after Brexit?", "Police officers need clearer guidance on the new lockdown measures as the PM's announcement was too \"loose\" and open to interpretation, a body representing law enforcement has said.\n\nThe Police Federation for England and Wales said the ambiguity of the new measures for England could make an \"already challenging\" job \"impossible\".\n\nThis would be \"grossly unfair on officers\", the federation added.\n\nIt comes as lockdown fines rise from £60 to £100 in England from Wednesday.\n\nIn his speech on Sunday evening, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a \"conditional plan\" to begin lifting England's coronavirus lockdown.\n\nA new slogan was also unveiled, with \"stay home\" changing to \"stay alert\".\n\nScotland and Wales - which have their own powers over lockdown and have not changed the advice to stay at home - rejected No 10's new slogan, while Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer criticised the PM's plan for lacking clarity.\n\nFurther guidance on the rules is due to be published later.\n\nJohn Apter, chairman of the Police Federation, said further detail on the new measures needed to be \"clear and unambiguous... explaining what exactly is expected of the public, so that my colleagues can do their level best to police it\".\n\nHe added: \"Police officers will continue to do their best, but their work must be based on crystal clear guidance, not loose rules that are left open to interpretation - because that will be grossly unfair on officers whose job is already challenging.\"\n\nMr Apter also noted Mr Johnson's statement came after a week of \"mixed messages and the release of some information which, fuelled by media speculation, meant many people acted as though the lockdown had already ended\".\n\nHe said: \"If the message of what is expected of the public is not clear, then it will make the job of policing this legislation almost impossible.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We are taking the first careful steps to modify our measures\"\n\nExisting legislation, known as the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020, will be updated from Wednesday to reflect the changes coming into force.\n\nAmong the changes will be a change to fines for those breaching the lockdown measures.\n\nThe first fine someone receives if police believe they are flouting restrictions on movement will be £100.\n\nHowever, this will be lowered to £50 if paid within 14 days, according to the Home Office. Fines will double for each repeat offence, up to a maximum of £3,200.\n\nIn Scotland, lockdown fines will remain unchanged after the nation's government found no evidence to suggest an increase was required.\n\nPeople found to be flouting lockdown rules in Scotland will be first fined £30 by police, which rises to £60 if not paid within 28 days. Cumulative fines for repeat offenders are capped at £960.\n• None Use common sense to see loved ones outdoors – Raab", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Smoke rises from the heavily damaged Iranian navy ship Konarak following a \"friendly fire\" incident.\n\nNineteen sailors have been killed and 15 others injured in an accident involving Iranian naval vessels in the Gulf of Oman, Iran's navy has said.\n\nIranian media reported that the support ship Konarak was hit by a new anti-ship missile being tested by the frigate Jamaran during an exercise on Sunday.\n\nThe Konarak had been putting targets out in the water and remained too close to one, according to the reports.\n\nThe navy said the ship was towed ashore and that an investigation had begun.\n\nThe incident took place near the Strait of Hormuz, a strategically important waterway through which about a fifth of the world's oil passes.\n\n\"On Sunday evening... during naval exercises performed by a number of the naval force's vessels in the waters of Jask and Chabahar, an accident happened involving the Konarak light support ship vessel, causing the martyrdom of a number of brave members of the naval forces,\" the navy said in a statement on Monday.\n\nThe statement added that the Konarak had been taken to a port for \"technical inspection\", but it made no reference to the circumstances of the accident.\n\nThe Iranian armed forces are no strangers to error.\n\nIn January, an air defence unit fired two surface-to-air missiles at an unidentified target, bringing down a Ukrainian airliner and killing all those on board. That mistake came at a time of heightened tension, with the Iranians expecting a retaliatory US missile strike.\n\nBut Sunday's incident took place in very different circumstances - a planned naval exercise - and raises all sorts of questions about command and control and the professionalism of the Iranian navy.\n\nIran is seeking to broaden the sphere of its naval operations and to upgrade its warships' armament. The frigate Jamaran is part of a new class of home-built vessels intended to set a new course for Iran's navy.\n\nBut it remains, to some extent, an over-looked service. It is the Revolutionary Guards' flotilla of fast patrol boats that seem to figure most prominently in Iranian efforts to harass and monitor US and other shipping in the Gulf.\n\nIranian media earlier reported the Konarak had been accidentally struck by an anti-ship missile fired by the Jamaran during an exercise near the port of Jask.\n\n\"The vessel was hit after moving a practice target to its destination and not creating enough distance between itself and the target,\" state television reported on its website.\n\nState broadcaster Irib posted video footage of the aftermath of the incident on Twitter. It showed significant damage to several structures on the deck of the Konarak and black smoke rising from them.\n\nThe Iranian military published a photo purportedly showing the damaged Konarak at a port\n\nIt is not clear how many sailors were on board at the time.\n\nThe commanders in chief of the Iranian army and the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps, Maj Gen Abdolrahim Mousavi and Maj Gen Hossein Salami, expressed their condolences to the families of the sailors who died.\n\nThe Konarak is a 47m (154ft) long Hendijan-class logistical support vessel that was made in the Netherlands and bought by Iran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.", "East Coast train operator LNER is to introduce mandatory seat reservations on all train services from Monday.\n\nThe measure, to help social distancing on trains, will mean passengers with flexible tickets will have to pick a service to travel on, in advance.\n\nThe company operates services between London and Leeds, and Edinburgh, York, Newcastle and London,\n\nSeparately, Avanti West Coast is urging customers to reserve tickets, but has not made it compulsory.\n\nHowever, it says passengers may not be allowed to get on a train if they do not have a reservation.\n\nAvanti, which runs services linking London, Glasgow, Manchester and Birmingham, is also encouraging people to wear face coverings when they travel.\n\nChiltern Railways is also advising its passengers to book tickets in advance where possible and to wear masks.\n\nLNER confirmed its shift to mandatory reservations in a tweet.\n\nThis contained \"tips\" for passengers, travelling on its trains, including:\n\nThe company concluded by asking: \"Can you travel another way? Help us keep the trains clear for those who really need them.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by London North Eastern Railway 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\nLNER said passengers would have to make a seat reservation if they have a flexible ticket that does not have a reservation, or if they are a season ticket holder.\n\nCustomers will not be charged for making a reservation.\n\nExisting seat reservations are still valid, but will no longer be linked to a specific seat number. LNER said it was asking passengers to choose their own seat on board the train.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"The safety of our staff and customers is always our top priority. To support social distancing for customers who do need to travel with us at this time, all LNER services will be reservation only from Monday 18 May 2020.\n\n\"We will have full details updated on our website over the weekend. LNER services continue to operate for those who have no alternative travel options.\"\n\nAvanti's new measures also take effect on Monday and the company said it may not allow carriages to be more than a quarter full.\n\n\"We're appealing to our valued customers to help us and other passengers by only travelling with a reservation,\" said Avanti West Coast's managing director Phil Whittingham.\n\n\"If everyone does this, we'll be able to keep social distancing in place on board, both for our customers and our people.\n\n\"If customers do turn up without a reservation, we'll do our best to help but we can't guarantee they'll be able to take the train they want.\"\n\nThe train operator is asking passengers to book in advance on the Avanti mobile app where possible, and to avoid using facilities at the station or handling cash.\n\nPeople should also check before they travel, in case the time of their train has changed.\n\nOther measures being introduced by Avanti include face masks for staff, while waiting rooms and lounges will be shut.\n\nThere will also be enhanced cleaning procedures on board trains and at stations, focusing especially on cleaning door buttons, grab handles, tables and all touch points, as well as equipment such as phones, chip and pin machines, self-service ticket machines and point of sale systems.\n\nShops on board Voyager services, which travel between London and destinations such as Blackpool, Shrewsbury, Birmingham, Edinburgh and North Wales, will be closed and no food and drink will be available.\n\nThe shops on Pendolino services will still be open, but re-usable coffee cups will not be accepted.\n\nAvanti said a new timetable was being brought in from Monday, in line with updated travel advice from the government that will see train services increase to about 70% of the normal timetable.\n\nDuring the coronavirus pandemic only half of normal rail services have been running.\n\nChiltern Railways also revealed a new timetable, which comes into force on 18 May, and has advised its passengers to book tickets in advance where possible and to wear masks.\n\nThe company - whose trains from London Marylebone travel on routes to Aylesbury, Oxford, Stratford-upon-Avon and Kidderminster - also told travellers to avoid rush hour and allow more time for their journey.\n\nMeanwhile, bus operator National Express says it has begun selling coach tickets for a restart to services on 1 July, subject to government advice.\n\nThe easing of travel restrictions is likely to be done gradually - the government has suggested that working hours might be staggered to limit passenger numbers.\n\nPeople in England who are allowed to return to work have been asked not to use public transport if possible.\n\nIf maintained, the two-metre social distancing measure would cut capacity on trains by up to 90%.\n\nA recent Transport Focus survey suggested more than 60% of UK passengers would not feel comfortable using public transport unless social distancing was in place.\n\nIt found 51% would not be happy unless passengers were required to wear masks.", "Fresh evidence that scam stores are exploiting Google's Shopping service to appear at the top of its search results has been discovered by the BBC.\n\nTwo sites offering hard-to-find gadgets at a discount were found to be using bogus checkout facilities that encourage customers to pay via a direct bank transfer.\n\nThis prevents users from recovering funds if they have second thoughts.\n\nOne officer who spent years investigating online crime told the BBC that the tech firm could introduce checks to better deter fraudsters, if it made this a priority.\n\nGoogle believes the sites were indeed engaged in fraudulent behaviour and told the BBC it had removed the ads involved.\n\nIt said it would now make unspecified changes to its automated and human-based review processes.\n\n\"Our priority is to protect our users, and we continue to update our enforcement policies and technologies to target fraudulent and bad actors,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"In 2019, our team took down approximately 2.7 billion bad ads.\"\n\nBoth Techziox.com and Shopzeal.co.uk went offline after the BBC contacted them. They did not respond to requests for comment.\n\nOn Thursday, Techziox was the highest-ranked store for several Oculus-related searches\n\nThe sites had earlier run ads for Oculus virtual-reality headsets, which are sold out or priced at a premium on most other sites.\n\nThe two stores claimed to have the products in stock and priced them at 15-23% below the norm.\n\nIn some cases, the ads took up most of the screen when viewed on a smartphone, increasing their chance of being clicked.\n\nThis mirrored the tactics of an earlier suspected scam site - MyTechDomestic - which also placed ads for Oculus headsets and was flagged to Google earlier this week.\n\nBut while MyTechDomestic only presented shoppers a way to pay by bank transfer, Techziox and Shopzeal both appear to provide an option to use a credit card.\n\nIf selected, the tool asks for the card's details including its CVV security code, and displays a \"Powered by Stripe\" logo - referring to a California-based internet payment processor.\n\nHowever, Stripe told the BBC that the box was not linked to its system and it did not handle payments for the sites.\n\nA credit-card payment tool did not process the details via Stripe, as indicated\n\nAn independent security researcher, who tracks scam sites, confirmed that the sites' code indicated the card details were instead sent to the stores' operators.\n\nIn any case, when users tried to use the service, it brought up an error message saying: \"Unfortunately, this payment method is not possible for new customers. Please choose another payment method.\"\n\nThe only other choice was bank transfer, and both Techziox and Shopzeal presented details of the same account at a Swindon-based bank.\n\nThis is a common tactic used by scam sites to obtain funds.\n\nIn previous cases, the police have said scammers use personal accounts belonging to individuals who are either complicit or have been coerced into sharing their bank details, and the money is typically withdrawn straight away over the counter or via cash machines.\n\nThe two sites were both built using Wordpress's web-publishing software, looked similar and listed the same team members alongside email addresses that did not work.\n\nGoogle places Shopping ads at the top of some desktop searches - in this case Techziox came second\n\nHowever, they gave different residential addresses as their respective headquarters - one in Southampton the other in Huddersfield - and used different domain registrars.\n\nThey also provided different VAT numbers. In both cases, HM Revenue and Customs said the details were invalid.\n\nTechziox appears to have been in operation for longer, and had been accused of being \"straight-up scammers\" by users of Trustpilot's review site.\n\nOne customer, Nicky Jones, told the BBC her 15-year-old daughter attempted to buy an Oculus Quest after saving for a long time and doing jobs to earn the cash.\n\n\"My daughter searched online and this company came up, so we purchased the item. I sent emails to the company and I had no emails back,\" she said.\n\n\"The most upsetting thing is we have lost £329. I would never take this money from my daughter, so I have lost the money. [It's] upsetting how people can do this and get away with this. It's wrong.\"\n\nAttempts to pay by credit card brought up a warning notice directing users to use a bank transfer option instead\n\nA security blogger who anonymously tracks electronics goods scams said: \"It's horrendous. This is the first time I've seen them use Google Shopping. Previously it was just Adwords.\"\n\nGoogle Shopping lets advertisers use images as well as words and is typically more prominent, he noted.\n\nScam sites can be \"difficult to identify,\" he added. \"But maybe Google shouldn't allow a website that's been registered in the last two months to be one of its Shopping results, if it wants to provide a trustworthy customer experience.\"", "Their work is normally highly classified, but military scientists at Porton Down in Wiltshire are now fighting coronavirus.\n\nSome of the same scientists who identified Novichok, the nerve agent used in the Salisbury poisoning, have been helping to analyse Covid-19 and finding ways to protect NHS staff.\n\nThe BBC's Defence Correspondent Jonathan Beale has been given exclusive access to the site.", "Three tents have been erected at the entrance to Stowfield Quarry on the closed A4136 outside of Coleford\n\nHuman remains were found in two suitcases when police responded to a call about a driver acting suspiciously, officers have said.\n\nGloucestershire Police was called to near Coleford in the Forest of Dean just after 22:30 BST on Tuesday.\n\nThe vehicle was identified, a man and a woman were questioned and then arrested, the force said.\n\nOfficers believe the remains are that of a woman but forensic examinations are ongoing to identify the victim.\n\nEarlier, detectives were given an additional 36 hours to continue questioning the man, who is in his 30s and from Wolverhampton, and the woman, who is in her 20s and from Birmingham,\n\nDet Ch Insp John Turner said: \"The nature of this incident is distressing and we're working around the clock to fully understand what has happened.\n\n\"Someone's life has been lost and our priority is to identify the victim and get answers for her family.\n\n\"Searches have taken place in the surrounding area for evidence gathering and contrary to media reports no remains have been found as part of these searches.\"\n\nRoad closures on the A4136 are expected to remain in place until Friday, officers said.\n\nThe road has been closed while inquiries continue\n\nA spokesman for the force said forensic testing to establish the identity of the victim was ongoing\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A&E visits in England have halved since the coronavirus outbreak started, dropping to their lowest level since records began.\n\nBefore the pandemic, about two million patients a month were visiting A&E but in April that dropped to 916,581.\n\nNHS bosses are concerned seriously ill patients are being put off seeking treatment.\n\nDrops in cancer referrals and routine operations were also seen as services were scaled back and staff redeployed.\n\nHealth experts said it could take months to get the NHS back to normal and tackle the backlog.\n\nThe drop in A&E visits - to just above 900,000 in April - was the lowest since records began in 2010.\n\nBefore the coronavirus outbreak, more than 2.1 million patients a month were visiting A&E. In March that dropped to 1.53 million.\n\nThere is particular concern that patients who have suffered strokes and heart problems have stayed away because of fears over coronavirus.\n\nNHS England clinical director for stroke Dr Deb Lowe said she and her fellow doctors were \"really worried\" that the numbers seeking help for stroke care had gone down.\n\nBreast screening is just one of many ways of detecting cancer\n\nData for other areas lags a month behind - so for routine treatments and cancer care NHS England has only been able to publish the data for March. Lockdown was announced in late March.\n\nGPs made 181,873 urgent cancer referrals during March - down from 196,425 on the same month in 2019.\n\nThe number of patients admitted for routine surgery and treatment, such as knee and hip operations, dropped by a third to 207,754, down from 305,356 in March 2019.\n\nHospitals were told to start stopping routine care to free up beds for the coronavirus peak.\n\nAt the end of last month Health Secretary Matt Hancock urged hospitals to re-start routine treatments - guidance has now been updated advising patients to isolate for two weeks before going in for surgery\n\nMeanwhile, community services have had to be scaled back as staff have been redeployed and face-to-face contact has had to be restricted.\n\nHealth visitors, for example, have been having to carry out most of their consultations with new mothers via phone or using video technology.\n\nMacmillan Cancer Support chief executive Lynda Thomas said despite urgent cancer care being prioritised during the lockdown, services were still affected, while she fears some patients were put off seeking help.\n\n\"Cancer must not become the forgotten 'C' in this pandemic.\"\n\nThree leading think tanks - the Nuffield Trust, King's Fund and Health Foundation - said restoring services was going to take time.\n\nThey warned staff were exhausted because they had been working flat out and needed time to recover.\n\nThe availability of protective kit, such as aprons and goggles, would need to be improved and expanded, while changes would need to be made to allow for social distancing and extra cleaning.\n\nWhat is more, capacity would still need to be set aside for a second peak.\n\nThe NHS is expected to use the space at the 10 field hospitals - known as Nightingales in England - to provide some of this. Only two of them are currently being used.\n\nNuffield Trust chief executive Nigel Edwards said: \"With the virus still at large there is no easy route back to the way things were before.\n\n\"Unfortunately that will mean people waiting much longer and some services being put on hold.\"", "Moscow has launched a mass screening programme for coronavirus antibodies, inviting people chosen at random from various age groups to clinics across the city.\n\nThe hope is that the test results can allow the authorities to map their way out of lockdown, despite uncertainty over how much immunity to Covid-19 the antibodies actually provide.\n\nThree dozen Moscow clinics are collecting intravenous blood samples, which are sent to laboratories for analysis overnight.\n\nRussian doctors believe the method, known as IFA, is more accurate than express-testing used elsewhere.\n\nIt identifies the Immunoglobulin M antibody (IgM), which appears when the body is fighting a new infection, and Immunoglobulin G (IgG) which shows that someone has previously been infected.\n\nSwabs for Covid-19 itself are taken at the same time.\n\nFree tests will be given to 70,000 people every three days, allowing Moscow to build a much clearer picture of the spread of the virus since the start of the epidemic – as well as isolating anyone who is sick, but didn’t realise it.\n\nThis is in addition to widespread coronavirus testing of those with symptoms that’s already taking place.\n\n\"If that’s what’s needed, then it’s needed,\" one man who had received a text-message inviting him for testing told the BBC. \"The main thing is that it’s free!\"\n\nVladimir Putin this week announced that the full nationwide lockdown was over, instructing regional leaders to decide when to lift specific restrictions.\n\nMoscow’s mayor has described that as the \"most difficult decision\" of his life, and schools and playgrounds, bars and many businesses remain closed until at least 31 May.\n\nRussia currently has one of the world’s highest rates of coronavirus infection, with 10,598 new cases detected on Friday.", "Police in England and Wales have issued more than 14,000 fines for alleged breaches of lockdown laws.\n\nThe figures, from 27 March to 11 May, show the most fixed penalty notices - 906 - were handed out in London, by the Metropolitan Police.\n\nThe data covers the period before the penalty rose from £60 to £100 in England after the rules were eased.\n\nIt has also been disclosed that 56 people have been wrongly charged with offences relating to the pandemic.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council says 13,445 fines were issued by forces in England and 799 in Wales for breaches of social distancing rules brought in to fight the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThese include restrictions on people's right to move around or be part of a gathering.\n\nAfter the Met Police, the Thames Valley force imposed the next highest number of notices (866), followed by North Yorkshire (843) and Devon and Cornwall (799).\n\nBy contrast, Warwickshire Police issued only 31, the Staffordshire force just 52 and Gwent 71.\n\nThere were 862 repeat offenders, including one person who has been fined nine times.\n\nThe times when the most fines were imposed were during sunny weather at Easter, with almost 600 handed out on Saturday 11 April and another 500 the following day.\n\nBut the National Police Chiefs' Council says its figures show officers are taking a \"proportionate\" approach - with only one in 5,000 people across England and Wales fined.\n\nIt comes as the Department of Health said it recorded another 384 deaths of people in the UK, bringing the total number to have died following a positive coronavirus test to 33,998, as of 17:00 BST on 14 May.\n\nThe coronavirus laws were drawn up and implemented at such pace that problems were inevitable.\n\nWhen the measures came into force in March, police didn't have any bespoke tickets for lockdown fines because they had not yet been printed, so they had to improvise by scribbling details on other penalty notices.\n\nThen it emerged that children had been fined - even though the regulations don't allow it; and now we've learned that all 44 of those charged under the Coronavirus Act should not have been prosecuted at all under the emergency legislation.\n\nIt seems, from what the CPS and police have said, that the errors have caused no great injustice to those involved.\n\nNevertheless, the number of mistakes suggests there's been a serious failure to explain the purpose and reach of the new laws to those who have to apply it.\n\nThere are separate rules for managing the threat of coronavirus in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe first fine someone could receive if police believed they were flouting restrictions in England rose from £60 to £100 on Wednesday.\n\nThis will be lowered to £50 if paid within 14 days but fines will double for each repeat offence, up to a maximum of £3,200.\n\nThe fine imposed in Wales is £60, reduced to £30 if paid within two weeks. It can be doubled for each repeat offence up to a £960 maximum.\n\nThe rules in England were loosened this week, and now allow a person to spend unlimited time outdoors for recreation or exercise as long as they do so alone, with members of their own household. - or with one person from another household.\n\nSocial distancing of two metres still has to be observed, although police do not enforce this guidance because it has not been written into the law.\n\nSeparate figures show that 231 people have been brought to court for offences relating to coronavirus.\n\nBut a review by the Crown Prosecution Service found that 56 suspects had been charged incorrectly.\n\nAll 44 charges brought under the Coronavirus Act, allowing police to detain a \"suspected infectious person\" for assessment, were incorrect.\n\nAnd 12 charges under the Health Protection Regulations 2020, which give powers to break up gatherings and restrict movement, were brought wrongly.\n\nThe CPS said safeguards had now been put in place.\n\nIt added that many of the mistakes had come about because of Welsh regulations being used in England, or vice versa.", "League Two clubs vote to end season, but League One teams fail to decide Last updated on .From the section League Two\n\nAn unweighted points-per-game system would see Swindon leapfrog Crewe into first place in League Two League Two's season has been brought to an early conclusion following discussions between clubs and the English Football League on Friday. The EFL said clubs \"unanimously indicated\" they wished to end the season via a \"framework\" that included tables being decided on points per game and the play-offs remaining as planned. Any move still needs to be ratified by the EFL and Football Association. But League One sides face further talks after failing to come to an agreement. Six third-tier clubs had said prior to the meeting that they were determined to complete their remaining fixtures - and are now set to meet again on Monday in an attempt to find a resolution. Peterborough United, Oxford United, Sunderland, Fleetwood, Portsmouth and Ipswich Town released a joint statement saying they had \"no desire for voiding the season, points-per-game scenarios or letting a computer decide our footballing fate\".\n• None Follow updates from Friday's League One and League Two meetings Although it is understood some League Two sides wanted to use a weighted points-per-game system to finalise the table, the EFL has confirmed an unweighted points-per-game system was agreed upon. Both of those methods would have seen Stevenage stay bottom - yet clubs have also requested that relegation from the fourth tier is removed this season. \"Clubs asked for consideration to be given to suspending relegation to the National League for 2019-20 as a result of circumstances created where fixtures cannot be completed,\" said the EFL in a statement. \"No commitments were made in this respect and the board will now consider the implications of the division's preferred approach at their next meeting.\" Stevenage owner Phil Wallace told BBC Sport: \"My preference is to finish the league so we have the opportunity to play our way out of trouble. \"We have 10 games to play and are three points behind, with a game in hand. Why should I think it was not possible to get out of it? \"The League Two clubs cannot decide this. We can only tell the EFL of their indicative position but that is the collective view. \"It would cost us £140,000 for the tests, we would have to bring players out of furlough and comply with a 47-page health and safety document regarding sterilisation of stadiums etc. \"I don't know what this would mean for the National League.\" Who would make up the places at the top? The EFL is set to discuss Friday's recommendations at a board meeting next Wednesday. Swindon Town would overtake Crewe Alexandra to claim the title using the points-per-game method, with Plymouth Argyle staying in the third and final automatic promotion spot. The four teams currently in the play-offs - Exeter City, Cheltenham Town, Colchester United and Northampton Town - would remain there, but Cheltenham would move above Exeter and into fourth. Why can't they restart? Attempting to resume the League One and League Two campaigns was always likely to to be more difficult than in the Championship and Premier League, which could begin again in mid-June behind closed doors. Many clubs in the third and fourth tiers have furloughed their players and, with no crowds allowed into stadiums for the foreseeable future, it would cost them money to stage games. EFL chairman Rick Parry has also said 1,400 players across the league's three divisions are out of contract on 30 June. The majority of those players are in League One and League Two. The National League decided to end its three divisions immediately on 22 April but was waiting on the EFL to announce an outcome before deciding on promotion and relegation. Timeline: How did we get to this point?\n• None 10 March - Last games played in Leagues One & Two\n• None EFL suspended until at least 3 April\n• None Season 'can be finished in 56 days'\n• None 15 May - League Two season ended, League One undecided", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA baby girl, whose body was found in a household recycling centre, is thought to have been taken there in a bin lorry.\n\nThe newborn, thought to be less than 48 hours old, was found by staff at the Sackers facility in Needham Market, Suffolk, shortly after 15:00 BST on Thursday.\n\nThe death is being treated as unexplained.\n\nPolice want to speak to the mother as they are concerned for her welfare.\n\nA Suffolk Police spokesman said they believed \"the most likely scenario\" was that the baby was taken to the recycling centre via refuse collection from Ipswich and the surrounding area.\n\nHowever, he said a number of possibilities were still being explored.\n\nIt is thought the baby's body was taken to the recycling centre during a refuse collection\n\nDet Ch Supt Eamonn Bridger said: \"It's our current thinking it is likely the baby was born within the last 48 hours.\n\n\"We can only imagine the emotional distress and physical distress that lady's been through, and it's essential she gets the help of medical professionals that she needs.\n\n\"Obviously we keep a really open mind about the nature of the investigation but at this time the absolute priority is her wellbeing.\"\n\nDet Ch Supt Bridger made a direct appeal to the mother, or anyone who knows who she might be, to come forward.\n\nHe said detectives had been at the recycling site since \"staff made the shocking and tragic discovery\", and a team had remained there overnight as investigations continued.\n\nA spokeswoman for Sackers said: \"Our recycling sorting facilities are so thorough that we believe the baby was found very quickly once it was at our Needham Market site.\"\n\nShe said the company was supporting the staff who found the baby's body and assisting Suffolk Police with its investigations.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A test to find out whether people have been infected with coronavirus in the past has been approved by health officials in England.\n\nPublic Health England said the antibody test, developed by Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche, was a \"very positive development\".\n\nThe blood test looks for antibodies to see if a person has already had the virus and might now have some immunity.\n\nUntil now, officials have said such tests are not reliable enough.\n\nThe government previously spent a reported £16m buying antibody tests which later proved to be ineffective.\n\nSources told the BBC the Roche test was the first one to offer serious potential.\n\nAntibodies are made by our immune system as it learns to fight an infection.\n\nFinding antibodies that attack the coronavirus show that person has been infected in the past, but they do not prove they are protected against it in the future.\n\nExperts at the government's Porton Down facility evaluated the Roche test last week, Public Health England said.\n\nRoche found that if someone had been infected, it gave the correct result 100% of the time.\n\nIf someone had not caught coronavirus then it gave the correct result more than 99.8% of the time.\n\nIt means fewer than two in 1,000 healthy people would be incorrectly told they had previously caught the coronavirus.\n\nHealth minister Edward Argar said the tests would mainly be used on those in the NHS and social care settings to begin with.\n\nHe could not give an exact date for when the testing could start.\n\nProf John Newton, national coordinator of the UK coronavirus testing programme, said: \"This is a very positive development because such a highly specific antibody test is a very reliable marker of past infection.\n\n\"This in turn may indicate some immunity to future infection, although the extent to which the presence of antibodies indicates immunity remains unclear.\"\n\nRoche is understood to be in talks with the Department of Health and Social Care about possible use by the NHS in England, though other testing products are also being assessed.\n\nHealth officials in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland make their own decisions, but are likely to follow suit if England does adopt it.\n\nThe test already has approval from medical regulators in the EU and the United States.\n\nThe main use of an antibody test is to find out how many people have been infected.\n\nThe official figures are only a fraction of the total number - not everybody is getting tested and some people are being infected without developing symptoms.\n\nAntibody tests will help answer questions such as how far and how easily the virus has spread and, crucially, how deadly it really is.\n\nThe second use - helping to lift lockdown - is highly controversial.\n\nThe idea is if you have antibodies, then you can go back to work. This could be particularly helpful in hospitals and care homes full of vulnerable people, if you could guarantee the staff were immune.\n\nBut having antibodies does not automatically mean you cannot get sick or harbour the virus and pass it on to others.\n\nWorld Health Organization scientists advise against using so called \"immunity passports\" because of the lack of evidence.\n\nThe swab tests currently being carried out in the UK determine whether someone has the virus at the time of the test.\n\nThese will remain the core part of the government's test, track and trace strategy for containing the spread of the virus.\n\nAnother 428 coronavirus deaths have been recorded across the UK, bringing the total number of deaths for people who have tested positive for the virus to 33,614.\n\nSir John Bell, regius professor of medicine at Oxford University, described the Roche test as a \"major step forward\".\n\nBut although it could determine whether someone had had the infection, it did not determine \"for sure\" whether they would be protected from the virus in future, he said.\n\n\"We have still yet to completely understand what a positive result actually means,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. \"So we're not there yet.\"\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesperson said: \"We have talked about, in the future, the potential for some kind of health certificate related to whether or not you have antibodies.\"\n\nBut the spokesperson stressed more information was needed on immunity and coronavirus \"to better understand the potential of the test\".\n\nThe World Health Organization has previously warned governments not to issue so-called \"immunity passports\" or \"risk-free certificates\" as a way of easing lockdowns.\n\nLast week, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the UK was in talks with Roche about a \"very large-scale roll-out\" of coronavirus antibody testing.\n\nBut he acknowledged there had been \"false hope before\" and that he would only make an announcement when the government was \"absolutely ready\".\n\nBBC Reality Check correspondent Chris Morris said other European countries were already carrying out limited antibody testing programmes.\n\nIn Germany, 61,299 antibody tests were conducted last week, according to the Accredited Laboratories for Medicine association (ALM).\n\nIn Spain, the health ministry said on Wednesday that preliminary results of one study, based on more than 60,000 antibody tests around the country, suggested about 5% of the population had been infected by coronavirus so far.", "As countries in Europe start to emerge from lockdown, they’re experimenting with ways to get people dining out again.\n\nAn innovative solution in Amsterdam is currently being trialled and tested. It hopes it will provide a way to help people adjust from isolation to a degree of social contact.\n\nFrom 1 June, Dutch bars can reopen their terraces with restrictions in place. Restaurants, bars, cinemas, theatres and museums will also start operating again, under strict conditions; only with reservations and people must maintain a 1.5m distance.", "\"Very little progress\" has been made in the latest round of UK-EU trade talks, the UK government has said.\n\nThe UK's negotiator David Frost said a far-reaching free trade agreement could be agreed before the end of the year \"without major difficulties\".\n\nBut it was being held up by the EU's desire to \"bind\" the UK to its laws and seek unfair access to fishing waters.\n\nThe EU's Michel Barnier suggested the UK's own demands were \"not realistic\" and warned of a looming stalemate.\n\nSpeaking in Brussels, the bloc's chief negotiator said \"no progress had been made on the most difficult issues\".\n\nAsked by the BBC's Europe editor Katya Adler what the chances were of an agreement. Mr Barnier said he was \"still determined but not optimistic\".\n\nThe EU, he added, would not accept a deal \"at any price\" and it was stepping up preparations for a no-deal outcome, in which the two sides would trade with each other under World Trade Organisation rules.\n\nInsisting the EU would not negotiate \"in haste\", he said the UK must consider whether it was feasible to strike a deal before the end of 2020, when the current 11-month transition period is due to end.\n\nThe UK has said it will not extend the process beyond 31 December, despite coming under growing pressure at home to allow more time for a deal due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe two sides have been discussing their future economic and security partnership following the UK's withdrawal from the 27-member bloc on 31 January.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Frost said there was a \"good understanding\" between the negotiators but that little or no progress had been on the most \"significant outstanding issues\".\n\nFormer EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker used to describe Brexit talks as being like a \"dance\" and regularly rolled out the stock phrase that \"it takes two to tango\".\n\nThere's no dancing anymore. Today Michel Barnier made clear he'd rejected any such romantic terms for these trade negotiations, telling reporters it was neither \"a dance nor a tango or any other kind of dance\".\n\nHe said the teams weren't \"even in the same room\" and this wasn't nearly as effective as getting together around a table.\n\nThe hours of screen time have led to an impasse, with both sides now urging the other to change strategy, and to understand the other's position more clearly.\n\nI spoke to Spanish and French diplomats in Brussels. \"Quelle surprise\" was the view. They believe both sides will \"continue to play tough and offer little ground\" and that genuine compromise may come in a month, for the fourth and final scheduled round before the summer.\n\nBut few officials here are following the twists and turns with the dedication of the past. The urgency of dealing with the pandemic has reduced the attention to Brexit.\n\nHe said the EU was insisting upon a \"set of novel and unbalanced proposals\" in relation to competition issues that went well beyond other comparable trade agreements struck with other major economies.\n\nThe UK, he said, would not agree to \"a so-called level playing field which would bind this country to EU law or standards, or determine our domestic legal regimes\".\n\nThe EU's Michel Barnier said he was \"not optimistic\" about the prospects of an agreement by the end of 2020\n\nA level-playing field is a term for a set of common rules and standards that prevent businesses in one country undercutting their rivals and gaining a competitive advantage over those operating in other countries.\n\nThe EU, Mr Frost added, was seeking continued access to UK fishing waters after the transition period \"in a way that is incompatible with our future status as an independent coastal state\".\n\n\"It is hard to understand why the EU insists on an ideological approach which makes it more difficult to reach a mutually beneficial agreement,\" he said.\n\n\"We very much need a change in EU approach for the next round beginning on 1 June.\n\n\"The UK will continue to work hard to find an agreement, for as long as there is a constructive process in being, and continues to believe that this is possible.\"\n\nMr Frost said the UK would make public all its draft legal texts next week so EU member states and interested observers \"can see our approach in detail\".\n\nIn his update, Mr Barnier said the EU's aim was a \"modern, forward-looking\" agreement which would avoid any tariffs or quotas on trade.\n\nBut he said it was not prepared to \"copy and paste\" aspects of existing agreements with Canada, Japan and South Korea or do sector-by-sector deals \"rooted in past precedents\".\n\nTariff-free access to the EU's single market had to be accompanied by obligations, he added, and the UK could not \"pick and choose\" which of these it adhered to.\n\n\"You cannot have the best of both worlds,\" he said. \"Open and fair competition is not a nice to have. It is a must-have.\"\n\nA \"new dynamism\" would be needed in the next round of talks to deliver \"tangible progress\", he added.\n\nMr Barnier said he would listen to concerns the UK had about the treatment of British expats on the continent as part of the implementation of the Withdrawal Agreement governing the terms of the UK's exit.", "Transport for London has had to significantly reduce Tube services because of coronavirus\n\nTransport for London (TfL) has secured £1.6bn in emergency funding to keep Tube and bus services running until September.\n\nUnder the bailout's terms, London mayor Sadiq Khan is expected to restore a full Underground service as soon as possible.\n\nHe has also agreed to increase bus and Tube fares by 1% above inflation.\n\nMr Khan had urged the government to provide support or risk TfL running out of money.\n\nThe BBC has been told a £500m loan agreed with the Department for Transport forms part of the total.\n\nA mayoral source said the government had \"belatedly agreed financial support for TfL to deal with Covid-19 - as they have for every other train and bus operator in the country\".\n\n\"They have forced ordinary Londoners to pay a very heavy price for doing the right thing on Covid-19 by hiking TfL fares, temporarily suspending the Freedom Pass at busy times and loading TfL with debt that Londoners will pay for in the long run.\"\n\nMr Khan's offer to raise fares by 1% above inflation goes against a pledge made during this year's mayoral election campaign.\n\nIn the run-up to the ballot, since deferred until 2021, he had promised \"cost of living\" increases in line with the Retail Price Index.\n\nTfL had said it would have been forced to issue a Section 114 notice - the equivalent of a public body going bust - if no deal had been reached by the end of the day.\n\nTfL said it had not seen such rapidly reducing passenger numbers in 100 years\n\nLondon mayor Conservative candidate Shaun Bailey said the government had had to take control of the TfL board and its finances, adding: \"The coronavirus highlighted existing structural flaws within TfL's balance sheet - the primary cause was our profligate mayor.\"\n\nLondon's Transport Commissioner Mike Brown, said: \"We have worked closely with the government and mayor as part of the national effort to fight the virus, rapidly reducing passenger numbers to levels not seen for 100 years.\n\n\"Enormous challenges remain, including agreeing longer term sustainable funding for transport in the capital.\n\n\"In the meantime, we will continue to do everything in our power to help deliver a successful recovery for our great city.\"\n\nManuel Cortes, general secretary of the TSSA transport union, said the funding would prevent services \"coming to a halt\".\n\nMick Whelan, general secretary of the train driver's union Aslef, said: \"It would have been a disaster for the capital, and the country, if the Tube network - and London buses - had stopped running.\"\n\nIn 2019-20 Transport for London earned £4.9bn from fares -making up 47% of the transport authority's income\n\nIt costs £600m a month to keep the network running on its current reduced service.\n\nThe lockdown has led to a 95% cut in people using the Tube compared to this time last year.\n\nThe number of bus passengers has also dropped, by 85%, and customers no longer have to tap-in to pay for rides as part of measures to protect drivers.\n\nMost TfL services are still running, but 7,000 staff - about 25% of the workforce - have been furloughed to cut costs.\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. Elisa Granato was the first volunteer to be injected in a human trial\n\nA vaccine against coronavirus appears to have provided protection against the disease Covid-19 in six rhesus macaque monkeys.\n\nIt gives early hope for the vaccine, which is now undergoing human clinical trials.\n\nThere is no guarantee this result will translate to people, though.\n\nA group of monkeys was exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The six animals that were vaccinated had less of the virus in their lungs and airways.\n\nThe trial took place in the US, involving researchers from the US government's National Institutes of Health (NIH) and from the University of Oxford.\n\nThe vaccine appeared to protect the animals against developing pneumonia.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus vaccine: How close are you to getting one?\n\nPromisingly, the animals also didn't develop \"immune-enhanced disease\" - which BBC News medical correspondent Fergus Walsh describes as a \"theoretical risk\". That's when the vaccine triggers a worse response to a disease.\n\nThis response was seen in some early animal vaccine trials against SARS - another coronavirus - and proved a stumbling block in developing a vaccine for that disease.\n\nThe study hasn't yet been reviewed by other scientists and formally published, but Prof Stephen Evans at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, described it as \"high quality\" and \"very encouraging\".\n\nMeanwhile, trials in the UK on more than 1,000 human volunteers are currently taking place through the University of Oxford.\n\nThere are more than 100 experimental coronavirus vaccines currently being developed.\n\nDr Penny Ward, a visiting professor in pharmaceutical medicine at King's College London, said it was \"helpful\" to see that the vaccine didn't cause a worse disease response in these monkeys, and that they didn't develop pneumonia after being vaccinated.\n\nThe vaccine is based on a small part of the virus's distinctive \"spike\". The idea is that by getting the body to recognise a unique part of the virus, when it is exposed to the whole thing it will know how to react, and produce the right antibodies to fight it off.\n\nThat did seem to be happening to the vaccinated macaques, which produced antibodies capable of fighting the virus.", "Some NHS managers have tried to stop doctors speaking publicly about shortages of personal protective equipment, the BBC has been told.\n\nWhistleblowersUK said more than 100 healthcare workers had contacted them since the beginning of March, raising concerns about Covid-19 and PPE.\n\nThe Department of Health said no one should be prevented from speaking up.\n\nBut Newsnight has seen evidence of pressure being applied to doctors to not share concerns they have about PPE.\n\nA newsletter sent out to staff at one trust suggested subjects for tweets, such as thanking staff for their hard work, paying tribute to retired NHS staff who had returned to the workforce and retweeting posts from the trust's account.\n\nIt specified that staff were to avoid \"commenting on political issues, such as PPE\".\n\nAnother trust put up posters in hospital staff areas which told healthcare workers not to \"make public appeals for equipment, donations or volunteers\".\n\nOne doctor who had posted concerns about PPE shortages online spoke to BBC Newsnight anonymously, for fear of reprisal from his hospital.\n\n\"They hauled me up in front of a panel of senior managers - it was very, very intimidating\", he said.\n\n\"They kept on feeding me what felt like government type of lines, saying 'this hospital has never had PPE shortages' - which I know to be factually untrue. And that essentially I should stop causing a fuss.\n\n\"There have been colleagues who've died at my hospital. And there have been a handful more who've been in ICU (intensive care units).\n\n\"It's very, very concerning that we can't even say our colleagues have died, please don't let us be next.\"\n\nAnother doctor told the programme they were called into a meeting with senior NHS managers after speaking to the press about a lack of PPE.\n\nThey said they were told by their manager that if they continued to speak out they would get a \"reputation\" and \"find it hard to get a job at that trust or others in the region\".\n\nThe doctor said: \"I was told we need positive messaging that suggested everyone in the NHS is working very hard, we are doing our best in the pandemic. I was told this is what we need to be putting out, not negative stories.\"\n\nDr Jenny Vaughan, law and policy lead at campaigning organisation Doctors' Association UK, said their concerns \"weren't listened to properly\".\n\n\"These are people who had tried the right channels. These are people genuinely raising concerns who went to the people who should have listened to them and felt either they couldn't raise a concern or they weren't listened to.\n\n\"If you have a transparent, open culture of reporting and people feel free that they can speak up about safety concerns, it saves lives\".\n\nWhistleblowingUK is a not-for-profit organisation that helps people who want to make anonymous disclosures.\n\n\"The system is completely broken,\" said Georgina Halford-Hall, its chief executive.\n\n\"What we see time and time again in the evidence that comes back is that when an individual has raised a concern it goes straight to HR, who immediately begin to investigate the whistle-blower and look for things that they're doing wrong rather than looking at the actual issues that they're raising.\n\n\"The default position is an auto-immune response against the whistle-blower, and not - absolutely no intention whatsoever - to investigate or look into the allegations that they make.\"\n\nConservative MP and chair of the all-party parliamentary group for whistleblowing, Mary Robinson, said: \"If we don't listen to the concerns of people on the front line we don't have the right tools to deal with issues like PPE shortages\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"Whistleblowers perform a vital and courageous service in ensuring safe care, and no one should ever be prevented from speaking up or discriminated against if they do.\n\n\"Freedom to Speak Up Guardians are now established in every NHS trust in England to ensure workers who speak up are listened to, thanked and supported, and they have handled over 19,000 cases in the last two years.\"", "A mental health nurse and a midwife who both worked at the same hospital trust died after contracting coronavirus.\n\nLillian Mudzivare, 41, and Safaa Alam, 30, worked at Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Trust and died on Wednesday.\n\nFour members of the staff at the trust have now died with Covid-19 after the deaths of paediatric consultant Dr Vishna Rasiah and Mark Piggott.\n\nMore than 100 NHS staff and healthcare workers have died in the pandemic.\n\nMrs Alam's husband, Shazad, said there was an \"empty feeling and space in my life\" left by her \"premature\" death.\n\n\"Saf was my beautiful and full-of-life wife. She was my childhood sweetheart and we grew up together,\" he said.\n\nMrs Mudzivare's husband, Moses, and their daughters issued a statement to say they were \"devastated to lose such a wonderful person\".\n\n\"She was a very proud nurse, always caring for those who needed her help,\" they said.\n\nAnother member of staff at the trust, Dr Vishna Rasiah, has also died with Covid-19\n\nThe trust's chief executive, Sarah-Jane Marsh, said Mrs Alam was an \"amazing midwife whose skills and expertise helped to bring hundreds of new lives into the world\".\n\nShe said Mrs Mudzivare had \"touched the lives of everyone who knew her\" through her work as a mental health nurse and she thanked her for her \"commitment to the well-being of young people\" in Birmingham.\n\nColleagues said they were \"so sad\" to lose Mrs Alam and Mrs Mudzivare.\n\n\"Safaa was loved by all of us here at Birmingham Women's,\" the trust's head of midwifery, Rachel Carter, said.\n\nShe said Mrs Alam was \"a true role model, but she was also a dear friend and the glue to our team\".\n\nElaine Kirwan, the deputy chief nurse for mental health services, said: \"We were so proud when Lillian joined our team.\n\n\"She was a beautiful person, great friend, loved by us all.\"\n\nPaediatric consultant Dr Vishna Rasiah, 48, who died in April, was described as \"an amazing doctor\" who was \"passionate about the care of babies and their families\".\n\nMark Piggott had a \"passion for developing buildings that enhance the experience of patients,\" colleagues said\n\nMark Piggott, 57, died on 1 May following treatment for the coronavirus disease. He had recently joined the trust and worked to improve the facilities and estates at the hospitals.\n\nHe was passionate about \"the role that a therapeutic environment can play in the outcomes of women, children, young people and families,\" Ms Marsh said.\n\nMr Piggott leaves his wife, Julie, and two sons. Daniel and Alex, who were \"devastated\" to say goodbye to \"a loving husband and fantastic dad\".\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "Rapid testing and an adequate supply of protective equipment must be in place when the NHS reopens services cancelled during the peak of the coronavirus oubreak, health unions have said.\n\nThe unions have put forward a nine-point plan for the NHS to reopen safely as lockdown restrictions ease.\n\nAnd staff working through the crisis should be paid overtime and a public sector pay freeze ruled out, they say.\n\nThe government has said it is working \"around the clock\" to provide more PPE.\n\nNHS England has told hospitals to restart routine and non-urgent operations and procedures which were put on hold to create more capacity for Covid-19 patients.\n\nBut 16 unions, including Unison, the Royal College of Nursing, Unite and GMB, said they wanted the NHS to continue to operate a \"safety-first\" approach as outpatient clinics and operations resume.\n\nThey said they wanted to avoid a repeat of the PPE supply problems which \"sapped\" staff confidence and \"caused widespread and unnecessary anxiety\".\n\nAccess to readily available PPE was also important as employers in other parts of the economy begin to open up their workplaces and source protective kit for staff, they added.\n\nMoving towards a \"new normal\" for NHS hospitals could be almost as big a challenge as coping with the immense pressure during the April peak of Covid-19 patient admissions.\n\nThat's the fear of health unions with their new call to ministers and health leaders in the UK's national administrations.\n\nIt comes after NHS England told hospitals to restart routine surgery and procedures. Unions want assurances on future supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE) which will be needed for non-urgent operations as well as intensive care.\n\nThey say members who have been working under great strain are vulnerable to burn out and should be rotated out of the most stressful environments.\n\nThey want to be convinced that social distancing will be properly observed in A&E. NHS England says new guidelines have been set out with staff and patient safety paramount.\n\nBut there is a lot of discussion still to be had about how the health service will attempt to cope with the backlog of postponed work as well as watching out for another spike in virus cases.\n\nUnison's Sara Gorton, who also chairs the NHS group of unions, said the health sector faced another \"crucial test\" after handling the outbreak.\n\nShe added: \"As hospitals get busier, and clinics and other services begin to reopen, the safety of staff and patients is paramount.\n\n\"But this can't happen without plentiful and constant PPE supplies.\n\n\"Tackling Covid has been a huge challenge, but this next phase will be a crucial test, too.\"\n\nThe unions represent more than one million workers across the UK, including nurses, midwives, 999 call handlers, cleaners, porters and paramedics.\n\nOther measures in their plan include ensuring two-metre social distancing rules are maintained, allowing some staff to work from home and regularly redeploying staff working in high-risk areas to those under less pressure.\n\nSome 40,000 staff who have returned to the NHS could be moved to help short-staffed areas, the unions say.\n\nThey also called for staff to be paid for every hour worked.\n\n\"Talk of future pay freezes to pay the bill for the pandemic will outrage nursing, health care staff and the public alike,\" said Hannah Reed, from the Royal College of Nursing.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph this week reported that a confidential Treasury assessment of the coronavirus crisis estimates it will cost the exchequer almost £300bn this year and could require measures including a two-year public sector pay freeze.\n\nFigures released this week show the number of A&E visits in England has halved since the coronavirus outbreak started\n\nHealth experts have warned that it could take months to get the NHS back to normal.\n\nCancer screening has paused in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland - with few invitations sent out in England.\n\nFigures released this week show the number of A&E visits in England has halved. since the coronavirus outbreak started, dropping to their lowest level since records began.\n\nDanny Mortimer, chief executive of NHS Employers, \"There should not though be a return to business as usual whether in the short, medium or long term, but a reset.\n\n\"Health leaders want to establish the impact of the last few months on staff and how best to improve how they are looked after for the longer term.\"", "Welsh Secretary Simon Hart says the UK and Welsh governments have “worked closely together every step of the way” after First Minister Mark Drakeford announced Wales’ lockdown exit plan.\n\nMr Drakeford said he was “disappointed” over a lack of communication with the UK government over the last week.\n\nWelsh Conservatives in the Senedd have criticised the Welsh Government's roadmap out of the lockdown for a lack of detail on dates, but the exit strategy was welcomed by Mr Hart.\n\n\"Throughout the coronavirus crisis, the UK and Welsh Governments have worked closely together every step of the way,\" he said.\n\n\"I am glad that this announcement brings that alignment even closer, providing more certainty for jobs and businesses across Wales.\n\n“The approach being taken by the Welsh Government in its roadmap will allow us to continue with a UK-wide response to the emergency at the same time as taking a flexible approach according to the data in different parts of the UK.\n\n“The UK Government is providing the devolved governments with testing, funding, and logistical support from our armed forces.\n\n“No one part of the UK could face this pandemic alone and the UK Government has provided unprecedented support to every part of the UK.\n\n“There are far more similarities than differences in the approaches of the nations of the UK.\n\n\"We entered this fight as a United Kingdom and we will come out of it equally united.\"\n\nSimon Hart says there are \"far more similarities than differences\" in the approaches of the nations of the UK Image caption: Simon Hart says there are \"far more similarities than differences\" in the approaches of the nations of the UK", "Nadine Dorries has deleted the post from her Twitter timeline\n\nHealth minister Nadine Dorries and two other Tory MPs have been ordered to \"check the validity\" of social media posts before sharing them.\n\nParty bosses spoke to the MPs after they retweeted false allegations about Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer.\n\nSir Keir said he was satisfied with the actions taken by the party and the MPs, who have deleted the tweets.\n\n\"There are more important things in the world to concentrate on than a doctored video of me,\" he added.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said: \"These tweets have rightly been deleted.\n\n\"The MPs involved have been spoken to by the Whips' Office and reminded of their responsibility to check the validity of information before they post on social media sites.\"\n\nAs director of public prosecutions between 2008 and 2013, Sir Keir was head of the Crown Prosecution Service, the body that decides whether or not to prosecute someone accused of a crime.\n\nThe clip shared by Ms Dorries and fellow Tory MPs Maria Caulfield and Lucy Allan was from a 2013 Channel 5 interview with Sir Keir.\n\nIn it, he appeared to be listing a series of reasons for not bringing charges against grooming gangs - including if the alleged victims had been in trouble with the police, or had been abusing drink or drugs.\n\nBut the clip does not include the reporter's question, which asks Sir Keir about the incorrect use of guidelines being used by the authorities in the reporting and investigating of child sexual abuse allegations.\n\nAs can be seen from the full exchange, Sir Keir was talking about how the police wrongly applied the guidelines, and how police culture had to change.\n\nMs Dorries retweeted the edited clip and allegations against Sir Keir, from the right-wing @NJamesWorld account, with the one word comment \"revealing\".\n\nLabour MP and shadow Treasury minister Wes Streeting replied: \"What's revealing is that: 1. You've spread fake news and indulged a smear being promoted by the far right. 2. You had time to do this despite being a minister in the Department of Health during a public health crisis.\n\n\"It's either malevolence or stupidity. Probably both.\"\n\nFormer senior prosecutor Nazir Afzal, who was involved in bringing a number of cases, said the clip was being used to suggest Sir Keir did not take child sexual abuse seriously, when the opposite was true.\n\n\"As national lead, I can assure you that he and I put right the failings of a generation of those who should have safeguarded children. He inherited failure and left success,\" he tweeted.\n\nEarlier, a Labour Party source said: \"This is a doctored video tweeted by a far-right social media account.\n\n\"As a government minister, we hope Nadine Dorries acknowledges this and takes it down.\"\n\nThe edited video was viewed more than 239,000 times before the @NJamesWorld account was suspended.\n\nMs Caulfield subsequently locked her Twitter account. while Ms Dorries and Ms Allan both deleted their tweets.", "London's Canary Wharf has drawn up detailed plans to bring back tens of thousands of bankers, lawyers and accountants to the financial district as the coronavirus pandemic eases.\n\nRules on lift capacity, one-way routes around the Manhattan-style towers, and staggered working will be put in place.\n\nThe Docklands complex, the European home of HSBC, Barclays and Citigroup, has a working population of 120,000.\n\nCanary Wharf expects a tenth of that to return over the next couple of weeks.\n\nLike vast swathes of the population, many employees at Canary Wharf have been working from home.\n\nHowever, as first reported in the Financial Times, with signs that the national lockdown is starting to ease, Canary Wharf has been talking to firms about measures to improve safety and social distancing.\n\nHoward Dawber managing director of strategy at Britain's single biggest office complex, told the BBC that the company was assuming that social distancing would be \"kept in place for some time\" by the government.\n\n\"We are talking about a new way of working, and we've had to re-think from first principles,\" he said. A lot of office and soft furnishings have been removed from the 16.5 million sq. ft. of office and retail space to enable greater social distancing.\n\nThere will also be restrictions on numbers using lifts. The company has calculated that with four people in each lift, its office tower at One Canada Square - the second highest building in the UK behind the Shard - can move 56 people every five minutes per lift bank.\n\nThis equates to almost 2,700 per hour over the four banks of eight lifts used in the 50-storey building.\n\nAfter talks with Canary Wharf's tenants, Mr Dawber expects between 10% and 20% of employees to return in the next few weeks. But he says a lot will depend on public transport availability and the re-opening of schools.\n\nBut the return to work comes amid debate about the future of office working and if the rise in video-conferencing during the lockdown will continue.\n\nLast month, the chief executive of Barclays, Jes Staley, said that having thousands of bank workers in big, expensive city offices \"may be a thing of the past\".\n\nThis had led to a rethink of the bank's long term \"location strategy\", Mr Staley said.\n\nMr Dawber said: \"May be home working during lockdown will accelerate trends, but big companies will still need a central hub.\"\n\n\"It's possible our next generation of interior design may be different, may involve more collaborative space like tech hubs,\" he said.\n\nIn addition to the workforce, Canary Wharf was getting 40,000 daily visitors before the lockdown.\n\nA survey from the Chartered Management Institute suggests 60% of its members want to split their working week between home and office after the pandemic.\n\nOccupational psychologists call it blended working and suggest it can improve productivity, motivation and job satisfaction.\n\nThey say blended work suits people who are motivated and organised.\n\nIt does not suit employees who need more structure and guidance - or those who don't have space at home.\n\nA substantial percentage of workers staying at home for half of the week would have unpredictable but potentially major ramifications.\n\nThere would be much more room on buses and trains, and traffic would be eased - meaning fewer emissions and cleaner air, and less spending on new roads.\n\nCar parks in city centres could become green space instead.\n\nThere would implications for commercial property prices as companies shrink their office space, and for residential property too, because statistics suggest that if people work partly at home, some choose to live even further from the office.\n• None Big offices may be in the past, says Barclays boss", "India's Covid-19 contact tracing app has been downloaded 100 million times, according to the information technology ministry, despite fears over privacy.\n\nThe app - Aarogya Setu, which means \"bridge to health\" in Sanskrit - was launched just six weeks ago.\n\nIndia has made it mandatory for government and private sector employees to download it.\n\nBut users and experts in India and around the world say the app raises huge data security concerns.\n\nUsing a phone's Bluetooth and location data, Aarogya Setu lets users know if they have been near a person with Covid-19 by scanning a database of known cases of infection.\n\nThe data is then shared with the government.\n\n\"If you've met someone in the last two weeks who has tested positive, the app calculates your risk of infection based on how recent it was and proximity, and recommends measures,\" Abhishek Singh, CEO of MyGov at India's IT ministry which built the app, told the BBC.\n\nWhile your name and number won't be made public, the app does collect this information, as well as your gender, travel history and whether you're a smoker.\n\nIs it mandatory to download the app?\n\nPrime Minster Narendra Modi has tweeted in support of the app, urging everyone to download it, and it's been made mandatory for citizens living in containment zones and for all government and private sector employees.\n\nNoida, a suburb of the capital, Delhi, has made it compulsory for all residents to have the app, saying they can be jailed for six months for not complying.\n\nFood delivery start-ups such as Zomato and Swiggy have also made it mandatory for all staff.\n\nBut the government directive is being questioned by some.\n\nIn an interview with The Indian Express newspaper, former Supreme Court judge BN Srikrishna said the drive to make people use the app was \"utterly illegal\".\n\n\"Under what law do you mandate it? So far it is not backed by any law,\" he told the newspaper.\n\nMIT Technology Review's Covid Tracing Tracker lists 25 contact tracing apps from countries around the globe - and there are concerns about some of them too.\n\nCritics say apps such as China's Health Code system, which records a user's spending history in order to deter them from breaking quarantine, is invasive.\n\n\"Forcing people to install an app doesn't make a success story. It just means that repression works,\" says French ethical hacker Robert Baptiste, who goes by the name Elliot Alderson.\n\nWhat are the main concerns about India's app?\n\nAarogya Setu stores location data and requires constant access to the phone's Bluetooth which, experts say, makes it invasive from a security and privacy viewpoint.\n\nIn Singapore, for example, the TraceTogether app can be used only by its health ministry to access data. It assures citizens that the data is to be used strictly for disease control and will not be shared with law enforcement agencies for enforcing lockdowns and quarantine.\n\n\"Aarogya Setu retains the flexibility to do just that, or to ensure compliance of legal orders and so on,\" says the Internet Freedom Foundation, a digital rights and liberties advocacy group in Delhi.\n\nAarogya Setu requires constant access to a user's Bluetooth and GPS to collect multiple points of data about a user\n\nThe app builders, however, insist that at no point does it reveal a user's identity.\n\n\"Your data is not going to be used for any other purpose. No third party has access to it,\" Mr Singh of MyGov said.\n\nThe big issue with the app is that it tracks location, which globally has been deemed unnecessary, says Nikhil Pahwa, editor of internet watchdog Medianama.\n\n\"Any app that tracks who you have been in contact with and your location at all times is a clear violation of privacy.\"\n\nHe is also worried by the Bluetooth function on the app.\n\n\"If I'm on the third floor and you are on the fourth floor, it will show that we have met, even though we are on different floors, given that Bluetooth travels through walls. This shows 'false positives' or incorrect data.\"\n\nWhat are the concerns over privacy?\n\nThe app allows the authorities to upload the collected information to a government-owned and operated \"server\", which will \"provide data to persons carrying out medical and administrative interventions necessary in relation to Covid-19\".\n\nThe Software Freedom Law Centre, a consortium of lawyers, technology experts and students, says it is problematic as it means the government can share the data with \"practically anyone it wants\".\n\nMyGov says \"the app has been built with privacy as a core principle\" and the processing of contact tracing and risk assessment is done in an \"anonymised manner\".\n\nMr Singh says when you register, the app assigns you a unique \"anonymised\" device ID. All interactions with the government server from your device are done through this ID only and no personal information is exchanged after registration.\n\nBut experts have raised doubts about the government claim.\n\nMr Alderson has said there are flaws in the app which make it possible to know who is sick anywhere in India.\n\n\"Basically, I was able to see if someone was sick at the PMO [prime minister's office] or the Indian parliament. I was able to see if someone was sick in a specific house if I wanted,\" he wrote on his blog.\n\nAarogya Setu denied any such privacy breach in a statement.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut, India has \"a terrible history\" of protecting privacy, says Mr Pahwa, referring to Aadhaar - the world's largest and most controversial biometrics-based identity database.\n\nCritics have repeatedly warned that the scheme puts personal information at risk and have criticised government efforts to compulsorily link it to bank accounts and mobile phone numbers.\n\n\"This government has argued that privacy isn't a fundamental right in court,\" Mr Pahwa said. \"We cannot trust it.\"\n\nIndia's Supreme Court ruled in 2018 that the controversial Aadhaar scheme was constitutional and did not violate the right to privacy.\n\nAnd the question of transparency?\n\nUnlike the UK's Covid-19 tracing app, Aarogya Setu is not open source, which means that it cannot be audited for security flaws by independent coders and researchers.\n\nA senior IT ministry official told a newspaper that the government had not made the source code of Aarogya Setu public because it \"feared that many will point to flaws in it and overburden the staff overseeing the app's development\".\n\nMr Singh said \"all applications are made open source ultimately and the same is applicable to Aarogya Setu also\".\n\nTo register, users have to give their name, gender, travel history, telephone number and location.\n\n\"People can fill the form incorrectly and the government cannot verify it, so the efficacy of the data is questionable,\" Mr Pahwa told the BBC.\n\nAccording to a Buzzfeed report, an Indian software engineer had hacked the app to bypass the registration page, and even stopped the app from gathering data through GPS and Bluetooth.\n\nThe report also mentioned a comment on Reddit suggesting phone wallpaper as a simple workaround to not downloading the app.\n\n\"The privacy conscious are likely to do this. Those who don't want to be forced to give their data to the government will look for and find workarounds. It could be by using a modified app or a screenshot, people will find ways,\" Mr Pahwa says.\n\nBut Mr Singh argues that \"if one is staying home and not meeting anyone, it would not matter whether they have the app, or deleted it or switched the Bluetooth off or lied on self-assessment\".", "Two cooling towers have been demolished in spectacular controlled explosions at a disused nuclear power plant in south-western Germany.", "Mark Drakeford said meetings with the UK government had to be more regular\n\nWales First Minister Mark Drakeford says he was not consulted before the UK government altered the lockdown slogan from \"Stay at home\" to \"Stay alert\".\n\nHe told the BBC's Nick Robinson he did not think it was the \"right time\" to change to the new message, adopted in England but not elsewhere in the UK.\n\nMeetings with London had come in \"fits and starts\" during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nHe was speaking to the Political Thinking with Nick Robinson podcast.\n\nIt came as the Welsh government unveiled cautious plans for easing the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced the use of the slogan \"Stay alert. Control the virus. Save lives\" on Sunday.\n\nIt has been criticised as too vague, but Mr Johnson insisted it was \"absolutely right\" for the current situation, in which social distancing has to be maintained while restrictions ease.\n\nWales, Scotland and Northern Ireland - which, unlike England, have not freed up road travel and removed limits on outdoor exercise - have chosen to stick to the \"Stay at home\" message instead.\n\nMr Drakeford told Nick Robinson: \"We heard about the ('Stay alert') slogan after the decision had been made and had to make it clear that what we heard didn't persuade us that this was the right time to change the slogan or that was the right slogan to change to.\n\n\"Had we had more regular, reliable engagement we might have had better chances to talk those things through.\"\n\nMr Drakeford, a Labour politician, added that there had not been a \"regular rhythm\" to meetings between the UK government and the devolved administrations during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThey tended to \"come and go\" and take place in \"fits and starts\", he said. adding: \"Had we had, over the three weeks that led up to last weekend, a regular and reliable pattern of meetings between us, I think we would have a better chance to have avoided the rough edges that we ended up in.\n\n\"What we had was two weeks with no meetings at all and a final week where everybody's under the pressure to make decisions and get things done, a sudden rash of meetings on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday.\"\n\nThe UK government wants some children to begin returning to primary schools in England by June.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said schools in Wales would \"not reopen for new cohorts of children\" at that point.\n\nHe added: \"We still have ambitions to have more children returning to school before the end of the [summer] holiday but you've got to do it in a way that convinces parents and teachers that it is safe for them to do it.\"\n\nThe UK government's communities secretary, Robert Jenrick, has defended \"Stay alert\", calling it a \"cautious\" slogan for a time at which rate of coronavirus infection remained high and the public were \"understandably anxious\".\n\nHe added: \"The public are capable of understanding a broader message as we move into the next phase of the virus.\"", "New Zealand has eased its coronavirus restrictions after moving to Level 2, described as a \"safer new normal\".\n\nThe country has reported no new cases of the virus in the past three days and thousands of businesses have reopened.\n\nPeople are allowed to start seeing their friends and families again, with a limit of 10 people.", "The UK government has now started daily reporting of the R number, an important measure of how fast the virus is spreading.\n\nThe latest estimate is between 0.7 and 1.0. It needs to stay below one if the virus is to remain under control.\n\nPreviously it has been sitting at between 0.5 and 0.9 in England\n\nJenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for primary care in England, said there was a range in the estimate because different models were being used.\n\nShe also stressed it was a \"national average\" - in some places such as care homes it would be higher and in other places it would be lower.\n\nIt is thought up to one in 400 people, about 148,000 individuals in England, have Covid-19 at any one time, she said.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe government says it is \"opening the door\" for the return of professional football in England in June.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said Thursday's meeting with the Football Association, Premier League and English Football League had \"progressed plans\".\n\nHe added that plans for the sport to resume should \"include widening access for fans to view live coverage\".\n\nMeanwhile, England's deputy chief medical officer said any return would be \"slow\" and \"measured\".\n\nThe Premier League met on Monday to discuss \"Project Restart\" and hopes for a return to action on 12 June, with matches played behind closed doors.\n\n\"We all agreed that we will only go ahead if it is safe to do so and the health and welfare of players, coaches and staff comes first,\" said Dowden.\n\n\"It is now up to the football authorities to agree and finalise the detail of their plans, and there is combined goodwill to achieve this for their fans, the football community and the nation as a whole.\n\n\"The government and our medical experts will continue to offer guidance and support.\"\n\nHe added that plans to return should \"ensure finances from the game's resumption supports the wider football family\".\n\nThe next meeting of Premier League clubs will take place on Monday, when top-flight players may return to initial group training under social distancing protocols.\n\nFootballers have so far been limited to individual training but Premier League bosses hope a first phase of team training, under strict guidelines and restricted to 75 minutes, can begin next week.\n• None Restrictions in place for team training under 'Project Restart'\n\nEngland's deputy chief medical officer, Jonathan Van-Tam, said: \"There will be small, carefully measured, step-wise approaches to see what can be achieved safely. The first of those is to return safely to training, still observing social distancing.\n\n\"We will have to see how that goes before we can even think about moving on to the return of competitive football matches.\"\n\nMonday's meeting will come after a weekend when the Bundesliga, Germany's top flight, becomes the first major league to restart.\n• None Bundesliga: What you need to know about this season\n\nThe Premier League has been suspended since 13 March because of the Covid-19 pandemic and most teams have nine fixtures left to play.\n\nBrighton had a third player test positive for coronavirus earlier in May and boss Graham Potter is wary about a return to action.\n\n\"We are in uncharted territory. It's a hugely complex situation,\" he said.\n\n\"It's very difficult to call one day to the next. The general will from all the clubs is to play out the season as close to the format as possible. Whatever date that is remains to be seen.\n\n\"We are sanitising the environment. The players are not coming in for any length of time.\n\n\"It will be as safe as it is made to be. The challenge will be when [we have] contact, larger groups and different teams. We need to see where we are on Monday and then Tuesday.\"\n\nHe added: \"There are concerns, of course. We have come out of lockdown. The situation is not totally resolved.\n\n\"I have a young family. My wife's family has health issues. We are human beings.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Premier League confirmed clubs had decided that short-term contract extensions could be agreed with players whose deals run out on 30 June, with the season set to go beyond that date.\n\nClubs and players will now have until 23 June to agree extensions which run until whenever the campaign is scheduled to finish.\n\nPremier League chief executive Richard Masters said it was decided \"to ensure as far as possible that clubs complete the season with the same squad they had available prior to the suspension of the campaign\".\n\nElsewhere, six League One clubs have united to express their determination to finish the season.\n\nPeterborough chairman Darragh MacAnthony has released a statement on behalf of Posh, Oxford, Sunderland, Fleetwood, Portsmouth and Ipswich.\n\nLeague One clubs are due to meet with the EFL board on Friday to discuss options for completing the season.\n\nThe fact the government summoned the three football bodies to a meeting together tells its own story. Ministers want football to think collectively during this crisis, and act in the interests of the whole game. And to understand that any government financial bailouts for the sport are highly unlikely.\n\nThe Premier League was reminded that if its season does resume next month, it will be expected to do what it can for clubs in the EFL and for grassroots football. And to ensure that, while honouring contracts with its broadcast partners, as many matches as possible are shown free to air, so that as many people as possible can watch them.\n\nWith the Premier League lobbying government to scrap the idea of neutral stadiums to keep their clubs happy, ministers are now asking for something in return.\n\nIt was significant today that despite continued police concerns over the risk of fans gathering outside grounds once matches resume, the government reinforced its support for the resumption of matches.\n\nBut it also warned that games will only take place if the phased return to training goes to plan, and the sense is that 'Project Restart' still hangs in the balance.", "The Guardian is closing its online dating service Guardian Soulmates because it is \"no longer viable\".\n\nThe service, which has about 35,000 free members and paid subscribers, will close at the end of June, it said.\n\nThe \"online dating landscape has changed dramatically\" since it launched in 2004, it added - making it a \"very little fish in a very big pool\".\n\nThe 15 years since its launch has seen the growth of global dating apps such as Tinder, Hinge and Bumble.\n\nGuardian Soulmates said on its website: \"There are so many dating apps now, so many ways to meet people, which are often free and very quick.\n\n\"To keep up with the changing times we'd need to invest heavily in new technology and develop a new way of operating, and it's just not viable.\"\n\nMembership to the site is free, but it has seen about a 40% fall in the number of paid subscribers - with access to advanced search and messaging options - over the past six years.\n\nFormer users took to Twitter to thank the site for helping them find their partners.\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\nGuardian Soulmates said the service had helped many of the newspaper's readers \"find love and form lasting relationships\".\n\n\"We want to say thank you to everyone who has participated in Soulmates and has been part of a like-minded community of people looking for love,\" it said.\n\nIt said it was contacting its members.", "Babies born to surrogate mothers have been left stuck in Ukraine because of coronavirus lockdown measures.\n\nThe BBC's Jonah Fisher has visited a hotel in Kyiv, where the children are being cared for.\n\nWatch more personal stories during the coronavirus outbreak: Your Coronavirus Stories", "Red kites are among the raptors being targeted\n\nThe wildlife charity the RSPB says it has been \"overrun\" by reports of birds of prey being illegally killed since the lockdown started six weeks ago.\n\nSpecies of raptors (birds of prey) that had been targeted include hen harriers, peregrine falcons, red kites, goshawks, buzzards and a barn owl.\n\nThe wildlife charity described the crimes as \"orchestrated\".\n\nIt said the \"vast majority\" had connections with shooting estates, or land managed for shooting.\n\nSome raptors are known to feed on pheasant and grouse chicks.\n\nThe head of the RSPB's investigations unit, Mark Thomas, told the BBC it was like \"the Wild West\" out in the countryside. He said people who wanted to kill birds of prey had been \"emboldened\" by the absence of walkers and hikers.\n\nHe said the surge correlated exactly with the date the lockdown was imposed.\n\nAt this time of year he said that the RSPB would normally be getting three or four reports of the killing of protected bird species each week. They now have three or four reports of a killing each day, and they are coming from across the country.\n\nThe wildlife charity alleges that the incidents are overwhelmingly connected with land managed for sport shoots. Raptors prey on bird species that have been specifically reared for be killed for sport, like grouse or pheasant.\n\nMr Thomas said, \"I am genuinely disturbed. in more than 20 years of investigating, I've never seen anything like it. We are having to put ongoing investigations on hold in order to triage all these reports... This isn't youngsters with air rifles but orchestrated wildlife crime.\"\n\nAccording to the RSPB, on 29 March a buzzard was found shot at Shipton, near York. Its wing was fractured in two places and an X-ray revealed several pieces of shot within the bird's body. The buzzard recovered and was released.\n\nOver the Easter Weekend, a red kite was found shot dead near Leeds. It had 12 shotgun pellets lodged in its body.\n\nThe following weekend, a dead red kite was found in Powys, which had been shot.\n\nThere were also reports of another two shot red kites in the region. In another case, in South West England, ten buzzards were found, all thought to have been poisoned.\n\nThe Investigation Unit suspects that the true number of incidents could be much higher, as there are fewer people out in the countryside who might report cases, with walkers and specialist raptor groups under lockdown.\n\nAll birds of prey are protected by the Wildlife and Countryside Act (1981).\n\nThe Moorland Association (MA), whose members include many shooting estates in England and Wales, said it condemned illegal activity.\n\nThe MA's Director, Amanda Anderson, said: \"Any confirmed reports of raptor persecution are cause for concern. The incidents specified near Leeds and York in the RSPB release are clearly not on grouse moors, while reports we have from our members in the uplands have suggested that many birds of prey are in fact benefiting from the lock-down restrictions and the subsequent reduction in disturbance from members of the public.\n\n\"Estates across the country have reported a number of raptors including peregrine, merlin and hen harriers nesting and living on those landscapes.\n\n\"We condemn any illegal activity and Moorland Association members have signed up to a cross-sector zero tolerance approach to wildlife crime. Estates and gamekeepers have been the eyes and ears on the ground during lockdown, reporting suspicious activity. They are also actively working with police authorities in Operation Owl - an initiative to raise awareness of raptor persecution. We always encourage reporting of any suspicious incident.\"", "Thousands of people have been supported under the \"Everyone In\" scheme\n\nGovernment funding for an emergency scheme to keep England's rough sleepers off the streets amid the coronavirus pandemic is to end.\n\nCouncils were given £3.2m in March to provide emergency shelter for homeless people, with many housed in hotels.\n\nThe Manchester Evening News said a leaked report showed ministers had \"quietly pulled the plug\".\n\nThe government said it had given councils £3.2bn since March and urged them to keep supporting rough sleepers.\n\nThe \"Everyone In\" scheme helped to house about 5,400 people.\n\nHomeless charity Crisis described the decision to stop funding it as \"completely unacceptable.\"\n\nIts chief executive, Jon Sparkes, said: \"There is still a deadly virus out there and, while it's to be commended that over 5,400 people have been given safe temporary accommodation, the job simply isn't finished.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said: \"It is simply wrong and misleading to suggest that we have stopped funding to keep rough sleepers off the street.\n\n\"We gave councils an initial payment of £3.2m at the start of the pandemic so they could take immediate action and help rough sleepers off the street.\n\n\"We have since given councils a further £3.2bn to deal with the immediate pressures they are facing, including supporting rough sleepers.\"\n\nRead the government's full response to the story.\n\nLabour leader Keir Starmer said it was \"simply wrong to send homeless people back onto the streets,\" adding \"the coronavirus crisis is far from over.\n\n\"Right now they need emergency support. But after this crisis we can't forget we all but ended rough sleeping overnight. We can end it for good.\"\n\nThis scheme was seen as being hugely successful, almost, as one expert told me, ending rough sleeping overnight.\n\nAbout 5,400 people had been given temporary accommodation and despite widespread fears about Covid-19's impact on rough sleepers, the \"Everyone In\" scheme was credited with largely protecting the homeless.\n\nIt also allowed healthcare and addiction services in some cases to engage with people who had long refused any help.\n\nThe government is keen to highlight it increased funding to help rough sleepers before the pandemic and that just because it's not extending this particular scheme, it remains committed to tackling a problem that has exploded in England since 2010.\n\nBut homeless charities will be closely watching what happens next. Why, they ask, end a scheme that was working, that was costing little more than a rounding error in the context of the overall costs of the pandemic? All eyes will now be on Louise Casey.\n\nAnd while specific funding for England is ending, the governments in Scotland and Wales will continue to support their own rough sleeper schemes.\n\nOn Friday, Dame Louise Casey, who is responsible for the government's Covid-19 rough sleeping response taskforce, told Radio 4's PM programme \"the money has not run out and isn't running out\".\n\n\"No-one is going to be tipped out, that's the key thing here, that would be reckless, irresponsible and wrong.\"\n\nPolly Neate, chief executive of the housing and homelessness charity Shelter, added: \"We cannot allow all the progress made or that safety net to be quietly stripped back now with councils left to pick up the pieces on their own.\"\n\nDame Louise Casey will \"spearhead\" the next phase of government support for rough sleepers during the pandemic, the MHCLG spokesperson said.\n\n\"While councils continue to provide accommodation to those that need it, it is only responsible that we work with partners to ensure rough sleepers can move into long-term, safe accommodation once the immediate crisis is over.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A healthcare professional in Italy shows a test tube with blood for a serological test that can identify who has contracted Covid-19 and has produced antibodies.\n\nA new \"fast and accurate\" coronavirus antibody test has been developed by scientists in Scotland and Switzerland.\n\nQuotien said each serological screening machine has capacity for up to 3,000 tests a day and produces results in 35 minutes with 99.8% accuracy.\n\nThe blood-screening firm is now keen to hold talks with UK ministers amid interest from Europe for the machines.\n\nThe Scottish government said it will explore \"all options\" as they become available.\n\nQuotient said the test can spot whether a person has developed antibodies to Covid-19.\n\nUnderstanding immunity could help ease lockdown if it is clear who is not at risk of catching or spreading the virus.\n\nChief executive Franz Walt was managing director of the Singapore-based Roche Laboratory which developed the first diagnostic test for Sars in 2003.\n\nHe said: \"We are truly proud to have developed such a fast and accurate test. This is an outstanding performance by our teams in both Edinburgh and Switzerland.\n\n\"We now want to make sure that we can help as many people as possible as quickly as possible. We have strong roots in the UK and want to speak to ministers there so MosaiQ can be used in the amazing national effort to tackle coronavirus and relaunch the economy.\n\n\"We realise ministers and the NHS are incredibly busy but are keen to talk given the strong interest from across Europe in the product.\"\n\nQuotient said it has 12 screening machines available which can process up to 36,000 tests a day or 252,000 a week.\n\nA further 20 are expected to be ready by the end of the year.\n\nThe firm's headquarters are in Eysins, Nyon, but its Scottish research division is based in Penicuik, Midlothian. It also has a corporate office in Edinburgh.\n\nWhile the UK government says it has laboratory capability to test for coronavirus immunity, it is currently being used for survey testing of existing blood samples and the capacity is not known.\n\nIt is also attempting to develop home testing kits, rather than requiring analysis in laboratories, but so far these have proved unreliable.\n\nOn Friday, Quotient received European regulatory approval for the MosaiQ serological screening machines.\n\nIt claims they have 100% sensitivity and 99.8% specificity, meaning there is a low chance of a misread or \"false positive\".\n\nEd Farrell, chief operating officer at the Edinburgh office, said: \"We're incredibly proud of all our work here in Scotland and Switzerland.\n\n\"We've got such a rich history here and we hope we can now make a difference at this challenging time.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"Health Protection Scotland, with key partners, explore all options around new antibody tests as they become available on the market.\n\n\"The Scottish government is working closely with the UK government to ensure that everyone is able to access new antibody tests when they become available.\n\n\"It is essential that any new tests are reliable, and time is needed to undertake rigorous evaluation so that there is confidence that tests are accurate.\"\n• None Can you catch Covid twice?", "German GDP growth has been negative for two successive quarters, the definition of a recession.\n\nGermany's economy shrank by 2.2% in the first three months of this year as the coronavirus pandemic pushed it into recession, official figures indicate.\n\nIt was the biggest quarterly fall since 2009, when the country was engulfed in the global financial crisis.\n\nThe figures from the Federal Statistics Office come as Germany takes its first tentative steps to exit lockdown.\n\nShops are reopening, pupils will gradually return to class and football is restarting behind closed doors.\n\nAt the same time, figures for the final three months of 2019 were revised to show a contraction of 0.1%.\n\nThat means German GDP growth has been negative for two successive quarters, the technical definition of a recession.\n\nThe figures are in line with market expectations, says BBC global trade correspondent Dharshini David.\n\nThe German economy was already lacklustre before the onset of the pandemic, as the US-China trade war cast a shadow over activity, our correspondent points out.\n\nThe statistics office warned that the figures were subject to extreme uncertainty, with the next estimate due out on 25 May.\n\nGermany is Europe's largest economy, but the drop is not as bad as in some of its neighbours, such as France, which has seen a decline of 5.8%, and Italy, which reported a 4.7% fall.\n\nThis effect is partly due to a decision by Germany's 16 states to allow factories and construction sites to stay open, as well as an unprecedented rescue package by the government.\n\nEconomists expect a deeper slump in the second quarter of the year, as the full effects of the lockdown become apparent.\n\nGermany, along with just about every other economy on the planet, has been hit by the combination of official restrictions on movement and commercial activity, as well as by personal choices to avoid the risk of infection.\n\nConsumer spending was down and so was investment (apart from construction which, along with government spending, softened the economic blow). Germany is a big power in global trade and imports and exports were both lower.\n\nIt was a sharp contraction overall, but so far at least, the blows to the German economy have not generally been as severe as those suffered by the rest of the eurozone. The other three largest economies - France, Italy and Spain - were all hit much harder by the health crisis and have seen much larger declines in the first three months of 2020.\n\nFor the quarter now under way, Germany will take a hit, but it has an advantage compared to those others. Tourism is a smaller part of the economy and it's a sector that is facing an extremely challenging 2020 summer season.\n\nSeparate growth figures released by EU statistics office Eurostat for the eurozone as a whole confirmed an earlier estimate showing a record decline of 3.8% in the January-to-March period.\n\nFor the 27-nation EU, the equivalent figure was 3.3%.\n\nEurostat also issued figures showing a 0.2% fall in eurozone employment, the first such decline since 2013.\n\n\"The German economy has been tiptoeing on the edge of recession since the beginning of 2019, but it can hide no longer,\" said Claus Vistesen, chief eurozone economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics.\n\n\"The German business cycle expansion, which started in 2013, ended decisively in Q1, and more pain is ahead in the near term before the recovery.\"", "New lockdown rules mean a trip to the beach is allowed but extra care should be taken in the water as there will be no lifeguards on duty, the National Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) has warned.\n\nDavid Walker, RoSPA's leisure safety manager said: “The choices you make to look after yourself, your family and emergency services are critical this weekend. If you are thinking of going to the beach, check now as it may not be open and it will definitely will not be lifeguarded.\n\n“Now is not the time to try out open water like lakes or reservoirs, as even though the weather’s getting warmer, cold water shock is a deadly danger and can incapacitate even the most experienced swimmers.\n\n“If you see someone in trouble call 999 and ask for coastguard or fire. If you are in trouble float to live: fight you instincts, lean back, extend your arms and float.”", "Ryan says \"girls need to know that you can have this secret, silent miscarriage\"\n\nKatherine Ryan has said her miscarriage in February made her feel \"embarrassed and shameful\", adding women and girls need more information on losing a baby.\n\n\"I think it needs to be on the curriculum, I think girls need to know that you can have this secret, silent miscarriage,\" she told Love Island host Laura Whitmore's Castaway podcast.\n\n\"I felt embarrassed for getting excited before the loss,\" said the Canadian comedian and actress.\n\nShe had been 10 weeks pregnant.\n\nRyan told Whitmore: \"I know it can be a very lonely experience, and it's shrouded in all this embarrassment... I felt all these things, and I looked for stories and I really couldn't find many of them.\n\n\"I felt like a walking tomb and it took me a month to sort it out to get it out. It's crazy, they don't teach us this in school.\"\n\nThe Department for Education told the BBC: \"We want to support all young people to be happy, healthy and safe. The introduction of compulsory Relationships and Sex Education from September will ensure that secondary aged pupils will be taught the facts in relation to pregnancy, including miscarriage.\"\n\nThe performer found out about her pregnancy loss earlier this year during a routine scan, and said: \"I'm 36, I thought I was very well-versed on women's issues. I genuinely didn't know that a miscarriage can happen in this way.\"\n\nShe is in a civil partnership with her childhood sweetheart Bobby Kootstra, and has a daughter, Violet, from a previous relationship.\n\nOn her own podcast, called Katherine Ryan: Telling Everybody Everything, she explained what happened.\n\n\"So I was having a scan, and was then told I needed an internal scan, and I thought 'something's weird', but by now the doctor had turned the screen to herself so I couldn't see it and I just knew something was wrong.\n\n\"The doctor said 'oh I'm sorry, we would expect to see a heartbeat but we don't, and we're going to have to have a very different conversation here', and then I thought 'well that's done'.\n\n\"I think I was really embarrassed, I don't want anyone to see when I'm upset, so I was happy, smiley, she must have thought who is this psycho...?\n\n\"I had a gig in Liverpool that evening, so I said 'I'm sorry I have to go to work'.\"\n\nShe said she carried on working, saying: \"You think you did something wrong but you keep it to yourself.\"\n\nRyan's body continued to carry the embryo, and she explained: \"Basically my mind knew I had lost the baby, my body just would not recognise it had lost this baby.\n\n\"So three weeks passed and I tried the medical management three times, and it didn't work. That was was the hardest part of it - remaining pregnant with a deceased embryo for that long.\n\n\"And having to work, doing the job that I do, and smile and I was just not the same human being, it was crazy to me, the most nuts thing. I would not recommend it to anyone.\n\nLaura Whitmore spoke on the podcast about her own miscarriage in 2018\n\n\"I had surgery, but in that three weeks you can't be positive, you don't have that part of your brain that says carry on - it's like this terrible dark, deep feeling.\n\n\"People recover and they don't mention it again, they start to forget the hardest part, but right now I haven't forgotten yet. It was so grim and I felt like a bad mom, I couldn't get it out - 'maybe this little soul is scared and doesn't want to be alone'.\"\n\nAt this moment on the podcast, Ryan became emotional and paused, before adding: \"It's fine now, that's just always the bit that gets me.\n\n\"So if that should be a story that touches your own life, I really hope it doesn't. The last thing I would want is that hopelessness and shame and weird energy of 'keep it to yourself, don't upset anyone, be a good girl and take it on the chin and keep it moving. I have felt this collective grief.\"\n\nWhitmore said this echoed her own miscarriage in 2018, adding: \"It's crazy you said that, because I've never told you this, but I remember in my situation about two years ago when we went for our scan, it was supposed to be the first proper scan, and there was no heartbeat.\n\n\"I think for the doctors it happens so much that they're quite used to it, I didn't realise the figures until afterwards. So I didn't know how I was supposed to react, was I supposed to be upset, was I supposed to be 'oh, ok' and move on.\n\n\"I remember being all over the place, and I remember [my partner] Ian saying to me, 'shall we just go home', and I said 'I want to have a little bit of escapism, I want to go out, have a glass of wine, I want to laugh, I want to watch a show and then I want to deal with this - everyone reacts differently\".\n\nThey went on to see Ryan performing stand-up at a live gig that evening, and Whitmore said she carried on working afterwards, including at the MTV Awards.\n\n\"I was on stage doing a show - people don't know the secrets woman are carrying around because people are afraid to share them,\" she said.\n\nKatherine Ryan has lived in the UK for more than a decade\n\nRyan said on her own podcast: \"When it happens to you, that's when you realise how traumatic it is. Women historically have been expected to get on with things.\n\n\"The reason we don't talk about miscarriage more is not for the sufferer of the miscarriage, not for the mom and family, it's for everyone else. It's a way of being polite - nobody wants you to say you found out you lost a baby. \"\n\nShe told Whitmore: \"I think the more women that tell their stories about this... it was important for me to share it, even if it helps just one person.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Younger children are set to return first\n\nThe government's top scientific and medical advisers are being urged to publish the advice underpinning the decision to reopen England's schools.\n\nLiberal Democrat Layla Moran made the call in a letter to Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance.\n\nOn Wednesday, MPs were bemused when a Department for Education adviser indicated a lack of oversight over the way schools are being asked to reopen.\n\nOsama Rahman said the decision to reopen schools was not made by the DfE.\n\nWhen asked what assessment he had made, as the chief scientific adviser for the department, of how effective guidance on safe reopening of schools was and how it might be implemented, he said: \"I haven't.\"\n\nThe advice recommends social distancing in classrooms, with reduced class sizes and keeping small children in groups to limit potential virus spread.\n\nHe was also unable to point to any evidence behind the decision to reopen schools in a way that could be said to be safe.\n\nHe also told MPs that there was doubt over suggestions that children are less likely transmit the virus than adults, explaining there was only \"low confidence\" in that theory.\n\nHe agreed that reopening schools was \"putting together hundreds of potential vectors\" of the virus who could then go and spread it in the community.\n\nMs Moran said Mr Rahman's comments to the Science and Technology Committee on Wednesday had \"caused even more confusion when what we need is clarity\".\n\nIn her letter, Ms Moran said: \"The decision that has been taken, to reopen schools as early as 1 June, has caused a great deal of concern amongst school leaders, teachers and many parents.\n\n\"We need reassurance from the government that this decision was taken purely on public health grounds, and not due to economic fears.\"\n\nShe added: \"I hope you agree that we have some work to do in reassuring parents, staff and pupils that opening schools in a few short weeks time is the right thing to do and that publishing all the advice pertaining to this is an important step in this debate.\"\n\nMs Moran had earlier asked the Education Secretary, Gavin Williamson, if the scientific advice on schools reopening could be published.\n\nHe suggested there would not be a problem with this, saying the government's scientific advisory group for emergencies (SAGE) regularly published its advice.\n\nThis is something teaching unions have been requesting for weeks in their negotiations with DfE officials about the safe reopening of schools.\n\nThey are loggerheads with ministers on plans to begin the phased re-opening of primary schools on Monday 1 June.\n\nA joint statement from nine unions involved in education, argues for a delay until a full test, trace and track scheme is in place and schools are given extra resources for cleaning, protective equipment and risk assessments", "TfL said NHS and care workers would be exempt from the congestion charge.\n\nThe congestion charge for people driving into central London will be reintroduced on Monday under the terms of a £1.6bn government bailout.\n\nIt follows a deal in which Transport for London (TfL) secured emergency funding to keep Tube and bus services going until September.\n\nFrom 22 June, the congestion charge will also rise from £11.50 to £15.\n\nDowning Street defended the changes saying it \"only applied to a small area of central London\".\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said roads in these areas \"would come to a halt without it\" and it was an \"important tool to ensure that emissions in London remain low and support better air quality\".\n\nTfL said the resumed congestion charge would be temporarily extended to between 07:00 and 22:00, seven days a week, from 22 June and the price rise would be in place for a year.\n\nBoth measures will be reviewed later to see if they are made permanent.\n\nA system of reimbursement for NHS workers in place before the charge was suspended on 23 March will also be extended to care home workers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to socially distance on public transport\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said the measures were designed to avoid a build up of traffic after the government urged people returning to work to avoid public transport.\n\nTfL said the plans would \"create more space for social distancing when walking and cycling, ensuring that the people who have no choice but to return to work in central London can do so as safely as possible\".\n\nSome streets will be converted to walking and cycling only, with others restricted to all traffic apart from buses, creating \"one of the world's largest car-free zones\".\n\nWaterloo Bridge and London Bridge may be restricted to people walking, cycling and buses only, with pavements widened to enable people to safely travel between busy railway stations and their workplaces.\n\nMr Khan warned public transport must only be used \"as a last resort\".\n\nThe low emission zone and ultra low emission zone - imposing levies on high-polluting vehicles - also comes back into operation on Monday.\n\nAlso under the conditions of the government deal, children will no longer have free travel across London and restrictions on travel passes for people with a disability or over the age of 60 will also be imposed during peak hours.\n\nFares on buses - scrapped to help protect drivers from Covid-19 - will also be reintroduced.\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) said these changes would be put in place \"as soon as practicable\".\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\nBlack-cab driver and general secretary of the London Taxi Drivers' Association (LTDA) Steve McNamara said it was \"an absolute disgrace\" no one had been consulted about plans to change the use of some roads.\n\n\"Usually you have to consult with the public and businesses - they are using a health emergency to get around the laws to consult people before you do these things,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a land grab to exclude Londoners from their roads and to widen pavements for more cycling.\"\n\nCoronavirus has had a significant impact on the London Underground\n\nMr Khan said the government deal was necessary because coronavirus had had a \"catastrophic impact on TfL's finances\".\n\n\"I want to be completely honest and upfront with Londoners,\" the mayor said.\n\n\"This is not the deal I wanted. But it was the only deal the government put on the table and I had no choice but to accept it to keep the Tubes and buses running.\"\n\nThe DfT also announced TfL will introduce fare rises of 1% above the rate of inflation from next year.\n\nMr Khan has frozen single fares since he became mayor in May 2016.\n\nThe congestion charge was suspended on March 23 as the country went into lockdown\n\nNatalie Chapman, of the Freight Transport Association, said the congestion charge hike \"ignored the needs of London businesses\".\n\nShe added: \"How are shops to be supplied, restaurants and cafes to be stocked and the rest of the capital's economy to obtain the products it needs when those charged with delivering these needs are to be punitively taxed at a time when their own industry is in recovery?\"\n\nThe old adage in promoting cycling and walking or active travel is you have to make driving cars horrible - and that is certainly what's happening here.\n\nThese are radical changes to London's streets. If you want to drive around central London be prepared not to be allowed in certain roads and to pay £15 a day.\n\nDrivers fear gridlock. But cycling and walking advocates will be rejoicing that parts of the city are being given over to them.\n\nThe other side story here is the political row between the government and the Mayor and the many strings attached to the bailout.\n\nFuture infrastructure is up in the air and fare rises will happen in January.\n\nSadiq Khan says he won't be able to be the mayor he wants to be and Londoners are being punished. Ultimately the powers and autonomy of a devolved region has just been weakened.", "Social distancing guidelines will still need to be observed on beaches and in other public spaces\n\nCoastal towns around England have urged visitors to stay away this weekend, as lifeguards warned the \"majority\" of beaches would not be patrolled.\n\nWith warm weather expected in many places, there are fears people will flock to the seaside after updated government guidance was published.\n\nTourism bosses in seaside towns have warned attractions will remain closed.\n\nHM Coastguard urged those heading to the beach this weekend to \"respect the sea and the coast\".\n\nIn a social media post, it warned that most beaches \"would not be lifeguarded\" and said people should \"take extra care\" regardless of \"ability or experience\".\n\nSea swimming is now allowed as daily exercise in England, as well as paddle boarding, surfing, windsurfing, rowing, kayaking and canoeing.\n\nSailing and the use of private boats are also permitted under the changes.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, where lockdown rules remain in place, people should continue to remain at home, the coastguard said.\n\nThe reminder came alongside calls for people to avoid visiting the country's coastal regions, including:\n\nThe leader of Brighton council warned none of people's \"favourite places\" would be open\n\nHM Coastguard director Claire Hughes said: \"In England, now more than ever, people need to respect the sea and the coast.\n\n\"Whether you're local or not, whatever your ability or experience in your chosen sport or leisure activity, the sea can still catch you out and be unmerciful when it does.\"\n\nBlackpool's \"traditional attractions\" are closed, according to the town's council\n\nMs Hughes stressed people who get into trouble should still call 999 and they would \"come to your aid\".\n\nShe said: \"Remember your choices might put people, including yourself and front-line responders, at risk.\n\n\"Take extra care in these extraordinary times\".\n• None Some return to work as lockdown eases in England\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\nDisney has ordered unauthorised copies of its Club Penguin game to close, after the BBC found children were being exposed to explicit messages.\n\nVisits to fan-run Club Penguin Online surged during the coronavirus pandemic with more than a million new players.\n\nBut racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic and sexual messages flow freely on the unauthorised platform.\n\nDisney said it was \"appalled\" by the website, and has ordered it to close or face legal action.\n\nClub Penguin Online appeared to go offline on Friday afternoon.\n\nOne man involved in the site has been arrested on suspicion of possessing indecent images of children.\n\nDetectives say the man from London has been released on bail pending further inquiries.\n\nDisney's Club Penguin was one of the first social networks for children. Launched in 2005, it had more than 200 million players at its peak.\n\nWhile anybody could join the original website, content filters and human moderators were employed to stop inappropriate messages or personal information from being shared.\n\nChildren were sent inappropriate messages on Club Penguin Online, an unofficial clone\n\nBut Disney closed the website in 2017.\n\nSince then, unofficial clones of the website have been operated by fans. These private servers were launched using stolen or copied source code, and can easily be found by children searching the internet.\n\nClub Penguin Online is the largest of the social network's unofficial and unauthorised clones. It says its popularity has exploded during the coronavirus pandemic and now has seven million registered players.\n\nThe BBC set up an account on the English, Spanish and Portuguese versions of Club Penguin Online.\n\nDisney's original game banned the sharing of personal details, but players on this cloned site are openly sharing Snapchat, Instagram and Discord account details.\n\nA Zoom \"meet-up\" was also advertised and codes and passwords shared openly.\n\nMany conversations turned to sex on the children's game\n\nAlthough it is impossible to verify the age of users, many told the BBC they were teenagers, and there were children playing, too.\n\nKaden, 14, told the BBC there were areas of the game where it was safe to operate - but most players were in the unprotected \"mature\" sections.\n\nHe said the conversations he had seen made him extremely uncomfortable.\n\nFourteen-year-old Kaden was shocked by what he saw on Club Penguin Online\n\n\"Any kid can click on these mature sections and they just see all this inappropriate stuff,\" he said.\n\n\"I've seen people advertise strip club igloos, I've seen people ask for pimps. There's a lot of swearing on there and I've been asked a lot of crazy things. It's really put me off going on these mature servers.\"\n\nKaden's dad, Rick, told the BBC he had no idea what was happening in the game.\n\n\"I'm shocked. I thought that if he's on Club Penguin, then he's in a pretty safe place.\"\n\nPlayers are invited to take part in penguin e-sex\n\nAnother long-time Club Penguin fan, teenager Miranda, said the game had \"gone from being family-friendly and fun to being monstrous\".\n\nClub Penguin Online is the largest private server and uses Disney's branding.\n\nOne former staff member told the BBC the project had made about £9,000 through adverts, while most of the staff were young unpaid volunteers.\n\nCompetition between Club Penguin Online and other unofficial versions of the game had escalated in the past six months.\n\nBullying and upsetting conversations were also seen in the game\n\nServer owners accused one another of hacking and harassment. One said it was a toxic community, \"like Game of Thrones with penguins\".\n\nThe Club Penguin Online volunteer claims he was encouraged to carry out attacks on rival servers when he was a minor.\n\n\"I would find out and publish [users'] personal details, like addresses, what they looked like, their family's information. I carried out DDoS (distributed denial of service attacks) on other users, and I would threaten people. The stuff that I did was similar to what happened to me, which affected my whole family, but I do feel really bad about it now.\"\n\nClub Penguin Online says it has added a million users during the coronavirus pandemic\n\nA current Club Penguin Online staff member denied that this sort of activity was encouraged.\n\nSome gamers think the toxic culture on some of these fan servers is a wider problem that needs addressing.\n\nGaming YouTuber Simi Adeshina, known online as Tamago2474, said: \"These private server games are being run by people who aren't really in a position or qualified to do so. It's all good and well to have a community that you've built, but when you get to a certain size there's a point where you have to have to employ a degree of professionalism.\"\n\nDisney has issued copyright notices to all private server games, giving them a deadline to close down or face legal action.\n\nIn statement, it said said: \"Child safety is a top priority for the Walt Disney Company and we are appalled by the allegations of criminal activity and abhorrent behaviour on this unauthorised website that is illegally using the Club Penguin brand and characters for its own purposes.\n\n\"We continue to enforce our rights against this, and other, unauthorised uses of the Club Penguin game.\"", "The Netherlands starting easing its lockdown on 11 May\n\nThe Dutch government has issued new guidance to single people seeking intimacy during the pandemic, advising them to find a \"sex buddy\".\n\nThe National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) says singletons should come to an arrangement with one other person.\n\nBut pairings should avoid sex if one of them suspects they have coronavirus, the advice says.\n\nThe guidance comes after critics said there was no sex advice for singles.\n\nSocial-distancing measures have been in place in the Netherlands since 23 March, when the government imposed what it called an \"intelligent\" or \"targeted\" lockdown.\n\nThe rules were far less strict than those of the country's neighbours, permitting small gatherings of people if social distancing was observed.\n\nBut in guidance published on 14 May, the RIVM said \"it makes sense that as a single [person] you also want to have physical contact\" during the pandemic.\n\nShould singletons choose to engage in sexual contact, precautions should be taken to minimise the risk of coronavirus exposure, the authority said.\n\n\"Discuss how best to do this together,\" the RIVM guidance says. \"For example, meet with the same person to have physical or sexual contact (for example, a cuddle buddy or 'sex buddy'), provided you are free of illness.\n\n\"Make good arrangements with this person about how many other people you both see. The more people you see, the greater the chance of (spreading) the coronavirus.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch PM tells nation not to shake hands – then does\n\nThe RIVM has also issued advice for people whose long-term partners suspect they have contracted the coronavirus.\n\n\"Don't have sex with your partner if they have been isolated because of (suspected) coronavirus infection,\" it says.\n\n\"Sex with yourself or with others at a distance is possible,\" it adds, suggesting \"erotic stories\" and \"masturbating together\" as possible solutions.\n\nRestrictions in the Netherlands have been more relaxed compared to many other countries\n\nOn Monday, the Netherlands began the first stage of a five-phase lockdown exit plan.\n\nAs part of the first phase, libraries, hairdressers, nail bars, beauticians, massage salons and places providing occupational therapy were allowed to reopen from 11 May.\n\nThe relaxation of restrictions came after Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said the country had made \"headway\" in its effort to bring the number of coronavirus infections and deaths down.\n\nA further 200 infections and 53 deaths were recorded in the Netherlands in the past 24 hours. In total, 43,880 people have tested positive for coronavirus in the country so far, with more than 5,500 deaths.", "The boss of Royal Mail is leaving after less than two years in the role amid reports he has been running the business from his home in Switzerland.\n\nRico Back will step down as chief executive with immediate effect and Keith Williams, the former boss of BA, will take over as executive chairman.\n\nMr Back has reportedly been at his Lake Zurich house since just after lockdown.\n\nThe Royal Mail said he was \"following government advice to work from home unless you cannot\".\n\nRoyal Mail has seen a sharp fall in letter volumes since the coronavirus lockdown was introduced in the UK on 23 March.\n\nThe company said that while there had been a \"substantial switch from letters to parcels in the UK\", revenues during April fell £22m compared to the same month last year.\n\nIt has also faced criticism from its own staff, who said last month that there was a shortage of gloves, masks and hand sanitiser to protect them from contracting coronavirus.\n\nRoyal Mail said it had invested in safety equipment and said the costs of running its UK postal service had risen by £40m \"driven by overtime and agency resource costs due to high levels of absence, the introduction of social distancing measures and PPE\".\n\nMr Back has been put on gardening leave until 15 August, during which he will receive his pay and benefits. He will then receive nine monthly payments totalling £480,000.\n\nRoyal Mail also said it would provide up to £50,000 towards his legal fees and a maximum £25,000 towards outplacement support.\n\nMr Back's compensation has been at the centre of controversy in the past after he received a £5.8m payment in July 2017 when his contract as boss of Royal Mail's European parcels business was renegotiated.\n\nIt prompted a letter from Rachel Reeves, chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy committee, to Royal Mail demanding an explanation.\n\nMr Back, who has worked at Royal Mail for two decades, said: \"It has been a privilege to lead a company that is so much a part of UK life at this crucial time in its history.\"\n\nRoyal Mail also announced that its executive directors will not receive bonuses for the 2019-20 financial year and said £25m has been set aside for \"cash awards for frontline staff, in recognition of their role during COVID-19\".\n\nJust prior to lockdown, postal workers had voted to go on strike in a row over pay and working conditions but delayed the action because of the pandemic.\n\nCommenting on Mr Back's departure, the Communication Workers' Union said: \"The change of chief executive by Royal Mail Group must now bring about a total change in strategy and direction.\n\n\"Postal workers have been outstanding during this pandemic and are ready to embrace innovation, new products and building on their role in every community in the UK.\"\n\nRoyal Mail has been attempting to refocus the business as parcel volumes grow, fuelled by online shopping, and the number of letters being sent falls.\n\nIn its most recent trading update, Royal Mail said UK parcel volumes rose 31% in April while addressed letters dropped by 33%.\n\nRoyal Mail said that Mr Williams said will lead discussions \"about an accelerated pace of change across the business\".\n\nIt also said that the chairman will remain in the executive role until a permanent chief executive of Royal Mail is appointed.", "Border guards took down warnings signs as the Baltic states opened its \"travel bubble\" at midnight\n\nThe Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have opened their borders to one another, creating a coronavirus \"travel bubble\".\n\nFrom midnight on Thursday, citizens and residents can move freely between the three EU nations.\n\nAnybody arriving from outside the zone however must self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nThis is the first \"travel bubble\" in Europe since nations began shutting their borders earlier this year in response to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nEuropean Union officials are now trying to encourage other countries to end restrictions on movement as concerns grow about the economic impact of the lockdown. The Baltic states expect their economies to shrink by up to 8% this year.\n\nIn a statement, Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis called the move \"an opportunity for businesses to reopen, and a glimmer of hope for the people that life is getting back to normal\".\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 Saulius Skvernelis 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\nUnder the new rules, anyone who has not travelled outside the Baltic states in the past two weeks, is not infected, and has not been in contact with somebody who has tested positive may travel freely to the other nations.\n\nThe sparsely populated Baltic states have not been as badly affected by the pandemic as some of their European neighbours.\n\nThere are fewer than 150 recorded deaths between the three nations, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University. Official national data shows very small numbers of new infections, and the three governments have already begun loosening lockdown measures brought in to contain the virus's spread.\n\nArnoldas Pranckevicius, the European Commission representative in Lithuania, tweeted that the commission's guidelines \"encourage Member States enjoying a similar epidemiological situation to gradually open internal borders, in a coordinated and non-discriminatory way\".\n\nBoth Finland and Poland have also been approached to join the Baltic travel bubble. Estonia and Finland have eased travel for business and education already, as have Poland and Lithuania.\n\nSome other nations are beginning to lift virus related border restrictions. Germany has begun to partially reopen, and has said it plans to open all its borders on 15 June provided the new case number does not worsen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC’s Gavin Lee took a road trip in Europe's Schengen area to see how free movement has changed", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: 'We can't live like this forever'\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said that Scotland \"needs to get some normality back\" as she hinted that some measures to ease lockdown could be unveiled next week.\n\nThe first minister said that any easing would be careful and gradual, because lives are still at stake.\n\nAnd while she was not yet able to give dates for when things might start to open again, she said that people \"can't live like this forever\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said she could outline some \"minor changes\" next week.\n\nThese would be unveiled alongside further details of the range of options the Scottish government has been looking at, she told her daily briefing.\n\nThere has already minor easing of the lockdown restrictions in England, with some people who cannot work from home returning to their workplaces on Wednesday.\n\nMost of these measures have not yet been introduced elsewhere in the UK - although the Scottish government has already relaxed its rules to allow outdoor exercise more than once a day and Wales has outlined a cautious route out of lockdown that does not include any dates for when changes could be made.\n\nThe number of people dying with coronavirus in Scotland has been falling over the past fortnight, but Ms Sturgeon said further lockdown changes would only be considered when \"we hopefully see more evidence of a downward trend in the virus\".\n\nAnd she said she would continue to err on the side of caution for as long as lives continued to be at risk.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon added: \"We can't live like this forever, so we need to get some normality back as we continue to suppress the virus.\n\n\"Even when we can't yet give firm dates on when things will open up again, at least we will seek to share with you the order of priority and further phasing.\n\n\"Next week I will share with you more information on the assessments we are making and the range of options we are now looking at, and also any further minor changes we might make in the short-term.\"\n\nScotland has been in lockdown for the past seven weeks\n\nThe first minister also said that a balance would need be struck between getting the economy going again and allowing more social interaction.\n\nShe said: \"A life where you go to work but stay locked down with no family interaction for the rest of the time is not one many of us, if any of us, would enjoy\".\n\nTeaching unions have been urging the Scottish government to explicitly rule out the possibility of schools reopening before the new term begins in August.\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was no chance of schools getting back to normal \"in any way, shape or form\" before the summer holidays begin next month.\n\nShe said discussions were taking place over whether it would be possible for any pupils to return to the classroom by then - but it was likely to be on a \"very limited basis\" if it was to happen at all.\n\nFew - if any - Scottish pupils are likely to return to school before the summer holidays\n\nThe virus appears to have hit the central belt of Scotland and its larger cities harder than more rural areas, with Ms Sturgeon regularly warning that the infection rate - the so-called R number - continues to be higher north of the border than it is in England.\n\nMs Sturgeon said on Thursday her government was \"not ruling out\" the possibility of more rural areas with fewer cases of the virus having their lockdowns eased first.\n\nHowever, she stressed that she was not proposing that approach \"at this stage\".\n\nA further 46 people in Scotland have died after testing positive for the virus, bringing the total by that measure to 2,053.\n\nHowever, the total number of deaths stands at more than 3,200 once those with suspected cases of Covid-19 are included.\n\nMore than half of all registered deaths involving the virus continue to be happening in care homes, although the numbers have been falling.", "The government has denied that travellers from France will be exempted from the planned coronavirus quarantine measures.\n\nUnder the plans announced last weekend, people arriving from abroad must isolate themselves for two weeks.\n\nThose with nowhere to stay will be obliged to isolate in accommodation provided by the authorities.\n\nInitially, a joint statement from the British and French governments said no quarantine measures would apply.\n\n\"No quarantine measures would apply to travellers coming from France at this stage; any measures on either side would be taken in a concerted and reciprocal manner,\" says the statement, which was published on the government's website on 10 May.\n\n\"A working group between the two governments will be set up to ensure this consultation throughout the coming weeks.\"\n\nThe policy attracted a warning from the EU not to single out one nation, while some experts suggested it would prove unworkable.\n\nBut today, the prime minister's spokesman insisted there was no French exemption, and that the original statement referred to the need for cooperation to manage the common border between the two countries.\n\nIt now appears that those exempted from the policy could include freight drivers, in order to allow the flow of goods to continue, and people working on Covid-19 research, but not ordinary travellers.\n\nThe government had already indicated that people arriving from the Republic of Ireland will not be made to go into quarantine, an arrangement that will be unaffected by today's news.\n\nHowever, the measures will apply to UK holidaymakers returning from other destinations.\n\nIn his address to the nation on Sunday, the prime minister said: \"I am serving notice that it will soon be the time - with transmission significantly lower - to impose quarantine on people coming into this country by air.\"\n\nThe government later clarified that the rules would apply not just to air passengers, but also those arriving by other means of travel such as train or ferry.\n\nFollowing Mr Johnson's speech, No 10 confirmed a reciprocal deal with the government in Paris meant restrictions would not apply to passengers from France, but that was ahead of today's apparent u-turn.", "People across the UK showed their appreciation for front-line workers risking their lives to keep us safe for the eighth week.\n\nThe founder of clap for carers, Annemarie Plas, told BBC News that she was proud of the country for uniting every Thursday evening.", "Dame Vera Lynn has become the oldest singer to score a UK top 40 album, beating her own record.\n\nThe 103-year-old star's greatest hits collection, titled 100, re-entered the chart at number 30 on Friday.\n\nDame Vera became the first centenarian to chart when it was first released in 2017, reaching number three.\n\nThe upsurge in popularity for the album coincided with the 75th anniversary of VE Day, which marked the end of World War Two in Europe.\n\nThe BBC's anniversary programme ended with key workers and singers like Katherine Jenkins and Beverley Knight accompanying a recording of Dame Vera performing We'll Meet Again.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nDame Vera, who became known as \"the forces' sweetheart\" for entertaining troops during the conflict, also sent a message that while people may apart due to lockdown measures, \"hope remains even in the most difficult of times\".\n\nIt's been quite a time of late for elderly chart stars, following the success of Captain Tom Moore, who became the oldest person ever to score a number one single in the UK in April.\n\nAt the age of 99, his cover of You'll Never Walk Alone, alongside crooner Michael Ball, raised money for the NHS Charities Together fund.\n\nThis week, The D-Day Darlings, a wartime-style act who found fame on Britain's Got Talent in 2018, are at number five on the album chart.\n\nDua Lipa's Future Nostalgia remained the number one album for a fourth consecutive week.\n\nIn the singles chart, US rapper DaBaby came of age by securing his first number one with Rockstar.\n\nThe track, which features Roddy Ricch, knocked Drake's Toosie Slide off top spot, thanks largely to its use in a viral dance challenge on TikTok.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "William Hill says its punters have been betting on table tennis since the coronavirus pandemic put paid to most conventional sporting events.\n\nThe bookmaker said the sport was part of its offer of \"alternative products\" for gamblers during the lockdown.\n\nOther opportunities for wagers include football in emerging market countries not yet as badly affected by the virus.\n\nLooking ahead, the firm said German football and French horseracing were its best potential earners.\n\nGermany's Bundesliga is starting fixtures again behind closed doors this weekend, while racecourses had already resumed activities in France.\n\n\"While this is clearly an evolving situation, there are positive signs that some sports organisations are considering the resumption of live sports behind closed doors as early as this summer,\" William Hill said.\n\nCountries where football has not been suspended include Belarus, which has seen its Premier League attract a new global following as a result.\n\nThe announcement came as William Hill unveiled a trading update covering the 17 weeks to 28 April.\n\nIt said that in the period to 10 March, before coronavirus curbs started to bite, its performance was \"robust\", although group revenues were down 5% year-on-year.\n\nFrom 11 March onwards, however, its revenues fell 57%, because of the absence of live sports content.\n\nWilliam Hill said its betting shops were closed in the UK and US. UK retail staff have been furloughed and the bookmaker is topping up their wages to make sure they receive 100% of their salaries.\n\nAs it seeks to expand its US operations, William Hill has had to find innovative ways to get round restrictions on gambling in certain states.\n\nIn Nevada, people who wish to place bets using mobile phone apps have to sign up in person for the service at a betting shop before being allowed to use the app.\n\nSince those facilities are currently closed, William Hill has set up temporary drive-thru services at several locations in Nevada.\n\nWould-be punters have to download the app before heading for the drive-thru. To complete the registration process, they need to submit a picture of their state ID card and take a selfie with the app.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Patients recovering from being critically ill with Covid-19 'have a long road ahead'\n\nA critical care consultant at Wales' largest hospital said it was a week away from being overrun by coronavirus.\n\nDr Chris Hingston said as people heeded \"stay at home\" advice, Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales just avoided breaching its critical care capacity at the pandemic's peak.\n\nThe Intensive Care Unit is now gearing up for a second wave of infections.\n\nDr Hingston said \"the really big fear\" was that it may struggle to deal with a bigger peak.\n\n\"We were very much on the verge of not coping,\" he added.\n\nBBC Wales' health correspondent Owain Clarke was given rare access to the unit, at the hospital where 755 patients who have tested positive for the outbreak have been admitted and 228 have died.\n\nWhile 477 patients have been discharged, the road to recovery can still be a long one.\n\nDr Chris Hingston said the \"stay at home\" advice helped his unit to cope\n\nGeoff Bodman, 56, from Tremorfa in Cardiff, spent eight-and-a-half weeks on the hospital's intensive care unit.\n\nHe is now undergoing intensive rehabilitation therapy on the hospital's step-down ward, re-learning basic skills such as walking and brushing his teeth, before going home to his family.\n\n\"I was on a ventilator. My brother thought I was a goner, bless him.\n\n\"I find it difficult to recall a lot of it and I find it quite embarrassing sometimes that I'm trying to recall information that I should know.\n\n\"The other day I wanted to write my name and I couldn't even do that. I know they say it's a long way to go and it's going to take a hell of a journey.\"\n\nGeoff Bodman believes he may have caught coronavirus at the Cheltenham Festival\n\nMr Bodman, who runs his own painting and decorating business, said his illness affected his memory and he cannot remember being admitted to hospital.\n\n\"My last memory was going to Cheltenham races. I probably caught the damn thing there.\n\n\"That was the last memory I had, up until then it's pretty much wiped.\n\n\"And that in itself is upsetting and frightening because those are memories that I'm going to have to try to claw back.\"\n\nEmma Thomas described the heartbreak of seeing patients die with their families unable to be with them\n\nEmma Thomas, a critical care research nurse who has been helping with some of the hospital's most gravely ill patients, said the worst thing was seeing patients dying without their families by their side.\n\n\"I can't say that any nurse hasn't cried here.\n\n\"The worst thing is patients dying without families and knowing that [their] family's at home longing to be with their dying relative and just not being allowed that.\n\n\"The only thing we have to fight the virus with at the moment is lockdown, there is no vaccine, that is our only defence.\n\n\"You can deal with something when you know what the plan is, there is no plan with Covid-19, it's a brand new unprecedented virus that we just don't know if it'll end and when it'll end.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Radio 1 has revealed its presenter Maya Jama has left the station.\n\nIn a statement, it said she'd made \"the difficult decision not to continue her Radio 1 contract\" and her final show was already broadcast on May 3.\n\nShe joined the weekend line-up in 2018, presenting shows on Friday and Saturday mornings.\n\nIn a statement, Maya said: \"Thanks to all you cuties that turned into the show. Love you.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Radio 1, 1Xtra & Asian Network Press Office This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nExplaining the decision, Radio 1 added \"exciting commitments later in the year\" meant Maya was not able to \"dedicate the time needed to her show\".\n\nLorna Clarke, BBC Controller of Popular Music, thanked the presenter for \"all her commitment and hard work\" and wished her the best for the future.\n\nMaya (left) with Mollie King and Greg James at Radio 1's Teen Awards\n\nOver the last few years, Maya has hosted shows such as ITV's Cannonball and Channel 4's The Circle, and been a team captain on panel show Don't Hate The Playaz.\n\nShe joined Radio 1 when the station revamped its weekend schedule, extending the weekend breakfast show from Friday to Sunday.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Louise Smith was described as a \"lovely girl with a heart of gold\" by a friend\n\nPolice searching for Louise Smith have confirmed that a body recovered from woodland is the missing teenager.\n\nThe body of the 16-year-old, who was last seen on 8 May, was found in Havant, Hampshire, on Thursday.\n\nLouise, from the Leigh Park area, was reported missing on the same day.\n\nHampshire Police said on Saturday evening formal identification procedures were complete and Louise's family informed. They previously said the death was suspicious.\n\nThe family were being supported by specialist officers, police added.\n\nRemains were discovered in Havant Thicket on Thursday\n\nFriends of the teenager have spoken of their devastation.\n\nMandy Ferdinando, who had known Louise since she was a young girl, laid flowers at the entrance to Havant Thicket, where the teenager's body was found.\n\nShe previously told the Press Association: \"She was a lovely girl with a heart of gold.\n\n\"The community is devastated, sad, shocked, I can't speak for everybody but when anyone hears of a young person, whoever it may be, it's very sad.\"\n\nLouise had not been in touch with her friends or family since being seen in Somborne Drive, a short distance from where the body was found.\n\nLouise was last seen in Somborne Drive on 8 May\n\nPolice forensic officers carried out searches of a flat in the street and blacked out the property's windows.\n\nNeighbours previously said it is believed that Louise had been staying with a couple at the flat.\n\nJohn Singleton said: \"I saw her on the day she went missing, she just went out walking, I didn't know where she was going.\n\n\"It's very sad, the outcome is the saddest, for a while we had some hope.\"\n\nDescribing the police activity at the flat, he added: \"The police have been in and out carrying stuff.\"\n\nA man and a woman, both aged 29, had previously been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping and released on bail.\n\nHampshire police previously asked people in the area to save any dashcam and CCTV footage from 7 and 8 May - particularly any filmed at VE Day anniversary celebrations - for officers to review.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jonathan Edwards has represented Carmarthen East and Dinefwr since 2010\n\nA Plaid Cymru MP has had the whip withdrawn by the party after being arrested on suspicion of assault.\n\nJonathan Edwards, who has represented Carmarthen East and Dinefwr since 2010, was arrested on Wednesday 20 May.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said a 44-year-old man from Ammanford had been arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of assault. He has been released on bail and the investigation is ongoing.\n\nPlaid Cymru confirmed it had withdrawn the whip from Mr Edwards.\n\nThis means an MP is effectively suspended from the parliamentary party temporarily and must sit as an independent until the whip is restored.\n\nA Plaid Cymru statement said: \"The party whip has been withdrawn pending the conclusion of a police investigation.\n\n\"Mr Edwards has accepted this course of action and is complying fully with the police enquiries.\n\n\"It would be inappropriate for the party to comment further at this time.\"\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. As the National Botanic Garden of Wales celebrates 20 years - we look at how it has grown\n\nFrom bailouts to blooming marvellous - the National Botanic Garden of Wales is celebrating its 20th birthday.\n\nAlong the way, vital lessons have been learned, especially in the last decade, says its chairman of the trustees.\n\nMarking the birthday milestone, Gary Davies said without turning the garden's fortunes around \"180 degrees\", it would not have weathered the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut lockdown means a party to mark its anniversary remains on hold.\n\n\"There's no doubt about it, in the early days we made some fundamental mistakes,\" said Mr Davies.\n\n\"As we were a novelty, in our first year we attracted 240,000 visitors, and we planned on the assumption that this would continue forever.\n\n\"We overstretched ourselves and nearly paid the price.\"\n\nBuilt at a cost of £43m, the 568-acre garden opened its doors in May 2000.\n\nBut after the initial success, visitor figures slumped below 100,000 a year.\n\nTwice the garden at Llanarthne in Carmarthenshire needed saving from financial ruin, with emergency grants from the Welsh Government and the county council.\n\nLast year, there was a \"sustainable average\" of 160,000 people who went through its gates.\n\nThe garden has worked hard to attract a new - and younger - audience\n\nIn 2010 just a quarter of the income was self-generated, and three-quarters came from grants. Today the reverse is true.\n\n\"In the early 2000s the gardens were very immature, and frankly a little underwhelming,\" admitted Mr Davies.\n\n\"It's taken 20 years for them to reach their full splendour.\"\n\nThe garden team has also worked hard to develop what is on offer - especially for a younger audience.\n\nIt includes a butterfly house, play areas, and even zorbing - where thrill-seekers can whizz along inside a giant balls.\n\n\"I was told by one parent that their child used to cry when they were told they were going to the Botanic Gardens for a day out, now they cry when they have to come away,\" added Mr Davies, who is also acting head of the garden.\n\nThe focus on education and science at the establishment has also stood the garden in a good position to survive the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThey have been able to offer ecology lessons online, and help with teaching about living more sustainable lives.\n\nA seed bank at the site now holds over two million specimens of vulnerable plant species.\n\nProtecting plant species is one of the vital roles played by the garden\n\nStaff have also played a key role in preserving 270 plant species threatened by Australian wildfires earlier this year.\n\n\"More and more we're considered to be a global centre of excellence for botany, and are part of a network of institutions caring for the world's most at-risk flora, whether because of climate change or loss of habitat,\" said Mr Davies.\n\nBut like other attractions in Wales, it remains closed to visitors at the moment.\n\n\"If there's any silver lining to all of this, at least it didn't happen 10 years ago when we were in an utter financial mess,\" added the chairman.\n\n\"We've been able to keep on some staff and volunteers, caring for the gardens under appropriate distancing measures, and the irony is that they've never looked better.\"\n\nMr Davies stressed that once they can reopen, they must play their part in the wider recovery.\n\n\"After this is all over we need to help all the hotels, pubs and small businesses who have helped us over the years.\n\n\"Not everyone is going to be as lucky as us, but we'll do whatever we can to assist.\n\n\"We may have missed celebrating our 20th anniversary, but I've promised everyone a bumper 21st birthday party, when we'll be welcoming back all our friends, and most certainly offering them the key to the door.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Welsh Secretary Simon Hart's claim people can travel 15 miles to exercise have been dismissed as wrong\n\nThe Welsh secretary's claim people can travel 15 miles to exercise is \"not correct,\" a chief constable has said.\n\nSimon Hart met Wales' four chief constables and police and crime commissioners on Friday.\n\nAfter the meeting he tweeted that people could travel 10 to 15 miles \"to fish, play golf, surf or exercise\".\n\nBut Dyfed-Powys Police's chief constable Mark Collins said he had only discussed with Mr Hart how those in rural areas could travel.\n\n\"I was speaking specifically around the Dyfed Powys area,\" he said.\n\n\"I said it would be sensible to have a 10-mile area around the home address.\"\n\nHe said Mr Hart's tweet was \"not correct\" and \"you should not drive to take exercise\".\n\nWelsh Government guidelines on lockdown restrictions say \"exercise should be undertaken locally - as close as possible to the home\".\n\nMr Hart tweeted: \"Fascinating to hear from Wales' four police chiefs today, and the commissioners too, especially on what's permissible under lockdown.\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 Simon Hart This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Consensus was that travelling 10-15 miles from home to fish, play golf, surf or exercise is fine - subject to all other distancing requirements\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"Our regulations require exercise to be undertaken locally.\n\n\"Our advice is that when exercising, people should stay as close as possible to home, and in general, should not drive to a location away from home.\"\n\nGwent's Police and Crime Commissioner Jeff Cuthbert was also at the meeting.\n\nHe said: \"The conversation that Simon Hart refers to was simply a comment about a particular situation in Dyfed Powys.\n\n\"It was certainly not a view about travelling generally within Wales. The advice from us is stay local.\"\n\nA review of the guidelines is due on Thursday.\n\nWales' First Minister, Mark Drakeford, said at Friday's media briefing he was being \"careful and cautious\" and not rushing into decisions which would risk a second peak.\n\nHe said he hoped to have something to say next week but reiterated restrictions would only be eased when safe to do so.", "The funding is intended to increase services so more people can use public transport and maintain social distancing\n\nBuses and light rail services will receive £283m towards improving safety and restoring services during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHowever, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the full service would only run at a fifth of the usual capacity because of social distancing rules.\n\nAnnouncing the funding, he said it does not mean \"we can go back to using public transport whenever we like\".\n\nVolunteers will also be used to double the 3,400 safety marshals at stations.\n\nThe £254m for buses and £29m for trams and light rail is intended to increase the frequency and capacity so the UK can \"start moving back to a full timetable\", Mr Shapps told the Downing Street daily briefing.\n\nBut he added: \"Only if you need to travel and you can't cycle, walk or drive should you take the bus, tram or train.\"\n\nPeople who can work from home should continue to, he said, and those travelling by public transport for essential purposes should \"please avoid the rush hour\".\n\nThe funding is expected to enable adjustments to vehicles, signage, deep cleaning and the provision of hand sanitiser.\n\nFrom 1 June, Mr Shapps said the government would also bring in more marshals at stations to join the 3,400 British Transport Police officers, Network Rail and train operator staff currently advising passengers and monitoring social distancing.\n\nHe called these new volunteers \"Journey Makers\", and said they reflected the same \"public-spirited concern\" as the volunteer Games Makers at the London 2012 Olympics.\n\nSuggesting that the government wants the UK to come out of the coronavirus crisis stronger \"by permanently changing the way we use transport\", he said it was working on plans to allow people to park outside of city centres and finish their journey on bike or on foot.\n\nDevelopment funding for 10 new projects was also announced as part of the government's plan to reverse some of the 1960s Beeching cuts to local railway services.\n\nThey include the \"Ivanhoe line\" from Leicester to Burton-on-Trent, branch lines on the Isle of Wight and a new station at Wellington in Somerset.\n\nHe said if the plans are viable, \"we're going to build them fast\".", "Kimura was one of six cast members on Japanese reality TV show Terrace House before filming was suspended\n\nHana Kimura, a professional Japanese wrestler who appeared in the latest series of Netflix's reality show Terrace House, has died at the age of 22.\n\nStardom Wrestling, Kimura's organisation, confirmed the news and asked fans to be respectful.\n\nThe cause of death was not immediately clear.\n\nShortly before she died, she issued a series of troubling social media posts implying she had been cyber-bullied.\n\nThe most recent update on her Instagram story on Friday featured a photo of her with her cat, with a caption that read \"goodbye\".\n\nA winner of Stardom's 2019 Fighting Spirit Award, Kimura was one of the cast members of Japanese reality TV show Terrace House, before it was suspended due to coronavirus. The show follows three men and three women as they temporarily live together in a house.\n\nHer mother was also a well-known wrestler, Kyoko Kimura.\n\nHana Kimura, pictured on the left competing with Giulia, was a rising star of women's pro-wrestling\n\nConfirming her death on Twitter on Saturday, Stardom said: \"Please be respectful and allow some time for things to process, and keep your thoughts and prayers with her family and friends.\"\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 We Are Stardom This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by We Are Stardom\n\nConcerns were raised on Friday after Kimura reportedly posted images of self-harm on Twitter along with messages that read: \"I don't want to be a human anymore. It was a life I wanted to be loved. Thank you everyone, I love you. Bye.\"\n\nKimura is said to have been the target of hundreds of mean tweets from fans and critics on a daily basis. On news of her death, fans and industry figures spoke out against cyber-bullying and its impact on mental health.\n\n\"It absolutely breaks my heart how cruel people can be on social media,\" said Impact World Champion Tessa Blanchard.\n\n\"It was an amazing honor to know Hana Kimura. She was an amazing girl with the kindest soul and immense passion and work ethic.\"\n\n\"I hope this serves as a reminder that interactions on social media can have a serious effect on the mental health of anyone, no matter who they are,\" wrote wrestling journalist Adam Pacitti.\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 Adam Pacitti 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\nAmong those also paying tributes to the star online was British professional wrestler Jamie Hayter, who wrote: \"Distraught. I don't even know what to say or feel. Numb. I can't express it. RIP Hana Kimura. Such a wonderful human being.\"\n\nUS wrestler Su Yung said: \"I will always love and miss you, my friend. You are my little sister.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Sü Yüng This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIf you have been affected by the issues raised in this article, help and support can be found at this BBC Action Line.", "Shereen Williams with her sons, Selyf, 5 and Iesu, 10 in their Eid clothes\n\nEid won't be the same this year. No morning prayers at the mosque, no chance of meeting family and friends to celebrate Islam's most important festival.\n\nZara was planning on taking her family to the seaside, Shereen was looking forward to celebrating with her family in Singapore and Laura was anticipating a house filled with the sound of her young relatives' laughter.\n\nTheir dream Eid may not happen - but they're determined that breaking their month-long Ramadan fast for Eid al-Fitr will be as delicious as ever. They're planning a feast with their families.\n\nShereen Williams from Newport wasn't planning on cooking at all for Eid this year. She was due to take her two young sons Selyf and Iesu, with her husband Owain, to celebrate with her family in Singapore for the first time.\n\nShereen usually brings home treats for Eid from a shop like this one in Singapore\n\n\"I'm actually gutted we won't be there. I wouldn't have to do all this\" she says, as she explains about all the treats she's preparing.\n\nThe big challenge will be re-creating the pineapple tarts she usually brings back from Singapore each year - Kuih tart.\n\n\"They're small tarts, very buttery, with pineapple jam in the centre. I'm determined to make them this year! God knows how it will work!\"\n\nShereen's family together for Eid in Singapore a few years ago\n\nBut there's so much more planned too. Usually, in Singapore, her family would cook a special meal ready to break the last fast of Ramadan with her relatives.\n\n\"We would get together at my grandmother's house, about 60 of us,\" says Shereen.\n\n\"My mother has nine siblings, so it was completely crazy. Three hours of chaos!\n\n\"My grandmother would cook for us, then we would go to other relatives' houses and then we would be expected to eat at everyone's houses.\n\n\"Imagine fasting for a whole month and then eating six meals in one day!\"\n\nIn Newport, Eid is usually a bit different. Eid prayers at the mosque are usually a highlight first thing,\n\n\"Eid prayers are amazing, because everybody wears their traditional costumes,\" says Shereen.\n\n\"In Singapore people were all from the Malay community, so moving here and seeing people from all different backgrounds has been really nice.\"\n\nAfter brunch with her husband's fellow Muslim converts, the main meal is usually in the evening.\n\nShereen is preparing chicken rendang this year, with her favourite side dishes, including ketupat rice cakes.\n\n\"Traditionally you would use coconut leaves to be containers, but now we use plastic, and we boil them and then it's like a puffed-up cake,\" Shereen says.\n\n\"You cook beef or chicken rendang, we cook a spicy prawn and egg dish and it goes with rice cakes.\n\n\"There'll be a lot more prep work this year, because for me Eid isn't Eid without all those foods. In my family we show our love through giving each other food and receiving food.\n\n\"Obviously, the children are missing out on so many things at the moment. So it's more important than ever they get their little presents and the food they want to eat.\n\n\"And even if we'll be home, we will be wearing our Eid clothes!\"\n\nLaura Jones will bake a raspberry cake for Eid, the favourite of her one-year old son Jalal\n\nLaura Jones from Mynachdy in Cardiff also feels it's important to celebrate this year.\n\n\"Ramadan and Eid don't stop for the coronavirus. It's important to celebrate,\" she says.\n\nThroughout Ramadan, Laura has been presenting Welsh-language segments for Radio Ramhadan in Cardiff, and also took part in a multilingual video reminding fellow Muslims to stay at home during the holy month.\n\n\"It will be weird this year because we won't be able to see our relatives,\" Laura says.\n\n\"Usually, it's very noisy with all the children together. It will be quiet this year.\"\n\nBora - in preparation and afterwards\n\nDespite that, Laura's parents-in-law are still planning a feast. They're planning on plenty of fried snacks, popular in Bangladesh.\n\nLaura is looking forward to bora, a savoury snack made out of ground rice with added ginger, garlic and turmeric.\n\nHandesh is similar and also popular in Bengal, but flavoured with sugar and date molasses instead.\n\n\"The dough is wetter and they fry them, \" says Laura.\n\nThe main meal will probably be curry with rice - pilau and biryani.\n\n\"There'll be samosas too - savoury and sweet ones\", says Laura.\n\n\"Usually lots of people come to the house for Eid. There won't be visitors this year, but the tradition will continue.\"\n\nOver in the Grangetown area of Cardiff, Zara Ali lives with her four children and her husband Mos.\n\nShe'll be cooking for Eid this year and she likes to follow the traditions of her African-Indian mother's family.\n\n\"Eid food varies between cultures, but in our culture we usually eat a lot of heavy foods, like biryani or fried snacks,\" Zara says.\n\n\"There's always a large selection of sweets. We tend to bake a lot of biscuits for the buffet.\"\n\nOne very traditional dish is made from vermicelli in sweetened milk with cardamom, pistachio and almonds, called sevaya.\n\nZara adds: \"We can't have Eid without a massive pot of biryani on the table.\n\n\"But my children and I have a new tradition now of introducing something new - like a cheesecake or stuffed cookies. We'll be doing that again this year.\"\n\nUsually, the family take a trip to the seaside as part of their celebrations, over to Ogmore or Newton beach near Porthcawl. They usually take a packet of sausages with them and have a barbecue on the beach.\n\n\"We won't be doing that this year, which will be odd. We'll have to stay home and play games in the house,\" says Zara.\n\nBut she is determined to celebrate.\n\n\"I feel very thankful to be home with my family and that we're all safe, happy and healthy,\" she says.\n\n\"My extended family are over in Cambridgeshire and Lancashire - I'll Facetime them.\n\n\"It's very important for me and my family to stay home right now. We're so appreciative of what we do have and of how lucky we are.\"", "Hydroxychloroquine is safe for designated treatments such as malaria, lupus and arthritis\n\nThe drug US President Donald Trump said he was taking to ward off Covid-19 actually increases the risk of patients with the disease dying from it, a study in the Lancet has found.\n\nThe study said there were no benefits to treating patients with the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine.\n\nMr Trump said he was taking the drug despite public health officials warning that it could cause heart problems.\n\nThe president has repeatedly promoted the drug, against medical advice.\n\nHydroxychloroquine is safe for malaria, and conditions like lupus or arthritis, but no clinical trials have recommended the use of hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus.\n\nThe Lancet study involved 96,000 coronavirus patients, nearly 15,000 of whom were given hydroxychloroquine - or a related form chloroquine - either alone or with an antibiotic.\n\nThe study found that the patients were more likely to die in hospital and develop heart rhythm complications than other Covid patients in a comparison group.\n\nThe death rates of the treated groups were: hydroxychloroquine 18%; chloroquine 16.4%; control group 9%. Those treated with hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine in combination with antibiotics had an even higher death rate.\n\nThe researchers warned that hydroxychloroquine should not be used outside of clinical trials.\n\nMr Trump says he has not tested positive for Covid-19 and is taking the drug because he thinks it has \"positive benefits\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump: \"If it's not good, I'll tell you right, I'm not going to get hurt by it\"\n\nA trial is under way to see whether the anti-malarial drug could prevent Covid-19. More than 40,000 healthcare workers from Europe, Africa, Asia and South America who are in contact with patients with the disease will be given the drug as part of the trial.\n\nWhen asked about the Lancet study, White House coronavirus taskforce co-ordinator Dr Deborah Birx said the US Food and Drug Administration had been \"very clear\" about concerns in using the drug as either a coronavirus prevention or as a treatment course.\n\nDr Marcos Espinal, director of the Pan American Health Organization - part of the World Health Organization - has stressed that no clinical trials have recommended the use of hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus.", "Charlotte Cole and her husband Daniel isolated from George, two, after Covid-19 was confirmed at her workplace\n\nA self-isolating nurse who has been separated from her two-year-old son for five weeks has said not being able to hug him has been \"heartbreaking\".\n\nCharlotte Cole took the \"hard decision\" to move George to her parents, who live five minutes away, after Covid-19 was confirmed at one of her workplaces.\n\nThe 30-year-old and her husband have been making daily trips to see the toddler through a window ever since.\n\nShe said she wanted \"to give him a cuddle\" but thought it too risky.\n\n\"It was such a hard decision to isolate from George but I was coming into contact with people with coronavirus on a daily basis,\" said Ms Cole, who works as a care nurse for a company which serves nursing homes around the North West.\n\nShe said she also wanted to protect her mum Bridget, 55, and dad Robert, 65, who usually look after the toddler while she and Daniel, who works as a data analyst, are at work.\n\n\"Because of my work I am a continuing risk,\" she said.\n\nCharlotte Cole said she initially thought the lockdown would last just a few weeks\n\n\"I decided I would rather they stayed in a bubble than put them all at risk,\" she said.\n\nAt first the couple, both 30, from Kirkham, Lancashire, thought the lockdown would last just a few weeks but as the lockdown extended Ms Cole said being away from George had become more difficult.\n\n\"The house just feels so empty,\" she said.\n\n\"We have videos calls everyday and my mum and dad send me lots of pictures of him having breakfast and playing which is lovely, but it's the simple things I miss like not being able to read him a bedtime story, bath time even making him his lunch.\"\n\nShe added: \"They love having him but it is really hard for Daniel and I.\"\n\nWhen her parents' next door neighbour, and professional photographer, spotted the daily visits he asked Ms Cole if she would like him to take pictures as a record of the moment for the family.\n\nPeter Austin, 45, said: \"It was such a joyful family occasion. I wanted to give the family, who are my friends as well as neighbours, something to help them remember this time in a positive way.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People in England are being urged to stay away from tourism hotspots over the bank holiday weekend, with warm weather again forecast.\n\nPictures of large numbers visiting beaches in Brighton and Southend in recent days have raised fears over social distancing, with no limit in place on how far people can travel.\n\nVisitors to Brighton will find stewards stationed around the beach to encourage physical distancing and direct people to less busy parts of the seafront if it becomes too busy.\n\nCouncillor Carmen Appich, from Brighton & Hove City Council, said it would be an \"insult to the NHS staff and frontline workers\" to promote the city as a destination to visit.\n\nHastings Borough Council says the area is \"closed to visitors from outside the town\" and on the Isle of Wight the council's \"clear advice\" is to stay away.\n\nPeople are also being advised not to visit Blackpool and have been asked to think twice before visiting the Peak District or Morecambe Bay.\n\nIn Cornwall, council leaders have warned there is no lifeguard cover, and a large coastal swell and spring tide will bring hazardous sea conditions over the weekend.\n\nThe National Trust is urging people across England to stay close to home and explore local green spaces and countryside this weekend.\n\nSpeaking at the daily Downing Street press conference, Home Secretary Priti Patel said people can enjoy the outdoors as long as they follow social distancing advice.", "Police chiefs said coughing or spitting at emergency workers was 'deplorable' during the coronavirus pandemic\n\nSpitting attacks on police may be behind a national rise in assaults on emergency workers during lockdown, officials have said.\n\nFigures from the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) for England and Wales showed a 14% rise in attacks in one month compared with last year.\n\nAn officer said the assaults had made colleagues \"really wary\" on patrol.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it had \"moved quickly\" to bring these cases to justice.\n\nThe figures, for the 43 territorial forces in England and Wales, are a snapshot of assaults on emergency workers in the four weeks to 10 May, compared with the same period last year.\n\nThe NPCC said the increase was likely due to a rise in attacks where suspects spat at officers \"while claiming to be infected with Covid-19\".\n\nMore than 300 people were charged with coronavirus-related emergency worker assaults in April, with \"the vast majority\" resulting with a conviction, the CPS said.\n\nForces had full access to coronavirus testing facilities, and had low absence figures for officers and staff across the UK, according to the NPCC.\n\nPC Anthony Brice said he was not surprised by the rise in attacks on emergency workers\n\nNottinghamshire Police officer Anthony Brice was detaining a man in Worksop when he spat at him and his colleague.\n\nMr Brice later tested negative for Covid-19, but said before the results he and his family were \"incredibly anxious\".\n\nHe said the possibility of these kind of attacks was making officers on patrol during the pandemic \"really wary\".\n\n\"It's always in the back of your mind,\" he said. \"Especially when there's a public order incident when you have to get hands on with the public.\"\n\nMr Brice added he was \"not surprised\" by the national rise in assaults, due to the \"frustrations of lockdown\" for many.\n\n\"We normally get the brunt of everything, people don't like being told what to do,\" he said.\n\nDaniel Hagerty, 32, of Edinburgh Walk, Worksop, was sentenced to 26 weeks in prison following the assault.\n\nMr Brice said he was \"pleasantly surprised\" by the result, having been the victim of assaults in the past, which did not result in prison time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PC Annie Napier suffered no ill effects after a man spat blood in her eye in Coventry\n\nSeveral forces across England have published figures for assaults on officers or emergency workers during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe attacks have been condemned by senior police officers.\n\nChief Constable of Thames Valley Police John Campbell, said: \"To spit, cough or bite an officer or emergency service worker is despicable at any time but in the current situation with coronavirus, it is even more deplorable.\"\n\nHe said any officer who was assaulted was supported by a \"comprehensive welfare support plan\".\n\nThe force said all officers had access to PPE and further protection, such as spit guards.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Steve Graham, from Cleveland Police, said the \"damaging assaults\" had shaken the morale of people working on the frontline.\n\n\"Like people living in our communities, our staff are having to deal with the personal impact of Covid-19, and whilst assaults at any time are unacceptable, to have them increase during this uncertain time impacts their wellbeing,\" he said.\n\nChief Constable Alan Pughsley, from Kent Police, said: \"Fortunately now we're seeing these people go to prison, which is where I think they should be.\"\n\nMax Hill, director of public prosecutions at the CPS, said: \"We've identified particularly appalling conduct towards emergency workers...and we've moved, I think, very quickly, in partnership with the police to bring those cases to justice.\"\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. Dominic Cummings: \"Who cares about good looks? It's a question of doing the right thing.'\n\nDominic Cummings says he \"obviously\" will not be quitting as the prime minister's chief adviser over claims he broke coronavirus lockdown rules.\n\nHe said he did the \"right thing\" by travelling 260 miles with his family to be near relatives when his wife developed Covid-19 symptoms.\n\nDowning Street said he wanted to ensure he had childcare if he got symptoms.\n\nLabour and the SNP say he flouted the government's own advice and are calling for an urgent inquiry into his conduct.\n\nIt comes as the government announced 282 more people had died with coronavirus since Friday, across all settings, bringing the total to 36,675.\n\nMr Cummings told reporters he \"behaved reasonably and legally\" when asked about the trip from London to Durham.\n\nAsked whether it looked good, he said: \"Who cares about good looks? It's a question of doing the right thing. It's not about what you guys think.\"\n\nHe was later asked by reporters whether he would consider his position, he said: \"Obviously not.\"\n\n\"You guys are probably all about as right about that as you were about Brexit: do you remember how right you all were about that,\" he added.\n\nMr Cummings masterminded the 2016 Vote Leave campaign before being made Prime Minister Boris Johnson's chief political adviser.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the prime minster - who has not commented so far - had \"full confidence\" in Mr Cummings, following calls from the SNP and the Scottish Labour Party for him to quit or be fired.\n\nA statement by Downing Street earlier denied that police spoke to Mr Cummings or his family, after the Guardian and the Daily Mirror newspapers first reported the adviser had been seen near his parents' home in Durham.\n\nThe papers quoted police saying they had spoken to a family in Durham on 31 March.\n\nIn an updated statement, Durham Police said officers learned of his trip on 31 March and spoke to Mr Cummings' father the following day.\n\n\"During that conversation, Mr Cummings' father confirmed that his son had travelled with his family from London to the North-East and was self-isolating in part of the property.\n\n\"Durham Constabulary deemed that no further action was required. However, the officer did provide advice in relation to security issues,\" a statement from the police force said.\n\nDurham Police and Crime Commissioner Steve White said it had been \"most unwise\" for Mr Cummings to make the journey, \"given the whole ethos\" of the government's guidance.\n\nSpeaking at the daily coronavirus briefing, Mr Shapps said Mr Cummings went to Durham because \"that's where the family was\".\n\n\"As we all do in moments of crisis, we always seek to have our family, those who can assist us, around us and I think that's all that has happened in this case.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said he did not know the \"personal circumstances\" of the Cummings family that prevented them seeking help closer to home.\n\nQuizzed about how this fitted with the government's guidance, which is to stay at home, he said: \"The important thing is that everyone remains in the same place whilst they are on lockdown.\"\n\nHe added: \"The guidance says if you're living with children keep following this advice to the best of your ability.\n\n\"However, we are aware that not all these measures will be possible depending therefore on circumstances.\"\n\nHe said it was \"for an individual to make the decision\" on how best to practice lockdown measures.\n\nThe deputy chief medical officer for England, Jenny Harries, said: \"All of the guidance has a common sense element to it, which includes safeguarding around adults or children.\"\n\nAnd she added that travelling despite lockdown measures could be justified if there was an \"extreme risk to life\".\n\nLabour and the SNP have both written to the UK's most senior civil servant, Sir Mark Sedwill, to call for an urgent inquiry into Mr Cummings' conduct.\n\nLabour's Rachel Reeves said: \"The British people do not expect there to be one rule for them and another rule for the prime minister's most senior adviser.\"\n\nLabour has stopped short of calling for Mr Cummings' resignation - but it says Downing Street's explanations for his behaviour \"raised more questions than they answer\" including when the PM was made aware of his aide's decision to travel from London to Durham during lockdown.\n\nIt said: \"Owing to his wife being infected with suspected coronavirus and the high likelihood that he would himself become unwell, it was essential for Dominic Cummings to ensure his young child could be properly cared for.\n\n\"His sister and nieces had volunteered to help so he went to a house near to, but separate from, his extended family in case their help was needed. His sister shopped for the family and left everything outside.\n\n\"At no stage was he or his family spoken to by the police about this matter, as is being reported.\n\n\"His actions were in line with coronavirus guidelines.\"\n\nMinisters are rallying around Dominic Cummings and it's clear the PM does not want to lose a trusted adviser with whom he first worked closely on the Vote Leave campaign.\n\nThe hope is that this will be seen as a \"Westminster bubble\" story and that the bubble will soon burst.\n\nAlso, after a U-turn on the NHS surcharge for migrants this week, No 10 will not want to look as though it is on the run.\n\nBut this is an issue that has resonance way beyond Westminster.\n\nOther parents will have been sick during the pandemic and stuck to what they thought were the guidelines to self-isolate for up to 14 days.\n\nSo, the danger for the government isn't just the prospect of political attacks from opponents.\n\nIt is the perception the rules that apply in your street don't apply in Downing Street.\n\nAnd if No 10 are interpreting the guidelines flexibly enough to allow people with Covid-19 symptoms to travel substantial distances to isolate away from their principal residence, the wider public may follow suit.\n\nThat may, in turn, make the government's task of pushing the reproduction rate of the virus down all the more difficult.\n\nOn Tuesday, 31 March, when Dominic Cummings was in Durham with his sick wife, UK government advice on essential travel included:\n\nThe government's essential travel advice remains in place, as does its advice on self-isolating.\n\nOn 30 March, it was reported that Mr Cummings had developed symptoms of coronavirus and was self-isolating at home.\n\nHis wife, journalist Mary Wakefield, described in the Spectator magazine how he collapsed and was bed-ridden for 10 days.\n\nDurham Police confirmed officers had spoken to the owners of an address after its officers were made aware on 31 March of reports a person had travelled there from London.\n\nA spokesman said that owners of the address confirmed the individual \"was present and self-isolating in part of the house\", and officers \"explained to the family the guidelines around self-isolation and reiterated the appropriate advice around essential travel\".\n\nMr Cummings has attended meetings of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) - the scientific body which gives independent advice that shapes the government's coronavirus response.\n\nSenior government members have rallied round him on social media, with Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove tweeting: \"Caring for your wife and child is not a crime.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Renowned Tunisian philosopher and anthropologist Youssef Seddik says he hopes the pandemic will usher in a new way of thinking - and a new way to use language.\n\nIn an interview with AFP news agency in Tunis, he said his time in lockdown had changed him \"by making me think about words, about sayings that were self-evident and that we thought were automatic\".\n\n\"For example: killing time. What is time killed? It is no longer positive,\" he said. \"Confinement must change our automatic response to language and force us to reflect more, to no longer trust the obvious and ready-made formulas.\"\n\nHe added: \"Perhaps we are about to inaugurate another way of thinking, rather like when we went from the Middle Ages to the Age of Reason.\"", "The Morgans and Lyalls are two families divided by an invisible line\n\nAlmost every school night, Hope Lyall would usually be at dance practice.\n\nShe does ballroom, Latin, tap and ballet.\n\nBut like every other school-age child that has a hobby, sport or passion, she's been practising, and also learning, at home since lockdown restrictions were put in place on 23 March.\n\nHope is in Year 6, the last year of primary school. She lives in England, but goes to school in Wales.\n\nIt's the year for prom, exams, and the last time seeing many friends - September means high school when she won't see some ever again, as some of her fellow classmates will continue their education in Chepstow, in Wales, and others move to Wyedean, in England.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnd for those reasons, her mother, Virginia, would prefer that Hope could return to school, if possible.\n\n\"It's the transition, they're going into a big school, and it's going to be a major change, but I think they just need the baby steps that Year 6 gives them getting ready, and they haven't had that because we're all home-schooling,\" she said.\n\nAnd, it's clear what Hope would rather be doing: \"I'd would really like want to say a proper goodbye to all of my friends.\"\n\nKnighton is in Powys, mid Wales. But Offa's Dyke, the national path that roughly runs along the Welsh/English border, runs straight through the town.\n\nThe majority of residents in Knighton live in Wales, with the rest in England.\n\nBoth countries are now following different lockdown rules to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, with England starting to ease the regulations before its neighbour.\n\nAs a result, England is aiming to get Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 children back in school from the start of June.\n\nBut Wales hasn't yet made a decision when classes will resume.\n\nThe reality of living on the border is that life takes place in both countries - which has made for some tough decisions for families.\n\n\"We've been doing scrabble instead of spelling as I decided I couldn't do another spelling test,\" said Rebecca Morgan.\n\nRebecca Morgan has been home schooling Mason, 11, and Summer, eight\n\nShe has been home schooling eight-year-old Summer and 11-year-old Mason, as she works from home while her husband works as an emergency engineer.\n\nEven though they live in Wales, they spend their lives in both countries, which she says has been made more tricky with governments in Westminster and Cardiff Bay issuing different advice.\n\nRebecca said: \"It's confusing and it's difficult, I think you just take the bits of advice that suit you to be honest.\"\n\nLike Hope, Mason is also in Year 6.\n\nHis school in England has said his year group is starting back up on 1 June, but his parents have decided not to send him back, safety being the primary concern.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"They haven't said every year group can go back, which they're not going to because it's a phased return,\" Rebecca added.\n\n\"But you do just get that feeling that certain teachers and certain pupils are being put in that more dangerous situation - they're just being used as the 'test samples'.\n\n\"I almost feel that me having him at home is one less child for them to worry about.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government says journeys across the border for education would be classed as essential, so the Morgan family would not face penalties if they were to change their minds and take Mason to school.\n\nAlthough the UK government encourages families in England to send their children to school if they reopen, given the circumstances, those families that choose not to send will not be penalised.\n\nThe Morgans and the Lyalls are two families divided by an invisible line, living their lives in two countries, whose children have to follow different sets of rules.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe Premier League is \"as confident as we can be\" about restarting in June, says chief executive Richard Masters.\n\nPlayers resumed training on Tuesday, the day it was announced there had been six positive tests for coronavirus across three clubs.\n\nThe Premier League, suspended on 13 March, had previously identified 12 June as a possible restart date.\n\n\"There is some momentum. We've taken the first step,\" Masters told BBC Sport.\n\n\"It's great for everybody, including the fans, to see our players back on the training ground.\"\n\nAsked what date the Premier League was targeting for a return, Masters said it must be \"flexible\" and could learn from the resumption of the Bundesliga last weekend.\n\nHe also recognised the need for \"contingency plans\" and said \"curtailment is still a possibility\", meaning the season would be ended, but there was \"optimism\" fans could attend matches next season.\n\nMasters also admitted the idea of scrapping relegation \"would come up for discussion\" and was \"a significant topic\".\n\n\"That will be part of the debate we have,\" he said. \"What would happen in that environment (curtailment of season) is something we're yet to discuss with the clubs.\"\n\nFootball Association Chairman Greg Clarke told the Premier League clubs at their last meeting that the governing body would oppose the scrapping of relegation.\n\n\"I can't speak for the FA but obviously they have their own views on it and until we've discussed it as clubs and as a collective we can't really talk further about it,\" Masters added.\n\nPhase one of the return to training features small groups training with social distancing maintained.\n\nOn Wednesday culture secretary Oliver Dowden said phase two - the return of contact training in elite sports - could get government approval \"later this week\".\n\nMasters said the Premier League would not take this next step until it was safe to do so.\n\n\"We wouldn't have taken the first step to get back to training if we weren't convinced we had created a very safe environment for our players,\" he said.\n\n\"It is the first step and we have to be sure when we go to contact training we have completed those processes.\"\n\n'We think it is safe to return'\n\nChelsea midfielder N'Golo Kante will train at home because of coronavirus fears and Watford captain Troy Deeney will not return to training.\n\nThe Premier League hosted video conference calls \"to provide health reassurances\" to club captains and managers before training recommenced.\n\nThe league began testing players and staff for coronavirus again on Friday after six tested positive on Tuesday, a result Masters was \"reassured by\" given it represented less than 1% of tests.\n\n\"Our sympathies are with everybody who has tested positive,\" he said. \"A few of them were surprised because they were asymptomatic.\"\n\nEarlier this month, a number of club doctors raised concerns with league bosses over plans to resume the season and Masters said the Premier League \"were very surprised to hear that\".\n\n\"We ran a very thorough consultation with club doctors,\" he added.\n\n\"We have done everything we possibly can to make return to training as safe as possible.\n\n\"We think it is safe to return. We have to respect players' decisions not to return to training. I would be comfortable to return to training.\"\n\nShould matches resume and Liverpool - 25 points clear at the top of the table - secure their first title in 30 years, Masters said they should be allowed a trophy presentation \"if we can find a way of doing it\".\n\nBut some people are worried about fans gathering outside Anfield, and Masters said the potential for crowds of supporters was \"a concern\".\n\nMasters said the Premier League wanted \"to play out the season as much as possible at home and away venues\".\n\n\"We're talking to the authorities about that,\" he added.\n\n\"I do believe we can appeal to fans not to congregate outside football grounds or go to other people's houses to watch football matches in contravention of government guidelines.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Cummings: \"Who cares about good looks? It's a question of doing the right thing.'\n\nThe prime minister's chief aide Dominic Cummings is facing fresh allegations that he breached lockdown rules.\n\nHe and the government had said he acted \"reasonably and legally\" by driving from London to County Durham while his wife had coronavirus symptoms.\n\nBut The Observer and Sunday Mirror now report he made a second trip to the North East after returning to London.\n\nNo 10 says this is \"inaccurate\" but some Tory MPs have called for Mr Cummings to consider his position.\n\nLabour has called for an urgent inquiry into the allegations, while government ministers rallied around Mr Cummings on Saturday and defended his conduct.\n\nMatt Hancock and Michael Gove were among those to back Mr Cummings for self-isolating at a property adjacent to other family members in case he and his wife needed help with childcare.\n\nMr Cummings told reporters outside his home on Saturday that he would not be resigning and had done the \"right thing\" by travelling 260 miles with his wife and young son to be near relatives when she developed Covid-19 symptoms at the end of March.\n\nThe two newspapers have now reported witnesses saw Mr Cummings in Barnard Castle, more than 25 miles from Durham, on 12 April.\n\nOn 14 April, he was seen in London. According to a witness, he was spotted again near Durham in Houghall Woods on 19 April.\n\nMr Cummings is yet to publicly respond to the new claims, but the Sunday Telegraph reports he told Downing Street he left Durham on 13 April, and that the claim he made a second trip from London was \"totally false\".\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told the BBC's Andrew Marr that the claims of a second trip were \"untrue\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grant Shapps: \"It's not true that he then returned to Durham\"\n\nWhen asked if Mr Cummings was going to resign, Mr Shapps replied: \"No.\"\n\nBut a growing number of backbench Tory MPs have now called on Mr Cummings to resign.\n\nEx-chairman of the European Research Group (ERG) Steve Baker told the BBC: \"The country can't afford this nonsense, this pantomime, Dominic should go and we should move on and deal with things that matter in people's lives.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steve Baker: \"The country can't afford this nonsense...Dominic should go.\"\n\nTory Sir Roger Gale said there \"cannot be one law for the prime minister's staff and another for everyone else\".\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 Sir Roger Gale MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nConservative MP Caroline Nokes tweeted: \"There cannot be one rule for most of us and wriggle room for others.\"\n\nColleague Simon Hoare has called for Mr Cummings to \"consider his position\", Tory MP Damian Collins has said the government \"would be better without him\" and MP Craig Whittaker has said Mr Cummings' position \"is untenable\".\n\nLabour's shadow policing minister Sarah Jones told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday that people \"are feeling rightly angry\".\n\n\"I think people are rightly feeling is it one rule for us and one rule for people at the top,\" she said.\n\nIn response to the fresh claims, Downing Street said: \"Yesterday the Mirror and Guardian wrote inaccurate stories about Mr Cummings.\n\n\"Today they are writing more inaccurate stories including claims that Mr Cummings returned to Durham after returning to work in Downing Street on 14 April.\n\n\"We will not waste our time answering a stream of false allegations about Mr Cummings from campaigning newspapers.\"\n\nDowning Street has also denied that police spoke with family members of Mr Cummings \"about this matter\".\n\nAfter an apparently co-ordinated show of support from some of the most senior Conservatives yesterday, today the first cracks may be starting to show.\n\nSteve Baker has become the first Tory MP to break ranks and call for Dominic Cummings to go.\n\nAs one of Parliament's most prominent Brexiteers, his intervention is significant.\n\nThe tone of his criticism even more so - accusing Mr Cummings of regarding \"accountability with contempt\".\n\nHis view is that Boris Johnson is expending too much political capital on trying to save his adviser.\n\nThe next few hours will see how many more follow suit.\n\nIf there's enough backbench unrest, it will leave Boris Johnson with an unappealing choice to make: oust a highly-valued adviser or risk upsetting the party to keep him.\n\nOther opposition parties have also renewed their calls for the prime minister's adviser to go.\n\nThe SNP's Ian Blackford said Mr Cummings \"has to leave office\", while acting Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"If Dominic Cummings has not been sacked by tomorrow, I think the prime minister's judgement is in serious doubt.\"\n\nFollowing the fresh reports concerning the alleged second visit to County Durham, a Labour source said: \"If these latest revelations are true, why on earth were cabinet ministers sent out this afternoon to defend Dominic Cummings?\"\n\nGovernment advice had been for people to stay at home during the first weeks of lockdown. Self-isolation at home continues to be advised for those with coronavirus symptoms.\n\nEngland's deputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries said all health guidance should be applied with \"common sense\".\n\nIt comes as the government announced 282 more people had died with coronavirus since Friday, across all settings, bringing the total to 36,675.\n\nWhen asked by reporters outside his home on Saturday whether his travelling to Durham looked good, Mr Cummings said: \"Who cares about good looks? It's a question of doing the right thing. It's not about what you guys think.\"\n\nAsked whether he would reconsider his position, he said: \"Obviously not.\"\n\nMr Cummings masterminded the 2016 Vote Leave campaign before being made Prime Minister Boris Johnson's chief political adviser.", "Louise Smith was described as a \"lovely girl with a heart of gold\" by a friend\n\nFriends and neighbours of a missing teenager have said they are \"devastated\" after a body was found in woodland.\n\nThe 16-year-old, named locally as Louise Smith, was last seen on 8 May - VE Day- Havant, Hampshire.\n\nOfficers discovered the remains in Havant Thicket on Thursday. Formal identification has yet to take place.\n\nForensic officers continue to search the woods and a flat in Somborne Drive, where Louise was last seen.\n\nMandy Ferdinando, who had known Louise since she was a young girl, laid flowers at the entrance to the thicket.\n\nShe told the Press Association: \"She was a lovely girl with a heart of gold.\n\n\"The community is devastated, sad, shocked, I can't speak for everybody but when anyone hears of a young person, whoever it may be, it's very sad.\"\n\nNeighbour John Singleton said: \"I saw her on the day she went missing, she just went out walking, I didn't know where she was going.\n\n\"It's very sad, the outcome is the saddest, for a while we had some hope.\"\n\nFlowers have been left at Havant Thicket where a body was found\n\nDetectives said they were treating the death as suspicious and urged people not to speculate on the circumstances.\n\nLouise had not been in touch with her friends or family since being seen in Somborne Drive, a short distance from where the body was found.\n\nA man and a woman, both aged 29, had previously been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping and released on bail.\n\nHampshire police previously asked people in the area to save any dashcam and CCTV footage from 7 and 8 May - particularly any filmed at VE Day anniversary celebrations - for officers to review.\n\nForensics officers have been searching a flat in Somborne Drive, the road where Louise was last seen\n\nLouise went shopping at a Tesco store on the evening before she was reported missing\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ophthalmologists say some patients feel they are a 'burden' during the current virus crisis\n\nPeople with serious eye conditions are \"sat at home, slowly going blind\" because they are afraid to seek treatment, the chief executive of Optometry Wales said.\n\nSali Davis said some patients were \"terrified\" to leave their house because of coronavirus.\n\nPatients have also seen treatment clinics moved long distances away.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it expects health boards to provide urgent and essential treatment during lockdown.\n\nMs Davis reassured people they would be safeguarded accessing care, but warned: \"If you lose your sight because of a sight-threatening condition, such as macular degeneration, we can't restore that sight once it is gone.\"\n\nShe also said some patients who were receiving secondary care in hospitals for eye conditions were not being seen quickly enough because of coronavirus-related delays.\n\nMoira Jenkins from Haverfordwest has suffered from age-related macular degeneration for four years - a condition which causes loss of vision, and affects more than 1.5 million people in the UK.\n\nBut all clinics at Withybush Hospital have been cancelled and the 55-year-old was offered an alternative in Aberaeron, Ceredigion, almost 50 miles away.\n\nMoira Jenkins has faced problems during the lockdown receiving treatment\n\n\"The eye clinic is literally inside the main doors at Withybush, and I can't understand how dragging me to Aberaeron, via hospital transport if available, is not riskier than attending Withybush, which is a two-minute drive away from me,\" she said.\n\nAfter she did not attend, Hywel Dda health board sent her a letter, urging her to visit, outlining the possible risks, including the fact her condition can \"advance very rapidly at times\".\n\n\"My son broke lockdown and picked me up and took me to Aberaeron, where I had my scan and injection,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Hywel Dda health board spokesman said few clinics and services are deliverable in the way they were before the pandemic.\n\n\"Any changes we have made are in the interest of patient and staff safety and are continually under review as the pandemic progresses,\" he said.\n\nIn Bridgend, Edwina Knight began experience problems, saying: \"I was playing a game on my tablet, and my eyes went foggy.\n\n\"I just blamed it on tiredness and dirty glasses so went to bed not thinking much of it, but when I woke up I couldn't see anything out of my left eye.\"\n\nEdwina Knight did not seek help until she had lost her sight in one eye\n\nThe 78-year-old contacted her local opticians and was examined at the store, before being referred to hospital.\n\nIt was discovered she had had a Transient Ischaemic Attack - also known as a mini-stroke - behind her eye.\n\n\"When they told me I had suffered it, I was shocked, I'd never heard of it before.\" Mrs Knight said.\n\n\"The doctor at the hospital told me that, had they seen me sooner, they could have saved my sight.\"\n\nSight in her left eye will never be restored, but she is on medication to reduce the risk of something similar happening again.\n\nAge-related macular degeneration often hits people in their 50s or 60s\n\nOmair Khan, the optometrist director of the store that assessed her, urged people experiencing eye problems to seek help.\n\n\"In many cases, it is nothing to worry about, but sometimes it can be an indication of a more serious health condition,\" he said.\n\nGwyn Williams, a consultant ophthalmologist at Singleton Hospital, Swansea, said the difficulties facing patients around their treatment is a combination of many things.\n\nSome have said they do no want to bother him at a busy time, adding: \"That's a very depressing thing to read, because we ourselves are available for all emergency eye care at the moment, and we're still undertaking sight-saving procedures now, we never stop.\n\n\"It's very sad when people feel they are a burden to us when we're fighting this virus, and the truth is, we are here to save sight, and that's what we want to do.\"\n\nGwyn Williams said it saddened him that some patients had written to him saying they did not want to bother him by visiting during the pandemic\n\nHe also said closing clinics and deferring some appointments has been a massive inconvenience for those who need treatment.\n\nWhen the pandemic ends and an audit takes place, \"a visual price\" can be put on reduced activities, he added.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said it expects health boards to provide urgent and essential treatment.\n\nBut he added: \"However, on occasions this may be at different locations to ensure treatment can be provided safely. We have also asked all health boards to identify the most urgent cases from their waiting-list for eye conditions, so that they can be seen first or at the most clinically appropriate time.\n\n\"We have also issued a framework for the NHS in Wales for restoring activity, including options to introduce routine surgery.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nRugby Australia and Queensland Rugby Union have released Izack Rodda, Harry Hockings and Isaac Lucas after they refused Covid-19-related pay cuts.\n\nThe trio were stood down by Queensland Reds on Monday for not accepting the interim pay deals.\n\nRA said the decision was made after the players chose to \"pursue termination of their contracts\" and was \"effective immediately\".