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An outspoken critic of China's rulers, Professor Xu Zhangrun, has been released after six days in police custody, friends say.
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The Beijing constitutional law professor was already under house arrest when he was detained on 6 July.
He had criticised China's response to coronavirus and what he sees as a Mao-like cult of personality under China's current leader, Xi Jinping.
The authorities have not confirmed his release from detention.
News of his release has come from friends speaking to international media outlets.
One friend told the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post that Mr Xu, 57, returned home in the morning and was well.
It is not known why he was detained. After his arrest, a friend said Mr Xu's wife had received a call saying he was accused of soliciting prostitution while in the city of Chengdu - a charge the friend dismissed as ridiculous.
Open criticism of the authorities in China carries the risk of arrest and jail sentences. Mr Xu's criticism of the ruling Communist Party in a series of recent essays had drawn unfavourable attention from the Chinese government.
A professor at the high-ranking Tsinghua University for two decades, he was barred more than a year ago and placed under investigation after speaking out against the removal of presidential term limits, which allow Mr Xi to remain in post for life.
The academic was placed under house arrest earlier this year after publishing an article criticising the way President Xi and the government had handled the coronavirus outbreak. Mr Xu suggested it might be the last article he ever wrote.
Geng Xiaonan, a friend of the professor, told the New York Times when he was arrested that he was "mentally prepared to be taken away".
"He kept a bag with clothes and a toothbrush hanging on his front door so he would be ready for this," she said.
The United States had urged China to free Mr Xu.
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A DJ who was jailed after sharing "horrific" child sex abuse images online has had his sentence doubled by the Court of Appeal.
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Haitch Macklin, of Salford, sold access to an online catalogue which included the sexual torture of babies.
In April, the 38-year-old from Salford was jailed for 20 months at Manchester Crown Court in April.
But judges ruled the sentence did not "reflect the gravity of the offending" and increased the term to four years.
Lady Justice Macur said the three judges came to the "sure conclusion that we cannot accept that the sentence reflects the gravity of the offending in this case, and that it does not do so by some margin".
Macklin had admitted making and showing indecent images of children.
The National Crime Agency (NCA) said the material he sold access to was "some of the most horrific and disturbing content they've ever seen in many years investigating child sexual abuse".
Using the name "UK Perv" he spoke in chatrooms about wanting to film a murder, the NCA said.
Macklin, who was born David Bradley and was previously known as Haitch Bradley, performed part-time as DJ Spook.
His sentence was referred to the Court of Appeal by Solicitor General Michael Ellis under the unduly lenient sentencing scheme.
In a statement after the hearing, Mr Ellis said: "The extent of Haitch Macklin's involvement in this grossly abhorrent distribution of child pornography is sickening.
"I am pleased that the court has found his sentence to be unduly lenient and decided to increase it."
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A man has been found dead in a street in a Cardiff suburb.
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The body of a man, believed to be in his 20s or 30s, was found in Westville Street, Penylan, just before midnight on Thursday.
A number of roads near the scene remained cordoned off on Friday as police investigated the circumstances of the death, which they said they were treating as unexplained.
South Wales Police urged witnesses to come forward.
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Dutch police have questioned a security researcher who said he successfully logged into the US president's Twitter account by guessing his password.
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By Joe TidyCyber reporter
Last month, well-known cyber investigator Victor Gevers said he had gained access to Donald Trump's Twitter account with the password 'MAGA2020!'.
The White House denied it had happened and Twitter said it had no evidence of a hack.
But Mr Gevers has now revealed more information to back up his claims.
As part of the police interrogation, Mr Gevers revealed for the first time that he had substantially more evidence of the "hack" than he had previously released.
He did not reveal exactly what information he had, but by logging in to somebody's Twitter account someone would in theory be able to:
They would even be able to download an archive of all the user's data, including photos and messages.
A spokesman for the Dutch Public Prosecution Service confirmed to De Volkskrant newspaper: "We are currently investigating whether something criminal has happened."
The spokesman said their inquiry was an "independent Dutch investigation" and not based on a US request for legal assistance.
The police told the BBC that Mr Gevers had been questioned as a witness by the High Tech Crime Team and was not a suspect yet.
Police must first prove that the hack happened. If prosecutors consider Mr Gevers' actions to be illegal and outside the realm of cyber-security research, he could face up to four years in prison.
Mr Gevers told reporters of his hack on 22 October. Dutch news outlet Vrij Nederland first reported the story.
Donald Trump's Twitter account has about 89 million followers.
Screenshots
Mr Gevers says he was doing a semi-regular sweep of the Twitter accounts of high-profile US election candidates on 16 October when he guessed President Trump's password.
He did not post any tweets or change any settings, but said he took screenshots of some parts of the president's account.
He said he had spent days trying to contact the Trump campaign to warn them about their security, which was lacking extra safeguards like two-factor authentication, before going to the press.
Two-factor authentication is a widely-used security system that links a phone app or number to an account, to add an extra step to the process of logging in.
The US president's account is now secure.
Scepticism
At the time, Twitter said: "We've seen no evidence to corroborate this claim. We proactively implemented account security measures for a designated group of high-profile, election-related Twitter accounts in the United States, including federal branches of government."
Twitter refused to answer any further questions about the hack, including whether or not the extra security measures were permanently enforced or if the company even has access to the president's account activity.
Mr Gevers' story has been met with scepticism by some in the information security world as his screenshots could have been faked.
However, he claims to have a lot more data. He hopes he will not have to disclose it to prosecutors but says he is prepared to if necessary.
He said: "I have evidence that was not included in the responsible disclosure to the Trump team because it did not add anything in alerting the victim of the risk.
"I have shown some of it to a select group of journalists. Police asked me if I was willing to show it and I said no. Only if there is an indication of wrongdoing will the archived material be unlocked."
The BBC has seen some evidence but has not been able to verify whether all the additional material is genuine.
But Mr Gevers says he is standing by his account of events and hopes that his actions are ruled to have been a normal part of his job as an ethical hacker.
"There should not be a reason for the Dutch National Police, especially the team at the High Tech Crime Unit, to doubt my statement. They know me, they know my work for more than 22 years with the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure.
"I did not 'hack' Trump's account, I did not bypass any security system as there was no adequate security in place. I just guessed the password and then tried to warn his team about the risks and how to solve them."
Earlier this year, Mr Gevers also claimed to have successfully logged into Mr Trump's Twitter account in 2016.
In that login he and other security researchers used a password linked to another of Donald Trump's social network accounts that was discovered in a previous data breach.
In that instance Mr Gevers claims the password was another famous catchphrase from the reality TV star and politician: "yourefired".
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Nearly 380 workers at Carillion are being made redundant, but the body in charge of liquidating the business said it had saved 919 jobs.
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The Official Receiver said that most of the people who have kept their posts are being transferred on existing or similar terms to new companies that are taking over Carillion's contracts.
However, it said that "despite best efforts" it was unable to secure 377 roles.
Carillion went bust on 15 January.
The Official Receiver said employees whose jobs have been safeguarded worked on infrastructure, central and local government projects, as well as on construction contracts.
A spokesperson for the Official Receiver, said: "I recognise that this will be a worrying time for all those affected, their families and local communities. I would like to thank all staff for their professionalism throughout the liquidation.
"I am expecting many employees working on other Carillion contracts to transfer in the coming weeks and we are continuing to keep the workforce updated as these arrangements are finalised."
Carillion had employed 43,000 people, including around 20,000 in the UK.
Since it collapsed last month, a number of companies have said they will take over contracts and projects that they had previously worked on with the now defunct construction and services business.
Kier Group had been part of a joint venture with Carillion and French business Eiffage on the High Speed 2 rail project. Kier and Eiffage are now partners on the scheme and are taking on 51 Carillion employees.
Kier has also assumed full responsibility for work on behalf of Highways England to reduce congestion on motorways, and is transferring about 150 employees from Carillion.
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Around half of 15 to 17-year-olds have accessed pornography on a smartphone or tablet, according to a survey seen by Newsbeat.
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By Jonathan BlakeNewsbeat technology reporter
The poll, carried out by the mental health charity Young Minds, also suggests a third of 11 to 14-year-olds had watched porn on a mobile device.
The survey questioned 2,000 people aged 11 to 25.
Young Minds said the results show porn is having a "damaging impact" on young people.
The survey, published on Safer Internet Day, suggests many people who watch porn think it has affected their relationships.
Overall, 13% of those questioned said watching porn "definitely" had an effect.
A further 12% answered "occasionally" and 14% said their relationship was "slightly" affected.
The charity suggested the rise in popularity of smartphones and tablets has made it easier to access porn.
"It is something teenagers are always going to encounter but never like this," said Lucie Russell, Director of Campaigns at Young Minds.
"Anyone can do it, anywhere, any time," she added.
Have you ever gone online (on your mobile or tablet) and watched any pornographic content?
The poll questioned 2,000 children and young people aged 11 to 25.
Other findings of the survey include:
Slightly more males questioned had accessed porn on a smartphone or tablet with 59% saying they had, compared to 44% of females.
Younger people questioned were more likely to watch porn with a group of friends - 29% of 15 to 18-year-olds had done so.
The survey also asked how watching porn made people feel, with the most common answer being "excited".
However, a quarter of people questioned said they "didn't feel anything".
Jake, who did not want to give his real name, is a 20-year-old student and describes himself as a "regular user" of pornography.
He said he started watching porn online aged 13 and does not think it has had any negative effects on him.
"You know that most of your mates will watch pornography and I think that's a completely normal habit.
"If you get along with your friends there's no reason why you wouldn't want to talk about it. You can have a good laugh talking about it."
Consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist, Dr Eileen Vizard, said that repeated viewing of porn can have a damaging effect.
"With children, whose brains are still developing, there could be long lasting effects on the way their brains function."
She added that young people watching porn can often turn to more extreme types of material.
"They tend to escalate the seriousness of what they want to look at, sexual material that involves coercive acts towards women or maybe children."
Young Minds says children in primary school should be taught how to navigate the internet safely.
"We need to be talking about pornography in the classroom," said Ms Russell.
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What is believed to be debris from an avalanche that happened this summer has been discovered in the Highlands.
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By Steven McKenzieBBC Scotland Highlands and Islands reporter
Iain Cameron, who studies and writes about snow, has examined the find on Sgurr na Lapaich, the highest of a remote range of mountains.
Describing the debris as an "incredible scene", Mr Cameron said the snow had survived because of a "protective jacket" of thick mud.
He said the avalanche may have happened in June.
A snow slide in summer would be rare.
Most of them happen between December and April, the months covered by Sportscotland Avalanche Information Service's avalanche hazard information reports for walkers, climbers and skiers.
Mr Cameron made his visit to Sgurr na Lapaich late last month following a tip-off from a mountaineer.
Sgurr na Lapaich and others in the range on the north side of Loch Mullardoch can be visible in good weather from Inverness.
Mr Cameron believes the avalanche debris could survive into the start of this coming winter.
This year, snow from last winter has survived in other parts of the Highlands.
On one Munro in Glen Coe a patch of snow has lasted the longest time in living memory, according to the area's ski resort.
The snow lies on Meall a'Bhuiridh, the location of Glencoe Mountain's Flypaper run ski run.
The resort's Andy Meldrum said: "This is the latest that snow has ever survived on Meall a'Bhuiridh since skiing began here in 1956.
"But some of our old timers here, guys in their 90s, say snow has never lasted this long."
A pocket of snow has also survived in the Fannichs range in Wester Ross.
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The economy could receive a boost worth billions if England make it to the World Cup final, research suggests.
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Work done by the Centre for Retail Research (CRR) estimates that the economy has benefitted from extra spending of more than £1bn this year.
The centre estimates that spending will rise to £2.7bn if England makes it to the finals.
It says much of the spending will be at shops with fans stocking up on food and drink before watching matches at home.
Professor Joshua Bamfield, CRR director, said the amount spent so far was about £800m more than during the 2014 World Cup when England crashed out of the tournament before reaching the knockout stages.
In its report on the last World Cup the CRR says: "Every goal scored by an England footballer - right the way to the final - would be worth £165.3m to England's retailers and an extra £33.2m to pubs, hotels and restaurants."
However England goals in 2014 proved to be thin on the ground.
Prof Bamfield said: "At the last World Cup we didn't get past the group stage and from a retail point of view sales fell off a cliff.
"This time no one expected much - they were so used to being kicked in the teeth - but once they started playing it all changed.
"The spending patterns also fit in with the current retail theme of 'experience'. People want to spend their money going to the pub or having a barbecue with their friend and watching the match."
Last week pub owner Greene King, after reporting a disappointing set of profits for last year, said things were looking up thanks to the hot weather and the World Cup.
The chain sold half a million extra pints during the Panama match.
Chief executive Rooney Anand said: " It remains true that when the sun shines, or sport is on, people do want to go to the pub."
Feelgood factor
Prof Bamfield said the World Cup also provided a reason for consumers to splash out on electronics such as a new bigscreen television.
"People may have been meaning to get a new TV or computer for some time and the World Cup gives them the opportunity to make the decision," he said.
"Also, people are buying souvenirs, parents and grandparents are using the competition as a reason to buy kit for children."
Economists are also seeing the competition add some optimism to the strong numbers reported on Wednesday for the UK's services sector.
Howard Archer, chief economist at the EY Item Club, said: "A significantly improved survey for the dominant services sector adds to the feel good factor, after England actually winning a penalty shoot out to reach the quarter finals of the World Cup."
However, if sporting success leads to stronger economic growth it may also lead to higher interest rates.
Andy Haldane, the Bank of England's chief economist and a member of its Monetary Policy Committee, said World Cup success was adding to the general recovery of the economy.
"The underlying picture now appears to be one of gently rising household spending," he said.
"And then, of course, there is the World Cup. Without wishing to tempt fate, England's recent sporting success on the football field... has probably added to that feelgood factor among England-supporting consumers."
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An army officer accused of manslaughter while on duty did not follow "a lot of rules and regulations", a court heard.
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Ranger Michael Maguire, 21, died at the Castlemartin Training Area in Pembrokeshire in May 2012 during an exercise set up by Capt Jonathan Price.
He was hit and killed by a stray bullet from while he was in a safe zone.
The court martial heard Capt Price's conduct "was not good" on the day of the incident. He denies manslaughter by negligence.
Capt Price, 32, now of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish, is accused of failing to set up and supervise a safe exercise.
The court martial in Bulford, Wiltshire, heard he attended a live fire tactical training course, but despite passing he did not know it was advised he could have benefitted from extra supervision while setting up live exercises.
Matthew Sherratt, representing Capt Price, said: "It would be difficult to criticise him for leaving that course not at the standard he should have been."
'Messed up'
Giving expert evidence, Lt Col Chris Rose, former chief instructor to the Infantry Battle School, said Capt Price's conduct "was not good" on the day of the incident.
He said: "I have no knowledge of the conduct he did on 1 May but his conduct on 2 May was not good.
"I reviewed the Rasp [Range Action Safety Plan] against what I expect a young officer to deliver. It's a poor Rasp.
"There were a lot of rules and regulations that were not followed."
The court martial previously heard Capt Price set up targets "negligently" and told a colleague he had "messed up" after the death of Ranger Maguire of the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Regiment.
Two other officers, Lt Col Richard Bell, 45, and Warrant Officer Stuart Pankhurst, 40, are both accused of negligently performing a duty.
All three defendants deny the charges. The trial continues.
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A so-called Supernanny who helped hundreds of Nottinghamshire families with parenting problems has been made redundant.
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Anne Callaghan had worked in Mansfield since 2007 addressing challenging behaviour in children.
She was part of an early intervention project and was given a British Empire Medal in 2015.
Mansfield District Council blamed tight budgets, but Ms Callaghan said problems were "not going to go away".
She was initially employed by the county council, but funding was provided by the district council from 2012.
Ms Callaghan helped Craig (not his real name) to deal with his autistic daughter, who also has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
He said she would be "sorely missed".
Craig said: "We found our daughter with her arms slashed in June of last year and she ended up in A&E.
"Anne helped us to get our daughter back on the straight and narrow, back in mainstream school and doing quite well.
"I don't want to think what would have happened without Anne."
Ms Callaghan, who leaves this week, said: "I am sad and disappointed.
"I understand the decision, due to budget cuts, but we have lots of deprived families that do need help.
"We have high levels of that, it's not going to go away, and without early intervention it will be a case of managing crisis - and we know that doesn't work."
Council chief executive Hayley Barsby said: "This was now deemed to be a county council function and it is with great regret the council is no longer able to support it at a local level.
"The council provided this service for a considerable amount of time over and above other local authorities and we recognise the impact of the project and support that has been given to vulnerable families."
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Lockdown pupils at a school in Somerset have been competing to make the best fine-dining plate out of baked beans.
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Frome College challenged students to plate up baked beans and toast in an "exciting and imaginative way".
The idea came from design technology teacher Emily McMunn who also offered to donate the winner's height in tins of beans to the Frome Food bank.
The secondary school said the response had been "fantastic" and the standards had been "extremely high".
The students in years nine and ten, were given the challenge "as a bit of fun" last term.
First place was awarded to year nine student Gil Privett, who fashioned "beautifully-plated swans" out of pieces of toast and placed them on a plate-sized pool of beans.
Year nine pupil Ashleigh Gahagan came second in the competition for his swirling butterfly beans on toast, garnished with basil and "jus de haricot".
Third place was given to fellow year nine student Cameron Vince for his "professional and well-thought-out presentation".
Ms McMunn, said she set the competition to keep students motivated and to let them "practise plating up in a professional way".
"I said to the students that I would donate the winner's height in tins of beans and he is 5ft 2in (approx 160cm) tall so that equates to around 15 tins," she said.
A spokesperson for the school said: "We are delighted with the effort and enthusiasm shown by them all."
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Business leaders have urged politicians to help retailers by reducing the number of parades and protests In Northern Ireland.
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The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) made the call after thousands took part in a loyalist parade through Belfast city centre on Saturday.
The march started an hour after the Parades Commission had ruled it should, which meant lunchtime trade in the city was adversely affected.
It passed off without major incident.
About 1,000 protesters marched through the city centre, but by the time the parade had reached the Shankill/Woodvale areas of the city, the number had risen to about 3,000, according to police estimates.
The parade was organised by a group calling itself Loyal Peaceful Protesters.
It was in protest against the Parades Commission and the ongoing dispute over the flying of the union flag at Belfast City Hall.
'Frightened'
Mark Shortt, who runs an eye clinic in the city centre, said Saturday's march was "quite peaceful, as far as I could see".
But he added that many of his clients travel from areas such as Londonderry, Donegal, Enniskillen and Newry to the clinic and could be deterred by parades and protests.
"They don't know Belfast, they don't know that it's likely to be safe and it's a safe place to come and spend your money.
"When Belfast is buzzing there is no better place, don't get me wrong, but when they don't know and don't have that information, they'll be frightened to come."
Loyalists have been staging street protests since 3 December last year, when councillors voted to restrict the number of days the flag is flown from the city hall.
Inter-party political talks, aimed at resolving disputes over flags, parades and the legacy of the Troubles, began in Belfast last week.
The talks are chaired by the American diplomat Richard Haass.
Mr Haass met business representatives last Thursday, and it is understood they told him that loyalist flag protests were a contributory factor in Belfast shops losing up to £50m between December 2012 and July 2013.
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Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary looks ahead to the difficulties to come this winter, and considers how much has changed since March.
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The hospital remains in its own Narnia, locked down from visitors, with monastic corridors and deserted shops and coffee bars. The wards by contrast are busy and our A&E department is back to pre-pandemic activity with over 400 patients per day. The number of patients with Covid-19 has stabilised at around 80, 10 on ICU, not far off our peak in April, but unlike the first wave we are doing our best to keep all our services running as much as we can.
This time we know what we are doing; we have learnt hard lessons. Our treatments are better and we are managing patients with Teutonic efficiency and insightful compassion. The chaos of PPE shortages is a distant memory with scrubs and visors laid out in the ward donning rooms like a bespoke tailor's shop. (Having said that, the number of patients on oxygen did briefly cause oxygen shortage alarms earlier in the week.)
But there is another change. This time we are no longer heroes. This is the new normal.
Consultant in respiratory medicine Paul Whitaker notes that in spring "there was a sense of camaraderie and everyone was rising to the challenge". Now, he says, we're seeing "a kind of battle fatigue".
"So I think it's going to be a hard period, because I imagine this will go on for the whole six months, over winter and into spring. So it's going to test people's resolve and endurance to keep going."
The other major challenge he foresees is the task of keeping patients safe outside the red zone, where the Covid-19 cases are isolated. We are now effectively running two hospitals - the red zone and the green zone - and we know from the spring that controlling the spread of infection from one to the other is hard, if not impossible. This invisible coronavirus bundle of RNA has a knack of evading all our carefully prepared border controls. It is just not possible to run the Covid-19 wards as hermetically sealed units.