\n\nIt comes after RA warned of A$120m (£64.4m) losses because of coronavirus.\n\nRugby Australia interim chief executive Rob Clarke said: \"The game collectively took the difficult but necessary action to stand down over 70% of the entire rugby workforce, which equates to over 150 workers that are now receiving the JobKeeper subsidy [from the Australian government].\n\n\"At the same time, 189 professional rugby players in Australia accepted reduced pay for an interim period to enable the game to navigate this unprecedented situation. The three Queensland players elected not to accept these terms.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nA behind closed doors derby between Real Betis and Sevilla could restart the La Liga season on 11 June.\n\nLa Liga chief Javier Tebas told Spanish TV he hoped the match can be \"a tribute to all the people who have died\".\n\nHowever, Tebas also warned footballers to \"be careful with their actions\" after four Sevilla players apologised for breaking rules on social gathering.\n\nEver Banega, Lucas Ocampos, Franco Vazquez and Luuk de Jong were pictured at a party at the weekend.\n\nSpain has eased its strict lockdown rules, but gatherings of more than 10 people are still not allowed.\n\n\"Players are an example to society and should be careful with their actions,\" Tebas said. \"I call on all footballers to not act like this. We have to be very careful because a lot of people's jobs are at stake.\"\n\nOn Saturday, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez gave permission for the country's top two divisions to resume from 8 June.\n\nLa Liga players started training in groups of no more than 10 last week.\n\nFootball in Spain was suspended on 12 March because of the coronavirus pandemic and Tebas said the next objective was to progress to full training.\n\n\"Right now that's our main goal, and if we can achieve that then we can start to bring forward the return of the competition. Our aim is to be able to announce the first four rounds of fixtures next week,\" he added.\n\n\"The government's announcement took us by surprise but it shows that professional football is very important to this country.\"\n\nChampions Barcelona lead La Liga by two points over nearest challengers Real Madrid with 11 matches remaining.\n\nThe players in the top two divisions were only able to return to individual training in early May after being tested for the virus.\n\nFive players tested positive for the virus across Spain's top two divisions and went into isolation prior to the first phase of group training being allowed from 18 May.\n\nMeanwhile, Portugal's Primeira Liga will resume on 3 June, with Portimonense against Gil Vicente and Famalicao hosting leaders Porto.", "Grant Shapps says Dominic Cummings was safeguarding the safety of his son Image caption: Grant Shapps says Dominic Cummings was safeguarding the safety of his son\n\nAsked by reporters about Dominic Cummings, the Prime Minster's special adviser, who has faced criticism for travelling to Durham from London, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps says it was a different situation to the resignations of Dr Catherine Calderwood, Scotland's former chief medical officer, and government scientific adviser Prof Neil Ferguson.\n\n\"This wasn't visiting a holiday home or going to visit someone,\" he says. \"This was to stay put and remain in isolation to deal with what I hear was a significant bout of coronavirus and then return to London only when well. There is every difference.\"\n\nMr Shapps says Boris Johnson knew of Cummings' whereabouts and has \"his full support\".\n\nHe insists that people should follow the guidance \"to the best of their ability\" but it was \"for an individual to make the decision of how do I ensure I have enough support around the family\".\n\nDr Jenny Harries, England's deputy chief medical officer, says the scientific and medical advice behind the self-isolation rules is \"to take people symptomatic out of the public domain and those likely to develop symptoms\" but adds that \"the only exception is around safeguarding\".", "AFC Wimbledon chief executive Joe Palmer thinks the League One football season is \"moving towards cancellation\".\n\nLeague Two clubs have already \"unanimously indicated\" they want to end their campaign but hold play-offs to decide one more remaining promotion place.\n\nBury's expulsion means there are just 23 teams in the third tier this season, so the campaign would be cut short if 12 teams back the proposal.\n\n\"The view I'm getting from clubs is that we want to see the end of the season,\" Palmer told BBC Sport.\n\n\"We as a club don't want to do anything that is going to put us in a worse off situation and if playing out the rest of the season does that we would be against it.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Founder Annemarie Plas said it would be \"beautiful\" to end it after its 10th week and make it an annual event\n\nThe UK's weekly applause for front-line workers tackling the coronavirus outbreak has \"had its moment\" and should end next Thursday, the woman behind it has suggested.\n\nIt would be \"beautiful\" to end Clap for Carers after its 10th week, and make it an annual event, Annemarie Plas said.\n\nShe said the public had \"shown our appreciation\" and it was now up to ministers to \"reward\" key workers.\n\nThe government has said it is considering how best to do so.\n\nSome have taken to incorporating pots and pans during into their weekly claps\n\nThe event originally began as a one-off to support NHS staff on 26 March - three days after the UK went into lockdown.\n\nHowever, after proving very popular, it was expanded to cover all key workers and has continued every Thursday at 20:00 BST, with people peering out of their windows or standing on their doorsteps to show their appreciation by clapping, cheering, banging saucepans and playing instruments.\n\nDutch-born Londoner Ms Plas, who is credited with starting the nationwide applause, told BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine show that it was inspired by similar events in the Netherlands and around the world.\n\nBut she said: \"Because this is the ninth time - and next week will be 10 times - I think that would be beautiful, to be the end of the series.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From a helipad to the streets, millions join the UK's ninth Clap for Carers\n\nFrom that point, she said maybe it should stop and \"then move to an annual moment\" - noting that \"other opinions\" are starting to \"rise to the surface\".\n\nShe added: \"So I feel like this had its moment and then we can adapt - let's continue to something else.\"\n\nPeople in London took to the street for the ninth Clap for Carers on Thursday\n\nThe applause has been called into question in recent weeks. Some NHS staff have said they felt \"stabbed in the back\" by people breaking lockdown guidelines to hold VE Day street parties or flock to the beach.\n\nOthers have suggested the NHS would benefit more from extra funding rather than applause, while Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said many key workers are \"overlooked and underpaid\".\n\nMs Plas said she feels that people have shown key workers their appreciation and it is now the responsibility of \"the people that are in power... to reward and give them the respect they deserve\".\n\nIn a later interview, she added: \"Without getting too political, I share some of the opinions that some people have about it becoming politicised.\n\n\"I think the narrative is starting to change and I don't want the clap to be negative.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said ministers were \"thinking [about] how to recognise the work of healthcare staff, of carers, of many others\".\n\nIt followed a pledge by Health Secretary Matt Hancock last week to \"fight\" to get nurses a \"fair reward\" for their work tackling the outbreak.\n• None When is it hypocritical to clap for carers?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage shows a helicopter 'water bombing' the site of a forest fire which had flared up\n\nStrong winds are still helping spread a forest fire which has been burning for six days in Dorset.\n\nMore than 150 firefighters remain at Wareham Forest dealing with hotspots and flare-ups. About 500 acres (200 hectares) have so far been damaged.\n\nA helicopter was brought in to \"water bomb\" the area as smoke drifted as far as Bournemouth.\n\nDorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service (DWFRS) said winds of up to 45mph were proving a \"huge risk\".\n\nOfficials have urged people to avoid the area.\n\nA tactical wildfire team from South Wales Fire and Rescue Service has joined the efforts to tackle the blaze and is helping to carry out overnight \"controlled burns\" to curb its spread.\n\nDWFRS said water supply was a \"real challenge\" and more than five miles of hose was being used to extract water from the River Piddle to be brought close to the fire sites.\n\nA specialist helicopter is also being used to help fight the fire from the air.\n\nThe aircraft uses an under-slung bucket which can hold up to 1,000 litres of water to be dropped on the fire, as directed by crews on the ground.\n\nAnna Shepherd and her family were evacuated from their home near the forest when flare-ups worsened on Friday afternoon\n\n\"We were told we had to grab what we had and go. We just had to jump in the Land Rover and go,\" she said.\n\n\"It's windy again so I hope things are under control out there. I really want to get home.\"\n\nA Dorset Police drone image shows the extent of the devastation\n\nThe blaze, which started on Monday, may initially have been started by a disposable barbecue or camp fire, investigators believe.\n\nDWFRS said it had maintained a \"significant presence\" overnight, following further flare-ups on Friday.\n\n\"The strong winds of yesterday, which are continuing today, present a huge risk and have led to multiple hotspots flaring up and some fire spread,\" it said.\n\nThe fire service repeated calls for members of the public to stay away from the area for walking or cycling.\n\n\"There are lots of vehicle movements, and miles of hose stretching along roads and paths. Even if an area looks safe, we cannot guarantee that it is,\" it said.\n\n\"Firefighters are working incredibly hard, in arduous conditions, to bring this fire under control.\"\n\nFirefighters have been dealing with hotspots and flare-ups across the forest fire site\n\nThe service also has volunteers patrolling other nearby heath land sites on bikes, including at Upton Heath and Canford Heath.\n\nAn amber alert for wildfire also remains in place for the weekend, meaning if another wildfire broke out it could spread quickly and easily due to the dry and windy conditions.\n\nOne third of the 3,700-acre forest is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and is home to rare birds, plants and invertebrates.\n\nOn Wednesday, Forestry England estimated it could take the forest \"decades\" to recover.\n\nThe fire service said 11 disposable BBQs were found in the area\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A 53-year-old man has been jailed for 26 weeks for spitting at a police officer after claiming he had coronavirus.\n\nDarrell Glen Humphries, from Canton, Cardiff, admitted assaulting an emergency worker when he appeared before the city's magistrates.\n\nHe said the sentence should serve as a deterrent to those who assault \"people who are trying to keep them safe\".\n\nSouth Wales Police said the assault happened after officers took Humphries to Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales for non-Covid 19 related injuries following an incident at a supermarket on Monday afternoon.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shearings Holidays is part of the group\n\nAbout 2,500 jobs have been lost and 64,000 bookings cancelled with the collapse into administration of Specialist Leisure Group.\n\nThe hotel and travel company included well-known coach holiday brands Shearings and National Holidays.\n\nTrade organisation Abta said the company, which specialised in products for the over-50s, was \"significantly impacted\" by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOne hotel owner predicted its demise would leave \"a void in the market\".\n\nAbta said the company had struggled to provide thousands of refunds for cancelled trips.\n\nIt added that the vast majority of cancelled bookings were coach package holidays, which are financially protected, and customers with these bookings would receive a full refund.\n\nThe Specialist Leisure Group, based in Wigan, also operated Caledonian Travel and hotel businesses such as Bay Hotels, Coast and Country Hotels and Country Living Hotels.\n\nThe firm said on its website that all tours, cruises, holidays and hotel breaks had been cancelled and would not be rescheduled, blaming the impact of the pandemic.\n\nEmployee Matthew Herbert said he was \"gutted\" upon hearing the news.\n\n\"It'll take a while for this wound to heal. To my colleagues, good luck, stay safe, stay strong,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matthew Herbert This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRichard Perry, who owns the Silversands Hotel in Blackpool, has worked with National Holidays and Caledonian Travel for 10 years and said they had been \"very successful and brought lots of people\" to the hotel.\n\nMr Perry said he was owed £6,500 by National and would have \"to look at our business model again as National supplied around 60% of our trade\".\n\nHe described the group's collapse as \"a great shame\" and believes there \"will be a void now in the market especially for pensioners who can no longer travel abroad\".\n\nRichard and Elaine Perry said National Holidays supplied \"around 60%\" of trade to their hotel\n\nHarry Carter, 71, and his wife Gillian have been regular National Holidays customers for years.\n\nMr Carter said: \"I'm upset about the news. Never in all my years of using them have we ever had a bad experience.\n\n\"You get on the coach and you meet some very interesting people, and the service you get from the driver is first-class.\n\nJohn de Vial, Abta's director of membership and financial services, said: \"Today is a very sad day for these customers and the thousands of staff who will have lost their jobs.\n\n\"The fact that two such well-known brands with a loyal customer base have had to call in administrators is a stark indication of the pressure that the holiday industry is under as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"Abta has repeatedly highlighted to the government the urgency of the situation and the need to set out a co-ordinated strategy with clearer communication if it wants to help avoid significant job losses and support companies to weather the storm.\"\n\nOther coach companies sent messages of support.\n\nRuncorn-based Anthony's Travel mourned the loss of a firm said in a tweet Shearings was \"long-associated with the golden age of coach travel and UK tourism\".\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 ANTHONYS TRAVEL This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTeesside-based Skelton Coaches urged the government to \"help the coach and tour industry before it's all gone\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Skelton Coaches 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\nAtol, the government-run financial protection scheme, said it would be contacting the small number of customers with flight-inclusive packages, which would be protected.\n\nAtol spokesman Andrew McConnell said: \"This is a particularly sad day for customers and employees of Shearings Holidays Ltd, a long-standing business and well-known UK travel company.\"\n\nAre you a Specialist Leisure employee or customer? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "Aya Hachem died from a gunshot wound to the chest\n\nFive people have been charged with the murder of a law student in a drive-by shooting in Blackburn.\n\nAya Hachem, 19, died when shots were fired from a passing car on Sunday.\n\nFeroz Suleman, 39, Abubakir Satia, 31, Uthman Satia, 28, Judy Chapman, 26, and Kashif Manzoor, 24, appeared at Preston Magistrates' Court, sitting at Sessions House Crown Court.\n\nThey have also been charged with the attempted murder of their intended target Pashar Khan, the court heard.\n\nThe five people were remanded in custody to appear at Preston Crown Court on Wednesday.\n\nA closure order was issued for Mr Suleman's business, RI Tyres, for up to three months following an application by Lancashire Police.\n\nMs Hachem's parents have paid tribute to her as the \"most loyal devoted daughter\" who \"dreamed of becoming a solicitor\".\n\n\"We are absolutely devastated by her death and would like to take this opportunity to plead with any members of the public who may have any information however small that may bring those responsible to justice,\" they said.\n\nAya Hachem was a young trustee for the Children's Society\n\nMr Suleman, of Shear Brow in Blackburn, and Abubakir Satia, of Oxford Close in Blackburn, were the first people to be charged on Friday.\n\nThey appeared at Preston Magistrates' Court along with Uthman Satia, of Oxford Close in Blackburn, Judy Chapman, of St Hubert's Road in Great Harwood, and Kashif Manzoor, of Shakeshaft Street in Blackburn, who were charged later.\n\nTwo men, aged 33 and 36, from Blackburn, arrested on Monday on suspicion of murder and attempted murder, have been released on bail pending further inquiries.\n\nFour other people arrested as part of the inquiry have been released under investigation, while a 22-year-old man, from Blackburn, who was arrested on Friday on suspicion of murder and attempted murder, was released without charge.\n\nA 39-year-old man from Blackburn, who was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of murder and attempted murder, and a 34-year-old man from Blackburn arrested on Thursday on suspicion of murder and attempted murder, remain in custody.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Aya Hachem, 19, died when shots were fired from a passing car on in Blackburn on 17 May.\n\nShe was buried in the town of Koleileh in Lebanon. Five people have been charged in relation to her death.", "A church in Berlin has opened its doors to Muslim worshippers unable to fit into their mosque under new social distancing rules.\n\nGermany allowed religious services to resume on 4 May but worshippers must maintain a distance of 1.5m (5ft).\n\nAs a result the Dar Assalam mosque in the city's Neukölln district could only hold a fraction of its congregation.\n\nBut the Martha Lutheran church in Kreuzberg offered to help by hosting Friday prayers at the end of Ramadan.\n\nThroughout the month of Ramadan, Muslims abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and sex from dawn to dusk. Normally families and friends would gather to break their fast and attend communal prayers, but in Berlin - as in countries across the world - this year's celebrations have been affected.\n\n\"It is a great sign and it brings joy in Ramadan and joy amid this crisis,\" the mosque's imam told Reuters news agency. \"This pandemic has made us a community. Crises bring people get together.\"\n\n\"It was a strange feeling because of the musical instruments, the pictures,\" congregation member Samer Hamdoun said, noting the contrast to Islamic worship.\n\n\"But when you look, when you forget the small details. This is the house of God in the end.\"\n\nEven the church's pastor took part in the service.\n\n\"I gave a speech in German,\" said Monika Matthias. \"And during prayer, I could only say yes, yes, yes, because we have the same concerns and we want to learn from you. And it is beautiful to feel that way about each other.\"\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Muslims prepare for a very different Eid", "The PM's chief aide Dominic Cummings is facing calls to resign after it emerged he travelled from London to his parents' home in Durham with coronavirus symptoms during lockdown.\n\nMr Cummings and his wife, who was also unwell, stayed at his parents' home while self-isolating.\n\nA source close to Mr Cummings denied a breach of the coronavirus rules, saying the couple needed childcare help.\n\nThey told the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg that the couple had stayed in a separate building at the property.\n\nDowning Street declined to comment on Friday night, after the Guardian and the Daily Mirror newspapers first reported Mr Cummings had made the more than 260-mile journey.\n\nThe government has ordered anyone with coronavirus symptoms to self-isolate at home and not leave - even for essential supplies - for seven days.\n\nMeanwhile, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in March that children should not be left with older grandparents or older relatives \"who may be particularly vulnerable or fall into some of the vulnerable groups\".\n\nA Labour spokesman said: \"If accurate, the prime minister's chief adviser appears to have breached the lockdown rules. The government's guidance was very clear: stay at home and no non-essential travel.\n\n\"The British people do not expect there to be one rule for them and another rule for Dominic Cummings.\"\n\nMr Cummings has attended meetings of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) - the scientific body which gives independent advice that shapes the government's coronavirus response.\n\nThe Scottish National Party's Westminster leader Ian Blackford said Mr Cumming's position was \"untenable\" and that the prime minister has \"serious questions\" to answer about the reports.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme there was \"nothing in the guidance that justifies travelling more than 250 miles\".\n\n\"Dominic Cummings has to do the right thing, and if he doesn't resign, Boris Johnson should sack him and he should do that this morning,\" Mr Blackford said.\n\n\"When you have a situation that at the highest level of government that [lockdown] rules aren't being followed then I think people expect action to be taken.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Dave Penman, general secretary of the FDA, the union that represents senior civil servants, said the prime minister was responsible for the actions of his chief aide, and called for Mr Johnson to explain reports that Mr Cummings broke lockdown rules.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that \"essentially, when he [Mr Cummings] says or does something he is doing it in the prime minister's name\".\n\nIt comes after other high-profile figures involved in tackling the pandemic have resigned for breaching lockdown restrictions, including Scotland's former Chief Medical Officer Catherine Calderwood and leading scientist Prof Neil Ferguson.\n\nDr Calderwood resigned in April after making two trips to her second home during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nWhile Prof Ferguson quit as a government adviser on coronavirus after it was reported that a woman he was said to be in a relationship with visited his home in lockdown.\n\nAt the time Dominic Cummings had coronavirus symptoms, there was only a limited set of reasons for which people were allowed to leave their homes.\n\nAnd the advice for anyone was - and is - not to leave home at all for at least seven days.\n\nRemember there have already been other senior figures involved in tackling the pandemic who have had to resign for breaching lockdown restrictions.\n\nA source close to Dominic Cummings is insistent that he didn't break the rules.\n\nBut for those at the top to be perceived to even be stretching the rules is damaging.\n\nAlong with triggering accusations of hypocrisy, it risks prompting people to question why they should be following the rules, if those involved in imposing them are not.\n\nOn 30 March, it was reported that Mr Cummings, the former Vote Leave chief who was the architect of the PM's Brexit strategy, had developed symptoms of the coronavirus and was self-isolating at home.\n\nDurham Police confirmed officers had spoken to the owners of an address after its officers were made aware on 31 March of reports a person had travelled there from London.\n\nA spokesman said that owners of the address confirmed the individual \"was present and self-isolating in part of the house\", and officers \"explained to the family the guidelines around self-isolation and reiterated the appropriate advice around essential travel\".\n\nThe source close to Mr Cummings denied that police spoke to him.\n\nEd Davey, acting leader of the Liberal Democrats, said: \"If Dominic Cummings has broken the guidelines he will have to resign, it is as simple as that.\"\n\nAnd speaking on BBC Newsnight, former Conservative MP David Liddington, who was de facto deputy PM under Theresa May, warned that the \"readiness of members of the public to follow government guidance more generally is going to be affected by this sort of story\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGovernment advice on 31 March was for the public to stay at home and only leave for clearly defined reasons, including to exercise, essential shopping or for medical needs.\n\nAt the time - and as remains the case - those with symptoms of coronavirus were told to self-isolate at home and not leave even for essential supplies, if possible, for seven days.\n\nIt was and also remains not permitted to leave your house to visit friends and family in their home, while government advice for those aged 70 and over continues to be that they should minimise contact with others outside their household.\n\nMr Cummings' wife, Mary Wakefield, wrote about their experience of the disease in the Spectator magazine.\n\n\"I felt breathless, sometimes achy, but Dom couldn't get out of bed,\" she said. \"Day in, day out for 10 days he lay doggo with a high fever and spasms that made the muscles lump and twitch in his legs.\"\n\nAlso in the magazine, Mr Cummings wrote about his experience of self-isolating with his wife, saying that \"at the end of March and for the first two weeks of April I was ill, so we were both shut in together\".\n\nAt the time Mr Johnson's positive test result for coronavirus was announced on 27 March, Downing Street said that Mr Cummings was not unwell. But within days it was confirmed that the strategist had started displaying coronavirus symptoms.\n\nMr Cummings was next photographed at Downing Street on 14 April after his recovery.", "Dominic Cummings travelled hundreds of miles from London to County Durham during the lockdown when he had coronavirus symptoms.\n\nMr Cummings and his wife went to his parents' home to self-isolate, a source close to the PM's chief aide told BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nThe source insisted Mr Cummings did not break official guidance because the couple stayed in a separate building.\n\n\"If accurate, the prime minister's chief adviser appears to have breached the lockdown rules. The government's guidance was very clear: stay at home and no non-essential travel,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"The British people do not expect there to be one rule for them and another rule for Dominic Cummings.\"\n\nThe Scottish National Party's Westminster leader Ian Blackford said Mr Cummings should resign or be dismissed by Boris Johnson and that it was a \"key test of leadership\" for the PM.\n\nAnd Ed Davey, acting leader of the Liberal Democrats, added: \"If Dominic Cummings has broken the guidelines he will have to resign, it is as simple as that.\"\n\nNo 10 declined to comment on Friday night after the story was first reported in the Daily Mirror and Guardian newspapers.\n\nBoth papers reported Mr Cummings, the former Vote Leave chief who was the architect of the PM's Brexit strategy, had been approached by the police.\n\nDurham Constabulary said: \"On Tuesday, March 31, our officers were made aware of reports that an individual had travelled from London to Durham and was present at an address in the city.\n\n\"Officers made contact with the owners of that address who confirmed that the individual in question was present and was self-isolating in part of the house.\n\n\"In line with national policing guidance, officers explained to the family the guidelines around self-isolation and reiterated the appropriate advice around essential travel.\"\n\nAt the time Dominic Cummings had coronavirus, there was only a limited set of reasons for which people were allowed to leave their homes.\n\nAnd the advice for anyone with symptoms was - and is - not to leave home at all for at least seven days.\n\nRemember there have already been other senior figures involved in tackling the pandemic who have had to resign for breaching lockdown restrictions - Scotland's Former Chief Medical Officer Catherine Calderwood and a leading scientist Professor Neil Ferguson, who was advising the government.\n\nA source close to Dominic Cummings is insistent that he didn't break the rules.\n\nBut for those at the top to be perceived to even be stretching the rules is damaging.\n\nAlong with triggering accusations of hypocrisy, it risks prompting people to question why they should be following the rules, if those involved in imposing them are not.\n\nGovernment advice on 31 March was for the public to stay at home and only leave their address for clearly defined reasons, including to exercise, essential shopping or for medical needs.\n\nAt the time - and as remains the case - those with symptoms of coronavirus are told to self-isolate at home and not leave even for essential supplies, if possible, for seven days.\n\nThe source close to Mr Cummings said he had not been spoken to by police, and that he had made the trip because his parents could help care for his young child while he and his wife were both ill with symptoms of coronavirus.\n\nThe PM said in a speech on 18 March that \"children should not be left with older grandparents, or older relatives, who may be particularly vulnerable or fall into some of the vulnerable groups\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFormer Conservative MP David Liddington, who was de facto deputy PM under Theresa May, told BBC Newsnight: \"There's clearly serious questions that No 10 are going to have to address not least because the readiness of members of the public to follow government guidance more generally is going to be affected by this sort of story.\"\n\nMr Johnson's positive test for coronavirus was announced on 27 March, and Downing Street said at the time that Mr Cummings did not have symptoms.\n\nOn 30 March, it was confirmed Mr Cummings had developed symptoms of the virus and was self-isolating at home.\n\nMr Cummings was next photographed at Downing Street on 14 April.", "Truro MP Cherilyn Mackrory said she had spoken to police and the Prime Minister's Office about people staying in campervans overnight, particularly in Perranporth\n\nPeople are being reminded the coronavirus lockdown rules do not allow overnight camping at beauty spots.\n\nThe warning comes after police woke up people in campervans in Newquay, Cornwall and officers in Dorset found a group camping on a beach in a gazebo.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police and Crime Commissioner Alison Hernandez said the force did not want people coming to the South West for sleepovers.\n\nBut she said the reality was police were fighting a \"losing battle\".\n\nMs Hernandez said beaches and beauty spots in Devon and Cornwall had been \"inundated\" with campervans, caravans and day trippers but she said no public toilets were open and many car parks were closed, causing people to park illegally.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We are worried going into the bank holiday weekend that people are not heeding the advice about staying home,\" she said.\n\nShe added that the government guidance was that people should spend the night at their primary residence, and pointed out that there was only one hospital in Cornwall.\n\nOn Thursday Newquay police said officers had been out on dawn patrol, waking up people who had stayed overnight in vehicles.\n\nPolice in Newquay were out early on Thursday morning waking up overnight visitors\n\nOfficers said that with their \"engagement, explanation and education\" the visitors had moved on\n\nIn nearby Perranporth, residents took to social media to share pictures of campervans in a clifftop car park and of tents on the beach early in the morning. Campers have also been asked to move on in North Devon.\n\nTruro and Falmouth MP Cherilyn Mackrory said she had spoken to the Prime Minister's Office, as well as local police.\n\n\"Earlier today it was brought to my attention that there were a number of caravans and campervans that were parked up and stayed overnight last night on the north coast - particularly in Perranporth,\" she said.\n\n\"Let me be clear, this is not on.\"\n\nPictures of tents on Perranporth beach were posted online on Thursday morning along with a picture of a bench that had been destroyed in a beach fire\n\nNorth Devon resident Rob Joules tweeted that he had been out near Croyde trying to move on campers who stayed overnight\n\nBrad Mears, who lives in Perranporth, said people had been camping on the beach and in the dunes all week.\n\nHe said he had seen campers using a cave as a toilet and the remains of a bench from a nearby pub were visible in the remnants of a fire.\n\n\"It is not good. My mum is petrified of getting [coronavirus],\" he said.\n\n\"Everyone has been so good down here and now I don't know.\"\n\nMrs Mackrory said the behaviour of those who chose to break the rules regarding overnight stays was \"irresponsible and dangerous\" and \"risks the health and wellbeing of our coastal communities with a second peak of Covid-19\".\n\nIn Dorset on Thursday, police patrolling Sandbanks beach near Poole said they had spoken to a group of people from London who had camped overnight in a gazebo.\n\nDorset Police found a group of people sleeping in a gazebo on Sandbanks beach near Poole\n\nCouncillor Laura Miller, who represents the area of Dorset that includes Durdle Door and Lulworth Cove, said people had been sleeping in their cars and urinating in gardens.\n\nAnd on Thursday night, the coastguard and police were called out after a man from London pitched two tents \"around one foot\" from the cliff edge, she said, adding that it was \"so dangerous\".\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Dorset Council This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nIn the Lake District, the national park authority said dozens of people were attempting to stay overnight.\n\nRichard Leafe, chief executive of the Lake District National Park Authority, said: \"The message from Cumbria Police and ourselves is clear. Follow the rules.\n\n\"We would like to thank the British public for heeding our call not to rush back to the Lake District and other national parks.\n\n\"We have found the vast majority of people are respecting social distancing and are following government guidance and we thank them for that.\"\n\nNick Lomas, the Caravan and Motorhome Club's director general, pointed out that many motorhome owners would be using their vehicles legitimately.\n\nHe said: \"As a responsible members' club, we actively encourage members to adhere to rules and guidelines.\n\n\"Many people have a motorhome/campervan as their only vehicle and will sometimes need to use it for trips to the shops and if travelling for exercise.\n\n\"Neither of these groups are breaking the current regulations and we are sure the public will recognise this.\"", "The Amazon rainforest - which plays a vital role in balancing the world's climate and helping fight global warming - is also suffering as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Deforestation jumped 55% in the first four months of 2020 compared with the same period last year, as people have taken advantage of the crisis to carry out illegal clearances. Logging, illegal mining, land clearances and wildfires were already at an 11-year high and scientists say we're fast approaching a point of no return - after which the Amazon will no longer function as it should. Here, we look at the pressures pushing the Amazon to the brink and ask what the nine countries that share this unique natural resource are doing to protect it. The largest and most diverse tropical rainforest in the world is home to 33 million people and thousands of species of plants and animals. Since coronavirus spread to Brazil, in March, Amazonas has been the state to register Brazil's highest infection rates - it also has one of the most underfunded health systems in the country. As elsewhere, social distancing and travel restrictions have been imposed to limit the spread of the virus. But many of the field agents working to protect reserves have pulled out, Jonathan Mazower, of Survival International, says, allowing loggers and miners to target these areas. In April, as the number of cases rose and states started adopting isolation measures, deforestation actually increased 64% compared with the same month in 2019, according to preliminary satellite data from space research agency INPE. Last year, an unprecedented number of fires devastated huge swathes of forest in the Amazon. Peak fire season is from July which some experts worry could coincide with the peak of the coronavirus crisis. The Brazilian authorities are deploying troops in the Amazon region to help protect the rainforest, tackle illegal deforestation and forest fires. But critics say that the government’s rhetoric and policies could actually be encouraging loggers and illegal miners. Even before this year’s spike in deforestation, the rate across the nine Amazon countries had continued to rise. Brazil, Bolivia and Peru were among the top five countries for loss of primary forest in 2019, with Bolivia experiencing a record-breaking loss of tree cover because of wildfires. But that is not the only problem. \"To only speak of deforestation when we refer to the loss of the Amazon is what I call \"the great green lie\",\" says climate scientist Antonio Donato Nobre. \"The destruction of the Amazon rainforest up till now is much bigger than the almost 20% that they talk of in the media.\" To get a more complete sense of the scale of the destruction, Dr Nobre says it is necessary to take into account the figures for degradation. This happens when a combination of pressures on a stretch of forest - such as fires, logging or unlicensed hunting - make it hard for the ecosystem to function properly. Even if an area does not lose all its trees and vegetation, degradation strips the rainforest of properties that are vital to the planet. Scientists say that if we don't reverse current levels of deforestation and degradation, the consequences of climate change could accelerate.\n• The Amazon in Brazil is on fire - how bad is it? Not all deforestation is the same The most common way of measuring deforestation is \"tree cover loss\" - where forest vegetation has been completely erased. In 2019 alone, the tree cover loss in the Amazon reached 2.4 million hectares (24,000 sq km), according to Global Forest Watch. Half of this was primary forest - 1.7 million hectares of forest that was still in its original state and rich in biodiversity. Its destruction was the same as three football pitches of virgin forest being destroyed every minute in 2019. Skip \"football pitches\" A football pitch is frequently used as a reference because, according to Fifa, the maximum size of a pitch is 1.08 hectares. However, some countries use smaller dimensions, which is why deforestation calculations can vary so much. This may seem insignificant - only 0.32% of the forest in the whole Amazon biome - but it is also a question of quality. \"Each hectare deforested means part of the ecosystem ceases to function and this affects the rest,\" says Oxford University rainforest expert Erika Berenguer. In the last 10 years, figures for primary forest loss have remained high or spiked in most of the Amazon nations. Primary forest is home to trees that can be hundreds or even thousands of years old. They perform a powerful role in mitigating the effects of climate change, as they act as an enormous carbon dioxide store. A small part of the CO2 absorbed by trees during photosynthesis is released into the atmosphere during respiration. The rest is transformed into carbon which the trees use to produce the sugars needed for their metabolism. The older and larger the tree, the more carbon it stores. According to Dr Berenguer, a large tree (with at least three metres circumference) can contain between three and four tonnes of carbon. This is the same as about 10 to 12 tonnes of CO2, or what a family car emits over four years. Many people believe that to make up for what we've lost in the Amazon, we just need to plant trees elsewhere. But that is not the case One of the direct effects of deforestation is that it releases CO2 stored in the forest. Forest fires or the decomposition of felled trees both transform the carbon within the tree back into gas. For this reason, scientists fear that the Amazon will stop being a carbon store and will instead become a serious emitter of CO2, accelerating the effects of climate change. A recent study claimed that 20% of the Amazon is already emitting more CO2 that it absorbs.\n• Deforested parts of Amazon 'emitting more CO2 than they absorb' The (in)visible destruction of the Amazon Experts like Antonio Nobre believe that deforestation does not show the full picture of what is being lost and we should also take into account \"degradation\". This phenomenon is as much the result of climatic events - such as drought, as human action - such as burning or illegal logging which strip the forest of its vital functions. However, seen from above, it may seem that the forest is still standing. We should not cut down another single tree in the Amazon region \"Even though not all the vegetation is lost, the soil is drier and more fragile. This changes the microclimate of the forest and makes it easier for fires to spread because the soil heats up faster,\" explains Dr Alexander Lees, Senior Lecturer in tropical ecology at Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK. Scientists also warn that degradation is an important factor in releasing stored CO2. A new study by Raisg says 47% of all the emissions in the Amazon are as a result of degradation. And in seven of the nine Amazon countries, they say, degradation is the main source of their carbon dioxide emissions. Degradation also makes the forest less efficient. It loses, for example, the ability to generate some of its own rain. If we take the deforestation and degradation together, more than 50% of the Amazon no longer performs environmental services for the region's climate, says Antonio Nobre. Dr Nobre says the degraded areas of the Amazon are nearly twice as big as the deforested areas. A recent report by the Colombian government confirms that between 2012 and 2015, its own Amazon region lost 187,955 hectares of forest to deforestation and 414,605 hectares to degradation - more than double. So why don't they talk about degradation when measuring forest loss in the Amazon? \"It is a difficult phenomenon to measure because although you can see degradation on satellite images, you need to have data from the ground to understand the real picture - whether that area is more or less degraded or is recovering,\" says Alexander Lees. Among the Amazon countries, only Brazil regularly publishes annual degradation figures. However, scientists from across the region are trying to produce the relevant data to form a wider picture of the current state of the forest. What happens if we lose the forest? If deforestation and degradation continue at current levels, the Amazon could stop working as a tropical ecosystem, even if some of it is still standing. Annual loss of primary forest in the Amazon between 2002 and 2019 Annual loss percentage of primary forest in the Amazon between 2002 and 2019 We could be dangerously close to what scientists call \"the tipping point\" - when the nature of the Amazon will completely change. This will happen when total deforestation reaches between 20% and 25% - and that could happen in the next 20 or 30 years. It would cause the length of the dry season and temperatures in the forest to increase. Trees would start to die and the tropical rainforest could become more like a dry savannah. The projection, however, still does not take into account degradation because of the difficulty of measuring it across Panamazonas - the joint Amazon biome across the different national borders. This means it could be even closer than they think. But what could happen after the tipping point? Scientists can't say exactly what a sudden transformation of the Amazon rainforest would mean. But Brazilian climatologist Carlos Nobre, says temperatures in the region could increase by 1.5-3C in the areas which become degraded savannahs. And that is without taking into account possible increases already caused by global warming. This could have a catastrophic impact on the local economy. Less rain and higher temperatures mean less water for animals or growing crops like soya. Some studies link deforestation to an increase in illnesses transmitted by mosquitoes, such as malaria and leishmaniasis. The process of degradation could make the insects look for other sources of food and get closer to urban settlements. And temperature increases could lead to more heat-related cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, says Beatriz Oliveira, from Brazil's Climate Change Investigations Network (Red-Clima). \"Even if the conditions we have at the moment stay the same, temperatures in the Amazon region could increase by 8C, taking into account deforestation and global warming by 2070. \"Replacing the rainforest with another ecosystem, this increase could be even greater or could happen sooner.\" According to Carlos Nobre, there is a way. \"First, we should adopt a zero deforestation policy in Panamazonas, immediately, together with a reforestation programme in the south, south-east and east of the Amazon, which are the most vulnerable areas.\" \"If we could restore 60,000 or 70,000 sq km in this large area, where the dry season is already much longer, we could help the forest get back to working better and it would be more resilient.\" That doesn't seem an easy task in the near future. What are the threats in the Amazon's nine countries? Deforestation and its causes are a major source of friction between the governments of the nine Amazon nations, environmentalists, companies and indigenous groups: the desire for economic development clashes, in the main, with the preservation of the Amazon and its native peoples. Skip \"native peoples\" More than 33 million people live in the Amazon - about 8% of the population of South America - in towns, cities, riverside communities and indigenous villages. There are at least 100 tribes who have had little or no contact with outsiders. It affects the ecosystem of the whole region, including those who are not part of the Amazon itself, and beyond. Antonio Nobre says: \"The ring made by central-southern Brazil and the River Plate basin would be a desert if it wasn't for the Amazon. \"People have no idea what it would mean to lose this magnificent hydrological system.\" So what is driving deforestation in each of the Amazon nations, how much primary forest have they lost and what are their governments doing?\n\nWhat is the greatest threat in each country? Select a country to see the situation in its part of the Amazon The fires which started in Bolivia in May 2019 destroyed almost two million hectares of forest, according to the Friends of Nature monitoring NGO. Half of that was in protected areas, known for their wide biodiversity. Environmentalists say Evo Morales' government has promoted deforestation with policies of selling land in the Amazon region to businessmen and distributing it to farmers. The expansion of the farming frontier is mainly to encourage soya planting and cattle raising, in the hope of building exports for the Chinese market. In August 2019, Mr Morales celebrated the first beef exports to China from Santa Cruz. The same region was responsible for nearly half of Bolivia's soya production in 2018 and was most affected by the fires last year. In response to criticism during the fires crisis, Morales halted land sales in Santa Cruz for what he called \"an ecological pause\". We asked the Bolivian environment ministry about its strategy to reduce deforestation, but have had no response.\n• 2008: La Chiquitanía, in eastern Bolivia, is one of the main areas for cattle ranching and soya production in the country\n• 2010: While Evo Morales was in power, farmers and businesses received incentives to expand areas of production in the region\n• 2014: Controlled fires are a common practice in the deforestation process\n• 2016: A year after Evo Morales' government quadrupled the area that small producers could clear, there is a rise in deforestation in the zone\n• 2018: Bolivia was one of the top five countries worldwide for primary forest loss, according to Global Forest Watch. In 2019, fires destroyed more than two million hectares of the Amazon What is the greatest threat in each country? Select a country to see the situation in its part of the Amazon Brazil received international acclaim for the drop off in deforestation between 2004 and 2014 - an accumulated fall of 80% in almost 10 years. But the loss of forest has once again started to rise. In November 2019, the government published data confirming expert predictions: that between the middle of 2018 and the middle of 2019, deforestation in the Amazon had increased 30% in relation to the previous year. They had cleared around 980,000 hectares (9,800 sq km), the largest area of forest cut down since 2008. And these figures don't take into account August 2019, when Amazon fires were at their worst. President Jair Bolsonaro's government claimed the fires were down to the dry season. But investigations by IPAM and the Federal University of Acre found otherwise. According to their report, the Amazon fires are directly related to deforestation. \"After felling the trees, they leave it to dry for a few months then set fire to it to clear the vegetation. The land is then used to plant grass and create pastures,\" says Erika Berenguer. According to the FAO, 80% of tree loss in Brazil is directly or indirectly related to cattle farming. Brazil is the largest beef exporter in the world. It makes up 7% of the country's GDP and 4.6% of exports. Today, around 40% of the country's cattle is raised in Amazon states. But that is only part of the story. Around 60 million hectares of the Brazilian Amazon are considered public areas, or rather they have no legal purpose defined by the government. They are not conservation areas, nor indigenous territories, for example. People clear this land, cut the trees down and put cattle on them, it's the cheapest way to occupy them, says Stabile. A patch of land without trees is worth more on the market. The primary use of deforested land in Brazil is cattle. But the aim is not necessarily to earn money from meat production but from the sale of land The next step in the chain is to illegally obtain a title deed for the land and sell it, says Mr Stabile. They then find another patch of forest and start again. The land is often sold to large-scale farmers and it is hard to tell which was cleared legally and what wasn't. The same happens in Colombia, Peru and Ecuador. According to Mr Stabile and other investigators, Brazil could double or triple its number of cattle without felling another hectare of the Amazon rainforest. \"What's happening is land speculation,\" he says. \"If the government defined these public areas, it would cease to be lucrative.\" Environmentalists and investigators say statements and policies from Bolsonaro's government are encouraging clearances and the persecution of indigenous people. Although the government denies this, the president has said he wants to end the \"industry of environmental taxes\" and believes the country has too many conservation areas. The government also wants to allow mining on land belonging to indigenous tribes. Between January and September 2019, attacks and invasions of indigenous people's land increased 40% on the previous year. The finger of blame is pointed at those involved in land clearance, logging and mining. However, as the coronavirus crisis took hold in May, around 4,000 troops were mobilised in the Amazon against illegal logging and other activities until June, although that could be extended into the dry season to help with fire prevention. Environment Minister Ricardo Salles said the coronavirus outbreak had \"aggravated\" the situation this year. President Bolsonaro, however, has spoken against punitive measures taken against loggers and miners - such as the destruction of their equipment when it can't be taken out of the forest. Critics say that sends a message that the government is on their side. What is the greatest threat in each country? Select a country to see the situation in its part of the Amazon In 2017, the level of deforestation in Colombia was one of the biggest in the Amazon region and the highest in the country's history. More than 140,000 hectares of forest was cleared, twice the previous year's total. This peak was a result of the peace accord with Farc rebels in 2016, which left a power vacuum in forested areas. Community leaders said Farc had acted as a type of environmental police, controlling when farmers were allowed to clear the forest or burn for agriculture or cattle farming. \"Government officials wouldn't come near the Amazon region because of Farc, who, for their own protection, had an interest in keeping the trees standing. So the rebels could establish strict rules,\" said Rodrigo Botero, director of Foundation for Conservation and Sustainable Development. However, Colombia is now facing a race to clear land in the Amazon led by large-scale farmers, local authorities, drug dealers and other paramilitary groups such as the ELN, says Botero. There is a market for land and the government can't stop it, he says. The Colombian government formed a National Council for the Fight against Deforestation in an attempt to tackle the issue. The group works to identify pockets of deforestation, the causes and what action is needed, according to the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development. Laws passed in 2018 made the protection of water, biodiversity and the environment priority issues in matters of national security. The government can now intervene to protect areas in the Amazon national park from illegal activities. They are also carrying out military operations against people clearing land and launching programmes which promote financial incentives for conservation. By 2018, Colombian had lost around 11.7% of its original forest - 14% of which was in the previous eight years. But there are signs the efforts are paying off. In 2019, there was a significant fall in the loss of primary forest - although the level of deforestation was still higher than any year on record before the peace agreement. What is the greatest threat in each country? Select a country to see the situation in its part of the Amazon In the north of Ecuador, palm oil production is the main threat to the Amazon, experts say. The oil is used worldwide in the industrialised production of food such as chocolate, cosmetics, cleaning products and fuels. Ecuador is the second biggest producer of palm oil in Latin America, and the sixth worldwide. The expansion of palm oil and cocoa plantations in the last 10 years is the main driver of deforestation, according to Global Forest Watch and Maap. This is particularly worrying because despite only covering about 2% of the Amazon biome, Ecuador has one of the most diverse parts of the forest. In just one hectare of the Yasuní park area, you'll find 670 tree species - more than in the whole of North America. Furthermore, according to a study by the country's National Institute of Biodiversity, between 40% and 60% of the species of trees in Ecuador's Amazon region are still unknown. Mining projects and oil exploration in the Amazon have also made headline news in Ecuador. One such project is Mirador, an open mine for copper, gold and silver which will be built in two Amazon provinces. It is the biggest project of its type in Ecuador - but not the only one. The government says industrial mining in the region, carried out by a Chinese company, will be responsible and the income generated will allow investment in infrastructure locally. However, investigators believe the activity could bring with it serious problems to the Amazon. \"As well as deforestation, we don't know exactly where they are going to put the dams nor how they are going to monitor them,\" said Carmen Josse, scientific director of the EcoCiencia Foundation. They are rugged areas with a lot of biodiversity. We don't want an accident like Brumadinho, in Brazil We asked Ecuador's government about their strategy to prevent mining contributing to deforestation - but they have not responded. What is the greatest threat in each country? Select a country to see the situation in its part of the Amazon Around 75% of it is virgin forest, which has had little or no intervention by humans, according to Global Forest Watch in 2016. Among the Amazon territories it has the largest percentage of forest in protected areas - almost 50% - and the lowest levels of deforestation. However, representatives of native people and environmentalists are worried by the advance of legal and illegal mining, encroaching on the protected zones. At the start of 2019, French President Emmanuel Macron suspended a gold mining megaproject within the Guianan Amazon National Park, which he had initially approved at the start of his tenure. The suspension was the result of national and international campaigns. Despite this, illegal mining is the main threat to the park. Security forces have detected an increase in the number of illegal mines in the area since 2017. With a population of less than 300,000 people, French Guiana has between 8,000 and 10,000 illegal miners. The rising price of gold since the 2008 financial crisis has sparked a rush to find the metal in the forests of the world. \"Most of the time, they're poor kids from Brazil looking for easy money. They live in the forest for months and months,\" explained Captain Vianney, who is leading the Foreign Legion's operations against gold mining. We asked the ministry of French overseas territories about the government's strategy to combat deforestation but they have not replied. What is the greatest threat in each country? Select a country to see the situation in its part of the Amazon Ninety five per cent of Guyana is covered by the Amazon. The country proposes two ways of treating the forest which, for many, seem irreconcilable. On the one hand, it is looking for a way of exploiting it economically while at the same time selling itself as a Green State that protects the Amazon. The annual rate of deforestation in Guyana is the lowest in the region - 0.051% in 2018, according to government figures. Part of its success is due to strategies such as the creation of a forest management commission, which decides which trees can or cannot be cut down. However, legal felling controlled by the government is still considered a factor that enables deforestation. According to environmentalists, licences for large international logging companies create access to virgin forest which illegal miners take advantage of. Guyana's Forestry Commission says it has not opened any new areas of the forest for legal felling since 2015. In fact, some areas were taken back off the companies who had licences to exploit them and they have become conservation areas, the government said. Illegal mining - mainly gold - is to blame for 85% of the forest loss, according to the Forestry Commission. Gold is the country's main export. The government says it has a \"Green State development strategy\" for the country which includes more investment in ecotourism and renewable energy, stricter limits on CO2 emissions and increasing forest conservation. All this is funded by international agreements to preserve the Amazon and the discovery of huge oil reserves at sea. What is the greatest threat in each country? Select a country to see the situation in its part of the Amazon Small scale agriculture has traditionally been the main cause of deforestation in Peru. Recently, however, cultivation of palm oil, cocoa and coca are catching up. A 2018 study found that despite making up only 4% of crops in the Amazon, palm oil was responsible for 11% of deforestation between 2007 and 2013. The oil is used worldwide to produce food, cosmetics and fuel. After some palm oil producers were fined for deforestation, they started to buy land from small farmers who had already cleared the forest illegally, says Sandra Rios, geographical engineer with the Instituto de Bien Comun (IBC Peru). The State is slow in creating ways of monitoring, controlling and punishing deforestation by these and other means We have asked Peru's environment minister about their strategy to prevent deforestation - but they have not responded. Illegal gold mining poses an increasing risk to the Peruvian Amazon. Peru is the biggest exporter of gold in Latin America, and the sixth worldwide. However, experts say up to 25% of its annual production comes from illegal mining. Since 2006, Peru has been experiencing a new gold rush in the Tambopata Nature Reserve, one of the most biodiverse in the region, driven by rising gold prices and the construction of the Brazil-Peru Transoceanic Highway. The road, from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic, not only makes travelling easier, it also opens up previously inaccessible areas of the forest. The group of miners in the area, known as the La Pampa, has grown to have more than 5,000 members. The miners strip the vegetation from the Amazon soil to look for gold. They use mercury to separate the precious metal from others, poisoning the waters and local animals in the process. In 2017, the loss of forest as a result of mining reached its highest level since 1985, according to the Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (Cincia).\n• 2007: Start of the Transoceanic Highway between Brazil and Peru beside the Tambopata Nature Reserve, of the the most diverse areas in the Amazon\n• 2010: When the road building finishes, the La Pampa enclave of illegal mining is set up\n• 2013: The road, according to scientists, gave access to more parts of the forest and increased deforestation to make way for mining in the area\n• 2016: A report by the Amazon Andes Monitoring Project says 350 hectares have been deforested as a result of illegal mining in the Tambopata reserve\n• 2018: At its peak, La Pampa had more than 5,000 active miners. In 2019, a military operation targeted the mining camp In March 2019, the government declared a state of emergency for 60 days to carry out military operations against miners in la Pampa. What is the greatest threat in each country? Select a country to see the situation in its part of the Amazon With almost 94% of its territory within the Amazon, Suriname is one of the countries with the best track record of conservation in biome. However, since 2012 Suriname has recorded an increase in the loss of forest, mainly as a result of gold mining. Between 2000 and 2014, the extent of mining areas, generally on a small scale industrial or artisanal mines, increased by 893%, according to the Foundation for Forest Management and Production Control. The government foundation says mining is responsible for 73% of the country's deforestation. Suriname is 10th in the world for gold production relative to its size. And that's without mentioning illegal mining. Most illegal mining takes place in remote areas of the forest, far from the authorities. It is believed that up to 60% of the gold miners in Suriname are Brazilians who cross the border illegally. In some of the larger areas belong to indigenous tribes or descendents of slaves, mining has become the main source of income for families. What is the greatest threat in each country? Select a country to see the situation in its part of the Amazon There are no current official figures available for deforestation in Venezuela, but monitoring by local and international scientists show forest loss has increased in the last few years - especially since the creation of the Orinoco Mining Arc. With the dramatic fall in oil prices and production in Venezuela since 2014, the Maduro government has focused its attention at states rich in minerals - such as the Amazon. Venezuela has the sixth largest natural gold reserve in the world, with around 7,000 tonnes. The mining arc, created in 2016, allowed licences for mining precious metals such as gold, diamonds and coltan (a combination of columbite and tantalite used in the production of mobile phones) across an area of 112,000 sq km, about 12% of the country. The area also covers natural landmarks, forest reserves, an Amazon national park and at least four designated indigenous territories. \"The Orinoco zone is traditionally a mining area, even the indigenous people did it,\" says ecologist Peláez, from the NGO Provita. \"But the law, in some ways, legalised forms of mining that were already in place and did not help reduce activity. This has had an enormous impact on the environment and the local population.\" Maduro's plan was to grant concessions to foreign mining companies which would have to form businesses together with state-owned companies in order to operate in the area. In practice, according to Mr Peláez, this resulted in an exponential growth in small-scale mining. In 2018 alone, according to the Central Bank of Venezuela, the state bought 9.2 tonnes of gold on the internal market - the same as the total amount for 2011-2017. It's having a devastating effect on the region. \"The gold that is there is of very poor quality, it's dirty,\" says Mr Peláez. \"The amount that is coming out of the ground is very small.\" People are destroying the forest and digging wherever they can. They're leaving sterile sand where nothing can grow. The deforestation in this zone is irreversible Mining is producing tonnes of sediment that is accumulating in the country's main rivers. The use of mercury to separate gold from impurities, is poisoning rivers and indigenous people. Venezuela has the most illegal mines in the Amazon, according to a study by Raisg. There are 1,899 illegal mines, concentrated in the Orinoco mining arc. In the midst of Venezuela's political crisis, the National Assembly tried to repeal the law that created the Orinoco Mining Arc and even labelled it \"ecocide\" or a crime against the environment. We've asked three government ministries about the strategy to reduce deforestation in the zone, but none have responded.", "There are concerns people in Wales are still not able to book drive-through coronavirus tests due to not being able to access a UK website.\n\nIn England, Scotland and Northern Ireland members of the public are able to book tests online.\n\nDespite it being announced last week that announced Wales would join the service, it is still unavailable.\n\nThe Welsh Government said an update would be provided as \"soon as possible\".\n\nCritical workers are able to book tests by contacting testing centres directly.\n\nBut unions said the lack of testing was concerning for workers, especially those on zero-hour contracts or jobs where they were not entitled to company sick pay.\n\nThe booking portal for the general public as it appeared on Saturday afternoon\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said work was being done on access to the site at the moment.\n\n\"As soon as this work is finalised, daily test slot allocations will be available for critical workers,\" he said.\n\nOn Monday, the Welsh Government said critical workers and members of the public would be able to use the UK booking site for drive-through appointments \"soon.\"\n\nHome test kits are available to everyone across the UK, but availability depends on demand.\n\nThe decision to opt into the UK system meant ministers in Cardiff ditched plans to develop Wales' own online-booking system.\n\nGemma Powell, a supermarket worker from Bridgend, wanted a coronavirus test last week when she developed a dry cough.\n\n\"I couldn't order a home testing kit but I finally managed to get through to book an appointment at a drive through screening in Pencoed,\" she said.\n\n\"The system is making it so difficult to get a test.\n\n\"The number I phoned was the Abercynon helpline which I thought was the wrong number - I phoned this for the correct number for Bridgend area but it turned out to be for my area.\n\n\"If I hadn't tried this number I would still be without a test appointment.\n\n\"The information people need is hard to get hold of.\"\n\nThe test came back negative, meaning Gemma was able to return to work after missing four days.\n\nWales Trades Union Congress (TUC) general secretary Shav Taj said the system is \"still confusing people\" and \"needs greater clarity\".\n\nShe said it was a concern, in particular for workers not entitled to paid time off and company sick pay if they needed to get tested and self-isolate.\n\n\"Many key workers are low paid or on zero hours, precarious agency contracts,\" she said.\n\n\"They can't survive off statutory sick pay alone.\"\n\nAngela Burns, who speaks on health for the Welsh Conservatives, said it was \"not a surprise that there is confusion and difficulties booking a test\".\n\n\"The Welsh Government spent nearly a month delaying access to an online portal, wanting a distinctive Welsh approach to the pandemic instead of using the UK Government's online portal,\" she said.", "A total of 84 people died in the last 24 hours\n\nNew York state's daily death toll has dropped below 100 for the first time since late March.\n\nA total of 84 people died in the last 24 hours, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Saturday, compared with 109 a day before.\n\nDuring the height of the outbreak in April, more than 1,000 people a day were losing their lives in worst-hit US state.\n\n\"In my head, I was always looking to get under 100,\" Mr Cuomo said.\n\n\"It doesn't do good for any of those 84 families that are feeling the pain,\" he said at his daily briefing, but added that the drop was a sign of \"real progress\".\n\nMr Cuomo announced on Friday that groups of up to 10 people could gather \"for any lawful purpose\" anywhere in the state, including New York City.\n\nBut, he added: \"If you don't have to be with a group of 10 people don't be with a group of 10 people.\"\n\nNew York state was once the epicentre of the US coronavirus outbreak, with more than 28,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nThe US has the biggest death toll from Covid-19 at 96,000. The UK is second with more than 36,000.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n• None Trump will 'override governors' on churches reopening. Video, 00:00:59Trump will 'override governors' on churches reopening", "Former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen has been moved out of intensive care after \"a long and difficult\" 47 days, his wife has said.\n\nThe children's novelist and poet was admitted to hospital in London eight weeks ago.\n\nEmma-Louise Williams said her husband was continuing his recovery on a ward and it \"will take time\".\n\nRosen, 74, documented the early stages of his illness online, describing possible coronavirus symptoms.\n\nIn an update on Saturday, his wife tweeted: \"Michael has been in hospital for eight weeks and I'm very happy to say he left ICU yesterday after a long and difficult 47 days.\n\n\"His recovery is continuing on the ward and will take time.\n\n\"He has done so well to get through this but please don't expect him back here yet.\"\n\nThe post was re-tweeted on Rosen's Twitter account, alongside a comment praising \"the amazing efforts of the lovely kind staff\" at Whittington hospital in north London, where he is receiving treatment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC presenter Sophie Raworth reads These Are The Hands by Michael Rosen.\n\nRosen, who was Children's Laureate from 2007 to 2009, detailed his early symptoms in a series of tweets.\n\nOn 22 March, he said: \"Can't stop my thermostat from crashing: icy hands, hot head. Freezing cold sweats.\n\n\"Under the covers for bed-breaking shakes.\n\n\"Image of war hero biting on a hankie, while best mate plunges live charcoal into the wound to cauterise it. Emerge as dawn breaks over grape stalks.\"\n\nThe following day Rosen said he did not have chest pains or a persistent cough, \"so all along it could have been a heavy flu and not corona\".\n\nHis wife, who has not confirmed whether he contracted coronavirus, later took over providing updates on his condition on his social media account, after he was admitted to hospital at the end of March.\n\nIn early May, to mark Rosen's 74th birthday, she shared a picture of him surrounded by friends at an event last year.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Emma-Louise Williams 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\nRosen's many works for children include We're Going on a Bear Hunt, Little Rabbit Foo Foo and Tiny Little Fly.\n\nIn 2008 he wrote the poem These Are the Hands to mark the 60th anniversary of the NHS, which has since been published in These Are The Hands: Poems from the Heart of the NHS.\n\nAll proceeds from the book go to the NHS Charities Covid Appeal.", "Edinburgh landlords are calling on council officials to waive council tax on properties which are lying empty due to the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nLandlords are unable to conduct viewings of their flats to prospective tenants during the restrictions. Currently they only receive a 10% discount if the flat is empty.\n\nJohn Davidson, 40, lost both his tenants at his two flats in Edinburgh's Dalry and Stockbridge when the lockdown was announced.\n\nHe said: \"Normally they are really easy to rent out but I'm not allowed to do viewings just now so I've been left picking up the bills. I'm desperate to rent them out.\n\n“You would think that while we are all in this together the council tax would be waived on empty flats.”", "Apple saw growth for the first three months of the year, as falling device sales in China were offset by demand for its streaming services due to the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nSales climbed to $58.3bn (£46.2bn), up from $58bn in the same period in 2019 and beating expectations of $54.5bn.\n\nApple boss Tim Cook said the firm saw a \"record for streaming\" and \"phenomenal\" growth in the online store.\n\nHe added that \"China is headed in the right direction\".\n\nDespite the coronavirus lockdown hurting iPhone supply due to Chinese factories closing, and a drop in demand for devices in China - a major market for Apple - during February and March, Mr Cook told investors in an earnings call on Thursday: \"I don't think I can remember a quarter where I've been prouder of Apple.\"\n\nApple said iPhone sales for the quarter fell 7.2% to $28.9bn, compared to $31bn in the previous year.\n\nHowever, its wearables, home and accessories division - which produces the Apple Watch and AirPods - rose 22.5% to $6.3bn, while services - such as subscriptions to Apple Music and Apple TV - jumped 16.6% to $13.3bn like-for-like.\n\nAlthough business in China has not fully rebounded, Apple said all of its stores in the country had reopened by mid-March and sales were improving.\n\nNet income for the six months ending 28 March 2020 rose 6.2% to $33.5bn, up from $25.9bn in the same period in 2019.\n\nMr Cook said Apple was in a strong position and that its supply chain was \"robust\" and \"back up and running at full-throttle at the end of March\".\n\nTim Cook said the lockdown in China had not damaged Apple's global supply chain\n\n\"While we can't say for certain how many chapters are in this book, we can be assured that the ending will be a good one,\" he told investors.\n\nApple said it would not be issuing forecasts for the following quarter, given the ongoing uncertainties of the lockdown, which has seen its sales move online or to curb-side pick-ups.\n\n\"Growth of 1% in this environment is impressive, particularly given some of the extent of Apple's exposure to the earlier lockdowns in Asia,\" said Mr Wurmser.\n\n\"The biggest bright spot for Apple was services, which grew 17% year-over-year. As people spent more time on their phones while locked away at home, they clearly were spending more money in the App Store and on some of the subscription services offered by Apple, including Apple Music and Arcade.\"\n\nAccording to Sophie Lund-Yates, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, the rise in demand for wearables and services is an encouraging one for Apple, given recent lacklustre iPhone sales growth.\n\n\"Despite plenty of talk around services, Apple is still very much a hardware business. And even before coronavirus, conditions weren't perfect,\" she said.\n\nMs Lund-Yates added that Apple's decision to price the new iPhone SE at half the cost of some of Apple's most recent models is a good way to convince customers to upgrade during the lockdown.", "About 1,000 volunteers have been making colourful new surgical scrubs for medical staff.\n\nThe group, called Derby For The Love of Scrubs, is led by Verity Ruane from Allestree, Derby, and has already provided the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust with 400 sets of scrubs in all sizes, colours and patterns.\n\nMs Ruane said she has been blown away by the support from hundreds of volunteers.\n\nShe said: \"When I set out, I thought that we might be lucky to get 20 sets of scrubs made, but now we have almost 1,000 members in our Facebook group with around 800 of those sewing.\"\n\nThe scrubs donated range from Winnie the Pooh to Peppa Pig, which Ms Ruane hopes can bring a smile to staff's faces in difficult times.", "Weekly death registrations in London, which was the epicentre of the UK's coronavirus outbreak, have returned to the range that would normally be expected, as the country moves further beyond the worst weeks of the pandemic.\n\nIn the latest figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), London registered only 64 excess deaths in the week ending 29 May, compared to 2,304 excess deaths in the week ending 17 April.\n\nExcess deaths refer to the number of registered deaths from all causes which are above the five-year average for that week of the year.\n\nBy the week ending 29 May, London recorded fewer excess deaths than any other region in England. In the same week, death registrations in Wales also returned to their normal range, only a few percent above the five year average.\n\nA similar pattern can be seen with deaths specifically linked to Covid-19.\n\nThe week ending 29 May was the fourth week in a row in which London did not register the highest number of deaths attributed to the virus.\n\nThe North West had the highest weekly count, with 282 death certificates mentioning a confirmed or suspected case of Covid-19.\n\nBut every region of England and Wales has passed the peak of the pandemic.\n\nLondon, the West Midlands, the North West and Wales recorded their peaks in the week ending 17 April.\n\nThe South East, South West, East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions all recorded their worst week of deaths in the week to 24 April.\n\nRegions with a later peak have tended to see a more gradual decline in the number of excess deaths.\n\nLondon recorded 21% of the total number of Covid-19 deaths in England and Wales until 1 May, despite having 15% of the population.\n\nIn fact, in the four weeks to 24 April, more people were killed by coronavirus in London than died during the worst four-week period of aerial bombing of the city during the Blitz in World War Two.\n\nRegistered deaths in London attributed to Covid-19, in those four weeks, reached 5,901 according to the ONS.\n\nIn comparison, figures collated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission show that 4,677 people were killed during the Blitz and buried in London cemeteries in the 28 days to 4 October 1940.\n\nSeparate ONS data released on 1 May shows that, once you take the age of population into account, the rate of deaths involving Covid-19 is roughly twice as high in the most deprived areas of England and Wales as in the least deprived.\n\n\"We know that people in more deprived areas are less likely to have jobs where they can work from home,\" said Helen Barnard from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.\n\n\"This means they may have to face a very significant drop in income or keep going to work, facing greater risks of catching virus. They are also more likely to live in overcrowded homes, increasing the risk for whole families.\"\n\nThe data shows that the highest rates of deaths involving Covid-19 are in inner-city areas where lots of people live close together.\n\nThe majority of the highest age-standardised mortality rates are in London boroughs, such as Newham, Brent and Hackney.\n\nOne of the biggest issues for policymakers now is trying to establish what other factors have caused the recent surge in excess deaths.\n\nFurther deaths from Covid-19 will continue to happen despite the lockdown measures.\n\nBut other deaths have happened because of the restrictions, with people not getting the treatment or support they need for other health conditions.\n\nNational Records Scotland releases figures on a slightly different timescale. In the week to 24 May, there were 1,125 deaths registered in Scotland. That's 11% higher than the five-year average for this week, of 1,017. Around a tenth of the death certificates mentioned Covid-19.\n\nIn Northern Ireland for the week ending 29 May there were 316 deaths registered, up from the five-year average of 290. Covid-19 was mentioned on 49 death certificates.\n\nThis piece has been updated to reflect the latest statistics.", "Police said the \"vast majority\" of people were following the rules\n\nMore than 9,000 fines have been issued in England and Wales for breaching coronavirus lockdown restrictions.\n\nAlmost 400 of those fined are repeat offenders and one individual was fined six times, according to data from the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC).\n\nMeanwhile, calls about anti-social behaviour have more than doubled compared to the same period last year.\n\nNPCC chairman Martin Hewitt said that, while people may become \"restless\", compliance was still holding up.\n\nFor the four weeks to 26 April there were around 215,000 anti-social behaviour reports, compared with 106,000 in 2019, NPCC data showed.\n\nMany of the calls related to concerns over gatherings, noise or trouble in homes.\n\nIn England, there were 8,877 fixed penalty notices issued between 27 March and 27 April, while in Wales there were 299.\n\nPolice have been given powers to hand out a £60 penalty, reduced to £30 if paid within two weeks, for breaches of the lockdown rules. The fine is doubled for each repeat offence up to a £960 maximum.\n\nCumbria Police issued a fixed penalty notice to a man who went to a friend's house to dye their hair. The man claimed he was unaware of any coronavirus restrictions when police attended the property on 19 April.\n\nAnother man from Manchester was fined after he drove around 100 miles to Keswick in the Lake District for a planned 20-minute walk, according to the force.\n\nMeanwhile, Greater Manchester Police said they had stopped four young men who had travelled from Yorkshire to get a burger.\n\nMr Hewitt said that, although most of the public were adhering to the restrictions, it would get harder as the weeks went on.\n\n\"It is inevitable people will get restless,\" he said, adding that there were signs last weekend that more people were \"out and about\".\n\n\"We would assess that over the weekend we sensed across the country a little bit more traffic on the roads and a few more people out and about,\" he said.\n\n\"But having said all of that, we are still seeing the same level of compliance from people.\"\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Sara Glen said there were \"definite correlations\" when the weather was hot at \"troublesome spots\" such as beaches or parks.\n\nShe added the majority of those breaching lockdown restrictions were younger people.\n\nFigures showed a third of those fined were aged between 18-24 and another third aged 25-34 while around eight out of 10 were men.\n\nDCC Glen added that the vast majority of fines \"are people actually not complying, being out in public spaces where they don't have a reasonable excuse to do so, not listening to the officers' advice in respect of engaging and explaining\" why they are outside.\n\nPolice guidelines state households can go out for specific reasons, such as any medical needs, shopping for essential items or taking exercise.", "McDonald's has revealed it will reopen its first restaurants for delivery only on 13 May after shutting sites due to the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe burger chain will reopen 15 outlets, with the locations of the UK and Ireland sites revealed next week.\n\nPaul Pomroy, head of McDonald's in the UK and Ireland, said \"We are working hard to reopen more restaurants... Slowly, but safely we will return.\"\n\nHowever, there will be only a limited menu, and no breakfast offer.\n\nMr Pomroy said: \"When we return it will be different as we all adjust to this new normal. I want to apologise in advance if our first wave of reopened restaurants does not serve your area.\n\n\"Rest assured, we are working hard to reopen more restaurants, but I am adamant this must be at the right pace with the wellbeing of our employees, suppliers and customers front of mind,\" he said.\n\nMcDonald's uses Uber Eats and Just Eat for delivery.\n\nFood chains are slowly opening more outlets. On Thursday, KFC said it would reopen 80 more restaurants for deliveries, after already opening 20 sites.\n\nAnd Burger King has said it hopes to open at least 350 of its restaurants by the end of June as part of a staggered reopening.\n\nBut bakery chain Greggs has said its planned branch reopenings next week will now begin behind closed doors. The sausage roll supplier is fearful of \"the risk that excessive numbers of customers\" may turn up.\n\nEarlier this week, it announced plans to reopen 20 stores in the Newcastle area from Tuesday on a trial basis.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Friday evening. We'll have another update for you tomorrow morning.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock used the press briefing at Downing Street to announce the testing target of 100,000 a day by the end of April had been met. Yesterday, there were more than 122,000 tests, he said. This number includes home testing kits counted when they were dispatched, said BBC News health editor Hugh Pym.\n\nThere's been some new research that suggests people living in the poorer parts of England and Wales are more likely to die of coronavirus than others. The Office for National Statistics analysis shows while death rates are usually higher in more deprived areas anyway, coronavirus seems to be adding to the problem.\n\nEveryone wants to know when life can return to normal - but now the boss of Heathrow has warned social distancing at airports would be \"physically impossible\". John Holland-Kaye told the Press Association airports would have to introduce health screening, with passengers wearing masks.\n\nIn just under a fortnight, the first McDonald's will reopen since sites were shut due to the lockdown. The 15 outlets will open for delivery only from 13 May. But there was disappointment for fans of bakery chain Greggs - its planned branch reopenings next week will now happen behind closed doors, so staff can test safety measures. Greggs said it was worried too many customers might turn up.\n\nIt might sound fun being stuck in the Bahamas - but British cruise ship dancers Lauren Carrick and Joseph Harrison say it's anything but. The engaged couple are among 950 crew trapped on a ship and have been confined to their cabin for at least 21 hours a day, for the past 32 days. Lauren, who lives near Norwich, says: \"If the passengers have gone home, why can't we?\"\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page, and follow the latest developments on our live page.\n\nAlso, here are some practical ways you can help right now, if you've been feeling helpless about the situation.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "First Minister Mark Drakeford says he is not certain Wales had surpassed the peak enough to ease restrictions\n\nWales has \"begun to come over the peak of coronavirus\", First Minister Mark Drakeford has said.\n\nHe previously said restrictions could be gradually eased at the end of the current three-week lockdown period.\n\nOn Thursday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the UK was \"past the peak\" and vowed to set out a plan next week on how to restart the economy.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford added: \"Whether we have come over it far enough is another matter.\"\n\n\"When the prime minister says that we have begun to come over the peak of coronavirus, I think that is true in Wales,\" he said at the Welsh Government's daily briefing on Friday.\n\nHe explained the numbers of patients in critical care beds with the virus were coming down and \"we believe that we have effectively suppressed coronavirus in the community, whether we have done it enough to lift the lockdown will depend on the tests that we apply\".\n\nThe first minister said more information would need to be provided to the public in the coming days on how the current restrictions would be eased.\n\nMr Drakeford told journalists: \"As we go through next week, we will need to begin to be more concrete with people about the specifics of how we would come out of lockdown.\"\n\nHe said it would give people confidence \"we're planning for it and we're planning for it in a way that will keep them safe\".\n\nEarlier on Friday, Mr Drakeford told BBC Radio 4's Today programme facilities such as libraries and gyms will need new rules in place once the restrictions are eased to make people feel safe enough to use them.\n\n\"You can open up anything you like but if people don't think it's safe, they won't come,\" he said.\n\nThe framework outlined by Mr Drakeford last week, which he described as \"like a traffic light in reverse\", included questions to consider before decisions are made around relaxing restrictions.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford also tightened some rules, including stipulating that cyclists should not travel further than a \"reasonable walking distance from home\" and sitting \"for a prolonged period\" outdoors.", "Amazon sales surged in the first three months of the year, as the coronavirus lockdown boosted demand for the firm's groceries, online marketplace and cloud computing services.\n\nSales in the quarter jumped 26% year-on-year and the firm said they could rise another 28% in the next.\n\nBut the demand has strained the internet giant.\n\nIt said it would spend roughly $4bn (£3.2bn) on coronavirus measures through June.\n\nThose costs reflect increased worker pay, purchases of masks and other protective gear, expenses related to cleaning and less efficient warehouses, as the firm implements social distancing measures.\n\n\"The current crisis is demonstrating the adaptability and durability of Amazon's business as never before, but it's also the hardest time we've ever faced,\" said Amazon boss Jeff Bezos.\n\n\"If you're a shareowner in Amazon, you may want to take a seat because we're not thinking small,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm confident that our long term-oriented shareowners will understand and embrace our approach.\"\n\nAmazon, with its dominance in e-commerce, video streaming and cloud computing services, plus its acquisition of the Whole Foods supermarket chain, is well poised to benefit from the changes to consumer habits forced by the pandemic.\n\nThe online giant reported gains across the company. The e-commerce business rose 24%, while sales at its cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services - a significant profit driver - jumped 33%. Even its advertising unit fared well. And at Whole Foods, which Amazon purchased in 2017, sales climbed about 8%.\n\nThat performance presents a sharp contrast to many other companies, which are reeling amid forced closures and plunging consumer spending as economists forecast the world's sharpest slowdown since the 1930s.\n\n\"It shouldn't come as a shock to anyone,\" said Forrester Research retail analyst Sucharita Kodali. \"A lot of physical stores around the world were closed and that drives a lot of people online and they are a huge beneficiary of online.\"\n\nFrom a customer perspective, Ms Kodali said Amazon's performance has been somewhat lacking, with slower shipping times and many items out of stock. Its brand has also taken a beating, as workers around the world complain of inadequate safety precautions.\n\nAmazon's brand has taken a beating amid worker concerns about safety\n\nDespite those issues, Ms Kodali said she expected the firm to maintain its advantage over the long term, as rivals suffering losses due to closures are prevented from making investments that would help them compete.\n\n\"All signs point toward Amazon continuing to win - not because of anything that Amazon has done, but because of what the others can't do,\" she said.\n\nAmazon has scrambled to adjust its operations in reaction to the coronavirus risks. The company has hired 175,000 people in its fulfilment and delivery network and nearly doubled the Whole Foods stores that offer pick-up services.\n\nOn Thursday, the firm said it had purchased 100 million face masks and 31,000 thermometers, which it is using for daily temperature checks.\n\nBut the firm's expenses have shot up, with shipping costs alone surging 49% to nearly $11bn.\n\nThis weighed on the firm's profits, which fell 29% from a year earlier to $2.5bn, lower than analysts had expected.\n\nShares, which have surged more than 30% this year, slumped in after-hours trade.\n\nBut the firm will be able to benefit long term from shifts happening now, like increased online grocery shopping, said Andrew Lipsman, principal analyst at eMarketer,\n\n\"It would be very short-term thinking to just look at what happens in this quarter alone,\" he said.\n\nDespite economic weakness, Amazon's sales are relatively \"immunised\" from declines for now, he added.\n\n\"If we come out of this in a deep recession and people can get back to normal in terms of bricks and mortar buying, then that's when Amazon like everyone else, will take a hit,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steve Parker described staff at the hospital as \"truly amazing\"\n\nA man who \"died three times\" during five weeks in a coma with Covid-19 has been cheered as he left intensive care.\n\nSteve Parker, 62, remains at Poole Hospital in Dorset but has been moved out of the critical care section.\n\nMore than 40 doctors and nurses lined the corridors to clap and cheer him as he was discharged to another ward.\n\nMr Parker, described by his doctors as a \"remarkable survivor\" of coronavirus, said he could not thank the hospital's \"truly amazing\" staff enough.\n\nEoin Scott, head of nursing, said the critical care team had been \"delighted\" to be able to discharge him.\n\n\"Stephen has had a really tough battle against Covid-19 in intensive [care] for the last five weeks and has made a remarkable recovery, given how critically ill he has been,\" said Mr Scott.\n\n\"He is an amazing gentleman and a remarkable survivor. One of his first questions when he began to get better was to ask for a cup of tea.\"\n\nHe said Mr Parker had \"given all of us real hope and inspiration during what is an incredibly challenging time\".\n\nMr Parker said he quickly fell into a coma after \"feeling a bit rough\" five weeks ago\n\nSecurity manager Mr Parker, a former member of the Parachute Regiment, said: \"I can't thank all the staff in critical care enough for everything they have done for me. They are truly amazing.\n\n\"I am one of the lucky ones. Apparently I died three times [while on the unit] but I don't care - I'm alive.\n\n\"The first I remember of being in this hospital was waking up [last] Friday morning, after five weeks.\n\n\"The last thing I remember [before that] was feeling a bit rough on a Friday morning and being taken to A&E,. That's all I can remember of anything - I was straight into a coma.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tracy Dykes says carers \"need to be geared up\" to protect their clients\n\nFrom personal care to meal preparation, every day many thousands of vulnerable people depend on receiving care in their own homes.\n\nOften it is provided by domiciliary carers from private companies who make several visits a day, but with personal protective equipment (PPE) stocks stretched, some agencies have been turning to online suppliers.\n\nOne care company says it paid £60,000 up front for PPE, but \"the stock never came\".\n\nMeanwhile, a health trust said it had seen prices rise in what it calls \"blatant profiteering\".\n\nCarers are at obvious risk of catching or spreading Covid-19, so it is vital they wear PPE like aprons, gloves and masks.\n\nTracy Dykes, who looks after elderly people in their own homes in Nantwich, Cheshire, says for workers like her \"going in protecting ourselves is one thing, but we need to protect our clients\".\n\n\"It's their lives we are protecting, so we need to be geared up, prepared to protect them.\"\n\nBut the agency which employs her has been running low on PPE.\n\nRachel Simpson says buying PPE online is \"like the Wild West\"\n\nAMG Nursing and Care Services has nine branches across the Midlands, North West England and North Wales and has 1,500 carers on its books. It needs to supply them all with stock including gloves, masks and aprons.\n\nEach carer changes their PPE several times a day to maintain hygiene, so the agency needs regular supplies in high quantities.\n\nAMG has been unable to get PPE from its usual supplier, which itself is out of stock, and the company is also unable to secure enough equipment purely through the NHS supply chain.\n\nAs a result, managers say they have had no option but to try and buy PPE online.\n\nPPE portals have sprung up in response to the demand, but not all websites are responsible for the deals which are listed on them.\n\nRachel Simpson, AMG's operations director, says it is \"like the Wild West\".\n\n\"We're in a situation where we don't know who we're dealing with.\n\n\"We've put in an order for 100,000 masks at £60,000. We had to pay upfront, as we are required to do with all suppliers at the moment, and the stock never came.\"\n\nAMG has been unable to get PPE from its usual supplier, leading to low stocks\n\nThere has also been a boom in spam emails offering PPE.\n\nNick Hulme, chief executive of East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, says he has \"been inundated with offers of PPE both from this country and abroad\".\n\n\"I probably get between 10 and 15 emails a day offering me all sorts of PPE that I know isn't available.\"\n\nWhether the stock exists or not, much of the PPE being advertised is sold at exorbitant prices.\n\nMr Hulme says he was \"recently approached by a company that we've previously used offering coveralls for £16.50\".\n\n\"Because we've used them before, I was able to look at their previous catalogue, and in January they were charging £2.\n\n\"There's no amount of supply chain issues that could demand that sort of increase and this for me was blatant profiteering.\n\nPrivate care companies are more exposed to the risks of buying PPE in the open marketplace than facilities like hospitals which can source stock through the NHS supply chain.\n\nBut across the board there is a concern that when lockdown eventually eases, the demand for face masks will surge, making them even harder to get hold of.\n\nAs of 26 April, more than one billion pieces of PPE have been delivered to health and care settings across the UK, according to the government, including 36.3 million items of PPE to designated wholesalers for onward sale to social care providers.\n\nThe government has also released £3.6bn in funding to local authorities - which are in charge of providing social care - with instructions that most of this should reach the adult social-care sector.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Coronavirus patients from black African backgrounds in England and Wales are dying at more than triple the rate of white Britons, a study suggests.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said a higher proportion of people from ethnic minority backgrounds live in areas hit harder by Covid-19.\n\nHowever, they tend to be younger on average, so should be less vulnerable.\n\nBut the report found various black, Asian and minority ethnic groups were experiencing higher per capita deaths.\n\nAnd after accounting for differences in age, sex and geography, the study estimated that the death rate for people of black African heritage was 3.5 times higher than for white Britons.\n\nIt added that for people of black Caribbean heritage, per capita deaths were 1.7 times higher, rising to 2.7 times higher for those with Pakistani heritage.\n\nThe IFS study said given demographic and geographic profiles, most minority ethnic groups are dying in \"excess\" numbers in hospitals.\n\nA government review into the issue is currently under way, led by Prof Kevin Fenton, regional director for London at Public Health England.\n\nRoss Warwick, a research economist at IFS, said there was \"no single explanation and different factors may be more important for different groups\".\n\n\"Black Africans are particularly likely to be employed in key worker roles which might put them at risk,\" he said, \"while older Bangladeshis appear vulnerable on the basis of underlying health conditions.\"\n\nTwo-thirds of Bangladeshi men over the age of 60 have a long-term health condition that would put them at risk from infection.\n\nMore than 20% of black African women are employed in health and social care roles while Pakistani men are 90% more likely to work in healthcare roles than their white British counterparts.\n\nSimilarly, while Indian people make up just 3% of the working population in England and Wales, they account for 14% of doctors, according to the research.\n\nProf Tim Cook, honorary professor in anaesthesia at the University of Bristol, said the high number of ethnic minority healthcare workers dying from Covid-19 was \"striking\".\n\nMedics and carers from ethnic minority backgrounds have been identified by NHS England as being at potentially greater risk from coronavirus\n\nBBC News analysis of 135 healthcare workers whose deaths have been publicly announced found 84 were from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nWithin this, 29 are reportedly from black communities; 26 from South Asian backgrounds; 23 from East Asian backgrounds, of which 17 are Filipino; and four from Arabic backgrounds.\n\nIn a letter to local trusts and GPs sent this week, the head of NHS England advised staff from black, Asian and ethnic minority groups should be \"risk-assessed\" as a precaution based on the growing data.\n\nProf Lucinda Platt, from the London School of Economics, said there were also noticeable differences in economic vulnerability between ethnic groups as a result of the lockdown.\n\n\"Bangladeshi men are four times as likely as white British men to have jobs in shutdown industries, with Pakistani men nearly three times as likely,\" she said.\n\nThis is partly because of their heavy concentration in the restaurant and taxi sector, she suggested.\n\n\"Household savings are lower than average among black Africans, black Caribbeans and Bangladeshis,\" she added.\n\n\"By contrast, Indians and the largely foreign-born other white group do not seem to be facing disproportionate economic risks.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What happens to microplastics in the ocean?\n\nScientists have identified the highest levels of microplastics ever recorded on the seafloor.\n\nThe contamination was found in sediments pulled from the bottom of the Mediterranean, near Italy.\n\nThe analysis, led by the University of Manchester, found up to 1.9 million plastic pieces per square metre.\n\nThese items likely included fibres from clothing and other synthetic textiles, and tiny fragments from larger objects that had broken down over time.\n\nThe researchers' investigations lead them to believe that microplastics (smaller than 1mm) are being concentrated in specific locations on the ocean floor by powerful bottom currents.\n\n\"These currents build what are called drift deposits; think of underwater sand dunes,\" explained Dr Ian Kane, who fronted the international team.\n\n\"They can be tens of kilometres long and hundreds of metres high. They are among the largest sediment accumulations on Earth. They're made predominantly of very fine silt, so it's intuitive to expect microplastics will be found within them,\" he told BBC News.\n\nIt's been calculated that something in the order of four to 12 million tonnes of plastic waste enter the oceans every year, mostly through rivers.\n\nMedia headlines have focussed on the great aggregations of debris that float in gyres or wash up with the tides on coastlines.\n\nBut this visible trash is thought to represent just 1% of the marine plastic budget. The exact whereabouts of the other 99% is unknown.\n\nSome of it has almost certainly been consumed by sea creatures, but perhaps the much larger proportion has fragmented and simply sunk.\n\nA lot of the fibres will come from clothing and other textiles\n\nDr Kane's team has already shown that deep-sea trenches and ocean canyons can have high concentrations of microplastics in their sediments.\n\nIndeed, water tank simulations run by the group have demonstrated just how efficiently flows of mud, sand and silt of the type occurring in canyons will entrain and move fibres to even greater depths.\n\n\"A single one of these underwater avalanches ('turbidity currents') can transport tremendous volumes of sediment for 100s of kilometres across the ocean floor,\" said Dr Florian Pohl from Durham University.\n\n\"We're just starting to understand from recent laboratory experiments how these flows transport and bury microplastics.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tank experiments show how underwater avalanches could transport plastic particles into the deep\n\nThere is nothing atypical about the study area in the Tyrrhenian basin between Italy, Corsica and Sardinia.\n\nMany other parts of the globe have strong deep-water currents that are driven by temperature and salinity contrasts. The issue of concern will be that these currents also supply oxygen and nutrients to deep-sea creatures. And so by following the same route, the microplastics could be settling into biodiversity hotspots, increasing the chance of ingestion by marine life.\n\nBeach plastic may be a very small fraction of the waste out there\n\nProf Elda Miramontes from the University of Bremen, Germany, is a co-author on the Science journal paper describing the Mediterranean discovery.\n\nShe says the same effort shown in the battle against coronavirus must now take on the scourge of ocean plastic pollution.\n\n\"We're all making an effort to improve our safety and we are all staying at home and changing our lives - changing our work life, or even stopping work,\" she told BBC News. \"We're doing all this so that people are not affected by this sickness. We have to think in the same way when we protect our oceans.\"\n\nRoland Geyer is professor of industrial ecology at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California at Santa Barbara.\n\nHe has been at the forefront of investigating and describing the waste streams through which plastic gets into the oceans.\n\nHe commented: \"We still have a very poor understanding of how much total plastic has accumulated in the oceans. There seems to be one emerging scientific consensus, which is that most of that plastic is not floating on the ocean surface.\n\n\"Many scientists now think that most of the plastic is likely to be on the ocean floor, but the water column and the beaches are also likely to contain major quantities.\n\n\"We really should all be completely focused on stopping plastic from entering the oceans in the first place.\"\n\nThe sediments were brought up as part of work on a seafloor pipeline\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter:.", "The US has seen foreign spy agencies carry out reconnaissance of research into a coronavirus vaccine, a senior US intelligence official has told the BBC.\n\nBill Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said the US government had warned medical research organisations of the risks.\n\nBut he would not say whether there had been confirmed cases of stolen data.\n\nUK security sources say they have also seen similar activity.\n\nAn international race is on to find a vaccine for Covid-19.\n\nResearchers, companies and governments are all involved. And their efforts are simultaneously being protected by domestic spy agencies, while being targeted by foreign ones.\n\nMr Evanina's organisation provides advice on countering the work of foreign intelligence agencies to the US government, businesses and academia.\n\n\"We have been working with our industry and government folk here very closely to ensure they are protecting all the research and data as best they can,\" he said.\n\n\"We have every expectation that foreign intelligence services, to include the Chinese Communist Party, will attempt to obtain what we are making here.\"\n\nThe US government is trying to aid work on a vaccine with a programme reportedly called Operation Warp Speed.\n\nWhichever country discovers the first effective and safe formulation may be able to ensure its citizens are first to benefit.\n\n\"We've been in contact with every medical research organisation that is doing the research to be very, very vigilant,\" Mr Evanina added.\n\n\"In today's world there is nothing more valuable or worth stealing than any kind of biomedical research that is going to help with a coronavirus vaccine.\"\n\nIn mid-April, an FBI official said there had been \"some intrusions\" into institutions working on Covid-related research.\n\nDeputy assistant director Tonya Ugoretz said bio-medical data had long been \"a priority target for cyber-espionage\" and organisations publicly linked to work on the virus had become a \"mark\".\n\nLater in the month, the US assistant attorney general for national security, John Demers, said it would be \"beyond absurd\" to think China would not be interested in such details.\n\nCanada's Centre for Cyber Security warned in March that \"sophisticated threat actors may attempt to steal the intellectual property of organisations engaged in research and development related to Covid-19.\"\n\nUS and Western spies are also likely to be interested in what is going on inside China, including any discrepancies over the death toll from Covid-19 as well as its research on vaccines and treatments.\n\nThere have also been ongoing concerns about the risks of cyber-attacks against health organisations, which could undermine their ability to respond to the outbreak.\n\nTwo hospitals in the Czech Republic reported experiencing cyber-attacks in April. This led to an unusual request from the US Secretary of State.\n\n\"We call upon the actor in question to refrain from carrying out disruptive malicious cyber-activity against the Czech Republic's healthcare system or similar infrastructure elsewhere,\" Mike Pompeo said in a statement.", "Fertility clinics in the UK can open again from 11 May to offer treatment to families wanting to have children.\n\nClinics - both NHS and private - will first need to show they can provide safe and effective treatment, the fertility regulator said.\n\nThere must be social distancing in waiting rooms and more appointments by phone may be used, as well as PPE.\n\nThe move is part of a plan to ramp up services again now that the peak of the epidemic is past.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock made the announcement at the government's daily briefing on coronavirus, saying he knew \"how time sensitive and important\" this was for families affected.\n\n\"When I say thank you to all those staying at home, of course I'm saying thank you on behalf of the lives you are saving - but also on behalf of the lives the NHS can now create,\" he said.\n\nSally Cheshire, chairwoman of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) - said the closure of clinics had been \"extremely distressing\" for patients and this would be \"good news\" for those trying for a much longed-for family.\n\nKaty found out she was having her first miscarriage at her 12-week scan, two weeks before her wedding to husband Tom\n\nKaty and husband Tom, from Exeter, Devon, started IVF after going through two miscarriages, including one just before their wedding five years ago.\n\nShe should have had her fourth IVF transfer two weeks ago.\n\n\"It is heartbreaking,\" she said. \"I just feel lost and sad, frustrated, angry.\n\n\"I was three weeks into my treatment... They basically put me into menopause with injections, when they stopped treatment.\"\n\nFertility services were suspended on 23 March, the day lockdown began in the UK.\n\nOther elective NHS treatments were also put on hold.\n\nBefore reopening, clinics will be asked to show that they are able to keep patients and staff safe while offering and carrying out fertility treatment.\n\nPersonal protective equipment should also be provided if necessary.\n\nIt is thought private clinics may be able to restart services more quickly than NHS ones whose staff may have been redeployed in front-line roles during the pandemic.\n\nMr Hancock said all fertility patients should be dealt with fairly and not face any additional disadvantage as a result of services being stopped for six weeks.", "Deaths in care homes in Wales continue to rise\n\nAll social care workers will get a cash bonus of £500 each, First Minister Mark Drakeford has announced.\n\nThe payments will be made to more than 64,000 workers, at a cost of £32.2m.\n\nDeaths with coronavirus in Welsh care homes continue to rise - there were 184 such deaths by 17 April, accounting for 40% of all Covid-19 deaths in Cardiff.\n\nMr Drakeford said both residential and domiciliary staff were \"often accepting a greater degree of risk\" and the payment was designed to recognise that.\n\nThe first minister said it was a flat-rate payment, and therefore most benefited the lowest paid.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe called on UK government departments not to tax the bonus or to reduce benefits as a result.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Drakeford said care home workers and residents would only be tested for coronavirus if they were symptomatic, despite the UK government announcing all residents and staff would be tested in England.\n\nMark Drakeford said: \"I want our social care workforce to know their hard work is both appreciated and recognised\"\n\n\"They are undertaking tasks, which involve a high level of intimate personal care, often accepting a greater degree of risk and responsibility,\" Mr Drakeford said at the Welsh Government's daily briefing on Friday.\n\n\"Many of our social care workers are juggling their own personal caring responsibilities with their professional ones.\n\n\"I want our social care workforce to know their hard work is both appreciated and recognised.\n\n\"This payment is designed to provide some further recognition of the value we attach to everything they are doing to - it recognises this group of people are providing the invisible scaffolding of services, which support both our NHS and our wider society.\"\n\nFurther details, including when the payment will be made, were still being worked out, the Welsh Government said.\n\nThe Unison union in Wales welcomed Mr Drakeford's announcement, and reiterated its calls for a higher pay for care workers.\n\nTheir work \"should be valued much more highly by society\", according to Dominic MacAskill, its head of local government in Wales.\n\n\"It can't be right that many care workers, particularly in the private or non-profit sector, suffer in-work poverty because of very low wages and precarious contracts,\" he said.\n\n\"That's why Unison believes all care workers should earn at least £10 per hour to lift them and their families out of poverty.\"", "The government is likely to meet or \"come close\" to its target of 100,000 daily UK coronavirus tests, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick has said.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock promised the government would achieve the aim by the end of April - which was Thursday - and those figures are expected later.\n\nJust over 81,000 tests across the UK took place on Wednesday but ministers said there was capacity for more.\n\nIt came as the PM said the UK was now \"past the peak\" of the outbreak.\n\nMr Jenrick told BBC Breakfast the target was \"just a stepping stone\" and that the foundations were in place for a strong national testing network.\n\nThe number of people who had died after testing positive for Covid-19 in UK hospitals and the wider community is now 26,771, a rise of 674 on the day before, the latest figures show.\n\nA further 352 deaths were reported in England on Thursday, along with 40 more in Scotland, 18 more in Northern Ireland and 17 more in Wales.\n\nThe latest UK-wide figures - which use a different timeframe to those of individual nations - will be published later.\n\nIf the government achieves 100,000 tests it will certainly be a remarkable achievement. Remember at the start of April, 10 times fewer were being carried out.\n\nA testing network, including three mega labs, more than 40 drive-through centres, a home-testing service and mobile units, have been set up in super quick time.\n\nBut there is a fear within the system that the frantic rush to get to the target has come at a cost.\n\nIt is noticeable that the extension of eligibility this week to the over-65s and anyone claiming they have to leave home for work this week in England has coincided with a significant increase in tests being carried out.\n\nYet care homes are reporting they are struggling to get access to tests, while NHS workers have found testing slots have sometimes been taken up by the time they try.\n\nSome argue a more planned, considered approach not based on simply hitting a number may have been better.\n\nAfter all, an efficient testing system coupled with a system to track and trace close contacts of infected individuals is going to be crucial in gradually moving out of lockdown.\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said testing needed to be linked with contact tracing, adding that he hoped this would form \"an important part\" of the government's exit strategy from the lockdown.\n\nProf Devi Sridhar, an expert in global public health from the University of Edinburgh, said testing needed to be used as part of a contact tracing strategy, which involves identifying people who had been infected and then track down anyone they had been recently in contact with.\n\nAnyone who tests positive for the virus can then be told to self-isolate, she added.\n\nProf Sridhar, who is among those advising the Scottish government on its response to the pandemic, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Testing on its own is useful but not really the full package.\"\n\nCare home worker Gemma McGoldrick, 30, was advised to get a test after developing Covid-19 symptoms.\n\nMs McGoldrick said she turned up 10 minutes before her allocated slot at the testing site at Doncaster Sheffield Airport, but had to wait an hour before she was seen and was there for more than two hours in total.\n\n\"It was just a shambles - it was so slow and none of the workers seemed to know what they were doing,\" she said, adding that she was concerned the test would not be accurate.\n\nIan Mitchley said he was impressed with his experience of being tested\n\nHowever, others told the BBC they had a more positive experience at testing centres.\n\nIan Mitchley, who works for a food retailer, has been self-isolating because his partner has had symptoms and decided to book a test so he could return to work if he found he did not have the virus.\n\n\"You get a half-hour time slot, so I thought I would definitely be there for a few hours. I was in and out in minutes,\" said Mr Mitchley, who lives in London.\n\n\"I was really quite impressed with the whole thing.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced an expansion of testing in the country's care homes as well as increased eligibility for tests.\n\nAll residents and staff will now be tested in any care home where there has been an outbreak of Covid-19, regardless of whether they have symptoms.\n\nMs Sturgeon said those aged over 65 and anyone who needed to leave home to work could also now be tested if they had symptoms, such as a fever or persistent cough.\n\nThe Scottish government had previously set a target of 3,500 NHS tests a day by the end of April. Ms Sturgeon said Scotland now had capacity to carry out 4,350 coronavirus tests a day in NHS laboratories, although only 2,537 tests were carried out on Thursday.\n\nSpeaking at the No 10 briefing for the first time since receiving hospital treatment for Covid-19, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday evening that the government was \"massively ramping up\" testing, and that the country was now \"past the peak of this disease\".\n\nThe PM added he would set out a \"comprehensive plan\" next week on how to restart the economy, reopen schools and help people travel to work following the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nShadow home secretary Mr Thomas-Symonds said Labour hoped the plan would set out the different possibilities for the future so public services could plan ahead.\n\nHe added that the party would \"scrutinise it extremely carefully\" but hoped to be able to support the plan set out by the prime minister.\n\nMeanwhile, Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford said any move to ease the lockdown in Wales would be \"careful and cautious\".\n\n\"You can open up anything you like - if people don't think it's safe to take up what is now available to them, they won't come,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: UK is \"past the peak of this disease\"", "Some councils say waste sites could be open from this weekend\n\nHouseholds in parts of England may be able to take their extra rubbish to their local tip this weekend.\n\nBut despite a government plea, some councils have said further measures are needed before refuse sites reopen.\n\nThose authorities say they will only reopen with sufficient staffing, proper protective equipment for workers and assistance from police forces.\n\nOn Tuesday, Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick told the Commons he expected tips to reopen \"within weeks\".\n\nSome areas have reported a rise in fly-tipping since the coronavirus restrictions came into force.\n\nMany councils closed waste facilities due to staff absences and to comply with social distancing guidelines, leaving areas with bin collection services only.\n\nSince then, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority joined a number of councils to announce measures to reopen sites safely.\n\nIt said its visiting system \"based on odd and even number plates\" would help reduce the number of vehicles on site, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nA spokeswoman for the authority said a booking system was explored, but introducing it at short notice for 2.5 million residents would have been challenging.\n\nCouncils say in order for tips to reopen, staff must be provided with PPE\n\nOther measures being taken to help recycling centres open include:\n\nMany authorities have also said they will require visitors to provide proof of address before being given access to waste sites, to stop people travelling outside of their area and overwhelming services.\n\nCouncils say they have seen a rise in fly-tipping in some parts of England\n\nSome councils have expressed concern over reopening sites.\n\nAfter the government announcement, North Yorkshire County Council said its tips would remain closed \"for public safety and to cut non-essential travel\".\n\nIan Fielding, waste management assistant director, said: \"If guidance on travel is changed then we will reconsider how and when to open sites.\"\n\nDerbyshire County Council said it was \"unable to say\" when its services would reopen due to the need for social distancing measures.\n\nCouncillor Simon Spencer said the process was going to take \"a few weeks, rather than a few days\".\n\nCouncillor David Renard, the environment spokesman for the Local Government Association (LGA), said authorities wanted to reopen sites as soon as \"practicable\".\n\nHe said authorities needed clarity on whether waste site trips were essential, police assistance was required \"to safely manage visitor flow and pent-up demand\", and PPE was required for staff.\n\nRobert Jenrick has asked councils to plan the \"organised reopening\" of tips\n\nThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said people should only visit a waste and recycling centre \"if the journey is essential\" and following the latest social distancing guidelines.\n\nLocal Government Secretary, Robert Jenrick, said: \"With more people at home, more rubbish and recycling is being created.\n\n\"With many councils deciding to close their waste and recycling centres during the pandemic, there is also nowhere to take the extra rubbish.\n\n\"That is why we are asking councils to reopen these sites as a priority.\"\n\nA Defra spokesman added that the government was \"working closely\" with councils and the waste industry \"to see how we can re-open these sites in the coming weeks\" and that waste collections were \"prioritised appropriately\".\n\n\"Local authorities should maintain black bag collections and prevent waste from building up to protect the environment and public health,\" the spokesman said.\n\nHave you witnessed any fly tipping during lockdown? Send us your pictures. Email yourpics@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:", "A return to how life was at the start of 2020 is some way off. Even when lockdown restrictions are eased, coronavirus will affect our lives in many ways. What will struggle to get back to how it was before, and what might change for ever?\n\nFrom Zooming clients to neighbourhood WhatsApp groups, digital platforms have become the only way for many of us to work, get fit or be educated and entertained.\n\nWe're more relaxed about screen time hours for us and our kids, a huge culture shift from just a few weeks ago. It feels unlikely that'll disappear overnight.\n\nWe now know the infrastructure can cope, on the whole. There have been wobbles, like Monday's Virgin Media outage, but broadband providers and mobile phone networks have handled the big surge in traffic.\n\nIn March, BT said it was \"well within manageable limits\", and it is still intending to roll out ultrafast full-fibre broadband to 227 rural communities across the UK in coming months.\n\nGoing forward, with lines between home and work blurred like never before, we'll need to think carefully about which platforms we use and what we say on them.\n\nStill, video conferencing, once the poor relation to face-to-face meetings in the corporate world, is - for the moment - the norm. Remember that meme: \"This meeting could have been an email\"? Perhaps it's finally within reach.\n\nRetail was already having a tough time. The lockdown and its ripple effects will speed up the huge structural changes under way in our High Streets. It's now all about survival of the fittest.\n\nBusinesses in good financial health, and able to give customers what they want, will prosper. But weaker players - already grappling with falling sales, rising costs and intense competition - will fall by the wayside during the next 18 months.\n\nBut there's also a more immediate question. How many outlets will reopen at all?\n\nSome small firms may simply run out of cash and throw in the towel. Some larger retailers are also in administration. Many others will be looking at the profitability of stores and whether they could hand the keys back to landlords.\n\nAfter lockdown, there'll be an immediate sales bounce and stores are likely to lower prices to shift stock. But it may be short-lived if people have been made redundant and are unable to spend.\n\nFashion relies heavily on shoppers with spare cash and many of us will have endured the past weeks buying hardly any clothes at all - and survived!\n\nIt will be interesting to see if shoppers rethink their habits and priorities.\n\nCovid-19 is the greatest shock to business for a century.\n\nEmergency measures forced on reluctant companies will form part of future thinking. Questions such as \"do we need large city office space with staff relying on crowded public transport?\" will be asked. Home-working could make the rush hour history, which might then affect property values in satellite \"commuter towns\".\n\nStaff will also demand more from employers in terms of flexibility, facilities and safety at work.\n\nCompanies may start hoarding cash to survive another crisis. Just as the banks became permanently less profitable after the 2007-08 financial crash - because they were forced to hold more base capital before lending - firms post-Covid-19 could be less inclined to invest. That will stifle growth.\n\nThe digital transformation of business will get faster, with more automation and artificial intelligence to approve loans, profile customers, control stock and improve delivery.\n\nSupply chains will be shorter, more resilient and possibly more local - but there are pluses and minuses to that. Economic nationalism, when governments try to protect their economies by cutting imports and investments from other nations, is popular right now - but some warn it results in a selfish and damaging \"beggar thy neighbour\" approach.\n\nFinally, international institutions like the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, the World Health Organization and the European Union may be challenged to up their games - or go away.\n\nWe all hope for a return to business as usual. It's not going to happen.\n\nSome airlines might not survive this crisis. Others could perish in the aftermath. And those that come through it will be smaller.\n\nThere will be, at least in the medium term, fewer flights. That trend will be driven by people and businesses having less money to spend and video conferencing becoming the new norm.\n\nInitially, there may also be nervousness about flying in the wake of a global pandemic. Thermal imaging cameras, which check your temperature as you walk through, could become commonplace at airports and even railway stations to try to reassure passengers and staff.\n\nA smaller aviation market means ticket prices could rise. After weeks of staying at home many of us will be itching to travel, but global travel by plane, train or boat might have to change. For example, EasyJet says it plans to initially leave middle seats empty so passengers aren't too close to each other - and tickets for a plane with lots of empty seats will be more expensive.\n\nThe number of people on trains, tubes and trams is likely to be lower than at pre-crisis levels, as some work will continue to be done at home. The daily commute isn't great for social distancing and rail bosses are working out how to manage things when the government eases restrictions.\n\nIndependent and green modes of transport such as cycling and, once legalised, electric scooters should become more popular - although some commuters might jump in the car.\n\nThe school day normally has its own rhythm and routine punctuated by lessons, bells and breaks. Now more than 90% of the planet's children are out of classes, according to United Nations agency Unesco. The disruption will ripple for years.\n\nTeaching has moved online, with digital lessons on a scale never seen - highlighting concerns that digital poverty is locking children out of learning. Even in a major economy such as the UK, a significant minority don't have ready access to a device of their own, which they can use for schoolwork.\n\nOfcom estimates that 59% of 12 to 15-year-olds have their own tablet, while 83% have a smartphone. However, some disadvantaged teenagers in England will be able to borrow laptops to help them study at home, thanks to help from the Department for Education. This temporary solution may need to become long term though, which is one legacy of this pandemic.\n\nUK universities face other challenges. They're globally connected and have successfully marketed the value of a British degree around the world.\n\nMainland China alone is used to sending 120,000 students to the UK each year. That number will fall, as will numbers from other countries. The appetite to study far from family will not be as strong as it once was.\n\nResearch by the University and College Union suggests the combination of an immediate drop in international students this year, and UK students deciding to delay or not enrol at all, could cost universities £2.5bn and lead to 30,000 job losses.\n\nSweet air and tranquil roads - in the grimmest of circumstances, the coronavirus lockdown offers a sense of how a greener world might feel.\n\nLevels of the gas nitrogen dioxide, linked to a wide range of health conditions, fell across parts of China and Europe as traffic flows diminished. And the rise of online meetings has shown what can be achieved without travel and has saved lots of carbon in the process.\n\nWhat happens next though is open to question.\n\nOne scenario is that the world repeats the fossil fuel frenzy that followed the banking crisis, unleashing pent-up demand for oil and coal. Governments know this response well as a method to revive flagging economies.\n\nAnother option is for a more sustainable recovery, with policies to encourage a low-carbon future. This would see determined pushes for renewable energy, public transport and home energy efficiency.\n\nIt was meant to be a big year to try to halt the damage we're doing to the natural world and to cut the gases driving up temperatures to dangerous levels. That agenda, and the tough choices needed, might not be getting much attention - but they have not gone away.\n\nIn fact, the pandemic has shown us how governments can act when they need to - and how willingly people can respond. The issue is whether a similar drive can be directed to what the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls the \"deeper emergency\" of the environment.\n\nLegendary Liverpool manager Bill Shankly famously said: \"Some people believe football is a matter of life and death... it is much, much more important than that.\" He was joking, of course, but now, more than ever, football's relevance has been put into perspective.\n\nHowever, sport is a serious pleasure for many. It supports an industry employing hundreds of thousands and has been affected like never before.\n\nEvents have fallen like dominoes. Some, like the Olympics, have been postponed, while others, like Wimbledon, have been cancelled completely. Training schedules have been ripped up and staff furloughed. Players are taking wage cuts and broadcasters are warning of lost earnings in the hundreds of millions.\n\nIn future, social distancing will be a massive headache for sporting governing bodies. How can close contact physical sports, like rugby, continue? Even playing behind closed doors presents a myriad of problems.\n\nAn English Premier League football season without a champion was once unthinkable, but now the campaign hangs in the balance. Even if sport can return this year, the global recession likely to follow will surely affect business for years, especially in areas like transfer fees, wages, broadcast deals and prize money.\n\nFor millions of fans, weekends are now very different. Moments of unbelievable effort and sporting talent often ripple through the nation, providing collective \"did you see it?\" experiences. The future of sport, without those moments and the fans to watch, looks very different indeed.\n\nThe arts sector is split 50-50 about the post-pandemic future, between the optimists and the pessimists.\n\nThe upbeat half think the UK arts scene will come back stronger than ever, providing an eager population with longed-for shared experiences and feel-good content.\n\nCinemas, theatres, concert halls, museums and galleries will thrive on a flowering of creativity, a response to the dark days of the virus. Plus, there will be new converts who discovered all that splendid free arts content made available online during lockdown.\n\nThe One Man Two Guvnors stage production was streamed for free online by the National Theatre\n\nThe pessimists fear grassroots venues - historical suppliers of fresh talent - will perish in a new era of austerity budgets. Local councils will sell off artworks, and thousands of jobs will be lost. A sector once known for dynamism and imagination will become conservative and risk-averse.\n\nI suspect the reality will settle somewhere between the two. The post-lockdown transition from closed to bustling venues won't be straightforward. Social distancing is likely to limit activity. Producers will need time to rehearse and finish productions. There'll also be size limits on film and TV crews making new content. Reruns could be a staple for a while.\n\nBut let's not forget the UK's creative industries have long been strong economic driving forces. They are world renowned and full of talented individuals. It's going to be tough, but I'd back the arts and entertainment sector to not only keep us amused and intellectually sustained, but also to lead from the front.\n\nIt's generally accepted the experience of living through the 1930s depression and World War Two shaped the so-called Greatest Generation - a cohort of Britons noted for resilience, prudence, humility, work ethic and sense of duty. They are qualities people see in the Queen and in 100-year-old Captain Tom Moore, who marched up and down his garden for the NHS.\n\nIt's hoped the Thursday night clapping for key workers is the sound of a nation discovering itself again and, denied the luxury of self-indulgence, our eyes are opened to what really matters. Lockdown, it is said, has unblocked a spring of neighbourliness that will flow long after restrictions are lifted.\n\nBut our suspended life in lockdown could be incubating a grievance that, when released, triggers angry questions, a search for blame, and demands for reprisals. Economic hardship will strain social ties. That's the real test for this generation - not \"can we keep our temper in lockdown?\" but \"can we quietly repair our social fabric in the tough times?\".\n\nThe fear is that our behavioural norms will have become infected by distress and hardship, that we will emerge more individual and less together.\n\nThe hope must be that our society, like a virus, is mutating into something stronger.\n\n\"This pandemic has shone a spotlight on the overlooked and undervalued corners of society.\" The words of the director of the World Health Organization in Europe, Dr Hans Kluge, as he described the shocking death toll in care homes across the continent.\n\nHis sentiment will chime with many who have constantly warned about the looming care crisis in the UK, particularly in England. An ageing population, years of underfunding, low pay, staff shortages and the failure of successive governments to reform the system, has left the sector on its knees.\n\nMany staff looking after older and disabled people - in care homes and in the community - will say they felt forgotten when the pandemic first took hold. The focus on the NHS was not surprising, but they were caring for those particularly vulnerable to the virus.\n\nThe struggle to get protective equipment, and slowness of testing in the community in England, have become symbols of their distress. Questions will be asked about the apparent failure to prioritise support to the care front-line, and what it may have cost in lives.\n\nThen, we'll have a choice to make. Do we recognise, value and fund a properly integrated system that provides support in the community? Or, as our memories become hazy, will we again allow the importance of this type of care to fade into the background?\n\nEven before Covid-19 claimed its first victim, the US-China trade war was threatening the progress of globalisation. International supply chains bring perks - more choice, lower prices and, for some, higher incomes - but also job losses in the higher-wage West.\n\nThis pandemic has exposed other vulnerabilities.\n\nThere's the reliance on three countries - the US, China and Germany - to provide 40% of personal protective gear, and also businesses' dependency on single sources for vital components. There'll be a rethink of what products are \"strategic\", key to a nation's survival. They might be produced closer to home or alternative suppliers sought.\n\nBut key to a recovery will be job creation and keeping down living costs. The former means that, however uneasy, governments may have to tolerate China's continued investment around the globe.\n\nAs for the latter, businesses need to keep costs low, and overseas sourcing of non-essential will continue. Some of the biggest brands, including H&M, have committed to helping workers in factories thousands of miles away to keep supply chains functioning.\n\nThose companies were already looking beyond China to lower cost nations such as Vietnam, Ethiopia and Bangladesh - countries which will work even harder to attract foreign customers.\n\nChina's factories are firing back up, but who's buying? Currently, demand from locked-down customers has slumped. Trade could drop by a third this year. But it will bounce back, globalisation will continue - and the competition to be the world's production line will intensify.\n\nCatastrophe inevitably produces new priorities, even if old geo-political tensions remain. The pandemic has demonstrated, yet again, that global questions require global solutions.\n\nBut it has also shown that governments' first responses have been national. China and the US have squared up to each other over Beijing's responsibility for the pandemic, nations have closed borders, and there has been unseemly competition for medical resources.\n\nMultinational organisations have fared poorly. The EU apologised to Italy for its limited support and President Trump attacked the World Health Organization for being too close to Beijing. Those who see these building blocks of global order as outdated have more ammunition.\n\nBeijing's position is contradictory. It's the source of the virus and the global provider of much of the equipment to fight it, so expect the \"China problem\" to be a focus for Western governments. How do they rely less on Chinese goods and resist Beijing's efforts to get the world to play by its rules - while still pursuing co-operation on problems like climate change and, yes, future pandemics?\n\nThere'll be a lot less money in defence budgets for shiny new weaponry - with security being redefined because of the extraordinary weaknesses revealed by the pandemic. National security capability will be judged by stockpiled medical equipment and preparedness for the next pandemic or environmental catastrophe, not just on how many tank brigades can be deployed.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nPlayers are \"scared\" about the prospect of returning to action amid the coronavirus pandemic, says Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero.\n\nThe Premier League is hoping to resume the season on 8 June, which would require players to be be back in full training by 18 May.\n\nTop-flight clubs will meet on Friday to discuss options for the restart.\n\n\"The majority of players are scared because they have children and families,\" said 31-year-old Aguero.\n\nSpeaking to Argentine TV station El Chiringuito, the Argentina international Aguero added: \"I'm scared, but I'm with my girlfriend here and I'm not going to be in contact with other people. I'm locked in my house and the only person I could infect is my girlfriend.\n\n\"They're saying that there are people that have it and don't have any symptoms but still infect you. That's why I am here at home. Maybe I have the illness and I don't even know.\"\n\nThe Premier League has been suspended since 13 March because of coronavirus but all clubs remain committed to playing this season's 92 remaining fixtures.\n\nAll games are expected to be held behind closed doors and the league is considering making some available on free-to-air TV.\n\nSenior medical directors of the FA and Premier League will join a video conference on Friday with medical experts from rugby union, cricket and racing, along with the Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden and deputy chief medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam to discuss the medical and safety aspects of a return to sporting action.\n\nAguero said he and his team-mates, will be \"quite nervous and extra careful\" when they return to work.\n\n\"When one person is ill we will think 'oh what's happening here?'\" he added. \"I hope a vaccine will be found soon so that this all ends.\"\n\nIf training is resumed before social distancing rules are relaxed, BBC Sport understands players will be tested for coronavirus twice a week and would be screened for symptoms every day.\n\nAll tests would be carried out by health professionals at a drive-through NHS testing facility that each club would have access to.\n\nTraining grounds will be optimised for social distancing and high hygiene levels. In addition:\n• None Players must arrive at training grounds in kit and wear masks at all times.\n• None They must not shower or eat on the premises. If clubs want to provide players with food, it must be delivered as a takeaway to players' cars.\n• None Only essential medical treatment would be allowed, with all medical staff in full PPE.\n• None All meetings and reviews must take place virtually and off-site.\n\nBrighton striker Glenn Murray says some proposed protocols around the Premier League's return to action, such as wearing face masks, are \"farcical\".\n\n\"Face masks is going to be off-putting; it is not going to be natural. People will be ripping them off in games,\" the 36-year-old said. \"It is quite farcical.\n\n\"I understand why people are desperate to get football on. It has to be done in a sensible way and in the right time and in a way that is going to keep everyone safe.\n\n\"There will be ambulances at training and games. Is it fair to take those from the NHS? I don’t know.\n\n\"It is not just two squads, there is a lot more involved and it puts more people at risk.\"\n\nArsenal, Brighton and West Ham have opened their training grounds to players for individual work.\n\n\"I understand the public is desperate to get football back,\" said Murray. \"But it is us that are going to be going out there and competing against other teams.\n\n\"We are not talking about guys in one community. We are talking about guys from all over the world who could be possibly carrying the disease. There are so many caveats.\n\n\"Everyone is in different situations. I have children at home. I wouldn’t want to jeopardise them. Some footballers have newly born children who might be more susceptible to getting the disease.\n\n\"Some are living with elderly parents. It is a really difficult situation to agree on.\"", "Inquests in the Gwent area of south east Wales are to resume after a coroner stopped hearings when she was accused of holding them in private during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nSix inquests were allegedly held in private, including that of Carson Price, 13, of Caerphilly, who died after taking ecstasy.\n\nNews agency PA Media had said it contradicted \"principles of open justice\", in criticism which senior coroner Caroline Saunders labelled \"offensive\".\n\nMs Saunders has now announced the court will reopen but the number of people allowed in will be limited to seven in order to comply with national guidelines on social distancing.\n\nIn a statement, she said she would reserve four spaces for family and three for the press, but other members of the public would only be allowed in if there were fewer than seven people already in attendance.\n\n\"Once in court, all visitors will be required to sit a distance of at least two metres apart in pre-marked seats,\" the coroner added.\n\nBy law, inquests, which are not to find blame but to find out how someone died, are required to be held in public.\n\nDue to the coronavirus restrictions many coroners' courts across Wales have not been operating.\n\nHowever, Ms Saunders had previously said she wanted to continue to hold inquests because of a backlog.", "At least two people suffered serious injuries in the attack\n\nPolice in Western Australia have shot dead a man after several people were stabbed at a shopping centre in the Pilbara region.\n\nFive people were injured in the attack at the South Hedland Square centre - two of them are in a serious condition.\n\nWitnesses told local media they saw a man waving \"a great big knife\" at shoppers and police officers, before hearing screaming and bangs.\n\nWA Premier Mark McGowan called it \"a tragic and awful set of events\".\n\n\"He has been tasered by police, that didn't stop him. He lunged at police officers and then he was shot by police officers,\" the Australian Broadcasting Corporation quoted Mr McGowan as saying.\n\nPolice said there was no ongoing threat to public safety and are appealing for people to come forward with any video evidence. There has been no suggestion the incident was terror-related.\n\nThe attack happened around 10:00 local time on Friday (02:00 GMT). One woman told ABC she fled after encountering the man outside the shopping centre's entrance.\n\n\"I saw this guy swinging a great big knife at this lady who had a toddler in the trolley,\" Shelley Farquhar said.\n\n\"Then he gave up on her and came in, because I was there, and was swinging at me.\"\n\nPilbara District Police confirmed the man who died was a \"person who was engaged by police, and he received a gunshot wound\".\n\n\"Police will investigate the circumstances surrounding how these people received the injuries,\" it said in a statement.\n\nSouth Hedland is a small town in the rural Pilbara region of Western Australia. Most people in the area work in mining and related industries.\n\nThe dead man, who has not been identified, was reported by several witnesses to have been wearing a high-vis jacket.", "Taoiseach Leo Varadkar made the announcement in an address to the nation on Friday evening\n\nThe Irish government has signalled an easing of lockdown restrictions from Tuesday.\n\nPeople who are over 70 and currently cocooning can leave their homes as long as they avoid contact with others.\n\nThe 2km exercise limit currently in place for the Irish population will be extended to 5km.\n\nIrish prime minister Leo Varadkar also announced a five-stage road map from 18 May, which would \"reopen the country in a slow, phased way\".\n\nIn a live televised address to the nation on Friday evening, the taoiseach said: \"So on the 18th of May, Ireland begins to reopen and begins that journey to a new normal.\"\n\nAny easing of restrictions will be done gradually, Mr Varadkar said\n\nThe majority of the lockdown measures will remain in place until 18 May, although two will ease in the coming days.\n\nThe road map after that is set out in five phases and will work on two-to-four week cycles monitored throughout, with each stage dependent on the success of the previous one.\n\nMr Varadkar stressed the need for caution as \"the risk of a second phase of the virus is ever present\".\n\n\"If we relax the restrictions too soon, we could see our ICU overcrowded,\" he said.\n\n\"Everything we achieved would be lost, so we must go on a short time more.\"\n\nThe plans were agreed by cabinet after medical experts on the National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet) provided advice to the government earlier on Friday.\n\nThe current lockdown period had been due to expire on Monday.\n\nMr Varadkar said the cabinet would meet on Saturday to agree further actions to help businesses restart.\n\nMr Varadkar urged the public to \"stay the course\" and \"continue the fight\"\n\nMr Varadkar said the last few weeks had transformed people's lives \"in so many different ways and ways that we could not have imagined\".\n\n\"I know it has been difficult - sometimes dispiriting,\" he said.\n\n\"The frustration of having our lives restricted. The uncertainty about when things will get back to normal. The fear of the virus itself.\"\n\nHe also spoke of the pain of the families unable to properly grieve for those who had lost their lives in recent weeks.\n\n\"When we come through this, we will come together as a nation and grieve together for everyone who has died over the course of this emergency,\" he said.\n\nHe said people had met the crisis with \"remarkable courage and sense of solidarity\".\n\nMr Varadkar urged the public to \"stay the course\" and \"continue the fight\".\n\nOn Friday, the Republic of Ireland recorded 34 more coronavirus-related deaths, taking its total to 1,265.\n\nThere were also 221 more cases diagnosed in the Republic, bringing the number of confirmed cases to 20,833.", "The NHS has set out plans for the second phase of the epidemic, including stepping up non-Covid-19 urgent services over the next six weeks as it attempts to return to normal.\n\nIn a letter to local trusts and GPs, the head of NHS England said urgent outpatient appointments should go ahead and routine surgery could be restarted.\n\nBut GPs are encouraged to continue to use online consultations.\n\nRegular testing will be offered to all staff - even those with no symptoms.\n\nThe letter, written by chief executive Sir Simon Stevens and chief operating officer Amanda Pritchard, sets out the NHS's approach in the coming weeks, following a drop in hospital patients with Covid-19 over the past two weeks in England.\n\nIt says the pressure on many staff will \"remain unprecedented\" and employers must keep them safe.\n\nStaff from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds, who could be at greater risk from the virus, should be \"risk-assessed\" as a precaution.\n\nPublic Health England has already been asked to look into data suggesting ethnic minorities may be disproportionately affected by the coronavirus.\n\nThere have been concerns people are not seeking medical care as they normally would because they are afraid of catching the virus and over-burdening the NHS, putting their long-term health at risk.\n\nThe letter says there has also been a reduction in road traffic accidents and major trauma during the lockdown - and it is uncertain when the \"rebound in emergency demand\" will happen.\n\nAnd it encourages GPs - and hospital outpatient departments, unless there is a good reason not to - to continue to use online consultation so patients can be \"directed to the most appropriate member of the practice team straight away\".", "Mass burials have been taking place in Manaus city Image caption: Mass burials have been taking place in Manaus city\n\nThis week Brazil passed a painful milestone: the country's number of confirmed cases and its death toll are now higher than in China, where the virus originated.\n\nIt definitely feels like the crisis has stepped up a gear – that the situation is going to become more acute in the coming weeks.\n\nThe images coming out of Manaus, the biggest city in the Amazon, have been shocking. They’re digging mass graves to cope with the numbers dying and the mayor himself has said the scenes are like a horror film.\n\nBut at the same time, there’s growing pressure to open up the economy. There’s been no national lockdown, but schools and businesses in many states have been shut and movement has slowed.\n\nNow governors are talking about how to gradually start up again. But it feels premature.\n\nOne city in the south, Blumenau, reopened its shopping centres a couple of weeks ago – since then, there’s been a massive spike in the numbers of cases.\n\nIf that happens nationwide, Brazil and its struggling public health system will be in trouble.", "People living in more deprived areas of England and Wales are more likely to die with coronavirus than those in more affluent places, new figures suggest.\n\nOffice for National Statistics analysis shows there were 55 deaths for every 100,000 people in the poorest parts of England, compared with 25 in the wealthiest areas.\n\nMortality rates are normally higher in poorer areas.\n\nBut the ONS said coronavirus appeared to be adding to the problem.\n\n\"This is something that we are worried about and looking at,\" Health Secretary Matt Hancock said.\n\nSpeaking at the daily coronavirus briefing, Mr Hancock said his department was looking into the various ways the virus impacts different groups to understand it \"as much as we possibly can\".\n\nAcross the country, the highest rates of deaths have been in urban areas where lots of people live. The overall mortality rate in London has been almost double that of the next highest region.\n\nThe data also shows the Covid-19 mortality rate in the most deprived areas of England has been higher among men, with 76.7 deaths per 100,000 people, compared with 39.6 per 100,000 women.\n\n\"General mortality rates are normally higher in more deprived areas, but so far Covid-19 appears to be taking them higher still,\" said Nick Stripe, ONS head of health analysis.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said the report showed the virus thrived on inequality.\n\n\"Ministers must target health inequalities with an overarching strategy to tackle the wider social determinants of ill-health,\" he said.\n\nThe ONS used the Index of Multiple Deprivation, a relative measure of poverty last updated in 2019.\n\nThe index takes into account factors such as an area's income, employment, crime and health deprivation and disability.\n\nThe ONS studied the 20,283 deaths involving Covid-19 that took place between 1 March and 17 April. In England, it found the mortality rate in the most deprived areas was 55.1 deaths per 100,000 population, while the rate was 25.3 deaths per 100,000 in the least deprived areas.\n\nIn Wales, statisticians found the most deprived fifth of areas had a mortality rate of 44.6 deaths per 100,000 population, almost twice as high as the rate for the least deprived areas of 23.2 deaths per 100,000.\n\nDavid Finch, a senior fellow at the Health Foundation, said people in deprived areas were at higher risk of exposure to Covid-19 because they were likely to live in cramped housing conditions.\n\nHe said those people were also more likely to have one or more long-term health condition, meaning they would be at greater risk of suffering severe symptoms from the virus if exposed.\n\nChief executive of children's charity Barnardo's Javed Khan said the ONS study was \"worrying\" but \"unfortunately not surprising\".\n\n\"Vulnerable children and families - and those already experiencing disadvantage - risk becoming the forgotten victims,\" he added.\n\n\"Without intervention, this crisis will be devastating for a whole generation - their mental health, safety, education and job prospects are on the line.\"\n\nIn a statement, the government said it had commissioned urgent work from Public Health England to understand the different factors that could influence the way someone was affected by the virus and would set out more details in due course.\n\n\"We are ensuring financial support for the poorest in society by increasing universal credit payments and speeding up the payment of statutory sick pay, as well as introducing the coronavirus job-retention scheme, the self-employment income support scheme, mortgage holidays and greater protection for renters.\"\n\nThe ONS analysis comes as a separate study from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) says coronavirus patients from black African backgrounds in England and Wales are dying at more than triple the rate of white Britons.\n\nThe IFS said a higher proportion of people from ethnic minority backgrounds lived in areas hit harder by Covid-19.", "The incident happened at a property in Kerry Drive, Upminster\n\nA boy aged 11 has potentially life-changing injuries after being shot in east London, police have said.\n\nPolice found the boy and his father, aged in his 40s, injured at a home in Kerry Drive, Upminster, at 21:30 BST.\n\nThe man had cuts to his head but it unclear what had caused his injuries. The boy's injuries were said to be \"not life-threatening\".\n\nA number of people fled the scene before officers arrived. No arrests have been made.\n\nPolice have appealed for any witnesses to contact them.\n\nThe incident happened at about 21:30 BST on Friday\n\nA 53-year-old local resident said she was \"pretty shocked\".\n\n\"It's not the sort of area that this goes on in,\" she said. \"This is a really, really quiet, lovely area. I know all my neighbours up and down on this road.\"\n\nAn 82-year-old local resident said: \"I've lived here 32 years and I've never heard of anything like this before.\"\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\nGun-toting protesters against Michigan's coronavirus lockdown have rallied in the state capitol building.\n\nHundreds of demonstrators, a few of them armed, gathered in Lansing and many did not wear masks or socially distance.\n\nPolice checked their temperatures before some were allowed into the capitol, where lawmakers were debating.\n\nGovernor Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, extended her stay-at-home mandate earlier this month until 15 May.\n\nMichigan has been hard hit by the coronavirus, with 3,788 deaths.\n\nMore than 41,000 infections have been recorded across the Midwestern state, mostly in the Detroit metro area.\n\nThursday's protest, dubbed the \"American Patriot Rally\", was organised by Michigan United for Liberty. It called for state businesses to reopen on 1 May in violation of state orders.\n\nSome protesters were allowed to enter the building after their temperature was checked\n\nIt is legal to bear firearms inside the statehouse, and several demonstrators were openly carrying guns in the Senate gallery.\n\nBut some armed protesters reportedly tried to enter the floor of the chamber, and were blocked by state police and sergeants-at-arms.\n\nOne state senator said several of her colleagues wore bulletproof vests.\n\nFootage of protesters outside the building showed them chanting \"Let us in!\", \"Let us work\" and \"This is the people's house, you cannot lock us out\".\n\n\"The virus is here,\" one demonstrator, Joni George, told the Associated Press. \"It's going to be here... It's time to let people go back to work. That's all there is to it.\"\n\nThe rally is believed to have been the largest of its type since one on 15 April when Michigan protesters sat in their cars in order to create traffic around the statehouse.\n\nPresident Donald Trump threw his support behind demonstrators at the time, tweeting \"LIBERATE MICHIGAN\". Some critics said his tweets were an attempt to foment insurrection.\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 Senator Dayna Polehanki 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\nOn Thursday, the Republican-controlled legislature refused Governor Whitmer's request to extend her emergency orders.\n\nThey also cleared the way for her to be sued over her handling of the pandemic. She hit back that she does not need legislative authorisation for the extension.\n\nOn Wednesday, the governor accused Republicans of treating the virus like a \"political problem\", rather than \"a public health crisis\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: 'One of two things happened'\n\nMany US states - including Georgia, Oklahoma and South Carolina - have taken steps to loosen virus mitigation restrictions.\n\nOn Wednesday, a Michigan court ruled that the governor's lockdown orders were not unconstitutional, as five state residents had claimed in a lawsuit against the governor.\n\n\"Although the Court is painfully aware of the difficulties of living under the restrictions of these executive orders, those difficulties are temporary, while to those who contract the virus and cannot recover (and to their family members and friends), it is all too permanent,\" Michigan Court of Claims Judge Christopher M Murray wrote in a ruling.\n• None Stay-At-Home protesters: 'We want our lives back'", "Facebook has taken down Mr Icke's official page\n\nFacebook has taken down the official page of conspiracy theorist David Icke for publishing \"health misinformation that could cause physical harm\".\n\nMr Icke has made several false claims about coronavirus, such as suggesting 5G mobile phone networks are linked to the spread of the virus.\n\nIn one video, he suggested a Jewish group was behind the virus.\n\nFollowing the ban, his Twitter account posted: \"Fascist Facebook deletes David Icke - the elite are TERRIFIED.\"\n\nFacebook said in a statement: \"We have removed this Page for repeatedly violating our policies on harmful misinformation''.\n\nOn Friday, campaign group the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) published an open letter calling on tech companies to ban Mr Icke's accounts.\n\nThe letter said Amazon, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube had amplified \"Icke's racism and misinformation about Covid-19 to millions of people\".\n\nIt was co-signed by MP Damian Collins, as well as celebrity medics Dr Christian Jessen, Dr Dawn Harper and Dr Pixie McKenna.\n\nThe CCDH said videos of Mr Icke making \"untrue and conspiracist claims about Covid-19\" had been watched more than 30 million times online.\n\nThe letter was published after Facebook had removed Mr Icke's page.\n\nIn April, YouTube removed an interview with Mr Icke in which he said there \"is a link between 5G and this health crisis\".\n\nWhen asked for his reaction to reports of 5G masts being set on fire in England and Northern Ireland, he responded: \"If 5G continues and reaches where they want to take it, human life as we know it is over... so people have to make a decision.\"\n\nFacebook later removed the same video saying it broke its rules on misinformation.\n\nLater, the telecoms regulator Ofcom found local TV channel London Live in breach of standards for an interview it aired with Mr Icke about coronavirus.\n\nDavid Icke has promoted several conspiracy theories on social media throughout the pandemic - and has consequently found himself in hot water with social media sites and broadcasting regulators.\n\nThe health misinformation that he's been spreading, including linking 5G to coronavirus, has played a role in platforms like YouTube tightening their policies about conspiracy theories.\n\nThis is a difficult area for social media sites to tackle.\n\nMedical myths and speculation that could cause harm are easier to act on, while conspiracy theories occupy a grey area where companies risk accusations of censorship if they take action.\n\nBut the setting alight of mobile phone towers and abuse of telecommunications workers linked to this 5G coronavirus conspiracy has pushed sites like Twitter and TikTok to tighten their rules.\n\nFacebook has also recognised that the conspiracy theories repeatedly promoted by Icke fall into their bracket of harmful misinformation. This isn't the first time it has removed content from him - but the platform has gone one step further in taking down his page.\n\nGovernments and social media sites alike grapple with the fine balance between stemming harmful narratives and allowing freedom of expression. But experts point out that they can do both with effective moderation and collaboration.", "Tony Allen has been described as \"perhaps the greatest drummer who has ever lived\"\n\nPioneering Nigerian drummer Tony Allen, a co-founder of the afrobeat musical genre, died in Paris on Thursday aged 79, his manager says.\n\nEric Trosset told NPR radio that he had died of a heart attack. AFP said his death was not linked to coronavirus.\n\nAllen was the drummer and musical director of musician Fela Kuti's famous band Africa '70 in the 1960-70s.\n\nFela, as he was widely known, died in 1997. He once said that \"without Tony Allen, there would be no afrobeat\".\n\nAfrobeat combines elements of West Africa's fuji music and highlife styles with American funk and jazz.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen on learning to drum, working with Fela Kuti and Damon Albarn.\n\nAllen has also been described by UK musician Brian Eno as \"perhaps the greatest drummer who has ever lived\".\n\nTrosset led tributes in a Facebook post saying \"your eyes saw what most couldn't see... as you used to say: 'There is no end'\".\n\nBeninois singer Angelique Kidjo told the BBC's Newsday programme that she had been hit hard by both Allen's death and the passing of Cameroonian saxophone legend Manu Dibango in March.\n\n\"What I want to remember from them is our musical conversation, our laughter, our joy. They are gone, but they are not gone for me,\" she said.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by angeliquekidjo This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Instagram, she said that Allen had \"changed the history of African music\".\n\nGhanaian rapper M.anifest tweeted that Allen \"put the beat in afrobeat\" and thanked him \"for a lifetime of being quietly epic\".\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 M.anifest - stream #TheGamble 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\nFlea, the bassist for the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, who spent time with Allen in London, called him \"one of the greatest drummers to ever walk this earth\" and described him as his \"hero\".\n\n\"What a wildman, with a massive, kind and free heart and the deepest one-of-a-kind groove,\" Flea said on Instagram.\n\nAllen is credited with inventing the afrobeat genre with Fela Kuti\n\nOne of Fela's sons, musician Seun Kuti, tweeted \"rest in power and journey well\".\n\nAllen's career and life story were documented in his 2013 autobiography Tony Allen: Master Drummer of Afrobeat.\n\nAllen, who was born in Lagos in 1940, taught himself how to play drums when he was 18.\n\nHe said he learnt his technique by listening closely to American jazz drummers Art Blakey and Max Roach. He then created the distinctive polyphonic rhythms of afrobeat and was said to be able to play four different beats with each of his limbs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Fela Kuti's legacy and music lives on\n\nAllen first met Fela in 1964, and they went on to record dozens of albums in Africa '70, including Gentleman and Zombie.\n\nAllen left the band in 1979, after reported rifts with the band leader over royalties. Fela needed four separate drummers to fill the void.\n\nAllen emigrated to London in 1984, and later moved to Paris.\n\nHe collaborated with a number of artists during his long music career, and was the drummer in The Good, the Bad & the Queen, with Damon Albarn, Paul Simenon and Simon Tong.\n\nBy Will Ross, former BBC Nigeria correspondent (and afrobeat aficionado)\n\nThere is a beautiful bounce to Tony Allen's drumming style that makes any track he played on instantly recognisable.\n\nThat's not to say he stood still. He was forever learning, forging new musical relationships and evolving his sound.\n\nThe combination of the bass, snare and hi-hat is uniquely Tony Allen-flavoured, whether you are listening to him as the driving force behind Fela Kuti's band in the 1970s, on his own hypnotic 1999 album Black Voices or playing live last year alongside Damon Albarn with The Good, The Bad and the Queen.\n\nHe once said Art Blakey must have been a magician because it sounded like more than one person was sitting behind the kit.\n\nI recently got right up close to the stage to study the flow of Tony Allen's hands and feet. I was mesmerised by HIS magic.\n\nHe didn't seem to age much and looked set to keep drumming for many more years.\n\nAs he put it: \"I'm looking forward to the future because it's a long, long way to go. There's no end. I'm very sure of that.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trudeau on weapons ban: \"You don't need an AR-15 to bring down a deer\"\n\nCanada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has introduced a long-promised ban on assault-style weapons following the country's worst gun massacre in April.\n\nNew rules would make it illegal to sell, transport, import or use 1,500 varieties of assault weapons.\n\nThe ban is effective immediately but there will be a two-year amnesty period for law-abiding gun owners to comply.\n\nMr Trudeau also said he would introduce legislation, which has yet to pass, to offer a buy-back programme.\n\nUnlike the US, gun ownership is not enshrined in Canada's constitution, but gun ownership is still popular, especially in rural parts of the country.\n\nMr Trudeau made a point of saying that most gun owners are law-abiding citizens, but argued that assault-weapons serve no beneficial purpose.\n\n\"These weapons were designed for one purpose and one purpose only — only to kill the largest amount of people in the shortest amount of time,\" he said in a press conference on Friday.\n\n\"You don't need an AR-15 to bring down a deer.\"\n\nThe call to ban assault weapons was heightened after a number of high-profile shootings -- in 2017, at a mosque in Quebec, in 2018 on a commercial street in Toronto and most recently, in a rampage across the province of Nova Scotia that became the deadliest shooting in Canada's history.\n\nRCMP have said that the shooter was not licensed to own firearms, but had what appeared to be an assault-style weapon, as well as other guns. The RCMP did not specify which kind, so it is unknown if it will be covered by the ban.\n\nMr Trudeau campaigned on the ban ahead of last November's election, and he said he was planning on introducing the ban in March, but it was delayed because of coronavirus.\n\nHis government had already expanded background check requirements and made it tougher to transport handguns, prior to November's election.\n\nMore than 80,000 of these weapons are registered with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.\n\nThe government is able to ban the weapons immediately through current regulation, but a buy-back programme would require multi-party support in parliament and would likely cost the government hundreds of millions of dollars.\n\nIn April, 22 people were killed in a shooting spree in Nova Scotia\n\nThe ban is controversial politically. A petition against the ban started by Conservative MP Glen Motz in December has more than 175,000 e-signatures.\n\nMany of the weapons used in violent crime in Canada were not obtained legally, and Conservative leader Andrew Scheer said Mr Trudeau would do better to focus on stopping guns from coming across the border than on banning law-abiding gun owners.\n\nThe Globe and Mail reported that leaked documents show the buy-back programme would be voluntary, and licensed owners would have their guns grandfathered. Mr Trudeau had previously promised the programme would be mandatory.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Trudeau would not confirm whether buy-backs would be voluntary, but reiterated the buy-back programme would have to be supported by other parties, and be fair to everyone.\n\n\"The next steps need to be ironed out,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: UK is \"past the peak of this disease\"\n\nPM Boris Johnson said he will set out a \"comprehensive plan\" next week on how to restart the economy, reopen schools and help people travel to work following the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nHe said the UK was \"past the peak\" of the virus outbreak, but stressed the country must not \"risk a second spike\".\n\nMr Johnson said face masks will be \"useful\" as part of the strategy for coming out of lockdown.\n\nSome 26,771 people have now died with the virus in the UK, a rise of 674.\n\nThe prime minister said that \"we can now see the sunlight\", but he insisted that to avoid the \"disaster\" of a second peak the UK must keep the R rate - the number of people to which one infected person will pass the virus - below one.\n\nMore than 81,000 coronavirus tests were carried out on Wednesday, still short of the Downing Street's target of 100,000 by the end of April. Mr Johnson insisted: \"We're massively ramping up testing.\"\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps, told BBC One's Question Time that the government was \"quite likely to get very close to or meet\" the target when the figures for the final day of April are announced on Friday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer welcomed the prime minister's commitment to outline a plan next week as \"a step in the right direction\".\n\nMr Johnson was among those joining in the nationwide Clap for Carers on Thursday evening\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg asked at what level the reproduction rate should be before the government would be \"comfortable easing restrictions\".\n\nThe government's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, replied: \"We are absolutely confident that the wrong answer is anything over one.\"\n\nHe explained that as soon as the R rises above one you \"restart exponential growth\" and \"sooner or later\" the NHS would be at the risk of being overwhelmed. The current rate is thought to be between 0.6 and 0.9 across the country.\n\nMr Johnson said that keeping the reproduction rate down \"is going to be absolutely vital to our recovery\".\n\nThe government has set out five tests that must be met before lockdown restrictions can be eased, including:\n\nThe prime minister's claim that the UK is past the peak of the virus may surprise some given the big jump in deaths this week.\n\nAt the weekend it was announced 20,000 had died - and by Wednesday that had passed 26,000.\n\nThose figures had been inflated by the retrospective inclusion of deaths in the community, mainly care homes, dating back to March.\n\nAnd there is strong evidence from tracking hospital deaths - a sign of transmission in the general population - that the peak was actually seen on 8 April.\n\nSince then, fatalities - when recorded by date of death - have been coming down.\n\nIn England the numbers being seen are half what they were then.\n\nBut it is, of course, a different story in care homes where the numbers are going up.\n\nIt is, effectively, two epidemics. One in the wider population that is coming under control and one in care homes that is raging.\n\nOur correspondent Laura Kuenssberg also asked whether the economy \"just has to wait\" as the government continues with the lockdown in the UK.\n\nThe prime minister said it was \"vital\" to avoid a second peak \"because that would really do economic damage\", adding that the UK must \"unlock the economy gradually\" while also finding ways of continuing to suppress the disease.\n\nMr Johnson said he would set out details next week to explain how to get the economy moving, get children back into school and childcare, how people can travel to work and how to make life in the workplace safer.\n\nHe said dates and times of each individual measure would be driven \"by where we are in the epidemic\", and said the government was \"being guided by the science\".\n\n\"What you're going to get next week is really a road map, a menu of options,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nThe prime minister highlighted a coronavirus vaccine being developed by the University of Oxford, which it is hoped could be available for limited use by the end of the year.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said \"until this day comes [when a vaccine is ready], we are are going to have to beat this disease by our growing resolve and ingenuity\".\n\nLockdown restrictions are due to be reviewed next week, on 7 May.\n\nMr Johnson also said face coverings will be \"useful\" as part of the strategy for coming out of lockdown \"both for epidemiological reasons but also giving people confidence they can go back to work\".\n\nThe Scottish government already recommends people use face coverings when in shops and on public transport.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Shapps told Question Time there was a \"live discussion\" within government about introducing new quarantine measures at airports for people coming into the country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson said face masks would be \"useful\" as part of coming out of lockdown\n\nSpeaking at the No 10 briefing for the first time since recovering from the virus, the prime minister said: \"I'm not going to minimise the logistical problems we've faced in getting the right protective gear to the right people in the right place, both in the NHS and care homes.\n\n\"But what I can tell you is that everyone responsible for tackling these problems - whether in government, the NHS, Public Health England or local authorities - we are throwing everything at it, heart and soul, night and day to get it right, and we will get it right.\"\n\nHe added: \"We have come through the peak, or rather we have come under what could have been a vast peak.\n\n\"As though we have been going through some huge Alpine tunnel, and we can now see the sunlight and the pasture ahead of us.\"\n\nAsked about the UK's response to the pandemic, Mr Johnson said he thought it was \"right to make our period of lockdown coincide... with the peak of the epidemic\".\n\nBut he added that the government was \"learning lessons every day\".\n\nThe prime minister said he wanted to \"wait until the end [of the pandemic] before making international comparisons\" between the UK's coronavirus death total and other nations.\n\n\"At the moment, I just think the data is not clear,\" he said.\n\nOn testing, he said: \"I think I'm right in saying... we are now doing about as much testing as any other country in Europe.\n\n\"I know we are supposed to deprecate these international comparisons but we have massively ramped up our testing operation, we are going to ramp it up further.\"\n\nSpeaking on Question Time, former chancellor George Osborne said the country did not have testing \"as quick as we'd like\" and went into lockdown too late, but he said: \"The hospitals haven't fallen over and the capacity has been built.\"\n\nMedics outside the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London joined in Thursday's clap\n\nMeanwhile, on Thursday evening, people across the country took part in the sixth nationwide Clap for Carers to thank the NHS.\n\nMr Johnson was pictured clapping outside No 10, while fiancee Carrie Symonds - who gave birth to the couple's son on Wednesday - tweeted she was joining in the clap and had \"another wonderful reason to thank the NHS this week too\".\n\nDuring the briefing, Mr Johnson also thanked the NHS and referenced his \"very much happier hospital visit yesterday\".\n\nThe total number of deaths of people who have tested positive for Covid-19 in UK hospitals and the wider community is now 26,771, according to data published by the Department of Health and Social Care.\n\nThis is different to the total of 26,711 initially announced by Mr Johnson at the briefing.", "The Isle of Skye has its first confirmed cases of the coronavirus.\n\nSkye Community Response said cases had been expected, and they included an \"outbreak\" at an independent care home in Portree.\n\nThe volunteer group, which works with the emergency services and NHS Highland, appealed to islanders to follow social distancing advice.\n\nIt said a number of cases had been confirmed recently and that healthcare providers were doing a \"superb job\".\n\nIt said: \"It was expected that our community would begin to see cases. It was a question of when, not if, this would happen.\n\n\"Whilst other parts of Scotland and the UK maybe approaching, or passing, the peak of the pandemic we are just seeing the start.\"\n\nNHS Highland said the outbreak affected an independent care home.\n\nA spokesman said: \"There is substantial testing under way to fully understand the extent of infection.\n\n\"The care home is being supported through the health protection team within public health, local health and social care teams, primary care as well as the adult social care functions within NHS Highland.\n\n\"All assistance will be made available to the care home in order to contain and manage the situation.\"", "The UN secretary general says he has been \"shocked but not surprised\" by the global response to the pandemic.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Nick Bryant, António Guterres also responded to criticism of the WHO and explained how countries might come together for a greener future.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brian May on re-making We Are The Champions for the NHS\n\nBrian May says the failure to stockpile crucial protective equipment ahead of the Covid-19 pandemic is \"heartbreaking and horrendous\".\n\nThe Queen star told the BBC he was \"angry and sad\" that healthcare workers were \"expected to go in and risk their lives\" without proper protection.\n\n\"People have died. Young people who had their whole lives ahead of them. I find it absolutely heartbreaking,\" he said.\n\nThe government said it was \"determined to overcome the challenges\" with PPE.\n\nA BBC Panorama investigation this week discovered that there were no gowns, visors, swabs or body bags in the government's pandemic stockpile when Covid-19 reached the UK.\n\nMore than 100 NHS and healthcare workers known to have died with the virus during the outbreak.\n\n\"I think we as a nation have to be ashamed that we were not prepared,\" said May.\n\nOn Thursday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"We're determined urgently to overcome those challenges that have become so infuriating. I'm not going to minimise the logistical problems we have faced in getting the right protective gear to the right people at the right time, both in the NHS and in care homes.\"\n\nHe added: \"Everyone responsible for tackling these problems is throwing everything at it, heart and soul, night and day, to get it right. And we're making huge progress.\"\n\nMay was speaking as Queen released a new version of their hit single We Are The Champions in support of frontline healthcare workers.\n\nRe-titled You Are The Champions, the single was put together under lockdown with May and drummer Roger Taylor playing in London, and touring singer Adam Lambert recording his vocals in LA.\n\nProceeds will go to the World Health Organisation's Covid-19 fund, which supports medics around the world.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Queen Official This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. End of youtube video by Queen Official\n\n\"As a father with a daughter in the front line, I am ultra aware of the vital work they are doing daily to save us and our society,\" said Taylor, whose daughter is a GP in London.\n\n\"Their bravery and sacrifice must not be prejudiced by anything less than a 100% effort by our governments to protect them. They are precious to us all and they are truly our champions.\"\n\nThe band are not the only musicians hoping to raise money efforts for healthcare staff during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nColonel Tom Moore and Michael Ball reached number one last week with their charity cover of You'll Never Walk Alone, while Britain's Got Talent judge Amanda Holden has recorded a new version of Somewhere Over The Rainbow.\n\nBritpop bands including Dodgy, The Seahorses and Menswear have joined forces to re-record Shed Seven's Chasing Rainbows.\n\nAnd indie acts such as Wolf Alice, Foals, and The Wombats have also put together a one-off vinyl album, with the aim of raising £30,000 to buy respirators for NHS Trusts in England and Scotland.\n\nQueen's single came about after the band's tour was postponed due to the coronavirus earlier this year.\n\n\"I isolated very early on,\" May told the BBC. \"To me, it was a no brainer.\n\n\"This virus was about to invade, the only weapon we had was to have less human interaction. So I thought, I'm doing it for the sake of my own health and for the sake of my family, and for the sake of everyone, really.\"\n\nThe guitarist said the new song was recorded on iPhones and laptops\n\nTo pass the time, he started sharing tutorials on how to play some of Queen's most popular songs, including Bohemian Rhapsody, on Instagram.\n\nThose lessons morphed into jam sessions with fans; and eventually May teamed up with Taylor to play We Are The Champions.\n\nThe guitarist said he had an \"inkling\" it could become something bigger, but it wasn't until Lambert added his vocals that the plan crystallised.\n\n\"I sent an email round to everyone and said, 'You know, we can change the odd word, if we like, to make it mean something different,' and we had the medics in mind because we're out there clapping every Thursday night.\n\n\"So I thought, 'Well, what can you change? Should it be like. 'You've paid your dues?'\n\n\"[Then] Adam went in there and he just changed those couple of words in the last chorus. So instead of 'we are the champions it became 'you are the champions'.\n\n\"We all went 'Yes, that's right. That's just a nice little subtle change'.\n\n\"It means that we are all applauding you, because you are now the champions. You are the warriors that are saving humanity on this planet.\"\n\nThe single, which is released on Friday 1 May, stems from those original sessions, with overdubs from May and Queen's touring bassist Neil Fairclough.\n\n\"It was all recorded on iPhones and laptops,\" May confessed. \"But it just shows you don't have to have a multi-million dollar studio to make a record.\"\n\nCoincidentally, We Are The Champions was originally inspired by You'll Never Walk Alone, which has become an unofficial anthem of unity during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAt the height of their success in 1977, the band played a gig at Bingley Hall in Stafford - and when singer Freddie Mercury left the stage, the crowd started singing the Rodgers & Hammerstein song in the hope of getting an encore.\n\n\"I can still remember Freddie's face going, 'What is this? We should be embracing it, we should be loving it and encouraging it,'\" May recalled.\n\n\"So I think at that moment We Are The Champions was born, and We Will Rock You was born - because we were consciously involving our audience from that point on.\n\n\"I love that. I love that about Queen and I'm proud of the fact that we've kind of generated a community in our audience. It's brilliant.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Deborah Braham seen wearing a homemade visor following an \"extraordinary\" response to her appeal\n\nA doctor who urged volunteers to make visors for NHS staff due to a shortage at her hospital says she is \"overwhelmed\" by the response.\n\nMore than 75,000 face shields have been produced just weeks after Deborah Braham appealed for help on WhatsApp.\n\nThe Visor Army project spread on social media and has found support among high-profile TV and fashion celebrities.\n\nIt comes after a BBC investigation found the government failed to buy protective kit to cope with a pandemic.\n\nPanorama revealed this week there were no gowns, visors, swabs or body bags in the government's stockpile when Covid-19 reached the UK.\n\nSome NHS staff say they are being put at risk because of the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nThe government said it has taken the right steps and is doing everything it can to increase stocks while the NHS trust which manages Hammersmith Hospital in west London, where Dr Braham is based, said it was grateful to community groups for their support.\n\nDr Braham, a consultant in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine, first put out a call to friends on WhatsApp with instructions that had been passed on to her on how to make visors.\n\n\"I just thought it would be something they could do with their kids, stuck at home, like an activity but helping at the same time,\" she told the BBC.\n\nTo begin with, a handful of people got involved, buying their own materials from craft shops, making the visors at home and delivering them to Dr Braham's house. Then, as word spread, the number of volunteers - and visors - grew.\n\nA Facebook group - called Visor Army - Make A Visor. Save A Hero - was set up on 1 April to channel interest from members of the public.\n\n\"Initially it was just people I knew who came on board, then it was people I didn't know,\" Dr Braham said. \"Within a short time this whole thing had grown so big with so many people wanting to help.\n\n\"It's given a lot of people a real sense of purpose and contribution in what are very difficult times. It's been a real community effort and I cannot thank these people enough.\"\n\nThe home-made visors are stored and sanitised at a collection point...\n\n...before being distributed to hospitals and other health care facilities\n\nThe visors are made from acetate, foam and elastic and the operation relies on donations to cover the cost of materials.\n\nA GoFundMe page which was set up for the group has received the backing of the Rosetrees Trust, a charity which funds medical research.\n\nThe project has also picked up support from a number of celebrities, including TV presenter Jonathan Ross, Fred Sirieix of Channel 4's First Dates, and The Apprentice star Claude Littner, as well as acclaimed hatmaker Philip Treacy.\n\n\"Philip Treacy was really keen,\" Dr Braham said, \"and when we had issues with the design he gave us advice, which was very helpful. After Philip, other milliners got on board, including the British Hat Guild.\n\n\"They should have been doing London Hat Week but instead they're making visors.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jonathan Ross This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe visors are stored at a facility where they are sanitised before being delivered to some 13 hospitals in London and south-east England, as well as doctors' surgeries and care homes.\n\nDr Braham said around 50,000 have been used so far.\n\nThe importance of visors to medics lies in the fact that, unlike medical goggles, they provide protection for the whole of the face.\n\nWithout them, doctors and nurses are at high risk of being contaminated by aerosolised particles containing the virus during procedures such as intubation or when they are caring for patients on ventilators.\n\nThe lack of visors mean in some cases medics have been re-using rather than discarding them after single use, as is generally considered good practice.\n\nDr Braham is now trying to launch a similar drive to make much-needed medical gowns - a protective garment worn over scrubs - something she says is more expensive and would require many more volunteers. Suitable fabric is also in short supply.\n\nThe homemade visors are being used in hospitals, doctors' surgeries and care homes\n\nThe Visor Army project is one of a number of grassroots initiatives to make PPE which have sprung up since the coronavirus crisis erupted.\n\nSchools and colleges have used 3D printers to make components for visors, while other community groups have been making visors, as well as sewing scrubs, or protective clothing worn by medics and health workers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: Schools using 3D printer to make visors for NHS workers\n\nA spokesperson for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, which manages the Hammersmith Hospital, said: ​\"We currently have adequate supplies of all essential PPE equipment, including visors. Stocks of some equipment have got low from time to time.\n\n\"We are very grateful for all the support from our local communities at this unprecedented and challenging time.\"", "Gordon Park was found guilty in 2005 and killed himself in prison in 2010\n\nThree senior judges have rejected a posthumous appeal against the conviction of Gordon Park, the so-called \"Lady in the Lake\" killer.\n\nThe body of his wife Carol was found in Coniston Water in the Lake District in 1997, 21 years after she disappeared.\n\nPark was convicted of murder in 2005 and killed himself in prison in 2010.\n\nThe case, brought by his son, Jeremy Park, was dismissed by the Court of Appeal, which said there was \"no reason to doubt the safety of the conviction\".\n\nThe family said it was \"disappointed\" with the decision.\n\nCarol Park's body was found 21 years after she disappeared from Leece in Cumbria\n\nThe appeal was referred to the court by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) and argued the Crown Prosecution Service did not disclose evidence in the trial which would have undermined the credibility of a prison inmate, who claimed Park had confessed to his wife's murder.\n\nIt also cast doubt on the prosecution's claim Park's ice axe might have been the murder weapon, citing two dental experts who agreed it could not have caused injuries to his wife's teeth.\n\nHowever, the court said the evidence in the case was \"very strong\".\n\nMr Justice Sweeney, who delivered the ruling, said: \"We have no doubt as to the safety of the conviction.\"\n\nIt's a tough task to overturn a conviction, especially when an appeal has already failed, as it did in this case in 2008.\n\nThis most recent appeal relied on new expert evidence and the prosecution's failure to disclose certain material.\n\nThe three judges weighed it up carefully but Mr Justice Sweeney's meticulous 81-page ruling is crystal clear that it didn't come close to denting the \"very strong\" circumstantial evidence against Park.\n\nIt will surely prove to be the final word on the murder of the Lady in the Lake.\n\nMrs Park was 30 when she vanished from Leece, near Barrow-in-Furness, in July 1976.\n\nHer husband did not report her disappearance for six weeks, claiming she had gone to live with another man.\n\nThe mother of three's remains were found by amateur divers in 1997, wrapped in bags and tied with rope.\n\nPark was charged with her murder, but the case was dropped in 1998.\n\nHowever, following fresh evidence he was found guilty at Manchester Crown Court in 2005, and sentenced to life with a minimum term of 15 years.\n\nPark, who always maintained his innocence, hanged himself in his cell on his 66th birthday in January 2010.\n\nGordon and Carol Park were married for nine years\n\nCCRC lawyers told a hearing in November 2019 that prosecution lawyers had failed to share evidence with the defence at Park's trial, casting doubt on the safety of his conviction.\n\nHowever, the Court of Appeal dismissed the case, citing the length of time it took Park to report his wife missing, his failure to contact friends or family about her, and that he made no attempt to check the joint bank account or put a stop on it.\n\nHe had also failed to make the usual child care arrangements at the beginning of term when his wife, a teacher, would have gone back to work.\n\nThere was also evidence that Park, the owner of a sailing dinghy, had skills in all the sailing knots used to tie the body, and knowledge of the area of the lake where the body was dumped.\n\nA statement issued on behalf of his family said: \"The family, friends and supporters of Gordon Park, and Carol Park's children, are disappointed with today's decision.\n\n\"Having exhausted all options, we are now left without the closure we were all hoping for.\n\n\"The judgment marks the end of our fight to clear his name.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The rainbow has become a symbol of thanks to the NHS during the coronavirus pandemic\n\nA double rainbow appeared across the sky as people applauded NHS and key workers on their doorsteps.\n\nBBC Weather Watchers across England captured the phenomenon which appeared in several parts of the country on Thursday evening.\n\nIt happened as residents took part in \"Clap for Carers\" - a weekly tribute to those working on the front line during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe rainbow has become a symbol of thanks to key workers, with many displaying homemade pictures of them in their windows.\n\nSome areas of the country were treated to the double arches, while others spotted vivid streaks of colour. Here is a selection.\n\nThis double rainbow could be seen in Thetford, Norfolk\n\nThese beautiful arches appeared over the sea in Teignmouth, Devon\n\nThe double rainbow appeared after a rainy end to the month, which had been sunny for the majority of lockdown\n\nThe rainbow was spotted by lots of people in London where it seemed to end on the Shard\n\nBBC Weather Watcher Happy Snapper captured this rainbow appearing from a storm cloud over Whittlesey, in Cambridgeshire moments before the weekly clap for carers\n\nThe colours were particularly vibrant in Holmrook, Cumbria\n\nThis rainbow appeared above a building in Wickford, in Essex, where the word \"hope\" can be seen in the window", "Small business director pay as a company dividend has been excluded from the financial support - why? Tom Elliot, Witham, Cambs\n\nYes that is the case - it's the decision of the government. They would say it's quite difficult to work out what's your salary and what's other parts of the business.\n\nThis is if you're self-employed and you've set up a limited company, so you're not a sole trader any more, you're a limited company. There have been tax advantages to this in the past. You may pay yourself a salary, you may also pay yourself a bit in dividends. If you take a salary that's the bit you can pay yourself under this self-employed support scheme but if you pay yourself in dividends, that's the bit you can't claim.\n\nThere's been lots of people getting in touch to say that's not fair. There's a big petition about this but at the moment we're not seeing any movement.\n\nWe're not talking just about big businesses here but some really quite small businesses, I've written about painters and decorators in this situation.\n\nOf course some people would say this is tax-payers' money we're talking about and if you've taken advantage of tax rules in the past, this is it coming back to haunt you now.", "People living with domestic abuse will be able to access safe spaces at Boots pharmacies from Friday.\n\nThose needing help can ask staff at the counter to use the consultation room, where they will be able to contact services for help and advice.\n\nCharity Hestia said it launched the scheme in response to the \"desperate situation\" many people are facing in lockdown.\n\nMPs said there had been a \"surge\" in violence since the lockdown began.\n\nCalls to the National Domestic Abuse helpline rose by 49% and killings doubled since restrictions on public life were introduced, a report by MPs found earlier this week.\n\nHestia has seen a similar pattern - with a 47% increase in victims reaching out via its domestic abuse app, Bright Sky.\n\nLyndsey Dearlove, from the charity, said: \"We know there is an increased level of uncertainty for people looking to escape an abusive relationship. Self-isolation offers a new method of control over victims making it very difficult for them to seek support.\n\n\"Although we are in a period of lockdown and isolation, our message to victims is domestic abuse services are open and we can help you.\"\n\nAn estimated 1.6 million women and 786,000 men experienced domestic abuse in England and Wales in the year ending March 2019, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nMy partner had been abusive before the pandemic but it was when lockdown started and we were stuck in the house together that the abuse became so much worse.\n\nOn the day that lockdown was announced I remember I was eating a hot bowl of noodles and he just grabbed them and poured them over me, burning my skin.\n\nLockdown also meant I lost my job as I work in the airline industry; work was my life, it was my escape and all my close friends were my work colleagues.\n\nWhile others were quite looking forward to having some time at home, I was dreading it. I knew it would mean that I would have no chance to escape the physical and emotional abuse.\n\nI don't have any close friends or family living nearby, so my work colleagues are my best friends. The thought of not seeing them, of not having anywhere to go was so scary.\n\nAs time went on during lockdown I became increasingly anxious. My partner would wait until I was asleep and then he would punch me and scratch me. In the morning he would deny he had done anything.\n\nI used to be able to escape his violent moods by going to the gym and swimming but during lockdown that became impossible. My levels of anxiety were just getting worse and worse and I felt increasingly trapped.\n\nI wanted to leave but I was really worried that there was nowhere to go. I started looking online when I could but I wasn't sure who would be able to help me during lockdown.\n\nEventually, I told a friend what had been happening and she said: \"Pack a bag and leave now, just get out\". I packed the only bag I could find and went and stayed in a hotel.\n\nI stayed there for a few days but my money was running out. That's when someone gave me the number for the National Domestic Abuse hotline.\n\nI remember calling them and then going to sit in a park for about seven hours while they found me a place.\n\nArriving at the refuge I felt very safe. I still haven't told my friends where I am. It's not easy though during lockdown. I'm having to stay in one room and there's not much space. Going out in the garden is a bit tricky because of the social distancing and the children need to be able to play.\n\nThere are some lovely people here though and it's so nice to see the children. I'm finding not going out and doing my usual workout really tough. That was how I used to manage my anxiety. However, overall I feel a big sense of relief and I just hope things get better.\n\nWhen I heard about the safe spaces scheme I thought it was brilliant and it would have really helped me.\n\nIn a way, the pandemic and lockdown helped me to decide to leave because I had to go, the abuse was so bad. I had to get help.\n\nAnna's name has been changed.\n\nOnline webchats and text services are also available.\n\nFind more information on organisations that can help via the BBC Action Line.", "Airlines across the world have grounded aircraft as passenger numbers collapse\n\nBritish Airways has told staff that its Gatwick airport operation may not reopen after the coronavirus pandemic passes.\n\nThe admission came in a memo, written by the head of BA's Gatwick hub and seen by BBC News.\n\nBA's Gatwick operation, which is currently suspended, is roughly a fifth as big as its Heathrow hub.\n\nIn a separate letter to pilots, BA said it cannot rule out suspending the rest of its Heathrow operation.\n\nIn the memo to Gatwick's staff, the company says: \"As you know, we suspended our Gatwick flying schedule at the start of April and there is no certainty as to when or if these services can or will return.\"\n\nIn the letter to pilots, BA notes that some of its rivals abroad are facing tough competition. It adds that a quarter of BA's 4,300 pilots are set to lose their jobs.\n\n\"We need to ensure that our remaining operation is efficient, flexible and cost-competitive to enable us to survive in an increasingly lean and unpredictable industry,\" says the letter from senior management.\n\nOn Tuesday, BA said it was set to cut up to 12,000 jobs from its 42,000-strong workforce because of a collapse in business due to the Covid-19 lockdown.\n\nThe airline's parent company, IAG, said it needed to impose a \"restructuring and redundancy programme\" until demand for air travel returns to 2019 levels.\n\nThe pilots' union Balpa said it was \"devastated\" and vowed to fight \"every single\" job cut.\n\nBA has been flying from Gatwick for decades. Before its merger with BOAC in 1974 to form BA, BEA flew its first routes from the hub in 1950.\n\nPlane-makers and airlines alike have been struggling to cope with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on their businesses.\n\nOn Monday, aerospace giant Airbus announced it was furloughing 3,200 staff at its north Wales site.\n\nHours earlier, Airbus chief executive Guillaume Faury had warned the company was \"bleeding cash at an unprecedented speed\".\n\nMr Faury also told Airbus' 135,000 staff to brace for potentially deep job cuts and warned that its survival was at stake without immediate action.\n\nMeanwhile, US aircraft manufacturer Boeing announced that it would cut 10% of its workforce after it said the lockdown had delivered a \"body blow\" to the business.\n\nOther airlines, including BA's close rival Virgin Atlantic, have been seeking UK government help.\n\nThe aviation industry as a whole has also been lobbying the government for assistance.\n\nOn Monday, industry body Airlines UK urged Chancellor Rishi Sunak to extend his job retention scheme beyond June.\n\nIt said airlines hit by coronavirus would face \"a renewed cash crisis\" if the scheme were withdrawn prematurely.", "ITV has announced that studio shows like Britain's Got Talent and The Masked Singer are to return, possibly without a live audience.\n\nAll major filming ground to a halt last month in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nBut now the station's bosses have said they have \"had enough\" of entertainment shows broadcast via Zoom, and other video conferencing platforms.\n\n\"It looks like we will have to do some shows without audiences,\" they said.\n\nKatie Rawcliffe, ITV's head of entertainment, said: \"This whole experience has brought out more creativity in people and the best in people.\n\n\"We all have to think a bit harder about how we do things.\"\n\nSpeaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival, which is being held online this year, Rawcliffe revealed other big live shows The Voice will also have to \"rely on the talent a bit harder, and the edits a bit more\".\n\nThe audition episodes of Britain's Got Talent were filmed before the coronavirus crisis, and then the live shows were pushed back to later in the year.\n\nThe channel has already aired an episode of Saturday Night Takeaway without a studio audience - which she said was not ideal but \"worked well\".\n\nCameras were set up in the homes of ITV presenters, such as Ant and Dec, Lorraine Kelly and the Loose Women gang, to help them to broadcast during lockdown.\n\nHowever, Kevin Lygo, director of television at ITV, said it was time to get them back into the studio.\n\n\"I've had enough, well done, good try, they are just not what entertainment really is,\" he said.\n\n\"Audiences are very forgiving at the moment and gives you a lot of leeway but if it's a big entertainment show, you want it to be a big entertainment show,\" he went on.\n\nPopular soaps like Coronation Street and Emmerdale could return to screens, with older cast members absent and actors six feet apart, Lygo explained.\n\nHowever, he confirmed the upcoming summer series of ITV2's Love Island - which usually sees young singles couple up in Mallorca in July - is in doubt.\n\nHe also spoke about the return of daytime panel talk show Loose Women, which returns to screens on Monday after six weeks off air.\n\nThree women, instead of all the panellists, will be in the studio, with one joining via video link when the show returns.\n\nHe said that they had explored filming it via video links and that \"it just didn't really work\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Many polled say they are obeying government advice due to fears of catching the virus\n\nWhen lockdown first started in the UK in the final week of March there was widespread support for the measures aimed at controlling the coronavirus. But have attitudes changed?\n\nThe country is currently in its seventh week of the greatest curbs on daily life since World War Two.\n\nThe prime minister says the government will proceed with \"maximum caution\" regarding easing restrictions, when he speaks to the country on Sunday evening. However, surveys suggest a significant majority of the British public believe they could cope with the restrictions for another couple of months.\n\nA new YouGov poll finds eight in 10 Britons (82%) reckon they could easily continue with the current lockdown until June.\n\nAlmost two-thirds (63%) say they would manage well until July, but 50% say they would struggle if they were still stuck indoors until August.\n\nFor the moment, there is not a public clamour for lockdown to end.\n\nAnother recent poll showed many would be uncomfortable leaving home, even if restrictions were lifted in a month's time.\n\nMore than 60% would be uncomfortable about going out to bars and restaurants or using public transport, the Ipsos Mori survey suggested.\n\nMore than 40% would still be reluctant to go shopping or send their children to school and more than 30% would be worried about going to work or meeting friends.\n\nThe vast majority of people in the UK are obeying the lockdown rules - not because they have been ordered to by the government but because they don't want to catch or spread the virus.\n\nVery few actively like being in lockdown, though.\n\nResponses to a series of surveys over the last month suggest the country has gone from apprehension at the start through to dejection as the economy shrank and the death toll mounted. People have moved on to frustration in the most recent analysis as restrictions begin to grind and reality dawns as to how long they may last.\n\nMore people are on the roads than at the beginning of lockdown\n\nThere is no question that lockdown places a significant strain on households, but is the increasing frustration and boredom translating into exasperation? Are we reaching the point where people will start to ignore the rules?\n\nSome newspapers and politicians have been suggesting the social distancing restrictions are beginning to fray, but the evidence points to a high level of compliance remaining.\n\nThere have been reports of a slight increase in numbers using their cars, but it is not clear what the reason for that might be. In part, it may be because more businesses are finding ways to open up and people are returning to work.\n\nDuring the sunny Easter period more people returned to parks and green spaces, Google data suggests, although police said the vast majority sought to obey social distancing rules and activity was still well below pre-lockdown levels.\n\nAnalysis of surveys conducted by King's College in London suggests there are three broad groups when it comes to lockdown: accepting, suffering and resisting.\n\nJust under half of people - 48% - are characterised as accepting, following the rules and coping reasonably well. At 44%, slightly fewer say they are struggling, often losing sleep, feeling anxious or depressed, but still overwhelmingly trying to obey all the rules.\n\nThe remaining 9% are resistant to the lockdown, with many of those believing too much fuss is being made about the virus and admitting they are less likely to follow the restrictions.\n\nYounger people were more than twice as likely as over 65s to say they were not coping with lockdown\n\nPeople tend to think social isolation will be most difficult for older people, but the survey evidence suggests the opposite is true. A survey conducted for insight company Britain Thinks finds 42% of 18-24-year-olds say they were not coping with lockdown, more than twice the proportion of those aged over 65.\n\nOlder people, of course, are likely to have seen less of a change to their lifestyle than the young. Their housing and income are likely to be more secure. Their social lives are less about going out to crowded bars and clubs, festivals and sports events.\n\nWomen appear to be struggling more than men in lockdown, perhaps a consequence of the tendency for them to take on a greater share of domestic responsibilities.\n\nUnsurprisingly, poorer people are finding it tougher than those on higher incomes.\n\nAbout 20% of people are worried about their mental health in lockdown, with 11% concerned about anxiety and 7% with concerns about depression, according to a survey conducted for the Academy of Medical Sciences and the mental health research charity MQ.\n\nThe behavioural science that forms part of the government's thinking on the lockdown warned before the restrictions came in that people would struggle to stick to the rules for prolonged periods.\n\nHowever, experts have been struck by how compliant the British public have remained.\n\nOther countries, notably the US, have seen very public rebellions against the restrictions, but here the call to stay home to protect the NHS and save lives seems to have been greeted with very widespread and consistent support.", "Tesla boss Elon Musk wiped $14bn (£11bn) off the carmaker's value after tweeting its share price was too high.\n\nIt also knocked $3bn off Mr Musk's own stake in Tesla as investors promptly bailed out of the company.\n\n\"Tesla stock price too high imo,\" he said in one of several tweets that included a vow to sell his possessions.\n\nIn other tweets, he said his girlfriend was mad at him, while another simply read: \"Rage, rage against the dying of the light of consciousness.\"\n\nIn 2018, a tweet about Tesla's future on the New York stock market led to regulators fining the company $20m and Mr Musk agreeing to have all further posts on the platform pre-screened by lawyers.\n\nOn Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported it had asked the billionaire if he was joking about the share price tweet and whether it had been vetted, receiving the reply \"No\".\n\nTesla's share price has surged this year, putting the electric carmaker's value at close to $100bn, a mark that would trigger a bonus payment of hundreds of millions of dollars to the entrepreneur.\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 Elon Musk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We view these Musk comments as tongue in cheek and it's Elon being Elon. It's certainly a headache for investors for him to venture into this area as his tweeting remains a hot button issue and [Wall] Street clearly is frustrated,\" Wedbush Securities analyst Daniel Ives told Reuters news agency.\n\nIn 2018, Mr Musk tweeted that he may have secured funding to possibly remove Tesla from the stock market and take it private, which again led to swings in the share price. The Securities and Exchange Commission judged it a market-moving comment, fined him and forced Tesla to put in place checks to ensure it did not happen again.\n\nBut last month, a federal judge said Tesla and Musk must face a lawsuit by shareholders over the going-private tweet, including a claim that Mr Musk intended to defraud them.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Elon Musk 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\nEarlier this week he tweeted to his 33.4 million followers some strong criticism of US stay-at-home restrictions because of the coronavirus pandemic. Last year he found himself in court after tweeting that a British diver was a \"pedo guy\".\n\nMr Musk said the promise to sell his possessions included his house, formerly owned by actor and producer Gene Wilder, and bought in 2013.\n\n\"One stipulation on sale,\" he tweeted, \"I own Gene Wilder's old house. It cannot be torn down or lose any of its soul.\"", "In Wembley, north London, Elsley Primary School has resorted to food parcels and vouchers bought from its own budget\n\nThe Department for Education says it does not know how many vouchers for free school meals have been delivered to parents over the past month.\n\nA scheme to give poor pupils in England vouchers worth £15 a week until schools reopen has been beset with problems.\n\nSome school staff have had to stay up late into the night to access the online system, while many parents cannot download the vouchers.\n\nEdenred, which runs the scheme, said it was aware of problems.\n\nAbout 1.3 million children in England are eligible for free school meals.\n\nOne school, in Worcestershire, unable to access vouchers for their vulnerable families for the past fortnight, turned to a charity to provide food parcels.\n\nPinvin Federation advisory head teacher Judith Tinsley said the system \"has been a nightmare\".\n\n\"It's complicated, overloaded, we've got families who've not received a voucher for 10 days, that's two weeks' worth of vouchers,\" she said.\n\n\"They have received the codes but then the system has not allowed them in to redeem their codes.\n\n\"And then some of our families that have actually managed to get that far have turned up at the supermarket and not been able to use them against their shopping.\"\n\nIn Wembley, north London, Elsley Primary School has resorted to food parcels and vouchers bought from its own budget.\n\nHead teacher Raphael Moss has even had to use his own personal credit card.\n\nFrom the outset, he said, the \"unnecessarily complicated\" system had thrown up \"a catalogue of errors, of chaos really, with the system not being able to cope\".\n\nIn Bodmin, Cornwall, school catering manager Jo Wotton said she had paid for a family's shopping after the mother's voucher code failed at a supermarket till.\n\n\"She only had £3 in her purse,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"The shopping was £16 - it was obvious she had counted her money really carefully, going round the supermarket.\n\n\"She had a small child with her.\n\n\"I could see she was getting really flustered.\"\n\nThe checkout worker told her the supermarket had seen several vouchers fail the same day.\n\nHeather McNeillis, a mother of four children under 10, three of whom are eligible for free school meals, said she had waited two weeks for her first vouchers.\n\n\"The money matters - we've been able to eat fresh fruit and vegetables because of it,\" she said.\n\nBut she has been unable to download her current vouchers, worth £45, as the website keeps crashing.\n\nHeather McNeillis has four children under 10\n\n\"It suggests you log on at 04:00 as that's a quiet time,\" she said.\n\n\"I've had it on my computer all day, trying several different ways.\n\n\"And it's always a long wait… and an error code.\"\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have devised their own systems for helping their vulnerable pupils, which are more straightforward and have had fewer reported problems than the English system.\n\nThe Department for Education and Edenred said £35m worth of vouchers had been redeemed over the past month.\n\nHowever, neither were able to say what proportion of that total were orders registered for the 15,500 schools signed up to the system, as opposed to vouchers actually delivered in a useable form to families.\n\nThe Department for Education told BBC News: \"We do not have this data available at this time.\"\n\nThey also said they did not know how many eligible children had been registered with the scheme, though they said the total number of schools on the system represented about 70% of those that qualified for the programme.\n\nThey did, however, say schools that could not make the Edenred system work would be reimbursed for creating alternative schemes.\n\n\"We are providing additional funding to schools to cover unavoidable costs incurred due to the coronavirus outbreak that cannot be met from their existing resources - including free school meal costs which are not covered by the national voucher system.\"\n\nIn a statement, Edenred said: \"The free school meals voucher scheme is helping thousands of families and the vast majority of codes and vouchers are being redeemed successfully.\n\n\"We are aware that some schools have faced long wait times when using the site.\n\n\"We would like to thank each and every person who has faced issues in the process of ordering codes and e-gift cards for their patience, particularly given the other pressures facing schools at this time.\"", "New photos have been released to mark Princess Charlotte's fifth birthday, showing her delivering homemade care packages to those in need during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nShe has helped her family take food to the elderly and vulnerable in Norfolk.\n\nIn one photo, she knocks on a resident's door clutching a bag of homemade fresh pasta.\n\nThe four photos were taken in April by her mother, the Duchess of Cambridge, a keen amateur photographer.\n\nThe young royal joined her parents, the Duke of Cambridge and the duchess, and brothers Prince George and Prince Louis to make the deliveries, likely to be close to the family home of Anmer Hall, on the Queen's Sandringham estate.\n\nIn two photos, the princess is seen picking up white bags of food for pensioners who are shielding from the virus or other vulnerable people in lockdown in Norfolk.\n\nThe family spent several hours making fresh pasta before delivering it.\n\nCharlotte was born at the private maternity Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, central London, at 08:34 BST on 2 May 2015, weighing 8lb 3oz.\n\nCatherine, who is patron of the Royal Photographic Society, has regularly released pictures she has taken of George, six, and Louis, two, to mark their birthdays.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kensington Palace This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOver the past five weeks, the Queen's Sandringham staff have been preparing and delivering meals for pensioners and vulnerable people living in the local area, Buckingham Palace has said, with about 1,000 meals being made and delivered in the first week alone.", "The brewery has been unable to sell the beer to its usual customers in the hospitality industry\n\nIt sounds like an offer drinkers anywhere would raise a glass to - a brewery is giving away its beer after being left with a surplus amid the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe Alnwick Brewery Company in Northumberland has asked local residents to take its cask beer home in their own containers.\n\nIn return, they were requested to make a donation that would go to the NHS.\n\nThe brewery said one person \"joked he would arrive with a bathtub\".\n\nWith pubs and restaurants closed, the firm was left with no-one to sell its dozens of casks to. Each one would hold about 70 pints (40 litres).\n\n\"We'd brewed up in anticipation of Easter. Suddenly the business was shut down and we thought 'what can we do with this?',\" co-owner Ian Robinson said.\n\n\"It's all very well giving it away but why not try to raise some money through donations?\n\n\"The beer has a relatively short lifespan and we're down to its last three weeks so we'll be doing this for the next few Fridays.\"\n\nAbout £450 has already been raised through giveaways at the brewery on two previous Fridays and its shop in Alnwick town centre will be open later for a further collection from its cellar.\n\n\"Someone arrived with two 20-litre containers,\" Mr Robinson added. \"We've had people with empty Coke bottles and things of all shapes and sizes.\n\n\"The camaraderie and banter when they're queuing up has been really amusing.\n\n\"Some people have been coming on bikes and farmers have been walking in. Certainly not everyone has been coming by car.\"\n\nThe firm said it was applying social distancing measures to ensure the safety of visitors and staff.\n\nA number of it workers have been furloughed, although the brewer has continued working.\n\nThe firm has also donated cakes, biscuits and toiletries to the dementia department at Newcastle General Hospital and care homes in the Alnwick area.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Each day brings confirmation of hundreds more coronavirus deaths in the UK, each one marking a devastating loss for a family or community somewhere in the country.\n\nThe UK announced its first coronavirus fatality in early March. By 12 April, which was Easter Sunday, there had been more than 10,000 confirmed hospital deaths. Less than two weeks later, that figure doubled again.\n\nThe scale of the pandemic means it's easy for the stories of many of the virus' victims not to be heard.\n\nOn 12 April alone, at least 1,174 people died in England and Wales. These are the stories of seven of those.\n\nRobert Savory, or Bob to all who knew him, would normally be organising Easter egg hunts or games like \"pin the carrot on the rabbit\". A doting grandad, Bob was rarely happier than when he was spending quality time with his family.\n\nIt was a family tradition for everyone to gather at Bob and his wife Jo's house in Gloucestershire at weekends and on special occasions.\n\nBut the house that would have been full with four children and seven grandchildren was quiet this year, as isolation measures prevented everyone getting together. By then, 63-year-old Bob had been admitted to hospital. He passed away that day.\n\nBob was best known locally for his involvement in rugby club Chosen Hill Former Pupils RFC.\n\nThe club said he was \"Chosen Hill through and through\", having held positions there from player to chairman.\n\nIt was in the changing rooms of the club that Bob's shoulder-length mousy brown hair was shaved off some 40 years ago. His shaved head became his trademark look and following his death, friends and family shaved their own heads to raise money for local hospitals in honour of the man they jokingly called Dr Bob.\n\nMore than 150 miles to the north-west in Cumbria, another sportsman and doting parent also died on Easter Sunday.\n\nBrian Arrowsmith spent his career in the lower reaches of the football league, but was a hero to the fans of his hometown club Barrow AFC.\n\nHe started out playing at right-back in the 1960s, but was a versatile defender and served as captain when the club won promotion from the old Fourth Division.\n\nNo-one made more appearances in the league for Barrow than Brian, and his impact was celebrated three years ago when the club named a stand after him.\n\nHe was particularly proud of playing for his local team. He was born and bred on Walney Island, a sliver of land on the southern tip of Barrow-in-Furness that he described as \"God's little acre\".\n\n\"He was well known in the town and Brian couldn't walk past anybody without stopping and chatting,\" Jean, his wife of 56 years, said.\n\nBrian remained faithful to the football team for his entire life, transitioning from the pitch to the stands.\n\nThe last match he would ever attend was in early March. Brian's beloved Barrow were defeated 0-2 by Notts County - their first home league loss since September. As usual Brian was offering his support at the sidelines, still hoping his club would win promotion.\n\nWeeks later the father-of-two contracted coronavirus and passed away in hospital, almost three months before his 80th birthday. Jean said he was at peace in his final moments.\n\n\"He would tell you if he was here that he had a great life.\"\n\nNot everyone who passed away on Easter Sunday died in a hospital.\n\nMary Andrew was one of at least 339 people in England and Wales to die in a care home that day. Those deaths were not included in the more than 10,000 announced by the government up to that point.\n\nMary had moved into a Derbyshire nursing home about seven months earlier, after a life defined by her independence.\n\nShe started a career as a dispensing chemist, but her life's passion was the card game bridge.\n\nMary set up her own bridge club in the 1960s and played tournaments, working her way up to the top of the standings to become a grandmaster, meaning she was one of the few people able to make a living from the game.\n\nHer son David, who jokingly refers to himself as a \"bridge orphan\", says the game was an obsession for Mary, who organised tournaments, clubs and holidays.\n\nAn intellectual and gregarious woman, she was drawn to bridge because it was mentally stimulating and an opportunity for her to socialise.\n\nIt also led to an unlikely encounter with a Hollywood heartthrob, when Mary played in a tournament with Lawrence of Arabia actor Omar Sharif at a London hotel in the 1960s.\n\nMary shared her love for the game with hundreds of others, teaching people to play even in her 80s.\n\nShe was also a \"scatterbrain\", says her son - she once took him and their family pet to the local shop and accidentally returned with only the dog.\n\nThe last time David saw his 92-year-old mother, he was informed that there was a suspected case of coronavirus at the care home, meaning visits would be forbidden and residents kept in their rooms.\n\nWithin weeks he got a call to say Mary had contracted coronavirus and that she would be put on an \"end of life pathway\".\n\nMary had held on to the ashes of her husband, who died in 2012, so that they could be interred together. In their 63 years together, the couple had rarely spent a night apart.\n\nCoronavirus has not only taken the lives of people in care homes like Mary, but also the people looking after them, like Rahima Sidhanee.\n\nCaring was in her nature. Her home was full of orchids that she bought cheaply when they were past their best and then nursed back to life. If you invited her round for dinner, she would almost certainly bring some of her own food.\n\nThe 69-year-old nurse was renowned among friends, family, neighbours and colleagues for her delicious and eclectic cooking. Her samosas stirred excitement at school fairs and efforts by family members to emulate her legendary roti always fell short.\n\nThe last dinner her son Abu shared with her was just before the lockdown. He and his wife urged Rahima, who suffered from respiratory problems, to retire or at least take a break from work until the situation improved.\n\nBut Rahima was a compassionate woman. She had been working at the Grennell Lodge nursing and care home in the town of Sutton for the past 20 years and was not prepared to give up when they needed her most.\n\nShe continued working, and contracted coronavirus three weeks later.\n\nRahima had what her son described as a basic upbringing on the Caribbean island of Trinidad, with no electricity, gas, or running water at home.\n\nShe moved to the UK in the 1960s as part of a drive for recruitment into the NHS, and worked as a nurse and midwife before moving into the care sector.\n\nHer family were Hindu, but Rahima converted to Islam when she married. Despite divorcing some 30 years ago, the mother-of-three remained committed to her Muslim faith for the rest of her life.\n\nDescribed by Abu as quiet and understated, Rahima had suffered from depression in recent years. This meant that she wasn't as socially active as she might once have been, but she always maintained a close relationship with her family, particularly through the regular meals they would share at each other's houses.\n\nAt this time in the Islamic calendar, Rahima and her loved ones would normally meet for iftar, the evening meal when Muslims break their fast during Ramadan.\n\nShe died 11 days before the Muslim holy month began. One family friend, for whom she made chilli sauce every year, said Ramadan would never be the same again.\n\nAbdul Karim Sheikh also emigrated to the UK in the 1960s.\n\nBorn in Jalalpur Jattan in Pakistan's Punjab province as the eldest of 10 children, Abdul was always driven by dreams of a better life.\n\nThat led him to the UK, where he settled in Newham, in east London. Abdul quickly became a central member of the community, dedicating his life to civic causes.\n\n\"It would literally not matter to him whether he was sleeping - you could knock on the door and he would wake up and answer the call. It didn't matter what time of day you came to our door,\" his son Saleem said.\n\n\"He always put himself second.\"\n\nIn one of his first acts in the community, Abdul helped found one of Newham's first mosques, serving the religious, social and cultural needs of the area's growing Muslim population.\n\nHe was particularly dedicated to promoting racial equality and dialogue between different faiths, in what is one of London's most racially and culturally diverse boroughs.\n\nWith a passion for debate and ideas for change, politics was a natural career choice for Abdul. He became a local councillor in 1990 and ceremonial mayor of Newham in 1998.\n\nHis work took the boy from Punjab to Buckingham Palace, when his service to the Muslim community was recognised through the British Empire Medal.\n\nHis son Saleem said his achievements were a source of great personal pride to Abdul. \"Coming from humble backgrounds to [being a mayor] in the UK was amazing,\" he said.\n\nEven in his 80s, Abdul continued to work on the causes close to his heart. His sons say he remained healthy and independent, and had recently returned from a trip overseas.\n\nBut in April, Abdul developed a temperature and breathing difficulties. He was admitted to hospital and passed away within days.\n\nHis family have been inundated with calls and cards from those whose lives he touched.\n\n\"He was loved by everybody. He's being missed by everyone in the community,\" his son Naeem said.\n\nWhile coronavirus has disproportionately affected older people, young people are also among those dying.\n\nAt 37 years old, with a thriving business and children she adored, Salina Shaw had everything to look forward to.\n\nSalina strove to make the most of every moment, and employed her favourite phrase each day in urging loved ones to live their \"best life\".\n\nSalina was a \"vibrant character who stood out within a crowd\", her sister Simone said - someone who proved to others it was possible to be happy and successful as a single parent.\n\nShe ran a child-minding business in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, and had also set up an affordable holiday club, which she hoped would bring communities together and allow parents to continue work during the school holidays.\n\nTo Simone, she was a great listener who could always be relied upon to offer sound advice.\n\nHer biggest passion in life was her children. When the coronavirus outbreak hit the UK, she was heavily pregnant with her third daughter.\n\nShe was admitted to hospital on 1 April, with suspected Covid-19.\n\nOther than gestational diabetes - a condition that can occur during pregnancy but usually disappears after giving birth - Salina was a healthy young woman with no other health conditions.\n\nHer baby was delivered via Caesarean section on 4 April, but Salina passed away just over a week later.\n\nHer daughters are now being looked after by family. Simone said Salina would \"shine within her children forever\".\n\nIn the nearby Essex town of Romford, Keith Parker was also in hospital with coronavirus.\n\nWith several underlying health conditions, Keith, 53, was among those particularly vulnerable to the pandemic. But he had overcome so much that family members jokingly called him \"the cat with nine lives\".\n\nJoanna first met Keith at school, when she had a crush on his best friend. The pair lost touch before their paths crossed again as adults in 2001. They agreed to meet for a meal, and three years later they married on the hottest day of the year.\n\nIn recent years, Joanna had been his full-time carer.\n\nHe was known among family and friends for his sense of humour. At a cousin's wedding, he started a flour and squirty cream fight. An old home video shows him putting M&Ms in his nose and blowing them out.\n\nThe family loved going on holiday to Butlins, where Keith would be the first person to raise his hand to get up on stage.\n\nHe fell ill with coronavirus in the week leading up to Easter Sunday. Other members of the family had also been unwell, but with relatively mild symptoms.\n\nBy the Friday morning, Keith's condition had deteriorated - Joanna says his face had turned grey and his cheeks and nose purple from lack of oxygen.\n\nAfter he was taken to hospital, it quickly became clear that he would not survive.\n\nJoanna was allowed a short visit to say goodbye. Dressed in a gown, gloves and mask she struggled not to kiss or hug him. All she could do was hold his hand.\n\nWhen Joanna left the room, she stole a final look through a window into the room.\n\n\"I knew that was going to be the last time I was going to see him,\" she recalled. \"That would be it.\"\n\nThe family are now grappling with the reality of life without him.\n\nHis infant granddaughter knew him as Grandad Munchkin. Every night she waves at a picture of him and blows a kiss.\n\nDo you have a story to share about your loved one? You can contact us with your tribute.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "Introducing social distancing at airports is \"physically impossible\", the boss of Heathrow has warned.\n\n\"Social distancing does not work in any form of public transport, let alone aviation,\" John Holland-Kaye said.\n\nBut the chief executive of Europe's busiest airport said airports will have to introduce health-screening and passengers will have to wear masks.\n\nHowever, the GMB union said the airport must enforce social-distancing to protect staff and passengers.\n\nThe union said workers fear contracting the coronavirus from passengers returning from countries where Covid-19 is prevalent. In the past two weeks three GMB members working at Heathrow have lost their lives to the coronavirus.\n\nIn an interview with the Press Association news agency, Mr Holland-Kaye said: \"It's just physically impossible to socially distance with any volume of passengers in an airport.\"\n\nHe said a \"better solution\" is needed to make air travel safe. \"The constraint is not about how many people you can fit on a plane, it will be how many people you can get through an airport safely.\"\n\nIn a separate interview, with the BBC, Mr Holland-Kaye said that until a coronavirus vaccine could be developed, airports would have to introduce measures to minimise infection once lockdowns started to ease.\n\n\"This might include some kind of health screening as you come into the terminal so that if you have a high temperature, you may not be allowed to fly,\" he said.\n\n\"As you go through the airport, you will probably be wearing a face mask, as people from Asia have been doing ever since Sars (virus) came out.\"\n\nRyanair chief Michael O'Leary backed the call for temperature checks. \"Anybody with a temperature of over 38 degrees will be refused entry,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMeanwhile, EasyJet has suggested it could leave the middle seats on its planes empty when flights resume.\n\nThe GMB has called for urgent action to protect Heathrow airport workers after an over-crowding incident this week. On Tuesday, two flights arrived at the same time from the same country, the union reported.\n\nIt said Heathrow allocated just one conveyor belt for up to 500 passengers waiting to collect their bags.\n\n\"No social-distancing was enforced in what was a very crowded area,\" said Trevlyn McLeod, GMB London region organiser. \"These are not safe conditions for passengers and they are not safe working conditions for our members.\n\n\"Enforcing social-distancing is essential if our members and airport passengers are to feel that their lives are more important than money,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Testing will \"help us to unlock the lockdown\", Matt Hancock says\n\nThe UK provided more than 122,000 coronavirus tests on the last day of April, passing the government's target, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said.\n\nMr Hancock said the 100,000 target was \"audacious\", but testing was needed to get Britain \"back on her feet\".\n\nThe figure includes 40,000 tests sent out, including directly to people's homes, which may not yet have been taken.\n\nMr Hancock set the goal on 2 April, when the UK was on 10,000 tests a day.\n\nSome 27,510 people have now died in UK hospitals, care homes and the wider community after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nOf the 122,347 tests provided in the 24 hours up to Friday morning, the number of people tested was fewer - at just over 70,000 - as has been the case since the testing programme began. This is because some people need to be tested more than once to get a reliable result.\n\nThe total testing figure includes 27,497 kits which were delivered to people's homes and also 12,872 tests that were sent out to centres such as hospitals and NHS sites.\n\nHowever, these may not have been actually used or sent back to a lab.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth suggested the government had been misleading. \"This isn't a time for quibbling but actually 39,000 of these tests have simply been posted out so it's not quite that the government have hit their commitment,\" he told the BBC News channel.\n\n\"I don't think posting out the tests is the same as carrying out tests but nonetheless it is welcome that testing has increased.\"\n\nPrior to 28 April, there was no reference to how tests were counted, but on 28 April guidance on the government website said home tests and satellite tests were being included.\n\nAt the daily Downing Street briefing, Prof John Newton - a scientist advising the government on testing - said there had been \"no change to the way tests are counted\".\n\n\"As we've developed new ways of delivering tests, we've taken advice from officials as to how they should be counted,\" Prof Newton said.\n\n\"So, the tests that are done within the control of the programme - which is the great majority - are counted when the tests are undertaken in our laboratories.\n\n\"But, for any test which goes outside the control of the programme, they're counted when they leave the programme - so that's the tests that are mailed out to people at home and the test that's gone out on the satellite.\"\n\nThe headline figures certainly look impressive - 122,000 tests in a day. Just a week ago around 25,000 were being recorded and a month ago it stood at 10,000.\n\nIt is testament to the hard work that has been done behind the scenes by a partnership of government, scientists and the private sector - with a helping hand from the military.\n\nBut has the government been a little creative with its counting? It has included home-testing kits sent out to individuals as well as the satellite kits - these are batches of tests sent out to care homes and other settings where there are lots of people who need testing.\n\nSome, no doubt, will never be returned.\n\nA week ago these made little difference to the figures - only a few thousand a day were being sent out. But now they account for around a third of the tests.\n\nIn his opening remarks, the health secretary suggested the government's 100,000 target had had a \"galvanising effect\".\n\nHe said the testing capacity built since then would \"help every single person in this country\", and would \"help us to unlock the lockdown\".\n\nMembers of the Armed Forces train each other in how to test for Covid-19\n\nAn NHS worker arrives at a drive-in centre in a car park in Wolverhampton to be tested\n\nMr Hancock said the government's \"next mission\" was its test, track and trace operation and work was already under way to roll it out.\n\n\"By mid-May, we will have an initial 18,000 contact tracers in place,\" he said.\n\n\"The combination of contact tracers and new technology, through our new Covid-19 NHS app, will help tell us where the virus is spreading and help everyone to control new infections.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: What is contact tracing and how does it work?\n\nMr Hancock added that the next phase would allow the government \"to reassert, as much as is safely possible, the liberty of us all\".\n\nThe Department of Health established a testing network, including three \"mega labs\" to test samples, almost 50 drive-through centres, a home-testing service and mobile testing units, as part of the drive to achieve the government's target.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock also expanded the list of people eligible for testing throughout the month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What it's like to test yourself for Covid-19\n\nAt first, across the UK, the focus was on testing the sickest patients in hospitals, followed by health, care and emergency services staff.\n\nAs of last week, other essential workers and their families in England became eligible for testing, if they showed symptoms.\n\nTesting was further expanded in England earlier this week to millions more people, with symptoms including over-65s, those who have to leave home to work, and people living with someone in these groups.\n\nIn Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced earlier that testing will be expanded to over-65s with symptoms and also all those in care homes where there has been an outbreak.\n\nAnd on Friday, the Welsh government extended coronavirus testing to people in care homes even if they are not showing symptoms of the disease.", "The leader of the UN's health body (file photo) expressed concern for nations with vulnerable health systems\n\nThe World Health Organization says it \"didn't waste time\" responding to the coronavirus after facing criticism for its handling of the outbreak.\n\nIts head Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the WHO's declaration of the virus as an international health emergency on 30 January gave \"enough time for the rest of the world to respond\".\n\nAt the time there were only 82 cases outside China and no deaths.\n\nToday there are more than 3.2m cases and 234,000 deaths recorded worldwide.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has said the WHO \"really blew\" its response and accused it of bias towards China.\n\nThe US is the global health body's largest single funder and President Trump says he will halt funding.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference on Friday Dr Tedros offered a vigorous defence of how the organisation responded.\n\nHe insisted the WHO used the time before the declaration wisely, including visiting China to learn more about the virus at its origin.\n\nDr Tedros confirmed that the pandemic remained a \"public health emergency of international concern\", three months after it was declared one.\n\nSuch a declaration is made under an \"extraordinary\" event and requires a global response.\n\nDr Tedros described \"grave\" worries over the potential impact of the virus as it accelerates in countries with weaker health systems.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Secunder Kermani and Anne Soy compare how prepared Asian and African countries are\n\nOfficials said they had seen worrying increases in a number of these nations - including Haiti, Somalia and Sudan.\n\nThe WHO also urged caution among nations relaxing their social distancing measures, stressing the importance of monitoring for new jumps in infections as lockdowns are eased.\n\nDr Tedros was also asked again about relations with the United States, insisting the UN agency remained in \"constant contact\" with the country.\n\nOn Thursday President Trump appeared to undercut his own intelligence agencies by suggesting he had seen evidence coronavirus originated in a Chinese laboratory.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: 'One of two things happened'\n\nThe WHO's head of emergencies, Dr Michael Ryan, addressed the claim on Friday.\n\n\"With regard to the origins of the virus in Wuhan we have listened again and again to numerous scientists who've looked at the (genetic) sequences, looked at this virus, and we are assured that this virus is natural in origin,\" he said.\n\nDr Ryan also added that it was \"important\" to learn more about the animal host and understand how the virus jumped from animals to humans.\n\nChina has rejected the lab theory and criticised the US response to Covid-19.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'World is too fragile,' says head of UN\n\nIn other developments around the world:", "Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary has cut his pay by 50% for the rest of the year\n\nRyanair boss Michael O'Leary has said it will take up to six months to refund passengers for flights cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe told the BBC the airline was struggling to process a backlog of 25 million refunds with reduced staff.\n\nHowever, he pledged: \"If you want a cash refund, you will receive a cash refund.\"\n\nRyanair is set to cut 3,000 jobs - 15% of its workforce - as it restructures to cope with the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt said the 3,000 posts under threat were mainly pilot and cabin crew jobs.\n\nThere are likely to be pay cuts of up to 20% for remaining staff, the airline added.\n\nMr O'Leary told the BBC that the planned cuts were \"the minimum that we need just to survive the next 12 months\".\n\nHe said that if a vaccine was not found, \"we may have to announce more cuts and deeper cuts in future\".\n\nBrian Strutton, the general secretary of pilots' union Balpa, said: \"There has been no warning or consultation by Ryanair about the 3,000 potential job losses and this is miserable news for pilots and staff who have taken pay cuts under the government job retention scheme.\n\n\"Ryanair seems to have done a U-turn on its ability to weather the Covid storm.\"\n\nThe restructuring could involve closing some UK regional hubs, Mr O'Leary said, but he would not say which ones were at risk.\n\nHe said Ryanair hoped to announce details of job losses and pay cuts by 1 July.\n\nMr O'Leary, whose pay was cut by 50% for April and May, has now agreed to extend it for the remainder of the financial year to March 2021.\n\nLitigation lawyer Jonathan Compton, a partner at law firm DMH Stallard, took issue with the idea that ticket refunds could be delayed.\n\n\"Where a flight is cancelled, the legal position is clear, the airline must provide a full refund within seven working days,\" he said.\n\n\"Regulators need to get more active here. The relevant regulator is the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). The CAA must start instructing airlines to start making refunds, no ifs or buts, and it needs to do this now.\"\n\nRyanair said it expected to report a net loss of more than €100m (£87m) for the first three months of the year, with further losses in the second quarter.\n\nIn a sideswipe at rivals, it said its return to scheduled services would be rendered more difficult by competing with flag carrier airlines, \"who will be financing below cost selling with the benefit of over €30bn in unlawful state aid, in breach of both EU state aid and competition rules\".\n\nRyanair said it had entered the coronavirus crisis with reserves of almost €4bn in cash and continued to \"actively manage\" those resources in order to survive the pandemic.\n\nMr O'Leary described airlines such as Lufthansa, Air France and Alitalia as \"subsidy junkies running around Europe hoovering up state aid\".\n\nMeanwhile, Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air is resuming flights from Luton airport starting on Friday, but passengers will be required to wear masks while on board.\n\nThe airline is among the first European carriers to begin restoring services that have been suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe flights will be heading for destinations in Spain, Portugal, Israel, Slovakia, Serbia, Romania and Hungary.\n\nBut Wizz Air warned that because of \"rapid changes in travel restrictions, the list might be adapted\".\n\nThe move comes despite unchanged advice from the Foreign Office against all foreign non-essential travel.\n\nIn another development, London's Heathrow airport, normally the busiest in Europe, has said it expects passenger numbers to have fallen 97% in April as demand slumped.\n\nNumbers fell 18.8% to 14.6 million during the first three months of the year, the airport said.\n\nBut it added: \"Heathrow remains open - and continues operating safely to help people get home and to secure vital supply lines for the UK.\"\n\nFinancially, it was \"robust\", it said.\n\n\"Heathrow has £3.2bn in liquidity, sufficient to maintain the business at least over the next 12 months, even with no passengers,\" it added.\n\nHeathrow chief executive John Holland-Kaye told the BBC's Today programme that until a coronavirus vaccine could be developed, airports would have to introduce measures to minimise infection once lockdowns started to ease.\n\n\"What this might include - and this needs to be agreed with governments and the aviation sector - is a combination of measures and that might include some kind of health screening as you come into the terminal so that perhaps if that's a temperature check, if you have a high temperature, you may not be allowed to fly,\" he said.\n\n\"As you go through the airport, you will probably be wearing a face mask, as people from Asia have been doing ever since Sars came out.\"\n\nHave you been affected by job losses at Ryanair? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The National Trust has closed its houses, such as Blickling Hall and Estate, to visitors during the coronavirus pandemic\n\nThe National Trust has warned it could lose up to £200m this year following the coronavirus outbreak - putting some of its key projects at risk.\n\nThe conservation charity has already paused work to clean rivers, prevent upland flooding and improve soil.\n\nIt has called on government to offer the same financial support to nature, wildlife and environmental groups that it has to other businesses.\n\nThe trust says the lockdown has shown the value of access to green space.\n\nThe National Trust, which is the UK's largest conservation charity, looks after more than 300 historic houses and almost 800 miles of coastline across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, its director Hilary McGrady urged ministers to use the recovery from the virus to prioritise \"green growth\" and carbon reduction.\n\nThe trust, which marks its 125th anniversary this year, has closed its gated gardens and parks as well as its houses, cafes and shops to help prevent the spread of coronavirus.\n\nAt the end of March, the conservation charity was also forced to close all of its car parks.\n\nMs McGrady said the coronavirus lockdown in the UK had \"clearly shown\" that people \"want and need access to nature-rich green space near where they live\".\n\nBut she said the sharp drop in revenue faced by the charity has already led to the pausing of key environmental programmes like cleaning rivers, flood prevention and soil improvement.\n\nMs McGrady said that the trust's plan to plant 20 million trees to tackle climate change and create green areas for people near towns and cities \"must not go the same way\".\n\nThe trust has also committed to becoming carbon net zero by 2030.\n\n\"[Business Secretary] Alok Sharma has written to retail and manufacturing businesses to thank them for their efforts and set out a programme of support,\" Ms McGrady said.\n\n\"Ministers now urgently need to address nature, wildlife and environmental organisations with an immediate offer of support, and set out how the sector will contribute towards its green recovery plan.\"\n\nMs McGrady added: \"On a practical level, this means urgent and more creative solutions to climate change.\n\n\"More trees and naturalised rivers can help us deal better with the devastating [...] flooding experienced by large sections of the country this year - a problem that will not go away.\n\n\"And a rapid shift to farming that regenerates our natural environment, improves biodiversity and captures and stores carbon remains one of our most urgent challenges.\"\n\nShe called for a green economic recovery plan, saying spending should reduce carbon emissions and boost public health \"through clean air\".\n\nMs McGrady also stressed the importance of continuing the government's 25-year plan to improve the environment within a generation, and how its delivery depends on the support of conservation charities and green businesses and social enterprises.", "The government will release a series of papers next week outlining its approach on how to safely and gradually restart the economy.\n\nIt invited submissions by Thursday from businesses, trade bodies, unions and other workers representatives on how best to slowly restart the UK economy.\n\nIt's thought the proposals will not be split bluntly by sector but by working environment.\n\nBut there is no confirmed date yet for when such a restart will occur.\n\nUnions, large firms and business groups have been consulted on seven areas:\n\nThe position papers are expected to comprise a set of broad guidelines based on these discussions, which will not be too prescriptive as to be inflexible, and given it would be impossible to examine individual premises, it's thought companies will be allowed to self-certify they are in compliance with the guidelines.\n\nThe government wants to involve unions and the Health and Safety executive to endorse the plans and to both get buy-in from workers, and provide a channel for any worker concerns at the new arrangements.\n\nThe principles may not necessarily insist that workers strictly observe a two-metre social distancing rule.\n\nIn situations where workers may be required to be closer than two metres, the guidelines may insist on mitigating measures such as wearing protective masks or clothing, or where possible work back-to-back, rather than face-to-face.\n\nUnion sources say these are very early principles and would not, on their own, create a satisfactory basis for a return to work. They have said much more detailed technical work will be required.\n\nThere are some sectors which the government has acknowledged will be unable to function at any significant level for many weeks and possibly months to come, in particular hospitality and leisure.\n\nSimon Emeny, the boss of Fullers, which operates 400 pubs and restaurants, has told the BBC that reopening under social distancing rules would be worse than staying closed.\n\n\"Think of the practical problems of going to the loo, being served at the bar, a plate of food at your table. Also few people would want to come,\" he said.\n\n\"It would mean our revenue would be down by as much as 80%, but our costs would go up, so it's actually more catastrophic to open under socially distant guidelines than it is being closed down.\"\n\nThat means there will be some very serious questions for the Treasury, on how long it is willing or able to continue to pay millions of furloughed workers wages, under a job retention scheme that some estimate is currently costing up to a billion pounds a day.\n\nThere is also the question of how much demand there will be for the products and services the reopened businesses will produce and provide. Car factories and showrooms may reopen - but how many people are in the mood for a big ticket purchase like that right now.\n\nIndustry bodies accept that returning to work will be a difficult and delicate exercise - both operationally for business and emotionally for many workers.\n\nUnion leaders have told the BBC there are isolated incidents in which some of their members who have already returned to work have been subjected to abuse from people in their own community, fearful workers could be bringing the virus back with them from their places of work.\n\nThe government has paid tribute to the public for largely adhering to a simple and often repeated message: \"stay at home, protect the NHS, save lives\". It has very effectively drummed in a mindset of risk aversion.\n\nThat messaging may prove hard to \"refine\", as the government has put it.\n\nClosing the gates and furloughing millions of workers was a huge, but widely considered necessary government intervention into the private sector.\n\nOpening the gates again may prove to be one of the most complex challenges this virus has thrown at us yet.", "Bakery chain Greggs has said its planned branch reopenings next week will now begin behind closed doors.\n\nThe sausage roll supplier is fearful of \"the risk that excessive numbers of customers\" may turn up.\n\nEarlier this week, it announced plans to reopen 20 stores in the Newcastle area from Tuesday on a trial basis.\n\nHowever, Greggs now says the reopenings will only be \"to test our new operational safety measures\" and it will not allow customers in.\n\nMany fast food fans have been starved of their favourite food since the lockdown began in March, but Greggs had been one of a number of chains that revealed plans this week to begin a phased reopening.\n\nGreggs has more than 2,050 shops across the country. All are currently closed, but the chain had decided to open 20 of them as part of a \"controlled trial\".\n\nThat trial will now be without customers, after the news struck a chord with fans.\n\nA Greggs spokesperson said: \"Due to significant interest in our 20-shop trial, and the risk that excessive numbers of customers may plan to visit Greggs, we will now initially operate these trials behind closed doors in order to effectively test our new operational safety measures.\n\n\"We will continue to review this and will invite walk-in customers into our shops only when we can be confident of doing so in the controlled manner we intended.\"\n\nThe chain refused to predict when the branches would be open to customers but indications are that it is keen to move to that phase as soon as possible.\n\nThat could mean doors opening to customers within days of the start of the two week 20-store trial.\n\nIf it does prove successful, Greggs hopes to open around 700 stores from 8 June.\n\nIt then hopes to reopen all stores by 1 July when the government's job retention scheme is due to end.\n\nBut that timing could change, depending on future government announcements.\n\nBurger chain McDonald's reopened a branch this week but, like Greggs' revised plans, it is closed to customers and has only been opened up for \"operational purposes\".\n\nThe chain is \"exploring social distancing measures for our crew, PPE options and opening in a limited capacity,\" it said.\n\n\"We will only reopen when we are absolutely confident we can have the right measures in place to ensure everyone's well-being,\" said Paul Pomroy, McDonald's UK and Ireland chief executive.\n\nFried chicken chain KFC has already reopened 20 restaurants for takeaway and delivery only and plans to open another 80 next week.\n\nNando's has reopened six of its UK restaurants for delivery. The peri-peri chicken chain has re-opened kitchens at four restaurants in London and two in Manchester.\n\nBurger King and Pret A Manger have both opened some sites for delivery and takeaway in the past week.", "NHS England says it is still offering essential vaccinations and is appealing to parents not to miss appointments for their children during the pandemic.\n\nThe childhood immunisation programme protects against diseases including whooping cough, measles and meningitis.\n\nVisits to clinics and GP surgeries are allowed as long as none of the family is experiencing symptoms of Covid-19.\n\nPublic Health Wales said this week that it had seen a small drop in routine vaccination numbers.\n\nVaccinations routinely given in schools, such as the human papillomavirus (HPV) jab offered to older children, are currently suspended - but may be available from individual clinics.\n\n\"The national immunisation programme remains in place to protect the nation's health and no-one should be in any doubt of the devastating impact of diseases such as measles, meningitis and pneumonia,\" said Dr Mary Ramsay, head of immunisations at Public Health England.\n\n\"During this time, it is important to maintain the best possible vaccine uptake to prevent a resurgence of these infections.\"\n\nLast month Unicef warned of future measles outbreaks around the world, as a result of vaccination delays due to the pandemic.\n\nSome surgeries have taken steps to try to make the process as socially distant as possible.\n\nThe Project Surgery in East London is offering a \"drive-through\" service twice a week, where families can come in either by car or on foot, but do not go into the surgery itself.\n\nIt was launched when the number of routine vaccinations the surgery was doing dropped from 12 per week to just three because parents were afraid to come in.\n\nFarzana Hussain said weekly vaccination appointments had dropped from 12 to just three\n\n\"We chopped up the 10-minute consultation into three [parts]\", GP principal Farzana Hussain told BBC reporter Anna Collinson.\n\n\"The first part is on the telephone. Then the nurse comes out just to give the injection, so the face-to-face contact is just two minutes and all the records are written up with without the patient there.\"\n\nNumbers have now gone back up to eight per week, she said.\n\n\"Life is all about risks and benefits. The benefits of having your kids vaccinated is so much greater, it would be a tragedy if we saw measles or diphtheria make a comeback.\"\n\nPrior to the development of the vaccine, diptheria killed about 3,500 children each year in the UK, notes Oxford University's Vaccine Knowledge Project.\n\nIt is still fatal in one in 10 cases today, but has largely been eradicated in the UK since the vaccination was introduced.", "For the sixth week in a row, people across the UK clapped to show appreciation for health professionals and other key workers, during the coronavirus pandemic.", "Mark Drakeford: \"We should all be anxious about how long we can sustain this\"\n\nThe first minister has acknowledged extending the lockdown is damaging people's sense of mental well-being.\n\nMark Drakeford said \"we should all be anxious\" about how long it can be sustained.\n\nHe said he hopes changes to the regulations will help people \"do the bigger things we're asking of them\".\n\nFrom Monday, people in Wales will be allowed to go out to exercise locally more than once a day and garden centres can reopen.\n\nMr Drakeford said only the \"very smallest and most modest steps\" could be taken because a small increase in the reproduction rate of the virus would lead to a significant increase in deaths.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Drakeford said: \"The evidence that we heard from behavioural scientists in making our decisions was that if you can offer people a little bit more freedom at the margin it actually strengthens people's ability and willingness to abide with the major thrust of the restrictions that we still have to ask people in Wales to abide by.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. New lockdown measures have been announced by the Welsh Government\n\n\"So by allowing people to go out to exercise more than once a day, by reopening garden centres, by allowing local authorities to begin to prepare for the reopening of libraries, then, we think, that by doing those modest things, it actually helps people to do the bigger things we're asking of them.\n\n\"But, of course, it's an enormous ask we're making, and we should all be anxious about how long we can sustain this because by sustaining it there's other damage being done to people's sense of mental wellbeing and so on.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson will announce his plans for the potential easing of any lockdown measures in England on Sunday.\n\nMr Drakeford said his view was the two countries will be \"very much in line with one another.\"\n\n\"Our new regime won't come in until Monday so that we move in a timely way together across the United Kingdom, and I still think that that is very much the preferable route.\"\n\nAsked about when schools might reopen, Mark Drakeford said he was \"not convinced\" reopening schools in \"any significant way\" would be right at this point.\n\nHe added: \"we're not going to be reopening schools in Wales during the next three weeks or indeed in June.\"\n\nAsked if that meant he was ruling out reopening schools for the whole of June, a spokesman for the first minister said nothing had changed since the education minister's statement on Thursday which stated schools would not reopen on 1st June.", "Little Richard, who has died at the age of 87, was the self-styled \"king and queen of rock 'n' roll\".\n\nOff stage, he set the benchmark for wild and debauched behaviour. He was the devout believer in God who indulged freely in the lurid temptations of fame.\n\nOn stage, he was a one-man hurricane, the manic piano playing and raspy voice appealing across the racial divides of segregated America.\n\nHe lit the beacon of a revolution in music in the late 1950s and inspired a legion who took it forward.\n\n\"Mick Jagger used to watch my act,\" he would boast. \"Where do you think he got that walk?\"\n\nRichard Wayne Penniman was born in Macon, Georgia, on 5 December 1932. His mother was a devout Baptist with 11 other children. She had meant to call him Ricardo but somehow a spelling error crept in.\n\nHis father was a preacher, albeit one who ran a nightclub and sold moonshine. Richard's early musical influence was the Pentecostal Church. He loved the wild dancing in the Holy Spirit and the speaking in tongues.\n\nLittle Richard performing on stage in 1956\n\nAs a child he put on his mother's lipstick and dress to entertain his sisters - a crime for which his father tied him to the bed and made hideous use of a whip.\n\nHe was the butt of homophobic jokes at school and walked with a limp due to a birth defect. When Richard was 15, his father kicked him out.\n\n\"My daddy wanted seven boys, and I had spoiled it, because I was gay,\" he later said.\n\nHe began singing rhythm and blues, which his parents saw as \"the devil's music\". He adopted on stage his childhood nickname - Little Richard - despite being 5ft10 (1.77m) without his heels or bouffant hair.\n\nHe became a drag act - often forced by the police to wash the make-up off his face - and spent time in prison when a gas station attendant saw sexual activity in the back of a car.\n\nAt 18, he was spotted in a talent competition which led to a recording contract with RCA Victor. The resulting single - a ballad called Every Hour - sold well and improved his relationship with his father, who put it on his nightclub jukebox.\n\nLittle Richard stood over 5ft10 - not counting his high shoes and hairstyle\n\nBut a year later, his father was shot dead outside a local bar. \"My best friend Frank shot him,\" the singer later claimed. \"He was out of jail in a week. We never quite found out what really happened.\"\n\nRichard returned home and worked washing dishes in a Greyhound bus station cafe. It was no place for a peacock. \"Can you imagine beautiful hands like these,\" he would later ask, \"messing with pots of rice and beans?\"\n\nThe way out was music. He developed a wild piano style in the manner of Esquerita, a gay New Orleans performer he'd met at the bus station. Richard began hitting the keys hard, often breaking the strings.\n\nIn 1955, he auditioned for a Los Angeles-based label, Speciality Records. Richard was vocally powerful but somehow rather flat. The producer, Bumps Blackwell, abandoned the studio and, in a moment of rock 'n' roll history, suggested a trip to a Dew Drop Inn.\n\nRichard spotted a piano and, more importantly, an audience. He leapt up and crashed out a new number: Tutti Frutti. \"A-wop-boppa-loo-bop-alop-bam-boom.\"\n\nIt is a series of explosive yelps that capture the lightning bolts of love. It speaks of the joys of sex with an accuracy that proper words cannot express. Richard delivers it fully charged with electricity. It is a demand to join the party which cannot be refused.\n\nBut the rest of the lyrics were filthy. A songwriter, Dorothy LaBostrie, was scrambled to write with a cleaner version - stripped of explicit descriptions of gay sex.\n\nBy this time, their studio booking was running out. \"In 15 minutes, we did two cuts,\" said Blackwell. \"It's been history ever since.\"\n\nTutti Frutti sold more than a million records. His next release, Long Tall Sally, did even better. In the next two years, Richard recorded 18 hit singles, including Good Golly Miss Molly and Lucille.\n\nBill Haley was one of the many white stars to record a Little Richard cover version. Elvis, Buddy Holly, Pat Boone and John Lennon all did so too\n\nHe began touring with his band, The Upsetters. Richard was outrageously camp and tremendously popular. His lyrics were suggestive and the concerts often ended with black and white youths dancing together. In segregated America, this was dangerous stuff.\n\nNow rich, he bought a mansion in Hollywood. He was openly gay but also had relationships with women. He even married Ernestine Harvin, a fellow Evangelical, and later adopted a son.\n\nRichard blew thousands on drugs, booze and sex parties. Even by rock star standards, his thirst for depravity was high.\n\nBut it jarred with his Old Testament morality. He would take his Bible to orgies and later condemn his own \"satanic\" behaviour. It wasn't a lifestyle to last.\n\nIn 1957, Richard - literally - saw the light. During a concert in Sydney, he saw a fireball in the sky above him. He took it as an instruction from God to repent.\n\nIt was actually the Sputnik satellite returning to Earth. But Richard threw his diamond rings into the water, gave up sin and popular music, and pledged himself to the Almighty.\n\nLittle Richard preaching in church in 1962\n\nA few days later, his original return flight to America crashed into the sea. It was a sign, he said, that God was watching and had taken him under his wing.\n\nRichard began recording gospel records - some produced by a young Quincy Jones - and signed up at Bible college in Alabama. He was soon asked to leave after allegations he had exposed himself to a fellow student.\n\nAnd, within five years, he was back touring. The music promoter Don Arden - father of Sharon Osbourne - convinced him to come to Europe. Richard sang gospel to a lukewarm reception. Then he suddenly let rip.\n\nThe crowds loved the old hits. Brian Epstein persuaded him to let a young band from Liverpool support him in Hamburg, where Richard taught The Beatles how to emulate his vocal gymnastics.\n\nLittle Richard in 1965. He lost none of his showmanship during his time as a preacher\n\nA year later, it was The Rolling Stones' turn to open for him. \"Little Richard drove the whole house into a complete frenzy,\" said Mick Jagger. \"There is no single phrase to describe his hold on the audience.\"\n\nIn 1965, his band hired a new musician. \"I want to do with my guitar what he does with his voice,\" said Jimi Hendrix. But Hendrix had his own brand of stage theatrics and, inevitably, the two of them clashed.\n\nBut Richard wasn't writing new hits. Instead, he was drinking heavily and spending $1,000 a day on cocaine. Religious leaders, disappointed at the abandonment of his ministry, told American radio stations to ignore him.\n\nHe concentrated on live performance, slipping down the bill as his protégés eclipsed him. But, as John Lennon complained to Rolling Stone magazine, it was risky going on stage after Little Richard.\n\n\"I threw up for hours before I went on,\" said Lennon. \"I could hardly sing any of the numbers.\"\n\nIn the 1970s, Richard recorded a bewildering range of styles including blues, funk and rock 'n' roll. He had little commercial success.\n\nHe was held at gunpoint over drug debts and saw his brother die from cocaine abuse. Deeply shocked, Richard turned back to religion. He spent the next seven years selling bibles.\n\nIn 1984, he checked into a hotel on Sunset Boulevard and stayed for 22 years. He recorded the odd gospel album, officiated at celebrity weddings and was re-baptised as a Seventh Day Adventist.\n\nRichard's glory days were over but, in those two years at his peak, he recorded a catalogue of era-defining tracks that helped redefine social attitudes and change the course of musical history.\n\nHe was an electric live performer - with an energy and command of the stage which was often imitated but never bettered.\n\nHe was a pivotal musical figure in the late 1950s. Elvis called him the greatest, his androgyny inspired the likes of David Bowie and the diamond-studded outfits were snapped up by Elton John.\n\nRichard Penniman came to popular music when it was dominated by gentle crooners. Little Richard was the flamboyant pioneer of a new and more exciting path.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Anne, an assistant minister in London, avoids going out because pavements are too narrow for her and pedestrians to be 2m apart Image caption: Anne, an assistant minister in London, avoids going out because pavements are too narrow for her and pedestrians to be 2m apart\n\nWe've been speaking to people who say the way their cities are built makes social distancing impossible.\n\nAnne Bookless in London uses a wheelchair - she says the narrow pavements mean that there isn't enough room for her and other pedestrians to be 2m apart. She has left her house just five times since the lockdown began seven weeks ago, including once for a hospital visit.\n\nOnce, she took advantage of the rain: \"I realised I couldn't see anyone outside, so I put on my brightest raincoat and raced around the green in my wheelchair. It was glorious to be outside, but I had to go back when the rain stopped.\"\n\n\"I would love to be able to use the pavements safely,\" she says.\n\nAs part of its transport announcement today, the UK government said it will fast track e-scooter trials. They are currently banned on pavements.\n\nBut disability campaigners have warned previously that e-scooters discarded on pavements, creating a hazard.\n\nRead more about how our cities could be re-designed for social distancing.", "Medics in Wuhan have been mourning those who died with coronavirus in China\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic is a \"big test\" that has exposed weaknesses in China's public health system, a senior official has told Chinese media.\n\nThe rare admission, from Director of China's National Health Commission Li Bin, comes after sustained criticism abroad of China's early response.\n\nThe country will now improve its disease prevention, public health system and data collection, he says.\n\nChina has offered to help North Korea fight the pandemic there.\n\nMr Li told journalists the pandemic was a significant challenge for China's governance, and that it exposed \"the weak links in how we address major epidemic and the public health system.\"\n\nChina has been accused of responding too slowly to early signs of the virus in Wuhan, where the outbreak began, and failing to quickly alert the international community of the outbreak.\n\nChina has rejected calls for an independent international investigation into the origins of the virus.\n\nIn April an EU report accused China of spreading misinformation about the crisis.\n\nA doctor who tried to alert authorities about the virus in December was told to stop \"making false comments\". Li Wenliang later died from Covid-19 in hospital in Wuhan.\n\nChina has 4,637 deaths from coronavirus, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins university, and nearly 84,000 cases. Globally more than 275,000 people have died, with nearly 4m confirmed cases.\n\nIt's rare for Chinese leaders to admit wrongdoing.\n\nLi Bin said the commission would fix the problems by centralising its systems and making better use of big data and artificial intelligence, building on many of the leadership's longstanding objectives.\n\nChina has faced tough criticism, domestically and abroad, over its early handling of the virus. Several provincial and local officials from the ruling Communist Party have been sacked but no senior member of the Party has been punished.\n\nBeijing has not responded to calls to ease censorship and state control of the media.\n\nChina has now offered to help North Korea, after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un congratulated Xi Jinping on its success in fighting Covid-19, Chinese state media report.\n\nNorth Korea says it has had no confirmed cases of coronavirus, something that is questioned by experts.\n\nThe country has a fragile health system that would likely become overwhelmed in a serious outbreak.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of electric car company Tesla, is embroiled in a row over reopening its California-based factory\n\nBillionaire Tesla boss Elon Musk has said he will move the electric carmaker's headquarters out of California, after he was ordered to keep its only US vehicle plant closed.\n\n\"Tesla will now move its HQ and future programs to Texas/Nevada immediately,\" the CEO tweeted.\n\nThe company was filing a lawsuit against Alameda County, he added.\n\nThe county's health department had refused to let the Tesla factory reopen on Friday, citing lockdown measures.\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 Elon Musk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAccording to figures from Johns Hopkins University, 2,715 people in California have died with coronavirus.\n\nSince 23 March, all but \"basic operations\" have been suspended at Tesla's Fremont plant, near San Francisco, because of \"shelter in place\" orders enacted in Alameda County. The factory employs more than 10,000 workers, and makes about 415,000 vehicles every year.\n\nCalifornia's government has eased some restrictions around the state this week, allowing businesses to resume operations. But several Bay Area counties have issued their own criteria for which businesses may reopen, which take precedence.\n\nIn Alameda, all but essential businesses must remain shut until the end of May.\n\nMr Musk suggested the factory's future could now be in doubt, tweeting: \"If we even retain Fremont manufacturing activity at all, it will be dependen[t] on how Tesla is treated in the future.\"\n\nIn a statement released before Mr Musk's tweets, Alameda County said: \"We welcome Tesla's proactive work on a reopening plan, so that once they fit the criteria to reopen, they can do so in a way that protects their employees and the community at large.\"\n\nMr Musk, 48, who welcomed a baby with Canadian singer Grimes earlier this week, wiped $14bn (£11bn) off Tesla's value on 1 May after tweeting that its share price was too high.\n\nHe has donated over 1,200 ventilators to hospitals in the US to assist with treating coronavirus patients.\n\nThe tech billionaire has also poked fun at the mass purchasing of toilet paper when the pandemic began. But he has also sparked controversy for promoting an unproven treatment for the virus, and for asserting, falsely, that children are \"essentially immune\".\n\nMr Musk has continually voiced his opposition to \"fascist\" lockdown measures, tweeting \"FREE AMERICA NOW\" last month.\n\nTesla has suspended operations at its plant in the Chinese city of Shanghai, according to Bloomberg. It had previously closed the factory as a temporary measure when the virus was at its peak in China.\n\nThe company reported a net profit in the first three months of this year, and its stock has risen to nearly $820 (£669; €756). But analysts expect the coronavirus pandemic will adversely affect its earnings in 2020.", "Environment minister George Eustice urged people to abide by the current rules to stay home\n\nThe public has to be \"realistic\" about the easing of lockdown restrictions, the environment secretary has said.\n\nGeorge Eustice also urged the public to abide by the current coronavirus measures over the weekend, with the PM due to deliver an update on Sunday.\n\nGarden centres in England will be permitted to reopen from Wednesday, a senior government source has said.\n\nMr Eustice also announced a £16m fund to deliver millions of meals to those struggling during the pandemic.\n\nA further 626 coronavirus deaths were confirmed on Friday, taking the UK total to 31,241, including a six-week-old baby with an underlying health condition.\n\nAsked by the BBC's Ben Wright about whether Boris Johnson would ease restrictions in line with an announcement from Wales, Mr Eustice said there would be \"no dramatic overnight change\" and the government would be \"very, very cautious as we loosen the restrictions we have\".\n\nSpeaking at the No 10 daily briefing, he reiterated that the \"stay at home\" message remained in place over the \"sunny bank holiday weekend\".\n\nHe also said that while each of the devolved nations might take slightly different approaches, they were working together \"to try to have a broadly similar UK approach\".\n\nWales will allow people exercise more than once a day and Scotland is considering similar measures\n\nMeanwhile, UK airlines have said the government is set to impose a 14-day travel quarantine on arrivals from any country apart from the Republic of Ireland, a move which is expected to take effect at the end of the month.\n\nPeople arriving in the country would have to self-isolate at a private residence and it is not clear how long the measure may be put in place.\n\nEarlier, it was confirmed that garden centres in Wales would be able to reopen from Monday and the government has now confirmed similar plans for England.\n\nSocial-distancing measures will have to be obeyed but a senior government source said they were \"typically open large open-air spaces where the risk of transmission of coronavirus is lower\".\n\nAny cafes or playgrounds associated with the retail space will have to remain closed, it is understood.\n\nAt the government's daily briefing, Mr Eustice said the government was considering changing the restrictions on funerals but said he did not want to prejudge what Mr Johnson would say on Sunday evening.\n\n\"People want the opportunity to pay their last respects - obviously we have to be very conscious of large social gatherings but it is something we are giving consideration to,\" he said.\n\nCurrently lockdown measures allow members of the deceased's household and close family members or friends, to be present at a funeral, alongside the funeral staff and chapel attendant.\n\nThe environment secretary also said it was safe for takeaway food shops to reopen, adding that McDonald's drive-thru restaurants were \"made for social distancing\".\n\nMany high street chains including McDonald's, Greggs and KFC chose to shut their doors during the lockdown - although some have begun the process of reopening.\n\n\"I think it is quite possible for these venues to reopen and reopen safely, we never mandated that they should close,\" he added.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have the power to make their own decisions on lockdown regulations - and could lift restrictions at a different rate.\n\nEarlier, Wales First Minister Mark Drakeford said he wanted the nation to move in step with the rest of the UK when he announced the changes to its lockdown, which included allowing garden centres and libraries to reopen as well as letting people exercise outside more often.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Friday the only change she was considering in the immediate term was on the limits to outdoor exercise.\n\nMs Sturgeon said there had been a \"helpful recognition\" from the prime minister that the four UK nations \"may well move at different speeds if our data about the spread of the virus says that that is necessary to suppress it\".\n\nArlene Foster, Northern Ireland's First Minister, said there would only be \"nuanced changes\" to measures in the region.\n\nThe government announced 97,029 tests had been delivered in the 24 hours to 09:00 BST on Friday, just shy of the 100,000 target Health Secretary Matt Hancock set for the end of April.\n\nThat aim was achieved on 30 April and 1 May but has not been reached since.\n\nWhen asked why in some cases it was taking up to 10 days for people to get their test results back, Mr Eustice said there would be daily fluctuations in availability of tests in any given area.\n\n\"You will get some days of surplus tests where people haven't come forward to take them in some areas, and you will have other areas where you don't have quite enough capacity for that local demand,\" he said.\n\nThe prime minister has set a target of increasing testing capacity to 200,000 by the end of May.\n\nAsked whether the R rate - the rate at which the virus spreads - had to remain universally low before lockdown could be lifted, Prof Stephen Powis, national medical director of NHS England, said it would vary from place to place but \"the important thing is that as a whole it stays below one\".\n\nThe R rate is the number of people that one infected person will pass the virus on to on average.\n\nProf Powis also told the briefing that data would be published on the deaths of those with learning disabilities and autism who had tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nHe said: \"We're looking at how we can report on those groups and I'll commit that from next week we will be publishing data on learning disabilities, autism and mental health patients who died in acute hospitals, and we'll do that on an ongoing basis.\"\n\nMr Eustice announced more support for vulnerable people, saying millions of meals would be delivered over the next 12 weeks to help during \"this enormously challenging time\".\n\nAt least 5,000 frontline charities across England will benefit from the £16m fund which comes from the £750m pot announced for charities by Chancellor Rishi Sunak on 8 April.\n\n\"These are extraordinary times but I think that £750m is very welcome and it's helped a lot of charities with the additional burdens that they have as a result of the coronavirus,\" Mr Eustice added.", "A father has been charged with murdering his one-year-old daughter and three-year-old son.\n\nPavinya Nithiyakumar, aged 19 months, and Nigish Nithiyakumar were both found with stab wounds in Aldborough Road North in Ilford, east London, on 26 April.\n\nPavinya died at the scene and Nigish was taken to hospital, but died shortly after arriving.\n\nNadarajah Nithiyakumar, 40, has been charged with two counts of murder.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said he appeared in custody at Thames Magistrates' Court on Friday.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is thought about 80 migrants crossed the English Channel on Saturday\n\nAt least 227 migrants have been intercepted in two days as they tried to cross the English Channel to reach the UK.\n\nEight boats carrying 145 people were stopped on Friday, the Home Office confirmed - a record for a single day.\n\nA further 82 were intercepted on Saturday.\n\nThose picked up by Border Force officials said they were Iranian, Iraqi, Kuwaiti, Syrian and Afghan nationals.\n\nFriday's total included 51 people packed on board a single inflatable boat, the Home Office said.\n\nOf 82 people detained on Saturday, 70 were aboard inflatable boats, while 12 men were found at Dungeness on the Kent coast.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said French authorities had prevented a total of 44 people from crossing.\n\nOn Sunday and Monday more than 130 suspected migrants were stopped as they attempted to reach the UK from France.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has acknowledged that a recent increase in the number of migrant boats making the dangerous crossing is linked to the Covid-19 lockdown.\n\nSince lockdown was announced in Britain on 23 March, at least 609 migrants have been intercepted by UK authorities and brought ashore.\n\nThe migrants have been taking advantage of the coronavirus lockdown\n\nClare Moseley, from aid group Care4Calais, said it was \"little wonder\" those living in French refugee camps were \"desperate to make this dangerous crossing, given the awful conditions they face\".\n\n\"Coronavirus has made a bad situation life-threateningly worse,\" she said.\n\n\"These people are fleeing terrifying situations in some of the most dangerous parts of the world. They aim for the UK because they want to be safe.\n\n\"Many have family or other connections, and others know our language and want to integrate and contribute,\" she said.\n\nMinister for immigration compliance Chris Philp said the recent increase in crossings was \"totally unacceptable\" and it was \"sickening that smugglers are willing to put people's lives at risk, including children\".\n\nHe said the government was \"stepping up action to stop the crossings, going after the criminals perpetrating these heinous crimes and prosecuting them for their criminal activity\".\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Passengers travelling through some UK airports are being told to cover their faces and wear gloves due to Covid-19.\n\nThe new rules will apply to those travelling through Manchester, Stansted and East Midlands airports from Thursday.\n\nManchester Airports Group (MAG), which owns the sites, said the measure will show \"one way in which air travel can be made safe\".\n\nThe announcement comes as the aviation sector struggles with coronavirus.\n\nThe three airports are believed to be the first in the UK to introduce such strict hygiene rules.\n\nThose passing through the airport will be given face coverings or masks as well as gloves during the initial stages of the trial. All airport staff serving passengers will also be required to wear the items.\n\nMAG boss Charlie Cornish said: \"It's clear that social distancing will not work on any form of public transport. But we're confident that when the time is right, people will be able to travel safely. We now need to work urgently with government to agree how we operate in the future.\"\n\nHe added: \"This has to be a top priority so that people can be confident about flying, and to get tourism and travel going again.\"\n\nTemperature screening trials will also be conducted at Stansted over the next few weeks to test equipment. It follows the boss of Heathrow airport confirming on Wednesday that it is trialling large-scale temperature checks.\n\nChief executive John Holland-Kaye said they are already being carried out at departure gates on people going to places where this is a requirement.\n\nHe also urged the government to produce a plan on what common standards UK airports should adopt, so that the aviation sector could \"get started again\".\n\nMany airlines have been struggling as the coronavirus pandemic has brought global travel to a virtual standstill.\n\nOn Thursday, British Airways owner IAG has said it is hoping for a \"meaningful return\" of flights in July at the earliest if lockdown measures are relaxed.\n\nHowever, IAG - which also owns Iberia and Aer Lingus - said these plans were \"highly uncertain\", and were subject to various travel restrictions.\n\nIAG said it did not expect passenger demand, which has been hit by the pandemic, to recover before 2023.\n\n\"We will adapt our operating procedures to ensure our customers and our people are properly protected in this new environment,\" chief executive Willie Walsh said.\n\nThe group said that even if flights resumed in the summer it expected that passenger capacity would still only be half the usual level in 2020.\n\nSince late March, capacity has fallen by 94%, with most of the group's aircraft grounded.\n\nThe announcement came as IAG reported losses after tax hit €1.68bn (£1.47bn) during the first three months of the year, which included a €1.3bn charge for fuel hedges.\n\nMany airlines are struggling during the pandemic\n\nIAG also reported an operating loss of €535m (£466.6m) for the quarter, down from a €135m profit in 2019.\n\nThe group added that it expected the second quarter to be \"significantly worse\".\n\nIn an attempt to shore up cash during the coronavirus crisis, IAG said that it expected to defer deliveries of 68 aircraft.\n\nAlthough IAG is planning for a resumption of some services, it says it will still need to let go of many staff.\n\nLast month, BA said it was set to cut up to 12,000 jobs from its 42,000-strong workforce. It also told staff that its Gatwick airport operation might not reopen after the pandemic passes.\n\nIAG chief executive Willie Walsh will delay his retirement until September\n\nIAG chief executive Willie Walsh had been due to retire in March, but will stay on until September \"to focus on the immediate response to the crisis\".\n\nLuis Gallego, head of the group's Spanish division, Iberia, since 2014, will succeed him.\n\nOn Wednesday, other aviation bosses called for additional support for the sector from the UK government.\n\nSpeaking to MPs on the Transport Select Committee, Heathrow Airport chief executive John Holland-Kaye argued that the French, German and US governments had provided large, bespoke rescue packages for their aviation industries as they saw them as \"fundamental\", and suggested that was not the case in the UK.\n\nAir France KLM, for example, won a €7bn loan package from the French government in April.\n\nHowever, IAG's competitor has reported that it made a loss in its day-to-day business of €815m in the three months of the year due to travel grinding to a halt.\n\nSeveral other firms posted trading updates on Thursday which detailed how they had been affected by the coronavirus pandemic.", "Newcastle United and the Premier League must put moral values ahead of financial gains, says the fiancee of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi.\n\nSaudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund looks set to finance 80% of a £300m takeover of the club.\n\nKhashoggi was killed in 2018 with Western intelligence agencies believing that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the murder - which he denies.\n\n\"My message would be to the management of Newcastle United and to the decision makers.\n\n\"We should consider ethical values, not just financial or political ones. Money cannot buy everything in the world. So the message that will be given to people like Crown Prince is extremely important.\n\n\"There should be no place in English football for those credibly accused of atrocities and murder\".\n• None Fans vow to raise Saudi issues despite support for deal\n\nKhashoggi - a dissident Saudi columnist living in self-exile in the United States - had gone to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October 2018, seeking papers to marry Cengiz.\n\nInvestigators believe that as she waited outside, the 59-year-old was murdered and then dismembered. His remains have never been found.\n\nUN Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard said there was credible evidence that Crown Prince Mohammed and other high-level Saudi officials were individually liable.\n\nA court in Saudi Arabia last year sentenced five people to death and jailed three others over his murder, while Turkey has separately charged 20 suspects over the murder.\n\n\"We don't want this deal to go ahead,\" Cengiz added. \"We are not just talking about the murder of a human being but the efforts to keep all hopes regarding the future, to keep human rights alive, to support justice and to start a transformation in the Middle East.\n\n\"This deal seems to be about buying something. But there is a wider picture. Saudi Arabia shows the world its face of reform. But it has another face where the reality is far from what is shown to the world. This is why we want this (deal) to be stopped and not be completed.\"\n\nWhat do we know about the takeover?\n\nMike Ashley has owned Newcastle since 2007 and put the club up for sale in 2017. The proposed Saudi takeover is thought to be worth some £300 million.\n\nBut it has already caused much controversy.\n• None Who are the main people involved in the potential deal?\n\nThe Saudi government has been accused of facilitating the theft of Premier League commercial rights, while Amnesty International has criticised the potential deal due to the country's dire human rights record.\n\nThe country has also been accused of \"sportswashing\", a term used to describe countries that try to improve their international reputation by investing in major teams or hosting big sporting events.\n\nBut these accusations have been rebuffed by the Saudi government, which claims it wants to get more of its people engaged in sport.\n\nCengiz has written to the Premier League to state the takeover should be blocked. In a reply to her letter from chief executive Richard Masters, seen by BBC Sport, he says the Premier League are following \"due processes required by UK law and by the Premier League's own rules\", which \"go beyond those required by UK company law\" and are \"applied with rigour\". But he says he \"appreciates the strength of feeling\" from her and reiterated his condolences.\n\nLast month, the Premier League was urged by one of its largest overseas broadcast partners to \"fully interrogate\" Newcastle United's proposed £300m takeover.\n\nThe chief executive of the Qatar-based TV giant beIN Sport, Yousef al-Obaidly, has written to the chairs of top-flight clubs about the deal, which could see the Magpies bought by a Saudi-backed consortium.\n\nIn the letter, Al-Obaidly accused the Saudi Arabian government of the \"facilitation of the near three-year theft of the Premier League's commercial rights - and in turn your club's commercial revenues - through its backing of the huge-scale beoutQ pirate service\".\n\nIt should be decided soon, possibly this week, and yes it will go through. Certainly speak to those close to the consortium and they don't sound too concerned.\n\nThey can point to the fact that Britain's been happy to do billions of pounds-worth of arms deals with the Saudis over recent years and I think it's significant that the British government the other day did make it clear that it wouldn't stand in the way of this deal, saying it was a matter for the Premier League.\n\nThe PIF, the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, has declined to comment but it's understood its position is that although the Crown Prince is chair of the organisation, he is not involved with it in the day-to-day running so the accusations against him are not directly relevant to this bid.\n\nAnd the owners' and directors' tests the Premier League will be looking at now doesn't appear to have much to say about character. It refers to unspent convictions, but unless there is an obvious and clear link between a person and an offence or that person has been convicted in a court of law, it's difficult to see how they could fail the test.", "Alameda County authorities say opening the plant could lead to a spike in virus cases\n\nElectric car firm Tesla has been ordered to keep its main plant in the US closed, as California grapples with a coronavirus outbreak.\n\nChief executive Elon Musk had told staff \"limited\" production would resume on Friday at the Fremont factory, near San Francisco, according to CNBC.\n\nBut Alameda County says this could lead to a spike in coronavirus cases.\n\nNearly 9,500 cases have been reported in the San Francisco Bay Area, along with 342 virus-related deaths.\n\nSince 23 March, all but \"basic operations\" have been suspended at the plant because of \"shelter in place\" orders enacted in the county. The factory employs more than 10,000 workers, and makes about 415,000 vehicles every year.\n\nCalifornia's government has eased some restrictions around the state this week, allowing businesses to resume operations. But several Bay Area counties, including Alameda, have issued their own criteria according to which businesses may reopen, which take precedence.\n\nTesla chief executive Elon Musk has drawn criticism for his opposition to coronavirus lockdown measures\n\n\"Tesla has been informed that they do not meet those criteria and must not reopen,\" Alameda County said in a statement. \"We welcome Tesla's proactive work on a reopening plan, so that once they fit the criteria to reopen, they can do so in a way that protects their employees and the community at large.\"\n\nTesla did not immediately respond to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nMr Musk has drawn controversy for his opposition to coronavirus restrictions, and his promotion of unproven treatments for the virus.\n\nIn a series of tweets, the tech billionaire has said \"the coronavirus panic is dumb\" and \"FREE AMERICA NOW\".\n\nIt comes as Tesla has suspended operations at its plant in the Chinese city of Shanghai, according to Bloomberg. It had previously closed the factory as a temporary measure when the virus was at its peak in China.\n\nThe company reported a net profit in the first three months of this year, and its stock has risen to nearly $820 (£669; €756). But analysts expect the coronavirus pandemic will adversely affect its earnings in 2020.", "That's all from us today. Thanks for joining us for us our live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic in Wales on Saturday.\n\nHere's a round-up of the main stories in Wales today:\n• Public Health Wales has announced an additional nine deaths of people with coronavirus in Wales, bringing the total to 1,099.\n• First Minister Mark Drakeford has acknowledged extending lockdown is damaging people's sense of mental well-being.\n• Artists have been left in \"real hardship\" by the closure of venues and festivals, the Arts Council of Wales has warned.\n• Wales has followed England in offering financial help to dairy farmers hit by the outbreak.\n\nJoin us from Sunday afternoon for all the latest updates from across Wales.", "Young men are more likely than young women to break lockdown rules, psychologists suggest.\n\nA team from the University of Sheffield and Ulster University questioned just under 2,000 13-24 year olds.\n\nHalf of the men aged 19-24 had met friends or family members they did not live with during lockdown, compared to 25% of women.\n\nThe researchers called on the government to better target messages for young people.\n\nJust under half of all those questioned - 917 young people - said they were feeling significantly more anxious during the lockdown - particularly if they had a parent who was a key worker.\n\nThose with depression were more likely to flout lockdown rules by meeting up with friends and leaving the house unnecessarily; while those with anxiety were more likely to practise social distancing and regularly wash their hands.\n\nDr Liat Levita from the University of Sheffield says mental health is no justification for not following the rules, but it might help us understand why it's difficult for certain people to comply.\n\n\"The more someone is depressed, the less compliant and de-motivated they are.\n\n\"So if you need to hand-wash more often and need to make an effort in following the guidelines, it's not something that you're actually going to be able to do very well.\"\n\nProfessor of Clinical Psychology and Rehabilitation from Kings College London, Prof Dame Til Wykes says feeling anxious is pretty normal with so much uncertainty and a loss of social support.\n\n\"The crucial questions are how long this lasts and what support young people need.\n\n\"This [situation] can have a serious impact on those with pre-existing mental health problems and some will certainly need some formal psychological treatment.\"\n\nDr Levita agrees it's important we don't wait to help young people with their mental health during the coronavirus crisis.\n\n\"If you have a broken leg, you don't wait two months before you go to the hospital to get it fixed.\"\n\nThis research found 150 out of 281 men aged 19-24 had met with a group of friends during lockdown, while a fifth had been reprimanded by police - either dispersed, fined or arrested as a result of breaking the rules\n\nThis male group was also more likely to think they weren't at risk of catching Covid-19 or spreading it to others, and that following the government's guidelines was not worthwhile.\n\nDr Levita says \"we know that males in general take more risks and evolutionary psychologists have always explained that in terms of males trying to show off.\n\n\"They will take more risks and their decision-making processes are shaped by that so their behaviour actually makes sense to them.\"\n\nThe findings come after recent statistics from the National Police Chief's Council that found a third of those fined by police for breaking lockdown rules were aged 18-24 and eight out of 10 were men.\n\nAcross all ages, the study showed the majority were not complying with basic hygiene recommendations such as washing hands regularly, but most said they intended to follow the guidelines in future weeks.\n\nThe psychologists say the government must do more to explain the reasons for ongoing physical distancing to help young people understand lockdown rules.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care has highlighted the government's campaign urging people to stay at home and the advice ministers give at the daily press briefing.\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. \"Public transport cannot go back to where it left off\" - Transport Secretary Grant Shapps\n\nThe government will proceed with \"extreme caution\" exiting lockdown, the transport secretary said as he revealed plans to \"get Britain moving again\".\n\nGrant Shapps said the move beyond Covid-19 would be a \"gradual progress\" and not a \"single leap to freedom\".\n\nHe pledged £250m for improvements to cycling and walking infrastructure but would not confirm a 14-day quarantine for passengers arriving in the UK.\n\nAnother 346 UK coronavirus deaths were recorded, taking the total to 31,587.\n\nMr Shapps, who was speaking a day before the prime minister is due to address the country on lockdown measures, said there had been unprecedented levels of walking and cycling during the pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"Whilst it's crucial that we stay at home, when the country does get back to work we need to ask those people to carry on cycling or walking and for them to be joined by many others as well.\"\n\nEven if the UK transport network was running at full capacity, social distancing rules would mean only one in 10 passengers could travel, he said.\n\nPop-up bike lanes, wider pavements, safer junctions, and cycle and bus-only corridors will be created in England within weeks as part of a £250m emergency fund.\n\nIt is the first part a £2bn package for cycling and walking, which was part of a £5bn investment announced in February, the Department for Transport said.\n\nThe extra funding is for English local authorities to help alter road networks with the aim of taking pressure off roads and public transport network.\n\nMatters concerning cycling and walking are devolved. For example, Wales had legislation in place to boost both activities since 2013, while Scotland announced funding for \"active travel infrastructure\" in April.\n\nThe Welsh Government has suggested new policies including road or lane closures with filters for cyclists, 20 mph limits and footway widening.\n\nIn Scotland, Michael Matheson, cabinet secretary for transport, infrastructure and connectivity, told the Scottish parliament his government had put forward a package of support to help local authorities implement \"temporary active travel measures\" to allow people to walk and cycle while physically distancing and keeping safe from traffic.\n\nNo specific measures have been announced yet in Northern Ireland although Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon is expected to appoint a cycling and walking champion.\n\nThe transport secretary announced an emergency £250m fund for cycling and walking improvements\n\nAsked by the BBC's Ben Wright about reports of 14-day quarantine measures for people entering the country, Mr Shapps said he would not announce anything ahead of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's speech on lockdown measures on Sunday.\n\nBut deputy chief medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam said the virus had an incubation period of up to 14 days, during which symptoms develop.\n\nMr Shapps said: \"Bearing in mind the sacrifice the British people have made over seven weeks and counting, you can't have a situation where someone is asked to stay at home but others can come into the country.\"\n\nThe airline industry has raised concerns about the plans with trade body Airlines UK saying the policy needed \"a credible exit plan\" and should be reviewed weekly.\n\nAnd a spokesman for Heathrow said any measures must be medically effective, meet public expectations and be deliverable by airports.\n\nAnnouncing £10m for electric car charging points and extended an e-scooter trial across England, Scotland and Wales, the transport secretary said better air quality had been one of the few benefits of the current crisis.\n\nMr Shapps was also asked about the apparent rise in people going outside which came after warnings against sending out \"mixed messages\" with newspaper reports suggesting sunbathing and picnics could be permitted as early as Monday.\n\nHe dismissed allegations the government's messaging strategy was confusing, and said \"I think that most people are more than capable of understanding what is meant\".\n\nAsked about social distancing in schools, particularly for younger children who may not follow the rules, Mr Shapps said: \"Extreme caution is actually the watchword on this. And we've seen in other countries where second, not quite spikes have come along, but where social distancing has been relaxed and there've been problems, so we will wait to see.\"\n\nThe government did not hit the 100,000 daily testing target for the seventh day running but there were 96,878 tests delivered in the 24 hours up to 09:00 BST on Friday.\n\nThe Local Government Association welcomed the transport announcements but said local councils must have \"long-term certainty\" around funding.\n\nDavid Renard, LGA transport spokesman, said: \"Local control over infrastructure and public transport budgets would enable them to deliver the widespread improvements to promote more active travel.\"\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said funding for walking and cycling schemes was important for people who have to return to work and said enabling people to walk and cycle would be \"critical to easing the pressure on our busy public transport network\".\n\nRAC head of roads policy Nicholas Lyes said the success of the new walking and cycling schemes would depend on motorists' attitudes to short car journeys, and said if e-scooters were to be used as alternative transport to get around cities, safety must be taken into account.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We are still a nation those brave soldiers, sailors and airmen would recognise and admire\"\n\nThe Queen has given a poignant address to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, praising Britain's response to the coronavirus epidemic that has filled empty streets with \"love\".\n\nIn the broadcast, she said: \"Today it may seem hard that we cannot mark this special anniversary as we would wish.\n\n\"Instead we remember from our homes and from our doorsteps.\"\n\nIt aired exactly 75 years on from her father King George VI's address at the end of the Second World War in Europe.\n\nThanking the wartime generation, the Queen, 94, said: \"They risked all so our families and neighbourhoods could be safe.\"\n\n\"We should and will remember them.\"\n\nVictory in Europe (VE) Day marks the day in 1945 when Britain and its allies accepted the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany, bringing the war in Europe to an end.\n\nThis year's celebration has been limited due to the lockdown conditions in place across Europe because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nDespite this, the Queen said, \"our streets are not empty, they are filled with the love and the care that we have for each other\".\n\n\"And when I look at our country today and see what we are willing to do to protect and support one another, I say with pride that we are still a nation those brave soldiers, sailors and airmen would recognise and admire.\"\n\nIn the pre-recorded message from Windsor Castle, her second televised address of the coronavirus pandemic, the Queen described the Second World War as a \"total war\" where \"no one was immune from its impact\".\n\n\"At the start, the outlook seemed bleak, the end distant, the outcome uncertain,\" she said.\n\n\"But we kept faith that the cause was right and this belief, as my father noted in his broadcast, carried us through.\n\n\"Never give up, never despair, that was the message of VE Day.\"\n\nPaying tribute to those who were killed during the conflict, she said: \"They died so we could live as free people in a world of free nations.\n\n\"They risked all so our families and neighbourhoods could be safe.\"\n\nReflecting on her own memories of VE Day, the Queen said she \"vividly\" remembered the \"jubilant scenes my sister and I witnessed with our parents and Winston Churchill from the balcony of Buckingham Palace\".\n\nPrime Minister Winston Churchill stands on the balcony of Buckingham Palace alongside the Royal Family (with the Queen, then Princess Elizabeth, on the left) on 8 May 1945\n\nThe Queen, then 19, later slipped into the crowds outside Buckingham Palace, unnoticed, with her 14-year-old sister Princess Margaret, where the pair joined thousands of other revellers.\n\nThe khaki-coloured Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) cap she wore to disguise herself from the public that day laid in front of her as she made her address on Friday evening.\n\nIt was in the ATS that Princess Elizabeth qualified as a driver and the cap was part of her uniform when she undertook national service in 1945.\n\nThe Queen, sitting behind a desk in Windsor's white drawing room, also surrounded herself with other historic personal mementos from the war years, including wearing two aquamarine and diamond clip brooches.\n\nThe art deco-style pieces were an 18th birthday present from her father in April 1944 - just over a year before VE Day.\n\nAlso visible were framed photographs of her father George VI and the Royal Family standing on the Buckingham Palace balcony on VE Day with Prime Minister Winston Churchill.\n\nThe monarch's broadcast marked the culmination of a raft of events throughout Friday remembering the war and celebrating its end in Europe.\n\nEarlier, the UK held a two-minute silence, led by the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, to honour the war's servicemen and women.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson thanked the VE Day generation, saying \"our gratitude will be eternal\".\n\nHe said: \"We can't hold the parades and street celebrations we enjoyed in the past, but all of us who were born since 1945 are acutely conscious that we owe everything we most value to the generation who won the Second World War.\"\n\nIn Westminster, Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle laid a wreath on behalf of the House of Commons.\n\nThe Royal Air Force display team the Red Arrows staged a flypast over London, while RAF Typhoon jets flew over Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast.\n\nThe Red Arrows flew over Horse Guards Parade in central London\n\nMr Johnson said the coronavirus outbreak demanded \"the same spirit of national endeavour\" as shown during wartime\n\nVeteran Signalman Eric Bradshaw, who is isolating after testing positive for Covid-19, has been celebrating VE Day at his care home in Oldham, Greater Manchester\n\nIn the afternoon, solo buglers, trumpeters and cornet players across the country played the Last Post from their homes.\n\nExtracts from Sir Winston Churchill's VE Day speech were broadcast, 75 years after it was first heard and people were encouraged to join in a toast from their homes.\n\nLater in the evening, Welsh soprano Katherine Jenkins, actor Adrian Lester and singer Beverley Knight, performed well-known songs from the 1930s and 40s and the public joined in a sing-along to Vera Lynn's wartime classic, We'll Meet Again.", "A new scheme in Milan has re-allocated car parking space for pedestrians and cyclists\n\nThe UK government is urging the public to walk and cycle to work instead of using public transport or driving.\n\nIt comes as people across the UK have told BBC News they are finding it impossible to stay safe outside because our cities were not built for social distancing.\n\nHow we will travel while maintaining social distancing is one of the biggest challenges the government faces as it seeks to start to lift the lockdown.\n\nIt has led communities, UK transport groups and public health experts to call for radical changes - some already happening globally - such as wider pavements, traffic restrictions and cycle networks.\n\nSuch changes would prevent further waves of infections, improve air quality and public health, and help countries achieve their climate goals, they say.\n\nThe decline in road use during the lockdown has seen dramatic falls in air pollution - an unforeseen benefit of the pandemic - as well as quieter roads for cycling.\n\nBut social distancing has highlighted the close proximity in which we all live, particularly in urban areas.\n\nIn Manchester, Deborah Todd has given up on pavements and now walks in the roads with her children; Carrie-Ann Lightley had an accident because pedestrians did not make space for her wheelchair on the pavement in Cumbria; Julie Taylor has to queue to walk through the narrow alleyway outside her home in Wiltshire. And in London, Anne Bookless has stopped going outside altogether because there is no room for her wheelchair.\n\nPhotos sent to BBC News show obstacles on pavements or queues outside shops\n\nCycling has increased by 22% in places such as Greater Manchester, including those key workers commuting by bike where public transport is closed.\n\nWhen public transport does reopen, capacity will be severely restricted.\n\nIn London, the Tube will be able to handle less than 15% of its pre-pandemic rush hour peak: 50,000 passengers every 15 minutes, compared with 325,000 before, according to leaked documents seen by the BBC.\n\nAnd if more people travel by car, instead of public transport, road space - already at a premium - will be under even greater pressure.\n\nWidened pavements in London this week were welcomed by a walking campaign group and residents\n\n\"The crisis has exposed how little space is allocated to people - it's exposed that everyone wants safe streets,\" Chris Boardman, Cycling Commissioner for Manchester and former Olympic cyclist, says.\n\nThe UK is being urged to follow the lead of cities like Paris, Berlin and New York City and install temporary measures to create space for social distancing.\n\nUsing temporary traffic orders, councils can widen pavements, install networks of temporary cycle lanes, and close residential streets to through-traffic.\n\n\"If we enable people to travel differently, we will protect them now during the crisis, and afterwards, when the public health benefits of more people exercising and breathing in cleaner air kick in. That's how you protect the NHS,\" says Mr Boardman.\n\nBut banning cars ignores the needs of many road users, says Duncan Buchanan, policy director at the Road Haulage Association (RHA): \"Selective bans will have detrimental impacts on all other roads, add to congestion and journey times as well as increase pollution and CO2 emissions,\" he argues.\n\nScientists warn we will need to practise social distancing for at least the next 12-18 months. Public transport will be severely reduced, meaning commuters will need to find other ways to travel.\n\nThere are signs people will turn to their cars in greater numbers than pre-lockdown: 56% of drivers currently without a car plan to buy one post-lockdown, according to car sales company AutoTrader.\n\nIn Wuhan, China, private car usage nearly doubled when lockdown ended, rising from 34% before the outbreak to 66% after lockdown.\n\n\"There is an avalanche of private car usage coming if we don't do something about it,\" says Leo Murray from climate action charity Possible, which campaigns for green transport.\n\nIn the UK's most polluted urban areas, where two studies suggest the air quality is putting people at higher risk of dying from Covid-19, there is a heightened sense of urgency.\n\nPeople in cities such as London, Birmingham, and Glasgow are already struggling with respiratory disease and heart attacks linked to air pollution. If car use soars, it will be catastrophic for public health and well-being, Mr Murray suggests, as well as for the climate change goals that require a 50% decline in private car use in the UK.\n\n\"There is a real incentive to keep our respiratory health as good as possible. Walking and cycling is the way to keep London moving in a safe and socially distanced way,\" says Caroline Russell, London Assembly and Islington councillor for the Green Party.\n\nJust 9% of people want a total return to pre-lockdown life, according to a YouGov survey.\n\nSince lockdown measures were imposed, the US city of Los Angeles has had its longest stretch of air quality rated as \"good\" since 1995\n\nMost journeys in the UK are short - 68% are under five miles - meaning that most people could complete them easily by bike if they felt confident and safe. Habit change is notoriously difficult, according to psychologists, but the crisis has transformed behaviours overnight.\n\n\"We've got this really precious moment to change how we live and we can't let it slip between our fingers. Let this tragedy re-define, in a positive way, what living in cities is about,\" says Will Butler-Adams, the CEO of UK bike manufacturer Brompton.\n\nBritish cities are lagging behind their global counterparts in making effective changes.\n\nSo far, the government has made it easier for councils to close streets to cars, and London has announced its Streetspace Plan to encourage millions more to cycle and walk.\n\nBut councillors and planners say more is needed.\n\n\"Local councils are overwhelmed with emergency work and lack funding - the government itself needs to lead,\" says Adam Tranter, Cycling Mayor for the city of Coventry.\n\nIn London, a group of women calling themselves the Tactical Urbanistas took matters into their own hands. Last week they widened the pavement outside a busy high street supermarket, using painted circles on the road surface and makeshift barriers of tyres filled with soil and flowers.\n\nFrustrated at the lack of space to queue, a group of women widened a London pavement themselves\n\nResidents in Tower Hamlets welcomed the change and the barriers were applauded on social media, the group say. However, the local council objected and removed the tyres, citing safety reasons.\n\n\"London's streets are not safe for social distancing and a disproportionate amount of space is given to cars at the expense of other road users. This is a public health risk and needs to be treated urgently,\" Tactical Urbanistas told BBC News.\n\nPlans for building cycle networks already exist - government and local authorities just need to enact them, say numerous experts including Brian Deegan, a street engineer who helped design the London and Manchester cycle networks. Light segregation of roads for cycle paths and widening pavements would be cheap and quick, he adds.\n\n\"It demands an emergency response. If residents don't like the temporary measures, councils can reverse them when the crisis is over. But history shows people prefer the quieter and cleaner streets,\" he suggests.\n\nCommunity groups that have long called for greener, sustainable cities hope the pandemic could bring that change.\n\nIn Germany, officials concluded that temporary cycle lanes installed in Berlin helped residents observe social distancing measures and had no negative impact on traffic flows.\n\n\"So much has been taken away from us, and now people are focussing on the smaller things,\" says Paul Riley, from Transition Liverpool.\n\n\"We've learnt that it is possible to implement change, if we want it.\"", "Mr Shapps is expected to say that the lockdown is an \"opportunity\" to change the way we get to work\n\nWe need to protect the public transport network as lockdown is lifted, the UK's transport secretary is expected to say at a press conference on Saturday.\n\nThe BBC understands Grant Shapps will encourage the public to continue to work from home if they can.\n\nThose who need to travel to work will be urged to consider more active ways to travel like walking and cycling.\n\nExtra funding is likely to be announced for English local authorities to help alter road networks to facilitate this.\n\nThe intention is to take pressure off roads and public transport networks.\n\nThis is a devolved issue and in Wales the assembly is suggesting a number of new policies including road and lane closures with filters for cyclists. Scotland announced funding for \"active travel infrastructure\" in April. No specific measures have been announced yet in Northern Ireland although the infrastructure minister is expected to appoint a cycling and walking champion.\n\nIt is believed that Mr Shapps will talk about using the unique \"opportunity\" of the lockdown restrictions to change the way we get to work.\n\nHow we will travel while maintaining social distancing is one of the biggest challenges the government faces as it seeks to start to lift the lockdown.\n\nMaintaining the two-metre rule will mean buses, trains and tubes will be able to carry far fewer passengers.\n\nTheir capacity could be reduced by as much as 90%, according to some estimates.\n\nThere have been fewer buses and trains scheduled during the lockdown, so it will take time to restore normal services.\n\nMany commuters will also be concerned about the safety of crowded buses and trains but, if more people try to commute into work in their cars, the roads are likely to become choked with traffic.\n\nThe solution, Grant Shapps is expected to say, is for us all to walk and cycle more.\n\nThe BBC understands that the proposal to increase what the government is calling \"active travel\" will be presented as an opportunity for us all to live \"cleaner, greener, healthier lives\".\n\nMr Shapps is likely to announce extra funding for local authorities to pay for alterations to the road network to facilitate this move to more active ways to get around.\n\nHe is also expected to announce plans to give local authorities new powers to change the road network and designate extra space for cyclists and pedestrians.\n\nThe mayors of London and Manchester - Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham - announced last week that they were planning to close some roads to cars to create dedicated pedestrian and cycle routes.\n\nBBC transport correspondent Tom Burridge said Mr Shapps was also set to announce that trials of e-scooters will be fast-tracked to any area of Britain that wanted to attempt one.\n\nCurrently, trials are limited to a small number of areas.\n\nThe transport secretary's announcement comes as a coalition of nine environmental and transport pressure groups have written to the government to demand a big increase in spending on walking and cycling.\n\nTheir letter calls for a fundamental redesign of the transport network to improve public health, clean the air and protect the climate.\n\nIt also points out that the lockdown has led to a dramatic improvement in air quality in Britain's towns and cities.\n\nSome of Britain's largest cities have seen a 60% reduction in levels of nitrogen dioxide, a harmful pollutant gas associated with traffic.\n\nThe letter's signatories include Greenpeace, the countryside charity the CPRE (Campaign to Protect Rural England), and seven other environment and transport organisations.\n\nThey argue that making a permanent switch towards more active travel would help protect these improvements in the local environment.\n\nToxic air is responsible for thousands of premature deaths in the UK every year, the letter says.\n\n\"It would be completely absurd if, after the unprecedented efforts and sacrifices made to save thousands of lives from Covid-19, we allowed thousands more to be cut short by the devastating impacts of toxic pollution,\" it reads.\n\nThe organisations recommend that local authorities widen pavements and increase cycle lanes, as well as giving priority to people who walk and cycle.\n\nThey call for the speed limit to be cut to 20 mph in all built-up areas except where segregated cycle lanes are in place. They also demand £6bn in additional funding over the next five years to invest in new transport infrastructure.", "North Korea's government maintains it has not reported a single case of Covid-19 there\n\nChina's president has expressed concern about the threat of the coronavirus to North Korea and offered help.\n\nXi Jinping was responding to a message that he received from the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un.\n\nChinese state media reported that the message congratulated Mr Xi on China's apparent success in fighting Covid-19.\n\nNorth Korea's government maintains that there has not been a single confirmed case there, though analysts have questioned whether that is possible.\n\nNorth Korea was the first country to suspend tourism and to shut its borders in response to the virus, in the third week of January.\n\nThe country has a fragile health system, which experts fear would be quickly overwhelmed by even a small outbreak of Covid-19.\n\nIn his \"verbal message of thanks\", Mr Xi said he highly appreciated Mr Kim's support during China's outbreak and \"showed his personal attention to the situation of the pandemic and people's health\" in North Korea, according to state media.\n\nMr Xi called for more efforts to strengthen co-operation in preventing the spread of the coronavirus, and said China was \"willing to continue to provide assistance within its own capacity for [North Korea] in the fight against Covid-19\".\n\nOn Friday, North Korean state media reported that Mr Kim had sent a verbal message to the president that \"congratulated him, highly appreciating that he is seizing a chance of victory in the war against the unprecedented epidemic\".\n\nKim Jong-un disappeared from public view for 20 days, before visiting a factory on 2 May\n\nMr Kim recently went 20 days without appearing in public, and missed the celebration of his grandfather's birthday - one of the biggest events of the year.\n\nSome media reports claimed he was \"gravely ill\", or even dead.\n\nBut he then appeared at a fertiliser factory on 2 May - apparently in good health.\n\nOn Wednesday, South Korea's National Intelligence Service told a parliamentary committee that there had been no signs the health rumours were true.\n\n\"He was performing his duties normally when he was out of the public eye,\" a member of the committee, Kim Byung-kee, told reporters afterwards.\n\nThe lawmaker said the North Korean leader's absence could have been down to a Covid-19 outbreak that the authorities in Pyongyang had not reported.\n\nFor months, North Korea-watchers have questioned Pyongyang's claims that it has managed to isolate itself from Covid-19.\n\nAdmittedly, North Korea was the first country to suspend travel in response to the virus. There are unconfirmed reports that North Korean guards have been ordered to shoot at those who try to cross the lengthy border the North shares with China. However, it will be difficult to completely seal that dividing line for long. North Korea's underground economy relies on illicit trade with Chinese entrepreneurs.\n\nBeijing has a few good reasons for wanting to help North Korea. On a practical level, China needs to suppress a possible Covid-19 outbreak there if it wants to keep its own population healthy. Beijing also worries about what might happen inside North Korea if the virus takes hold. The North's decrepit health system would quickly be overwhelmed by an outbreak of Covid-19, and that could threaten the fragile Kim Jong-un regime. Beijing has been Pyongyang's biggest aid donor for decades, and it will continue to do what it can to keep Mr Kim in power. The alternatives to Kim Jong-un are much riskier for China, which does not want change on its doorstep.\n\nChina's global political interests are also at play. Diplomatically, Mr Xi's public exchange with Kim Jong-un underlines the seemingly close ties between China and North Korea. Pyongyang has been slow to accept public offers of help from the United States, and peace talks with Washington have stalled. If North Korea appeared to accept Beijing's help, China would reassert itself as North Korea's \"true\" ally in a time of need.\n\nSouth Korea itself reported 18 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 on Saturday.\n\nSeventeen of them are linked to a 29-year-old man who tested positive after spending time at five nightclubs and bars in Seoul's Itaewon leisure district last weekend, the Yonhap news agency said.\n\nMayor Park Won-soon ordered nightclubs, bars and hostess venues across the capital to suspend business in response.\n\n\"Carelessness can lead to an explosion in infections - we clearly realised this through the group infections seen in the Itaewon club case,\" Mr Park said.\n\nHealth officials have urged people who have visited the five venues in Itaewon to self-isolate and get tested to prevent additional transmissions. At least 1,500 people signed their entry logs, according to Yonhap.\n\nThe new infections brought the nationwide total to 10,840, while the death toll remained unchanged at 256.", "The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall said postal workers had \"never been more important\"\n\nThe Prince of Wales has hailed the \"dedication, resilience and hard work\" of Britain's postal workers during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nCharles left a letter addressed to \"Everyone at Royal Mail\" outside his home in Birkhall, Aberdeenshire.\n\nIn the message, he and the Duchess of Cornwall stressed the value of Royal Mail workers \"has never been more important\".\n\nThe royal note was collected on Tuesday by their local postman Neil Martin.\n\nIn it the couple said: \"Receiving such a personal message at this difficult and anxious time can mean an enormous amount.\n\n\"We feel sure that a very large number of these special greetings will be treasured for years to come. They may even become a valuable resource for social historians in the future.\n\n\"Postmen and postwomen are trusted figures in our local communities. They are a constant presence in an ever-changing world. For some people, they are a point of daily human contact; a friendly, familiar face.\"\n\nThe letter was addressed to \"Everyone at Royal Mail\"\n\nIt was signed off with \"heartfelt thanks - and a big thumbs up\" in reference to Royal Mail's Thumbs Up For Your Postie campaign - which encourages people to show their appreciation to their postal worker.\n\nThe royal couple also noted the challenges workers faced and said they played an \"absolutely vital role in keeping family and friends in touch with one another\".\n\n\"Many of you, we know, have gone above and beyond what is normally expected of you,\" the letter said. \"We have heard wonderful stories of postmen and postwomen checking on older and vulnerable residents, raising funds for good causes, even wearing fancy dress costumes to raise a smile...\"\n\nPrince Charles spent a week in self-isolation after testing positive for coronavirus in March.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nDynamo Dresden, who play in the second tier of German football, have put their entire squad and coaching staff into two-week isolation after two players tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 are due to restart on Saturday, 16 May.\n\nIt is set to be the first European league to restart following the coronavirus shutdown.\n\n\"The fact is that we can neither train nor participate in a game in the next 14 days,\" said Dynamo.\n\nOn Thursday, the German Football Association (DFB) said the season would resume under strict health protocols that ban fans from the stadium and require players to have Covid-19 testing.\n\nAbout 300 people, including players, staff and officials, will be in or around the stadiums during match days.\n\nThe league has been suspended since 13 March. Clubs returned to training in mid-April, with players working in groups.\n\nBut on Saturday Dresden, who are bottom of Bundesliga 2, said they would be unable to fulfil the initial fixtures.\n\n\"In the past few weeks, we have made enormous efforts in terms of personnel and logistics in order to strictly implement all the prescribed medical and hygienic measures, \"said Dynamo sports manager Ralf Minge .\n\n\"We are in contact with the responsible health authority and the DFL (German Football League) to coordinate all further steps.\"\n\nDresden were due to resume the season on 17 May at Hannover 96.\n\nThe Dynamo Dresden situation proves that any league will be balanced on a knife edge when football resumes, even with all the planning and all the expertise that has gone into the Bundesliga restart.\n\nDFL boss Christian Seifert admitted as much on Friday when he said that they are \"playing under probation\".\n\nThe truth for football authorities everywhere is that there are no certainties at the moment and there will be setbacks.\n\nThe only good news is that although there are a lot of fixtures to pack in, time is relatively on German football's side compared to the other big European leagues, who are still wondering if and when they'll be able to return.\n\nNow the DFL will be hoping that this will be the only fixture they'll have to postpone on their high profile re-opening weekend.", "Pioneering rock 'n' roll singer Little Richard has died at the age of 87, the musician's family has confirmed.\n\nLittle Richard's hit Good Golly Miss Molly made the charts in 1958. Other well-known songs include Tutti Frutti and Long Tall Sally.\n\nThe Beatles, Elton John and Elvis Presley all cited him an influence. The singer was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986.\n\nHe died of bone cancer in Tullahoma, Tennessee his family said.\n\nLittle Richard was born as Richard Wayne Penniman in 1932.\n\nHe had his biggest hits in the 1950s and was known for his exuberant performances, shrieks, raspy voice and flamboyant outfits. He sold more than 30 million records worldwide.\n\nPaying tribute after news of his death emerged, former Beatles drummer Sir Ringo Starr tweeted: \"God bless Little Richard, one of my all-time musical heroes.\"\n\nChic co-founder Nile Rodgers said it was \"the loss of a true giant\", while Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys said his music would \"last forever\".\n\nRichard's bass guitarist, Charles Glenn, told celebrity news website TMZ the singer had been ill for two months. He said Richard died at his home, with his brother, sister and son beside him.\n\nLittle Richard was one of 12 children, and said he had started singing because he wanted to stand out from his siblings.\n\n\"I was the biggest head of all, and I still have the biggest head,\" he told the BBC in 2008.\n\n\"I did what I did, because I wanted attention. When I started banging on the piano and screaming and singing, I got attention.\"\n\nHis music was embraced by both black and white fans at a time when parts of the US were still segregated, and concerts had a rope up the centre of the auditorium to divide people by colour.\n\nAn electric performer, a flamboyant persona, a shrieking vocalist, an all-round force of nature - popular music hadn't seen the like of Little Richard before he emerged from New Orleans in the mid-1950s.\n\nIf there had been no Little Richard, a key part of DNA would have been missing from acts like The Beatles, Bob Dylan, David Bowie and Jimi Hendrix - all of whom idolised him.\n\nWith the likes of Chuck Berry and Elvis, he was one of the handful of US acts who concocted the primordial soup of blues, R&B and gospel that led to the evolution of rock 'n' roll in the 60s.\n\nStanding at his piano with his bouffant hair and letting rip with full-throated voice on songs like Tutti Frutti, Long Tall Sally, Lucille and Good Golly Miss Molly, he was a gust of fresh air after a strait-laced post-war age.\n\nRichard was born in Macon, Georgia, on 5 December 1932. Growing up in the southern US state, he absorbed the rhythms of gospel music and the influences of New Orleans, blending them into his own piano-laden extravaganzas.\n\nHis father was a preacher who also ran a nightclub, and his mother was a devout Baptist.\n\n\"I was born in the slums. My daddy sold whiskey, bootleg whiskey,\" he told Rolling Stone magazine in 1970.\n\nThe singer left home in his teens after disagreements with his father who initially didn't support his music.\n\n\"My daddy wanted seven boys, and I had spoiled it, because I was gay,\" the showman later said.\n\nLittle Richard had a complex relationship with his sexuality\n\nThough openly homosexual for many years, Richard also had relationships with women. He married Ernestine Harvin, a fellow Evangelical, and later adopted a son.\n\nHe was known for drugs, hard drinking and sex parties - to which he would take his Bible.\n\nIn the late 1950s, he turned his back on music after seeing a fireball cross the sky while on stage in Sydney, Australia. It was the Sputnik 1 satellite returning to Earth - but Richard took it as a sign from God that he should immediately change his ways.\n\nHe signed up to Bible college in Alabama, but was soon asked to leave following allegations he had exposed himself to another student. Within five years, he was back on tour. A gospel album in 1961 was followed by forays into Soul.\n\nAfter seeing cocaine kill his brother, Richard turned to religion again - and was eventually ordained as a minister in 1970.\n\nThe singer's complex attitude to his sexuality meant he wasn't widely viewed as a gay icon. After he was re-baptised as a Seventh Day Adventist, he renounced homosexuality, framing it as a temporary choice he had made.\n\nRichard felt his musical influence was never acknowledged as it should have been, and blamed the deep racial prejudice in America at the height of his career.\n\nBut he was proud of his impact in crossing divides.\n\n\"I've always thought that rock 'n' roll brought the races together,\" the singer once told an interviewer. \"Although I was black, the fans didn't care. I used to feel good about that.\"\n\nThe Rolling Stones, who opened shows for him, spoke reverently of his on-stage prowess. Sir Mick Jagger tweeted: \"I'm so saddened to hear about the passing of Little Richard, he was the biggest inspiration of my early teens and his music still has the same raw electric energy when you play it now as it did when it was first shot through the music scene in the mid 50s.\n\n\"When we were on tour with him I would watch his moves every night and learn from him how to entertain and involve the audience and he was always so generous with advice to me.\n\n\"He contributed so much to popular music. I will miss you Richard, God bless.\"", "Kate Scott (bottom left) said her win was down to \"preparation\" and local pride\n\nDorset's annual knob-eating competition has been held online for the first time.\n\nThe event - in which contestants vie to gobble more of the county's traditional biscuits than their rivals - usually draws huge crowds.\n\nBut this year 100 competitive eaters live-streamed their attempts to swallow the savoury spheres.\n\nKate Scott, from Shaftesbury, necked eight and a half of the thrice-baked treats to claim the crown.\n\nContestants across nine heats got a minute to finish off as many knobs as they could manage.\n\nFestival chairman Ian Gregory said the bun-shaped confections were \"quite dry\" and competitors often used a mug to moisten them.\n\nTop nosher Ms Scott said she was determined to see off non-Dorset competitors and \"keep this local\".\n\n\"It was all in the preparation - I had plenty of time to practise and focus,\" she said.\n\n\"Those knobs were going down - no-one else was going to beat me.\"\n\nWinner Kate Scott said she was determined there should be a Dorset victor\n\nHer impressive score fell some way short of 2015's winner, who necked at least 13 knobs.\n\nMr Gregory said that \"momentous performance\" was believed to be a world record.\n\nThis year, due to lockdown regulations, each hopeful was sent a packet of regulation Moores Biscuits for their heats.\n\nContestants are usually seen stuffing their faces in front of an appreciative crowd\n\nOrganisers said entries had come in from all corners of the UK, including Castle Donington, Ellesmere Port and Cockermouth.\n\nIn total, the knob eaters raised more than £1,200 for local charity Weldmar Hospicecare.\n\nSister event, the Dorset knob-throwing festival, has been postponed until 2021.\n\nEntrants in that competition would normally gather in a field to toss the bun-shaped confections as far as possible.\n\nThe knob-throwing event started in 2008 and now incorporates a food festival, knob darts, and games including knob and spoon racing and pinning the knob on the Cerne Abbas giant.\n\nSackfuls of Dorset knobs are usually eaten with Blue Vinney cheese or honey and clotted cream - known as thunder and lightning\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Grace Millane's family have donated hundreds of care packages to hospitals in her memory\n\nThe family of a British backpacker murdered in New Zealand has given hundreds of care packages to patients, nurses, doctors and carers battling coronavirus.\n\nGrace Millane's family has donated more than 300 bags full of toiletries to hospitals and care homes across Essex.\n\nThe 22-year-old from Wickford in Essex was killed in December 2018.\n\nHer cousin said it was nice to be doing \"something so positive\" in her name.\n\nThese carers said the bags had given them a boost when they really needed it\n\nHannah O'Callaghan said: \"We've had so many messages thanking us, it's been lovely to read them as a family. It is helping us get through some difficult times and given us a purpose.\"\n\nThe family set up a campaign called Love Grace x, focused on domestic abuse victims, before the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt had already donated 6,500 handbags packed with toiletries to refuges across the world, including many in New Zealand.\n\nSeven family members have been involved, including Gillian Millane, Grace's mother.\n\nThe bags are delivered with a tag which has Grace's handwriting and a flower that she drew, on one side\n\nThe other side has a note explaining what happened to Grace and more about the initiative\n\nMedics said they were moved to tears after receiving the care packages\n\nMrs O'Callaghan said: \"Grace would have been really proud of us. She would have wanted to get involved. She was more like a little sister to me than a cousin. She was very family-orientated and we had so many happy times together as a family.\n\n\"I'm a Geography teacher and she loved to travel, we had that in common. She was very good at art, so it was important to us to reflect that on the tags.\"\n\nGrace's cousin Hannah O'Callaghan (left) and mother Gillian Millane (right) wanted to do something positive in her name\n\nMore than 6500 handbags have been donated to refuges across the world\n\nThe bags are delivered with a tag which says \"Love Grace x\" in Grace's handwriting and a flower that she drew, on one side. The other side has a note explaining what happened to her and more about the initiative.\n\nDomestic abuse victims have been in touch with the family to thank them. Many had to leave home in a rush and had no toiletries, while others had never owned a handbag before, Mrs O'Callaghan said.\n\n\"We want to go back to concentrating on refuges when this is over. Domestic violence is rising during the lockdown, and I think the handbags will be needed more than ever.\n\n\"We are asking people who might be having a spring clean to keep their old handbags and take them to one of our collection points when restrictions are lifted,\" she said.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "That is it for our live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic in England for today.\n\nThere will be more updates on the outbreak tomorrow, when Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce an update on the government's lockdown measures.\n\nRemember, there is plenty of information on symptoms of the virus and guidance on social distancing rules on the coronavirus section of the BBC News website.\n\nThanks for joining us.", "Experts warn the infections may actually be higher due to low testing rates in many countries\n\nMore than four million confirmed cases of coronavirus have been reported around the world, according to data collated by Johns Hopkins University.\n\nThe global death toll has also risen to above 277,000.\n\nThe US remains the worst-hit country, accounting for over a quarter of confirmed cases and a third of deaths.\n\nExperts warn the true number of infections is likely to be far higher, with low testing rates in many countries skewing the data.\n\nDaily death tolls are continuing to drop in some nations, including Spain, but there is concern that easing lockdown restrictions could lead to a \"second wave\" of infections.\n\nIn addition, governments are bracing for economic fallout as the pandemic hits global markets and supply chains.\n\nA senior Chinese official has told local media that the pandemic was a \"big test\" that had exposed weaknesses in the country's public health system. The rare admission, from the director of China's National Health Commission, Li Bin, comes after sustained criticism abroad of China's early response.\n\nThis week, some lockdown measures have begun easing in Italy, once the global epicentre of the pandemic. Italians have been able to exercise outdoors and visit family members in their region.\n\nFrance has recorded its lowest daily number of coronavirus deaths for more than a month, with 80 deaths over the past 24 hours. Authorities are preparing to ease restrictions from Monday, as is the government in neighbouring Spain.\n\nMeanwhile lockdowns are continuing in countries like South Africa, despite calls from opposition parties for it to end.\n\nIn South Korea, renewed restrictions are being imposed on bars and clubs after a series of transmissions linked to Seoul's leisure district.\n\nRussia also cancelled a military parade in Moscow, planned as part of the country's Victory Day celebrations. Instead, President Vladimir Putin hosted a subdued event on Saturday, laying roses at the Eternal Flame war memorial.\n\nBut despite scientific evidence, leaders of several countries have continued to express scepticism about the virus and the need for lockdowns.\n\nIn Belarus, thousands of soldiers marched to celebrate Victory Day, as President Alexander Lukashenko rejected calls for tougher measures.\n\nBritish medical journal The Lancet has written a scathing editorial about Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, calling him the biggest threat to his country's ability to contain the spread of coronavirus. Brazil is currently reporting the highest number of cases in Latin America - over 10,000 more on Saturday, bringing the national total to nearly 156,000. But despite the outbreak, President Bolsonaro continues to dismiss the virus' severity and has clashed with governors over lockdown measures.\n\nFrustrations about the outbreak turned violent in Afghanistan, and at least six people died during clashes between protesters and security forces. The violence started after demonstrators gathered in Firozkoh, the capital of Ghor province, to complain about the government's perceived failure to help the poor during the pandemic.", "Milan's mayor has threatened to close the popular Navigli district as crowds gather\n\nItaly has become the first country in the European Union to register more than 30,000 coronavirus-related deaths.\n\nIt reported 243 new fatalities on Friday - down from 274 the day before - taking the total to 30,201.\n\nThe daily number of confirmed new cases fell slightly to 1,327, bringing the total number of infections to 217,185.\n\nRestrictions have begun to ease around the county, but one doctor described the city of Milan as a \"time bomb\", according to local media.\n\nItaly has the third highest number of officially recorded coronavirus deaths in the world, after the United States and the UK - which is no longer a member of the EU.\n\nBritain passed the 30,000 mark on Wednesday. Spain is Europe's third worst-affected country with more than 26,000 deaths.\n\nItaly was the first country in Europe to impose a lockdown when coronavirus cases began to surface in northern regions in February.\n\nSome lockdown measures have been rolled back. This week, Italians have been able to exercise for the first time in weeks, as long as they respect rules on physical distance and wear masks where distancing is difficult. They are able to visit relatives - but not friends - within their region.\n\nCatholic churches are also preparing for the resumption of Mass on 18 May, but there will be strict social distancing and worshippers must wear face masks. Other faiths will also be allowed to hold religious services.\n\nMore people have been out and about in Rome since restrictions were eased\n\nHowever, schools, cinemas and most shops will stay shut, and all public gatherings are still banned. Bars and restaurants are due to start allowing customers to sit at tables in June.\n\nWhile some restrictions remain in place, images shared on social media show people in busy areas ignoring distancing rules and not wearing protective masks, leading to an outcry.\n\nMassimo Galli, head of the infectious diseases department at Milan's Sacco hospital, told La Reppublica newspaper it was clear that lockdown easing \"may present problems\".\n\nHe said: \"We have a very high number of infected people returning to circulation.\"\n\nCoronavirus commissioner Angelo Borrelli warned the public that containment measures would \"be stiffened\" if the virus showed signs of taking off again.\n\n\"We are monitoring things carefully,\" he said on Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We risked everything to survive\" - Naples resident Filomena\n\nPolice in the capital Rome said they were setting up checkpoints on roads leading to the coast, lakes and tourist spots in the countryside over the weekend.\n\nThey said they would also be monitoring areas where nightlife is popular.\n\nThe Mayor of Milan, Giuseppe Sala, issued an \"ultimatum\" on Friday after footage emerged of crowds of people - most of them young - adopting neither face masks or social distancing in the city's popular Navigli area.\n\nMilan, the capital of the Lombardy region, was the epicentre of the Italian outbreak.\n\n\"I will take measures, I will close the Navigli,\" Mr Sala threatened, describing the scenes as \"disgraceful\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn another development, an Italian government agency has warned that the cash-starved tourism industry is vulnerable to incursions by mafia organisations as the lockdown eases.\n\nA report by the Covid-19 criminal infiltration monitoring body said the tourism and catering sectors would have a \"lack of liquidity that will expose them to loan-sharking\".\n\nIt said the mafia groups would be looking to invest in struggling businesses such as hotels and restaurants with the aim of laundering money.", "UK airlines say they have been told the government will bring in a 14-day quarantine for anyone arriving in the UK from any country apart from the Republic of Ireland in response to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe new restriction is expected to take effect at the end of this month.\n\nIndustry body Airlines UK said the policy needed \"a credible exit plan\" and should be reviewed weekly.\n\nPeople arriving in the UK would have to self-isolate at a private residence.\n\nGovernment and aviation sources told BBC News that the quarantine would mean people might be expected to provide an address when they arrive at the border.\n\nIt is not clear how long the new travel restriction would be in place and whether non-UK residents would be allowed to stay in rented private accommodation.\n\n\"We need to see the details of what they are proposing\", said Airlines UK, which represents British Airways, EasyJet and other UK-based airlines, in a statement.\n\nIt is not clear whether there are plans to quarantine people arriving to the UK via other modes of transport. Eurostar and P&O ferries declined to comment, while other firms have not yet responded to the BBC's queries.\n\nAviation minister Kelly Tolhurst is expected to clarify the policy to airline and airport representatives in a conference call scheduled for Sunday morning.\n\nA spokeswoman for Belfast International Airport said it had written to the government to clarify what the plans were - adding that the airport had not been consulted on the move.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said Labour had been asking the government for weeks to clarify \"mixed messages\" about what people should do on arrival to the UK.\n\n\"People have been brought back in relatively large numbers and many of them are telling us that they have no information or advice given out about what they should be doing when they get home,\" she said.\n\nUK airports suggested that a quarantine \"would not only have a devastating impact on the UK aviation industry, but also on the wider economy\".\n\nKaren Dee from the Airport Operators Association, which represents most UK airports, said the measure should be applied \"on a selective basis following the science\" and \"the economic impact on key sectors should be mitigated\".\n\nBBC News understands that key workers such as lorry drivers who transport goods and people working in the shipping industry would be exempt.\n\nA Heathrow spokesman said any measures agreed must be medically effective, meet public expectations and be deliverable by airports.\n\n\"We will continue to do everything we can to support the government in tackling the health crisis whilst keeping vital trading routes open for British businesses in every corner of the UK,\" he added.\n\nLast Sunday, Andrew Marr asked the transport secretary whether the UK would introduce a quarantine on people arriving in the UK.\n\nGrant Shapps said he was \"actively looking at these issues, right now, so that when we have infection rates within the country under control we're not importing\".\n\nHe said it was important \"that we do ensure that the sacrifices, in a sense, social distancing, that we're asking the British people to make are matched by anyone who comes to this country\".\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"We do not comment on leaks. The focus remains on staying at home to protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nIf a quarantine is needed now, some will question why it was not necessary weeks ago.\n\nTens of thousands of people have flown into the UK during the pandemic, although the government says the vast majority were returning home.", "Up to 2,000 UK seafarers are stranded on ships around the world because of coronavirus lockdowns, the industry's trade body has told the BBC.\n\nThe UK Chamber of Shipping wants the UK government to become the first to sign up to a global plan to get crews home.\n\nAnd the Nautilus International maritime union said seafarers stuck on ships for months were depressed and homesick, \"with no end in sight\" to their ordeal.\n\nThe government said it was working to \"ensure\" those affected could get home.\n\nBecause of port and air route bans for individual travellers, many of the world's 1.6 million seafarers cannot go home, while relief crews cannot be brought in.\n\nThey are working past the end of their contracts and the International Chamber of Shipping estimates 150,000 of them are stuck on board cruise ships, transporters, tankers and other vessels.\n\nThe UK Chamber of Shipping said up to 2,000 - or around one in 13 - of the UK's 25,750 seafarers were among the stranded.\n\nIt has written to Shipping Minister Kelly Tolhurst, urging the UK government to become the first in the world to sign up to the International Maritime Organisation's new plan to ensure crew changeovers can resume.\n\nThe letter, seen by the BBC, also calls for seafarers and offshore workers to be exempt from \"any potential air travel quarantine restrictions which may be introduced\". Getting them home is \"increasingly taking on a humanitarian dimension\", it adds.\n\nMark Dickinson, general secretary of Nautilus International, said many UK seafarers were working 90-hour weeks.\n\nHe said: \"It's a confined workplace - not the Hilton Hotel - for three, four or five months. The accommodation is fairly basic and you're with a small group of people.\n\n\"You get into a situation where you think, 'I've got six weeks to go,' 'I've got four weeks to go,' and even when this is extended by 24 hours it's pretty awful. It's worse when it's so open-ended.\"\n\nMr Dickinson praised the UK government for classifying seafarers as key workers and allowing them to travel via the country's ports and airports, unlike those of many other countries.\n\nHe added: \"My frustration has been with the governments who faff about, locking things down without actually giving any thought to the consequences of that.\"\n\nA Foreign Office spokesperson said it was a \"worrying time for British crew on board cruise ships around the world\", but it was \"primarily the responsibility of their employers\" to ensure their welfare and safety.\n\nThey added: \"The government is in direct contact with these operators about the issues, as well as directly with many crew members and their families, and we will continue to do what we can to ensure UK crew can access flights home.\"\n\nMs Tolhurst has said she is in \"constant dialogue\" with operators and that seafarers have \"responded magnificently\" to the coronavirus crisis, \"working round the clock to keep the nation fuelled, fed and supplied with vital goods\".", "Leon and June were together for 62 years\n\nGogglebox star June Bernicoff has died at the age of 82, Channel 4 has announced.\n\nThe broadcaster said she was \"at home with her family by her side\" and died on Tuesday after a short illness - which was not related to coronavirus.\n\nBernicoff appeared on the reality TV show with her late husband Leon.\n\n\"As the first couple to be cast for Gogglebox back in 2013, June and her husband Leon were a huge part of the programme's success,\" Channel 4 said.\n\n\"Their warmth, wit and contrasting personalities endeared them to the nation during the course of the first 10 series.\"\n\nWriting on Twitter, Gogglebox producer Tania Alexander said: \"June and Leon were the Gogglebox originals & a huge part of the show's success. I adored them both. Big kiss June darling.\"\n\nThe Bafta-winning show features people sitting in their living rooms watching and reacting to television programmes.\n\nJune left the show after Leon's death in December 2017 at the age of 83. She went on to write her first book about their 60-year love affair, titled Leon And June: Our Story.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with June's family - Helen and Ian, Julie and Marc, and her beloved grandchildren Frances, Sam and Faye,\" Channel 4's statement said.\n\nLeon and June were the first people to be cast for Gogglebox when the show started in 2013\n\n\"The family would like to ask for privacy at this sad time, but would like to thank the hospice staff that supported them and cared for June so wonderfully and with such compassion in her final weeks.\"\n\nIt added June was a \"remarkably independent, principled woman with a vivacious sense of humour and a huge passion for life\".\n\n\"Despite her departure from the show in 2017, she remained a passionate supporter of the programme, watching it every week, and she was in regular contact with the production team.\"\n\nThe Bernicoffs appeared on the show from their home in Allerton, Liverpool, although June reportedly moved to be near her family in Warwickshire last year.\n\nGogglebox star Stephen Webb tweeted: \"Rest in peace our June, reunited with Leon! Forever in our hearts.\"\n\nSky News presenter Kay Burley said: \"So very sad to hear that June Bernicoff has died after a short illness. Together with Leon, who passed away two years ago, she was a brilliant addition to Gogglebox.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Airlines have reacted angrily to government suggestions that the UK could implement a 14-day quarantine for anyone arriving in the country.\n\nTransport secretary Grant Shapps said he was \"actively looking at these issues so that when we have infection rates within the country under control we're not importing\".\n\nBut Airlines UK said such a measure \"would effectively kill air travel\".\n\nIt warned that the UK risked shutting itself from the rest of the world.\n\nMr Shapps told the Andrew Marr Programme that as the coronavirus infection rate in the UK decreases, it was important \"that we do ensure that the sacrifices...that we're asking the British people to make are matched by anyone who comes to this country\".\n\nHowever, Airlines UK, which represents the likes of British Airways, Easyjet, Virgin Atlantic and Ryanair, said a quarantine would \"completely shut off the UK from the rest of the world when other countries are opening up their economies\".\n\nIts chief executive, Tim Alderslade, said: \"The danger is it would be a blunt tool measure when what the UK should be doing is leading internationally with health and aviation authorities on common standards, including health screening, which will enable our sector to restart and give people assurances that it's safe to travel.\"\n\nAir travel has ground to a halt because of the global coronavirus pandemic, prompting steep jobs cuts by the industry.\n\nLast week, Ryanair said it planned to axe 3,000 workers and ask remaining staff to take a pay cut.\n\nBA said it would cut 12,000 of its workforce and warned that it may not reopen at Gatwick once the pandemic passes.", "This video has been removed for rights reasons.\n\nPioneering rock 'n' roll singer Little Richard has died at the age of 87, the musician's family has confirmed. The singer, born in Georgia as Richard Wayne Penniman, was among the first group of inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986.", "Andy Serkis welcomed fans joining him on \"this huge expedition we're about to go on in our living rooms\"\n\nBritish actor Andy Serkis has raised more than £283,000 ($351,000) for charity by reading The Hobbit in full on a live stream.\n\nMore than 650,000 people worldwide tuned in for the online performance of JRR Tolkien's 1937 fantasy adventure.\n\nSerkis, 56, played the corrupted character Gollum in the big-budget film trilogies Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit, directed by Peter Jackson.\n\nViewers followed via YouTube and his Go Fund Me page.\n\nThe donations will go to NHS Charities Together and baby charity Best Beginnings, for which Serkis is an ambassador.\n\nThe actor performed the \"Hobbitathon\" in different voices, including his much-imitated Gollum.\n\n\"Thank you so much for joining me on this huge expedition we're about to go on in our living rooms,\" Serkis told viewers before he began the reading.\n\nHe thanked \"the NHS and all the charities who are out there doing important work saving our lives and keeping us safe\".\n\nAs donations poured in, he joked: \"We've already reached £100,000, so in fact, I don't even have to do it, goodbye,\" before pretending to get up and leave.\n\nThe actor started streaming at 10:00 BST (09:00 GMT) on Friday, and finished the fantasy classic 11 hours later.\n\nHe paused at 11:00 BST to observe a two-minute silence for VE Day, but otherwise only stopped to use the toilet.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gollum actor Andy Serkis on why he did a continuous live reading of The Hobbit\n\n\"So many of us are struggling in isolation during the lockdown,\" Serkis said on Thursday.\n\n\"While times are tough, I want to take you on one of the greatest fantasy adventures ever written, a 12-hour armchair marathon across Middle Earth whilst raising money for two amazing charities which are doing extraordinary work right now to help those most in need.\"\n\nSerkis was awarded the Bafta film award for outstanding British contribution to cinema earlier this year for his ground-breaking motion capture work as Gollum, as well as on films like King Kong and the Planet of Apes movie series.\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 Andy Serkis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpeaking beforehand, he joked he might need to put up a \"back in five minutes\" sign when nature called, or when he needed a spot of precious lunch - but aside from that he was preparing to throw himself fully into the quest.\n\nSerkis: \"I'm bursting for the loo Mr Baggins, but I'll wait until we're back in The Shire.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None ‘Hobbit reading will take you on an adventure’ Video, 00:02:14‘Hobbit reading will take you on an adventure’", "Schools should not reopen unless key measures are in place to stop the spread of coronavirus, unions have warned.\n\nThe Trades Union Congress (TUC) is urging ministers to work closely with unions to agree a way forward.\n\nThere was speculation schools may return in England from 1 June, but it was ruled out in Scotland and Wales.\n\nEngland's Department for Education said it would follow scientific advice about the \"right time\" to reopen schools.\n\nSchools across the UK closed in the last week of March as part of the lockdown measures to prevent the virus spreading.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson will give details on Sunday of his \"roadmap\" to get the UK out of lockdown.\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford said Mr Johnson's plans for easing the measures in England would be \"very much in line\" with \"modest\" changes already outlined in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Drakeford added: \"We're not going to be reopening schools in Wales in the next three weeks, or indeed in June.\"\n\nUnions, including the National Association of Headteachers (NAHT) and the National Education Union (NEU), have called for \"clear, scientific published evidence\" that schools are safe to re-open.\n\nIn a joint statement sent to UK Education Secretary Gavin Williamson, they said there should be no increase in pupil numbers until a national test, track and trace scheme has been fully rolled out.\n\nThe government's three-pronged coronavirus strategy is being rolled out in various stages, with the NHS contact-tracing smartphone app currently being trialled on the Isle of Wight before a UK-wide expansion.\n\nThey have called for extra resources for deep cleaning, personal protective equipment (PPE) and local powers to close schools if there is an outbreak of the virus in a particular area.\n\nSome of the other \"essential\" measures unions said must be in place before pupils return, include:\n\nFrances O'Grady, general secretary of the TUC which published the statement, said: \"Parents and staff need full confidence that schools will be safe before any pupils return.\"\n\nShe urged No 10 to \"work closely\" with unions to \"agree a plan that meets the tests we have set out\", adding the best way to do this would be through a \"national taskforce\" between \"government, unions and education stakeholders\".\n\nA spokeswoman for England's Department for Education said Mr Williamson has not set a date for schools reopening, and the department would ensure the education sector has \"sufficient notice to plan and prepare\" for schools, nurseries and colleges to return.\n\n\"Schools will remain closed, except for children of critical workers and vulnerable children, until the scientific advice indicates it is the right time to re-open and the five tests set out by government to beat this virus have been met,\" she added.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock, meanwhile, said pupils will only be allowed to return to school when it is safe to do so.\n\nIt follows a warning by the British Irish Group of Teacher Unions of the \"very real risk of creating a spike in the transmission of the virus by a premature opening of schools\".\n\nLabour's shadow education secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey called on the government to \"take heed of the tests set out today by trade unions and commit to not opening schools unless they have been met\".\n\nLast week at the Downing Street daily briefing, NHS England's national medical director Prof Stephen Powis said the \"science is still evolving\" on how much children contribute toward virus spread.\n\nIt comes as the public was urged to be \"realistic\" about the easing of lockdown measures, as a further 626 coronavirus deaths were confirmed on Friday, taking the UK total to 31,241.\n\nLeading the No 10 news conference on Friday, Environment Secretary George Eustice said there would be \"no dramatic overnight change\" and the government would be \"very, very cautious as we loosen the restrictions we have\".\n\nMeanwhile, the government announced 97,029 tests had been delivered in the 24 hours to 09:00 BST on Friday, just shy of the 100,000 target Mr Hancock set for the end of April.\n\nMr Johnson has set a target of increasing testing capacity to 200,000 by the end of May.", "More Scots are now likely to go to hospital or GP with non Covid-19 symptoms than they were a fortnight ago, according to new research.\n\nSlightly more than half of those surveyed (51%) said they would not avoid going to their GP practice or a hospital at the moment compared to 41% two weeks earlier.\n\nAnd, while about a third (34%) agreed they would still delay attending their GP or hospital, the figure was 45% before the NHS Is Open campaign.\n\nDr Carey Lunan, chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners in Scotland, said: \"I want to reiterate that, if it’s urgent, it’s urgent, and it is just as important as ever for people to seek help if they have an urgent health concern, or are worried about a potential cancer symptom.\"\n\nProf Jason Leitch, Scotland's national clinical director, also stressed the importance of immunisation appointments.", "A deal has been agreed to manufacture more personal protective equipment for health and care workers in Scotland.\n\nThe agreement will provide more than half of NHS Scotland's weekly requirement for non-sterile gowns, the Scottish government said.\n\nForfar-based firm Don and Low will supply about 2.8 million square metres of the base material required.\n\nThat will be converted into gowns by Glenrothes firm Keela, as well as Lancashire-based Redwood TTM Ltd.\n\nKeela will then work with two firms in Livingston - Transcal and Endura - to deliver the equipment.\n\nThe deal comes amid supply issues of personal protective equipment (PPE) in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, with global demand for gloves and masks at unprecedented levels.\n\nSupplies to Scotland have so far come from a number of areas, including large imports of face masks from China.\n\nEarlier this month Scotland's largest health board - NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde - said hospitals were experiencing PPE shortages and it had been forced to make purchases \"at above usual prices\".\n\nNicola Sturgeon has previously said there were \"adequate stocks of the main PPE\" but acknowledged difficulties with delivering gowns.\n\nMeanwhile, in April there was confusion over the distribution of PPE following claims that some suppliers in England had been told not to prioritise sending items to Scotland.\n\nWestminster Health Secretary Matt Hancock later told Scotland's Health Secretary Jeane Freeman that this was not the case.\n\nThe Scottish government said the new contracts would help strengthen and expand the supply of protective equipment and secure long-term stock levels.\n\nTrade Minister Ivan McKee said they help \"protect us from any global supply issues\".\n\nHe said the new supply chain agreement would \"ensure frontline staff continue to have the protection they need\".\n\nMr McKee added the deal demonstrates what can be achieved through collaboration between public and private sectors during the pandemic.\n\nThe minister said: \"The Scottish government, along with our colleagues at Scottish Enterprise and NHS Scotland, will continue to work with partners across the country to ensure that all frontline health and social care workers have access to the PPE they need.\"", "Russia's Victory Day parade has been cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic, but in neighbouring Belarus the parade went ahead as planned.\n\nRussian military aircraft swooped through the skies above an empty Red Square which, in normal circumstances, would be packed with spectators.", "Jiab Prachakul won the BP Portrait Award 2020 for Night Talk, which judges described as an \"an evocative portrait of a fleeting moment in time\"\n\nThe working life of the professional portrait painter was put in jeopardy by what must have been the thoroughly unwelcome advent of photography. What was your mid-19th Century artist to do? The camera was faster, cheaper and better at capturing a likeness. One day their studio was packed with Lady This and Lord That posing in their finest clothes, the next they were painting tumbleweed.\n\nAnd then, just in the nick of time, some brilliant young artist - probably not so fresh from the brothels of Paris - realised that photography didn't herald the death of painting at all, in fact, it had set it free.\n\nConvention went out of the window, along with the Victorian backdrops and fake backgrounds of rolling pastures. In their place came a new wave of radical artists with not-so-radical names like Edgar, Claude and Paul who would take portrait painting to a place it had never been before: the sitter's soul.\n\nEdgar Degas, Claude Monet and Paul Cézanne left the dull business of superficial representation to the one-eyed machine with a mechanical lens, while they got on with the important task of painting the person, inside and out. They developed a less-is-more style, removing all the extraneous detail of an old-fashioned portrait, which rendered the picture lifeless, and instead created simplified images that revealed the subject's character.\n\nClaude Monet mastered the art of looking beyond the surface, as in Portrait of Père Paul, 1882, at Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna\n\nThey showed that a single expressive brushstroke could say more about someone than any photograph or old-school portrayal.\n\nBut not without first going to the photographer's studio on a dawn raid, where they learnt how cropping a picture can create dynamism and a feeling of instant creation.\n\nThis was Degas's stock-in-trade, along with an elevated vantage point, a technique he copied from Japanese ukiyo-e artists like Utagawa Hiroshige.\n\nCourtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake by Utagawa Hiroshige, whose skilful use of the raised vantage point influenced Degas\n\nIt was this combination of aesthetics from east and west that led to modernism and the art of today.\n\nIt is evident everywhere you look, from David Hockney's Swimming Pool pictures to Jiab Prachakul's painting Night Talk, which won the Thai-born, Lyon-based artist this year's BP National Portrait Award, and with it a cheque for £35,000 and the guarantee of a future commission from the National Portrait Gallery (NPG).\n\nThai-born Jiab Prachakul says of the friends she painted \"We are all outsiders, and their friendship has offered me a ground on where I can stand and embrace my own identity\"\n\nNight Talk could be a work of Parisian Impressionism circa 1874 if it wasn't for the acrylic paint (only became available in the 20th Century) and the Berlin setting.\n\nIt depicts two of the artist's friends sitting at a low wooden table, looking glum. They are both dressed in black, a colour repeated in the vase in the foreground, which serves as a navigation tool for our eyes as we scan the picture. The painting has more than an echo of Degas, both in terms of composition and subject matter: artists taking a break (one is a Korean designer, the other a Japanese composer).\n\nDegas was a big influence on Hockney who was, in turn, a big influence on Prachakul, who says it was the Yorkshireman's 2006 exhibition at the NPG that made her realise she wanted to be an artist (she started out in film as a casting director).\n\nPortrait of Elena Carafa, c. 1875 by Edgar Degas, who had a major influence on David Hockney\n\nJiab Prachakul had the \"instant realisation\" of wanting to be an artist, after seeing the Hockney retrospective at the National Portrait Gallery\n\nFourteen years later she returns triumphant as the winner of its portrait prize, an achievement that has been overshadowed by two news stories. Firstly, the prize is sponsored by BP, a decades-old arrangement with the oil and gas giant which has now become highly contentious - not to say toxic - as artists and others lobby the NPG to end the relationship. And secondly, due to Covid-19, there will be no physical BP Portrait Award show in 2020.\n\nInstead there's a perfectly serviceable virtual show online, which is all that can be done in the circumstances but is obviously not the same.\n\nYou can see BP Portrait Award 2020 at the NPG's online show\n\nAs the Impressionists knew, there's a big different between a photograph and a painting, even when it is a photograph of a painting, which is what I'm looking at like everyone else. Any sense of scale is lost, as are the material and technical qualities to which you immediately respond (or don't) when seeing an artwork in the flesh.\n\nIt is clearly an accomplished piece of work. The foreshortening of the man's hands, the colours and patterns of the table top mirrored in the protagonists' faces, and the tautness of the composition with its geometric structure are all noteworthy.\n\nBut I'm not sure if it is great.\n\nMaybe it would be different when seen hanging on a wall, but Night Talk doesn't appear to have the palpable psychological charge that makes a memorable picture, it lacks the atmosphere that gives life to a work by Degas or Hockney. The female figure feels a little flat, her expressions cartoon-like. The facial emotions of the man have more depth but the highlights around his left cheek and the bridge of his nose aren't quite right. Nor are their clothes.\n\nTitian, Rembrandt, and Manet have all done it, but then they are the best of the best.\n\nHead of an Old Man in a Cap (circa 1630) by Rembrandt, who was a genius in his use of black\n\nThere's nothing wrong with Prachakul's line, which is confident and flowing, but the shadowing and tonal transitions don't appear to be of the same technical quality. There's also a slight visual awkwardness in the way the top of the bar cuts across the café dwellers' necks.\n\nThat said, there is plenty to admire, not least the way the three separate flower arrangements form a v-shape to frame the two characters, which is mirrored by their outward-facing crossed legs. It gives the painting a pleasing symmetry, while also suggesting a feeling of discomfort and alienation.\n\nMuch has been made of the fact Jiab Prachakul is self-taught, which puts her in good company along with the likes of Vincent van Gogh and Henri Rousseau. They both used their lack of formal training (Van Gogh had some) to take painting in a new direction, to uncover universal truths through apparently naïve imagery. Van Gogh did it with his warped lines, Rousseau with his surreal jungle images.\n\nPrachakul could do it too, but she needs to get inside our heads as well as her own and the sitters'.", "The public have been warned to stay vigilant to criminals selling fake coronavirus-related products.\n\nThe Local Government Association said some councils have seen a \"significant surge\" in reports of scams by those seeking to exploit virus fears.\n\nMore than 500,000 sub-standard masks were seized by a London council, while other criminals have attempted to trick people into giving personal details.\n\nThe LGA is calling on the public to report scams to their local council.\n\nFraudsters are seeking to take advantage of public fears by selling bogus medical products and other counterfeit items.\n\nThe LGA - which represents councils in England and Wales - said criminals have been preying on vulnerable and older people who are self-isolating.\n\nIn one case, a woman in her 80s answered the door to a man who demanded £220 to complete a health and safety check.\n\nMeanwhile, a telephone conman is being investigated after posing as a Swindon Council worker sorting lockdown food parcels, in a bid to obtain a pensioner's personal details.\n\nA car repair garage was reported after allegedly trying to sell coronavirus testing kits to customers.\n\nIn Ealing, 2,600 illegal bottles of hand sanitiser as well as 500,000 substandard face masks were taken off the market by the local council, according to the LGA.\n\nResidents are being tricked into buying goods online, door-to-door, by phone, text and email, the LGA said, with councils advising people not to accept services from strangers or cold callers.\n\nSimon Blackburn, chairman of the LGA's Safer and Stronger Communities Board, warned the public to be \"cautious\", adding: \"If something doesn't seem right or sounds too good to be true, don't hesitate to end a phone call, bin a letter, delete an email or shut the door.\"\n\nHe advised people to report scams to avoid others becoming victims of these \"despicable crimes\" and so fraudsters could be brought to justice, with councils seeking \"the toughest penalties\".\n\nIt comes after the National Crime Agency (NCA) warned the virus was increasingly being used as a \"hook to commit fraud\" and that such scams were \"likely to increase\" during the pandemic.\n\nAnd it's not just bogus health products being sold by fraudsters.\n\nSome people hoping to buy kittens and puppies during the lockdown are being conned with fake online advertisements, according to Action Fraud, with victims losing more than £280,000 in two months.", "Garden centres in some European countries have reopened - including this one in Switzerland\n\nGarden centres in England will be allowed to reopen next week as one of the early steps to ease coronavirus lockdown measures, a senior government source has told the BBC.\n\nCentres can reopen from Wednesday if they comply with social distancing.\n\nNursery bosses must control the number of people inside their shops so customers can keep 2m from each other, while in-store cafes must stay closed.\n\nThe Welsh Government has said garden centres can open from Monday.\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford announced only \"modest\" changes to the lockdown on Friday - also including that people would be allowed to exercise more than once a day.\n\nHe warned that it was \"too soon\" to go further.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson will confirm the announcement regarding garden centres when he addresses the nation on Sunday.\n\nGuidance issued by the government will tell garden centres they will not be able to reopen any cafes or playgrounds associated with the retail space.\n\nA senior source in the UK government said: \"Garden centres typically open large open-air spaces where the risk of transmission of coronavirus is lower.\n\n\"With strict social distancing measures in place we believe they can open safely from next week.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus in Scotland: First steps back to 'form of normality' in two weeks\n\nCoronavirus lockdown measures in Scotland could begin to be lifted from 28 May, Nicola Sturgeon has announced.\n\nThe first minister said this would mean people could meet someone from another household as long as social distancing is maintained.\n\nMore outdoor activities and sports like golf and fishing will also be allowed.\n\nMs Sturgeon also announced that coronavirus testing will be extended to everyone in Scotland over the age of five who is displaying symptoms.\n\nTests can be booked online and will be available at one of Scotland's five drive-in testing centres, or at one of the 12 mobile testing units.\n\nAlthough anyone can now request a test, priority will still be given to key workers.\n\nThe list of symptoms which would require someone to self-isolate was updated on Monday to include loss of smell or taste. The other symptoms are a new, continuous cough or a fever.\n\nThe Scottish government will publish more details on Thursday of its \"phased approach\" to easing the lockdown restrictions.\n\nThe first minister said that if progress was being made on suppressing the virus, the first phase would start from 28 May.\n\nShe said the aim would be to allow:\n\nMs Sturgeon said more information would also be given about when schools might reopen.\n\n\"Within two weeks, my hope is that we will be taking some concrete steps on the journey back to normality,\" she said.\n\n\"As I've said before, it won't be normality as we knew it because the virus will not have gone away, but it will be a journey to a better balance - I hope - than the one we have today.\"\n\nShe said that sticking with lockdown restrictions for \"a bit longer\" was important so the next steps could be taken with confidence.\n\nThe first minister added that current lockdown advice in Scotland remained in place.\n\nSome lockdown measures were eased in England last Wednesday, allowing people from different households to meet outdoors.\n\nPeople are also allowed to travel to other areas of England to visit destinations like parks and beaches.\n\nHowever, the changes did not apply to Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, who are working to their own timetables.\n\nThursday's \"route map\" will take into account the latest figures on the spread of the infection and the death rate data which will be published by the National Records of Scotland on Wednesday.\n\nOn Monday, Ms Sturgeon said 2,105 patients had now died in Scotland after testing positive for coronavirus, up two from 2,103 on Sunday.\n\nBut she issued a note of caution over the death figures, saying that registrations tend to be lower at the weekend.\n\nThere are now 1,427 patients in hospital with confirmed or suspected Covid-19, up 119 from 1,308 on Sunday.\n\nOf these, 63 are in intensive care, a rise of four.", "A law to introduce a new post-Brexit immigration system for the UK has been given initial approval by MPs.\n\nThe immigration bill repeals EU freedom of movement and introduces the new framework - though not exact details - for who can come to live in the UK.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the government's plans will lead to a \"high skill\" economy.\n\nBut critics said the coronavirus pandemic has changed public attitudes towards those considered \"unskilled\".\n\nThe House of Commons approved the general principles of the law by 351 votes to 252 on Monday. It will now go on to receive further scrutiny.\n\nThe legislation will put EU and European Economic Area (EEA) citizens on an equal footing to immigrants from outside the bloc.\n\nIt also paves the way for the government to introduce a new points-based system, which some say will affect the ability of care workers to come to the UK.\n\nThe government announced proposals for the new system, suggesting points will be awarded for being able to speak English to a certain standard, having a job offer from an approved employer, and meeting a salary threshold of £25,600.\n\nOther points could be awarded for certain qualifications and if there is a shortage in a particular occupation.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said the earnings of frontline workers do not reflect their contribution to society.\n\n\"Those who clapped [for carers] on Thursday are only too happy to vote through a bill that will send a powerful message to those same people - that they are not considered by this government to be skilled workers,\" he said.\n\n\"Are shop workers unskilled? Are refuse collectors? Are local government workers? Are NHS staff? Are care workers? Of course they are not,\" he said.\n\nThe Scottish government's immigration minster, Ben Macpherson, has also written to Ms Patel, asking her to \"pause and reconsider\" the plans, saying the coronavirus outbreak has highlighted the need for immigration in frontline services.\n\nIntroducing the bill in the Commons, the home secretary said: \"The current crisis has shone a light on how we value those who provide compassionate care across health and social care.\"\n\nMs Patel said the changes in the bill \"will play a vital role in our recovery plans for the future\".\n\n\"It will end free movement and pave the way for a firmer, fairer and simpler system and will attract people we need to drive our country through the recovery stage of coronavirus, laying the foundation of a high wage, high skill productive economy,\" she said.\n\nThe legislation, the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill was first introduced in December 2018, but stalled amid a series of defeats for then PM Theresa May's minority government.\n\nThe bill is now being reintroduced to the Commons with Boris Johnson's 80-seat majority, meaning it is likely to pass.\n\nThe plan for a new points-based system will need to be separately approved by Parliament, and it is not clear how soon the formal changes to the current rules will come before MPs.\n\nKarolina Gerlich arrived in UK from Poland 12 years ago and has been working in the social care sector ever since.\n\nShe now works as the executive director of the Care Workers Charity, but says the points-based system the government plans to bring in would have ruled her out from coming to the country \"and supporting as many people as I have\".\n\nMs Gerlich tells the BBC she is \"angry\" about the proposals, saying: \"I think it's terribly heart-breaking that there is this level of misunderstanding about the importance of what care workers do, and the contribution that social care makes, both to the economy and to society in general.\"\n\nShe says the sector is \"quite heavily dependent\" on foreign workers, and limiting who can come to the UK based on their wages could be \"disastrous\", especially after the coronavirus outbreak.\n\n\"We've had over 130 care workers die because they were working on the front line,\" says Ms Gerlich. \"And it is going to be more difficult for the sector to recruit after the crisis. With so many people dying, why would anybody dream of going into work in care now?\"\n\nIn February, Ms Patel said people applying to come to the UK under the proposed system will need to meet strict skills criteria.\n\n\"We will no longer have the routes for cheap, low-skilled labour that obviously has dominated immigration and our labour market for far too long in this country,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel: No more routes for cheap, low-skilled labour\n\nA YouGov opinion poll commissioned by the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) suggests 54% of people now support looser immigration controls for workers regarded as essential during the pandemic.\n\nThe government list of critical workers during the crisis includes care staff, food processing staff, supermarket workers, and delivery drivers.\n\nJCWI's Satbir Singh said such workers \"are not 'unskilled' or unwelcome, they are the backbone of our country and they deserve the security of knowing that this place can be their home too\".\n\nFormer immigration minister and Tory MP Caroline Nokes called for \"a more nuanced and intelligent discussion about immigration in this country\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"We need to understand [immigration legislation] needs to be done with compassion and understanding…and we need to move away from the really blunt 'skilled' and 'unskilled' terms.\n\n\"To be quite frank, they are meaningless and actually really rude to those people who we have been so reliant on, not just in the last eight weeks, but for a very, very long time in this country. \"\n\nSNP immigration spokesman Stuart C McDonald criticised the bill, claiming it would \"split even more families apart\".\n\n\"It's a bill that will result in many thousands of EU nationals losing their rights in this country overnight and which will extend the reach of the hostile environment still further,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What people in Wanstead and Basildon thought of the new immigration bill in February\n\nA visa allowing doctors, nurses and health professionals from overseas to work in the NHS was introduced in March.\n\nThe Brexit transition period ends on 31 December - after which the new immigration rules will apply. Irish citizens' immigration rights will remain.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA terminally-ill bride-to-be whose case persuaded authorities to allow weddings for people in her circumstances has thanked politicians, saying \"they do have hearts\".\n\nSamantha Gamble and Frankie Byrne, from County Down, had intended to get married at the end of May.\n\nBut coronavirus restrictions meant that weddings were not allowed.\n\nWhile Samantha was receiving treatment for a terminal cancer diagnosis, her family began to lobby politicians.\n\nLast week, Stormont's First and Deputy First Ministers, Arlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill, said they had agreed to allow marriage ceremonies in which a person is terminally ill as part of the first steps in lifiting lockdown measures after hearing those appeals.\n\nSamantha said she was unaware of the lobbying, which was co-ordinated over a period of ten days by her cousin Vivienne.\n\nThe first Samantha knew about it was when she was told to turn on the BBC's radio news in the hospital.\n\n\"That was the first I really was told anything about it. I cried, I couldn't believe it, I still can't believe it,\" she said.\n\nShe said the couple, who've been together for 12 years and are from Loughbrickland, had always intended to get married but her cancer diagnosis and treatment had disrupted their plans.\n\nShe said she had decided to speak publicly to thank the NHS nurses in the cancer ward, whose care and attention had allowed her to proceed with her special day.\n\nFrankie said Samantha had begun to think the wedding might never happen but he had told her: \"We're not giving in yet.\"\n\nThe couple said they had been inundated with help for Friday's wedding which will take place at their home.\n\nFrankie Byrne and Samantha Gamble said they had always intended to marry\n\nOnly six people can attend, including the bride and groom and the registrar. Samantha said her two children and a close friend of Frankie's will also be present.\n\nA video-link will allow other members of the family to participate.\n\nSamantha said Friday would mean \"everything\".\n\n\"Just to be able to say we did it. Through all this Frankie has stood beside me and been my rock and done everything for me.\"\n\nWhen asked if she had a message for the politicians, she said: \"Thank you, thank you, thank you, they'll never know what it means to us. They do have hearts.\"\n\nThe couple said they knew Samantha was very seriously ill, but did not want information about her prognosis.\n\n\"We don't want to know.\" Samantha said.\n\nSamantha said the wedding on Friday means \"everything\" to her\n\n\"I know the cancer has spread, it's into my lungs and into my spine and neck.\n\n\"I just take every day as it comes. I don't want them to say you've got such and such a time because I think that would just bring me down.\n\n\"Whereas, at the minute, I can just say I'm living each day as it comes and I'm thankful for breathing.\"\n\nThe couple said they were not aware of any other couples who might benefit from the change in the regulations but if anyone else was in the same circumstances they hoped it would help them too.", "Aya Hachem was taken to hospital where she was pronounced dead a short time later\n\nA young woman shot dead near a supermarket was not the intended target, officers have said.\n\nAya Hachem was found with fatal injuries in King Street in Blackburn, close to Lidl, on Sunday.\n\nThe 19-year-old law student, described as \"truly remarkable\", was going to the shop at about 15:00 BST when she was shot from a passing car, police said.\n\nThree men, aged 33, 36, and 39 from Blackburn have been arrested on suspicion of murder and are in custody.\n\nA Toyota Avensis, believed to have been used in the killing, was later found abandoned on Wellington Road.\n\nA number of occupants were in the car, which has the registration number SV53 UBP, as it passed Ms Hachem, police said.\n\nDetectives have urged \"anyone with information to search their consciences and come forward\".\n\n\"There is no evidence to suggest Aya was the intended target of this attack and every indication is that she was an innocent passerby,\" the force said.\n\nPolice believe a Toyota Avensis was used to commit the offence\n\nMs Hachem's parents have paid tribute to the \"most loyal devoted daughter\" who \"dreamed of becoming a solicitor\".\n\n\"We are absolutely devastated by her death and would like to take this opportunity to plead with any members of the public who may have any information however small that may bring those responsible to justice,\" they said.\n\nMs Hachem was one of four siblings and lived in Blackburn after travelling to the UK about nine years ago, her cousin Hassan told the BBC.\n\nHer family was waiting for the investigation to finish so they could take her body back to Lebanon to be buried in her home village Qlaileh, he said.\n\nMs Hachem, who was a young trustee for the Children's Society, was described as a \"truly remarkable young woman, and an inspiring voice for children and young people\" by its chief executive Mark Russell.\n\nDr Janice Allan, Dean of Salford Business School, said Ms Hachem was \"a very popular and promising second year student whose contribution went beyond the classroom\".\n\nThe Asylum and Refugee Community, a charity working with asylum seekers and refugees in the Blackburn and Darwen area, said Ms Hachem had been the victim of \"a horrific senseless attack\".\n\n\"It is with great sadness and heartache we have to share with you that we have lost Aya, beloved eldest daughter of Samar and Ismael from Lebanon,\" it added.\n\nMs Hachem was found with fatal injuries in King Street at about 15:00 BST on Sunday\n\nThe family of Yousef Makki, who was stabbed to death in Hale Barns in 2019, have also paid tribute to the 19-year-old.\n\n\"Another act of senseless violence that has ripped apart another family, our hearts and thoughts go out to Aya and her family at this heart-breaking time,\" said the Makki family, who were friends with Ms Hachem's family.\n\nPolice said the force was not treating the killing as a terror-related incident and also did not believe it was racially-motivated.\n\n\"This is a truly shocking and senseless killing, which has robbed a young woman of her life,\" said Det Supt Jonathan Holmes.\n\n\"We appreciate this will have caused a lot of worry in the community, but we have deployed significant additional resources, including armed officers, to carry out high-visibility patrols in the area to provide reassurance to residents.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wendell Baker was jailed for life in 2013 after attacking 66-year-old Hazel Backwell and locking her in a cupboard.\n\nA man convicted of beating and raping a pensioner has been cleared for release from prison by the Parole Board.\n\nWendell Baker was given a life sentence in 2013 for attacking 66-year-old Hazel Backwell and locking her in a cupboard.\n\nHe was ordered to spend at least 10 and a half years in prison, following a second trial allowed under new double jeopardy laws. His minimum term was later reduced by two years.\n\nOn Friday the Parole Board said Baker \"was suitable for release\".\n\nBut he \"will be on licence for the rest of his life\", a Ministry of Justice (MoJ) spokesman added.\n\nBaker, now 63, beat and raped Mrs Backwell at her home in Stratford, east London, in 1997.\n\nDuring the court case it was heard that Ms Backwell was found by chance by a neighbour the following evening after Baker locked her in a cupboard.\n\nThe attack left her too afraid to continue living alone or go out by herself and she died in 2002 \"with a very sad and broken heart\", her family said.\n\nHazel Backwell was left too afraid to live alone, following the attack\n\nBaker was found not guilty in 1999 when a judge wrongly ruled his trial could not proceed.\n\nThe introduction of the double jeopardy law in 2005 allowed a person cleared of a serious offence to face a retrial in certain circumstances.\n\nA review in 2007 found much of the evidence had been lost or destroyed, and the case was reopened two years later.\n\nBaker, from Walthamstow, north-east London, was arrested in 2011.\n\nThe trial of Wendell Baker was one of the most disturbing I've reported on.\n\nThe brutal nature of the attack was distressing enough, but it was compounded by Baker's failure to show any remorse.\n\nHis defence to the overwhelming scientific evidence against him was that police had planted semen from a used condom.\n\nA judicial error in 1999 and the later loss of vital police case-files meant Baker almost escaped justice.\n\nIt must be galling, therefore, for those who worked so hard to secure his conviction that he's being let out at the first time of asking.\n\nHe gave further DNA samples matching those found on swabs taken from Mrs Backwell.\n\nIn 2014, Baker had his minimum jail term reduced by two years.\n\nHe became eligible to be considered for release on 15 March.\n\nThe Parole Board, which held a remote hearing to consider the case, said Baker would be subject to strict licence conditions including a curfew and an \"enhanced form of supervision or monitoring\", once released.\n\nA spokesman for the Parole Board said: \"Parole Board decisions are solely focused on what risk a prisoner could represent to the public after release and whether that risk is manageable in the community.\n\n\"We do that with great care and public safety is our number one priority.\"\n\nThe MoJ said: \"Like all life sentence prisoners released by the independent Parole Board, Wendell Baker will be on licence for the rest of his life and subject to strict conditions - and faces a return to prison if he fails to comply.\"", "Video caption: Trump was also asked if he would wear a mask while he visits the Ford Motor Company factory later in the week Trump was also asked if he would wear a mask while he visits the Ford Motor Company factory later in the week\n\nUS President Donald Trump says he thought it would be \"appropriate\" to take hydroxychloroquine after two people working in the White House tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nOn Monday, Trump said he was using the malaria and lupus medication despite public health officials warning it may be unsafe to do so.\n\nElaborating further at an on-camera cabinet meeting on Tuesday, he said: \"Somebody fairly close to me, a very nice young gentleman, tested positive.\n\n\"Plus I deal with Mike [Pence, the vice-president] a lot, and somebody very close to him, who I also see, tested positive. So I thought, you know, from my standpoint, not a bad time to take it because we had that combination.\"\n\nTrump also confirmed that he is considering imposing a ban on travel to the US from Brazil, which has the world's third highest number of reported cases.\n\n\"I don't want people coming over here and infecting our people,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't want people over there sick either. We're helping Brazil with ventilators. Brazil is having some trouble, no question about it.\"", "Since Veolia Household Recycling Centre in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, reopened, it's led to huge queues of cars on the roads in the local area.\n\nLocal businesses situated near the site have raised concerns.\n\nPhil Taylor, who owns a plumbing supplies store, described it as \"horrendous\".\n\nHe said: \"We've not been able to get deliveries in. Customers haven't been able to get into here.\"\n\nBirmingham City Council said residents should only visit the waste centres if it was \"absolutely essential\".", "A council which launched a scheme offering bicycles to key workers for free fears there may be a shortage as hundreds have applied.\n\nLeicester City Council said 360 people had requested a bike through its Bike Aid scheme to help them commute to work.\n\nBut project manager Andy Salkeld said more unused bikes were needed to meet demand.\n\nAny donations need to be in working condition and will be checked before they are loaned.\n\nMore than 400 key workers have been helped so far either by being loaned a bike or by having their own bikes fixed.", "Plans to move MPs and peers out of Parliament should be reviewed, an independent body in charge of managing restoration and renewal plans has said.\n\nPoliticians were scheduled to leave the Palace of Westminster for up to five years while work was completed.\n\nThe move was expected to take place around 2025 and the work was estimated to cost £3.5bn.\n\nThe body says it should be re-evaluated in light of the new pressures on public finances due to the pandemic.\n\nThe independent body, called the Sponsor Body, which oversees the project, makes clear that essential repairs need to be done as the building is at risk from fire.\n\nBut the review raises doubts over whether Parliament will make a full decant to another site.\n\nWork could happen around politicians as they continue working in the building, but this was said to be the more expensive option when MPs and peers debated the move in 2018.\n\nThen, MPs and peers approved the option for a full move but the measures have not been voted on by the new Parliament after the 2019 election.\n\nThe new review is expected to report its recommendations in the autumn.", "A group of conservationists stranded on one of the world's most remote islands have returned to the UK after a 12-day voyage and an RAF military flight.