And this time the green zone is much busier. Doctors are juggling the workload of Covid and non-Covid cases, and while we assigned all staff to help with the pandemic first time round, our determination to keep other services going now will make rotas harder to fill.
In spring, Paul Whitaker notes, "we didn't have any non-Covid activity".
"For some reason those patients were keeping away from the hospital," he says. "Whereas now we've got high numbers of Covid, but we've also got high numbers of standard respiratory problems who aren't Covid-positive that we're seeing normally at this time of year. There are lots of other viruses going on and everything else."
Will there be a double whammy of flu and Covid-19? It's possible, though measures taken to control the transmission of one, should control the other, and signs from the southern hemisphere, where winter has already come and gone, and are positive. Flu cases there have dropped dramatically.
But while deaths from Covid-19 have so far remained low in Bradford this time round, Paul Whitaker doesn't expect this to last.
"I suspect, probably, the deaths will come - that's my feeling," he says. "We have had some slightly younger patients, who have some comorbidities or diabetes or hypertension or obesity. We haven't quite had the same numbers of very elderly, frail or nursing home residents that we have before. But I suspect it's only a matter of time. And I don't think it's that Covid is necessarily behaving less aggressively."
Prof John Wright, a 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.
I spoke to two patients on the Covid wards receiving treatment guided by the routine that is now so familiar. Both were brought in with low blood oxygen levels, were put on oxygen with CPAP, and quickly improved.
Ian, a semi-retired accountant, says he doesn't know how he caught the virus.
"After the first lockdown, when they took the brakes off, we carried on being careful," he says. "We haven't even been going round to see people, and we've been wearing masks whenever we went shopping. We tried so much to not catch it."
Mark, by contrast, thinks he may have caught the virus from a colleague whose wife, Helen, works as a receptionist at a college, and is therefore exposed to young people, who may in some cases be failing to take adequate precautions
Helen got a message from track and trace to say she had been in contact with someone who had tested positive. She tested positive herself a week ago last Wednesday, and Mark, already feeling very tired, decided to get tested on Thursday. His test came back positive on the Saturday - his 48th birthday - and two days later paramedics said he'd have to come in.
Mark's story shows test and trace working as it should. But sadly the government's national test and trace system, such a crucial element of keeping Covid-19 rates under control, is currently managing to contact less than half of all potential SARS-CoV-2 cases in Bradford (people who have come into contact with someone who has tested positive). Nationally the figure is 65%, which is not much better - and it's estimated that less than 20% of those actually contacted go on to isolate.
The week at least started with something positive - some unexpected praise for Bradford from the Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty, for the great work in tackling the pandemic from the city's communities, local government and NHS. There has been no shortage of self-appointed experts on Covid-19 during the last six months, each with their own opinion on how the pandemic should be managed, but the CMO, as an epidemiologist and infectious disease specialist, is without doubt the right person at the right time in the right job, and his feedback has lifted spirits greatly.
Bradford does indeed seem to have coped well in recent weeks, balancing the health consequences of the virus with the economic consequences of restrictions. Numbers of cases have risen much less steeply than in some other northern cities, Manchester, Liverpool, and Leeds, for example (see the graph above). We keep looking for signs of hope in the plateauing of the curves, but if there is one certainty that Covid-19 has taught us, it is never to be certain.
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Turkey has illegally forced thousands of refugees to return to Syria, a report by Amnesty International says.
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The group says about 100 Syrians have been sent back to their war-torn country every day since mid-January in breach of international law.
Amnesty says its report exposes the flaws in a recent deal between the EU and Turkey aimed at stemming the flow of refugees arriving in Greece.
Turkey has denied sending back any refugees against their will.
The Amnesty report comes just days before Turkey is expected to receive the first migrants returned from Greece under the deal with the EU. On Friday the UN called for safeguards before any migrants were returned.
The group says its research in southern Turkey suggested that authorities had been rounding up and expelling groups of about 100 Syrian men, women and children almost daily since the middle of January.
Under the "non-refoulement" principle of international humanitarian law, a state is prohibited from deporting individuals to a war zone.
Amnesty said one case involved three young children forced back into Syria without their parents, while another saw the forced return of an eight-months' pregnant woman.
It said many of those returned appeared to be unregistered refugees but it had also documented cases of registered Syrian refugees being sent back while not carrying their papers.
"The inhumanity and scale of the returns is truly shocking; Turkey should stop them immediately," said John Dalhuisen, Amnesty's director for Europe and Central Asia.
Under the EU-Turkey deal, migrants arriving illegally in Greece are expected to be sent back to Turkey from 4 April if they do not apply for asylum or if their claim is rejected.
In return, Turkey will receive aid and political concessions.
But critics of the deal say it hinges on Turkey being a safe country of asylum, which Amnesty says is clearly not the case.
"In their desperation to seal their borders, EU leaders have wilfully ignored the simplest of facts: Turkey is not a safe country for Syrian refugees and is getting less safe by the day," said Mr Dalhuisen.
"The large-scale returns of Syrian refugees we have documented highlight the fatal flaws in the EU-Turkey deal. It is a deal that can only be implemented with the hardest of hearts and a blithe disregard for international law."
He added: "Far from pressuring Turkey to improve the protection it offers Syrian refugees, the EU is in fact incentivising the opposite."
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A BBC report in January uncovered allegations of refugees being detained in Turkey before being forced to return to Syria.
One refugee told the BBC that guards had driven them to the Syrian border and forced them to sign a piece of paper on which was written "I want to go back to Syria".
Turkey has taken in 2.7 million Syrian refugees since the civil war began five years ago. Many live in camps near the border between the two countries.
The Turkish foreign ministry said it had maintained an "open door" policy for Syrian migrants and strictly abided by the principle of not returning people to a country where they are liable to face persecution.
"None of the Syrians that have demanded protection from our country are being sent back to their country by force, in line with international and national law," a foreign ministry spokesman told Reuters news agency.
Borders tightened
Last year, more than one million migrants and refugees arrived in the EU by boat from Turkey to Greece, triggering a political crisis within the bloc.
More than 143,000 have arrived this year alone, and about 360 have died, according to the International Organization for Migration.
Most migrants and refugees intend to go to Germany and other northern European countries, but tens of thousands are now stuck in Greece as their route north has been blocked.
Human rights groups have said the EU-Turkey deal could force migrants to start using other and potentially more dangerous routes, such as the journey between North Africa and Italy.
A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.
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Flash flooding has been reported across mid and west Wales following heavy showers.
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Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said crews had been called to 12 incidents in Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion on Friday morning.
In New Quay, water could be seen rushing down the road towards the seafront where it collected in large pools.
It followed an intense band of heavy showers which is set to move south.
Three flood warnings - meaning flooding is possible - remain in place in areas close to rivers across south west Wales.
Natural Resources Wales said areas near the River Taf, Cynin, and Teifi were at risk of flooding.
While the heavy rain has passed, river levels are expected to peak by about 20:00 BST and NRW said the flood alert would remain in place until water levels had fallen overnight.
In Talsarn, Ceredigion, Jamie Isherwood said water had flooded in a "torrent" towards the mechanics he works at.
He added: "By the time I had gone inside and put my overalls on and my boots it was a torrent that was coming all the way down the road.
"Within 20 minutes where we are standing was nearly a foot deep in water and one of the boys had to knock the retaining wall down the back down so it could drain the water away. It was just mad."
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"I did 15 years on Art Attack - 20 series, 500 shows, 2000 ideas and the question I get more than anything else is 'did you actually do the drawings?'"
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Neil Buchanan brought art to a generation of children, but is still waiting to be recognised as an artist.
Yet as the 49-year-old Liverpudlian launches his first collection of what he calls "grown-up art", he says that is not the reason for producing it.
"I always promised myself that one day, when I hung up my wax crayon, I would do something for myself and came out of me.
"In a way, this is the first time the public are going to get to see the real Neil Buchanan."
The exhibition, Hope Street, is inspired by his growing-up in Aintree, a subject matter chosen not least because he says he is "a sucker for nostalgia".
"I thought why not do something appertaining to my childhood?" he says.
"Hope Street isn't a place, it's a state of mind - I think when I was a kid, there was a lot more hope in the air.
"Whether that was naive or not, I don't know, but it felt right to me - I lived in hope."
'Failed rock star'
Interestingly, it is neither Neil's TV career nor his move into fine art that he is most proud of.
It is his first love, music, and in particular, his recently revived heavy metal band, Marseille.
"People say 'Art Attack has to be your greatest achievement ever', but it wasn't.
"It was a no brainer - just a good idea, such a good idea that it was always going to be successful.
"I'm a musician first - that's what runs through my blood.
"I was a failed rock star first time around... So getting five fortysomethings back together into the music business, which is dead, in a genre of music that hasn't been heard of since the dinosaurs… that's been my greatest achievement.
"We worked out the other day that in the last year, we've played to around 8,000 people and we've sold a third of them an album - that's not a bad hit rate.
"I laugh about it - it's just five guys growing old disgracefully."
"The red sweatshirt's gone out of the window though, and been replaced by leather.
'Keep smiling'
He says he does not miss his place on children's television and that his ambitions these days are simple.
"I want to wake up tomorrow with a smile on my face.
"These are crazy days for all of us and my ambition is to get on with it, keep smiling, put a smile on everyone else's face."
Neil Buchanan launches his Hope Street collection at Rennies Gallery in Liverpool on Friday 7 October and The Original Art Shop in Preston on Saturday 8 October.
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Bob Lingwood was born in London just weeks before World War One ended.
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By Louise CullenBBC News NI
He didn't imagine war would be part of his life, but he had his own reasons for joining up at the age of 19.
"I didn't join because I was loyal to the crown, as it were, patriotic. I joined because I wanted to learn about motor engines. Motor engines then were like computers are today."
When the World War Two hostilities began, he was called up.
"I spent my 21st birthday in France in 1939," he recalled.
Useless trenches
"For six months, we were virtually digging trenches, which were useless, they were never used.
"We did get leave back to London, but it was more dangerous to go back to London and the air raids than what we were experiencing in France."
Bob's job was to lay telephone wires to allow communication between different sections of the Army.
In early 1940, he was in Brussels, when things began to wrong.
"We were confronted by two armoured vehicles. We were no match for the Germans.
"I was in charge of the unit and I had no choice but to surrender."
Bob and his men had to march towards a prison camp, collecting more prisoners, mostly French and Belgian soldiers, en route.
They reached the town of Aalst in Belgium, when Bob saw his chance.
"Our guard was distracted," he said.
"I'd already noticed as we entered the town, that I could see our troops on the other side of the river.
"I said to my section, 'come on lads, we'll make a run for it'."
'Bullets struck bridge'
Accompanied by some of their fellow French and Belgian prisoners, they made a break for the river, only to find the bridge had been blown up and was submerged not far below the surface, ending yards from the riverbank and safety.
"We managed to get all our soldiers, some were non-swimmers, on to the bridge.
"The Germans reappeared and opened fire on us. I could hear the bullets hitting the iron framework and so on top of the bridge.
"We got to the other side safely."
At that early stage of the war, concerns were running high about armies being infiltrated, and so the men were interviewed by a British officer.
"We were interrogated, in fact. And he said, 'I'm sorry, but I can't accept all your story', so I was actually taken prisoner by both sides in the one day."
It took four days for Bob to establish his identity, when he was recognised by members of another unit.
Then, he and his men made their way to the beaches at Dunkirk to await the evacuation.
However, their boat came under attack from German dive-bombers and he was wounded in the back with shrapnel.
Bob spent several weeks in hospital, and discovered - via a newspaper - he had won a medal for his bravery in leading the escape.
He was given a new assignment in Catterick, where he was to report after his sick leave ended.
But he found out his old unit was reforming in Aldershot, so he went with them when they were sent to Northern Ireland.
"Northern Ireland was a place we had hardly ever heard of," he said.
"We landed on the 11th of July, we were moved up to Lisburn and the next day we were confined to camp.
"We hadn't a clue what it was about, but we could hear drums."
On 13 July, they were allowed to leave the camp and the first order of business was to phone home.
"I managed to get through to my father," Bob said.
"He said: 'Where are you?' and I said, 'Northern Ireland.'
"He said: 'The police and the Army were here looking for you today, you've been posted as a deserter.'
"But it was only because I hadn't reported back to Catterick."
The soldiers were made welcome, with the camp emptying out on a Sunday, thanks to many invitations to tea.
Bob found himself invited to one house, where he was to meet his future wife, Emma.
They were married in 1942, just before he was sent to the Middle East.
Soldier to shoemaker
In 1945, Bob was demobbed and went back to the shoe-making trade he had followed his father into before the war.
He and his wife settled into life in London, raising their son and daughter.
When the government announced subsidies for deprived areas, he moved the now-grown-up family to Northern Ireland and set up a branch of his employers' factory in Omagh, County Tyrone.
He ended up employing 200 people, making 8,000 pairs of shoes a week.
The factory closed when manufacturing became cheaper overseas, but Bob and his son opened another, smaller enterprise, making specialised components for shoes and employing about 30 people.
At the age of 70, Bob felt retirement was beckoning.
But the industry had other ideas.
"I'd been retired a few weeks when I got a phone call from Reebok," he said.
"So I got a job with them as a consultant and got sent all over the world for about five years.
"I reckon that was a perfect ending to a great career in shoe-making."
Award winning gardener
Since then, Bob has filled his time with an award-winning garden and being involved in many community groups in Omagh.
Up until his early nineties, he was still running and exercising five days a week.
Things may have slowed down a little now, but he will play a special part in the Armistice Day commemorations in Omagh this weekend, as a member of the British Legion.
"This year, I've been asked to inspect the parade," he added.
"I'm to lay the first wreath and after that, I'm to take the salute of the parade, which is really an honour.
"On the final day, there were 5,000 soldiers killed when Armistice was declared. And I think of the millions of people, men that died.
"It's beyond comprehension. It's terrible."
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Thousands of migrants are camped around Calais in northern France. Many will risk their lives smuggling themselves across the Channel into the UK. What happens to those that get through?
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By Camila RuzBBC News Magazine
At least nine people have died trying to access the Channel Tunnel since June. Scenes of people climbing over fences and scrambling on to the back of lorries show just how desperate some people are to get to the UK. Last week a man walked most of the tunnel before being caught.
Exactly how many have made into the UK is not yet clear. But for those that have, where will they end up?
Asylum
Some of those who manage to get through will remain hidden and stay as illegal workers. But many of the people waiting in Calais will be expecting to be found and then seek refugee status.
Once someone is in the UK, even if they entered it illegally, they have the right to claim asylum. There were 25,020 asylum applications in the UK in the 12 months up to March. Police who find asylum seekers will usually hand them over to immigration officials to submit their claim. Asylum seekers are entitled to stay in the UK while they wait for a decision.
But what happens if they have passed through a safe country on their way to the UK?
There is a general principle observed by many countries that asylum seekers who have passed through a safe third country where they could have claimed asylum can be sent back there in order to make their claim.
All of those waiting in Calais to cross the Channel fit into this category. They are in a safe country but few will have reached France without having crossed another EU border beforehand.
The EU has a specific rule about this to try to work out which country is responsible for handling an asylum claim.
Dublin Regulation
The Dublin Regulation allows some asylum seekers to be sent to other EU nations, including France. It sets out criteria for identifying which country should look at a claim.
Usually, the first EU country someone arrives in is responsible for processing their application. This is meant to stop "asylum shopping", where one person submits multiple asylum applications in different countries.
The Eurodac system can help identify which country was the entry point, explains Alexander Betts, director of the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. This is a database of fingerprints of asylum seekers across the EU.
A hit on the system would help prove that an asylum seeker had already been registered in a different EU country and could be sent back there.
The Home Office says that it takes "full advantage" of this rule to send people back to European nations such as France. But the UK only carried out 252 Dublin transfers in 2014, compared with 827 in 2013.
And it's complicated because the vast majority of those in France will have passed through at least one other safe country to get there - perhaps Italy or Spain.
Not everyone will have registered with border officials and without documentation it can be hard to prove which countries someone has travelled through. "It's legally and diplomatically complicated," explains Betts, to try moving someone to a place that is not their country of origin.
Some governments have also stopped sending people back to the two of the most likely entry countries for asylum seekers - Greece and Italy, because they are already inundated with asylum applications. In Greece there has been criticism over the treatment of asylum seekers.
"One of the biggest challenges with the Dublin system is that it creates a fundamental inequality, by placing a disproportionate responsibility on frontline states like Greece and Italy," explains Betts.
Slow process
The fast-track detention system for asylum seekers in the UK has been suspended. The rush to process people in about 22 days was leaving people without enough to time to put together meaningful cases, says Thom Brooks, professor of law and government at Durham University.
The system had aimed to deal with claims with the potential to be processed quickly, especially those from countries that are presumed by the Home Office to produce clearly unfounded asylum claims. This list includes countries such as India, Brazil and Bolivia, explains James Conyers, legal officer for Refugee Action.
But in July, the Court of Appeal upheld a suspension ruling which declared the system unfair and "unlawful".
Backlog
There were more than 25,000 asylum applications in the UK in the 12 months up to March. Most applications are typically rejected and in 2014, more than 60% of initial decisions on asylum applications were refusals.
But in the same year, only 6,788 asylum seekers and their dependents were removed or departed voluntarily from the UK.
Many of last year's removed people could have had their asylum applications refused some time ago. The Home Office will not say what the average time is between asylum refusal and removal from the UK, saying that this does not form part of their routinely published statistics.
It can be hard to keep track of the number of people who are waiting to be removed.
Appeals
Appeals make the average removal delay even harder to measure. "I can't imagine anybody who would apply and then not appeal," says Adrian Berry, chair of the Immigration Law Practitioners' Association (ILPA). Most asylum seekers have a right of appeal if their claim is refused. Many will remain in the UK while they wait for this, although the government has proposed a "deport first, appeal later" policy.
The aim is for all appeals to be heard within two months of the initial decision but there is a significant backlog of cases. At the end of March, 21,651 of the applications for asylum in the UK received since April 2006 were still awaiting an initial decision, appeal or further review.
Legal challenges delay removals but Berry says that it's a myth that asylum seekers can endlessly appeal over their asylum claim. Permission can be granted to go beyond the tribunal that hears the first appeal but few people get that, he explains, as there needs to have been an error of law.
The latest figures say that 2,242 appeals have been determined in the UK so far this year, with 66% dismissed.
Undocumented
The biggest cause of delay in removals of failed asylum seekers is bureaucratic, says Jerome Phelps, director of pressure group Detention Action. Many asylum seekers will have fled their countries without a valid travel document. Others may have destroyed their passport before entering the UK and it can be difficult to prove their nationality. Phelps argues that some people in this situation are "effectively unreturnable".
"The UK is unique in the EU for having no time limit on detention," he explains, adding that some people in detention are waiting for an emergency travel document that is unlikely ever to come.
Some countries refuse or delay issuing a travel document to returnees who do not have a valid passport. Other nations do not allow the forced return of individuals, or demand proofs of nationality that are almost impossible to meet. How many people are stuck because of problems with their documents is not clear. The Home Office says that this does not form part of their routinely published statistics.
"The UK can want to kick people out and it can be lawfully authorised to do that but it requires the other country to actually want to take people back," says Brooks.
The UK and the EU have readmission agreements with certain countries such as Algeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan. These will all affect when and how easy it is to send people back.
Flights
The Home Office removes people on commercial flights or chartered planes. There were nearly 800 chartered flights of asylum seekers between 2001 to 2014. But some people are delayed indefinitely because travelling to the country in question has become too dangerous. The Home Office says that it does not publish a list of these countries.
A charter flight which was due to depart for Afghanistan on 21 April carrying dozens of people was stopped by the Court of Appeals because of the worsening security situation.
Return flights can also be suspended when removing someone breaches their human rights. Earlier this year a Nigerian asylum seeker and her son were returned to the UK because the decision to remove them had been made without taking into account the impact on the boy or his mother's mental health problems.
Last minute injunctions can also prevent removals. Judith Dennis, policy manager at the Refugee Council, says that often more people are escorted to the airport from detention centres than there are seats on the plane. If someone is successful in stopping their removal then another person can be substituted for them.
"Frequently, this can then mean people go through the fear and anxiety of being taken to the airport, only to be brought back to the detention centre later in the day," she says.
According to Home Office accounts, the Government spent £1.58m last year on deportation flights which were booked before individuals were granted the right to appeal and were then cancelled.
A full breakdown of the costs involved in removing asylum seekers is not in the report. But Berry argues that enforced removal is expensive and that this partly explains why the Home Office wants to create a "hostile environment" so that people who do not have permission to stay in the UK choose to leave voluntarily.
The National Audit Office looked at costs of removing failed asylum seekers in 2005 and found that the average cost of supporting someone to leave voluntarily was £1,000 but that an enforced removal cost £11,000.
The Home Office is currently retendering for a contract for escorting and travel services for immigration "detainees" within the UK and overseas. The contract also includes managing people in holding rooms and booking flights.