\n\nThe team of 12 from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds planned to spend a year on Gough Island protecting seabirds from predatory giant mice.\n\nBut the project was postponed due to the coronavirus crisis, and the team could not return via South Africa.\n\nThey sailed to Ascension Island, where they took an RAF flight back to the UK.\n\nFour Britons were part of the international group who became stranded on Gough Island, a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic, about 1,700 miles (2,735km) west of Cape Town, South Africa.\n\nThe group travelled by yacht to the uninhabited island at the end of February to start work on a restoration programme to completely eradicate the oversized rodents that have been attacking seabirds and killing their chicks.\n\nBut the project had to be postponed amid the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nUnable to return via South Africa due to lockdown travel restrictions, the group considered travelling to St Helena or the Falkland Islands.\n\nIn the end, they spent 12 days sailing almost 2,000 nautical miles on their expedition yacht, the E.S.V Evohe, to Ascension Island, another island in the South Atlantic.\n\nFrom there, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) arranged for them to take an RAF flight - which was delivering essential supplies to the island - back to the UK.\n\nAs well as the four Britons, the team also included several South Africans and others from Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Greece.\n\nKate Lawrence, who was part of the RSPB group and lives in New Zealand, said: \"Sailing in that boat for 12 days, looking at the endless blue ocean around me, made the world feel quite big, in contrast to the previous ease of air travel and the rapid spread of Covid-19, which makes the world seem so small.\"\n\nThe uninhabited Gough Island is part of the British Overseas Territory Tristan da Cunha.\n\nMillions of birds on the World Heritage Site are killed every year by oversized mice introduced by sailors during the 19th century.\n\nThe rodents - about twice as big as normal mice - eat the chicks alive and have been seen attacking adult albatrosses.\n\nAndrew Callender, programme executive of the RSPB Gough Project and who is based in the UK, said the team had been making \"tremendous progress\" on the restoration scheme before it had to be postponed, which came as \"quite a blow\" to those involved.\n\nThe charity hopes to resume the project on the island next year, if conditions allow and additional funds can be raised.", "A law student who was shot dead in Blackburn, Lancashire, was a \"wonderful young lady who had so much to offer,\" her former head teacher said.\n\nAya Hachem was found with a wound to the chest in King Street, close to Lidl, on Sunday afternoon.\n\nDiane Atkinson, executive head teacher at Blackburn Central High School, described the 19-year-old as a \"very intelligent young lady\" who had \"great aspirations to help other people\".\n\nShe said Ms Hachem had \"worked incredibly hard to become the very, very best person she could be\".", "The owner of High Street restaurant chains Cafe Rouge and Bella Italia has filed intent to appoint administrators at the High Court.\n\nOwner Casual Dining Group, whose brands also include the Las Iguanas chain, employs about 6,000 people.\n\nThe company said the move would give it ten days' breathing space to consider \"all options\" for restructuring.\n\nRestaurants have been hit hard after shutting their doors in March as part of Britain's virus lockdown.\n\nEarlier on Monday, Casual Dining Group said that it is working with advisers from corporate finance firm AlixPartners over a potential restructuring programme.\n\nA Casual Dining Group spokeswoman said: \"As is widely acknowledged, this is an unprecedented situation for our industry and, like many other companies across the UK, the directors of Casual Dining Group are working closely with our advisers as we consider our next steps.\n\n\"These notifications are a prudent measure in light of the company's position and the wider situation.\"\n\nThe firm said the move would protect it from any threatened legal action from landlords.\n\nThe notice of intent to appoint administrators gives the firm ten days to put a restructuring plan into place.\n\nAfter that ten days is up, the firm could let the notice lapse, if there is a viable restructuring plan.\n\nBut if there is no feasible restructuring plan, the firm must either ask for another ten days to come up with one, or it could appoint administrators for the business.\n\nThe restructuring plan could involve so-called \"company voluntary arrangements\" (CVAs), which allow a firm to keep trading while reducing rents. It could also see one or more of the firm's brands put into administration.\n\nThe UK's casual dining chains had a tough few years even before the coronavirus pandemic arrived.\n\nMany struggled with a raft of increasing costs, including upwards-only rent reviews, business rates, a rising minimum wage and the apprenticeship levy.\n\nA rise in the cost of imported food following the sharp drop in the value of the pound amid Brexit uncertainty was another pressure point.\n\nSome well-known names, including Jamie Oliver's restaurant empire, the burger chain Byron, and the Chiquito and Frankie & Benny's owner have either closed sites or had to put in place emergency financial measures.", "The parents of a girl with special needs say they are having to skip meals to make ends meet amid lockdown.\n\nTristan Howdle, from Harrogate, was made redundant as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and his wife, a carer, is working fewer hours.\n\nCharity Family Fund said many families of disabled children - including the Howdles with daughter Mia, 7 - struggle with food and energy costs.\n\nLockdown measures also mean they are unable to access the support they need.\n\nThe charity has spoken out as the government announces £10m emergency funding to help low-income families care for children with complex needs at home.\n\nThe grants, which are expected to work out at about £400-£500 per family, are being made available to help those with seriously ill or disabled children.\n\nMr Howdle, who worked in recruitment before the lockdown began, says the family is shielding as daughter Mia has chronic lung disease, global developmental delay and autism.\n\nShe usually goes to a special school in Wetherby, but cannot currently attend.\n\nTristan Howdle said the family are struggling financially due to pressures brought on by the lockdown\n\nThe situation has also forced Mrs Howdle to reduce her working hours to avoid any direct work with people due to the infection risks.\n\nShe has also given up her usual night shifts, leaving her wages about £500 a month lower than normal.\n\n\"It's the total effect of everything we're missing which is hard for us, all her hospital appointments, all the support she receives at school, it's just incredibly hard on Mia,\" said Mr Howdle.\n\nHe added he and his wife are not eating properly to be able to afford to give Mia the food she needs.\n\n\"You will eat toast or something, just so there is sustenance, but we won't go with full meals all the time, we are just eating what we can,\" he continued\n\n\"In terms of costs, we're spending more than we ever have before on food. Autism means that [Mia] will only touch and eat very specific brands of foods.\n\n\"Some of those brands are not cheap but she will not eat other brands. It's a specific part of that condition that anyone who understands autism will know.\"\n\nFamily Fund, based in York, said a survey it commissioned showed more than half of families of children with special needs are in a similar position.\n\nMia was born prematurely and weighed just 1lb 8oz\n\nA quarter of the parents surveyed said they had missed meals in the past two weeks because of reduced income.\n\nIt found that while the situation has improved, 26% of families still report having to go without toiletries, 25% without hygiene products and 13% without medicines.\n\nChildren and families minister Vicky Ford, said: \"I know that these unprecedented times may put additional pressure on families, particularly those whose children have the most complex needs, and these parents deserve some extra help to loo after and educate them at home.\"\n\nCheryl Ward, of Family Fund, welcomed the funding and said it would make an \"incredible difference\" to ease some of the pressures these families face.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wide-ranging security flaws have been flagged in the Covid-19 contact-tracing app being piloted in the Isle of Wight.\n\nThe security researchers involved have warned the problems pose risks to users' privacy and could be abused to prevent contagion alerts being sent.\n\nGCHQ's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) told the BBC it was already aware of most of the issues raised and is in the process of addressing them.\n\nBut the researchers suggest a more fundamental rethink is required.\n\nSpecifically, they call for new legal protections to prevent officials using the data for purposes other than identifying those at risk of being infected, or holding on to it indefinitely.\n\nIn addition, they suggest the NHS considers shifting from its current \"centralised\" model - where contact-matching happens on a computer server - to a \"decentralised\" version - where the matching instead happens on people's phones.\n\n\"There can still be bugs and security vulnerabilities in either the decentralised or the centralised models,\" said Thinking Cybersecurity chief executive Dr Vanessa Teague.\n\n\"But the big difference is that a decentralised solution wouldn't have a central server with the recent face-to-face contacts of every infected person.\n\n\"So there's a much lower risk of that database being leaked or abused.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said on Monday a new law \"is not needed because the Data Protection Act will do the job\".\n\nAnd NHSX - the health service's digital innovation unit - has said using the centralised model will both make it easier to improve the app over time and trigger alerts based on people's self-diagnosed symptoms rather than just medical test results.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What is contact tracing and how does it work?\n\nThe researchers detail seven different problems they found with the app.\n\n\"The risks overall are varied,\" Dr Chris Culnane, the second author of the report, told BBC News.\n\n\"In terms of the registration issues, it's fairly low risk because it would require an attack against a well protected server, which we don't think is particularly likely.\n\n\"But the risk about the unencrypted data is higher, because if someone was to get access to your phone, then they might be able to learn some additional information because of what is stored on that.\"\n\nNCSC technical director Ian Levy blogged thanking the two researchers for their work and promising to address the issues they identified.\n\nBut he said it might take several releases of the app before all the problems were addressed.\n\n\"Everything reported to the team will be properly triaged (although this is taking longer than normal),\" he wrote.\n\nAn NCSC spokesman said: \"It was always hoped that measures such as releasing the code and explaining decisions behind the app would generate meaningful discussion with the security and privacy community.\n\n\"We look forward to continuing to work with security and cryptography researchers to make the app the best it can be.\"\n\nIsle of Wight residents are testing the NHS Covid-19 app ahead of a planned national rollout\n\nBut Dr Culnane said politicians also needed to revisit the issue.\n\n\"I have confidence that they will fix the technical issues,\" he said.\n\n\"But there are broader issues around the lack of legislation protecting use of this data [including the fact] there's no strict limit on when the data has to be deleted.\n\n\"That's in contrast to Australia, which has very strict limits about deleting its app data at the end of the crisis.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Harriet Harman, who chairs the Parliament's Human Rights Committee, announced she was seeking permission to introduce a private member's bill to limit who could use data gathered by the app and how and create a watchdog to deal with related complaints from the public.\n\n\"I personally would download the app myself, even if I'm apprehensive about what the data would be used for,\" the Labour MP told BBC News.\n\n\"But the view of my committee was that this app should not go ahead unless [the government] is willing to put in place the privacy protections.\"", "Loss of smell or taste have been added to the UK's list of coronavirus symptoms that people should look out for and self-isolate with.\n\nUntil now, only a fever and cough were triggers for people to shut themselves away in self-isolation in case they had and could spread the infection.\n\nEar, nose and throat doctors had been warning for weeks that more symptoms should be included.\n\nScientific advisers told the government to update the advice.\n\nIf you or someone you live with has any of these symptoms - a new, continuous cough, fever or loss of smell or taste (also called anosmia) - the advice is stay at home for seven days to stop the risk of giving coronavirus to others.\n\nCough and loss of smell or taste can persist after seven days. You do not need to keep self-isolating after seven days, unless you have a high temperature or are unwell, says the advice.\n\nLoss of smell and taste may still be signs of other respiratory infections, such as the common cold. Experts say fever and cough remain important symptoms of coronavirus to look out for.\n\nUsing an app, researchers at King's College London have gathered symptom information from over 1.5m people in the UK who believe they might have had coronavirus.\n\nThey say there are even more symptoms - such as tiredness and stomach pain or diarrhoea - that could be included as possible coronavirus symptoms.\n\nSome other countries and the World Health Organization are already citing them.\n\nLead researcher Prof Tim Spector said: \"We list about 14 symptoms which we know are related to having a positive swab test.\n\n\"These are not being picked up by the NHS. This country is missing them all and not only underestimating cases but also putting people at risk and continuing the epidemic.\n\n\"There's no point telling people to be alert if they don't know the symptoms.\"\n\nProf Nirmal Kumar from ENT UK, the body that represents ear, nose and throat doctors, said the change was \"better late than never\".\n\n\"We had been asking for this almost eight weeks ago. The delay has not helped at all. Many, many people have contacted us with concerns about loss of smell and taste and whether these are symptoms they should act upon.\"\n\nEngland's deputy chief medical officer, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam said it was important to update advice at the right time \"when we think it's going to make a difference moving forwards to how we pick up cases\".\n\nDowning Street said the UK's chief medical officers were continually reviewing symptoms of the virus based on advice from experts.\n\n\"They are now confident that encouraging self-isolation with a loss of sense of smell or taste will pick up slightly more cases and help to further control the spread of the virus,\" the prime minister's official spokesman said.\n\nThe World Health Organization says along with the most common symptoms of fever, cough and tiredness, people may have:\n\nOn Monday, the Department for Health and Social Care announced 160 new deaths of people who had tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe overall UK death toll remains the highest in Europe, and was at 34,796 as of 17:00 BST on Sunday.\n• None Loss of smell and taste 'may be coronavirus'", "Young people are most likely to have lost work or seen their income drop because of Covid-19, a report suggests.\n\nMore than one in three 18 to 24-year-olds is earning less than before the outbreak, research by the Resolution Foundation claims.\n\nIt said younger workers risk their pay being affected for years, while older staff may end up involuntarily retired.\n\nThe number of people in the UK claiming and receiving unemployment benefit soared last month.\n\nThe figure went up by 856,500 to 2.097 million in April, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nSeparate ONS figures showed UK unemployment rose by 50,000 to 1.35 million in the three months to March.\n\nJonathan Athow, from the ONS, said employment \"held up well\" in March, but hours worked \"fell sharply\" towards the end of the month - particularly in areas like hospitality and construction.\n\nYoung people tend to be hardest hit by economic slumps.\n\nUniversity of Portsmouth student Emily Isaacs, 20, was working at a kennels near her family home in Ashford, Kent, during the holidays before lockdown began.\n\nBut with the business temporarily closed, she says the \"future is unclear\" and she worries the loss of income could have a knock-on effect on her business studies degree.\n\n\"Having the job meant I didn't have to stress about money and I could focus on my studies,\" she said.\n\n\"I don't really want to be worrying in my final year - which is stressful enough with my dissertation coming up.\n\n\"I'm still paying for my student accommodation and will have to next year as well, even if they continue with non-contact teaching. The deposit and first month's rent is due next month.\n\n\"I've moved back with my parents to try and save and I'm looking for work but a lot of jobs out there aren't the sort I can apply for because some of my family are vulnerable [to Covid-19].\n\n\"I'm just hopeful I can find something when I'm back in Portsmouth.\"\n\nAround a quarter of 18 to 24-year-olds have been furloughed - meaning they do not work but their firms keep them on their books and the government covers 80% of their wages.\n\nA further 9% have lost their jobs altogether - the highest figure out of all age groups.\n\nIndustries that traditionally employ younger staff such as pubs, restaurants and leisure centres have remained shut throughout the UK's eight-week lockdown, as have many shops.\n\nEmployees across all age groups were found to be more likely to earn less than they did in January than earn more.\n\nThose aged 35 to 44 were the least likely to have been furloughed or lost their jobs, with around 15% experiencing this since the outbreak began.\n\nMs Coffey told the BBC's Today programme that the UK should be prepared for the unemployment rate to \"increase significantly\".\n\nShe said the government is focusing on the younger generation as part of efforts to get people back into work.\n\nAsked about the claim that their incomes could be scarred for years to come, she said: \"I think it's too early to say anything like that at all.\"\n\nShe added that there are still vacancies available in areas such as retail and agricultural work, but that opportunities will vary around the country.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Prince of Wales urged people to help harvest fruits and vegetables as part of the Pick for Britain campaign.\n\nIn a video posted on Twitter, he likened the project to the efforts of women who worked in agriculture as part of the Women's Land Army during World War Two.\n\n\"In the coming months, many thousands of people will be needed to bring in the crops. It will be hard graft but is hugely important,\" he said.\n\nThe video was recorded in the vegetable garden of Prince Charles' home in Scotland\n\nThe Resolution Foundation, which studies earnings of lower and middle income-workers, surveyed more than 6,000 UK adults at the beginning of May.\n\nThe Health Foundation, the charity which funded the research, says it was concerned that the current crisis is magnifying already-precarious employment conditions young people face.\n\nHowever, the report found the scale of pay reductions during the crisis would have been greater were it not for the government's job retention scheme.\n\nThe furlough scheme covers 80% of workers' pay up to £2,500 per month and was recently extended to October.\n\nLatest government figures show eight million jobs have been furloughed so far - at a cost of about £11bn.\n\nHowever, campaigners said it has made \"no difference\" to the thousands of people who initially fell through the cracks.\n\nLast week, the chancellor warned it was \"very likely\" the UK is in a \"significant recession\", as figures revealed the economy contracting at the fastest pace since the financial crisis.\n\nCountries around the world are struggling with surges in unemployment due to the pandemic.\n\nMore than 36 million people are now filing for unemployment benefits in the US, representing almost a quarter of the American workforce.\n\nAre you a young worker who has lost their job or faced reduced income due to the coronavirus pandemic? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "The boss of the UK's national tourism agency has thrown her weight behind setting up so-called air bridges with countries with low coronavirus rates.\n\nVisit Britain chief executive Patricia Yates told MPs it was an \"interesting\" idea and indicated the US could be open to agreeing a deal.\n\nAir bridges would allow visitors from low-risk countries into the UK without having to quarantine for 14 days.\n\nA government spokesperson said air bridges were \"not an agreed policy.\"\n\nHe said: \"Work on this is continuing... ultimately we will be guided by the science and the health of the public must come first.\"\n\nTransport secretary Grant Shapps suggested on Monday that the government's plan to quarantine people arriving in the UK for two weeks could include exceptions.\n\nHe said: \"We should indeed consider further improvements, for example, things like air bridges enabling people from other countries who have themselves achieved lower levels of coronavirus infection to come to the country.\"\n\nMs Yates told the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee that the US may be interested in reopening travel links with the UK.\n\n\"Our American regional director is telling us sort of America is ready to go, American business is ready to go. So, possibly, an air bridge between the UK and America might be one that would be valuable to us.\"\n\nShe added that other valuable markets for mutual arrangements also include France, Germany and Italy.\n\nAirlines have objected to the government's 14 day quarantine plan which they say will put people off from travelling.\n\nMr Shapps said the quarantine measure, which is set to \"come in early next month\", would initially be a \"blanket situation\".\n\nBut he said the government was in \"active discussions\" about other options.\n\nNumber 10 said the two week quarantine measure would be reviewed every three weeks once it is introduced.\n\nBut Airlines UK, which represents the industry, said reviews need to be done on a more regular basis.\n\n\"If the government does insist on doing this, with minimal exemptions in place, we need strict rolling reviews to be enforced so that this policy is not in place a second longer than it needs to be,\" it said.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nSurprise inspections, GPS tracking and video analysis are methods that could be used to ensure clubs adhere to new safety guidance as they prepare for the resumption of the Premier League. Teams agreed to start non-contact training in small groups from Tuesday. \"Gradually, we aim to ramp that up so we can have an inspector at every training ground,\" said Richard Garlick, the league's director of football. \"That will enable us to give confidence the protocols are being complied with.\" He added: \"We are looking at bringing in our own independent audit inspection team that we'll scale up over the next few days which will give us the ability to have inspections at training grounds to start with on a no-notice basis.\" After Monday's 'Project Restart' meeting with clubs, Richard Masters, Premier League's chief executive, also revealed that a trophy presentation for the title winners, likely to be Liverpool, remains part of the plans. He said: \"We would try to do it unless it wasn't possible because of safety concerns.\" At the meeting, Premier League clubs agreed to stage one of the return-to-training protocols. As well as training in small groups of no more than five, sessions must last no longer than 75 minutes for each player. Social distancing must be adhered to. However, BBC Sport revealed that a survey of 138 Premier League and English Football League doctors and physiotherapists found more than half \"do not fully understand their roles, responsibilities and potential liabilities\" regarding return to training. The Premier League said the first stage \"has been agreed in consultation with players, managers, club doctors, independent experts and the government\". The league had previously identified 12 June for matches to possibly start again, but there is now an expectation this will need to be pushed back. A Premier League statement added: \"Strict medical protocols of the highest standard will ensure everyone returns to training in the safest environment possible. \"The health and wellbeing of all participants is the Premier League's priority, and the safe return to training is a step-by-step process. \"Full consultation will now continue with players, managers, clubs, the PFA [Professional Footballers' Association] and LMA [League Managers' Association] as protocols for full-contact training are developed.\" All Premier League clubs carried out coronavirus tests on Sunday and Monday and the Premier League will announce on Tuesday how many, if any, positive tests were recorded. On Monday, the Premier League's medical adviser Mark Gillett said that discussions will take place in the coming weeks over whether clubs would have to isolate in a hotel for 14 days before play resumes, as happened in Germany before the Bundesliga restart.\n• None Restrictions in place for team training under 'Project Restart' Masters suggested that any proposal of a new date could hinge upon when teams begin contact training, with further talks expected to take place, \"in the next week to 10 days\". He said: \"12 June was a staging post; it wasn't a firm commitment and what we don't want to do is continue to move it around. \"We know there's a discussion to be had. It really depends on when we can start full contact training and we have a process to go through before we can get to that stage. Of course we've got to be flexible.\" Regarding the safety of players and staff, Masters added: \"Clearly we cannot de-risk the entire thing. But I think what we have created is an extremely safe environment that is the first stage of a return to training. \"So hopefully we have reassured all players and managers on that basis.\" Gillett suggested that the safety measures in place for clubs are expected to be the new normal for the foreseeable future. \"They've made it very clear that the social situation, the public health situation is not going to change over the next six to 12 months,\" he told BBC Sport. \"Regardless of the timing of this type of conversation, we're going to be looking at making the same kind of cultural changes at training grounds and in footballers' behaviours whether we have this conversation now or at any point this year. It is important that people understand that.\" The Premier League is likely to be given extra time to decide when it hopes to restart the 2019-20 season, after Uefa moved its executive committee meeting from 27 May to 17 June. Uefa had previously said it wanted leagues to tell it what their plans were by 25 May, as these can only be signed off by the executive committee. It took the Bundesliga nearly five weeks from starting non-contact training to playing matches. After Monday's announcement by the Premier League, that would leave them looking at either 19 or 26 June. Official protocols sent to players and managers last week and obtained by the BBC revealed corner flags, balls, cones, goalposts and even playing surfaces will be disinfected after each training session. Ongoing measures included in further guidance include twice-weekly testing and a daily pre-training questionnaire and temperature check. Newcastle United manager Steve Bruce said the league had \"done everything they possibly can to make sure that everything is safe\" for the return to training. Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme he said: \"The attention to detail has been quite fantastic. \"So I think everything has been put in place and they've been meticulous in that plan. The vast majority of our squad are satisfied (with the first phase training protocols). Let's get up and going and see where it takes us. I think all of us want to get it started and finished.\" Magpies players will arrive in kit and wear snoods during training. 'Half of PL doctors do not understand' The body that represents medical practitioners in football said half of Premier League doctors and physiotherapists that responded to their survey did not feel they had been \"fully and effectively\" consulted regarding returning to training. Half also said they do not fully understand their \"roles, responsibilities and potential liabilities\" regarding return to training. The figure is even greater among their counterparts in the EFL, with 68% of those who responded to the survey raising concern. In total, 138 club medics across the top four divisions in England responded to the survey from the Football Medicine and Performance Association. A Premier League spokesman said: \"We have actively engaged and consulted with a wide range of medical experts throughout this process to agree the first phase of our return to training protocols which include all Premier League club doctors, Public Health England, the Government and a cross-sport medical working group.\" What happens next?\n• 19 May: Players may return to group training under social distancing protocols\n• 25 May: Uefa deadline for leagues to have finalised plan for restarting seasons\n• 1 June: Government date for possible return of elite sport behind closed doors\n• 12 June: Premier League initially aiming to return with first fixture Championship clubs are of the view today's Premier League decision also clears them to return to training under the same conditions. They are planning to test players on Thursday and Friday before an anticipated return to training next Monday, which is the date outlined in the story. The key difference is clubs are now working to a restart date of 20 June. The idea is to play on five consecutive weekends and the four midweeks in between, meaning the final league games would be 18/19 July, followed by the play-offs, the format for which is still to be decided.", "The Scottish government says a report that criticises its response to the Covid-19 crisis in care homes \"paints a wholly misleading picture\".\n\nEarlier, the former head of services for older people in Glasgow told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime the impact of the pandemic on the sector was the single greatest failure of devolved government since its creation.\n\nBut a government spokeswoman says \"firm action\" was taken from the outset to protect care home staff and residents and that initial guidance for care homes, setting out the clinical and practical steps to be taken, was updated on 26 March and 15 May.\n\n\"Each iteration is a reflection of our growing understanding of the virus and of the situation on the ground,\" she says.\n\nThe spokeswoman also highlights First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's announcement of \"enhanced outbreak investigations\" in care homes on 1 May.\n\n\"We have taken a number of other steps, such as direct delivery of personal protective equipment (PPE), a stepped increase in testing, with the introduction from next week of testing for all care home staff, and emergency legislation to ensure continuity of care in the event of a care home failing,\" it concludes.", "The government is considering introducing an extra bank holiday, possibly in October around the time of half-term.\n\nThe idea was put forward by the UK's tourism agency Visit Britain.\n\nIts acting head, Patricia Yates, told MPs on Tuesday the industry had lost the benefit of two bank holidays in May because of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe government did, however, warn that having an extra break could have an economic downside.\n\nDowning Street said the government was supporting the tourism industry through this \"challenging period\" and would \"respond in due course\" to the proposal by Visit Britain.\n\nA spokesman said it was \"worth acknowledging that extra bank holidays do come with economic costs\".\n\nMs Yates said an extra day in October would enable the UK tourism sector to extend the season. She said the industry could not keep up with developments and it was very difficult to estimate the amount that would be lost because of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nShe told the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee: \"Every time we do the modelling the figures get worse. So for inbound, I mean we were looking at the beginning of this year at about £26.6bn coming from inbound tourism, we reckon a £15bn drop on that.\"\n\nShe said ordinarily, the domestic tourists contributed some £80bn a year, but she was expecting that to be down by £22bn.\n\nMs Yates was one of a number of representatives from Britain's tourism industry appearing before the committee.\n\nShe told the committee: \"To get British tourism up and running this summer is hugely important as we need that domestic audience.\"\n\nCurrently, overnight stays are not allowed in the UK. Hotels will not be opened until July at the earliest under the Government's lockdown plans.\n\nMs Yates said a survey showed confidence was very low, and 74% of those who have a holiday booked between July and September did not think that holiday would take place.\n\nUK Hospitality the trade group that represents leisure businesses from bars to hotels, approve of the move, but struck a note of caution. Its chief executive, Kate Nicholls, said: \"A bank holiday in October may provide a welcome boost for hospitality businesses, not least at a time when consumer confidence will hopefully be returning to healthy levels.\n\n\"However, we are still some way from knowing what the sector will look like. A lot depends on whether businesses are able to open safely and whether the Government continues to support businesses who need it.\"\n\nLess than a fifth of people in the UK were thinking of booking a holiday for the summer, compared with 43% in Italy.\n\nIdeas for the eventual reopening of overseas tourism are also being mooted.\n\nAt present, popular European destinations including France, Spain and Portugal all impose a 14-day quarantine for visitors, the length of a typical holiday break.\n\nThe UK is also planning a two-week quarantine period for those entering the country.\n\nOn Monday, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, said the government was looking at so-called \"airbridges\" with countries that have low infection rates, which would mean easier entry for certain countries.\n\nGreece, which has low coronavirus numbers, has been pressing for easier entry for Greeks, and offered reciprocal arrangements for UK residents.", "Around 2,000 offenders who commit crimes fuelled by alcohol are to be fitted with ankle tags to monitor whether they have been drinking.\n\nThe \"sobriety tags\" monitor sweat levels of the wearer every 30 minutes to see whether they have drunk alcohol.\n\nNew legislation enabling courts to order people to wear the tags has come into force across England and Wales.\n\nOfficial estimates suggest two in every five violent offences are committed by people who are drunk.\n\nUnder the scheme, courts will be able to hand out an \"alcohol abstinence order\", requiring the offender to abstain from alcohol for up to four months and wear the electronic tag.\n\nThe technology is designed to be able to distinguish between alcohol-based products like hand sanitiser and can detect when contact is blocked between the skin and the tag.\n\nThe scheme has already been trialled in Humberside, Lincolnshire, North Yorkshire and London.\n\nDuring pilot schemes those who wore the tags were alcohol free 97% of the time, the Ministry of Justice said.\n\nIt says it expects 2,300 tags to be fitted to offenders every year.\n\nCrime, policing and justice minister Kit Malthouse said the new tagging system will not only punish offenders but \"can help turn their lives around\".\n\nThe measures will be rolled out this winter.", "The first hints that a vaccine can train people's immune system to fight coronavirus have been reported by a company in the US.\n\nModerna said neutralising antibodies were found in the first eight people who took part in their safety trials.\n\nIt also said the immune response was similar to that in people infected with the actual virus.\n\nLarger trials to see whether the jab protects against infection are expected to start in July.\n\nWork on a coronavirus vaccine has been taking place at unprecedented speed, with around 80 groups around the world working on them.\n\nModerna was the first to test an experimental vaccine, called mRNA-1273, in people.\n\nThe vaccine is a small snippet of the coronavirus's genetic code, which is injected into the patient.\n\nIt is not capable of causing an infection or the symptoms of Covid-19, but is enough to provoke a response from the immune system.\n\nThe vaccine trials, run by the US government's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, showed the vaccine led to the production of antibodies which can neutralise the coronavirus.\n\nHowever, testing for these neutralising antibodies has only taken place on the first eight, out of 45, people on the trial.\n\nThe people on the trial were taking either a low, middle or high dose. The highest dose was linked to most side-effects.\n\nHowever, Moderna said that even people taking the lowest dose had antibodies at the same levels seen in patients who recover from Covid-19.\n\nAnd antibodies \"significantly exceeded\" those in recovered patients for people on the middle dose.\n\nThe study is known as a phase 1 trial as it is designed to test whether the vaccine is safe, rather then whether it is effective.\n\nIt will take larger trials to see if people are protected against the virus. However, experiments on mice showed the vaccine could prevent the virus replicating in their lungs.\n\n\"These interim phase 1 data, while early, demonstrate that vaccination with mRNA-1273 elicits an immune response of the magnitude caused by natural infection,\" said Dr Tal Zaks, chief medical officer at Moderna.\n\n\"These data substantiate our belief that mRNA-1273 has the potential to prevent Covid-19 disease and advance our ability to select a dose for pivotal trials.\"\n\nModerna said it was hoping to start a large-scale trial in July, and that it was already investigating how to manufacture the vaccine at scale.\n\nA vaccine pioneered by the University of Oxford is also being tested in people, but there are no results from those trials yet.\n\nHowever, concerns have been raised about the results of experiments in monkeys.\n\nTests showed vaccinated animals had less severe symptoms and did not get pneumonia. However, they were not completely protected from the virus and signs of it were detected at the same level in the monkeys' noses as in unvaccinated animals.\n\nProf Eleanor Riley, from the University of Edinburgh, said: \"If similar results were obtained in humans, the vaccine would likely provide partial protection against disease in the vaccine recipient but would be unlikely to reduce transmission in the wider community.\"\n\nHowever, until human trials have been performed it is impossible to know how the vaccine will perform in people.", "Future increases in rainfall in England could significantly impact emergency responses, according to a new study.\n\nResearchers say that flood conditions could see just 9% of some rural populations reached by an ambulance within the 7-15 minute mandatory timeframe.\n\nOlder people living in rural areas would be worst affected, the authors say.\n\nThey say there should be a rethink on ambulance locations in flooding events.\n\nFlooding is one of the most devastating impacts of climate change. According to studies, it is likely to increase in the future.\n\nThe Met Office has indicated that an extended period of extreme rainfall in winter, similar to what was seen in parts of England between 2013 and 2014 is now about seven times more likely because of human-induced climate change.\n\nTo find out how this changing rainfall might impact on ambulance and fire and rescue services, researchers projected the impacts of floods that might occur once in 30 years, once in 100 years and once in 1,000 years.\n\nIn England, emergency responders must reach urgent cases within mandatory timeframes, regardless of the weather conditions.\n\nIn normal conditions, around 84% of England's population can be reached by ambulance in around seven minutes.\n\nThe researchers found that when a once in 30-year flood event struck, this dropped to 67%.\n\nWith a once in a 100-year flood, just over half the population would be reachable in seven minutes, while in a once in a 1,000-year flood, only 27% of the total population would see an ambulance inside that time limit.\n\nDifferent locations had different outcomes according to the study. East Riding and Berkshire would see their coverage reduce to 9% and 12% respectively.\n\n\"Even the small magnitude floods affect the emergency response,\" said lead author Prof Dapeng Yu from Loughborough University.\n\n\"Ambulance services have been centralised in recent decades, so in villages or small towns there's no ambulance service, therefore when an incident happens in rural areas, it takes a lot longer for them to reach.\"\n\nAs well as rural areas, large urban centres including London, Birmingham, Liverpool and Newcastle, would also see a reduction in response time under a 30-year flood.\n\nCare homes, sheltered accommodation, nurseries and schools would be among the most vulnerable locations with older people in rural areas likely worst-hit, according to the study.\n\nThe authors say that the day of the Brexit referendum on 23 June in 2016 is a good example of what can happen to the emergency services during surface flooding events.\n\nReferendum day was memorable for large-scale surface flooding in many parts of London after torrential rain.\n\nFire brigade crews had to rescue Barking residents by boat\n\nAround 450 flooding incidents were attended by the London Fire and Rescue Service, which was three times the number from the previous day.\n\nThe London fire service target timeframe for reaching incidents is six minutes and on June 23, 59% of journeys were outside that target.\n\n\"You don't know when it's going to hit and you don't know how hard it is going to hit,\" said Prof Dapeng Yu.\n\n\"But when it happens, like in London during the referendum day, it is really striking.\"\n\n\"It really shows the impacts, you will receive three times more calls than normal and your ability to reach them in six minutes is massively compromised.\"\n\nThe authors say that their study shows that the emergency services are particularly sensitive to the expected impacts of future increases in rainfall.\n\nThe impacts would be greater with surface flooding events rather than with river or coastal flooding.\n\nPreventing unnecessary delays in the future will require planners to identify hotspots of vulnerability and to re-think the distribution of ambulances and fire stations.\n\n\"With climate change, flooding will likely become more frequent and more intense,\"said Prof Dapeng Yu.\n\n\"So certainly, when the authorities consider the strategic plan for new ambulance stations or fire stations, they need to consider this factor.\"\n\nThe study has been published in the journal Nature Sustainability.", "Testing will be rolled out to everyone over the age of five with symptoms of coronavirus\n\nEveryone aged five and over in the UK with symptoms can now be tested for coronavirus, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced.\n\nHe was speaking in Parliament after the loss of taste or smell was added to the list of Covid-19 symptoms, alongside a fever and a new persistent cough.\n\nMr Hancock said the government was \"expanding eligibility for testing further than ever before\".\n\nHe added 100,678 tests had been conducted on Sunday.\n\nTesting in England and Scotland has been limited to people with symptoms who are key workers and their families, hospital patients, care home residents, over-65s and those who need to leave home to work.\n\nIn Wales and Northern Ireland it was just key workers, hospital workers and care home residents.\n\nMr Hancock said that priority for testing would still be given to NHS staff and care home workers and residents to \"protect our most vulnerable\".\n\nA further 160 coronavirus deaths have been recorded in the UK as of 17:00 BST on Sunday taking the official total to 34,796 - the highest figure in Europe.\n\nEarlier, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced the extension of testing there as she revealed lockdown measures would be eased from 28 May.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland has also announced an easing of lockdown including new rules to allow groups of four to six people who do not share a household to meet outdoors.\n\nThe UK government has ramped up testing and made it part of its five goals to meet in order to leave lockdown.\n\nThe prime minister has set a target for a daily capacity of 200,000 by the end of the month and last week the UK had reached a capacity of 150,000 a day.\n\nSo far the most tests done in a day is 136,000, on Friday, but this included kits posted out and not necessarily returned.\n\nHealth professionals have raised concerns about the accuracy of some tests as well as the time it takes for results to be returned to patients.\n\nNHS Providers, the association of NHS trusts in England, said the average test return was five days with the longest wait being 13 days.\n\nChief executive Chris Hopson said the testing regime was \"still a very long way from being fit for purpose\" and said that the gap between the tone struck in public statements and the reality on the ground was \"painfully wide\".\n\nOne person who had been tested at Lea Valley in north London, Michael Saunders, told the BBC's Hugh Pym it was \"disappointing\" that he had been waiting for five days for his result.\n\n\"If you are going to make testing a central part of how we deal with this virus you have got to make it right,\" he said.\n\nShadow health and social care secretary Jonathan Ashworth pressed the government on the time taken for results to be received on whether someone had Covid-19 or not.\n\nHe also asked if facilities could be set up to allow poorer people to be able to self-isolate if they are required to do so and whether those in insecure work would be guaranteed sick pay if they were asked to isolate.\n\nThe expansion of the testing programme may grab the headlines.\n\nIt is a significant milestone - in less than two months the UK has gone from only being able to test hospital patients and health and care staff to offering it more or less population-wide.\n\nBut it should not mask the difficulties that remain getting the test, track and trace system up-and-running.\n\nThis will be essential to contain local outbreaks as we ease ourselves out of lockdown.\n\nTests are still taking too long to turnaround for some - significant numbers are thought to be waiting several days - while the piloting of the tracking app on the Isle of Wight is not yet finished.\n\nOne particular concern is that the app does not yet let users know if the person they have had contact with ends up testing positive. Instead, it has only let them know if the contact has developed symptoms.\n\nThat is a major problem. It means people have been left in limbo and incorporating that feature into the app will be important.\n\nProgress is being made, but getting a workable and efficient system in place soon is still a monumental challenge.\n\nMr Hancock also said the government is in the \"closing stages\" of negotiations to purchase new Covid-19 antibody tests.\n\nA test developed by Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche was approved for use by Public Health England last week.\n\nMr Hancock said developments in tracking and tracing meant England was on course to meet the requirements for the next stage of easing lockdown restrictions on 1 June.\n\nHe told parliament 21,000 people had been recruited to conduct contact-tracing in England, including 7,500 healthcare workers.\n\nThis is when people who have come into contact with someone with the virus are tracked down and potentially asked to self-isolate.\n\nThe new recruits will be trained to identify people and advise them on whether to isolate.\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street press briefing, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab defended the government's record on testing and the development of the test and trace app.\n\nHe said: \"We are learning all the way as we go through this pandemic, not just on the scientific side but on the innovation that we need to get a grip on it.\n\n\"We are making good progress on the testing and on the tracing and on the pilot in the Isle of Wight in relation to the app.\"\n\nThe foreign secretary said the app would be ready in \"the coming weeks\" but could not confirm it would be ready before children start returning to school.\n\nEngland's deputy chief medical officer Prof Jonathan Van-Tam told Monday's press briefing that only once there was a vaccine \"really capable of suppressing disease levels\" will the country be \"out of this\".\n\n\"So from that perspective we may have to live, and learn to live, with this virus in the long-term, certainly for many months to come if not several years,\" he said.\n\nHe added it was unclear if there was seasonality to the virus and whether it would come back in autumn and winter.\n\nOn Sunday the government announced it had an agreement for 30 million doses of a vaccine if a trial at the University of Oxford was successful.\n\nThe first hints that a vaccine can train people's immune system to fight coronavirus have been reported by a US company.\n\nAnosmia - the loss of smell - has officially been added to the main symptoms of Covid-19 but Prof Van-Tam said it was rare for it to be present without other symptoms.\n\nTesting eligibility, like lockdown measures, is devolved for individual nations to set their own rules. Mr Hancock made his announcement on the extension of testing across the UK after all four nations agreed to the change.", "The BBC is considering the case for bringing back BBC Three as a regular TV channel, four years after it was taken off air and moved online.\n\nThe youth channel, which commissioned hits like Normal People and Fleabag, will also have its budget doubled.\n\nIt left linear TV in 2016 to save £30m, and because the corporation said young people were watching more shows online.\n\nThe BBC now says it is \"considering the case\" for returning the channel to \"linear television\".\n\nA BBC spokesman said \"we'd be wrong not to back a service that is doing better than anyone could have ever conceived\".\n\nThe turnaround will be formally announced as part of the BBC's annual plan on Wednesday, but there was no news about the fate of BBC Four, which has been rumoured for the axe.\n\nThe corporation warned that putting BBC Three back on TV will mean reductions in other areas, especially as the BBC's income has been reduced by £125 million during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nBut it says those decisions won't be made until the autumn when there is a clearer picture of the BBC's finances.\n\nHowever, the BBC did say it had no plans to close BBC Four at the moment.\n\nBBC Three launched in 2003 and made its name with hits like Little Britain and Gavin & Stacey.\n\nIn recent years, it has also been behind comedy and drama successes like This Country, People Just Do Nothing, My Left Nut and the Bafta-winning Killed By My Debt.\n\nIt has also made the reality shows RuPaul's Drag Race UK and Glow Up; as well as hard-hitting documentaries like Stacey Dooley's investigations and Jesy Nelson's Odd One Out.\n\nThe second series of Glow Up, fronted by Stacey Dooley, has just been launched\n\nNormal People, an adaptation of the Sally Rooney novel, recently propelled BBC Three to its biggest ever week on iPlayer, with 21.8 million requests for the channel's programmes.\n\nIts shows have been aired on regular TV as well as online, including in a dedicated zone on BBC One after the News At Ten since last spring.\n\nWhen it moved online in February 2016, the BBC Trust said \"independent evidence shows younger audiences are watching more online and watching less linear TV\".\n\nBut BBC Three reached 8% of British 16-34-year-olds per week in 2018/19, down from 22% in 2015/16.\n\nThe BBC now says its research shows there is a potential large linear audience for the channel's programmes, which it says are reaching both young people and the wider audience in \"big numbers\".\n\nThe news comes two months after director general Tony Hall told MPs the board was looking to \"divert more resources into BBC Three to build the kind of creative content they're delivering\".\n\nBut with the corporation needing to make savings, there has been speculation that BBC Four may be among the casualties.\n\nA petition calling for the channel to be saved has attracted more than 58,000 signatures.\n\nIn its plan, the BBC said it was \"exploring potential commercial opportunities\" outside the UK for BBC Four to become a global subscription service.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "\"I asked to be left alone, I asked him to get on with his life and let me live mine. I told him I was scared, my children were scared, but nothing helped.\"\n\nFor nearly 12 months, Michael Cook, 31, stalked his ex-partner after she ended their relationship.\n\nEvery day he would contact her - threatening to kill himself or asking for forgiveness - despite him being asked to leave her alone.\n\n\"In total I received over 4,000 emails, over 300 phone calls and hundreds of messages.\n\n\"Just because the messages were not direct threats or harmful, doesn't mean it cannot have the same emotional impact.\n\n\"I have had to change my whole life to ensure that my children and I were kept safe throughout this. I still have to maintain this, and my life will never be the same again.\"\n\nOn Monday, Cook, from Litherland in Liverpool, was sentenced to 12 weeks in jail suspended for a year after pleading guilty to stalking at Liverpool Crown Court.\n\nHe was also handed a five-year restraining order stopping him from contacting his ex-partner.\n\nHis victim has released a statement through the police describing the ordeal he put her through.\n\n\"I had constant threats of suicide, allegations made against me of a serious nature, I was hounded and persecuted at every point, on a daily basis, many times a day.\n\n\"Whether this be via social media, telephone, email, or any platform where I was reachable - including PayPal.\n\n\"This didn't stop there, this also included my family members, my children, their partners and my friends and work colleagues.\"\n\nFeeling scared and vulnerable, the victim contacted Merseyside Police who launched an investigation. Despite their involvement, Cook continued to stalk her.\n\n\"His behaviours were always seen as acceptable to him as 'he loved me' seemingly excusing his behaviours and rationalising why he was constantly contacting me.\n\n\"This behaviour is not appropriate and love does not cause you so much emotional harm and distress that your mental health is affected.\"\n\nThe victim says she now knows her ex-partner had shown similar behaviours before and wants to encourage women to obtain Clare's Law disclosure on their partner.\n\nThis scheme - named after Clare Wood who was murdered in 2009 - allows people to apply to the police to find out if their partner has a history of domestic violence behaviour.\n\nClare Wood was killed by George Appleton, who had a history of violence against women\n\n\"I am only making this statement in the hope that any woman or man who has had or is currently experiencing similar behaviours from an ex-partner, recognises that this is wrong.\n\n\"As a victim I know how easy it is to blame yourself, but please don't, reach out and get support. Don't put up with it.\"\n\nStalking charity Protection Against Stalking says cases like these are not unusual.\n\nIt says it has also seen the number of cases it deals with double since the coronavirus lockdown came into force.\n\n\"Lockdown does not mean lockdown to a stalker who is obsessed,\" says strategic advisor Jan Berry.\n\n\"In the last couple of weeks we have successfully supported clients to obtain 11 protective orders through the court.\n\n\"It is important that people recognise stalking behaviours and seek advice and support to stay safe.\"\n\nDetective Chief Insp Siobhan Gainer, from Merseyside Police, said the case against Cook clearly demonstrates how stalking causes alarm and distress to victims.\n\n\"We understand that in the current lockdown victims of stalking may feel more vulnerable due to their own movements being restricted and potentially stalking behaviour continuing.\n\n\"We want to reassure them that we will continue to support them during this difficult time.\"\n\nAnyone who thinks they are being stalked is urged to contact the police or call the National Stalking Helpline on 0808 802 0300.", "There will be no face-to-face lectures at the University of Cambridge over the course of the next academic year due to coronavirus, it has been announced.\n\nHowever, lectures will be available to students online and \"it may be possible to host smaller teaching groups in person\" if they meet social distancing requirements, the university said.\n\nUniversity campuses have been closed this term by the Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nCambridge will review the decision if advice on social distancing changes.\n\nA statement from it read: \"The university is constantly adapting to changing advice as it emerges during this pandemic.\n\n\"Given that it is likely that social distancing will continue to be required, the university has decided there will be no face-to-face lectures during the next academic year.\n\n\"Lectures will continue to be made available online and it may be possible to host smaller teaching groups in person, as long as this conforms to social distancing requirements.\n\n\"This decision has been taken now to facilitate planning, but as ever, will be reviewed should there be changes to official advice on coronavirus.\"\n\nAll teaching at the university was moved online in March, while exams are being carried out virtually.\n\nIt follows a similar move by the University of Manchester, which said its lectures would be online-only for the next term.\n\nEarlier this week, the university watchdog said students applying for university places in England must be told with \"absolute clarity\" how courses will be taught - before they make choices for the autumn.\n\nUniversities can charge full fees even if courses are taught online.\n\nBut Nicola Dandridge of the Office for Students warned against misleading promises about a \"campus experience\" if courses are to be taught online.\n\nAre you planning to defer starting university? Share your thoughts by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.\n• None Students 'must be warned if courses taught online'", "EasyJet has admitted that a \"highly sophisticated cyber-attack\" has affected approximately nine million customers.\n\nIt said email addresses and travel details had been stolen and that 2,208 customers had also had their credit and debit card details \"accessed\".\n\nThe firm has informed the UK's Information Commissioner's Office while it investigates the breach.\n\nEasyJet first became aware of the attack in January.\n\nIt told the BBC that it was only able to notify customers whose credit card details were stolen in early April.\n\n\"This was a highly sophisticated attacker. It took time to understand the scope of the attack and to identify who had been impacted,\" the airline told the BBC.\n\n\"We could only inform people once the investigation had progressed enough that we were able to identify whether any individuals have been affected, then who had been impacted and what information had been accessed.\"\n\nStolen credit card data included the three digital security code - known as the CVV number - on the back of the card itself.\n\nEasyJet added that it had gone public now in order to warn the nine million customers whose email addresses had been stolen to be wary of phishing attacks.\n\nIt said that it would notify everyone affected by 26 May.\n\nIt did not provide details about the nature of the attack or the motives, but said its investigation suggested hackers were targeting \"company intellectual property\" rather than information that could be used in identity theft.\n\n\"There is no evidence that any personal information of any nature has been misused, however, on the recommendation of the ICO, we are communicating with the approximately nine million customers whose travel details were accessed to advise them of protective steps to minimise any risk of potential phishing.\n\n\"We are advising customers to be cautious of any communications purporting to come from EasyJet or EasyJet Holidays.\"\n\nIn response to the breach, the ICO said that it was investigating.\n\n\"People have a right to expect that organisations will handle their personal information securely and responsibly. When that doesn't happen, we will investigate and take robust action where necessary.\"\n\nIt also warned people to be on the lookout for phishing attacks and directed them to its advice on its website on how to spot such scams.\n\nPhishing attempts - which see criminals sending emails with links to fake web pages that steal personal data - have risen exponentially during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nGoogle is blocking more than 100 million phishing emails every day to Gmail users.\n\nIt is likely that hackers will take advantage of the fact people are cancelling flights because of the uncertainty related to the spread of Covid-19, said Ray Walsh, a digital privacy expert at ProPrivacy.\n\n\"Anybody who has ever purchased an EasyJet flight is advised to be extremely wary when opening emails from now on,\" he said.\n\n\"Phishing emails that leverage data stolen during the attack could be used as an attack vector at any point in the future.\n\n\"As a result, it is important for customers to be vigilant whenever they receive unsolicited emails or emails that appear to be from EasyJet, as these could be fake emails which link to cloned websites designed to steal your data.\"\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic has meant an end to much global travel, leaving airlines struggling financially.\n\n\"These are already turbulent times for all companies within the aviation industry but the situation has just got significantly worse for EasyJet,\" said Mike Fenton, chief executive of threat detection firm Redscan.\n\n\"To add to the company's woes, it is now has to explain how the personal records of nine million customers were able to be accessed.\n\n\"When it comes to cyber security, the airline industry doesn't have a great record. The British Airways breach in 2018 should have been a wake-up call and passenger confidence is likely to be at an all-time low after this.\"\n\nBritish Airways was fined a record £183m over a large data breach in 2018\n\nBritish Airways announced that the personal details of more than half a million of its customers had been harvested by hackers in September 2018.\n\nInitially it said that only 380,000 transactions were affected and that the data did not include travel or passport details.\n\nThe ICO later issued a record £183m fine over the breach. Compensation pay-outs to customers could see that reach £3bn.\n\nUnder GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), if EasyJet is found to have mishandled customer data, it could face fines of up to 4% of its annual worldwide turnover.\n\n\"It is impossible to determine yet whether or not there has been negligence but, if so, consumers could be eligible to claim compensation, raising the financial penalty imposed on the airline significantly,\" said Aman Johal from law firm Your Lawyers.\n\nMillions of EasyJet customers' details of some sort or another have been accessed by hackers - but even more people now need to be vigilant.\n\nGenerally, personal details can be used by fraudsters to access bank accounts, open accounts and take out loans in the innocent victims' names, make fraudulent purchases, or sell on to other criminals.\n\nThe risks to those whose card details have been compromised are clear. Their provider should already have stopped the card, a new one will be issued, and they will need to sort out any regular payments coming from that card.\n\nFollowing a similar data breach at British Airways in 2018, some found this a frustrating and time-consuming task.\n\nMillions of people whose email addresses and travel details have been accessed will need to change passwords, and be wary of any unexpected transactions.\n\nEveryone else, particularly EasyJet customers whose details have not been affected, must be alert to other unsolicited emails and messages.\n\nFraudsters will no doubt pose as EasyJet, banks, or the authorities and claim to be dealing with this latest breach. They are simply trying to steal personal details themselves.\n\nAre you an EasyJet customer? Have you been a victim of the cyber-attack? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nOne player and two staff at Watford and Burnley assistant manager Ian Woan are among six positive Premier League tests for coronavirus.\n\nThe other two are at a third club, the details of which have not been revealed.\n\nPlayers and staff who have tested positive will now self-isolate for seven days.\n\nIt comes as squads started non-contact training on Tuesday, as the Premier League steps up plans for a restart.\n\nA total of 748 players and staff from 19 clubs were tested. Norwich City did their tests on Tuesday.\n\nBurnley said Woan was \"asymptomatic\" and \"currently safe and well at home\".\n\n\"He will remain in close communication with club personnel regarding his re-engagement in training once he is clear of the virus,\" the club added.\n\nWatford confirmed a player and two members of staff had tested positive but they would not be naming those involved as they had asked for medical confidentiality.\n\nBefore the news about Watford's positive tests emerged, captain Troy Deeney said he would not return to training because he feared for his family's health.\n\nA number of other team-mates have joined Deeney's stance in not training and they will follow individual programmes at home. They want reassurances to questions they have around the return to training protocols and the specifics around the spread of the virus.\n\n\"We're due back in this week. I've said I'm not going in,\" Deeney, 31, told Eddie Hearn and Tony Bellew on the Talk the Talk YouTube show.\n\n\"It only takes one person to get infected within the group and I don't want to be bringing that home.\n\n\"My son is only five months old. He had breathing difficulties, so I don't want to come home to put him in more danger.\"\n\nIn an interview with the Sunday Times, manager Nigel Pearson expressed his own concerns about the situation and said he would not insist on players reporting for training.\n\nThe Premier League has been suspended since 13 March because of the Covid-19 pandemic, with 92 fixtures remaining.\n\nThe league had previously identified 12 June for matches to possibly start again, but there is now an expectation this will need to be pushed back.\n\n\"The Premier League is providing this aggregated information for the purposes of competition integrity and transparency,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"No specific details as to clubs or individuals will be provided by the league and results will be made public in this way after each round of testing.\"\n\nClubs were permitted to test up to 40 personnel and some did not use their full allocation, while some samples are still to be processed.\n\nAt Monday's \"Project Restart\" meeting, English top-flight clubs agreed to stage one of the return-to-training protocols.\n\nAs well as training in small groups of no more than five, sessions must last no longer than 75 minutes for each player. Social distancing must be adhered to.\n\nOfficial protocols sent to players and managers last week, and obtained by the BBC, revealed corner flags, balls, cones, goalposts and even playing surfaces will be disinfected after each training session.\n\nOngoing measures in further guidance include twice-weekly testing as well as a daily pre-training questionnaire and temperature check.\n\nMeanwhile, referees' chief Mike Riley has told match officials it will be their personal decision whether they wish to return to officiate matches.\n\nWhile every case of coronavirus is, of course, a cause for concern, the Premier League will no doubt draw confidence from the fact that the number of positive tests revealed on Tuesday was as low as six.\n\nIn one sense, this is six too many. But, had it been significantly higher, it would have raised more serious questions over clubs' return to training. So, this is a boost to those hoping for a resumption of the season next month.\n\nHaving said that, the fact that Watford - one of the clubs most vocal in their reticence about resuming action currently - account for half the positive tests will cause concern at the Premier League. If this makes more players join Troy Deeney in refusing to train, one wonders how long it may be before the club starts to argue that they are being put at too great a disadvantage.\n\nLast weekend, the Office for National Statistics suggested that one in 400 people had coronavirus outside hospitals and care homes, a rate of 0.25%.\n\nWhy the rate among the players and/or staff of the 19 Premier League clubs tested is higher at about 0.8% (so far) is unclear. By comparison, the Bundesliga recently recorded 10 positive results from 1,742 tests. But one should be wary of drawing too many conclusions from this first batch of tests.\n\nWith some players and managers having voiced their worries, and half of club medics feeling insufficiently consulted, further hurdles remain, especially when it comes to getting agreement over the protocols for full-contact training.\n\nHowever, this is at least another small but important step for 'Project Restart'.\n• None I'm not going into training to protect my family's health - Watford captain Deeney\n• None Football Daily podcast: Six out of 748 test positive for coronavirus\n\nThe German Bundesliga became the first major European football league to restart after the coronavirus shutdown when it resumed behind closed doors over the weekend.\n\nIt took the Bundesliga nearly five weeks from starting non-contact training to playing matches. After Monday's announcement by the Premier League, that timeframe would mean either 19 or 26 June for a potential restart in England.\n\nEvery team in Germany's top flight has been in quarantine, going from a hotel to their training ground for the week leading up to the restart.\n\nOn Monday, the Premier League's medical adviser Mark Gillett said discussions will take place in the coming weeks over whether clubs would have to isolate in a hotel for 14 days before play resumes.\n• None 'Bizarre, sterile and haunting' - what it was like inside one of Germany's 'ghost games'\n\nTesting 'does not impinge' on NHS\n\nFor the Premier League to complete the season, it could require about 40,000 privately conducted tests.\n\nThe tests are being carried out by digital health company Prenetics.\n\nAvi Lasarow, chief executive of Prenetics EMEA (Europe Middle East Africa), told BBC Sport that \"categorically\" none of the tests the company will carry out for the Premier League could have been used by the NHS.\n\n\"We of course do not impinge or take away from any testing the NHS is doing,\" he said.\n\n\"All the tests are privately sourced, as well as the other areas of the supply chains, so they are definitely not taking away from the NHS.\n\n\"The government has an infrastructure capability which has been developed to scale up to mass testing volume. It is very clear that we can now see that happening and as an organisation if we were asked to provide additional services we would prioritise that.\"\n\nLasarow added that the tests are 98.8% accurate, which will improve with repeated testing of Premier League personnel, and that the company is able to turn around results in 48 hours.", "Wales lockdown rules are stricter than other parts of the UK\n\nWales' health minister is considering whether people should be able to meet loved ones who are not already in their household outdoors.\n\nThe next review of the Welsh Government's lockdown rules is due next week, on 28 May.\n\nIt comes as new advice said the virus is \"very likely to decay very quickly\" when exposed to sunlight.\n\nVaughan Gething said ministers were having a \"very real debate\".\n\nIn Northern Ireland, groups of up to six people who do not share a household are being allowed to meet outdoors - in England people can meet one other person from outside their household outdoors.\n\nIt is not expected any decision would be made before the lockdown review is completed.\n\nMeanwhile Mr Gething admitted that a new testing system is experiencing \"teething problems\" - after Wales joined a UK-wide scheme allowing members of the public with symptoms to have tests at home.\n\nThe Welsh Government's Technical Advisory Cell (TAC), in a paper published on Tuesday and dated 12 May, said coronavirus \"is very likely to decay very quickly (a few minutes) in air and on surfaces when exposed to sunlight.\n\n\"This adds to the evidence that outdoor environments are highly likely to be a lower risk for transmission,\" it says.\n\nThe same paper, however, said the rate at which coronavirus is reproducing in Wales \"increased slightly\" last week.\n\nTAC said the consensus view was that R in Wales was between 0.7 and 1 - up from between 0.7 and 0.9.\n\nThe Welsh Government has said it wants to keep R below one. The paper adds that while R is \"almost certain to be under 1, it could be close to it\".\n\nExplaining the increase, it said it is because \"the number of cases in the community is decreasing while the number in, or seeded by, care homes or hospitals remains broadly flat\".\n\n\"As a result, hospital or care home cases represent a higher proportion of total cases. This means that the rate at which the overall epidemic is shrinking has slowed.\"\n\nPeople in Wales are not currently permitted to travel to see friends or family that do not live in their household.\n\nAsked at the daily Welsh Government press conference if the advice was a reason to allow the public to meet loved ones outdoors, Mr Gething said the evidence was \"developing\".\n\n\"So we need to think about what that then means, not just about being outside, but who you are outside with and the level of contact you have,\" he said.\n\nThey are \"active considerations\", he said.\n\nMr Gething said TAC's evidence helps to inform the \"very real debate that ministers are having with our advisors on how we continue to take a deliberately cautious approach\".\n\nHe added he did not want to risk \"the health and safety of the people of Wales\" or throw away \"the hard won gains the people of Wales have delivered\".\n\nThe original 'stay home' advice in Wales has been maintained\n\nOn Monday the Welsh Government joined a UK-wide testing portal and home testing scheme, allowing people aged five and over to be tested if they have symptoms.\n\nBut on Tuesday morning the portal showed no testing kits were available - although that changed by the evening. Testing sites in Wales could also not be booked for the general public, but could for key workers.\n\nMr Gething said they would seek to understand \"teething problems\" in the system.\n\n\"We anticipate there will be a high level of demand for home testing kits over the first few days.\"\n\n\"The UK government has confirmed priority will be given to home testing kits for critical workers and it will be working to increase home testing capacity for the public.\"\n\nHome testing is a key part of the Welsh Government's plans for tracing coronavirus contacts, so people can be isolated if they are infected.\n\nMr Gething announced the system will be piloted in the Cwm Taf Morgannwg, Powys, Betsi Cadwaladr and Hywel Dda health board areas.\n\n\"Each pilot will be delivered by a local authority and their staff,\" the minister said.\n\nMr Gething said the trials would run for two weeks and would be \"small scale\".", "All 60 Members of the Senedd (MS) will be able to take part in virtual sittings from June, the Welsh Parliament has said.\n\nOnly limited numbers have been able to join the Zoom conference calls that have replaced face-to-face meetings in Cardiff Bay.\n\nIt comes as calls grew for the Senedd to move to the “hybrid model” used by the House of Commons, where some MPs go to Parliament and others call-in over the internet.\n\nMandy Jones, Brexit Party MS, said living in a rural part of north Wales “means that my internet connection isn’t always strong enough to conduct all my work from home\".\n\nShe said other MSs have also had issues.\n\nFormer Welsh Conservative Senedd leader Andrew RT Davies has also called for hybrid sittings.\n\nA Senedd spokesman said it will contact Ms Jones to offer any support needed, and added that its IT support team “has not received any issues relating to broadband from MSs”.", "The ban on places of worship must end in eight days, the court said\n\nFrance's administrative court has ruled that the government must lift a blanket ban on meetings at places of worship within eight days.\n\nThe ban was put in place as part of measures to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThe Council of State ruled the ban was \"disproportionate in nature\" and caused \"damage that was seriously and manifestly illegal\".\n\nMore than 28,000 people have died in France from Covid-19.\n\nCurrently, all gatherings in places of worship are banned except for funerals, which are limited to 20 people.\n\nHowever the judge said that as private gatherings of up to 10 people are now allowed, the ban was \"disproportionate to the objective of preserving public health\".\n\nBruno Retailleau, leader of the right-wing Republicans in the Senate said on Twitter that the ruling was \"good news for freedom of religion\".\n\nFrance is currently in the middle of relaxing its lockdown rules while trying to ensure the country does not experience a second wave of cases. Religious leaders had been told not to organise services until 2 June.\n\nFrance had a cluster of Covid-19 cases in February that originated at an evangelical church. Thousands of people gathered in Mulhouse for a week of activities. More than 2,500 cases are said to have been linked to it worldwide, Reuters news agency reports.\n\nA gathering at a church in South Korea sparked more than 5,000 cases there.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The French evangelical church threatened with Kalashnikovs over Covid-19 outbreak", "West Yorkshire Police said more than 60 computers and phones were seized in the raids\n\nTwenty seven people have been arrested in connection with online child sexual exploitation in Bradford.\n\nThe boys and men, aged 16 to 57, were questioned after being arrested at addresses across the city.\n\nMore than 60 devices were seized and safeguarding measures put in place for 26 children, police said.\n\nWarrants were executed after claims that people had been contacting children online and were in possession of indecent images of children.\n\nThe 27 people were questioned and released under investigation or bailed while further inquiries take place, West Yorkshire Police said.\n\nPolice said parents and carers must monitor their children's devices and report concerns during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nDet Ch Insp Alan Weekes said: \"We urge parents and carers, particularly in the current climate where children are spending more time at home, to regularly monitor their children's devices and report any concerns to the police or partner agencies, so these can be investigated fully.\"\n\nHe said anyone attempting to contact children online \"cannot hide behind their mobile phone or internet use\".\n\nAdrian Farley, executive member for children and families at Bradford Council, said: \"It's a good result that the police have made these arrests.\n\n\"It sends out a strong message to anyone thinking of committing these sorts of crimes that grooming children online will not be tolerated, particularly at this time when children are spending more time online because of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\n\"It also shows that when partners and the public let the police know of potential offences, action can and will be taken.\"\n\nEarlier this month, international law enforcement agency Europol warned that online child abusers are seeking to take advantage of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Captain Tom initially set out to raise £1,000 for the NHS\n\nCaptain Tom Moore is to be knighted for his fundraising efforts after a special nomination from the prime minister.\n\nThe war veteran raised more than £32m for NHS charities by completing 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday in April.\n\nBoris Johnson said the centenarian had provided the country with \"a beacon of light through the fog of coronavirus\".\n\nAs an honorary colonel, his official title will be Captain Sir Thomas Moore under Ministry of Defence protocol.\n\nThe knighthood, which has been approved by the Queen, will be formally announced on Wednesday.\n\nCapt Tom, who was given the honorary title of colonel on his 100th birthday, had initially set out to raise £1,000 for NHS charities by walking laps of the 25m (82ft) loop in his garden in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire.\n\nBut he eventually raised £32,794,701 from more than one and a half million supporters.\n\nIn a statement, Boris Johnson said Capt Tom's \"fantastic fundraising broke records\" and \"inspired the whole country\".\n\n\"On behalf of everyone who has been moved by his incredible story, I want to say a huge thank you. He's a true national treasure,\" he said.\n\nLabour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer congratulated Capt Tom and said he had \"brought inspiration to millions and helped all of us to celebrate the extraordinary achievements of our NHS\".\n\n\"In his actions, Tom embodied the national solidarity which has grown throughout this crisis, and showed us that everyone can play their part in helping build a better future.\"\n\nCapt Tom served in India and Myanmar during World War Two\n\nCapt Tom, who was born in Keighley, West Yorkshire, captured the hearts of the nation and his birthday celebrations were extensive.\n\nThe occasion was marked with an RAF flypast as well as birthday greetings from the Queen and prime minister.\n\nHe was also made an honorary colonel and received an estimated 140,000 cards.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"It's almost been a blessing in disguise. I was stuck in the same role for a number of years, but now I can work for myself and hopefully secure a better future for my family,\" says Jay Lee.\n\nThe 32-year-old from Surrey recently lost his job at a large UK bank as a mortgage adviser, where he also helped customers with fraud investigations.\n\n\"Even when the pandemic started getting more serious, we were told not to worry about our contracts. We were given full reassurance that our jobs were safe.\"\n\nA couple of weeks into lockdown, a conference call was organised for the team who were all working from home.\n\nJay says that by the end of that day, 40 of them had been told they would lose their jobs.\n\nJay then decided to take the plunge and set up a business, uAcademy, which offers online courses for aspiring mortgage advisers.\n\n\"It's something I had been thinking about doing for a year or two, and this gave me a push to do it. I suddenly had a lot of free time, so I managed to set everything up and create the content in about two weeks.\"\n\nThe business has got off to a solid start, he says.\n\n\"There's a lot of interest in online learning at the moment. People want to learn new skills, maybe something to help them with a new career.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Four young people who set up businesses in lockdown\n\nWhile he's now generating enough income to cover bills and expenses, Jay recognises he's in a fortunate position.\n\nOf the 209 of his new students surveyed, Jay says that most had been furloughed or made redundant due to the pandemic.\n\n\"Ideally, I hope that this is something I can take on for the future, which is great. But I do have really mixed feelings, and wish my colleagues weren't in this situation too.\"\n\nAs large parts of the economy have been shut down to battle Covid-19, many workers, like Jay, have been laid off.\n\nMore than 6.5 million jobs in total could be lost due to the economic fallout from the UK's coronavirus lockdown, one study by the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex suggests.\n\nMillions of others at risk of redundancy have been furloughed, often on reduced pay, which is subsidised by the government.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I'm vulnerable but have to go out and look for work'\n\nEmma Timberlake from Thurrock was one of those workers.\n\nWhen lockdown measures were introduced, her employer in the construction sector told her to stay at home. She is living with multiple sclerosis (MS), a neurological condition which prevents the immune system from working properly.\n\nShe was furloughed, and later received a letter one day prior to the government's job retention scheme being extended. It said that she would be made redundant from her job as a sales administrator as of 30 June.\n\n\"I'm absolutely devastated that I've lost not just a job, but a family,\" Emma says.\n\n\"Colleagues that I would speak to on a daily basis have vanished from my life with one simple A4 piece of paper.\"\n\nEmma is now applying for a range of different jobs, from supermarket work to van driver positions.\n\n\"To me, a job is a job and I'd rather sweep the streets than not be doing anything, but I do worry about who can guarantee my safety.\"\n\nIn the meantime, she has had to rely on volunteer services for food deliveries. But she's also contributing to them herself while isolating.\n\nDuring isolation Emma has received food deliveries by volunteers from her local authority in Essex\n\nOver the past few weeks, she has taken part in a volunteer \"buddy scheme\", calling other people who are feeling lonely during lockdown.\n\n\"Obviously, I am very disappointed. I adored my job. But I know we're going to come out of this so strong. If you can keep a positive mindset, it gets so much better.\"\n\nOlivia was set to start a graduate role in the aviation sector prior to lockdown\n\nOlivia, 21, from Warwickshire is graduating from university this summer.\n\nHaving completed her studies in law, she had travelling plans and a graduate job lined up in the aviation sector in the coming months.\n\n\"I was so looking forward to starting, it was basically my dream to work with this particular company, utilising the degree I love,\" she says.\n\nBut in April, Olivia was told the company no longer had a graduate position for her. She says they cited a lack of funding, and uncertainty around how to train people online.\n\nNew research from The Prince's Trust suggests that Olivia isn't alone. In a survey of more than 1,000 young people, one in 10 said they have had the job or training they were about to start cancelled due to the impact of the coronavirus.\n\nOlivia has decided to carry on with her studies as a result. She plans to start a master's degree in aviation law later in the year.\n\n\"I was incredibly disappointed, but believe that everything happens for a reason and a new door will be opened instead.\"\n\nFor now, she's working 45 hours a week picking and packing online orders for a retailer.\n\nShe says: \"I'm trying to see this unfortunate circumstance as an opportunity to explore new paths. It's the perfect time to experiment.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aya Hachem was \"an inspiration\", her head teacher said\n\nDetectives are continuing to question three men on suspicion of the murder of a young woman shot dead from a passing car in Blackburn.\n\nAya Hachem was found with a wound to the chest in King Street, Blackburn, close to Lidl, on Sunday afternoon.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Terry Woods said Lancashire Police did not believe the \"completely innocent\" law student had been the intended target.\n\nHe described her as the \"perfect 19-year-old\" and a \"wonderful young lady\".\n\nThree men from Blackburn, aged 33, 36, and 39, have been arrested and remain in custody.\n\nMs Hachem's parents said she was the \"most loyal devoted daughter\" who \"dreamed of becoming a solicitor\".\n\nShe was a young trustee for the Children's Society, whose chief executive Mark Russell described her as \"someone full of potential\".\n\n\"She was bright, passionate, hard-working, ambitious - she wanted to be a lawyer and we used to talk about that,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a complete tragedy that her life has been cut short.\"\n\nMs Hachem was going to the shop at about 15:00 BST when she was hit by a single bullet, police said.\n\nPolice believe this Toyota Avensis was used to commit the offence\n\nA Toyota Avensis, believed to have been used in the killing, was later found abandoned in Wellington Road.\n\nA number of people had been in the car, which has the registration number SV53 UBP.\n\nDCC Woods said \"massive resources\" had been allocated to the investigation into Ms Hachem's death.\n\nHe said the investigation was concentrating on the Toyota and he appealed to anyone with \"dashcam footage from the week running up to Sunday of that vehicle\" to get in touch.\n\nHe also appealed to those involved in crime in the area to help police, adding that his officers would not be \"going away until we've got justice for Aya and her family\".\n\n\"The offenders have shot dead a completely innocent, wonderful 19-year-old... and it's now time for the criminal fraternity to come forward.\n\nMs Hachem was found with fatal injuries in King Street at about 15:00 BST on Sunday\n\n\"Blackburn isn't one of those places that has gun crime problems. It's very, very unusual.\"\n\nMs Hachem was one of four siblings and had lived in Blackburn since travelling to the UK about nine years ago, her cousin Hassan said.\n\nHer family was waiting for the investigation to finish so they could take her body back to Lebanon to be buried in her home village of Qlaileh, he said.\n\nDiane Atkinson, the executive head teacher at Blackburn Central High School, said the 19-year-old's former teachers were \"really, really proud of her\" and had used her as an example to younger pupils \"of what was possible\".\n\nShe said Ms Hachem had arrived at the age of 12 \"with very little English\" but had \"very quickly picked up\" the language and \"worked incredibly hard to become the very, very best person she could be\".\n\n\"She was an inspiration,\" she added.\n\n\"It is such a waste of a wonderful young lady, who had so much to offer and had such great aspirations to help other people.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Care homes in England were planning their response to the coronavirus pandemic \"with their hands tied\" because data about outbreaks in the sector were not published until the end of April, an industry body has said.\n\nPublic Health England had counted more than 4,500 Covid-19 outbreaks in care homes before it issued its findings, figures reveal.\n\nThe National Care Forum voiced concerns at the data not being shared but PHE said it was used by health protection teams and to brief ministers.\n\nGary Lemin, whose father Roger died from Covid-19 in Cornish care home Roseland Court, told BBC Radio 4's File on 4 that a lack of data meant care homes have been \"fighting a losing battle\".\n\nHe added: \"It makes it very difficult to understand the problem. It's almost as if their lives don't matter as much as anybody else's.\n\n\"It's a kind of an indictment of the way that the care system has been seen over this crisis.\"\n\nIt comes as figures from the Office for National Statistics and its counterparts in Scotland and Northern Ireland suggest more than 11,600 people have died with coronavirus in care homes across the UK since the start of the pandemic.\n\nRoger Lemin died with Covid-19 on 6 April - in the same week there were nine outbreaks in Cornwall\n\nPHE has been collecting data on the number of both suspected and confirmed outbreaks in English care homes since 9 March.\n\nThe data shows there were more than 500 Covid-19 outbreaks in care homes in the week beginning 23 March - with this figure increasing to almost 800 the week after.\n\nIn the week beginning 13 April, there were nearly 1,000 outbreaks in English care homes.\n\nThe South East region recorded a more than five-fold increase in outbreaks within one week in early March, at a time when other regions' homes had barely registered cases.\n\nBy the time PHE published the information - on 29 April - there had been more than 4,500 outbreaks in care homes.\n\nVic Rayner, executive director of the National Care Forum, which represents more than 120 not-for-profit care organisations, said: \"The consequences of not having that data are huge.\n\n\"It has affected our ability to plan, prioritise, identify early outbreaks and bring in the right level of medical and health expertise.\n\n\"Having that overall picture of knowing what's going on is absolutely critical. I think it's impossible to operate effectively without that.\"\n\n\"We're now in a terrible game of catch up.\"\n\nPHE said it \"used the data on reported outbreaks in care homes, large and small, to inform directors of public health, directors of adult social care… and other partners through LRFs (local resilience forums)\".\n\nBut the Local Government Association (LGA) confirmed it had not received the data and told the BBC that directors of public health have said it has been \"difficult\" to get postcode level data - and that real-time data sharing has been a problem both nationally and locally.\n\nThe LGA added: \"Data on testing, deaths and better surveillance will be required as we move into contact tracing and case finding.\"\n\nJames Bullion, director of the Association of Directors of Social Care, said he was not aware of the PHE outbreak figures.\n\nHe added: \"We were all, as directors, wanting greater distribution, greater understanding and transparency of the data around outbreaks and indeed, around incidents.\"\n\nPHE said it only published the data in late April after introducing detail about the number of outbreaks at local authority level in order to help support government.\n\nA PHE spokesman added: \"PHE's health protection teams play a vital role locally in responding to any outbreak in care homes, providing tailored infection control advice to allow staff to protect themselves and their residents.\"\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said: \"The government's daily figure now includes deaths that have occurred in England in all settings where there has been a positive Covid-19 test, including hospitals, care homes and the wider community.\"\n\nCoronavirus: The care homes catastrophe was on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday 19 May at 20:00 BST and is available to listen now on BBC Sounds.", "Mr Gaiman left his wife Amanda Palmer and son behind in Auckland\n\nAuthor Neil Gaiman has apologised for making a trip from New Zealand to \"self isolate\" at his home on Skye.\n\nThe Good Omens and American Gods writer was spoken to by police after breaking Scotland's lockdown measures.\n\nOn his blog, Gaiman, who has been on Skye for almost three weeks, wrote: \"So. I did something stupid. I'm really sorry.\n\n\"I've managed to mess things up in Skye, which is the place I love most in the world.\"\n\nThe author left his wife, singer Amanda Palmer, and their four-year-old son in Auckland so he could \"isolate\" at his island retreat.\n\nHis trip, which involved flying via the US and driving from London, has been criticised by the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford, who is the MP for the island, and Skye's MSP Kate Forbes.\n\nEnglish-born Gaiman said he had \"panicked\" at the thought of being stuck in New Zealand while all his upcoming work was in the UK. He said he followed advice on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's website for UK nationals to return home from abroad \"where and while commercial routes\" were available.\n\nHowever, he said police on Skye said he should have stayed where he was safe in New Zealand. Gaiman said: \"I agreed that yes, all things considered, I should.\"\n\nIn his blog post, the author thanked islanders for the support they had shown him and wrote of Skye's \"tragic Covid outbreak\" at a care home in Portree where 10 residents have died.\n\nGaiman said: \"I made a mistake. Don't do what I did. Don't come to the Highlands and Islands unless you have to.\"", "Hungary's parliament has approved a law that bans trangender people from changing the gender they were assigned at birth on official documents.\n\nThe law, proposed by the governing right-wing Fidesz party, passed by 133 votes to 57.\n\nRights groups fear it will worsen discrimination against LGBTQ citizens; an opposition MP said it was \"evil\".\n\nBut the government, led by PM Victor Orban, says it will end legal uncertainty.\n\nThe administration insists it will not prevent anyone expressing their identity.\n\nThe decision \"to register children's biological sex in their birth certificates does not affect men's and women's right to freely experience and exercise their identities as they wish,\" the government's communications office said.\n\nThe law is part of a wide-ranging package of legislation, presented by Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjen.\n\nA backlog of applications going back three years will now be rejected.\n\nTrans people and human rights groups say it is the latest blow in a war declared by the conservative-nationalist government against anyone who does not fit into their definition of a family, reports the BBC's Nick Thorpe in Budapest.\n\nTina Korlos Orban, vice president of advocacy group Transvanilla Transgender Association, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation: \"We have no words to describe what we feel.\n\n\"People who haven't had suicidal thoughts for decades now are having them. People are in panic, people want to escape from Hungary to somewhere else where they can get their gender recognised.\"\n\nTrans people fear that discrimination and worse will occur when they need to present official documents.\n\nThe legislation now goes to President Janos Ader, also a member of Fidesz, to be signed into law. Rights activists say they will try to persuade him not to.\n\nMost European Union countries allow official documents to be changed to match gender identity, according to campaign group Transgender Europe.", "Germany's Angela Merkel and France's Emmanuel Macron discussed the fund via video link\n\nFrance and Germany are proposing a €500bn ($545bn; £448bn) European recovery fund to be distributed to EU countries worst affected by Covid-19.\n\nIn talks on Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed that the funds should be provided as grants.\n\nMr Macron said it was a major step forward and was \"what the eurozone needs to remain united\".\n\n\"I believe this is a very deep transformation and that's what the European Union and the single market needed to remain coherent,\" Mr Macron said following discussions via video link.\n\nMrs Merkel, who had previously rejected the idea of nations sharing debt, said the European Commission would raise money for the fund by borrowing on the markets, which would be repaid gradually from the EU's overall budget.\n\nGrants provided by the proposed recovery fund should also be used to help finance the bloc's investment in a greener future, the two leaders said.\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the proposal \"acknowledges the scope and the size of the economic challenge that Europe faces\".\n\nEuropean Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde said the plan was \"ambitious, targeted and welcome\".\n\nOther EU countries must agree with the proposal, however, and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz later insisted that his country backed providing loans to member nations hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, rather than grants.\n\n\"Our position remains unchanged,\" Mr Kurz wrote in a tweet, adding: \"We expect the updated [EU budget] to reflect the new priorities rather than raising the ceiling.\"\n\nIn EU political terms this is huge.\n\nChancellor Merkel has conceded a lot. She openly agreed with the French that any money from this fund, allocated to a needy EU country, should be a grant, not a loan. Importantly, this means not increasing the debts of economies already weak before the pandemic.\n\nPresident Macron gave ground, too. He had wanted a huge fund of a trillion or more euros. But a trillion euros of grants was probably too much for Mrs Merkel to swallow on behalf of fellow German taxpayers.\n\nThe resulting compromise: a win-win for the two leaders. They hope.\n\nThey got to demonstrate that the famed Franco-German motor of Europe still has some va-va-voom. Mr Macron badly needs to polish his European credentials at home. He already has an eye on his re-election bid and so far the self-styled Mr Europe's attempt at European reform has failed rather spectacularly to take off.\n\nChancellor Merkel, meanwhile, is in her last term of office. She's clocked the headlines predicting the EU's demise in view of the bickering and a lack of EU solidarity during the pandemic. She has her political legacy in mind.\n\nItaly and Spain had previously urged their partners in the 27-member bloc, especially the richer countries of northern Europe, to show more solidarity by sharing debt that all EU nations would help to pay off.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Beach crowds as countries around the world ease lockdowns\n\nThe two countries are among a number of European nations to further ease their coronavirus lockdown restrictions on Monday.\n\nBut while businesses reopen following more than two months of nationwide lockdown measures, the coronavirus pandemic has already hit economies hard.", "Daily global emissions of CO2 fell by 17% at the peak of the shutdown because of measures taken by governments in response to Covid-19, say scientists.\n\nThe most comprehensive account yet published says that almost half the record decrease was due to fewer car journeys.\n\nBut the authors are worried that, as people return to work, car use will soar again.\n\nThey fear CO2 emissions could soon be higher than before the crisis.\n\nThey are urging politicians to grasp the moment and make real, durable changes on transport and personal mobility.\n\nIn the UK, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has pledged £250m for improvements to cycling and walking infrastructure. Other countries are also looking at similar plans.\n\nThe lockdowns that most governments have implemented in response to Covid-19 have had a significant impact on the carbon-producing activities that are embedded in almost everything we do.\n\nRoad transport has declined hugely, as has aviation.\n\nHowever, now that the UK is beginning to return to work, Mr Shapps said people should drive to work rather than use public transport, should walking or cycling not be an option.\n\n\"If you can't walk or cycle but you do have access to a car, please use it rather than travelling by bus, train or tram,\" he said.\n\nIndustry has temporarily closed down and demand for energy all over the world has crashed.\n\nNow in detailed analysis, researchers have shown how those changes have impacted our emissions of CO2.\n\nThey've calculated the fall off in carbon based on the lockdown policies implemented in 69 countries that between them account for 97% of global emissions.\n\nDuring the peak of the crisis in early April, daily emissions dropped by 17% compared to the previous year, meaning around 17 million tonnes less CO2 were emitted every day.\n\nThe key to the fall has been cars. Surface transport emissions have declined by 43%, the same amount as the drop from industry and power generation combined.\n\nWhile the aviation slowdown has grabbed headlines for the economic impact, it only accounts for 10% of the decrease during the pandemic.\n\nChina has been responsible for the biggest drop, followed by the US, Europe and India.\n\nIf some restrictions on economic activity stay in place worldwide until the end of the year, then global emissions will likely drop by 7%.\n\nIf pre-pandemic levels of transport and economic activity return by mid-June, the annual fall would be around 4%.\n\nBut the research team that carried out this work is concerned that the rebound, especially on the roads, could see a carbon surge.\n\nLockdown has raised questions about other pollutants, too. One of the UK's leading experts, Prof Frank Kelly, from King's College London, said he knew diesel cars were emitting far more pollution than advertised - fully two years before US authorities exposed the scandal.\n\nHe told Radio 4's The Life Scientific programme that his team discovered a huge mismatch between emissions declared by the car firms and real readings on the road.\n\nProf Kelly said he reported it to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), but they didn't publish his findings. He said work undertaken subsequently in the US led to legal action against car makers that had installed \"defeat devices\" to fool regulators.\n\nThe government didn't deny the account. A spokesperson said: \"We are taking urgent action to improve air quality and our Clean Air Strategy has been commended by the World Health Organization as an 'example for the rest of the world to follow'\".\n\nMeanwhile, on the Covid-19 crisis, he said levels of the pollutant NO2 had fallen by up to 60% in London since the fall in traffic under lockdown.\n\nLevels of another pollutant, sooty particles, remained at harmful concentrations.\n\n\"A big worry that people will naturally want to go back to their cars to go to work, and that could rebound the emissions to the same level or even higher than before, once everybody goes back,\" said Prof Corinne Le Quéré from the University of East Anglia, who led the analysis.\n\nThe researchers say that fundamental, systemic change is needed if the emissions curve is to be flattened in a way that would limit the very worst impacts of climate change.\n\nWhen it comes to transportation, there are huge opportunities, according to Prof Le Quéré.\n\nShe says that after the global financial crisis in 2008, some governments like China, US and Germany made significant investments in wind and solar energy and this drove down the prices of these renewables.\n\nAirlines have been hit hard economically, but the slowdown in flying hasn't hugely impacted emissions\n\n\"Here now in 2020 we're very close to the same situation in electric mobility,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"Battery prices have come down, we have lots of models and governments are going to try to boost their economies.\"\n\n\"So if these two things can align, then it could make a huge difference to the transportation of tomorrow.\"\n\nGrabbing the opportunity that the virus has presented is also at the forefront of corporate thinking on climate change.\n\nA letter signed by 155 major companies, representing $2.4 trillion (£1.96 trillion) in market capitalisation, calls for a net-zero emissions response to the covid crisis.\n\nCorporations including Carlsberg, Iberdrola, EDF and Coca Cola Europe say they want governments to \"prioritise a faster and fairer transition from a grey to a green economy\".\n\nElectric cars may be the best way forward for transportation, scientists believe\n\nThe authors of the latest analysis on carbon emissions agree that now is the moment for action. They point to the fact that while emissions of CO2 may be temporarily reduced, all the while CO2 concentrations are lingering in the atmosphere, warming the planet.\n\nIt will take a a dramatic shift to change that.\n\n\"I think very much that we are at a crossroads. And at this point, like the UK prime minister Boris Johnson said, it could go either way.\"\n\n\"He was talking about his own health, but here we're talking about the health of the planet.\"\n\n\"It could go either way.\"\n\nThe study has been published in the journal Nature Climate Change.", "The head of the organisation which represents care homes in England has strongly criticised the government's handling of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nProfessor Martin Green, of Care England, said people who were most at risk of dying of Covid-19 should have been prioritised from the beginning.\n\nHe told MPs there were still problems with testing and PPE in care homes.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the care sector had received unprecedented levels of support during the crisis.\n\nIt comes as an industry body has said care homes in England were planning their response to the coronavirus pandemic \"with their hands tied\" because data about outbreaks in the sector were not published until the end of April.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest figures suggest more than 11,600 people have died from coronavirus in UK care homes since the start of the pandemic.\n\nBut for the second week running, the review of death certificates by statisticians showed the number of new deaths in care homes had fallen.\n\nThe overall UK death toll now stands at 35,341 after the Department of Health recorded another 545 deaths of people in the UK following a positive coronavirus test.\n\nGiving evidence to the Health and Social Care Committee, Prof Green said pandemic planning had been completely inadequate and the government had focused on the NHS while discharging infected patients into care homes.\n\nHe told MPs that despite promises from ministers, there were still huge issues with testing, with results lost and staff waiting eight to 10 days to find out if they have coronavirus.\n\nAnswering an urgent question in the House of Commons, Mr Hancock insisted people were sent to care homes when community transmission rates were low.\n\nHowever, a Public Health England survey of London care homes found that agency workers doing shifts in different homes were a source of transmission.\n\nThe study, which was carried out over the Easter weekend, looked at tests of staff and residents and the results were passed to the Department of Health and Social Care before the end of the month.\n\nPHE said the results suggested there were \"high numbers of asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic cases among staff and residents\" and that \"infection may be being imported into the homes by staff\".\n\nIt added it was possible that the usual staff may be off work self-isolating and the infection was introduced by the \"bank staff\" sent in as cover.\n\nProf Green told MPs there would need to be a \"forensic examination\" in the future to prevent a crisis in care homes from happening again.\n\n\"We should have been focusing on care homes from the start of this pandemic,\" he said.\n\n\"What we saw at the start was a focus on the NHS which meant care homes often had their medical support from the NHS withdrawn.\n\n\"We also had the disruption of our supply chains for PPE [personal protective equipment].\n\n\"We also saw people being discharged from hospital when we didn't have the testing regime up and running.\n\n\"So despite what's been said, there were cases of people who either didn't have a Covid-19 status, or who were symptomatic, who were discharged into care homes.\"\n\nHe added: \"Given that care homes are full of people with underlying health conditions, I think we should've looked at focusing on where the people at most risk were, rather than thinking about a particular organisation.\"\n\nProf Green said a lot of care homes had not had the right set-up for isolating patients coming from hospitals, while other countries used separate quarantine facilities for infected patients.\n\nAnd he said some test results for staff or residents in care homes had been lost, while others waited so long that it was unclear if they were still valid.\n\nHe insisted that PPE across care homes was still inadequate and called for testing \"two or three times a week\" to get on top of the virus.\n\nHowever, he said there were indications of a downward trend in cases, telling MPs: \"I think we are probably at the top of the curve and hopefully heading downwards.\"\n\nJames Bullion from the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services in England also gave evidence, and said both the lack of PPE and testing still remain a problem.\n\n\"The care workforce is 1.6 million. We are nowhere near the level of testing that is required,\" he said.\n\nMr Hancock has claimed ministers have done everything they can to protect care homes.\n\nHe said a \"protective ring\" has been thrown around care homes, adding that nearly two-thirds of care homes had not seen outbreaks.\n\nIn the Commons on Tuesday, shadow social care minister Liz Kendall accused government ministers of being \"too slow\" to tackle the spread of coronavirus in care homes.\n\nShe asked Mr Hancock to explain why guidance saying care homes were very unlikely to be infected was not withdrawn until 12 March.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: 'We've been able to protect the majority of care homes'\n\nMr Hancock said the guidance to care homes that was in place until 13 March \"was in place whilst community transmission was low and said it would be updated as soon as transmission went broader and that's exactly what we did\".\n\nIn early March, the government's chief medical adviser Professor Chris Whitty warned MPs it was \"highly likely\" community transmission of coronavirus in the UK was already happening.\n\nOn discharging hospital patients to care homes, Mr Hancock said it was \"important to remember that hospital can be a dangerous place for people\".\n\nHe stood by the principle of discharging patients to care homes, saying it was \"appropriate\" and \"safer\" in many cases.\n\n\"What's important is that infection control procedures are in place in that care home, and those infection control procedures were put in place at the start of this crisis and have been strengthened.\"\n\nHas your relative or loved one died in a care home after contracting coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "Groups of up to six people who do not share a household in Northern Ireland will be allowed to meet outdoors, the executive has said.\n\nMinisters have agreed to ease more lockdown restrictions as part of the first step of their recovery plan, so long as social distancing is followed.\n\nGarden centres and recycling centres have already been allowed to reopen.\n\nChurches and places of worship can open for private prayer and some sports, such as golf and tennis, can restart.\n\nOther outdoor activities that do not involve shared contact with hard surfaces, including some water sports, will be permitted, as more and public sports venues and outdoors spaces can reopen.\n\nThe Golfing Union of Ireland has said golf will return in Northern Ireland on Wednesday.\n\nDrive-in church services and drive-in cinemas, as well as drive-in concerts, will also be permitted.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said the executive did not agree to allow people to visit immediate family indoors, where social distancing is possible, even though it is included in step one of the Pathway to Recovery plan.\n\nArlene Foster said the executive was considering the issue of small weddings and hoped a decision could be made soon\n\nShe said she understood that would be disappointing for some people, but she gave a \"commitment\" to keep the restriction under constant review.\n\n\"We would have liked to unlock the whole of step one but, quite simply, the reason why we haven't been able to move to indoor family gatherings is because of the medical advice,\" said Mrs Foster.\n\n\"The relaxations we've announced have been made made possible by the vast majority of you following advice.\n\n\"They have been hard-won freedoms and it's vital when you exercise them, it doesn't put anyone else's safety at risk.\"\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health announced six more Covid-19 related deaths in Northern Ireland, bringing its total to 482.\n\nA separate weekly report from the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (Nisra) showed that 599 deaths had been recorded, up to 8 May, in total, because its figures record all fatalities where coronavirus is mentioned on a death certificate.\n\n\"Bear with us,\" urged Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, who said as soon as the advice changed, the executive would move to lift the restriction on visiting family indoors.\n\nIn other developments on Monday:\n\n\"We will get there and we'll get there sooner, if we all keep doing what we're doing,\" she added.\n\nLast week, the executive published its five-phase blueprint for recovery in Northern Ireland, but it did not have a timetable.\n\nThe lockdown remains in place with a review due by 28 May, but some aspects of the first stage of the executive's plan were allowed to begin on Monday morning.\n\nDrive-through church services will now be allowed, in line with social distancing and public hygiene guidelines\n\nThere were lengthy queues at some recycling centres that reopened, with Derry City and Strabane District Council appealing, via social media, for people to put their journey off until later in the day.\n\nMarriage ceremonies where a person is terminally ill are also allowed.\n\nMrs Foster said the executive is considering the issue of small weddings and that she hoped the executive could make a decision on that \"in the very near future\".\n\nShe also said the decision to reopen religious venues for prayer, and golf courses, had been deemed \"sufficiently low-risk\".\n\n\"Golf clubs will be relieved players will be returning to their fairways,\" said the first minister.\n\nMs O'Neill said there would be \"no restrictions on travelling\" for any of these activities, but stressed that people availing of any services must use common sense as keeping at least 2m apart from non-household members still applies.\n\nThe Bishop of Derry, Donal McKeown, told BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme that he welcomed the decision to allow people to access spaces for personal prayer.\n\nHe said churches were taking many steps to ensure priests complied with health and safety guidelines, including installing CCTV cameras.\n\n\"It's important for people who've been bottled up for the past eight weeks to have a chance to talk to a priest, and ensure people can pray quietly should they wish to unburden themselves,\" he added.\n\nOn Monday, garden centres and recycling centres were allowed to reopen, with lengthy queues developing at some sites.\n\nSome recycling centres, which are managed by Northern Ireland's 11 councils, had already put safety measures in place and reopened ahead of the executive's announcement last week.\n\nDerry City and Strabane District Council appealed, via social media, for people to put their journey off until later in the day.\n\nQueues are developing at household recycling centres across Northern Ireland - this photograph was taken this morning in Bangor\n\nOn Monday, the Republic of Ireland began phase one of its recovery plan, and it is similar to that outlined by the Stormont Executive.\n\nBut people are only allowed to meet outdoors in small groups of up to four, and social distancing must also be observed.", "Lockdown restrictions may have eased in England, but many people are still on furlough and unable to go to work.\n\nRadio 4's Money Box spoke to people who have been using the lockdown to launch new business ventures.\n\nNiamh has turned her embroidery side hustle into a business, while Olly has set up a puzzle-making service after losing his photography work.\n\nListen to tips on advice for starting a business on Money Box.", "Clothes shops are ramping up plans to reopen with potentially big discounts.\n\nIn England, some non-essential retailers will be able to begin reopening next month.\n\nOne of the UK's biggest fashion retailers, Marks and Spencer, said: \"We are working towards reopening more space from June.\"\n\nBut analyst Richard Lim of Retail Economics said stores \"will have to discount heavily\" to sell excess stock that may now be out of season.\n\n\"Many clothing retailers have been sitting there with stores full of stock which they haven't be able to shift,\" he said.\n\n\"One of the most pressing issues for retailers is working capital and there is a huge overhang of inventory at fashion stores.\"\n\nFashion retailers have been badly hit by the coronavirus crisis. Even those with robust online offerings have reported huge drops in sales.\n\nNext, for instance, saw online sales decline by 32% in the three months to the end of April. Like others, it is keen to re-open stores, as soon as it is deemed safe to do so.\n\nNext said: \"We have plans in place for the re-purposing of our stores ready to reopen in a socially-distanced world.\"\n\nIts measures include installing screens at tills, placing sanitisation stations in stores and managing the number of customers that are allowed to enter its shops.\n\nM&S has kept its food stores open during the crisis, including almost 300 shops that sell fashion as well, although these areas have been blocked off.\n\nBut it says they're ready to be reopened as soon as the government gives it the green light.\n\n\"Our 290 stores that sell both clothing and food are led by a single manager - so it means they already have a brilliant working knowledge of the necessary hygiene measures, how to manage social distancing and the flow of our customers in and out of their store,\" M&S said.\n\nLast week the government said its strategy was to \"open non-essential retail when and where it is safe to do so\", and subject to those retailers being able to follow new guidelines.\n\nIt said the intention was for this to happen in phases from 1 June, although it added that it would issue further guidance on which businesses will be allowed to open and when.\n\nThat guidance can't come soon enough, according to Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium (BRC).\n\n\"Retailers desperately need clarity in the rules regarding when and how they can open - details that are still lacking,\" she said.\n\nShe warned that safety must be the primary concern in the decisions, rather than size or type of shop.\n\nThe retail experience is going to be turned on its head when clothes stores reopen,\" predicted Mr Lim from Retail Economics.\n\n\"Retailers are having to reinterpret government guidelines and have to invest heavily to make sure they can create a safe environment.\"\n\nHe said consumers will remain incredibly anxious and cautious about returning to fashion retailers.\n\nChanging rooms are expected to remain closed while customers will be encouraged to avoid touching merchandise.\n\n\"Staff will potentially have to walk around spraying shelves,\" Mr Lim said.\n\nThere are likely to be one-way systems through stores with clear floor markings and signage, while customer entry will be limited and consumers will be encouraged to shop alone.\n\nNext said it will \"prioritise the opening of our larger out-of-town stores first\".\n\nTheir bigger size makes them easier to adapt and they have large car parks and outside spaces to manage queues, it said.\n\nThere have been long queues at B&Q, which has already opened stores\n\n\"Retailers have started to plan how they can open stores and follow safety guidelines, with some hinting at sales when they do open their doors, such as Next,\" said Dan Plant, savings expert at Hotukdeals.\n\n\"Other popular stores, like Primark, lack online sales space, so we'd expect to see plenty of fashion offers when retailers reopen.\"\n\nBut while fashion stores may reopen with deep discounts to clear old stock, most online retailers have already been offering sales to encourage shoppers.\n\nM&S, for instance, launched its \"rainbow sale\" on Friday with up to 50% off and 10% of takings going to NHS charities.\n\nBoohoo, Fat Face, French Connection, Gap, JD Sports , Next, Superdry and Topshop have offered similar 50%-off deals.\n\nThe likes of Asos, Clarks, Dune, Debenhams, John Lewis, Karen Millen, New Look, Office and Quiz have also been offering cut-price deals.", "Some imams have broadcast their sermons after mosques were closed during the lockdown\n\nMuslims in the UK have been urged to celebrate the Islamic festival of Eid at home under lockdown this weekend.\n\nTraditionally the festival at the end of the fasting month of Ramadan is marked with communal prayers in mosques, visits to friends and family.\n\nBut the Muslim Council of Britain says people should celebrate virtually due to social-distancing measures brought in during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nGuidelines for those celebrating have been drawn up by the council.\n\nThe special Eid al-Fitr prayers are typically among the best attended of the year, and people also mark the occasion by holding parties.\n\nHowever, due to the pandemic, mosques have been closed for nine weeks.\n\nMiqdaad Versi, head of public affairs at the MCB - an umbrella organisation of various UK Muslim bodies - says there was \"real sadness\" at the prospect of not being able to celebrate communally.\n\n\"Normally Muslims will be at the mosque, mosques will be thronging with people from the morning and households will not be just be [full] of individuals, but families, extended families and friends all coming together,\" he said.\n\n\"So from a religious perspective, that's really difficult. Every single year people get dressed up and go to the mosque and take part in this really important, obligatory for some, part of the faith. And that just won't be possible.\"\n\nQari Muhammad Asim, senior imam at the Makkah Masjid in Leeds and chair of the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board, said it was the first time in British Muslim history that there will no Eid prayer.\n\n\"This is something that was unthinkable six months ago, but today unthinkable has become reality,\" he said.\n\n\"The Eid prayer is something that people look forward to all day long,\" he said.\n\n\"This is extremely challenging and distressing for us. We have had to make a lot of spiritual sacrifices during Ramadan and that will continue on the day of celebration.\"\n\nRamadan, the Islamic holy month, is a special time for nearly two billion Muslims all over the world.\n\nIn a normal year, it is a time of communal prayer and of daytime fasting from all food and drink. It is also accompanied by night-time feasting and acts of generosity and charity as Muslims reaffirm their faith in God.\n\nSajjad Amin, from the Khizra Mosque in Cheetham Hill, north Manchester, said that while the prospect of Eid al-Fitr under lockdown \"will be difficult, it was probably harder not going to the mosque during Ramadan\".\n\nHe said: \"It is something we have all done since we were children - whether going to the mosque during the evening to break the fast, or for the regular prayers. All that has been taken away from us.\n\n\"So although it is a big disappointment for Eid to be under lockdown, it is something we have gone through with Ramadan. It is difficult but we're kind of used to it.\"\n\nThe MCB has issued separate guidance for Muslims living in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales reflecting the different government advice in each nation. But across Britain, Muslims have been asked to celebrate virtually and share the traditional gifts by posting them in advance.\n\nMCB secretary general, Harun Khan, said: \"Whilst Eid away from the mosques and from our loved ones is unprecedented and will be a source of great sadness in communities across the country, Muslim communities will adapt and find the best way to still celebrate this holy day whilst aligning to the latest guidance.\"\n\nAt the beginning of Ramadan, Health Secretary Matt Hancock thanked the British Muslim community for suspending congregational worship and abiding by the lockdown.", "Labour's annual party conference has been cancelled due to the coronavirus crisis and will be replaced with online events.\n\nThe party said its \"priority is the safety of members, staff and visitors to our events and the need to protect the public's health.\"\n\nThe conference was due to be held in Liverpool from 19 to 23 September.\n\nParty conferences usually see members and politicians gather to socialise, debate and vote on policy.\n\nOver 13,000 people attend Labour's autumn conference, which hosts over 450 fringe events.\n\nThe party's governing National Executive Committee agreed the annual event should not go ahead due to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe spokesman said: \"In light of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, we have therefore decided to postpone this year's annual and women's conferences.\"\n\nIt is understood that alternative plans are being made for online events to take place.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats announced in March that they had suspended preparations for their autumn conference which was due to be held in Brighton.\n\nA spokesman said that the party's Federal Board will meet by video call on Tuesday evening, and is expected to confirm that the traditional annual gathering will not go ahead, but will instead be held virtually.", "Kevin Mayer is stepping down as the head of Disney streaming services to run TikTok.\n\nDisney's head of streaming Kevin Mayer is stepping down to become the boss of social media platform TikTok.\n\nHe has been named the chief executive officer of TikTok and chief operating officer of ByteDance, the platform's Chinese parent company.\n\nTikTok, an app where users post short videos, has seen an explosion of growth since its US launch.\n\nBut that increased popularity has led to scrutiny by the US government over its ties to China.\n\nMr Mayer will be responsible for ByteDance's \"global development\" including emerging business, gaming and music.\n\n\"I'm excited to help lead the next phase of ByteDance's journey as the company continues to expand its breadth of products across every region of the world,\" Mr Mayer said in the release.\n\nHe will be the first CEO of TikTok.\n\nTikTok has been downloaded more than 2 billion times on iOS and Android since it was launched globally in 2017. The app allows users to make videos up to 15-seconds long with music in the background.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic has helped boost its popularity further with many users making comical or musical videos of their quarantine experiences.\n\nBut having a Chinese parent company has worried US politicians. Some of them have raised concerns about ByteDance allowing Chinese government censorship or data collection on TikTok users. Both are charges ByteDance denies.\n\nAt Disney, Mr Mayer oversaw the successful launch of the firms streaming service, Disney Plus in November of 2019. The service had over 54 million subscribers by May. He also managed the firms other streaming investments including Hulu, Hotstar, and sports streaming services ESPN plus.\n\nHe was also considered a key figure in the company's acquisitions of Lucasfilm, Pixar and Marvel.\n\nBefore Disney's former chief executive Bob Iger stepped down from that role in February, Mr Mayer was viewed as a possible candidate to replace him. However, the role was given to Bob Chapek, head of parks, experiences and products.\n\nMr Mayer will be joining ByteDance on 1 June.", "Watford captain Troy Deeney says he will not return to training because he fears for his family's health amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nDeeney does not want to put his baby, who has had breathing difficulties, \"in more danger\" and has raised concerns over the increased risk to black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) players.\n\n\"We're due back in this week, I've said I'm not going in,\" Deeney, 31, said.\n• None Football Daily podcast: Six out of 748 test positive for coronavirus\n\nWatford were not due to train on Tuesday and it is understood the club do not have a problem with Deeney's stance.\n\nHe was speaking before it was revealed one player and two staff at the club had tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nIn an interview with the Times at the weekend, manager Nigel Pearson expressed his own concerns about the situation and said he would not insist on players reporting for training.\n\nSpeaking to Eddie Hearn and Tony Bellew on Talk the Talk YouTube show, Deeney added: \"It only takes one person to get infected within the group and I don't want to be bringing that home.\n\n\"My son is only five months old, he had breathing difficulties, so I don't want to come home to put him in more danger.\"\n\nThe Office for National Statistics says black men and women are nearly twice as likely to die from coronavirus as white people in England and Wales.\n\nMichael Bennett, the director of player welfare at the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA), says he has been called by players, particularly from the particularly from the BAME group, who are concerned about the risks.\n\nLast Wednesday, Deeney was in a meeting with the Premier League, other team captains and medical experts.\n\nHe said: \"My problem was in the meeting, I asked very simple questions.\n\n\"For black, Asian and mixed ethnicities, they're four times more likely to get the illness, they're twice as likely to have long lasting illnesses - is there anything extra, additional screening, heart stuff to see if people have got problems with that? No. OK, well I feel that should be addressed.\n\n\"I can't get a haircut until mid-July but I can go and get in a box with 19 people and go and jump for a header and nobody could answer the questions, not because they didn't want to, just because they don't know the information.\n\n\"So I said if you don't know the information, why would I put myself at risk?\"\n\nBennett said: \"I'm not sure how significant [the risk] is in that particular area, all we can do is talk to them about that.\n\n\"There have been players that have come on to me with concerns about going back because of health issues, and I want to put on record that from a PFA welfare point of view the health and safety of players has to come first before anything else.\"\n\nAt Monday's meeting, Premier League clubs agreed to stage one of the return-to-training protocols. As well as training being restricted to groups of no more than five, sessions must last no longer than 75 minutes for each player. Social distancing must be adhered to.\n\nNewcastle United manager Steve Bruce said the league had been \"meticulous\" over the protocols and \"done everything they possibly can to make sure that everything is safe\" for the return to training.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said: \"The vast majority of our squad have seen it and are satisfied. But everybody's personal circumstances are different. You could have a pregnant wife at home or you could have a sick mother-in-law or whatever. We'd have to respect them.\"", "The government's ability to test people for coronavirus has been \"inadequate\" throughout the pandemic, a committee of MPs has said.\n\nThe Science and Technology Committee said capacity had not been increased \"early or boldly enough\".\n\nIt said a lack of capacity had driven initial decisions in mid-March to scale back contact tracing and largely restrict tests to hospital patients.\n\nNo 10 said testing had since been expanded on \"an unprecedented scale\".\n\nCommittee chairman Greg Clark said ministers would need to \"apply the lessons\" from the \"slowness\" of increases to testing to other areas.\n\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the Conservative MP added that capacity \"drove strategy, rather than strategy driving capacity\".\n\nBut Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey said the government could look on the ramp up of testing capacity \"with pride\".\n\nThe UK significantly increased its testing capacity throughout April, although it has previously faced criticism it was initially too slow to do so.\n\nA target for 100,000 daily tests was initially met on 1 May, but then missed for eight consecutive days after that before being met again on 10 May.\n\nOn Monday, after 100,678 tests were provided in the previous 24 hours, ministers announced another expansion in eligibility, with everyone aged five and over now able to get tested if they show symptoms.\n\nIncreasing testing capacity has also been seen as crucial in allowing a mass programme to track infected people using an NHS app, which ministers want to launch UK-wide \"in the coming weeks\".\n\nIn his letter, Mr Clark laid out several recommendations to ministers.\n\nHe accused Public Health England (PHE) of initially opting to \"concentrate\" tests in a limited number of its own laboratories and only expanding capacity \"gradually\".\n\nHe said that had led to the decision to initially abandon contact-tracing as a strategy on 12 March, and meant care home residents could not be tested when the virus was spreading at its fastest rate.\n\nHe added that evidence taken by his committee from experts in South Korea, Hong Kong and Germany had shown the need for mass testing was \"identifiable from the beginning\".\n\nMr Clark told BBC News: \"There are going to be mistakes made as we are operating in a fog on uncertainty, and they will be made by ministers, by officials and by scientists.\n\n\"The crucial thing now is there will be decisions to be taken in the weeks and months ahead - for example, the roll-out of antibody tests and we hope a vaccine - and we have to be able to learn the lessons so far.\"\n\nIn response to the letter, PHE said it was \"not responsible\" for the UK's testing strategy, which \"has been led by the Department of Health and Social Care\".\n\nIts chief executive Duncan Selbie added that \"any testing facility with the right technology and containment\" could conduct the test it approved after security restrictions were lowered on 3 March.\n\n\"PHE did not constrain or seek to control any laboratory either public, university or commercial from conducting testing,\" he added.\n\nMs Coffey said she recognised there was \"little capacity\" for testing at the beginning of the outbreak as it was \"solely based\" on the PHE's reach.\n\nBut she told BBC Breakfast: \"From pretty much a standing start... to get to a capacity and actual tests being done of 100,000 within about six weeks, I think is pretty full-on and actually I think something we can look on with pride.\"\n\nThe committee also said the transparency of scientific advice to ministers needed to be improved, and called for summaries of advice to be published \"now and regularly\".\n\nIt added that while some scientific papers discussed by the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) had been published, 92 out of the current total of 120 had yet to be made public.\n\nA statement from Downing Street said that testing rates had increased \"on an unprecedented scale\" from 2,000 per day at the start of March to more than 100,000 in May.\n\n\"Now everyone aged five and over who has symptoms and needs a test can get one - and we will continue to build this capacity,\" it added.\n\n\"This is an unprecedented global pandemic and we have taken the right steps at the right time to combat it, guided at all times by the best scientific advice.\"\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Phoenix Netts' family said they were \"devastated\" by her death\n\nA woman whose remains were found in two suitcases has been named.\n\nThe dismembered body of Phoenix Netts, 28, from Birmingham, was discovered close to a quarry in the Forest of Dean on 12 May.\n\nHer identity was confirmed after DNA tests, but police have said it remains unclear where Ms Netts died or what caused her death.\n\nIn a statement, family members said they were \"devastated\" by her death \"in such tragic circumstances\".\n\nGareeca Conita Gordon, 27, of Salisbury Road, Birmingham, is charged with murdering Ms Netts between 14 April and 12 May.\n\nMahesh Sorathiya, 38, of Denmore Gardens, Wolverhampton, is accused of assisting an offender between 25 April and 12 May.\n\nNeither defendant appeared at Bristol Crown Court during a short hearing on Tuesday morning.\n\nThe judge granted bail to Mr Sorathiya. No application for bail was made on behalf of Ms Gordon.\n\nBoth are due to appear at Bristol Crown Court on 4 August.\n\nGloucestershire Police put road closures in place after the discovery was made near Coleford\n\nDet Ch Insp Scott Griffiths, from West Midlands Police, said: \"Firstly, I'd like to offer my sincere condolences to Phoenix's family.\n\n\"We've worked closely with colleagues at Gloucestershire over the past week and our investigation continues at pace.\n\n\"We'd urge anyone with any information about the tragic loss of Phoenix's life to get in touch with us.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An almost deserted high street in Rhyl, Denbighshire during lockdown\n\nThere have now been a total of 1,852 deaths in Wales involving coronavirus, according to the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures.\n\nBut latest weekly figures suggest deaths may have passed their peak across all health board areas.\n\nThe Cardiff and Vale and Betsi Cadwaladr health boards had the most deaths registered in the last week.\n\nThe figures include a total of 507 deaths in care homes so far.\n\nThis included 76 care home deaths registered in the most recent week, down from 94 the week before.\n\nThe statistics cover the period up to 8 May, involving deaths registered up to 16 May.\n\nUnlike the daily Public Health Wales figures, which involves deaths mostly in hospitals, the ONS figures include deaths when a doctor suspects Covid-19 is involved and also deaths in care homes and people's own homes.\n\nThey take longer to compile because they involve deaths being registered but they are regarded as being more accurate.\n\nIn Wales, there were 211 registered deaths in the week ending 8 May involving Covid-19, accounting for 30.5% of all deaths registered.\n\nThis is a smaller weekly total than the previous week, which was 281.\n\nThe number of excess deaths in Wales - above what we would normally expect to see - has also fallen.\n\nCardiff has had the largest number of Covid-19 deaths in Wales so far - 303, followed by Rhondda Cynon Taff (RCT) with 224 up to 8 May.\n\nAcross health board areas, Cardiff and Vale had 44 registered deaths in the latest week and there were 40 in Wales' largest health board, Betsi Cadwaladr (BCUHB) in north Wales.\n\nBut Dr Chris Stockport, of BCUHB, said on Monday the number of recent positive cases suggested it was nearing its peak.\n\nGiven its proximity to large conurbations in north west England - which has reported the largest number of weekly registered deaths - and the Midlands, concerns about the potential spread of the virus east to west across north Wales have been raised.\n\nLocal politicians have been warning too about the prospect of an influx of tourists as lockdown restrictions are eased across the border.\n\nBut RCT has the highest death rate - when different sizes of population are taken into account - 93.28 deaths per 100,000 people.\n\nThis ranks 32nd among 339 local authorities across England and Wales.\n\nMerthyr Tydfil is next with a death rate of 91.39 per 100,000 (55 deaths so far).\n\nIt suggest Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board has now taken over from Aneurin Bevan as the hot-spot in Wales.\n\nIt comes as Welsh Government experts revealed that the rate at which coronavirus is reproducing in Wales \"increased slightly\" last week.\n\nThe so-called R-number in Wales was between 0.7 and 1 - up from between 0.7 and 0.9.\n\nWhen we look at the picture in the different health board areas, we can see different patterns.\n\nThere was a lot about a \"hot spot\" in the Aneurin Bevan Health Board area early on in the pandemic but the number of deaths have seen a steady drop since this early peak.\n\nCwm Taf and Cardiff and Vale have both seen the number of deaths dropping compared to three or four weeks ago.\n\nThe number of deaths in Betsi Cadwaladr shows a much steadier pattern: a much smaller peak but a much slower rate of decline.\n\nWest and parts of mid wales in the Hywel Dda health board area see numbers of deaths at similar but lower levels for a longer period of time.\n\nThese figures seem to show a much longer tail to the curves in north and west Wales compared to those parts of south east Wales where a much bigger share of the population was exposed earlier to Covid-19.\n\nThe big question remains about potential impact on these less exposed areas as and when restrictions begin to be eased.\n\nThis is one of the reasons why Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the Welsh Government is looking closely at the trajectory in places like north Wales.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Tuesday evening. We'll have another update on Wednesday morning.\n\nThe prospect of a swift recovery for the economy is not obvious, the chancellor has said, after figures showed a the number of people claiming benefits in the UK rose to 2.1 million in April. Seven charts here explain the state of the shrinking UK jobs market, its impact on young people, different regions and more. A further 545 people have died in hospitals, care homes and the UK's wider community after testing positive for coronavirus, according to figures released on Tuesday.\n\nThe government's response has been criticised after figures suggested more than 11,600 people have died from coronavirus in care homes across the UK since the start of the outbreak. At the UK government's daily briefing, cabinet minister George Eustice rejected the assertion that the government had made mistakes over its handling of care homes during the crisis. Meanwhile, BBC Radio 4's File on 4 has found care homes in England were working without some useful data as they planned for the pandemic. Public Health England counted more than 4,500 Covid-19 outbreaks in care homes before it issued its findings at the end of April. Sweden has also seen problems in care homes, with residents accounting for nearly half of the nation's deaths linked to Covid-19. The BBC's Maddy Savage looks at what is going wrong.\n\nMost Swedish victims of the virus have been over 70 years old\n\nAmid the struggles, there are some life-affirming stories of people who have started to recover from coronavirus, including this Essex nurse who has been able to leave intensive care after 45 days. And this dad, who had coronavirus, pneumonia, sepsis, heart failure and two strokes but achieved his goal of being at home to celebrate his son's second birthday.\n\nOmar Taylor was determined to make it home from hospital to celebrate with his son\n\nThe UK government is considering introducing an extra bank holiday, possibly for October. The UK's tourism agency Visit Britain put forward the idea as people have had to write off the benefits of two May bank holidays under coronavirus restrictions. As summer approaches, we look at when you might be able to take a holiday. And we fact check Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary's claim that if everyone wore face masks on planes and public transport, it would ''eliminate the risk of spreading Covid-19 by about 98.5%''.\n\nOf the many things children are missing about their education, perhaps surprisingly, one of them is school dinners. Eight-year-old Arthur was longing for his favourite - mince and dumplings. After his dad's subpar effort at recreating the dish, he emailed the school cook so that he could make his own.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: Children get school dinner recipe to make their own\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nIf you are worried you might have coronavirus but are not sure of the specific symptoms, watch our explainer here.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. 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Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Police Scotland has been reported to the Health and Safety Executive by the body which represents rank-and-file officers over the use of breath tests.\n\nThe Scottish Police Federation (SPF) said it was concerned that officers could be exposed to Covid-19 while conducting drink drive tests.\n\nThe federation claims testing urine samples would be a \"safer alternative\".\n\nBut Police Scotland said it is \"meeting, and often exceeding, the relevant guidelines\".\n\nThe force said it was following the advice and direction of bodies including the HSE and Health Protection Scotland (HPS), and applying a \"comprehensive operational policing risk assessment\".\n\nAmong the guidelines issued to officers is to conduct all roadside breath tests outside whilst wearing masks and gloves, with the option to use tougher protective equipment if there are concerns a person might have coronavirus.\n\nIn a letter to SPF members, Calum Steele, the body's general secretary, said: \"Police Scotland operational guidance in respect of breath test procedures neither reflects best risk management practices, or properly mitigates risk to officers.\n\n\"Colleagues will know from their own experiences that suspects often take several attempts to generate enough lung capacity and technique to be able to successfully comply.\n\n\"We are clear that alternative approaches in no way hinder the ability of the police to respond to and detect those who drink and drive, or introduce greater risk to the system of work.\"\n\nThe SPF, which represents 98% of all officers, said it issued a health and safety improvement notice about the issue to Police Scotland on 30 April.\n\nThe union claims the force failed to properly engage with the concerns and it was forced to take the \"extraordinary step\" of reporting Scotland's single police force to the HSE.\n\nThere have been more than 100 coronavirus-related attacks on police officers since the start of the pandemic\n\nThe SPF wants urine samples used instead of breath tests but added that if this was not deemed possible then full protective equipment, including face masks and goggles, should be worn at all times in the test process.\n\nThe body's stance is backed by its panel of scientific and medical experts, which includes Scotland's former chief medical officer Sir Harry Burns.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Fiona Taylor said: \"We follow the advice and direction of HPS, the HSE and the National Police Chief's Council and apply a comprehensive operational policing risk assessment when developing guidance for officers and staff.\n\n\"Police Scotland is meeting, and often exceeding, the relevant guidelines.\"\n\nMs Taylor added that the force recognises its \"moral, ethical and legal duty to the safety and welfare of our officers and staff\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Liz Spooner will be \"sorely missed\" by colleagues\n\nA \"dedicated\" nurse who spent 41 years at the same hospital has died with coronavirus.\n\nLiz Spooner, 62, worked in the coronary care unit at Singleton Hospital in Swansea.\n\nSwansea Bay University Health Board said it was with \"great sadness\" that it reported her death.\n\nHospital director Jan Worthing said: \"Liz will be sorely missed by us all and her death leaves a massive hole in the Singleton Hospital family.\"\n\nShe added: \"Liz has always given her all delivering an excellent standard of care.\n\n\"She was well known throughout Singleton as a fantastic caring colleague with a dry sense of humour.\"\n\nMrs Spooner worked mostly at the coronary care unit and Ward 9 at Singleton Hospital\n\nMrs Spooner, who lived in Swansea, is survived by her daughter Zoe, 31, who was described as devastated that her mother had lost her fight for life.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Liz's daughter Zoe and her family,\" said Ms Worthing.\n\nColleagues have paid tribute to a \"much-loved\" nurse and friend.\n\nHelen Morgan said: \"Devastated is an understatement. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDwynwen Teleri Davies said: \"Covid-19 has taken another much loved nurse that I had the pleasure to work with today... she was such a kind, compassionate and caring nurse and all her patients and nurses looked up to her.\n\n\"Now everyone not taking this virus seriously - WAKE UP !\"", "The Genette Tate case was one of the most high-profile police investigations of its time\n\nThe father of a schoolgirl who disappeared while delivering newspapers nearly 42 years ago has died.\n\nJohn Tate's 13-year-old daughter Genette went missing while riding her bike in a Devon village in August 1978.\n\nAlthough it was one of the most high-profile police investigations of its time, no body was ever found and no-one was charged with her murder.\n\nMr Tate, 77, spent more than half his life trying to discover what had happened to Genette.\n\nThe Tate family lived in Aylesbeare, near Exeter, at the time of her disappearance.\n\nIn the last years of his life, Mr Tate believed that serial child-killer Robert Black was likely to be behind his daughter's disappearance.\n\nBlack, who was serving a whole-life sentence after being convicted of killing four young girls, died in January 2016 before he could be charged by police in the Genette Tate case.\n\nNonetheless, four months later police submitted a murder file against Black, who was originally from Grangemouth in east Stirlingshire, to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).\n\nRobert Black always denied any involvement in Genette's disappearance\n\nAt the time, a senior Devon and Cornwall Police source told the BBC that the force hoped for a \"clear statement\" from the CPS over whether it would have charged Black with Genette's murder had he been alive.\n\n\"It's the closest we can now get to justice and might offer some comfort to her family and the community,\" the source said.\n\nThe CPS never provided such a statement, saying only that it would not make a decision on the file because Black was dead.\n\nMr Tate and Genette's mother Sheila Cook were also shown the 500-page police dossier and, after reading it, Mr Tate said: \"I am now convinced that Robert Black was the culprit.\n\n\"Black had committed the same sort of offences against young girls.\n\n\"They also knew he was in the immediate area driving a red van. The police believe they know the way he came in and out of Aylesbeare.\"\n\nRobert Black was convicted of murdering (clockwise from top left) Jennifer Cardy, Sarah Harper, Susan Maxwell and Caroline Hogg\n\nHowever, in his last main interview, in 2018, Mr Tate said he was not entirely certain of Black's guilt.\n\n\"My life is coming to an end. I dearly want to know where Ginny is. Just to know that she has been found and given a Christian burial would be enough.\n\n\"There is no closure. We will probably never have closure, especially now the only suspect is dead.\n\n\"I am not 100% sure Black did it. But if he didn't do it, it means there is another killer still on the loose.\n\n\"I suppose I just don't want to accept she is dead. But I need proof that Black killed her. If we could just find her body that would give me the proof I need.\"\n\nMr Tate, who died in hospital in Manchester last month, had suffered a major stroke that left him very weak and needing care. He was also diabetic and had prostate cancer.", "Delirium and confusion may be common among some seriously-ill hospital patients with Covid-19, a study in The Lancet suggests.\n\nLong stays in intensive care and being ventilated are thought to increase the risk, the researchers say.\n\nDoctors should look out for depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after recovery.\n\nMost patients, particularly those with mild symptoms, will not be affected by mental health problems.\n\nThe evidence is based on studies of patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) and Middle-East respiratory syndrome (Mers), as well early data on Covid-19 patients.\n\nThe researchers, from the UK and Italy, found evidence of confusion and agitation in more than 60% of intensive care patients with Covid in a small number of studies, mostly from China.\n\nThey warned that PTSD could become an issue in some patients, based on the fact that 33% of survivors of Sars and Mers experienced post-traumatic stress more than two years after they were seriously ill.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How long does it take to recover?\n\nThere were also frequent reports from these patients of recalling traumatic memories, memory problems, fatigue, insomnia and low mood, during their recovery.\n\nBut it is still not clear how the current pandemic will affect people's mental health without more research, the study concludes.\n\n\"Our analysis of more than 3,550 coronavirus cases suggests that most people will not suffer from mental health problems following coronavirus infection\", says Dr Jonathan Rogers from University College London, who co-led the research.\n\nBut he warned that delirium - which can cover everything from patients hallucinating and being agitated to sitting completely still - could affect some patients.\n\nConfusion is not uncommon among patients in intensive care, he said, but it could be hitting older patients, who are already vulnerable, hardest.\n\nAnd the longer they stay in hospital without any contact with relatives, the worse the confusion can become.\n\nA UK study, not yet peer-reviewed, found that around 20% of people admitted to hospital with severe Covid-19 had confusion.\n\n\"Monitoring for the development of symptoms should be a routine part of the care we provide,\" Dr Rogers said.\n\nCommenting on the study, Dr Iris Sommer from the University Medical Centre, Groningen, in the Netherlands, said patients with Covid-19 who needed to be treated in ICU were \"an ultra high-risk group for developing acute psychiatric disorders, especially delirium\".\n\nUnlike Sars and Mers survivors, she said, they were returning to a society \"in deep economic crisis\" with some countries \"still in lockdown and enforcing physical isolation\".\n\nShe said this would keep stress levels high after recovery and could increase the risk of anxiety and depression.", "Former government adviser Prof Neil Ferguson will not face police action after he accepted making an \"error of judgment\" by breaching social distancing rules.\n\nScotland Yard said Prof Ferguson's behaviour was \"plainly disappointing\", but ruled out issuing a fine.\n\nThe force said he \"has taken responsibility\" after resigning as a government adviser on the epidemic.\n\nThe mathematician and epidemiologist's modelling of the spread of coronavirus was key to the government's decision to bring in the lockdown.\n\nHis resignation came after the Daily Telegraph reported that a woman he was said to be in a relationship with visited his home on at least two occasions during the lockdown.\n\nIn a statement, Scotland Yard said it was committed to supporting \"adherence to the government guidance\".\n\nBut it added: \"It is clear in this case that whilst this behaviour is plainly disappointing, Prof Ferguson has accepted that he made an error of judgment and has taken responsibility for that.\n\n\"We therefore do not intend to take any further action.\"\n\nThe force declined to say whether it had spoken directly to Prof Ferguson.\n\nPolice officers are being advised to explain the law to those breaching the guidance, however, if someone refuses to follow the regulations police can issue an on-the-spot fine of £60.\n\nDowning Street said Boris Johnson agreed with Prof Ferguson's decision to resign, but denied that the government had pushed for him to step down.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said No 10 was informed \"just before\" the story broke on Tuesday.\n\nEarlier, Health Secretary Matt Hancock described Prof Ferguson's actions as \"extraordinary\", telling Sky News that it was \"just not possible\" for him to continue advising the government.\n\nHe praised Prof Ferguson as a \"very eminent\" scientist whose work had been \"important\" in the government's response but said social distancing rules were \"there for everyone\" and were \"deadly serious\".\n\nProf Ferguson's modelling of the virus's transmission suggested 250,000 people could die without drastic action.\n\nIt led Mr Johnson to announce the lockdown on 23 March.\n\nUnder those measures, people were told to go out as little as possible, with partners who live separately later being told they should \"ideally\" stay in their own homes.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson appeared before the Science and Technology Committee in March\n\nIn a statement, Prof Ferguson said: \"I accept I made an error of judgement and took the wrong course of action.\n\n\"I acted in the belief that I was immune, having tested positive for coronavirus and completely isolated myself for almost two weeks after developing symptoms.\n\n\"I deeply regret any undermining of the clear messages around the continued need for social distancing.\"\n\nHe also called the government advice on social distancing \"unequivocal\", adding that it was there \"to protect all of us\".\n\nDespite Prof Ferguson's comments, it is currently unclear whether people who have recovered from the virus will be immune or able to catch it again.\n\nBBC medical correspondent Fergus Walsh said \"Neil Ferguson will know the science is very much developing\" on immunity - and the government was not advising people to carry on as normal if they had already had the disease.\n\nSir Robert Lechler, president of the Academy of Medical Sciences, said he did not think Prof Ferguson's resignation would \"have any material impact\" on the work of advisory group Sage.\n\nHe told the BBC that Prof Ferguson had made \"an important contribution\" but he was sure the group would \"continue to provide valuable input\".\n\nProf Ferguson's resignation comes a month after Scotland's chief medical officer, Dr Catherine Calderwood, quit when it was revealed she had broken lockdown rules by making two trips to her second home.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was right that Prof Ferguson had resigned.\n\n\"We all have a role to play in the fight against the virus,\" Sir Keir's spokesman said. \"That means taking responsibility and following the official advice.\"\n\nConservative MP Sir John Redwood suggested the circumstances behind Prof Ferguson's resignation would not matter to the public.\n\n\"What matters to the nation is are we getting the right advice and how do we get through this dreadful crisis?\" he said.", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the 'spike' of the virus\n\nResearchers in the US and UK have identified hundreds of mutations to the virus which causes the disease Covid-19.\n\nBut none has yet established what this will mean for virus spread in the population and for how effective a vaccine might be.\n\nViruses mutate - it's what they do.\n\nThe question is: which of these mutations actually do anything to change the severity or infectiousness of the disease?\n\nPreliminary research from the US has suggested one particular mutation - D614G - is becoming dominant and could make the disease more infectious.\n\nIt hasn't yet been reviewed by other scientists and formally published.\n\nThe researchers, from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus that gives it its distinctive shape, using a database called the Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (GISAID).\n\nThey noted there seems to be something about this particular mutation that makes it grow more quickly - but the consequences of this are not yet clear.\n\nThe research team analysed UK data from coronavirus patients in Sheffield. Although they found people with that particular mutation of the virus seemed to have a larger amount of the virus in their samples, they didn't find evidence that those people became sicker or stayed in hospital for longer.\n\nAnother study from University College London (UCL) identified 198 recurring mutations to the virus.\n\nOne of its authors, Professor Francois Balloux, said: \"Mutations in themselves are not a bad thing and there is nothing to suggest SARS-CoV-2 is mutating faster or slower than expected.\n\n\"So far, we cannot say whether SARS-CoV-2 is becoming more or less lethal and contagious.\"\n\nA study from the University of Glasgow, which also analysed mutations, said these changes did not amount to different strains of the virus. They concluded that only one type of the virus is currently circulating.\n\nMonitoring small changes to the structure of the virus is important in understanding the development of vaccines.\n\nTake the 'flu virus: it mutates so fast that the vaccine has to be adjusted every year to deal with the specific strain in circulation.\n\nMany of the Covid-19 vaccines currently in development target the distinctive spikes of the virus - the idea is that getting your body to recognise a unique element of the spike will help it to fight off the whole virus. But if that spike is changing, a vaccine developed this way could become less effective.\n\nAt the moment this is all theoretical. Scientists don't yet have enough information to say what changes to the virus's genome will mean.\n\nDr Lucy van Dorp, UCL study co-author, said being able to analyse a large number of virus genomes could be \"invaluable to drug development efforts\".\n\nHowever, she told the BBC: \"I love genomes, but there is only so much they can say.\"", "The number of people dying with coronavirus in Scotland has fallen for the first time, according to new statistics.\n\nData from the National Records of Scotland (NRS) showed that the virus was mentioned in 523 death certificates in the week to 3 May.\n\nThis was lower than the 656 deaths that were recorded the previous week.\n\nNRS said it was the first weekly reduction in the number of deaths since reporting began on 16 March.\n\nThe latest figures bring the total number of people who have died with a confirmed or suspected case of the virus to 2,795.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the fall in the death rate \"gives us some hope\", but said \"our progress, while real, is still too fragile to immediately ease restrictions in any meaningful way\".\n\nOf the 523 deaths recorded in the week to 3 May which were linked to the virus, 59% were in care homes, with 37% in hospitals.\n\nHowever the number of deaths in care homes actually fell slightly, from 339 to 310.\n\nThe proportion of all deaths in Scotland which involved coronavirus also fell week on week, from 36% to 31%.\n\nAnd the number of people being treated for the virus in hospital and in intensive care units has also fallen.\n\nThe first fall in weekly deaths is a significant moment, but it was expected because fewer people have been going into hospital and needing intensive care over the past few weeks.\n\nIt is more welcome evidence that the spread of the disease in the community has slowed.\n\nHowever, today's figure also bring into sharp focus the continuing bad news from care homes where this disease keeps claiming lives - so while the overall number of deaths fall, the proportion of deaths in this setting is continuing to rise.\n\nIt also helps to make sense of why the first minister is careful to talk about a \"plateau\" in the curve rather than \"past the peak\".\n\nWe had been warned the numbers wouldn't fall as quickly as they rose, and the number of deaths remains stubbornly high.\n\nWe are far from the end of this epidemic\n\nThree-quarters of all Covid-19 deaths in Scotland have been of people aged over 75, with only 19 people under the age of 45 having died.\n\nGreater Glasgow and Clyde continues to record a higher rate of deaths from the virus by population than other parts of the country, while no deaths have been logged in the Western Isles.\n\nThe total number of people who have died in Scotland since the outbreak started is 3,752 higher than would normally be expected, based on the average of the last five years.\n\nWhile the virus accounted for the vast majority of these so-called \"excess deaths\", there have also been hundreds of extra deaths linked to heart disease, strokes and dementia.\n\nBut again, the figure was lower than in previous weeks.\n\nThe statistics from the National Records of Scotland are wider than those reported each day at the Scottish government's briefings, which only cover people who had tested positive for the virus. The total number of deaths under this measurement currently stands at 1,703.\n\nSpeaking at the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday, Ms Sturgeon said the country was \"at such a critical stage\".\n\n\"It would not take much to send our progress into reverse,\" she said. \"We need to persevere a bit longer to get that progress solidified.\"\n\nAn increasing proportion of Scotland's coronavirus deaths have occurred in care homes\n\nThe first minister published a paper of options for easing lockdown on Tuesday, and said her government would look to do this \"as soon as possible\".\n\nHowever she said that \"for the moment, the message remains clear - please stay at home except for essential purposes\".\n\nThe government paper said the infection rate - the \"R number\" - was \"much too high at present to consider the virus under control\".\n\nIt said there is \"some evidence\" that the infection rate in Scotland is \"slightly above that elsewhere in the UK\", and that \"we must continue to proceed with extreme caution\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said he will sett out plans to begin lifting the coronavirus lockdown on Sunday, and that he hoped to \"get going on some of these measures on Monday\".\n\nAnd Scottish Conservative leader Jackson Carlaw urged Ms Sturgeon to ensure there continued to be a \"consistent message\" across the UK rather than following a different approach in Scotland.\n\nMr Carlaw said that \"simplicity saves lives\", and told Ms Sturgeon: \"This isn't about politics, first minister, it is about keeping things clear.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said the high number of deaths that were still being reported in care homes showed that the Scottish government had failed to protect the most vulnerable during the pandemic.\n\nHe accused the government of being \"far too slow to act\", adding: \"Even now concerns persist over PPE availability and the level of testing in care homes\"", "Former Prime Minister Theresa May has criticised world leaders for failing \"to forge a coherent international response\" to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nWriting in the Times, she said states had \"gone their own way\" and treated the virus as a \"national issue\".\n\nLack of international collaboration could lead to the world becoming more dangerous, she warned.\n\nA No 10 source said there had been \"extensive co-operation\", with the PM talking regularly to other G7 leaders.\n\nMrs May's intervention comes as Boris Johnson and Sir Keir Starmer face each other at Prime Minister's Questions for the first time later.\n\nThey are also due to hold talks on the coronavirus crisis after the UK's death toll became the highest in Europe.\n\nA total of 29,427 people have died in the UK - passing Italy's death toll of 29,315. But experts have said it could be months before full global comparisons can be made.\n\nIn the Times, Mrs May wrote: \"The global impact of Covid-19, and our inability to forge a coherent international response to it, have raised new questions about the effectiveness of a system of cooperation through shared institutions.\"\n\nShe called on the government to \"embrace its wider international role beyond the day to day of the pandemic\" and not shy away from our \"responsibilities on the world stage\".\n\nShe said the virus had been \"treated as a national issue for countries to deal with alone\" and while researchers and scientists may work together, there was \"little evidence of politicians doing so\".\n\n\"Governments are faced with an enormous challenge, and it is no surprise that they see as their first job the immediate protection of their own citizens,\" she said.\n\n\"But there remains no collective international view as to what works best in dealing with the virus - nor does there seem to have been any attempt to form one. Instead, states have each gone their own way.\"\n\nMrs May said this \"risks exacerbating the shift towards nationalism and absolutism in global politics\".\n\n\"A world in which a few 'strong men' square up to each other and expect everyone else to choose between them would be a dangerous one,\" she said.\n\nShe said the international community still had to work with China, despite concerns within her party that Beijing has suppressed information and tried to exploit the pandemic - which began in Wuhan - to further its interests.\n\nWhile China should face questions over its response, she said scrutiny should not become a fault line in international relations.\n\nThe former prime minister warned about nationalism and absolutism in global politics\n\nThe UK's international efforts have been focused on the mission to find a coronavirus vaccine, Boris Johnson describing it as \"the most urgent endeavour of our lives\".\n\nEarlier this week, the PM co-hosted an international conference to try and raise more than £6bn towards the global response, although the US, Russia and India declined to take part.\n\nThe UK has pledged to give £388m in aid funding for research into tests, treatments and vaccines - part of a £744m commitment to help end the pandemic and support the global economy.\n\nThe prime minister is expected to reveal a \"road map\" out of the UK's lockdown on Sunday. Social distancing measures have been in place in the UK since 23 March in a bid to limit the effects of the virus's spread on the NHS.\n\nMeanwhile, Tory MP Ranil Jayawardena has been appointed international trade minister, after Conor Burns resigned from the role this week. Health minister Nadine Dorries has been promoted, to become a minister of state.", "Maurice Dunnington, son Keith and wife Lillian all died with coronavirus within weeks of each other\n\nThree members of the same family have died within weeks of each other after contracting coronavirus.\n\nKeith Dunnington, 54, a nurse for more than 30 years, died at his parents home in South Shields on 19 April.\n\nHis mother Lillian, 81, died on 1 May and her husband Maurice, 85, died days later at South Tyneside Hospital.\n\nKeith's cousin Debbie Harvey said her family was heartbroken but praised the \"absolutely amazing\" NHS staff who \"could not do enough\" for the family.\n\nShe said front-line hospital staff pushed Mr and Mrs Dunnington's beds together so they could hold hands.\n\nDad-of-two Keith, who passed away last month, worked at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead.\n\nDebbie said her uncle Maurice Dunnington was a \"larger that life\" character\n\nYvonne Ormston MBE, chief executive of Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust, said he was \"a popular and hard-working\" nurse.\n\nMrs Harvey said the funeral of all three would be held later this month.\n\n\"I'm still in disbelief, Keith's children are absolutely devastated and then to lose their nanny and granddad as well. Keith gave 200% to everything he did,\" she said.\n\n\"He looked after people so well and stood up for them. My children are also absolutely heartbroken.\n\n\"Lillian was always ready with a wise word and a cuppa if we needed a shoulder to cry on. She was the strongest woman I've ever known.\"\n\nMrs Harvey said Maurice was well-known in South Shields after working for Stagecoach both on the buses and at the depot.\n\nShe said the \"larger than life character\" was also a devoted supporter of the British Legion.\n\n\"The hospital staff were absolutely amazing,\" Mrs Harvey said.\n\n\"The staff could not do enough for them and when they realised that my aunty was slipping away they pushed their beds together so that they could hold each other's hand.\n\n\"My auntie just slipped away peacefully holding my uncle's hand and listening to their favourite songs on their phones.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "A new Banksy artwork has appeared at Southampton General Hospital.\n\nThe largely monochrome painting, which is one square metre, was hung in collaboration with the hospital's managers in a foyer near the emergency department.\n\nIt shows a young boy kneeling by a wastepaper basket dressed in dungarees and a T-shirt.\n\nHe has discarded his Spiderman and Batman model figures in favour of a new favourite action hero - an NHS nurse.\n\nThe nurse's arm is outstretched and pointing forward in the fashion of Superman on a mission.\n\nShe is wearing a facemask, a nurse's cape, and an apron with the Red Cross emblem (the only element of colour in the picture).\n\nThe artist left a note for hospital workers, which read: \"Thanks for all you're doing. I hope this brightens the place up a bit, even if its only black and white.\"\n\nThe painting will remain at Southampton General Hospital until the autumn when it will be auctioned to raise money for the NHS.\n\nPaula Head, CEO of the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust said: \"Our hospital family has been directly impacted with the tragic loss of much loved and respected members of staff and friends.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Staff react to the Banksy artwork on display at Southampton General Hospital\n\n\"The fact that Banksy has chosen us to recognise the outstanding contribution everyone in and with the NHS is making, in unprecedented times, is a huge honour.\"\n\nShe added: \"It will be really valued by everyone in the hospital, as people get a moment in their busy lives to pause, reflect and appreciate this piece of art. It will no doubt also be a massive boost to morale for everyone who works and is cared for at our hospital.\"\n\nThe artwork is now on view to staff and patients on Level C of the Southampton General.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Boris Johnson arrives back in Downing Street after the birth of his son on Wednesday\n\nBoris Johnson is due to lead the daily coronavirus briefing for the first time since his return to work, after chairing a cabinet meeting.\n\nAhead of the press conference, Mr Johnson urged UK businesses to \"keep going in the way that you have\".\n\nNo 10 said he will update the UK on the government's \"steps to defeat\" the disease from 17:00 BST.\n\nMeanwhile, Downing Street faces the deadline for its target of 100,000 daily virus tests.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Johnson acknowledged \"how hard and stressful it has been to give up even temporarily those ancient and basic freedoms, not seeing friends, not seeing loved ones, working from home, managing the kids, worrying about your job and your firm\".\n\nSpeaking directly to businesses, the prime minister said he understood their \"impatience\", but added: \"I must ask you to keep going in the way that you have kept going so far, so we can protect our NHS and save lives.\"\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance and chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty will appear alongside the PM at Thursday's briefing.\n\nMr Johnson, who has just recovered from Covid-19, returned to work in Downing Street this week but missed Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday following the birth of his son with his fiancee Carrie Symonds.\n\nDowning Street has insisted the government is \"working hard\" to hit its target of 100,000 tests per day, but earlier Justice Secretary Robert Buckland admitted it might not be met.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock pledged to reach the goal by the end of April. The latest figures show it reached just over 52,000 coronavirus tests on Tuesday, while testing capacity was at just over 77,000.\n\nA scientist advising the government on testing, Prof John Newton, said he is \"pretty confident\" the government will hit the target, but warned there will be a lag in the data.\n\nHe said it would not be clear whether the target had been reached until the end of the week.\n\nMeanwhile, Downing Street has said social distancing measures will not be relaxed if this would allow the virus to spread \"in an exponential way\".\n\n\"We are not going to gamble those sacrifices away by taking steps that will lead to an exponential growth in the disease again,\" the prime minister's official spokesman said.\n\nIt comes as the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), which is working on a range of options for easing lockdown restrictions, prepares to meet later. The lockdown is due to be reviewed on 7 May.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland said Sage would be reporting to the prime minister and to cabinet, with decisions about any easing of the lockdown being made on the basis of the evidence they provided.\n\nHowever, he added: \"Being absolutely frank, I don't think you're going to hear specific detail - I think that would be premature.\"\n\nAsked about reports the lockdown may be extended until June, the prime minister's official spokesman said: \"What you've obviously heard from [the UK's chief medical adviser] Chris Whitty is that this is a disease that is going to be around for a significant amount of time - he's said we have to be realistic, we're going to have to do a lot of things for a long period of time.\"\n\n\"Let's not pre-empt the review but, as the PM himself has said, the worst thing we could do is relax the social distancing measures too soon and throw away all of the progress which has been made thanks to the hard work and sacrifice of the British public,\" the spokesman added.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said next week may be \"too early\" to lift the lockdown restrictions \"in any meaningful way\".\n\nWhat's next? The prime minister will not give chapter and verse later today on exactly how and when the country's doors will re-open.\n\nBut after meeting his cabinet virtually, Boris Johnson will seek to explain to the public how and why, if not exactly when, they will make the decisions that are vital, not just to our health, but the country's suffering economy too.\n\nHe'll restate the hurdles that must be passed before any restrictions are lifted, including making sure the NHS can cope, with tests, and equipment, and a consistent fall in the death rate.\n\nCrucially he will emphasise the importance of the so-called \"R\" rate of infection - in other words, the extent to which people with the virus are passing it on.\n\nThat rate has come down significantly since the lockdown was imposed, slowing the spread of the disease. But Mr Johnson will outline how the \"R\" rate will be a crucial yardstick of whether to lift, or even reinstate, restrictions as the weeks go on.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 9,000 people across England and Wales have been fined for breaking lockdown rules, figures from the National Police Chiefs' Council show.\n\nAlmost 400 fines were issued to repeat offenders, including one person who was fined six times.\n\nMartin Hewitt, chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council, said although most of the public were adhering to the restrictions it would get harder as the weeks went on.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Johnson said the lockdown would not be relaxed too soon and details on any changes would be set out over the \"coming days\".\n\nAt Wednesday's press conference, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the UK was still \"coming through the peak\" of the virus and called for people to maintain social distancing measures \"until we are out of the woods\".\n\nThe total number of people who have died in the UK with coronavirus has now passed 26,000, as official figures include some deaths in the community, such as in care homes, for the first time.\n\nA new method of counting includes retrospective deaths since the beginning of March.\n\nThe latest UK-wide figures - which use a different timeframe to those of individual nations - will be published later.\n\nMeanwhile, the government is facing questions over its target of 100,000 tests a day by the end of April.\n\nA report by NHS Providers, which represents hospitals and NHS trusts in England, dismissed the target as a \"red herring\" and said it risked preventing the development of a \"proper, next stage testing strategy\".\n\nMr Buckland said even if the target wasn't met \"we are well on our way to ramping this [testing] up\" and \"we are straining every sinew to get there\".\n\n\"100,000 is an important milestone, but frankly we need more,\" the justice secretary told BBC Breakfast.\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Health and Social Care said testing was \"absolutely critical\" and capacity at NHS and PHE laboratories had more than doubled within weeks.", "Prof Neil Ferguson has quit as a government adviser on coronavirus after admitting an \"error of judgement\".\n\nProf Ferguson, whose advice to the prime minister led to the UK lockdown, said he regretted \"undermining\" the messages on social distancing.\n\nThe Telegraph reported that a woman he was said to be in a relationship with visited his home in lockdown.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said it was \"extraordinary\" and that he \"took the right decision to resign\".\n\nHe told Sky News that it was \"just not possible\" for Prof Ferguson to continue advising the government.\n\nMr Hancock said the social distancing rules \"are there for everyone\" and are \"deadly serious\".\n\nScotland Yard said Prof Ferguson's behaviour was \"plainly disappointing\" but officers \"do not intend to take any further action\".\n\nNo 10 said the prime minister agreed with his decision to resign but Prof Ferguson was not told to do so and made the decision himself.\n\n\"Social distancing regulations are there for a very clear purpose,\" the prime minister's spokesman added.\n\nProf Ferguson's modelling of the virus's transmission suggested 250,000 people could die without drastic action.\n\nThis led Prime Minister Boris Johnson to announce on 23 March that he was imposing widespread curbs on daily life aimed at stopping the spread of the virus.\n\nUnder those measures people were told to go out as little as possible, with partners who live separately later being told they should \"ideally\" stay in their own homes.\n\nIn a statement, Prof Ferguson said: \"I accept I made an error of judgement and took the wrong course of action.\n\n\"I have therefore stepped back from my involvement in Sage (Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies).\n\n\"I acted in the belief that I was immune, having tested positive for coronavirus and completely isolated myself for almost two weeks after developing symptoms.\n\n\"I deeply regret any undermining of the clear messages around the continued need for social distancing.\"\n\nProf Neil Ferguson appeared before the Science and Technology Committee in March\n\nHe also called the government advice on social distancing \"unequivocal\", adding that it was there \"to protect all of us\".\n\nThe Telegraph reported that Antonia Staats visited his home on at least two occasions during the lockdown.\n\nDespite Prof Ferguson's comments, it is currently unclear whether people who have recovered from the virus will be immune or able to catch it again.\n\nBBC medical correspondent Fergus Walsh said \"Neil Ferguson will know the science is very much developing\" on immunity - and the government was not advising people to carry on as normal if they had already had the disease.\n\nOur correspondent added that Prof Ferguson's resignation was \"a really big deal\", calling him \"the most influential scientist\" in the virus outbreak apart from the UK's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, and chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance.\n\nHowever, Sir Robert Lechler, president of the Academy of Medical Sciences, said he did not think Prof Ferguson's resignation would \"have any material impact\" on the work of Sage, which is advising the government on the pandemic.\n\nHe told the BBC that Prof Ferguson had made \"an important contribution\" but he was sure the group would \"continue to provide valuable input\".\n\nSecurity minister James Brokenshire told the BBC that \"a range of experts\" will continue to support ministers following Prof Ferguson's resignation.\n\nIt comes after the number of people who have died with coronavirus in the UK reached 29,427 on Tuesday - the highest number of virus deaths in Europe.\n\nHowever, figures from the Office for National Statistics - which includes deaths where the virus is suspected, not just where tests have been carried out - brings the total number to more than 32,000.\n\nChallenged during Prime Minister's Questions over how the UK's death toll had become so high, Mr Johnson said every death was \"a tragedy\".\n\nHowever, he said the data was not yet available to draw conclusions on international comparisons.\n\nHe added that \"there will of course be a time to look at what decisions we took and whether we could have taken different decisions\" but \"what the people of this country want us to do now is to suppress the disease... and begin the work of getting our country's economy back on its feet\".\n\nA further 331 deaths were announced in England on Wednesday, along with 21 more in Wales and another 14 in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe latest UK-wide figures - which use a different timeframe to those of individual nations - will be published later.\n\nMeanwhile, the weekly coronavirus death toll in Scotland has fallen for the first time, according to figures from the National Records of Scotland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I don’t think you can make the international comparisons you're suggesting at this stage\" - Dominic Raab\n\nProf Ferguson's resignation comes a month after Scotland's chief medical officer, Dr Catherine Calderwood, quit when it was revealed she had broken lockdown rules by making two trips to her second home.\n\nScottish National Party MP Philippa Whitford told BBC Newsnight that both cases were examples of telling the public \"to do something really difficult but it's as if it doesn't count for you\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he believed it was right that Prof Ferguson had resigned.\n\n\"We all have a role to play in the fight against the virus,\" Sir Keir's spokesman said. \"That means taking responsibility and following the official advice.\"\n\nProf Neil Ferguson is one of the world's most influential disease modellers.\n\nHe is director of the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis.\n\nThe centre's mathematical predictions advise governments and the World Health Organization on outbreaks from Ebola in West Africa to the current pandemic.\n\nIt was that group's work, in early January, that alerted the world to the threat of coronavirus.\n\nIt showed hundreds if not thousands of people were likely to have been infected in Wuhan, at a time when Chinese officials said there were only a few dozen cases.\n\nBut he shot to public attention as \"Professor Lockdown\".\n\nIn mid-March, the maths showed the UK needed to change course or a quarter of a million people would die in a \"catastrophic epidemic\".\n\nThose calculations helped transform government policy and all lives.\n\nOn Tuesday, a new NHS contact-tracing app was launched to key workers on the Isle of Wight\n\nAfter initially reaching its target of 100,000 tests, for the past three days the government failed to hit it\n\nConservative MP Sir John Redwood suggested the circumstances behind Prof Ferguson's resignation would not matter to the public.\n\n\"What matters to the nation is are we getting the right advice and how do we get through this dreadful crisis?\" he said.\n\nProf Ferguson led Imperial College London's Covid-19 response team. He has carried out mathematical modelling to provide information on outbreaks including foot-and-mouth in 2001, bird flu in 2006 and swine flu in 2009.\n\nA statement from the university said Prof Ferguson \"continues to focus on his important research\".", "Air fares should fall when flights restart but then rise by at least 50%, warns a global airline industry body.\n\nAirlines are keen to get planes back in the skies quickly which could lead to over-capacity, says the International Air Transport Association (Iata).\n\nWith passenger demand likely to remain low this should put pressure on carriers to reduce the cost of flights.\n\nBut if airlines are forced to keep middle seats free they will need to raise air fares significantly.\n\nUnder current social distancing proposals, airlines may be required to keep middle seats free which would have a major impact on their profitability, as they would be forced to fly with fewer passengers. Michael O'Leary, the boss of Ryanair, said keeping middle seats empty was \"idiotic\".\n\nIata estimates that only four of the 122 airlines it sampled would be able to break even under these conditions, leading to consolidation in the industry. Raising fares is \"inevitable\" for carriers to remain commercially viable.\n\nMost airlines are already struggling with the severe downturn in passenger numbers with the vast majority of their planes grounded.\n\nOn Tuesday, Virgin Atlantic said it would cut more than 3,000 jobs and end its operations at Gatwick Airport. Last month, Virgin Australia went into voluntary administration and analysts fear other airlines will follow.\n\n\"It's tricky to understand how many airlines will be able to operate profitably. It will be a much smaller industry,\" said Brian Pearce, Iata's chief economist, talking about the onboard social distancing proposals.\n\nHis team argues that social distancing through vacant middle seats is no guarantee against the spread of coronavirus on planes. Instead, Iata supports the wearing of face masks by passengers for safer flying.\n\nThe ray of hope for passengers is that they could see cheaper fares once flights resume as carriers attempt to stimulate demand.\n\nAirlines will only be able to increase air fares once passenger numbers recover, but this will only be by 2021 at the earliest, estimates Iata.", "Stuart is now taking one of the treatments at home\n\nMen with advanced prostate cancer can take highly targeted hormone therapies at home instead of coming into hospital for chemotherapy, NHS England says.\n\nExperts say it will relieve pressure on the NHS, which wants all urgent and essential cancer treatments to continue during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe drugs are also smarter, kinder treatments and could extend the lives of many more patients, they say.\n\nThis precision-medicine approach is already used to treat other cancers.\n\nDiagnosed with advanced prostate cancer in February, Stuart Fraser, 66, from Ashtead, in Surrey, will now take four enzalutamide tablets a day.\n\n\"Being diagnosed was a huge shock,\" he said.\n\n\"What made it even more worrying was that, because of coronavirus, I was told I couldn't have the usual treatment of chemotherapy, which would have affected my immune system.\n\n\"When I heard about other possible treatments like abiraterone and enzalutamide, I launched a petition to try to make sure men like me could get hold of it.\n\n\"That's why it's such great news that now no-one will be in the same position I was at the beginning of all this.\"\n\nEnzalutamide blocks the effect of the testosterone hormone on prostate-cancer cells, preventing them from growing.\n\nPatients intolerant to enzalutamide, will be given abiraterone, which stops the body producing testosterone.\n\nUntil now, in England and Wales, the drugs were available only to patients for whom other hormone therapy had stopped working, although abiraterone was recommended in Scotland as a first-line treatment earlier this year.\n\nNow, doctors can prescribe them when a patient is first diagnosed.\n\nProf Nick James, of the Institute of Cancer Research, in London, who has led major trials into targeted prostate cancer drugs, said: \"I'm pleased and relieved that many more men should now benefit from targeted hormone therapies right from when they are first diagnosed.\n\n\"It will greatly lower the risk of exposing vulnerable patients to the coronavirus and lightens the load on our hard-pressed hospitals.\n\n\"Men can take their tablets at home and have their bloods checked by their GP.\n\n\"And, unlike chemotherapy, enzalutamide and abiraterone have no significant effects on patients' immune system.\"\n\nNational clinical director for cancer Prof Peter Johnson said: \"The NHS has been working hard to ensure the safety of cancer patients during the pandemic.\n\n\"Switching from chemotherapy to hormone treatments for prostate cancer is just one example of how we are adapting our approach to help thousands of cancer patients across the country continue to access the care they need.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Four young sisters have been streaming their own children's church services from their home during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nIvy, 5, Clara, 8, Amy, 10, and 11-year-old Ellen Gill wanted to do something while their local church in Exeter is closed.\n\nTheir weekly Children's Liturgy, streamed on YouTube, includes prayers and readings, as well as advice for people on how they can help those in the community.\n\nAmy said: \"We miss seeing our friends while our school and church is closed and this is a way for us to do something that everyone can watch and enjoy.”", "Disney's Florida theme park has been shut since mid-March\n\nWalt Disney Co suffered a $1.4bn (£1.1bn) hit to profits in the first three months of the year, as it closed its parks, cancelled movie releases and reduced advertising sales.\n\nEvery part of its business was affected by coronavirus, nearly wiping out profits for the quarter.\n\nDisney chairman Bob Iger said the firm was facing \"unprecedented\" challenges but he was confident of recovery.\n\nThe firm is already planning to open its Shanghai park on 11 May.\n\nChief executive Bob Chapek said the company would take a \"phased approach\", requiring advance reservations to limit attendance.\n\nIt said it would require health measures, such as masks and temperature checks.\n\n\"We are seeing encouraging signs of gradual return to some semblance of normalcy in China,\" he said.\n\n\"While it's too early to predict when we'll be able to begin resuming all of our operations, we are evaluating a number of different scenarios to ensure a cautious, sensible and deliberate approach to the eventual reopening of our parks.\"\n\nThe parks and cruise division has been a reliable profit driver for Disney in recent years, as the firm's giant media business tries to adapt to online competition and declines in paid-TV subscriptions and movie theatre attendance.\n\nBut the parks business was hammered by the closings, accounting for $1bn of the $1.4bn hit to operating income, as the firm shut its parks in Shanghai and Hong Kong in January, in Tokyo in February and in the US and France in March. Its cruise lines have also suspended operations.\n\nMr Chapek said he thought there was enough pent-up demand that people would come once the firm does re-open in a limited way. But outside of Shanghai, executives warned that the timing of re-opening remains unclear.\n\nThe firm's advertising business - which supports its television output - is also seeing significant declines, as companies slash marketing budgets and a lack of live sports reduces viewers on Disney's ESPN sports channel.\n\nDisney last year launched a new streaming service, Disney+, which had attracted 54.5 million subscribers as of 4 May - up from about 50 million on 8 April. But it remains loss-making.\n\nThe direct-to-consumer and international unit, which includes Disney+, posted a loss of $812m in the quarter.\n\n\"It's difficult to think of a company which better illustrates the ups and downs of the coronavirus outbreak and its effect on companies,\" said Nicholas Hyett, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown. \"While we think the business ... has one of the best asset bases of any listed company ... the damage the current crisis will do remains unclear.\"\n\nDisney said it was taking numerous steps to shore up its finances, including reducing capital investment plans by $900m and suspending a planned dividend payment.\n\nLast month, it stopped paying nearly half of its workforce, furloughing more than 100,000 employees, many of them park and hotel workers.\n\nQuarterly revenues were up 21% year-on-year at $18bn - beating analyst expectations. But profits fell to $460m from $5.4bn in the prior year, a 91% drop.\n\n\"I have no doubt that we will get through this but it will take some time,\" Disney chairman Bob Iger said.", "Emergency services were called to the farm near Usk\n\nA man has died after a water buffalo attacked three people at a commercial property.\n\nThe 57-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene, after police officers were called to the address at Gwehelog, near Usk, Monmouthshire.\n\nA man, 19, was also critically injured and taken to Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales by air ambulance.\n\nA woman, 22, suffered a serious leg injury and is being treated at Newport's Royal Gwent Hospital.\n\nGwent Police said they were called to the property at about 14:50 BST on Tuesday and received support from the National Police Air Service.\n\nWater buffalo are usually used for tilling rice fields in Asian countries, while their milk is rich in fat and protein\n\nThe water buffalo has been destroyed.\n\nA neighbour said the herd were a familiar sight on the farm and were often seen in the fields with the horses.\n\nThey added the buffalo always appeared to be quite quiet, and that the owners had been seen stroking them.", "In response to Sarah's question about worried parents, Mr Swinney says the government has got to build up their confidence.\n\nHe said there are hubs across the country for vulnerable children and children of essential workers but only 1% of the school population are using them.\n\nThe education secretary said that tells him that families want to keep their kids close to home because they're worried about the situation.\n\n\"We've got to build confidence, we've got to see levels of infectiousness falling within our country, and we've got to make sure that schools are viewed as the safe places that they always have been for children and young people,\" he added.\n\n\"But we've got to make them safe from Covid in the period going forward.\"", "The UK and US have issued a joint warning cyber-spies are targeting the health sector.\n\nHackers linked to foreign states have been hunting for information, including Covid-19 data and vaccine research, they say.\n\nUK sources say they have seen extensive activity but do not believe there has been any data theft so far.\n\nThose behind the activity are not named in the alert but are thought to include China, Russia and Iran.\n\nThe three countries have all seen major outbreaks of the virus but have denied previous claims of involvement in such activity.\n\nThe joint advisory says the UK and US are currently investigating a number of incidents in which other states are targeting pharmaceutical companies, medical-research organisations, and universities, looking for intelligence and sensitive data, including research on the virus.\n\nUnderstanding how other countries are dealing with the Covid-19 crisis and progress in research has become a high priority for intelligence agencies around the world.\n\nIn a crisis, every state will want to use its intelligence capability to better inform itself.\n\nAnd in a locked-down world, cyber-espionage is more practical than traditional human espionage, making it another field where an existing trend towards online working may be accelerated.\n\nAnalysts say they are seeing a particular rise in aggressive operations from a range of states at the moment.\n\nAnd this has meant organisations that might not have considered themselves to be top targets for hackers from foreign states are now in their sights.\n\nThe UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has been working with these organisations since the start of the crisis, to offer advice and protection.\n\nAnd the new public advisory, issued jointly with its US equivalent, the Cyber-security and Infrastructure Security Agency(CISA), aims to further increase awareness of the threat.\n\n\"In today's world, there is nothing more valuable or worth stealing than any kind of biomedical research that is going to help with a coronavirus vaccine,\" senior US intelligence official Bill Evanina told BBC News last week.\n\nAt Tuesday's daily briefing, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said: \"As well as providing practical advice, the UK will continue to counter those who conduct cyber-attacks.\n\n\"And we're working very closely with our international partners both to respond to the threats but also to deter the gangs and the arms of state who lie behind them.\"\n\nUK authorities are understood to have offered advice to Oxford University, at the leading edge of developing a vaccine, and Imperial College in London, which has played a key role in the epidemiological modelling that has shaped policy responses.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe advisory warns cyber-spies are targeting supply chains and taking advantage of people remotely working, with a technique called password-spraying - in which they try to use commonly used passwords to access accounts.\n\nAnd cyber-criminals could target healthcare providers, knowing they may be even more willing than usual to pay a ransom for the return of their data.\n\n\"Protecting the healthcare sector is the NCSC's first and foremost priority at this time and we're working closely with the NHS to keep their systems safe,\" operations director Paul Chichester said.\n\nMeanwhile, Western spies will be focusing hard on China as they seek to understand what Beijing may know of the virus's origins - with the US administration pushing the theory it may have escaped from a lab - as well as looking for any data on the true extent of the outbreak in the country.", "We are, declared the prime minister at the end of last week, past the peak of the coronavirus pandemic in the UK.\n\nBut he said we'd have to wait until this week to learn more about how we'll start to move out of the lockdown that has changed the country so dramatically in the past six weeks.\n\nGiven that the crisis has affected pretty much everyone in one way or another, there is a fevered guessing game well under way about what moving out of the lockdown might look like - and it involves huge dilemmas for the government.\n\nWith another six days to go before the prime minister is expected to spell out those choices, some things are clear.\n\nFirst and foremost, the government is not about to throw the country's doors open.\n\nScotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, admitted today that this Thursday - when UK ministers have to review the restrictions - she is likely to ask people to stick with the lockdown for a while longer.\n\nThat's likely to be the case across the UK.\n\nSo while you can pencil in a big political moment for Sunday, when Boris Johnson makes his statement, he is not going to be saying that on Monday morning you will wake up and the world will have got back to normal.\n\nThe first thing the government is trying to do is to prod some things back to life in the economy that didn't necessarily need to close to in the first place.\n\nSome ministers are already gently trying to make this happen - by encouraging businesses like DIY stores or takeaways to open safely.\n\nThe impact of the government's \"Stay at Home\" message surprised Whitehall, with more of the country's business closing down than they had expected.\n\nBut workplaces will be prompted to come back to life, as long as they can follow the principle of keeping people apart.\n\nAs leaked draft guidance for business seen by my colleague Simon Jack shows, this is far from straightforward, and if it's possible to do your job from home, that is likely still to be the expectation.\n\nThe return of schools is equally, if not more, fraught.\n\nThere's a hope in government that schools in England, at least, can start to reopen at the beginning of June, with some kind of staggered return, or rota system for different year groups.\n\nThe social and economic consequences of school gates staying shut are obviously profound, but with a still limited amount of information about the disease, and about how children do or do not transmit it, there are nerves about exactly what to do.\n\nAnd while it might be politically deeply tricky, it is possible that the government, with what it hopes will be the benefit of a sophisticated tracing mechanism for the virus, could flex restrictions at different times in different parts of the country.\n\nSeveral cabinet ministers have expressed private reservations about regional variations, saying that they prefer a \"sectoral\" approach.\n\nBut others in government make the argument for targeted approaches to easing lockdown - experimenting, then monitoring, rather than a one-size-fits-all approach.\n\nTrying out changes in a limited way has some appeal but would be tricky politically.\n\nWhat is more likely, perhaps, is that the whole country starts to come out of lockdown at the same kind of gradual rate, but if the infection re-emerges in one particular area, limits are restored in that specific place.\n\nThat of course only works, if the government manages to dramatically improve the amount and quality of data that is available.\n\nThe much-vaunted app that is meant to be critical to all of this, starts its test phase on the Isle of Wight on Tuesday.\n\nSo much has to be decided - on schools, businesses, geography, PPE - and individual government departments are each making plans about how they might proceed.\n\nBut in the hunt for the detail, don't miss the bigger point.\n\nLockdown, when it came, changed the country almost overnight. Recreating our lives in a changed world will be long and difficult undertaking.\n\nFigures from the Treasury show just how many people have been affected, not by the disease itself, but by the lockdown shock - more than six million people are having their wages paid for the first time by the Treasury, on the furlough scheme.\n\nExit will bring complicated policy choices and economic pain too.\n\nAs one senior government figure said: \"Work will be different, shopping with be different, transport will be different - we need to create a whole different way of how society can work.\"\n\nA cabinet minister described it as \"turning up the dimmer switch\".\n\nAnd it will be a long time before we can be sure what we'll really see.", "Police officers had been following a vehicle along Dartmouth Road, West Hendon\n\nA Met Police officer was attacked while pursuing a suspect in north-west London.\n\nPolice had been pursuing a vehicle in Dartmouth Road, West Hendon, shortly after 19:00 BST when one occupant got out.\n\nScotland Yard confirmed one officer, who found the suspect in an alleyway, was seriously assaulted during a \"struggle\".\n\nThe suspect fled but was later arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.\n\nA force spokesperson said the officer, whose injuries are not thought to be life-threatening, had not been stabbed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ralf Hütter (left) and Florian Schneider were Kraftwerk's founders and core members\n\nFlorian Schneider, co-founder of highly influential electronic pop group Kraftwerk, has died at the age of 73.\n\nThe German quartet set the template for synthesiser music in the 1970s and 80s with songs like Autobahn and The Model.\n\nThey achieved both musical innovation and commercial success, and inspired scores of artists across genres ranging from techno to hip-hop.\n\nMidge Ure described Schneider as \"way ahead of his time\", while singer Edwyn Collins summed it up with: \"He's God\".\n\nSchneider formed the group with Ralf Hütter in 1970, and remained a member until his departure in 2008.\n\nA statement said he \"passed away from a short cancer disease just a few days after his 73rd birthday\".\n\nSchneider in a suit made from recycled plastic to support a campaign to stop plastic pollution in 2015\n\nTributes flowed from the music world. Spandau Ballet's Gary Kemp said Schneider was \"such an important influence upon so much of the music we know\", and had forged \"a new Metropolis of music for us all to live in\".\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 Gary Kemp 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\nDuran Duran keyboardist Nick Rhodes remembered hearing Autobahn and \"how radically different it sounded from everything else on the radio\".\n\nIt \"sparked my lifelong admiration for their innovation and creativity\", and the group's \"influence on contemporary music is deeply woven into the fabric of our pop culture\", he wrote.\n\nOMD said they were \"absolutely devastated\" at the news, and Jean-Michel Jarre also paid tribute.\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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe long list of artists to have been influenced by Kraftwerk included David Bowie, who named the track V-2 Schneider on his Heroes album after Schneider; as well Depeche Mode, New Order and Daft Punk.\n\nColdplay used a section from Kraftwerk's Computer Love in their hit Talk, while Jay-Z and Dr Dre borrowed from Trans Europe Express for their track Under Pressure. Kraftwerk reputedly turned down Michael Jackson, who wanted to collaborate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe group faced resistance in the British music press at first, but went on to achieve both musical innovation and commercial success.\n\nThey broke through with the hypnotic Autobahn in 1975, and went to number one in the UK with the double A-side single The Model/Computer Love in 1982.\n\nEven Kraftwerk's image was mechanical - during the 1970s, they began to portray themselves as robotic figures, dressed identically and standing in a row behind keyboards on stage.\n\nWith striking album covers adding to their visual impact, their artistic as well as musical identity led to a series of acclaimed residencies in galleries like New York's Moma and the Tate Modern in London in the 2010s.\n\nSchneider had left by then. He and Hütter remained famously enigmatic, but Hütter told The Guardian in 2009 his bandmate had not been \"really involved in Kraftwerk for many, many years\".\n\nDuring the mid-70s, the band's allegiance to what they called \"robot pop\" set the sonic template for everything from hip-hop to house music via EDM and techno.\n\nIn some quarters, they were dubbed \"the electronic Beatles\", and it's hard to disagree.\n\nElectronic music had existed before - from the musitron solo on Del Shannon's Runaway to the mind-expanding Doctor Who theme, recorded by the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop in 1963.\n\nBut Kraftwerk developed a new musical vocabulary, sculpting hypnotic, low-frequency sounds that celebrated Europe's romantic past, and looked forward to its shimmering future.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The constant stream of bad news on coronavirus, from the rising number of deaths, to doctors and nurses risking their lives because of a lack of protective equipment has, understandably, caused great anxiety.\n\nThat much is clear from the proportion of adults worried about the threat they believe the virus poses to themselves.\n\nOlder people are the most concerned, but even among younger age groups the majority believe they are at risk.\n\nBut have we got this out of perspective? How much actual risk does coronavirus present?\n\nThe people who are most at risk are older people and those with pre-existing health conditions. The overwhelming majority of deaths has been among these groups.\n\nBut young people are, of course still, dying - by late April there had been more than 300 deaths among the under-45s.\n\nWhat is more, there are many more who have been left seriously ill, struggling with the after-effects for weeks.\n\nSo how should we interpret that? And what does that mean for post-lockdown life?\n\nOur constant focus on the most negative impacts of the epidemic means we have \"lost sight\" of the fact the virus causes a mild to moderate illness for many, says Dr Amitava Banerjee, of University College London.\n\nThe expert in clinical data science believes it is important not to jump to conclusions about the deaths of younger, seemingly healthy adults. Some could have had health conditions that had not been diagnosed, he says.\n\nBut he admits there will be otherwise healthy people who have died - as happens with everything from heart attacks to flu.\n\nIn future, we need to stop looking at coronavirus through such a \"narrow lens\", he says. Instead we should take more account of the indirect costs, such as rising rates of domestic violence in lockdown, mental health problems and the lack of access to health care more generally.\n\nOn Sunday Boris Johnson is expected to set out how restrictions will be eased in England. All indications are that it will be a very gradual process to keep the rate of transmission of the virus down.\n\nBut some believe we do not need to be so draconian.\n\nEdinburgh University and a group of London-based academics published a paper this week arguing restrictions could be lifted quite significantly if the most vulnerable were completely shielded.\n\nThat would require the continued isolation of these individuals and the regular testing of their carers - or shielders as the researchers call them.\n\nIf we could protect them - and that would require very good access to quick testing and protective equipment - the researchers believe we could lift many restrictions and allow a \"controlled\" epidemic in the general population.\n\nGood hand-hygiene, isolating when you have symptoms and voluntary social distancing where possible would be needed. But people could return to work, and school - in a matter of months. The majority could even be eating in restaurants and going to cinemas.\n\nFor the non-vulnerable population, coronavirus carries no more risk than a \"nasty flu\", says Prof Mark Woolhouse, an expert in infectious disease who led the research.\n\n\"If it wasn't for the fact that it presents such a high risk of severe disease in vulnerable groups, we would never have taken the steps we have and closed down the country.\n\n\"If we can shield the vulnerable really well, there is no reason why we cannot lift many of the restrictions in place for others.\n\n\"The lockdown has come at a huge economic, social and health cost.\"\n\nIt is, he says, all about getting the balance of risk right.\n\nIt is a point others have made.\n\nCambridge University statistician Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter has highlighted evidence which shows the risk of dying from coronavirus is very similar to the underlying risk people of all age groups from early 20s upwards have of dying anyway.\n\nHis point is that for the average adult getting infected means you are effectively doubling your risk of death. The younger you are, the lower the risk.\n\nFor children, as you can see on the graph, the risk from the virus is so small that you might be better off worrying about other things. After the first year of life cancers, accidents and self-harm are the leading causes of death.\n\nResearchers from Stanford University in the US have been trying to count the risk another way - equating it to that which we face from dying while driving.\n\nIn the UK, they calculate that those under the age of 65 have faced the same risk over the past few months from coronavirus as they would have faced from driving 185 miles a day - the equivalent of commuting from Swindon to London.\n\nStrip out the under-65s with health conditions - about one in 16 - and the risk is even lower, with deaths in non-vulnerable groups being \"remarkably uncommon\".\n\nPutting risk in perspective is going to be essential for individuals and decision-makers, the authors suggest.\n\nIf we do, we may learn to live with coronavirus. We may have to.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Daniel Radcliffe has delighted fans by returning to the world of Harry Potter to record himself reading the first chapter from JK Rowling's first book.\n\nRadcliffe, who played the boy wizard in the film series, is taking part in the starry lockdown reading initiative Harry Potter At Home.\n\nEddie Redmayne and Stephen Fry are among the other celebrities involved.\n\nThe videos will feature on Rowling's online hub to help children, parents, carers and teachers through the crisis.\n\nAudio versions will also be available on Spotify.\n\nEach celebrity will read a different section of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - known as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the US.\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\nReadings of all 17 chapters of the book will be released weekly between now and the middle of the summer.\n\nHarry Potter at Home was launched by Rowling and Wizarding World Digital as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and offers quizzes, puzzles and a fan club.\n\nSpeaking last month, the author said she launched it because \"parents, teachers and carers working to keep children amused and interested while we're on lockdown might need a bit of magic\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Activists are warning that the world is now facing a \"double crisis\" because of the coronavirus pandemic and climate change.\n\nMany campaigners have had to cancel or postpone their work because of lockdowns worldwide.\n\nHowever, some say now is a big opportunity to spread their message in a different way.", "Producers are working out how cast and crew can return to the cobbles\n\nCoronation Street characters will be seen dealing with life during the coronavirus pandemic in storylines when filming resumes, its producer has said.\n\nBut the crisis won't \"dominate every single story\", Iain MacLeod promised.\n\nThe ITV soap has suspended filming and is making plans to return when real-life restrictions start to be lifted.\n\nMacLeod said he decided the virus \"has to exist in our world\", but that the issue would be \"handled with a light touch\".\n\nHe didn't say whether any characters would catch the virus, but its impact will be seen through things like hand-washing protocols and food outlets switching to takeaways.\n\nMacLeod said he and his team had \"talked a lot\" about whether to bring coronavirus to the cobbles, or whether Weatherfield \"would exist in a parallel universe where everything proceeded in a pre-pandemic fashion\".\n\n\"The Coronation Street that we love is the one that reflects modern Britain, albeit in a more heightened way sometimes,\" he said.\n\n\"And it just felt that if there were to be no coronavirus in Coronation Street, it would stop being a reflection of modern Britain and would instead be a parallel fantasy land. So we took the view that it has to exist in our world.\n\n\"However I am also aware that people also tune in to Coronation Street for escapism to some degree, and to see drama and stories that they'd never normally experience in their own lives, and stuff that they'd never normally see in their own living rooms played out on screen.\n\n\"So while the virus will exist in Coronation Street, we were also keen that it wouldn't dominate every single story and every single scene.\n\n\"Coronavirus is pretty much the only topic of conversation in my house, but people wouldn't want to tune in to Coronation Street and see every scene was people talking about coronavirus.\n\n\"It'll be there, it'll be handled with a light touch, but other than that our storytelling will be business as usual.\"\n\nSoaps have cut the number of episodes being broadcast in an attempt to avoid dropping off air.\n\nMacLeod's comments come a week after ITV's director of television Kevin Lygo said the channel's soaps were hoping to resume filming - but with some restrictions remaining.\n\n\"They are being inventive and creative about rejigging storylines,\" he said. \"I think we have got to accept there will be no more than two people talking in a room, and looking at ways of shooting where people don't appear to be 6ft apart.\"\n\nFilming will not start up \"until we are convinced it is safe\", he added.\n\n\"Some people who are in a dangerous zone, by age or health reasons, they won't be there, I'm sure, for a time.\n\n\"I don't want Ken Barlow [played by William Roache, 88] to get sick on my watch.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Boris Johnson has said he \"bitterly regrets\" the coronavirus crisis in care homes - and the government was \"working very hard\" to tackle it.\n\nLatest figures show deaths in care homes continued to rise even amid a fall in Covid-19 hospital deaths.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused the PM of failing to get a grip on the issue at Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nThe PM said a \"huge effort\" was going in - and there had been a \"palpable improvement\" in recent days.\n\nHe added that \"it has been enraging to see the difficulties we've had in supplying PPE to those who need it\" but the government is now \"engaged in a massive plan to ramp up domestic supply\".\n\nThe prime minister also pledged to reach 200,000 tests for coronavirus a day by the end of May.\n\nThe government announced it had hit its target of 100,000 tests on Friday, but that number has since fallen back.\n\nThe PM said \"capacity currently exceeds demand\" and the government was taking steps to address that.\n\nThe BBC's health editor Hugh Pym said government sources confirmed that the 200,000 per day target refers to lab capacity rather than individual tests.\n\nMr Johnson said his \"ambition\" was to hit 200,000 tests \"by the end of this month - and then go even higher\".\n\nHe also confirmed that he would be setting out plans to begin lifting the coronavirus lockdown on Sunday, adding that he hoped to \"get going on some of these measures on Monday\".\n\nMr Johnson was making his first appearance in the Commons - and his first PMQs clash with new Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer - since the birth of his son and his recovery from coronavirus.\n\nThe government's 200,000-tests-a-day ambition may not quite be what it seems.\n\nOfficials are now saying it refers to the ability of labs to process the tests.\n\nIf that is the case, the system is probably not far off that.\n\nTesting is essentially a two-stage process. Swabs are taken at hospitals, drive-thru centres, military-run mobile units and sent out to homes for people to do them themselves.\n\nThey are then sent to labs to process. Some hospitals can do this themselves, but the majority go to one of three mega-labs in Glasgow, Cheshire and Milton Keynes.\n\nThese labs are increasingly using an automated system to process them which means they can carry out an increasing numbers.\n\nCurrently capacity is around 150,000 - so 200,000 should not be too difficult to achieve.\n\nWhat remains a problem, though, is getting people tested and turning those tests around quickly - for some it can take 72 hours.\n\nCare homes are still reporting they cannot always get staff and residents tested, while drive-thru centres, which are not always conveniently located for other eligible groups, are being under-used.\n\nTackling these problems will be much more difficult if 200,000 tests a day are actually to be done.\n\nThe government must review lockdown measures on Thursday by law - but the PM said he was waiting until Sunday to announce the government's plans because more data would be available.\n\nAnd he warned it would be an \"economic disaster\" to relax the lockdown in a way which triggered a second spike in coronavirus cases.\n\nIn March, the PM said the government was aiming for 250,000 coronavirus tests a day but did not put a timescale on that.\n\nSir Keir Starmer said only 84,000 tests were done on Monday, meaning 24,000 were not used, from the 100,000 the government said last week were available.\n\nMr Johnson replied: \"Yes, he's right that capacity currently exceeds demand, we're working on that, we're running at about 100,000 a day, but the ambition clearly is to get up to 200,000 a day by the end of this month and then to go even higher.\"\n\nHe told MPs that a \"fantastic\" testing regime will be critical to the UK's long-term economic recovery.\n\nLabour sources said they planned to hold Mr Johnson to account on his latest testing promise.\n\nThe government believes a track, test and trace programme to quickly identify new cases of coronavirus and prevent the further spread of the infection is the best route out of lockdown.\n\nSir Keir said the UK now had the highest death rate from the virus in Europe because it had been too slow into lockdown, testing and the provision of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).\n\nMr Johnson said it was too early to make international comparisons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer says the UK's coronavirus death figures are “not success or apparent success“\n\nIt came as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed that the lockdown in Scotland will continue for at least another three weeks.\n\nAsked by the SNP's Ian Blackford if the contents of his statement on Sunday would be \"fully agreed\" with the devolved nations, Mr Johnson said: \"We'll do our level best to make sure that the outlines of this attract the widest possible consensus.\"", "More than 13,000 people are being treated for Covid-19 in hospitals around Britain\n\nThe UK has become the first country in Europe to pass 30,000 coronavirus deaths, according to the latest government figures.\n\nA total of 30,076 people have now died in hospitals, care homes and the wider community after testing positive for the virus, up by 649 from Tuesday.\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick said they were \"heartbreaking losses\".\n\nOn Tuesday, the number of deaths recorded in the UK passed Italy's total, becoming the highest in Europe.\n\nThe latest total for Italy, which also records deaths of those who have tested positive for the virus, stands at 29,684.\n\nThe UK now has the second-highest number of recorded coronavirus deaths in the world, behind the United States which has more than 70,000.\n\nExperts have warned that it could be months before full global comparisons can be made.\n\nEach country also has different testing regimes, with Italy conducting more tests than the UK to date.\n\nMr Jenrick told the government's daily coronavirus briefing: \"It is difficult to make international comparisons with certainty, there will be a time for that.\"\n\nHowever, Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter - a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) advising the government on the pandemic - said the UK \"should now use other countries to try and learn why our numbers are so high\".\n\nProf Spiegelhalter tweeted the remark as he urged ministers to stop referencing an article he wrote for the Guardian \"to claim we cannot make any international comparisons yet\".\n\nHe added that his article was only referring to it not being possible to make \"detailed league tables\" to compare international deaths.\n\nEarlier in the Commons, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the government had been too slow to introduce the lockdown and too slow to increase the number of tests.\n\nAnd challenging Prime Minister Boris Johnson on the rising numbers of deaths in care homes, the new Labour leader said: \"Twelve weeks after the health secretary declared that we're in a health crisis, I have to ask the prime minister - why hasn't the government got to grips with this already?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer says the UK's coronavirus death figures are “not success or apparent success“\n\nMeanwhile, testing for coronavirus in the UK has fallen to its lowest level in a week.\n\nThe government provided 69,463 tests in the 24 hours up to 09:00 BST on Wednesday, lower than its testing target of 100,000 for the fourth consecutive day.\n\nIt had previously pledged to conduct 100,000 tests a day from the beginning of May - it has reached that number on two occasions.\n\nAs well as tests conducted in person, it also includes thousands of postal tests, which have not necessarily been carried out on the day.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth tweeted: \"Testing should be going up, not be on this downward trajectory. Ministers need to explain why they are failing to deliver the testing promised.\"\n\nEarlier, Boris Johnson said it was his \"ambition\" to increase coronavirus testing capacity to 200,000 a day by the end of May.\n\nOn Tuesday, the UK recorded 6,111 new cases of coronavirus - the third highest daily total so far.\n\nThe number of new cases - more than 6,000 - may seem shocking. It is after all one of the highest daily totals so far.\n\nBut it is not quite what it seems.\n\nBecause many more tests are being carried out than they were (even taking into account the dip in activity since the 100,000 mark was \"hit\" last week) more cases that would have previously gone undetected are now being diagnosed.\n\nTwo thirds of these new cases are among groups that just a month ago would mostly not have been tested, including the over 65s and those who have to leave home to go to work.\n\nIt does not mean there is more virus circulating.\n\nAll the indications - from hospital admissions to deaths - show the number of infections have been falling for some time.\n\nThe seemingly large number is simply a consequence of testing more.\n\nIt has been just over nine weeks since the UK recorded its first death on 2 March. The personal stories of those who have died are continuing to emerge.\n\nAmong those was Jennie Sablayan, a 44-year-old haematology nurse who worked at the University College London Hospital for more than 18 years. The hospital said she was an \"expert in her field\" who treated cancer patients with kindness and dedication.\n\nJermaine Wright worked in the aseptic unit at Hammersmith Hospital\n\nSenior NHS pharmacy technician, Jermaine Wright, 45, was described as a \"people person\" with a passion for food and football. He was called the \"driving force\" behind London's amateur football scene.\n\nAfua Fofie, a healthcare assistant in London, was \"known for her infectious laugh and willingness to go the extra mile for patients and her colleagues\", according to the Hounslow and Richmond C ommunity Healthcare Trust.\n\nMeanwhile, five residents have now died at care home at the centre of a Covid-19 outbreak on the Isle of Skye.", "Fourteen people from one County Antrim care home have died from Covid-19 related symptoms, the BBC has learned.\n\nThe patients were residents of Glenabbey Manor in Glengormley.\n\nHowever, as there is no clear breakdown of figures relating to deaths or confirmed cases in individual care homes, it is not clear whether Glenabbey is the worst affected in NI.\n\nNI's health minister has said care homes were now the front line in the fight against the virus.\n\nWhile the number of hospital admissions due to coronavirus was falling since 16 March, there had been 125 acute respiratory outbreaks in care homes, Robin Swann said on Tuesday.\n\nSeventy-two of those were confirmed as Covid-19 clusters and the remainder were flu-related, said Mr Swann, adding:\n\nFigures show that in the week from 18-24 April, 58% of all Covid-19 related deaths were reported to have happened in care homes.\n\nGlenabbey Manor, which is owned by Runwood Homes, confirmed on Tuesday that five residents who had tested positive for Covid-19 had died at the home.\n\nAnother five residents had died in hospital, while a further four passed away either at home or in the hospital, but were only suspected of having Covid-19, the company told BBC News NI.\n\nRunwood Homes expressed its sincere condolences to the families and friends affected.\n\nBut the BBC understands that at least 109 homes are now caring for vulnerable older people with coronavirus or flu-like symptoms which are logged each day in care homes' forms about virus activity.\n\nMeanwhile, there have been calls for a rolling programme of testing, with the Commissioner for Older People, Eddie Lynch, calling for universal testing of all care homes.", "MPs are observing social distancing in their workplace\n\nMPs are to be allowed to vote on new laws without being present in the Commons for the first time in its history.\n\nSpeaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle authorised the move as part of measures to cope with social distancing but said it would be temporary.\n\nHe told MPs he was \"satisfied with the assurances\" he had been given on the security of the system.\n\nMPs are already taking part in debates and questions via video conferencing.\n\nBut the traditional practice of MPs casting their votes in person in lobbies is on hold during the coronavirus lockdown - meaning key pieces of legislation, such as Budget measures, have been stalled.\n\nAnnouncing the changes, Sir Lindsay said: \"I believe we are now in a position to take this historic yet temporary next step to remote voting into action.\n\n\"I am therefore authorising the use of this system of remote voting.\"\n\nHe added: \"There may be some technical hitches as the new system beds in,\"\n\nCommons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg is expected to set out when the first substantial remote votes will take place in his weekly business statement on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThe Commons Procedure Committee earlier gave its approval for remote voting, following trials of the new system.\n\nIn a letter to Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the committee's chair Karen Bradley said it believed remote voting was \"suitable for use as a temporary measure\" during the pandemic.\n\nVirtual questions have become the norm in the Commons\n\nThe proposed system of voting is based on an existing digital platform - known as MemberHub - already used by MPs to table questions and motions remotely.\n\nThe cross-party committee said it was satisfied with the assurances it had been given about the security of the system but that this should be kept under review.\n\nHowever, it recommended that the first remote vote was not related to legislation and the Speaker should have the power to extend or re-run any vote if there were technical problems.\n\nLater on Wednesday, digital ballots will be held to elect chairs of two Commons committees - the Business Committee and the powerful Standards Committee.\n\nMore than 550 MPs \"successfully voted\" in two trials last week, the committee said, in which they reportedly were asked whether they preferred Spring or Autumn.\n\nSome MPs are reported to have had trouble initially connecting and to have been left frustrated by the process although the second of the two run-throughs was thought to have gone much more smoothly.\n\nNevertheless, the committee said MPs' confidence would be \"greatly enhanced\" if there was a robust fall-back mechanism, in which MPs were able to contact officials and register their vote after appropriate checks if needed.\n\nMPs have also been warned that allowing a \"unauthorised\" person, such as a member of staff or family, to vote on their behalf would be a breach of the MPs' code of conduct and anyone doing that would \"expect to be punished accordingly\".\n\nWhile content to proceed, the committee said it would continue to examine other options, including the extension of current proxy vote arrangements, once restrictions on travel and movement were eased.\n\nSocial distancing measures are in force throughout the Palace of Westminster, with a maximum of 50 MPs allowed in the Commons chamber at any one time and the majority of questions being asked remotely.\n\nBusiness has been pared back, with the focus on urgent statements and questions to ministers.\n\nMinisters have insisted the truncated arrangements are temporary and will be reviewed on 12 May, although normal Parliamentary business is not expected to resume for some time.", "After sales of its specialist booze started slipping, a Cotswolds spirits company turned to making hand sanitisers to keep the money coming in.\n\nThe British Honey Company has made £500,000 from sales of its alcohol sanitiser since its end-of-March launch.\n\nThe cash \"more than offset the decline in revenues from the company's core product\", it said.\n\n\"Sales... have been exceptional,\" said chief executive Michael Williams.\n\nThe company makes a range of honey and fruit-infused spirits, such as Keepr's Gin.\n\nThey are sold through specialist online retailers and hotel chains, but sales have fallen since lockdown as customers remain indoors or buy booze through supermarkets.\n\nIt spotted the trend early in the coronavirus crisis and applied for permission from HMRC to use excess capacity at its Buckinghamshire distillery to produce the alcohol sanitiser, made with 70% alcohol and extracts of British honey and green tea.\n\n\"Very early on during the Covid-19 outbreak we identified a clear opportunity for the company to move into the production of alcohol-based sanitisers, to meet exceptional demand and supply shortages, given the basic ingredient is the same as for our infused spirit brands,\" said Michael Williams.\n\nHe said sales had \"exceeded expectations\".\n\nThe firm - which listed as a public company in March - will focus current production capacity on its Drip+Drop sanitiser in the short to medium term while demand remains high.\n\nMr Williams warned that problems in the alcohol supply chain were starting to emerge.\n\nThe company has responded by \"ring-fencing\" enough alcohol in its bonded warehouse to meet anticipated demand for its alcohol sanitiser and infused spirits products until at least the end of the calendar year, including the Christmas period, the peak time for spirit sales.\n\nA number of drinks firms have switched to producing hand sanitiser during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nWilliam Grant & Sons, better known for its whisky, has shifted production at three of its distilleries to make sanitiser.\n\nDiageo has pledged to help create eight million bottles of sanitiser during the crisis by donating up to two million litres of grain-neutral spirit to hand sanitiser producers.\n\n\"This is the quickest and most effective way for us to meet the surging demand for hand sanitiser around the world,\" said Ivan Menezes, chief executive of Diageo.\n\nBacardi has turned its rum distillery in Cataño, Puerto Rico, into a hand sanitiser production site.\n\nScottish brewer Brewdog is producing about 4,000 litres a week of its Punk Sanitiser for the NHS and local Aberdeenshire charities.", "\n• A medical test that can show if a person has had the coronavirus and now has some immunity. The test detects antibodies in the blood, which are produced by the body to fight off the disease.\n• Someone who has a disease but does not have any of the symptoms it causes. Some studies suggest some people with coronavirus carry the disease but don't show the common symptoms, such as a persistent cough or high temperature.\n• The first part of the UK's strategy to deal with the coronavirus, which involved trying to identify infected people early and trace anyone who had been in close contact with them.\n• One of a group of viruses that can cause severe or mild illness in humans and animals. The coronavirus currently sweeping the world causes the disease Covid-19. The common cold and influenza (flu) are other types of coronaviruses.\n• The disease caused by the coronavirus first detected in Wuhan, China, in late 2019. It primarily affects the lungs.\n• The second part of the UK's strategy to deal with the coronavirus, in which measures such as social distancing are used to delay its spread.\n• A fine designed to deal with an offence on the spot, instead of in court. These are often for driving offences, but now also cover anti-social behaviour and breaches of the coronavirus lockdown.\n• Health experts use a line on a chart to show numbers of new coronavirus cases. If a lot of people get the virus in a short period of time, the line might rise sharply and look a bit like a mountain. However, taking measures to reduce infections can spread cases out over a longer period and means the \"curve\" is flatter. This makes it easier for health systems to cope.\n• Short for influenza, a virus that routinely causes disease in humans and animals, in seasonal epidemics.\n• Supports firms hit by coronavirus by temporarily helping pay the wages of some staff. It allows employees to remain on the payroll, even though they aren't working.\n• How the spread of a disease slows after a sufficiently large proportion of a population has been exposed to it.\n• A person whose body can withstand or fend off a disease is said to be immune to it. Once a person has recovered from the disease caused by the coronavirus, Covid-19, for example, it is thought they cannot catch it again for a certain period of time.\n• The period of time between catching a disease and starting to display symptoms.\n• Hospital wards which treat patients who are very ill. They are run by specially-trained healthcare staff and contain specialist equipment.\n• Restrictions on movement or daily life, where public buildings are closed and people told to stay at home. Lockdowns have been imposed in several countries as part of drastic efforts to control the spread of the coronavirus.\n• The third part of the UK's strategy to deal with the coronavirus, which will involve attempts to lessen the impact of a high number of cases on public services. This could mean the NHS halting all non-critical care and police responding to major crimes and emergencies only.\n• The NHS's 24-hour phone and online service, which offers medical advice to anyone who needs it. People in England and Wales are advised to ring the service if they are worried about their symptoms. In Scotland, they should check NHS inform, then ring their GP in office hours or 111 out of hours. In Northern Ireland, they should call their GP.\n• Multiple cases of a disease occurring rapidly, in a cluster or different locations.\n• An epidemic of serious disease spreading rapidly in many countries simultaneously.\n• This is when the UK will start to lift some of its lockdown rules while still trying to reduce the spread of coronavirus.\n• PPE, or personal protective equipment, is clothing and kit such as masks, aprons, gloves and goggles used by medical staff, care workers and others to protect themselves against infection from coronavirus patients and other people who might be carrying the disease.\n• The isolation of people exposed to a contagious disease to prevent its spread.\n• R0, pronounced \"R-naught\", is the average number of people who will catch the disease from a single infected person. If the R0 of coronavirus in a particular population is 2, then on average each case will create two more new cases. The value therefore gives an indication of how much the infection could spread.\n• This happens when there is a significant drop in income, jobs and sales in a country for two consecutive three-month periods.\n• Severe acute respiratory syndrome, a type of coronavirus that emerged in Asia in 2003.\n• Staying inside and avoiding all contact with other people, with the aim of preventing the spread of a disease.\n• Keeping away from other people, with the aim of slowing down transmission of a disease. The government advises not seeing friends or relatives other than those you live with, working from home where possible and avoiding public transport.\n• Measures taken by a government to restrict daily life while it deals with a crisis. This can involve closing schools and workplaces, restricting the movement of people and even deploying the armed forces to support the regular emergency services.\n• These can be used by government ministers to implement new laws or regulations, or change existing laws. They are an easier alternative to passing a full Act of Parliament.\n• Any sign of disease, triggered by the body's immune system as it attempts to fight off the infection. The main symptoms of the coronavirus are a fever, dry cough and shortness of breath.\n• A treatment that causes the body to produce antibodies, which fight off a disease, and gives immunity against further infection.\n• A machine that takes over breathing for the body when disease has caused the lungs to fail.\n• A tiny agent that copies itself inside the living cells of any organism. Viruses can cause these cells to die and interrupt the body's normal chemical processes, causing disease.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I don’t think you can make the international comparisons you're suggesting at this stage\" - Dominic Raab\n\nThe UK now has the highest number of coronavirus deaths in Europe, according to the latest government figures.\n\nThere have been 29,427 deaths recorded across the UK - a figure Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said was \"a massive tragedy\".\n\nThe latest total for Italy, previously the highest in Europe, now stands at 29,315.\n\nBut experts say it could be months before full global comparisons can be made.\n\nBoth Italy and the UK record the deaths of people who have tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nBBC head of statistics Robert Cuffe said Britain reached this figure faster in its epidemic than Italy.\n\nBut he said there are caveats in making such a comparison, including the UK population being about 10% larger than Italy's.\n\nEach country also has different testing regimes, with Italy conducting more tests than the UK to date.\n\nSpeaking at the daily coronavirus briefing, Mr Raab said the 29,427 lives lost was \"a massive tragedy\" the country has \"never seen before... on this scale, in this way\".\n\nBut he would not be drawn on international comparisons, saying: \"I don't think we will get a real verdict on how well countries have done until the pandemic is over, and particularly until we get comprehensive international data on all-cause mortality.\"\n\nProf Sir David Spiegelhalter, of the University of Cambridge, said we can be \"certain\" that all reported figures are \"substantial underestimates\" of the true number who have died with the virus.\n\nHe said: \"We can safely say that none of these countries are doing well, but this is not Eurovision and it is pointless to try and rank them.\"\n\nHe added the \"only sensible comparison is by looking at excess all-cause mortality, adjusted for the age distribution of the country\" [but] \"even then it will be very difficult to ascribe the reasons for any differences.\"\n\nThis is a sobering moment. Italy was the first part of Europe to see cases rise rapidly, and the scenes of hospitals being overwhelmed were met with shock and disbelief.\n\nBut we should be careful how we interpret the figures.\n\nOn the face of it, both countries now count deaths in a similar way, including both in hospitals and the community.\n\nBut there are other factors to consider.\n\nFirst, the UK has a slightly larger population. If you count cases per head of population, Italy still comes out worse - although only just.\n\nCases are confirmed by tests - and the amount of testing carried out varies.\n\nThe geographical spread looks quite different too - half of the deaths in Italy have happened in Lombardy.\n\nIn the UK, by comparison, they have been much more spread out. Less than a fifth have happened in London, which has a similar population to Lombardy.\n\nThen, how do you factor in the indirect impact from things such as people not getting care for other conditions?\n\nThe fairest way to judge the impact in terms of fatalities is to look at excess mortality - the numbers dying above what would normally happen.\n\nYou need to do this over time. It will be months, perhaps even years, before we can really say who has the highest death toll.\n\nMeanwhile, the personal stories of those who have died are still emerging. They include three members of the same family who died within weeks of each other after contracting the virus.\n\nKeith Dunnington, 54, a nurse for more than 30 years, died at his parents home in South Shields on 19 April. His mother Lillian, 81, died on 1 May and her husband Maurice, 85, died days later.\n\nMomudou Dibba had worked at Watford Hospital for seven years\n\nMeanwhile, Momudou Dibba, a house-keeper at Watford Hospital who went \"above and beyond\" in his job, died with the virus on 29 April.\n\nIn a statement, West Hertfordshire NHS Trust said Mr Dibba, known as Mo, was \"kind, caring and considerate\".\n\nMeanwhile, 14 people from the same care home in Northern Ireland have died from Covid-19 related symptoms.\n\nThere have now been 1,383,842 tests for coronavirus across the UK, including 84,806 tests yesterday, Mr Raab told the No 10 briefing.\n\nFor the third day in a row, the government has failed to hit its target of 100,000 daily tests.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock set the target at the beginning of April and the government announced on Friday and Saturday that it had hit the 100,000-plus mark.\n\nSeparately, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published data on Tuesday showing that by 24 April there were 27,300 deaths where coronavirus was mentioned on the death certificate.\n\nIncluding deaths reported to the ONS since 24 April, it brings the total number to more than 32,000.\n\nThese figures can also include cases where a doctor suspects the individual was infected, but a test was not carried out - whereas the daily government figures rely on confirmed cases.", "Unless greenhouse gas emissions fall, large numbers of people will live in places with average temperatures of 29C\n\nMore than three billion people will be living in places with \"near un-liveable\" temperatures by 2070, according to a new study.\n\nUnless greenhouse gas emissions fall, large numbers of people will experience average temperatures hotter than 29C.\n\nThis is considered outside the climate \"niche\" in which humans have thrived for the past 6,000 years.\n\nCo-author of the study Tim Lenton told the BBC: \"The study hopefully puts climate change in more human terms\".\n\nResearchers used data from United Nations population projections and a 3C warming scenario based on the expected global rise in temperature. A UN report found that even with countries keeping to the Paris climate agreement, the world was on course for a 3C rise.\n\nAccording to the study, human populations are concentrated into narrow climate bands with most people residing in places where the average temperature is about 11-15C. A smaller number of people live in areas with an average temperature of 20-25C.\n\nPeople have mostly lived in these climate conditions for thousands of years.\n\nHowever should, global warming cause temperatures to rise by three degrees, a vast number of people are going to be living in temperatures considered outside the \"climate niche\".\n\nAreas projected to be affected include India and sub-Saharan Africa\n\nMr Lenton, climate specialist and director of the global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter, conducted the study with scientists from China, the US and Europe.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"The land warms up faster than the ocean so the land is warming more than three degrees. Population growth is projected to be in already hot places, mostly sub-Saharan Africa, so that shifts the average person to a hotter temperature.\n\n\"It's shifting the whole distribution of people to hotter places which themselves are getting hotter and that's why we find the average person on the planet is living in about 7C warmer conditions in the 3C warmer world.\"\n\nAreas projected to be affected include northern Australia, India, Africa, South America and parts of the Middle East.\n\nThe study raises concerns about those in poorer areas who will be unable to shelter from the heat.\n\n\"For me, the study is not about the rich who can just get inside an air-conditioned building and insulate themselves from anything. We have to be concerned with those who don't have the means to isolate themselves from the weather and the climate around them,\" Mr Lenton said.\n\nMr Lenton says the main message from the team's findings is that \"limiting climate change could have huge benefits in terms of reducing the number of people projected to fall outside of the climate niche.\n\n\"It's about roughly a billion people for each degree of warming beyond the present. So for every degree of warming, we could be saving a huge amount of change in people's livelihoods.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The incident came as \"quite a shock\" to the village, a local councillor said\n\nA woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after one man died and three others were hurt in a \"stabbing\" at a shop in south Wales.\n\nSouth Wales Police and ambulance crews were called to the Co-op in Tylacelyn Road, Penygraig, at about 13:45 BST.\n\nAn elderly man died and another man is in a stable condition at Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales.\n\nTwo others have non-life threatening injuries and a 29-year-old woman from Porth is in custody.\n\nAn eyewitness said her husband was told there was a woman inside the Co-op \"stabbing people\".\n\nShe said: \"I just saw a hat and cans on the floor outside the Co-op as I was pulling up and thought 'that's strange', then paramedics arrived.\n\n\"My husband went to go into the Co-op but got stopped by people who told him that there was a woman inside with a knife who was stabbing people.\n\n\"I stayed in the Jeep and more police and paramedics arrived and they went to a man who was in the van parked in front of my Jeep.\n\n\"This was the man who had been stabbed repeatedly, they took him out of the van and placed him into the ambulance.\"\n\nRavi Raj, 35, manager at Penygraig post office, said he had seen people running from the Co-op, some bleeding.\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 Stephen Fairclough This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"There was a woman attacking four different people with a knife,\" he said.\n\n\"I saw one of the men bleeding from his neck and one of the women from the side of the neck.\"\n\nHe said the scene had been blocked off quickly by police.\n\n\"The police arrested [the suspect], she was inside. I wasn't inside the shop but I walked down the road when the people were running out so I just wanted to see what had happened,\" he added.\n\n\"I couldn't go inside because it was already blocked.\"\n\nA takeaway owner said a woman came into his shop bleeding following the incident, though he was not present at the time.\n\n\"She told my nephew, 'Put the shutters down, put the shutters down' - she was bleeding and he called the police and ambulance straight away.\"\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 Chris Bryant This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLocal businesses said they were told to lock their doors as police and ambulances arrived at the scene, but added they were not given \"concrete\" information.\n\n\"They've closed down Penygraig. All the shops are closed on the high street,\" said one shopkeeper, who works on the high street.\n\nRhondda MP Chris Bryant told BBC Radio Wales a \"stabbing took place in the Co-op\" which would be \"utterly shocking\" for residents but speculation about the circumstances would not help.\n\nHe added: \"This isn't what you expect to happen in the Co-op in Penygraig. In fact, members of my staff often pop up there for a sandwich at lunchtime.\n\n\"Everyone will be quite shocked. We don't know the circumstances at all, police are trying to track down all the elements of it at the moment.\n\n\"You couldn't get more ordinary or normal than the Co-op in Penygraig could you?\n\n\"It is slap bang in the middle of the community and everyone knows where it is, so everyone will be saying to themselves 'my god that could have been me.'\"\n\nRhondda AM Leanne Wood added: \"It's my local grocery store, it's where my family get most of our day to day goods.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by South Wales Police | #StayHomeSaveLives This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We know the staff there, we know a lot of the shoppers who will be using not just the Co-op but the whole of the Penygraig main road, and it's not something any of us expect to happen in our community, it's something you see in the news happening in another place, but you don't expect it to happen on your own doorstep.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Mark O'Shea, of South Wales Police's major crime investigations team, said the force was not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident.\n\nHe added: \"This incident will have understandably caused a lot of shock in the local community and I want to reassure residents that a full investigation has been launched.\"\n\nThe force said it would refer the incident to the Independent Office of Police Conduct, which in turn said it would assess it before deciding whether to launch an investigation.\n\nA Welsh Ambulance Service spokesman said: \"Four people were taken by road to Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales and the Royal Glamorgan Hospital.\"\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf council leader Andrew Morgan said: \"Council services stand ready, working alongside South Wales Police, to provide reassurance and support to the community at this very difficult time.\"\n\nPenygraig is normally a busy village in the lower Rhondda. This afternoon it is quiet. All that can be heard is the rustling of the police cordons in the wind and the occasional sounds coming from police radios.\n\nPeople I have spoken to have been shocked. One woman said her daughter had been in the Co-op just five minutes before the stabbings took place and she could not believe what had happened.\n\nWe know the incident began this afternoon and centred on the Co-op.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook video by Jason This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nIt is the largest food shop in the town.\n\nThe area around the Co-op, the main street in Penygraig and many other streets in the area have been sealed off by police.\n\nWitnesses have told me that the police arrived very quickly and that there were a lot of them.\n\nThere are forensic officers here in their white suits examining in the scene. They and other emergency services and investigators will continue to be here quite clearly for some time to come.", "For an app with so much riding on it, NHS Covid-19 is at first sight very simple and extraordinarily unexciting.\n\nAt this stage, it is available to only NHS and council workers on the Isle of Wight.\n\nOn Thursday, other residents of the island will receive a leaflet containing a link that will trigger a download.\n\nAnd eventually anyone will be able to download it directly from the UK versions of Apple's App Store and the Google Play Store.\n\nI have been given special early access.\n\nWhen you install it, you are asked to enter the first half of your postcode.\n\nThen, you are asked to set up app permissions.\n\nFirst, you have to allow the app to use Bluetooth Low Energy to determine when it is near another phone using the app, keeping Bluetooth on at all times.\n\nNext, you approve push notifications so the app can alert you if you have been near someone with symptoms of the virus.\n\nFinally, you end up on a very simple home screen.\n\nIt offers the current advice on stopping the spread of the virus and asks a question: \"How are you feeling today?\"\n\nThere is a menu option: \"I feel unwell - I have a high temperature or continuous cough and want to know what to do next.\"\n\nIf you choose this, you are asked whether you have a high temperature or a continuous cough.\n\nIf you answer yes to either question, you are asked when the symptoms started.\n\nIf you are not on the Isle of Wight, you can submit this information but, at the moment, nothing more happens.\n\nThe symbol for the NHS app should soon become a common sight on people's smartphones\n\nBut if you are on the island, you are told to self-isolate and to call an 0800 number to have a swab test delivered to your home.\n\nIt also triggers alerts to those people with the app whose phones have been in contact with yours in recent days.\n\nAt first, these will be fairly cautious messages about observing social distancing.\n\nBut if a test comes back positive, contacts will be told to self-isolate.\n\nMost of the time, however, there will be hardly any reason to interact with the app at all.\n\nSome technical experts have said the NHS app will not work properly on an iPhone unless it is kept open and running in the foreground.\n\nThe team behind it insists this is not the case - although that is impossible for me to verify.\n\nUsers will be asked to enter the first part of their postcode but not their name or other personal details\n\nWhat I can say is it does not appear to be a power hog, with just 2% of my battery used by the app over the past few hours.\n\nBy contrast, you won't be surprised to hear Twitter accounted for 25%.\n\nOf course, as I am the only person for miles around with the app, I have not been having Bluetooth interactions with others, so I don't know whether that would have made a difference.\n\nBut VMWare Pivotal Labs - the software company contracted to build the product - told BBC News it should not change things significantly and battery usage should remain \"very low\".\n\nThere has also been concern the app might trigger too many false positives or fall victim to mischievous people claiming they had symptoms when they had none.\n\nBut there could be the opposite problem.\n\nI have been told users should receive, on average, only one alert every six months, to say they had probably been in contact with someone infected.\n\nWith the Isle of Wight having a relatively low rate of infection, the trial could end up producing very little data - and might leave users wondering what all the fuss was about.\n\nOne thing I have learned is the decision on when to send alerts isn't quite as simple as it's sometimes been described.\n\nSo it's not just a case of: if Jack was within 2m (6ft) of Jill for 15 minutes or longer, then send an alert if he becomes ill.\n\nInstead, the app uses three metrics to work out a risk score:\n\nFurthermore, the score is calculated by taking into account all the risky interactions an app user has had over a period of two weeks, rather than on just one occasion.\n\nAnother discovery is the developers have taken into account the fact some users will sometimes be wearing personal protective equipment.\n\nThis message has been placed in the app, for healthcare workers\n\nA section marked \"important instructions for healthcare workers\" tells them to turn off Bluetooth \"when you put on your PPE\", to prevent those obviously in close contact with infected patients being told to stay home.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Testing will \"help us to unlock the lockdown\", Matt Hancock says\n\nThe UK provided more than 122,000 coronavirus tests on the last day of April, passing the government's target, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said.\n\nMr Hancock said the 100,000 target was \"audacious\", but testing was needed to get Britain \"back on her feet\".\n\nThe figure includes 40,000 tests sent out, including directly to people's homes, which may not yet have been taken.\n\nMr Hancock set the goal on 2 April, when the UK was on 10,000 tests a day.\n\nSome 27,510 people have now died in UK hospitals, care homes and the wider community after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nOf the 122,347 tests provided in the 24 hours up to Friday morning, the number of people tested was fewer - at just over 70,000 - as has been the case since the testing programme began. This is because some people need to be tested more than once to get a reliable result.\n\nThe total testing figure includes 27,497 kits which were delivered to people's homes and also 12,872 tests that were sent out to centres such as hospitals and NHS sites.\n\nHowever, these may not have been actually used or sent back to a lab.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth suggested the government had been misleading. \"This isn't a time for quibbling but actually 39,000 of these tests have simply been posted out so it's not quite that the government have hit their commitment,\" he told the BBC News channel.\n\n\"I don't think posting out the tests is the same as carrying out tests but nonetheless it is welcome that testing has increased.\"\n\nPrior to 28 April, there was no reference to how tests were counted, but on 28 April guidance on the government website said home tests and satellite tests were being included.\n\nAt the daily Downing Street briefing, Prof John Newton - a scientist advising the government on testing - said there had been \"no change to the way tests are counted\".\n\n\"As we've developed new ways of delivering tests, we've taken advice from officials as to how they should be counted,\" Prof Newton said.\n\n\"So, the tests that are done within the control of the programme - which is the great majority - are counted when the tests are undertaken in our laboratories.\n\n\"But, for any test which goes outside the control of the programme, they're counted when they leave the programme - so that's the tests that are mailed out to people at home and the test that's gone out on the satellite.\"\n\nThe headline figures certainly look impressive - 122,000 tests in a day. Just a week ago around 25,000 were being recorded and a month ago it stood at 10,000.\n\nIt is testament to the hard work that has been done behind the scenes by a partnership of government, scientists and the private sector - with a helping hand from the military.\n\nBut has the government been a little creative with its counting? It has included home-testing kits sent out to individuals as well as the satellite kits - these are batches of tests sent out to care homes and other settings where there are lots of people who need testing.\n\nSome, no doubt, will never be returned.\n\nA week ago these made little difference to the figures - only a few thousand a day were being sent out. But now they account for around a third of the tests.\n\nIn his opening remarks, the health secretary suggested the government's 100,000 target had had a \"galvanising effect\".\n\nHe said the testing capacity built since then would \"help every single person in this country\", and would \"help us to unlock the lockdown\".\n\nMembers of the Armed Forces train each other in how to test for Covid-19\n\nAn NHS worker arrives at a drive-in centre in a car park in Wolverhampton to be tested\n\nMr Hancock said the government's \"next mission\" was its test, track and trace operation and work was already under way to roll it out.\n\n\"By mid-May, we will have an initial 18,000 contact tracers in place,\" he said.\n\n\"The combination of contact tracers and new technology, through our new Covid-19 NHS app, will help tell us where the virus is spreading and help everyone to control new infections.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: What is contact tracing and how does it work?\n\nMr Hancock added that the next phase would allow the government \"to reassert, as much as is safely possible, the liberty of us all\".\n\nThe Department of Health established a testing network, including three \"mega labs\" to test samples, almost 50 drive-through centres, a home-testing service and mobile testing units, as part of the drive to achieve the government's target.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock also expanded the list of people eligible for testing throughout the month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What it's like to test yourself for Covid-19\n\nAt first, across the UK, the focus was on testing the sickest patients in hospitals, followed by health, care and emergency services staff.\n\nAs of last week, other essential workers and their families in England became eligible for testing, if they showed symptoms.\n\nTesting was further expanded in England earlier this week to millions more people, with symptoms including over-65s, those who have to leave home to work, and people living with someone in these groups.\n\nIn Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced earlier that testing will be expanded to over-65s with symptoms and also all those in care homes where there has been an outbreak.\n\nAnd on Friday, the Welsh government extended coronavirus testing to people in care homes even if they are not showing symptoms of the disease.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said UK death rates from coronavirus were “not success or apparent success“.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said it was too early to draw comparisons with the data from other countries.\n\nThe British people want to “keep suppressing this disease” and start getting the economy back on its feet, he added.", "The government faces a post-lockdown choice between green growth or propping up polluting industries\n\nThe UK must avoid lurching from the coronavirus crisis into a deeper climate crisis, the government’s advisers have warned.\n\nThey recommend that ministers ensure funds earmarked for a post-Covid-19 economic recovery go to firms that will reduce carbon emissions.\n\nThey say the public should work from home if possible; and to walk or cycle.\n\nAnd investment should prioritise broadband over road-building, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) says.\n\nPeople should also be encouraged to save emissions by continuing to consult GPs online.\n\nThe government will reply later, although the Energy Secretary Alok Sharma has already spoken in favour of a green recovery to the recession.\n\nIn a letter to the Prime Minister, the committee says jobless people should be re-trained for work in geographically-spread labour-intensive “green” industries such as home insulation; tree-planting; and peatland restoration.\n\nRoad building should have a lower priority than broadband, the report says\n\nIt makes a veiled reference to the current discussions over a potential government bailout to save jobs in aviation, which is struggling in the crisis.\n\nThe letter says: “Many sectors of the UK economy do not currently bear the full costs of emitting greenhouse gases. Revenue could be raised by setting or raising carbon prices for these sectors.”\n\nGreen groups say any bailout should include a condition that the industry shrinks until it finds a technological solution to its carbon emissions.\n\nThe letter also tackles broader social themes of fairness and risk.\n\nIt says the Covid-19 crisis has highlighted inequalities, with poorer people more in danger.\n\nThe committee notes: “The response to the pandemic has disproportionately affected the same lower-income groups and younger people - who face the largest long-term impacts of climate change.\n\n“The benefits of acting on climate change must be shared widely, and the costs must not burden those who are least able to pay or whose livelihoods are most at risk as the economy changes.\n\n“It is important that the lost or threatened jobs of today should be replaced by those created by the new, resilient economy.”\n\nThe committee says the government must produce policies that allow the UK to reduce emissions to Net Zero in an orderly way – unlike the chaos of the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nThe CCC Chairman, Lord Deben, said: “The Covid-19 crisis has shown the importance of planning well for the risks the country faces.\n\n“Recovery means investing in new jobs, cleaner air and improved health. The actions needed to tackle climate change are central to rebuilding our economy.\n\n“The government must prioritise actions that reduce climate risks and avoid measures that lock-in higher emissions.”\n\nThe message is not uncontested. Some politicians have argued that jobs must be protected at all cost in the recovery from the Covid-19 recession.\n\nThe UK will chair a vital global climate conference next year. Lord Deben said the UK should set a global example by planning a climate-friendly recovery from Covid-19.\n\nThe committee has copied the letter to the leaders of Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland. It will expand on its advice in June.\n\nThe Green MP Caroline Lucas says the government should harness the lessons from the Covid-19 crisis to create a better society overall.\n\nShe says ministers should force firms to show how they will meet CO2 cuts, and give people a right to locally-produced food; affordable clean energy; and access to green space.\n\nThe environment consultancy EPR says ministers should change the balance of the planning process to ensure that green space is a top priority rather than a nice-to-have.", "Captain Tom Moore was awarded the badge by his grandchildren Georgia (left) and Benji (right)\n\nCaptain Tom Moore has been awarded a prestigious gold Blue Peter badge for raising almost £33m for the NHS.\n\nThe badge is the show's highest accolade and famous recipients include the Queen, Sir David Attenborough and Mary Berry.\n\nThe war veteran completed 100 laps of his Bedfordshire garden by his 100th birthday last week, receiving donations from more than 1.5m supporters.\n\nPresenter Lindsey Russell described him as \"a beacon of light\".\n\nCapt Tom's birthday on Thursday was marked with an RAF flypast and a message from the Queen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe was also made an honorary colonel in a letter presented by Lt Col Thomas Miller, commanding officer of the 1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment, at his home.\n\nOnly a handful of gold badges are presented by Blue Peter each year to outstanding individuals who are considered to be role models, inspiring the nation's children.\n\nMs Russell was helped by Capt Tom's grandchildren, Benji and Georgia, to surprise him with the badge and to comply with social distancing measures.\n\nShe told him: \"We at Blue Peter think it is brilliant what you have achieved and what you have done over the past couple of weeks, the money and attention you have raised.\n\n\"As Benji so rightly put it, during this time of darkness you are such a beacon of light.\n\n\"On Blue Peter our highest accolade is the gold Blue Peter badge and it is something that the Queen, amongst a few others, have got, so on behalf of Blue Peter and our wonderful audience we would like to award you with our highest accolade.\"\n\nCapt Tom replied: \"That's absolutely amazing, thank you very much. I am very proud to receive it because I have always been a great follower of Blue Peter - I remember the elephant, which is quite a few years ago now!\"\n\nThe special episode of Blue Peter will air on 7 May on CBBC at 17:30 GMT and will be on BBC iPlayer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Starmer: How on earth did this happen?\n\nSir Keir Starmer takes to the despatch box for the third Prime Minister's Questions of his tenure as Labour leader - but first time opposite Boris Johnson. He welcomes the PM \"back to his place\" and congratulates him on the birth of his son. Sir Keir quotes Mr Johnson on his return to work two weeks ago, when he talked of the \"apparent success of the government\" dealing with coronavirus. But he says, with the death toll becoming the highest in Europe, \"that is not success or apparent success\". He asks the PM: \"How on earth did it come to this?\" Mr Johnson says: \"Every death is a tragedy and he is right to draw attention to the appalling statistics, not just in this country but around the world.\" But he says the data is not yet there to \"draw conclusions\". The PM adds: \"What I can tell him is at every stage as we took the decisions we did, we were governed by one overriding principle - save lives and protect NHS.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The North Magnetic Pole has moved rapidly in recent years away from Canada towards Russia.\n\nEuropean scientists think they can now describe with confidence what's driving the drift of the North Magnetic Pole.\n\nIt's shifted in recent years away from Canada towards Siberia.\n\nAnd this rapid movement has required more frequent updates to navigation systems, including those that operate the mapping functions in smartphones.\n\nA team, led from Leeds University, says the behaviour is explained by the competition of two magnetic \"blobs\" on the edge of the Earth's outer core.\n\nChanges in the flow of molten material in the planet's interior have altered the strength of the above regions of negative magnetic flux.\n\n\"This change in the pattern of flow has weakened the patch under Canada and ever so slightly increased the strength of the patch under Siberia,\" explained Dr Phil Livermore.\n\n\"This is why the North Pole has left its historic position over the Canadian Arctic and crossed over the International Date Line. Northern Russia is winning the 'tug of war', if you like,\" he told BBC News.\n\nArtwork: Earth's magnetic field is generated in its fluid outer core\n\nEarth has three poles at the top of the planet. A geographic pole which is where the planet's rotation axis intersects the surface. The geomagnetic pole is the location which best fits a classic dipole (its position alters little). And then there is the North Magnetic, or dip, Pole, which is where field lines are perpendicular to the surface.\n\nIt is this third pole that has been doing all the movement.\n\nWhen first identified by explorer James Clark Ross in the 1830s, it was in Canada's Nunavut territory.\n\nBack then it didn't wander very far, very fast. But in the 1990s, it took off, racing to ever higher latitudes and crossing the date line in late 2017. In the process, it came to within just a few hundred kilometres of the geographic pole.\n\nRegions of negative magnetic flux have been in a \"tug of war\"\n\nUsing data from satellites that have measured the evolving shape of Earth's magnetic field over the past 20 years, Dr Livermore and colleagues have attempted to model the North Magnetic Pole's wanderings.\n\nTwo years ago when they first presented their ideas at the American Geophysical Union meeting in Washington DC, they suggested there might be a connection with a westward-accelerating jet of molten material in the outer core. But the models were a complex fit and the team has now revised its assessment to align with a different flow regime.\n\n\"The jet is tied to quite high northern latitudes and the alteration in the flow in the outer core that's responsible for the change in the position of the pole is actually further south,\" Dr Livermore said.\n\n\"There's also a timing issue. The jet acceleration occurs in the 2000s, whereas the pole acceleration begins in the 1990s.\"\n\nThe team's latest modelling indicates the pole will continue to move towards Russia but will in time begin to slow. At top speed, it's been making 50-60km a year.\n\n\"Whether or not it will move back again in the future is anyone's guess,\" the Leeds scientist told BBC News.\n\nThe pole's recent race across the top of the world prompted the US National Geophysical Data Center and the British Geological Survey to issue an early update to the World Magnetic Model last year.\n\nThis model is a representation of Earth's magnetic field across the entire globe. It is incorporated into all navigation devices, including modern smartphones, to correct for any local compass errors.\n\nDr Livermore and colleagues leaned heavily on the data acquired by the European Space Agency's Swarm satellites. The team has published its research in the journal Nature Geoscience.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Virgin Atlantic has seen passenger numbers slump as countries close borders and enact travel bans\n\nVirgin Atlantic has announced it is to cut more than 3,000 jobs in the UK and end its operation at Gatwick airport.\n\nThe shock announcement comes after rival British Airways said it could not rule out closing its Gatwick operation. Pilots' union Balpa described it as \"devastating\".\n\nMany airlines have been struggling as the coronavirus pandemic has brought global travel to a virtual standstill.\n\nThe airline currently employs a total of about 10,000 people.\n\nVirgin Atlantic, which is in the process of applying for emergency loans from the government, said that jobs will be lost across the board.\n\n\"We have weathered many storms since our first flight 36 years ago but none has been as devastating as Covid-19 and the associated loss of life and livelihood for so many,\" said Virgin Atlantic chief executive Shai Weiss.\n\nBalpa the union said: \"This is another terrible blow for the industry and is evidence of the dire situation facing UK aviation.\n\nBalpa general secretary, Brian Strutton, said: \"Our members and all staff in Virgin Atlantic will be shocked by the scale of this bombshell. We will be challenging Virgin very hard to justify this.\"\n\nVirgin Atlantic also said it will move its flying programme from Gatwick to Heathrow. It said it intended to keep its slots at Gatwick \"so it can return in line with customer demand\".\n\nHowever, Mr Weiss said there was no certainty when the air travel industry would recover from the coronavirus crisis.\n\n\"After 9/11 and the global financial crisis, we took similar painful measures but fortunately many members of our team were back flying with us within a couple of years.\n\n\"Depending on how long the pandemic lasts and the period of time our planes are grounded for, hopefully the same will happen this time.\"\n\nGatwick said the company was \"very saddened\" to hear of Virgin Atlantic's plans.\n\nThe airline has flown from the airport since 1984, and Gatwick said: \"Virgin Atlantic will always be welcome at Gatwick and we will continue our efforts to explore ways to restart the airline's operations as soon as possible, in the knowledge that they intend to retain their slot portfolio at Gatwick for when demand returns.\"\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of aviation industry group Airlines UK, said: \"The challenges facing UK aviation cannot be overstated. There is currently close to zero passenger demand and many airlines have ceased operations altogether.\n\n\"We do not know when countries will start to reopen their borders, or whether restrictions will remain in place for some time.\n\n\"Airlines are having to adapt to a sector that will be smaller and leaner in future, with no guarantees as to when we will return to pre-crisis levels.\"\n\nIt was 28% at British Airways. Now 30% of jobs will be lost at Virgin Atlantic.\n\nThe UK's aviation sector is shrinking in size. No airline or airport is immune.\n\nVirgin Atlantic was Gatwick's ninth-largest airline, so it's a blow, but not a knock-out punch.\n\nHowever, British Airways, which is Gatwick's second-biggest customer, has indicated that it also might not restart its Gatwick operation.\n\nIf BA does pull out, it would carry deeper ramifications.\n\nJust a few weeks ago, several UK airports had elaborate, expensive and very controversial expansion plans in the pipeline. The big ones were operating at or very near capacity.\n\nBut the whole aviation sector is living a new reality.\n\nWhen lockdown restrictions ease and flight schedules are increased again, there will be fewer passengers, fewer and probably more expensive flights and sadly thousands of cabin crew, pilots and ground staff will have lost their jobs.\n\nAnd the consensus is that it will take years for the aviation sector to bounce back to where it was before the pandemic.\n\nCommenting on its own future, Gatwick said: \"We remain very optimistic about the long-term prospects of Gatwick Airport and our resilience as a business, and having remained open throughout this pandemic we are in a strong position to extend our current operations quickly to meet demand.\"\n\nOther airlines have already announced that they intend to cut jobs because of the collapse in demand for travel due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLast week, British Airways said it was set to cut up to 12,000 jobs from its 42,000-strong workforce. It also told staff that its Gatwick airport operation might not reopen after the pandemic passes.\n\nRyanair has also said it will cut 3,000 jobs - 15% of its workforce - with boss Michael O'Leary saying the move was \"the minimum that we need just to survive the next 12 months\".\n\nVirgin Atlantic said it had begun a 45-day consultation period on the job losses with unions Balpa and Unite.\n\nVirgin Atlantic also plans to reduce the size of its fleet of aircraft from 45 to 35 by the summer of 2022.\n\nIt hopes to restore about 60% of its pre-pandemic flying capacity by the end of 2020.\n\nMeanwhile, the airline industry has said it must be ready with a series of measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus before air travel can resume.\n\nThe International Air Transport Association (IATA) said it recommended mandatory face-coverings for passengers and masks for crew, as one of several actions to reduce what it called \"the already low risk of contracting Covid-19 on board aircraft\".\n\nAre you a Virgin Atlantic employee? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "'Most careful steps' to avoid virus taking off again\n\nThe Welsh Government will not risk creating conditions in which coronavirus \"takes off again\", the first minister has said. Mark Drakeford told the Senedd his administration would take the \"most careful and cautious steps forward\" that will have the \"best impact for the minimum amount of risk\". \"Any step beyond lockdown is a risk\", Mr Drakeford said, but he was not prepared to sign up to \"any sense of a cavalier approach to risk in which we put people knowingly in harm's way\". Answering a question from UKIP's Neil Hamilton, Mr Drakeford agreed that the economy needed to be opened up again but added: \"We are not going to create conditions in which coronavirus simply takes off again and spreads like wildfire to the whole population, creating huge spikes again in hospital admissions, overwhelming critical care capacity and so on.\" Mr Hamilton had suggested to the first minister that \"we have to take the risk that the infection rate of coronavirus will continue as it is, so long as we can protect the vulnerable\" in order to \"get the economy back on its feet\". The exchange came after Boris Johnson confirmed in Prime Minister's Questions that he would be setting out plans to begin lifting England's lockdown measures on Sunday, adding that he hoped to \"get going on some of these measures on Monday\".", "A fifth resident has died after testing positive for Covid-19 at Home Farm care home on Skye\n\nFive residents have now died at care home at the centre of a Covid-19 outbreak on Skye.\n\nThere are currently 57 residents and staff at Home Farm in Portree who have tested positive for the infection.\n\nThe home is run by HC-One which has said it is \"doing everything\" it can to keep residents and staff safe.\n\nThere have also been 10 deaths due to an outbreak at the firm's Mugdock House home in Bearsden in East Dunbartonshire.\n\nThe outbreak on Skye was announced last week, and an Army mobile testing unit has since been established on the island.\n\nAn Army mobile testing site has been established on the island\n\nCare home operator HC-One said it has had to bring in staff from outside the island to work at the Home Farm site, as an increasing number of workers self-isolated.\n\nDuring Prime Minister's Questions at Westminster, Ian Blackford, MP for Ross, Skye and Lochaber, described the deaths at Home Farm as \"heart-breaking and devastating\".\n\nHe said the number of UK deaths to the coronavirus were now the highest in Europe and second worst in the world, and urged Prime Minister Boris Johnson not to relax lockdown measures too soon.\n\nMr Blackford said any change should be led by medical advice and not the \"politics of posturing\", and also asked that people be reminded against any non-essential travel during the May bank holiday weekend.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK government had been working with the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish administrations to send out \"clear messages\" to the public on how to keep safe.\n\nThe latest death comes after the man who runs HC-One said his firm had \"nothing to hide\" over the virus outbreak.\n\nOn Tuesday Sir David Behan told Radio Scotland's Drivetime programme that his firm, which operates 56 homes in Scotland, has had Covid-19 cases at two-thirds of its sites in recent weeks.\n\nHighland Council leader, Margaret Davidson said it was a very difficult and anxious time for residents, families and staff.\n\nShe added: \"Skye is a very close family community who will be supporting and caring for one another and I just wanted them to know that the council and its partners will do all we can to help and support them at this time.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'My income vanished overnight with no safety net'\n\nUber has announced plans to cut 3,700 full-time staff - about 14% of its workforce - as business plunges following pandemic shutdowns.\n\nChief executive Dara Khosrowshahi will also waive his base salary - set at $1m (£809,690) in 2019 - through to the year end.\n\nThe announcements come a day ahead of the firm's quarterly results.\n\nEven before the pandemic, Uber was struggling to balance its books, making a loss of $8.5bn in 2019.\n\nUber said the reductions will come from its customer support and recruiting teams, and would result in $20m in severance pay and other costs.\n\nExecutives in March warned the firm had seen demand for its taxi services fall by more than 60% in coronavirus hotspots, though they said ordering via its Uber Eats food delivery service had increased.\n\n\"Since we don't know how long a recovery will take, we are taking steps to bring our costs in line with the size of our business today,\" the firm said in a statement on Wednesday.\n\nThe Uber Eats food delivery service has seen increased demand\n\nUber's business is heavily reliant on big cities, including some that have been most affected by the pandemic.\n\nLast year, four metro areas in the US, including New York and San Francisco, and London accounted for 23% of the money spent on the platform.\n\nAnalyst Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities called the job cuts \"painful but necessary\", noting that both Uber and smaller rival Lyft face long-term difficulties as more people work from home and avoid taxis for fear of infection.\n\n\"Uber and Lyft face Herculean-like challenges looking ahead as the new reality will likely change the business models of these companies [and competitors] for the foreseeable future,\" he wrote in a note.\n\nOn Wednesday, Lyft said it had seen a decline of more than 70% in trips on its platform as the US started to implement shutdown orders. It said it was taking aggressive cost-cutting steps to help the business survive.\n\nThe firm last week announced plans to axe about 17% of its workforce or almost 1,000 employees, furlough another 300 people and reduce executive pay.\n\n\"We face a new reality,\" said co-founder Logan Green. \"We expect that rider demand for our platform will be down for the foreseeable future.\"\n\nThe reductions are a sign that the impact from the shutdowns is continuing to ripple out into the US economy, with economists now bracing for a prolonged slowdown rather than a quick rebound.\n\nOn Wednesday, payrolls processor ADP reported that private employers in the US cut a record 20.2 million jobs last month - more than double the jobs lost in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.\n\n\"Job losses of this scale are unprecedented,\" said Ahu Yildirmaz, co-head of the ADP Research Institute.", "London mayoral candidate Rory Stewart has dropped out of the race after the coronavirus crisis forced a year's delay.\n\nThe former Tory cabinet minister said it was impossible to ask unpaid campaign volunteers to work for another 12 months.\n\nThe independent candidate said it had been an \"agonising decision\" for him to make.\n\nThe announcement comes on the eve of what would have been polling day.\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 Rory Stewart This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a statement Mr Stewart said: \"I firmly believe London is the greatest city on earth - and its courageous response to Covid-19 proves that more than ever.\n\n\"It would have been the honour of my life to serve the city as mayor, but while the considerable challenges of running as an independent were manageable for a normal race they are forbidding for an extended and delayed election.\"\n\nIn March the government announced that the mayoral election would be delayed until May next year as the country prepared to go into lockdown.\n\nThe former International Development Secretary quit as an MP in October to run to be Mayor of London\n\nAfter serving as International Development Secretary under Theresa May, Mr Stewart campaigned to succeed her in the Conservative leadership election last summer.\n\nBut after Boris Johnson became prime minister, Mr Stewart was one of 21 Conservative MPs expelled from the party for rebelling over Brexit.\n\nThe former MP for Penrith and The Border left parliament in October 2019 to run as an independent candidate.\n\nMr Stewart took part in daily walks across London as part of his campaign to become Mayor of London\n\nMr Stewart, 47, gained national attention through a series of campaigns that offered face-to-face debates with Londoners.\n\nA cornerstone of his election effort were his daily walks across London were he would film interviews and discussions with Londoners he met.\n\nHis Come Kip With Me initiative, asking to stay a night in Londoner's homes to understand their problems, attracted national publicity.\n\nIn an interview with the Evening Standard Mr Stewart said he planned to write a book about politics and hoped to stay in public life.\n\nHe said would not re-join the Tory party and declined to endorse any other candidate for mayor.\n\nSadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, said he wished Mr Stewart\" and his family all the best going forward\"\n\nMayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said he \"wished Rory Stewart the best of luck whatever he chooses to do\".\n\nHe added: \"It's quite clear he loves London and I'm sure we've not seen the last of him.\"\n\nShaun Bailey, the Conservative candidate, said: \"Like me, he believes London needs new leadership.\n\n\"Rory brought some interesting ideas to the table and his unique campaigning style was a real breath of fresh air.\n\n\"I wish him all the best for the next chapter.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat candidate Siobhan Benita said: \"‪I wish Rory Stewart all the best with his future plans.\n\n\"As a former independent candidate myself, I know how tough it is to sustain a campaign alone. ‪\n\n\"Rory and I didn't always agree on policy but we do share many frustrations and ideas about our wonderful city.\"", "Lord Alan Sugar has been told to remove a tweet promoting a teeth whitening kit after he did not make it clear it was an advert.\n\nThe Apprentice host tweeted in December that a product from the brand Stylsmile would make a \"perfect Xmas gift\".\n\nHe owns a 50% share in the business, which is run by a former winner of the reality show.\n\nThe advertising watchdog said the tweet breached guidelines and must not appear again.\n\n\"If you know someone who's longing for whiter teeth, this is the perfect Xmas gift for them,\" said Lord Sugar, 73, in the tweet, along with a link to the product's website.\n\nA complaint was raised about the post, questioning whether it was obvious it was an advert.\n\nLord Sugar and Stylsmile - run by inventor Tom Pellereau, who won the series in 2011 - argued that it was a well-known fact that Lord Sugar was a partner in the company, because it was made public on The Apprentice in front of millions of viewers.\n\nThey said Lord Sugar was known to post about his businesses on social media regularly, and the tweet was not a covert promotion.\n\nHowever, the Advertising Standards Authority ruled that the tweet broke the advertising code. According to the rules, all advertising communications must be clearly marked, for example with the phrase \"#ad\" on social media posts.\n\nThe Apprentice aired its 15th series last year\n\nThe ASA said the tweet \"was not obviously identifiable as a marketing communication\".\n\nAnd although Lord Sugar was a well-known investor, it was also not immediately clear to people that Lord Sugar had a commercial interest in that business, the ASA said.\n\n\"We told Stylideas Ltd t/a Stylsmile UK and Lord Sugar to ensure that they made clear the commercial intent of their posts in future, for example by including a clear and prominent identifier on their social media posts such as #ad,\" the watchdog added.\n\nThe ASA has also upheld complaints against TV personality Stacey Solomon, who posted two paid-for posts on her Instagram account promoting the brand Card Factory.\n\nHer two Instagram stories, in November last year, contained the word \"ad\" but it was in white lettering on a white background.\n\nThe ASA said because the word was obscured, \"the story posts were not obviously identifiable as marketing communications\".\n\nSolomon is the latest among a string of celebrities and influencers to have had complaints upheld against them over social media posts that had not been marked clearly as adverts.", "The boss of Heathrow Airport has told MPs that it is trialling large-scale temperature checks as the aviation industry struggles with coronavirus.\n\nHe said they are already being carried out at departure gates on people going to places where this is a requirement.\n\nJohn Holland-Kaye urged the government to produce a plan on what common standards airports should adopt.\n\n\"If you want to get the UK economy started again, you have to get the aviation sector started again.\"\n\nMr Holland-Kaye said the introduction of common standards would allow airlines to start flying again more frequently. Thousands of flights have been cancelled due to coronavirus-related travel restrictions.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, who was also giving evidence, told MPs that airlines have outlined three levels of measures, with the idea that each country adopts a specific level.\n\nAny flight between two destinations would have to comply with the highest level, with staff wearing personal protective equipment and all passengers wearing masks under the strictest level three, for example.\n\nSeveral airlines have written to the government suggesting such a \"graded system\" of restrictions to contain the spread while a more lasting solution is worked out.\n\nMr Holland-Kaye told the Transport Select Committee: \"If we are told that the only solution until we can get a vaccine in 12 to 18 months' time is to socially distance in an airport, then tens of thousands of jobs will be cut.\n\n\"We cannot afford to wait that long to get flying again,\" he added.\n\nMr Holland-Kaye called for additional government support for the aviation sector as it battles with the coronavirus crisis.\n\nHe argued that the French, German and US governments, who have provided large, bespoke rescue packages for their aviation industries saw them as \"fundamental\", and suggested that was not the case in the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will thermal cameras help to end the lockdown?\n\nHeathrow's boss also revealed that he has not spoken to the UK's Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, since the beginning of the pandemic.\n\nIn comparison, he said the boss of Paris' main airport, Charles de Gaulle, had told him that he has spoken to the equivalent of the French Transport Secretary on every day of the crisis.\n\nJohn Holland-Kaye said it was a \"very different picture\" in the UK, although he said the airport had had \"regular calls\" with the UK's junior minister who is in charge of aviation.\n\n\"It's not clear the (UK) government understands the strategic role that aviation plays for the economy\", he said.\n\nAirlines such as Virgin Atlantic have seen passenger numbers slump as countries close borders and enact travel bans\n\nThe Transport Select Committee was told that large numbers of frontline jobs at Heathrow were at risk unless operations resumed soon.\n\nThe hearing follows the announcement by Virgin Atlantic on Tuesday that it is cutting more than 3,000 jobs in the UK and ending its operation at Gatwick airport for the time being.\n\nVirgin Atlantic, which is in the process of applying for emergency loans from the government, said that jobs will be lost across the board.\n\nThe airline currently employs a total of about 10,000 people.\n\nMeanwhile claims for refunds on cancelled flights are \"through the roof\", according to Airlines UK's Mr Alderslade.\n\nHe said it was impossible to comply with the law, which requires a refund is given within seven days. He said there should be a system in place that tells passengers it is physically impossible to comply.", "Debenhams has confirmed that another five stores will not be re-opening after lockdown restrictions are lifted.\n\nThe department store chain has struck deals with landlords to keep most of its 142 stores open, after it fell into administration for the second time.\n\nBut five more stores will not reopen when the government lifts coronavirus restrictions on non-essential shops.\n\nIt's understood the retailer has been unable to agree new terms with shopping centre owner Hammerson.\n\nThe Debenhams stores affected are in the Bullring in Birmingham, The Oracle in Reading, Centrale in Croydon, Highcross in Leicester, and Silverburn in Glasgow.\n\nThe BBC understands that around 1,000 jobs will be affected, including concession staff.\n\nDebenhams said in a statement: \"We can confirm that despite our best efforts, we have been unable to agree terms with Hammerson on our five stores in its shopping centres, and so they will not be reopening.\n\n\"We continue to engage in constructive talks with our landlords and have agreed terms on the vast majority of our stores, which we look forward to reopening when government restrictions allow\".\n\nWhen Debenhams first collapsed in April last year, it agreed a company voluntary arrangement (CVA) with its landlords to cut costs in order to save the business.\n\nUnder the agreement, the retailer would close 22 stores in 2020 and 28 stores in 2021.\n\nLast month, Debenhams still had 142 stores but it was forced to appoint administrators again to protect the business from its creditors as coronavirus forced it to temporarily shut its stores.\n\nIt then accelerated negotiations with landlords to agree new terms and conditions, including a five month rent and service charge holiday.\n\nDebenhams has managed to strike deals on 120 stores. But over the course of the last few weeks, it's emerged a number of stores would close permanently once the government lifts restrictions on non-essential shops.\n\nA total of 15 stores are now set for closure, including the five outlets in Hammerson shopping centres.\n\nThe BBC has approached Hammerson for comment.\n\nThe retailer's Warrington store had been earmarked to shut but this has now been given a last minute reprieve.\n\nHowever, the future of five major Debenhams stores in Wales is still in doubt, unless the Welsh government reverses a decision on business rates relief.\n\nDebenhams is still in discussions with the remaining seven stores in its estate.\n\nThe retailer is still trading online \"normally\" while its shops are closed.\n\nLike many other non essential retailers, it has furloughed the majority of its staff who are being paid under the government's coronavirus job retention scheme which pays 80% of a worker's salary up to £2,500 a month.", "Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte spoke at a news conference in The Hague on Wednesday Image caption: Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte spoke at a news conference in The Hague on Wednesday\n\nThe Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte has been outlining how the Netherlands plans to slowly unlock the partial lockdown.\n\nFrom 11 May schools and day cares will reopen (this had been previously announced) and hairdressers, beauticians and other contact professions can start operating again next week, along with libraries opening. People should try to keep their distance but Rutte has acknowledged this will not always be possible but face masks won’t be required.\n\nFrom 1 June everyone on public transport must wear a face mask, although Rutte, speaking during a press conference this evening, urged people to make their own masks, saying “medical masks are for medical staff”.\n\nRutte has recommended face masks in situations where it’s not possible to keep a distance of 1.5 metres - not because they stop you contracting but to stop people infecting others.\n\nAlso from 1 June Dutch bars can reopen their terraces - reservations and limited numbers with 1.5 metre spacing. Restaurants, bars, cinemas, theatres and museums can start operating again, under strict conditions: only with reservations, but again people must maintain a distance of 1.5 metres.\n\nAs of 1 July, camp sites and churches can open doors again.", "Jamaican singer Millie Small has died at the age of 72 after suffering a stroke.\n\nThe star was most famous for her hit single My Boy Lollipop, which reached number two in both the US and the UK in 1964.\n\nIt remains one of the biggest-selling ska songs of all time, with more than seven million sales.\n\nIsland Records founder Chris Blackwell announced her death and remembered her as \"a sweet person... really special\".\n\nIt was Blackwell who brought Small to London in 1963 and produced her version of My Boy Lollipop, showcasing her childlike, high-pitched vocals.\n\n\"I would say she's the person who took ska international because it was her first hit record,\" he told the Jamaica Observer.\n\n\"It became a hit pretty much everywhere in the world. I went with her around the world because each of the territories wanted her to turn up and do TV shows and such, and it was just incredible how she handled it.\n\n\"She was such a sweet person, really a sweet person. Very funny, great sense of humour. She was really special,\" said Blackwell.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by El enano trapecista This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nBorn Millicent Small in Clarendon, south Jamaica, she was one of seven brothers and five sisters, raised on the sugar plantation where her father was an overseer.\n\nAt the age of 12, she won a talent contest at the Palladium Theatre in Montego Bay; and by her teens, she was recording for Sir Coxone Dodd's Studio One label in Kingston.\n\nThere, she teamed up with reggae singer Roy Panton, and they became one of the island's most prolific duos, scoring a major hit with We'll Meet.\n\nBlackwell took an interest in the singer after releasing some of those records in the UK on his fledgling record label, Island, and brought her to London in 1963.\n\nSmall was enrolled at the Italia Conti Stage School for speech training and dancing lessons; and she toured the UK before cutting My Boy Lollipop with a group of London session musicians (Small claimed Rod Stewart played the harmonica solo, but he has denied being present at the recording).\n\nReleased in February 1964, it made her an international star, and helped popularise ska music around the world.\n\n\"It is the ska equivalent of Elvis' Heartbreak Hotel or the Sex Pistols' God Save The Queen - the disc that popularised a sound previously considered to be on the margins of mainstream consciousness,\" wrote music historian Laurence Cane-Honeysett in Record Collector magazine.\n\nSmall was given a hero's welcome when she returned to Jamaica after the success of My Boy Lollipop\n\nAt the end of 1964, Small made her acting debut in an ITV special, The Rise and Fall of Nellie Brown.\n\nA light-hearted, joyous musical, it cast the singer as Selina, a young Jamaican woman who flees her humdrum Liverpool lodgings in search of her glamorous London cousin, played by Elisabeth Welch (it can still be seen for free on the BFI website).\n\nHowever, Small was never able to replicate the success of My Boy Lollipop, scoring only one further chart hit, a soundalike called Sweet William.\n\nBut she continued to tour and record, and appeared frequently on 1960s pop shows like Juke Box Jury and Ready Steady Go.\n\n\"My life seemed very normal to me - even though I was only 17, I took fame in its stride,\" she told the Express in 2016.\n\nAfter leaving Island in 1970, she recorded for legendary reggae label Trojan Records, where her first single was a cover of Nick Drake's Mayfair.\n\nHowever, it was the b-side that attracted greater attention. Called Enoch Power, it was a defiant response to Enoch Powell's inflammatory, anti-immigration \"Rivers of Blood\" speech.\n\nSmall's lyrics, which captured the mood of the UK's Caribbean population, received a rapturous response when she played the song at the Caribbean Music Festival at Wembley Arena, a month after its release.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by lanman31337 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nSoon after that single, and the accompanying album Time Will Tell, Small stepped away from music, saying \"it was the end of the dream and it felt like the right time\".\n\nIn later years, she lived in Singapore and New Zealand before returning to London, where she concentrated on writing, painting and raising her daughter.\n\nWhen My Boy Lollipop was re-released in 1987 to mark Island Records' 25th anniversary, the singer gave a rare interview to Thames TV, where she revealed she had, at one point, been penniless and sleeping rough in London.\n\nHowever, she took the hard times in good grace, explaining: \"That's all experience. It was great. I didn't worry because I knew what I was doing.\n\n\"I saw how the other half live. It's something I chose to do.\"\n\nIn 2011, Jamaica's Governor-General made Small a Commander in the Order of Distinction for her contribution to the Jamaican music industry.\n\nThe singer is survived by her daughter, Jaelee, who is also a musician based in London.\n\nTributes were led by actor Vas Blackwood, who said Small \"lit the fuse for Jamaican ska music\".\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 Vas Blackwood This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Dairy farmers in England can apply for up to £10,000 in cash payments under a scheme to support the industry during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nDemand for dairy products in the hospitality sector has dropped with the closure of many cafes and restaurants.\n\nProducers will be eligible for aid to cover 70% of income they have lost during April and May.\n\nMinisters have already relaxed competition laws in a bid to help the industry.\n\nThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said there would not be a cap on the number of farmers who can receive the payments.\n\nBut farmers would have to demonstrate they had lost more than a quarter of their income in April and May to access the funding, the department added.\n\nSome dairy farmers are having to throw away thousands of litres of fresh milk due to disruption to the supply chain caused by the virus.\n\nWhilst some have managed to redirect supplies towards supermarkets, falling demand has seen excess milk and therefore falling prices.\n\nThe government has already relaxed competition rules to allow farmers to share staff and facilities with retailers in a bid to reroute produce.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice says ministers were doing \"all we can\" to make sure dairy farmers are \"properly supported\" during the current crisis.\n\n\"We've already relaxed competition laws so dairy farmers can work together through the toughest months, but recognise there is more to be done,\" he added.\n\nJoe Stanley, vice-chair of the Leicestershire National Farmers Union, said the new funding was welcome but additional support \"shouldn't have taken this long\".\n\nSpeaking to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee on Tuesday, the National Farmers' Union (NFU) president said many farmers were in \"absolute crisis\".\n\nMinette Batters told MPs: \"We have got a lot of them on a relatively stabilised price of 15p per litre (of milk). That is about 10p and more below the cost of production. It is not a sustainable place to be.\"\n\nTom Hind, chief strategy officer for the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board, also told the committee that dairy farmers had lost £7.4m collectively in April through milk price cuts alone - a figure that could rise to £14m in May.\n\nThe move comes as a £1m advertising campaign is launched to try and persuade people to drink more milk at home.\n\nJoint funded by industry groups and the government, it will feature adverts on television and posted on social media.\n\nThe NFU said the campaign would promote tea and coffee drinking as a \"centre point of most human connections\".\n\nThe union's dairy board chairman Michael Oakes said the advertising drive would be a \"much-needed and timely boost for the dairy sector\".\n• None Five ways coronavirus is disrupting the food industry", "Fifty firefighters have been tackling a \"significant fire\" at the Bombardier factory in the docks area of Belfast.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) received a call at about 20:45 BST to attend the blaze on Airport Road in the east of the city.\n\nThe extent of the damage to the factory unit is not yet known, but there are no injuries.\n\nMembers of the public are being asked to avoid the area to allow operations to continue unhindered.\n\nThe aerospace company, Bombardier, is one of Northern Ireland's largest employers.\n\nIn a statement, it said there were no employees working in the factory at the time, adding that it would take time to assess any damage.\n\nThe fire service said six pumping appliances, one aerial appliance, and a high-volume pump were being used to contain the fire.\n\nFire Service Area Commander Dermott Rooney said it was a \"very significant\" blaze and he and his colleagues would be at the scene for some 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 Gavin Robinson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Obviously, we are trying to get the fire under control. It's very early stages, we would ask members of the public to stay away from the area so they don't hamper our efforts,\" he said.\n\n\"We've no indication of any particular risk to the local people, but they would be well advised to keep their windows and doors closed,\" he added.\n\nIt is not yet known how the fire started.\n\nThe road has been closed to traffic.\n\nDUP MP for East Belfast Gavin Robinson said it was \"worrying news of a large scale fire in the factory\".\n\nAlliance MLA for East Belfast Chris Lyttle said Victoria Park was also closed and that he was \"grateful for the prompt response\" of the fire service.", "Aya Hachem died from a gunshot wound to the chest\n\nA 34-year-old man has become the sixth person to be charged with the murder of a law student in a drive-by shooting.\n\nAya Hachem, 19, died when shots were fired from a passing car in Blackburn on 17 May.\n\nAyaz Hussain, 34, of Calgary Avenue in Blackburn, has been charged with her murder and the attempted murder of a man who officers think was the intended target of the shooting.\n\nHe will appear before magistrates in Preston on Monday.\n\nFeroz Suleman, 39, Abubakir Satia, 31, Uthman Satia, 28, Judy Chapman, 26, and Kashif Manzoor, 24, were previously charged with Ms Hachem's murder and the attempted murder of the intended target.\n\nThey have been remanded in custody to appear at Preston Crown Court on Wednesday.\n\nMs Hachem was walking along King Street to the Lidl supermarket when she was hit by one of two bullets fired from a car.\n\nThe Lebanese-born teenager, who was a second-year student at the University of Salford, was buried in the town of Koleileh on Saturday.\n\nHer parents have paid tribute to her as the \"most loyal devoted daughter\" who \"dreamed of becoming a solicitor\".\n\nAya Hachem was a young trustee for the Children's Society\n\nA total of 14 people were arrested in the days after her death, including the five men and one woman who have been charged with murder.\n\nTwo men arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder have been bailed pending further inquiries, while five people have been released under investigation.\n\nA 22-year-old man, from Blackburn, who was arrested on Friday on suspicion of murder and attempted murder, has been released without charge.\n\nDet Supt Andy Cribbin said the police investigation had \"moved at a fast pace\" but was \"far from over\".\n\n\"Our resolve and determination to get to the bottom of what happened and who was responsible for Aya's needless and senseless death remains as strong as ever,\" he said.\n\n\"I would like to thank Aya's family and the public for their support, as well as the people who have been in touch with information and the many officers and detectives who are working extremely hard on this investigation.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Louise Smith was described as a \"lovely girl with a heart of gold\" by a friend\n\nPolice searching for Louise Smith have confirmed that a body recovered from woodland is the missing teenager.\n\nThe body of the 16-year-old, who was last seen on 8 May, was found in Havant, Hampshire, on Thursday.\n\nLouise, from the Leigh Park area, was reported missing on the same day.\n\nHampshire Police said on Saturday evening formal identification procedures were complete and Louise's family informed. They previously said the death was suspicious.\n\nThe family were being supported by specialist officers, police added.\n\nRemains were discovered in Havant Thicket on Thursday\n\nFriends of the teenager have spoken of their devastation.\n\nMandy Ferdinando, who had known Louise since she was a young girl, laid flowers at the entrance to Havant Thicket, where the teenager's body was found.\n\nShe previously told the Press Association: \"She was a lovely girl with a heart of gold.\n\n\"The community is devastated, sad, shocked, I can't speak for everybody but when anyone hears of a young person, whoever it may be, it's very sad.\"\n\nLouise had not been in touch with her friends or family since being seen in Somborne Drive, a short distance from where the body was found.\n\nLouise was last seen in Somborne Drive on 8 May\n\nPolice forensic officers carried out searches of a flat in the street and blacked out the property's windows.\n\nNeighbours previously said it is believed that Louise had been staying with a couple at the flat.\n\nJohn Singleton said: \"I saw her on the day she went missing, she just went out walking, I didn't know where she was going.\n\n\"It's very sad, the outcome is the saddest, for a while we had some hope.\"\n\nDescribing the police activity at the flat, he added: \"The police have been in and out carrying stuff.\"\n\nA man and a woman, both aged 29, had previously been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping and released on bail.\n\nHampshire police previously asked people in the area to save any dashcam and CCTV footage from 7 and 8 May - particularly any filmed at VE Day anniversary celebrations - for officers to review.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Self-isolation advice has 'in no way changed' - Johnson\n\nCharlie Cooper of Politico asks if rules have changed to allow anyone with symptoms who has concerns about childcare to travel to another home. \"That is, that if you have symptoms then you should self-isolate for 14 days - and that's what Mr Cummings and his family did.\" The PM asks for the next question. But the reporter returns asking for further clarification. The advice makes it \"absolutely clear\" that childcare has to be \"taken into account\", Johnson says. He says the Cummings family may have needed childcare help if they were both taken ill, adding \"as it happened that was not necessary\". \"I think it was a real risk and I think it was responsible of Dominic Cummings to see the risk to his family... and to take steps to avert it. \"That in no way changes the guidance or the advice\", he adds.", "The man who died was named by police as Paul Cairns\n\nA man shot dead in a house in North Ayrshire at the weekend has been named by police.\n\nPaul Cairns, 42, was fatally wounded by a gunman who entered a house in Nithsdale Road, Ardrossan, at about 16:50 on Sunday.\n\nMr Cairns died at the scene. A 46-year-old woman was also in the house, but was not injured.\n\nA 42-year-old man has been arrested and charged in connection with the shooting.\n\nThe shooting happened in Nithsdale Road in Ardrossan\n\nCh Insp Brian Shaw, said: \"It would appear to have been a targeted attack and I would like to reassure the community that we do not believe that there is an ongoing to risk to the public.\n\n\"Additional officers have been deployed to the area and high visibility patrols will continue to provide further reassurance in the community.\n\n\"Inquiries into the circumstances surrounding this death are ongoing and we are keen to talk to anyone who may have information that would help our investigation or who may have seen anything before or after the incident.\"", "The funding is intended to increase services so more people can use public transport and maintain social distancing\n\nBuses and light rail services will receive £283m towards improving safety and restoring services during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHowever, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the full service would only run at a fifth of the usual capacity because of social distancing rules.\n\nAnnouncing the funding, he said it does not mean \"we can go back to using public transport whenever we like\".\n\nVolunteers will also be used to double the 3,400 safety marshals at stations.\n\nThe £254m for buses and £29m for trams and light rail is intended to increase the frequency and capacity so the UK can \"start moving back to a full timetable\", Mr Shapps told the Downing Street daily briefing.\n\nBut he added: \"Only if you need to travel and you can't cycle, walk or drive should you take the bus, tram or train.\"\n\nPeople who can work from home should continue to, he said, and those travelling by public transport for essential purposes should \"please avoid the rush hour\".\n\nThe funding is expected to enable adjustments to vehicles, signage, deep cleaning and the provision of hand sanitiser.\n\nFrom 1 June, Mr Shapps said the government would also bring in more marshals at stations to join the 3,400 British Transport Police officers, Network Rail and train operator staff currently advising passengers and monitoring social distancing.\n\nHe called these new volunteers \"Journey Makers\", and said they reflected the same \"public-spirited concern\" as the volunteer Games Makers at the London 2012 Olympics.\n\nSuggesting that the government wants the UK to come out of the coronavirus crisis stronger \"by permanently changing the way we use transport\", he said it was working on plans to allow people to park outside of city centres and finish their journey on bike or on foot.\n\nDevelopment funding for 10 new projects was also announced as part of the government's plan to reverse some of the 1960s Beeching cuts to local railway services.\n\nThey include the \"Ivanhoe line\" from Leicester to Burton-on-Trent, branch lines on the Isle of Wight and a new station at Wellington in Somerset.\n\nHe said if the plans are viable, \"we're going to build them fast\".", "Imagine picking up your phone and receiving abusive messages every day.\n\nWomen in politics have spoken of their experiences of dealing with sexism and hatred on social media while voicing their political opinions.\n\nGender equality charity Chwarae Teg said it feared a growing number of women were being put off standing for election due to online abuse.\n\nTwo young women in politics have spoken about their experiences facing online abuse to the BBC's Politics Wales.\n\nThis article contains language that may offend some readers\n\nOne member of the Labour Party, who wishes to remain anonymous, said she had to deal with sexist attacks on social media every day.\n\n\"I get called a whore, that I'm a slut, that I should put my tits away, that I'm unintelligent, that I'm an idiot, that I should go away and bake a cake instead - which was my personal favourite,\" she said.\n\n\"[They claim] I'm uneducated, I have no place in politics, and you get this daily, it's recurrent.\"\n\nShe said she had also experienced misogyny from male politicians, but had not reported any of the incidents \"because there's no point\".\n\n\"I've had experiences of councillors who've kissed me, who take me aside, who say 'you know if you don't sleep with me then you won't get anywhere in the Labour party',\" she said.\n\n\"It makes me feel really angry. It makes me feel scared as well, and for a long time I stayed off social media because of just how sort of upset it made me.\n\n\"But I'm very aware that personally I can sort of bat it off, but there are young girls who are coming up through politics, who maybe don't have the same coping mechanisms that I do.\n\n\"It makes me feel really angry for them, because with those things you're scared away. If you're put down so much, you sort of listen to it, and it really is horrid.\"\n\nJas said people sometimes commented on her sex life on social media\n\nJas, a member of the Liberal Democrats, said people had brought up her sex life on social media.\n\n\"I'll get messages like death threats, bullying, or just really unkind comments about what I look like or my personality, or political views I hold. So it is quite bad,\" she said.\n\n\"My sex life gets brought into it a lot as well. So people will say I'm a slut, I'm a whore, things like that.\n\n\"Even on the views I hold I'll be called an idiot or even more severe than that, like people will say I'm a retard.\n\n\"It's constant. I must get three of these messages every week or two. For a young person to deal with I think that's a lot.\"\n\nJas has complained, but said that there was \"not much\" the party could do.\n\n\"In our party, at the moment our complaints procedure isn't functioning very well. It's kind of backlogged,\" she said.\n\n\"We have very severe complains that haven't been dealt with properly, so never mind small complaints. In terms of parties and reporting, not many people do it, because there isn't much you can do.\"\n\nHelen Antoniazzi, from Chwarae Teg, said women were being put off political roles due to online abuse\n\nHelen Antoniazzi, of Chwarae Teg, said there was a risk social media abuse could discourage women from engaging in politics.\n\n\"I think that essentially what is at the bare bones of this is people trying to stop women from having a voice and from expressing their opinion, and this is a way they can see they can do that,\" she said.\n\n\"There's a fear that more and more women will be put off standing for election and putting themselves forward for political positions, because of the fear of this abuse and because of the abuse in itself.\n\n\"We've got a role as a wider society to make sure that abuse is challenged and is not seen as acceptable so that women do feel able to put themselves forward and to participate in politics and express their opinions.\"\n\nA Labour spokesman said the party took all complaints of abuse and harassment, online or in person, extremely seriously.\n\nAll complaints are fully investigated, and any appropriate disciplinary action is taken, he added.\n\nMeanwhile the Liberal Democrats said the party took issues seriously and investigated all complaints.\n\nIt added that there were also organisations within the party which support women and young people, including helping them to deal with social media abuse.\n\nPolitics Wales is on BBC One Wales on Sunday 24 May at 10:15 BST and then available on demand via the BBC iPlayer.", "Former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen has been moved out of intensive care after \"a long and difficult\" 47 days, his wife has said.\n\nThe children's novelist and poet was admitted to hospital in London eight weeks ago.\n\nEmma-Louise Williams said her husband was continuing his recovery on a ward and it \"will take time\".\n\nRosen, 74, documented the early stages of his illness online, describing possible coronavirus symptoms.\n\nIn an update on Saturday, his wife tweeted: \"Michael has been in hospital for eight weeks and I'm very happy to say he left ICU yesterday after a long and difficult 47 days.\n\n\"His recovery is continuing on the ward and will take time.\n\n\"He has done so well to get through this but please don't expect him back here yet.\"\n\nThe post was re-tweeted on Rosen's Twitter account, alongside a comment praising \"the amazing efforts of the lovely kind staff\" at Whittington hospital in north London, where he is receiving treatment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC presenter Sophie Raworth reads These Are The Hands by Michael Rosen.\n\nRosen, who was Children's Laureate from 2007 to 2009, detailed his early symptoms in a series of tweets.\n\nOn 22 March, he said: \"Can't stop my thermostat from crashing: icy hands, hot head. Freezing cold sweats.\n\n\"Under the covers for bed-breaking shakes.\n\n\"Image of war hero biting on a hankie, while best mate plunges live charcoal into the wound to cauterise it. Emerge as dawn breaks over grape stalks.\"\n\nThe following day Rosen said he did not have chest pains or a persistent cough, \"so all along it could have been a heavy flu and not corona\".\n\nHis wife, who has not confirmed whether he contracted coronavirus, later took over providing updates on his condition on his social media account, after he was admitted to hospital at the end of March.\n\nIn early May, to mark Rosen's 74th birthday, she shared a picture of him surrounded by friends at an event last year.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Emma-Louise Williams This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRosen's many works for children include We're Going on a Bear Hunt, Little Rabbit Foo Foo and Tiny Little Fly.\n\nIn 2008 he wrote the poem These Are the Hands to mark the 60th anniversary of the NHS, which has since been published in These Are The Hands: Poems from the Heart of the NHS.\n\nAll proceeds from the book go to the NHS Charities Covid Appeal.", "India’s strict lockdown to halt the spread of coronavirus meant that most factories and businesses shut down, rendering millions jobless.\n\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi appealed to businesses to keep paying their workers, including daily-wage labourers.\n\nBut that didn’t happen, and most of the workers were left with little money and food.\n\nWith no prospect of income, they took long journeys to go back to their villages. Some managed to get transport, but those who couldn’t, walked hundreds of miles.\n\nAnd some of them never made it home as they died because of exhaustion or in accidents.", "Championship side Hull City have confirmed two people at the club have tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe English Football League earlier said there were two positive cases out of more than 1,000 players and staff tested at the 24 second-tier clubs.\n\nIn a statement, Hull said the pair were asymptomatic and feeling no ill effects, but would self-isolate for seven days in line with EFL guidelines.\n\nThey will both be tested again at a later date. The Tigers did not confirm whether the positive tests were from players or staff.\n\nIt comes after reports that Hull vice-chairman Ehab Allam wrote to the EFL twice to say the season should be voided.", "Charlotte Cole and her husband Daniel isolated from George, two, after Covid-19 was confirmed at her workplace\n\nA self-isolating nurse who has been separated from her two-year-old son for five weeks has said not being able to hug him has been \"heartbreaking\".\n\nCharlotte Cole took the \"hard decision\" to move George to her parents, who live five minutes away, after Covid-19 was confirmed at one of her workplaces.\n\nThe 30-year-old and her husband have been making daily trips to see the toddler through a window ever since.\n\nShe said she wanted \"to give him a cuddle\" but thought it too risky.\n\n\"It was such a hard decision to isolate from George but I was coming into contact with people with coronavirus on a daily basis,\" said Ms Cole, who works as a care nurse for a company which serves nursing homes around the North West.\n\nShe said she also wanted to protect her mum Bridget, 55, and dad Robert, 65, who usually look after the toddler while she and Daniel, who works as a data analyst, are at work.\n\n\"Because of my work I am a continuing risk,\" she said.\n\nCharlotte Cole said she initially thought the lockdown would last just a few weeks\n\n\"I decided I would rather they stayed in a bubble than put them all at risk,\" she said.\n\nAt first the couple, both 30, from Kirkham, Lancashire, thought the lockdown would last just a few weeks but as the lockdown extended Ms Cole said being away from George had become more difficult.\n\n\"The house just feels so empty,\" she said.\n\n\"We have videos calls everyday and my mum and dad send me lots of pictures of him having breakfast and playing which is lovely, but it's the simple things I miss like not being able to read him a bedtime story, bath time even making him his lunch.\"\n\nShe added: \"They love having him but it is really hard for Daniel and I.\"\n\nWhen her parents' next door neighbour, and professional photographer, spotted the daily visits he asked Ms Cole if she would like him to take pictures as a record of the moment for the family.\n\nPeter Austin, 45, said: \"It was such a joyful family occasion. I wanted to give the family, who are my friends as well as neighbours, something to help them remember this time in a positive way.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "SNP leader at Westminster Ian Blackford: \"Boris Johnson's breathtaking arrogance sends out the message that there is one rule for the Tory government and another for the rest of us.\n\n\"There is no question that Dominic Cummings broke the rules the minute he chose to drive to Durham. He is fatally undermining the public health message and must go.\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Jackson Carlaw: \"I've heard what the Prime Minister has said and it is a situation for him to judge. He has reached a conclusion and we must all now focus on continuing to beat this dreadful pandemic.\n\n\"The Scottish Conservative focus will be on challenging the Scottish government and demanding that promises both to protect care homes and isolate the disease are kept.”\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie: \"In failing to sack Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson has once again proven himself to be completely unfit for office.\n\n\"He has recklessly chosen to defend his adviser at the cost of undermining vital public health guidance and in breach of his government’s own regulations at a time when the overwhelming majority of people across the UK are making huge sacrifices for the greater public health good.\"", "Production resumed at Jaguar Land Rover's plant in Solihull last week\n\nJaguar Land Rover (JLR) is in talks with the government to secure a loan of more than £1bn, following a drop in sales during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAccording to reports, the carmaker has been in discussions for weeks about a support package.\n\nJLR, which is owned by India's Tata Motors, has seen sales plunge by more than 30% in its most recent quarter.\n\nA spokeswoman said JLR is in \"regular discussion with government on a whole range of matters\".\n\nShe added: \"The content of our private discussions remains confidential.\"\n\nWhile the exact size of the loan is not yet clear, JLR said suggestions that the carmaker is seeking as much as £2bn is \"inaccurate and speculative\".\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said: \"The government is in regular contact with the car manufacturing sector to assist them through this crisis.\n\n\"We recognise the challenges facing the industry as a result of coronavirus and firms can draw upon the unprecedented package of measures, including schemes to raise capital, flexibilities with tax bills and financial support for employees.\"\n\nJLR has taken advantage of the government's Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and around 18,000 of its UK workers remain furloughed.\n\nThe Coventry-based company employs 38,000 people in the UK.\n\nHowever, the company does not qualify for the joint Treasury-Bank of England Covid Corporate Financing Facility aimed at large businesses, which requires that firms must be \"investment grade rated\".\n\nThis shows a company's credit worthiness and whether it is at a low or high risk of defaulting on its debts.\n\nIn its most recent results for the period to 31 March, JLR said it had £3.6bn in cash and investments as well as an undrawn credit facility of £1.9bn.\n\nIt is not known how much that position has changed in the intervening seven weeks.\n\nAround 1,700 staff members have returned to work at JLR Solihull site\n\nJLR's facilities have been shut since the end of March, although last week it restarted some production at its Solihull plant and at its engine-making site in Wolverhampton.\n\nCredit rating agency Standard & Poor's recently estimated that JLR will burn through £1bn in cash each month following the shutdown of its facilities and if \"severely reduced production\" continues over the next financial year.\n\nJLR said sales of its vehicles fell by 30.9% in the three months to the end of March compared to the same period last year. It said the coronavirus pandemic had \"significantly\" impacted sales.\n\nJLR's request for a taxpayer-backed loan was first reported by Sky News.", "The families of care staff who die in the pandemic will receive a £60,000 payment, say the Scottish government.\n\nIt comes after ministers announced a similar death in service payment for families of NHS workers last month.\n\nThe health secretary also said enhanced sick pay would be given to care staff testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nOn Thursday, Scotland's biggest private care home provider said carers who were self-isolating would receive full pay if they tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nHC-One had come under pressure to change its policy after lobbying from unions and fears that staff would continue working with symptoms of the virus for fear their income would drop to £95.85 a week - the current rate of statutory sick pay.\n\nThe company, which runs 56 care homes in Scotland including Home Farm in Skye where 10 residents have died in a coronavirus outbreak, said the extra money would also be paid retrospectively to those who were given statutory sick pay having tested positive, following a campaign by the GMB union.\n\nTen residents have died after a coronavirus outbreak at Home Farm care home on Skye\n\nIn additional to its sick pay fund, the Scottish government said a one-off payment of £60,000 would be given to a named survivor of any social care worker who died without death in service cover in their contracted pension arrangements.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said: \"Social care staff provide a critical and valuable service, never more apparent than during this emergency period.\n\n\"While some employers offer employment contracts closer to the Scottish government's fair work principles, it is clear that others do not.\"\n\nMs Freeman said \"fair work issues\" and how they were realised in commissioning contracts would require to be addressed in future.\n\nShe added: \"We will continue to work with local government, social care providers and trades unions on further details of the plans over the course of next week.\"\n\nA survey carried out by the GMB union last week found 78% of its 1,000 respondents were worried about taking a test in case they were found to be positive, and then had to lose money.\n\nIts Scottish secretary, Gary Smith, told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime programme he was pleased HC-One had listened to staff concerns, but he now urged other care home companies to follow suit.\n\nMike Kirby, Unison Scottish secretary welcomed the Scottish government's announcement and said the current low level of statutory sick pay had left workers with an \"extremely difficult\" choice.\n\nHe added: \"The fact that social care workers often have their weekly income reduced to statutory sick pay is immoral and left care workers with exceptionally difficult choice between protecting they own health, protecting those they care for or putting them and their families in a very difficult financial situation.\"", "The former chief inspector of Ofsted has warned schools may have to open during the summer holidays for some pupils\n\nSummer holidays may have to be cancelled for some pupils, a former Ofsted chief inspector has said.\n\nSir Michael Wilshaw warned that year groups about to take exams may need to make up for lost time during the summer break.\n\nA decision on when to reopen schools is widely expected on Thursday.\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) said there were no plans to cancel holidays and a teaching union said the idea was \"not realistic\".\n\nAs part of the government's road map to lifting lockdown, schools can begin to be reopened from 1 June - however this will be dependent on the rate the virus is spreading at - the R number - staying low.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced the plan for England on 10 May and said primary schools would be reopened as part of the second wave of relaxations to lockdown but only for those in reception, year one and year six.\n\nSpeaking on Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme, Sir Michael said some children, including the poorest, \"have regressed\" during lockdown.\n\n\"That's a great shame because we want every year group to have the same opportunities as the others,\" he said, adding that it is the responsibility of schools and head teachers when the lockdown ceases to put in place recovery programmes, which might mean cancelling holidays.\n\nHe warned of \"a lost generation of youngsters\".\n\n\"We'll wait and see,\" he said.\"What is absolutely clear is that a lot of youngsters have lost a considerable amount of time while this lockdown has taken place.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA DfE spokesman said \"The Education Secretary has said that we are not planning to run schools through the summer.\"\n\n\"But we are working with partners to look at what additional measures may be required to ensure every child has the support they need to deal with the impact of coronavirus on their education.\"\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: \"The idea of opening up schools and colleges over the summer holiday does not seem realistic.\"\n\nHe added: \"We also need to be conscious that many teachers have been working flat out on remote learning, running emergency provision in schools, and sorting out centre-assessed grades for students whose GCSE and A-level exams have been cancelled.\"\n\nOther nations have set their own policies with Scotland and Northern Ireland not reopening schools until August at the earliest.\n\nThe Welsh government has said it will not reopen schools on 1 June - although it has not outlined its own timetable - and First Minister Mark Drakeford has criticised the government's preparedness.\n\nTeaching unions and councils have raised concerns about the safety of pupils and staff if schools were to reopen.\n\nSir Michael said while it was the time to reopen schools it was \"critical\" that parents are confident it is safe to do so.\n\n\"It is all right opening up schools but if parents lack that confidence they are not going to send [children] in,\" he said.\n\nHe also described social distancing for five-year-olds to be \"like herding cats\".\n\nWhile parents will be \"strongly encouraged\" to send their children to school, unless a member of the household is in the shielded group, fines for unauthorised absence will not be reintroduced on 1 June, the DfE said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: Phased reopening of schools to begin from June 1\n\nParents and teachers should prepare for the phased reopening of schools in England to start on 1 June as planned, the prime minister has confirmed.\n\nBoris Johnson said the government intended to reopen then for early years pupils, Reception, Year 1 and Year 6.\n\nOn June 15, up to a quarter of Year 10 and Year 12 will be allowed \"some contact\" to help prepare for exams.\n\nSchools closed on 20 March, except for key workers' children and vulnerable children, as Covid-19 spread in the UK.\n\nSpeaking at the daily Downing Street briefing, Mr Johnson said he was setting out the government's intention so teachers and parents could \"plan in earnest\" for school to resume in just over a week.\n\nHe said the formal decision would be taken as part of the three-week review into the lockdown measures, which the government is legally required to carry out by Thursday.\n\nWith many teachers expressing concerns about wider reopening, Mr Johnson said he acknowledged that it \"may not be possible\" for all schools, adding that the government will support those \"experiencing difficulties\" to reopen as soon as possible.\n\nMr Johnson said reopening schools was a crucial part of the next phase of the government's response to the pandemic because \"the education of our children is crucial for their welfare, their health, their long-term future and for social justice\".\n\n\"So in line with the decisions taken in many other countries, we want to start getting our children back into the classroom in a way that is as manageable and as safe as possible,\" he said.\n\nSchools have been preparing measures to teach safely during the pandemic\n\nThe proposal had prompted concerns from teaching unions, head teachers and many local authorities.\n\nSpeaking after the prime minister's announcement, Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said the union did not agree that it would be right to reopen more widely.\n\nHe called on the government to \"engage meaningfully\" with unions to address concerns over issues such such as protective equipment for staff and procedures for dealing with an outbreak.\n\nA BBC Breakfast survey with responses from 99 councils found that only 20 were advising schools to open more widely on 1 June.\n\nAnother 15 said they would not be advising schools to reopen to more pupils and 68 said they could not guarantee reopening for Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 as the government intended.\n\nThe timetable also sets England apart from other parts of the UK, where schools are not expected to open until later. Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted after the prime minister's briefing \"to avoid a resurgence we must move carefully\".\n\nSchools in Scotland are scheduled to begin to reopen on 11 August, the beginning of the autumn term. In Northern Ireland, they are not expected to reopen before September.\n\nAnd Wales has ruled out a return to school on 1 June, with the education minister saying only that they will reopen \"when it is safe to do so\".\n\nThe government \"has not done a good job in building confidence\", said head teachers' leaders.\n\nThis tough report card wasn't about political events - but the way that reopening schools in England is being handled.\n\nBoris Johnson repeated the aim for opening primary schools on 1 June - although at the same time acknowledging the reality that many will not really open, with teachers' unions and some local authorities and parents not convinced of its safety.\n\nThere are some adjustments. Secondary school pupils in Years 10 and 12 will now go back from 15 June.\n\nThe first few primary year groups are still set to return on 1 June. But heads still have no explanation for how for the last month of term they are meant to fit all their primary years into school full-time, while at the same time only allowing 15 children per classroom.\n\nA lack of trust still seems to be confusing plans for a return to school - only a week before children should be getting ready for their first day back since March.\n\nMr Johnson said teaching unions, head teachers and local authorities in England would be able to \"ask questions and probe the evidence\" further over the coming days and said that \"detailed guidance\" had been published setting out how to ensure safety.\n\nThat included smaller classes, staggered times for breaks, drop-offs and pick-ups, and reducing the use of shared items, the prime minister said.\n\nStaff and students would have access to coronavirus testing, he said, and \"if they test positive we will take the appropriate reactive measures\".", "The congregation of Dunseverick Baptist Church in Bushmills attended a service in their cars on Sunday\n\nThis weekend, congregations didn't gather in buildings - but car parks.\n\nIt's after the Stormont Executive relaxed coronavirus lockdown restrictions and allowed worshippers to gather in their vehicles.\n\nChurches recently reopened for people to pray privately, with appropriate social distancing and the cleaning of shared-contact hard surfaces.\n\nBut drive-in services are permitted, as long as people stay in their cars.\n\nThe service was led by Pastor Billy Jones, who said it was a \"symbolic day\"\n\nA number of drive-in sermons took place on Sunday, like the one at Dunseverick Baptist Church outside Bushmills in County Antrim.\n\nAn orchestrated beeping of horns got proceedings under way.\n\nWorshippers were able to attend church from the comfort of their cars\n\nThis definitely wasn't your typical Sunday at church.\n\nThe service was led by Pastor Billy Jones who said the day was hugely symbolic.\n\n\"Yes, I know socially isolating in our own cars, but the fact that we can come to one place together to worship God means an important amount to many, many people,\" he said.\n\nDrive-in services are permitted in Northern Ireland, as long as people stay in their cars\n\nSeveral members of the congregation spoke of the service symbolising \"light at the end of the tunnel\".\n\nAnother said: \"We don't need a church because the people are the church, but it's just lovely to come together again.\"\n\nIt wasn't the first drive-in service at Dunseverick Baptist Church. In previous summers it has staged similar services for tourists. Now it was for necessity, not novelty.\n\nIt was all smiles as the congregation got back to church\n\nAbout 100 vehicles lined up in front of the outdoor stage where Pastor Jones delivered his service, helped by two powerful speakers.\n\nWorshippers sat with their car windows down amid plenty of waves, smiles and sing-a-longs.\n\nThis event isn't likely to be a one-off. Pastor Jones says he is happy to facilitate other drive-ins until the congregation can once again gather inside.\n\nAfter an hour, an orderly queue of cars formed for the exit.\n\nFor the 200 or so present, it was a return to some kind of normality.", "The family of Debbie Makki (fourth from right) said they would \"miss her dearly\"\n\nThe mother of a teenager who was fatally stabbed in the heart by a friend has died.\n\nDebbie Makki, 55, died in the early hours of Sunday, almost 14 months after the death of her son Yousef Makki, 17, in Hale Barns, Greater Manchester.\n\nHer daughter Jade Akoum said \"the toll of losing Yousef was colossal, but the injustice and the constant uphill battle we had to fight meant she never found peace\".\n\n\"Her heart was broken,\" she said.\n\nManchester Grammar student Yousef died in a fight with Joshua Molnar in March 2019.\n\nMr Molnar said it was self-defence and was acquitted of murder and manslaughter by a jury at Manchester Crown Court in July.\n\nMs Akoum said her mother's mental and physical health had \"deteriorated dramatically over the past year\" and she was rushed to hospital in an ambulance two days ago.\n\n\"There have been a lot of false promises to our family, beacons of hope from individuals that have amounted to nothing,\" she said.\n\n\"I want to assure everyone that we will get to the bottom of this.\n\n\"My mum was the strongest, bravest lady I have ever met and we will miss her dearly.\"\n\nDebbie Makki (second from left) died in the early hours of Sunday\n\nIn a joint statement, Ms Makki's family said their \"world has fallen apart all over again and we are all in complete shock\".\n\n\"We were unable to be with her in her last moments, just as we were unable to be with Yousef - but they are together now which brings us some comfort,\" they added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Manchester Grammar School 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\nAndy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, has also paid tribute to Ms Makki.\n\n\"So so sorry to hear this news. And after everything the family has been through,\" he tweeted.\n\n\"Debbie was such a lovely person and deserved so much more. My love to them all.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tony Hall on the future of the BBC and the role the corporation has played during the Covid-19 crisis\n\nPeople have \"turned to the BBC in their droves\" in recent weeks, according to the BBC's director general.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr, Tony Hall said 94% of the UK accessed the BBC for \"information, entertainment or education\" during the pandemic.\n\nHe said he \"took his hat off\" to staff who had created \"excellent\" content, even though 92% of the workforce were now working from home.\n\nThe BBC could lose £125m in revenue because of coronavirus, he added.\n\nLord Hall also said he recognised the need for a \"big debate\" about the future of the BBC and the way it is funded.\n\nThe director general, who is set to leave his role in the summer, said younger audiences had been coming back to the BBC during the lockdown, with shows such as Normal People becoming huge hits.\n\nThe corporation said that 94% of the British public used the BBC in the third week of March when social distancing began in the UK - with 86% of younger people between the ages of 16-34 also accessing BBC content.\n\nLord Hall also credited this success to its \"biggest ever educational programme\", as well the launch of Culture in Quarantine - an arts and culture service which Lord Hall says keeps \"the arts alive in people's homes and support the arts sector during challenging times\".\n\nHe was pressed on plans to bring back BBC Three as a regular TV channel, four years after it was taken off air and moved online to save costs.\n\nLord Hall said the initial plans had been a \"fantastic, creative success\" and showed \"the importance of developing our iPlayer, developing our sounds and making sure that our new services are in tip top position for young audiences to come to\".\n\nNormal People has attracted record audiences for BBC Three on iPlayer\n\nHowever, he acknowledged that the broadcaster could potentially lose £125m as a result of coronavirus, meaning it would have to spend \"wisely\" in future.\n\nThe BBC is facing financial pressure after being forced to delay the end of the free TV licence scheme for all over-75s.\n\nIt also had to postpone plans to cut 450 jobs, and said there was uncertainty around commercial revenues.\n\nLord Hall said that he hopes in future, there will be a \"big debate\" about how the BBC should be funded post 2027, when the current charter comes to an end.\n\nHe said: \"The question is, what's the best way of funding that universally so that everybody, this great democratic idea, gets something we can all share.\n\n\"I hope even when I've left I can take part in that debate and we should look at the easiest way to pay, learn from what happens in other countries, are there fairer ways to pay, but the underpinning for all that is the idea of a BBC which is providing something for everyone.\"\n\nIt comes after a public consultation was launched by the government on whether failure to pay for a TV licence should stop being a criminal offence, with the BBC warning it would cost the corporation more than £1bn over five years.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Cummings: \"Who cares about good looks? It's a question of doing the right thing.'\n\nThe prime minister's chief aide Dominic Cummings is facing fresh allegations that he breached lockdown rules.\n\nHe and the government had said he acted \"reasonably and legally\" by driving from London to County Durham while his wife had coronavirus symptoms.\n\nBut The Observer and Sunday Mirror now report he made a second trip to the North East after returning to London.\n\nNo 10 says this is \"inaccurate\" but some Tory MPs have called for Mr Cummings to consider his position.\n\nLabour has called for an urgent inquiry into the allegations, while government ministers rallied around Mr Cummings on Saturday and defended his conduct.\n\nMatt Hancock and Michael Gove were among those to back Mr Cummings for self-isolating at a property adjacent to other family members in case he and his wife needed help with childcare.\n\nMr Cummings told reporters outside his home on Saturday that he would not be resigning and had done the \"right thing\" by travelling 260 miles with his wife and young son to be near relatives when she developed Covid-19 symptoms at the end of March.\n\nThe two newspapers have now reported witnesses saw Mr Cummings in Barnard Castle, more than 25 miles from Durham, on 12 April.\n\nOn 14 April, he was seen in London. According to a witness, he was spotted again near Durham in Houghall Woods on 19 April.\n\nMr Cummings is yet to publicly respond to the new claims, but the Sunday Telegraph reports he told Downing Street he left Durham on 13 April, and that the claim he made a second trip from London was \"totally false\".\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told the BBC's Andrew Marr that the claims of a second trip were \"untrue\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grant Shapps: \"It's not true that he then returned to Durham\"\n\nWhen asked if Mr Cummings was going to resign, Mr Shapps replied: \"No.\"\n\nBut a growing number of backbench Tory MPs have now called on Mr Cummings to resign.\n\nEx-chairman of the European Research Group (ERG) Steve Baker told the BBC: \"The country can't afford this nonsense, this pantomime, Dominic should go and we should move on and deal with things that matter in people's lives.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steve Baker: \"The country can't afford this nonsense...Dominic should go.\"\n\nTory Sir Roger Gale said there \"cannot be one law for the prime minister's staff and another for everyone else\".\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 Sir Roger Gale MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nConservative MP Caroline Nokes tweeted: \"There cannot be one rule for most of us and wriggle room for others.\"\n\nColleague Simon Hoare has called for Mr Cummings to \"consider his position\", Tory MP Damian Collins has said the government \"would be better without him\" and MP Craig Whittaker has said Mr Cummings' position \"is untenable\".\n\nLabour's shadow policing minister Sarah Jones told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday that people \"are feeling rightly angry\".\n\n\"I think people are rightly feeling is it one rule for us and one rule for people at the top,\" she said.\n\nIn response to the fresh claims, Downing Street said: \"Yesterday the Mirror and Guardian wrote inaccurate stories about Mr Cummings.\n\n\"Today they are writing more inaccurate stories including claims that Mr Cummings returned to Durham after returning to work in Downing Street on 14 April.\n\n\"We will not waste our time answering a stream of false allegations about Mr Cummings from campaigning newspapers.\"\n\nDowning Street has also denied that police spoke with family members of Mr Cummings \"about this matter\".\n\nAfter an apparently co-ordinated show of support from some of the most senior Conservatives yesterday, today the first cracks may be starting to show.\n\nSteve Baker has become the first Tory MP to break ranks and call for Dominic Cummings to go.\n\nAs one of Parliament's most prominent Brexiteers, his intervention is significant.\n\nThe tone of his criticism even more so - accusing Mr Cummings of regarding \"accountability with contempt\".\n\nHis view is that Boris Johnson is expending too much political capital on trying to save his adviser.\n\nThe next few hours will see how many more follow suit.\n\nIf there's enough backbench unrest, it will leave Boris Johnson with an unappealing choice to make: oust a highly-valued adviser or risk upsetting the party to keep him.\n\nOther opposition parties have also renewed their calls for the prime minister's adviser to go.\n\nThe SNP's Ian Blackford said Mr Cummings \"has to leave office\", while acting Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"If Dominic Cummings has not been sacked by tomorrow, I think the prime minister's judgement is in serious doubt.\"\n\nFollowing the fresh reports concerning the alleged second visit to County Durham, a Labour source said: \"If these latest revelations are true, why on earth were cabinet ministers sent out this afternoon to defend Dominic Cummings?\"\n\nGovernment advice had been for people to stay at home during the first weeks of lockdown. Self-isolation at home continues to be advised for those with coronavirus symptoms.\n\nEngland's deputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries said all health guidance should be applied with \"common sense\".\n\nIt comes as the government announced 282 more people had died with coronavirus since Friday, across all settings, bringing the total to 36,675.\n\nWhen asked by reporters outside his home on Saturday whether his travelling to Durham looked good, Mr Cummings said: \"Who cares about good looks? It's a question of doing the right thing. It's not about what you guys think.\"\n\nAsked whether he would reconsider his position, he said: \"Obviously not.\"\n\nMr Cummings masterminded the 2016 Vote Leave campaign before being made Prime Minister Boris Johnson's chief political adviser.", "The UK government is conducting a new review into the impact of allowing Huawei telecoms equipment to be used in British 5G networks.\n\nThe National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) involvement comes after the US brought fresh sanctions against the Chinese company, citing security fears.\n\nIn January, the UK resisted US pressure to ban Huawei from contributing to 5G.\n\nA NCSC spokesman said: \"The security and resilience of our networks is of paramount importance.\"\n\n\"Following the US announcement of additional sanctions against Huawei, the NCSC is looking carefully at any impact they could have to the UK's networks.\"\n\nThe sanctions restrict Huawei from using US technology and software to design its semiconductors.\n\nThe US Department of Commerce is concerned Huawei has flouted regulations implemented last year that require the firm to obtain a licence in order to export US items.\n\nIt says Huawei got around this rule by using US semiconductor manufacturing equipment at factories in other countries.\n\nThe UK government had previously approved a limited role for Huawei in building the country's new mobile networks.\n\nThe tech giant was banned from supplying kit to \"sensitive parts\" of the network, known as the core. In addition, it is only allowed to account for 35% of the kit in a network's periphery, which includes radio masts.\n\nUK mobile operators were told by the NCSC - part of the intelligence agency GCHQ - that they would have three years to comply with caps on the use of Huawei equipment in their networks.\n\nHuawei has won 91 5G contracts with mobile operators around the world\n\nResponding to the review, Victor Zhang, vice-president at Huawei, said: \"Our priority remains to continue the rollout of a reliable and secure 5G networks across Britain.\"\n\nHe added: \"We are happy to discuss with NCSC any concerns they may have and hope to continue the close working relationship we have enjoyed for the last 10 years.\"\n\nCritics argue it is a security risk to allow the Chinese company to play any role at all in the UK's 5G network, due to fears it could be used by Beijing to spy on or even sabotage communications.\n\nIn March, a backbench rebellion within the Conservative party signalled efforts to overturn the move. And on 4 April, a group of 15 Conservative MPs called for a rethink on relations with China in their own letter to the Prime Minister, written a day before he was admitted to hospital.\n\nIn response, Huawei wrote an open letter to the UK government, urging it not to \"disrupt\" Huawei's involvement in the rollout of 5G.\n\nIn January, after a prolonged and difficult debate, the government decided to allow Huawei to play a role in 5G but to limit its market share to 35% of the network and keep it out of the most sensitive parts.\n\nBut there was a significant backbench rebellion over the issue in March and pressure has grown domestically since the Coronavirus crisis began to take a tougher line on China.\n\nAt the same time the Trump administration has not let up in its campaign for the UK and other allies to exclude Huawei entirely.\n\nEven though this review is based on the technical considerations about the impact of US sanctions, it could potentially offer the government a route to move away from its earlier decision and exclude the company or impose further limits - although that may involve economic costs at home and increased tension with Beijing.\n\nHuawei stressed that the coronavirus pandemic had placed \"significant pressure\" on British telecoms systems and highlighted how many people in the country - particularly those living in rural communities - do not have good access to the internet.\n\n5G, which promises faster mobile internet data speeds, a stable network that can handle more connections, and more bandwidth for a multitude of different technological applications, has been touted as being a way to bridge the digital divide in areas where broadband internet rollouts have been inconsistent.\n\nAccording to latest data released by Huawei, the firm has so far won 91 5G contracts across the world.\n\nHuawei has always denied that it would help the Chinese government attack one of its clients.\n\nThe firm's founder has said he would \"shut the company down\" rather than aid \"any spying activities\".\n\nThree out of four of the UK's mobile networks had already decided to use and deploy Huawei's 5G products outside the core in the \"periphery\", namely Vodafone, EE and Three.\n\nTwo of them - Vodafone and EE - now face having to reduce their reliance on the supplier, as more than 35% of their existing radio access network equipment was made by it.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson defends his senior adviser Dominic Cummings in May 2020\n\nBoris Johnson has backed his key adviser Dominic Cummings, amid a row over the aide’s travel during lockdown.\n\nThe PM said he believed Mr Cummings had \"no alternative\" but to travel from London to the North East for childcare \"when both he and his wife were about to be incapacitated by coronavirus\".\n\n\"In every respect, he has acted responsibly, legally and with integrity,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nIt follows calls from several Tory MPs for Mr Cummings' resignation.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Johnson's decision to take no action against Mr Cummings was \"an insult to sacrifices made by the British people\".\n\nLeaving Downing Street after about six hours in Number 10 on Sunday, Mr Cummings refused to answer questions.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson said parents and teachers should prepare for the phased reopening of schools in England to start on 1 June as planned.\n\nHe also announced that a further 118 people had died with coronavirus in the UK, across all settings, bringing the total to 36,793.\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Cummings and the government had said he acted \"reasonably and legally\" in response to the original claims that he drove 260 miles from London to County Durham with his wife, who had coronavirus symptoms.\n\nThe aide then faced further allegations on Sunday of a second trip to the North East, reported by The Observer and Sunday Mirror.\n\nBut, speaking at Downing Street's daily coronavirus briefing, Mr Johnson called \"some\" of the claims \"palpably false\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Johnson said he held \"extensive\" discussions on Sunday with Mr Cummings, who he said \"followed the instincts of every father and every parent - and I do not mark him down for that\".\n\n\"Looking at the very severe childcare difficulties that presented themselves to Dominic Cummings and his family, I think that what they did was totally understandable - there's actually guidance... about what you need to do about the pressures that families face when they have childcare needs.\n\n\"He found those needs where they could best be served, best be delivered and yes, that did involve travel.\"\n\nWhen asked whether Mr Cummings made a trip to Barnard Castle - 30 miles from Durham - during his isolation in April, Mr Johnson said his aide isolated for 14 days and he was \"content that in all periods and in both sides (of isolation) he behaved responsibly and correctly\".\n\nIt strikes me Boris Johnson is taking a political gamble here; that the public will understand his decision or aren't that bothered by a \"Westminster row\".\n\nIndeed, Mr Johnson and Mr Cummings are seen as political operators who can judge the public mood well.\n\nBut many - including several Tory MPs - think they've got this wrong. They believe the public does care and see it as one rule for us, one rule for them.\n\nThere are a lot of unanswered questions too; when did the PM know his adviser had travelled to Durham? Did Mr Cummings visit an area 30 miles from where he was isolating?\n\nLabour had called for an urgent inquiry into the allegations, while several Conservative backbench MPs publicly questioned Mr Cummings' position, including Sir Roger Gale.\n\nReacting to the prime minister's comments, Sir Roger said it was an \"extraordinary position\" for Mr Johnson to take.\n\n\"It's up to the prime minister to exercise judgement about who he has around him,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"In this case, I do think that that judgement is flawed. I don't think many people will buy into the idea that suddenly after the event it's OK to reinterpret the rules\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Millions of people had made 'agonising choices' to stay away from family during lockdown\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said: \"This was a huge test of the prime minister and he has just failed that test.\n\n\"Millions of people across the country have made the most agonising choices - not visiting relatives, not going to funerals - they deserve better answers than they got from the prime minister today.\"\n\nHe also said he would've sacked Mr Cummings if he were prime minister.\n\nActing Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey said he was \"astonished\" with Mr Johnson's decision as the PM had told the public to stay at home.\n\nIn a statement posted on Twitter, Amanda Hopgood, leader of the Liberal Democrats on Durham County Council, said \"a number of local residents have reported seeing Dominic Cummings on several occasions in April and May\".\n\nShe said that \"given the clear public interest\" she has referred the matter to Durham Constabulary to see if there had been a breach of the coronavirus regulations.\n\nAnd the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford said: \"The prime minister's refusal to act demeans his office and will cause lasting damage to public confidence in the Tory government and its response to Covid-19.\"\n\nScientists also raised concerns. Stephen Reicher, a professor of social psychology who has advised the government on behavioural science during the pandemic, said the prime minister's comments made him feel \"dismay\".\n\nHe said trust was vital to maintaining public health measures. \"You can't have trust if people have a sense of them and us, that there's one rule for them and another rule for us,\" he told the BBC.\n\nAnd two Church of England bishops strongly criticised the defence of Mr Cummings. The Bishop of Leeds, the Right Reverend Nick Baines, said the public were being \"lied to, patronised and treated by a PM as mugs\".\n\nThe Bishop of Bristol, the Right Reverend Vivienne Faull, accused the prime minister of having \"no respect for people\".\n\n16 March - Government tells the UK public they have to isolate for 14 days if someone in their household has symptoms\n\n23 March - Boris Johnson tells the UK public they \"must stay at home\"\n\n30 March - Downing Street says Mr Cummings is self-isolating with coronavirus symptoms\n\n31 March - Officers from Durham Constabulary \"were made aware of reports that an individual had travelled from London to Durham and was present at an address in the city\", the force adds that officers \"made contact with the owners of that address\"\n\n12 April - According to the Observer and Sunday Mirror, Mr Cummings was seen visiting Barnard Castle, 30 miles from his parents' residence.\n\n14 April - Mr Cummings is photographed at Downing Street for the first time since 27 March\n\n19 April - This is the date an unnamed witness tells the Observer and Sunday Mirror they saw Mr Cummings in Durham\n\nEarlier, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that the \"integrity\" of public health advice \"must come first\" as she urged Mr Cummings to resign.\n\nShe added that it was \"tough to lose a trusted adviser at the height of crisis\", referring to Scotland's chief medical officer who resigned in April after twice breaking lockdown restrictions to drive to her second home.\n\nSome government ministers had rallied around Mr Cummings on Saturday and defended his conduct.\n\nMatt Hancock and Michael Gove were among those to come out in support of Mr Cummings on social media.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aya Hachem is believed to have been shot dead in a case of mistaken identity\n\nThe funeral of a law student killed in a drive-by shooting in Blackburn has taken place in her hometown in Lebanon.\n\nAya Hachem, 19, died when shots were fired from a passing car on 17 May.\n\nFive people have appeared in court charged with her murder while officers have been granted more time to question another murder suspect.\n\nPolice have also appealed for dashcam footage from anyone traveling along the A666 between Bolton and Blackburn between 14:00 and 16:00 BST.\n\n\"I appreciate this is quite a long period of time but knowing who was moving along that road at those times is key to us,\" said Det Supt Andy Cribbin, from Lancashire Police.\n\nMs Hachem was walking along King Street to the supermarket when she was hit by one of two bullets fired from a car.\n\nAya Hachem died from a gunshot wound to the chest\n\nMs Hachem's parents paid tribute to her as the \"most loyal devoted daughter\" who \"dreamed of becoming a solicitor\".\n\nThe Lebanese-born teenager, who was a second-year student at the University of Salford, was buried in the town of Koleileh on Saturday.\n\nHer mother Samar Hachem, who had travelled to Lebanon for the funeral, recalled the moment she was informed of her daughter's death.\n\n\"I started to shout, maybe to scream, I thought maybe an accident, maybe a car or something like that,\" she said.\n\n\"I asked, what's happened to her? Is she still in hospital?\n\n\"And he told me, she's dead.\"\n\nThe funeral of Aya Hachem was held in Lebanon on Saturday\n\nFeroz Suleman, of Shear Brow in Blackburn, and Abubakir Satia, of Oxford Close in Blackburn, were the first people to be charged in connection with her death on Friday.\n\nThey appeared at Preston Magistrates' Court along with Uthman Satia, of Oxford Close in Blackburn, Judy Chapman, of St Hubert's Road in Great Harwood, and Kashif Manzoor, of Shakeshaft Street in Blackburn, who were charged later.\n\nThey have also been charged with the attempted murder of their intended target Pashar Khan, the court heard.\n\nThey were remanded in custody to appear at Preston Crown Court on Wednesday.\n\nA closure order was issued for Mr Suleman's business, RI Tyres, for up to three months following an application by Lancashire Police.\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. Prince William on being a parent: \"It's one of the most amazing moments of life, but also one of the scariest\" (Video from May 2020)\n\nPrince William has revealed that becoming a father brought back painful emotions he felt following his mother's death when he was 15 years old.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge, who has three children with his wife Catherine, said feelings from a \"traumatic\" event can resurface when becoming a parent.\n\nHe told a BBC documentary on mental health that he found things \"overwhelming\" at times.\n\nHis mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, died in a car crash in Paris in 1997.\n\nPrince William, father to Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, said that he and Catherine support one another during those difficult times.\n\nHe was speaking to former professional footballer Marvin Sordell for the programme focusing on men's mental health and football.\n\nEx-Bolton Wanderers striker Sordell described becoming a father as \"the hardest time in my life\", adding that he struggled with his emotions and found it challenging as he did not grow up with a father.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge responds: \"Having children is the biggest life-changing moment, it really is.\n\n\"And I agree with you, I think when you've been through something traumatic in life - and that is like you say your dad not being around, my mother dying when I was younger - your emotions come back in leaps and bounds because it's a very different phase of life.\n\n\"And there's no one there to, kind of, help you, and I definitely found it very, at times, overwhelming.\"\n\nDiana, Princess of Wales, with her sons Harry (left) and William.\n\nPrince William said that emotions can \"come out of the blue\" which you do not expect or think you have already dealt with.\n\nSpeaking about parenthood, the royal added: \"It's one of the most amazing moments of life but it's also one of the scariest.\"\n\nPrince William and his younger brother Prince Harry have, through their Heads Together mental health campaign, spoken increasingly about the impact their mother's death had on them.\n\nFootball, Prince William And Our Mental Health will be broadcast on Thursday 28 May at 20:05 BST on BBC One.", "Cllr Andrew Morgan says he believes the IT system will be in place by \"the first or second week of June\"\n\nIt could be two weeks before the new system for tracking and tracing coronavirus cases is rolled out across Wales, a council leader has said.\n\nThe Welsh Government had said it wanted its Test, Trace, Protect (TTP) scheme to be operational by the end of May.\n\nAndrew Morgan, leader of the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA), suggested the IT system would be ready by \"the first or second week of June\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said the aim was to roll it out from the start of June.\n\nTTP involves tracing anyone who has come into close contact with someone who has tested positive for Covid-19 and advising them to self-isolate to stop further spread.\n\nThe Welsh Government's lockdown exit plan made clear TTP's success was central to making the easing of lockdown measures possible.\n\nLast week, the WLGA leader said setting up the system in Wales was a \"mammoth\" task and councils would need \"significant additional resources\" for the \"vital\" work.\n\nOn Friday, First Minister Mark Drakeford said it was an important weekend for the development of the contact tracing system with four \"small scale\" trials \"continuing at pace\" in Cwm Taf Morgannwg, Powys, Betsi Cadwaladr and Hywel Dda health board areas.\n\nStaff from six councils - Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Ceredigion, Powys and Anglesey - are also involved in the trials.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC Politics Wales programme, Councillor Morgan, who is also leader of Rhondda Cynon Taf council, said: \"The pilots are going reasonably well so far, but this is about a learning exercise before the full Wales-wide roll-out.\n\nAnyone who has come into close contact with someone who has tested positive for Covid-19 will be advised to self -isolate\n\n\"I understand the IT platform which supports all this will be in place around the first or second week of June.\n\n\"Once that's in place, we'll have a complete link up across all local authorities, all local health boards.\"\n\nAbout 1,000 staff will be needed in the early stages of the system with the majority of the workforce redeployed by councils from their usual jobs.\n\nThe system requires an increase in testing capacity for those in hospital, care homes and key workers to about 10,000 by the end of the month.\n\nOn 17 May, there was laboratory capacity in Wales to conduct 5,330 daily tests.\n\nDespite joining a UK-wide testing system earlier in the week, concerns have been raised that people in Wales are still not able to book drive-through coronavirus tests.\n\nIn England, Scotland and Northern Ireland members of the public are able to book drive-through tests online.\n\nHome test kits are available to anyone over the age of five across the UK showing coronavirus symptoms, but availability depends on demand.\n\nThe Welsh Government said an update on home testing kits would be provided as \"soon as possible\".\n\nCouncillor Sam Rowlands, Conservative leader of Conwy council, said: \"Many of us have been concerned at the slow response in terms of the mass testing here in Wales, and particularly in care homes and suchlike.\n\n\"For my area the average speed of results coming back is around 72 hours, and I've seen examples where it's taken five or six days.\"\n\nThe Plaid Cymru leader of Ceredigion Council, Councillor Ellen ap Gwynn, said: \"We've been working very closely with the health board here [Hywel Dda}, and our testing regime works through them.\n\n\"It does seem to be working more efficiently than the tests that have to go down to the lab in Cardiff...\n\n\"What we need all over Wales is more locally-based testing facilities where we can get that quick turnaround - otherwise things won't work as well as they should.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Contact tracing trials are ongoing in four areas across Wales. We aim to roll this out across Wales from the beginning of June.\n\n\"The contact management system that will allow all local authorities to record their data in one place will go live from the end of the first week.\"", "The crew went so far as to strap themselves into the Crew Dragon capsule\n\nNasa astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken have completed their dress rehearsal for Wednesday's flight to the International Space Station.\n\nThe mission, the first crewed outing from American soil in nine years, will see the pair ride to orbit in a SpaceX Falcon rocket and Crew Dragon capsule.\n\nIt's a demonstration of the new \"taxi\" service the US space agency will be buying from the Californian firm.\n\nLift-off on Wednesday is timed for 16:33 EDT (20:33 GMT / 21:33 BST).\n\nThe weather around the Kennedy Space Center in Florida may have other ideas, however.\n\nA forecast released on Saturday by the US Space Force 45th Space Wing Weather Squadron predicted just a 40% chance of favourable conditions come launch time.\n\nThere is a strong possibility the Kennedy complex could see thick cloud, rain and even thunder.\n\nIf controllers are forced to scrub, everyone will come back on Saturday for a second try.\n\nThe walkout tradition: Hurley and Behnken emerge from Kennedy's Operations and Checkout Building\n\nHurley and Behnken are now all but done with their preparations.\n\nThe weekend \"Dry Dress\" rehearsal saw the pair don their made-to-measure spacesuits, walk out to a Tesla, and then make a 6km drive down to Kennedy's famous Launch Complex 39A.\n\nTheir SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket has been sitting erect on the pad since Thursday.\n\nThe men then got in the service tower lift to go up to the access arm gantry and climb into the capsule.\n\nThe run-through gave all launch personnel - not just Hurley and Behnken - the opportunity to remind themselves of what's to come.\n\nThe famous \"Astrovan\" seen on so many shuttle missions has been replaced by a gull-winged Tesla. SpaceX, like Tesla, is owned by Elon Musk\n\nThere is huge focus on this mission. Not since the space shuttles were retired in 2011 has America been able to launch its own astronauts. Getting crews to the ISS these past nine years has been a task entrusted solely to Russia and its Soyuz rocket and capsule system.\n\nNasa has contracted both SpaceX and aerospace giant Boeing to pick up where the shuttles left off.\n\nThe difference this time is that the agency will not own and operate the vehicles. It will merely be buying \"tickets to ride\".\n\nSpaceX and Boeing will be free to sell their services to other space agencies, other companies and even individuals.\n\nHurley and Behnken have named their Dragon in the tradition of all previous American crewships. They'll reveal that name on Wednesday.\n\nThe Kennedy Space Center hasn't seen a crewed launch since the last shuttle mission in 2011\n\nSaturday's rehearsal was conducted for the benefit of the astronauts and launch control teams\n\nWhen Behnken and Hurley next climb into the capsule it will be for real\n\nAssuming the weather complies, the mission will lift off on Wednesday at 16:33 local time\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Louise Smith was described as a \"lovely girl with a heart of gold\" by a friend\n\nThe death of a teenager whose body was recovered from woodland is now being treated as murder.\n\nLouise Smith was found dead in Havant, Hampshire, on Thursday. The 16-year-old, who was from the Leigh Park area, had been reported missing on 8 May.\n\nDet Ch Supt Scott MacKechnie said: \"This is now a murder investigation and our priority is to identify who is responsible.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Louise and her family at this really difficult time.\"\n\nCCTV footage showed Louise entering the Tesco Metro on Greywell Road shortly before 19:30 BST on the day before her disappearance.\n\nHer body was discovered nearby in Havant Thicket.\n\nCCTV footage shows Louise in a Tesco Metro the day before her disappearance\n\nThere are reports she was seen at midday the following day, which was VE Day, in Somborne Drive.\n\n\"Please focus your mind on this day,\" said Det Ch Supt Scott MacKechnie, appealing to the local community.\n\n\"This was a historic day for the country and many of you may have been celebrating out on your front gardens.\"\n\nHe asked people to save any dashcam and CCTV footage from 7 and 8 May for officers to review.\n\nHe also appealed to dog walkers, drone operators, and cyclists with helmet cameras or Go Pros, who had been in Havant Thicket and Staunton Country Park on VE Day, to come forward.\n\nLouise was last seen in Somborne Drive on 8 May\n\nLouise had not been in touch with her friends or family since being seen in Somborne Drive.\n\nHampshire Police forensic officers carried out searches of a flat in the street and blacked out the property's windows.\n\nNeighbours previously said it was believed Louise had been staying with a couple at the flat.\n\nA man and a woman, both aged 29, had previously been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping and released on bail.\n\nA police map indicates where Louise was staying, and the place where her body was found\n\nA post-mortem examination has taken place, but police have not released any of its findings yet.\n\n\"The circumstances in which we found Louise's body would indicate this is a murder investigation,\" Det Ch Supt MacKechnie said.\n\nForensic searches in Havant Thicket \"will continue for some days\", he added.\n\nDet Ch Supt Scott MacKechnie said the priority was finding Louise's murderer\n\nThe teenager's body was discovered in Havant Thicket on Thursday\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. Footage shows a helicopter 'water bombing' the site of a forest fire which had flared up\n\nStrong winds are still helping spread a forest fire which has been burning for six days in Dorset.\n\nMore than 150 firefighters remain at Wareham Forest dealing with hotspots and flare-ups. About 500 acres (200 hectares) have so far been damaged.\n\nA helicopter was brought in to \"water bomb\" the area as smoke drifted as far as Bournemouth.\n\nDorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service (DWFRS) said winds of up to 45mph were proving a \"huge risk\".\n\nOfficials have urged people to avoid the area.\n\nA tactical wildfire team from South Wales Fire and Rescue Service has joined the efforts to tackle the blaze and is helping to carry out overnight \"controlled burns\" to curb its spread.\n\nDWFRS said water supply was a \"real challenge\" and more than five miles of hose was being used to extract water from the River Piddle to be brought close to the fire sites.\n\nA specialist helicopter is also being used to help fight the fire from the air.\n\nThe aircraft uses an under-slung bucket which can hold up to 1,000 litres of water to be dropped on the fire, as directed by crews on the ground.\n\nAnna Shepherd and her family were evacuated from their home near the forest when flare-ups worsened on Friday afternoon\n\n\"We were told we had to grab what we had and go. We just had to jump in the Land Rover and go,\" she said.\n\n\"It's windy again so I hope things are under control out there. I really want to get home.\"\n\nA Dorset Police drone image shows the extent of the devastation\n\nThe blaze, which started on Monday, may initially have been started by a disposable barbecue or camp fire, investigators believe.\n\nDWFRS said it had maintained a \"significant presence\" overnight, following further flare-ups on Friday.\n\n\"The strong winds of yesterday, which are continuing today, present a huge risk and have led to multiple hotspots flaring up and some fire spread,\" it said.\n\nThe fire service repeated calls for members of the public to stay away from the area for walking or cycling.\n\n\"There are lots of vehicle movements, and miles of hose stretching along roads and paths. Even if an area looks safe, we cannot guarantee that it is,\" it said.\n\n\"Firefighters are working incredibly hard, in arduous conditions, to bring this fire under control.\"\n\nFirefighters have been dealing with hotspots and flare-ups across the forest fire site\n\nThe service also has volunteers patrolling other nearby heath land sites on bikes, including at Upton Heath and Canford Heath.\n\nAn amber alert for wildfire also remains in place for the weekend, meaning if another wildfire broke out it could spread quickly and easily due to the dry and windy conditions.\n\nOne third of the 3,700-acre forest is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and is home to rare birds, plants and invertebrates.\n\nOn Wednesday, Forestry England estimated it could take the forest \"decades\" to recover.\n\nThe fire service said 11 disposable BBQs were found in the area\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dominic Cummings was never going to go quietly after being forced out of Downing Street at the end of last year.\n\nBut the number, and seriousness, of his claims about what went on at the heart of government, as ministers battled to get on top of the coronavirus crisis, are unprecedented in modern times.\n\nRarely has a former adviser made so many potentially damaging revelations about a sitting prime minister.\n\nHis critics say Mr Cummings is motivated by revenge against Boris Johnson, and will not rest until the PM has been removed from No 10.\n\nMr Cummings insists he is driven by a desire to make what he views as a broken and chaotic government machine work better in future.\n\nHe left his Downing Street role following an internal power struggle, amid claims the PM's then-fiancee had blocked the promotion of one of his allies, Lee Cain, after months of internal warfare.\n\nIn his final year at Downing Street, Mr Cummings had a £40,000 pay rise, taking his salary to between £140,000 and £144,999.\n\nThere was speculation that the 49-year-old would seek a post-politics career as the first head of Aria, the UK's new \"high risk\" science agency, which had been one of his pet projects.\n\nBut he appears to have a different career path in mind.\n\nIn February, he started a technology consultancy firm, Siwah Ltd. He is the sole director of the firm, according to Companies House, and it is registered at an address in his native Durham, in north-east England. This would appear to be a successor to Dynamic Maps, his previous tech consultancy.\n\nBut in recent months, most of his time appears to have been taken up with spilling the beans on his time in government.\n\nThe BBC did not pay Mr Cummings for his exclusive interview with political editor Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nAnd he has not yet taken the time-honoured route of selling his story to a newspaper, or signing a book deal.\n\nBut he has found a way of generating income through online platform Substack, where he has launched a newsletter.\n\nHe plans to give out information on the coronavirus pandemic and his time in Downing Street for free, but \"more recondite stuff on the media, Westminster, 'inside No 10', how did we get Brexit done in 2019, the 2019 election etc\" will only be available to subscribers who pay £10 a month.\n\nHe is also offering his marketing and election campaigning expertise, for fees that \"slide from zero to lots depending on who you are / your project\".\n\nThis new venture has incurred the wrath of Whitehall watchdog Lord Pickles, who chairs the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba), which vets jobs taken by former ministers and top officials.\n\nIn a letter to Cabinet Office Minister Micheal Gove, he says Mr Cummings has sought advice on working as a consultant.\n\nBut he adds: \"It appears that Mr Cummings is offering various services for payment via a blog hosted on Substack, the blog for which he is also receiving subscription payments.\n\n\"Mr Cummings has failed to seek the committee's advice on this commercial undertaking, nor has the committee received the courtesy of a reply to our letter requesting an explanation.\n\n\"Failure to seek and await advice before taking up work is a breach of the government's rules.\"\n\nThere are few repercussions for failing to consult Acoba, however.\n\nLittle was heard from Mr Cummings for several months after his departure from Downing Street - but that all changed in April.\n\nAfter being named in media reports as the source of government leaks, he launched a scathing attack on Mr Johnson via a 1,000-word blog post in April.\n\nAs well as denying he was behind the leaks, he went on to make a series of accusations against the PM and questioned his \"competence and integrity\".\n\nThe following month, Mr Cummings expanded on his criticisms at a seven-hour select committee appearance, declaring Boris Johnson \"unfit for the job\", and claiming he had ignored scientific advice and wrongly delayed lockdowns.\n\nHe also turned his fire on then-health secretary Matt Hancock, who he said should have been fired for lying.\n\nThis sparked a bitter war of words with Mr Hancock, who flatly denied all of Mr Cummings's allegations.\n\nIt thrust Mr Cummings back into the spotlight for the first time since his now infamous visit to County Durham, four days after the start of the first national lockdown, in March last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhile staying with his family at his father's farm, he made a 30-mile road journey to Barnard Castle, which he later said had been to test his eyesight before the 260-mile drive back to London.\n\nThis revelation - at a specially-convened press conference in the Downing Street garden - made Mr Cummings a household name and led to furious allegations of double standards at a time when the government had banned all but essential long-distance travel.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Cummings said that, during the Barnard Castle trip, he had been trying to work out \"Do I feel OK driving?\"\n\nHe also said he had decided to move his family to County Durham before his wife fell ill with suspected Covid because of security concerns over his home in London.\n\nAsked why he had given a story that was \"not the 100% truth\" when he held a special press conference in the Downing Street rose garden on 25 May, Mr Cummings admitted that \"the way we handled the whole thing was wrong\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cummings says he drove to Barnard Castle to test vision\n\nBoris Johnson stood by his adviser throughout the Barnard Castle episode - to the consternation of some of his supporters, who feared it was undermining his attempts to hold the country together during a national crisis.\n\nSome said the episode burned through the political capital the prime minister had generated months earlier during the 2019 general election.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson defends his senior adviser Dominic Cummings in May 2020\n\nBut it is hard to overstate how important Mr Cummings was to the Johnson project.\n\nThe two are very different characters - Mr Johnson likes to be popular, Mr Cummings appears indifferent to such concerns - but they formed a strong bond in the white heat of the 2016 Vote Leave campaign to get Britain out of the EU, which Mr Cummings led as campaign director.\n\nThe combination of Mr Johnson, the flamboyant household-name frontman, with Mr Cummings, the ruthless, data-driven strategist, with a flair for an eye-catching slogan, proved to be unbeatable.\n\nMr Cummings was credited with formulating the \"take back control\" slogan that appears to have struck a chord with so many referendum voters, changing the course of British history.\n\nYet some were surprised when Mr Cummings was brought into the heart of government as Mr Johnson's chief adviser, given his past record of rubbing senior Tory politicians up the wrong way.\n\nIt proved to be a shrewd move. It was Mr Cummings who devised the high-risk strategy of pushing for the 2019 election to be fought on a \"Get Brexit Done\" ticket, focusing on winning seats in Labour heartlands, something no previous Tory leader had managed to do in decades.\n\nMany of the policy ideas that have shaped the Johnson government's agenda have his fingerprints all over them.\n\n\"Levelling up\" - moving power and money out of London and the South East of England - is a Cummings project, as are plans to shake-up the civil service, take on the judiciary and reform the planning system.\n\nThe team that surrounded Mr Cummings at Downing Street, some of whom are Vote Leave veterans, were fiercely loyal to him and shared a sense that they were outsiders in Whitehall, battling an entrenched \"elite\".\n\nLee Cain, the former Downing Street and Vote Leave communications chief, left No 10 just before Mr Cummings did.\n\nMr Cummings watches the PM in action at a coronavirus briefing\n\nThere had been rumours of a rift between the Vote Leave veterans and other No 10 aides, who didn't like Mr Cummings's and Mr Cain's abrasive style.\n\nThere were tales of crackdowns on special advisers suspected of leaking to the media and angry, dismissive behaviour towards Tory MPs, civil servants and even secretaries of state.\n\nNone of this will have come as much of a surprise to veteran Cummings watchers.\n\nMr Cummings has been in and around the upper reaches of government and the Conservative Party for nearly two decades, and has made a career out of defying conventional wisdom and challenging the established order.\n\nBut he has never been a member of the Conservative Party, or any party, and appears to have little time for most MPs.\n\nA longstanding Eurosceptic who cut his campaigning teeth as a director of the anti-euro Business for Sterling group, Mr Cummings's other passion is changing the way government operates.\n\nHe grabbed headlines when he posted an advert on his personal blog for \"weirdos and misfits with odd skills\" to work in government, arguing that the civil service lacked \"deep expertise\" in many policy areas.\n\nThe Vote Leave bus was one of its most notable campaign tactics\n\nMr Cummings is a native of Durham, in the North East of England. His father, Robert, was an oil rig engineer and his mother, Morag, a teacher and behavioural specialist.\n\nHe went to a state primary school and was then privately educated at Durham School. He graduated from Oxford University with a first-class degree in modern history and spent some time in Russia, where he was involved with an ill-fated attempt to launch an airline, among other projects.\n\nHe is married to Spectator journalist Mary Wakefield, the daughter of aristocrat Sir Humphry Wakefield, whose family seat is Chillingam Castle, in Northumberland.\n\nAfter a stint as campaign director for Business for Sterling, Mr Cummings spent eight months as chief strategy adviser to then Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith, who fired him.\n\nHe played a key role in the 2004 campaign against an elected regional assembly in his native North East.\n\nIn what turned out to be a dry run for the Brexit campaign, the North East Says No team won the referendum with a mix of eye-catching stunts - including an inflatable white elephant - and snappy slogans that tapped into the growing anti-politics mood among the public.\n\nHe is then said to have retreated to his father's farm, in County Durham, where he spent his time reading science and history books in an effort to attain a better understanding of the world.\n\nMr Cummings facing questions from the media outside his home\n\nHe re-emerged in 2007 as a special adviser to Michael Gove, who became education secretary in 2010 and turned out to be something of a kindred spirit.\n\nThe pair would rail against what they called \"the blob\" - the informal alliance of senior civil servants and teachers' unions that sought, in their opinion, to frustrate their attempts at reform.\n\nHe left of his own accord to set up a free school, having alienated a number of senior people in the education ministry and the Conservative Party.\n\nHe once described former Brexit Secretary David Davis as \"thick as mince\" and as \"lazy as a toad\" and irritated David Cameron, the then prime minister, who called him a \"career psychopath\".\n\nBenedict Cumberbatch was widely praised for his portrayal of Dominic Cummings in Brexit: The Uncivil War\n\nHis appointment as head of the Vote Leave campaign - dramatised in Channel 4 drama Brexit: The Uncivil War - was seen as a risk worth taking by those putting the campaign together but he left a controversial legacy.\n\nVote Leave was found to have broken electoral law over spending limits by the Electoral Commission and Mr Cummings was held in contempt of Parliament for failing to respond to a summons to appear before and give evidence to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.\n\nLike most advisers, he shunned media interviews when he was in government, and his rare appearances before MPs were characterised by animosity on both sides.\n\nAll that has changed in recent weeks, but it would be a brave person who said he had now joined the ranks of the former Westminster insiders who make their living as pundits - a class he appears to view with as much disdain as he does his former colleagues in government.", "People are sending in images and thoughts on the coronavirus pandemic as part of a project at Swansea University\n\nHow will the coronavirus pandemic be remembered? Neil Prior takes a look at the projects documenting history-in-the-making in the age of the internet.\n\nWhen future historians study the global coronavirus pandemic and how Wales responded, the material available to them will differ from previous major events.\n\nBecause of the impermanent nature of internet communications, it is vital we consciously collect our history, believes Rosemary Davies, who teaches the subject at Ysgol Dyffryn Taf school in Whitland, Carmarthenshire.\n\n\"What would have been the pencilled notes and written diaries of a century or two ago are now WhatsApp messages and texts which can disappear in a moment,\" she said.\n\n\"I can take my pupils to the Imperial War Museum and show them letters written from the Western Front, letters which the author would never have expected to have survived this long.\n\n\"Whilst it seems strange, we have to start making a conscious effort to gather these electronic communications, even in the midst of all this madness, so future generations have access to the sorts of contemporaneous primary sources we've been able to utilise in studying other historic events.\"\n\nChildren have drawn rainbows and displaying them in their windows during lockdown\n\nAlready, at least six projects are underway across Wales to record and archive people's coronavirus experiences, including efforts by Swansea University, National Museum Wales and the National Library of Wales.\n\nNational Museum Wales is aiming to create a network of community collectors who will gather oral histories, images and objects relating to the pandemic, such as a saucepan used to \"clap for carers\", or an early attempt by someone learning a new skill like knitting.\n\nWildlife making itself a home at the empty Powis Castle\n\nThe golden laburnum arch at the closed Bodnant Gardens, Conwy. This season is the earliest that the 145-year-old tree has flowered in a decade.\n\nDaily exercise on the promenade at Rhyl, Denbighshire\n\nHole 4 at Llanymynech Golf Club, Oswestry, where the player plays their first shot in Wales and putts in England. Different lockdown restrictions threw up border issues\n\nThe VE Day anniversary celebrated by families on their doorsteps in Salop Street, Penarth - but socially distancing from neighbours\n\nOne of the Great Orme goat herd which came down to roam into the centre of an near-empty Llandudno\n\nThe National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth is asking the public to share their experiences of how their daily lives have changed through letters, diaries, videos, voice recordings or photographs.\n\nChief executive and librarian Pedr ap Llwyd said officials were busy collecting a variety of items - from newspapers to official publications and archiving web content - but that this alone could not tell the full story.\n\n\"Since its inception over a century ago, the library has collected and preserved records of events in our history as Welsh people, and making it available to current and future generations,\" he said.\n\n\"During this period we will archive an official record of the Covid-19 crisis and its effect on Wales and on the people of Wales.\n\n\"However, this wouldn't provide a full picture of the times. Therefore we are also eager to collect personal experiences, and record the effect of the current situation on the everyday life of the nation.\"\n\nThe Swansea University's CoronaDiaries project, led by senior lecturer in social science Dr Michael Ward, was launched in mid-March and has since attracted more than 160 contributors from 12 different countries, ranging in age from 10 to 89 years old.\n\n\"It's a social science experiment of how we're feeling right now, to be accessed and utilised immediately,\" he said.\n\nPosters and artworks have been appearing on streets during lockdown\n\n\"If it turns out to be useful in the future then all the better, but I believe there are potential dangers in knowingly setting out to log history.\"\n\nDr Ward's primary concern is that contributors may respond differently if they are aware that their accounts are forming social history.\n\nHe added: \"Not all by any means, but many of the letters and diaries we think of as primary sources were candid accounts of how the writer was feeling in that moment, completely oblivious to the fact that they'd be read centuries in the future.\n\n\"If you went back in time and told them that what they were writing would shape our understanding of history, then they'd have probably created a very different document indeed.\"\n\nFace masks and social distancing have been seen in queues at garden centres\n\nA woman looks out across Cardiff Bay\n\nMedical staff join in a clap for carers at Glan Clwyd Hospital at Bodelwyddan\n\nThe pitch inside the Principality Stadium in Cardiff makes way for a 1,500-bed field hospital\n\nAn empty paddling pool along the seafront in Llandudno, Conwy\n\nA visor made at the Royal Mint in Llantrisant - one of many firms who switched to making equipment needed in the fight against the virus\n\nDr Ward also cautioned against drawing too many comparisons with life during World War Two.\n\n\"People start to look for parallels. In truth these are quite different times,\" he said.\n\n\"World War Two was a frenzy of activity - a fight for life with very little time to think - whereas the accounts I'm receiving are of a much more contemplative experience.\"\n\nDr Ward urged anyone who wants to share their experiences to do so with a trusted source, such as a university or the national museum and library.\n\n\"As with everything in life, think about the personal data you're sharing, who you're sharing it with, and what it could be used for,\" he said.\n\nAs for life after lockdown, Mrs Davies believes society will need some sort of focal point to remember what has happened.\n\n\"In the same way that we have Remembrance Sunday or Holocaust Remembrance day, I think once this is all over there should be a national day to commemorate the people who have died, the efforts of the key workers, and the troubled times we've all lived through.\"", "If Boris Johnson's decision to appear at Sunday's press conference was an attempt to close down the story about Dominic Cummings' behaviour during the lockdown by handling it himself, it failed completely.\n\nIt certainly was not an attempt to give the public the full information.\n\nInstead, the prime minister refused to answer the questions that remain about the specifics of his adviser's visit, or visits, to the north east of England while his team was telling the public again and again and again that they had to \"stay at home\".\n\nThe prime minister said repeatedly that some parts of the stories that have been reported have been \"palpably false\".\n\nBut without being specific about what is true and what is not, questions will continue to be asked. As a former journalist, surely the prime minister knows that?\n\nOne of the rules of political crisis management is that if a public figure gets rumbled, you need to get all the details, however gory, out from under wherever they had been hiding pronto, or else your opponents will just keep looking.\n\nThe prime minister instead only provided one broad answer - that he himself had talked to Mr Cummings about why he did what he did while he was self-isolating and that was enough.\n\nAnd whatever is left hanging, the central allegation - that his most senior adviser left lockdown while his wife was ill and travelled across the country - is true. Given the government has day after day told everyone to stay at home, that is still extraordinary.