It says the total value of the contract is about £500m and that this includes "travel ticket costs of approximately £200m". But it does not say for how many years that will cover or how many people the contractors will be expected to remove.
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Barnsley's Labour leader said the council election results were the party's worst result for 15 years.
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Sir Steve Houghton blamed the national failure to carry Brexit through for his party's performance - Labour lost seven seats, but retained control.
The Liberal Democrats, who gained three seats to become the main opposition party on the council, put their success down to Labour "arrogance".
Independent candidates also faired well, gaining five seats.
In Sheffield, Labour retained control of the council but lost three seats with gains by both the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party.
Nationally both the Conservatives and Labour have been losing seats as voters punished them over Brexit.
Sir Steve said the message in Barnsley was "loud and clear" that voters were unhappy that Brexit had not been carried through.
"It is a very bad night, the worst we have had for 15 years," he said
He said Barnsley voted 69% in favour of leaving the European Union and voters "expect Parliament to deliver but it looks like Labour is blocking it."
He said the areas were the Liberal Democrats won were not Brexit "strongholds," but areas where local issues had allowed opponents to gain ground.
The Liberal Democrats accused Labour of "arrogance" in failing to take account of residents' views over local housing and transport issues.
Lord Scriven, a Liberal Democrat peer and former leader of Sheffield City Council, was at the Barnsley vote count.
He said: "This shows right in the Labour heartlands, when they are arrogant and take people for granted we can win seats."
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Radio presenter Mike Read has been praised by a dog owner for rescuing her border terrier from fast flowing river waters.
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Sarah Prior was walking six-month-old Digby at Mill Meadows in Henley when he fell into the River Thames.
The former Radio One breakfast show host, who was also walking along the towpath, said he took a "rugby dive" to grab the puppy from the muddy water.
Ms Prior said Mr Read had been "absolutely lovely about it".
She later tweeted her gratitude, adding: "Turns out doggie paddle is NOT a natural instinct for ALL dogs!".
'Beginning to smell'
Mr Read said he "reacted on instinct" when he heard Ms Prior calling out after she had seen Digby disappear into the water while trying to chase some ducks.
"He came floating past just with his nose out of the water.
"I got hold of his head and got him up.
"You think 'in five seconds that dog is going to be 20 yards downstream'."
River levels in the area remain high after the heavy rainfall and flooding over the past few months.
Ms Prior said Digby was "none the worse for wear" although, several hours later, was beginning to smell of dirty river water.
Mr Read, who now works for BBC Radio Berkshire, "hosed himself down" at a nearby boatyard before continuing into town.
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The Scottish government has granted planning consent to the 17-turbine Tom Nan Clach wind farm on Cawdor Estates land near Tomatin.
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Developer Infinergy has offered to fund conservation work to the nearby ruined stronghold of the Wolf of Badenoch from the scheme's profits.
A scheduled ancient monument, Lochindorb was built on a small island on a loch.
The wind farm will generate enough power for more than 18,000 homes.
Finance Secretary John Swinney granted the planning consent.
However, he refused permission for Eurus Energy's proposed 26-turbine Glenkirk Wind Farm near Tomatin.
The Cairngorm National Park opposed the project warning that a "sense of wildness" would be harmed if it was given the go-ahead.
Mr Swinney said he had found that the impact of the Glenkirk scheme on the landscape and the visual aspect would be too high.
He added: "The Tom Nan Clach wind farm will create jobs both in its construction and during its lifetime, as well as having the capacity to supply more than 18,000 homes with renewable electricity.
"Wind farms, like Tom Nan Clach, will help us achieve our 500MW target which could be worth up to £2.4bn to Scottish communities and rural businesses over the lifetime of those projects."
Great Alasdair
Esbjorn Wilmar, managing director of Infinergy, said he was delighted the project had been granted planning permission.
He said the community benefit included about £195,000-a-year in funding being made available to local groups.
The farm will also contribute more than £630,000 per year in business rates.
In October last year, Infinergy offered to fund conservation work to Lochindorb Castle's walls.
From the island stronghold, Alexander Stewart and his forces made a raid across Moray and destroyed Elgin Cathedral in 1390.
Stewart was known as Alasdair Mòr Mac an Rìgh - Great Alasdair Son of the King - in his lifetime. Later, following his death he was given the Wolf of Badenoch nickname.
King James II ordered that Lochindorb be destroyed in 1458.
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Nottingham Forest fans will get a say on their stadium's future should the ground ever be put up for sale.
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The Nottingham Forest Supporters Trust (NFST) has successfully applied to register the ground as an Asset Of Community Value.
Elliott Stanley, the chair of NFST, said fans and the local community can now help safeguard the club.
The Reds moved to the ground, the site of a double European Cup win, in West Bridgford, in 1898.
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The City Ground has been part of Nottingham life for about 120 years with many watching Brian Clough's team carry out their European Cup heroics in 1979 and 1980.
Mr Stanley said: "The City Ground is undoubtedly one of the most iconic grounds in the footballing world.
"The ground being formally registered an Asset of Community Value is something that we set out to secure, not only because it aligns with our vision of safeguarding the future of the club but, perhaps more crucially, it ensures that fans have a voice on that future."
Registering the stadium as a ACV means supporters can bid for the ground should it ever be put up for sale.
The stadium belongs to the club, but the land is owned under freehold by Nottingham City Council.
The authority has said it would never sell the land without the support of fans.
Nicholas Randall QC, Nottingham Forest's chairman, said the club had supported the move and that it underlined its commitment "to place the club at the heart of the community".
Nottingham Forest was facing a uncertain future before being sold to Greek shipping magnate Evangelos Marinakis, in May.
Blackburn's Ewood Park stadium, Manchester United's Old Trafford and Charlton Athletic's The Valley have all been listed as ACVs.
Assets of Community Value
Source: Civic Voice
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Some of the dirty air associated with vehicles seems to be creeping up again as the UK eases itself out of lockdown.
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By Jonathan AmosBBC Science Correspondent
The latest data acquired by the EU's Sentinel-5P spacecraft, which was built in the UK, suggests levels of nitrogen dioxide are rising in the big cities.
Comparing locked-down May with June, when restrictions were being lifted, certainly hints at this change.
NO2 is a byproduct from the burning of fuels, such as petrol and diesel, and is a respiratory irritant.
The presence of the gas in the air we breathe fell when large numbers of cars and other motor vehicles came off the roads at the end of March. NO2 is expected to return to more familiar levels as activity increases.
The maps on this page contrast May 2019 with May 2020, which points to a 20-50% reduction year on year in concentrations; and May 2020 with June 2020, which illustrates a jump in NO2 around the major urban centres like London and Manchester.
The analyses were produced by Dr Maryam Pourshamsi, an Earth observation specialist with Airbus.
She cautions though that although S5P data is available daily, to get reliable results the satellite's measurements must be averaged for at least 10 days.
This removes some of the observed day-to-day variability - a factor that is heavily influenced by weather conditions. A lot of cloud, for example, will obscure S5P's vision.
"When I analysed the data, April looked much less stable than May because in May we had more sunny days and not quite as much wind," she explained.
"June too has become cloudy and windy again - so although the map indicates a jump in NO2 concentration, we should probably wait until the July and August analyses for a more reliable result," she told BBC News.
The Tropomi instrument on S5P is sensitive to a range of trace gases and small particles/droplets in the atmosphere, in addition to NO2. These other targets include ozone, formaldehyde, sulphur dioxide, methane, and carbon monoxide.
Tropomi has a resolution of 7km by 3km, allowing it to capture a broad picture of what's going on. Individual ground monitors in the government's Automatic Urban and Rural Network (AURN) will detail the story at the kerbside.
Prof Paul Palmer, from Edinburgh University, is a frequent user of AURN.
"I've taken a look at some sites across the UK (London Marylebone, Cambridge, Manchester and Bristol) and there are signs that NO2 is beginning to creep slowly back to levels that we expect for this time of year, but there is still some way to go.
"The speed of this NO2 rebound is certainly not uniform across cities. That's more or less in line with the Google mobility data," he told BBC News.
Google uses anonymised location data from people's mobile phones to track trends in movement.
NO2 is not the only air quality indicator. Ozone was seen to climb during lockdown - that's because some of the chemistry that suppresses it is tied up with NO2 emissions.
Particulate matter (PM2.5) also rose. There isn't really a consensus on why this happened but some of the explanation may be found in wind behaviour that blew this particular pollution in from the continent.
The UK as a whole went into lockdown on 23 March, with people urged to stay at home other than for essential work, shopping and exercise. The individual home nations then began to relax restrictions part way through May and at the beginning of June.
Sentinel-5P is part of the EU's Copernicus network. Its Tropomi instrument is a Dutch initiative led from the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute. The sensor was integrated into the spacecraft at Airbus in Stevenage and launched in 2017.
Although the UK is no longer in the EU, it is seeking continued membership of Copernicus as a "third country" through the current London-Brussels trade negotiations.
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An "unsung hero" who helped save hundreds of children destined for Nazi concentration camps is to be honoured with a statue in his hometown.
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Trevor Chadwick, dubbed the "Purbeck Schindler", helped Sir Nicholas Winton rescue 669 children from Czechoslovakia ahead of World War Two.
The Trevor Chadwick Memorial Trust is raising £80,000 for a statue to be placed in Swanage, Dorset.
His cousin, Annie Bridger, said his family was "very proud" of his efforts.
John Corben, chair of the Trevor Chadwick Memorial Trust, said: "There is a bronze statue of Sir Nicholas Winton on Prague Railway Station and we feel it would be appropriate to erect a similar memorial to Trevor in his hometown, to remember an unsung hero who made such a difference to so many lives."
Mrs Bridger, 67, from Swanage, whose father was Mr Chadwick's cousin - making him her second cousin - said they spent time together in her late teens when her family holidayed in Oslo, Norway, where he spent most of his life with his German wife Sigrid.
"He had TB [tuberculosis] and went there to recuperate - the fresh air there helped him to recover," she said.
"He relapsed every time he tried to return."
He worked at academic publisher Oslo University Press, having previously been a school teacher.
'Very proud'
Mrs Bridger recalled his "wonderful wit" and described the plan for a statue in his memory as "a wonderful thing".
"I only discovered in the last few years what he had done and I was bowled over," she added.
"The family are very, very proud of him".
His wife, known as "Siggy", was 28 years his junior and died four years ago of cancer, Mrs Bridger said.
Mr Chadwick, who died in 1979 aged 72, worked with Sir Nicholas, who lived in Maidenhead, Berkshire, until his death in 2015 aged 106, to find British families willing to put up £50 to look after the children in their homes.
Their efforts, along with those of their colleagues - Doreen Warriner, Nicholas Stopford, Beatrice Wellington, Josephine Pike and Bill Barazetti - were not publicly known for almost 50 years.
They organised a total of eight trains - known as Kindertransport - from Prague, and their work has been likened to that of the "saviour" of Jewish prisoners, Oskar Schindler.
'Great danger'
Though Sir Nicholas was knighted in March 2003 he had insisted Mr Chadwick, who stayed in Prague to organise the evacuations, had been the real hero.
"He had to deal with the authorities, putting his life in great danger," said Mr Corben.
It is hoped the statue will be placed at the town's recreation ground, close to its war memorial, and be unveiled in 2022.
"We would very much like to trace at least one of the children that Trevor brought back," Mr Corben said.
Swanage Town Council said it "wholeheartedly backed the campaign to publicly commemorate the vitally important role played by Trevor Chadwick in the Kindertransport programme".
The seafront play park would also be renamed in Mr Chadwick's honour and a memorial tree planted, the authority added.
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A 25-year-old rugby player has collapsed and died during a match.
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Emergency services were called to Hadleigh Rugby Club in Hadleigh, Suffolk, at about 15:25 BST on Saturday after Josh Gilbert fell to the ground.
Attempts to resuscitate the Thurston Rugby Club player were unsuccessful.
Thurston chairman Matt Ansell said the club was in a state of shock and Mr Gilbert - who was known as Bear - was a "larger than life character".
He said: "He was really well liked and respected, he will be deeply missed."
Mr Gilbert collapsed 20 minutes into the game between the second teams for the two sides.
"It was obvious pretty quickly something significant was wrong," said Mr Ansell.
The East of England Ambulance Service and East Anglian Air Ambulance attended the scene.
Mr Gilbert had played rugby since he was "old enough to pick up a ball".
He had played as a prop for Thurston for three years and also played cricket for his home village Walsham le Willows, near Bury St Edmunds.
Mr Gilbert had also been the chair of the Bury St Edmunds Young Farmers Club for the past two years.
Other Suffolk rugby clubs have expressed their condolences, including Woodbridge, Stowmarket and Haverhill.
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Workers at Virgin Trains East Coast in Edinburgh are to stage a one-day strike over the dismissal of an ex-colleague.
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Mark Doughty was sacked when the firm was operated by UK government-controlled East Coast Trains.
The Rail Maritime and Transport (RMT) union has confirmed the walk-out will take place on Good Friday, April 3.
The services run between Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Inverness and London. Virgin East Coast said passengers should not be concerned.
The firm also operates trains to Peterborough, the East Midlands, Leeds, York and Newcastle.
'See sense'
It returned to private hands last month when Virgin and Stagecoach took over the franchise, under the name Virgin Trains East Coast.
The RMT has suggested Mr Doughty was sacked after he told passengers on an Edinburgh to London service that the crew could not provide first class customers with a full cooked breakfast due to staff shortages and a broken boiler.
General Secretary Mick Cash said he hoped the industrial action would make management "see sense" and reinstate Mr Doughty.
A Virgin Trains East Coast spokesman said: "It's disappointing the union has pushed ahead with action when nearly three quarters of members affected didn't vote for the dispute.
"We're still in a dialogue with the union but, should it go ahead, this action would only affect staff based in Edinburgh, and our services will run as normal, so our passengers shouldn't be concerned."
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Kelly Brewster was a "fun-loving larger than life" character despite being "just 5ft" with an "infectious zest for life", her family told a public inquiry.
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Over the next two weeks, the relatives of the 22 people killed in the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing will provide a personal insight into the lives of their loved ones and how their lives were changed forever.
The tribute opened with a slideshow of dozens of photographs of Kelly accompanied by the poignant Missing You soundtrack by Brandy, Tamia, Gladys Knight and Chaka Khan before family - including her parents Kevin and Kim Brewster - who were present as was her partner Ian Winslow, her sister Claire Booth and niece - and friends honoured her.
The 32-year-old from Sheffield was "a fun-loving, kind, thoughtful person but everyone knew she had to be taken seriously when she put her sky-scraper heels on", the family said.
They said she had a passion for travel, music, travelling all over the world to go to concerts despite falling asleep at her first one - the New Kids on the Block - and dancing, saying she was "always on the dance floor".
The family said she was trying for a baby with her "soulmate" Ian and had been "so excited" going to the Ariana Grande concert because they had had an offer accepted on a new four-bedroom home on the morning of the bombing.
They said she had already planned which room was going to be Ian's daughter Phoebe's bedroom and which would be the nursery.
"Kelly was the happiest she had ever been," the inquiry heard.
The family said Kelly hit it off with Ian at her 30th birthday party and they were "made for each other", adding she and Phoebe were like "best mates".
Her nieces, who loved having sleepovers with Kelly, cherish "Kelly Bears" given to them by bereavement nurses, the family said.
One of her friends Jen, who Kelly met when she was travelling in Australia, said she "loved life more than anyone she had ever met", adding "her zest for life and happiness was infectious".
She added: "You couldn't be around her and not have a smile on your face."
Aviva, where she worked for eight years as an insurance claims assessor manager, described her as "their very own pocket rocket" and said she would be greatly missed.
The inquiry heard Kelly's mother Kim was "truly heartbroken" and Kevin was "devastated", suffering a stroke and heart attack since her death.
"We have been robbed of Kelly's future in the cruellest, most barbaric way," her family said.
"We will never see Kelly become a mother or watch her get married."
The family said her father regularly travels to Manchester to sit in Victoria Station because that is where he feels "closest" to Kelly.
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A Scotch whisky firm has set its sights on Mongolia as it bids to make further inroads into new and emerging markets.
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BenRiach Distillery Company managing director Bill Walker is to hold tastings in the central Asian country as part of a trade mission next week.
Mr Walker said there were opportunities worldwide for the Scotch whisky industry, which had entered "a golden age".
He added that "east of Beirut, the world is booming".
Mr Walker said: "Emerging markets like China and India haven't got anywhere near where they will be yet.
"Mongolia, where I'll be next week, is absolutely in its infancy but there will be opportunities, as there are with places like Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan.
"Add onto that Russia where the rouble has recovered and which is having a boom time just now. South America is clearly enjoying significant economic advantages as well.
"Mexico has become a big big market for Scotch, and you've got untapped Africa waiting in the wings."
'Golden period'
Mr Walker said he believed Scotch whisky's "golden period" would endure for some time to come.
He added: "We don't have the same industry shape that we had in the past; we've had so much consolidation and as a result it appears to me there are no weak players in the industry.
"In my opinion, that forms the fundamentals of a solid future."
Edinburgh-based BenRiach already supplies a range of 12 to 15-year-old single malt whiskies, along with more mature and premium varieties, to markets including western Europe, Asia, North America and, increasingly, Brazil and other Latin American economies.
In 2008, it acquired the Glendronach distillery in Aberdeenshire before launching a five-line bottling plant in Newbridge in 2010.
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Janet Jackson has turned down the chance to appear as a judge on the US X Factor.
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By Steve HoldenNewsbeat entertainment reporter
The singer's issued a statement saying she was "very flattered" but "it just wouldn't be possible".
Currently, only Simon Cowell and music mogul L.A. Reid are confirmed on the judging panel for series two.
Nicole Scherzinger and Paula Abdul left after the first series, in which Melanie Amaro was crowned the winner.
A spokesperson for Jackson said she had to say no because of other work commitments.
She's appearing in a film from director Tyler Perry and is due to go on tour.
Abdul, Scherzinger and Jones out
Earlier this year, Abdul announced she was stepping away from the show.
She said in a statement she's learned "business decisions often times override personal considerations" and that she remains friends with Simon Cowell.
Former Pussycat Doll singer Nicole Scherzinger and British TV presenter Steve Jones are no longer part of the show either.
He tweeted that it was a "shame" he was leaving but added: "I can't complain as I've had a great time."
The viewing figures for the US X Factor fell short of the 20 million originally predicted by its creator, Simon Cowell.
He recently admitted he'd been "too arrogant" after a successful 2010 and promised to revamp the US version of the programme.
Cowell still has to find two more judges for series two.
He recently hinted Britney Spears might be in the frame.
Speaking to Access Hollywood, Simon said: "This girl has got resilience. I would think that if she's managed to sustain a family, a career, which is tough, [X Factor would be] a walk in the park."
The US X Factor pulled in 12.5 million people for its opening show in September 2011 and achieved consistent ratings.
But it still trailed far behind its big rival, American Idol, which got 26 million for its season opener.
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Four people have been elected on to the Isle of Man's Legislative Council at a special sitting of the House of Keys.
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Michael Coleman and former MHK Geoff Corkish took two of the four seats made available after the retirement of David Callister and Eddie Lowey.
Tony Wild and Juan Turner have both been re-elected after reaching the end of their five-year tenure.
Seven nominations were received for four vacant seats.
They were Linda Bowers-Kasch, Michael Coleman, Geoff Corkish MHK, Peter Hill, Nigel Malpass, Juan Turner and Tony Wild.
The Legislative Council is the upper branch of Tynwald and has 11 members.
David Callister has served on the Legislative Council since 2008 and Eddie Lowey since 1982.
Non-public vote
Each election candidate must have the support of at least 13 members of the House of Keys (MHK) to be elected.
Those members include eight elected members, the President of Tynwald, the Bishop of Sodor and Man and the Attorney General.
Although members of the public can attend the sittings when voting takes place, they are not allowed to take part in the voting process.
The Legislative Council primarily acts as a revising chamber for bills.
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Ten jobs are to be created at a new brewery in Londonderry.
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The Walled City brewery will brew and sell craft beers from new premises in Ebrington Square.
Ilex, an urban regeneration company in Derry, made the announcement on Thursday.
Ilex's business manager, Niall McGurk said: "This is a great opportunity for creative and economic growth."
"It will also be a new tourist attraction for the city and will ultimately support six full-time and four part-time jobs," said Mr McGurk.
"Interestingly, early Victorian maps show a brewery adjacent to Ebrington located at the bottom of Browning Drive.
"Visitors to the brewery will get a guided tour, see the brewing process at first hand, and have the opportunity to taste and purchase the products on site."
Manager of Walled City brewery, James Huey said: "This is perfectly aligned with Ilex's plan of developing Ebrington into a world-class cultural and innovation hub.
"The brewery will craft premium quality, flavoursome, innovative beers, and build on the thrilling craft beer revolution that is currently sweeping the UK and Ireland".
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There were an estimated 3.6 million cases of fraud and two million computer misuse offences in a year, according to an official survey.
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The Crime Survey for England and Wales included the offences for the first time in its annual report, which covered the year to September.
Separate figures recorded by police showed an 8% rise in offences overall.
The Office for National Statistics said crime recording improvements meant the police figures could not reveal trends.
'Crime has changed'
John Flatley, from the ONS, said: "In the past, burglary and theft of vehicles were the high-volume crimes driving trends but their numbers have fallen substantially since then.
"When the crime survey started [35 years ago], fraud was not considered a significant threat and the internet had yet to be invented.
"Today's figures demonstrate how crime has changed, with fraud now the most commonly experienced offence."
Sir Tom Winsor, the Chief Inspector of Constabulary for England and Wales, told the You and Yours programme on BBC Radio 4 that many frauds went undetected and a great deal never got reported to the police.
"The amount of fraud that is taking place now is probably in epidemic proportions," he added. "The police are having to work very, very hard to keep up with even the ones they know about.
"The capability at police forces is quite skeletal and that needs to change and change a great deal."
The National Police Chiefs' Council lead for crime and incident recording, Chief Constable Jeff Farrar, said forces were working with the Home Office, police and crime commissioners, and industry experts to develop new tactics to fight cybercrime.
"The ability to commit crime online demonstrates the need for policing to adapt and transform to tackle these cyber challenges," he said.
Cyber and fraud: What is being counted?
There are two broad categories of "computer misuse" crimes:
Des Dillon, who runs a student accommodation company, told BBC Radio 5 live he had become a victim of cybercrime after being tricked into giving away information that led to the loss of £230,000 from his company bank account.
"Over a couple of phone calls, he asked me for various [information], third number, fourth number and ninth letter, that type of thing, and obviously he put it together very quickly," he said.
"We've recouped [over] £100,000, we're outstanding £113,000. We managed to block and recoup the balance and now we're fighting [with the bank] about the other portion of it."
Katy Worobec, director of Financial Fraud Action UK, said banks had managed to stop £6 in every £10 targeted by criminals in the first half of 2016, but that people needed to be aware of the threat.
"While the industry invests in new systems to stop the criminals, fraudsters are increasingly targeting people directly," she said.
"Customers and businesses need to be alert to the threats posed by the continued rise in impersonation scams attempting to trick them out of their personal details and money."
Homicide rise
All but one police force - Nottinghamshire - recorded an increase in violent crime last year.
The largest percentage increases were logged by Northumbria Police, up 95%, Durham Police (73%), West Yorkshire Police (48%) and Avon and Somerset Police (45%).
"Violence against a person" offences now include revenge pornography and internet trolling, which the ONS believes contributed towards the 22% rise from last year.
Police recorded 695 homicides in the 12 months to the end of September - 125 more than the previous year.
This included the 96 cases of manslaughter resulting from the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, because the inquest verdicts were returned during the last recording period. Excluding those deaths, there was still a 5% rise in homicides.
Criminals looking for new opportunities
By Dominic Casciani, BBC home affairs correspondent
The figures for fraud and computer misuse show how behind the curve our statistics have fallen.
It is undeniable that the overall level of crime has been falling across the industrialised world for a quarter of a century, as report after report on our experiences show we are less and less likely to be victims.
However, while traditional crimes such as burglary and theft fall, criminal gangs look for new opportunities by exploiting gaps in online and banking security.
The brutal fact is that nobody knows how big the problem is. It is massively underreported and, outside of London, it is arguable that national policing hasn't yet got the skills or the expert manpower it needs.
A good detective must have the skills to catch a burglar or killer, but very few of them have the skills to analyse screens of information and find criminals who have taken the digital road to a life of crime.
While there was a 23% increase in attempted murders, the ONS said this may have been "influenced" by improved crime recording.
Recorded offences involving a knife or sharp weapon hit their highest level for five years, up 11% up on the previous year to 30,838.
There was a 7% rise in gun crime, which BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said had been mainly driven by an increase in offences involving handguns and shotguns, but added that some of the increase might be accounted for by better firearm identification processes.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said the crime figures were akin to "the warning lights flashing."
Investing in security
Policing minister Brandon Lewis said reforms of the police were "working" and the offences "traditionally" measured by the survey - before the inclusion of fraud and cybercrime - had fallen by 370,000.
Mr Lewis said the government was investing £1.9bn in cybersecurity over five years, adding that the survey helped inform efforts.
"Understanding more about these crimes will help us continue to protect those who are vulnerable," he said.
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Uber's chief executive could be forced to take a leave of absence under changes being considered by the firm, reports say.
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The company's board met on Sunday but has not released any details on Mr Kalanick's future yet.
The board also voted on a review of its policies and corporate culture by former US Attorney General Eric Holder.
The review was instigated in February after former Uber engineer Susan Fowler made claims of sexual harassment.
Uber confirmed to the BBC that "the board unanimously voted to adopt all the recommendations of the Holder Report. The recommendations will be released to the employees on Tuesday."
It has not been confirmed what those recommendations are. It is possible that Mr Kalanick could take time off from Uber and then return to a role with less authority, or remain as chief executive but face more scrutiny, the Reuters news agency reported.
The New York Times reported that one of Mr Holder's recommendations was that Emil Michael, Uber's senior vice-president of business and a close confidant of Mr Kalanick, should leave the company.
The board meeting comes just days after Uber said it had fired more than 20 people, and was taking other actions against staff, for issues including sexual harassment and bullying.
'Grow up'
If Mr Michael does leave it would be the latest high-profile departure from Uber.
Last week Uber's finance chief, Gautam Gupta, said he was leaving, following New York general manager, Josh Mohrer, and the head of Uber's self-driving unit, Anthony Levandowski, out of the door.
Mr Kalanick has earned a reputation as an abrasive leader and was criticised earlier this year after being caught on video berating an Uber driver.
He said in response to the video: "I must fundamentally change as a leader and grow up."
Uber board member Arianna Huffington said in March that Mr Kalanick needed to change his leadership style from that of a "scrappy entrepreneur" to be more like a "leader of a major global company".
The board has been seeking to recruit a chief operating officer to assist the chief executive.
Some investors are concerned at the power Mr Kalanick has over Uber because of the number of voting shares he controls.
San Francisco-based Uber is valued at nearly $70bn (£55bn) but is yet to make a profit.
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Both major political parties have dropped a key target that would see the national debt falling over time.
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The move will allow tens or even hundreds of billions more in investment spending on hospitals, schools, housing and public transport.
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell said Labour would change the way public spending is accounted for, freeing it up to spend.
Chancellor Sajid Javid also plans to relax his debt rules and spend more.
He said his new rule would allow 3% of GDP in investment on public infrastructure projects - potentially an additional £100bn over current plans.
This would allow the party to spend more on hospitals, schools, roads, railways and broadband, he said.
Mr Javid said he still expected the debt to be lower at the end of the next parliament, but this was not a hard-and-fast stricture.
Like Labour, he also channelled some of the same arguments about taking advantage of cheap borrowing.
Labour's plans
Labour's plan is a major revolution in fiscal targeting, designed to allow hundreds of billions in extra investment spending to grow public sector assets.
Mr McDonnell described the new approach as targeting "public sector net worth", saying that it was akin to how companies report their balance sheets. It also builds on a new set of figures that the Office for National Statistics has started to report regularly.
It means there will be little incentive to use off-balance sheet mechanisms, such as the much-criticised Private Finance Initiative.
But it also means a much more generous treatment for Labour's plan to nationalise some privately owned utilities, because the funding required will be offset by the acquisition of the asset - the company.
It is radical too. It relies on the continuation of the current very low borrowing rates offered to governments around the world.
And while there is an emerging international consensus on taking advantage of these cheap rates to boost growth, at a time when central banks are running out of ammunition, there is a limit.
There is a new post-austerity consensus on spending more for the future.
The dividing line is whether it is tens of billions required or hundreds of billions. And who voters trust to spend it well.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has said Pope Francis is an "extraordinary man" and his person of the year.
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"He has changed the sense of direction and purpose of the Catholic Church with his personal example," the Most Reverend Justin Welby told the BBC.
He also said that the Church of England was still working out how to dispose of £80,000 in shares which indirectly fund short-term loan companies, like Wonga.
When the investment emerged in July, the archbishop said he was embarrassed.
A review was conducted and the Church was now trying to dispose of those shares "without disposing of millions and millions of pounds of investment at a loss because they have a responsibility to pensioners", he said.
The amount of Church money indirectly invested in Wonga was about £75,000 out of investments totalling £5.5bn, the archbishop pointed out in July.
Pope Francis, who took over from Pope Benedict after his resignation in March, was named person of the year by Time magazine earlier this month.
The US publication said the Pope had pulled "the papacy out of the palace and into the streets".
Since his succession, Pope Francis has adopted a markedly less formal tone than his predecessor, underlining his reputation for simplicity and humility.
It has been suggested he plans to radically reform the Vatican bureaucracy and, in an unprecedented move, he has ordered a survey of lay Catholics' opinions on Church teachings on sexual ethics and family life.
Archbishop Welby, who leads 80 million Christians in more than 160 countries, said he would not want to compare himself to the Pope whose reach was 20 times bigger than the entire Anglican communion.
"The Pope has been hugely effective. I would certainly put him as my person of the year," he said.
"Well, I'd probably have several, but if you want one, I'd put him there. He's extraordinary."
Despite the warm personal relationship between the two leaders, however, their churches remain far apart on many issues, says the BBC's religious affairs correspondent, Robert Pigott.
The Anglican decision to ordain women as priests ended hopes of structural unity between the churches, he says, while the last pope's decision to create a special "Ordinariate" within the Catholic Church - as a home for former Anglicans - alienated many in the Church of England.
However, Pope Francis who was reported by one Anglican presiding bishop as saying at the time the Ordinariate was set up that Christianity "needed us as Anglicans", our correspondent pointed out.
He went on to say Pope Francis had shifted the conversation about Christianity away from "small minded rules" to essential values such as "compassion, love and forgiveness, shared by the religiously minded and secular alike."
Archbishop Welby's comments were made during his appearance on BBC Radio Four's Today programme, which was guest edited by Barclays chief executive Antony Jenkins.
Both spoke of the "similarities" between leadership of a bank and of the Church of England.
Asked about the banking industry, the archbishop said there had been a "progressive loss of vision" of what banks were for and its leaders urgently needed to move away from serving shareholders.
Mr Jenkins, who became Barclays boss last year, said he expected it would take five to 10 years to restore public trust in his bank.
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Kim Dotcom, the multimillionaire founder of closed file-sharing site Megaupload, has won back cars, cash and property seized in a January 2012 raid.
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Requests from police to extend the length of time the assets could be held were declined by a court in Auckland, New Zealand, where Mr Dotcom lives.
US authorities accuse Mr Dotcom of infringing copyright on a "massive scale".
He has also been sued by several major film and music publishers.
They accuse him of using Megaupload to encourage users to upload copyrighted material illegally - and profiting from the operation.
'Falling apart'
Mr Dotcom, along with several associates, has denied the charges.
Since the raid, he has launched a new file storage site, Mega, as well as setting up his own political party.
Police raided the mansion of Mr Dotcom and his wife Mona two years ago, taking more than 15 luxury vehicles, including a pink 1959 Cadillac.
Mr Dotcom tweeted: "Breaking News: High Court ruling just now. Mona and I are getting our New Zealand assets back, unless the Crown appeals."
The authorities have 14 days to appeal against the decision.
Mr Dotcom added: "The NZ asset ruling is HUGE. We've just filed a case in Hong Kong against unlawful seizure of #Megaupload. The US case is falling apart!"
An extradition hearing is due to take place in July. If extradited and brought to trial, Mr Dotcom faces 20 years in prison.
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BBC staff are to stage a 12-hour strike from 12 noon on Thursday, 28 March in a continuing row over job cuts.
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Members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and technical union Bectu voted in favour of the walkouts.
The latest industrial action follows a one-day strike by NUJ members on 18 February which affected programmes.
Another strike by union members in Scotland that had been due to take place on Friday and Monday has now been called off.
The BBC is cutting about 2,000 jobs over five years as part of its Delivering Quality First programme.
The NUJ vote was 61% in favour of stoppages, while backing among Bectu members was 56%.
Both unions were also in favour of action short of a strike, with 80% of NUJ members and 81% of Bectu's supporting it.
"BBC staff have today rejected management's attempts to create a modern-day BBC sweatshop," said Bectu leader Gerry Morrissey.
Schedule disruption
"Current demands on staff are unacceptable and with more job cuts planned it is essential that the BBC takes stock of the impact of DQF on its workforce."
Those sentiments were echoed by Michelle Stanistreet, general secretary of the NUJ, who accused the BBC of deciding "not to properly engage" with its members' concerns.
NUJ members staged a 24-hour walkout on 18 February that changed some schedules and affected several programmes, including BBC Breakfast and Radio 4's Today.
Next week's strike, which is over job cuts, workload and claims of harassment, has the potential to affect Easter bank holiday schedules.
In a statement, a BBC spokesperson said the corporation had had "constructive meetings" with the unions in recent weeks but said its position on compulsory redundancies remained unchanged.
"We must progress with those given the significant savings we have to make and strike action simply will not change this," the spokesperson continued.
"We continue to work extremely hard to redeploy staff and have already succeeded in redeploying nearly double the number of people that have been made redundant.
"We hope with such a low turn-out and relatively small numbers voting for a strike that the unions will reconsider taking industrial action."
Bectu told the BBC News website that 39% of the 3,800 BBC Bectu members affected by DQF had voted in the ballot. The NUJ declined to provide a similar breakdown.
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A goose which has moved into a flower bed at a now quiet railway station has captured "hearts and minds," according to the station operator.
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The bird, nicknamed Mother Goose, was first spotted last month by British Transport Police at York station.
Railway staff thought she had moved on when they did not see her for a day or so but she has since returned and has laid four eggs in total.
Staff have been posting videos of her daily activities online.
So far the videos have attracted 70,000 views.
The station has fallen quiet due to government restrictions on travel that may have attracted the goose to move in.
Greylag and Canada geese are common sights in York and the city is home to about 500 such birds, according to York City Council.
London North Eastern Railway (LNER), which owns the station, said it was thrilled.
"It's such a gorgeous, gorgeous story and we all need a bit of this in our lives at the moment," said LNER's director of communications Kate McFerran.
"She came in two weeks ago and had a bit of a look around and she's made herself very much at home in the flower bed."
Ms McFerran said staff were putting food and water out for her and had placed some fencing around the flower bed for safety, but she was "very well behaved".
She said said their #GooseCam posts on social media showed her patrolling the railway station, sometimes with a companion, and looking after her eggs.
"It has made the news in Australia, in India, and all across the world. She's really captured hearts and minds."
Ms McFerran said she hoped that when the eggs hatched people would contact LNER with name suggestions for the goslings.
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Southern rail commuters are facing more travel misery after drivers walked out for the third day this week following the failure of conciliation talks.
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The latest strike over the introduction of driver-only operated trains has again brought the network to a halt.
Labour's transport spokesman has called on the government to intervene ahead of a further conductors' strike next week.
Andy McDonald said: "What's needed is a pause. People to step back and let's have a thorough examination of this."
The shadow transport secretary told Radio 4's Today programme: "I'm absolutely furious at the intransigence and stupidity of Southern and the Department for Transport in perpetuating this.
"It's a hugely important issue around compromising safety and security... this issue has been trivialised and dismissed."
He added: "Let Chris Grayling intervene and agree a moratorium so that we can get people back on these trains immediately.
"It's what a Secretary of State should be doing right now."
Live updates on the Southern strike
Angry passengers staged a protest at London Victoria station on Thursday evening before handing a letter to the Department for Transport (DfT) to demand government action.
'Year-long nightmare'
The Association of British Commuters, which organised the protest, said it had received support for its campaign to persuade ministers to do more to resolve the industrial disputes and other problems at Southern.
A spokesman said: "We have suffered a year-long nightmare because of the collapse of Southern rail.
"We have desperately called for government action and have been repeatedly ignored - even while many of us have lost our jobs, or had to move house."
The DfT has told the BBC the dispute is between Southern and the unions and "not something the government is involved in".
A spokeswoman for the department declined to comment further.
However, she provided background which said the government had no plans to split the franchise because it would not solve problems and would potentially create more disruption, and the important issue was to focus on resolving the strikes.
The Aslef and RMT unions are in dispute with Southern's parent company Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR).
Southern said there would be no service on any route on Friday, and has warned passengers there will be a revised service on Saturday.
The train company said Thameslink is operating a normal timetable and the Gatwick Express will run every 30 minutes from 05:00 until 22:00 GMT between London Victoria and Gatwick Airport.
'Inherently unsafe'
Under the changes being brought in by Southern, drivers take responsibility for opening and closing the doors and guards become on-board supervisors.
However, the RMT fears job cuts and has raised safety concerns.
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Aslef has described the changes as "inherently unsafe", while GTR said both the Office of Rail and Road and the Rail Safety & Standards Board had stated that drivers closing doors was a safe mode of operation.
Talks at conciliation service Acas between GTR and Aslef failed to reach an agreement on Thursday. Negotiations ended with both sides claiming to be open for talks.
Writing to union members on Friday, Aslef leader Mick Whelan said no formal offer had been made on the issue at the heart of the dispute.
"Aslef remains committed to finding a negotiated settlement as we have already done with ScotRail," he said.
Planned Southern strike dates
00:01 Friday 16 December to 23:59: Friday 16 December (Aslef and RMT drivers' strike)
00:01 Monday 19 December to 23:59 Tuesday 20 December (RMT conductors' strike)
00:01 Saturday 31 December to 23:59 Monday 2 January (RMT conductors' strike)
00:01 Monday 9 January to 23:59: Saturday 14 January (Aslef and RMT drivers' strike)
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It was a revolution moving higher education from bricks to clicks… and now it's started to go back to bricks again.
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By Sean CoughlanBBC News education correspondent
Online university providers, which offered people the chance to study from home, are turning full circle by creating a network of learning centres where students can meet and study together.
Instead of demolishing the dusty old classrooms, the online university revolution is responsible for opening some new ones.
Coursera, a major California-based provider of online courses, is creating an international network of "learning hubs", where students can follow these virtual courses in real-life, bricks and mortar settings.
And there are thousands of meet-ups in cafes and libraries where students get together to talk about their online courses.
This is the latest stage in the rapid evolution of so-called Moocs - massive open online courses - where some of the world's leading universities have created digital versions of courses which are offered free over the internet.
Learning together
Coursera now has seven million registered users. That's bigger than the entire university populations of the UK and France combined.
But it seems there is an irresistible social side to learning. Finding stuff out together seems to be more appealing than following a course alone.
The Coursera learning hubs are running in more than 30 cities, from Baghdad to Buenos Aires, Moscow to Mumbai and Shanghai to Santiago.
The learning hubs are run by partner organisations, providing a place where students following Coursera online courses can come to study together and get help from mentors.
In Moscow, the learning hub is hosted by Digital October, a centre for technology and entrepreneurship. Yulia Lesnikova, director of educational programs, says it provides a more sociable way of following online courses.
"Education is a two-way process… It's a shoulder to lean on," she says.
Students can work in groups on practical projects together with experts available to give advice.
"Mentors give a lot of help to people who don't understand."
'Like a village'
There have been four online courses so far followed in the Moscow learning hub. This includes a course about genetics created by the University of British Columbia, with students in Moscow being supported by an expert from one of Russia's oldest genetics institutes.
There is a course on gamification from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, with sub-titles in Russian.
When students are gathered for their Mooc classes it becomes a focus for other spin-offs, such as firms wanting to recruit staff or to get students involved in developing commercial projects.
In Beijing, the learning hub has been set up with Guokr, a Chinese science-based social networking website.
Yang Liu, Guokr's education director, says studying as a group provides a way of keeping students connected. It's also introduced the word "Moocer" into China, she says.
"Learning can be very lonely, they can drop out."
It can be a more effective way of studying, she says. In a group of people there's likely to be a spread of knowledge, with students able to help one another.
"It's like a village, they form a small society."
It also allows for different types of learner to be supported. About half of the people following Coursera courses in Beijing are university students, she says.
Cutting drop-out rates
But there are also isolated individuals who like the social setting, such as older people living alone or mothers looking after children at home.
Yin Lu, responsible for Coursera's international development, says learning hubs have a wide range of local approaches. They can be based around tutors or around organised projects or else emphasise the social aspect of learning.
In India, the focus is on teacher training and professional development. It means that courses designed for students in the US or Europe are being played out in classrooms in New Delhi and Mumbai.
What has become apparent, she says, is that there is a much lower drop-out rate for students who attend a learning hub.
Moocs allow anyone to enter, with no barriers from cost or qualifications, but that also means relatively few ever finish a course. Ms Lu says that the typical completion rate for a Mooc is about 5% to 10%.
For Mooc students attending learning hubs, the completion rates are between 30% and 100%, she says.
Ms Lu says it's likely that more hubs will open where there are concentrations of Coursera students.