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson defends his senior adviser Dominic Cummings in May 2020\n\nThe prime minister said that Mr Cummings was within the guidelines, because of the severe challenges of finding childcare. He seemed almost to be praising him for following his \"instinct\" as a good father.\n\nThe problem with that, is that millions of parents were told they couldn't follow their instincts - the government's lockdown rules were \"instructions\", in the words of cabinet ministers.\n\nMany of the public would have loved to rely on family members if they were unlucky enough to fall ill. Many of the public would have loved to follow their instincts in going to visit relatives who were suffering, or far away.\n\nBut instead they followed the daily exhortations from the government, the prime minister's appeal to the nation, and stayed home - however hard it was.\n\nRather than acknowledging a tiny iota of conflict or fraction of fault, instead Mr Johnson seemed to double down on what many people see as a double standard.\n\nA small troop of Tory MPs have already said publicly that Mr Cummings broke the rules and should quit, and a few more have gone public since the prime minister spoke, alongside some of the government's scientific advisers.\n\nSeveral ministers are saying it privately too, who feel deeply uncomfortable with what has happened and Mr Johnson's justification of it. And many of the public may feel it is quite something to watch the prime minister seemingly reinterpret the same public health advice he has credited with saving thousands of lives, to protect one of his team.\n\nOne cabinet minister has a more benevolent interpretation, saying the prime minister is someone who is always \"loyal to those who have been loyal to him.\"\n\nMr Johnson certainly sees Mr Cummings as a vital part of his operation - a record forged together in the fire of the referendum campaign, the chaos and brutality of their first few months in office as a minority government, and then the strategy to turn red seats blue in the north of England, romping home in the general election.\n\nNo one doubts Mr Cummings' ability as a campaigner, and someone willing to say the unsayable.\n\nBut in government, his willingness to pick fights to get things done has made him many enemies. One senior official described his strategy today as \"shouting in an empty room\".\n\nHis supporters see his willingness to confront hard truths as an advantage. But it means now he is under attack: despite a few slavish cabinet tweets yesterday, there is hardly a long queue of supporters willing to defend him.\n\nAnd even some of his and Mr Johnson's own supporters worry about how dependent the prime minister has become on one adviser. How has Boris Johnson allowed a situation to develop where many people in government believe one aide's view dominates above all else?\n\nAnd some are questioning tonight the willingness to splurge so much personal political capital on one adviser's political survival. It is abundantly clear the prime minister is determined to keep Mr Cummings in place.\n\nMr Johnson has brazened out many difficult political situations before - simply refusing, for example, to answer any questions about the police being called to his and his partner's flat during his bid to become prime minister.\n\nThe hope in No 10 is that in time the controversy will fade. But this time, the misdemeanour goes against the grain of what millions of people were putting up with in lockdown at Boris Johnson's own instruction. Many of them are understandably angry.\n\nDid the prime minister manage to shut this mess down today? Not even close.", "Aya Hachem, 19, died when shots were fired from a passing car on in Blackburn on 17 May.\n\nShe was buried in the town of Koleileh in Lebanon. Five people have been charged in relation to her death.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWestern Australia has been battered by a massive storm which ripped roofs off houses and downed trees across a 1,000km (620 miles) stretch of land.\n\nMore than 60,000 homes were without power on Monday - most in the main city, Perth. No injuries were reported, officials said.\n\nThe state's south was particularly hard hit with dust storms, torrential rain and huge waves along the coast.\n\nAuthorities had warned residents to prepare for a \"once-in-a-decade\" storm.\n\nThe Bureau of Meteorology said it stemmed from two colliding systems: the remnants of an out-of-season tropical cyclone, Mangga, and a cold front pushing from the south.\n\nStrong winds kicked up dust storms ahead of the rain\n\nThat front continued to drive heavy rain across on Monday, prompting warnings of possible further flooding and damage.\n\nA Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES) spokeswoman told the BBC the storm had lashed homes \"right across the southern half of the state\".\n\nDamage was recorded across a mammoth area - from the resort town of Kalbarri to the town of Denmark, on Australia's south-west tip.\n\nWind gusts of up to 132km/h (82mph) were recorded there, while Perth endured gales of up to 117km/h.\n\nA severe weather warning remains in place across the region. Some parts could see more than 70mm of rain, forecasters said.\n\n\"This is a rare event for WA particularly due to the extent of the area affected and the possibility of multiple areas of dangerous weather,\" said the Bureau of Meteorology.\n\nSome people in Perth saw an opportunity - as the storm created unusually large waves", "Why Are The Police Putting Down Their Guns?\n\nHundreds of firearms officers hand in their permits to carry weapons.", "Last updated on .From the section Championship\n\nChampionship side Hull City have confirmed two people at the club have tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe English Football League earlier said there were two positive cases out of more than 1,000 players and staff tested at the 24 second-tier clubs.\n\nIn a statement, Hull said the pair were asymptomatic and feeling no ill effects, but would self-isolate for seven days in line with EFL guidelines.\n\nThey will both be tested again at a later date.\n\nThe Tigers did not confirm whether the positive tests were from players or staff.\n\nIt comes after reports that Hull vice-chairman Ehab Allam wrote to the EFL twice to say the season should be voided.\n\nWith Championship clubs set to return to training on Monday, a total of 1,014 tests were undertaken on players and staff over the past 72 hours, with all but the two at the Tigers coming back negative.\n\nThose who had returned negative tests would be allowed to enter training grounds, but prior to going in, everyone must complete a screening protocol to detect any symptoms in a manner devised by the club doctor.\n\nIn the Premier League an unnamed Bournemouth player was one of two new coronavirus cases discovered by the latest round of top-flight tests - taking the overall total of positive results to eight.\n\nThe tests, which are being funded by the clubs and will not affect NHS testing, are not 100% accurate but meet government and NHS standards.\n\nThe Championship, which has been suspended since 13 March, is hoping to restart the season at some point in June.\n\nMeanwhile, no testing programme is in place for League One and League Two clubs.\n\nOn 15 May, teams in the fourth tier \"unanimously indicated\" they wanted to bring their season to an early conclusion, although talks between sides in League One stalled after they failed to agree on a resolution.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSeveral Conservative MPs have called for the PM's chief adviser Dominic Cummings to quit, amid claims he broke coronavirus lockdown rules.\n\nThe aide is facing allegations of a second trip to the North East, reported by The Observer and Sunday Mirror.\n\nDowning Street says this is \"false\" and cabinet minister Grant Shapps says Mr Cummings - who has been seen going into No 10 - will not quit.\n\nSteve Baker is among nine backbench MPs to publicly question his position.\n\nMr Cummings refused to answer questions on the fresh allegations from reporters and TV crews outside his London home on Sunday.\n\nOn Saturday, he and the government had said he acted \"reasonably and legally\" in response to the original claims that he drove 260 miles from London to County Durham with his wife, who had coronavirus symptoms.\n\nLabour has called for an urgent inquiry into the allegations, while government ministers rallied around Mr Cummings on Saturday and defended his conduct.\n\nMatt Hancock and Michael Gove were among those to back Mr Cummings for self-isolating at a property adjacent to other family members in case he and his wife needed help with childcare during the lockdown.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said it was \"tough to lost a trusted adviser at the height of crisis\", referring to Scotland's chief medical officer who resigned in April after twice breaking lockdown restrictions to drive to her second home.\n\nBut, she said, the \"integrity\" of public health advice \"must come first\" and she urged Mr Cummings to resign.\n\nMr Cummings told reporters outside his home on Saturday that he would not be resigning and had done the \"right thing\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steve Baker: \"The country can't afford this nonsense...Dominic should go.\"\n\nThe two newspapers have now reported witnesses saw Mr Cummings in Barnard Castle, more than 25 miles from Durham, on 12 April.\n\nOn 14 April, he was seen in London. According to a witness, he was spotted again near Durham in Houghall Woods on 19 April.\n\nMr Cummings is yet to publicly respond to the new claims, but the Sunday Telegraph reports he told Downing Street he left Durham on 13 April, and that the claim he made a second trip from London was \"totally false\".\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told the BBC's Andrew Marr that the claims of a second trip was \"untrue\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grant Shapps: \"It's not true that he then returned to Durham\"\n\nWhen asked if Mr Cummings was going to resign, Mr Shapps replied: \"No.\"\n\nBut there are growing calls from backbench Tory MPs for Mr Cummings to consider his position.\n\nEx-chairman of the European Research Group (ERG) Steve Baker told the BBC: \"The country can't afford this nonsense, this pantomime, Dominic should go and we should move on and deal with things that matter in people's lives.\"\n\nTory Sir Roger Gale said there \"cannot be one law for the prime minister's staff and another for everyone else\".\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 Sir Roger Gale MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nConservative MP Caroline Nokes tweeted: \"There cannot be one rule for most of us and wriggle room for others.\"\n\nColleague Simon Hoare called for Mr Cummings to \"consider his position\", Tory MP Damian Collins said the government \"would be better without him\" and MP Craig Whittaker said Mr Cummings' position \"is untenable\".\n\nConservative MP Robert Halfon apologised for tweeting his support of Mr Cummings on Saturday and said the PM's aide should \"face the consequences of breaking the law\".\n\nTory MP George Freeman said a couple taking their child to their grandparents because they have Covid-19 symptoms was not a \"sacking offence\" but he said it was \"time for an apology\".\n\nBut Conservative MP Danny Kruger defended Mr Cummings, saying he \"made a decision in an emergency\" and the prime minister \"is satisfied\".\n\n16 March - Government tells the UK public they have to isolate for 14 days if someone in their household has symptoms\n\n23 March - Boris Johnson tells the UK public they \"must stay at home\"\n\n30 March - Downing Street says Mr Cummings is self-isolating with coronavirus symptoms\n\n31 March - Officers from Durham Constabulary \"were made aware of reports that an individual had travelled from London to Durham and was present at an address in the city\", the force adds that officers \"made contact with the owners of that address\"\n\n12 April - According to the Observer and Sunday Mirror, Mr Cummings was seen visiting Barnard Castle, 30 miles from his parents' residence.\n\n14 April - Mr Cummings is photographed at Downing Street for the first time since 27 March\n\n19 April - This is the date an unnamed witness tells the Observer and Sunday Mirror they saw Mr Cummings in Durham\n\nLabour's shadow policing minister Sarah Jones told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday that people \"are feeling rightly angry\".\n\n\"I think people are rightly feeling is it one rule for us and one rule for people at the top,\" she said.\n\nIn response to the fresh claims, Downing Street said: \"Yesterday the Mirror and Guardian wrote inaccurate stories about Mr Cummings.\n\n\"Today they are writing more inaccurate stories including claims that Mr Cummings returned to Durham after returning to work in Downing Street on 14 April.\n\n\"We will not waste our time answering a stream of false allegations about Mr Cummings from campaigning newspapers.\"\n\nDowning Street has also denied that police spoke to family members of Mr Cummings \"about this matter\".\n\nIn an updated statement, Durham Police said officers learned of his trip on 31 March and spoke to Mr Cummings' father the following day.\n\nAfter an apparently co-ordinated show of support from some of the most senior Conservatives yesterday, today the first cracks may be starting to show.\n\nSteve Baker has become the first Tory MP to break ranks and call for Dominic Cummings to go.\n\nAs one of Parliament's most prominent Brexiteers, his intervention is significant.\n\nThe tone of his criticism even more so - accusing Mr Cummings of regarding \"accountability with contempt\".\n\nHis view is that Boris Johnson is expending too much political capital on trying to save his adviser.\n\nThe next few hours will see how many more follow suit.\n\nIf there's enough backbench unrest, it will leave Boris Johnson with an unappealing choice to make: oust a highly-valued adviser or risk upsetting the party to keep him.\n\nOther opposition parties have also renewed their calls for the prime minister's adviser, who masterminded the 2016 Vote Leave campaign, to go.\n\nThe SNP's Ian Blackford said Mr Cummings \"has to leave office\", while acting Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"If Dominic Cummings has not been sacked by tomorrow, I think the prime minister's judgement is in serious doubt.\"\n\nGovernment advice had been for people to stay at home during the first weeks of lockdown. Self-isolation at home continues to be advised for those with coronavirus symptoms.\n\nEngland's deputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries said all health guidance should be applied with \"common sense\".\n\nIt comes as the government announced 282 more people had died with coronavirus since Friday, across all settings, bringing the total to 36,675.", "Council leaders have raised concerns about a lack of testing in care homes at the start of the pandemic.\n\nOne leader has called for care home residents discharged from hospitals to be tested twice for Covid-19 \"because you can have a false negative\".\n\nAndrew Morgan, leader of Rhondda Cynon Taf council, said early in the outbreak he \"put pressure\" on officials not to send patients to homes without a test.\n\nThe Welsh Government said no patient would be sent to a care home unless they had a negative test, and the policy was based on the \"latest scientific advice\".\n\nThe Older People's Commissioner for Wales has called for the Welsh Government to be investigated by the Equality and Human Rights Commission over fears older people's rights could have been breached because of the delay in testing.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething has said he \"didn't recognise\" a breach and said testing policy was based on scientific advice.\n\nCare Forum Wales, which represents more than 450 care providers, told a BBC Wales Investigates programme that of the 38 care homes who responded to their survey, 16 said they had felt pressurised into taking patients who were either Covid-19 positive or untested.\n\nAndrew Morgan is the leader of Rhondda Cynon Taf council and the Welsh Local Government Association\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Politics Wales programme, Mr Morgan said there were similar issues in Rhondda Cynon Taf where he is the Labour leader of the council.\n\n\"Before we actually went in to the lockdown, when there was a real rush to make sure hospitals had capacity, for the initial first few weeks, my understanding is... there was limited testing.\n\n\"But very quickly, when we started to see a few outbreaks in residential homes in my county, we absolutely took the line, and I know other colleagues did the same, to say to the health boards we will not be prepared to accept clients coming out of hospital unless they are tested.\"\n\nMr Morgan said he plans to raise the idea of double testing discharged care home residents with the health minister.\n\nMr Morgan said it might be necessary because \"you could be tested today, show no symptoms, have a clear test, be discharged into a care setting and have symptoms tomorrow\".\n\nSince lockdown began, 27% of the coronavirus deaths in Wales have been care home residents, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nThis figure does not include those care home residents who died after being transferred to hospital.\n\nOn Saturday 16 May, the Welsh Government announced coronavirus testing would be extended to all care home residents and staff in Wales.\n\nInitially, it had opted to test only individuals with symptoms, and then increased testing to larger homes with no signs of the virus.\n\nMr Gething said changes resulted from \"emerging evidence and scientific advice\".\n\nConwy council Conservative leader Sam Rowlands told BBC Politics Wales \"it was a shame to see such a delay\" in testing all care home staff and residents.\n\n\"It means all those really hard working staff on site in those care homes are basically working with both arms behind their back when they can't get access to the testing that they need.\n\n\"And I think it also smacks of the lack of value being placed in those staff and possibly those residents as well.\n\n\"And I, like many leaders of councils across Wales, were crying out for this mass testing to take place sooner rather than later.\"\n\n\"It'll take a bit of time for them to get through them all and it is helping and it is highlighting the issues around asymptomatic cases as well,\" he said.\n\n\"So, it's clear this testing should've taken place earlier because it would've protected more people,\" he added.\n\nCeredigion council Plaid Cymru leader Ellen ap Gwynn told the programme there was \"still a delay\" with testing and that \"there has been a dire lack of testing facility over time\".\n\nAll three council leaders said they believe care home residents and staff will be tested every fortnight.\n\nMary Wimbury said the testing policy \"has not yet turned into reality\"\n\nMary Wimbury, chief executive of Care Forum Wales, said she wanted to see all care home residents and staff tested \"at least weekly\".\n\n\"While the policy has now changed so that all care home residents and staff will be tested, that policy has not yet turned into reality and ensuring that that takes place must be the next priority,\" she said.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"We require health boards to test all individuals being discharged from hospital to a step down or care home setting regardless of whether or not they were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 so that their Covid-19 status is known on discharge.\n\n\"People will not be admitted to a care home without a negative test. We will continue to keep our policy under review to ensure we respond if and when new evidence emerges.\"\n\nOn the question of testing care home staff and residents on a weekly basis, the spokesman said: \"The frequency of retesting care homes with no cases of coronavirus will be determined based on risk, for example whether there is community transmission in the area.\"", "The Amazon rainforest - which plays a vital role in balancing the world's climate and helping fight global warming - is also suffering as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Deforestation jumped 55% in the first four months of 2020 compared with the same period last year, as people have taken advantage of the crisis to carry out illegal clearances. Logging, illegal mining, land clearances and wildfires were already at an 11-year high and scientists say we're fast approaching a point of no return - after which the Amazon will no longer function as it should. Here, we look at the pressures pushing the Amazon to the brink and ask what the nine countries that share this unique natural resource are doing to protect it. The largest and most diverse tropical rainforest in the world is home to 33 million people and thousands of species of plants and animals. Since coronavirus spread to Brazil, in March, Amazonas has been the state to register Brazil's highest infection rates - it also has one of the most underfunded health systems in the country. As elsewhere, social distancing and travel restrictions have been imposed to limit the spread of the virus. But many of the field agents working to protect reserves have pulled out, Jonathan Mazower, of Survival International, says, allowing loggers and miners to target these areas. In April, as the number of cases rose and states started adopting isolation measures, deforestation actually increased 64% compared with the same month in 2019, according to preliminary satellite data from space research agency INPE. Last year, an unprecedented number of fires devastated huge swathes of forest in the Amazon. Peak fire season is from July which some experts worry could coincide with the peak of the coronavirus crisis. The Brazilian authorities are deploying troops in the Amazon region to help protect the rainforest, tackle illegal deforestation and forest fires. But critics say that the government’s rhetoric and policies could actually be encouraging loggers and illegal miners. Even before this year’s spike in deforestation, the rate across the nine Amazon countries had continued to rise. Brazil, Bolivia and Peru were among the top five countries for loss of primary forest in 2019, with Bolivia experiencing a record-breaking loss of tree cover because of wildfires. But that is not the only problem. \"To only speak of deforestation when we refer to the loss of the Amazon is what I call \"the great green lie\",\" says climate scientist Antonio Donato Nobre. \"The destruction of the Amazon rainforest up till now is much bigger than the almost 20% that they talk of in the media.\" To get a more complete sense of the scale of the destruction, Dr Nobre says it is necessary to take into account the figures for degradation. This happens when a combination of pressures on a stretch of forest - such as fires, logging or unlicensed hunting - make it hard for the ecosystem to function properly. Even if an area does not lose all its trees and vegetation, degradation strips the rainforest of properties that are vital to the planet. Scientists say that if we don't reverse current levels of deforestation and degradation, the consequences of climate change could accelerate.\n• The Amazon in Brazil is on fire - how bad is it? Not all deforestation is the same The most common way of measuring deforestation is \"tree cover loss\" - where forest vegetation has been completely erased. In 2019 alone, the tree cover loss in the Amazon reached 2.4 million hectares (24,000 sq km), according to Global Forest Watch. Half of this was primary forest - 1.7 million hectares of forest that was still in its original state and rich in biodiversity. Its destruction was the same as three football pitches of virgin forest being destroyed every minute in 2019. Skip \"football pitches\" A football pitch is frequently used as a reference because, according to Fifa, the maximum size of a pitch is 1.08 hectares. However, some countries use smaller dimensions, which is why deforestation calculations can vary so much. This may seem insignificant - only 0.32% of the forest in the whole Amazon biome - but it is also a question of quality. \"Each hectare deforested means part of the ecosystem ceases to function and this affects the rest,\" says Oxford University rainforest expert Erika Berenguer. In the last 10 years, figures for primary forest loss have remained high or spiked in most of the Amazon nations. Primary forest is home to trees that can be hundreds or even thousands of years old. They perform a powerful role in mitigating the effects of climate change, as they act as an enormous carbon dioxide store. A small part of the CO2 absorbed by trees during photosynthesis is released into the atmosphere during respiration. The rest is transformed into carbon which the trees use to produce the sugars needed for their metabolism. The older and larger the tree, the more carbon it stores. According to Dr Berenguer, a large tree (with at least three metres circumference) can contain between three and four tonnes of carbon. This is the same as about 10 to 12 tonnes of CO2, or what a family car emits over four years. Many people believe that to make up for what we've lost in the Amazon, we just need to plant trees elsewhere. But that is not the case One of the direct effects of deforestation is that it releases CO2 stored in the forest. Forest fires or the decomposition of felled trees both transform the carbon within the tree back into gas. For this reason, scientists fear that the Amazon will stop being a carbon store and will instead become a serious emitter of CO2, accelerating the effects of climate change. A recent study claimed that 20% of the Amazon is already emitting more CO2 that it absorbs.\n• Deforested parts of Amazon 'emitting more CO2 than they absorb' The (in)visible destruction of the Amazon Experts like Antonio Nobre believe that deforestation does not show the full picture of what is being lost and we should also take into account \"degradation\". This phenomenon is as much the result of climatic events - such as drought, as human action - such as burning or illegal logging which strip the forest of its vital functions. However, seen from above, it may seem that the forest is still standing. We should not cut down another single tree in the Amazon region \"Even though not all the vegetation is lost, the soil is drier and more fragile. This changes the microclimate of the forest and makes it easier for fires to spread because the soil heats up faster,\" explains Dr Alexander Lees, Senior Lecturer in tropical ecology at Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK. Scientists also warn that degradation is an important factor in releasing stored CO2. A new study by Raisg says 47% of all the emissions in the Amazon are as a result of degradation. And in seven of the nine Amazon countries, they say, degradation is the main source of their carbon dioxide emissions. Degradation also makes the forest less efficient. It loses, for example, the ability to generate some of its own rain. If we take the deforestation and degradation together, more than 50% of the Amazon no longer performs environmental services for the region's climate, says Antonio Nobre. Dr Nobre says the degraded areas of the Amazon are nearly twice as big as the deforested areas. A recent report by the Colombian government confirms that between 2012 and 2015, its own Amazon region lost 187,955 hectares of forest to deforestation and 414,605 hectares to degradation - more than double. So why don't they talk about degradation when measuring forest loss in the Amazon? \"It is a difficult phenomenon to measure because although you can see degradation on satellite images, you need to have data from the ground to understand the real picture - whether that area is more or less degraded or is recovering,\" says Alexander Lees. Among the Amazon countries, only Brazil regularly publishes annual degradation figures. However, scientists from across the region are trying to produce the relevant data to form a wider picture of the current state of the forest. What happens if we lose the forest? If deforestation and degradation continue at current levels, the Amazon could stop working as a tropical ecosystem, even if some of it is still standing. Annual loss of primary forest in the Amazon between 2002 and 2019 Annual loss percentage of primary forest in the Amazon between 2002 and 2019 We could be dangerously close to what scientists call \"the tipping point\" - when the nature of the Amazon will completely change. This will happen when total deforestation reaches between 20% and 25% - and that could happen in the next 20 or 30 years. It would cause the length of the dry season and temperatures in the forest to increase. Trees would start to die and the tropical rainforest could become more like a dry savannah. The projection, however, still does not take into account degradation because of the difficulty of measuring it across Panamazonas - the joint Amazon biome across the different national borders. This means it could be even closer than they think. But what could happen after the tipping point? Scientists can't say exactly what a sudden transformation of the Amazon rainforest would mean. But Brazilian climatologist Carlos Nobre, says temperatures in the region could increase by 1.5-3C in the areas which become degraded savannahs. And that is without taking into account possible increases already caused by global warming. This could have a catastrophic impact on the local economy. Less rain and higher temperatures mean less water for animals or growing crops like soya. Some studies link deforestation to an increase in illnesses transmitted by mosquitoes, such as malaria and leishmaniasis. The process of degradation could make the insects look for other sources of food and get closer to urban settlements. And temperature increases could lead to more heat-related cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, says Beatriz Oliveira, from Brazil's Climate Change Investigations Network (Red-Clima). \"Even if the conditions we have at the moment stay the same, temperatures in the Amazon region could increase by 8C, taking into account deforestation and global warming by 2070. \"Replacing the rainforest with another ecosystem, this increase could be even greater or could happen sooner.\" According to Carlos Nobre, there is a way. \"First, we should adopt a zero deforestation policy in Panamazonas, immediately, together with a reforestation programme in the south, south-east and east of the Amazon, which are the most vulnerable areas.\" \"If we could restore 60,000 or 70,000 sq km in this large area, where the dry season is already much longer, we could help the forest get back to working better and it would be more resilient.\" That doesn't seem an easy task in the near future. What are the threats in the Amazon's nine countries? Deforestation and its causes are a major source of friction between the governments of the nine Amazon nations, environmentalists, companies and indigenous groups: the desire for economic development clashes, in the main, with the preservation of the Amazon and its native peoples. Skip \"native peoples\" More than 33 million people live in the Amazon - about 8% of the population of South America - in towns, cities, riverside communities and indigenous villages. There are at least 100 tribes who have had little or no contact with outsiders. It affects the ecosystem of the whole region, including those who are not part of the Amazon itself, and beyond. Antonio Nobre says: \"The ring made by central-southern Brazil and the River Plate basin would be a desert if it wasn't for the Amazon. \"People have no idea what it would mean to lose this magnificent hydrological system.\" So what is driving deforestation in each of the Amazon nations, how much primary forest have they lost and what are their governments doing?\n\nWhat is the greatest threat in each country? Select a country to see the situation in its part of the Amazon The fires which started in Bolivia in May 2019 destroyed almost two million hectares of forest, according to the Friends of Nature monitoring NGO. Half of that was in protected areas, known for their wide biodiversity. Environmentalists say Evo Morales' government has promoted deforestation with policies of selling land in the Amazon region to businessmen and distributing it to farmers. The expansion of the farming frontier is mainly to encourage soya planting and cattle raising, in the hope of building exports for the Chinese market. In August 2019, Mr Morales celebrated the first beef exports to China from Santa Cruz. The same region was responsible for nearly half of Bolivia's soya production in 2018 and was most affected by the fires last year. In response to criticism during the fires crisis, Morales halted land sales in Santa Cruz for what he called \"an ecological pause\". We asked the Bolivian environment ministry about its strategy to reduce deforestation, but have had no response.\n• 2008: La Chiquitanía, in eastern Bolivia, is one of the main areas for cattle ranching and soya production in the country\n• 2010: While Evo Morales was in power, farmers and businesses received incentives to expand areas of production in the region\n• 2014: Controlled fires are a common practice in the deforestation process\n• 2016: A year after Evo Morales' government quadrupled the area that small producers could clear, there is a rise in deforestation in the zone\n• 2018: Bolivia was one of the top five countries worldwide for primary forest loss, according to Global Forest Watch. In 2019, fires destroyed more than two million hectares of the Amazon What is the greatest threat in each country? Select a country to see the situation in its part of the Amazon Brazil received international acclaim for the drop off in deforestation between 2004 and 2014 - an accumulated fall of 80% in almost 10 years. But the loss of forest has once again started to rise. In November 2019, the government published data confirming expert predictions: that between the middle of 2018 and the middle of 2019, deforestation in the Amazon had increased 30% in relation to the previous year. They had cleared around 980,000 hectares (9,800 sq km), the largest area of forest cut down since 2008. And these figures don't take into account August 2019, when Amazon fires were at their worst. President Jair Bolsonaro's government claimed the fires were down to the dry season. But investigations by IPAM and the Federal University of Acre found otherwise. According to their report, the Amazon fires are directly related to deforestation. \"After felling the trees, they leave it to dry for a few months then set fire to it to clear the vegetation. The land is then used to plant grass and create pastures,\" says Erika Berenguer. According to the FAO, 80% of tree loss in Brazil is directly or indirectly related to cattle farming. Brazil is the largest beef exporter in the world. It makes up 7% of the country's GDP and 4.6% of exports. Today, around 40% of the country's cattle is raised in Amazon states. But that is only part of the story. Around 60 million hectares of the Brazilian Amazon are considered public areas, or rather they have no legal purpose defined by the government. They are not conservation areas, nor indigenous territories, for example. People clear this land, cut the trees down and put cattle on them, it's the cheapest way to occupy them, says Stabile. A patch of land without trees is worth more on the market. The primary use of deforested land in Brazil is cattle. But the aim is not necessarily to earn money from meat production but from the sale of land The next step in the chain is to illegally obtain a title deed for the land and sell it, says Mr Stabile. They then find another patch of forest and start again. The land is often sold to large-scale farmers and it is hard to tell which was cleared legally and what wasn't. The same happens in Colombia, Peru and Ecuador. According to Mr Stabile and other investigators, Brazil could double or triple its number of cattle without felling another hectare of the Amazon rainforest. \"What's happening is land speculation,\" he says. \"If the government defined these public areas, it would cease to be lucrative.\" Environmentalists and investigators say statements and policies from Bolsonaro's government are encouraging clearances and the persecution of indigenous people. Although the government denies this, the president has said he wants to end the \"industry of environmental taxes\" and believes the country has too many conservation areas. The government also wants to allow mining on land belonging to indigenous tribes. Between January and September 2019, attacks and invasions of indigenous people's land increased 40% on the previous year. The finger of blame is pointed at those involved in land clearance, logging and mining. However, as the coronavirus crisis took hold in May, around 4,000 troops were mobilised in the Amazon against illegal logging and other activities until June, although that could be extended into the dry season to help with fire prevention. Environment Minister Ricardo Salles said the coronavirus outbreak had \"aggravated\" the situation this year. President Bolsonaro, however, has spoken against punitive measures taken against loggers and miners - such as the destruction of their equipment when it can't be taken out of the forest. Critics say that sends a message that the government is on their side. What is the greatest threat in each country? Select a country to see the situation in its part of the Amazon In 2017, the level of deforestation in Colombia was one of the biggest in the Amazon region and the highest in the country's history. More than 140,000 hectares of forest was cleared, twice the previous year's total. This peak was a result of the peace accord with Farc rebels in 2016, which left a power vacuum in forested areas. Community leaders said Farc had acted as a type of environmental police, controlling when farmers were allowed to clear the forest or burn for agriculture or cattle farming. \"Government officials wouldn't come near the Amazon region because of Farc, who, for their own protection, had an interest in keeping the trees standing. So the rebels could establish strict rules,\" said Rodrigo Botero, director of Foundation for Conservation and Sustainable Development. However, Colombia is now facing a race to clear land in the Amazon led by large-scale farmers, local authorities, drug dealers and other paramilitary groups such as the ELN, says Botero. There is a market for land and the government can't stop it, he says. The Colombian government formed a National Council for the Fight against Deforestation in an attempt to tackle the issue. The group works to identify pockets of deforestation, the causes and what action is needed, according to the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development. Laws passed in 2018 made the protection of water, biodiversity and the environment priority issues in matters of national security. The government can now intervene to protect areas in the Amazon national park from illegal activities. They are also carrying out military operations against people clearing land and launching programmes which promote financial incentives for conservation. By 2018, Colombian had lost around 11.7% of its original forest - 14% of which was in the previous eight years. But there are signs the efforts are paying off. In 2019, there was a significant fall in the loss of primary forest - although the level of deforestation was still higher than any year on record before the peace agreement. What is the greatest threat in each country? Select a country to see the situation in its part of the Amazon In the north of Ecuador, palm oil production is the main threat to the Amazon, experts say. The oil is used worldwide in the industrialised production of food such as chocolate, cosmetics, cleaning products and fuels. Ecuador is the second biggest producer of palm oil in Latin America, and the sixth worldwide. The expansion of palm oil and cocoa plantations in the last 10 years is the main driver of deforestation, according to Global Forest Watch and Maap. This is particularly worrying because despite only covering about 2% of the Amazon biome, Ecuador has one of the most diverse parts of the forest. In just one hectare of the Yasuní park area, you'll find 670 tree species - more than in the whole of North America. Furthermore, according to a study by the country's National Institute of Biodiversity, between 40% and 60% of the species of trees in Ecuador's Amazon region are still unknown. Mining projects and oil exploration in the Amazon have also made headline news in Ecuador. One such project is Mirador, an open mine for copper, gold and silver which will be built in two Amazon provinces. It is the biggest project of its type in Ecuador - but not the only one. The government says industrial mining in the region, carried out by a Chinese company, will be responsible and the income generated will allow investment in infrastructure locally. However, investigators believe the activity could bring with it serious problems to the Amazon. \"As well as deforestation, we don't know exactly where they are going to put the dams nor how they are going to monitor them,\" said Carmen Josse, scientific director of the EcoCiencia Foundation. They are rugged areas with a lot of biodiversity. We don't want an accident like Brumadinho, in Brazil We asked Ecuador's government about their strategy to prevent mining contributing to deforestation - but they have not responded. What is the greatest threat in each country? Select a country to see the situation in its part of the Amazon Around 75% of it is virgin forest, which has had little or no intervention by humans, according to Global Forest Watch in 2016. Among the Amazon territories it has the largest percentage of forest in protected areas - almost 50% - and the lowest levels of deforestation. However, representatives of native people and environmentalists are worried by the advance of legal and illegal mining, encroaching on the protected zones. At the start of 2019, French President Emmanuel Macron suspended a gold mining megaproject within the Guianan Amazon National Park, which he had initially approved at the start of his tenure. The suspension was the result of national and international campaigns. Despite this, illegal mining is the main threat to the park. Security forces have detected an increase in the number of illegal mines in the area since 2017. With a population of less than 300,000 people, French Guiana has between 8,000 and 10,000 illegal miners. The rising price of gold since the 2008 financial crisis has sparked a rush to find the metal in the forests of the world. \"Most of the time, they're poor kids from Brazil looking for easy money. They live in the forest for months and months,\" explained Captain Vianney, who is leading the Foreign Legion's operations against gold mining. We asked the ministry of French overseas territories about the government's strategy to combat deforestation but they have not replied. What is the greatest threat in each country? Select a country to see the situation in its part of the Amazon Ninety five per cent of Guyana is covered by the Amazon. The country proposes two ways of treating the forest which, for many, seem irreconcilable. On the one hand, it is looking for a way of exploiting it economically while at the same time selling itself as a Green State that protects the Amazon. The annual rate of deforestation in Guyana is the lowest in the region - 0.051% in 2018, according to government figures. Part of its success is due to strategies such as the creation of a forest management commission, which decides which trees can or cannot be cut down. However, legal felling controlled by the government is still considered a factor that enables deforestation. According to environmentalists, licences for large international logging companies create access to virgin forest which illegal miners take advantage of. Guyana's Forestry Commission says it has not opened any new areas of the forest for legal felling since 2015. In fact, some areas were taken back off the companies who had licences to exploit them and they have become conservation areas, the government said. Illegal mining - mainly gold - is to blame for 85% of the forest loss, according to the Forestry Commission. Gold is the country's main export. The government says it has a \"Green State development strategy\" for the country which includes more investment in ecotourism and renewable energy, stricter limits on CO2 emissions and increasing forest conservation. All this is funded by international agreements to preserve the Amazon and the discovery of huge oil reserves at sea. What is the greatest threat in each country? Select a country to see the situation in its part of the Amazon Small scale agriculture has traditionally been the main cause of deforestation in Peru. Recently, however, cultivation of palm oil, cocoa and coca are catching up. A 2018 study found that despite making up only 4% of crops in the Amazon, palm oil was responsible for 11% of deforestation between 2007 and 2013. The oil is used worldwide to produce food, cosmetics and fuel. After some palm oil producers were fined for deforestation, they started to buy land from small farmers who had already cleared the forest illegally, says Sandra Rios, geographical engineer with the Instituto de Bien Comun (IBC Peru). The State is slow in creating ways of monitoring, controlling and punishing deforestation by these and other means We have asked Peru's environment minister about their strategy to prevent deforestation - but they have not responded. Illegal gold mining poses an increasing risk to the Peruvian Amazon. Peru is the biggest exporter of gold in Latin America, and the sixth worldwide. However, experts say up to 25% of its annual production comes from illegal mining. Since 2006, Peru has been experiencing a new gold rush in the Tambopata Nature Reserve, one of the most biodiverse in the region, driven by rising gold prices and the construction of the Brazil-Peru Transoceanic Highway. The road, from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic, not only makes travelling easier, it also opens up previously inaccessible areas of the forest. The group of miners in the area, known as the La Pampa, has grown to have more than 5,000 members. The miners strip the vegetation from the Amazon soil to look for gold. They use mercury to separate the precious metal from others, poisoning the waters and local animals in the process. In 2017, the loss of forest as a result of mining reached its highest level since 1985, according to the Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (Cincia).\n• 2007: Start of the Transoceanic Highway between Brazil and Peru beside the Tambopata Nature Reserve, of the the most diverse areas in the Amazon\n• 2010: When the road building finishes, the La Pampa enclave of illegal mining is set up\n• 2013: The road, according to scientists, gave access to more parts of the forest and increased deforestation to make way for mining in the area\n• 2016: A report by the Amazon Andes Monitoring Project says 350 hectares have been deforested as a result of illegal mining in the Tambopata reserve\n• 2018: At its peak, La Pampa had more than 5,000 active miners. In 2019, a military operation targeted the mining camp In March 2019, the government declared a state of emergency for 60 days to carry out military operations against miners in la Pampa. What is the greatest threat in each country? Select a country to see the situation in its part of the Amazon With almost 94% of its territory within the Amazon, Suriname is one of the countries with the best track record of conservation in biome. However, since 2012 Suriname has recorded an increase in the loss of forest, mainly as a result of gold mining. Between 2000 and 2014, the extent of mining areas, generally on a small scale industrial or artisanal mines, increased by 893%, according to the Foundation for Forest Management and Production Control. The government foundation says mining is responsible for 73% of the country's deforestation. Suriname is 10th in the world for gold production relative to its size. And that's without mentioning illegal mining. Most illegal mining takes place in remote areas of the forest, far from the authorities. It is believed that up to 60% of the gold miners in Suriname are Brazilians who cross the border illegally. In some of the larger areas belong to indigenous tribes or descendents of slaves, mining has become the main source of income for families. What is the greatest threat in each country? Select a country to see the situation in its part of the Amazon There are no current official figures available for deforestation in Venezuela, but monitoring by local and international scientists show forest loss has increased in the last few years - especially since the creation of the Orinoco Mining Arc. With the dramatic fall in oil prices and production in Venezuela since 2014, the Maduro government has focused its attention at states rich in minerals - such as the Amazon. Venezuela has the sixth largest natural gold reserve in the world, with around 7,000 tonnes. The mining arc, created in 2016, allowed licences for mining precious metals such as gold, diamonds and coltan (a combination of columbite and tantalite used in the production of mobile phones) across an area of 112,000 sq km, about 12% of the country. The area also covers natural landmarks, forest reserves, an Amazon national park and at least four designated indigenous territories. \"The Orinoco zone is traditionally a mining area, even the indigenous people did it,\" says ecologist Peláez, from the NGO Provita. \"But the law, in some ways, legalised forms of mining that were already in place and did not help reduce activity. This has had an enormous impact on the environment and the local population.\" Maduro's plan was to grant concessions to foreign mining companies which would have to form businesses together with state-owned companies in order to operate in the area. In practice, according to Mr Peláez, this resulted in an exponential growth in small-scale mining. In 2018 alone, according to the Central Bank of Venezuela, the state bought 9.2 tonnes of gold on the internal market - the same as the total amount for 2011-2017. It's having a devastating effect on the region. \"The gold that is there is of very poor quality, it's dirty,\" says Mr Peláez. \"The amount that is coming out of the ground is very small.\" People are destroying the forest and digging wherever they can. They're leaving sterile sand where nothing can grow. The deforestation in this zone is irreversible Mining is producing tonnes of sediment that is accumulating in the country's main rivers. The use of mercury to separate gold from impurities, is poisoning rivers and indigenous people. Venezuela has the most illegal mines in the Amazon, according to a study by Raisg. There are 1,899 illegal mines, concentrated in the Orinoco mining arc. In the midst of Venezuela's political crisis, the National Assembly tried to repeal the law that created the Orinoco Mining Arc and even labelled it \"ecocide\" or a crime against the environment. We've asked three government ministries about the strategy to reduce deforestation in the zone, but none have responded.", "There are concerns people in Wales are still not able to book drive-through coronavirus tests due to not being able to access a UK website.\n\nIn England, Scotland and Northern Ireland members of the public are able to book tests online.\n\nDespite it being announced last week that announced Wales would join the service, it is still unavailable.\n\nThe Welsh Government said an update would be provided as \"soon as possible\".\n\nCritical workers are able to book tests by contacting testing centres directly.\n\nBut unions said the lack of testing was concerning for workers, especially those on zero-hour contracts or jobs where they were not entitled to company sick pay.\n\nThe booking portal for the general public as it appeared on Saturday afternoon\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said work was being done on access to the site at the moment.\n\n\"As soon as this work is finalised, daily test slot allocations will be available for critical workers,\" he said.\n\nOn Monday, the Welsh Government said critical workers and members of the public would be able to use the UK booking site for drive-through appointments \"soon.\"\n\nHome test kits are available to everyone across the UK, but availability depends on demand.\n\nThe decision to opt into the UK system meant ministers in Cardiff ditched plans to develop Wales' own online-booking system.\n\nGemma Powell, a supermarket worker from Bridgend, wanted a coronavirus test last week when she developed a dry cough.\n\n\"I couldn't order a home testing kit but I finally managed to get through to book an appointment at a drive through screening in Pencoed,\" she said.\n\n\"The system is making it so difficult to get a test.\n\n\"The number I phoned was the Abercynon helpline which I thought was the wrong number - I phoned this for the correct number for Bridgend area but it turned out to be for my area.\n\n\"If I hadn't tried this number I would still be without a test appointment.\n\n\"The information people need is hard to get hold of.\"\n\nThe test came back negative, meaning Gemma was able to return to work after missing four days.\n\nWales Trades Union Congress (TUC) general secretary Shav Taj said the system is \"still confusing people\" and \"needs greater clarity\".\n\nShe said it was a concern, in particular for workers not entitled to paid time off and company sick pay if they needed to get tested and self-isolate.\n\n\"Many key workers are low paid or on zero hours, precarious agency contracts,\" she said.\n\n\"They can't survive off statutory sick pay alone.\"\n\nAngela Burns, who speaks on health for the Welsh Conservatives, said it was \"not a surprise that there is confusion and difficulties booking a test\".\n\n\"The Welsh Government spent nearly a month delaying access to an online portal, wanting a distinctive Welsh approach to the pandemic instead of using the UK Government's online portal,\" she said.", "\"Covid-19 anxiety\" is being felt by many with new lockdown routines\n\nMental health experts are offering advice to help adults and children cope with \"Covid-19 anxiety\".\n\nA Cardiff trauma psychotherapist says many people are experiencing feelings of fear and uncertainty.\n\nThis includes NHS staff, who are said to be at risk of high rates of post-traumatic stress disorder, without the right support.\n\nSpecialist Colette Hart said the virus \"ticks all the boxes\" to trigger a distress response.\n\nShe said being forced to adapt to new routines, such as social distancing, self-isolation, home schooling or compulsory interaction with family added to the issues.\n\nWorries about finances, health concerns and loved ones can lead to \"a natural response to life's events\", said Ms Hart.\n\n\"Is it any wonder with little control over our lives many of us report feeling overwhelmed by a sense of heightened anxiety, hyper vigilance, fear and loss of meaning?\" she added.\n\nBut the psychotherapist said there are ways to cope - and to help prevent future mental health issues developing.\n\n\"There's no doubt that, going forward, another 'normal' will take the place of this one, and some of us may seek professional help to try and make sense of our world and re-set our buttons,\" said Ms Hart.\n\n\"And some may not. It's important to understand we can't control what happens with the coronavirus or the economy, but we can control how we respond to it.\"\n\nDr Pippa Mundy said keeping a routine for children was important\n\nThe impact of coronavirus upon children and young people will be greatly influenced by those they live with, especially their parents or guardians, according to consultant clinical psychologist Dr Pippa Mundy.\n\n\"Keeping a routine is helpful for children in good times and is especially important in difficult times. Routines give order and predictability when we feel the world is changing around us,\" she said.\n\nSuch routines could include having regular family meals together, providing opportunities to check-in with each other, playing games, dancing, exercising and listening to music together to give a sense of solidarity, she said.\n\nBe safe and stay connected - Self-isolation doesn't mean cutting off all communication, in fact, it's more important than ever to talk and listen, share stories and advice, and stay in touch with the people who matter to you.\n\nTake notice of things that make you feel good - Eating healthy food, keeping moving by going out for walks or exercising can help us to feel good. Notice the beauty outside your window or on a walk around the block, taking time to acknowledge people you see.\n\nGo on an information mini-break - the endless updates from news outlets and people on social media can be completely overwhelming. Pick one trusted source of information and visit it once a day only.\n\nShare how you're feeling - Talk to loved ones and friends. Talking has the effect of lifting our mood and really helps us to begin to feel more positive if we're having a tough time.\n\nKeep moving - Find ways to move your body and your mood every day. It's OK to go for a walk, run or ride your bike, as long as you avoid other people.\n\nStick to a routine - This sounds dull but it will help you get through each day. Go to sleep and wake up at the same time, eat regularly, shower, change your clothes, get some fresh air, book in video-chats with colleagues or friends, do your chores. Make time for fun!\n\nFind ways to relax and distract - Finding things that help you breathe deeply, consciously setting your worries aside or focusing on the moment to recharge can be helpful. Distracting yourself by watching films or TV programmes, reading or listening to music will help you to set things in context and provide relief from anxious feelings.\n\nIf you need support or help - you can also find resources on the BBC Action Line website.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nThe government has given the go-ahead for elite athletes to return to contact training - when individual sports deem it safe to do so.\n\nThe government advises beginning with clusters of two or three athletes, then progressing to groups of four to 12 and ultimately full team training.\n\nIt is up to individual sports to assess the risk and consult athletes, coaches and support staff.\n\nThe Premier League will discuss the guidance at a meeting on Wednesday.\n\nClubs in England's top flight returned to 'phase one' non-contact training on 19 May.\n\nContact training is phase two in a three-stage plan, with the final phase - the resumption of sport behind closed doors - expected to begin in June.\n\nSports minister Nigel Huddleston said: \"This new guidance marks the latest phase of a carefully phased return to training process for elite athletes, designed to limit the risk of injury and protect the health and safety of all involved.\n\n\"We are absolutely clear that individual sports must review whether they have the appropriate carefully controlled medical conditions in place before they can proceed, and secure the confidence of athletes, coaches and support staff.\"\n\nCurrent social-distancing rules will apply at all times other than during technical training, and equipment-sharing will be avoided where possible.\n\nFootball is the only major team sport to recommence training so far, with the English Football League joining the Premier League in returning on Monday.\n\nIt was announced on Thursday that rugby union's Premiership clubs would not begin training for at least two weeks, while England's men have begun a phased return to cricket training ahead of a proposed restart of action in England and Wales on 1 July.", "Ten residents have died at Home Farm in Portree\n\nThe deaths of three women at a care home on Skye at the centre of a coronavirus outbreak are being investigated by police.\n\nTen residents at Home Farm care home in Portree have died in the outbreak.\n\nPolice Scotland said they were looking into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of three women - aged 84, 86 and 88 - at the home.\n\nThe investigation comes after the Care Inspectorate raised serious concerns about the care offered at the home.\n\nThe watchdog began legal action to remove owners HC-One as care providers earlier this month.\n\nA decision on the home's future has been deferred until next month after NHS Highland was brought in to effectively run the facility.\n\nThe Care Inspectorate brought the action after all but four of the home's 34 residents and 29 staff contracted Covid-19.\n\nIn a statement, Police Scotland said: \"We can confirm we are investigating the circumstances of the deaths of three women, aged 84, 86 and 88, at Home Farm care home on Skye. Inquires are continuing.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for HC-One said they were committed to cooperating fully with any investigations into the coronavirus-related deaths and apologised for any failings.\n\nShe added: \"We recognised that improvements were needed at Home Farm and therefore apologise to our residents, their families, and the local community.\n\n\"The safety and wellbeing of our residents is our top priority and we have already made significant progress. We are continuing to make sustained and continued improvements across the home so we can deliver the very best for residents and colleagues at Home Farm.\"\n\nThe investigation, reported in the Scottish Mail on Sunday, comes as Police Scotland also said it was investigating complaints at a home in East Dunbartonshire.\n\nThe force said complaints had been made regarding Springvale home in Lennoxtown. However, the force said the investigation was unrelated to any deaths at the home and was not connected to Covid-19.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WW2 paratrooper who jumped again aged 97 passes away\n\nA WW2 veteran, whose parachute jump to mark the 75th anniversary of a major wartime operation went viral last year, has died at the age of 97.\n\nSandy Cortmann, from Aberdeen, made an emotional return to the Netherlands to commemorate the anniversary of Operation Market Garden last September.\n\nHe was just 22 when he parachuted near Arnhem in 1944, before being taken prisoner by the Germans.\n\nThe events in 1944 were immortalised in the 1977 epic A Bridge Too Far.\n\nMr Cortmann's family said he had passed away at his care home in Aberdeen on Saturday.\n\nMr Cortmann described the jump last year as \"thoroughly terrifying but wonderful\".\n\nFootage of the jump went viral on social media, and not long after returning to Scotland from his adventure he received hundreds of fan letters from people in the Netherlands.\n\nSandy Cortmann was just 22 when he parachuted near Arnhem in 1944\n\nDutch people were so moved his his story, a campaign was launched to send well wishes and thank you messages to the Aberdonian.\n\nOperation Market Garden saw 35,000 British, American and Polish troops parachute or glide behind German lines in a bid to open up an attack route for allied forces.\n\nThe fighting around Arnhem saw more than 1,500 British soldiers killed and nearly 6,500 captured.\n\nSome 1,500 people took part in a mass parachute drop to commemorate the allied assault.\n\nRecalling 1944, Mr Cortmann said: \"When the fighting started we were just in amongst it.\n\n\"You can describe it as brave, you thought you were brave, but once you got down there, Jesus Christ, terrified, absolutely terrified.\n\n\"You just heard bangs and machine guns. I didn't understand what that was all about.\"\n\nSandy Cortmann did the tandem jump last year\n\nAllied soldiers had been parachuted in to secure bridges on the Dutch and German border.\n\nMr Cortmann remembered seeing treatment areas for the wounded \"strewn with bodies\".\n\nHe recalled one young soldier calling out repeatedly for his mother and being told to help quieten him.\n\n\"I crawled out, I just touched his hand, grabbed it and he died,\" he said.\n\n\"I thought, 'what a thing to happen'. I was choking, but I was alive.\"\n\nThe veteran paratrooper and his comrades had tried to escape the fighting by crossing a river to safety, but Mr Cortmann was forced to admit he could not swim.\n\nHe said that instead of abandoning him his fellow soldiers put their clothes back on and stayed.\n\nMr Cortmann was eventually captured and endured a seven-hour train ride in a packed wagon to Germany where he was held for a year.\n\nFriend Bob Crocker, a fellow member of the Aberdeen Airborne Alliance, said: \"I'm really saddened by the passing of Sandy, the humble kind gentleman Airborne soldier.\n\n\"Sandy was a treasure in many ways and especially to us in the Airborne community, we've not only lost an Airborne brother but a friend and a gentleman. It was a privilege knowing and spending time with him, we'll all miss him and his spirit. Rest in peace warrior.\"", "May's school half-term would normally have boosted trade in tourist towns like Tenby\n\nWales' tourism sector could \"struggle to generate any significant revenue\" before next Easter at the earliest, according to the economy minister.\n\nKen Skates said it could be longer, depending on \"how soon we can get the virus under control\".\n\nTourism is estimated to be worth £3bn to the Welsh economy and bosses have also expressed fears for its future.\n\n\"We have to protect the 2021 season by making sure we get rid of the virus as soon as possible,\" said Mr Skates.\n\n\"The tourism sector is really going to struggle to generate any significant revenue before certainly Easter of next year, possibly the summer of next year,\" he told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement.\n\nMr Skates said an \"incredibly generous\" package of support had been put in place for businesses but it was \"vitally important\" that people continued to follow the lockdown restrictions to \"kill off the virus\" as soon as possible.\n\nHe went on to say that some sections of the tourism industry, such as caravan parks, could see some return of business activity, but only if it was safe, and as part of an easing of lockdown measures.\n\nRestrictions currently ban all but essential travel in Wales and visitors are not allowed to come from over the English border despite more relaxed rules there.\n\nThe minister also warned that unemployment could increase, depending on how the economy recovers.\n\nLatest figures showed the number of people claiming unemployment-related benefits leapt in April, the first full month of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\n\"Unemployment could rise to 10%, possibly more - it depends on the recovery though,\" said Mr Skates.\n\n\"If it is a V-shaped recovery then we'd expect to be able to get people back into work much sooner,\" he said.\n\nDavid Jones, the Conservative MP for Clwyd West, told Sunday Supplement that reopening zoos and other attractions with \"wide open spaces\" should be a \"priority\" when it was \"safe to do so\".\n\nHe pointed out they were facing crippling costs and unable to furlough staff as they had to continue to look after the animals.\n\nMr Jones said it was costing about £30,000 each week to maintain the Welsh Mountain Zoo in Colwyn Bay which has been closed since March.\n\nAndrew Campbell, chair of Wales Tourism Alliance which represents 6,000 tourism businesses, told BBC Wales' Country Focus programme that extra bank holidays or vouchers to direct people to less-visited parts of the country could help save the industry when it comes out of lockdown.\n\n\"Rural areas are just the right sort of assets to have for a tourism destination so we are really hoping that people will come back here, but we need businesses to survive,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A total of 84 people died in the last 24 hours\n\nNew York state's daily death toll has dropped below 100 for the first time since late March.\n\nA total of 84 people died in the last 24 hours, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Saturday, compared with 109 a day before.\n\nDuring the height of the outbreak in April, more than 1,000 people a day were losing their lives in worst-hit US state.\n\n\"In my head, I was always looking to get under 100,\" Mr Cuomo said.\n\n\"It doesn't do good for any of those 84 families that are feeling the pain,\" he said at his daily briefing, but added that the drop was a sign of \"real progress\".\n\nMr Cuomo announced on Friday that groups of up to 10 people could gather \"for any lawful purpose\" anywhere in the state, including New York City.\n\nBut, he added: \"If you don't have to be with a group of 10 people don't be with a group of 10 people.\"\n\nNew York state was once the epicentre of the US coronavirus outbreak, with more than 28,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nThe US has the biggest death toll from Covid-19 at 96,000. The UK is second with more than 36,000.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n• None Trump will 'override governors' on churches reopening. Video, 00:00:59Trump will 'override governors' on churches reopening", "Industry leaders have warned the government that the UK risks being left behind, unless it quickly agrees \"air bridge\" deals with other nations.\n\nBusiness groups have written to Boris Johnson, saying a 14-day quarantine on all air passengers arriving in the UK will have \"serious consequences\" for the economy.\n\nOn Friday, Home Secretary Priti Patel said it will come into force on 8 June.\n\nBut firms say the UK should relax the measure with low-risk countries.\n\nSo-called air bridges would allow visitors from countries where coronavirus infection rates are low into the UK, without having to self-isolate for two weeks.\n\nIn a letter to the prime minister, bosses of airlines like EasyJet, Tui, Jet2 and Virgin Atlantic, as well as industry bodies Airlines UK, the British Chambers of Commerce, UK Hospitality and manufacturing association Made UK said that while they fully support the government's commitment to public health, they have \"serious reservations\" about a \"blanket approach\" to all arrivals into Britain.\n\nInstead, they are asking for a more \"targeted, risk-based\" approach when establishing air links with countries that have high infection rates from the pandemic.\n\n\"The alternative risks major damage to the arteries of UK trade with key industry supply chains, whilst pushing the UK to the back of the queue as states begin conversations for opening up their borders,\" says the letter.\n\nPassengers, pictured here at Manchester Airport, are required to stand at least 2m apart from others\n\nMs Patel said on Friday: \"We recognise how hard these changes will be for our travel and leisure sectors, who are already struggling in these unprecedented times.\n\n\"Across government, we continue to work with them and support what is an incredibly dynamic sector to find new ways to reopen international travel and tourism in a safe and responsible way.\"\n\nShe added that the 14-day self-isolation rule will be reviewed every three weeks.\n\nSome airlines have announced plans to increase flight numbers this summer after air travel ground to a virtual halt because of the coronavirus lockdowns imposed by many governments.\n\nHowever, some have argued that the two-week-long quarantine will put people off travel and be difficult to enforce.\n\nMichael O'Leary, boss of Ryanair, which will ramp up flight numbers in July, recently told BBC Radio 5's Live Breakfast programme that the 14-day quarantine rule was \"idiotic\" and would prove to be \"ineffective\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's political editor asks Rishi Sunak if the UK is looking at a recession due to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe UK scheme to pay wages of workers on leave because of coronavirus will be extended to October, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said.\n\nMr Sunak confirmed that employees will continue to receive 80% of their monthly wages up to £2,500.\n\nBut he said the government will ask companies to \"start sharing\" the cost of the scheme from August.\n\nA quarter of the workforce, some 7.5 million people, are now covered by the scheme, which has cost £14bn a month.\n\nThe chancellor said that from August, the scheme would continue for all sectors and regions of the country but with greater flexibility to support the transition back to work.\n\nEmployers currently using the scheme will then be able to bring furloughed employees back part-time.\n\nMr Sunak will attempt slowly to reduce the cost to the taxpayer of the subsidy scheme, but full details are still to be worked out.\n\nHowever, sources have told the BBC the Treasury stills expects to be paying more than half the costs between August and October.\n\nLater on Tuesday, in an interview with the BBC, Mr Sunak said the number of job losses \"breaks my heart\", adding: \"That's why I'm working night and day to limit the amount of job losses.\"\n\nMr Sunak told the Commons said: \"I'm extending the scheme because I won't give up on the people who rely on it.\n\n\"Our message today is simple: we stood behind Britain's workers and businesses as we came into this crisis, and we will stand behind them as we come through the other side.\"\n\nThere has been growing concern about the cost of the scheme, and last week Mr Sunak said it could not continue in its current form.\n\nHowever, he was under pressure to announce changes soon to avoid a so-called \"cliff edge\" in which employers begin mass redundancies.\n\nAny company seeking to cut more than 100 jobs must run a 45-day consultation, meaning 18 May was the last date employers could start this process before the furlough scheme ended in June.\n\nThe chancellor rejected suggestions some people might get \"addicted\" to furlough if it was extended.\n\n\"Nobody who is on the furlough scheme wants to be on this scheme,\" the chancellor said. \"People up and down this country believe in the dignity of their work, going to work, providing for their families, it's not their fault their business has been asked to close or asked to stay at home.\"\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds said broadly welcomed the changes, saying \"at least we are moving in the right direction\".\n\nBut she said the \"big elephant in the room\" is over what the government's employer contribution will involve, adding that the \"critical point is that any changes to the scheme must not result in any spike in unemployment\".\n\nDespite the extension of the furlough scheme, Patrick Langmaid said it's still unlikely to stop him making people redundant from his Mother Ivey's Bay holiday park, at Padstow.\n\nHe has furloughed seven staff and has nine still working. The handful of staff he would usually employ seasonally he has let go.\n\n\"There is no income - and huge costs,\" he says.\n\n\"We are very worried about how we, as employers, are going to make contributions through August, September and October [when employers will be expected to share the costs of the scheme]\", he said. \"I am very, very worried about how I am going to cope in the winter.\n\n\"I've already started briefing my team that there will have to be redundancies,\" he says. He reckons four or five jobs may have to go, depending how long the lockdown lasts.\n\nDealing with redundancy is \"horrible\", he says, adding: \"It is really not a nice time to be running a business.\"\n\nBusinesses largely welcomed the extension, with business group the British Chambers of Commerce saying the move would bring \"significant relief\" to employers and workers,\n\nAnd Stephen Phipson, chief executive of manufacturing group Make UK, said it would avoid \"a looming cliff edge triggering significant redundancies for many companies and recognises the need for greater flexibility as the economy fires up.\"\n\nHowever, he warned that there was no \"silver bullet\" and that both government and industry would have to be flexible.\n\nThere was also support from the TUC, with general secretary Frances O'Grady saying the extension \"will be a big relief for millions\".\n\nBut she added: \"As the economic consequences of Covid-19 become clear, unions will keep pushing for a job guarantee scheme to make sure everyone has a decent job.\"\n\nPaul Johnson, director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies economic think tank, estimates the scheme will have cost nearly £100bn by October. It is thought that about 935,000 businesses signed up for the scheme in total.\n\nReports of the demise of the furlough scheme have been somewhat exaggerated. It was never going to be scrapped, especially after the Bank of England stressed the scheme's importance for economic recovery.\n\nOver a quarter of all jobs - 27%, 7.5 million in total - are now paid for by the taxpayer, potentially for eight months. After that, the level of subsidy from taxpayer will be lowered, with employers expected to pay a contribution.\n\nBy August, the scheme could start to look quite similar to longer standing wage subsidy schemes seen in continental Europe. The cost of the scheme to date is already over £10bn. This extension will be tens of billions more, but difficult to put a precise number on this given the lack of detail on the \"employer contribution\".\n\nExpensive yes. But what is also costly is letting unemployment sky rocket, as, without the extension, many businesses would have begun 45-day redundancy consultations this week.\n\nThe question now is how many businesses still see this as a bridge to some sort of normality where furloughed staff can be phased back into their old jobs. Unfortunately some in industries which will not return to normal have already started to fire staff. This announcement buys most workers more time.\n\nAre you currently on furlough? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "In 2019-20 Transport for London earned £4.9bn from fares - 47% of its income\n\nTransport for London (TfL) expects to lose £4bn this year due to the impact of coronavirus.\n\nAhead of an emergency finance committee meeting, the organisation said it needs £3.2bn to balance a proposed emergency budget for next year.\n\nDuring the lockdown TfL has lost 90% of its overall income.\n\nSpeaking at the committee meeting, Deputy Mayor for Transport Heidi Alexander said the situation was \"now critical\".\n\n\"We have to reach an agreement with the government on this in the next 48 hours,\" she said.\n\nMs Alexander warned that TfL may be forced to issue a Section 114 notice - the equivalent of a public body going bust.\n\n\"I think the impact of the Section 114 notice is quite honestly unthinkable, with very serious implications for Tube and bus services in London,\" she added.\n\nA TfL spokesperson said it had done everything possible to help reduce the spread of coronavirus.\n\n\"This was the right thing to do and has saved lives,\" he said.\n\n\"It is clear that the long term impact of the coronavirus will mean that we need financial support now and into the future so that we can support the recovery of London and the UK.\n\n\"We are in constructive discussions with the government over the necessary financial support.\"\n\nTravellers using London buses do not currently need to pay\n\nIn the 2019-20 budget TfL set up a reserve of £2.2bn to meet future financial challenges. That year TfL earned £4.9bn from fares, making up 47% of the transport authority's income.\n\nHowever, the lockdown has led to a 95% cut in people using the Tube compared to this time last year.\n\nThe number of bus passengers has also dropped, by 85%, and customers no longer have to tap-in to pay for rides as part of measures to protect drivers.\n\nMost TfL services are still running, but 7,000 staff - about 25% of the workforce - have been furloughed to cut costs.\n\nUnless emergency funding can be found TfL may publish an unbalanced budget, which would ban TfL from spending any new cash.\n\nConservative candidate for mayor of London, Shaun Bailey, said: \"Coronavirus has only accentuated existing problems.\n\n\"The 'fares freeze' - that benefitted tourists, not Londoners - cost TfL over £600m in lost revenue. TfL has record debt which stands at £13bn.\n\n\"Any bailout must come with conditions - you cannot trust Sadiq Khan with a blank cheque.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was granted power to rule by decree during the pandemic Image caption: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was granted power to rule by decree during the pandemic\n\nPreliminary results from an ongoing medical survey of the Hungarian population suggest that around 1% have caught coronavirus.\n\nOf 8,700 people, only two tested positive, while nine had already had it. The tests are voluntary, and do not include patients in institutions like elderly care homes. In the next week, 9,000 more will be tested.\n\nHungary's official statistics show 3,300 people have had the virus, while 425 have died. The survey suggests that between 0.27% and 1.1% of the population are believed to have had the virus - meaning between 22,000 and 93,000 people among the 8.3m Hungarians aged 14 and over.\n\nHungary has been one of the European countries least affected by coronavirus, but its government has adopted some of the most draconian powers, including the right to rule by decree until it deems the emergency over. Prime Minister Viktor Orban said it was necessary to \"prepare for the worst, and hope for the best\".\n\nHe ordered 36,000 of the country’s 65,000 hospital beds to be readied for coronavirus patients. No more than 1,000 were filled at any one time.\n\nA ministerial order for all seriously ill coronavirus patients in the country to be transferred to two Budapest hospitals, issued last Friday, was abruptly cancelled over the weekend.\n\nA senior doctor, who asked not to be named, told the BBC that the handling of the pandemic by medical staff had been exemplary. Social-distancing measures introduced early on by the government, and the self-discipline of the population in staying at home, were the main factors in Hungary’s success, he said.", "BBC reporter Sima Kotecha was preparing for a live broadcast in Leicester\n\nA man has denied racially abusing a BBC reporter as she prepared a broadcast.\n\nSima Kotecha said she and her team faced \"racist and abusive behaviour\" as they set up for live interviews in Leicester city centre on Sunday.\n\nAppearing at Leicester Magistrates' Court by videolink, Russell Rawlingson pleaded not guilty to causing racially aggravated alarm or distress.\n\nThe 50-year-old, of Glenfield Road in Leicester was bailed to appear at Leicester Crown Court on 15 June.\n\nMs Kotecha was due to interview people on Sunday evening following the prime minister's statement about the coronavirus lockdown restrictions.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nThe suspect in the crash which killed Harry Dunn is \"wanted internationally\", a family spokesman said.\n\nMr Dunn 19, died after a crash in Northamptonshire in August and US national Anne Sacoolas is suspected of causing his death by dangerous driving.\n\nA Home Office extradition request was rejected by the US in January.\n\nA family spokesman said Northants Police had told them Mrs Sacoolas was \"wanted\" but the force denied saying an Interpol Red Notice had been issued.\n\nMr Dunn's parents received an email from police stating that \"wanted circulations should be enacted\" if Mrs Sacoolas left the US, according to the spokesman.\n\nHe said this had led the family to believe an Interpol Red Notice had been issued.\n\nReacting to the news, Mr Dunn's mother Charlotte Charles said: \"It's been a terrible time for us. We are utterly bereft and heartbroken and miss our Harry every minute of every single day.\"\n\nShe said the latest development was \"important news\" and the family were \"in pieces\".\n\n\"I just want to urge Mrs Sacoolas to come back to the UK and do the right thing,\" she said.\n\n\"Face justice and maybe then our two families can come together after the tragedy and build a bridge.\"\n\nMotorcyclist Mr Dunn died in a crash with a car near US military base RAF Croughton on 27 August.\n\nMrs Sacoolas, the wife of a US intelligence official, claimed diplomatic immunity and returned home.\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003, cited diplomatic immunity after the crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nThe 42-year-old was charged with causing death by dangerous driving in December, but an extradition request was rejected.\n\nIn a statement, Northamptonshire Police said: \"We wish to make it absolutely clear that, at no point, has Northamptonshire Police informed the family spokesperson for the Dunns, Radd Seiger, that an Interpol Red Notice has been issued in respect of Mrs Anne Sacoolas.\n\n\"Given that this remains a live case it would be inappropriate to comment further. However, Northamptonshire Police continues to support the Dunn family at this difficult time.\"\n\nInterpol said it would not confirm whether a red notice had been issued.\n\nAn Interpol Red Notice is a request to law enforcement worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest a person pending extradition, surrender, or similar legal action.\n\nOn its website, Interpol states a red notice \"is an international wanted persons notice, but it is not an arrest warrant\".\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said the government had \"worked throughout to try to get justice for Harry Dunn and his family and we have been clear throughout that Ann Sacoolas should return to the UK to face justice\".\n\nHe said the UK Government had made it clear to the United States and to President Donald Trump that it considered the rejection of an extradition request for Mrs Sacoolas to be \" a denial of justice\".\n\nUpdate 14 May 2020: This story has been updated to reflect a Northamptonshire Police statement issued on 13 May in which the force denied informing the family that an Interpol Red Notice had been issued.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wuhan has a population of 11 million, larger than cities like London\n\nThe Chinese city of Wuhan is drawing up plans to test its entire population of 11 million people for Covid-19, state media report.\n\nThe plan appears to be in its early stages, with all districts in Wuhan told to submit details as to how testing could be done within 10 days.\n\nIt comes after Wuhan, where the virus first emerged, recorded six new cases over the weekend.\n\nPrior to this, it had seen no new cases at all since 3 April.\n\nWuhan, which was in strict lockdown for 11 weeks, began re-opening on 8 April.\n\nFor a while it seemed like life was getting back to normal as schools re-opened, businesses slowly emerged and public transport resumed operations. But the emergence of a cluster of cases - all from the same residential compound - has now threatened the move back to normalcy.\n\nAccording to report by The Paper, quoting a widely circulated internal document, every district in the city has been told to draw up a 10-day testing plan by noon on Tuesday.\n\nEach district is responsible for coming up with its own plan based on the size of their population and whether or not there is currently an active outbreak in the district.\n\nThe document, which refers to the test plan as the \"10-day battle\", also says that older people and densely populated communities should be prioritised when it comes to testing.\n\nHowever several senior health officials quoted by the Global Times newspaper indicated that testing the entire city would be unfeasible and costly.\n\nPeng Zhiyong, director of the intensive care unit of the Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, instead that testing was instead likely to be targeted at medical workers, vulnerable people and those who'd had close contacts with a case.\n\nAnother Wuhan University director suggested that a large percentage of Wuhan's population - around 3-5 million - had already been tested, and Wuhan was \"capable\" of testing the remaining 6-8 million in a 10-days period.\n\nFor a while it seemed in life in Wuhan was returning to normal\n\nTo put the goal into context, the US now conducts around 300,000 tests each day, according to the White House. So far, it's tested almost 9 million people in total.\n\nOn Chinese social media site Weibo, people have been raising questions about whether such a large number of tests can be carried out in just a matter of days.\n\n\"It is impossible to test so many people,\" said one commenter, who also questioned how much it would cost.\n\nAnother said that such tests should have been carried out before Wuhan re-opened its doors to the rest of China.\n\nWuhan was where this global emergency started and there was relief when the first cluster site seemed to come out the other side. There would also be despair if the first lockdown city was to be engulfed again by the coronavirus.\n\nNot letting this happen has become a priority for the Chinese government.\n\nWhen a new domestic infection appeared in the city three days ago you could feel the concern over 1,000km away in Beijing.\n\nThen five others were infected by the 89-year old man previously declared \"asymptomatic\", and the manager of their housing complex was removed.\n\nHowever, sacking local officials in this way might also encourage a tendency to hide future cases.\n\nChina's most powerful seven people, in the Politburo Standing Committee, met last week to discuss improving the country's early warning system for outbreaks like this.\n\nThey could start by easing the \"no mistakes at all costs\" approach to governing, in which those who reveal the bad news can end up being punished.\n\nChina reported just one new cases on Monday, bringing the total number of cases to 82,919, with the death toll at 4,633.\n\nHundreds of asymptomatic cases are being monitored by Wuhan health authorities", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson speaks of the \"good solid British common sense\" to combat coronavirus\n\nBoris Johnson wasn't short of words last night when he spoke to the country.\n\nBut he was short on detail about exactly how the gradual easing of the lockdown will work in England in the coming weeks and months.\n\nIt might not sound like much, but a gap of even a few hours between saying changes were on the way, and spelling out precisely what they were, was enough to create lots of question marks among members of the public - and political anxiety too: tensions with the devolved governments, and interestingly, private worries on the Tory backbenches.\n\nThrough the course of the day, however, forests of paper emerged in government documents that have gone a long way to fill in some of the blanks.\n\nAnd it's worth reading about all of the tweaks to the rules in England here.\n\nNotably tonight the TUC, the umbrella union organisation, said the plans were a \"step in the right direction\", and with the help of the government's most senior scientists, the prime minister had to answer some of the questions from the public directly on primetime TV.\n\nThere are still anomalies, but ministers have gone some way to answer some of the doubts.\n\nBut in this new phase, where lockdown is at the start of a phased withdrawal, the message will continue to be more complicated for the government to communicate.\n\nThe sequencing on this first outing of the new message and alert system has been bumpy too.\n\nAnd as part of this next era, it will become more contingent on the public to make decisions for themselves.\n\nIt's easy for the prime minister to say it's a case of \"British common sense\"; harder to make sure that happens without division and discontent.\n\nThe broad political consensus that has largely cushioned the government so far has been punctured.\n\nSome of the latitude the government's been given in this emergency has gone.", "Hormone-fed beef and chlorine-washed chicken should remain banned in England after Brexit, the government has been warned.\n\nMinisters say the issue will be dealt with in the upcoming Trade Bill.\n\nBut opponents of these practices say that could lead to farm standards being bargained away in negotiations.\n\nInstead, they want ministers to guarantee food standards in the Agriculture Bill, which returns to the House of Commons on Wednesday.\n\nSome Conservative MPs have joined up with the opposition to demand protection for England's farmers from lower standard produce from countries like the US.\n\nFarmers there are allowed to feed beef with hormones and wash chickens with chlorine solution in order to maximise productivity.\n\nBut both of these practices are currently banned in the EU. The US demands that ban should be lifted.\n\nA government spokesperson said existing protections would not be compromised in trade negotiations.\n\nThe issue is part of a great upheaval in UK farm and countryside policy – the biggest since World War II.\n\nThe UK government wants to shift farm grants to reward activities that enhance the environment.\n\nIts opponents are concerned at the lack of clarity over exactly how the transformation will happen, and want the changes to be delayed.\n\nMinsters are likely to suffer huge pressure in the Commons on the question of food import standards.\n\nThey face almost identical amendments to the Bill from some Conservative back-benchers; the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Efra) Select Committee; and the Labour and Liberal Democrat front benches. They are all calling for a level playing field on food standards.\n\nJyoti Fernandes, from the Landworkers' Alliance, a union of farmers and other land-based workers, said: \"The Agriculture Bill is a historic moment to make or break our food system.\n\n“If we don’t protect our farms from being undercut by cheap imports and make a firm commitment to supporting our farmers through this transition, we can wave goodbye to a humane and ecological domestic food supply for future generations.\"\n\nSally-Ann Spence, from the Nature Friendly Farming Network, runs a farm in Wiltshire. She said: “As a farmer doing my best to protect our precious natural environment and heritage, the prospect of low-standard imports fills me with dread.\n\n“In the UK, we are striving to deliver healthy food at world-leading standards whilst managing the land for wildlife and public goods.\n\n“I urge MPs to safeguard our high environmental and animal welfare standards in trade law.”\n\nWith its huge majority, the government is not thought to be in danger of losing key votes.\n\nBut Neil Parish, Conservative chair of the Efra committee, said: “We (Tories) put high welfare standards in our manifesto so people will be expecting us to deliver on that.\n\n“The government mustn’t allow any trade deal with the US, or anyone else, to undermine British food standards.”\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"The UK is renowned for its high environmental, food safety and animal welfare standards.\n\n\"We have been clear that in all of our trade negotiations we will not compromise on our high environmental protection, animal welfare and food standards.\"\n\nAgricultural policies in the UK are devolved.", "House moves and viewings will be able to resume again in England from Wednesday, under new UK government coronavirus rules.\n\nThe changes were contained in the updated lockdown regulations presented to Parliament on Tuesday.\n\nBuyers and renters had previously been urged to delay moving while the \"stay at home\" advice was in place.\n\nLockdown measures are being eased across England from Wednesday after more than seven weeks of restrictions.\n\nIt comes as a further 627 people died in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus, taking the total number of deaths recorded to 32,692.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK scheme to pay the wages of workers on leave because of the pandemic will be extended to October.\n\nUnder the new lockdown regulations tabled by the government, moving home will be allowed again, as will visiting estate agents and letting agents.\n\nPotential buyers and renters will also be allowed to visit show homes and view houses on the market to let or buy.\n\nAnyone who has already bought a new home will be able to visit it to prepare it for moving in.\n\nProperty website Zoopla had previously estimated around that some 373,000 property sales had been put on hold during lockdown - with a total value of £82bn.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHousing Secretary Robert Jenrick said those \"waiting patiently to move can now do so\" as long as it is carried out under social distancing and safety rules.\n\nMr Jenrick said the government's \"step-by-step plan\" will enable people \"to move home safely, covering each aspect of the sales and letting process, from viewings to removals\".\n\nMeanwhile, the property markets in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland remain shut.\n\nHome viewings are not permitted under lockdown regulations, and their land registries are either running a reduced service or are not registering transactions.\n\nThe updated regulations, presented to Parliament by Health Secretary Matt Hancock, also allow people in England to leave their homes to collect goods ordered from businesses and travel to waste or recycling centres.\n\nIt is part of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's \"conditional plan\" - which he outlined on Sunday - to reopen society, including encouraging people to return to work if they could not work from home.\n\nThe regulations say people will be permitted to visit a \"public open space for the purposes of open-air recreation to promote their physical or mental health or emotional wellbeing\". This means that people can simply visit or spend time in an outdoor place without having to exercise.\n\nAs the government has indicated, people can go outdoors with other members of their household, alone or with one other person from a different household.\n\nThe regulations list definitions of \"public open space\" which include open country, access land, public gardens and recreation areas.\n\nGarden centres and outdoor sports courts may now open under the new regulations, but playgrounds cannot.", "CBS News journalist Weijia Jiang asked Mr Trump why testing is a global competition to him. The president answered by saying that's a question she should ask China. After calling on another reporter, Ms Jiang followed up by asking the president why that response was specifically for her.", "Oil and Gas UK (OGUK) wants action from the UK government to allow businesses in its sector to access finance to help them through the Covid-19 crisis\n\nClaims by oil and gas companies that they are curbing their carbon emissions in line with net zero targets are overstated, according to a new review.\n\nThe independent analysis of six large European corporations acknowledges they have taken big steps on CO2 recently.\n\nIn April, Shell became the latest to announce ambitious plans to be at net zero for operational emissions by 2050.\n\nBut the authors say none of the companies are yet aligned with the 1.5C temperature goal.\n\nScientists argue that the global temperature must not rise by more than 1.5C by the end of the century if the world is to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.\n\nThe research has been carried out by the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI), an investor-led group which investigates how companies are preparing for the move to a low-carbon economy.\n\nGoing net zero means removing as many emissions as are produced.\n\nTPI found that the relationship between the oil and gas industry and climate change has evolved rapidly over the last three years.\n\nIn Europe, in 2017, no European company had set targets to reduce the carbon intensity of the energy it supplied.\n\nToday, all six companies assessed by the analysis have targets and plans.\n\nOver the last six months, say the authors of the report, climate ambitions among these companies have risen markedly.\n\nIn February, the new head of BP, Bernard Looney, committed to cutting net carbon emissions to zero by 2050 or sooner.\n\nGoing further than his predecessor, Mr Looney said BP would cut the emissions intensity of its sold products by 50% by the middle of this century.\n\nBut according to this new analysis, BP and Austrian company OMV are the only two oil and gas companies of the six assessed who have failed to align with the pledges made under the Paris climate agreement.\n\n\"Is it sufficient? No, it's not,\" said Adam Matthews, co-chair of TPI.\n\n\"There are ones that have more comprehensive commitments that put them on a path much closer to two degrees than some of the others.\"\n\nShell is classed as the most ambitious of the companies assessed and are the closest to a 2C warming scenario.\n\nHowever, despite Shell's stated commitment to having a net-zero energy business by 2050, TPI says that \"the claim that it will be aligned with a 1.5C climate scenario is not consistent with our analysis.\"\n\nThe authors say that they have not been able to assess Shell's plan to sell only its energy products to companies that are committed to net zero.\n\nClimate protestors have mounted actions against the major oil companies\n\n\"We can't yet quantify that,\" said Adam Matthews.\n\n\"But that potentially is very significant. And does get them to a sort of one and a half degree of warming kind of commitment, which is equivalent to net zero.\"\n\nAccording to the authors, a genuine net zero strategy for the average European oil and gas company would require 100% emissions cuts between now and 2050.\n\nTPI point out that all of the plans they have assessed are, to some degree, dependent on carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology and nature-based solutions such as planting trees.\n\n\"There are very significant assumptions that need further probing,\" said Adam Matthews.\n\n\"And we obviously need greater understanding of the role that that these will play in delivering these strategies.\"\n\nFour of the companies assessed, Shell, Eni, Total and Repsol, are now aligned with the pledges made under the Paris climate agreement.\n\nHowever, the authors draw a sharp contrast between the actions of these European companies and oil and gas producers in the US.\n\nNone of the dozens of American fossil fuel corporations have public disclosures on climate change comparable to Europe, which TPI says is a concern.\n\n\"We simply don't know what their intentions are on this issue, that poses a greater financial risk to us,\" said Adam Matthews.\n\n\"We're continuing to engage, but engagements are finite, there comes a point at which you have to draw very clear conclusions.\"", "The summer solstice is one of the rare occasions that English Heritage normally opens up the stones for public access\n\nThis year's summer solstice celebrations at Stonehenge have been cancelled because of the ban on mass gatherings prompted by the coronavirus.\n\nTraditionally about 10,000 people have gathered at the Neolithic monument in Wiltshire, on or around 21 June, to mark midsummer.\n\nEnglish Heritage said it was cancelling the event \"for the safety and wellbeing of attendees, volunteers and staff\".\n\nSenior druid King Arthur Pendragon said it was disappointing but unsurprising.\n\nThe sunrise will instead be live-streamed on English Heritage's social media.\n\nPeople have been urged to watch this year's sun rise on social media instead\n\nStonehenge director Nichola Tasker said: \"We have consulted widely on whether we could have proceeded safely and we would have dearly liked to host the event as per usual, but sadly in the end, we feel we have no choice but to cancel.\n\n\"We hope that our live stream offers an alternative opportunity for people near and far to connect with this spiritual place at such a special time of year and we look forward to welcoming everyone back next year.\"\n\nMs Tasker urged people not to travel to the monument for the solstice but to watch it online instead.\n\n\"We know how strong the draw to come is for some people,\" she said. \"But I would take this opportunity to say please do not travel to Stonehenge this summer solstice.\"\n\nSenior Druid King Arthur Pendragon said pilgrims came from all over the world to celebrate the solstice\n\nKing Arthur Pendragon said it was the second event to be cancelled after the Spring equinox at the end of March.\n\n\"It's a major event they've cancelled - pilgrims come from all around the world,\" he said.\n\n\"But it was understandable under the present circumstances.\n\n\"The Solstice is to us on a par to what Christmas is to Christians, and Stonehenge is to us like a cathedral...to us it's a place of spirituality.\"\n\nThe summer solstice is one of the rare occasions that English Heritage normally opens up the stones for public access.\n\nOn the summer solstice, the sun rises behind the Heel Stone, the ancient entrance to the Stone Circle, and rays of sunlight are channelled into the centre of the monument.\n\nEnglish Heritage said it had consulted with the emergency services and the druid and pagan community, among others, before making the decision.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Queen and senior royals have called healthcare workers around the world to mark International Nurses Day amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Royal, the Countess of Wessex and Princess Alexandra took part in the tributes.\n\nPrince Charles thanked nurses for their \"diligence\" and \"courage\".\n\nWhile Camilla said: \"Extraordinary times call for extraordinary people.\"\n\nIn a video montage released by Kensington Palace on social media, many nurses were seen wearing face masks as they spoke to the royals about the impact of Covid-19.\n\nIn one call, the Duchess of Cambridge said: \"I don't know how you manage to do this and keep the show on the road despite the extra pressures you're all under and the challenging conditions - it's just shown how vital the role that nurses play across the world. You should be so proud of the work that you do.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by kensingtonroyal This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt the beginning of the video, the Queen can be heard speaking to Prof Kathleen McCourt, president of the Commonwealth Nurses and Midwives Federation.\n\nAfter being greeted by Prof McCourt with a \"Good afternoon, Your Majesty\", the Queen says: \"This is rather an important day... because obviously they've [nurses] had a very important part to play recently.\"\n\nThe palace believes it could be the first time audio of a phone call made by the Queen has been released.\n\nIn a different call, the heir to the throne, Prince Charles, said: \"My family and I want to join in the chorus of thank yous to nursing and midwifery staff across the country and indeed the world.\"\n\nCatherine and Sophie spoke together with nurses in India, Australia, Malawi, Cyprus, the Bahamas and Sierra Leone, as well as in the UK.\n\nSophie told some of them: \"I hope you're feeling some of the love as well.\"\n\nThe pair spoke with nurses whose specialisms included maternal health, HIV, mental health, women's health and ophthalmology.\n\nAnita Kamara, a nurse at the women's centre in Sierra Leone, said: \"Having the future Queen and the countess speak to us today was really special.\"\n\nCatherine and Sophie spoke to nurses in Malawi\n\nThe calls were organised by Nursing Now, a global campaign to raise the status and profile of nursing, of which Catherine is patron.\n\nIt comes as the head of NHS England, Sir Simon Stevens, said there had been a surge in interest in nursing as a career since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nSir Simon said there had been a three-fold increase in the number of people clicking on the nursing pages of the NHS careers website, adding that any new recruits would be welcome.", "Phones have been ringing off the hook, venue bosses are working harder than ever and search engines are being sent into overdrive after some recreational sports were given the go-ahead to return in England.\n\nGolf, tennis, angling and basketball are among the sports taking tentative steps in allowing the general public to return to participation on Wednesday as coronavirus lockdown measures are eased.\n\nBut each sport is also urging caution and vigilance as they seek to keep the spread of the virus under control while also helping protect people's mental health and wellbeing.\n\nSo how has the first wave of the nation's sports begun to come out of hibernation after two months?\n\nBBC Sport has spoken to a number of clubs and organisations hoping to use fun and games as a vehicle for helping the country come gradually out of lockdown.\n\nTee times snapped up in less than 24 hours\n\nCourses across England will once again be alive with the sound of golf balls being hit on Wednesday.\n\nGoverning bodies have worked together to formulate how the game can be played safely during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThere is plenty of guidance on how to socially distance, new rules on course etiquette and phrases such as \"wash your hands, don't touch the flag\" which have now entered the golfing lexicon.\n• None Golf is back - but what are the differences?\n\nDavid Rickman, the R&A's executive director of governance, said everyone in the sport is \"conscious of the continued impact of the pandemic and that lives are still being lost\", but added that golf has a \"small part to play\" in the nation's wellbeing.\n\n\"We are fortunate that golf lends itself to social distancing, so by making a few relatively small changes to the rules and the environment in which we play, we can make it safe for golfers,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nAlready Perranporth Golf Course, in Cornwall, is fully booked for when play can resume on Wednesday.\n\nAll tee times for the first day of play in more than seven weeks were snapped up in less than 24 hours after prime minister Boris Johnson announced that golfers could get back on the greens.\n\nSue McDevitt, general manager of the course, said the \"booking system went crazy\" after the announcement.\n\n\"I had one of the busiest days of my working career on Monday,\" McDevitt told BBC Sport.\n\nThe booking of tee times, which was previously advisable at the club, has now become compulsory during the pandemic in an effort to help keep golfers safe and numbers on the course in check.\n\nWhile it is largely done online, McDevitt says she is also taking bookings from older members who simply don't have access to technology.\n\nIt has been a busy two days getting ready to once again host golf at Perranporth, but with seven weeks of preparation the challenge has been met \"with ease\" considering the circumstances.\n\n\"We always knew it was going to come back at some point, so I've been really busy during these last few weeks coming up with a plan on how we are going to do it, \" McDevitt said.\n\n\"I even emailed what the plan was to the members so they would be ready.\"\n\nJust hours after the government announced that recreational golf would be free to restart, the club published a nine-point notice on their social media channels outlining their approach.\n\nIt is a basic roadmap back to the greens that was drawn up with the help of the major golfing bodies in England and in conjunction with neighbouring clubs, West Cornwall, Tehidy Park, Mullion and Newquay.\n\n\"We already had close working relationships so we decided between us that we would have similar plans so golfers in the area would all have similar options,\" McDevitt said.\n\n\"It is in all our interests to get as much golf going in Cornwall as possible.\"\n\nAs far as business goes, much of the club remains unable to open during the pandemic, with the course's accommodation, restaurant, bar, golf shop and practice facilities all shut.\n\nA majority of staff, including some green keepers, remain furloughed, which makes aspects of opening - including maintaining the course and keeping tabs on golfers - a challenge.\n\n\"The course is open and it looks absolutely beautiful, but it is perhaps not going to play as well as it normally would at this time of year because it hasn't had all those man hours manicuring it,\" McDevitt said.\n\n\"It is playable but the members may lose their ball in the rough initially. They are quite happy with that because they can play golf. It doesn't need to be at Championship standard yet, but we will get there.\"\n\nAngling can 'have a positive effect on mental health'\n\nAngling has found itself thrust into the limelight since the gradual easing of lockdown restrictions was announced, with both fresh and saltwater recreational fishing being allowed to resume across England.\n\nBut why has it been identified among the sports and pastimes deemed appropriate and suitable?\n\nAccording to Martin Salter, head of policy at the Angling Trust, it's the result of producing a detailed plan to demonstrate why angling is a Covid-19 compliant sport due to its general nature, and earning recognition from the government that it \"has potential to be part of the solution and not part of the problem\".\n\n\"Spending time outdoors and in fresh air can limit the spread of the virus rather than the other way round,\" Salter told BBC Sport.\n\n\"We can help disperse crowds and have a positive effect on people's mental health and wellbeing.\n\n\"But it really is incumbent on all of us to realise we're going to be ambassadors for our sport. The spotlight is going to be on us.\n\n\"The last thing I want to see is pictures in newspapers and other media outlets of anglers crowding around piers or breakwaters too close to each other.\n\n\"We must continue to respect the social distancing guidelines and ensure, when we say to both government and society that angling is a Covid-19 compliant sport, we demonstrate that responsibility to ourselves and each other.\"\n\nThe Angling Trust is also continuing to lobby government for clarity over when and how tackle and bait shops can reopen to support the angling infrastructure, in a similar way to cycle shops being allowed to continue trading during lockdown.\n\n\"Those shops are where you pick up your permits, your licences, your day tickets, where you get your advice as anglers,\" he said.\n\n\"A lot of those retailers have been struggling so we've made direct representations to government and we hope they can grant an extension to allow those shops to reopen before June.\"\n\nWhile recreational angling is free to resume from Wednesday, match fishing and competitions remain banned for the foreseeable future in line with other major sporting events and mass gatherings.\n\nThe coarse fishing close season for rivers and some still waters also remains in place until 16 June.\n\nSome commercial fisheries across England will actually remain closed as they choose to \"wait and see\" how the sport's approach to coming out of lockdown unfolds.\n\nOne that will be welcoming anglers back is Makins Fishery, near Nuneaton, in Warwickshire, but under a series of rules and guidelines, including only allowing pre-booked visits and operating strict daytime opening hours.\n\nWendell Ward, manager of the three-lake facility, has had three phones ringing off the hook since Sunday evening, but stresses anglers will need to be responsible.\n\n\"We have to ensure people can return to fishing in a safe environment,\" he said.\n\n\"Initially I did think it might be a bit too soon to reopen and I would've been happy to wait a bit longer. But if we put the right measures in place and control numbers, people can get back to enjoying the sport.\n\n\"I know people have been chomping at the bit to get back out there since lockdown, but I don't want them being careless and reckless.\n\n\"Restrictions have been relaxed and reopening is vital for our business, but if people turn up in big groups and car loads, they will be sent away and we'll have to reconsider our choice.\"\n\nWith people in England allowed to exercise outside as many times as they wish, a variety of facilities can now be accessed.\n\nAlthough playgrounds, outdoor gyms and ticketed outdoor leisure venues will remain closed, playing one-on-one sports, including tennis, basketball and even a hit in the cricket nets, is permissible as long as social distancing rules are observed.\n\nSunday's government announcement saw searches for venues \"go bonkers\" for Playfinder, an online booking portal for grassroots facilities.\n• None Where? How? Who with? Getting yourself back into playing tennis\n\nJamie Foale, the founder and chief executive of the company which has 5,200 venues on its books across the UK, said Monday was the marketplace's busiest day since lockdown began.\n\nA new filter is poised to be added to their search options, distinguishing what venues are open to the public as not every court, course or venue is suitable or able to host people yet.\n\n\"As a result of the clarification given on Monday we are seeing almost all councils open their suitable venues to a degree,\" said Foale, whose company manages bookings for a number of councils, as well as schools and commercial sites.\n\n\"Councils recognise they a have a big part to play in helping people stay fit and healthy through this and I know that they want to be able to open facilities so they can do that.\n\n\"We had a number of bookings made on Monday and a lot of searches for free courts, which has always been a big part of what we do.\"\n\nFoale said the most difficult part of helping people prepare for the resumption of recreational sports has been getting in touch with the venues themselves when huge swathes of employees in the sector have been furloughed.\n\n\"We've madly been calling up the venues to make sure we have a firm grip on what is available and what isn't,\" said Foale, whose company will not be taking booking fees during the pandemic.\n\n\"Communication has been hard when all these businesses are struggling, trying to work out how they will operate in a post-pandemic world.\n\n\"We need to keep the nation moving and active. We, as a business, set up to to help people play sport. And that service is now needed more than ever.\"\n\nA sign of the times that many may end up seeing on their local court or around their favourite course will be signage reminding participants of the rules which have made a return to action possible.\n\nGoverning bodies for each sport have different directives to best suit the game being played. All of them, however, have the same underlying message about maintaining social distance.\n\nNot every sporting venue will automatically open as a result, with this being a key message from the Lawn Tennis Association, which governs the game in Britain.\n\nVenues have been advised to take time to ensure they are set up to reopen safely, so players in certain places might have to wait a little longer before they can get back on court.\n\nThe Queen's Club in London, one of the nation's most iconic clubs, for example, will not be at full capacity as they have chosen to open only nine of its 27 outdoor courts to members from Wednesday.\n\nIt is a similar situation at the Northern Tennis Club, in Manchester, where only seven of their 18 outdoor courts will be opened to ensure social distancing is maintained.\n\n\"We're hugely relieved and excited that we're able to start reopening the courts, but we're also conscious that we must do it slowly and cautiously,\" chairman Neville Hewer told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"We've been maintaining our courts during the lockdown period so we were in a position to go when we had the opportunity to, but we're mindful of the fact that in this circumstance we're walking on eggshells because of this unprecedented scenario.\"", "Rihanna is now the richest woman in music\n\nRihanna has made her debut appearance on The Sunday Times Rich List, with an estimated fortune of £468 million.\n\nThe Bajan pop star, who now resides in London, overtakes Sirs Elton John and Mick Jagger to claim third place on the list of Britain's richest musicians.\n\nAndrew Lloyd Webber and Paul McCartney are joint first on the list, with fortunes of £800m apiece.\n\nRihanna's earnings are largely due to the Fenty Beauty cosmetics brand, where her reported 15% stake is worth £351m.\n\n\"She somewhat caught us by surprise,\" says Robert Watts, who compiles The Sunday Times' annual list.\n\n\"Very few people knew she was living in the UK until last summer. Now she's well placed to be the first musician to reach billionaire status in the UK,\" he tells the BBC.\n\nRihanna, who turned 32 in February, is a youthful exception amongst Britain's richest musicians, most of whom found fame in the 1960s and 70s.\n\nAmongst the top 40 highest-earners, only Ed Sheeran and Adele are younger, with fortunes of £200m and £150m respectively.\n\nFurther down the list, there are new entries for the next generation of pop stars, with Dua Lipa, 24, and George Ezra, 26, each said to be worth £16m.\n\nTheatre impresario Lord Lloyd-Webber, 72, is the only star on the list to see his valuation fall, with Watts calculating that the Covid-19 shutdown of theatres in the West End and Broadway has already wiped £20m off his fortune.\n\nSir Paul, by contrast, receives a £50m boost to his finances, thanks to a lucrative world tour and his first children's book Hey Grandude!, which topped the New York Times' best-seller list last year.\n\nSir Elton's farewell tour also added £40m to his fortune, putting him in fourth place; while Rolling Stone Sir Mick comes fifth with £285m.\n\nEd Sheeran topped the young musicians (aged 30 or under) list, adding £40m to his overall wealth after completing a 255-date world tour last August. Harry Styles took second place, with a fortune of £63m.\n\nAll five members of One Direction appear on the list, with Harry Styles just above his bandmate Niall Horan\n\nEagle-eyed readers might spot that U2 have dropped off the Sunday Times' rankings entirely, despite taking third place last year with earnings of £583m.\n\nTheir absence is solely due to coronavirus - as the pandemic has delayed the publication of the paper's Irish Rich List. When those figures are revealed later this year, the band is likely to knock Rihanna down to fourth place.\n\nNonetheless, Watts says that Rihanna's presence is indicative of a \"seismic change\" in the make-up of the main Rich List which, since 1989, had been identifying the 1,000 wealthiest individuals or families living in the UK.\n\n\"The days when it was dominated by inherited wealth, the landed gentry and mass of largely white, middle-aged and elderly men, are changing,\" says Watts.\n\n\"For example, we've seen a big rise in the number of Asian entrepreneurs and in the number of self-made people.\n\n\"Rihanna is, I think, a very good example of someone who's come from a pretty tough upbringing in Barbados and who has a hunger and a determination to work, work work... which, I think, is one of her songs, isn't it?\" (It is).\n\nRihanna's earnings from beauty and fashion eclipse those from her music career\n\nAlthough Rihanna made her name in music, she hasn't released an album since 2016's Anti, instead concentrating on her fashion empire.\n\nFenty Beauty launched in September 2017, and was designed to cater to a wider range of skin types and tones than typical cosmetic brands.\n\nThanks to the star's endorsement, and her 82 million Instagram followers, it was an immediate success, racking up sales of £78m in its first few weeks. The company is now valued at $3bn (£2.4bn).\n\nRihanna also has a lingerie line, Savage X Fenty, and continues to receive royalties from hit songs like SOS, Umbrella and Only Girl In The World.\n\nHer £468m fortune makes her the richest female musician not just in the UK, but the world - ahead of Madonna (£462m), Celine Dion (£365m) and Beyoncé (£325m).\n\nWatts notes that musicians' wealth \"held up better than many other ultra-high net worth individuals\" over the last 12 months, but says the impact of cancelled tours could impact next year's list.\n\n\"Their fortunes have held up a little better this year because they're coming off the back of big tours and their valuation is not affected by a plunging stock market,\" he says.\n\n\"But next year I would expect, for a lot of these musicians, their wealth to flatline - and some of them may even have to dip into their reserves.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Stormzy, who has previously headlined Glastonbury, was due to perform at Reading and Leeds this year\n\nThe Reading and Leeds music festivals have been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe festivals, which are two of the biggest in the UK music calendar, were due take place on the bank holiday weekend of 28-30 August.\n\nLiam Gallagher, Stormzy and Rage Against The Machine had been set to headline this year.\n\nThe organisers said Reading and Leeds would return in 2021 on the same bank holiday weekend.\n\nTickets bought for this summer will remain valid, while refunds will also be available.\n\nA statement from the organisers said: \"Reading and Leeds will no longer be taking place this year.\n\n\"We've been closely monitoring this unprecedented situation and we were hopeful we could deliver the ultimate festival to you in August, something to look forward to in these strange and confusing times.\n\n\"However, it has become clear that it's just not possible for this year's festival to go ahead.\"\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 Reading & Leeds Fest This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We want to extend our gratitude to our teams, artists and partners who work so hard each year. And to our fans, we're nothing without you - we thank you for your continued support and understanding,\" they added.\n\nThe festivals had, as always, been due to take place across two sites - Richfield Avenue in Reading and Bramham Park in Leeds\n\nMore than 90 acts were set to perform including rock and indie names like Gerry Cinnamon and the Courteeners, and rap artists such as Migos and AJ Tracey.\n\nOther festivals to have been scrapped this year include Glastonbury, Download and the Isle of Wight festival, along with most other music events big and small.\n\nReading and Leeds festivals are two of the longest running and largest music events in Britain. Reading has a capacity audience of 105,000 music fans, while Leeds can take 75,000.\n\nThe events, whose history dates back to the 1960s, used to be best-known as rock festivals, but over the years the twin weekenders have changed their musical faces for a more diverse make-up.\n\nLast year's headliners included The 1975, Post Malone, Twenty One Pilots and Foo Fighters. Other acts included Billie Eilish, Bastille, Blossoms, Yungblud, Pale Waves and The Distillers.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @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. \"Employers will not be allowed to get away with forcing people to work in conditions that are not Covid-secure\"\n\nA \"sudden big flood\" of people returning to work is not expected after the release of new coronavirus guidance, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe PM said measures, including encouraging people in England to return to work if safe, were \"baby steps\".\n\nHe also said employers should be sympathetic to workers who do not have access to childcare.\n\nIt came as new rules said people in England can soon meet one person from outside their household, at a distance.\n\nFrom Wednesday, people can socialise in open spaces or play one-to-one sport such as tennis with another person, as long as they stay 2m apart.\n\nMr Johnson used Monday's daily Downing Street briefing to clarify his return to work message, saying employers would need to prove they met a new safety standard, dubbed \"Covid secure\".\n\nHe said: \"I don't think any of us expect that tomorrow or for the rest of this week there is going to be a sudden big flood of people back to work.\n\n\"I think a lot of people will now start to think whether they fall into that category, whether they could think about going back to work.\"\n\nHe told people in England their workplaces \"must be safe, must be Covid secure and employers will not be allowed to get away with forcing people to work in conditions that are not Covid secure\".\n\n\"Everyone must obey social distancing and we're going to have a lot more inspections by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), we'll have a random spot inspections to check that companies are doing the right thing,\" he said.\n\n\"If people find themselves in conditions that they think are unsafe, then they should immediately report it and we will take action, and that goes for all work.\"\n\nIt comes as a further 210 people have died in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus, taking the total number of deaths recorded to 32,065.\n\nAfter eight days of missing its goal of 100,000 tests a day, on Monday the government counted 100,490 tests on 10 May.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the UK government's chief scientific adviser, told the Downing Street briefing that Office for National Statistics data suggests an estimated 136,000 people were currently infected with coronavirus in the UK.\n\nHe said the amount of time it may take for this number to halve is around two weeks on current infection rates.\n\nEarlier, the government published new guidance for the public, as well as a lengthy strategy document, on the next steps in its coronavirus response in England.\n\nThe information includes new advice for people in England to wear face coverings while on public transport and in some shops.\n\nIt also set out how, from Wednesday, people in England will be allowed to meet one person from outside their household as long as they stay outdoors and stay 2m apart.\n\nSage, the government's group of scientific advisers, said the risk of infection outside is significantly lower than inside, according to the strategy document.\n\nMr Johnson told Parliament the public should exercise \"good, solid, British common sense\" in adapting their lives to the next phase of the coronavirus response.\n\nBut Mr Johnson defended the differing approaches between the UK nations after leaders in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland said \"stay at home\" messages remained in place there.\n\n\"For those who think that the 'stay alert' is not the right message, I think it is absolutely the right message for our country now,\" he said.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all have devolved powers over their own lockdown restrictions.\n\nIt comes as the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy released new guidance for UK employers on how to implement social distancing measures, with eight separate documents published for sectors which can now reopen.\n\nThe HSE has been given £14m in funding for extra call-centre workers, inspectors and equipment.\n\nThe guidance for employers says they could be Covid secure by re-designing workplaces with 2 metre (6ft) distances in mind, staggering start times, building one-way systems and publishing detailed risk assessments.\n\nThe Trades Union Congress said the new guidelines were \"a step in the right direction\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer used an official response to the PM's coronavirus address on Sunday to urge further clarity and reassurance for workers and parents that returning to work and school would be safe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a recorded statement, Sir Keir Starmer said the UK couldn't \"go back to business as usual\" after coronavirus\n\nThe new guidance said the government's ambition was for all primary school children in England to return to school for a month before the summer. Childminders in England will also be permitted to look after children again.\n\nFresh guidance published for primary schools on Monday night said class sizes should be limited to 15 and drop-off and pick-up times staggered when they are able to return.\n\nAsked during the Downing Street briefing what people should do in the meantime if they do not have access to childcare and cannot work from home, Mr Johnson said he was sure employers would be understanding.\n\n\"If people don't have access to childcare and they have a child who isn't back in school then I think that's only fair to regard that as an obvious barrier to their ability to go back to work and I am sure employers will agree with that,\" he said.\n\nThe PM told Parliament the government's \"roadmap\" would help control Covid-19\n\nMeanwhile, the guidance confirmed garden centres will also be able to reopen on Wednesday with distancing measures in place.\n\nIt is likely that the government will continue to advise people who are clinically extremely vulnerable to continue to shield beyond June, the strategy document added.\n\nThe 60-page document also said:\n\nFines for those who do not follow the rules in England will increase from £60 to £100 from Wednesday, with maximum total penalties for repeat offenders of £3,200.\n\nSpeaking about potential future measures, Mr Johnson told MPs the government was exploring how to safely allow people to expand their household to include one other \"on a strictly reciprocal basis\".\n\nThe new guidance also reflected the government's three-step plan, announced by the PM on Sunday night.", "Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary has described quarantine rules as \"idiotic\" as he announced plans to restart flights from July.\n\nThe budget airline boss told BBC Breakfast the firm would look to sell all of the seats on its flights, but would put in place temperature checks and face masks for passengers and crews.\n\nHe said: \"In fact the government has already recommended where social distancing isn't possible, wear face masks - that is the effective measure against the spread of Covid-19, not ineffective measures like a 14-day quarantine which no one will observe anyway.\"\n\nMr O'Leary disputed that the quarantine was science-based, due to French and Irish travellers being exempt.\n\nRyanair has announced today that it plans to restart 40% of its flights, almost 1,000 a day, from 1 July, subject to restrictions being lifted in the EU.", "India's CO2 emissions have fallen for the first time in four decades - and not just as a result of the country's coronavirus lockdown.\n\nFalling electricity use and competition from renewables had weakened the demand for fossil fuels even before the coronavirus hit, according to analysis by the environmental website, Carbon Brief. However, it was the sudden nationwide lockdown in March that finally tipped the country's 37-year emissions growth trend into reverse.\n\nThe study finds that Indian carbon dioxide emissions fell 15% in March, and are likely to have fallen by 30% in April.\n\nVirtually all of the drop-off in power demand has been borne by coal-fired generators, which explains why the emissions reductions have been so dramatic.\n\nCoal-fired power generation was down 15% in March and 31% in the first three weeks of April, according to daily data from the Indian national grid.\n\nBut even before India's sudden coronavirus lockdown, the demand for coal was weakening.\n\nThe study finds that in the fiscal year ending March 2020, coal deliveries were down by around 2%, a small but significant reduction when set against the trend - an increase in thermal power generation of 7.5% a year set over the previous decade.\n\nIt has been slowing since early 2019.\n\nAnd, once again, the trend has been compounded by the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown measures on the transport industry.\n\nOil consumption was down 18% year-on-year in March 2020.\n\nMeanwhile, the supply of energy from renewables has increased over the year and has held up since the pandemic struck.\n\nThis resilience the renewables energy sector shows in the face of the sudden reduction in demand caused by coronavirus is not confined to India.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAccording to figures published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) at the end of April, the world's use of coal was down 8% in the first quarter of the year.\n\nBy contrast, wind and solar power saw a slight uptick in demand internationally.\n\nA key reason that coal has taken the brunt of the fall in electricity demand is that it cost more to run on a day-to-day basis.\n\nOnce you have installed a solar panel or a wind turbine, operating costs are very low and, therefore, tend to get priority on electricity grids.\n\nIndia's use of coal has plummeted, in line with that of other countries\n\nThermal power stations - those powered by coal, gas or oil - by contrast, require you to buy fuel in order to generate power.\n\nBut analysts warn that the decline in fossil fuel use may not last.\n\nThey say when the pandemic subsides, there is a risk that emissions will soar again as countries attempt to kick-start their economies.\n\nThe US has already started to relax environmental regulations and the fear is other nations could follow suit.\n\nHowever, the analysis from Carbon Brief suggests there are reasons to think India could buck this trend.\n\nThe coronavirus crisis has brought the long-brewing financial troubles in the Indian coal sector to a head, and the Indian government is finalising a relief package which could top 900bn rupees ($12bn; £9.6bn).\n\nBut, at the same time, the government is talking about supporting renewable energy as part of the recovery.\n\nRenewables have the economic edge in India, offering far cheaper electricity than coal\n\nRenewables have the economic edge in India, offering far cheaper electricity than coal.\n\nThe report claims that new solar capacity can cost as little 2.55 rupees per kilowatt hour, while the average cost for electricity generated from coal is 3.38 rupees per hour.\n\nInvesting in renewables is also consistent with the country's National Clean Air Programme, launched in 2019.\n\nEnvironmentalists hope the clean air and clear skies Indians have enjoyed since lockdown will increase public pressure on the government to clean up the power sector and improve air quality.", "Some classrooms have been converted in Germany\n\nThe planned reopening of schools in England on 1 June is not feasible, head teachers and council leaders have said.\n\nNational Association of Head Teachers head Paul Whiteman told MPs that, as his union understood official guidance, it would not be possible to reopen primaries as the government planned.\n\nHe told an MPs' committee many schools would not be able to accommodate the advised 15 pupils in their classrooms.\n\nGuidance on socially distancing in class was published on Monday evening.\n\nIt came after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday that he hoped primary schools would re-open to pupils from Reception, Year 1 and Year 6, on June 1 \"at the earliest\", if infection rates and the government's other tests at the time allow it.\n\nThe guidance recommended more class sizes be cut to 15 - to allow for a two metre distance between pupils - but Mr Whiteman said many of his head teacher colleagues said they would only be able to accommodate fewer pupils in classrooms.\n\nHe told the Commons education select committee: \"As we understand the requirements of social distancing today, we do not think that's possible in terms of the return that's outlined in what we've heard overnight and the day before.\n\nThe union was still getting to grips with the detail of the advice, he said which was only published late on Monday, he said.\n\n\"But,\" he added, \"I think the real issue here is the very important bond of trust between school and family.\n\nPrimary school children have been going back to school in Copenhagen\n\n\"School leaders and teachers are in a position that they are not quite sure of the basics of the return, and the amount of risk that's being assumed in the school setting, and all of the survey data that we are getting at the moment is that the vast majority of children's parents at the moment don't have the confidence of a return around the 1st of June.\"\n\n\"If we are going to fill that void, we need to understand the underpinning science, we need to understand the medical advice that goes with it so we can then determine whether it's possible in that setting or not,\" he added.\n\nHis views were echoed by Jenny Coles, president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services, who oversees local authority schools.\n\nShe told MPs there needed to be a lot of work locally in the communities around schools before a return to class would be feasible.\n\n\"This is not something that's going to be fixed by 1 June. It's going to take a lot of work and a lot of weeks to do that.\"\n\nShe said a five- or six-week lead in time was necessary to prepare parents and schools for the change.\n\nSupport around re-socialising pupils and pastoral care would be needed, and the message that had been so effective in keeping people home, would need to be reversed, so that parents felt comfortable sending their children out of their homes.\n\nMr Whiteman added on social distancing that individual schools were very different in terms of their buildings.\n\nHe said: \"If social distancing is was we understand it, if the two metre rule is to be acted in schools, there are very many schools that simply say it's impossible to achieve 10, 12, six or even eight pupils [per class].\"\n\nRebecca Long-Bailey, Labour's shadow education secretary, said the Department for Education guidance leaves school leaders unable to adequately plan for the reopening of their schools.\n\n\"There is still no realistic guidance for how social distancing will be kept in place with the age groups that will return first, how staff and families of children will be protected, or how class sizes of 15 will be achieved with the resources schools have.\"\n\nShe added that the government must urgently bring together education unions and the teaching profession to create a workable plan for the reopening of schools, when the science indicates it is safe to do so.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Even in a pandemic they're still moving drugs\"\n\nThe lockdown could help teenagers caught up in drug violence turn their lives around, an experienced inner-city youth worker says.\n\nThe stay-at-home rules had led many to reflect in a \"profound\" way on their risky lifestyles, Mahamed Hashi, from south London, told BBC News.\n\nThe National Crime Agency said crime gangs and dealers had been forced on to the back foot by the pandemic.\n\nAnd at least 10 tonnes of Class A drugs had been seized globally since March.\n\nLaw enforcement officials say lockdowns in countries where drugs are sourced, such as Pakistan and Colombia, together with aviation and shipping bans, have caused organised crime groups to move larger quantities in each consignment, leaving them more vulnerable to interception.\n\n\"In the last four weeks, we've really seen some of those restrictions beginning to get to the organised crime groups that are moving drugs at the top of the chain,\" NCA drugs threat head Lawrence Gibbons said.\n\nToday police in Birmingham made six arrests in response to \"a series of violent incidents and disorders in recent weeks believed to be linked to drugs and gang activity\".\n\nThe lockdown means gangs are importing drugs in larger consignments, which are more likely to be intercepted\n\nIn another incident, three men were arrested after cocaine worth £3m was found in a \"purpose-built hide\" in a lorry that had travelled on a ferry from France to Dover on 23 April.\n\nAnd earlier last month, five people were charged as part of an investigation into cocaine smuggling and money laundering based in Gravesend, Kent.\n\nOn the streets, meanwhile, it has been easier to spot criminals and make arrests because fewer people are around, officers say.\n\nProvisional figures for England and Wales, for the four weeks to 12 April, show robbery and serious assaults down 27% and burglary down 37% on the same period in 2019.\n\nBut the most significant changes may be among troubled teenagers, some of whom may be drawn into drugs gangs, according to Mr Hashi.\n\n\"What we're finding is, because of the lockdown and because of the fear associated with Covid, a lot of them have spent more time at home with their families,\" he said.\n\n\"They've really had to think about their futures... about where their prior lifestyle was leading to.\"\n\nMr Hashi, who has spent 20 years in youth work and is now based in Lambeth, said many of the young people he was involved with spent their days on the streets and had never had an opportunity to \"slow down\" and reflect on where their actions were taking them.\n\n\"Whether it's a significant sentence in jail... carrying weapons... feeling in danger, I think they've been able to have a break from those almost immediate fears,\" he said.\n\nBut as the restrictions were eased, support must be made available to prevent those at risk being drawn back into gangs and crime.\n\n\"The government, local authorities, youth providers, funders, they should also be reflecting on how to take advantage of this period of 'peace' and start looking at what we can actually put in there to support young people in continuing in a positive manner,\" Mr Hashi added.\n\nBut one leading gang expert said the lockdown had in fact made some young people more vulnerable.\n\n\"Street gangs are being forced to find new tactics, such as shifting grooming and recruitment online, to social media,\" Prof Simon Harding, director of the National Centre for Gang Research, at the University of West London, said.\n\n\"This means young people can become ensnared in dangerous gang activity from their phones while their families have no idea - and that is a worry.\"\n\nThe NCA is also pessimistic, having seen heroin prices double since the start of the pandemic\n\n\"The drug supply chain is driven by greed,\" Mr Gibbons said.\n\n\"They don't stop at times like these - and, even in a pandemic, they are still moving or attempting to move drugs.\"\n\nAnd there was little chance organised crime gangs could go bust because of the global lockdown.\n\n\"They make so much profit, I doubt that,\" , Mr Gibbons said.\n\n\"But we can but hope, I suppose.\"", "A police officer has been charged with murdering a woman in a pub car park.\n\nClaire Parry, 41, from Bournemouth, was found unconscious at the Horns Inn in West Parley, Dorset, on Saturday afternoon.\n\nShe later died in hospital from a brain injury caused by \"compression of the neck\", police said.\n\nPC Timothy Brehmer, 41, an officer seconded to the National Police Air Service, is due to appear before Poole magistrates on Tuesday.\n\nThe Dorset constable, who knew Mrs Parry, was not on duty at the time of the incident, police said.\n\nDetectives were called to the pub at 15:39 BST following a report of two people requiring medical treatment.\n\nMrs Parry was taken to the Royal Bournemouth Hospital where she died on Sunday morning.\n\nMr Brehmer was treated at Poole Hospital for injuries to his arms.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mark Callaghan said: \"We have kept the family of Mrs Parry updated throughout the investigation and family liaison officers continue to support them.\n\n\"Our thoughts remain with her family and friends at this very difficult time.\"\n\nDorset Police said the case had been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct due to PC Brehmer's occupation and the seriousness of the charge.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Our live updates from across England are coming to an end for the day.\n\nThank you for joining us as we brought you tributes to NHS workers on International Nurses Day\n\nWe will be back from 07:30 BST on Wednesday, keeping you up to date with the latest coronavirus news as the changes to the lockdown take effect.", "Waterloo railway station has been quiet during the lockdown\n\nCommuters who will be using public transport to return to work are being warned to be \"prepared to queue\", in new guidance issued by the government.\n\nWith more workplaces opening up on Wednesday, people have been urged to avoid public transport if possible.\n\nBut for those who do have to use it, the guidance says: \"Travel may take longer than normal on some routes.\"\n\nPeople who do travel have been warned services will carry \"as few as a tenth of the usual number of passengers\".\n\nRobert Nisbet, of the Rail Delivery Group, which represents train operators and Network Rail, said: \"We need everyone's help to keep trains for those who really need them, so please only use the railway if you absolutely have to.\"\n\nThe government is asking people to consider cycling, walking or driving to work if possible.\n\n\"If you do travel, thinking carefully about the times, routes and ways you travel will mean we will all have more space to stay safe,\" its guidance adds.\n\n\"Plan ahead by identifying alternative routes and options in case of unexpected disruption.\"\n\nPassengers should keep 2m (6ft) apart from others wherever possible and avoid the rush hour where feasible. They are also being asked to wait for others to get off before boarding and to be prepared to queue or use a different entrance or exit at stations.\n\nPeople are also advised to wash their hands before and after travelling, and to be considerate to fellow commuters.\n\nThe guidance adds that passengers should, if possible:\n\nCommuters have also been asked to wear a face covering while travelling, if they can.\n\nAnthony Smith, chief executive of independent watchdog Transport Focus, said many passengers would welcome that advice.\n\nHe added: \"It's important that the transport industry now builds on this guidance so passengers using buses, trains and trams are clear what to expect from their operator as well as what's expected of them.\"\n\nTransport operators have been given guidance to ensure stations and services are regularly cleaned.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said: \"We can all play our part by following the advice and reducing pressure on public transport.\"\n\nService levels on public transport have been reduced to about 50% around the UK since the lockdown came in. They are due to rise to about 70% from next Monday.\n\nStaff at stations have been mobilised to help passengers, there is extra signage and more announcements are being made.\n\nCommuters have been advised to wear face masks\n\nHowever, rail unions have said they are worried about a rise in the number of people using the transport network.\n\nAt the start of May, before lockdown restrictions were slightly eased in England, the leaders of the Aslef, TSSA and RMT unions sent a joint letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nIt said: \"We have severe concerns over attempts by operators to increase service levels.\n\n\"It sends out a mixed message that it is OK to travel by train, despite official advice suggesting otherwise.\n\n\"We are not convinced that there is any basis at this time for a safe escalation of services.\"\n\nAnd one traveller told the BBC: \"I'm a key worker who relies on commuting to and from work. Are you telling me that I might have to wait hours to even get on the train, because non-key workers are being told to go back to work?\n\n\"I guess the livelihoods and wellbeing of the people I care for aren't important any more.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael O'Leary said passengers were unlikely to observe a 14-day travel quarantine\n\nRyanair passengers will have to ask to use the toilet as new safety measures are introduced by the airline.\n\nThe carrier plans to reintroduce 40% of flights from 1 July, subject to travel restrictions being lifted and safety measures being brought in at airports.\n\nThe airline will operate nearly 1,000 flights a day, bringing back nearly all of its pre-Covid 19 route network.\n\nOther new rules include face coverings being worn by all crew and passengers and cashless on-board transactions.\n\nQueues for the toilet will be banned during flights and passengers will have to request access from crew members.\n\nRyanair will ask its passengers to check in online and bring fewer bags, while they will also have to download their boarding pass to a smartphone.\n\nOn arrival at the airport, people will have their temperature checked and will have to wear a face mask or covering at all times in the terminal and on planes.\n\nThe company says it uses air filters in its planes similar to those used in critical hospital wards and that all interior surfaces in planes are disinfected every night.\n\nSince restrictions began in March, Ryanair has only operated 30 flights a day between Ireland, the UK and Europe.\n\nRyanair boss Michael O'Leary, who last month said that leaving the middle seat free to help social distancing was \"idiotic\", said he planned to sell as many seats as possible this summer.\n\n\"The business only functions when we can sell most of the seats on most of the flights,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"We accept in July and August that the load factors will be lower than that, but we don't need social distancing.\n\n\"In fact the government has already recommended that where social distancing isn't possible, wear face masks. That is the effective measure against the spread of Covid-19, not the ineffective measures like a 14-day isolation that nobody will observe anyway.\"\n\nHe added that the flights in July and August would be largely taken by \"lots of British families who will be going abroad for their two-week holiday\".\n\n\"They'll have very little difficulty returning back well before the September restart of schools and isolating again at home for two weeks.\"\n\nOn Monday, Willie Walsh, the chief executive of British Airways owner IAG, said the new quarantine rules meant his company would have to review its plan to return to 50% capacity by July.\n\nEasyJet has told the BBC that it does not have a date for restarting flights, but is keeping the situation under review.", "The new Scrabble Go comes with a number of extra features including rewards and tile designs\n\nScrabble Go, a new game which will replace the existing official Scrabble mobile app made by Electronic Arts (EA) has sparked hundreds of complaints.\n\nIts vivid colours, treasure-style rewards and in-app purchase model has angered long-time players.\n\nThe EA game will be discontinued on 5 June because the official franchise is now licensed to Scopely.\n\nScrabble Go was launched on 5 March and had been downloaded more than 10 million times by the end of April.\n\nAt that time, it had 2.5 million daily players, who spent an average of 100 minutes of game time per day, Reuters reported.\n\nIt has a four-star rating on the Google Play store, but also hundreds of recent negative comments, with many complaining that the design is too distracting.\n\nA digital petition on the website Change.org calling for EA to keep the original app going has nearly 1,200 signatures.\n\n\"I don't want jewels, cartoons, or potential dates. I want to play Scrabble against my friends and family. That's it. Nothing else,\" wrote one signatory.\n\n\"They've turned it into some sparkly Candy Crush abomination,\" Ian Pym from Fareham, Hampshire, told the BBC. \"I defy any adult to play it for longer than 10 minutes and not feel physically sick.\"\n\nIan Pym with his mum Christiane, who has played more than 21,000 games of Scrabble on the EA app\n\nIan's mother, Christiane, 78, is an avid Scrabble player and has clocked up 21,000 games on the EA app.\n\n\"It's not even worth sharing Scrabble Go with my mum - she would be totally confused,\" he said.\n\nMrs Pym said she played the EA game for relaxation.\n\n\"When I heard they were going to stop it I thought it was the end of my life, it's so relaxing for me,\" she said.\n\n\"I think it will be a shame for a lot of people, especially those who are on their own.\"\n\nThere are alternative apps to the official game such as Words with Friends and Wordmaster, which have similar rules to traditional Scrabble, but are not licensed by its owners.\n\nThe BBC contacted Scopely, but was directed to its customer services team, which said: \"The players' point of view is always important, that's why any suggestion or feedback will be more than welcome.\"\n\nEA released a statement in March explaining its plan to discontinue its version of the game, which had been licensed by Scrabble owners Hasbro and Mattel since 2008.\n\n\"Our games have built a passionate community and we want to thank you for playing for so many years,\" the games giant said.\n\nEA players will be unable to migrate their profiles and data to Scrabble Go, but they will be able to connect with friends.", "The number of coronavirus deaths in care homes across the UK has started to fall, figures show.\n\nA review of death certificates showed there were 2,800 deaths linked to the virus in the most recent week - down 12% on the week before.\n\nIt brings the virus death toll in care homes to more than 9,700.\n\nThe data also showed that between mid-March and early May more than 50,000 more deaths have been recorded than would be expected during this period.\n\nThis is known as excess deaths and is said to be a better measure of the true impact of the epidemic as it measures deaths linked directly to the virus and others associated with the lockdown.\n\nThe number of hospital deaths has been falling since early April.\n\nBut the government and care sector had been struggling to contain outbreaks in care homes.\n\nThese figures - from the Office for National Statistics and its counterparts in Scotland and Northern Ireland - are the first sign that the corner may have been turned.\n\nWhile the government's daily figures contain deaths in care homes now, the lack of testing particularly in the early days has meant it has been hard to establish a trend - the daily figures require a diagnosis of the infection.\n\nDespite the drop, the virus has had a major impact on the overall number of deaths in care homes.\n\nThe total number seen in recent weeks - 9,700 - is more than two times higher than you would normally expect.\n\nAs well as the coronavirus deaths, there have been a large number of fatalities happening where the cause is unclear.\n\nOne suggestion has been that the lack of testing in care homes has meant the virus has not always been listed on death certificates when it should.\n\nThe Local Government Association said the number of deaths was \"shocking\" and a \"terrible loss\" to the families involved.\n\nBut England Care Minister Helen Whately said it was a \"relief\" care home deaths had started falling.\n\nHowever, she added \"our work is not yet done\" and the government was \"doing everything in its power\" to help the sector, pointing out the availability of testing and personal protective equipment was being increased.\n\nThe 50,000 figure refers to the total number of extra deaths seen from mid-March to May.\n\nNormally during this period you would expect to see just under 100,000 deaths.\n\nBut close to 150,000 deaths were actually recorded - 36,000 of them mentioned coronavirus on the death certificate.\n\nThat leaves another 14,000 extra deaths that may be related to the epidemic in other ways, such as suicide or people who suffer heart attacks and strokes but have not accessed care.\n\nThe overall level of extra deaths is on a par with the excess winter mortality seen two years ago, which covers a period of four months whereas this is less than two.", "The hackers claim to have information, including non-disclosure agreements, from hundreds of stars\n\nA law firm used by A-list stars including Rod Stewart, Lil Nas X and Robert De Niro has been hacked.\n\nThe website for Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks is down and hackers claim to have 756 gigabytes of data including contracts and personal emails.\n\nA screenshot allegedly of a Madonna contract has been released, and the criminals are demanding payment.\n\nThe New York law firm says it has notified its clients and is working with cyber-security experts.\n\nIt's not known what sum the hackers are demanding and whether the law firm is negotiating with them.\n\nRobert De Niro is one of Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks's clients\n\nThe law firm said in a press statement: \"We can confirm that we've been victimised by a cyber-attack. We have notified our clients and our staff. We have hired the world's experts who specialise in this area, and we are working around the clock to address these matters.\"\n\nThe company's website is displaying just a logo but historic records of the site show a client list of more than 200 high profile people and companies.\n\nOther clients named are Andrew Lloyd Webber, Priyanka Chopra, Robert De Niro, Sofia Vergara, Activision, Inc, Sony Corp, LeBron James and Mike Tyson.\n\nRapper Drake is listed as one of the law firm's clients\n\nThe hackers known as REvil or Sodinokibi previously attacked foreign exchange company Travelex with ransomware in January.\n\nRansomware is one of the biggest problems in cyber-security and is a malicious type of software that encrypts data until a ransom is paid, usually in untraceable crypto-currency Bitcoin.\n\nCyber-security company Emsisoft says the hackers have posted images online of a contract for Madonna's World Tour 2019-20 complete with signatures from an employee and concert company Live Nation.\n\nAn image of the data the hackers claim to have\n\nHackers have also uploaded an image they claim shows the stolen data directory with folders named under certain clients. Posting a sample of stolen data is often done as a way to prove a hack has happened and put pressure on a victim to pay a ransom.\n\n\"Companies in this position have no good options available to them,\" Brett Callow, threat analyst at Emsisoft said. \"Non-payment of the demand will result in the information being published; payment will simply get them a pinky promise from criminals that the stolen data will be deleted.\n\n\"These incidents are becoming increasingly commonplace and increasingly concerning. And incidents involving law firms are even more concerning due to the sensitivity of the data they hold.\"\n\nThe law firm and some of the celebrities have been approached for further comment.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore intensive care doctors need to be trained in Wales to address a \"huge deficit\", a senior medic has warned.\n\nJack Parry-Jones said most of Wales' intensive care units were short of doctors before the coronavirus pandemic struck.\n\nHe called for more training places for intensive care doctors and for the units themselves to be upgraded.\n\nThe NHS body responsible for training said there had been a \"sustainable increase\" in training places.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"We are committed to improving critical care capacity across Wales.\n\n\"The health minister set out a programme for improving critical care, including £15m of funding. We have also featured critical care as part of our Train Work Live campaign.\"\n\nJack Parry-Jones said other health boards needed the same investment in critical care units as the Aneurin Bevan board was making at the new Grange University Hospital\n\nDr Parry-Jones, who is an intensive care consultant in south Wales and a board member of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, said units were staffed by doctors who were not necessarily specialists in intensive care medicine.\n\n\"Most units are short of intensive care medicine doctors, and that would be from consultants all the way through to juniors.\n\n\"But the important thing really is that 50% of intensive care posts are not properly filled. And by that I mean that most intensive care units in Wales still require the intensive care consultant rota to be covered at some point by people who aren't intensive care medicine trained.\"\n\nHe said they tended to be anaesthetic consultants who \"cross-covered\" into intensive care, as opposed to fully-trained intensive medicine consultants.\n\nThe organisation responsible for training doctors, Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW), said there had been a \"planned, sustainable increase\" in training places in recent years.\n\nPushpinder Mangat, HEIW medical director and a former intensive care consultant, said: \"Since 2017 we have increased the number of permanent higher speciality intensive care training posts in Wales by 58%.\n\n\"We have continued this plan with new posts for this year's intake and plan to include further posts next year.\"\n\nHe said they had also increased the number of internal medicine training posts, meaning every year an extra 39 trainee doctors would work and gain experience in Welsh intensive care units.\n\nBut Dr Parry-Jones said while the number of trainees had increased there was still a significant shortfall.\n\n\"There's a huge deficit because we have a deficit anyway, and then obviously we have consultants retiring all the time. And there's a constant fill-rate that needs to go on just to maintain the status quo.\"\n\nHe said there would eventually be \"limits\" to how many trainees could be taken on, but that was not the case at the moment.\n\nDuring the coronavirus pandemic, extra \"surge capacity\" beds have been made available in hospitals to cope with the potential numbers of critically ill patients, on a temporary basis.\n\nConservative health spokeswoman in the Senedd Angela Burns said shortfalls across the NHS needed to be addressed for it to cope with the pressures it faces.\n\nMs Burns said: \"With sadness I think this pandemic is not going to be the only time we are under this kind of pressure. So we have to absolutely make sure we can ramp up the resources we need.\"\n\nShe said expanding capacity to cope with the pressure meant the right staff needed to be recruited.\n\n\"These people take an awfully long time to train because they are highly specialised. Getting the bed is one thing, getting the right calibre of people to staff it is completely different.\"\n\nDr Parry-Jones said the units themselves needed upgrading to match the standard that would open at the new Grange University Hospital near Cwmbran next year, which will have 30 intensive care beds, all of them isolated.\n\n\"We've been trying to do the increase [in training posts] for many, many years. For 10 to 15 years we've been asking for an increase. I think the Welsh Government really picked up and started listening to this about two years ago now.\"\n\nHe said Cardiff had far too few isolation facilities and that investment was needed \"to bring it into the 21st Century.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak is to reveal the future of the government's job retention scheme later, amid growing calls to extend it.\n\nCurrently more than six million people are having up to 80% of their wages paid by the government while they are temporarily on leave from their jobs.\n\nMr Sunak previously warned the furlough scheme, due to end in June, was not \"sustainable\" at its current rate.\n\nThe government is encouraging people in England to return to work if safe.\n\nOn Monday night, it published guidance for making workplaces \"Covid secure\", including requiring employers to carry out risk assessments before they can reopen.\n\nHowever, speaking at Monday's Downing Street daily briefing, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said a \"sudden big flood\" of people returning to work was not expected, describing the latest measures as \"baby steps\".\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said the furlough scheme needed to continue and should not be reduced, insisting it had been a \"lifeline\" for workers and employees during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that reducing the scheme too soon would \"cost us in the long run\".\n\nNearly a quarter of the UK's workforce has been furloughed, with 80% of employee's wages - up to £2,500 a month - being paid by the government.\n\nMr Johnson said the initiative was \"one of the most remarkable features of the government's response\" and stressed \"it is absolutely right that we should do it\".\n\nHe said he did not want to steal his chancellor's thunder but added that Mr Sunak would update MPs on Tuesday.\n\nLast week, Mr Sunak promised there would be no \"cliff edge\" cut-off.\n\nTorsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation think tank and an early advocate of the scheme, warned against it being removed too quickly and called for a \"careful and gradual change\" to the measure.\n\n\"Moving too quickly could spark a huge second surge in job losses at a time when unemployment already looks set to be at the highest level for a quarter of a century,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Employers will not be allowed to get away with forcing people to work in conditions that are not Covid-secure\"\n\nThis latest development to the scheme comes as the government continues to defend its return to work message, issued in its latest coronavirus guidance for England.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told BBC Breakfast that ministers were being \"incredibly cautious\" about the changes, and insisted that everyone who can work from home should continue to do so \"because obviously that's the safest place to work\".\n\nAsked whether people are protected by law if they felt unsafe in the workplace, Mr Hancock said employment law had not changed but that \"businesses and employees should be working together to make the best of a very difficult situation.\"\n\nMr Hancock also defended other changes to England's lockdown measures, outlined in the government's strategy document on the next steps in its coronavirus response.\n\nAsked why people could go to garden centres but not meet a friend in their garden, standing 2m apart, Mr Hancock said that not everybody has a garden and not every garden was big enough.\n\nHe added that people who wish to meet with one other person from outside their household should only do so in public places, suggesting that a lot of people can only access their garden by going through their house - meaning they would be meeting indoors.\n\nAnd, speaking on Today, Mr Hancock explained that the reason for asking people to meet with one person at a time was to avoid mass gatherings.\n\nHe said the government's decision to lift the ban on driving to beauty spots for exercise should not risk increasing the spread of the virus in such areas - as long as people socially distance when they get there.\n\nThe health secretary stressed the change was not \"for people to move house or to go on holiday or to be able to stay\".\n\nThe Department for Transport has issued new guidance on how to make journeys safely, if people cannot work from home and have to travel for work.\n\nIt advises commuters to keep 2m apart from others \"wherever possible\", wear a face covering, use contactless payment and avoid the rush hour period, if people are unable to avoid using public transport.\n\nIt comes after the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy released fresh guidance for UK employers on how to implement social distancing measures, with eight separate documents published for sectors which can now reopen.\n\nMeasures could include staggered start times, one-way systems, screens between workers and increased cleaning.\n\nTUC general secretary Frances O'Grady cautiously welcomed the new workplace guidance, but the union said ministers had to gets to grips with the provision of personal protective equipment as more workers needed it.\n\nOn Monday, the government published guidance for the public, alongside its strategy document.\n\nThe information includes new advice for people in England to wear face coverings on public transport and in some shops.\n\nLeaders in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland said \"stay at home\" messages remained in place there - prompting Mr Johnson to defended the differing approaches between the UK nations.\n\nThe 60-page document also said:\n\nFigures released on Monday showed a further 210 people have died in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus, taking the total number of deaths recorded to 32,065.\n\nAfter eight days of missing its goal of 100,000 tests a day, on Monday the government counted 100,490 tests on 10 May.\n\nAre you going back to work? 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:", "In an update to a story we brought you earlier, the Senedd petition committee has said a petition calling for the funeral costs of NHS staff who die with coronavirus to be covered by the public purse should be taken forward.\n\nSome 400 people have signed the petition submitted by Cardiff University academics Professor Jane Henderson and Professor Karin Wahl-Jorgensen.\n\nThe Welsh Government has said a £60,000 death-in-service benefit announced last month should help cover financial hardship.\n\nMembers of the Senedd's petition committee today said they would like to write to Health Minister Vaughan Gething for more details.\n\nRhondda MS Leanne Wood said: \"Yes, there's been a commitment to pay a death-in-service benefit to NHS salaries, but this is something separate.\"\n\nShe said the issue was \"much wider\" than just NHS workers, saying: \"There are care workers, there are people in the supermarkets, people driving with food, people driving taxis and buses.\n\n\"There are a whole range of people - people who collect our refuse and so on - who are low-paid, in the main, and face serious risk.\n\n\"Their families should not be facing this extra financial burden in the terrible, terrible situation where they lose a loved-one because of this.\n\n\"So, I think all workers who have died as a result of Covid, in the work that they do, deserve to have their funerals covered by the state at the very minimum.\"", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nThe US has said its decision to refuse an extradition request for Harry Dunn's alleged killer was final.\n\nIt comes after an Interpol Red Notice was issued for US national Anne Sacoolas who is now \"wanted internationally\".\n\nA US official said she had diplomatic immunity, but Downing Street branded the refusal \"a denial of justice\".\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died after a crash in Northamptonshire, with Mrs Sacoolas accused of death by dangerous driving.\n\nThe shadow foreign secretary has accused the Foreign Office of \"clear and repeated failings\".\n\nMrs Sacoolas, the wife of a US intelligence official based at RAF Croughton, claimed diplomatic immunity following the crash and was able to return to her home country, sparking an international outcry.\n\nThe Interpol Red notice means she can be arrested if she leaves the US.\n\nMr Dunn's mother Charlotte Charles was notified by Northamptonshire Police about the Interpol notice.\n\nShe said it was \"a huge step in the right direction\".\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003, cited diplomatic immunity after the crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nMotorcyclist Mr Dunn died in a crash with a car near US military base RAF Croughton on 27 August.\n\nA Home Office extradition request was refused by US secretary of state Mike Pompeo in January.\n\nOn Tuesday, the state department's spokeswoman said that decision was final.\n\nShe said that granting the extradition request for Mrs Sacoolas would have rendered the invocation of diplomatic immunity a practical nullity and would have set an \"extraordinarily troubling precedent\".\n\nShe added that the US has a history of close law enforcement co-operation with the UK, and values that relationship.\n\nBut the Prime Minister's official spokesman said Boris Johnson \"has been clear that he wants to see justice served for Harry and his family\".\n\nMr Johnson had raised the case with Donald Trump \"on a number of occasions\", the spokesman said.\n\n\"The US refusal to extradite Anne Sacoolas amounts to a denial of justice and she should return to the UK,\" the spokesman added.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy has called for a parliamentary inquiry, in which the Foreign Secretary would have to explain \"failings\" with Mr Dunn's case.\n\nBut the Dunn family spokesman Radd Seiger said: \"The White House may feel that secretary Pompeo's refusal to extradite Anne Sacoolas was final but that does not reflect the real position.\n\n\"In fact quite the contrary, as the US Embassy in London said in a recent letter to Andrea Leadsom, both countries recognise that the final decision will rest with the court following a judicial review.\"\n\nAn Interpol Red Notice is a request to law enforcement worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest a person pending extradition, surrender, or similar legal action.\n\nOn its website, Interpol states a red notice \"is an international wanted persons notice, but it is not an arrest warrant\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@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. Matt Hancock: \"Unlikely that big, lavish international holidays are going to possible for this summer\"\n\nMany British people are unlikely to be able to take foreign holidays this summer because of coronavirus, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nHe told ITV's This Morning it's \"likely to be the case\" there won't be a normal summer holiday season.\n\nThe government is opening up parts of the economy, and Ryanair is planning to start services in July.\n\nBut Mr Hancock said the traditional big-break holiday season is unlikely.\n\nSocial distancing will have to be maintained for some time, he said. \"The conclusion from that is it is unlikely that big, lavish international holidays are going to be possible for this summer.\"\n\nMr Hancock's comments came as many airlines detailed plans to restart flights.\n\nRyanair boss Michael O'Leary, who last month said that leaving the middle seat free to help social distancing was \"idiotic\", said he planned to sell as many seats as possible this summer.\n\nThe airline is planning to operate nearly 1,000 flights a day from July, up from 30 today. It said face coverings being worn by all crew and passengers and cashless on-board transactions would help keep passengers safe as well as a new system for toilet breaks.\n\nPassengers will have to ask crew to use the toilet to stop queues forming.\n\nMeanwhile, EasyJet has told the BBC that it does not have a date for restarting flights, but is keeping the situation under review.\n\nThe announcement came despite government plans to introduce a 14-day quarantine for international travellers to prevent a second spike in the virus, infuriating airlines which planned to resume flying in the coming months.\n\nWillie Walsh, boss of rival firm IAG, which owns British Airways, criticised the move, warning it would force him to review his plans to ramp up flights in the summer.\n\n\"There's nothing positive in anything I heard the prime minister say [on Sunday],\" he told MPs.\n\nVirgin Atlantic also released its summer schedule for 2021 on Tuesday, promising more flights to Tel Aviv as well as routes linking Florida with Manchester, Glasgow, London Heathrow and Belfast after it pulled out of Gatwick.\n\nScenes that are unlikely to be seen this summer\n\nJohn and Irene Hays, owners of travel company Hays Travel, which took over Thomas Cook's shops last year, said the news has not dampened people's enthusiasm to get away.\n\nMr Hay told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"There is a real desire to go on holiday. People have been locked down, and in terms of new bookings we're getting strong demand.\"\n\nTalking about trips which were booked earlier in the year, Mrs Hays added: \"Many people are not cancelling, they are just deferring their holiday or in some cases holding on to a credit note for now.\"\n\nMr Hays also thought that having to self-isolate at home for 14 days after returning from abroad may not stop people travelling.\n\n\"If people in the UK are already in lockdown, they might be happy to spend another fortnight at home. Some people might say go to Spain or somewhere, have a nice holiday and then come back and continue their lockdown,\" he said.\n\nMr Hancock's comments echo those from Transport Secretary Grant Shapps last month who warned people not to book summer holidays - domestic and overseas - until social distancing rules are relaxed. \"I won't be booking a summer holiday at this point,\" he told the BBC on 17 April.\n\nAirlines, and the travel industry generally, have been among the biggest financial losers of the international lockdown.\n\nAircraft fleets have been grounded and thousands of job cuts announced, with British Airways shedding 12,000 jobs and Virgin 3,000 jobs.", "Emilee Mae Challinor is a nurse on the respiratory wing at Royal Stoke Hospital in Stoke-on-Trent.\n\nShe goes the extra mile for patients, from writing small notes to making handmade flowers and hearts for when they are discharged.\n\nAmong them was coronavirus patient Lee Sims.\n\nThe BBC organised a virtual reunion for the pair. As she fought back tears, an emotional Mr Sims told his former nurse it was \"insane\" how dedicated she was.\n\nWatch more personal stories during the coronavirus outbreak: Your Coronavirus Stories", "Tesla has reopened its only US electric car plant in California, despite local orders against manufacturing.\n\nOn Monday, the company's chief executive Elon Musk tweeted that production had restarted and he would be \"on the line with everyone else\".\n\nUS states and local governments are trying to determine the best way to open up after lockdown.\n\nMr Musk previously vowed to move the firm's headquarters out of California if the plant was not allowed to reopen.\n\nHe has been vocal about the lockdown orders in recent weeks.\n\nMr Musk recently celebrated plans to relax restrictions across the country, writing on Twitter: \"FREE AMERICA NOW\". He has also dismissed as \"dumb\" concerns about the coronavirus.\n\nWhile the state has eased restrictions to allow manufacturing, Alameda County, where the Fremont plant is located, has not. The town is about one hour south of San Francisco.\n\nOn Saturday, Elon Musk said that Tesla had filed a lawsuit against the county asking a court to remove the order that prevents the carmaker from resuming production.\n\nRather than wait for a ruling, Mr Musk announced on Twitter on Monday that the plant would reopen.\n\nThe local police department said that it was aware of the situation, but that it would act at the discretion of county health officials.\n\nThe Alameda County Public Health Department said on Monday it was \"actively communicating\" with Tesla about reopening plans and that it was taking the same approach it had taken with other business that had violated lockdown orders.\n\nIn an email seen by Reuters, Tesla also reportedly told workers the decision to reopen was in line with California guidelines.\n\nMr Musk wrote on Twitter that Tesla had been \"singled out\", saying that other US carmakers were allowed to restart production.\n\nOther carmakers had planned to resume production in May but some have had to delay this in states like Michigan where non-essential business operations are limited.\n\nPictures of the Tesla car park on Monday showed it mostly full. The plant has been closed to all but limited essential operations since 26 March.\n\nTesla opened a plant in Shanghai last year and it is building another outside of Berlin, but Fremont is home to Tesla's headquarters and its primary manufacturing facility.\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Musk said he would relocate the US plant to another state if necessary to restart production.\n\nOfficials from Texas, Utah, Georgia and Nevada, where Tesla already has a battery assembly plant, had contacted it offering incentives to move to their jurisdictions.\n\nUS Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Monday California \"should prioritize\" helping Tesla reopen because it was one of the biggest manufacturing employers in the state.\n\nThe state's governor, Gavin Newsom, said that he had spoken with Mr Musk last week and that his concerns were part of the reason California decided to phase in manufacturing as it slowly lifts lockdown measures.", "Firefighters at St George Hospital - the blaze broke out on the sixth floor\n\nA fire at a St Petersburg hospital has killed five coronavirus patients in an intensive care unit.\n\nThe blaze was apparently started by a short-circuit in a ventilator, Russian news agencies reported.\n\nThe fire was quickly put out and 150 people were evacuated from the hospital, the country's emergency ministry said. It is not clear how many people have been injured.\n\nAll the patients who died at St George Hospital had been on ventilators.\n\n\"The ventilators are working to their limits. Preliminary indications are that it was overloaded and caught fire, and that was the cause,\" a source at St Petersburg emergencies department told the Interfax news agency.\n\nFire-damaged windows are visible at the hospital\n\nRussia's NTV news website reports that the fire did not spread beyond one small Covid-19 ward on the sixth floor.\n\nIt quotes doctors as saying a short-circuit caused a ventilator \"literally to explode\" because of the oxygen concentration, and the ward filled with smoke, which suffocated the patients.\n\nThere have been persistent reports of a shortage of ventilators in Russia, especially in the provinces - as President Vladimir Putin himself acknowledged last month, the BBC's Sarah Rainsford reports.\n\nProduction has increased rapidly, but research by the Reuters news agency found that outside Moscow many ventilators are old - made in the 1990s.\n\nSt Petersburg, with a population of approximately 4.9 million people, has 5,483 hospital beds for Covid-19 patients.\n\nThe city's hospitals have been overstretched by the outbreak and doctors are working at full capacity, says BBC Russian reporter Anna Pushkarskaya.\n\nSt George's was seen as less affected than others, but it was quarantined last month when 18 patients were diagnosed with the virus.\n\nA police source quoted by Tass news agency said the ventilator which caught fire was new - it had been installed just this month - and was made by Russia's Ural machine-building plant.\n\nSt Petersburg has recorded just over 8,000 cases of Covid-19 so far - far fewer than Moscow, where the infection rate is continuing to climb at over 10,000 new cases daily.\n\nState investigators have opened a case to determine whether there was criminal negligence - either in the ventilator design and manufacture or in the hospital's fire precautions.\n\nThe All-Russia Institute for Medical Technology Research points out that there are many different types of medical ventilator, so a fault in one may not be common to others.\n\nAlexei Kurinny, a member of the Russian parliament's health committee, said it was unlikely that a ventilator could have short-circuited or overloaded, and that fire safety was built into their design.\n\nOfficials say 105 firefighters were sent to the scene\n\nThe St George Hospital in the Vyborg district had been converted to a Covid-19 hospital at the end of March.\n\nThe emergency services sent 105 firefighters and 55 vehicles to the hospital, offficials said.\n\nThe news of the fire comes as the country is starting to ease lockdown restrictions. Construction, farming and factory workers are resuming their duties.\n\nRussia now has the second-highest number of confirmed infections worldwide after the United States. On Tuesday, it reported another 10,899 infections in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to more than 232,000.\n\nThe capital, Moscow, is the worst-affected area and has reported more than 5,000 new cases in the past 24 hours.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's political editor asks Rishi Sunak if the UK is looking at a recession due to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe tiny number of staff at work in Number 11 did make an effort at celebration in these grim times with, apparently, a few balloons in the office.\n\nThere is, though, not much time in government for anything other than trying to get through this emergency - nor anything to celebrate.\n\nThe impact on the economy has already been so extreme that Rishi Sunak confirmed today that the taxpayer will carry on paying 80% of the wages of more than seven million people until the end of July and then sharing the cost of that with employers, extending the furlough scheme until the end of October.\n\nThe idea is the Treasury picks up swathes of the country's wage bill so that businesses can close their doors but can keep their staff on standby.\n\nThe plan has, ministers firmly believe, staved off a much, much more serious economic disaster where we'd be heading into a period of mass unemployment.\n\nBy carrying on for a few more months, the hope is to keep the brakes on, to stop a slide into profound and prolonged downturn.\n\nThere are fears about the extension, however: not least how much businesses will be asked to share the bill from August.\n\nWhat happens to businesses who still haven't reopened by then and still have no income, so can't split the bill?\n\nWhat about businesses who decide not to reopen?\n\nThere are also fears among some ministers about how extending the scheme for every part of the economy reduces the incentive for people to go back to work and businesses to reopen too.\n\nBut, in the months to come, the question for the government is likely to extend far beyond the dilemmas over furlough.\n\nMore broadly, they may have to consider which sectors of the economy do they ask the taxpayer to help preserve, and which do they let go?\n\nIn this emergency phase, we are living with an astonishing level of state support being lent to keep big swathes of the economy afloat.\n\nThis chancellor and this Tory government are prepared to wear massive levels of borrowing for the foreseeable future. There will, in time, be a limit and an end point to how much more to add.\n\nBut many industries' models may not work for a long time; the sums may simply not add up.\n\nRishi Sunak may therefore have to decide whether it's the right thing to keep propping up business and industries whose future after corona may not be viable.\n\nThat's not just a decision about what we need, and how we want to earn our living as a country in the future, but a series of political choices about what the economy ought to look like in the years to come.\n\nWhen ministers make decisions about the best use of taxpayers' money - awful though it may be to consider - the changes that Covid-19 has forced on our way of life may mean that some previously successful businesses may simply not be able to make the sums work for a very long time on the other side.\n\nNot that long ago, the chancellor and others talked brightly of a swift bounce back to the economy.\n\nIt is, of course, possible that may yet happen. There is, and will continue to be, vigorous economic debate about exactly what the numbers display.\n\nBut politically a mood is sinking in now, that very hard decisions about the shape of the country's income will have to be made.\n\nWhen we asked him today about whether we're facing recession, the chancellor was reluctant to use the \"r\" word - recession - but accepted there were signs it was already happening.\n\nHe says his own \"heart breaks\" as people are already losing their jobs.\n\nBut it may not be long before he and the prime minister have no choice but to acknowledge the economic reality more explicitly - the sting in the virus' poisonous tail may be hardship for massive numbers of people in the country and harder decisions for Number 11 too.", "A trial of potential coronavirus drugs aimed at over-50s, who are vulnerable to developing serious symptoms, is looking to recruit more UK volunteers.\n\nOver 500 GP surgeries are asking those with a new, continuous cough or high temperature to test existing drugs.\n\nPatients aged over 65 or over 50 with an underlying health condition can fill out an online questionnaire at home to see whether they can be included.\n\nPatients can also contact participating GPs to discuss their suitability.\n\nThe trial, led by a team at Oxford University, will compare with the current best available care a number of low-risk treatments recommended by an expert panel advising the chief medical officer for England, including:\n\nThe participants will still be able to take paracetamol to alleviate their symptoms.\n\nAnd every day, for up to four weeks, they will be asked to answer some online questions about them.\n\nProf Fiona Watt, executive chair of the Medical Research Council, which is funding the trial, with the National Institute for Health Research, said: \"We need more people to join the trial to see if we can identify a drug that helps prevent people reaching hospital and speeds up their recovery.\"\n• None Which treatments work best against Covid?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gardening enthusiasts say they are relieved to see gardening centres allowed to reopen in Wales.\n\nSpeaking at Brynawel Fuchsia and Garden Centre in the Vale of Glamorgan on Monday, one customer said it was \"absolutely fabulous\" to be able see the business open again.\n\nAnother said her garden was her \"happy place\" and praised the Welsh Government's decision to allow the centres to reopen - provided social distancing is observed.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has advised all over-70s to stay at home due to their vulnerability to Covid-19, and has banned all but essential travel.", "More than 1,000 members of staff at P&O Ferries are set to be made redundant\n\nP&O Ferries has announced plans to make 1,100 of its staff redundant.\n\nThe ferry operator, based in Dover, Kent, said the reduced number of vessels and downturn in business had forced its decision to lay off staff.\n\nA spokesperson for the firm said \"right-sizing\" the business was a necessary step to create a viable and sustainable P&O Ferries.\n\nThe owners of P&O Ferries had previously stated the business needed £257m in aid to avoid collapse.\n\nNatalie Elphicke MP has called on P&O's owners to \"stump up or sell to better owners\"\n\nNatalie Elphicke, MP for Dover and Deal, said the news was \"disappointing\" and urged P&O's owners to \"stump up or sell to better owners\".\n\nShe said: \"Let's remember that P&O, which is owned by the Sovereign State of Dubai, has received millions of pounds of financial support from our government in recent weeks. There can be no doubt that Dubai has more than enough money to keep P&O going in full.\n\n\"It cannot be right for them to have taken millions of pounds from the hard-working British taxpayer in furlough and freight support payments and then decide to pull the rug.\"\n\nIn April, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem told the BBC the company had applied to the UK government for £150m.\n\nP&O Ferries is now working towards making 614 staff on the Dover to Calais line redundant, with a further 122 job losses on the lines between Hull and Zeebrugge and Rotterdam. The remainder are officers and shore-side staff on the same routes.\n\nMick Cash, general secretary of the RMT union, said it was \"utterly shameful\" P&O was kept afloat by the taxpayer.\n\nHe said: \"This is an attack on British seafarers and crew, and the biggest fear is that these jobs will never return to Dover or Hull.\n\n\"But you can guarantee that P&O ferries will still be running passenger ferry services from those ports to protect their owner's profits at the country's expense.\"\n\nP&O said a consultation period was now under way.\n\nIt said: \"Since the beginning of the crisis, P&O Ferries has been working with its stakeholders to address the impact of the loss of the passenger business.\n\n\"It is now clear that right-sizing the business is necessary to create a viable and sustainable P&O Ferries to get through Covid-19.\"\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 BBC's political editor asks Rishi Sunak if the UK is looking at a recession due to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has spoken of the \"heartbreaking\" job losses already caused by the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nHe said the government was determined to save as many firms as it could - which was why it would carry on paying the wages of 7.5 million people.\n\nThe scheme was \"expensive\" but the cost to society of not doing it would be \"far higher\", he told the BBC.\n\nHe earlier announced the extension of the furlough scheme to the end of October.\n\nEmployees will continue to receive 80% of their monthly wages up to £2,500 but the government will ask companies to \"start sharing\" the cost of the scheme from August.\n\nA quarter of the workforce, some 7.5 million people, are now covered by the scheme, which has cost £14bn a month.\n\nThe chancellor said that from August, the scheme would continue for all sectors and regions of the country but with greater flexibility to support the transition back to work.\n\nEmployers currently using the scheme will then be able to bring furloughed employees back part-time.\n\nMr Sunak told the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg: \"This is an expensive scheme... but I also believe it's absolutely the right thing to do.\n\n\"And what's very clear to me is that the cost of not doing this for society, for our economy, for our country would be far higher, and I am simply not going to give up on all these people.\"\n\nAsked if the UK was heading for a recession, he said: \"We already know that many people have lost their jobs and it breaks my heart, we've seen what's happening with Universal Credit claims already.\n\n\"This is not something that we're going to wait to see - it's already happening.\n\n\"There are already businesses that are shutting there are already people who have lost their jobs.\n\n\"And as I said that's heartbreaking to me and that's why I'm working night and day to limit the amount of job losses.\n\nAsked about the effect of the lockdown on the future of the British economy, the chancellor pledged to drive up productivity across the UK and \"invest\" in people and infrastructure.\n\n\"That agenda remains even more relevant today than it did then. And we will not we will not at all retrench from delivering on that,\" he told Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nLabour has welcomed Mr Sunak's decision to extend the furlough scheme, calling it \"a lifeline for millions\".\n\nBut shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds said the government had to clarify when employers will be required to start making contributions, and how much they'll be asked to pay.\n\n\"If every business is suddenly required to make a substantial contribution from 1 August onwards, there is a very real risk that we will see mass redundancies,\" she added.", "A suspected scam store, featuring hard-to-find gadgets priced below the norm, topped Google search results for days.\n\nMyTechDomestic accepted payments via direct bank transfers only - despite indicating support for credit cards and PayPal - and falsely claimed to be owned by a UK-registered company.\n\nIt was flagged to Google last week but the US company took action only after being contacted by BBC News on Monday.\n\nThe site's operator did not respond to several requests for comment.\n\nHowever, the platform went offline shortly after BBC News asked for a response to customers' claims it amounted to a \"scam\".\n\nAction Fraud - the UK's national reporting centre for fraud and cyber-crime - is looking into the matter after receiving a complaint from a member of the public.\n\n\"Given the large numbers of people who view these adverts, Google should move much more quickly in response to reports of scams, and be proactive about vetting them to help prevent people losing money to fraudsters,\" Which? Computing editor Kate Bevan said.\n\nMyTechDomestic's website was registered with a Canadian domain registrar on 19 April.\n\nIt was subsequently promoted via ads bought from Google's Shopping service, meaning its listings featured a \"By Google\" tag when they appeared within its search results.\n\nBy late last week, the site was top billed for several gadgets sold out or priced at a premium elsewhere.\n\nThese ads appeared at the top of Google's mobile search results and to the side of some desktop searches.\n\nThe company's ads appeared at the top of search results on mobile phones\n\nThe store often indicated it had relatively low supplies left in stock and frequently priced products at an 18% discount.\n\nAnd although its pages featured logos for American Express, Mastercard and PayPal, at point-of-sale it allowed customers to pay via a bank transfer only.\n\nBut after one user drew attention to this being unusual, on a post to MoneySavingExpert.com's forum, the site switched to using an English bank.\n\nMyTechDomestic stated it was operated by a London-based corporation, for which it provided an address and registration number.\n\nBut that company turned out to be a seven-year-old business consultancy with similar initials, which denied involvement.\n\n\"MyTechDomestic is nothing whatsoever to do with MTDO Ltd,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"We don't sell anything on the internet and we were shocked that it was that easy to set up something that steals someone else's company's identity.\"\n\nMTDO said it had reported the issue to Google on Friday, 8 May, via its Report Phishing tool.\n\nHowever, the adverts remained online until Monday evening.\n\nThe site often indicated its stock levels were low, in the individual product listings\n\nAfter being contacted by BBC News, Google began its own investigation.\n\nIt concluded the site had violated its \"misrepresentation policy\" and should have been dealt with more quickly.\n\n\"We take dishonest business practices very seriously and consider them to be an egregious violation of our policies,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"We have a tool where anyone can report these ads and these complaints are reviewed manually by our team.\n\n\"In 2019, we removed 2.7 billion bad ads and we're constantly updating our policies as we see new threats emerge.\"\n\nThe site's registrar, PlanetHoster, confirmed it had also taken action of its own.\n\n\"Currently, the website mytechdomestic.com is suspended for a violation of our policy,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"Unfortunately, we cannot share more information about this case without an official warrant.\"\n\nMeanwhile, several of the site's users voiced concerns they may have been \"scammed\" out of hundreds of pounds, in complaints posted to TrustPilot's review site.\n\n\"[An] investigation is currently ongoing with my bank and the Action Fraud police,\" one, who had paid £311.59 for a treadmill, told BBC News.\n\nOne cyber-security expert said consumers should be \"wary\" of listings from unfamiliar names - even if they were promoted by Google.\n\n\"Having been warned of a suspicious site, Google could easily have confirmed that the site was less than a month old and asking for payment in a way which doesn't protect consumers,\" Graham Cluley said.\n\n\"At the very least, it should have suspended the shopping lists while it investigated the domain.\"", "A holiday park said it had been inundated with requests for bookings after it was announced that lockdown measures would be eased in England.\n\nPeople living in England are allowed to travel for their exercise, but that is not allowed in Wales where people are restricted to staying near homes.\n\nLaurie Clark, general manager of Golden Sands in Rhyl, said some callers did not believe the different rules.\n\nHe said the resort had had about 40 requests since Sunday's announcement.\n\nRegulations against going on holiday or staying overnight at a holiday home or second home, however, still apply in both England and Wales.\n\nThe differences in lockdown rules between the English approach, and those of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, have already created confusion.\n\n\"It has been a mixture of caravan owners and holidaymakers getting in touch, who are confused about the statement from Boris Johnson on Sunday,\" Mr Clark said.\n\n\"We are surrounded by Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham catchment areas; people here assume we are going to be open.\n\n\"When we turned on our phone system on Monday morning, we were inundated from a mixture of holidaymakers enquiring if we would be open in the week, or are they able to visit their holiday homes?\n\n\"When we try to give clarity, saying the lockdown measures are different in Wales, some people were fine, some were more argumentative.\n\n\"They were saying, 'Why is this? Boris is PM for UK; why is it a different rule for Wales?'\n\n\"They didn't understand that the Welsh government were involved, or it was different in Scotland as well.\n\n\"They felt entitled to visit their holiday home, which they pay thousands for.\"\n\nMr Clark said as well as the 40 calls on Monday there were also about 30 or 40 emails.\n\nNorth Wales police and crime commissioner Arfon Jones said the confusion over lockdown easing was a \"total shambles\" and could cause an influx of visitors to north Wales.", "A railway ticket office worker has died with coronavirus after being spat at by a man who claimed he had Covid-19.\n\nBelly Mujinga, 47, who had underlying respiratory problems, was working at Victoria station in London in March when she was assaulted, along with a female colleague.\n\nWithin days of the incident, both women fell ill with the virus.\n\nBritish Transport Police said an inquiry had been launched to trace the man who spat at the pair.\n\nMrs Mujinga was on the concourse of Victoria station on 22 March when she was approached by the suspect.\n\nHer husband Lusamba Gode Katalay said the man had asked his wife what she was doing and why she was there.\n\n\"She told him she was working and the man said he had the virus and spat on her,\" he added.\n\nMrs Mujinga was admitted to Barnet Hospital on 2 April and was put on a ventilator. But she died three days later, the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA), said.\n\nThe Prime Minister's official spokesman described the attack on the key worker as \"despicable\".\n\nMr Katalay said he called his wife on a video app when she was in hospital, but didn't hear from her again.\n\n\"I thought she might be asleep, but the doctor phoned me to tell me she had died,\" he said.\n\n\"She was a good person, a good mother, and a good wife. She was a caring person and would take care of everybody.\"\n\nHer cousin Agnes Ntumba told the BBC that Mrs Mujinga believed she was safe in her usual work environment - the ticket office.\n\n\"They should not have made her work on the concourse,\" she said.\n\n\"She shouldn't have died in this condition. We could have prevented it - if she had more PPE or if they kept her inside instead of being on the concourse.\"\n\nBritish Transport Police said an investigation had been launched following the incident at Victoria station\n\nTSSA general secretary Manuel Cortes said: \"We are shocked and devastated at Belly's death. She is one of far too many front-line workers who have lost their lives to coronavirus.\"\n\nThe union added that there were \"serious questions about her death\".\n\n\"As a vulnerable person in the 'at-risk' category, and her condition known to her employer, there are questions about why she wasn't stood down from frontline duties early on in this pandemic,\" Mr Cortes said.\n\nMs Mujinga's employer, Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), said it \"took any allegations extremely seriously\" and that it was investigating all claims.\n\nAngie Doll, of GTR, said: \"The safety of our customers and staff, who are key workers themselves, continues to be front of mind at all times and we follow the latest government advice.\"\n\nLatest figures show 42 Transport for London (TfL) workers have died with Covid-19, in addition to 10 Network Rail staff.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Younger children are set to return first\n\nThe government's top scientific and medical advisers are being urged to publish the advice underpinning the decision to reopen England's schools.\n\nLiberal Democrat Layla Moran made the call in a letter to Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance.\n\nOn Wednesday, MPs were bemused when a Department for Education adviser indicated a lack of oversight over the way schools are being asked to reopen.\n\nOsama Rahman said the decision to reopen schools was not made by the DfE.