But she says there are no plans for these learning hubs to become fully-fledged colleges, where students might take exams as well as follow courses.
"We exist to complement what universities can provide," she says.
But it wouldn't be difficult to imagine the commercial possibilities if they changed their mind.
'Meet-ups'
There is something almost organic about how these digital projects have taken root in the physical world.
Moocs were meant to be the university courses of the laptop era, self-sustaining and free-standing, with students able to stop and start materials on the internet and get online support from social networking.
But you can't stop people from wanting to talk to each other, outside the computer screen.
As well as the more formal learning hubs, self-organised "meet-ups" for Coursera students have sprung up in more than 3,700 cities around the world, based around specific Coursera online courses.
For example, in London there are groups meeting in cafes at the British Library and the South Bank Centre. In Paris, there are meetings in the Pompidou Centre and in university buildings.
Meet-ups are held in a whole range of public places, where students want to discuss and debate these digital courses.
They're scheduled and arranged online, with the only vital ingredients being a laptop, wi-fi and somewhere to talk.
Even virtual students want to have a cup of coffee and a conversation after a lecture.
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Former UKIP - and now independent - MP Douglas Carswell says he thinks he will be "the first and the last UKIP MP".
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The Clacton MP says he will not be standing in the UK general election - but would be backing the Conservative candidate instead.
The 45-year-old was the only UKIP candidate to be elected as an MP at the 2015 poll. He quit the party last month after falling out with its leadership.
UKIP donor Arron Banks had vowed to stand against him in Clacton.
Mr Carswell defected from the Conservatives to UKIP three years ago but clashed with then leader Nigel Farage and other senior figures over the direction the party was taking.
UKIP leader Paul Nuttall said at the time that Mr Carswell was "committed to Brexit, but was never a comfortable Ukipper".
Mr Carswell admitted that he had been tempted to quit UKIP following last year's EU referendum - he now believes he will be "just a footnote in political history" that will say "he was the first and the last elected UKIP MP".
Saying that he feels UKIP's job is mainly done, he said: "Britain is about to become a sovereign country again - I feel I've done what I set out to do."
He now supports Theresa May, adding: "I think she will deliver the sort of Brexit I want."
Asked if he had wanted to be the Conservative candidate for Clacton, he commented: "I've never sought and never asked for the nomination.
"I very nearly announced my departure from UKIP and my intention to stand down on June 24 last year... I was quite close to doing it."
Pressed on whether he would consider a return to politics, he conceded: "Perhaps if we were dragged back into the European Union [but] that's not going to happen.
"No, I'd never rule anything out, but I genuinely would like to go on and do other things with my life."
Suzanne Evans, seen as one of Mr Carswell's former allies in UKIP, said she was "very surprised" by his decision not to seek re-election.
Decisions, decisions
She told the BBC's Daily Politics it might be "a little bit premature", as the UKIP candidate for Clacton has not yet been selected.
Arron Banks - who described Mr Carswell's departure from the party as "a rare piece of good news for UKIP" - was planning to stand against him in Clacton, although it is not clear whether he would be UKIP's candidate.
After Mr Carswell's announcement, Mr Banks tweeted saying: "The Clacton swamp has been drained without a shot fired! Now for the Clacton plan..."
Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman Tom Brake said: "This is yet another top Brexiteer leaving a sinking ship.
"It speaks volumes that UKIP's first elected MP is throwing his weight behind Theresa May, who has adopted UKIP's hard Brexit agenda to the letter."
When he quit UKIP last month, Mr Carswell said: "I switched to UKIP because I desperately wanted us to leave the EU. Now we can be certain that that is going to happen, I have decided that I will be leaving UKIP."
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Actor and footballer Vinnie Jones says he has had several lumps removed after being diagnosed with skin cancer.
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The 48-year-old noticed a small blemish below his eye in February, thinking it was "a blackhead or a wart".
A check-up revealed it was melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer, which kills 1,300 men and 900 women every year.
Doctors have since found more tumours, but Jones told The Sun he would fight it with "everything I've got".
"When the doctor said I had skin cancer, the first thing I thought was 'how long have I got?'" he told the newspaper.
"It's weighing very heavily on me all the time," he said.
Malignant Melanoma death rates have been increasing in the UK since the early 1970s, but the disease is largely preventable by avoiding strong sunlight and using high-factor sun creams.
Treatment is more likely to be successful if melanoma is spotted early.
Jones said that, subsequent to the removal of the tumour under his eye, doctors had found more cancer in the same area and, two months ago, he had a third operation to remove a tumour from the back of his head.
He blamed his outdoor lifestyle for the cancer - noting that after growing up on the football pitch, he had moved to Los Angeles to pursue a film career.
Now working with the Melanoma Research Foundation, he urged people to be more aware of exposure to the sun.
"Footballers never put on sunblock and they should all be wearing it," he said. "Kids should all be wearing it every time they play sport."
"If you spot something on your skin that doesn't feel right... get it checked out immediately."
Jones also revealed his wife Tanya had been fighting skin cancer, a result of drugs she had been taking since having a heart transplant 26 years ago.
The star, who has appeared in films including X-Men: The Last Stand and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, was previously captain of the Welsh Football Team and played for Wimbledon, Chelsea and QPR, among others.
His revelation comes days after fellow actor Hugh Jackman disclosed he had been treated for skin cancer.
The star of Wolverine posted a photograph on his Instagram account, with a bandage on his nose following the removal of a basal cell carcinoma.
He wrote: "Please don't be foolish like me. Get yourself checked."
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Proposals for a "clean air charge" in Bath have sparked concerns over the impact on tourism.
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The local council wants owners of high-emission vehicles, including tourist coaches and HGVs, to pay to enter a central clean air zone (CAZ).
Members of the spa city's tourist trade have pleaded with the authority for a "common sense" approach to the plan.
Bath & North East Somerset Council said it would have a "positive" effect on air quality.
The plan is part of the city's effort to meet government air quality targets by 2021.
It has made up to £3m available for a scheme that will include improving greener modes of public transport.
But the final plans, as well as costs for entering the zone, are yet to be finalised.
Under proposals outlined by the authority, a CAZ will affect an area with a 5m (8km) radius, including some of the city's central Georgian sites and its main shopping routes.
In 2016, tourism contributed more than £430.5m to the local economy and was responsible for 10% of all employment in Banes.
Martin Curtis, of the Bath Bus Company - which runs open top bus tours - said his newer vehicles would not be affected by emissions demands, but their customer base could be.
"Our concern is the effect on Bath's tourism and trade as a whole," he said.
Steve Spiller, director of coach firm Centurion Travel, said he supported a clean air zone but hoped for a common sense approach from the council.
"If the level of emissions regulation is too strict from the offset, it will be impossible for coach companies to replace their vehicles in time," he said.
The company also busses about 600-700 pupils around Bath during term time, Mr Spiller said.
"We currently have six vehicles that meet the highest Euro Six standards, but if the CAZ rules are too severe, they will have to be allocated to the highest paying customers - schools will miss out because they won't be able to pay the higher costs."
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A mother-of-two has described the mental health toll of fighting anorexia in a time of Covid.
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By Lisa SummersScotland Health Correspondent
Abigail Reynolds was discharged from hospital in February but lockdown threw her home recovery plans into chaos.
One expert believes about a third of the adult population is now displaying the kind of serious symptoms that could characterise a psychiatric illness.
The Royal College of Psychiatrists in Scotland (RCPsych) has warned of a "mental health emergency", with a recent survey suggesting four in 10 Scots believe they will experience mental health problems in the future.
The survey, which coincides with a new Choose Psychiatry recruitment campaign, also highlighted public concerns over the provision of services and lack of investment.
'Crisis point'
Ms Reynolds is grateful for the help and support she received after she reached a "psychiatric crisis point" at the start of the year.
But after hospital treatment she returned home to her flat in Portobello, Edinburgh, to look after her two children.
Ms Reynolds, 37, told BBC Scotland: "Two weeks later lockdown hit and life was turned upside down."
Schools and nurseries closed, face-to-face appointments and weigh-ins were cancelled and support groups were no longer available.
As a result she found herself cut off from society and responsible for home schooling.
Ms Reynolds, who was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa in 2019 when she was seven months pregnant, found everyday tasks suddenly became unbearable.
She recalled: "It was always going to be a really tough transition anyway from hospital to home and that was magnified.
"I know I needed to buy and eat bread and pasta and cereal.
"You queue for an hour to go into the supermarket, which for me was like queuing to go into a torture chamber, and you get in there and the shelves are bare and there is no alternative.
"I have had panic attacks in supermarkets. It can be really, really debilitating."
She admits everyday life became "so much harder".
Ms Reynolds' troubles were also magnified by the volume of material on social media related to diet and exercise.
Looking back she is grateful that she was already receiving treatment when the population was told to stay at home.
She added: "If that had not been the case I know that I would not have managed to stay safe.
"I am really aware that I am one of the lucky ones. A lot of people are suffering in silence."
A YouGov poll of 1,055 people from across the country suggests 40% of Scots think the pandemic will be damaging to their mental health over the next year.
Just under a third (32%) thought mental health services across the country are bad and almost half (46%) said the Scottish government was investing too little in mental health services during the pandemic.
Dr Jane Morris, consultant psychiatrist from RCPsych in Scotland, said: "These new statistics are deeply worrying and prove we are dealing with a mental health emergency.
"All of our clinicians are working extremely hard under difficult circumstances.
"Lockdown, bereavement, job losses and isolation are all having a terrible effect on the population's mental health and it's concerning that those who were already dealing with mental ill health, have seen their condition deteriorate."
On the scale of the problem, she said: "About a third of the population now would probably reach case status for diagnosis of a mental disorder. That is really very worrying indeed."
Despite encouraging progress in relation to a Covid vaccine she cautioned that the mind takes longer to heal and predicted the recession will result in a spike in the suicide rate.
'Perfect storm'
Dr Morris also said the sector needs more medical students and doctors to keep up with demand, as an estimated 10% of consultant vacancies remain unfilled.
She added: "Before this perfect storm happened we were already struggling to get our voices heard and suddenly, one of the worst things that could possibly happen, was poured on top of it."
The survey also showed that for those who had experienced a mental health problem pre-pandemic, one third said their condition had worsened since March.
The Scottish government said it has invested more than £6m in mental health, including additional telephone and online support services, since the start of the pandemic.
A spokeswoman said: "Protecting good mental health in Scotland will be central to our long term response to the pandemic and the Scottish government is committed to doing more.
"A key part of this is our work to enhance access to and the quality of services.
"We will also work with NHS Boards to ensure they are able to respond to any increase in demand over the coming months."
Meanwhile, Ms Reynolds admits she finds the prospect of yet more restrictions extremely daunting and has called for a greater focus on early intervention.
She has also backed the RCPsych in Scotland's new recruitment drive.
Ms Reynolds added: "It is the difference between life and death."
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David Cameron supports the latest air strikes by the US and five other countries from the Gulf and Middle East, Downing Street has said.
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The UK prime minister, in New York for a UN General Assembly meeting, will be holding talks about "what more the UK can do to contribute", No 10 added.
The UK is already providing arms to the Kurds as well as surveillance support.
Labour's Ed Miliband says Mr Cameron should seek a UN Security Council resolution to rally support against IS.
BBC political editor Nick Robinson said Parliament could be recalled by Friday if Labour and Lib Dems back UK military action.
The involvement of UK forces could be restricted to Iraq, where they would be operating at the invitation of the government in Baghdad.
Nick Robinson said Mr Cameron would only put the issue to a House of Commons vote, if he was confident of support from Labour, the Lib Dems and his own backbenchers.
"David Cameron will not risk a repeat of the Commons defeat he faced last summer over air strikes in response to President Assad's use of chemical weapons."
'Murderous ways'
In his keynote speech to Labour's annual party conference in Manchester, Mr Miliband said he backed US air strikes on IS, also referred to as Isil and Isis, targets in Syria.
But he stressed: "What needs to happen now is that the UN needs to play its part - a UN Security Council resolution to win the international support to counter that threat of ISIL."
He said threats by IS militants - who have already murdered a British aid worker and two American journalists - to kill Alan Henning, a second British hostage, underlined the need for action to deal with the group.
"Alan Henning is simply an aid worker trying to make life better for victims of conflict," he said. "It should tell us all we need to know about ISIL and their murderous ways that they take a decent British man like Alan Henning hostage."
'Fair wind' for action
Earlier, former Labour foreign secretary Jack Straw said under the right circumstances there could be support for Britain joining air strikes in Iraq.
He said the situation was different from when the Commons voted against intervention in Syria last year.
"If Mr Cameron comes to Labour and there's a clear proposition I think he'll get a fair wind," he said.
Several Conservative MPs who opposed air strikes in Syria last summer have told the BBC they would now support military action.
Crispin Blunt, a former minister and one of the Tory rebels at the time, said there was "no great controversy" about the UK's military involvement - short of a significant ground commitment - and there was no need to recall Parliament.
"Any military strategy against ISIS, which is necessary, must involve taking them on in Iraq and Syria," he said.
Fighter jets
Another of last year's Tory rebels, Sarah Wollaston, said if Syrian strikes were the only way to hit IS effectively she would support them.
She has explained her position in an open letter to constituents on her website.
Conservative Julian Lewis said he "would be in favour" of military action if there was "a coherent and sensible plan".
Charles Walker, another backbencher who rebelled last year, said he would support action against IS - with or without the recall of Parliament.
Other Conservatives have privately confirmed they would support strikes.
The US, along with Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, used fighter jets, bombers and Tomahawk cruise missiles against Islamic State targets in Syria on Tuesday.
The air strikes came as world leaders gathered at the United Nations in New York to discuss how to tackle the terror group.
Iranian meeting
The PM is likely to set out "direction and options" during his speech at the UN, a government source told BBC News.
He will also meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in an attempt to persuade him to join action against IS militants.
It will be the first time a UK prime minister has met an Iranian president since the Iran's revolution in 1979.
Mr Cameron and Mr Rouhani spoke by phone in November, but their talks later will be their first face-to-face meeting.
BBC correspondent Nick Bryant said relations between the UK and Iran had "thawed considerably" in recent months.
"Coming at a time when the Obama administration has said Iran has a role to play in combating IS, Mr Cameron is expected to gauge what form that might take," he said.
Mr Cameron is also likely to press Mr Rouhani to withdraw support for the Assad regime in Syria - a "hard sell", Nick Bryant added.
'Tip of the iceberg'
He said Iranian officials in the US had raised the possibility of a "trade-off" under which Iran could get concessions on advancing its nuclear programme in exchange for "further action" against IS - though the US has said the two issues are entirely separate.
Shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna said any UK military intervention against IS would need to be based on three criteria - that it was within international law, there was a plan of action and a plan of what would happen after any action.
Deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman said it was "very encouraging" that other Arab states were joining in the strikes against Syria "because they are the most immediately affected".
She told BBC News: "Islamic State needs to be contained. The awful beheadings that everybody sees, they are just the tip of the iceberg, in a way, to what they're doing. They can't be allowed to just grow and grow and grow and expand their territory."
Jihadist group IS has taken control of large areas of Iraq and Syria in recent months.
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France's parliament has voted to implement a bill intended to protect victims of domestic violence.
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The legislation allows doctors to break patient confidentiality if they believe a life is "in immediate danger".
The bill was approved last week by the National Assembly and was adopted unanimously by the Senate on Tuesday.
France has one of the highest rates of murders linked to domestic violence in Western Europe. Last year, 149 women were killed as a result, reports say.
"In our democracy there must be fights that bring us together, and this is what I believe the National Assembly and the Senate demonstrated during the examination of this bill," the new Minister for Gender Equality, Elisabeth Moreno, said after the vote.
As well as permitting health professionals to break confidentiality in extreme cases, the law also increases prison sentences to 10 years for perpetrators whose actions led the victim to commit suicide or to attempt to commit suicide.
In order to protect children, it also opens up the possibility of suspending parental authority in case of domestic violence.
Senator Marie-Pierre de la Gontrie, head of the Socialist Party, said that while the bill was "not perfect", it was a step in the right direction.
Last year, 149 women were said to have died as a result of domestic violence, Ms Moreno told deputies last week, quoting figures from advocacy groups.
Since the start of 2020, at least 39 women have been killed by their spouse or former spouse, according to a tally kept by the AFP news agency.
Some advocacy groups activists have previously argued that the government measures do not amount to very much or lack the funding to be truly effective.
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Scenes for a new film starring Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson are set to be shot at locations in the Highlands, BBC Scotland understands.
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By Steven McKenzieBBC Scotland Highlands and Islands reporter
Under the Skin is based on a novel of the same name by Michel Faber, who lives in the Black Isle.
The book tells of an alien, Johansson's character in the film, who picks up hitchhikers on the A9 road in the Highlands to harvest body parts.
Filming will take place on the A82 in Glencoe on Wednesday and Thursday.
However, BBC News Scotland website understands that scenes could be shot in further Highland locations.
Johansson has already filmed scenes in other parts of Scotland.
The actress is expected to be in the Highlands for the planned new filming.
Under the Skin was to be shot in Canada.
A Transport Scotland said the A82 south of Loch Ba would be closed for 10 minute periods on Wednesday and Thursday.
A spokeswoman said: "Following discussions with the filming company Saltfilm, our operating company Scotland Transerv and the police, we have granted an order giving permission to carry out filming for the film Under the Skin on the A82.
"The Scottish government welcomes the continued interest in Scotland as a filming location and we are confident that any disruption to drivers will be minimal."
Dutch-born author Faber had insisted the movie adaption of his book also be set in the Highlands, according to a Press and Journal report in June.
Another of his novels, The Crimson Petal and the White, was adapted by the BBC for a series screened on BBC Two earlier this year.
Johansson's previous films include Iron Man 2 and The Prestige.
She will also appear in next year's The Avengers which sees comic book superheroes such as Thor and Captain America brought together to save the world.
Under the Skin is the latest major feature to head for the Highlands.
Earlier this year, stuntmen and a film crew made parachute jumps at an airstrip in the Cairngorms as part of the production of the latest Batman film.
Parachutists dressed in black and using a private jet, which was painted black, shot scenes at Cairngorm Gliding Club's site at Feshie Bridge.
A former US military C130 Hercules transport aircraft also flew in and out of Inverness Airport for scenes.
The Dark Knight Rises stars Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway and Tom Hardy.
Carrbridge-based young film-maker Fergus Thom said the landscape of the Highlands was a major draw for productions seeking striking locations.
He said: "It's incredibly exciting to see so many large-scale feature film productions coming and shooting in the Highlands.
"The region is packed with incredible locations that really do bring the big screen to life and this has obviously been noticed - something which can only bode well for more films being made here in the future and the continued economic benefits of this."
'A buzz'
Organisers of the Inverness Film Festival, which starts on Wednesday, have also welcomed the latest production to come north.
A spokesman said: "Scottish film is in a very good place just now, and festivals like the Inverness Film Festival do great work in promoting the strength of the industry."
Andrew Doig, of the Loch Ness Film Festival, added: I think it is exciting in terms of filming in the Highlands, as there was a buzz last year with a Lonely Place To Die.
"We knew a load of extras used for that film and there was a buzz about the new batman Filming at Inverness Airport and on the A9.
"It would be great to see even more films filmed up in the Highlands because if you get the weather right you won't get a better location for filming and it would be even better if the government, or somebody, invested in a film studio up in the Highlands and with more tax breaks get even more films made up here."
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Desertification in Africa's Sahel region may be driving a range of problems including terrorism. Gavin Haines investigates whether a project to reforest the region could help.
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By Gavin HainesThe Sahel
Since French forces were deployed to Mali earlier this year, the Sahel has emerged as a new battleground in the so-called war on terror.
This semi-arid region just south of the Sahara Desert has been described by the French military as "planet Mars" and is characterised by extreme heat, drought and food shortages.
Poverty is never far away and this, according to Kouloutan Coulibaly, Mali's Director of Forestry, makes it a breeding ground for extremism.
"When you have no money and no job and the terrorists come and pay, people say yes," he explains. "It's an opportunity for them."
Despite the lure, most eschew terrorism and continue to eke out their honest, knife-edge existences in this most inhospitable part of the world. Others abandon the Sahel altogether and head for new horizons.
A new leaf?
Many of the social and economic problems in the Sahel can be linked to a process called desertification.
"Despite what some people think, desertification is not the advancing of the desert - we are not talking about sand encroachment here," says Michele Bozzano, a research support officer for Bioversity International. "Desertification is about poor land management which turns the land into desert."
A report published this month by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), claims that 850 million people worldwide are affected by desertification.
Overgrazing and deforestation are the primary causes of desertification and have turned vast swathes of the Sahel into dust. However, an ambitious reforestation programme known as the Great Green Wall aims to reverse this process.
The project has been a pipedream in Africa since the eighties, when the idea of fighting desertification by planting a "wall of trees" across the continent first gained traction.