\n\nWhen asked what assessment he had made, as the chief scientific adviser for the department, of how effective guidance on safe reopening of schools was and how it might be implemented, he said: \"I haven't.\"\n\nThe advice recommends social distancing in classrooms, with reduced class sizes and keeping small children in groups to limit potential virus spread.\n\nHe was also unable to point to any evidence behind the decision to reopen schools in a way that could be said to be safe.\n\nHe also told MPs that there was doubt over suggestions that children are less likely transmit the virus than adults, explaining there was only \"low confidence\" in that theory.\n\nHe agreed that reopening schools was \"putting together hundreds of potential vectors\" of the virus who could then go and spread it in the community.\n\nMs Moran said Mr Rahman's comments to the Science and Technology Committee on Wednesday had \"caused even more confusion when what we need is clarity\".\n\nIn her letter, Ms Moran said: \"The decision that has been taken, to reopen schools as early as 1 June, has caused a great deal of concern amongst school leaders, teachers and many parents.\n\n\"We need reassurance from the government that this decision was taken purely on public health grounds, and not due to economic fears.\"\n\nShe added: \"I hope you agree that we have some work to do in reassuring parents, staff and pupils that opening schools in a few short weeks time is the right thing to do and that publishing all the advice pertaining to this is an important step in this debate.\"\n\nMs Moran had earlier asked the Education Secretary, Gavin Williamson, if the scientific advice on schools reopening could be published.\n\nHe suggested there would not be a problem with this, saying the government's scientific advisory group for emergencies (SAGE) regularly published its advice.\n\nThis is something teaching unions have been requesting for weeks in their negotiations with DfE officials about the safe reopening of schools.\n\nThey are loggerheads with ministers on plans to begin the phased re-opening of primary schools on Monday 1 June.\n\nA joint statement from nine unions involved in education, argues for a delay until a full test, trace and track scheme is in place and schools are given extra resources for cleaning, protective equipment and risk assessments", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Here are the key differences between lockdown rules in Wales and England\n\nPeople have been warned not to breach coronavirus lockdown restrictions in Wales this weekend, including those thinking of travelling from England.\n\nRules have been relaxed in England so people can now \"drive to other destinations\" and meet one person outside their households outdoors.\n\nBut in Wales they cannot travel \"a significant distance\".\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford told those mulling a weekend trip to Wales \"don't do it\".\n\nRules in Wales mean travelling long distances are not allowed, with the rules in England also specifying that overnight stays away from home are not allowed.\n\nSpeaking at Friday's Welsh Government news conference, Mr Drakeford said: \"I know many people in Wales are concerned about people travelling long distances from England, particularly in the light of the UK government's announcement last weekend.\n\n\"I understand their concern. Our rules here in Wales are clear, travel should only be local, and it should only be essential.\n\n\"Travelling a long way to visit beauty spots or second homes in Wales is neither of those things - so don't do it.\"\n\nPeople have been urged not to travel a significant distance to exercise\n\nPolice forces in Wales have the power to fine people for making non-essential journeys, including those from England into Wales, with a £60 penalty for lockdown breaches.\n\nAnd Welsh police forces have expressed concerns over whether traffic into Wales could continue to increase as a result of Prime Minister, Boris Johnson's easing of restrictions.\n\nSouth Wales Police reminded people inside and outside Wales the regulations remain in place and they would be enforced.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Andy Valentine said: \"Travelling into Wales for exercise or without a reasonable excuse is not permitted, and I appeal for the support of people living in England.\"\n\nGwent Police Deputy Chief Constable Amanda Blakeman warned anyone thinking of flouting the rules to they could face action.\n\n\"If you're travelling - either cycling, in the car or on a motorbike - then we've got patrols out, we're visible, we will be stopping you, we will be explaining to you what the situation is, we will be asking you to return home.\"\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said there would be no \"specific targeting\" of people travelling from across the border, although its patrols would continue.\n\nOn Friday, a letter by the All Wales Policing Group of chief constables and police and crime commissioners to the first minister said \"there is growing evidence that adherence to the regulations is weakening in some areas\".\n\n\"We should make it clear that we want to be balanced and proportionate in the use of fines, taking our local communities with us in the way that we enforce the rules, with the difference of messaging in England being a challenge which can be helped by a similarity of maximum fine levels\".\n\nOn Thursday, the Welsh Government said it was not planning to change the fine system to increase penalties above £60 but it was keeping the matter \"under consideration\".\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\nAt the start of the pandemic, some Welsh beauty spots saw \"unprecedented\" weekend crowds, prompting criticism from authorities.\n\nAhead of this weekend, Wales' three national park authorities issued a joint call for \"all UK residents to respect the rules and measures in place in Wales\".\n\n\"These measures in Wales mean that people cannot drive to exercise in Wales - no matter where they live,\" said Emyr Williams, chief executive of Snowdonia National Park.\n\n\"There will continue to be no parking or access to the most popular sites in the Welsh National Parks.\"\n\nPembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority chief executive Tegryn Jones said the \"message was clear\" for people who did not live within walking distance of beauty spots.\n\n\"Do not visit Wales' national parks until the Welsh Government's guidelines to avoid unnecessary travel in Wales have been lifted,\" he added.\n\nNational parks said they would be \"making significant efforts\" to ensure correct information reaches the public\n\nAnd the coastguard told people coronavirus \"hasn't gone away\" and told them to \"respect the coastline\".\n\n\"Don't forget though, in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, nothing has changed. Give the coast a miss and stay home to save lives,\" they said in a statement.", "Social distancing guidelines will still need to be observed on beaches and in other public spaces\n\nCoastal towns around England have urged visitors to stay away this weekend, as lifeguards warned the \"majority\" of beaches would not be patrolled.\n\nWith warm weather expected in many places, there are fears people will flock to the seaside after updated government guidance was published.\n\nTourism bosses in seaside towns have warned attractions will remain closed.\n\nHM Coastguard urged those heading to the beach this weekend to \"respect the sea and the coast\".\n\nIn a social media post, it warned that most beaches \"would not be lifeguarded\" and said people should \"take extra care\" regardless of \"ability or experience\".\n\nSea swimming is now allowed as daily exercise in England, as well as paddle boarding, surfing, windsurfing, rowing, kayaking and canoeing.\n\nSailing and the use of private boats are also permitted under the changes.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, where lockdown rules remain in place, people should continue to remain at home, the coastguard said.\n\nThe reminder came alongside calls for people to avoid visiting the country's coastal regions, including:\n\nThe leader of Brighton council warned none of people's \"favourite places\" would be open\n\nHM Coastguard director Claire Hughes said: \"In England, now more than ever, people need to respect the sea and the coast.\n\n\"Whether you're local or not, whatever your ability or experience in your chosen sport or leisure activity, the sea can still catch you out and be unmerciful when it does.\"\n\nBlackpool's \"traditional attractions\" are closed, according to the town's council\n\nMs Hughes stressed people who get into trouble should still call 999 and they would \"come to your aid\".\n\nShe said: \"Remember your choices might put people, including yourself and front-line responders, at risk.\n\n\"Take extra care in these extraordinary times\".\n• None Some return to work as lockdown eases in England\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Abba's Waterloo has been named the greatest Eurovision song of all time by BBC viewers.\n\nEurovision: Come Together saw the public vote for their favourites, on the night that this year's song contest was due to take place.\n\nThe 2020 competition was cancelled in March amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe Swedish foursome won it in 1974 in Brighton. The track, which topped the UK charts and set them on their way to fame, went on to sell nearly 6m copies.\n\nSpeaking later on the night, Bjorn Ulvaeus from the band said he found it \"hard to believe\" that was where it began for them all those years ago.\n\nThe shortlist for the programme included Eurovision classics from the likes of Netta, Bucks Fizz, Conchita Wurst and Gina G.\n\nBut it was Agnetha, Anni-Frid, Benny and Bjorn who ultimately triumphed, with their musical metaphor about the joys of surrendering to love.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by AbbaVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe 19-strong song list was compiled by Eurovision experts and broadcasters, including Rylan Clark-Neal, Scott Mills, Ken Bruce, Adele Roberts and Mel Giedroyc, as well as former UK acts SuRie and Nicki French.\n\nPresenter Graham Norton upheld the tradition of raising a glass to the late Sir Terry Wogan, who hosted the contest for nearly 30 years.\n\n\"We couldn't deny you your Eurovision fix,\" he declared.\n\nThe programme also showcased what would have been the UK entry this year - James Newman's My Last Breath - and Norton spoke to the singer via video link.\n\nNewman said he was \"pretty gutted\" and \"had to have a few minutes to myself\" when he found out the contest had been cancelled.\n\nJames Newman was due to represent the UK at this year's contest\n\nHe said the staging had already been planned and showed an image of an underwater scene leading down from some steps.\n\nNewman added that his favourite Eurovision entry this year was Iceland's - it was one of the favourites to win had the competition gone ahead, according to recent Spotify streaming figures.\n\nLater on on Saturday evening, the BBC also joined with other European broadcasters for Eurovision: Europe Shine A Light, to honour all 41 songs which would have competed this year.\n\nSome of this year's songs would have been eliminated at the semi-finals, where the entrants are normally whittled down to 26 but the semis were also cancelled.\n\nThe event was hosted from the Dutch city of Hilversum - an hour away from where the contest was due to take place in Rotterdam - while Norton popped up again as the UK's commentator, and acts appeared in various forms from across the continent.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMåns Zelmerlöw sang an acoustic version of Heroes, his winning song from 2015, in homage to health workers during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by Eurovision Song Contest This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nDouble Eurovision winner, Ireland's Johnny Logan, was joined by scores of fans via video-link for a rendition of his most relevantly-titled track, What's Another Year.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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Love shone its light, not once but twice\n\nThe Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra combined (again, via the wonders of modern technology) to perform an instrumental version of the UK's 1997-winning Love Shine a Light, by Katrina and the Waves, as the broadcasters showed images of iconic music venues around the world lighting up.\n\nThis was certainly a high point for another former UK contestant SuRie, who said she had been left \"broken\" by the performance… in a good way.\n\nThe track got another airing for the show's finale, but this time with the lyrics too, as performers from all countries sang along in unison.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 3 by Eurovision Song Contest This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\n4. There were FIVE Daði Freyr Péturssons\n\nIceland's eccentric performer urged us all to \"stay healthy\" and \"stay fabulous\" with the help of a barbershop quartet, comprised of different digital versions of himself, all wearing the same sweater bearing an image of, yep, you guessed it... him again.\n\nTV critic Scott Bryan, for one, enjoyed it.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Scott Bryan 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\nMichael Schulte, Germany's entrant in 2018, and 2014 Dutch act The Common Linnets came together for a socially-distanced and fairly biblical looking grand church service-style rendition of Nicole's 1982 winning song Ein Bisschen Frieden.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 4 by Eurovision Song Contest This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe Austrian singer and drag act Conchita Wurst, who won in 2014, confessed that the \"most beautiful\" part of the coronavirus lockdown was the fact, \"I hardly wear any underwear and I love it so much\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by BBC Eurovision🇬🇧 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe UK broadcaster admitted, \"there's no denying this is a very odd programme\" - referring to the lack of an actual competition this year, for the first time since the contest began in 1956.\n\nIt got even odder as he had to take part in a live two-way chat with the Dutch hosts, with a bit of a delay. \"That was awkward,\" he joked, but he also said the show as a whole had \"real emotion\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by BBC Eurovision🇬🇧 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\n8. Bjorn was 'happy' to forget about you know what for a wee while\n\nAbba were the winners who took it all in the earlier BBC poll, and there was a rare TV appearance from the aforementioned Bjorn in the Shine A Light show.\n\nAfter recounting a sweet tale about the time his grandson Albert first realised his grandad was a Eurovision pop star, he described the contest as one of the most \"genuinely joyous events of the TV year\" which \"allows you to escape and be happy and even forget about the coronavirus for a little while\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 5 by Eurovision Song Contest This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe show featured messages of love and support from all of the acts who would have featured in the competition. Some viewers though, it seems, would have preferred more action and less well-wishing.\n\n\"I miss when Eurovision was fun,\" wrote one Twitter user. \"A chance to escape everything else. Yes the world is in a terrible place but the title is Shine a Light, not doom.\"\n\n\"They have badly judged what we all wanted,\" offered another. \"We wanted a party, even a Zoom party would have done, but this is a bit depressing.\n\nFifty Shades of Grey author EL James, however, thought the show's producers hit all the right notes.\n\n\"Don't know about anyone else but I'm pretty emotional watching this,\" she posted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The artists of Eurovision 2020 have recorded messages for their fans\n\nNone of the 2020 songs will be carried over to next year. Instead, countries will select new entrants for the 2021 contest.\n\nSeveral countries - including Greece, Spain and Bulgaria - have confirmed they will send the same acts next year to give the artists a second chance, but they will have to perform different songs.\n\nCurrently, there's no word on whether the UK's 2020 entrant James Newman will be chosen for the 2021 contest, although he has said he \"absolutely\" wants to represent his country again.\n\nIt was confirmed that Rotterdam, which missed out this year, would indeed be allowed to host the show in 2021 instead.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Last year's winner Duncan Laurence on \"missing the bubble\" of Eurovision\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Nurses, doctors, emergency services and well wishers lined the streets to pay tribute to the family\n\nMourners lined the streets for the funeral of a nurse and his parents who died within weeks of each other after contracting coronavirus.\n\nKeith Dunnington, 54, a nurse for more than 30 years, died at his parents' home in South Shields on 19 April.\n\nHis mother Lillian, 81, died on 1 May and her husband Maurice, 85, died days later in hospital.\n\nNHS staff, well-wishers and fire crews paid tribute to the family outside South Tyneside District Hospital.\n\nMaurice Dunnington, son Keith and wife Lillian all died with coronavirus within weeks of each other\n\nKeith's cousin Debbie Harvey said her family was heartbroken but praised the \"absolutely amazing\" NHS staff who \"could not do enough\" for the family.\n\nShe said hospital staff pushed Mr and Mrs Dunnington's beds together so they could hold hands.\n\nDad-of-two Keith worked at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDisney has ordered unauthorised copies of its Club Penguin game to close, after the BBC found children were being exposed to explicit messages.\n\nVisits to fan-run Club Penguin Online surged during the coronavirus pandemic with more than a million new players.\n\nBut racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic and sexual messages flow freely on the unauthorised platform.\n\nDisney said it was \"appalled\" by the website, and has ordered it to close or face legal action.\n\nClub Penguin Online appeared to go offline on Friday afternoon.\n\nOne man involved in the site has been arrested on suspicion of possessing indecent images of children.\n\nDetectives say the man from London has been released on bail pending further inquiries.\n\nDisney's Club Penguin was one of the first social networks for children. Launched in 2005, it had more than 200 million players at its peak.\n\nWhile anybody could join the original website, content filters and human moderators were employed to stop inappropriate messages or personal information from being shared.\n\nChildren were sent inappropriate messages on Club Penguin Online, an unofficial clone\n\nBut Disney closed the website in 2017.\n\nSince then, unofficial clones of the website have been operated by fans. These private servers were launched using stolen or copied source code, and can easily be found by children searching the internet.\n\nClub Penguin Online is the largest of the social network's unofficial and unauthorised clones. It says its popularity has exploded during the coronavirus pandemic and now has seven million registered players.\n\nThe BBC set up an account on the English, Spanish and Portuguese versions of Club Penguin Online.\n\nDisney's original game banned the sharing of personal details, but players on this cloned site are openly sharing Snapchat, Instagram and Discord account details.\n\nA Zoom \"meet-up\" was also advertised and codes and passwords shared openly.\n\nMany conversations turned to sex on the children's game\n\nAlthough it is impossible to verify the age of users, many told the BBC they were teenagers, and there were children playing, too.\n\nKaden, 14, told the BBC there were areas of the game where it was safe to operate - but most players were in the unprotected \"mature\" sections.\n\nHe said the conversations he had seen made him extremely uncomfortable.\n\nFourteen-year-old Kaden was shocked by what he saw on Club Penguin Online\n\n\"Any kid can click on these mature sections and they just see all this inappropriate stuff,\" he said.\n\n\"I've seen people advertise strip club igloos, I've seen people ask for pimps. There's a lot of swearing on there and I've been asked a lot of crazy things. It's really put me off going on these mature servers.\"\n\nKaden's dad, Rick, told the BBC he had no idea what was happening in the game.\n\n\"I'm shocked. I thought that if he's on Club Penguin, then he's in a pretty safe place.\"\n\nPlayers are invited to take part in penguin e-sex\n\nAnother long-time Club Penguin fan, teenager Miranda, said the game had \"gone from being family-friendly and fun to being monstrous\".\n\nClub Penguin Online is the largest private server and uses Disney's branding.\n\nOne former staff member told the BBC the project had made about £9,000 through adverts, while most of the staff were young unpaid volunteers.\n\nCompetition between Club Penguin Online and other unofficial versions of the game had escalated in the past six months.\n\nBullying and upsetting conversations were also seen in the game\n\nServer owners accused one another of hacking and harassment. One said it was a toxic community, \"like Game of Thrones with penguins\".\n\nThe Club Penguin Online volunteer claims he was encouraged to carry out attacks on rival servers when he was a minor.\n\n\"I would find out and publish [users'] personal details, like addresses, what they looked like, their family's information. I carried out DDoS (distributed denial of service attacks) on other users, and I would threaten people. The stuff that I did was similar to what happened to me, which affected my whole family, but I do feel really bad about it now.\"\n\nClub Penguin Online says it has added a million users during the coronavirus pandemic\n\nA current Club Penguin Online staff member denied that this sort of activity was encouraged.\n\nSome gamers think the toxic culture on some of these fan servers is a wider problem that needs addressing.\n\nGaming YouTuber Simi Adeshina, known online as Tamago2474, said: \"These private server games are being run by people who aren't really in a position or qualified to do so. It's all good and well to have a community that you've built, but when you get to a certain size there's a point where you have to have to employ a degree of professionalism.\"\n\nDisney has issued copyright notices to all private server games, giving them a deadline to close down or face legal action.\n\nIn statement, it said said: \"Child safety is a top priority for the Walt Disney Company and we are appalled by the allegations of criminal activity and abhorrent behaviour on this unauthorised website that is illegally using the Club Penguin brand and characters for its own purposes.\n\n\"We continue to enforce our rights against this, and other, unauthorised uses of the Club Penguin game.\"", "The Netherlands starting easing its lockdown on 11 May\n\nThe Dutch government has issued new guidance to single people seeking intimacy during the pandemic, advising them to find a \"sex buddy\".\n\nThe National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) says singletons should come to an arrangement with one other person.\n\nBut pairings should avoid sex if one of them suspects they have coronavirus, the advice says.\n\nThe guidance comes after critics said there was no sex advice for singles.\n\nSocial-distancing measures have been in place in the Netherlands since 23 March, when the government imposed what it called an \"intelligent\" or \"targeted\" lockdown.\n\nThe rules were far less strict than those of the country's neighbours, permitting small gatherings of people if social distancing was observed.\n\nBut in guidance published on 14 May, the RIVM said \"it makes sense that as a single [person] you also want to have physical contact\" during the pandemic.\n\nShould singletons choose to engage in sexual contact, precautions should be taken to minimise the risk of coronavirus exposure, the authority said.\n\n\"Discuss how best to do this together,\" the RIVM guidance says. \"For example, meet with the same person to have physical or sexual contact (for example, a cuddle buddy or 'sex buddy'), provided you are free of illness.\n\n\"Make good arrangements with this person about how many other people you both see. The more people you see, the greater the chance of (spreading) the coronavirus.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch PM tells nation not to shake hands – then does\n\nThe RIVM has also issued advice for people whose long-term partners suspect they have contracted the coronavirus.\n\n\"Don't have sex with your partner if they have been isolated because of (suspected) coronavirus infection,\" it says.\n\n\"Sex with yourself or with others at a distance is possible,\" it adds, suggesting \"erotic stories\" and \"masturbating together\" as possible solutions.\n\nRestrictions in the Netherlands have been more relaxed compared to many other countries\n\nOn Monday, the Netherlands began the first stage of a five-phase lockdown exit plan.\n\nAs part of the first phase, libraries, hairdressers, nail bars, beauticians, massage salons and places providing occupational therapy were allowed to reopen from 11 May.\n\nThe relaxation of restrictions came after Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said the country had made \"headway\" in its effort to bring the number of coronavirus infections and deaths down.\n\nA further 200 infections and 53 deaths were recorded in the Netherlands in the past 24 hours. In total, 43,880 people have tested positive for coronavirus in the country so far, with more than 5,500 deaths.", "Coronavirus testing will be extended to all care home residents and staff in Wales, the Welsh Government has announced.\n\nThe Welsh Government had faced criticism for not testing everyone.\n\nInitially, it had opted only to test individuals with symptoms, and then increased testing to larger homes with no signs of the virus on 6 May.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said changes resulted from \"emerging evidence and scientific advice\".\n\nTesting in care homes in Wales had been more restrictive than in England, where all residents and staff have been eligible for testing regardless of symptoms since the end of April.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said at the time there would be \"no value\" in providing coronavirus tests to everybody in care homes.\n\nFollowing complaints that Wales was not following England on the measure, the Welsh Government extended the policy - from testing just staff and residents with symptoms, to all those in a home where someone had tested positive.\n\nThat was followed by a further extension on 6 May, when it was announced testing would be rolled out to staff and residents without symptoms at care homes of more than 50 beds.\n\nVaughan Gething has been health minister since 2016\n\nMr Gething said: \"How we tackle Coronavirus continually changes as we receive more emerging evidence and scientific advice.\n\n\"We have been very clear in our approach that our strategy is about reducing harm first and we will adapt policies in order to do this.\n\n\"Today is a step change in how we will be testing in care homes, adapting our policy so that every resident and member of staff can be tested for coronavirus.\n\n\"I hope this brings further reassurance to those living and working in care homes and their families.\"\n\nHe told BBC Wales the change in scientific advice came late on Friday.\n\n\"I appreciate there are lots of people who look for conspiracy theories within this but that really is what's happened with a changing scientific evidence base,\" added the health minister.\n\nHe also said regular updates on advice to the Welsh Government would continue to be published on Tuesdays so \"the public can see that scientific evidence that really is underpinning all the choices that I make as a health minister for Wales\".\n\nPlaid Cymru's Delyth Jewell MS said: \"The tragic cases of Covid-19 in care homes and its prevalence within them should have been an early wake-up call for the Welsh Government that testing everyone was a necessary life-saving step.\"The refusal to do so up to now should be the subject of examination in the future inquiry.\"\n\nJanet Finch-Saunders MS, the Welsh Conservatives spokesperson for social care, said it was \"shameful that the expansion could not have been implemented sooner given that capacity in testing is increasing\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said the change will come into effect this week.\n\nResponding to the announcement, the Older People's Commissioner for Wales said she welcomed the change but said there would be questions \"about why it took until now for the Welsh Government to change its policy on testing\".\n\nHeléna Herklots added: \"It's now crucial that the testing promised is delivered quickly and effectively throughout Wales.\"\n\nShe said she would continue to scrutinise the Welsh Government's action on testing \"to ensure that people living and working in care homes in Wales are kept safe and protected\".", "Kobe Bryant and his daughter, Gianna, were among nine who died in the crash\n\nA post-mortem examination of the helicopter crash that killed basketball star Kobe Bryant has ruled blunt force trauma as the cause of death for all nine victims.\n\nThe 180-page report also found that the pilot, 50-year-old Ara Zobayan, tested negative for drugs and alcohol.\n\nThe cause of the 26 January crash, which occurred in California amid heavy fog, is still being investigated.\n\nBryant's 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, was with him on board the helicopter.\n\nThe passengers - which included two of Gianna's basketball teammates, their relatives and a coach - were on their way to a tournament in Thousand Oaks where Bryant had been set to coach.\n\nAlyssa Altobelli, John Altobelli, Keri Altobelli, Sarah Chester, Payton Chester, Christina Mauser all died alongside the Bryants, and pilot Ara Zobayan when the helicopter crashed into a hill just north of Los Angeles.\n\n\"On Jan. 28, the cause of death for all nine victims was ruled as blunt trauma,\" the examination said. \"The manner of death was certified as an accident\".\n\nThe results of the post-mortem examination were posted on the website of the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner office on Friday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Site where basketball legend Kobe Bryant was killed in a helicopter crash\n\nBryant, a five-time NBA champion, played for the LA Lakers throughout his career and is considered one of the greatest players in the game's history.\n\nHe retired in April 2016 after a 20-year career with the team.\n\nLawyers for his widow, Vanessa Bryant, have filed a lawsuit against the company that operated the helicopter.\n\nIt alleges that Zobayan - who died in the crash - did not assess weather data before taking off.\n\nSeparately, earlier this year, the sheriff of Los Angeles County said eight deputies had admitted possessing graphic photos of the crash site.\n\nAlex Villanueva said he was \"devastated and heartbroken\" by their conduct. He said he had instructed the deputies to delete the images.", "Steve Linick was appointed by Barack Obama, to oversee spending and detect mismanagement at the state department\n\nThe US state department's inspector general, Steve Linick, has become the latest senior official to be fired by US President Donald Trump.\n\nMr Trump said Mr Linick no longer had his full confidence and that he would be removed in 30 days.\n\nMr Linick had begun investigating Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for suspected abuse of office, reports say.\n\nDemocrats say Mr Trump is retaliating against public servants who want to hold his administration to account.\n\n\"It is vital that I have the fullest confidence in the appointees serving as inspectors general. That is no longer the case with regard to this inspector general,\" Mr Trump is quoted as saying in a letter sent late on Friday to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, US media report.\n\nNot long after Mr Linick's dismissal was announced, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said Mr Linick had opened an investigation into Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.\n\n\"This firing is the outrageous act of a president trying to protect one of his most loyal supporters, the secretary of state, from accountability,\" Eliot Engel, a Democrat, said in a statement.\n\n\"I have learned that the Office of the Inspector General had opened an investigation into Secretary Pompeo. Mr Linick's firing amid such a probe strongly suggests that this is an unlawful act of retaliation.\"\n\nMr Engel did not provide any further details about the content of this investigation into Mr Pompeo.\n\nMr Linick was examining complaints that Mr Pompeo had improperly used staff for personal tasks, such as picking up dry cleaning and walking his dog, according to US media.\n\nMr Linick, a former prosecutor, was appointed by Mr Trump's predecessor, Barack Obama, to oversee spending and detect mismanagement at the state department.\n\nDemocrats have been reacting to the move. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Mr Linick was \"punished for honourably performing his duty to protect the constitution and our national security\".\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 Nancy Pelosi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"The president must cease his pattern of reprisal and retaliation against the public servants who are working to keep Americans safe, particularly during this time of global emergency,\" she added in a statement.\n\nSenator Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, said the Senate Foreign Relations Committee needed to learn more about the dismissal.\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\nThis is the latest in a series of dismissals of independent government watchdogs.\n\nLast month, Mr Trump dismissed Michael Atkinson, the inspector general of the intelligence community.\n\nMr Atkinson first alerted Congress to a whistleblower complaint that led to Mr Trump's impeachment trial.", "Their work is normally highly classified, but military scientists at Porton Down in Wiltshire are now fighting coronavirus.\n\nSome of the same scientists who identified Novichok, the nerve agent used in the Salisbury poisoning, have been helping to analyse Covid-19 and finding ways to protect NHS staff.\n\nThe BBC's Defence Correspondent Jonathan Beale has been given exclusive access to the site.", "Human remains were found near Coleford on Tuesday evening\n\nA woman has been charged with murder following the discovery of human remains in two suitcases.\n\nGareeca Conita Gordon, 27, from Birmingham, will appear at Cheltenham Magistrates' Court accused of killing a woman on or before 12 May.\n\nPolice are awaiting DNA test results to establish the identity of the victim.\n\nMahesh Sorathiya, 38, from Wolverhampton, will also appear in court - charged with assisting an offender.\n\n\"The pair have been refused bail and are due to appear before magistrates in Cheltenham via videolink,\" a Gloucestershire Police spokesman said.\n\nThe suitcases were found close to a quarry, near Coleford in the Forest of Dean, on Tuesday night.\n\nThere have also been police searches in the Forest of Dean", "Sir Keir Starmer hailed \"an incredible sense of solidarity\" across the UK\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said different approaches across the four UK nations to tackling coronavirus are not going to \"help us out of this crisis\".\n\nHe blamed Prime Minister Boris Johnson for the way Wales and England had diverged in the easing of the lockdown.\n\nSir Keir said it reinforced his call for \"radical federalism\" across the UK.\n\nBut Welsh Secretary Simon Hart has said there were \"far more similarities than differences in the approaches of the nations of the UK\".\n\nTalking to the BBC's Politics Wales programme, Sir Keir said there had been an \"incredible sense of solidarity\" across the United Kingdom, but the relationship between Wales, England, Scotland and Northern Ireland \"could\" be put under strain if there was an increasing divergence in approaches from the respective governments to coronavirus.\n\n\"The sooner, frankly, we get back to operating as four nations together the better,\" he said.\n\n\"I do think responsibility for that lies very largely with the prime minister, who I would have hoped could have got all the ducks in a row before he actually made his speech last Sunday,\" Sir Keir added.\n\nBoris Johnson has been accused of not consulting the other UK nations over lockdown changes\n\nIn his televised address that day, Boris Johnson announced guidance that said people - in England - could \"drive to other destinations\" for exercise and leisure.\n\nIn Wales, the Welsh Government restated people cannot travel \"a significant distance\" from home for exercise.\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford has told the BBC's Political Thinking with Nick Robinson podcast he was not consulted before the UK government altered the lockdown slogan from \"Stay at home\" to \"Stay alert\", adding that there was no change to the message in Wales.\n\nWelsh Secretary Simon Hart has said: \"No one part of the UK could face this pandemic alone and the UK Government has provided unprecedented support to every part of the UK.\n\n\"We entered this fight as a United Kingdom and we will come out of it equally united.\"\n\nIn the BBC Wales interview, Sir Keir was asked whether it was politically difficult for him to criticise the UK Government's coronavirus response on issues which had also troubled the Welsh Labour government.\n\nHe said: \"I'm constantly asked to compare and contrast... and I've refused to get into that because I don't think people want to hear that.\n\n\"What I've said is that the Labour party, certainly in the UK Government, will be a constructive opposition and what I meant by that is having the courage to say we'll support the government when that's the right thing to do.\"\n\nMark Drakeford has pledged to ease the lockdown \"carefully and cautiously\"\n\nOn Thursday, Sir Keir held online question-and-answer sessions with groups of Welsh voters in an attempt to understand the reason why Labour suffered its worst general election result in Wales since 1983.\n\nHe said Brexit and Jeremy Corbyn's leadership had been issues for voters, but he believed \"they were talking about something much deeper, about trust and engagement from the Labour Party\".\n\nSir Keir added that the \"perception that the leader of the Labour party and Welsh Labour are in two different places, is not right, and that's my job to make sure people realise we're all on the same page, all working together\".\n\nDuring the Labour leadership contest, Sir Keir said devolving more powers to the Welsh Parliament so that \"more powers are closer to people\" was the way forward.\n\nBBC Politics Wales is on BBC One Wales at 10:15 GMT on Sunday 17 May and available on BBC iPlayer after broadcast.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nErling Braut Haaland scored for Borussia Dortmund as they marked the return of the Bundesliga during the coronavirus outbreak with a convincing derby win over Schalke.\n\nThe game will mostly be remembered for the surreal circumstances in which it was played, as Germany became the first major league in Europe to resume action behind closed doors.\n\nThere was an eerie atmosphere at Dortmund's iconic Signal Iduna Park stadium, with every shout by players or coaches audible, and social distancing protocol followed by substitutes and during goal celebrations.\n\nHaaland opened the scoring with a trademark cool finish, flicking home Thorgen Hazard's cross to continue his sensational season, albeit after an enforced break of almost 10 weeks.\n\nRaphael Guerreiro added two more goals and Hazard also found the net as Dortmund went on to claim a comfortable win over their near neighbours and move within a point of leaders Bayern Munich, who play on Sunday.\n• None Relive Germany's return to football as Dortmund hit four\n\nElite-level football might be back in Europe, but it certainly has a different feel about it than it did two months ago.\n\nStrict hygiene protocols saw the Dortmund and Schalke players arrive on multiple buses, use several changing rooms and then enter the pitch by different routes.\n\nWarm-ups were staggered and the coaching staff and substitutes wore masks and were all separated by two metres as they took their place on the sidelines.\n\nOnce the balls had been disinfected by the ball-boys, the game began in total silence, only pierced by the referee's whistle for kick-off, before being played out to the sound of echoed applause or yelled instructions from the dug-outs.\n\nFans were completely absent from the 80,000-capacity stadium but that did not stop the Dortmund players performing their trademark salute to the empty stands at the final whistle - standing apart rather than holding hands of course.\n\nThe backdrop to the game made for a strange spectacle, but it did nothing to disrupt Haaland's fine form even if it was 70 days on from his last Bundesliga appearance.\n\nWith the rest of Europe watching on, Dortmund's 19-year-old Norwegian wonderkid reminded everyone of his precocious talent as he scored one goal, and helped make another.\n\nHaaland now has hit 10 goals in his first nine Bundesliga appearances - and 13 in 12 games in all competitions - since his January move from Red Bull Salzburg and his prolific scoring rate shows no sign of slowing up.\n\nAnother of Dortmund's highly-rated young talents, England forward Jadon Sancho, was restricted to an 11-minute cameo off the bench, because of a calf injury.\n\nOn-loan Everton full-back Jonjoe Kenny started for Schalke, who brought on Wales winger Rabbi Matondo as one of their five substitutes - two more than usual are permitted under the new regulations for the Bundesliga's restart.\n• None Alessandro Schöpf (FC Schalke 04) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Rabbi Matondo (FC Schalke 04) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Bastian Oczipka.\n• None Rabbi Matondo (FC Schalke 04) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Substitution, Borussia Dortmund. Jadon Sancho replaces Thorgan Hazard because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Salif Sané (FC Schalke 04) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Bastian Oczipka with a cross following a corner.\n• None Lukasz Piszczek (Borussia Dortmund) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.\n• None Attempt missed. Guido Burgstaller (FC Schalke 04) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right following a set piece situation. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Senior Polish Catholic archbishop Wojciech Polak said \"we do not allow for the hiding\" of sexual abuse\n\nThe head of Poland's Roman Catholic Church has said he is asking the Vatican to investigate the cover-up of child sexual abuse by priests.\n\nArchbishop Wojciech Polak called on the Church hierarchy to \"launch proceedings\" following the release of a documentary on the subject on Saturday.\n\nThe film tells the story of two brothers who seek to confront a priest who allegedly abused them as children.\n\nThe Vatican is expected to assign an investigator to the case.\n\nThe film - \"Hide and Seek\" - has been viewed more than 1.9 million times on YouTube. It is the second documentary on the subject by brothers Marek and Tomasz Sekielski.\n\nIt follows two victims as they attempt to bring to account those in the Church who were responsible for covering up their abuse.\n\nIt alleges that a senior bishop knew about the allegations for years but failed to take any action.\n\nIn churches across Poland today, people are celebrating the life of their Pope, John Paul II, a day ahead of the centenary of his birth.\n\nNumbers will be smaller than usual due to the coronavirus restrictions, but Karol Wojtyla, the first non-Italian to become pope in more than 450 years, is still revered in his homeland. In particular, for germinating the belief among people here in the 1980s that together, they could achieve the end of the communist regime, which then seemed impossible.\n\nThe Polish Catholic Church's vital role in that victory subsequently gave it enormous influence in Polish society, including over politicians. The current Law and Justice-led government promotes traditional Catholic values.\n\nWhen the Sekielski brothers' first documentary became a subject of national debate last May, it agreed that a state commission should be set up. But it said it must not solely focus on the sexual abuse of children by priests, but also by members of other professions. The law to create the commission took effect in September, but since then, nothing has happened.\n\nTomasz Sekielski says it's a failure of all the political parties. He's says he's not disappointed because he didn't have high expectations. The most important thing, he says, is that the film changed the public's awareness of the problem, and no one today can pretend that the raping of boys and girls by priests is only a problem in the West.\n\n\"The film... shows that protection standards for children and adolescents in the Church were not respected,\" Archbishop Polak said in a video released by the Catholic news agency KAI.\n\n\"I ask priests, nuns, parents and educators to not be led by the false logic of shielding the Church, effectively hiding sexual abusers,\" he said. \"We do not allow for the hiding of these crimes.\"\n\nArchbishop Polak added that he had asked the Vatican to investigate the allegations raised in the film under the auspices of an Apostolic letter that was issued by Pope Francis last year.\n\nThe letter made it mandatory for Roman Catholic clergy to report cases of clerical sexual abuse and cover-ups.\n\nPope Francis promised last year to take concrete action to tackle abuse in the Church\n\nThe first film in the series - \"Tell No One\" - was released by the Sekielski brothers in May 2019 and has been viewed more than 23 million times. It sparked widespread outrage and a national discussion about sexual abuse in the Church.\n\nIt includes secret camera footage of victims confronting priests about their alleged abuse. Some of the priests in the film admit to the abuse.\n\nThe documentary prompted the government to announce plans to double jail terms for paedophiles. It also promised to set up a commission to investigate paedophile priests, but this has not yet happened.\n\nIn March last year, the Polish Church admitted that almost 400 clergy had sexually abused minors over the past 30 years.", "A family who lost their grandma, Sheila, has come up with a new and poignant way of remembering those who’ve died with Covid-19 - and it’s being replicated across the UK.", "Jeremy Corbyn's brother Piers was among 19 people arrested at an anti-lockdown demonstration in London's Hyde Park on Saturday afternoon.\n\nHundreds of people gathered to object to their rights of free speech and movement being curtailed, with some holding several placards and banners including slogans like \"freedom over fear\".\n\nRead more: 'Busy but manageable' at England's beauty spots", "Borussia Dortmund superfans Ian and Alison Fraser were among Scots to welcome back the Bundesliga on TV Image caption: Borussia Dortmund superfans Ian and Alison Fraser were among Scots to welcome back the Bundesliga on TV\n\nIt is \"too early\" to talk about football resuming at the end of July in Scotland, national clinical director Professor Jason Leitch has told BBC Radio Scotland.\n\nScottish Professional Football League chairman Murdoch MacLennan said on Tuesday that it \"must do everything humanly possible\" to do so.\n\nWhile Scotland's professional football is suspended until 10 June, the German Bundesliga today became the first major top-flight division to return.\n\nProf Leitch stressed there were no dates set for a return in Scotland but said: \"It'll be interesting to see what happens in Germany. They've opened a number of things in the last few weeks and then closed them down again, so this is not a smooth journey.\"\n\nIt is still \"too early\" to talk about football resuming at the end of July, says the Scottish government's clinical director Professor Jason Leitch.", "The government needs to make sure its coronavirus testing strategy is fit for purpose instead of focusing on hitting targets, says the Royal College of GPs.\n\nIn a letter to Health Secretary Matt Hancock, chairman Prof Martin Marshall said long wait times were \"undermining confidence\" in the results.\n\nHealth professionals were also concerned about the accuracy of some test results, he said.\n\nThe government said \"95% of tests\" were processed \"in less than 48 hours\".\n\nEnsuring there are enough tests to meet demand is part of the government's five tests it says must be met before easing lockdown restrictions.\n\nHowever, the absence of a clear strategy had left patients vulnerable, according to Prof Marshall.\n\nHe said the RCGP did not currently believe the testing strategy was capable of working to prevent a second wave of infections and \"secure the overall health of the population\".\n\nHowever, he did commend the \"clear strides to improve testing capacity\" in recent weeks.\n\nThe RCGP said it wants the testing strategy to:\n\nThere was a major effort to increase the number of daily tests provided, with a target set of hitting 100,000 tests a day by the end of April.\n\nThe government said it had reached that goal, providing 122,347 tests on 30 April - although it has struggled to maintain testing numbers at that level over the past fortnight.\n\nThe number also included home testing kits which had been sent out but may not end up being returned.\n\nConcerns have been raised that the focus on hitting the target had distracted from the actual purpose of testing.\n\nAt the end of April, NHS Providers deputy chief executive Saffron Cordery told the BBC there were questions to be asked about whether the \"maximum benefit\" had been gained from efforts to meet the 100,000 target, when a plan to test frontline staff regularly \"hadn't been thought through\".\n\nTesting key workers is meant to help those who can get back to work faster.\n\nBut some health professionals have reported waiting more than a week for results. Dr Lucy-Jane Davis, chair of the British Medical Association (BMA) in south-west England, said some people had waited more than 10 days.\n\nA test to see if someone has the virus is only a snapshot in time - it indicates whether the person has enough of the virus in their nose or throat to be detected at that moment.\n\nIf they are re-tested a few days later, it may have cleared up, multiplied enough to become detectable, or show whether they have newly contracted the virus.\n\nSo people receiving their results several days after being tested may find that information is no longer useful or accurate.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) says 95% of tests across all settings are received back within 48 hours - but that still gives a figure of potentially 5,000 people a day waiting longer than that.\n\nOn top of this there is also a \"void rate\" of just over 5% - where the samples are not viable and so the swabs cannot produce a result.\n\nStaff on the frontline in hospitals and care homes may need to be tested once or even twice weekly, regardless of whether they have symptoms or not, according to Rupert Beale who is leading the Crick Institute's efforts to test NHS staff.\n\nThe DHSC says the key window for testing is the first three days after developing symptoms.\n\nThe ability to have rapid results will also play a key role in the government's \"track, trace, test\" efforts, according to Prof James Naismith at the University of Oxford.\n\nFaster turnaround is needed if testing is to be used to help control the spread of infection, he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Beach crowds as countries around the world ease lockdowns\n\nPeople have returned to beauty spots in a \"manageable\" way on the first weekend after lockdown rules in England eased.\n\nThe public was urged to \"think twice\" before heading to beaches and country parks as councils feared a surge in visitors could result in a rise in coronavirus infections.\n\nPeak District bosses said one area was \"extremely busy\" but the National Trust said people were being \"sensible\".\n\nIn London, hundreds of people gathered to protest against the lockdown.\n\nThis is the first weekend since the lockdown rules were relaxed in England, allowing people to spend as much time outdoors as they want \"for leisure purposes\", including sunbathing.\n\nThere is no longer a limit on how far people can travel and people are also allowed to meet one person outside their household outdoors.\n\nBut people in England should not travel to Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, where the public is still being told to avoid any travel which is not essential.\n\nPark bosses in the Peak District tweeted that social distancing was \"difficult\" in the Langsett area at the north-eastern edge of the park, where car parks were full.\n\n\"Please don't travel to the area or park outside of designated bays,\" they added.\n\nPeople have been urged not to visit coastal towns like Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, this weekend\n\nThe National Trust said that people seemed to be \"taking a pragmatic and sensible approach\".\n\n\"Our car parks which are open are busy, but it's been manageable,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nThe Lake District National Park Authority's chief executive Richard Leafe thanked the public for \"not rushing back\" to the Lake District.\n\nHe said: \"It's early days but at the moment it's quiet and we hope to see this throughout the weekend.\"\n\nHe had previously asked people not to travel \"because of the impact you will have on the local communities\".\n\nIn central London, about 300 people gathered in Hyde Park to protest against the regulations introduced to control coronavirus.\n\nThe protesters said they objected to their rights of free speech and movement being curtailed, with some holding several placards and banners including slogans like \"freedom over fear\".\n\nPolice made 19 arrests after trying to get the protesters to move on, including Piers Corbyn - the brother of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nTen people were also issued with fixed penalty notices.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn's brother Piers was among the protesters arrested\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor said in general people in parks have largely been complying with the restrictions.\n\nHe said: \"It was disappointing that a relatively small group in Hyde Park came together to protest the regulations in clear breach of the guidance putting themselves and others at risk of infection.\"\n\nIt comes after the Metropolitan Police warned people against taking part in \"spontaneous or planned mass gatherings\".\n\nIt said that \"games of football... outdoor concerts or parties, protest, marches or assemblies are still not permitted\".\n\nPolice have been stopping cars on the A23 between the capital and Brighton, where the local council is asking people to \"stay away\" from its seafront.\n\nIn Glasgow a man has been charged with breach of the peace after a small protest against lockdown measures.\n\nPolice Scotland said three warnings had been issued at the city's Queens Park, while there had also been gatherings at Glasgow Green and Holyrood Park in Edinburgh.\n\nPolice have been stopping cars on the A23 between London and Brighton\n\nAn estimated 15 million leisure trips will be made by car in the UK this weekend, an RAC survey suggests.\n\nHowever, almost half of the journeys will be no more than 10 miles long, according to the motoring organisation's poll of 1,317 drivers.\n\nWith sunny weather forecast in parts of the country, the County Councils Network has urged people to stay local.\n\nThe network, which represents 36 county authorities, warned that \"day-trippers\" who travel from towns and cities to exercise were likely to face long queues of traffic and difficulties parking.\n\nAnd it cautioned that country parks that reopened after lockdown rules were eased on Wednesday may be forced to close again if social distancing becomes impossible.\n\nResidents in Barbican, London, return to the tennis courts after lockdown measures were eased\n\nJulian German, the network's rural spokesman and leader of Cornwall Council, said England's coastal and rural areas \"will be there when this is over\".\n\n\"We are asking households to bear with us and please do their bit over the coming weeks by exercising locally,\" he said.\n\n\"While councils will be allowing cars access to country parks, it does not change the unique situation of the need to maintain social distancing.\"\n\nHe added that the councils wanted to prevent a repeat of the \"unprecedented numbers of visitors\" to parks and coastal areas over the weekend before lockdown was introduced in March.\n\nThe majority of beaches will not have lifeguards after the RNLI suspended lifeguard provision during lockdown - it usually patrol 240 beaches.\n\nPeter Williamson, chairman of Norfolk and Suffolk Tourist Attractions Association, also urged people to stay away, stressing that attractions, car parks and other facilities would be closed.\n\n\"What we're trying to say to people is we're not open, please don't come because there is nothing for you here at this moment in time,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nThe Chief Constable of North Wales Police, Carl Foulkes, stressed the rules were different in Wales - where people should only be exercising from their home address - to those in England.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast that officers would be carrying out high visibility controls in key hotspots such as national parks and beaches, as well as road checks to ensure people were complying with the regulations.\n\nMr Foulkes said vehicles breaking the rules would be told to turn around, with officers using enforcement if necessary.\n\nThe warnings come as government scientific advisers say the infection rate in the UK has gone up - and is close to the point where the virus starts spreading rapidly.\n\nThe R-number - which represents the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - had been sitting between 0.5 and 0.9, but is now between 0.7 and 1.0.\n\nIt needs to be kept below one in order to stay in control.\n\nMeanwhile, modelling published by the University of Cambridge and backed by Public Health England, suggests that while London has made the most progress with suppressing the virus, it is proving more stubborn in other parts of England.\n\nThe figures do not perfectly match those from the Sage group of government scientific advisers because it assesses multiple models to reach its conclusions.", "The government has denied that travellers from France will be exempted from the planned coronavirus quarantine measures.\n\nUnder the plans announced last weekend, people arriving from abroad must isolate themselves for two weeks.\n\nThose with nowhere to stay will be obliged to isolate in accommodation provided by the authorities.\n\nInitially, a joint statement from the British and French governments said no quarantine measures would apply.\n\n\"No quarantine measures would apply to travellers coming from France at this stage; any measures on either side would be taken in a concerted and reciprocal manner,\" says the statement, which was published on the government's website on 10 May.\n\n\"A working group between the two governments will be set up to ensure this consultation throughout the coming weeks.\"\n\nThe policy attracted a warning from the EU not to single out one nation, while some experts suggested it would prove unworkable.\n\nBut today, the prime minister's spokesman insisted there was no French exemption, and that the original statement referred to the need for cooperation to manage the common border between the two countries.\n\nIt now appears that those exempted from the policy could include freight drivers, in order to allow the flow of goods to continue, and people working on Covid-19 research, but not ordinary travellers.\n\nThe government had already indicated that people arriving from the Republic of Ireland will not be made to go into quarantine, an arrangement that will be unaffected by today's news.\n\nHowever, the measures will apply to UK holidaymakers returning from other destinations.\n\nIn his address to the nation on Sunday, the prime minister said: \"I am serving notice that it will soon be the time - with transmission significantly lower - to impose quarantine on people coming into this country by air.\"\n\nThe government later clarified that the rules would apply not just to air passengers, but also those arriving by other means of travel such as train or ferry.\n\nFollowing Mr Johnson's speech, No 10 confirmed a reciprocal deal with the government in Paris meant restrictions would not apply to passengers from France, but that was ahead of today's apparent u-turn.", "Police in England and Wales have issued more than 14,000 fines for alleged breaches of lockdown laws.\n\nThe figures, from 27 March to 11 May, show the most fixed penalty notices - 906 - were handed out in London, by the Metropolitan Police.\n\nThe data covers the period before the penalty rose from £60 to £100 in England after the rules were eased.\n\nIt has also been disclosed that 56 people have been wrongly charged with offences relating to the pandemic.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council says 13,445 fines were issued by forces in England and 799 in Wales for breaches of social distancing rules brought in to fight the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThese include restrictions on people's right to move around or be part of a gathering.\n\nAfter the Met Police, the Thames Valley force imposed the next highest number of notices (866), followed by North Yorkshire (843) and Devon and Cornwall (799).\n\nBy contrast, Warwickshire Police issued only 31, the Staffordshire force just 52 and Gwent 71.\n\nThere were 862 repeat offenders, including one person who has been fined nine times.\n\nThe times when the most fines were imposed were during sunny weather at Easter, with almost 600 handed out on Saturday 11 April and another 500 the following day.\n\nBut the National Police Chiefs' Council says its figures show officers are taking a \"proportionate\" approach - with only one in 5,000 people across England and Wales fined.\n\nIt comes as the Department of Health said it recorded another 384 deaths of people in the UK, bringing the total number to have died following a positive coronavirus test to 33,998, as of 17:00 BST on 14 May.\n\nThe coronavirus laws were drawn up and implemented at such pace that problems were inevitable.\n\nWhen the measures came into force in March, police didn't have any bespoke tickets for lockdown fines because they had not yet been printed, so they had to improvise by scribbling details on other penalty notices.\n\nThen it emerged that children had been fined - even though the regulations don't allow it; and now we've learned that all 44 of those charged under the Coronavirus Act should not have been prosecuted at all under the emergency legislation.\n\nIt seems, from what the CPS and police have said, that the errors have caused no great injustice to those involved.\n\nNevertheless, the number of mistakes suggests there's been a serious failure to explain the purpose and reach of the new laws to those who have to apply it.\n\nThere are separate rules for managing the threat of coronavirus in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe first fine someone could receive if police believed they were flouting restrictions in England rose from £60 to £100 on Wednesday.\n\nThis will be lowered to £50 if paid within 14 days but fines will double for each repeat offence, up to a maximum of £3,200.\n\nThe fine imposed in Wales is £60, reduced to £30 if paid within two weeks. It can be doubled for each repeat offence up to a £960 maximum.\n\nThe rules in England were loosened this week, and now allow a person to spend unlimited time outdoors for recreation or exercise as long as they do so alone, with members of their own household. - or with one person from another household.\n\nSocial distancing of two metres still has to be observed, although police do not enforce this guidance because it has not been written into the law.\n\nSeparate figures show that 231 people have been brought to court for offences relating to coronavirus.\n\nBut a review by the Crown Prosecution Service found that 56 suspects had been charged incorrectly.\n\nAll 44 charges brought under the Coronavirus Act, allowing police to detain a \"suspected infectious person\" for assessment, were incorrect.\n\nAnd 12 charges under the Health Protection Regulations 2020, which give powers to break up gatherings and restrict movement, were brought wrongly.\n\nThe CPS said safeguards had now been put in place.\n\nIt added that many of the mistakes had come about because of Welsh regulations being used in England, or vice versa.", "Human remains were found near Coleford on Tuesday evening\n\nA woman has appeared in court charged with murder following the discovery of human remains in two suitcases.\n\nGareeca Conita Gordon, 27, appeared at Cheltenham Magistrates' Court by videolink, accused of killing a woman between 14 April and 12 May at her home in Birmingham.\n\nPolice are awaiting DNA test results to establish the identity of the victim.\n\nMs Gordon, of Birchfield, Birmingham, was remanded in custody to appear at Gloucester Crown Court on Tuesday.\n\nMahesh Sorathiya, 38, of Denmore Gardens, Wolverhampton, also appeared before magistrates charged with assisting an offender - namely Gordon - on a date between 25 April and 12 May.\n\nHe was remanded in custody to appear at Gloucester Crown Court on Tuesday.\n\nPolice searches have been carried out in the Forest of Dean\n\nThe remains were found close to a quarry near Coleford in the Forest of Dean on Tuesday night.\n\nGloucestershire Police said a post-mortem examination was found to be inconclusive and further examinations were under way.\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. \"This is a very small, tentative step, in what I believe is the right direction,\" Mr Williamson tells BBC's Branwen Jeffreys\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has said \"we owe it to the children\" to get pupils back in school, as he reassured parents it would be safe.\n\nMr Williamson said he knew some parents were \"very anxious\" about reopening schools, but said it would be a \"cautious, phased return\".\n\nIt follows a row over the government's plan to begin a phased reopening of schools in England from 1 June.\n\nTeachers' unions have said the date is too soon to be safe.\n\nSpeaking at the government's daily Downing Street briefing on Saturday, Mr Williamson said: \"There are some who would like to delay the wider opening of schools but there is a consequence to this.\n\n\"The longer that schools are closed the more children miss out. Teachers know this. Teachers know that there are children out there that have not spoken or played with another child of their own age for two months.\n\n\"They know there are children from difficult or very unhappy homes for whom school is the happiest moment in their week and it's also the safest place for them to be.\"\n\nEngland is the only UK nation to set a date for schools to start to reopen. Schools in Wales will not reopen on 1 June, while those in Scotland and Northern Ireland may not restart before the summer holidays.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of people who have died with coronavirus in the UK has increased by 468, the government said on Saturday. It takes the total number of UK deaths, in all settings following a positive coronavirus test, to 34,466.\n\nSchools in England closed for most pupils on 20 March, staying open only for the children of key workers and vulnerable children.\n\nThe phased reopening will begin with children in nursery and pre-school, Reception and Years 1 and 6 returning to primary school first on 1 June. At secondary school and college, Years 10 and 12 would return first.\n\nBut teaching unions have said plans to reopen primary schools do not have adequate safety measures and need to be halted. Some councils have said their schools will not open.\n\nEducation is \"one of the most important and precious gifts\" for a child, Mr Williamson said\n\nMr Williamson said the government's approach was based on the \"best scientific advice with children at the very heart of everything we do\" - and the impact of it would be carefully monitored.\n\n\"We have been quite clear all along that we'd only start inviting more children when our five key tests have been met,\" he said. \"That position has not changed nor will it.\"\n\nThe education secretary also said students in Years 10 and 12 who were studying for their GCSEs and A-levels \"stand to lose more by staying away from school\".\n\nBut there were no plans to bring forward the start of the next school year to August, he said - although he was looking at \"different initiatives\" which could be rolled out during the summer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nReassuring people what safety measures were being taken, Mr Williamson said school staff could already be tested for the virus and, from 1 June, children and their families would also be able to get tests if they developed symptoms.\n\nPupils will also be kept in groups of no more than 15 and there will be regular cleaning, Mr Williamson added.\n\n\"Together these measures will create an inherently safer system where the risk of transmission is substantially reduced for children, their teachers and also their families,\" he said.\n\nThere were 136,486 tests in the UK on Friday - the highest daily figure so far in the UK. Boris Johnson has set a target of 200,000 tests a day by the end of May.\n\nDr Jenny Harries, England's deputy chief medical officer, told the briefing that evidence suggests children \"probably have [the] same level of infections\" but do not get as ill with the virus.\n\nParents and teachers \"should not be thinking that every school is swarming with cases,\" she said.\n\nWill some children in England returning to school lead to an increase in infections? This is being debated by politicians, teachers and unions.\n\nDr Jenny Harries said that seven different \"return to school\" scenarios had been modelled by the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage).\n\nShe said the government had adopted one scientists estimate will give the smallest increase in the R number - the measure of how fast the disease the is spreading.\n\nIn England, Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 children will return to school from 1 June.\n\nSome of the reasons given for picking these age groups were to do with preventing spread of disease, for example because older children are more likely to have higher numbers of contacts outside school so pose a greater transmission risk.\n\nSome were about balancing up children's needs, including the fact that younger age groups may find self-directed learning more challenging.\n\nSome councils - such as Liverpool and Hartlepool - have said their schools will not reopen at the start of next month.\n\nAsked what school governors should do if the council's stance differs from the government's, Mr Williamson said: \"What we would ask them to do is look at the guidance very, very carefully.\n\n\"The best way of protecting children, the best way of giving them the best opportunities in life is actually to have them coming back into school - and this is a very small, tentative step in what I believe is the right direction if we pass those five tests.\"\n\nThe government's guidance says schools should:\n\nMr Williamson said he was \"always keen to listen and talk to\" union leaders - who met the government's scientific advisers on Friday - saying: \"My door is always open.\"\n\nPatrick Roach, the head the NASUWT teachers' union, welcomed Mr Williamson's promise to talk, adding that schools wanted \"clear and unequivocal guidance on the health and safety measures they will need to have in place prior to reopening\".\n\n\"The bottom line is that no teacher or child should be expected to go into schools until it can be demonstrated that it is safe for them to do so,\" Mr Roach added.\n\nOn Saturday, the children's commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, said the government and unions should \"stop squabbling and agree a plan\" to reopen schools safely \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nShe said many disadvantaged children were losing out because of schools being closed for so long.\n\nSome parents and teachers have said they are worried about the emotional distress returning to the classroom could have on staff and pupils - and questioned how they will follow social distancing rules.", "Last month, the town council of Glastonbury in Somerset published a report calling for a government inquiry into the safety of 5G.\n\nIt promised to oppose the rollout of the next-generation mobile networks in the town.\n\nNow, three members of the group that produced the report have told the BBC they resigned because it was taken over by anti-5G activists and \"spiritual healers\".\n\nThey fear it could lend credibility to conspiracy theories, such as 5G being linked to the spread of coronavirus.\n\n\"The whole thing was completely biased from the beginning,\" says Mark Swann, one of those who resigned.\n\n\"Genuine scientific expertise has been scorned in favour of conspiracy and hearsay,\" wrote David Swain in his letter of resignation.\n\n5G is the next generation of mobile phone technology. It promises faster downloads and increased capacity.\n\nThe radio waves involved in 5G - and the previous generation networks - sit on the low frequency end of the electromagnetic spectrum.\n\nLess powerful than visible light, they are not energetic enough to damage cells - unlike radiation at the higher frequency end of the spectrum, which includes the sun's rays and medical x-rays.\n\nThe report, published after a six-month inquiry, said the council would oppose the rollout of 5G, while accepting it had no power to halt it.\n\nGlastonbury's 5G Advisory Committee was made up of nine councillors, and nine local residents who responded to adverts calling for people with relevant experience to help decide whether 5G was safe.\n\nAmong the volunteers were:\n\nAll four ended up resigning before the report was completed.\n\n\"I joined the working group in good faith, expecting to take part in a sensible discussion about 5G,\" says Mr Swann. \"Sadly the whole thing turned out to be a clueless pantomime driven by conspiracy theorists and sceptics.\"\n\nMr Cooper reached the same conclusion: \"I worked out there were only four of us who were neutral. And the others were all absolutely against 5G, either strongly or weakly.\"\n\nMost of the evidence the committee heard was from witnesses who had stated their support for a moratorium on the rollout of 5G.\n\nThey included retired American professor Martin Pall, who in 2019 claimed that wireless networks would make all human beings sterile if they were not switched off within two years.\n\nAnother witness was Dr Andrew Tresidder, a former GP whose website offers flower remedies and emotional healing. His presentation focused on people claiming to suffer from \"electromagnetic stress\", which he said was often not taken seriously by mainstream doctors.\n\nCommittee member Roy Procter, a spiritual healer who claims dowsing can heal \"sick houses\", also gave a presentation. In the report, he speculates about a link between the coronavirus and 5G, and recommends that the council eliminate all wi-fi connections.\n\nThe committee's chairman, Councillor Jon Cousins, told the BBC he strongly disagrees with the suggestion that the meetings were biased towards pseudo-science.\n\n\"Equal weight was given to all contributions,\" he says, adding that councillors \"were able to take into account the prejudice, predetermination and bias displayed on all sides of the argument\".\n\nIn the report, Mr Cousins said Glastonbury had punched above its weight, and other councils had been in touch about its recommendations.\n\nBut both Mr Swann and Mr Cooper were particularly concerned about the role of an external member of the committee.\n\nChristopher Baker was instrumental in choosing witnesses to appear before the committee. He also gave his own presentation in which he attacked the credibility of ICNIRP, the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection, the body which sets the safety standards for mobile network emissions.\n\nMr Baker has campaigned against 5G across the south-west. Before the committee was formed, he had been lobbying Glastonbury councillors to ban the technology. In a Facebook post in May 2019, he outlined his campaigning activities and bemoaned the lack of support from residents.\n\n\"The only thing that is missing is the support from the community! I can't do this for you on my own, this is about you and for you,\" he said.\n\nBut in a YouTube video posted in July, he tells another anti-5G activist how he helped convince Glastonbury Town Council to get the investigation underway. He encouraged others to organise local petitions.\n\nHe has also appeared in videos alongside Mark Steele, another anti-5G conspiracy theorist. Mr Steele claims the coronavirus is a hoax, and has posted videos of himself harassing telecoms engineers.\n\nMr Cooper says the committee was supposed to be made up of people who lived in the area or had a business there. He complained that Christopher Baker did not meet those requirements because he lived in Hampshire, which does not even border Somerset.\n\nOne contributor asked the council to switch off its wi-fi\n\nHe resigned after the complaint was ignored, describing Mr Baker as a \"semi-professional anti-5G activist\". He highlighted a video in which Mr Baker admitted some of his fuel costs were paid by a benefactor.\n\nMr Baker told the BBC it was true that he lived in Hampshire, but said he had long-term connections to Glastonbury, and in any case other members of the committee were from outside the town. He admitted that he did receive some funding from a benefactor he refused to name.\n\n\"I don't have a lot of money, and if I travel half-way up the country to give a presentation, the least I expect is someone to contribute something towards my fuel bill.\"\n\nHe said those who resigned from the committee were dismissive of the evidence, rude to witnesses such as Prof Pall, and a disruptive force at the meetings.\n\nCommittee chair Jon Cousins agreed: \"Some of the behaviours displayed by non-councillor members when they could not debate by 'reason' broke Glastonbury Town Council's code of conduct.\"\n\nThis is strongly denied by Mark Swann and his colleagues.\n\nThe committee did hear evidence from Mobile UK, the mobile operators' trade body.\n\nIts presentation was criticised by one member for being \"glossy\", and others alleged there was no attempt to answer questions.\n\nGareth Elliott of Mobile UK denied that: \"We answered everything that was asked of us.\" However, he said it was a cordial meeting and his organisation respected the views of the committee.\n\nHe recounts an incident where one committee member arrived late to a meeting. She said that although she was hyper-sensitive to electromagnetic emissions, she deemed the meeting room to be safe.\n\n\"It was then noted that a wi-fi router was operating and was in the room,\" he says.\n\nThose who resigned from the committee say they are concerned about the reputation of Glastonbury.\n\nLast month, Piers Corbyn - the brother of the former Labour leader - led an anti-lockdown protest in the town, where slogans against 5G were shouted.\n\nPiers Corbyn (pictured in 2019) has shared 5G conspiracy theories on Twitter\n\nMr Swann says the atmosphere in the town has been tense lately and he is worried about the impact of the 5G report.\n\n\"This fallacious report severely damages Glastonbury's credibility,\" he says. \"It undermines years of good work by well-meaning councillors and leaves a dark shadow over the town's reputation.\"\n\nBut Councillor Jon Cousins rejects the idea that the report may have served to encourage the conspiracy theorists.\n\n\"Glastonbury Town Council's position and resolutions around 5G do not - and have never - suggested a link between 5G and Covid-19 or indeed that coronavirus is a hoax.\"\n\nHe says the council worked closely with Avon and Somerset Police to deal with last month's demonstration and breaches of social distancing legislation.", "Dame Vera Lynn has become the oldest singer to score a UK top 40 album, beating her own record.\n\nThe 103-year-old star's greatest hits collection, titled 100, re-entered the chart at number 30 on Friday.\n\nDame Vera became the first centenarian to chart when it was first released in 2017, reaching number three.\n\nThe upsurge in popularity for the album coincided with the 75th anniversary of VE Day, which marked the end of World War Two in Europe.\n\nThe BBC's anniversary programme ended with key workers and singers like Katherine Jenkins and Beverley Knight accompanying a recording of Dame Vera performing We'll Meet Again.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nDame Vera, who became known as \"the forces' sweetheart\" for entertaining troops during the conflict, also sent a message that while people may apart due to lockdown measures, \"hope remains even in the most difficult of times\".\n\nIt's been quite a time of late for elderly chart stars, following the success of Captain Tom Moore, who became the oldest person ever to score a number one single in the UK in April.\n\nAt the age of 99, his cover of You'll Never Walk Alone, alongside crooner Michael Ball, raised money for the NHS Charities Together fund.\n\nThis week, The D-Day Darlings, a wartime-style act who found fame on Britain's Got Talent in 2018, are at number five on the album chart.\n\nDua Lipa's Future Nostalgia remained the number one album for a fourth consecutive week.\n\nIn the singles chart, US rapper DaBaby came of age by securing his first number one with Rockstar.\n\nThe track, which features Roddy Ricch, knocked Drake's Toosie Slide off top spot, thanks largely to its use in a viral dance challenge on TikTok.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A UK trial to see whether specialist medical sniffer dogs can detect coronavirus in humans is set to begin.\n\nThe dogs are already trained to detect odours of certain cancers, malaria and Parkinson's disease by the charity Medical Detection Dogs.\n\nThe first phase of the trial will be led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, along with the charity and Durham University.\n\nIt has been backed with £500,000 of government funding.\n\nInnovation minister Lord Bethell said he hoped the dogs could provide \"speedy results\" as part of the government's wider testing strategy.\n\nThe trial will explore whether the \"Covid dogs\" - made up of Labradors and cocker spaniels - can spot the virus in humans from odour samples before symptoms appear.\n\nIt will establish whether so-called bio-detection dogs, which could each screen up to 250 people per hour, could be used as a new early warning measure to detect Covid-19 in the future.\n\nThe first phase will involve NHS staff in London hospitals collecting odour samples from those infected with coronavirus and those who are uninfected.\n\nSamples of breath and body odour could come from a number of sources, including used face masks.\n\nSix dogs - Norman, Digby, Storm, Star, Jasper and Asher - will then go through training to identify the virus from the samples.\n\nThe charity said the training could take as little as six to eight weeks.\n\nAfter an initial trial phase of three months, the government will decide where it believes the dogs will be most useful.\n\nOne possibility is that they could be used at points of entry into the country, such as airports, to detect potential carriers of the virus. The dogs could also be used at testing centres, as another form of screening alongside swab tests.\n\nMore than 10 years of research gathered by Medical Detection Dogs has shown the dogs can be trained to sniff out the odour of disease at the equivalent dilution of one teaspoon of sugar in two Olympic-sized swimming pools of water.\n\nClaire Guest, the charity's co-founder and chief executive, said she was \"sure our dogs will be able to find the odour of Covid-19\".\n\nIf that proves to be the case, the dogs will then move into a \"second phase to test them in live situations, following which we hope to work with other agencies to train more dogs for deployment\", she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. French firefighters are trying to teach canines to sniff out coronavirus\n\nDogs have previously been trained to detect malaria from \"foot odour samples\" - in this case, nylon socks worn by apparently healthy children in the Gambia.\n\nProf James Logan, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said: \"Our previous work has shown that malaria has a distinctive odour, and with medical detection dogs, we successfully trained dogs to accurately detect malaria.\n\n\"This, combined with the knowledge that respiratory disease can change body odour, makes us hopeful that the dogs can also detect Covid-19.\"\n\nThe researchers have also successfully trained dogs to detect cancer and Parkinson's disease in humans.\n• None Dogs could help 'sniff out' coronavirus", "Thousands of people have been supported under the \"Everyone In\" scheme\n\nGovernment funding for an emergency scheme to keep England's rough sleepers off the streets amid the coronavirus pandemic is to end.\n\nCouncils were given £3.2m in March to provide emergency shelter for homeless people, with many housed in hotels.\n\nThe Manchester Evening News said a leaked report showed ministers had \"quietly pulled the plug\".\n\nThe government said it had given councils £3.2bn since March and urged them to keep supporting rough sleepers.\n\nThe \"Everyone In\" scheme helped to house about 5,400 people.\n\nHomeless charity Crisis described the decision to stop funding it as \"completely unacceptable.\"\n\nIts chief executive, Jon Sparkes, said: \"There is still a deadly virus out there and, while it's to be commended that over 5,400 people have been given safe temporary accommodation, the job simply isn't finished.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said: \"It is simply wrong and misleading to suggest that we have stopped funding to keep rough sleepers off the street.\n\n\"We gave councils an initial payment of £3.2m at the start of the pandemic so they could take immediate action and help rough sleepers off the street.\n\n\"We have since given councils a further £3.2bn to deal with the immediate pressures they are facing, including supporting rough sleepers.\"\n\nRead the government's full response to the story.\n\nLabour leader Keir Starmer said it was \"simply wrong to send homeless people back onto the streets,\" adding \"the coronavirus crisis is far from over.\n\n\"Right now they need emergency support. But after this crisis we can't forget we all but ended rough sleeping overnight. We can end it for good.\"\n\nThis scheme was seen as being hugely successful, almost, as one expert told me, ending rough sleeping overnight.\n\nAbout 5,400 people had been given temporary accommodation and despite widespread fears about Covid-19's impact on rough sleepers, the \"Everyone In\" scheme was credited with largely protecting the homeless.\n\nIt also allowed healthcare and addiction services in some cases to engage with people who had long refused any help.\n\nThe government is keen to highlight it increased funding to help rough sleepers before the pandemic and that just because it's not extending this particular scheme, it remains committed to tackling a problem that has exploded in England since 2010.\n\nBut homeless charities will be closely watching what happens next. Why, they ask, end a scheme that was working, that was costing little more than a rounding error in the context of the overall costs of the pandemic? All eyes will now be on Louise Casey.\n\nAnd while specific funding for England is ending, the governments in Scotland and Wales will continue to support their own rough sleeper schemes.\n\nOn Friday, Dame Louise Casey, who is responsible for the government's Covid-19 rough sleeping response taskforce, told Radio 4's PM programme \"the money has not run out and isn't running out\".\n\n\"No-one is going to be tipped out, that's the key thing here, that would be reckless, irresponsible and wrong.\"\n\nPolly Neate, chief executive of the housing and homelessness charity Shelter, added: \"We cannot allow all the progress made or that safety net to be quietly stripped back now with councils left to pick up the pieces on their own.\"\n\nDame Louise Casey will \"spearhead\" the next phase of government support for rough sleepers during the pandemic, the MHCLG spokesperson said.\n\n\"While councils continue to provide accommodation to those that need it, it is only responsible that we work with partners to ensure rough sleepers can move into long-term, safe accommodation once the immediate crisis is over.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Restrictions to maintain physical distancing will be put in place\n\nHousehold waste recycling centres are expected to reopen across Scotland on 1 June, according to the local government body Cosla.\n\nCouncils have been reporting an increase in fly-tipping after the sites were closed in March due to the Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nCosla said council leaders agreed on a reopening date on Friday.\n\nRestrictions to maintain physical distancing for staff and members of the public will be put in place.\n\nSteven Heddle, Cosla's environment and economy spokesman, said there would have to be assurances that reopening would \"not negatively impact the Covid-19 infection rate\".\n\nThere have been increased reports of fly-tipping\n\nHe said the plan would follow national travel advice from the Scottish government.\n\n\"There will also be local considerations including the need to maintain physical distancing which will determine whether, and to what extent, individual sites will be able to reopen,\" he said.\n\n\"The intent behind this decision is to provide a level of co-ordination across Scotland, to avoid a disjointed approach which could lead to confusion.\"\n\nMr Heddle added that plans would look to \"best ensure the safety of both staff and the public\".\n\nHe said: \"We are working closely with the Scottish government and partners on this and are drawing up guidance.\"", "People in England have been urged to stay local and avoid travelling to beauty spots this weekend, despite the easing of lockdown rules.\n\nThis is the first weekend since the rules were relaxed in England, allowing people to spend as much time outside as they want \"for leisure purposes\".\n\nMany took the opportunity to head outdoors as the sun came out in parts of the country.\n\nSunbathers relaxed on the beach in Brighton Image caption: Sunbathers relaxed on the beach in Brighton\n\nHowever, South Bay sea front in Scarborough was quiet, with attractions remaining closed Image caption: However, South Bay sea front in Scarborough was quiet, with attractions remaining closed\n\nAn ice cream van served walkers at The Roaches in the Peak District Image caption: An ice cream van served walkers at The Roaches in the Peak District\n\nPeople in Barbican, east London enjoyed a game of tennis, after restrictions on outdoor sports were eased Image caption: People in Barbican, east London enjoyed a game of tennis, after restrictions on outdoor sports were eased", "Brian McClure was admitted to hospital with pneumonia as a result of Covid-19\n\nUp to 30% of patients who are seriously ill with coronavirus are developing dangerous blood clots, according to medical experts.\n\nThey say the clots, also known as thrombosis, could be contributing to the number of people dying.\n\nSevere inflammation in the lungs - a natural response of the body to the virus - is behind their formation.\n\nPatients worldwide are being affected by many medical complications of the virus, some of which can be fatal.\n\nBack in March, as coronavirus was spreading across the globe, doctors started seeing far higher rates of clots in patients admitted to hospital than they would normally expect.\n\nAnd there have been other surprises, including the discovery of hundreds of micro-clots in the lungs of some patients.\n\nThe virus has also increased cases of deep vein thrombosis - blood clots usually found in the leg - which can be life-threatening when fragments break off and move up the body into the lungs, blocking blood vessels.\n\nArtist Brian McClure was rushed to hospital last month suffering from the pneumonia brought on by coronavirus. But soon after he arrived, he had a scan showing he was in a bigger fight for his life.\n\n\"I went for a lung screening and that showed blood clots in the lungs. I was told that was very dangerous,\" he said.\n\n\"That was when I really started to get worried. I got the picture that if I didn't improve then I would be in serious trouble.\"\n\nHe is now continuing his recovery at home.\n\nBrian's scan showed dangerous blood clots in his lungs from Covid-19\n\n\"With a huge outpouring of data over the past few weeks I think it has become apparent that thrombosis is a major problem,\" says Roopen Arya, professor of thrombosis and haemostasis at King's College Hospital, London.\n\n\"Particularly in severely affected Covid patients in critical care, where some of the more recent studies show that nearly half the patients have pulmonary embolism or blood clot on the lungs.\"\n\nHe believes the number of critically ill coronavirus patients developing blood clots could be significantly higher than the published data in Europe of up to 30%.\n\nThe professor's blood sciences team in the hospital has been analysing samples from patients showing how coronavirus is changing their blood making it much more sticky. And sticky blood can lead to blood clots.\n\nThis change in the blood is the result of severe inflammation in the lungs, a natural response of the body to the virus.\n\n\"In severely affected patients we are seeing an outpouring of chemicals in the blood and this has a knock-on effect of activating the blood clotting,\" says Prof Arya.\n\nAnd all this ultimately causes a patient's condition to deteriorate.\n\nAccording to thrombosis expert Prof Beverley Hunt, sticky blood is having wider repercussions than just blood clots - it's also leading to higher rates of strokes and heart attacks.\n\n\"And yes sticky blood is contributing to high mortality rates,\" she says.\n\nScans of patients' lungs have shown more blood clots than normal\n\nTo add to all these medical challenges, there are studies showing that the blood thinners currently being used to treat the blood clots are not always working. And ramping up doses to much higher levels risks patients suffering major bleeding which can be fatal.\n\nThe balance between treating the thrombosis and causing bleeds is \"a precarious one\", according to Prof Arya.\n\nBut there is now a big push to get medical teams from around the world to co-operate in finding the safest and most effective way of tackling the blood clot problem thrown up by the virus.\n\nTrials are under way to find a standard dosage of blood thinners to be used in all countries.\n\nHowever, some experts believe there could be another solution: finding a way to reduce the acute inflammation in the lungs which leads to the creation of sticky blood, the source of the problem.", "Ten residents have died at Home Farm, with almost all of its residents and many staff contracting the virus\n\nA tenth resident has died with coronavirus at a care home on Skye.\n\nA total of 30 residents and 29 staff have tested positive for Covid-19 at Home Farm care home.\n\nNHS Highland is helping run the home after the Care Inspectorate raised \"serious and significant concerns\".\n\nA spokesman for HC-One, which runs the home, said: \"Our thoughts and sympathies are with all families who have lost a loved one.\"\n\nThe company said it was \"doing its utmost to support them during this difficult time\".\n\nOn Thursday , the Care Inspectorate began legal action which could prevent HC-One running the facility.\n\nHC-One said it was disappointed the Care Inspectorate had taken the legal action, adding that it was working with NHS Highland to implement a \"robust action plan\".\n\nSkye had no confirmed cases of Covid-19 prior to the outbreak at Home Farm. All but four of the home's 34 residents have contracted the virus.\n\nHC-One - the UK's largest care home operator - has had to bring in temporary staff from outside the island, but insisted these were from homes that were believed to be Covid-free.\n\nFamilies of the residents have criticised HC-One for only giving out limited information and for a \"lack of transparency\" about events at the home.\n\nAn Army mobile testing site has been established on the island following the outbreak\n\nFay Thomson, whose sister has tested positive for Covid-19, said the local community had no confidence in the company to run the business.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland's Drivetime: \"It's worrying in the respect that this is pretty drastic action for the Care Inspectorate to take, so exactly what did they find?\n\n\"The community was already shaken by what had happened at Home Farm, but this has put it on another level.\n\n\"There have been a lot of incidents in the past that, in my view, are totally unacceptable.\n\n\"There wouldn't be the confidence now for HC-One to continue.\"\n\nMs Thomson called on NHS Highland to remain in charge \"for the foreseeable future and hopefully permanently\".\n\nShe said: \"There really are only two alternatives. Either the home shuts and residents are moved elsewhere, which would be horrific. Or NHS Highland takes over full running of the place.\n\n\"That's what we need to hear right now - not that they are involved in partnerships or wishy-washy statements that no-one knows what they mean.\"", "Hina Solanki says she has had a tough time trying to get a loan\n\nBusinesses are still struggling to access government-backed loans from their banks.\n\nHina Solanki says she has had a nightmare trying to get support from her bank for her tattoo business to get through the lockdown.\n\n\"I can't pay anything. I'm living on cards. It's extremely stressful\", she says.\n\nFor the last fortnight she has been trying to apply for a £50,000 Bounce Back Loan from her bank.\n\n\"But I just get error messages,\" she says. \"They seem to have a technical fault.\"\n\nShe's not alone, even though it is nearly two weeks since the launch of the Bounce Back Loan Scheme (BBLS) to prop up stricken small businesses.\n\nHundreds of thousands of applications have been approved, but BBC News has seen a string of complaints about leading banks, including Santander, HSBC and Barclays, from customers who have been unable to get any money.\n\nMs Solanki has built a reputation providing cosmetic tattooing, for people whose appearance is affected by surgery or conditions such as alopecia.\n\nBut in March she had to shut her clinic in Finchley in North London, furloughing her four staff.\n\nShe used the government grant for 80% of their wages but topped them up to 100%, which has added to the cost of keeping the business alive. So she applied for the loan through Barclays.\n\n\"Barclays seem overloaded,\" she says, \"They have just not been able to deliver.\"\n\nMs Solanki tried to have her overdraft expanded, but that failed. She tried to get a Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan from the bank, but that did not come through.\n\nNow Bounce Back Loans - interest free for a year - seem to be out of her reach as well, even though they are fully backed by the government, so the bank cannot lose.\n\nBarclays customers have told BBC News that they have had to wait hours on the phone to the bank trying to get applications started.\n\nSome have been told, incorrectly, that their personal details were wrongly entered. Others that having two signatories on their business account is a problem.\n\nMaria Ogden says her vehicle hire company is open, but with few customers\n\nBarclays told the BBC that 95% of customers who have applied have received their funds and that it was working hard to help customers who have fallen through the cracks.\n\nMaria Ogden, who runs a vehicle hire company in Oswestry, in Shropshire, has also been waiting for one of the emergency loans, in her case from Santander.\n\n\"I've got vehicles on finance, insurance, rent - and people knocking on the door for payments,\" she says, \"but we can't earn any money.\"\n\nMs Ogden's business is allowed to stay open during the pandemic but she has hardly any customers and has furloughed her staff.\n\nShe wants the maximum £50,000 Bounce Back Loan as well. But after she applied on 5th May, the day after the launch, she is still waiting to hear back.\n\n\"I've banked with them for years. What's the delay?\" she asks.\n\nLike Ms Solanki, Ms Ogden says she tried to get the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan, then switched to the Bounce Back option because it was supposed to be easier and quicker.\n\n\"All my time this last week has been spent on the phone, on emails, trying to find out about this loan, instead of spending it working out how to help the business,\" Ms Ogden says. \"Without it, I'm finished.\"\n\nSantander told BBC News, \"While most applications have been processed quickly and smoothly, some are more complicated and we are working through these as quickly as we can.\"\n\nPeter Amable has received his loan, but 11 days after applying\n\nMany have been getting the loans, including Peter Amable who runs Storm Hair and Beauty in Shrewsbury.\n\n\"I'm elated. I can stop stressing about my rent,\" he says.\n\nBut he has had an anxious wait. The £4,000 he wanted from Barclays has only just gone into his account. He applied 11 days ago and expected the money the next day from what was billed as fast-track lending.\n\n\"I think it has only come because I have been constantly at them, going on and on,\" he says. \"It shouldn't be like that. It is shocking.\"\n\nGovernment figures earlier in the week showed the huge scale of the scheme.\n\nNearly 270,000 Bounce Back Loans had already been approved for more than £8bn. However, a significant minority of applicants are finding that the funds are hard to get hold of.\n\nA Treasury spokesman said: \"Millions has already landed in people's accounts and lenders are working hard to process and approve all applications as quickly as possible.\n\n\"All lenders are welcome to apply to the scheme, and we are working closely with the banks to ensure firms get the finance they need.\"\n\nAt Barclays, it is clear that there are some applications which simply cannot get through the bank's online process, so a human has to step in to deal with discrepancies, or verify conflicting information.\n\nA Barclays spokesperson said: \"In the first week alone of this scheme being live, we approved almost 70,000 Bounce Back Loans worth more than £2.1bn, and 95% of customers who have applied since the launch of the BBLS have received their funds.\n\n\"Our colleagues are working extraordinarily hard to get these loans into the hands of customers as quickly as possible, with the number of loans approved in the first week of the scheme equivalent to the amount that we would normally approve over a three year period.\"\n\nSantander said it had approved more than 70,000 online applications and paid out almost £1.3bn to business customers.\n\n\"We've seen unprecedented demand for Bounce Back Loans and have been working hard to get these much-needed loans to our customers as quickly as possible and we apologise for any inconvenience,\" HSBC said in a statement.", "Radiologists say they are \"very concerned\" patients may not be cured of serious illnesses when demand for services increases, due to a lack of imaging equipment in the UK.\n\nThe president of the Royal College of Radiologists has warned the service had been \"woefully underfunded\".\n\nShe said cleaning requirements because of coronavirus would reduce capacity.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care in England said it was investing £200m on imaging equipment.\n\n\"Radiology is one of those services that people use all the time, but don't really often think about, it's not sexy like surgery\", said Dr Jeanette Dickson, president of the Royal College of Radiologists.\n\n\"Imaging touches on virtually every patient who comes into a hospital.\n\n\"If you look at us on a European-wide average, we are certainly one of the countries that have the fewest number of scanners a head of the population.\"\n\nA comparison by the OECD, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, in 2014 - the last set of comparable figures - showed there were just 9.5 scanners per million head of the population, far below figures for Spain, Germany, France and Italy.\n\nThe BBC has been told some trusts just had a single CT scanner in operation in the UK.\n\nDr Dickson said normal service before the outbreak was \"woefully underfunded and under-resourced\" and that they were \"coping but barely\".\n\nShe said the whole of imaging was very much understaffed prior to the Covid-19 crisis. The latest figures form the Royal College of Radiologists show 11% of funded posts for radiologists across the UK were vacant.\n\nIn April, Cancer Research said a drop-off in screening and referrals meant roughly 2,700 fewer people were being diagnosed every week.\n\nSara Hiom, Cancer Research UK's director of early diagnosis said CT scanners for diagnosing cancer \"were already at breaking point before the pandemic\".\n\nThe BBC understands that more than 30 CT scanners have been obtained from the independent sector during the coronavirus crisis, with at least 35 more ordered.\n\n\"Capacity will be much, much less than demand\" even with the equipment that has been ordered, Dr Dickson said.\n\nShe warned even when all imaging resumes, and the NHS gets back to operating fully, it would take \"at least 30-45 minutes\" to deep clean scanners after Covid-19 patients and \"more attention\" was being paid to cleaning equipment between all patients. Patients have to socially distance in the waiting room.\n\n\"I am very concerned that we may find that patients are suffering unnecessary treatments or unnecessarily damaging treatments and losing the opportunity for a cure of cancer or another serious illness, because of the lack of imaging,\" Dr Dickson said.\n\nSara Hiom added: \"The government needs to invest in the necessary equipment, employing and training more staff to enable the NHS to cope with the backlog of patients waiting for cancer care.\n\n\"Prompt diagnosis and treatment remain crucial to give patients the greatest chances of survival.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care in England said in a statement it is \"committed to increasing our capacity for earlier cancer diagnosis and have provided £200m for new state of the art diagnostic machines to improve the quality and speed of diagnosis and replace any outdated machines\".\n\nIt added that cancer services would be \"among the first of many NHS services to be returning to normal\" during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nA spokesperson for NHS England said: \"Increased cleaning of CT scanners and additional infection control measures are in place throughout the pandemic to protect staff and patients.\n\n\"The NHS is making full use of the additional scanning capacity in the independent sector as well as buying additional scanners so that tests can go ahead as normal.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said it was \"increasing diagnostic capacity in radiology, including a new National Imaging Academy, and doubling the radiology training programme\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government said it expected all health boards to \"continue to prioritise radiology capacity for those patients referred with an urgent suspicion of cancer throughout and beyond the Covid-19 outbreak\".\n\n\"The majority of cancer radiology diagnostics and treatments have continued, however some patient's treatment plans will change to minimise their individual risk,\" it added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The founder of the Labour grassroots campaign group Momentum, Jon Lansman, has announced he will step down as its chairman next month.\n\nMr Lansman, a close ally of ex-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, said it was time to \"hand over to a new leadership.\"\n\nThe left-wing group was formed out of the campaign that supported Mr Corbyn in his successful 2015 leadership bid.\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said Mr Lansman had made \"a big impact on politics\".\n\nAnnouncing his departure on the Labour List website, Mr Lansman said Momentum was \"a mass of dedicated activists fighting for a better world\" but said he would not miss \"operating against a backdrop of warring factions, abuse and hatred\".\n\nHe also suggested he would remain a member of Labour's ruling National Executive Committee (NEC), which he said was \"not fit for purpose\".\n\nHe added that the group \"must not give up\" on democratising the Labour party which it \"didn't succeed... while Jeremy was leader\".\n\nIn January 2018, he was elected to the NEC, calling the result a victory for \"21st Century socialism\".\n\nLater that year he joined the race to be Labour's general secretary before dropping out of the race to focus on his role on the party's governing body.\n\nHe argued for a much greater say for Labour members in the running of the party.\n\nHe called for an end to the era of centralised \"command and control\" in the Labour Party, in which the views of members were \"too often ignored\" and over-ruled at the party conference.\n\nMr Lansman, who has been a leading figure on Labour's \"hard left\" for four decades, has been criticised by some within Labour who have viewed Momentum as a party within a party.\n\nFollowing Labour's crushing defeat at the last election, former Labour home secretary Alan Johnson called Momentum \"a cult\".\n\nMeanwhile, former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson blamed Mr Lansman for trying to oust him from his position last year in an internal row which threatened to overshadow the party's conference.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShadow education secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey wished Mr Lansman all the \"very best for the future\" in a tweet, saying he was \"a tireless voice for Labour Party democracy for over 50 years\".", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nThe German Bundesliga has resumed behind closed doors, becoming the first major European football league to restart after the coronavirus shutdown.\n\nSaturday's six games include the derby between Borussia Dortmund and Schalke (4-0), with leaders Bayern Munich at Union Berlin on Sunday (17:00 BST).\n\nThe league was suspended on 13 March, with most teams having nine games left.\n\nThere is now a police presence at stadiums to ensure fans do not enter and to prevent disturbances.\n• None German Bundesliga is back: Which team should you support?\n• None German Bundesliga is back: What do you need to know?\n\nUnder strict health protocols, fans are banned from the stadiums, but Borussia Monchengladbach are going to have cardboard cutouts of supporters in the stands during the team's home matches.\n\nAbout 300 people, including players, staff and officials, will be in or around the stadiums. Players have been tested for Covid-19 and are expected to observe social distancing off the pitch.\n\nBundesliga clubs returned to training in mid-April, with players initially working in groups.\n\nEvery team has been in quarantine, going from a hotel to their training ground for the week leading up to this weekend's return.", "Tracking and tracing coronavirus cases in Wales is a \"mammoth\" task, the leader of the Welsh Local Government Association has said.\n\nAndrew Morgan said councils would need \"significant additional resources\" for the \"vital\" work.\n\nThe Welsh Government wants its \"Test, Trace, Protect\" programme (TTP) operational by the end of May.\n\nIt acknowledged this would require \"significant resources\" and said it was working with local authorities.\n\nTTP involves testing people who have symptoms and identifying others with whom they have been in close contact and asking them to self-isolate.\n\nThe government's lockdown exit plan made clear TTP's success was central to making the easing of lockdown measures possible.\n\nIt would involve increasing testing capacity for those in hospital, care homes and key workers to about 10,000 by the end of the month.\n\nA further 10,000 tests a day may be needed for the general public, mainly done by home-test kits.\n\nTesting capacity is currently about 5,000 a day and 1,421 tests were done on Thursday 14 May.\n\nThe government thinks some 1,000 staff would initially be needed, including people working for local authorities.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said a trial of the plan would begin in some parts of the country next week.\n\nAndrew Morgan: \"Mammoth work to manage the disease in local communities\"\n\nAndrew Morgan, who is also leader of Rhondda Cynon Taf council, said the Welsh Government's plan was \"ambitious and will require significant additional resources\" to be successfully delivered.\n\n\"Alongside specially-trained council public protection officers, and partners in health, other non-clinical staff will need to be either recruited or redeployed to support the mammoth work to manage the disease in local communities,\" he said.\n\n\"Welsh Government has recognised that this work will come at a cost, and councils will continue to work with ministers to explore the implications and the funding required.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Our Test, Trace, Protect strategy will require significant resources to deliver.\n\n\"We will be working closely with partners.\n\n\"Our approach will bring together and build on the existing contact tracing expertise of our local health boards and particularly our local authorities to delivery this strategy on the ground.\"\n\nOfficials also confirmed the Welsh Government would be working with Westminster to help \"increase testing capacity further by drawing on the UK-wide testing programme for the general public and critical workers\".\n\n\"In order to deliver our 'Test Trace Protect' strategy and ramp up contact tracing and testing to the general public, we now need to look at greater integration with UK-wide digital platforms and processing systems,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"Further detail on this will be announced next week.\"\n\nWelsh Secretary Simon Hart MP said it was \"welcome news\" and an \"important step\".\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.", "Jackson Carlaw said the decision had been a mistake\n\nScottish Conservative leader Jackson Carlaw has said the public \"should have been told\" about a coronavirus outbreak at a conference in Edinburgh.\n\nAt First Minister's Questions, he said the decision not to release information about the Nike event in February was \"clearly the wrong call\".\n\nNicola Sturgeon accused Mr Carlaw of trying to politicise the issue.\n\nAnd she stressed that public health experts had taken the decision for patient confidentiality reasons.\n\nThe first minister also revealed that scientists working with Public Health Scotland were looking at the molecular sequencing of the strains of the virus in Scotland.\n\n\"One of the strains they are looking at is the strain associated with this conference,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm advised that when that work is completed it will actually tell us whether these cases, the ones that were known about and reported, contributed to any wider outbreak - or, alternatively, if the public health management prevented onward transmission, as we believe will be the case.\n\n\"As that work is completed I'm sure we will be happy to make conclusions of it known to the chamber and indeed to the wider public.\"\n\nA BBC Scotland Disclosure documentary told last week how 25 cases of coronavirus had been linked to the Nike conference, which took place in Edinburgh on 26 and 27 February.\n\nMr Carlaw asked Ms Sturgeon if she accepted that keeping the outbreak \"secret\" had been the wrong course of action.\n\nThe first minister accused the Scottish Conservatives' leader of trying to make the handling of the coronavirus crisis \"political\".\n\nShe said the cases from the Nike conference were all reported \"in the normal way through our daily figures\".\n\nNicola Sturgeon said 60 people were contact traced in Scotland after the conference\n\nThey had not disclosed where these individuals got the virus because it would \"almost certainly\" have identified them.\n\nMs Sturgeon said that the incident management team took \"all appropriate steps\".\n\n\"More than 60 contacts were traced in Scotland. I believe more than 50 were traced by Public Health England south of the border and at any time if that incident management team thought anything further was required, including public notification, they had the powers to do that.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"Let's talk about these things seriously. Let's look at where there are legitimate issues and questions, but let's not engage in ridiculous language of secrecy or cover-up.\"\n\nMr Carlaw described the decision as \"a mistake\" and said: \"Clearly this was the wrong call. The public should have been told.\n\n\"And if, as the first minister still seems to be saying, it wasn't a mistake, then why is our health secretary now giving active consideration to making a different call if this kind of thing happens again?\n\n\"People need to know what the Scottish government will do should the virus be found in this kind of public location in future.\n\n\"So can I ask if and when contact tracers confirm a positive case over the coming weeks and we discover that person has been in a public place, where close contact may have occurred like the Nike conference, will the public be told?\"\n\nMs Sturgeon replied that there had only been 10 people from Scotland at the conference, and there were different considerations when you were further into an epidemic.\n\n\"That's why as we go into test, trace, isolate, yes of course we look at the circumstances in which, where there is a cluster of cases, that is made public.\n\n\"That is exactly the work that is rightly and properly being considered as part of the development of test, trace, isolate.\"", "The owner of a pizza restaurant in the US has discovered the DoorDash delivery app has been selling his food cheaper than he does - while still paying him full price for orders.\n\nA pizza for which he charged $24 (£20) was being advertised for $16 on DoorDash - and when he secretly ordered it himself, the app paid his restaurant the full $24 while charging him $16.\n\nHe had not asked to be put on the app.\n\nHe later found out it was part of a trial to gauge customer demand.\n\nContent strategist Ranjan Roy blogged about the anonymous restaurateur, who is his friend - he later named the business, which has outlets in Manhattan and Topeka, Kansas, US.\n\nMr Roy said he first heard about the situation in March 2019, when his friend started receiving complaints about deliveries, even though his outlets did not deliver.\n\nAt that point , he discovered he had been added to DoorDash - and noticed it was charging a lower price for one of his premium pizzas.\n\nSo he ordered 10 pizzas, paid $160 and had them delivered to a friend's house.\n\nThe restaurant was then paid $240 for the order by DoorDash.\n\nThe next time, the restaurant prepared his friend's order by boxing up the pizza base without any toppings, maximising the \"profit\" from the mismatched prices.\n\n\"I was genuinely curious if DoorDash would catch on - but they didn't,\" wrote Mr Roy.\n\nDoorDash did not respond to BBC News's request for comment.\n\nBut Mr Roy said: \"We found out afterward that was all the result of a 'demand test' by DoorDash.\n\n\"They have a test period where they scrape the restaurant's website and don't charge any fees to anyone, so they can ideally go to the restaurant with positive order data to then get the restaurant signed on to the platform.\n\n\"Third-party delivery platforms, as they've been built, just seem like the wrong model, but instead of testing, failing, and evolving, they've been subsidised into market dominance.\n\n\"You have insanely large pools of capital creating an incredibly inefficient money-losing business model.\"\n\nDoorDash is backed by investment giant Softbank, which this week posted a record-breaking loss of nearly $13bn.\n\nDefending the loss, chief executive Masayoshi Son reportedly compared himself to Jesus.\n\nThe billionaire is said to have stated during a call with investors that Jesus was \"also misunderstood\".", "Apple and Google have released a software tool that will make it possible for nations to release coronavirus contact-tracing apps that adopt the firms' privacy-centric model.\n\nIt offers developers access to added Bluetooth functionality to solve a problem existing apps have of iPhones sometimes failing to detect each other.\n\nAndroid and iOS device owners will have to carry out system upgrades.\n\nBut some countries - including the UK - are pursuing a different approach.\n\n\"The release of these APIs [application programming interfaces] along with the operating-system updates will be a watershed moment for the development and adoption of proximity-tracing apps,\" said Marcel Salathé, an epidemiologist at the Swiss research institute EPFL.\n\nHe added that apps that adopted the protocol should be able to be made \"interoperable\" - meaning that citizens can continue to be contact-traced as they cross from one region and/or country to another. That could potentially help reduce travel restrictions imposed because of the virus - at least for those using the apps involved.\n\nApple and Google said public health agencies from 22 countries and some US states had already asked to test the system.\n\nThe app was not \"a silver bullet\" - but \"user adoption is key to success and we believe that these strong privacy protections are also the best way to encourage use\".\n\nContact-tracing apps are designed to automatically log when two people come into proximity to each other for a significant amount of time.\n\nIf one is later diagnosed with the coronavirus, the other can be given an alert, which might suggest they self-isolate and/or request a medical test of their own.\n\nBut the authorities believe adoption has been hampered by two factors:\n\nIn theory, the new system should address both these issues.\n\nIts \"decentralised\" approach locates contact-matching on devices themselves rather than a centrally controlled computer server.\n\nAnd this aims to cut the risk of either hackers or the authorities using the database of who met whom and for how long for other purposes.\n\nBut the UK's NHS and its counterparts in France, Norway and India say the centralised approach gives them greater insight, making it easier to tweak the risk model that decides who receives which type of alert.\n\nApps that adopt Apple and Google's API can customise it within certain limits.\n\nBut they will not be able to log, for example, a phone's global positioning system (GPS) coordinates.\n\n\"Not collecting some kinds of data, such as location, is a policy decision, not an engineering one,\" technology consultant Benedict Evans said.\n\n\"But Apple-Google have to build something for every phone on Earth, [potentially] including China and Iran, and think about how it could be abused.\n\n\"How much you need the extra data and whether it's worth the privacy risks is a matter of opinion.\"\n\nAustria was the first country to roll out a decentralised contact-tracing app.\n\nStopp Corona, operated by the Red Cross, has been downloaded more than 600,000 times.\n\nAnd its developers, Accenture, now intend to build in Apple and Google's API for a 10 June update so iPhone-users no longer have to bring the app on-screen for it to work effectively.\n\nAustria's Stopp Corona app is set to be among the first to introduce the Apple-Google model to the public\n\nBut Stopp Corona currently gives users the option of manually controlling when matches occur - by pressing an on-screen button to trigger a Bluetooth \"handshake\" .\n\nAnd this is not currently possible within the Apple-Google model.\n\nSo the developers plan to switch to using ultrasonic audio pings in this situation.\n\nApple and Google's API is also currently incompatible with the way Stopp Corona triggers different types of notification.\n\nThe app first serves a yellow alert if a contact self-diagnoses as having the virus and then follows up with a red or green alert depending on whether a medical test confirms it.\n\nAnd the developers are working with Apple and Google to try to retain this functionality.\n\n\"There's really good collaboration on both sides,\" Christian Winhelhofer, the Accenture executive involved, told BBC News.\n\n\"They're really interested in working on solutions that fit our needs.\"\n\nGermany's forthcoming Corona-Warn-App is also set to adopt the Apple-Google protocol.\n\nBut its developers have complained handsets not in use are limited to listening out for a Bluetooth signal only once every five minutes for a duration of about four seconds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: What is contact tracing and how does it work?\n\nSo, in theory, a couple hugging for three minutes, for example, might not be logged, while another merely brushing past each other at the right time would be.\n\nApple and Google are aware of this issue.\n\nBy contrast, the NHS's app listens out for a match roughly once every eight seconds.\n\nThe NHS has also developed its own workaround to the iPhone Bluetooth issue.\n\nBut it is still exploring the Apple-Google system as a back-up plan.", "Volunteers were needed to help prepare bodies for burial\n\nNewham in east London has the highest proportion of deaths from coronavirus in England and Wales. BBC News looks at why, and what it means for the community.\n\nFor much of April, Ghouse Fazaluddin was consumed by one thought: \"We couldn't just stand back and watch our dead be buried in mass graves.\"\n\nUsing his background as a telecoms project manager, he set to work.\n\nA WhatsApp group was created, and volunteers from the Jamia mosque in Newham, where Mr Fazaluddin is a trustee, were recruited.\n\nThe task in hand was essential, but grim.\n\nThere had been so many deaths that a backlog of bodies had built up and people were required to prepare each person for burial.\n\nA stream of people came forward, and over the course of 10 days, they cleansed and prayed for 32 people.\n\n\"The most important thing for me is how the community has come together,\" says Mr Fazaluddin.\n\n\"The common goal was, we cannot forget our deceased, we cannot just leave them to be buried without the ritual washing that takes place, and that people's dignity, the dignity of the deceased, was preserved.\"\n\nTo facilitate the process, a side room to the mosque was demarcated, with volunteers in personal protective equipment, sourced from builders' merchants, responsible for handling the bodies.\n\n\"At first I was a little bit scared to volunteer, but I just couldn't stand back,\" he says.\n\n\"I thought, I'm doing this for the community, doing it for their family, and I just felt happy.\"\n\nAdam Hussain was one of the volunteers\n\nCovid-19 has preyed on Newham like nowhere else.\n\nData released by the Office for National Statistics shows the east London borough has suffered the highest proportion of deaths from the disease in England and Wales.\n\nWhile there is local concern that some people did not take the virus seriously at first and continued mixing, a combination of deprivation and ethnicity has allowed the disease to exploit the area's mainly black and Asian population.\n\nAnwar Hussain Oli, Dr Louisa Rajakumari and Dr Yusuf Patel were among those who died\n\nThe victims have included key workers such as GP, Dr Yusuf Patel, teacher Dr Louisa Rajakumari, and Anwar Hussain Oli, one of several taxi drivers who've died, as well as at least nine residents of the Bakers Court care home in Little Ilford Lane.\n\n\"The past few weeks have been really depressing,\" says Ayesha Chowdhury, a Labour councillor in Newham who knows around 15 people who've died from coronavirus, many of them Bangladeshis.\n\n\"When they pass away, the community cannot participate in the funeral, they cannot visit the family so everything is completely shocking.\n\nAyesha Chowdhury knows at least 15 people who have died of the virus\n\n\"Besides dealing with the sadness, they also have to think about the finances of a funeral.\"\n\nNewham has long been recognised as one of the poorest areas of England, the 2012 Olympic Park was located there in an effort to regenerate the area.\n\nThat has brought benefits to some parts, but long-standing high levels of both overcrowding and underlying health conditions, such as cardiovascular disease and asthma, have remained.\n\nDespite its problems, the government has cut around £6m, in real terms, from Newham's public health budget since 2016.\n\nThe recent ONS data, which showed people in poor areas dying at twice the rate seen in more affluent districts, mirrors earlier research on the impact of pandemics.\n\nA 2012 paper, looking at the much smaller consequences of the 2009 swine flu outbreak in England, found deaths were three times higher in poorer communities and recommended socio-economic disparities be part of future pandemic planning.\n\nResearchers say there is little evidence that happened.\n\nPeople in poorer areas like Newham are dying at twice the rate of people in richer areas, official figures show\n\n\"This is not an equalising virus. This is a virus with a disproportionate effect on poor communities,\" says Rokhsana Fiaz, Labour Mayor of Newham.\n\n\"If you want to avoid a second wave, if you want to minimise deaths, we've got to be given the resources and flexibility to spend at a local level.\n\n\"Top down, command and control, will not work in light of the evidence we have.\"\n\nPublic health experts agree that a targeted approach will be needed as the disease develops.\n\nJonathan Pearson-Stuttard, a public health researcher at Imperial College London, says communities deemed to be most at risk from Covid-19 should get priority whenever a vaccine is developed.\n\n\"Once those most in need, such as health and care workers are vaccinated, it's very reasonable to assume that those most at risk would be next in line to receive the vaccine.\"\n\nThis virus has a disproportionate effect on poorer communities, says Newham's mayor\n\nIn Newham, the community that has lived through this crisis, must now rebuild the borough.\n\nAt the East London Science School, they have been hit hard - about 40 staff members have had symptoms, at least 10 pupils have lost relatives and one staff member is caring for two children who have been orphaned after both their parents died of Covid-19.\n\n\"Being serious about the education we offer gives them a way of seeing a future for themselves,\" he says.\n\n\"We can't obviously turn things back, but the fact that they can see a future is the best thing we can give them.\"", "Many migrants have also taken their families along on their difficult journeys\n\nTens of thousands of daily-wage migrant workers suddenly found themselves without jobs or a source of income when India announced a lockdown on 24 March.\n\nOvernight, the cities they had helped build and run seemed to have turned their backs on them, the trains and buses which should have carried them home suspended.\n\nSo with the looming fear of hunger, men, women and children were forced to begin arduous journeys back to their villages - cycling or hitching rides on tuk-tuks, lorries, water tankers and milk vans.\n\nFor many, walking was the only option. Some travelled for a few hundred kilometres, while others covered more than a thousand to go home.\n\nThey weren't always alone - some had young children and others had pregnant wives, and the life they had built for themselves packed into their ragtag bags.\n\nMany never made it. Here, the BBC tells the story of just a handful of the hundreds who have lost their lives on the road home.\n\nRajan Yadav, his wife Sanju and their two children wanted to make it big in Mumbai\n\nSanju Yadav and her husband, Rajan, and their two children - Nitin and Nandini - arrived in India's financial capital, Mumbai, a decade ago with their meagre belongings and dreams of a brighter future.\n\nHer children, she hoped, would thrive growing up in the city.\n\n\"It was not like she didn't like the village life,\" Rajan explained. \"She just knew that Mumbai offered better opportunities for all of us.\"\n\nIndeed, it was Sanju that encouraged Rajan to push himself.\n\n\"I used to do an eight-hour shift in a factory. Sanju motivated me do something more, so we bought a food cart and started selling snacks from 16:00 to 22:00.\n\n\"She pushed me to think big, she used to say that having our business was way better than a job. Job had a fixed salary, but business allowed us to grow.\"\n\nTwo years ago, all the hard work seemed to be paying off. Rajan used his savings and a bank loan to buy a tuk-tuk. The vehicle-for-hire brought more money for Sanju and her family.\n\nBut then came coronavirus.\n\nThousands of people have left the cities\n\nThe couple first heard Prime Minister Narendra Modi talk about the virus on TV on 19 March. A full, three-week lockdown was announced less than a week later.\n\nThey used up most of their savings to pay rent, repay the loan and buy groceries in March and April. They were hoping that the city would reopen in May, but then the lockdown was extended again.\n\nOut of money and options, they decided to go back to their village in Jaunpur district in Uttar Pradesh state. They applied for tickets on the special trains that were being run for migrants, but had no luck for a week.\n\nDesperate and exhausted, they decided to undertake the 1,500-km long journey in their tuk-tuk. The family-of-four left Mumbai on 9 May.\n\nMany were travelling with small children\n\nRajan would drive from 05:00 to 11:00. He would then rest during the day, and at 18:00 the family would be back on the road until 23:00. \"We ate whatever dry food we had packed and slept on pavements. The prospect of being in the safety of our village kept us going,\" he says.\n\nBut in the early hours of 12 May - just 200km from their village - a truck rammed into the tuk-tuk from behind.\n\nSanju and Nandini died on the spot. Rajan and Nitin escaped with minor injuries.\n\n\"It all ended so quickly,\" Rajan says. \"We were so close to our village. We were so excited. But I have nothing left now - just a big void.\"\n\nHe says he can't help but keep thinking about the train tickets that never came. \"I wish I had gotten the tickets. I wish I had never started the journey… I wish I was not poor.\"\n\nLallu Ram Yadav was excited to spend time with his family\n\nLallu Ram Yadav used to meet his cousin Ajay Kumar every Sunday to reminisce about the village he had left for Mumbai a decade earlier, in search of a better life for his wife and six children.\n\nFor 10 years, the 55-year-old had worked as a security guard, 12 hours a day, six days a week.\n\nBut his hard work amounted to little once the lockdown began, and the cousins both found their savings quickly ran out.\n\nLallu Ram called his family to say they were coming home - at least, he would now get to spend time with his children, he said.\n\nAnd so Lallu Ram and Ajay Kumar joined the desperate scramble to find a way home to the village in Uttar Pradesh's Allahabad district, some 1,400km away.\n\nBut the price demanded by lorry drivers proved too much. Instead, inspired by the migrants walking home they saw on the television, they packed small bags and began the journey on foot with four friends.\n\nMany migrants say they don't want to come back to cities\n\nThe covered around 400km in the first 48 hours - hitchhiking in lorries along the way. But the journey was more difficult than they had imagined.\n\n\"It was really hot and we would get tired quickly,\" Ajay Kumar said. \"The leather shoes we were wearing were extremely uncomfortable.\"\n\nThey all had blisters on their feet after walking for a day, but giving up was not an option.\n\nOne evening, Lallu Ram started complaining about breathing difficulties. They had just entered Madhya Pradesh state - they still had a long way to go, but they decided to rest for a while before starting again.\n\nLallu Ram never woke up. When they took him to a nearby hospital, they were told he had died of a cardiac arrest, triggered by exhaustion and fatigue.\n\nMany found it difficult to find food during their journeys\n\nThey didn't know what to do with the body. An ambulance was going to take five to eight hours to reach them.\n\nThe group had around 15,000 rupees ($199; £163) between them - half the amount needed to hire a lorry. But one driver agreed to take the rest of the payment later. And that's how they took the body back home.\n\nLallu Ram couldn't fulfil the promise of spending more time with his children.\n\n\"The family's only breadwinner is gone,\" says Ajay Kumar. \"Nobody helped us. My cousin didn't have to die - but it was a choice between hunger and the long journey.\n\n\"We poor people often have to pick the best from several bad choices. It didn't work out for my cousin this time. It seldom works out for poor people like him.\"\n\nSagheer Ansari was an expert tailor but had lost his job recently\n\nSagheer and Sahib Ansari were good tailors. They never struggled to find work in Delhi's booming garment factories - until the lockdown.\n\nWithin days, they lost their jobs. The brothers thought things would go back to normal in a few weeks and stayed put in their tiny one-room house.\n\nWhen their money ran out, they asked family members in the village for help. When the lockdown was further extended in May, their patience ran out.\n\n\"We couldn't have asked the family for more money. We were supposed to help them, not take money from them,\" Sahib says.\n\nThey would wait in queues for food being distributed by the government. But, Sahib says, it was never enough and they always felt hungry.\n\nSo the brothers discussed the idea of going back to their village in Motihari district in Bihar state, some 1,200km from Delhi.\n\nSagheer has left behind his wife and three young children\n\nThey and their friends decided to buy used bicycles, but could only afford six for eight people. So they decided that they would all take turns to ride pillion.\n\nThey left Delhi in the early hours of 5 May. It was a hot day and the group felt tired after every 10km.\n\n\"Our knees would hurt, but we kept pedalling. We hardly got a proper meal and that made it more difficult to pedal,\" Sahib says.\n\nAfter riding for five days, the group reached Lucknow - the capital of Uttar Pradesh. It had been two days since they had had a proper meal and they were mostly surviving on puffed rice.\n\n\"All of us were very hungry. We sat on a road divider to eat because there was hardly any traffic,\" he says.\n\nMany migrants have had to travel in overcrowded lorries\n\nBut then a car came out of nowhere, hitting the barrier and striking Sagheer. He died in a hospital a few hours later.\n\n\"My world came crashing down,\" Sahib says. \"I had no idea what I was going to tell his two children and his wife.\n\n\"He used to love home-cooked food and was looking forward to it. He died without having a proper meal for days.\"\n\nSahib eventually reached home with his brother's body, brought by an ambulance. But he couldn't mourn with his family for long, as he was put into a quarantine centre right after the burial.\n\n\"I don't know who to blame for his death - coronavirus, hunger or poverty. I have understood one thing: I will never leave my village. I will make less money but at least I will stay alive.\"\n\nNaresh Singh with his wife (standing to his right) and children\n\nJaikrishna Kumar, 17, regrets encouraging his father Balram to come home after the lockdown started.\n\nBalram was from a village in Bihar's Khagadia district, but was working in Gujarat - one of the states worst-hit by the coronavirus - when much of India closed down in March.\n\nHe and his friend Naresh Singh, a maintenance worker for mobile phone towers, were both working hard so their sons back in Bihar could have better futures. Balram wanted Jaikrishna to go to college, Nikram wanted his sons to become government officers.\n\nThey started their journey on foot, but about 400km into it, policemen helped them and others to hitch a ride in a lorry.\n\nThe \"ride\" involved them all being precariously perched on top of cargo - a common sight on Indian highways.\n\nPeople have taken extreme risks to get home\n\nBut this time, the driver lost control in Dausa town in Rajasthan state, ramming the lorry into a tree.\n\nBoth Naresh and Balram died in the accident.\n\nNow Jaikrishna Kumar says he will probably have to quit studying and find a job to support the family.\n\n\"The accident took away my father and my dreams of getting an education. I wish there was another way. I don't like the idea of going to a city to work, but what other option do I have?\n\n\"My father wanted me to break the cycle of poverty. I don't know how to do it without him.\"\n• None Coronavirus as seen through children's art", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nA growing list of councils in England have now advised the primary schools they govern not to reopen on 1 June amid continuing fears over safety. The body which represents school governors is also warning it'll be hard for their members to sign off on reopening against the will of their local authority. The government says the date isn't set in stone, and BBC education correspondent Branwen Jeffries thinks it's now clear any return will be patchy and partial. Concern over the higher R number - what's that? - in some regions is driving much of the concern.\n\nThe NHS is being warned not to \"lose sight\" of other areas of life-saving medicine amid the pandemic. The Institute of Cancer Research fears delays in surgery could cost more lives than the number of Covid-19 patients saved, Elsewhere this morning, a study suggests washing your hands at least six times a day makes catching infections such as coronavirus much less likely.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The University of Westminster's Dr Adele McCormick demonstrates how to wash your hands well in 20 seconds\n\nAerospace giant Rolls-Royce has announced it will cut 9,000 jobs across the firm and warned it will take \"several years\" for the aviation industry to recover from the crisis. Marks & Spencer, meanwhile, has reported a 21% drop in profits and announced plans to accelerate cost-saving measures like store closures. Clothing sales dropped to just 16% of last year's level at one point during lockdown.\n\nThe job losses at Rolls-Royce amount to almost a fifth of the workforce\n\nCambridge University has announced it'll hold no face-to-face lectures at all during the 2020-21 academic year. Some teaching in smaller groups might be possible, but otherwise it'll be virtual. Other universities may well follow suit, but students have been told they'll still have to pay full fees even if their courses are taught entirely online. The BBC has also spoken to students doing their year abroad online.\n\nCapt Tom Moore is to be knighted after a special nomination from the prime minister. The war veteran raised more than £32m for NHS charities by completing 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday in April. Find out how his millions are being spent.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and follow our live page for the latest updates.\n\nAnd with no real return to secondary school on the cards at all, our education reporter Katherine Sellgren speaks to parents worried about their unmotivated teens and gathers some tips that might help.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "A prison in Massachusetts being cleaned during the coronavirus pandemic Image caption: A prison in Massachusetts being cleaned during the coronavirus pandemic\n\nAround the world, many short-term inmates have been released early or temporarily to help contain the spread of Covid-19 in prisons.\n\nJessica Vicsik, 25, was one of those released temporarily from Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Michigan, US, on 15 April.\n\n“It’s a nightmare in there,\" she told BBC OS. \"We can’t go in or out. The guards, doctors and nurses come in and out every day, and that’s how we were getting [Covid-19]. They didn’t start wearing protective equipment for a couple of weeks.\n\n“We pregnant women – four of us were trapped inside with no doors open, no windows, and it was affecting us. I was told it’s so much worse out here, which it is because there’s a lot more people and it’s open. But at the same time, that’s our family. We know where our people are going – we don’t know where they (the guards) are going.”\n\nIn response, a representative for the facility said: “The CDC (Centre for Disease Control and Prevention) guidelines said people did not have to wear masks at the beginning of this outbreak. When the guidance changed from the federal government, we provided every prisoner and every prison employee with three masks and required they wear them every day.\n\n\"We have also done mass testing at nearly every prison in the state and by the end of this week we will have tested every prisoner in the state, making us the first state in the country to do so.”", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aya Hachem, 19, was shot in the chest near a supermarket\n\nThe father of a woman who was shot dead in the street hoped his family would be safe in the UK after they fled Lebanon.\n\nLaw student Aya Hachem, 19, was shot from a passing car in a case of mistaken identity, in the town's King Street on Sunday.\n\nHer father Ismail told BBC Asian Network his dreams have been destroyed in the wake of her death.\n\nTwo more people have been detained in connection with the investigation, bringing the number of arrests to 11.\n\nEight people have been arrested on suspicion of murder while a further three suspects have been held on suspicion of assisting an offender.\n\nPolice have been given more time to question the first three men who were arrested on Monday.\n\nThe suspects, who are aged 19 to 39, remain in police custody.\n\nMs Hachem was walking towards Lidl at about 15:00 BST when she was hit by one of several shots fired from a car.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Terry Woods, of Lancashire Police, said the \"completely innocent\" law student had not been the intended target.\n\nMr Hachem said he repeatedly tried to call his eldest daughter - who with her family had been living in the UK for a decade - when she did not return home from the supermarket.\n\nHis wife later told him \"my heart is saying go check on Aya\", he told the BBC.\n\nHer parents said she was the \"most loyal devoted daughter\" who \"dreamed of becoming a solicitor\"\n\nDuring his search to find his daughter, Mr Hachem discovered King Street had been cordoned off.\n\nHe was unaware that this was the scene of his daughter's death until the police arrived at his home later that day.\n\n\"I start crying... cause all my dreams, Aya,\" he said.\n\n\"I think I would be safe here... in this small town. No big problems.\"\n\nPolice believe this Toyota Avensis was used\n\nThe Lebanese-born teenager - a second year student at the University of Salford - was a young trustee for the Children's Society.\n\nThe charity's chief executive Mark Russell said: \"She was bright, passionate, hard-working, ambitious.\n\n\"It's a complete tragedy that her life has been cut short.\"\n\nHer former head teacher described as a \"wonderful young lady who had so much to offer\".\n\nDiane Atkinson, executive head of Blackburn Central High School, said: \"She fled a war-torn zone as a refugee and came to the UK looking for a better life.\n\nMs Hachem arrived at the school as a 12-year-old \"with very little English\" but \"picked it up very quickly\".\n\nShe was a \"very intelligent young lady\" who had \"great aspirations to help other people\" and \"worked incredibly hard to become the very, very best person she could be\", Ms Atkinson said.\n\nA Toyota Avensis, believed to have been used in the shooting, was later found abandoned in Wellington Road.\n\nDetectives said the shooting was not being treated as terrorism-related or a racially-motivated attack.\n• None Gun death woman 'had aspirations to help others'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The clap for carers event is in its eighth week - but is it right for everyone to clap?\n\nClapping for our carers and other key workers has become a rite of passage for many of us - a way of showing our appreciation for front-line workers risking their lives to keep us safe.\n\nBut Thursday's event, the eighth since the lockdown started, is the first since some NHS staff said they felt \"stabbed in the back\" by people breaking lockdown guidelines to hold VE Day street parties.\n\nAn intensive care doctor said the parties she witnessed put emergency staff lives at risk and increased the possibility of a second wave of coronavirus cases.\n\nSo, is it hypocritical of people who broke the the rules on Friday to applaud those same carers on Thursday?\n\nAccording to experts on ethics, it is not necessarily hypocrisy - although it could be considered selfish.\n\nDr Paddy McQueen, who teaches philosophy at Swansea University, said a key feature of hypocrisy was pretending \"to be something they are not or believe something they do not believe\".\n\nEthicist Paddy McQueen says people are more likely to fail to see the consequences of their actions than be hypocrites\n\n\"My hunch is that quite a few people who clap for carers and the NHS, while also failing to observe social-distancing measures, do have genuine admiration and appreciation for them,\" he explained.\n\n\"Thus, they are not pretending to admire or support the NHS. Rather, they might fail to make the logical connections between their behaviour and the impact it has on the NHS.\"\n\nWhat might come close to hypocrisy, Dr McQueen added, is if someone believes people should be observing social distancing, but makes excuses for failing to observe it themselves.\n\nHe calls this the \"what I do won't make a difference\" attitude, but says it is \"morally dubious\" rather than hypocritical.\n\nAnother ethicist agreed it does not constitute hypocrisy, but is \"selfish\".\n\nEthics lecturer Tristan Nash says the behaviour is selfish rather than hypocritical\n\n\"It is akin to being grateful that someone is cleaning up the litter while you throw your rubbish on the ground,\" said Dr Tristan Nash, lecturer in philosophy at the University of Wales Trinity St David.\n\n\"It is being grateful that NHS workers are putting their lives at risk while taking actions that could serve to increase that risk.\"\n\nUnions representing NHS staff would not be drawn on the question of morality, but called on people to support NHS staff by abiding by social-distancing rules.\n\nThe Unite union said it was \"extremely concerned that non-compliance\" with the rules \"ultimately puts lives at risk\".\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA), which represents doctors in Wales, said while it was \"heartening\" to see the appreciation, \"the best 'thank you' we can ask for\" is that people follow Welsh Government guidelines on social distancing.\n\n\"It's disheartening to see people putting themselves at risk when doctors and other healthcare professionals are doing their utmost, day in, day out, to protect patients,\" said Dr David Bailey, chairman of the Welsh council of the BMA.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cow bells, honking lorries and clanging pans joined the seventh weekly clap for key workers\n\nThe union which represents nurses said it supports the public wanting to say thank you to NHS staff \"who are working around the clock saving lives during this pandemic\".\n\nBut Helen Whyley, director of the Royal College of Nursing in Wales, called on people to follow social-distancing guidelines to protect the NHS.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Antibody tests are carried out in other countries, such as Russia\n\nPeople in England have been cautioned against using coronavirus antibody tests being sold by some retailers.\n\nNHS England's medical director Prof Stephen Powis said experts were \"evaluating\" antibody tests, which show if someone has already had the virus.\n\nSuch tests are not yet available through the NHS, but some are being sold commercially.\n\n\"I would caution against using any tests... without knowing quite how good those tests are,\" said Prof Powis.\n\nCurrently, the coronavirus tests available to all adults and children aged over five are swab tests - taking a swab up the nose or from the back of the throat. These tests tell you if you currently have Covid-19.\n\nA second type of test - the antibody test - is a blood test that looks for antibodies in the blood to see whether a person has had the virus.\n\nHealth officials in England have already approved an antibody test. There is no date for when it will be rolled out, but Health Secretary Matt Hancock said earlier this week the government was in \"the closing stages of commercial negotiations\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Superdrug became the latest business - and first high street retailer - to offer the antibody test. The kit costs £69 and buyers need to take a blood sample at home, which is sent off to a lab for testing.\n\nSpeaking at the No 10 daily briefing on Wednesday, Prof Powis said: \"Public Health England have been evaluating the new antibody tests, the commercial tests that are becoming available.\"\n\nBut he added: \"I would caution against using any tests that might be made available without knowing quite how good those tests are... I would caution people against being tempted to have those tests.\"\n\nSetting out some of the uncertainties around the commercial tests, Prof Powis said: \"Once you have the virus, the body's immune system develops antibodies against it and it's those antibodies that are detected typically a number of weeks after you've had the virus.\n\n\"What we don't absolutely know at the moment is whether having antibodies and having the antibodies that are tested in those tests means that you won't get the virus again.\n\n\"So I wouldn't want people to think just because you test positive for the antibody that it necessarily means that you can do something different in terms of social distancing, in the way you behave.\n\n\"Because until we are absolutely sure about the relationship between the positive antibody test and immunity, I think we as scientists would say we need to tread cautiously going further forward.\"\n\nSuperdrug said it was \"confident\" in the accuracy and reliability of the test, which it said has a sensitivity of 97.5%. That means it will detect positive antibodies 97.5% of the time, so there is a chance a negative result may be wrong.\n\nThere is a variation in the accuracy of tests. A test developed by scientists in Scotland and Switzerland had a 99.8% accuracy rate for giving a positive result.\n\nDr Colin Butler, from the University of Lincoln, said the commercial tests \"should give a good indication\" of whether an individual has been infected with Covid-19.\n\nBut he added: \"Whilst this may be an indication of functional immunity, confirmation of this is awaited from large scale studies presently under way. Until it is, individuals should not assume they are fully immune to further infection.\"\n\nA healthcare professional in Italy shows a test tube with blood for an antibody test\n\nThe World Health Organization says there is no evidence people who have recovered from Covid-19 and have antibodies are protected from being infected again.\n\nThe new coronavirus, called Sars-CoV-2, has not been around long enough to know how long immunity lasts, but there are six other human coronaviruses that can give a clue.\n\nFour produce the symptoms of the common cold and immunity is short-lived. In two coronaviruses - the ones that cause Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers) antibodies have been detected a few years later.", "Australia was only just emerging from devastating bushfires when the coronavirus struck, and as the BBC's Shaimaa Khalil writes, some tourist-dependent towns are now facing a double disaster.\n\nWhen blazes ravaged the small New South Wales' town of Mogo on New Year's Eve, all Lorena Granados could do was flee. She and her husband Gaspar ran through the flames under red skies as the fire destroyed the leather business they owned for nearly 20 years.\n\nAll that was left were a few burned and warped sewing machines that they later salvaged from the wreckage.\n\nDuring the bushfire season, almost 500 homes were lost in Eurobodalla Shire Council, where Mogo is located. In the following weeks, the Business Council of Australia announced it was funding a pop-up mall and erecting 10 temporary buildings in an attempt to give small businesses a chance to start trading again.\n\nLorena was getting ready for the big opening when Covid-19 became a global pandemic. Australia closed its borders and tightened its social distancing rules. All non-essential services were closed, which meant that no customers passed through the pop-up mall for weeks. It was another big blow to the small town which depends mainly on tourism.\n\n\"It's heart-breaking and soul destroying,\" Lorena said. \"Our motivation went from a hundred to nothing. We invested money in stock and we had every hope that we were going to have an extremely busy Easter. We weren't expecting to be stopped in our tracks so early in our recovery process.\"\n\nGaspar and Lorena escaped the fires but have to rebuild from the ground up\n\nThe government has recently announced a package of A$650m ($400m; £210m) to help communities worst hit by the bushfires. It's the last instalment of a A$2bn recovery fund. But many complain that getting financial support has been a long and complicated process made even more difficult by Covid-19.\n\n\"This has slowed everything down and it actually increased the pain,\" said Peter Williams as he stood in the middle of rubble that used to be the pottery and art shop he owned with his wife Vanessa. Only a few metres away was another pile of rubble that used to be their home.\n\nFive months after the fires of New Year's Eve, they both still seemed in a daze as they examined the shattered and blackened pieces of artefacts they were hoping to sell during the Christmas and New Year period. The cleaning up process was hampered first by the floods that came soon after the fires and then by Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nEleven people in the shire have tested positive, according to New South Wales Health.\n\n\"Everything has been delayed. The workers had to be more careful,\" said Peter. \"We were really looking for a quick clean-up so we could psychologically start afresh and build our lives again.\"\n\nSeeing the destruction every day as he and his wife drive through town has been a constant reminder of what they've lost.\n\nWith no international tourists expected in Australia for many months, it's not just small businesses that are in dire straits. Famous attractions like Mogo's Wildlife Park are also struggling to make ends meet.\n\nThe zoo became famous during the fires for its dramatic rescue of its animals as fires approached the town. It had been open again for less than a month before the coronavirus forced it to close again.\n\n\"The knockout blow was Covid-19,\" said zoo director Chad Staples. \"The fires were tough but they were a shared experience. It was something that brought the community together. Covid19 is the exact opposite. We've been told to separate and be insular.\"\n\nMogo Zoo had to move its animals from the path of the bushfires\n\nDuring a busy season the zoo gets at least a thousand visitors a day. Now it's all but deserted except for the animals and the staff. It costs nearly A$15,000 a month just to feed the animals and they've had no money coming in for months.\n\nChad hopes that the eventual return of domestic visitors, albeit in small numbers, will give them some respite. But he admitted that even with a further easing of restrictions, the feel of the zoo will be significantly different.\n\n\"We're not going to have those days where the zoo is packed with people. It's going to be almost like private tours, the numbers are going to be that small.\"\n\nChad Staples says he doesn't expect to see the zoo full of people anytime soon\n\nAustralia is in a much better position than many countries when it comes to Covid-19 cases. Restrictions are being eased gradually in bid to reopen the economy. But for people in tourist towns like Mogo who have suffered a double whammy in just a few months, getting government financial support has been a long and draining process\n\nLorena said that with the government focused almost entirely on keeping Covid-19 under control, bushfire-affected communities felt left behind.\n\n\"Many of us have lost homes and businesses,\" she said, \"but I do feel that we've been forgotten about\".", "\"There is growing evidence that adherence to the regulations is weakening in some areas,\" police have said\n\nChief constables and police and crime commissioners in Wales want fines issued for breaching lockdown rules to be the same as England.\n\nFines in Wales are £60 but now start at £100 in England.\n\nIn a letter to the first minister, they said there has been \"cross-border confusion\" and more people travelling into Wales for exercise where rules are different.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said it was keeping the fines under review.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has told those thinking about a weekend trip to Wales: \"Don't do it\".\n\nThe letter sent on Friday by the Policing in Wales group said officers in Gwent force area reported \"clear community concerns\" around the recreational laws in England leading to members of the public crossing the border for cycling or walking.\n\nIn Wales, people have to exercise close to home, whereas those in England can travel further afield, although they have been advised to avoid Wales for the time being.\n\nThe letter said \"there is growing evidence that adherence to the regulations is weakening in some areas\".\n\nIt said there was \"public confusion\" around the divergence in regulations between the UK and Welsh Governments regarding fines and lockdown rules.\n\nIt said: \"Policing in Wales welcomes the continued engagement with both your government and officials in order to assist in the shaping of the approach to Covid 19 regulations.\n\n\"With this in mind we are writing to request that you consider aligning the fines structure.... with the revised levels announced by the UK prime minister on Sunday May 10.\n\n\"Chief constables and police and crime commissioners feel that this would provide parity and consistency across England and Wales, obviating any cross-border confusion on this point that may exist.\n\n\"It will also provide clarity for people living in our communities across Wales, who will know that their local officers and staff have exactly the same powers and sanctions as their colleagues working over the border.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"We are keeping the fines under review and working with the police forces in Wales to ensure they have the appropriate powers they need to enforce the lockdown regulations.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said: \"All four chief constables and all four of Wales' police and crime commissioners are united in agreement that raising the fines for those breaking lockdown rules in Wales - and bringing them in parity with England, is the right step to allow them to better protect our communities during this crisis.\n\n\"The first minister has all the evidence he needs and should act now - today - before this weekend is over.\"", "Singapore has some of the world's toughest anti-drug policies\n\nA man has been sentenced to death via a Zoom video call in Singapore, as the country remains on lockdown following a spike in Covid-19 cases.\n\nPunithan Genasan, 37, received the sentence on Friday for his role in a drug deal that took place in 2011.\n\nIt marks the city's first case where such a ruling has been done remotely.\n\nHuman rights groups argued that pursuing the death penalty at a time when the world is being gripped by a pandemic was \"abhorrent\".\n\nThe vast majority of court hearings in Singapore have been adjourned until at least 1 June, when the city's current lockdown period is due to end.\n\nCases which have been deemed to be essential are being held remotely.\n\n\"For the safety of all involved in the proceedings, the hearing for Public Prosecutor v Punithan A/L Genasan was conducted by video-conferencing,\" a spokesperson for Singapore's Supreme Court told Reuters.\n\nMr Genasan's lawyer, Peter Fernando, said his client is considering an appeal.\n\nSingapore has a zero-tolerance policy for illegal drugs. In 2013, 18 people were executed - the highest figure in at least two decades, according to Amnesty International.\n\nOf those 18, 11 had been charged with drug-related offences.\n\nSingapore prides itself on its low crime rate and is fiercely anti-drugs, with a zero-tolerance approach to drug trafficking.\n\nUntil recently, drug trafficking was one of four crimes that brought a mandatory death sentence. Judges can now reduce that to life with caning, under certain conditions.\n\nThe government maintains that hanging drug traffickers sends a powerful message of deterrence against a socially destructive crime.\n\nHuman rights campaigners have long argued that the process is too secretive, and say that executions disproportionately target low-level drug mules, while doing little to stop the flow of drugs into the country.\n\nAmong Singaporeans, however, the use of the death penalty is largely uncontroversial.\n\nExecutions rarely get prominent coverage in the national media, and opinion polls consistently show overwhelming public support for the death penalty in some form, making the few anti-death penalty campaigners a fringe group.\n\nIn a country where the media is rarely overtly critical of government decisions, there is unlikely to be much of a public outcry over Punithan Genasan's fate being decided by video call.\n\nKirsten Han, a Singaporean journalist and activist, said: \"The delivering of a death sentence via Zoom just highlights how clinical and administrative capital punishment is.\"\n\nShe added that by bypassing a courtroom appearance, the accused's family had missed out on an opportunity to speak and hold hands with him.\n\nAmnesty International said the ruling was a \"reminder that Singapore continues to defy international law and standards by imposing the death penalty for drug trafficking.\n\n“At a time when the global attention is focused on saving and protecting lives in a pandemic, the pursuit of the death penalty is all the more abhorrent.\"\n\nHuman Rights Watch Asia deputy director Phil Robertson told the BBC: \"It's shocking the prosecutors and the court are so callous that they fail to see that a man facing capital punishment should have the right to be present in court to confront his accusers.\"\n\nSingapore officials are not the first to issue a death penalty over a video conference call.\n\nLagos judge Mojisola Dada sentenced Olalekan Hameed to death by hanging for the murder of his employer's mother.\n\nHameed had pleaded not guilty to killing 76-year-old Jolasun Okunsanya in December 2018.\n\n\"The irreversible punishment is archaic, inherently cruel and inhuman. It should be abolished,\" Human Rights Watch told the BBC at the time.", "Seven-year-old Emily Jones was attacked by a woman with a knife at Queen's Park in Bolton\n\nA woman has been charged with the murder of a seven-year-old girl who was stabbed in a park on Mother's Day.\n\nEltiona Skana, 30, is accused of murdering Emily Jones in Queen's Park, Bolton on 22 March, Greater Manchester Police said.\n\nMs Skana, formerly of Turnstone Road, Bolton, has been remanded in custody to appear at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court on 26 May.\n\nEmily's family said she had a \"heart as big as her smile\".\n\nShe was stabbed as she played in the park with her parents and died shortly after the attack, which was witnessed by her father.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The number of people dying with coronavirus in Scotland has fallen for the third consecutive week.\n\nFigures from the National Records of Scotland showed that 332 deaths involving the virus were registered between 11 and 17 May.\n\nThis was 83 fewer than the previous week, and brings the total number of deaths to 3,546.\n\nThere has also been a further drop in the number of people dying with Covid-19 in care homes.\n\nThe statistics showed that 184 care home deaths were recorded - 54 fewer than the previous week.\n\nDespite the reduction, care homes continued to account for more than half of all deaths involving the virus in Scotland.\n\nAnd the 1,623 deaths recorded in care homes since the start of the pandemic is now almost as high as the 1,664 deaths that have happened in Scotland's hospitals.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon told the Scottish Parliament that the number of deaths in care homes was \"still too high\".\n\nAnd she insisted that the wellbeing of care home residents and staff \"has always been a priority and always will be a priority\".\n\nBut Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard accused Ms Sturgeon of being \"in denial\" about the scale of the tragedy in care homes across the country, and claimed her government had ignored warnings about the impact the pandemic would have on the sector.\n\nMr Leonard pointed to a report by the Common Weal think tank which he said showed the crisis was \"predictable\" because care services had been \"left to private providers, while regulation and inspection regimes have been limited\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would support a Labour proposal for help to be given to care workers who lose out on pay while self-isolating after testing positive for the virus.\n\nSocial care workers who have become infected and have to self-isolate currently receive £95.85 per week in statutory sick pay.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"Without pointing the finger at anybody or trying to pass the buck, I do think it's really important we work with employers to make sure employers are doing the right thing and fulfilling their duties towards the staff who work for them.\"\n\nThe total number of deaths from all causes recorded in Scotland over the week to 17 May was 1,415 - 351 more than the average number of deaths recorded for the same week in the previous five years.\n\nCovid-19 was the underlying cause of death in 297 of these 351 so-called \"excess deaths\", while 17 were caused by dementia and Alzheimer's, 16 were due to cancer and 57 were from other causes.\n\nHowever, deaths from respiratory diseases were actually 11% lower than the average for this time of year.\n\nMore than three quarters (76%) of all coronavirus deaths in Scotland have been people aged 75 or over since the outbreak began.\n\nThe NRS figures are published weekly and include all fatalities registered in Scotland where Covid-19 was either confirmed as, or suspected of being, a contributing factor.\n\nThey differ from the figures given by Ms Sturgeon during her daily coronavirus briefings, which only cover confirmed cases. The number of deaths by this measure currently stands at 2,184.\n\nThe first minister said on Wednesday that 14,751 people have now tested positive for the virus in Scotland, a rise of 96 from the day before.\n\nThere are 1,443 patients in hospital with confirmed or suspected Covid-19, a decrease of four from Tuesday, and 53 people are in intensive care - six fewer than the previous day.\n\nSeparately, Public Health Scotland has published preliminary analysis which Ms Sturgeon said suggested there has not been a higher level of coronavirus cases among the country's black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities than would be expected, given the size of the population.\n\nBut she stressed that the data was \"very limited\" and further analysis was being carried out - particularly because of findings in England and Wales which suggested that people from BAME backgrounds were more likely to die with the virus.", "Court orders restricting the movements of suspected terrorists could be renewed indefinitely under new legislation unveiled by the government.\n\nThe bill would lower the standard of proof to impose the orders, known as TPims, and remove the current two-year limit that applies to them.\n\nSuspects would also have to register all electronic devices at their home address.\n\nBut ministers have been challenged to justify the need for the changes.\n\nThe amendments are being proposed under the Counter Terrorism and Sentencing Bill, which aims to ensure the most serious offenders spend longer in prison.\n\nMinisters had promised tougher action following two terror attacks in London, at Fishmongers' Hall and in Streatham that took place within the last year.\n\nThe introduction of the legislation, initially due in March, has been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nTPims (Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures) can restrict terror suspects' ability to travel overseas, or make them live under an enforced curfew or electronic tagging. Only five are currently in effect.\n\nIntroduced in 2011, they allow security services to monitor people they believe to be involved in terrorism but cannot be prosecuted or deported.\n\nUnder the new bill, the home secretary would only need \"reasonable grounds\" someone is involved in terrorist activity to impose one, rather than on the balance of probabilities as at the moment.\n\nSuspects would have to register all electronic devices at their house, not just their own, and could be subject to lie detection and drug tests.\n\nTPims could also be renewed beyond the current two-year limit without requiring new evidence, subject to review.\n\nThe announcement that TPims are to be strengthened is the surprise element in a package of sentencing changes that has been heavily trailed.\n\nTPims were introduced when the Conservatives were in Coalition with the Liberal Democrats as a lighter-touch form of control orders, which had themselves replaced an even more restrictive measure, detention without trial of foreign terror suspects.\n\nUnlike their predecessors, TPims have been used sparingly and with little controversy.\n\nBut two attacks in London, at Fishmongers Hall and Streatham, carried out by men who were being monitored after serving terror offences, has clearly focused minds in Whitehall on what further steps are needed.\n\nBolstering TPims, so that they resemble control orders, is a simple change that a Conservative government with a hefty majority will have no trouble pushing through.\n\nBut it's unclear whether it will make a significant difference.\n\nAs well as the changes to TPims, the legislation would ensure people convicted of serious offences, such as preparing acts of terrorism or directing a terrorist organisation, spend a minimum of 14 years in prison.\n\nThere is currently no minimum term for such offences.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said terror attacks last year had revealed \"serious flaws\" in the way the government handles terror offenders.\n\n\"We promised to act and today we are delivering on that promise,\" she said.\n\n\"Those who senselessly seek to damage and destroy lives need to know we will do whatever it takes to stop them.\"\n\nJonathan Hall QC, the independent reviewer of terror laws, said the latest changes would \"roll back the years\" to the more restrictive control order regime, introduced under Labour in 2005.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"They would leave individuals with less protection than they currently have - and the first question is, what is the operational case for making these changes? What is wrong with the current regime?\"\n\n\"Given the nature of these changes, there is a persuasive burden to explain why safeguards which have been built up over the years should now be lost.\"\n\nShadow justice secretary David Lammy said Labour would \"look in detail\" at the proposed changes in the bill, adding that sentencing laws need updating.\n\nHe said the party would \"work constructively\" with ministers on \"measures that reduce the chances of those who commit terrorist offences from re-offending\".", "A law student who was shot dead in Blackburn, Lancashire, was a \"wonderful young lady who had so much to offer,\" her former head teacher said.\n\nAya Hachem was found with a wound to the chest in King Street, close to Lidl, on Sunday afternoon.\n\nDiane Atkinson, executive head teacher at Blackburn Central High School, described the 19-year-old as a \"very intelligent young lady\" who had \"great aspirations to help other people\".\n\nShe said Ms Hachem had \"worked incredibly hard to become the very, very best person she could be\".", "Maughan was paralysed in a car accident in Malawi in 1959 but took up archery as part of her rehabilitation at Stoke Mandeville hospital and was selected for the 1960 Paralympics in Rome.\n\nShe won two gold medals - in archery and swimming - and went on to compete in four further Games.\n\nIn 2012, she lit the flame at the London Paralympics opening ceremony.\n\nIn a BBC interview that year, she recalled the bizarre nature of how she found out she had created history in Rome.\n• None No Triumph, No Tragedy - BBC's Peter White speaks to Margaret Maughan\n\n\"All of the competitors had shot their six arrows but nobody was told what their scores were,\" she said.\n\n\"I just went off and joined my other friends and went to support everyone else.\n\n\"The day went on and we were put on the coaches to go home and somebody said 'Where's Margaret Maughan? She's needed for a medal ceremony.'\n\n\"So they had to find my wheelchair amongst all the others, lift me out, and off we went to a very nice little podium with ramps to get up to the first, second and third places and to my amazement I was in the gold medal position.\"\n\nShe added: \"I feel very proud to be at the start of all this. From just a team of 70 British people in wheelchairs at the first Games, now there are hundreds from all disabilities.\"", "British Airways had grounded a lot of its fleet at Cardiff Airport because of the drop in passenger demand\n\nHundreds of British Airways jobs in south Wales are under threat because of a collapse in passenger numbers due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBA had said 1,000 jobs were at risk at its three Welsh sites, but Economy Minister Ken Skates has since clarified 399 redundancies are being considered.\n\nMr Skates said he had told BA the number of jobs at risk \"needs to be reduced\".\n\nThe airline has started a 45-day consultation with workers.\n\nBA's parent company had warned it was to cut 12,000 jobs from its 42,000-strong workforce due to the crisis.\n\nBA say they are proposed changes, including at its main £70m maintenance base at Cardiff Airport, and subject to consultation with unions.\n\nWhile BA does not fly from Wales, it employs about 900 maintenance and engineering staff at three sites in south Wales.\n\nThey maintain their long-haul fleet at Cardiff Airport, have an interiors factory in Blackwood, Caerphilly county and an Avionics Services site in Llantrisant in Rhonnda Cynon Taff.\n\nThe Prince of Wales and BA chief executive Alex Cruz had a tour of BA's centre in Rhoose earlier this year\n\nA worker at the Blackwood site, who did not want to be named, told the BBC: \"It's gutting. It's been here 20 years and just like that, it's gone.\n\n\"These are decent jobs round here and I just don't know what the guys in there will do now. It's a very sombre mood. It really is.\"\n\nMr Skates said there would be a statutory consultation taking place between the airline, workers and unions.\n\n\"My hope is that during this period we will be able to have access to the employees within those facilities so we can offer every bit of support that is available from Welsh Government,\" he said.\n\nBA maintain things like seats, toilets and luggage compartments at its site in Blackwood\n\nThe airline's parent company IAG had previously said it needed to impose a \"restructuring and redundancy programme\" until demand for air travel returns to 2019 levels.\n\nIAG - one of the world's biggest airline companies, which also owns Spanish airline Iberia and Ireland's Aer Lingus - said it will take several years for air travel to return to pre-virus levels, a warning that has been echoed by airlines across the world.\n\nJohn Whalley, head of the Aerospace Wales Forum, told BBC Radio Wales: \"The real concern is that British Airways is now part of a much larger group IAG - with decisions taken in London and Madrid.\n\nBA opened its huge maintenance hanger at Rhoose in 1993 to do upkeep on its long-haul fleet\n\n\"It remains to be seen whether there are rationalisation plans for the whole of the group which might involve closing one or more sites in south Wales, we just don't know at this stage.\"\n\nIt has been warned the job losses would have a \"devastating impact\" on families and the south Wales economy.\n\nBA maintains electrical, electronic and mechanical components at its site in Llantrisant\n\n\"Many of those at risk of redundancy are currently furloughed under the government's Job Retention Scheme; a scheme clearly designed to retain jobs,\" said Richard Munn, of union Unite Wales.\n\n\"It also means that meaningful consultation is impossible. Unite therefore regard the consultation as unlawful and are demanding that BA rescind the notices of redundancy and enter in to meaningful talks with Unite.\"\n\nIt was \"devastating\" news for the workers at the three sites, said Andrew RT Davies, the Welsh Conservative Member of the Senedd for South Wales Central.\n\nHe called for \"brave leadership at Westminster and Cardiff Bay\".\n\n\"These are high-skilled jobs which will not be easily replaced in our area,\" he added.\n\nIt is the latest blow for the aerospace industry as engine maker Rolls-Royce also announced on Wednesday it will cut 9,000 jobs, warning it will take \"several years\" for the airline industry to recover from the drop in air travel because of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nExperts had warned 8,000 aerospace jobs in Wales could go because of the fall in airline passenger numbers and that the sector \"may never recover\".\n\nPlaid Cymru offered its sympathies to workers whose jobs were at risk and said it illustrated \"the benefit of establishing an emergency universal basic income\".\n\nHelen Mary Jones MS, the party's economy spokeswoman, said: \"There needs to be a safety net in place as a matter of urgency for these workers, others like them and for those who are slipping through the cracks when it comes to support.\"\n\nChart from last month showing the decline in flights tracked from the UK's biggest airports\n\nJobs are also at risk at General Electric's 1,400-worker site at Nantgarw, near Caerphilly, and at Airbus' factory in Broughton on Deeside.\n\nIt is because nine out of 10 flights have been grounded since the UK went into lockdown - plus travel restrictions can prevent some air travel.\n\nThis is confirmation of terrible news for BA workers across south Wales.\n\nJob losses are expected across the aerospace and defence industry which employs 23,000 people in Wales.\n\nThe industry has already been badly hit by coronavirus and it's almost certain that it will take years to fully recover.\n\nBA's maintenance facility at Rhoose services the company's long-haul fleet of planes.\n\nBA's maintenance facility at Cardiff looks after its new Dreamliner long-haul fleet\n\nThese flights are the ones that passengers are expected to take longer to return to so demand for these planes may be reduced for years.\n\nThe facility is also a user of the Welsh Government-owned Cardiff Airport where the BA planes arrive for service. BA had said it would cut 12,000 in total from its operations.\n\nThere have also been warnings of global job losses at Airbus and GE Aviation. Both companies are major employers in Wales.", "The Scottish government says a report that criticises its response to the Covid-19 crisis in care homes \"paints a wholly misleading picture\".\n\nEarlier, the former head of services for older people in Glasgow told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime the impact of the pandemic on the sector was the single greatest failure of devolved government since its creation.\n\nBut a government spokeswoman says \"firm action\" was taken from the outset to protect care home staff and residents and that initial guidance for care homes, setting out the clinical and practical steps to be taken, was updated on 26 March and 15 May.\n\n\"Each iteration is a reflection of our growing understanding of the virus and of the situation on the ground,\" she says.\n\nThe spokeswoman also highlights First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's announcement of \"enhanced outbreak investigations\" in care homes on 1 May.\n\n\"We have taken a number of other steps, such as direct delivery of personal protective equipment (PPE), a stepped increase in testing, with the introduction from next week of testing for all care home staff, and emergency legislation to ensure continuity of care in the event of a care home failing,\" it concludes.", "Customers \"may never shop the same way again\" after the coronavirus crisis, Marks and Spencer's boss has said.\n\n\"Whilst some customer habits will return to normal, others have changed forever,\" Steve Rowe said.\n\nThe pandemic has driven several changes, including a shift to online, customers cooking more from scratch and buying more casual clothing.\n\nT-shirt bras and bathroom products online sales have risen, while it is barely selling any suits or ties.\n\nThe retailer has also found that as shoppers are visiting the shops less, they are planning what to eat further in advance, and also buying more herbs and whole vegetables.\n\nIt said that customers are buying bigger product packs, such as of strawberries or chicken. Sales of frozen items are also up by 75% on the year in the UK.\n\nM&S added that online shoppers were now browsing earlier in the day, between 15:00 and 17:00.\n\nAs more customers work from home, desktop visits were also up 38% in comparison with the same period last year.\n\nBut M&S is one of the few big food retailers without its own internet-based delivery service.\n\nThis has hampered the chain as customers have needed to purchase items online during lockdown if they are self-isolating, for example.\n\nHowever, the retailer's partnership with Ocado starts in September this year, replacing the online grocer's existing deal with Waitrose.\n\nIn a new announcement, M&S said the delivery service would also include over a thousand non-food items meaning customers will soon be able to buy cushions or underwear alongside their eggs or bread.\n\nMr Rowe said that Ocado's strong performance during lockdown \"further reinforced\" the value of the deal for delivering groceries.\n\nThe impact of the virus lockdown has driven \"effects and aftershocks\" in the retail sector that would \"endure for the coming year and beyond,\" Mr Rowe added.\n\nNeil Wilson, chief market analyst at Markets.com, said: \"Covid-19 has accelerated lots of consumer trends and it may just be the catalyst required to accelerate Marks and Spencer's transformation into a 21st century retailer.\n\n\"In particular it looks as though M&S has learnt just how important online is - so it's making its Ocado venture more central to the business.\"\n\nM&S was already undergoing a transformation plan led by its chief executive Steve Rowe which included cutting costs and closing some stores.\n\nThe firm said that due to the pandemic, those measures would be sped up under a programme called \"Never The Same Again\".\n\nThose include buying clothing from fewer core suppliers, reducing the clothing and home ranges, as well as \"the replacement of ageing stores\".\n\n\"The trauma of the Covid-19 crisis has galvanised our colleagues to secure the future of the business,\" said Mr Rowe.\n\nThe company has been facing increasing competition from fashion giants such as Primark on the High Street and Asos on the internet in recent years.\n\nIn the year to March, M&S said its clothing sales fell by 6.2%, whereas its food sales were up 1.9%.\n\nTo add to its problems, M&S's non-food stores have been forced to shut under the lockdown measures.\n\nAs a result, it faces a \"mounting backlog of unsold stock\" in its warehouses, it said.\n\nClothing and homeware sales fell by 75% in the six weeks to 9 May. Food sales also fell, by 8.8%, although M&S said many of its Simply Food stores were trading strongly.\n\nThe firm said that lockdown measures, social distancing and lower consumer demand were \"likely to continue through the year\", adding that the coronavirus pandemic means that its performance over the next year is difficult to predict.\n\nIt is working on a scenario that assumes a sales hit of £2.1bn over the next year across clothing, home, food and international sales.\n\nSophie Lund-Yates, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: \"Overall, M&S was facing challenges before coronavirus and these have simply been exacerbated.\n\n\"Within the difficulties there are real opportunities too, and the group appears to have a lot of the right ideas, but the next chapter really needs to be about execution.\"\n\nIts comments came as M&S said its profits for the year to March had dropped by more than 20% to £403m, from £511m in the previous year, as its troubled clothing business continued to struggle.", "The government is considering introducing an extra bank holiday, possibly in October around the time of half-term.\n\nThe idea was put forward by the UK's tourism agency Visit Britain.\n\nIts acting head, Patricia Yates, told MPs on Tuesday the industry had lost the benefit of two bank holidays in May because of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe government did, however, warn that having an extra break could have an economic downside.\n\nDowning Street said the government was supporting the tourism industry through this \"challenging period\" and would \"respond in due course\" to the proposal by Visit Britain.\n\nA spokesman said it was \"worth acknowledging that extra bank holidays do come with economic costs\".\n\nMs Yates said an extra day in October would enable the UK tourism sector to extend the season. She said the industry could not keep up with developments and it was very difficult to estimate the amount that would be lost because of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nShe told the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee: \"Every time we do the modelling the figures get worse. So for inbound, I mean we were looking at the beginning of this year at about £26.6bn coming from inbound tourism, we reckon a £15bn drop on that.\"\n\nShe said ordinarily, the domestic tourists contributed some £80bn a year, but she was expecting that to be down by £22bn.\n\nMs Yates was one of a number of representatives from Britain's tourism industry appearing before the committee.\n\nShe told the committee: \"To get British tourism up and running this summer is hugely important as we need that domestic audience.\"\n\nCurrently, overnight stays are not allowed in the UK. Hotels will not be opened until July at the earliest under the Government's lockdown plans.\n\nMs Yates said a survey showed confidence was very low, and 74% of those who have a holiday booked between July and September did not think that holiday would take place.\n\nUK Hospitality the trade group that represents leisure businesses from bars to hotels, approve of the move, but struck a note of caution. Its chief executive, Kate Nicholls, said: \"A bank holiday in October may provide a welcome boost for hospitality businesses, not least at a time when consumer confidence will hopefully be returning to healthy levels.\n\n\"However, we are still some way from knowing what the sector will look like. A lot depends on whether businesses are able to open safely and whether the Government continues to support businesses who need it.\"\n\nLess than a fifth of people in the UK were thinking of booking a holiday for the summer, compared with 43% in Italy.\n\nIdeas for the eventual reopening of overseas tourism are also being mooted.\n\nAt present, popular European destinations including France, Spain and Portugal all impose a 14-day quarantine for visitors, the length of a typical holiday break.\n\nThe UK is also planning a two-week quarantine period for those entering the country.\n\nOn Monday, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, said the government was looking at so-called \"airbridges\" with countries that have low infection rates, which would mean easier entry for certain countries.\n\nGreece, which has low coronavirus numbers, has been pressing for easier entry for Greeks, and offered reciprocal arrangements for UK residents.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The University of Westminster's Dr Adele McCormick demonstrates how to wash your hands well in 20 seconds\n\nWashing your hands at least six to 10 times a day makes catching infections such as coronavirus much less likely, a study by UK researchers suggests.\n\nIt looked at data, from 2006-09, on viruses structurally very similar to the deadly pandemic strain circulating now.\n\nCoronaviruses are a family of virus that most usually cause mild illness such as the common cold.\n\nAnd all of them, including the pandemic one, can be killed by soap and water.\n\nEach winter the Medical Research Council asks people in England whether they have flu-like respiratory symptoms and tests those who do for common cold coronavirus infections.\n\nAnd the study, published in Wellcome Open Research and awaiting peer review, found the 1,663 participants were much less likely to be infected if they washed their hands at least six times a day.\n\nHand-washing more than 10 times a day did not appear to cut the risk of infection further, however.\n\nStudy author Dr Sarah Beale, from University College London, said: \"Good hand hygiene should be practised at all times regardless of whether you show symptoms or not.\n\n\"This will help protect yourself and prevent unwittingly spreading the virus to others around you.\"\n\nA Public Health England official said: \"Regular hand-washing for at least 20 seconds is one of the best ways of stopping the spread of coronavirus, particularly after you blow your nose, sneeze or cough, as well as before eating or cooking.\n\n\"Also, it's a good idea to get into the habit after you've been out in public places or on transport.\"\n• None How to wash your hands - in 20 seconds. Video, 00:00:23How to wash your hands - in 20 seconds", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows firefighters attempting to hose down the flames\n\nA huge fire has broken out at a plastics recycling plant.\n\nThe blaze, on the Sankey Valley industrial estate in Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, started just after 11:00 BST.\n\nAerial footage shows fire crews attempting to hose down the flames, which can be seen coming from the roof of the building.\n\nMerseyside Fire and Rescue Service said crews were working in \"really challenging\" weather conditions.\n\nHuge plumes of smoke could be seen rising from the scene\n\nA major incident was declared as 20 fire engines were despatched to the blaze which involves a large quantity of plastic crates and a brick building.\n\nA local caravan site was evacuated but there are no reports of any injuries.\n\nSmoke could be seen across Merseyside as far Wirral and Liverpool\n\nLocal resident Marc Fisher, 23, who lives in the flats opposite, said he was alerted by neighbours to the blaze.\n\nHe said: \"The smell was really bad and all I could see was black bellows of smoke.\n\n\"I could see the flames shooting up over the trees and burning the leaves.\n\nLocal residents reported a \"really bad smell\" when the blaze started just after 11:00 BST\n\n\"There was also loads of smoke next to the bridge on the railway line as well, blowing towards Earlestown.\n\n\"I went out to film it and the police told us to keep back.\"\n\nThe fire, which is next to railway lines, is affecting rail services between Newton-le-Willows and Huyton and Earlestown and Warrington Bank Quay.\n\nA number of road closures are also in place.\n\nTwenty fire engines are at the scene of the blaze at a plastics recycling plant\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. \"People say it's my fault coronavirus spreading\"\n\nYoung carers are being shouted at and turned away from special shopping hours due to \"not being believed\", a charity fears.\n\nCarers Trust Wales said some had been shouted at by shoppers and stopped from going into shops during the pandemic.\n\nFayeth, from Rhyl, cares for her mother who has epilepsy and three younger sisters.\n\nBut the 13-year-old said she felt like she got \"death stares\" every time she left the house.\n\nAs many as one in five young people are caring for a family member with disabilities or mental health problems in Wales, according to the charity.\n\nAs carers they are eligible to shop during special hours set aside at supermarkets and shops for the elderly and vulnerable and for carers.\n\nBut only some local authorities issue ID cards, which explain the young carers' role, and there are concerns that a large number of shops do not accept them.\n\nDirector of the charity, Simon Hatch, said the young carers were worried enough about bringing the virus back home to their family members from the shops, without being turned away at the door.\n\nHe said staff were probably stopping them due to \"not understanding\" their role in being a key carer and supermarkets and shops needed training.\n\n\"We've also had reports of people being shouted at in the streets, when they've been trying to get into local shops,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm sure that these are relatively rare occurrences, but it really highlights the massive challenges on top of what is already a very worrying and stressful time for them anyway.\"\n\nYoung carer Fayeth said she felt like she had death stares while going shopping for her family\n\nFor Fayeth the lockdown has been a worrying time, with her mother Laura having more seizures since the restrictions were introduced.\n\nBut while she is trying to care for her family, she said whenever she left the house to get shopping she felt like people were staring at her.\n\n\"Some people have made comments when I'm out shopping saying that young children shouldn't be out of the house during this time,\" she said.\n\n\"There are some shops which won't let young people in and only allowing adults, so it can make it much harder to get any shopping.\n\n\"Some people even say you shouldn't be out and the coronavirus is spreading and it's my fault because I'm outside and things like that.\n\n\"But I just say I'm a young carer and I'm allowed to be out, then I walk away\".\n\nRonnie Lawson's mother Louise said he could not be \"queuing for three hours\" trying to get shopping for his dad\n\nTeenager Ronnie Lawson has cared for his father who has multiple sclerosis since he was nine and also helps his mother who has problems with her spine and hips.\n\nHe said he was left \"embarrassed\" when he was turned away while trying to buy food for his disabled parents in Abergavenny.\n\nRonnie said he did not have anything to prove he was a carer, and thought staff \"didn't really believe\" him as he \"is a teenager\".\n\nRonnie said he was embarrassed because of how many elderly people were in the queue for the shops\n\nHe said he had got \"looks off people wondering why I'm out\", but now had a slip from Monmouthshire council and was finding it easier to get in during special hours.\n\nRonnie said he was worried about the impact on younger children who were sole carers for parents, and people needed to be more understanding, as they were already scared of going to the shops.\n\n\"It's not their fault, but there's no point for a kid to lie about being a carer, so I think they should be more considerate,\" he said.\n\nRhian Watts said even with ID and proof young carers were still not being let into shops\n\nBridgend Carers Centre has started giving slips to its 1,400 recognised young carers to prove they are shopping for a family member.\n\n\"A lot of young carers are getting refused in retail shops, usually because of their age and some supermarkets are saying if they're under the age of 16 they are not allowed in,\" said manager Rhian Watts.\n\n\"But even with the letters we've been providing some are still not allowing them in.\"\n\nMs Watts said it should not really matter who is doing the shopping for a family, and have more understanding of the risks young carers were taking.\n\n\"They are the person that needs to enter the supermarket to do the shopping and denying access will have a major impact on them and their families so it's just about having a bit of understanding,\" she said.", "Future increases in rainfall in England could significantly impact emergency responses, according to a new study.\n\nResearchers say that flood conditions could see just 9% of some rural populations reached by an ambulance within the 7-15 minute mandatory timeframe.\n\nOlder people living in rural areas would be worst affected, the authors say.\n\nThey say there should be a rethink on ambulance locations in flooding events.\n\nFlooding is one of the most devastating impacts of climate change. According to studies, it is likely to increase in the future.\n\nThe Met Office has indicated that an extended period of extreme rainfall in winter, similar to what was seen in parts of England between 2013 and 2014 is now about seven times more likely because of human-induced climate change.\n\nTo find out how this changing rainfall might impact on ambulance and fire and rescue services, researchers projected the impacts of floods that might occur once in 30 years, once in 100 years and once in 1,000 years.\n\nIn England, emergency responders must reach urgent cases within mandatory timeframes, regardless of the weather conditions.\n\nIn normal conditions, around 84% of England's population can be reached by ambulance in around seven minutes.\n\nThe researchers found that when a once in 30-year flood event struck, this dropped to 67%.\n\nWith a once in a 100-year flood, just over half the population would be reachable in seven minutes, while in a once in a 1,000-year flood, only 27% of the total population would see an ambulance inside that time limit.\n\nDifferent locations had different outcomes according to the study. East Riding and Berkshire would see their coverage reduce to 9% and 12% respectively.\n\n\"Even the small magnitude floods affect the emergency response,\" said lead author Prof Dapeng Yu from Loughborough University.\n\n\"Ambulance services have been centralised in recent decades, so in villages or small towns there's no ambulance service, therefore when an incident happens in rural areas, it takes a lot longer for them to reach.\"\n\nAs well as rural areas, large urban centres including London, Birmingham, Liverpool and Newcastle, would also see a reduction in response time under a 30-year flood.\n\nCare homes, sheltered accommodation, nurseries and schools would be among the most vulnerable locations with older people in rural areas likely worst-hit, according to the study.\n\nThe authors say that the day of the Brexit referendum on 23 June in 2016 is a good example of what can happen to the emergency services during surface flooding events.\n\nReferendum day was memorable for large-scale surface flooding in many parts of London after torrential rain.\n\nFire brigade crews had to rescue Barking residents by boat\n\nAround 450 flooding incidents were attended by the London Fire and Rescue Service, which was three times the number from the previous day.\n\nThe London fire service target timeframe for reaching incidents is six minutes and on June 23, 59% of journeys were outside that target.\n\n\"You don't know when it's going to hit and you don't know how hard it is going to hit,\" said Prof Dapeng Yu.\n\n\"But when it happens, like in London during the referendum day, it is really striking.\"\n\n\"It really shows the impacts, you will receive three times more calls than normal and your ability to reach them in six minutes is massively compromised.\"\n\nThe authors say that their study shows that the emergency services are particularly sensitive to the expected impacts of future increases in rainfall.\n\nThe impacts would be greater with surface flooding events rather than with river or coastal flooding.\n\nPreventing unnecessary delays in the future will require planners to identify hotspots of vulnerability and to re-think the distribution of ambulances and fire stations.\n\n\"With climate change, flooding will likely become more frequent and more intense,\"said Prof Dapeng Yu.\n\n\"So certainly, when the authorities consider the strategic plan for new ambulance stations or fire stations, they need to consider this factor.\"\n\nThe study has been published in the journal Nature Sustainability.", "The BBC is considering the case for bringing back BBC Three as a regular TV channel, four years after it was taken off air and moved online.\n\nThe youth channel, which commissioned hits like Normal People and Fleabag, will also have its budget doubled.\n\nIt left linear TV in 2016 to save £30m, and because the corporation said young people were watching more shows online.\n\nThe BBC now says it is \"considering the case\" for returning the channel to \"linear television\".\n\nA BBC spokesman said \"we'd be wrong not to back a service that is doing better than anyone could have ever conceived\".\n\nThe turnaround will be formally announced as part of the BBC's annual plan on Wednesday, but there was no news about the fate of BBC Four, which has been rumoured for the axe.\n\nThe corporation warned that putting BBC Three back on TV will mean reductions in other areas, especially as the BBC's income has been reduced by £125 million during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nBut it says those decisions won't be made until the autumn when there is a clearer picture of the BBC's finances.\n\nHowever, the BBC did say it had no plans to close BBC Four at the moment.\n\nBBC Three launched in 2003 and made its name with hits like Little Britain and Gavin & Stacey.\n\nIn recent years, it has also been behind comedy and drama successes like This Country, People Just Do Nothing, My Left Nut and the Bafta-winning Killed By My Debt.\n\nIt has also made the reality shows RuPaul's Drag Race UK and Glow Up; as well as hard-hitting documentaries like Stacey Dooley's investigations and Jesy Nelson's Odd One Out.\n\nThe second series of Glow Up, fronted by Stacey Dooley, has just been launched\n\nNormal People, an adaptation of the Sally Rooney novel, recently propelled BBC Three to its biggest ever week on iPlayer, with 21.8 million requests for the channel's programmes.\n\nIts shows have been aired on regular TV as well as online, including in a dedicated zone on BBC One after the News At Ten since last spring.