At 7,775km (4,831 miles) long and 15km (nine miles) the Great Green Wall was intended to snake through 11 countries, from Senegal in the west to Djibouti in the east.
However, the project has since evolved to become more ambitions in its scope and will now involve more than 20 African nations.
"It's more of a green mosaic than a wall," says Nora Berrahmouni, a Forestry Officer for the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (UNFAO). "And it's more than simply planting trees - it could be a shrub or herbaceous plant. It's about mimicking nature and in nature you don't just see trees."
Essential to the Great Green Wall's success will be its ability to help sustain the lives of those living along it - the vegetation needs to be worth more standing than felled.
"We need to create resilient economies as well as environments," says Mr Bozzano.
Buy gum
It took years to secure funding for the Great Green Wall but with financial backing from the African Union, European Union, World Bank, UNFAO and other international investors, planting began in 2011.
Since then nearly 12 million trees have been planted in Senegal alone. Most of the trees are acacias, which are indigenous to Africa and have been chosen for their ability to survive in droughts and provide local communities with a source of income.
That income will come largely from a substance called gum arabic, which is extracted from the bark and is used as an additive in anything from pharmaceuticals to fizzy drinks.
Demand for gum arabic is currently outstripping supply, but to avoid creating an economy dependent on this wonder substance, Green Wall coordinators are trying to raise awareness about the other benefits of trees.
"Trees fertilise the soil and provide shade, which means the ground loses less water," says Mr Bozzano. "The difference between having a stable environment and not is the difference between being able to grow crops and crops failing - agroforestry is extremely important."
Counter terrorism
Assuming the Green Wall succeeds in reversing the effects of desertification - detractors argue that is a big assumption - could it really lift communities out of poverty and counter terrorism in the Sahel?
Mali's director of forestry certainly thinks so.
"The Green Wall is an opportunity to provide jobs and combat poverty," says Mr Coulibaly, who is currently unable to work in three rebel held territories of Mali.
"It will develop these regions and I think it will be a solution [to terrorism]."
But Michele Bozzano strikes a more cautious tone.
"Terrorists recruit people with money, they make them feel important and when you have nothing you are easily brainwashed," he says. "The Green Wall is about giving people alternatives."
However, not everyone is convinced this ambitious land restoration project can succeed.
Critics question whether it can survive in an area set to become even drier as the world warms up.
"The Great Green Wall is about bringing back ecosystems that are able to adapt to a changing climate," explains Mr Berrahmouni, adding that only indigenous species capable of adjusting to droughts, are being planted.
Detractors also claim there are ownership issues with the Green Wall.
"When you plant a tree, who does it belong too, who is going to look after it, who is going to harvest the crop?" asks Ced Hesse, a Drylands Researcher for the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).
"The Green Wall is run from the top down and depends on external management and external funds, which doesn't necessarily marry well with what's happening on the ground."
The UNFAO disputes this and claims consultations with local communities are integral to the project.
One such community is Mboula, a dusty Senegalese village whose people are big advocates of the Green Wall.
"We knew we had to protect the land, but the Great Green Wall programme provided us with technical assistance," says Mustafa Ba, vice president of the regional council, as we sit on a mat with what seems like the entire village surrounding us.
"Instead of feeling alone facing this huge challenge of desertification, we feel connected to the rest of Africa and the outside world."
For the Great Green Wall to succeed against terrorism, statements like this must echo across the Sahel.
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US actor and comedian Rob Delaney has revealed that his two-year-old son Henry has died after spending half his life battling a cancerous brain tumour.
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Mr Delaney, who lives in London and is best known for starring in the British sitcom Catastrophe, announced the "very sad news" in a Facebook post on Friday.
"I will endeavour to not go mad with grief," he wrote, adding: "We had so many wonderful adventures together."
Henry's brain tumour was diagnosed in 2016, shortly after his first birthday.
Mr Delaney, 41, said that at the time Henry was suffering from "persistent vomiting and weight loss".
After he was admitted to an NHS hospital, doctors discovered the tumour and Henry underwent surgery to remove it.
He had further treatment last year but the cancer returned and Henry died in January, Mr Delaney wrote.
"His tumour and surgery left him with significant physical disabilities, but he quickly learned sign language and developed his own method of getting from A to B, shuffling on his beautiful little bum," he added in his post.
The comedian went on to praise the work of NHS nurses and doctors along with others who had helped care for his son, who he said had spent 15 months in hospital.
Mr Delaney said that all those who "helped our family survive Henry's illness" were "my heroes until the day I die".
In 2012 the US actor, who co-wrote the comedy series Catastrophe, became the first comedian to win the Funniest Person on Twitter Award.
He is married with two other sons.
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Testing of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a possible treatment for coronavirus has been halted because of safety fears, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
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Trials in several countries are being "temporarily" suspended as a precaution, the agency said on Monday.
It comes after a recent medical study suggested the drug could increase the risk of patients dying from Covid-19.
President Donald Trump has said he has taken the drug to ward off the virus.
The 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.
Last 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.
Hydroxychloroquine is safe for malaria, and conditions like lupus or arthritis, but no clinical trials have recommended its use for treating Covid-19.
The 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.
On Monday, officials at the UN health agency said hydroxychloroquine would be removed from those trials pending a safety assessment.
The 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.
The 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.
The 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.
The researchers warned that hydroxychloroquine should not be used outside of clinical trials.
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The foundation behind the cheap mini-computer Raspberry Pi has released downloadable software to make it easier for users to get started with the device.
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It has led to claims the device, designed to encourage youngsters to do more programming, has been "dumbed down".
Founder Eben Upton said: "We definitely want to make it easier to use.
It follows "anecdotal evidence of people who have fallen off the wagon".
"The Raspberry Pi is a great platform if your parent is an engineer or you have a teacher who is an enthusiast, but if you don't have a tech-savvy adult to hand it can be quite a technical operation," Mr Upton told the BBC.
Reset button
Noobs (New Out of the Box Software) comes as a compressed zip file that can be downloaded to a SD card.
It offers new users a choice of operating systems to install, including ArchLInux, OpenELEC, Pidora, RaspBMC.
It could also be used to reinstall operating systems "if things go wrong", said Mr Upton.
The update was just the beginning of moves to make the device more user-friendly, he told the BBC.
"For schools, we want to be able to provide a remote-reset button for teachers to use between classes," he said.
Watching rhino
Since Raspberry Pis went on sale in February 2012, more than a million have been sold.
The computers have been put to some novel uses, including a controller for a robot boat that is piloting itself across the Atlantic Ocean.
The device appeared this week on the BBC's Springwatch show, counting birds going in and out of bird-boxes and correlating this with temperature.
And this week a project created by the Zoological Society of London that uses Raspbery Pis to fight illegal poaching in Kenya has won a £500,000 prize from Google.
The computer powers cameras that transmit images of intruders and pinpoint gunshots to allow park-rangers to more quickly catch poachers hunting for rhino horns.
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A mayor has been accused of homophobia after he said the LGBT community would be accepted more if they were "quiet" and "unobtrusive" about their sexuality.
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Rabbi Alan Plancey, who was appointed Mayor of Hertsmere on Wednesday, expressed his views in a video for Jewish News in 2014.
Hertsmere Labour Group said his comments were "homophobic".
He said he was "very clear" that he was "quoting the Torah".
Conservative councillor for Borehamwood Brookmeadow, Mr Plancey, said: "I was asked to explain the Orthodox views.
"I stated that it was the homosexual act that was forbidden in the Torah, not the people."
In the video, which looks at the attitudes towards LGBT issues within the Jewish community, Mr Plancey said "homosexuality is not permitted in Jewish law".
"We have rules and regulations which have been handed down to us from Mount Sinai," he said.
The former rabbi of Borehamwood and Elstree Synagogue said he thought LGBT demonstrations calling for acceptance were "completely wrong".
"You would get more acceptance and more love if you do it quietly and unobtrusively," he said.
Mr Plancey said he respected LGBT people but could not accept their actions.
A spokesman for the Labour group said it had been made aware of the video by a "young gay Jewish man from the borough" who was "in distress".
"We fully accept your right to express your own religious views," the Labour group said in a letter to Mr Plancey.
"However, your interview goes much further. It does not walk the fine line. It crosses it and explicitly enters the territory of homophobic statements."
In a statement Mr Plancey said: "I cannot change the writings and law of the Jews.
"Yet on a personal level that does not preclude me from being respectful to everyone, which I have sought to be throughout 40 years as a local rabbi and over 10 years as a county and borough councillor."
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Heavy discounting on winter coats and sturdy footwear lifted sales on Scotland's high streets last month, according to a closely-watched survey.
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The SRC-KPMG sales monitor found total sales were up by 1% year-on-year in October.
Food sales rose by 2.5%, while non-food sales fell by 0.2%.
Adjusted for the estimated effect of online sales, non-food was up by 1.7% - the best performance since January, excluding Easter "distortions".
The Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) said the "sprightly" set of results showed "a more broadly based pick-up in demand" across retail sub-sectors.
Fashion led the way in the non-food category, followed by beds, home textiles, kitchenware, mobile phones and televisions.
SRC director David Lonsdale said retailers had used "keen prices and promotions" to drive footfall and demand, particularly on winter coats and heavier footwear.
However, he warned that if customers continued to hold out for steep discounts, it would put "severe pressure on retailers' already-thin profit margins".
'Golden quarter'
Mr Lonsdale added: "Overall these figures strike a more optimistic note at the start of the crucial 'golden quarter' trading period that leads up to Christmas.
"However, a big question remains over the future direction of consumer spending.
"The coming weeks and months will be dominated by the general election, Brexit and UK and Scottish budgets.
"Retailers will be hoping policy-makers keep consumer confidence and household disposable incomes uppermost in their minds."
Paul Martin, UK head of retail for KPMG, said: "After a particularly challenging and prolonged period of uncertainty, the latest figures provide some reassurance and confidence.
"The next few months will be crucial for Scotland's high streets, as shoppers prepare for the festive spending period.
"A concerted effort from retailers has laid the foundations for a positive quarter."
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Twelve new victims have made allegations of child sexual abuse in Rotherham since a report found at least 1,400 children were abused, police say.
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South Yorkshire Chief Constable David Crompton revealed the new cases as he gave evidence to a Commons committee.
Earlier, Home Secretary Theresa May said the government was considering carrying out an inspection of Rotherham Council in the wake of the scandal
A report last week said hundreds of children were abused from 1997 to 2013.
Mr Crompton, who earlier announced he had commissioned an independent inquiry into South Yorkshire Police's handling of the scandal, was giving evidence to the Home Affairs Committee.
Mr Crompton said he now had 62 officers dedicated to dealing with child sex abuse, compared with three in 2010 and eight in 2012.
He told the committee 104 convictions had been secured since the start of 2013, while 40 more suspects were on bail.
South Yorkshire Police is conducting nine "multiple victim, multiple offender" investigations, including two in Rotherham, he said.
However, he was unable to give direct answers about specific failures highlighted in Professor Alexis Jay's report, including why an 11-year-old victim was arrested and why an officer described the rape of a 12-year-old girl by several men as "entirely consensual".
Mr Crompton was asked to return with detailed answers next week.
Asked if would be "leaving his post", or staying he said: "Absolutely [staying]. The report concludes that things have been much better recently and we can continue to improve on that."
Speaking in the House of Commons earlier Mrs May said Communities Secretary Eric Pickles was "minded to use his powers under the Local Government Act 1999 to commission an independent inspection" of the council.
She said Mr Pickles shared her concerns of "inadequate scrutiny by councillors, institutionalised political correctness and covering-up of information and the failure to take action against gross misconduct" in Rotherham.
Rotherham Council has welcomed the proposed inspection, adding it had "already intended to ask for a similar inspection by an independent body" and would "fully co-operate with the government".
The council's cabinet is due to meet on Wednesday to discuss the Jay Report on child abuse.
'Horror and shock'
Sandra Moule, of Rotherham Women's Counselling Service, said the revelations about the scale of the abuse had "further traumatised" some of the victims, adding that the service already had a six-month waiting list.
"We already have people that are currently in counselling that are part of the 1,400 that's been in the media," she said.
"Some of our clients have found themselves being further traumatised by the whole horror and total shock of how wide a scale this has been.
"It's impacting on the team, it's impacting on the workload; the phones have never stopped ringing. It's extremely difficult at the moment."
MP Barry Sheerman, who chaired the Commons Children, Schools and Families Committee - now the Education Select Committee - between 2007 and 2010, said he felt "guilty" about the Rotherham abuse scandal.
The Labour MP for Huddersfield said MPs were aware vulnerable children were being sexual exploited "up and down the country".
He said: "We knew about that, we didn't do enough about it. Members of this house, many of us, knew what was going on."
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The coronavirus crisis could spark a "personal debt time bomb", according to Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS).
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It has said the number of people unable to manage their debts may climb as the furlough scheme is reduced and job losses increase.
A survey for the service shows 27% of respondents were worried about making repayments during the pandemic.
Citizens Advice warned the situation could be causing financial hardship and is pushing more people into poverty.
It said support schemes during the lockdown have been welcome, but managing the situation as these begin to lift would "require thoughtful and significant intervention".
CAS financial health spokesman Myles Fitt said: "The issue is most often a result of insecure or low incomes which are simply not able to keep pace with the cost of living.
"While concerns about unemployment have understandably replaced it for the time being, the issue of personal debt will become a real challenge in the coming months and years.
"An income shock from a job loss or reduced pay, combined with the cost of arrears such as council tax, housing or energy bills built up due to Covid-19 payment holidays, will put individual and household finances under extreme pressure.
"Our fear is that many households will fall into unmanageable debt, causing financial hardship and pushing more people into poverty, or exacerbate existing poverty."
Financial burdens
The company which conducted the poll also warned people who are are already struggling financially could be hardest hit.
Spokesman Mark Diffley said: "Overall, a quarter of Scots remain concerned about paying utility bills and paying their rent (24% and 26% respectively), while 20% are concerned about paying for food and essentials and 35% about their income.
"Of additional concern is the finding that, once again, it is apparent that the highest levels of concern are recorded from those in the poorest socio-economic groups who are least likely be able to bear the financial burdens which they are facing as a result of the virus."
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A taskforce is to be set up to support jobs in Scotland's oil and gas sector, the first minister has announced.
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Nicola Sturgeon also made the offer of a funded guarantee to support apprenticeships in the North Sea during a visit to Aberdeen.
The announcement came as Bank of England boss Mark Carney said the fall in oil prices represented a "negative shock" to the Scottish economy
He was appearing before the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee.
Scotland's oil industry has about 2,200 modern apprenticeships.
But the sharp decline of oil prices to less than $50 a barrel has led to concerns for the sector.
Ms Sturgeon said if an apprentice faces being laid off, the Scottish government would offer a £5,000 incentive for another company to step in.
Failing that, there would be funding for continuing off-the-job training.
Ms Sturgeon said the North Sea had made an "enormous contribution" to the Scottish and UK economies over the past 40 years.
She added: "It is now vital, in order to prolong the life of the industry beyond 2050 and maximise economic benefits, that the UK government maintains the momentum for fiscal and regulatory change in the oil and gas sector.
"I've seen for myself how Scottish companies such as Sea Energy Ltd are continuing to see success by signing major overseas deals. This is reassuring and I applaud its, and Scottish Enterprise's, hard work to secure such contracts.
"However, the recent drop in the price of a barrel of crude oil, combined with the mismanagement of oil and gas fiscal policy by the UK government, and other challenges facing the industry, pose a threat to a number of jobs."
Mr Carney was quizzed about falling oil prices when he came before MPs at Westminster.
He told select committee members: "It is a negative shock to the Scottish economy but it is a negative shock substantially mitigated by the fiscal arrangements in the UK."
Mr Carney suggested the impact on Scotland of the lower price would be cushioned by the wider benefits to the UK as a whole - where falling petrol prices was putting more money into consumers' pockets.
He added: "My personal view is that the net impact of the decline in the oil price at this stage is net positive for growth in the UK."
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said Mr Carney's comments was more evidence that had Scotland voted Yes on 18 September, it would now be "facing up to financial meltdown".
Meanwhile, the new Energy Jobs Taskforce, chaired by Scottish Enterprise chief executive Lena Wilson, will report to the Scottish Energy Advisory Board and will focus on supporting jobs across the energy sector, but with an initial emphasis on the oil and gas industry.
The taskforce, which will meet for the first time by the end of the month, will include representatives from the oil and gas industry, local and central government, enterprise bodies and unions.
The announcement follows key figures from the oil and gas sector meeting with both Scottish and UK ministers in London on Tuesday to discuss how the industry could best weather the storm caused by falling prices.
'Election strategy'
The Scottish government has been pressing for taxes for the sector to be reformed in a bid to encourage more investment.
But Scottish Labour accused the SNP of being "silent on the oil crisis that is putting thousands of jobs at risk because their general election strategy relies on it".
The party's energy spokeswoman, Jackie Baillie, said: "Oil jobs appear to be an afterthought for the first minister, who only contacted union officials in Aberdeen to arrange a meeting on Monday.
"We know why the SNP are sitting on their hands. If they take the oil crisis seriously, it undermines their entire electoral strategy.
"The SNP's general election campaign revolves around binning Barnett. This would mean a straight choice between huge job losses in the oil industry or billions of pounds of cuts to public services."
Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael and UK Energy Secretary Ed Davey will both be in Aberdeen on Thursday to discuss assistance for the industry.
Aberdeen City Council has confirmed it is to host an oil summit on 2 February that will be attended by both Ms Sturgeon and Mr Carmichael.
The event will be aimed at coming up with meaningful responses to the oil price slump and other challenges facing the industry.
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India is concerned that a new US bill designed to limit the entry of highly-skilled workers will have a serious impact on the country's IT industry.
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The bill introduced to the US House of Representatives proposes doubling the minimum salary of H-1B visa holders to $130,000 from $60,000.
Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, introducing the bill, said it would stop companies "replacing" American workers.
India's foreign ministry said it had expressed concern to the US.
"India's interests and concerns have been conveyed both to the US administration and the US Congress at senior levels," a statement from the ministry said.
Indian media organisations have described the move as a big setback to the IT industry.
The proposed new legislation mainly targets companies based in the US that bring in foreign employees on the visa quota.
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A senior official from India's IT body told the BBC that the bill was "disappointing".
"The new bill does not treat all IT companies with H-1B visa holders equally," Shivendra Singh, vice-president and head of global trade development of the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom), told the BBC.
"If the objective is to protect American workers, then this bill will defeat that objective. Companies that are not dependant on H-1B visas will continue to bring in skilled workers on lower wages which will nullify the whole objective of saving US jobs."
Amar Ambani, the head of research of India Infoline, said that if the bill were implemented, it would be "horrible" news for India's IT sector.
"More than 50% of their revenues come from that market. And this comes at a time when India's IT sector is already facing challenges to improve their margins and profitability," he told the BBC.
The H-1B has a cap of 65,000 visas each financial year, according to US Citizenship and Immigration Services. Around 70% of H-1B visas went to Indians in 2016, many of whom work in the IT industry.
The phrase H-1B is the top trend on Twitter in India.
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Rescuers are racing against the rains to free 12 boys and their football coach, who are trapped in a flooded cave in northern Thailand.
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A deluge is expected to hit in a matter of days that could force the water level up, threatening to flood the pocket where the group took refuge.
The teenage boys and their 25-year-old coach have been trapped for 12 days.
They were found on Monday night by rescue divers, on a rock shelf about 4km (2.5 miles) from the cave mouth.
The boys have now received food, foil blankets, and medical attention, and rescuers are trying to run cables through the cave tunnel so they can speak to their families.
When are the rains coming?
The region of Chiang Rai where the boys are trapped has for the past few days experienced a dry spell, and rescuers have taken advantage of this to pump water out of the cave complex.
About 128 million litres of water had been pumped out by Thursday, with the water levels coming down at an average rate of 1.5cm per hour. Rescue workers are now able to walk through a 1.5km (0.9 mile) stretch from the entrance to what's being called the third chamber.
But heavy monsoon rains are forecast for Sunday. Chiang Rai Governor Narongsak Osotthanakorn said they were "racing against water".
"We are calculating how much time we have it if rains, how many hours and days," he said.
The Tham Luang cave complex is regularly flooded during the rainy season until September or October, raising fears that a delay could leave the boys trapped in the cave for months.
What is being done to rescue the boys?
There is hope that enough water can be pumped out of the cave tunnels for the boys to be able to wade - or be floated - out.
But rescuers are also planning for other eventualities.
A team are exploring the forested mountain land above the cave complex to see if they can find a chimney down to the cavern sheltering the boys. They have enlisted the help of bird-watchers, who are specialists in finding hidden holes, the AFP news agency reports.
Thai Navy Seal divers are also teaching the boys the basics of diving, with a view to guiding them out through flooded waters if necessary.
But such a rescue would be fraught with risk, say experts. Many of the boys cannot swim or dive, and there is a high risk they might panic in the dark, murky, narrow waterways.
The journey for the group to travel up to the cave entrance would take around five hours, rescue divers say.
The Thai military has previously said that if the boys can't dive out, the group may have to wait for up to four months for flooding to recede before they can leave.
Food and other supplies are being put in place for that eventuality.
'The boys are my brothers'
Helier Cheung, BBC News, Tham Luang cave
Rescue teams are working in extremely difficult conditions. The heat has been sweltering and unrelenting, at over 30C, while much of the site is submerged in squelchy mud that is several inches thick in places and extremely slippery.
But the work has continued at an unrelenting pace. Everyone is aware that once the monsoon rains start, rescue efforts will be much more difficult.
Meanwhile, hundreds of workers are helping to keep the site in order, with road engineers laying gravel to try and secure the mud, workers for the Thai royal kitchen providing hot food for everyone, and volunteers handing out water bottles and ice lollies to those on site.
One local civil servant, who had volunteered to help hand out supplies, said he did not know the boys personally but had decided to help because "I consider the boys in the caves as my brothers".
How are the boys coping?
Video from Thai Navy special forces on Monday showed the boys looking emaciated but smiling and at times laughing.
The arrival of food, foil blankets and the prospect of speaking to their loved ones will have buoyed their spirits.
But concern is mounting for both their physical and mental health after 12 days below ground - and it is not clear how they would be helped to survive months more in the cave.
The boys and their coach had gone on their bikes up to the caves on Saturday 23 June after football practice. It was one boy's 16th birthday, and the team had taken a picnic.
They knew the caves, and some reports suggest they had wanted to explore deeper than on previous occasions.
They entered the cave when it was dry but sudden heavy rains quickly flooded the exit and rushed through the narrow passages, clogging them with mud and debris.
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Downing Street has confirmed that "urgent, intensive and focused cross-party talks" will begin next week in Belfast in an attempt to resolve the crisis at the assembly.
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It was sparked by the recent murder of Kevin McGuigan Sr.
The Ulster Unionists withdrew from the executive after police said Provisional IRA members had a role in the killing.
The talks, which will be held at Stormont House, will be led by Secretary of State Theresa Villiers.
The talks will cover two issues - securing the full implementation of the Stormont House Agreement and paramilitary activity.
The five biggest parties will be asked to take part in the discussions.
'Real threat'
A Downing Street spokesperson said Prime Minister David Cameron and Taoiseach Enda Kenny had spoken on Wednesday about the situation in Northern Ireland.
"They agreed that the current situation in Northern Ireland is serious and without urgent progress there is a real threat to the stability of the devolved institutions," the spokesperson added.
Mr Cameron also had separate discussions with First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.
Ms Villiers has also held a series of meetings and conversations with all the main parties in Northern Ireland and with the Irish government.
"A failure to resolve the issues under discussion would raise serious questions about the sustainability of the devolved institutions," she said.
'Full implementation'
"I would expect each of the parties to give these talks their highest priority as we seek to find a way forward."
Downing Street said the purpose of the talks was to "secure full implementation of the Stormont House Agreement and to deal with issues arising from the impact of continued paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland".
The Irish government will be involved on matters for which they have responsibility.
In a statement, Mr Kenny said: "We envisage that this process of talks should be short, focused and intensive and deal with full implementation of the Stormont House Agreement as well as the trust and confidence issues arising from the legacy of paramilitarism."
The assembly is due to return on Monday.
Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness welcomed the talks announcement.
"We have been calling over several months now for the parties and the two governments to get around the table to work together on finding a resolution to the real difficulties facing the political process," he said.
The SDLP's Alex Attwood said the talks "must be the only show in town" and the British government should have no "understandings" with any party.
Alliance Party leader David Ford said the talks "need to be a genuine attempt to move beyond the seemingly endless cycle of crisis after crisis".
"Uncertainty must be brought to an end and paramilitarism cannot remain in our society, poisoning relationships and being the great unsaid truth in Northern Ireland," he said.
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The cuts are coming. That much is clear. If David Cameron is right in saying it's going to affect every family in the country, what does that mean for you?
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By Douglas FraserBBC Scotland Business and Economy Editor
There has already been a down-payment on deficit reduction measures, with the new UK government taking nearly £6bn out of spending this year - roughly one pound in every hundred.
We learned this week how large the deficit is likely to be and what economic growth will look like, as calculated by the new Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR).
The extent of tax changes, and overall increases, will become clearer when George Osborne delivers his first Budget next Tuesday. A Comprehensive Spending Review follows some time in autumn.
In Scotland, Finance Secretary John Swinney has to set out his budget plans for the financial year starting next April - a year which looks likely to face cuts of at least 3.5%, and perhaps up to 6%.
That's a cut on a scale we've never seen before. So how does this affect you, the public services you use, and, more widely, how does it affect Scotland? The answers will become clearer as the UK and Scottish governments set out their spending plans, but here is at least some explanation of what's being faced.
Why are cuts necessary?
Britain's debt is far from being the highest in Europe, at 68% of national income, but its deficit (the annual overspend that compiles over years to form the stock of debt) is higher than almost any other, also measured as a proportion of national income.
For every £10 we make as a country, £1.11 is being borrowed by government.
That annual overspend builds up into a big debt very quickly. Last year, British government had to borrow £156bn more than it spent. This year, the OBR says it will be around £155bn.
Borrowing is healthy in moderation, but there's nothing moderate about the extent to which Britain is currently selling bonds to investors.
If it doesn't look a credible creditor, and doubt creeps in that the government may not be able to repay that debt, then its credit rating will fall, the risk of holding UK government debt would go up, meaning a higher interest rate and that would put up the cost of servicing the debt even more.
Meanwhile, even if the deficit reduces and the debt stabilises, it is already costing more to service that debt - at today's exceptionally low interest rates - than Britain is spending on defence.
How much to cut back, and how fast, are political decisions. The Conservatives in the new government reckoned during their election campaign that a £661bn budget had to be cut by around £64bn over the next five years.
While their opponents say cuts will be necessary, they argue for a delay in applying them, while helping stimulate the economy back to the private sector growth with which to bring taxation and spending back into kilter.
Why has taxation and spending become so out of kilter?
When the economy contracts, which is what happens in a recession, there is less paid in tax. People have less income on which to pay tax, they pull back on spending so VAT falls, companies make lower profits so there's less corporation tax, and there are fewer home transactions on which stamp duty is paid.
That meant last year that revenue from taxation fell by 5.3%.
Meanwhile, governments costs go up, in paying out benefit to those who are unemployed, and because a rising debt means rising debt payments.
The government also chose last year to increase spending and cut tax temporarily to help keep people and businesses spending. Last year, government spending rose by 6.8%.
When is the best time to tackle the deficit?
That's a contentious one. The international consensus has shifted in recent months. It was believed that it was too soon to rein in overspending, for fear the reduction in government spending would kill off the fragile private sector recovery.
But the crisis in Greece, where the overspend risked a sudden drying up of credit to service its debt, sparked fear of contagion, and the international consensus, particularly in Europe, rapidly shifted to the need to get deficits down quickly.
At the same time, Britain's new government could claim to have a mandate to move more swiftly with deficit reduction than Labour had planned.
That change of mood hasn't removed the risk that a sudden reduction in government spending could throw the recovery into reverse, particularly if it's applied across Europe. However the risk of debt default by governments was judged greater than the risk of another downturn.
Scotland has devolved spending powers - what difference does that make?
With few taxation powers and no borrowing powers, the Scottish Parliament and government have to work with the block grant handed to them by the Treasury.
That block grant could have taken a £322m cut in the current financial year, through applying the funding formula from which the block grant is calculated.
But as an act of goodwill, to avoid the devolved administrations having to rework their budgets, the new Chancellor, George Osborne, said that cut could be deferred. In Scotland, that means the cut of £322m will be applied from next spring, at the same time that a much steeper cut is also applied.
It is reckoned that the Scottish budget will also be reduced next year because the Holyrood administration has reached the end of a fund of unspent money that had been saved up over previous years.
With those different elements, Glasgow University economists reckon the cut could be a particularly severe 5 to 6%.
The scale of the cuts over the following two years is expected to continue at the same pace, requiring cuts of more than 3% per year.
The relatively good news for Scotland is that health, education and policing are unlikely to take the worst of the cuts across Whitehall departments, so there will be a knock-on effect in protecting Holyrood's main spending departments. That will become clearer with the Comprehensive Spending Review this year.
There's a disadvantage however. Because Scotland weathered the recession relatively well through having a cushion of higher public spending and a higher proportion of public sector jobs than in England, the downside is that cuts in that government spending will have a disproportionately larger effect.
How are we going about cuts in spending?
That's a lot less clear. The new government in Westminster has set out its £6bn spending cuts for this year. On Tuesday, the Budget should make clear the changes it will make in taxation. Some could be applied this year, and some will wait until next April.
The Comprehensive Spending Review, in autumn, will set out the plans for the 2011-2015. That will provide the figures with which John Swinney will have to work for the Scottish budget for at least 2011-12.
The finance secretary has commissioned a three-man budget review group, under the leadership of Crawford Beveridge, a businessman from the electronics sector who was chief executive of Scottish Enterprise.
It is scheduled to report next month, with suggestions for how to handle the likely squeeze on public spending.
That is the starting point for a debate on what government in Scotland has to prioritise and protect, which programmes it has to pare back or axe altogether, and how much users of public services may be required to contribute in user charges and fees.
How is taxpayer spending being spent now?
In broad terms, the £661bn of government spending in the UK is spent on:
In making cuts, it is hard to bring welfare under control without changing the terms under which people can claim it. Likewise, public sector pensions carry legal obligations, so they're very difficult to cut, at least in the short-term. (In the long-term, they're very much in the frame.)
The new Westminster government has promised to protect NHS frontline spending, as well as international aid, and promises to older voters, including the winter fuel payment and free bus travel. That leaves fewer spending departments to share more of the pain.
In Scotland, the government at Holyrood is responsible for spending £35bn. More than £5bn of that is on programmes over which it has limited control, such as pensions.
The big spending heads are:
That's the starting point. Squeezing a household budget is much easier, as it includes more discretionary spend.
Squeezing a government budget is much tougher, because it's political and politicians are accountable. And the easy cuts in one area can push up costs in another: civil service job losses mean more people claiming unemployment benefit.
Or the impact could come after a few years. Save on IT systems this year, and you may find the result is that productivity falls in four years. Or cut back on nursery education, and you may pay the price for decades to come.
Nobody said it was going to be easy.
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Cuts to prison management services could lead to a rise in reoffending, an influential group of MPs has said.
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The MPs said staff cuts by the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) could result in less training and rehabilitation - which have been shown to reduce reoffending rates.
The Public Accounts Committee praised NOMS for saving £230m last year, but warned further cuts may be difficult.
Ministers said their plans would stop the "revolving door of reoffending".
NOMS, which manages 117 public prisons in England and Wales and the contracts of 14 private prisons, is responsible for a prisoner population of around 86,000. It is having to make cuts of £650m to its £3.4bn budget by 2015.
'Safety and decency'
As part of this, the agency is expected to reduce staff numbers through redundancy.
But Labour MP Margaret Hodge, who chairs the committee, raised concerns about how staff cutbacks might have an impact on the level of rehabilitation which prisoners receive.
She said: "There is a risk that reduced (staff) numbers will result in staff being taken off offender management programmes to cover duty on prison wings.
"This means that training and rehabilitation activities could suffer, even though we know these reduce reoffending after release.
"The agency needs to seriously consider the long-term consequences of short term cuts."
The committee warned that staff reductions were already having an impact on "safety and decency in prisons" and that prison overcrowding had become "institutionalised".
"Assaults on staff, self-harm and escapes from contractor escorts have all increased, and more prisoners are reporting that they don't feel safe," the MPs said.
The committee also raised concerns about whether the agency would be able to meet its savings targets in future years.
In evidence to the committee, NOMS said savings would be found as older, expensive prisons were replaced by modern, cheaper facilities.
'Value for money'
But the MPs on the committee said this was based on the assumption that overall prisoner numbers would not increase from the current level, and concluded that a rethink of prison policy was needed.
The current strategy depends on the prison population remaining stable, but this is something over which it NOMS has no control, Mrs Hodge said.
"It also depends on making significant numbers of staff redundant, but the agency doesn't yet have the resources to fund the redundancy payments required," she added.
Responding to the report, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said: "Running prisons that are safe, decent and secure is a priority.
"We will continue to drive down running costs by replacing old prison accommodation with new places that are better value for money and provide better opportunities to reduce reoffending.
"NOMS will meet its savings target for 2012/13 of £246m while maintaining its overall performance.
"Our transforming rehabilitation proposals will change the way we deal with offenders on release and help us to stop the depressing revolving door of reoffending."
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Bombardier has agreed a £100m deal with rail operator c2c to build six new trains at its factory in Derby.
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The new carriages will run on services between London's Fenchurch Street station and Essex.
The new fleet will add capacity for about 20 per cent more passengers from the summer of 2021, three years earlier than previously planned.
The Rail, Maritime and Transport union described the deal as a "victory".
Richard Hunter, UK managing director of Bombardier Transportation, said the new carriages "are proving ever more popular" and said the deal was "another endorsement" of its British-based manufacturing.
Ernesto Sicilia, UK managing director for Italian firm Trenitalia, which bought c2c earlier this year, said the announcement "demonstrates our focus on long-term investments in the UK market".
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Luxury carmaker Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is set to announce plans for a major new engine plant in the West Midlands.
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The development, which is expected to take up to two years, will be on the i54 business park in Wolverhampton, confirmed as one of several new enterprise zones in July.
JLR, owned by Indian firm Tata, was previously believed to be considering sites in south Wales and India.
It is believed the engine plant will employ hundreds of people.
It is thought the manufacturer has financial support from the government.
In July, Mark Prisk, Minister of State for Business and Enterprise, told BBC News that Wolverhampton was the only UK option for a new engine plant.
New concept cars
The business park is part of a 120-hectare site in Darlaston and Wolverhampton North, in the Black Country.
Ford currently supplies engines to Jaguar Land Rover from sites including Bridgend and Dagenham.
The news increases the luxury car manufacturer's presence in the West Midlands.
The group's headquarters is in Gaydon, Warwickshire with Land Rovers produced in Solihull and Halewood, Merseyside and Jaguar models produced at Castle Bromwich, near Birmingham.
Last year Jaguar Land Rover announced it was reversing a decision to close one of its two West Midlands factories.
Last week, the firm unveiled three new concept cars at the Frankfurt Motor Show on the back of a period of strong sales fuelled, partly, by a growing number of orders from foreign markets, including China and India.
One model, the C-X16 sports car, was described by some as the "spiritual successor" to the iconic E-Type.
Jaguar and Land Rover are spending about £7bn on new models, engines and technology over the next five years.
Professor David Bailey from Coventry Business School told BBC News the announcement was a huge boost for the industry.
He said it was a positive position for transporting engines to its other plants.
Businesses tax breaks
"Firstly, it's a really accessible site so what you want is an engine plant within a day's drive of your assembly plants so they can build engine there and get them to plants in Castle Bromwich and Solihull and up to Merseyside very easily.
"But it's also an enterprise zone and normally that gives rate relief.
"I think in this case, it may well be more about capital allowances that JLR can invest heavily in more plants and equipment and write that off against tax."
Enterprise zones offer new businesses tax breaks worth up to £275,000, simplified planning and super-fast broadband.
Wolverhampton City Council said after confirmation from the government in July that it hoped the new zone would create almost 4,000 net new jobs by 2015 in advanced manufacturing for the automotive and aerospace industries.
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The former boss of Yorkshire's tourism body will not face further police investigation in relation to expense claims.
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Sir Gary Verity, 55, resigned from Welcome to Yorkshire (WtY) in 2019 on health grounds.
West Yorkshire Police said its investigation was complete and "no further action" would be taken.
WtY said it had been told of the decision. The BBC has approached Sir Gary's legal team for comment
Sir Gary was appointed as chief executive in 2008 and became a major figure after bringing the Tour de France to Yorkshire in 2014.
He was also responsible for the subsequent annual Tour de Yorkshire cycle race, and in 2015 was awarded a knighthood for services to tourism.
His departure in March 2019 followed concerns over his expense claims and the way in which staff were treated.
The organisation, which is funded by businesses and councils across Yorkshire, commissioned two independent investigations.
One was concerned with expense claims, while the other looked into how the organisation was managed.
The reports found expenses claims were made without receipts and staff felt unable to speak out about bad behaviour.
Sir Gary Verity has always denied any allegations of wrongdoing.
WtY said it had no further comment to make regarding the closed investigation, but said it had made "significant" cost savings in the past year alongside changes to its governance and leadership arrangements.
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Apple helped the US government build a "top secret" iPod with hidden sensors inside, a former employee has revealed.
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Only four people at the company knew about the project, according to former Apple software engineer David Shayer.
Two men from a defence contractor had arrived at Apple in 2005, on behalf of the US Department of Energy, he said.
They had wanted help to build an iPod that looked and worked just like a normal one but secretly recorded data using hidden extra hardware inside.
Apple had helped the engineers build a custom version of the iPod software to accommodate the secret device, Mr Shayer said.
"They were careful to make sure I never saw the hardware," he wrote in a lengthy post for Apple newsletter Tidbits.
"And I never did."
He said the two engineers, from defence contractor Bechtel, had worked out of an office at Apple's buildings for months.
"They wanted to add some custom hardware to an iPod and record data from this custom hardware to the iPod's disk in a way that couldn't be easily detected," he wrote.
"But it still had to look and work like a normal iPod."
The pair had been given a copy of the iPod system's source code on DVD and bought their own devices at shops to experiment on, Mr Shayer said.
"This wasn't a collaboration with Bechtel with a contract and payment," he wrote.
"It was Apple doing a favour under the table for the Department of Energy."
Nuclear power
Mr Shayer never found out exactly what the two engineers were building but suspected "something like a stealth Geiger counter" to measure radiation without being noticed.
The Department of Energy is, among other functions, responsible for nuclear power.
The story has been backed by other Apple employees of the time.
Tony Fadell, the former vice-president of the iPod division, tweeted the story was "absolutely spot on" and "real without a doubt".
"Crazy super cool technology the government was working on then… I can only imagine what is cooking these days," he added.
Apple has yet to respond to a request for confirmation of the story.
The company has made privacy a key marketing point of its iPhones, leading to disagreements with the US Department of Justice.
But the high level of secrecy - and the fact the four people who had known about it had all since left Apple - meant, Mr Shayer said: "The PR people would tell you honestly that Apple has no record of any such project."
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One of Northern Ireland's best-known birds has been added to a list of those that are giving major concern to conservationists.
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By Conor MacauleyBBC NI Environment Correspondent
The curlew, Europe's largest wading bird, is recognisable by its long down-curved bill and evocative call.
It has been added to the red list in a survey of the 244 regularly occurring birds in the UK.
The RSPBNI said it could now be considered the "UK's most pressing conservation issue".
The curlew has suffered a severe population decline and has now been included on the red list of the British Birds of Conservation Concern 4.
There has been an 87% decline in its population in Northern Ireland between the mid-1980s and 2013.
The Antrim hills and County Fermanagh are two areas where the bird is most likely to be spotted.
Fermanagh holds 10% of the entire population on the island of Ireland.
Glenwherry in County Antrim is the only other place that holds what is considered a viable breeding population.
The number of pairs there has recovered a little in recent years and now stands at 39 pairs, down from 80 pairs in the mid-1980s.
Other birds seen in Northern Ireland and included on the red list include the Greenland white-fronted goose and the pochard, a type of duck.
It is thought the numbers of pochard are dropping at Lough Neagh because milder winters mean they do not have to migrate so far south.
The puffin has also been added to the red list. However, Northern Ireland's important colony on Rathlin is fairly stable.
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A Jersey-based telecoms company claims it has been denied access to the network it needs to connect to Guernsey, the UK and Europe.
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Clear Mobitel was granted a licence in 2009 for internet and data services.
Now the company has complained to the Jersey Competition Regulatory Authority about Jersey Electricity and Newtel.
Chris Ambler, the chief executive of the JEC, said it would like to help Clear Mobitel but its fibre optic infrastructure is full.
Mr Ambler said: "We have been able to provide Clear Mobitel with capacity elsewhere in our network.
"The reason we can't provide them with all of their requirements is because we don't have the spare capacity to do that.
"That capacity has already been committed to other telecom operators under contracts that were written more than 10 years ago."
Andrew Elston, from Clear Mobitel, said it had filed a complaint with Jersey Competition Regulatory Authority.
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Guernsey can overcome its financial problems without raising taxes, the island's chief minister has said.
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Deputy Lyndon Trott said the island had a deficit, which had been planned as a result of changes in taxation.
He said: "If we control expenditure... and the other initiatives in place are maintained, that deficit will disappear without any additional taxes."
Deputy Trott said the initiatives included "chasing out the waste and inefficiency" within the States.
He made the comments while addressing the island's top business people at the annual Institute of Directors debate on Thursday.