\n\nWhen it moved online in February 2016, the BBC Trust said \"independent evidence shows younger audiences are watching more online and watching less linear TV\".\n\nBut BBC Three reached 8% of British 16-34-year-olds per week in 2018/19, down from 22% in 2015/16.\n\nThe BBC now says its research shows there is a potential large linear audience for the channel's programmes, which it says are reaching both young people and the wider audience in \"big numbers\".\n\nThe news comes two months after director general Tony Hall told MPs the board was looking to \"divert more resources into BBC Three to build the kind of creative content they're delivering\".\n\nBut with the corporation needing to make savings, there has been speculation that BBC Four may be among the casualties.\n\nA petition calling for the channel to be saved has attracted more than 58,000 signatures.\n\nIn its plan, the BBC said it was \"exploring potential commercial opportunities\" outside the UK for BBC Four to become a global subscription service.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRyanair has said it expects passenger numbers to halve in the current financial year as the coronavirus crisis continues to blight air travel.\n\nThe airline said it expected numbers to fall below 80 million, down from its original target of 154 million.\n\nBut it said it would weather the pandemic and emerge stronger.\n\nChief executive Michael O'Leary said Ryanair still planned to ramp up flights in July and said UK government quarantine plans were \"idiotic\".\n\nThe prediction of lower passenger numbers came as Ryanair announced profits of just over €1bn (£894m) for the financial year to the end of March.\n\nThe airline's profit was 13% up on the previous year's figure of €885m.\n\nRyanair is set to cut 3,000 jobs - 15% of its workforce - as it restructures to cope with the coronavirus crisis.\n\nChief executive Michael O'Leary told the BBC's Today programme that Ryanair still intended to restart large numbers of flights from July, despite government plans to introduce a 14-day quarantine for people arriving in the UK, including returning holidaymakers.\n\nMr O'Leary repeated his criticism of the quarantine plan, saying: \"It's idiotic and it's un-implementable. You don't have enough police in the UK.\"\n\nHe said the policy had \"no credibility\" and predicted that it would be gone by June.\n\nRyanair said 2021 would be a \"difficult\" year as it worked hard to return to scheduled flying.\n\nBut it said its balance sheet was one of the strongest in the industry, with cash reserves of more than €4bn.\n\n\"Unlike many flag carrier competitors, Ryanair will not request or receive state aid,\" it added.\n\nRyanair said it could not provide any profit guidance for the current financial year, but it expected to report a loss of more than €200m in the April-to-June period.\n\n\"As we look beyond the next year, there will be significant opportunities for Ryanair's low-cost growth model as competitors shrink, fail or are acquired by government bailed-out carriers,\" it said.", "\"I asked to be left alone, I asked him to get on with his life and let me live mine. I told him I was scared, my children were scared, but nothing helped.\"\n\nFor nearly 12 months, Michael Cook, 31, stalked his ex-partner after she ended their relationship.\n\nEvery day he would contact her - threatening to kill himself or asking for forgiveness - despite him being asked to leave her alone.\n\n\"In total I received over 4,000 emails, over 300 phone calls and hundreds of messages.\n\n\"Just because the messages were not direct threats or harmful, doesn't mean it cannot have the same emotional impact.\n\n\"I have had to change my whole life to ensure that my children and I were kept safe throughout this. I still have to maintain this, and my life will never be the same again.\"\n\nOn Monday, Cook, from Litherland in Liverpool, was sentenced to 12 weeks in jail suspended for a year after pleading guilty to stalking at Liverpool Crown Court.\n\nHe was also handed a five-year restraining order stopping him from contacting his ex-partner.\n\nHis victim has released a statement through the police describing the ordeal he put her through.\n\n\"I had constant threats of suicide, allegations made against me of a serious nature, I was hounded and persecuted at every point, on a daily basis, many times a day.\n\n\"Whether this be via social media, telephone, email, or any platform where I was reachable - including PayPal.\n\n\"This didn't stop there, this also included my family members, my children, their partners and my friends and work colleagues.\"\n\nFeeling scared and vulnerable, the victim contacted Merseyside Police who launched an investigation. Despite their involvement, Cook continued to stalk her.\n\n\"His behaviours were always seen as acceptable to him as 'he loved me' seemingly excusing his behaviours and rationalising why he was constantly contacting me.\n\n\"This behaviour is not appropriate and love does not cause you so much emotional harm and distress that your mental health is affected.\"\n\nThe victim says she now knows her ex-partner had shown similar behaviours before and wants to encourage women to obtain Clare's Law disclosure on their partner.\n\nThis scheme - named after Clare Wood who was murdered in 2009 - allows people to apply to the police to find out if their partner has a history of domestic violence behaviour.\n\nClare Wood was killed by George Appleton, who had a history of violence against women\n\n\"I am only making this statement in the hope that any woman or man who has had or is currently experiencing similar behaviours from an ex-partner, recognises that this is wrong.\n\n\"As a victim I know how easy it is to blame yourself, but please don't, reach out and get support. Don't put up with it.\"\n\nStalking charity Protection Against Stalking says cases like these are not unusual.\n\nIt says it has also seen the number of cases it deals with double since the coronavirus lockdown came into force.\n\n\"Lockdown does not mean lockdown to a stalker who is obsessed,\" says strategic advisor Jan Berry.\n\n\"In the last couple of weeks we have successfully supported clients to obtain 11 protective orders through the court.\n\n\"It is important that people recognise stalking behaviours and seek advice and support to stay safe.\"\n\nDetective Chief Insp Siobhan Gainer, from Merseyside Police, said the case against Cook clearly demonstrates how stalking causes alarm and distress to victims.\n\n\"We understand that in the current lockdown victims of stalking may feel more vulnerable due to their own movements being restricted and potentially stalking behaviour continuing.\n\n\"We want to reassure them that we will continue to support them during this difficult time.\"\n\nAnyone who thinks they are being stalked is urged to contact the police or call the National Stalking Helpline on 0808 802 0300.", "There will be no face-to-face lectures at the University of Cambridge over the course of the next academic year due to coronavirus, it has been announced.\n\nHowever, lectures will be available to students online and \"it may be possible to host smaller teaching groups in person\" if they meet social distancing requirements, the university said.\n\nUniversity campuses have been closed this term by the Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nCambridge will review the decision if advice on social distancing changes.\n\nA statement from it read: \"The university is constantly adapting to changing advice as it emerges during this pandemic.\n\n\"Given that it is likely that social distancing will continue to be required, the university has decided there will be no face-to-face lectures during the next academic year.\n\n\"Lectures will continue to be made available online and it may be possible to host smaller teaching groups in person, as long as this conforms to social distancing requirements.\n\n\"This decision has been taken now to facilitate planning, but as ever, will be reviewed should there be changes to official advice on coronavirus.\"\n\nAll teaching at the university was moved online in March, while exams are being carried out virtually.\n\nIt follows a similar move by the University of Manchester, which said its lectures would be online-only for the next term.\n\nEarlier this week, the university watchdog said students applying for university places in England must be told with \"absolute clarity\" how courses will be taught - before they make choices for the autumn.\n\nUniversities can charge full fees even if courses are taught online.\n\nBut Nicola Dandridge of the Office for Students warned against misleading promises about a \"campus experience\" if courses are to be taught online.\n\nAre you planning to defer starting university? Share your thoughts by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.\n• None Students 'must be warned if courses taught online'", "The work was set for pupils in Years 7,8 and 9\n\nA head teacher says he is \"sorry\" if homework asking pupils to define types of hardcore pornography led them to undertake inappropriate web searches.\n\nThe work was given to children, aged 11 to 14, at Archbishop Sentamu Academy in Hull, the Hull Daily Mail reported.\n\nPrincipal Chay Bell stressed the assignment did not require internet research as the answers were in the material the pupils were sent.\n\nLeon Dagon was \"flabbergasted\" when he saw his 13-year-old sister's homework.\n\nThe work is part of pupils' Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) learning, the school said.\n\nThe students were asked to \"define\" topics including hardcore pornography, soft pornography as well as female genital mutilation and breast ironing.\n\nLeon Dagon said his 13-year-old sister was too young to be learning about such topics\n\nThey were also asked questions about alcohol, drugs and smoking, as part of the homework.\n\nMr Dagon, who took to Facebook to share his concerns, said: \"My little sister knows make-up and TikTok at the age of 13. She doesn't know about hardcore porn, and then asking her to define it.\n\n\"The majority of children nowadays will now go on the internet to help them with their homework and if you type that kind of thing on the internet, God knows what's going to pop up.\"\n\nThe academy's principal said he would ensure all future material was age-appropriate\n\nMr Bell said: \"I am genuinely sorry if parents or students have unnecessarily researched any of these phrases and for any offence caused by this mistake.\"\n\nHe said students \"were not directed to research these topics themselves on the internet because all the answers to the questions posed are contained in the teacher-produced materials we shared\".\n\nThe work was in line with government guidance, but he added: \"I have asked that no future PSHE materials contain any potentially sensitive content and will ensure all materials are fully age-appropriate.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Education said it was a matter for the school and had no further comment to make.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "British Airways is consulting with unions on proposals to cut more than 1,000 jobs in south Wales.\n\nThis is confirmation of terrible news for BA workers.\n\nJob losses are expected across the aerospace and defence industry which employs 23,000 people in Wales.\n\nThe industry has already been badly hit by coronavirus and it's almost certain that it will take years to fully recover.\n\nThe umbrella body, Aerospace Wales, told MPs last week that up to 8,000 jobs could go here.\n\nBA's maintenance facility at Rhoose in the Vale of Glamorgan services the company's long-haul fleet of planes.\n\nThese flights are the ones that passengers are expected to take longer to return to, so demand for these planes may be reduced for years.\n\nThe facility is also a user of the Welsh Government-owned Cardiff Airport where the BA planes arrive for service. BA had said it would cut 12,000 in total from its operations.\n\nThere have also been warnings of global job losses at Airbus and GE Aviation. Both companies are major employers in Wales.", "Up to 60m people will be pushed into \"extreme poverty\" by the coronavirus warns the president of the World Bank.\n\nDavid Malpass said the bank expects global economic growth to shrink by 5% this year as nations deal with the pandemic.\n\nThis has already led to millions losing their jobs and businesses failing, with poorer countries feeling the brunt.\n\n\"Millions of livelihoods have been destroyed and healthcare systems are under strain worldwide,\" he said.\n\n\"Our estimate is that up to 60 million people will be pushed into extreme poverty - that erases all the progress made in poverty alleviation in the past three years,\" Mr Malpass warned on Tuesday.\n\nThe World Bank defines \"extreme poverty\" as living on less than $1.90 (£1.55) per person per day.\n\nThe Washington-based lender is offering $160bn in grants and low-interest loans to help poor countries tackle the crisis. Mr Malpass said that 100 countries, home to 70% of the world's population, had already been granted emergency finance.\n\n\"While the World Bank is providing sizeable resources, it won't be enough,\" he added.Mr Malpass said he was also frustrated with commercial lenders dragging their heels on offering debt relief to poor nations. \"I have been somewhat frustrated by the slow pace. Commercial creditors are still, by and large, taking payments from even the poorest countries and there needs to be faster movement.\"\n\nThe World Bank worked with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on a scheme to allow poorer countries to request debt relief on repayments of loans owed to G20 members until the end of this year.\n\nAt the same time, Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JP Morgan bank, said that the coronavirus pandemic must serve as a \"wake-up call\" to build a fairer society.\n\n\"It is my fervent hope that we use this crisis as a catalyst to rebuild an economy that creates and sustains opportunity for dramatically more people, especially those who have been left behind for too long,\" he wrote ahead of the bank's annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday.", "Captain Tom initially set out to raise £1,000 for the NHS\n\nCaptain Tom Moore is to be knighted for his fundraising efforts after a special nomination from the prime minister.\n\nThe war veteran raised more than £32m for NHS charities by completing 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday in April.\n\nBoris Johnson said the centenarian had provided the country with \"a beacon of light through the fog of coronavirus\".\n\nAs an honorary colonel, his official title will be Captain Sir Thomas Moore under Ministry of Defence protocol.\n\nThe knighthood, which has been approved by the Queen, will be formally announced on Wednesday.\n\nCapt Tom, who was given the honorary title of colonel on his 100th birthday, had initially set out to raise £1,000 for NHS charities by walking laps of the 25m (82ft) loop in his garden in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire.\n\nBut he eventually raised £32,794,701 from more than one and a half million supporters.\n\nIn a statement, Boris Johnson said Capt Tom's \"fantastic fundraising broke records\" and \"inspired the whole country\".\n\n\"On behalf of everyone who has been moved by his incredible story, I want to say a huge thank you. He's a true national treasure,\" he said.\n\nLabour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer congratulated Capt Tom and said he had \"brought inspiration to millions and helped all of us to celebrate the extraordinary achievements of our NHS\".\n\n\"In his actions, Tom embodied the national solidarity which has grown throughout this crisis, and showed us that everyone can play their part in helping build a better future.\"\n\nCapt Tom served in India and Myanmar during World War Two\n\nCapt Tom, who was born in Keighley, West Yorkshire, captured the hearts of the nation and his birthday celebrations were extensive.\n\nThe occasion was marked with an RAF flypast as well as birthday greetings from the Queen and prime minister.\n\nHe was also made an honorary colonel and received an estimated 140,000 cards.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Captain Tom Moore said he was in disbelief but \"delighted\" when he learned he is to be knighted.\n\nThe war veteran raised more than £32m for NHS charities by walking 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday in April.\n\nCaptain Tom said he had been \"given an outstanding honour by the Queen and the prime minister\".\n\n\"I am certainly delighted and overawed by the fact this has happened to me,\" he said.\n\n\"I thought this can't be true - I've always said this won't happen and it appears it actually has.\n\n\"I certainly never anticipated that this letter would arrive for me.\"\n\nAs an honorary colonel, his official title will be Captain Sir Thomas Moore under Ministry of Defence protocol.", "Airlines around the world have had to park up their planes\n\nAviation is the most global of global industries. It employs millions of people, underpins the livelihoods of tens of millions more, and acts as part of the central nervous system of international business and leisure.\n\nYet now vast parts of the network have been shut down as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The number of daily flights has fallen by 80% since the start of the year, and in some regions nearly all passenger traffic has been suspended.\n\nThe industry is in survival mode, with airlines, airports and ground-handling firms all desperate to conserve their cash reserves, while their normal revenue streams have dried up.\n\nWidespread job losses are now expected, with British Airways' parent company IAG announcing on Tuesday that it is set to cut up to 12,000 positions from the airline's 42,000-strong workforce. IAG said it did not expect BA to see passenger demand return to 2019 levels for \"several years\".\n\nElsewhere, Easyjet has laid off its 4,000 UK-based cabin crew for two months, Qantas has put 20,000 staff on leave, and 700 pilots at American Airlines have agreed to take early retirement.\n\nEven so, attention is now gradually turning to the future, and how airlines around the world can hope to slowly return to something approaching normality.\n\nIt remains to be seen how and when currently empty airports can return to normal\n\nThere are obvious logistical challenges. Aircraft need to be prepared for flight, and airports made ready to receive them. Schedules need to be drawn up, and staff made available.\n\nBut there are also less predictable issues to contend with. No-one can be quite sure yet where aircraft will be allowed to fly to, or what conditions might be imposed on staff and passengers by national authorities.\n\nThere are currently around 17,000 aircraft parked up at airports around the world, according to consultants Ascend by Cirium. That represents about two-thirds of the global fleet.\n\nBA, for example, has aeroplanes stored at London Heathrow, at its maintenance base in Cardiff, on taxiways at regional airports such as Bournemouth, and at Chateauroux airport in France.\n\nEven while parked, these aircraft require regular maintenance. Some will have been kept ready for immediate use. Many airlines have been carrying out repatriation flights, for example, or ad-hoc cargo services. But others will take a week or longer to prepare for flight, according to people within the industry.\n\nIf all those aircraft were needed at once, getting them ready would be a formidable challenge. However, analysts say in practice this is unlikely to be the case - because most airlines will start off by operating relatively limited schedules, and many aircraft will not actually be needed for months to come.\n\nA further significant issue is the raft of human qualifications needed to allow the industry to function.\n\nPilots, for example, need time in the air, or in the simulator, to maintain their \"ratings\", or permits to fly specific aircraft. They also need regular medical checks. Other critical staff, such as air traffic control personnel and engineers, have time-limited qualifications as well.\n\nSome pilots may need to spend some time in a simulator before then can fly again\n\nAlthough many airlines and airports are trying to ensure they still have a core of staff available with up-to-date certificates - those who are involved in dealing with repatriation and cargo flights, for example - others have been unable to continue working.\n\nIn the UK, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has already taken steps to prevent a backlog of expired credentials from undermining attempts to get planes back in the air as quickly as possible.\n\n\"Due to the extraordinary current circumstances, an exemption has been put in place,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Where possible, we expect pilots to remain current through normal methods. If the exemption is being deployed, an airline must illustrate to us how this is being done safely.\"\n\nSimilar measures have been put in place for other key staff.\n\nAirports rely on passenger shopping for much of their income\n\nBut while there are clear logistical problems involved with getting thousands of aircraft back into service, and ensuring there are enough pilots and technicians to go around, these are not the main issues keeping aviation executives awake at night.\n\nThe real problem, executives say, is the number of different countries that have introduced travel restrictions, and the lack of certainty over when those restrictions will be removed.\n\n\"What we are trying to do is have a global restart plan,\" explains Alexandre de Juniac, director general of the International Air Transport Association. \"The main challenge is how and when the different states will lift restrictions to travel.\"\n\nHe believes curbs on travel will clearly last beyond the middle of the year, and some may remain at least partially in force until the end of 2020.\n\nHe thinks domestic routes within individual countries will open up first, followed by short-haul international services. Intercontinental travel would probably follow after that, although he admits \"that is a point we haven't resolved yet\".\n\nOne area causing a great deal of uncertainty is the extent to which social distancing will be required when regular flying resumes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will thermal cameras help to end the lockdown?\n\nHow will people be separated in airport lounges, in security queues, or in the airports themselves? What tests will be required, and how will they be carried out?\n\nThis is a commercial issue for both airports and airlines. For example, retail outlets and restaurants provide a lucrative source of revenues for airport operators.\n\n\"Non-aeronautical revenues are really important to airports,\" says Karen Dee, chief executive of the Airport Operators Association.\n\n\"They enable us to keep down the charges we make to airlines, and ultimately that affects the ticket prices they can offer their customers.\n\n\"We don't want to reconfigure everything in our airports, only to find out in six months' time there's a vaccine and the new measures aren't needed any more.\"\n\nIATA's argument is that whatever measures are introduced need to be the same and implemented in a co-ordinated fashion.\n\n\"We need to avoid the kind of situation that followed 9/11,\" says Mr de Juniac. \"Back then we saw a piling up of different kinds of security measures, and it took a very long time to put it together again in a more consistent way. And we still have different measures.\"\n\nAirlines too could be squeezed. Lufthansa is already operating services where middle seats are left unoccupied in order to allow a certain degree of social distancing on board. EasyJet - which has grounded its entire fleet - says it will do the same when it resumes flying.\n\nOn the Lufthansa flights that are flying, it is trying to keep passengers isolated by not using its middle seats\n\nAs a short-term measure, this might help passengers fly with a little more confidence. But it comes at a serious cost.\n\nIn order to make money, airlines need as many seats as possible to be filled on every flight. \"Load factors\" are particularly important for budget carriers, which typically fly with more than 90% of seats occupied.\n\nBut if middle seats are left unoccupied, aircraft will have to fly just 65% full. This might be acceptable for a short period, but according to Mr De Juniac, if it went on for long, \"it would certainly change the way in which the industry operates\".\n\nRyanair's CEO Michael O\"Leary has put it more succinctly, describing the idea as \"idiotic\".\n\nIn the UK the government is considering forcing all passengers arriving in the country to spend two weeks in quarantine.\n\nThe industry association Airlines UK says such a plan would \"effectively kill international travel to and from the UK, and cause immeasurable damage to the aviation industry and wider UK economy\".\n\nMore from the BBC's series taking an international perspective on trade:\n\nGetting aircraft back in the air may prove to be the easy part. Finding people to fly in them could prove more difficult - and some long-term changes to the aviation market are highly likely.\n\n\"It may not be too bad for firms which specialise in holiday travel,\" explains one tourism industry executive.\n\n\"People still want to go on holiday, and there's definitely still interest in going to short-haul destinations later in the year.\"\n\nBut analysts say business travel could be a different matter.\n\nHigh-paying business and first class travellers usually account for a little under a third of the revenues for the industry as a whole. For long-haul carriers, it can be as much as 70%.\n\nBut there are now serious threats to that traffic.\n\nHow quickly lucrative business class travel gets back to normal could be key\n\nThe predicted global recession, the cancellation of major trade fairs and other set-piece events - and even the new willingness of businesses to use online tools as a substitute for face-to-face meetings - could all delay the recovery.\n\n\"I think we'll see a fusing of business models, and airlines trying different things,\" says analyst John Strickland of JLS Consulting.\n\n\"So you could see a sort of business class-lite, where people get a business class seat and meals, but no access to lounges. So at least the seat is occupied. There's room for a lot of creative pricing.\"\n\nBut the biggest problem for the entire industry, as it prepares to get back in the air, is that no-one - at any level - can really be sure what its future looks like.", "Hungary's parliament has approved a law that bans trangender people from changing the gender they were assigned at birth on official documents.\n\nThe law, proposed by the governing right-wing Fidesz party, passed by 133 votes to 57.\n\nRights groups fear it will worsen discrimination against LGBTQ citizens; an opposition MP said it was \"evil\".\n\nBut the government, led by PM Victor Orban, says it will end legal uncertainty.\n\nThe administration insists it will not prevent anyone expressing their identity.\n\nThe decision \"to register children's biological sex in their birth certificates does not affect men's and women's right to freely experience and exercise their identities as they wish,\" the government's communications office said.\n\nThe law is part of a wide-ranging package of legislation, presented by Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjen.\n\nA backlog of applications going back three years will now be rejected.\n\nTrans people and human rights groups say it is the latest blow in a war declared by the conservative-nationalist government against anyone who does not fit into their definition of a family, reports the BBC's Nick Thorpe in Budapest.\n\nTina Korlos Orban, vice president of advocacy group Transvanilla Transgender Association, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation: \"We have no words to describe what we feel.\n\n\"People who haven't had suicidal thoughts for decades now are having them. People are in panic, people want to escape from Hungary to somewhere else where they can get their gender recognised.\"\n\nTrans people fear that discrimination and worse will occur when they need to present official documents.\n\nThe legislation now goes to President Janos Ader, also a member of Fidesz, to be signed into law. Rights activists say they will try to persuade him not to.\n\nMost European Union countries allow official documents to be changed to match gender identity, according to campaign group Transgender Europe.", "Daily global emissions of CO2 fell by 17% at the peak of the shutdown because of measures taken by governments in response to Covid-19, say scientists.\n\nThe most comprehensive account yet published says that almost half the record decrease was due to fewer car journeys.\n\nBut the authors are worried that, as people return to work, car use will soar again.\n\nThey fear CO2 emissions could soon be higher than before the crisis.\n\nThey are urging politicians to grasp the moment and make real, durable changes on transport and personal mobility.\n\nIn the UK, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has pledged £250m for improvements to cycling and walking infrastructure. Other countries are also looking at similar plans.\n\nThe lockdowns that most governments have implemented in response to Covid-19 have had a significant impact on the carbon-producing activities that are embedded in almost everything we do.\n\nRoad transport has declined hugely, as has aviation.\n\nHowever, now that the UK is beginning to return to work, Mr Shapps said people should drive to work rather than use public transport, should walking or cycling not be an option.\n\n\"If you can't walk or cycle but you do have access to a car, please use it rather than travelling by bus, train or tram,\" he said.\n\nIndustry has temporarily closed down and demand for energy all over the world has crashed.\n\nNow in detailed analysis, researchers have shown how those changes have impacted our emissions of CO2.\n\nThey've calculated the fall off in carbon based on the lockdown policies implemented in 69 countries that between them account for 97% of global emissions.\n\nDuring the peak of the crisis in early April, daily emissions dropped by 17% compared to the previous year, meaning around 17 million tonnes less CO2 were emitted every day.\n\nThe key to the fall has been cars. Surface transport emissions have declined by 43%, the same amount as the drop from industry and power generation combined.\n\nWhile the aviation slowdown has grabbed headlines for the economic impact, it only accounts for 10% of the decrease during the pandemic.\n\nChina has been responsible for the biggest drop, followed by the US, Europe and India.\n\nIf some restrictions on economic activity stay in place worldwide until the end of the year, then global emissions will likely drop by 7%.\n\nIf pre-pandemic levels of transport and economic activity return by mid-June, the annual fall would be around 4%.\n\nBut the research team that carried out this work is concerned that the rebound, especially on the roads, could see a carbon surge.\n\nLockdown has raised questions about other pollutants, too. One of the UK's leading experts, Prof Frank Kelly, from King's College London, said he knew diesel cars were emitting far more pollution than advertised - fully two years before US authorities exposed the scandal.\n\nHe told Radio 4's The Life Scientific programme that his team discovered a huge mismatch between emissions declared by the car firms and real readings on the road.\n\nProf Kelly said he reported it to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), but they didn't publish his findings. He said work undertaken subsequently in the US led to legal action against car makers that had installed \"defeat devices\" to fool regulators.\n\nThe government didn't deny the account. A spokesperson said: \"We are taking urgent action to improve air quality and our Clean Air Strategy has been commended by the World Health Organization as an 'example for the rest of the world to follow'\".\n\nMeanwhile, on the Covid-19 crisis, he said levels of the pollutant NO2 had fallen by up to 60% in London since the fall in traffic under lockdown.\n\nLevels of another pollutant, sooty particles, remained at harmful concentrations.\n\n\"A big worry that people will naturally want to go back to their cars to go to work, and that could rebound the emissions to the same level or even higher than before, once everybody goes back,\" said Prof Corinne Le Quéré from the University of East Anglia, who led the analysis.\n\nThe researchers say that fundamental, systemic change is needed if the emissions curve is to be flattened in a way that would limit the very worst impacts of climate change.\n\nWhen it comes to transportation, there are huge opportunities, according to Prof Le Quéré.\n\nShe says that after the global financial crisis in 2008, some governments like China, US and Germany made significant investments in wind and solar energy and this drove down the prices of these renewables.\n\nAirlines have been hit hard economically, but the slowdown in flying hasn't hugely impacted emissions\n\n\"Here now in 2020 we're very close to the same situation in electric mobility,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"Battery prices have come down, we have lots of models and governments are going to try to boost their economies.\"\n\n\"So if these two things can align, then it could make a huge difference to the transportation of tomorrow.\"\n\nGrabbing the opportunity that the virus has presented is also at the forefront of corporate thinking on climate change.\n\nA letter signed by 155 major companies, representing $2.4 trillion (£1.96 trillion) in market capitalisation, calls for a net-zero emissions response to the covid crisis.\n\nCorporations including Carlsberg, Iberdrola, EDF and Coca Cola Europe say they want governments to \"prioritise a faster and fairer transition from a grey to a green economy\".\n\nElectric cars may be the best way forward for transportation, scientists believe\n\nThe authors of the latest analysis on carbon emissions agree that now is the moment for action. They point to the fact that while emissions of CO2 may be temporarily reduced, all the while CO2 concentrations are lingering in the atmosphere, warming the planet.\n\nIt will take a a dramatic shift to change that.\n\n\"I think very much that we are at a crossroads. And at this point, like the UK prime minister Boris Johnson said, it could go either way.\"\n\n\"He was talking about his own health, but here we're talking about the health of the planet.\"\n\n\"It could go either way.\"\n\nThe study has been published in the journal Nature Climate Change.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM said contributions to the NHS from overseas workers raise about £900m.\n\nBoris Johnson has rejected calls to scrap the fees overseas health workers have to pay to use the NHS.\n\nThe health immigration surcharge on non-EU migrants is £400 per year and set to rise to £624 in October.\n\nLabour, the SNP and the Royal College of Nursing say health workers should be exempt from the \"unfair\" charge.\n\nThe prime minister said he understood the \"difficulties\" NHS staff faced but the country could not afford to scrap the charges in the current climate.\n\nThe government plans to extend the fees to apply to EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway nationals moving to the UK after the Brexit transition period ends in December.\n\nSpeaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer said: \"Every Thursday we go out and clap for our carers. Many of them are risking their lives for the sake of all of us.\n\n\"Does the prime minister think it's right that care workers coming from abroad and working on our frontline should have to pay a surcharge of hundreds - sometimes thousands of pounds - to use the NHS themselves?\"\n\nHe said a care worker on the National Living Wage would have to work for 70 hours \"to pay off the fee\".\n\nThe SNP's leader at Westminster, Ian Blackford, urged the PM to scrap the \"cruel\" charge, accusing the PM of \"giving with one hand and raking it in with the other\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ian Blackford accuses the PM of \"giving with one hand and raking it in with the other\" over NHS staff.\n\nMr Johnson said he had \"thought a great deal\" about this issue, given his own experience of being cared for by nurses from overseas when he was in intensive care with coronavirus.\n\nHe told Sir Keir: \"I do accept and understand the difficulties faced by our amazing NHS staff and, like him, I've been a personal beneficiary of carers who have come from abroad and, frankly, saved my life.\n\n\"On the other hand we must look at the realities - this is a great national service, it's a national institution, it needs funding and those contributions actually help us to raise about £900m, and it's very difficult in the current circumstances to find alternative sources.\n\n\"So with great respect to the point [Sir Keir] makes, I do think that is the right way forward.\"\n\nLabour is planning to seek an amendment to the Immigration Bill to exempt NHS staff, including cleaners and care professionals, from the surcharge.\n\nThe party is hoping to recruit support from other opposition parties and Conservative MPs.\n\nA Labour source said the £900m figure quoted by the PM was for the surcharge as a whole and the government had not given a breakdown of the cost of scrapping the surcharge on different sectors, such as health.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Speaker warns the health secretary for addressing the Labour leader during PMQs\n\nDame Donna Kinnair, chief executive and general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, said: \"The immigration health surcharge is a grossly unfair financial burden on our international workforce and we're pleased to see the issue being taken seriously by politicians.\n\n\"The government must drop this charge as a matter of urgency.\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer also challenged Mr Johnson on the \"the continued delay in routine testing in our care homes\" at Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nThe prime minister said the government was \"confident\" it could increase testing across the country, including in care homes.\n\nHe said the UK would have a test, track and trace operation in place by 1 June, with 25,000 trackers.\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle threatened to throw Health Secretary Matt Hancock out of the chamber for heckling Sir Keir as he quizzed the PM.", "Serco is one of the companies hiring, training and operating 15,000 contact tracers for the UK government\n\nOutsourcing firm Serco has apologised after accidentally sharing the email addresses of almost 300 contact tracers.\n\nThe company is training staff to trace cases of Covid-19 for the UK government.\n\nIt made the error when it emailed new trainees to tell them about training.\n\nSerco said it had apologised and would review its processes \"to make sure that this does not happen again\".\n\nContact tracing is a system used to slow the spread of infectious diseases like coronavirus. It is already being used in other countries including Singapore and Germany.\n\nIn the UK, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said 21,000 contact tracers have been hired, some of whom are healthcare professionals.\n\nThey will gather contacts from Covid-19 patients and trace those people by phone or email to slow the spread of the disease in the community.\n\nSerco is one of the companies hiring, training and operating the 15,000 contact tracers who do not have clinical training.\n\nBut the mistake may leave the firm in breach of data protection rules. It is understood that at least one member of staff has raised the issue with the Information Commissioner.\n\nThe error did not involve patients' data but will be unhelpful for a contact tracing project that is set to ask many thousands of people who have fallen ill to share the details of their friends and acquaintances.\n\nSerco wrote the email to tell new trainees not to contact its help desk looking for training details.\n\nBut the staff member who sent it put their email addresses in the CC section of the email, rather than the blind CC section - revealing them to every recipient.\n\nWhen the Home Office made a similar error last year it referred itself to the Information Commissioner, but Serco is not intending to do this.\n\nA Serco spokesman told the Today Programme: \"An email was sent to new recruits who had given us their permission to use their personal email addresses.\n\n\"In error, email addresses were visible to other recipients. We have apologised and reviewed our processes to make sure that this does not happen again.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lucy Childs said a social worker wrote a letter of support to her university making her sound like Superwoman\n\nWhen she was seven years old Lucy Childs thought every child helped care for their parent.\n\nShe helped wash and dress her mother, who has schizoaffective disorder and spina bifida, and she looked after her younger sister.\n\nBut while she was teased for being a \"mummy's girl\" in the playground, Lucy had no idea her life was different.\n\nNow 22, she admits she just thought other children were doing a better job at looking after their parents.\n\nFrom a young age, Lucy, who grew up in the Rhondda village of Rhydyfelin, helped her mother with simple things, but the responsibility got more intense when her sister was born when she was just seven.\n\n\"On a good day my mother would read me stories but on a bad day, I would read to her,\" said Lucy, who said she was born a carer.\n\n\"It seems silly being a three-year-old reading bedtime stories to your mum, but that's what she needed.\n\n\"When I was seven, my sister was born, and although I had begged for a sibling, I soon realised it was a lot more work than I was expecting.\"\n\nLucy received support to help her complete her studies\n\nIt was only when she hit breaking point when she was 17 that she looked for help from the council and realised she could get support as a young carer.\n\nShe is now trying to help other young carers to deal with the responsibility.\n\nStill only a child herself, Lucy's young life spun from doting daughter to carer for a parent and small sibling. Not that she fully understood what being a carer meant.\n\nThere was no time for playing, for spending time with friends or simply being a child.\n\nHer day began early to get her mum and sister out of bed and dressed, make breakfast and prepare lunch, all before getting her sister, and herself, to school on time.\n\n\"I was late quite a lot but my teachers didn't really mind because I was always ahead on my work.\n\n\"I was a bright kid and fought to keep people from knowing what I was doing by completing homework before it was due to keep teachers from looking too closely.\"\n\nLucy hid her secret from those around her, first through naivety and then through fear.\n\nShe innocently thought every child cared for their parents and siblings but as she gradually realised her life was far from ordinary, she was afraid of the repercussions of her secret getting out.\n\n\"I spent my break-times and lunchtimes ringing my mum to check she was ok, that she'd eaten and taken her tablets because sometimes she would forget.\n\n\"I get a lot of negative comments for doing that. I was called a \"mummy's girl\" because I spent all day worrying about her and my sister.\n\nLucy was doing the housework while trying to complete homework and get to school on time\n\n\"Sometimes I took days off school to take my mum to appointments. I never told my friends because I thought that's why they took days off.\n\n\"It got to the point that I just thought they were dealing with caring for their parents better than I was.\n\n\"Missing out on sleep seemed like a small price to pay to keep up the charade. My mum and sister mean everything to me, and the thought of my mum being put into hospital and me and my sister going into care terrified me.\"\n\nIt was not until she sat and spoke with a teacher, who noticed how tired Lucy was looking ahead of her AS examinations, that she finally opened up on her double-life.\n\nIt was an immediate weight off her shoulders and helped put her in touch with the help she desperately needed.\n\nLucy graduated with a BSc Mathematics from University of South Wales\n\nWith the support of Rhondda Cynon Taff council's young carers service, Lucy was able to complete her A-Levels, get a place at university and, this summer, graduate with a degree in mathematics.\n\n\"I doubted how anyone could help but their intervention helped turn my life around and become who I wanted to be,\" said Lucy.\n\n\"I'm about to start a second degree to become a teacher, to help kids that are in my position, and perhaps I can be that teacher that they need.\"\n\nLucy now regularly speaks about her experience to raise awareness of the problems faces by young carers\n\nKerris Olsen- Jones, a youth carer support worker, described Lucy as a \"crusader\" to help other young carers by speaking publicly of her difficulties.\n\n\"Lucy is a totally different character now to when we first met her.\n\n\"She was timid, quiet and socially isolated. Being a teenager is a difficult time enough but to have a caring role is a lot to take. She had massive responsibility at home but didn't even realise she was a carer.\n\n\"Now she is confident and speaks about how difficult her situation was, she hopes to raise awareness make things better for other young people in the same position.", "Rolls-Royce has said it will cut 9,000 jobs and warned it will take \"several years\" for the airline industry to recover from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe Derby-based firm, which makes plane engines, said the reduction of nearly a fifth of its workforce would mainly affect its civil aerospace division.\n\n\"This is not a crisis of our making. But it is the crisis that we face and must deal with,\" boss Warren East said.\n\nThe bulk of the job cuts are expected to be in the UK at its site in Derby.\n\nRolls-Royce employs 52,000 people globally and Mr East told the BBC's Today programme that the company had not yet concluded on \"exactly\" where the job losses would be, due to having to consult with unions.\n\nBut he said: \"It's fair to say that of our civil aerospace business approximately two-thirds of the total employees are in the UK at the moment and that's probably a good first proxy.\"\n\nRolls-Royce's civil aerospace business has a number of sites in the UK, but the largest plant is in Derby.\n\nThe company said it will also carry out a review of its sites but declined to comment on which ones may close.\n\nJohn, a worker in Rolls-Royce's civil aerospace division who spoke to the BBC on condition of anonymity, said that while he expected there would be job cuts, the eventual 9,000 figure was \"a shock\".\n\n\"Since the Covid-19 outbreak we knew that business would shrink,\" he said.\n\nBut he said the scale of the cuts as well as the potential closure of some sites was a surprise.\n\nUnite the union said the decision was \"shameful opportunism\".\n\n\"This company has accepted public money to furlough thousands of workers,\" said Unite's assistant general secretary for manufacturing, Steve Turner.\n\n\"Unite and Britain's taxpayers deserve a more responsible approach to a national emergency. We call upon Rolls-Royce to step back from the brink and work with us on a better way through this crisis.\"\n\nRolls-Royce initially furloughed 4,000 workers in the UK last month. Some 3,700 people remain on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme though which the government pays 80% of a worker's wage up to £2,500 a month.\n\nBut Mr East said: \"No government can extend things like furlough schemes for years into the future. We have to look after ourselves and make sure we meet medium term demand.\"\n\nThis morning's job losses are hardly unexpected - airlines have cut their flying hours by 90% or more, and Airbus and Boeing have slashed their production numbers for the next few years - but they are still a heavy blow to one of the UK's few world-class manufacturing companies.\n\nWhile the details of where the cuts will fall have not been finalised, it is likely that two-thirds will go in the UK.\n\nThe company has already used the government's furlough scheme to help pay the wages of about 4,000 staff, but Warren East, Rolls-Royce's chief executive, said companies could not expect the government to continue such a scheme for several years.\n\nThere was also a clear hint this morning that some factories may close - the company said it would review its future manufacturing footprint.\n\nSome questions remain for Roll-Royce. Investors are scratching their head about when the company's revenues - much of which rely on aircraft to be flying for money to flow - will return.\n\nThe company has not yet tapped its shareholders for more money - some expect that may eventually come.\n\nAir travel has ground to a virtual standstill since the coronavirus began spreading across the world and many airlines have announced steep job cuts.\n\nGlobal air traffic is expected to decline by 45% this year, according to investment bank Baird. It also forecasts that airlines are expected to lose $310bn (£253bn) in revenue in 2020.\n\nRolls-Royce said the impact of the pandemic on the company and the whole of the aviation industry \"is unprecedented\".\n\nIt added that it is \"increasingly clear that activity in the commercial aerospace market will take several years to return to the levels seen just a few months ago\".\n\nAs well as the job losses, the company said it would cut costs in areas such as its plants and properties. It expects to make cost savings of £1.3bn.\n\nPaul Everitt, chief executive of ADS, the aerospace industry association, said: \"The crisis is having a major impact on aerospace companies who provide high value, long-term jobs in all regions and nations of the UK, putting thousands more jobs at risk now and in the months ahead.\"\n\nDo you work for Rolls-Royce? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "The head of the organisation which represents care homes in England has strongly criticised the government's handling of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nProfessor Martin Green, of Care England, said people who were most at risk of dying of Covid-19 should have been prioritised from the beginning.\n\nHe told MPs there were still problems with testing and PPE in care homes.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the care sector had received unprecedented levels of support during the crisis.\n\nIt comes as an industry body has said care homes in England were planning their response to the coronavirus pandemic \"with their hands tied\" because data about outbreaks in the sector were not published until the end of April.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest figures suggest more than 11,600 people have died from coronavirus in UK care homes since the start of the pandemic.\n\nBut for the second week running, the review of death certificates by statisticians showed the number of new deaths in care homes had fallen.\n\nThe overall UK death toll now stands at 35,341 after the Department of Health recorded another 545 deaths of people in the UK following a positive coronavirus test.\n\nGiving evidence to the Health and Social Care Committee, Prof Green said pandemic planning had been completely inadequate and the government had focused on the NHS while discharging infected patients into care homes.\n\nHe told MPs that despite promises from ministers, there were still huge issues with testing, with results lost and staff waiting eight to 10 days to find out if they have coronavirus.\n\nAnswering an urgent question in the House of Commons, Mr Hancock insisted people were sent to care homes when community transmission rates were low.\n\nHowever, a Public Health England survey of London care homes found that agency workers doing shifts in different homes were a source of transmission.\n\nThe study, which was carried out over the Easter weekend, looked at tests of staff and residents and the results were passed to the Department of Health and Social Care before the end of the month.\n\nPHE said the results suggested there were \"high numbers of asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic cases among staff and residents\" and that \"infection may be being imported into the homes by staff\".\n\nIt added it was possible that the usual staff may be off work self-isolating and the infection was introduced by the \"bank staff\" sent in as cover.\n\nProf Green told MPs there would need to be a \"forensic examination\" in the future to prevent a crisis in care homes from happening again.\n\n\"We should have been focusing on care homes from the start of this pandemic,\" he said.\n\n\"What we saw at the start was a focus on the NHS which meant care homes often had their medical support from the NHS withdrawn.\n\n\"We also had the disruption of our supply chains for PPE [personal protective equipment].\n\n\"We also saw people being discharged from hospital when we didn't have the testing regime up and running.\n\n\"So despite what's been said, there were cases of people who either didn't have a Covid-19 status, or who were symptomatic, who were discharged into care homes.\"\n\nHe added: \"Given that care homes are full of people with underlying health conditions, I think we should've looked at focusing on where the people at most risk were, rather than thinking about a particular organisation.\"\n\nProf Green said a lot of care homes had not had the right set-up for isolating patients coming from hospitals, while other countries used separate quarantine facilities for infected patients.\n\nAnd he said some test results for staff or residents in care homes had been lost, while others waited so long that it was unclear if they were still valid.\n\nHe insisted that PPE across care homes was still inadequate and called for testing \"two or three times a week\" to get on top of the virus.\n\nHowever, he said there were indications of a downward trend in cases, telling MPs: \"I think we are probably at the top of the curve and hopefully heading downwards.\"\n\nJames Bullion from the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services in England also gave evidence, and said both the lack of PPE and testing still remain a problem.\n\n\"The care workforce is 1.6 million. We are nowhere near the level of testing that is required,\" he said.\n\nMr Hancock has claimed ministers have done everything they can to protect care homes.\n\nHe said a \"protective ring\" has been thrown around care homes, adding that nearly two-thirds of care homes had not seen outbreaks.\n\nIn the Commons on Tuesday, shadow social care minister Liz Kendall accused government ministers of being \"too slow\" to tackle the spread of coronavirus in care homes.\n\nShe asked Mr Hancock to explain why guidance saying care homes were very unlikely to be infected was not withdrawn until 12 March.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: 'We've been able to protect the majority of care homes'\n\nMr Hancock said the guidance to care homes that was in place until 13 March \"was in place whilst community transmission was low and said it would be updated as soon as transmission went broader and that's exactly what we did\".\n\nIn early March, the government's chief medical adviser Professor Chris Whitty warned MPs it was \"highly likely\" community transmission of coronavirus in the UK was already happening.\n\nOn discharging hospital patients to care homes, Mr Hancock said it was \"important to remember that hospital can be a dangerous place for people\".\n\nHe stood by the principle of discharging patients to care homes, saying it was \"appropriate\" and \"safer\" in many cases.\n\n\"What's important is that infection control procedures are in place in that care home, and those infection control procedures were put in place at the start of this crisis and have been strengthened.\"\n\nHas your relative or loved one died in a care home after contracting coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "The father of a young law student who was shot dead in Lancashire says his dreams have been destroyed.\n\nAya Hachem, 19, was shot from a passing car in a case of mistaken identity, in King Street in Blackburn, close to Lidl, on Sunday.\n\nHer father Ismail recalled the moment he discovered his daughter had died.\n\n\"She had big dreams, she help many people,\" he told Rahila Bano from BBC Asian Network.", "The lack of routine means many teenagers are sleeping in\n\n\"I'm worried about a lack of motivation - he's not getting up until one o'clock.\"\n\nMany parents across the UK will empathise with mother-of three Louise, who is worried her teenage son is becoming disengaged from his studies, as schools remain closed due to Covid-19.\n\n\"It's hard enough motivating a lazy 17-year-old boy who doesn't really care much about school in normal times,\" says Louise.\n\nWhen schools were closed two weeks before the Easter holidays, few parents were expecting the home school scenario to go on for more than a few weeks.\n\nWhile there is a possibility that some, if not all, primary school year groups in England may go back before the long summer holidays, this is unlikely to be the case in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAnd it's becoming clear that secondary schools (apart from \"some face-to-face contact\" with teachers for Year 10 and 12 pupils in England) will remain shut until September or even later - but nobody really knows.\n\nLouise, who did not want us to use her full name, says she's worried that not being in school for such a long time will mean some pupils lose interest and give up.\n\n\"These children, they're losing any motivation, so when they do go back to school, I don't think they're really going to care.\n\n\"They need the interaction with the teacher, a bit more more than, 'Here's a worksheet'.\n\n\"I'm worried my son's not going to bother doing any work now before his A-levels next year and frankly, he's having a nice time, he's exercising lots, playing video games, so why would he start working again?\"\n\n\"It's very difficult for parents to get their children to knuckle down sometimes,\" says Rebecca Poole, head teacher of Hampton High in south-west London.\n\n\"But it's important not to panic. I would say that if it's creating unbearable conflict at home, don't force it.\n\n\"As teachers, we will do our best to repair the damage to learning, the important thing is children's wellbeing and safety.\n\n\"Families should hear that, they shouldn't tie themselves in knots - we're in this for a long schlep.\"\n\nCarl Ward, head teacher of Haywood Academy in Stoke-on-Trent, says parents should never feel reluctant to contact the school if learning at home is not going well.\n\n\"My number one piece of advice would be to contact the school, speak to the staff and then students' needs can be looked at.\n\n\"Invoke your right as a parent and ask the school for more work, less work, better work or advice - they're there to help you.\"\n\nHe also says schools are sharing best practice and are working hard to improve the online delivery of lessons.\n\nBut it's not just the educational side of schools being closed that is having an impact on children and young people, the social side of growing up is also curtailed.\n\nMother-of-four Trish Jones told the BBC that her three secondary-school-age children are keen to get back to school and see their friends.\n\n\"They thought there was a glimmer of hope they'd go back to school before the summer, but when they realised that that wasn't going to be happening, they were gutted, really gutted.\n\n\"For them it was the chance to be back with their friends, back to the usual routine in the company of their friends.\"\n\nTrish's school-age girls are keen to see their school friends\n\nTrish also worries that teenagers aren't getting the freedom and privacy they need to develop their independence.\n\n\"It's unbelievable really that we've got all these teenagers stuck at home.\"\n\nLouise says her 17-year-old is losing out on the positive aspects of mingling with his peers.\n\n\"He's decided that he doesn't want to go to university, which may have happened anyway, but I think if he was at school surrounded by his peers, who are clever boys, he'd be pulled along by them.\n\n\"But because he's isolated at home, he's not getting his peer influence - he's got clever, motivated friends who're a good influence, but now he's not seeing them.\"\n\nProf Chris Boyle, educational psychologist at Exeter University's Graduate School of Education, says all is not lost because young people are highly connected online.\n\n\"They're not totally disconnected because they're continually connected online, so it might strengthen their friendships because they can interact in a different way.\"\n\nMissing friends is one of the challenges of the current situation\n\nProf Boyle suggests children and young people try to \"enjoy the space\" that school closures bring and use it as a period of reflection.\n\n\"We could consider this as an opportunity for teenagers to reflect where they're at - with their friends, where they're going in life, what they want from life, what their priorities are.\n\n\"There is hope, there's potential for society to reset itself, for example, in terms of the environment, in terms of looking out for our neighbours.\"\n\nHead teacher Carl Ward, who's been a teacher for 27 years, says it's important never to underestimate the ability of children and young people to recover from difficulties.\n\n\"I'm always astounded by children's ability to bounce back,\" he says.\n\n\"The quicker we can get them back into the normal swing of things, the better, but it's not the end of the world that they've lost some time.\n\n\"They'll be guided and pushed by teachers when they're back in school to make up for that lost time.\"", "Getting families back together 'is at the core' of what we believe in\n\nQ: When will we be able to see our grandparents again? A: I think I can give some hope for that. Society connections are important everywhere but Scotland has a strong history of deep, deep cultural connection of families. Of course we believe business is important and it's important to get public transport back. But right at the core of what we believe is getting families back together. And I think over the next few weeks we will begin to see some loosening of what that might look like. We know outdoors is safer than indoors, so you would expect us maybe to do that first. We know small groups are safer than larger groupings, so you would expect us to do that first. Prof Leitch says he hopes that grannies will be able to get a hug within a month, but he is not going to guarantee it.", "People in Wales have been told not to make non-essential journeys by car\n\nMinisters are considering increasing fines for breaching travel restrictions in Wales after reports of visitors flouting lockdown laws at the weekend.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said he will raise the level of fines if police evidence shows the current system is not \"effective\".\n\nWales has not followed England in allowing people to drive for exercise.\n\nBut fines in Wales are lower - £60 for a first offence compared to £100 for England.\n\nPolice forces have called for the fines in Wales to be increased to the same level.\n\nMeanwhile Mr Drakeford said he was concerned to hear reports of \"officers being coughed on, spat at and generally assaulted as they enforce the coronavirus regulations\".\n\n\"This is simply and absolutely unacceptable,\" he told the daily Welsh Government press conference.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police and Crime Commissioner, Plaid Cymru's Dafydd Llewellyn, said the difference in fines between England and Wales was \"perverse\" when Wales has stricter guidelines but lower sanctions.\n\nHe said police were noticing public spaces becoming increasingly busy.\n\n\"We've seen it incrementally getting busier since the lockdown went into force at the beginning of it and we're expecting that that will continue as the lockdown is eased,\" he added.\n\nDyfed-Powys has issued more than half the 799 fixed penalty notices issued in Wales between 27 March and 11 May:\n\nAt the weekend North Wales Police reported turning around tourists from Manchester, Norwich and London as they tried to visit parts of Snowdonia.\n\nMr Drakeford said that a family of four had travelled from Birmingham to walk up Pen y Fan and a man had travelled from Devon to buy dog food in Brecon.\n\nHe said these journeys from England to Wales should not have happened, and urged people in Wales \"not to travel distances to other parts of Wales\".\n\nBut the first minister said police forces told him traffic remains \"well below last year's level, and the number of fixed penalty notices, over the last week, was half of that issued over the bank holiday weekend\".\n\nEssential travel only: People are being warned not to come into Wales from England to exercise\n\nOn increasing fines, he said police chiefs had given him \"additional evidence\" on Monday which he would \"now consider to make sure that the regulations are working\".\n\nMr Drakeford earlier told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that if fines are \"not being effective, and the way to make them effective is to raise the level, then that's what we will do\".\n\nUnder the lockdown laws police in Wales can issue fixed penalty notices ranging from £60 for a first offence to £120 for subsequent offences.\n\nIn England, they start at £100 and double for each subsequent offence, to a maximum of £3,200.\n\nIn both countries the first fine is halved if paid within 14 days.", "The NHS must ensure cancer-surgery delays do not cost more lives than the number of Covid-19 patients saved, the Institute of Cancer Research says.\n\nIn some cancers, a three-month delay could make the difference between a tumour being curable or not, Prof Clare Turnbull said.\n\nAnd her modelling suggested delaying surgery risked thousands of additional deaths.\n\nNHS England is already urging people to seek help for worrying symptoms.\n\nBut by the end of April, cancer referrals had dropped by an estimated 70%.\n\nCancer doctors have told BBC News of having to make difficult decisions to postpone some patients' care during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nAs normal service resumed, the NHS should prioritise \"certain cancer types in particular\", Prof Turnbull said.\n\nLung and colorectal cancers, for example, were particularly fast moving.\n\nBut for others, such as prostate and certain breast cancers, treatment could more safely be delayed.\n\nFor every 10 Covid-19 patients whose lives were saved in hospital, four cancer patients could die, according to the ICR study, if all tumour-removal surgeries are delayed by six months.\n\nEvery year, there are 95,000 operations to remove common cancers in adults in England.\n\nAnd more than 80,000 of these patients go on to survive for at least five years.\n\nBut a three-month delay would lead to almost 5,000 excess deaths.\n\nAnd a six month delay could lead to almost 11,000.\n\nTrusts have been told all essential cancer treatments must continue despite the NHS focus on coronavirus.\n\nAn NHS England official said: \"Vital tests and treatments are going ahead in a safe way for thousands of patients, including by introducing Covid-protected cancer hubs.\n\n\"The NHS has now set out guidance so that hospitals can further increase the number of cancer tests and treatments they carry out, as well as having the extra capacity to treat future coronavirus patients.\n\n\"So our message to anyone worried about symptoms is, 'Help us help you, and seek help as you always would.'\"\n\nCancer charity Macmillan said some planned treatment may have to be delayed or moved to a different hospital, and some patients could be given chemotherapy or hormonal therapy instead of surgery for an interim period.\n\nHead of Policy Sara Bainbridge said it was now \"vital that we see comprehensive plans on how the NHS will catch up\".\n\nProf Turnbull said the NHS was currently coping with a reduced number of cancer referrals.\n\nBut it may face a backlog in the coming months, as people who have stayed away from their GPs in the past weeks begin to present with symptoms.", "\"We'll be judged on how we get out of it, not how we got into it.\"\n\nInside Downing Street there is an acute awareness that the gradual move out of the lockdown is going to be much more complicated than slamming the doors in the first place.\n\nThat's the case both in terms of creating plans and policies that give people enough reassurance to take tiny steps to start to get back to normal, only weeks after the peak of a terrible disease, and trying to do so without taking on too much political water, when the consensus that shaped the start of the crisis has already started to fray.\n\nAnd the ongoing tussle over England's return to schools is perhaps the first big test.\n\nThe possibility of children going back to school, beyond relatively small numbers who have been attending throughout - the kids of key workers and some of the most vulnerable children with special needs - was floated by government well before the prime minister's big speech last Sunday.\n\nGetting schools back is considered crucial for so many reasons: for kids' education - particularly for those from less advantaged backgrounds, but to allow more parents to get back to work too, and stitching back parts of the social fabric that have been so under strain.\n\nSimply, it matters enormously to millions of families, with 8.8 million children in state schools in England.\n\nSo when the prime minister announced his ambition that schools would go back at the start of next month it was huge, even though it applied only to a few year groups.\n\nRemember right now, the plans for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are not to reopen before the summer holidays.\n\nIn the last few days however, council after council in England, including the Conservative council Solihull, have very publicly been raising doubts about whether they can be ready in time, and whether it is safe.\n\nSome of the government's own scientific advisers have warned it's important that the testing, tracking and tracing system should be up and running before schools open again fully too.\n\nThe prime minister suggested today that it would be, but it's fair to say that's quite the promise.\n\nThere's been some pretty tough push back against the government's plans from the unions, and no surprise, some pretty punchy political briefings right back at them.\n\nIn summary, it's not surprising all that might leave some parents confused - anxious, even - and stuck in the middle of a political row that none of them asked for, wondering whether their kids should be sharpening their pencils to go back in 10 days, or whether the PE kit can remain lost somewhere down the back of the sofa for another few weeks.\n\nGovernment sources are trying loudly to remind everyone that the plan was always an ambition, and always conditional.\n\nThe prime minister's 'road map' did make it clear that England will only move into 'Step Two' when the five tests ministers have set out repeatedly have been met. (There's a great reminder from my colleague Nick Triggle here on what they are.)\n\nThat decision will be taken, not by the Department of Education, but by Number 10 at the end of next week.\n\nThere's also some sense of frustration that they have tried to answer many of the questions now being posed.\n\nOf course, parents and teachers worry that it's just not feasible to get groups of wriggling five-year-olds to stay 2 metres apart.\n\nBut the guidance published states that as long as children stay within their smaller groups at a maximum of 15, the 2 metre rule does not have to be followed.\n\nIt's also worth noting that in other European countries schools have started to go back too - you can read about how Denmark did it here.\n\nBut the row has become louder than the volume of explanation.\n\nAnd you can't avoid the complexity and the challenge of getting more kids back. Buildings, staffing, cleaning rotas, teaching itself, are only some of the things that will have to be different in a matter of weeks.\n\nEven with pages of guidance, as one cabinet minister acknowledges you \"just can't itemise every single thing\".\n\nAnd there is worry among many of the public, told for weeks to stay home to be safe, but are now being told to send the youngest members of their families to a different place.\n\nAdd traditional tensions between the Tories and the teaching unions, and then mix in the roles, and politics of the 150 different local authorities with responsibility for education in England, and the various school academy groups too and, well, you have a situation that is enormously more complicated than what one politician, even a very senior one, says at a desk in Downing Street.\n\nIn part, the government created problems for itself by allowing that critical gap, of even a day or so, between the prime minister's announcements about the phased return on that Sunday night, and the detailed guidance of exactly what it would mean in practice.\n\nBut as one minister acknowledged, \"you have to have a period of people settling into what the norm is going to be\".\n\nIt may take an awful lot of political wrangling to get there. Getting schools back may be the first big challenge, but it certainly won't be the last.", "Healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson says it will continue to sell its talc-based Johnson's Baby Powder in the UK and the rest of the world, despite stopping sales in the US and Canada.\n\nIt said North American sales had shrunk partly because of a \"constant barrage\" of advertising by lawyers seeking clients to claim against the company.\n\nJ&J has been at the centre of claims for years that its talc causes cancer.\n\nIt has always strenuously defended the product's safety.\n\nJohnson & Johnson has been ordered to pay out billions of dollars in compensation, but has so far always successfully appealed against these verdicts.\n\nAlmost 20,000 people in the US have so far lodged claims against the company.\n\nTalc is mined from the earth and is found in seams close to that of asbestos, a material known to cause cancer.\n\nThe company said in a statement: \"Johnson & Johnson remains steadfastly confident in the safety of talc-based Johnson's Baby Powder.\"\n\nIt said \"decades\" of study by medical and legal experts around the world supported its view, and all verdicts against the company that had gone against it had been overturned on appeal.\n\nIt will continue to sell its talc-based products in the US and Canada until stocks have sold out.\n\nIt also sells a cornstarch-based powder which it will continue to sell in North America.\n\nIt said both types of Johnson's baby powder, talc-based and cornstarch-based, will continue to be sold in other markets around the world where there is \"significantly higher\" consumer demand for the product.\n\nThe firm said changes in consumer behaviour had also dampened demand for the powder.\n\nThe firm added that the move was also part of a reassessment of its consumer products prompted by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt said in October that its testing had found no asbestos in its baby powder after tests conducted by the US Food and Drug Administration discovered trace amounts.\n\nThe firm is appealing against a 2018 order to pay $4.7bn (£3.6bn) in damages to 22 women who alleged that its talc products caused them to develop ovarian cancer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"Test, track and trace system in place in the UK by June 1\"\n\nThe PM says England will have a \"world-beating\" tracing system from June, as he was accused of leaving a \"huge hole\" in the country's coronavirus defences.\n\nBoris Johnson said 25,000 contact tracers, able to track 10,000 new cases a day, would be in place by 1 June.\n\nBBC health correspondent Nick Triggle said it was unlikely to be a \"fully-functioning perfect system\" by then.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer challenged the PM over the absence of a tracing system since March.\n\nContact tracing is a system used to slow the spread of infectious diseases like coronavirus, and is already being used in Hong Kong, Singapore and Germany.\n\nOne method involves the infected person listing all the people with whom they have had prolonged and recent contact, to be tracked down by phone or email.\n\nAnother uses a location-tracking mobile app, which identifies people the patient has been in contact with.\n\nThe NHS contact tracing app - which is currently being trialled on the Isle of Wight and was initially meant to be launched across England in mid-May - will be rolled out at a later date, No 10 suggested.\n\nIt comes as the number of people who died after testing positive for the virus increased by 363 to 35,704, the government said on Wednesday.\n\nSpeaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir asked why there had been \"no effective\" attempt to trace the contacts of those infected with Covid-19 since 12 March \"when tracing was abandoned\".\n\nMr Johnson replied: \"We have growing confidence that we will have a test, track and trace operation that will be world-beating and yes, it will be in place by June 1.\"\n\nHe added that 24,000 contact tracers had already been recruited.\n\nThe 1 June deadline will also mark the earliest possible date for the gradual reopening of schools and non-essential shops in England.\n\nThe government's deputy chief scientific adviser Prof Dame Angela McLean previously said an effective system for tracing new coronavirus cases needed to be in place before lockdown restrictions could be changed.\n\nDo not expect a fully-functioning perfect track-and-trace system to be up-and-running by 1 June.\n\nWhat will be launched will effectively be a prototype. The app may not be ready by that point, but the army of contract tracers will be available.\n\nGiven where we are today (and plenty argue mistakes have been made, which means we are in a weaker position than we should be) this is perhaps understandable.\n\nThe government does not have the luxury of testing and piloting this behind the scenes for months to come.\n\nSo, the system will have to evolve as it goes.\n\nThe question is whether it will be robust enough to provide a track-and-trace service that will work on a basic level and help contain local outbreaks, which of course is vital as we gradually move out of lockdown.\n\nThe prime minister's assertion that it will be able to deal with 10,000 new cases a day is interesting.\n\nIt sounds a lot. The daily figures suggest there are only a few thousand positive cases a day.\n\nBut remember those figures have not been capturing all the infections - until this week when testing was extended to all over-fives eligibility was quite restricted.\n\nHowever, surveillance data provided by the Office for National Statistics suggests we may well be seeing around that number.\n\nThe work that has been done so far is about to be put to the test.\n\nThe PM also insisted that the UK was now testing more than \"virtually every country in Europe\", and promised that the system would be stepped up in the next fortnight.\n\nLeading scientist Prof Hugh Pennington said the pledge was \"good news\" as it was \"essential if we're going to go anywhere near getting out of lockdown, opening schools\".\n\n\"It's taken a long time. As to world-beating, well we've been beaten by quite a few other countries by having such a system running.\"\n\nHe added that contact tracing was \"really very labour-intensive work\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM promised 200,000 tests in the UK, after he was challenged by Sir Keir Starmer over care home testing.\n\nAlso at PMQs, Sir Keir queried whether people were being tested in care homes, after the boss of a body representing care homes in England said on Tuesday that there were problems.\n\nMr Johnson said 125,000 care home staff have been tested and that the government was \"absolutely confident\" it would be able to increase testing in care homes and \"across the whole of the community\".\n\nHe added: \"And thanks to the hard work of [Health Secretary Matt Hancock] and his teams, we will get up to 200,000 tests in the country by the end of this month.\"\n\nIt comes as the prime minister said the deaths of 181 NHS workers and 131 social care workers had reportedly involved Covid-19.", "Boris Johnson is the kind of politician who feeds off a crowd, and after a bit of a pummelling from the Labour leader last week there were more Conservative MPs around to offer vocal support, during this week's PMQs.\n\nSir Keir Starmer focused his forensic questions on care homes and had plenty of supporting material from those who work in the sector.\n\nHe extracted another government target from the PM, this time on test and trace.\n\nBut significantly the emphasis now is on human contact tracers, rather than the app that ministers hoped would be at the centre of a new system.\n\nIn the early days of this epidemic, as politicians tried to grasp the enormity of what was happening, exchanges in the Commons were all about consensus.\n\nThose days have gone.\n\nThis occasion was more fractious, with Mr Johnson taking on the Labour leader more aggressively.\n\nHe even urged him to be more positive, suggesting that’s what the public wanted.", "Ten residents have died at Home Farm in Portree\n\n\"Substantial improvements\" have been made at a care home on Skye where 10 residents have died in a coronavirus outbreak, a court has heard.\n\nThe Care Inspectorate had taken legal action to have the owners of Home Farm in Portree removed as the care provider.\n\nBut it said improvements had since been made after NHS Highland was brought in to effectively run the home last week.\n\nA final decision on care provision has been deferred until next month.\n\nDue to lockdown restrictions, the court hearing was heard remotely by Sheriff Eilidh MacDonald.\n\nA joint motion was put forward to continue the case for three weeks.\n\nRoddy Dunlop QC, representing the Care Inspectorate, said that while improvements had been made at the HC-One-owned home, it would be wrong to say all concerns had been addressed.\n\nHe said the inspectorate was seeking a situation where the care of the residents could be continued with little disruption - instead of the \"nuclear option\" of the suspension of HC-One's registration.\n\nUnder the plan, weekly inspections will be carried out by the Care Inspectorate.\n\nPeter Gray, representing HC-One, said the matter was being taken seriously and the collaborative approach provided a \"firm foundation\".\n\nSheriff MacDonald said the community needed a pragmatic solution. The case will call again on 10 June.\n\nThe Care Inspectorate brought the action after an unannounced inspection raised \"serious and significant concerns\".\n\nNHS Highland is assisting HC-One with social care management, nursing leadership and direct care at Home Farm.\n\nAll but four of the home's 34 residents and 29 staff have contracted the virus.\n\nFollowing the hearing, a spokesman for the Care Inspectorate said: \"The Care Inspectorate is working closely with partners at NHS Highland and others to ensure people living at Home Farm experience safe care.\n\n\"We are monitoring the situation in the home closely and will be visiting regularly to check on progress.\"\n\nNHS Highland said HC-One was being given time to continue making improvements towards the standards that would satisfy the Care Inspectorate and the health board.\n\nThe health board said: \"NHS Highland's primary aim is to see the best possible care for the residents of Home Farm care home.\n\n\"NHS Highland will continue to support a partnership approach to effectively jointly address the situation at Home Farm care home on Skye.\"\n\nJohn Kirk, managing director of HC-One Scotland, said the company was pleased with the court's decision.\n\nHe said: \"We look forward to continuing our strong and effective partnership with NHS Highland as we progress with our robust action plan and remain wholly focused on delivering the best possible care, both now and for the long term.\"", "Switching to a vegan diet can help but doesn't quite have the impact of other measures\n\nClimate change can still be tackled – but only if people are willing to embrace major shifts in the way we live, a report says.\n\nThe authors have put together a list of the best ways for people to reduce their carbon footprints.\n\nThe response to the Covid-19 crisis has shown that the public is willing to accept radical change if they consider it necessary, they explain.\n\nAnd the report adds that government priorities must be re-ordered.\n\nProtecting the planet must become the first duty of all decision-makers, the researchers argue.\n\nThe authors urge the public to contribute by adopting the carbon-cutting measures in the report, which is based on an analysis of 7,000 other studies.\n\nTop of the list is living car-free, which saves an average of 2.04 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per person annually.\n\nThis is followed by driving a battery electric car - 1.95 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per person annually - and taking one less long-haul flight each year - 1.68 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per person.\n\nSwitching to a vegan diet will help - but less than tackling transport, the research shows.\n\nIt says popular activities such as recycling are worthwhile, but don’t cut emissions by as much.\n\nThe lead author, Dr Diana Ivanova from Leeds University, told BBC News: “We need a complete change of mindset.\n\n“We have to agree how much carbon we can each emit within the limits of what the planet can bear – then make good lives within those boundaries.\n\n“The top 10 options are available to us now, without the need for controversial and expensive new technologies.”\n\nDr Ivanova said the coronavirus lockdown has shown that many people could live without cars if public transport, walking and cycling were improved.\n\nHer research highlights rich people who typically take more flights, drive bigger cars and consume the most.\n\nShe said: “All the world suffers from climate change, but it’s not the average person who flies regularly – it’s a small group, yet aviation is under-taxed. It’s a moral issue.”\n\nIn her league table, buying renewable power and using public transport rank fourth and fifth.\n\nSixth is insulating your home well, which saves 0.895 tonnes of CO2 equivalent.\n\nSeventh is switching to a vegan diet, which saves 0.8 tonnes.\n\nEffectively insulating your home is an important step\n\nOther top actions are using heat pumps; switching from polluting cookstoves (in developing countries) to better methods of cooking, and heating buildings with renewable energy.\n\nDr Ivanova said that if people implemented the measures, it would save around nine tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) per person per year.\n\nCurrent annual household emissions are around 10 tonnes in the UK, and 17 in the US.\n\nThe study, out soon in the journal Environmental Research Letters, says the following are worthwhile, but of lesser benefit to the climate: green roofs; using less paper; buying more durable items; turning down the thermostat - and recycling, which saves 0.01 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year, according to Dr Ivanova.\n\nOutside of lockdown, taking fewer flights can make a major contribution to cutting carbon\n\nSome of the findings will be questioned. Polls suggest some people think climate is as important as the virus, for instance, but some don’t.\n\nProfessor Tommy Wiedmann from the University of New South Wales in Australia, said: “This is a valuable study. But it only looks at the carbon footprint and not at other impacts like water scarcity because of lithium mining for electric car batteries.\n\nLibby Peake, from the Green Alliance think tank, told BBC News: “People shouldn’t stop good habits like recycling, which saves some carbon while preventing waste and conserving resources.”\n\n“Better design allows people to buy fewer but higher-quality things and to live in buildings with lower carbon footprints. These savings aren’t necessarily covered by this study.”", "Phoenix Netts' family said they were \"devastated\" by her death\n\nA woman whose remains were found in two suitcases has been named.\n\nThe dismembered body of Phoenix Netts, 28, from Birmingham, was discovered close to a quarry in the Forest of Dean on 12 May.\n\nHer identity was confirmed after DNA tests, but police have said it remains unclear where Ms Netts died or what caused her death.\n\nIn a statement, family members said they were \"devastated\" by her death \"in such tragic circumstances\".\n\nGareeca Conita Gordon, 27, of Salisbury Road, Birmingham, is charged with murdering Ms Netts between 14 April and 12 May.\n\nMahesh Sorathiya, 38, of Denmore Gardens, Wolverhampton, is accused of assisting an offender between 25 April and 12 May.\n\nNeither defendant appeared at Bristol Crown Court during a short hearing on Tuesday morning.\n\nThe judge granted bail to Mr Sorathiya. No application for bail was made on behalf of Ms Gordon.\n\nBoth are due to appear at Bristol Crown Court on 4 August.\n\nGloucestershire Police put road closures in place after the discovery was made near Coleford\n\nDet Ch Insp Scott Griffiths, from West Midlands Police, said: \"Firstly, I'd like to offer my sincere condolences to Phoenix's family.\n\n\"We've worked closely with colleagues at Gloucestershire over the past week and our investigation continues at pace.\n\n\"We'd urge anyone with any information about the tragic loss of Phoenix's life to get in touch with us.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\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. Captain Tom: 'I hope the Queen's not heavy handed with the sword'\n\nCaptain Tom Moore said he was \"overawed\" to find out he was being awarded a knighthood for his fundraising efforts.\n\nThe war veteran raised more than £32m for NHS charities by walking 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday in April.\n\nCapt Tom's initial reaction was \"this can't be true\" when told about the honour.\n\nThe centenarian received the special nomination from the prime minister.\n\nBoris Johnson said the veteran had provided the country with \"a beacon of light through the fog of coronavirus\".\n\nCapt Tom said he had been \"given an outstanding honour by the Queen and the prime minister\".\n\n\"I am certainly delighted and overawed by the fact this has happened to me,\" he said.\n\n\"I thought this can't be true, I've always said this won't happen and it appears it actually has.\n\n\"I certainly never anticipated that this letter would arrive for me.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAs an honorary colonel, his official title will be Captain Sir Thomas Moore under Ministry of Defence protocol.\n\nCapt Tom, who was given the honorary title of colonel on his 100th birthday, had initially set out to raise £1,000 for NHS charities by walking laps of the 25m (82ft) loop in his garden in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire.\n\nBut he eventually raised £32,794,701 from more than one and a half million supporters.\n\nHis daughter, Hannah Ingram-Moore, said the knighthood was \"simply extraordinary\".\n\nGrandson Benjie Ingram-Moore said: \"You never even dream of a letter like this coming through the door.\n\n\"It was an amazing moment for him and the entire family.\"\n\nCapt Tom served in India and Myanmar during World War Two\n\nLewis Hamilton told Capt Tom - a Formula One fan - he was \"in awe\" of his achievements.\n\nFormer England cricketer Sir Ian Botham told him \"in hard, hard times the country needs something like this to inspire them\".\n\nMichael Ball, whose version of You'll Never Walk Alone recorded with Capt Tom reached number one, said it was a \"fitting honour for a true British hero\".\n\nWhile a pilot drew a smiley face in the sky above his house.\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\nCapt Tom has decided to set up a loneliness foundation, out of concern for the many people \"who are feeling so very much on their own\" at the moment.\n\nHe does not know when he will receive the honour, but he hopes the Queen \"is not very heavy-handed with the sword, as by then I might be a rather poor old weak soul\".\n\nPublication of the Queen's Birthday Honours list on 12 June has been postponed because of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson said it would be published in the autumn and would recognise \"the extraordinary contributions being made by so many\" in response to the coronavirus.\n\nIn a statement to parliament he said while there is a \"huge appetite across the country to say thank you to all those on the frontline\" the priority is to tackle the public health emergency.\n\nCapt Tom's knighthood announcement is a special nomination from the prime minister in recognition of his extraordinary fundraising.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rail passengers have mostly stayed at home\n\nSome rail passengers have been waiting eight weeks for a season ticket refund and are not clear on when they will get the money, a lobby group has said.\n\nPassengers were promised refunds at the start of the coronavirus lockdown to encourage them to stay at home.\n\nTransport Focus said some were still waiting for refunds of several hundreds of pounds.\n\nRail companies said they had processed more season ticket refunds than in the whole of last year.\n\nIn late March, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the government would \"ensure no-one is unfairly out of pocket for doing the right thing\" when he said refunds would be granted to those staying at home.\n\nIn a survey of 700 passengers last week, Transport Focus said a third of those asked had not yet received a refund, and six in 10 had not been kept informed over how long it would take.\n\nThey included one passenger who said he had no idea of the progress of his claim for a £3,000 refund, and another who said he had been waiting for eight weeks for £720 to be returned.\n\nAnthony Smith, chief executive of the watchdog, said: “While the majority of passengers have received a refund, six weeks on from applying others are still out of pocket and in the dark.”\n\nIn normal times, rail companies generally promise to pay within 28 days.\n\nTransport Focus said many people would be hit hard financially by the coronavirus outbreak and so needed clarity over when any money would be back in their bank account.\n\nWaterloo station is normally full of passengers\n\nJacqueline Starr, chief operating officer for the Rail Delivery Group, which represents the rail industry, said the number of refund claims was “unprecedented”.\n\n“In the last two months over 109,000 season tickets have been refunded, which is more than the entirety of last year,\" she said.\n\n“We thank people for their patience as refunds are processed during these exceptional times and we have doubled the number of staff processing refund claims.”\n\nIn total, train companies had given 2.8 million refunds on all types of rail tickets, worth more than £247m, in two months.\n\nCustomers can apply for 56 days, double the normal period, and season ticket refunds are being backdated.", "Donating takes about 45 minutes, as the blood is filtered through a machine to remove the plasma.\n\nMore than 6,500 people have signed up for a trial to see if blood plasma from Covid-19 survivors can treat hospital patients who are ill with the virus.\n\nIt is hoped transfusing seriously ill patients with so-called convalescent blood plasma will give their struggling immune systems a helping hand.\n\nThe plasma, the liquid portion of the blood, contains coronavirus antibodies.\n\nAntibodies are proteins made by the immune system which can target the virus and neutralise it.\n\nThey build up over about a month after contracting Covid-19.\n\nLast week, NHS Blood and Transplant began collecting blood from survivors. So far in England 148 people have donated their plasma.\n\nResearchers are looking through NHS data to find other people who have tested positive for coronavirus, who will then be asked if they wish to be involved in the trial.\n\nDonating takes about 45 minutes, as the blood is filtered through a machine to remove the plasma. The process is technically known as plasmapheresis.\n\nDr Manu Shankar-Hari, a joint lead on the trial that will involve hospitals around the UK, said people currently do not have protection in their immune systems because Coronavirus is new.\n\n\"What we are doing with this trial is to give you instantaneous protection against the virus using an antibody that is developed by patients who recover from the virus,\n\n\"So the hope is that the viral clearance or the taking away of the virus in the body will be quicker by giving this treatment.\"\n\nAt a special plasma donation session in Birmingham this week, donors were enthusiastic about the chance to help those currently hospitalised with the disease.\n\nJo Toozs-Hobson said she decided to take part despite being terrified of needles after her whole family got sick - her husband was in hospital for five days.\n\n\"I wouldn't normally give blood but something came up on Facebook about this and I thought, I've got to do this because of the experience we went through,\" she said.\n\nJo Toozs-Hobson decided to take part in the trial after her husband needed hospital treatment\n\nNHS Blood and Transplant is also preparing to collect and deliver plasma in large quantities if transfusions are shown to help patients.\n\nIt aims to collect up to 10,000 units a week by early June.\n\nSimilar trials are already under way around the world.\n\nThe University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff hopes to offer the treatment as part of a study.\n\nThe US has already started a major project involving 2,000 hospitals and has treated about 4,400 patients.", "JK Rowling said too many people were losing loved ones\n\nJK Rowling, the creator of the Harry Potter adventures, is donating £1m to charities supporting vulnerable people during the lockdown.\n\nHalf of the money will go to Crisis which helps homeless people, and half to Refuge to support victims of domestic abuse.\n\nSaturday also marks the anniversary of one the author's major events in her stories.\n\nOn Twitter, Rowling said: \"Today's the 22nd anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts, but I am going to be honest and say that it feels inappropriate to talk about fictional deaths.\n\n\"Too many people are losing loved ones in the real world.\"\n\nRowling, who wrote many of her Harry Potter stories while living in Edinburgh, said many vulnerable people who were homeless or in an abusive relationship were suffering at this time.", "Commuters could be asked to take their temperature before leaving home as part of proposals to make public transport safer.\n\nIt is understood to be among measures being considered for when the coronavirus lockdown is eased.\n\nA Department for Transport (DfT) spokesperson said No 10 would continue to be guided by science.\n\nNext Thursday, the PM will set out a \"road map\" on how to restart the economy and reopen schools.\n\nBoris Johnson's \"comprehensive plan\" will also explain how people might travel to work and make life in the workplace safer.\n\nA fever - a temperature above 37.8C - is one of the two main symptoms of the virus - the other is a dry, continuous cough.\n\nIt can make you feel warm, cold or shivery.\n\nSCC, a British company with a system that uses thermal imaging cameras to detect people's temperatures, told the BBC that a large regional public transport body in the UK had expressed interest.\n\nBut scientists warn the system, which is being trialled at some hospitals and at Bournemouth airport, will not be able to detect people who have been infected with the coronavirus but who do not have a fever.\n\nGovernment sources told the BBC that no decision has yet been made and that temperature checks weren't necessarily a priority.\n\nA DfT spokesperson said: \"Experts are constantly looking at best practice around the world\", and the government would carry on being \"guided by the scientific evidence that is available\".\n\nPeople should carry on staying at home and avoid using the transport network if possible, they added.\n\nThe prime minister has said the UK is \"past the peak\" of the virus outbreak, but stressed the country must not \"risk a second spike\".\n\nFace masks, he said, would be \"useful\" as part of the strategy for coming out of lockdown \"both for epidemiological reasons but also giving people confidence they can go back to work\".\n\nIt comes as Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Friday the government had provided more than 122,000 coronavirus tests on Thursday, surpassing its target of 100,000 daily tests by the end of April.\n\nThe total testing figure includes 27,497 kits which were delivered to people's homes and also 12,872 tests that were sent out to centres such as hospitals and NHS sites.\n\nSome 27,510 people have now died in UK hospitals, care homes and the wider community after testing positive for coronavirus.", "Absenses due to a range of reasons related to Covid-19 currently stand at 7,208 NHS staff in Scotland, around 4.3% of the workforce.\n\nBased on returns received from 862 (79%) of Scottish adult care homes, as at 28 April, 4,163 staff were reported as absent because of Covid-19, accounting for 9.2% of their workforce.\n\nComparisons between NHS and care home staff are difficult because of the different ways of calculating absence figures.", "Boris Johnson arrives back in Downing Street after the birth of his son\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson and his fiancee Carrie Symonds have announced the birth of a son.\n\nA spokeswoman for the PM and his partner said both mother and baby are \"doing very well\".\n\nIt is understood Mr Johnson, who has just recovered from coronavirus, was present throughout the birth, at an NHS hospital in London.\n\nBut he has now returned to work in Downing Street, No 10 said, where he is leading the response to the pandemic.\n\nHe is expected to take a \"short period\" of paternity leave at some point later this year, Downing Street said.\n\nThe couple have received messages of congratulation from across the political spectrum, and Mr Johnson's father Stanley said he was \"absolutely delighted\" and \"thrilled\" by the birth of his grandson.\n\nDowning Street declined to say whether the baby was born prematurely, and did not provide details of the weight, timing, nature or location of the birth.\n\nBoris Johnson and Carrie Symonds at last year's Conservative conference\n\n\"The PM and Ms Symonds would like to thank the fantastic NHS maternity team,\" Downing Street said.\n\nThe Queen has sent a private message of good wishes to the couple to congratulate them on the birth of their son, Buckingham Palace said.\n\nThe PM's weekly audience with the the Queen is due to take place later by telephone.\n\nMr Johnson, 55, and Ms Symonds, 32, announced in March that they were expecting a baby in \"early summer\", and that they had become engaged at the end of last year.\n\nThey are the first unmarried couple to move into Downing Street together.\n\nThe baby is Ms Symonds' first child, while Mr Johnson is known to have fathered five.\n\nThe family are planning to continue living in the flat above Number 11 Downing Street and it's understood their dog, Dilyn, will also be remaining in residence.\n\nMr Johnson returned to work on Monday, after a battle with coronavirus which saw him spend three nights in intensive care. Ms Symonds also suffered symptoms of the disease.\n\nMs Symonds said on social media that she had spent a \"worrying\" week in bed with the symptoms of the virus while the PM was self-isolating with the the disease.\n\nShe later sent Mr Johnson baby scans and daily messages while he was in hospital, to keep his morale up.\n\nThe Camerons welcomed a new arrival in Downing Street in 2010\n\nAustralian prime minister Scott Morrison and Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe were among the first international leaders to offer their congratulations.\n\nMr Johnson's Conservative colleagues have also been congratulating the couple on social media, with Health Secretary Matt Hancock saying: \"So thrilled for Boris and Carrie. Wonderful to have a moment of unalloyed joy!\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer also offered his congratulations on the \"wonderful news\".\n\nWhatever their political differences, he said at Prime Minister's Questions, \"as human beings I think we all recognise the anxiety that the prime minister and Carrie must have gone through in these past few weeks - unimaginable anxiety.\n\n\"I really hope that this brings them incredible relief and joy.\"\n\nSir Keir's spokesman said the Labour leader had held \"constructive talks\" about the coronavirus crisis with the prime minister, by telephone, on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThere was speculation that Mr Johnson would take part in his first Prime Minister's Questions since recovering from coronavirus on Wednesday.\n\nBut his place was taken Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who has been deputising for him.\n\nMr Raab said: \"I'm sure the whole House will want to join with me in sending congratulations and our very best wishes to them.\"\n\nHe also paid tribute to the key workers who have lost their lives fighting coronavirus and wished a happy 100th birthday to Captain Tom Moore who has raised over £29m for the NHS.\n\nThe four children from Mr Johnson's second marriage, to barrister Marina Wheeler, are in their 20s. He was reported to have reached a divorce settlement with Ms Wheeler in February.\n\nThe new arrival is the third baby born to a serving prime minister in recent history.\n\nTony Blair's wife Cherie gave birth to son Leo in May 2000, three years after her husband's first election victory, and David Cameron and wife Samantha welcomed daughter Florence in 2010.\n\nMr Cameron tweeted his \"heartfelt congratulations\" to Mr Johnson and Ms Symonds, adding: \"Sam and I are thrilled for you both! Sorry we didn't leave the cot - but the climbing frame should still be in the garden!\"\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"Some good news - sending congratulations to Carrie and the PM. And wishing health and happiness to the wee one.\"", "The Eddy is an indie jazz club on the rundown outskirts of Paris, co-owned by Elliot (André Holland) and Farid (Tahar Rahim). They are good friends. Elliot used to be a famous American jazz pianist. Farid didn't, which is why he's in charge of the business side, while his cooler-than-thou colleague looks after the music.\n\nThey have a house band. It is on the cusp of a record deal with a prestigious label. But they're not quite at it. Particularly singer Maja (Joanna Kulig), who is struggling to get over an affair with Elliot, who in turn is struggling to get over his own personal issues, which are the cause for him stepping out of the limelight.\n\nAndré Holland, who stars as Elliot Udo and is seen here with Maja (played by Joanna Kulig), said he was interested in the history of black artists leaving America and coming to Paris to make music\n\nFarid doesn't have any such cares, he has two lovely children and a stocking-wearing wife, Amira (Leïla Bekhti). But he too has struggles.\n\nThat's how it is with jazz.\n\nMoney is his problem. The Eddy isn't going steady.\n\nAmira (Leïla Bekhti) being held by her husband Farid (Tahar Rahim), who co-owns The Eddy with Elliot Udo (André Holland)\n\nNor is Elliot. He's broken up with Maja and split up with his wife, who stayed in America (we meet her, he was right to move continents). The last thing he needs is their bolshy 16-year-old daughter coming to stay and giving him a hard time. But when your lucks out…\n\nJulie (Amandla Stenberg) duly arrives with a bad attitude and a big suitcase, which is a lot to squeeze onto a mis-firing Vespa. By the time they arrive at Elliot's apartment she's mouthed-off at some dodgy types driving a sedan, poked her nose into her dad's love-life, and demanded a cigarette with all the grace of President Trump at a press conference.\n\nAnd this, we find out, is her good side.\n\nFeisty Julie (Amandla Stenberg) comes over from the US to see her father Elliot (André Holland) with an excess of issues\n\nIt's not all woe, though.\n\nWe are thankful for the music, the songs Maja's singing, thankful for all the joy they're bringing.\n\nNot to Elliot, obviously. He's too wrapped up in his own world, until he gets too wrapped up in Farid's, which he discovers is an uncouth underworld populated by gangsters who think The Bird is a girlfriend, not one of the greatest saxophonists of all time.\n\nAt least he's got the The Eddy, his gritty subterranean jazz joint, a million metaphorical miles from the grand mainstream arts institutions of the 1st arrondissement. Its edgy, multi-cultural clientele is there to escape from the grim realities of their daily life, which disappear from view the moment they see the band play. They've come to be taken away by them.\n\nAs you will be if you like jazz.\n\nReal-life trumpeter Ludovic Louis played the part of Ludo in the drama, where jazz was \"at the heart of\" how The Eddy was filmed\n\nThe musical numbers aren't so much allowed time to breathe, but to luxuriate in a warm bath of televisual love followed by a lengthy manicure.\n\nLarge chunks of each of the eight one-hour-plus episodes are devoted to the house band performing, jamming, rehearsing, riffing. It is the source of energy around which all else revolves: imagine Roddy Doyle's The Commitments (sans comedy) meeting French police procedural Spiral, and you'll have a sense of the vibe.\n\nThis is not to suggest that The Eddy is a prog-rock length epic music promo, but to recognise jazz is not only the star of the show, but also its basis.\n\nThe concept for the series started with a meeting in 2013 between exec producer Alan Poul (Six Feet Under) and lyricist and record producer Glen Ballard (Alanis Morissette's album Jagged Little Pill), who had written a bunch of jazz songs and assembled a band to perform them (two members of which are in the tv series).\n\nGlen Ballard (in the centre with two of the band members) wrote the songs, and has also worked with Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson and Alanis Morissette\n\nThe narrative came second, which is rarely a good thing in a drama.\n\nThere is so much that is right with The Eddy: The Cinema Vérité handheld camerawork instigated by Damien Chazelle (Whiplash, La La Land), who directed the first two episodes.\n\nTahar Rahim and award-winning director Damien Chazelle sharing a joke on the set of The Eddy\n\nBoth director Damien Chazelle and actor Emma Stone picked up Oscars for La La Land\n\nThe excellent casting (there's a standout performance from Adil Dehbi as The Eddy's bar-hand with ambitions), the multilingual script, the honest depiction of contemporary life on the edgelands of Paris, the cinematography, the actors's performances, the musicians for goodness sake.\n\nIt is plodding at best: an all-too predictable sequence of events with as many twists and turns as a Roman road.\n\nQuite how this came to be is difficult to fathom.\n\nThe series was written by the multi-award-winning Jack Thorne, a very talented man with a string of critical and commercial hits to his name (Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, Skins, This is England, His Dark Materials).\n\nThere's nothing technically wrong with the script, which is refreshingly bold in the way it interweaves languages - sometimes mid speech. The problem is the plot, which would barely sustain a cheap-and-cheerless 1980's TV drama, let alone this oceanic-sized Netflix series which is becalmed on a sea of two-dimensional clichés: a heroin addicted bassist (called Jude leading to the immortal line \"hey, Jude\"), a stroppy daughter, a wrong'un brother, snobby in-laws, a bitchy ex-wife, a cash-strapped club.\n\nMaybe there's a grand plan afoot, and seasons two, three and four are already in the works, and the glacial speed of the story thus far will seem like the smartest set-up in the history of television. Maybe.\n\nBut even the most committed improv jazz player knows there comes a point when freestyling has to resolve into something more concrete otherwise everybody falls asleep. That won't happen in The Eddy if you like the music, but if you don't you might well find yourself nodding off to the sound of the double bass.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steve Parker described staff at the hospital as \"truly amazing\"\n\nA man who \"died three times\" during five weeks in a coma with Covid-19 has been cheered as he left intensive care.\n\nSteve Parker, 62, remains at Poole Hospital in Dorset but has been moved out of the critical care section.\n\nMore than 40 doctors and nurses lined the corridors to clap and cheer him as he was discharged to another ward.\n\nMr Parker, described by his doctors as a \"remarkable survivor\" of coronavirus, said he could not thank the hospital's \"truly amazing\" staff enough.\n\nEoin Scott, head of nursing, said the critical care team had been \"delighted\" to be able to discharge him.\n\n\"Stephen has had a really tough battle against Covid-19 in intensive [care] for the last five weeks and has made a remarkable recovery, given how critically ill he has been,\" said Mr Scott.\n\n\"He is an amazing gentleman and a remarkable survivor. One of his first questions when he began to get better was to ask for a cup of tea.\"\n\nHe said Mr Parker had \"given all of us real hope and inspiration during what is an incredibly challenging time\".\n\nMr Parker said he quickly fell into a coma after \"feeling a bit rough\" five weeks ago\n\nSecurity manager Mr Parker, a former member of the Parachute Regiment, said: \"I can't thank all the staff in critical care enough for everything they have done for me. They are truly amazing.\n\n\"I am one of the lucky ones. Apparently I died three times [while on the unit] but I don't care - I'm alive.\n\n\"The first I remember of being in this hospital was waking up [last] Friday morning, after five weeks.\n\n\"The last thing I remember [before that] was feeling a bit rough on a Friday morning and being taken to A&E,. That's all I can remember of anything - I was straight into a coma.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Spain will lift its strict virus lockdown in four phases until the end of June, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said\n\nSpain has announced a four-phase plan to lift its stringent coronavirus lockdown and return to a \"new normality\" by the end of June.\n\nPrime Minister Pedro Sanchez said each region would relax restrictions at a different pace, depending on the severity of its outbreak.\n\nFour Spanish islands will be first to ease measures from 4 May, with the rest of Spain following a week later.\n\nSpain's coronavirus outbreak has so far killed almost 24,000 people.\n\nThe country has endured some of the world's toughest containment measures since 14 March, with children banned from going outside for six weeks.\n\nThere are signs the epidemic is now in decline, however. On Tuesday Spain's daily toll of registered virus deaths was 301, according to its health ministry, compared to a high of 950 in early April. The number of new infections also fell to 1,308 on Tuesday, its lowest level since Spain declared a state of alarm on 14 March.\n\nOn Sunday, Spanish children under the age of 14 were finally permitted to leave their homes - for one hour a day, between 09:00 and 21:00.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Children in Spain have been allowed outside for the first time in six weeks\n\nAs of 2 May, the rest of the population will also be allowed brief outdoor exercise and walks, if the infection rate continues to fall.\n\nSpain has already taken an early step, allowing workers in manufacturing, construction and some services to return to work from 13 April.\n\nOn Tuesday, the prime minister outlined a fuller de-escalation plan with four phases, each expected to last about two weeks. He said the process would take a minimum of six weeks, and hopefully no more than eight.\n\n\"By the end of June, we as a country will have entered into the new normality if the epidemic remains under control,\" he said.\n\nBefore the plan kicks in, there will be a preparatory \"phase zero\" from 4-11 May, in which hairdressers and other businesses that take appointments can reopen, restaurants can offer take-away services, and professional sports leagues will go back to training.\n\nMr Sanchez said provinces would progress to less restrictive phases based on their infection rates, local hospital capacity, and how well distancing measures were being observed.\n\nThe government wants remote working to continue wherever possible until June, when the fourth and final phase should be imposed.\n\nSpain had avoided setting specific deadlines for lockdown easing so it wouldn't miss them if the situation changed, the prime minister said.\n\nMr Sanchez told Spaniards: \"We are starting to glimpse an outcome that will be a reward for the huge collective effort made over the past weeks.\"\n\nBut he warned that \"the virus is still lurking\".\n\n\"It's up to the people now, we are embarking on a journey without a precise route map. [...] What we've accomplished is enormous, but it could all be lost if we don't look after each other.\"\n\nSpain's economy has been battered by the impact of the virus, and the Bank of Spain forecasts that unemployment could rise to 21.7% this year.\n\nMr Sanchez said a recession of \"extraordinary scale\" was now looming, which would require an extraordinary response from the EU.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man has admitted spitting blood into the eye of a police officer in a \"vulgar and unacceptable\" act.\n\nTemisan Oritsejafor assaulted West Midlands Police officer Annie Napier after his arrest at a block of flats in Coventry on 18 April.\n\nThe 41-year-old pleaded guilty to two counts of assault on an emergency worker and a further charge of assault at the city's magistrates' court.\n\nOritsejafor will be sentenced at Warwick Crown Court on 2 July.\n\nWest Midlands Police said PC Napier suffered no ill-effects from the attack in Attoxhall Road, Wyken, which was captured on a body-worn camera.\n\nOritsejafor was on bail for assaulting an officer just weeks earlier.\n\nSpeaking after the attack, PC Napier said: \"As front-line officers, we know that we put ourselves in potential danger, but we now face the added risk of Covid-19 infection, which then also puts our families at risk.\n\n\"It's a shock when someone spits in your face and very unpleasant, so I'm pleased the force and the courts take these assaults so seriously.\"\n\nSupt Jenny Skryme added: \"It is vulgar and unacceptable to spit at anybody, but even more so a key worker who is putting themselves at risk to keep people safe and catch criminals.\n\n\"Our officers are bravely and repeatedly on the front line despite the understandable safety concerns across the country.\n\n\"This type of assault on our staff is deplorable and shouldn't, and won't, be tolerated.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tracy Dykes says carers \"need to be geared up\" to protect their clients\n\nFrom personal care to meal preparation, every day many thousands of vulnerable people depend on receiving care in their own homes.\n\nOften it is provided by domiciliary carers from private companies who make several visits a day, but with personal protective equipment (PPE) stocks stretched, some agencies have been turning to online suppliers.\n\nOne care company says it paid £60,000 up front for PPE, but \"the stock never came\".\n\nMeanwhile, a health trust said it had seen prices rise in what it calls \"blatant profiteering\".\n\nCarers are at obvious risk of catching or spreading Covid-19, so it is vital they wear PPE like aprons, gloves and masks.\n\nTracy Dykes, who looks after elderly people in their own homes in Nantwich, Cheshire, says for workers like her \"going in protecting ourselves is one thing, but we need to protect our clients\".\n\n\"It's their lives we are protecting, so we need to be geared up, prepared to protect them.\"\n\nBut the agency which employs her has been running low on PPE.\n\nRachel Simpson says buying PPE online is \"like the Wild West\"\n\nAMG Nursing and Care Services has nine branches across the Midlands, North West England and North Wales and has 1,500 carers on its books. It needs to supply them all with stock including gloves, masks and aprons.\n\nEach carer changes their PPE several times a day to maintain hygiene, so the agency needs regular supplies in high quantities.\n\nAMG has been unable to get PPE from its usual supplier, which itself is out of stock, and the company is also unable to secure enough equipment purely through the NHS supply chain.\n\nAs a result, managers say they have had no option but to try and buy PPE online.\n\nPPE portals have sprung up in response to the demand, but not all websites are responsible for the deals which are listed on them.\n\nRachel Simpson, AMG's operations director, says it is \"like the Wild West\".\n\n\"We're in a situation where we don't know who we're dealing with.\n\n\"We've put in an order for 100,000 masks at £60,000. We had to pay upfront, as we are required to do with all suppliers at the moment, and the stock never came.\"\n\nAMG has been unable to get PPE from its usual supplier, leading to low stocks\n\nThere has also been a boom in spam emails offering PPE.\n\nNick Hulme, chief executive of East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, says he has \"been inundated with offers of PPE both from this country and abroad\".\n\n\"I probably get between 10 and 15 emails a day offering me all sorts of PPE that I know isn't available.\"\n\nWhether the stock exists or not, much of the PPE being advertised is sold at exorbitant prices.\n\nMr Hulme says he was \"recently approached by a company that we've previously used offering coveralls for £16.50\".\n\n\"Because we've used them before, I was able to look at their previous catalogue, and in January they were charging £2.\n\n\"There's no amount of supply chain issues that could demand that sort of increase and this for me was blatant profiteering.\n\nPrivate care companies are more exposed to the risks of buying PPE in the open marketplace than facilities like hospitals which can source stock through the NHS supply chain.\n\nBut across the board there is a concern that when lockdown eventually eases, the demand for face masks will surge, making them even harder to get hold of.\n\nAs of 26 April, more than one billion pieces of PPE have been delivered to health and care settings across the UK, according to the government, including 36.3 million items of PPE to designated wholesalers for onward sale to social care providers.\n\nThe government has also released £3.6bn in funding to local authorities - which are in charge of providing social care - with instructions that most of this should reach the adult social-care sector.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Florence Cameron is one of just three babies to be born to a serving British prime minister in 150 years\n\nWhen Carrie Symonds gave birth to a baby boy, he unknowingly became a member of a very exclusive club.\n\nThe newborn son of Boris Johnson, whose name has yet to be made public, is only the third baby born to a serving prime minister in living memory.\n\nIn 2000 came Leo, the fourth child of Labour prime minister Tony Blair and his wife, Cherie. Ten years later, there was Florence, born early during a family summer holiday in Cornwall to Conservative PM David and Samantha Cameron.\n\nIt is a club that means living the early years in the beating heart of a political machine, with bodyguards by your side and a police officer outside your front door.\n\nFor some who experience it, it may come to define you. For others, like Florence, it might just wash over you.\n\nWhen promoting his memoirs, For The Record, last year, Mr Cameron said Florence, who was only five when the family left Downing Street in 2016, was hazy about his time in power.\n\nHe told the Cheltenham Literature Festival his daughter had asked him: \"Daddy, is it true, were you actually the prime minister?\"\n\nOne of Florence's middle names - Endellion - comes from the Cornish village of St Endellion\n\nFlorence once tried to stop her father leaving on business by sitting in one of his red boxes and telling him: \"Take me with you\"\n\nBy the time Leo Blair turned one, he had held his birthday party in a swimming pool at Chequers, the prime minister's official country residence; travelled 14,000 miles before he could walk, and was in the eye of a political storm before he could talk.\n\nHe made his first \"public appearance\" when he was just weeks old.\n\nBut soon after he was at the centre of a row over privacy, when \"unauthorised\" photographs of him were used by newspapers in spite of pleas by the Blairs.\n\nIn Cherie Blair's memoirs, Speaking For Myself, she said Leo was conceived during a visit to Balmoral, the Queen's residence in Scotland\n\nAt the time, Tony Blair described how having a baby in Downing Street kept him in the \"real world\".\n\n\"I can be about to leave Downing Street for Prime Minister's Question Time, my head can be full of 50 questions that the Opposition might ask me that I have no easy answer to, and I nip back up to see Leo,\" he told the Sunday People.\n\n\"And it all comes into perspective. He's playing with his toys and you have to enjoy and savour that and it's a good reality check, isn't it?\"\n\nCherie Blair, mother of Leo who is now 19, said she was sure Ms Symonds, 32, would get \"the best care\".\n\nIn an interview on ITV's Lorraine before the birth was announced, Ms Blair said: \"I think for everyone being pregnant at this time, with the constraints there will be on how people can support you, it's a difficult issue but I am sure she will absolutely get the best care.\"\n\nBut she warned \"doing it in the public eye\" would be an additional strain.\n\nBy the time he was three months old, Leo had met the then-US President Bill Clinton and French President Jacques Chirac at a UN summit in New York\n\nTony Blair, father to Leo, Kathryn, Euan and Nicky, has said none cared whether he was \"at the top of the tree or the bottom of the heap\" which proved a \"good reality check\"\n\nLinda Blair, a clinical psychologist, said staying serene would be the best way for first-time mum Carrie Symonds and Boris Johnson to tackle any criticism in the British press.\n\n\"It's not so much how they handle it, it's how they react to it,\" she said.\n\nAnd the good news for little baby Johnson?\n\n\"He will thrive,\" says Linda Blair, no matter what the environment in Downing Street.\n\n\"That child will accept the situation - what other world do they know?\"\n\nIn fact, she says, he's the ideal age.\n\n\"I don't know how long Boris Johnson will be in office but he will probably be out by the time it would matter, when they are wanting to mix with peers so that won't be a problem. It can be more difficult for teenagers,\" she says.\n\nAnd of the inevitable high stress levels circulating in Downing Street, she says: \"Until children are four or five their stress levels are determined by the parents' mood so the stress levels in Downing Street won't mean anything to the child, it'll be how the parents react to them.\"\n\nMs Symonds is a first-time mother, while Mr Johnson is known to have five other children\n\nThe last babies born to prime ministers before Leo, Florence and now baby Johnson arrived more than 150 years ago.\n\nBefore Mr Blair, Lord John Russell and wife Lady Russell produced the last child to be born to the office holder of First Lord of the Treasury - the prime minister's official title.\n\nLady Russell gave birth to two sons, George and Francis, during her husband's first stint in office between 1846 and 1852.\n\nLord John Russell and wife Lady Russell had two children during his time as prime minister", "Tributes have been paid to the QC and civil rights activist Derek Ogg who has died at the age of 65.\n\nHis career spanned work as a Crown prosecutor and latterly as a defence advocate.\n\nMr Ogg campaigned for the 2018 law which automatically pardoned gay and bisexual men convicted of sexual offences that are no longer illegal.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said Mr Ogg was a \"brilliant advocate and a truly lovely man\".\n\nIn a Twitter post, the first minister added: \"It was always a pleasure for me to hear from him on issues he felt strongly about, and I will miss his wisdom and good sense.\"\n\nGordon Jackson QC, dean of Faculty of Advocates, said: \"All of us who knew Derek Ogg are deeply saddened by his passing.\n\n\"He was a marvellous advocate but more than that he was a fierce campaigner for his beliefs both on a personal and professional level. He will be greatly missed by everyone at the faculty.\"\n\nPolice Scotland said Mr Ogg was found by officers in his Glasgow home on Friday evening and there \"would appear to be no suspicious circumstances\" surrounding his death.\n\nMr Ogg, co-founder of the Scottish Aids Monitor group which helped to spread information about Aids, speaking to Princess Diana in the late 1980s\n\nWhen Nicola Sturgeon offered an unequivocal apology to gay men convicted of sexual offences at Holyood in 2017, Mr Ogg was in the gallery watching.\n\nSpeaking on Radio Scotland that day, he said was a \"wonderful day\".\n\nHe added: \"It's Scotland at peace with itself and it is a reconciliation between the people in Scotland who are alive and the families of gay people who are dead, who were prosecuted, convicted, simply because of the gender of the person they loved or fancied.\n\n\"You can't underestimate the scars that leaves on people. I've never been convicted of such an offence but the fact is that the law was there and could have been used, I could have been arrested.\n\n\"I was at the very beginning of my legal career - my career would have been destroyed. An apology, together with the pardons bill, is appropriate.\"\n\nFellow QC Tony Graham, stable director of Optimum Advocates, of which Mr Ogg was a member, said: \"There was far more to Derek than his time in wig and gown.\n\n\"Whilst Derek was one of most well-read individuals one could encounter, he was also a man who was full of fun, compassion and ready to assist anyone - colleague or not - in any way he could.\n\n\"He provided an ear to those who needed his wisdom, could put a smile on the face of the sullen, inspire a laugh from those engrossed in sadness, and create a conversation in even the solemnest of rooms. Often, he did all of these things in a self-deprecating way.\"\n\nHe added: \"We have lost not just a committed and talented colleague, but a loyal and generous friend. Glasgow High Court will be an unfortunately quieter place without Derek as he leaves a void uneasy to fill.\"", "David Icke has now had his official pages deleted by YouTube and Facebook\n\nYouTube has deleted the conspiracy theorist David Icke's official channel from its platform.\n\nThe Google-owned video clip service acted after repeatedly warning Mr Icke that he had violated its policies by posting misleading information about the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHowever, the firm will still allow videos posted by others that feature Mr Icke to remain live, so long as their content does not break its rules.\n\nIt follows a similar ban by Facebook.\n\n\"YouTube has clear policies prohibiting any content that disputes the existence and transmission of Covid-19 as described by the WHO and the NHS,\" a spokeswoman told the BBC.\n\n\"Due to continued violation of these policies, we have terminated David Icke's YouTube channel.\"\n\nThe channel had more than 900,000 subscribers at the time it was removed. The last clip Mr Icke had posted on Friday - about his Facebook ban - had about 120,000 views.\n\nYouTube confirmed Mr Icke would not be allowed to start again by setting up a new channel.\n\nLast month, a live-streamed interview with Mr Icke posted by another account prompted YouTube to ban all conspiracy theory videos falsely linking coronavirus symptoms to 5G mobile phone networks.\n\nThe tech firm subsequently went further by banning any material that:\n\nSome civil rights groups have previously expressed concern about \"growing online censorship around the coronavirus pandemic\" by the major social networks.\n\n\"It is through a free forum of ideas that citizens understand, contextualise and trust information, not through harsh restrictions on information sharing,\" they wrote to YouTube on 16 April.\n\nBut the latest move was welcomed by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a UK-based think tank.\n\nIt said that videos of Mr Icke discussing conspiracy theories had been viewed about 30 million times across social media.\n\n\"We commend YouTube on bowing to pressure and taking action on David Icke's channel,\" said CCDH's chief executive Imran Ahmed.\n\n\"However, there remains a network of channels and shadowy amplifiers, who promote Mr Icke's content [and] need to be removed.\"\n\nCCDH is now urging Twitter and Facebook's Instagram to take similar action.", "The aerospace firm says it \"needs to take action\" after aircraft manufacturers cut production\n\nRolls-Royce could axe up to 8,000 jobs after aircraft manufacturers were forced to cut production during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe aeroplane engine maker employs 52,000 people worldwide, with 23,000 staff in the UK.\n\nAccording to a company source, senior leaders have warned \"cuts could be as high as 8,000, but efforts to mitigate the impact are ongoing\".\n\nIt had announced plans to save £750m but now \"needs to take further action\".\n\nRolls-Royce is expected to tell staff the actual number of job losses by the end of May.\n\nThe aviation industry has been badly hit by the pandemic as many flights across the world have been suspended.\n\nPlane-maker Airbus announced earlier this month it was cutting aircraft production by a third\n\nThe impact has forced aircraft manufacturers to cut production - Airbus has cut its production by a third and has furloughed 3,200 staff.\n\nRolls-Royce, one of the world's largest makers of aircraft engines, had previously warned the virus was a \"macro-risk for everyone\".\n\nThe Financial Times first reported the potential job losses, and said the restructuring plan \"would shrink the workforce...by up to 15%\".\n\nDerby council leader Chris Poulter said it was \"worrying\" after Rolls-Royce confirmed some of the 15,000 staff at its two sites in the city could be affected.\n\nAs well as Derby, the firm has operations in six other UK locations. It also has a presence in the US, Germany, India, Singapore and Japan.\n\nA Rolls-Royce spokesman said the pandemic was \"unprecedented\", adding: \"We have taken swift action to increase our liquidity, dramatically reduce our spending in 2020, and strengthen our resilience in these exceptionally challenging times.\n\n\"But we will need to take further action. We have promised to give our people further details of the impact of the current situation on the size of our workforce before the end of this month.\"\n\nIt added negotiations were ongoing and it would \"consult with everyone affected\".\n\nThe Unite union said it was \"making no comment whatsoever at this stage\".\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Eurostar passengers will be required to cover their faces from Monday 4 May or risk being refused travel.\n\nThe rail company said the rule for travellers to wear face coverings is in line with guidelines from the French and Belgian governments.\n\nAny type of face covering is allowed \"as long as it effectively covers your nose and mouth\", a statement said.\n\nIt comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said face coverings \"will be useful\" as the UK eases lockdown.\n\nMr Johnson's comments followed a Scottish government recommendation for people to cover their faces when in shops and on public transport.\n\nIn its statement, Eurostar said fines may be imposed in France and Belgium for anyone without a face covering.\n\nThe company is operating a significantly reduced service, in line with increased border controls and a lower demand for travel triggered by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nJust four services are running each day between London and Paris, and London and Brussels, according to timetables published on the company's website.\n\nEurostar is a UK-based company but its main shareholder is the French state railway, SNCF. The French government has said face coverings will be mandatory on public transport when it begins to ease lockdown restrictions on 11 May.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe World Health Organization's (WHO) current advice says two groups of people should wear protective masks, those who are:\n\nThere are concerns that wearing a mask may offer a false sense of security and lead people to be less careful regarding social distancing and other hygiene measures, such as washing hands.\n\nThe WHO said countries must weigh the risks and benefits when it comes to advising the whole populations about wearing face coverings.", "Drivers were already queuing before opening time\n\nQueues built up outside tips in Manchester as they reopened for the first time since lockdown.\n\nCars were lined up before 07:30 BST, half an hour before some recycling centres were due to open for the first time in six weeks.\n\nLocal Government Secretary Robert Jenrick has urged councils to reopen tips \"as soon as possible\".\n\nGreater Manchester is one of the first places to do so, with restrictions and social distancing measures in place.\n\nBut the region's mayor Andy Burnham said \"this is not a return to normal\", adding: \"We would ask the public to limit their journeys and only travel to a household waste and recycling centre if it is absolutely essential.\"\n\nGreater Manchester is one of the first places to reopen tips\n\nOnly vehicles with number plates ending in even numbers were allowed in to a waste centre on Reliance Street, to control the number of visitors, and some people were turned away.\n\nCentres were only accepting bagged general waste and Greater Manchester residents need to show proof of address to use the sites, which are limiting the number of cars allowed in.\n\nMr Jenrick previously said reopening tips in a staged manner was \"sensible\".\n\n\"The longer we delay it, the longer those queues are going to be when the waste sites reopen.\"\n\nHowever, some councils have expressed concern over reopening sites due to the need for social distancing measures.\n\nCouncillor David Renard, from the Local Government Association, warned police would be required to manage \"inevitable\" queues.\n\nHe said permit systems and longer opening hours could be considered and reopenings would be decided locally on risk assessments.\n\nFigures show fly-tipping has risen by 300% in rural communities since the closure of nearly all tips in March, while the number of DIY projects had increased as people were stuck at home.", "The Welsh Government has said that testing everyone is care homes could divert resources\n\nAll residents and staff in care homes where someone has coronavirus will be tested, the Welsh Government has said.\n\nUntil now only those with symptoms, or who were being moved into a care home, were being tested for Covid-19.\n\nThe Welsh Government said the \"latest evidence\" prompted the change in policy.\n\nBut the Welsh Conservatives, who called the decision a \"u-turn\", said it should be expanded to all care home residents and workers, in line with England.\n\nUnder the new policy, those living or working in a care home where someone has tested positive for coranavirus will now be tested, with repeat tests to be done a week later.\n\nNeighbouring care homes may also be tested under a system which will use mobile testing units and home testing kits.\n\nThe criteria remains narrower than that in England where all care home staff and residents can be tested.\n\nEarlier this week the Welsh Government was criticised by care workers and opposition parties for not expanding testing to all care home residents and staff.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Darkeford said clinical evidence showed there was \"no value\" in testing everyone, and he feared testing asymptomatic people would \"divert capacity\".\n\nBut Older People's Commissioner Helena Herklots criticised the testing criteria saying rules should be changed in line with England as a \"matter of urgency\".\n\nIn Wales, the daily testing rate remains around 1,000 despite there being capacity to carry out about 2,000 tests.\n\nThe Welsh Government had been criticised for dropping its target of reaching 5,000 tests a day by mid-April.\n\nIn England anyone with symptoms who is over 65, or has to leave the house to work, and others in their households, are eligible for a test.\n\nTests in Wales have only been available for key workers and anyone in hospital experiencing symptoms.\n\nVaughan Gething said the evidence was being constantly reviewed to help reassure people and get people back to work\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething, who had previously said testing everyone in care homes was not the best use of resources, said the evidence was under constant review.\n\n\"At the moment, the evidence does not support the blanket testing of everyone who does not have symptoms,\" he said.\n\n\"But, in a care home setting, where there are some people who have symptoms of coronavirus and others who do not, testing everyone, including those who do not, does have a purpose - we will be doing this to help manage outbreaks.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative social care spokeswoman Janet Finch Saunders said the decision amounted to a \"u-turn\" which would be welcomed by residents and staff and their families.\n\n\"Testing can help to reduce the spread of this deadly and horrid virus that is having a devastating impact on the most vulnerable in society,\" she said.\n\n\"We urge the Welsh Government to continue their u-turn and expand testing to all care home residents and staff.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said the new policy was \"questionable\", and asked: \"Why not test staff and residents in every home?\".\n\nHe called on the Welsh Government to publish its evidence, \"so that it can be scrutinised to see how and why it differs from international evidence and best practice that promotes universal testing of all care home staff and residents\".", "Taoiseach Leo Varadkar made the announcement in an address to the nation on Friday evening\n\nThe Irish government has signalled an easing of lockdown restrictions from Tuesday.\n\nPeople who are over 70 and currently cocooning can leave their homes as long as they avoid contact with others.\n\nThe 2km exercise limit currently in place for the Irish population will be extended to 5km.\n\nIrish prime minister Leo Varadkar also announced a five-stage road map from 18 May, which would \"reopen the country in a slow, phased way\".\n\nIn a live televised address to the nation on Friday evening, the taoiseach said: \"So on the 18th of May, Ireland begins to reopen and begins that journey to a new normal.\"\n\nAny easing of restrictions will be done gradually, Mr Varadkar said\n\nThe majority of the lockdown measures will remain in place until 18 May, although two will ease in the coming days.\n\nThe road map after that is set out in five phases and will work on two-to-four week cycles monitored throughout, with each stage dependent on the success of the previous one.\n\nMr Varadkar stressed the need for caution as \"the risk of a second phase of the virus is ever present\".\n\n\"If we relax the restrictions too soon, we could see our ICU overcrowded,\" he said.\n\n\"Everything we achieved would be lost, so we must go on a short time more.\"\n\nThe plans were agreed by cabinet after medical experts on the National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet) provided advice to the government earlier on Friday.\n\nThe current lockdown period had been due to expire on Monday.\n\nMr Varadkar said the cabinet would meet on Saturday to agree further actions to help businesses restart.\n\nMr Varadkar urged the public to \"stay the course\" and \"continue the fight\"\n\nMr Varadkar said the last few weeks had transformed people's lives \"in so many different ways and ways that we could not have imagined\".\n\n\"I know it has been difficult - sometimes dispiriting,\" he said.\n\n\"The frustration of having our lives restricted. The uncertainty about when things will get back to normal. The fear of the virus itself.\"\n\nHe also spoke of the pain of the families unable to properly grieve for those who had lost their lives in recent weeks.\n\n\"When we come through this, we will come together as a nation and grieve together for everyone who has died over the course of this emergency,\" he said.\n\nHe said people had met the crisis with \"remarkable courage and sense of solidarity\".\n\nMr Varadkar urged the public to \"stay the course\" and \"continue the fight\".\n\nOn Friday, the Republic of Ireland recorded 34 more coronavirus-related deaths, taking its total to 1,265.\n\nThere were also 221 more cases diagnosed in the Republic, bringing the number of confirmed cases to 20,833.", "There is evidence of rising violence during the lockdown (picture posed by model)\n\nThe government has pledged to spend £76m to support vulnerable people who are \"trapped in a nightmare\" at home during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick said the new funding would help vulnerable children and victims of domestic violence and modern slavery.\n\nHe also announced the launch of a taskforce which will aim to support rough sleepers after the lockdown.\n\nMore than 105,000 coronavirus tests were provided on Friday.\n\nThe total number of reported coronavirus-related deaths in the UK now stands at 28,131 - an increase of 621 on Friday's figure.\n\nThe funding package will help community-based services that work with victims of domestic abuse, sexual violence and modern slavery, as well as vulnerable children, in England and Wales.\n\nThis includes the recruitment of additional counsellors for victims of sexual violence.\n\nIt will also go towards the provision of safe accommodation for survivors of domestic abuse and their children, and further support for vulnerable children, in England.\n\nThere has been a \"surge\" in violence in the weeks since the lockdown was introduced, a report by MPs said.\n\nIt found there has been a rise in killings, while the number of calls to the National Domestic Abuse helpline run by Refuge are up 50% after three weeks.\n\nSpeaking during the government's daily coronavirus briefing, Mr Jenrick said: \"For some in our society these [lockdown] measures involve sacrifices that none of us would wish anyone to bear.\"\n\nHe stressed that victims will not be breaking the law if they need to seek help outside the home during lockdown.\n\nThe domestic abuse charity Refuge said it was \"pleased\" with the government's announcement.\n\nChief executive Sandra Horley said the previous housing requirements \"risked women having to make an unthinkable decision - to stay with an abusive partner or risk homelessness\".\n\nShe added that the package \"will help to plug some of the gaps left by a decade of austerity cuts\".\n\nSally Field, chairwoman of Woman's Trust, said she welcomed the announcement \"somewhat cautiously\" because it is not clear how charities will access the funds.\n\nWomen were being turned away from refuges even before the lockdown, she added, and the sector needs \"long-term sustainable funding\" in order to provide safe accommodation.\n\nShe added that she expects an \"exponential increase in calls for help\" after lockdown because victims are unable to reach out for help while they are at home.\n\nMr Jenrick said that, as a father of three girls, he \"cannot even imagine women and young children being put in this situation\"\n\nMr Jenrick also said that 90% of rough sleepers known to councils have been offered accommodation and that the government is \"determined that as few people as possible return to life on the streets\" after the outbreak.\n\nDame Louise Casey, who is already leading a review of rough sleeping, is to oversee an effort to ensure rough sleepers have safe accommodation while self-isolating, and to work with councils on the provision of long-term support.\n\nJon Sparkes, chief executive of homelessness charity Crisis, said he was \"delighted\" to see ministers \"seize the opportunity\" to make sure those helped during the pandemic do not return to rough sleeping.\n\n\"We look forward to working closely with the task force to provide as many people as possible with a home of their own,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Harry Potter author JK Rowling announced she is donating £500,000 to Crisis and £500,000 to Refuge, which supports victims of domestic abuse.\n\nJK Rowling said too many people were losing loved ones\n\nThe £76m funding pledge comes days after MPs debated the Domestic Abuse Bill in Parliament.\n\nThe bill brings in new protections for victims and proposes the first government definition of domestic abuse in England and Wales, including financial abuse and controlling and manipulative non-physical behaviour.\n\nOn Tuesday, the government announced it would spend £3.1 million on services supporting children who witness \"appalling abuse\" at home during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nBut Labour said this fell \"woefully short\" of what was needed and proposed amendments to the bill that would see 10% of the £750 million charity support package announced last month ring-fenced in a fast-track fund for domestic abuse charities.\n\nMPs also said the bill must do more to ensure that there is adequate accommodation for victims who flee their homes. Former shadow home secretary Diane Abbott called on the government to house them in vacant hotel rooms during the lockdown until decent alternatives could be found.\n\nDuring Saturday's briefing, Mr Jenrick said the government will \"work with refuges to make this option available to them\" where necessary.", "People living in more deprived areas of England and Wales are more likely to die with coronavirus than those in more affluent places, new figures suggest.\n\nOffice for National Statistics analysis shows there were 55 deaths for every 100,000 people in the poorest parts of England, compared with 25 in the wealthiest areas.\n\nMortality rates are normally higher in poorer areas.\n\nBut the ONS said coronavirus appeared to be adding to the problem.\n\n\"This is something that we are worried about and looking at,\" Health Secretary Matt Hancock said.\n\nSpeaking at the daily coronavirus briefing, Mr Hancock said his department was looking into the various ways the virus impacts different groups to understand it \"as much as we possibly can\".\n\nAcross the country, the highest rates of deaths have been in urban areas where lots of people live. The overall mortality rate in London has been almost double that of the next highest region.\n\nThe data also shows the Covid-19 mortality rate in the most deprived areas of England has been higher among men, with 76.7 deaths per 100,000 people, compared with 39.6 per 100,000 women.\n\n\"General mortality rates are normally higher in more deprived areas, but so far Covid-19 appears to be taking them higher still,\" said Nick Stripe, ONS head of health analysis.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said the report showed the virus thrived on inequality.\n\n\"Ministers must target health inequalities with an overarching strategy to tackle the wider social determinants of ill-health,\" he said.\n\nThe ONS used the Index of Multiple Deprivation, a relative measure of poverty last updated in 2019.\n\nThe index takes into account factors such as an area's income, employment, crime and health deprivation and disability.\n\nThe ONS studied the 20,283 deaths involving Covid-19 that took place between 1 March and 17 April. In England, it found the mortality rate in the most deprived areas was 55.1 deaths per 100,000 population, while the rate was 25.3 deaths per 100,000 in the least deprived areas.\n\nIn Wales, statisticians found the most deprived fifth of areas had a mortality rate of 44.6 deaths per 100,000 population, almost twice as high as the rate for the least deprived areas of 23.2 deaths per 100,000.\n\nDavid Finch, a senior fellow at the Health Foundation, said people in deprived areas were at higher risk of exposure to Covid-19 because they were likely to live in cramped housing conditions.\n\nHe said those people were also more likely to have one or more long-term health condition, meaning they would be at greater risk of suffering severe symptoms from the virus if exposed.\n\nChief executive of children's charity Barnardo's Javed Khan said the ONS study was \"worrying\" but \"unfortunately not surprising\".\n\n\"Vulnerable children and families - and those already experiencing disadvantage - risk becoming the forgotten victims,\" he added.\n\n\"Without intervention, this crisis will be devastating for a whole generation - their mental health, safety, education and job prospects are on the line.\"\n\nIn a statement, the government said it had commissioned urgent work from Public Health England to understand the different factors that could influence the way someone was affected by the virus and would set out more details in due course.\n\n\"We are ensuring financial support for the poorest in society by increasing universal credit payments and speeding up the payment of statutory sick pay, as well as introducing the coronavirus job-retention scheme, the self-employment income support scheme, mortgage holidays and greater protection for renters.\"\n\nThe ONS analysis comes as a separate study from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) says coronavirus patients from black African backgrounds in England and Wales are dying at more than triple the rate of white Britons.\n\nThe IFS said a higher proportion of people from ethnic minority backgrounds lived in areas hit harder by Covid-19.", "The incident happened at a property in Kerry Drive, Upminster\n\nA boy aged 11 has potentially life-changing injuries after being shot in east London, police have said.\n\nPolice found the boy and his father, aged in his 40s, injured at a home in Kerry Drive, Upminster, at 21:30 BST.\n\nThe man had cuts to his head but it unclear what had caused his injuries. The boy's injuries were said to be \"not life-threatening\".\n\nA number of people fled the scene before officers arrived. No arrests have been made.\n\nPolice have appealed for any witnesses to contact them.\n\nThe incident happened at about 21:30 BST on Friday\n\nA 53-year-old local resident said she was \"pretty shocked\".\n\n\"It's not the sort of area that this goes on in,\" she said. \"This is a really, really quiet, lovely area. I know all my neighbours up and down on this road.\"\n\nAn 82-year-old local resident said: \"I've lived here 32 years and I've never heard of anything like this before.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has revealed \"contingency plans\" were made for his death while he was seriously ill in hospital with coronavirus.\n\nIn an interview with the Sun on Sunday, the prime minister said at one point it was \"50-50\" whether he would be put on a ventilator.\n\n\"That was when it got a bit… they were starting to think about how to handle it presentationally,\" he said.\n\n\"It was a tough old moment, I won't deny it,\" he told the paper.\n\nHe said he knew at the time that doctors had devised a plan in the event of his death.\n\n\"They had a strategy to deal with a 'death of Stalin'-type scenario,\" he said, in reference to the former Soviet Union leader, Joseph Stalin.\n\nMr Johnson said he was given \"litres and litres of oxygen\" to keep him alive and credited his recovery to \"wonderful, wonderful nursing\".\n\n\"I get emotional about it . . . but it was an extraordinary thing.\"\n\nMr Johnson was diagnosed with coronavirus on 26 March and was admitted to London's St Thomas' Hospital 10 days later. The following day, he was moved to intensive care.\n\n\"It was hard to believe that in just a few days my health had deteriorated to this extent,\" he said.\n\nDescribing the seriousness of the disease, he said: \"I've broken my nose, I've broken my finger, I've broken my wrist, I've broken my rib. I've broken just about everything. I've broken all sorts of things, several times in some cases.\n\n\"But I've never had anything as serious as this.\"\n\nHe said his week in hospital had left him driven by a desire to both stop others suffering and to get the UK \"healthy again\".\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Johnson said the UK was \"past the peak\" of the coronavirus outbreak, but stressed the country must not \"risk a second spike\".\n\nThe number of people being treated in hospitals for the virus has fallen by 13% over the past week, according to England's deputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries.\n\nThe total number of reported coronavirus-related deaths in the UK now stands at 28,131 - an increase of 621 on Friday's figure.\n\nOn Saturday, the government pledged £76m to support vulnerable children, victims of domestic violence and modern slavery, who were \"trapped\" at home during the lockdown.\n\nThe announcement followed reports of a \"surge\" in violence in the weeks since the lockdown was introduced.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson's fiancee, Carrie Symonds, announced they had named their son - who was born on Wednesday - Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson.\n\nCarrie Symonds thanked NHS staff following the birth of her son in a post on Instagram\n\nMs Symonds said the newborn's second middle name, Nicholas, was a tribute to \"Dr Nick Price and Dr Nick Hart - the two doctors that saved Boris' life\".\n\nDr Nick Price and Prof Nick Hart offered their \"warm congratulations\" to the couple.\n\nThey said in a statement: \"We are honoured and humbled to have been recognised in this way, and we give our thanks to the incredible team of professionals who we work with at Guy's and St Thomas' and who ensure every patient receives the best care.\n\n\"We wish the new family every health and happiness.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trudeau on weapons ban: \"You don't need an AR-15 to bring down a deer\"\n\nCanada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has introduced a long-promised ban on assault-style weapons following the country's worst gun massacre in April.\n\nNew rules would make it illegal to sell, transport, import or use 1,500 varieties of assault weapons.\n\nThe ban is effective immediately but there will be a two-year amnesty period for law-abiding gun owners to comply.\n\nMr Trudeau also said he would introduce legislation, which has yet to pass, to offer a buy-back programme.\n\nUnlike the US, gun ownership is not enshrined in Canada's constitution, but gun ownership is still popular, especially in rural parts of the country.\n\nMr Trudeau made a point of saying that most gun owners are law-abiding citizens, but argued that assault-weapons serve no beneficial purpose.\n\n\"These weapons were designed for one purpose and one purpose only — only to kill the largest amount of people in the shortest amount of time,\" he said in a press conference on Friday.\n\n\"You don't need an AR-15 to bring down a deer.\"\n\nThe call to ban assault weapons was heightened after a number of high-profile shootings -- in 2017, at a mosque in Quebec, in 2018 on a commercial street in Toronto and most recently, in a rampage across the province of Nova Scotia that became the deadliest shooting in Canada's history.\n\nRCMP have said that the shooter was not licensed to own firearms, but had what appeared to be an assault-style weapon, as well as other guns. The RCMP did not specify which kind, so it is unknown if it will be covered by the ban.\n\nMr Trudeau campaigned on the ban ahead of last November's election, and he said he was planning on introducing the ban in March, but it was delayed because of coronavirus.\n\nHis government had already expanded background check requirements and made it tougher to transport handguns, prior to November's election.\n\nMore than 80,000 of these weapons are registered with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.\n\nThe government is able to ban the weapons immediately through current regulation, but a buy-back programme would require multi-party support in parliament and would likely cost the government hundreds of millions of dollars.\n\nIn April, 22 people were killed in a shooting spree in Nova Scotia\n\nThe ban is controversial politically. A petition against the ban started by Conservative MP Glen Motz in December has more than 175,000 e-signatures.\n\nMany of the weapons used in violent crime in Canada were not obtained legally, and Conservative leader Andrew Scheer said Mr Trudeau would do better to focus on stopping guns from coming across the border than on banning law-abiding gun owners.\n\nThe Globe and Mail reported that leaked documents show the buy-back programme would be voluntary, and licensed owners would have their guns grandfathered. Mr Trudeau had previously promised the programme would be mandatory.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Trudeau would not confirm whether buy-backs would be voluntary, but reiterated the buy-back programme would have to be supported by other parties, and be fair to everyone.\n\n\"The next steps need to be ironed out,\" he said.", "Two teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of murdering an NHS worker who was stabbed to death days after his father died with coronavirus.\n\nDavid Gomoh, 24, was attacked seconds after leaving his home in Newham, east London, on 26 April.\n\nPolice said Mr Gomoh's family were \"going through unimaginable torment\".\n\nA 19-year-old man arrested in Stratford on Friday and a 16-year-old boy detained in Telford, Shropshire, on Saturday, remain in custody.\n\nMr Gomoh, whose mother is a nurse, was attacked on Freemasons Road, close to the junction with Kerry Close, at about 22:25 BST.\n\nThe Southbank University graduate worked for the NHS helping to supply staff with essential equipment.\n\nPolice have appealed for information about this silver Dodge Caliber\n\nPolice said Mr Gomoh was killed just days before the funeral of his father, who died after contracting Covid-19.\n\nDet Insp Tony Kirk said: \"David's family are going through unimaginable torment.\n\n\"Within days his mother has seen the death of her husband and son - his sister has lost her father and brother. Both are now heartbroken.\"\n\nHe added: \"David and his mother, who have done so much to help the community, now need the public to come forward and tell us what they know.\"\n\nPolice urged anyone with information about a stolen silver Dodge Caliber which was abandoned at about 22:30 in Lincoln Road, to come forward.\n\nOfficers said the car, which had a temporary wheel on the front passenger side, was stolen in Dagenham on 16 April and was on cloned plates when it was recovered.", "Adults in Spain have crowded parks and pavements as they make the most of exercising outside for the first time in seven weeks.\n\nSpain has some of Europe's strictest lockdown regulations, and until last week was the only country in Europe to ban children from leaving the house. There are now allocated time slots for when people are allowed to be outdoors, based on their age.\n\nSince 14 March people in Spain have only been allowed to leave the house to buy food or medicine, to go to work if working from home was not possible, or to briefly walk the dog.", "The coronavirus emerged in only December last year, but already the world is dealing with a pandemic of the virus and the disease it causes - Covid-19.\n\nFor most, the disease is mild, but some people die.\n\nSo how is the virus attacking the body, why are some people being killed and how is it treated?\n\nThis is when the virus is establishing itself.\n\nViruses work by getting inside the cells your body is made of and then hijacking them.\n\nThe coronavirus, officially called Sars-CoV-2, can invade your body when you breathe it in (after someone coughs nearby) or you touch a contaminated surface and then your face.\n\nIt first infects the cells lining your throat, airways and lungs and turns them into \"coronavirus factories\" that spew out huge numbers of new viruses that go on to infect yet more cells.\n\nAt this early stage, you will not be sick and some people may never develop symptoms.\n\nThe incubation period, the time between infection and first symptoms appearing, varies widely, but is five days on average.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Everything you need to know about the coronavirus – explained in one minute by the BBC's Laura Foster\n\nThis is all most people will experience.\n\nCovid-19 is a mild infection for eight out of 10 people who get it and the core symptoms are a fever and a cough.\n\nBody aches, sore throat and a headache are all possible, but not guaranteed.\n\nThe fever, and generally feeling grotty, is a result of your immune system responding to the infection. It has recognised the virus as a hostile invader and signals to the rest of the body something is wrong by releasing chemicals called cytokines.\n\nThese rally the immune system, but also cause the body aches, pain and fever.\n\nThe coronavirus cough is initially a dry one (you're not bringing stuff up) and this is probably down to irritation of cells as they become infected by the virus.\n\nSome people will eventually start coughing up sputum - a thick mucus containing dead lung cells killed by the virus.\n\nThese symptoms are treated with bed rest, plenty of fluids and paracetamol. You won't need specialist hospital care.\n\nThis stage lasts about a week - at which point most recover because their immune system has fought off the virus.\n\nHowever, some will develop a more serious form of Covid-19.\n\nThis is the best we understand at the moment about this stage, however, there are studies emerging that suggest the disease can cause more cold-like symptoms such as a runny nose too.\n\nIf the disease progresses it will be due to the immune system overreacting to the virus.\n\nThose chemical signals to the rest of the body cause inflammation, but this needs to be delicately balanced. Too much inflammation can cause collateral damage throughout the body.\n\n\"The virus is triggering an imbalance in the immune response, there's too much inflammation, how it is doing this we don't know,\" said Dr Nathalie MacDermott, from King's College London.\n\nScans of lungs infected with coronavirus showing areas of pneumonia\n\nInflammation of the lungs is called pneumonia.\n\nIf it was possible to travel through your mouth down the windpipe and through the tiny tubes in your lungs, you'd eventually end up in tiny little air sacs.\n\nThis is where oxygen moves into the blood and carbon dioxide moves out, but in pneumonia the tiny sacs start to fill with water and can eventually cause shortness of breath and difficulty breathing.\n\nSome people will need a ventilator to help them breathe.\n\nThis stage is thought to affect around 14% of people, based on data from China.\n\nIt is estimated around 6% of cases become critically ill.\n\nBy this point the body is starting to fail and there is a real chance of death.\n\nThe problem is the immune system is now spiralling out of control and causing damage throughout the body.\n\nIt can lead to septic shock when the blood pressure drops to dangerously low levels and organs stop working properly or fail completely.\n\nAcute respiratory distress syndrome caused by widespread inflammation in the lungs stops the body getting enough oxygen it needs to survive. It can stop the kidneys from cleaning the blood and damage the lining of your intestines.\n\n\"The virus sets up such a huge degree of inflammation that you succumb... it becomes multi-organ failure,\" Dr Bharat Pankhania said.\n\nAnd if the immune system cannot get on top of the virus, then it will eventually spread to every corner of the body where it can cause even more damage.\n\nTreatment by this stage will be highly invasive and can include ECMO or extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation.\n\nThis is essentially an artificial lung that takes blood out of the body through thick tubes, oxygenates it and pumps it back in.\n\nBut eventually the damage can reach fatal levels at which organs can no longer keep the body alive.\n\nDoctors have described how some patients died despite their best efforts.\n\nThe first two patients to die at Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, China, detailed in the Lancet Medical journal, were seemingly healthy, although they were long-term smokers and that would have weakened their lungs.\n\nThe first, a 61-year-old man, had severe pneumonia by the time he arrived at hospital.\n\nHe was in acute respiratory distress, and despite being put on a ventilator, his lungs failed and his heart stopped beating.\n\nHe died 11 days after he was admitted.\n\nThe second patient, a 69-year-old man, also had acute respiratory distress syndrome.\n\nHe was attached to an ECMO machine but this wasn't enough. He died of severe pneumonia and septic shock when his blood pressure collapsed.", "Testing for antibodies has already started around the world, but it is not yet known whether having the virus guarantees immunity. Image caption: Testing for antibodies has already started around the world, but it is not yet known whether having the virus guarantees immunity.\n\nDuring the UK government's daily news briefing earlier, a member of the public asked about what we know when it comes to immunity from the virus.\n\nAt the moment, the World Health Organization (WHO) says there isn’t yet good evidence that suggests having the virus once protects you from getting it again.\n\nWhen the WHO say \"no good evidence\", they mean this hasn’t been properly studied yet.\n\nWe’d expect that having the illness would grant you some immunity, at least for a period of time. But the question is how much and for how long? Will a mild case now protect you if you’re exposed to a bigger dose of the virus later?\n\nLots of people are in the process of trying to answer these questions.\n\nCountries including South Korea, Germany, Italy and the UK are beginning to test samples of their populations for antibodies.\n\nThis could provide more information about whether (and for how long) the disease gives immunity to those who have recovered.", "Boris Johnson and his fiancee Carrie Symonds have named their baby boy Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson.\n\nThe names are a tribute to their grandfathers and two doctors who treated Mr Johnson while he was in hospital with coronavirus, Ms Symonds wrote in an Instagram post.\n\nShe posted a picture of herself with the baby, who was born on Wednesday.\n\nAnd she thanked staff at University College London Hospital, adding: \"I couldn't be happier. My heart is full.\"\n\nThe birth came just weeks after Mr Johnson was discharged from intensive care at another London hospital following treatment for coronavirus.\n\nMs Symonds wrote on Saturday that their son shares his first name with the prime minister's grandfather, and the first of his middle names, Lawrie, with her own.\n\nBBC One's Who Do You Think You Are found in 2008 that he was originally born Osman Wilfred Kemal - but his Turkish surname was changed during World War One.\n\nCarrie Symonds thanked NHS staff following the birth of her son in a post on Instagram\n\nMs Symonds added that their son's other middle name, Nicholas, is a tribute to \"Dr Nick Price and Dr Nick Hart - the two doctors that saved Boris' life last month\".\n\nThe decision to pay tribute to the medics is \"an insight into just how serious things were for the prime minister\" after contracting the virus, said BBC political correspondent Jonathan Blake.\n\nMr Johnson said after he was discharged that it \"could have gone either way\".\n\nDr Nick Price and Prof Nick Hart offered their \"warm congratulations\" to the PM and Ms Symonds.\n\nThey said in a statement: \"We are honoured and humbled to have been recognised in this way, and we give our thanks to the incredible team of professionals who we work with at Guy's and St Thomas' and who ensure every patient receives the best care.\n\n\"We wish the new family every health and happiness.\"\n\nBoris Johnson arriving back in Downing Street after the birth\n\nMr Johnson was understood to be present throughout the birth on Wednesday, but later returned to Downing Street to lead the response to the pandemic.\n\nHe is expected to take a \"short period\" of paternity leave at some point later this year, Downing Street has said.\n\nThe newborn is only the third baby born to a serving prime minister in living memory.\n\nJonathan Blake added that the family will live in the flat above No 11 Downing Street, \"so we might see more of the little one in the weeks and months ahead\".\n\nPoliticians and leaders from around the world congratulated the couple following the birth.\n\nThe Queen also sent a private message of good wishes, Buckingham Palace said.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nThe United States women's football team's bid for equal pay has been dismissed by a court, with the judge rejecting the players' claims they were underpaid compared to the men.\n\nThe lawsuit was filed by 28 women's national team players last year against the US Soccer Federation (USSF).\n\nThey had been seeking $66m (£52.8m) in damages under the Equal Pay Act.\n\nMolly Levinson, the players' spokeswoman, said that they planned to appeal against the decision.\n\n\"We are shocked and disappointed,\" said Levinson. \"We will not give up our hard work for equal pay.\n\n\"We are confident in our case and steadfast in our commitment to ensuring that girls and women who play this sport will not be valued as lesser just because of their gender.\"\n\nJoe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for US president in this year's election, told the team to not \"give up this fight\", adding: \"This is not over yet.\n\n\"To US Soccer: equal pay, now. Or else when I'm president, you can go elsewhere for World Cup funding.\"\n\nFederal judge Gary Klausner allowed the players' case for unfair treatment in travel, housing and medical support to go to trial, which is set for 16 June in Los Angeles.\n\nGiving its ruling, the court said: \"The women's team has been paid more on both a cumulative and an average per-game basis than the men's team over the class period.\"\n\nThe US team won the Women's World Cup last summer for their fourth title overall. They have also won five Olympic gold medals.\n\nAfter the equal pay claim was dismissed, striker Megan Rapinoe, who won the Golden Ball and Golden Boot at last year's World Cup, tweeted: \"We will never stop fighting for equality.\"\n\nFellow US striker Alex Morgan said: \"Although disappointing to hear this news, this will not discourage us in our fight for equality.\"\n\nThe USSF said it wanted to work with the team to \"chart a positive path forward to grow the game both here at home and around the world\".\n\nIts statement added: \"US Soccer has long been the world leader for the women's game on and off the field and we are committed to continuing that work.\"\n\nFormer USSF president Carlos Cordeiro resigned in March after lawyers for US football's governing body made submissions as part of the lawsuit in which it was claimed that the job of a male footballer on the national team \"requires a higher level of skill based on speed and strength\" than their female counterparts.\n\nBefore they played Japan in the SheBelieves Cup on 12 March, the US players turned their tops inside out during the warm-up to hide their badges, leaving only the four stars which represent their World Cup successes on show.\n\nThe US men's team made the World Cup quarter-finals in 2002, while their best finish was third place in the inaugural tournament in 1930.\n\nThe women's case had been publicly supported by male players, and in February the US men's team issued a statement criticising the governing body, saying that \"the federation continues to discriminate against the women in their wages and working conditions\".", "Thanks for joining us for our live coverage of the day's Covid-19 news in Wales.\n\nThe main points have been:\n• Another 44 deaths of people with coronavirus have been confirmed, bringing the total to 969;\n• Public Health Wales says \"we seem to have passed the peak\" of new Covid-19 cases;\n• A \"Covid wealth divide\" could widen when the lockdown is eased, a former government statistician has warned, after an official report said poorer people were more likely to be infected\n• The National Trust has warned it faces losing £200m because of the outbreak;\n• A 6ft man has ridden 26 miles on a child's hand crank rail car to raise funds for heritage railways hit by the lockdown.\n\nThe latest stories will appear on the BBC News website - we'll be back tomorrow with continued coverage of the response in Wales to coronavirus.", "New photos have been released to mark Princess Charlotte's fifth birthday, showing her delivering homemade care packages to those in need during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nShe has helped her family take food to the elderly and vulnerable in Norfolk.\n\nIn one photo, she knocks on a resident's door clutching a bag of homemade fresh pasta.\n\nThe four photos were taken in April by her mother, the Duchess of Cambridge, a keen amateur photographer.\n\nThe young royal joined her parents, the Duke of Cambridge and the duchess, and brothers Prince George and Prince Louis to make the deliveries, likely to be close to the family home of Anmer Hall, on the Queen's Sandringham estate.\n\nIn two photos, the princess is seen picking up white bags of food for pensioners who are shielding from the virus or other vulnerable people in lockdown in Norfolk.\n\nThe family spent several hours making fresh pasta before delivering it.\n\nCharlotte was born at the private maternity Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, central London, at 08:34 BST on 2 May 2015, weighing 8lb 3oz.\n\nCatherine, who is patron of the Royal Photographic Society, has regularly released pictures she has taken of George, six, and Louis, two, to mark their birthdays.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kensington Palace This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOver the past five weeks, the Queen's Sandringham staff have been preparing and delivering meals for pensioners and vulnerable people living in the local area, Buckingham Palace has said, with about 1,000 meals being made and delivered in the first week alone.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The lockdown has eased in Spain, but there are still time restrictions on when people can be outdoors\n\nMasks will be compulsory on public transport in Spain from Monday as the country moves to gradually relax its tough lockdown.\n\nPrime Minister Pedro Sanchez said the government would distribute 6m masks, mainly at transport locations, and give another 7m to local authorities.\n\nAdults in Spain were able to exercise outdoors on Saturday for the first time in seven weeks.\n\nThe lockdown was eased for children under 14 a week ago.\n\nLockdowns in other European countries are also being eased, though social distancing remains in force. Some countries require mask-wearing in shops and on public transport.\n\nItaly has Europe's highest death toll from coronavirus, closely followed by the UK and then Spain (though experts caution that countries do not record death figures in exactly the same way).\n\nThe UK's figures show hundreds of people are still falling victim to Covid-19 every day - on Saturday the deaths of a further 621 people were announced.\n\nBoth France and Italy recorded fewer than 200 deaths in a 24-hour period.\n\nItaly announced another 474 deaths on Saturday, a larger number than in recent days, but according to La Repubblica that figure includes 282 deaths outside hospitals in April which were not included in earlier figures.\n\nMr Sanchez said Spain was now reaping the rewards of the sacrifices made during the lockdown, one of Europe's strictest.\n\nHe also said his government would approve a €16bn ($17.6bn; £14bn) fund to help regional authorities deal with the economic damage inflicted by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIn Madrid, residents voiced relief to be finally exercising outdoors. \"Happy, we feel free!\" Susana Piego told Reuters.\n\nJesus Gutierrez said \"it's basic, for physical and mental health, it is basic to allow people to do sport\".\n\nSince 14 March people have only been allowed to leave the house to buy food or medicine, to go to work if working from home was not possible, or to briefly walk the dog.\n\nThere are now exercise slots for different age groups, and the amount of outdoor exercise time remains limited. Most adults can walk or play sports between 06:00 and 10:00, and between 20:00 and 23:00.\n\nSpaniards have made the most of the latest easing of the national lockdown, as they have taken to the streets in droves since early this morning.\n\nIn many areas, the large numbers who took to the streets made it look almost like a normal Saturday morning, yet social distancing was observed and few cars were on the roads.\n\nSome, however, remain reluctant to venture out.\n\n\"I want to go out because it's a beautiful day,\" said Carmen Pérez, a 65-year-old in Madrid. \"But I'm a bit scared of getting infected.\"\n\nWhile we all understand why we have been in 'la cuarentena' ['quarantine'], I can say from first-hand experience that seven weeks inside our homes, except for essential journeys, has been a test.\n\nFor most city residents, buying food or visiting a pharmacy involves walking no further than a few dozen metres.\n\nToday is different. People are in sports gear and running, walking and cycling freely.\n\nA man is playing Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe's famous song Barcelona loudly down at the water's edge and a nearby advertising board says, \"Bienvenidos a la libertad\" - \"Welcome to freedom\".\n\nUntil last week Spain was the only country in Europe where children under 14 could not leave home at all.\n\nFrom 12:00 to 19:00 only children aged 14 and under are allowed to go outside, accompanied by an adult. The remaining slots are set aside for elderly and vulnerable people.\n\nThe Spanish government will also give masks to the Red Cross and other organisations to distribute\n\nTeenagers aged 14 and above can go out for exercise once in one of the adult slots.\n\nIn other news from Europe:\n\nMeanwhile, the Irish Taoiseach (prime minister) Leo Varadkar has outlined a plan to reopen his country's economy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Children in Spain can play outside again\n\nOn 18 May it is planned that outdoor workers, including builders, will return to their jobs. DIY and hardware stores will reopen.\n\nFrom that date, Mr Varadkar said, it would be possible to meet friends and family in small groups outdoors, and some sporting activity would be allowed, again in small groups.", "Tesla boss Elon Musk wiped $14bn (£11bn) off the carmaker's value after tweeting its share price was too high.\n\nIt also knocked $3bn off Mr Musk's own stake in Tesla as investors promptly bailed out of the company.\n\n\"Tesla stock price too high imo,\" he said in one of several tweets that included a vow to sell his possessions.\n\nIn other tweets, he said his girlfriend was mad at him, while another simply read: \"Rage, rage against the dying of the light of consciousness.\"\n\nIn 2018, a tweet about Tesla's future on the New York stock market led to regulators fining the company $20m and Mr Musk agreeing to have all further posts on the platform pre-screened by lawyers.\n\nOn Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported it had asked the billionaire if he was joking about the share price tweet and whether it had been vetted, receiving the reply \"No\".\n\nTesla's share price has surged this year, putting the electric carmaker's value at close to $100bn, a mark that would trigger a bonus payment of hundreds of millions of dollars to the entrepreneur.\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 Elon Musk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We view these Musk comments as tongue in cheek and it's Elon being Elon. It's certainly a headache for investors for him to venture into this area as his tweeting remains a hot button issue and [Wall] Street clearly is frustrated,\" Wedbush Securities analyst Daniel Ives told Reuters news agency.\n\nIn 2018, Mr Musk tweeted that he may have secured funding to possibly remove Tesla from the stock market and take it private, which again led to swings in the share price. The Securities and Exchange Commission judged it a market-moving comment, fined him and forced Tesla to put in place checks to ensure it did not happen again.\n\nBut last month, a federal judge said Tesla and Musk must face a lawsuit by shareholders over the going-private tweet, including a claim that Mr Musk intended to defraud them.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Elon Musk 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\nEarlier this week he tweeted to his 33.4 million followers some strong criticism of US stay-at-home restrictions because of the coronavirus pandemic. Last year he found himself in court after tweeting that a British diver was a \"pedo guy\".\n\nMr Musk said the promise to sell his possessions included his house, formerly owned by actor and producer Gene Wilder, and bought in 2013.\n\n\"One stipulation on sale,\" he tweeted, \"I own Gene Wilder's old house. It cannot be torn down or lose any of its soul.\"", "The National Trust has closed its houses, such as Blickling Hall and Estate, to visitors during the coronavirus pandemic\n\nThe National Trust has warned it could lose up to £200m this year following the coronavirus outbreak - putting some of its key projects at risk.\n\nThe conservation charity has already paused work to clean rivers, prevent upland flooding and improve soil.\n\nIt has called on government to offer the same financial support to nature, wildlife and environmental groups that it has to other businesses.\n\nThe trust says the lockdown has shown the value of access to green space.\n\nThe National Trust, which is the UK's largest conservation charity, looks after more than 300 historic houses and almost 800 miles of coastline across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, its director Hilary McGrady urged ministers to use the recovery from the virus to prioritise \"green growth\" and carbon reduction.\n\nThe trust, which marks its 125th anniversary this year, has closed its gated gardens and parks as well as its houses, cafes and shops to help prevent the spread of coronavirus.\n\nAt the end of March, the conservation charity was also forced to close all of its car parks.\n\nMs McGrady said the coronavirus lockdown in the UK had \"clearly shown\" that people \"want and need access to nature-rich green space near where they live\".\n\nBut she said the sharp drop in revenue faced by the charity has already led to the pausing of key environmental programmes like cleaning rivers, flood prevention and soil improvement.\n\nMs McGrady said that the trust's plan to plant 20 million trees to tackle climate change and create green areas for people near towns and cities \"must not go the same way\".\n\nThe trust has also committed to becoming carbon net zero by 2030.\n\n\"[Business Secretary] Alok Sharma has written to retail and manufacturing businesses to thank them for their efforts and set out a programme of support,\" Ms McGrady said.\n\n\"Ministers now urgently need to address nature, wildlife and environmental organisations with an immediate offer of support, and set out how the sector will contribute towards its green recovery plan.\"\n\nMs McGrady added: \"On a practical level, this means urgent and more creative solutions to climate change.\n\n\"More trees and naturalised rivers can help us deal better with the devastating [...] flooding experienced by large sections of the country this year - a problem that will not go away.\n\n\"And a rapid shift to farming that regenerates our natural environment, improves biodiversity and captures and stores carbon remains one of our most urgent challenges.\"\n\nShe called for a green economic recovery plan, saying spending should reduce carbon emissions and boost public health \"through clean air\".\n\nMs McGrady also stressed the importance of continuing the government's 25-year plan to improve the environment within a generation, and how its delivery depends on the support of conservation charities and green businesses and social enterprises.", "Wicks had previously broken a bone in his hand after falling off his bike\n\nThe Body Coach has thanked NHS surgeons who treated him in hospital.\n\nJoe Wicks, 33, needed to have wires removed from his hand after it became infected following an operation.\n\nWicks, who has been leading online PE lessons during lockdown, previously told his followers he broke his hand in a bicycle crash.\n\nWicks, who has raised about £200,000 for the NHS with his workouts, said he was \"super grateful\" to staff at Kingston Hospital.\n\nOn Instagram, he showed an X-ray of his damaged hand\n\nSpeaking on Instagram, he said: \"It doesn't matter how old you are, when you see a nurse or a doctor you instantly feel safe and calm and relaxed.\n\n\"I think it's amazing, the NHS people out here still grafting, still having to be around the Covid patients and it's just wonderful isn't it, that people are that kind to dedicate their lives to helping other people that are sick and unwell feel better.\"\n\nOn Friday, he described the pain in his hand as excruciating, adding: \"I woke up all night... as it was throbbing and pulsating like liquid hot magma.\"\n\nHe went to hospital after he held his exercise class, saying he was inspired after seeing a young boy join in with his PE class, following an operation he underwent at Great Ormond Street Hospital.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Testing will \"help us to unlock the lockdown\", Matt Hancock says\n\nThe UK provided more than 122,000 coronavirus tests on the last day of April, passing the government's target, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said.\n\nMr Hancock said the 100,000 target was \"audacious\", but testing was needed to get Britain \"back on her feet\".\n\nThe figure includes 40,000 tests sent out, including directly to people's homes, which may not yet have been taken.\n\nMr Hancock set the goal on 2 April, when the UK was on 10,000 tests a day.\n\nSome 27,510 people have now died in UK hospitals, care homes and the wider community after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nOf the 122,347 tests provided in the 24 hours up to Friday morning, the number of people tested was fewer - at just over 70,000 - as has been the case since the testing programme began. This is because some people need to be tested more than once to get a reliable result.\n\nThe total testing figure includes 27,497 kits which were delivered to people's homes and also 12,872 tests that were sent out to centres such as hospitals and NHS sites.\n\nHowever, these may not have been actually used or sent back to a lab.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth suggested the government had been misleading. \"This isn't a time for quibbling but actually 39,000 of these tests have simply been posted out so it's not quite that the government have hit their commitment,\" he told the BBC News channel.\n\n\"I don't think posting out the tests is the same as carrying out tests but nonetheless it is welcome that testing has increased.\"\n\nPrior to 28 April, there was no reference to how tests were counted, but on 28 April guidance on the government website said home tests and satellite tests were being included.\n\nAt the daily Downing Street briefing, Prof John Newton - a scientist advising the government on testing - said there had been \"no change to the way tests are counted\".\n\n\"As we've developed new ways of delivering tests, we've taken advice from officials as to how they should be counted,\" Prof Newton said.\n\n\"So, the tests that are done within the control of the programme - which is the great majority - are counted when the tests are undertaken in our laboratories.\n\n\"But, for any test which goes outside the control of the programme, they're counted when they leave the programme - so that's the tests that are mailed out to people at home and the test that's gone out on the satellite.\"\n\nThe headline figures certainly look impressive - 122,000 tests in a day. Just a week ago around 25,000 were being recorded and a month ago it stood at 10,000.\n\nIt is testament to the hard work that has been done behind the scenes by a partnership of government, scientists and the private sector - with a helping hand from the military.\n\nBut has the government been a little creative with its counting? It has included home-testing kits sent out to individuals as well as the satellite kits - these are batches of tests sent out to care homes and other settings where there are lots of people who need testing.\n\nSome, no doubt, will never be returned.\n\nA week ago these made little difference to the figures - only a few thousand a day were being sent out. But now they account for around a third of the tests.\n\nIn his opening remarks, the health secretary suggested the government's 100,000 target had had a \"galvanising effect\".\n\nHe said the testing capacity built since then would \"help every single person in this country\", and would \"help us to unlock the lockdown\".\n\nMembers of the Armed Forces train each other in how to test for Covid-19\n\nAn NHS worker arrives at a drive-in centre in a car park in Wolverhampton to be tested\n\nMr Hancock said the government's \"next mission\" was its test, track and trace operation and work was already under way to roll it out.\n\n\"By mid-May, we will have an initial 18,000 contact tracers in place,\" he said.\n\n\"The combination of contact tracers and new technology, through our new Covid-19 NHS app, will help tell us where the virus is spreading and help everyone to control new infections.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: What is contact tracing and how does it work?\n\nMr Hancock added that the next phase would allow the government \"to reassert, as much as is safely possible, the liberty of us all\".\n\nThe Department of Health established a testing network, including three \"mega labs\" to test samples, almost 50 drive-through centres, a home-testing service and mobile testing units, as part of the drive to achieve the government's target.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock also expanded the list of people eligible for testing throughout the month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What it's like to test yourself for Covid-19\n\nAt first, across the UK, the focus was on testing the sickest patients in hospitals, followed by health, care and emergency services staff.\n\nAs of last week, other essential workers and their families in England became eligible for testing, if they showed symptoms.\n\nTesting was further expanded in England earlier this week to millions more people, with symptoms including over-65s, those who have to leave home to work, and people living with someone in these groups.\n\nIn Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced earlier that testing will be expanded to over-65s with symptoms and also all those in care homes where there has been an outbreak.\n\nAnd on Friday, the Welsh government extended coronavirus testing to people in care homes even if they are not showing symptoms of the disease.", "The leader of the UN's health body (file photo) expressed concern for nations with vulnerable health systems\n\nThe World Health Organization says it \"didn't waste time\" responding to the coronavirus after facing criticism for its handling of the outbreak.\n\nIts head Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the WHO's declaration of the virus as an international health emergency on 30 January gave \"enough time for the rest of the world to respond\".\n\nAt the time there were only 82 cases outside China and no deaths.\n\nToday there are more than 3.2m cases and 234,000 deaths recorded worldwide.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has said the WHO \"really blew\" its response and accused it of bias towards China.\n\nThe US is the global health body's largest single funder and President Trump says he will halt funding.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference on Friday Dr Tedros offered a vigorous defence of how the organisation responded.\n\nHe insisted the WHO used the time before the declaration wisely, including visiting China to learn more about the virus at its origin.\n\nDr Tedros confirmed that the pandemic remained a \"public health emergency of international concern\", three months after it was declared one.\n\nSuch a declaration is made under an \"extraordinary\" event and requires a global response.\n\nDr Tedros described \"grave\" worries over the potential impact of the virus as it accelerates in countries with weaker health systems.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Secunder Kermani and Anne Soy compare how prepared Asian and African countries are\n\nOfficials said they had seen worrying increases in a number of these nations - including Haiti, Somalia and Sudan.\n\nThe WHO also urged caution among nations relaxing their social distancing measures, stressing the importance of monitoring for new jumps in infections as lockdowns are eased.\n\nDr Tedros was also asked again about relations with the United States, insisting the UN agency remained in \"constant contact\" with the country.\n\nOn Thursday President Trump appeared to undercut his own intelligence agencies by suggesting he had seen evidence coronavirus originated in a Chinese laboratory.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: 'One of two things happened'\n\nThe WHO's head of emergencies, Dr Michael Ryan, addressed the claim on Friday.\n\n\"With regard to the origins of the virus in Wuhan we have listened again and again to numerous scientists who've looked at the (genetic) sequences, looked at this virus, and we are assured that this virus is natural in origin,\" he said.\n\nDr Ryan also added that it was \"important\" to learn more about the animal host and understand how the virus jumped from animals to humans.\n\nChina has rejected the lab theory and criticised the US response to Covid-19.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'World is too fragile,' says head of UN\n\nIn other developments around the world:", "NHS England says it is still offering essential vaccinations and is appealing to parents not to miss appointments for their children during the pandemic.\n\nThe childhood immunisation programme protects against diseases including whooping cough, measles and meningitis.\n\nVisits to clinics and GP surgeries are allowed as long as none of the family is experiencing symptoms of Covid-19.\n\nPublic Health Wales said this week that it had seen a small drop in routine vaccination numbers.\n\nVaccinations routinely given in schools, such as the human papillomavirus (HPV) jab offered to older children, are currently suspended - but may be available from individual clinics.\n\n\"The national immunisation programme remains in place to protect the nation's health and no-one should be in any doubt of the devastating impact of diseases such as measles, meningitis and pneumonia,\" said Dr Mary Ramsay, head of immunisations at Public Health England.\n\n\"During this time, it is important to maintain the best possible vaccine uptake to prevent a resurgence of these infections.\"\n\nLast month Unicef warned of future measles outbreaks around the world, as a result of vaccination delays due to the pandemic.\n\nSome surgeries have taken steps to try to make the process as socially distant as possible.\n\nThe Project Surgery in East London is offering a \"drive-through\" service twice a week, where families can come in either by car or on foot, but do not go into the surgery itself.\n\nIt was launched when the number of routine vaccinations the surgery was doing dropped from 12 per week to just three because parents were afraid to come in.\n\nFarzana Hussain said weekly vaccination appointments had dropped from 12 to just three\n\n\"We chopped up the 10-minute consultation into three [parts]\", GP principal Farzana Hussain told BBC reporter Anna Collinson.\n\n\"The first part is on the telephone. Then the nurse comes out just to give the injection, so the face-to-face contact is just two minutes and all the records are written up with without the patient there.\"\n\nNumbers have now gone back up to eight per week, she said.\n\n\"Life is all about risks and benefits. The benefits of having your kids vaccinated is so much greater, it would be a tragedy if we saw measles or diphtheria make a comeback.\"\n\nPrior to the development of the vaccine, diptheria killed about 3,500 children each year in the UK, notes Oxford University's Vaccine Knowledge Project.\n\nIt is still fatal in one in 10 cases today, but has largely been eradicated in the UK since the vaccination was introduced.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA police officer has been suspended after allegedly using \"unnecessary force\" when detaining a teenage boy.\n\nFootage shared widely on social media shows a West Midlands Police officer appearing to \"strike and kick\" the 15-year-old, the police watchdog said.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is investigating the \"altercation\" in an alleyway in Newtown, Birmingham, on 21 April.\n\nThe force said the officer, who has not been identified, has been suspended.\n\nIn a statement, the force said the boy \"had been seen acting suspiciously\" and was told he would be searched under the Misuse of Drugs Act.\n\nThe watchdog said it understood the boy's mother had made a formal complaint about the officer's actions.\n\nThe IOPC said: \"Footage of the incident has been shared on social media that shows a police officer involved in an altercation with the boy, who he is seen to strike and kick.\"\n\nThe officer allegedly used excessive force against another member of the public in a separate incident, the watchdog said.\n\nRegional director Derrick Campbell said: \"We are aware that the footage circulated on social and other media has caused significant public concern.\n\n\"We will be carefully examining the circumstances of the incident and the officer's use of force.\"\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct has confirmed it is investigating\n\nWest Midlands Police said: \"We have suspended one of our officers following two complaints received about his conduct.\n\n\"A complaint was received after the officer stopped a teenager on 21 April in Melbourne Avenue, Newtown.\n\n\"In the ensuing incident it is alleged that the officer used unnecessary force in striking and kicking the young person.\"\n\nThe force said the second complaint relates to an incident on 20 April in Frederick Road, Aston, where two officers stopped a man they suspected was on a stolen bicycle.\n\n\"The man was detained and it's alleged the officer assaulted the man before he was released with no further action,\" the force said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Crashes involving cyclists in North Yorkshire have risen as more people take to their bikes during the lockdown, police say.\n\nThe number of collisions with cyclists has gone up from 20% to 27%, compared to the same period last year.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police said the rise coincided with an increase in excessive traffic speeds.\n\nThe force has urged both cyclists and drivers to take extra care on the roads.\n\nSgt Kirsten Aldridge said: “We’ve seen a lot more cyclists using our roads recently, from young families and novices to experienced riders. The number of collisions involving cyclists has also sadly risen during this time.\n\n“But if drivers and cyclists remember to share the road and stick to the rules this weekend, their risk of being involved in a serious crash can be significantly reduced.”", "The government will release a series of papers next week outlining its approach on how to safely and gradually restart the economy.\n\nIt invited submissions by Thursday from businesses, trade bodies, unions and other workers representatives on how best to slowly restart the UK economy.\n\nIt's thought the proposals will not be split bluntly by sector but by working environment.\n\nBut there is no confirmed date yet for when such a restart will occur.\n\nUnions, large firms and business groups have been consulted on seven areas:\n\nThe position papers are expected to comprise a set of broad guidelines based on these discussions, which will not be too prescriptive as to be inflexible, and given it would be impossible to examine individual premises, it's thought companies will be allowed to self-certify they are in compliance with the guidelines.\n\nThe government wants to involve unions and the Health and Safety executive to endorse the plans and to both get buy-in from workers, and provide a channel for any worker concerns at the new arrangements.\n\nThe principles may not necessarily insist that workers strictly observe a two-metre social distancing rule.\n\nIn situations where workers may be required to be closer than two metres, the guidelines may insist on mitigating measures such as wearing protective masks or clothing, or where possible work back-to-back, rather than face-to-face.\n\nUnion sources say these are very early principles and would not, on their own, create a satisfactory basis for a return to work. They have said much more detailed technical work will be required.\n\nThere are some sectors which the government has acknowledged will be unable to function at any significant level for many weeks and possibly months to come, in particular hospitality and leisure.\n\nSimon Emeny, the boss of Fullers, which operates 400 pubs and restaurants, has told the BBC that reopening under social distancing rules would be worse than staying closed.\n\n\"Think of the practical problems of going to the loo, being served at the bar, a plate of food at your table. Also few people would want to come,\" he said.\n\n\"It would mean our revenue would be down by as much as 80%, but our costs would go up, so it's actually more catastrophic to open under socially distant guidelines than it is being closed down.\"\n\nThat means there will be some very serious questions for the Treasury, on how long it is willing or able to continue to pay millions of furloughed workers wages, under a job retention scheme that some estimate is currently costing up to a billion pounds a day.\n\nThere is also the question of how much demand there will be for the products and services the reopened businesses will produce and provide. Car factories and showrooms may reopen - but how many people are in the mood for a big ticket purchase like that right now.\n\nIndustry bodies accept that returning to work will be a difficult and delicate exercise - both operationally for business and emotionally for many workers.\n\nUnion leaders have told the BBC there are isolated incidents in which some of their members who have already returned to work have been subjected to abuse from people in their own community, fearful workers could be bringing the virus back with them from their places of work.\n\nThe government has paid tribute to the public for largely adhering to a simple and often repeated message: \"stay at home, protect the NHS, save lives\". 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