The comments show a shift in his view on the island's finances after he said in June that a tax rise was "inevitable".
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M&G Investments has followed two major finance firms and suspended trading in the UK's biggest commercial property fund following the Brexit vote.
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By Dan MacadamBusiness reporter
Firms said high levels of uncertainty caused by the referendum have led to investors rushing to withdraw funds.
M&G closed the doors on its £4.4bn fund after Aviva and Standard Life halted trading in similar schemes.
Regulators have put such schemes under review amid warnings that commercial property was a key risk to the economy.
M&G, part of UK insurer Prudential, said it had seen a "marked increase" in customers trying to pull out of the portfolio - which includes retail and office space - after the referendum result.
As with Aviva and Standard Life, the firm said investors would be better protected by preventing any further withdrawals.
Aviva, the UK's biggest insurer, earlier halted its £1.8bn property trust, a day after Standard Life blocked access to its £2.9bn fund.
'Matter of time'
Laith Khalaf, an analyst at stockbrokers Hargreaves Lansdown, said: "The dominoes are starting to fall in the UK commercial property market, as yet another fund locks its doors on the back of outflows precipitated by the Brexit vote.
"It's probably only a matter of time before we see other funds follow suit."
It takes time to sell commercial property to meet withdrawals, particularly as investors have been heading for the door in the run up to the EU referendum and in the aftermath, he said.
The last time Standard Life stopped investors taking money out of its UK real estate fund was during the financial crisis in late 2008, while Aviva has never previously done so.
'Illiquid'
Andrew Bailey, chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority, said the regulator was in close contact with many of the firms.
"I think it does point to issues that we need to look at in the design of these things because it comes back to my fundamental point about holding illiquid assets in open end funds that revalue and are required to be revalued," he said.
The Bank of England is also monitoring the behaviour of investors in the funds, as it sees commercial property as a key risk to UK financial stability.
There are approximately 50 UK property funds in total, with fund managers Henderson and Legal & General also big players.
The suspensions come amid widespread falls in property-related shares since the referendum result.
Housing firms Berkeley Group, Barratt Developments and Persimmon all fell more than 7% on Tuesday, while shares in commercial property firm Land Securities lost nearly 4%.
Shares in the UK's biggest house builders have now dropped more than 30% since 23 June.
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Cases of fathers killing their children before committing suicide are relatively uncommon, but in recent years there have been several instances of men killing their families before taking their own lives.
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Ceri Fuller stabbed his three children - Samuel, 12, Rebecca, eight, and seven-year-old Charlotte - to death, before jumping from a 60ft cliff.
In the US, he would be known as a "family annihilator".
In England and Wales, figures show that children are much more at risk of being murdered by a parent than by a stranger.
In over two thirds (67% on average) of all cases of children killed at the hands of another person, the parent is the principal suspect, the NSPCC said.
Using figures from the Office of National Statistics from 2007-08 to 2011-12, the NSPCC said that one child is killed at the hands of their parent every 10 days.
While in most cases of family annihilation it is the father involved, there have also been a number of instances of a mother killing her children before committing suicide.
One such case was that of 44-year-old Claudia Oakes-Green who stabbed her two children, Thomas, 13, and Eleanor, nine, to death, before killing herself at their home in Shepshed, Leicestershire in 2011.
'Pawns in a game'
Dr Marilyn Gregory, based at Sheffield University, is an expert on homicide followed by suicide.
She has examined a number of family annihilations in Yorkshire and the Humber, going back to 1975.
Dr Gregory said there are two main trains of thought about why people who kill others then go on to commit suicide.
She is of the belief that family annihilators often kill their families in an "extended suicide" - that once someone has decided to kill themselves, they feel they are free to do "other heinous acts" because the perpetrator knows that nobody can get to him, because he is going to kill himself.
But others who have commented on this behaviour take the view that the person who has killed is then overcome with regret and sees killing themselves as the only way out.
What is common in the majority of cases is that the person involved is often a middle aged, "ordinary" man.
"Obviously it is very difficult for the rest of us to even comprehend how someone can get himself to a state of mind where the children become expendable," Dr Gregory said.
"But sometimes the children in these cases have almost become pawns in a game - the children have become a way of getting back at his wife, a way of punishing her - or they have become belongings of his that he feels he can't leave behind.
"You've often got men who are holding down jobs, they're men who have got a lot invested in their world and particularly, often, in the family on which they then turn the violence."
The trigger to kill is often the failure of the relationship with the mother, or a dispute over the children if the marriage has already ended.
"He will then want to retrieve his control," Dr Gregory said.
"It is a desperate way to do it, and it is perverse, because in retrieving the control he is also losing his own life, but this man has got himself into such a state of mind that says 'if I can't have them, then no one can'.
"In some cases the attitude of the man, from the evidence that is left behind, can be quite punitive.
"He will leave her (the mother) a note saying 'you can't have them now, I've taken them with me'. It's a punitive, 'I'm doing this to get back at you', type of crime.
"But in other cases, there is a notion of misguided altruism, where one man in my sample left a note saying 'the children are at peace now with me', and it is this notion of taking them with them to a better place.
"It is a kind of last desperate act to regain that power and control."
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The St Petersburg metro explosion was caused by a bomb possibly detonated by a man whose body parts were found on the train, Russian investigators say.
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Monday's blast between two stations killed 14 people and injured almost 50.
Kyrgyzstan's security service named the suspect as Akbarzhon Jalilov, who was born in the Kyrgyz city of Osh in 1995 and had obtained Russian citizenship.
His name was later confirmed by Russian investigators, who said he also planted a second bomb that did not explode.
In an earlier statement, the Russian state investigative committee said it had concluded the train bomb may have been detonated by a man whose remains were found in the carriage.
No group has said it was behind the bombing.
In other developments:
Who is suspected bomber?
What we know so far
A city on edge: By Sarah Rainsford, BBC News, St Petersburg
The metro here is open again, but passengers heading into the stations at the heart of the attack pass a huge pile of flowers. People here at Sennaya Ploshchad have been adding to the shrine all morning, leaving notes and stuffed toys and lighting candles.
This is a city trying to get back to normal, but there is deep shock at what's happened.
I spoke to women in tears. One told me she felt she had to bring flowers because this attack was so awful, and her mother was horrified at how random the killing was. "Everyone I know is fine," Irina said. "But it could have been any one of us."
There were bomb scares on the metro system again this morning, and several stations were closed and cordoned off as security teams moved in. It is another sign that this is a city on edge now.
World leaders have rallied behind Russia in condemning the blast.
Events as they happened
In pictures: St Petersburg explosion
The blast occurred on Monday afternoon after the train had left Sennaya Ploshchad station.
Senior investigator Svetlana Petrenko told Russian media the train driver's decision to continue to the next station, Tekhnologichesky Institut, had almost certainly helped save lives, as it allowed people to be rescued quickly.
Train driver Alexander Kaverin told reporters: "I just followed the procedure. You will know that this isn't the first terrorist act that we've had, there've been explosions before, so smart people came up with smart procedures.
"And these procedures say that in this situation I had to take the train to the nearest station. This is what I did. The train kept moving. There was a bang and lots of dust, but the train kept on moving."
The discovery of an explosive device at another station, Ploshchad Vosstaniya, on Monday also suggested a co-ordinated attack.
Both Mr Kaverin and another employee who found the unexploded bomb would be rewarded for their actions, metro officials said.
Shifting tactics: By Abdujalil Abdurasulov, BBC Russia and Central Asia analyst
Several thousand fighters from Central Asia have joined militants in Syria and Iraq. Some are recruited from among migrant workers in Russia, who may be vulnerable to propaganda because of the injustice and abuse they face.
As part of shifting tactics, militants reportedly appeal to new recruits to support the "cause" at "home" as an alternative to joining the battlefront in Syria or Iraq.
The birthplace of the suspected bomber is reported to be Osh, Kyrgyzstan. Although this city is in the Fergana valley, where the role of Islam is particularly strong, it should not be perceived as a source of a growing "Islamic threat".
Islam in Central Asia is far more secular than in most parts of the Muslim world. Although the influence of the religion is certainly increasing, this is often mistakenly seen as a sign of the growing threat of violent radicalism, which effectively puts an equals sign between Islam and danger.
The reasons why Central Asians support violent Islamist groups are complex. Religion may not be necessarily a major one.
Per capita, more fighters have gone from some European countries, such as Belgium, to join militant groups in Syria and Iraq. And Belgium's Muslim population is far smaller.
Read more: Why Central Asians are lured by IS
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Theresa May says she remains "focused" on leaving the EU on 29 March, despite calls from her own party for a delay.
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The PM said she had felt a "real determination" from EU leaders in recent days to find a "smooth and orderly way [to leave] with a deal".
But Dutch PM Mark Rutte warned her the UK was "sleepwalking into a no-deal scenario" and needed to "wake up".
Mrs May admitted there was "still more to do" before Parliament could vote on her final plan.
The UK will leave the EU on 29 March, whether it has agreed a deal or not.
The only way to change that is to revoke Article 50, or to request a delay from the EU - which the bloc would have to approve.
Some Conservative colleagues have suggested she should consider delaying Brexit to avoid leaving without a deal.
The BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg understands No 10 is considering ways to give "more assurances" to MPs and ministers concerned about leaving the EU without a deal.
But at a press conference in Sharm-el-Sheikh, the prime minister was defiant about pushing forward with the scheduled date.
"A delay in this process doesn't deliver a decision in Parliament [and] it doesn't deliver a deal," she said.
"What it does is precisely what the word delay says, it just delays the point in which we come to that decision."
Talk of delay, but no conclusions
What is Theresa May really willing to do if her deal falls in Parliament?
Increasing numbers of EU leaders and her own government ministers believe that she should acknowledge that she might have to delay the UK's departure from the EU if her agreement is rejected by MPs again next month.
The President of the EU Council, Donald Tusk, says it's "rational" to consider.
Extending the process was discussed by Theresa May and Angela Merkel over breakfast this morning - but not with any conclusion.
And the prime minister, herself, will do almost anything to avoid answering the question.
Read more from Laura here.
On Sunday, the prime minister told MPs they would get their chance to have a final "meaningful vote" on her deal by 12 March - only 17 days ahead of Brexit - causing criticism from opposition MPs, fellow Tories and business leaders.
But MPs will get to put forward their own proposals on Wednesday, when the government tables an amendable motion on which they can vote.
Mrs May has been at the EU-League of Arab States summit in Egypt for two days and held a number of meetings with EU leaders on the fringes as she presses for more concessions to her deal.
The major sticking point is the backstop - the policy to prevent a hard border returning to the island of Ireland.
Parliament voted for her to return to Brussels to seek "alternative arrangements" to replace it, as critics feared it would keep the UK locked into EU rules indefinitely.
Her team has been discussing proposals with EU officials, including introducing a time limit to the policy or creating a get-out clause for the UK.
But the EU has repeatedly refused to reopen the withdrawal agreement - the so-called "divorce bill" element of the deal that includes the backstop.
Mrs May said: "There is still more work to do, and my team will be in Brussels [on Tuesday] working on the legally binding assurances that the UK Parliament needs in relation to the backstop.
"But what I have sensed in all of my conversations with my fellow leaders, both here in Sharm-el-Sheikh and in recent days, is a real determination to find a way through which allows the UK to leave the EU in a smooth and orderly way with a deal."
Germany's Angela Merkel described her meeting with Mrs May as "good" and "friendly", while European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said his talks with the PM had been "constructive".
However, Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar described a no-deal Brexit as a "lose-lose-lose scenario for everyone", although he told reporters ahead of a meeting with Mrs May that he thought the outcome was unlikely.
And Mr Rutte told the BBC: "It's four weeks until the end date and still the UK has not agreed a position. So now we are sleepwalking into a no-deal scenario.
"It's unacceptable and your best friends have to warn you. Wake up. This is real. Come to a conclusion and close the deal."
President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, said it was "absolutely clear" to him that there was no majority in the House of Commons to approve any deal, adding: "We will face an alternative, chaotic Brexit or an extension."
He said he discussed a "potential extension" to Article 50 with Mrs May, saying it was an "objective fact" that became more likely as 29 March approached, and would be a "rational solution".
But he said that Mrs May told him "she still believes she is able to avoid this scenario".
The prime minister has long resisted any suggestion that the UK's departure could be postponed beyond 29 March.
But BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg says two cabinet ministers have told the BBC they believe she will this week grant some kind of concession to allow for a possible delay.
Key dates for Brexit this week
Monday: The PM meets with EU leaders, including Mrs Merkel and Mr Junker, on the fringes of the EU-League of Arab States summit.
Tuesday: Mrs May gives a statement to the House of Commons updating them on her progress on Brexit. Members of her negotiating team will return to Brussels to continue talks with the EU.
Wednesday: MPs debate an amendable motion tabled by the government. Speaker John Bercow chooses which amendments to put forward, and MPs vote on the next step proposals.
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MPs will not decide how to repair the crumbling Houses of Parliament for another 18 months, the government says.
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Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom has proposed a new "delivery body" to assess the costs of the three options put forward to renovate the estate.
Parts of the 150-year-old building, which contains asbestos and outdated cabling, are sinking.
Ms Leadsom said successive governments had been "patching and mending" the Grade 1 listed building.
"We do have to get going on this," she added.
MPs will vote on establishing the delivery body by Christmas and it will take 18 months for it to report back, she told BBC Radio 4's The World at One.
Parliament will then make a "final decision", she said.
It marks the latest stage of the long-running debate about the repairs, which have been estimated to cost up to £5.7bn.
A report in 2012 warned that "major, irreversible damage" may be done to the building unless significant restoration work is carried out.
Three years later, an Independent Options Appraisal by industry experts was published, looking at three different approaches:
This was considered by MPs, who agreed to established a joint Commons and Lords committee to consider its findings.
In September 2016, the joint committee reported back, recommending the "full decant" option - so the estate is fully vacated while repairs are carried out.
But Ms Leadsom said there was a problem with this option - because the committee had not "bottomed out" its costs of this option.
She also said it was "extremely important" to maintain a "Parliamentary foothold" for tourism and school visits.
This could involve things like the state opening of Parliament and swearing in of MPs still taking place at Westminster during the repairs, she added.
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Banking giant HSBC has become the latest high profile company to sever ties with troubled public relations business Bell Pottinger.
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The PR firm has seen a loss of clients since being expelled from the industry trade body for a campaign stirring racial divisions in South Africa.
On Tuesday a major Bell Pottinger investor walked away from the firm and scrapped a plan to sell its 27% stake.
Chime, which counts WPP as a big investor, wrote off the stake's value.
HSBC said it had used Bell Pottinger for specific projects but would no longer do so.
Clydesdale Bank, the construction company Carillion, and TalkTalk are among a string of big names reportedly to have cut ties with the PR firm.
Luxury goods firm Richemont, whose chairman Johann Rupert is South African, stopped dealing with Bell Pottinger earlier this year, as did the Investec investment bank.
The future of Bell Pottinger is in question after the scandal, with even its founder, Lord Tim Bell, saying its days a probably numbered.
The Financial Times has reported that Bell Pottinger has hired the accountancy firm BDO to advise on a potential sale.
However, a BDO spokesman declined to comment.
'Near the end'
The firm's work on the campaign for Oakbay Capital, a South African company owned by the wealthy Gupta family, was accused of inciting racial hatred.
Lord Bell, who founded Bell Pottinger in the 1990s, resigned last year, partly due to his unease with the company's deal with the Guptas.
When asked on BBC2's Newsnight if he thought the PR company would survive the scandal, he replied: "I think it is probably getting near the end."
Industry insiders say the outlook for the firm is cloudy.
"If you are employed to manage a reputation and your reputation is shot, then it is not a good day," said Mark Borkowski, founder of Borkowski PR.
Danny Rogers, editor of PR Week, said: "The Bell Pottinger name is now tarnished, almost to the point of destruction."
He said the company had many prominent clients and rival PR firms will see the scandal as an opportunity to win that business.
Analysis: Matthew Davies, BBC Africa Business Report editor
"White monopoly capital" is the perception that South Africa's whites remain in control of much of the economy 23 years after the end of apartheid.
Bell Pottinger did not coin the term, but it is accused of using in a cynical way to stir up racial tension and divert attention from allegations that the government was unduly influenced by the Gupta brothers.
And like all good disinformation campaigns, it has an element of truth in it. South Africa is still a deeply divided society, both in terms of income and race.
A large section of South Africa's black majority feel they are no better off economically than they were 23 years ago. Earlier this year, government data found that whites still earn five times more than blacks.
Most South Africans know there is an inequality problem combined with an underlying racial tension. But to have a foreign PR company use these problems to detract from serious political issues for its own financial benefit has stuck in many citizens' craws.
Bell Pottinger and its founder, Lord Bell, have a reputation in the PR industry for taking risks.
The firm represented the South African Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorious after he was charged with murder.
Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko has used the firm's services as well as Syria's first lady Asma al-Assad.
In the late 1990s the PR firm worked on a campaign to release the former Chilean dictator, General Pinochet, who had been arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges.
Industry insiders said that the willingness to represent controversial individual reflected the views of Lord Bell.
"When he ran it, he had the view that everyone was entitled to PR a bit like being entitled to being represented by a law firm," said Jason Nisse, who runs his own PR firm Nisse.
"He managed to push the envelope of what is allowable in public relations, but he stayed inside the envelope."
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Train services between the Highlands and Glasgow and Edinburgh have been disrupted by "heavy flooding" on the line, ScotRail has warned.
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The flooding affected the railway between Inverness and Carrbridge.
The line was closed until 10:25 when engineers managed to reopen the line, but there is a 5mph speed restriction and services continue to be disrupted.
NetworkRail Scotland said a second line of track at the scene, the down loop, remained closed.
Replacement buses have been arranged for passengers who need them.
The flooding at the Slochd follows snowfall in the Cairngorms and heavy rain.
In Dumfries and Galloway, flooding closed the A75 at Barlae between Glenluce and Newton Stewart for several hours
Diversions were put in place with westbound drivers facing a 30-mile (48km) detour and those heading east about 16 miles (25km).
Scotland Transerv said the road had reopened by about 14:00.
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Tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade pose a particular challenge for Northern Ireland's agri-food industry, according to a House of Lords report.
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By Conor MacauleyBBC NI Agriculture & Environment Correspondent
Huge amounts of produce criss-cross the border for processing every week.
Delays and additional paperwork could add to costs, said the report from the House of Lords European Union Committee.
Checks could disrupt supply chains which see companies operate un-restricted on both sides of the border.
'Illegal movements'
Written evidence to the committee by the Department of Agriculture and Environment here warned of the prospect of illegal movements to circumvent such checks.
Almost 30% of Northern Ireland's milk is processed in the Republic of Ireland, which also receives 40% of Northern Ireland's live lamb exports.
Pigs imported from the Republic account for about 30% of animals slaughtered in Northern Ireland's pork processing plants.
Milk from a cow in Northern Ireland could cross the border five times before ending up in a bottle of Irish cream liqueur, the Lords committee was told.
Mixed message?
The report recommends that the UK government will have to balance "complex interests" as it negotiates new trading relationships after leaving the EU.
These include a fair deal for farmers and the need to maintain high standards of food production while delivering affordable food.
At present the government was sending a "mixed message" to the industry, the report found.
It said the UK government's vision of being a leading trading nation with few barriers "did not sit easily" with its commitment to high animal welfare standards which can add to production costs.
The report found that combining and delivering both could be "a considerable challenge".
There would need to be continued income support for farmers for a period post-Brexit to help them as a new domestic agricultural policy takes shape, added the report.
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A man who breached Manx Covid-19 rules by visiting a doctor's surgery and then refusing to leave has been jailed.
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Douglas Courthouse was told Justin Hughes, of Parsonage Road, Ramsey, went to a surgery after returning from Thailand, but became "irate" when he was told he should be self-isolating.
Hughes, 48, only left the premises when police were called, the court heard.
Sentencing him to four weeks in prison, magistrates said a surgery was the "worst place" he could have visited.
Under Manx rules, all travellers returning to the island must self-isolate at home for a mandatory 14 days, though residents can take a Covid-19 test to reduce that time.
'Didn't think it through'
The court heard Hughes, who had been living in Thailand for a year before his return on Monday, had initially travelled by bus to a friend's home in Ramsey.
The following morning, he went to a surgery and asked for an appointment, telling the receptionist he had recently returned from abroad.
The hearing was told when she said he should be self-isolating, he became "irate".
His refusal to leave meant other patients had to move out of a waiting area and when a doctor again asked him to go home, he refused and sat on a chair.
He only left after police were called and was arrested shortly after on Bowring Road, later admitting to officers he had also visited a shop to buy food as there was "nothing in" at his address.
Representing himself, Hughes said he "didn't think it through" and did not "fully understand" the seriousness of his actions at the time.
He said he had tested negative for Covid-19 three times before returning, and had been wearing a mask when outside.
Sentencing him, magistrates said a surgery was the "worst place" he could have gone to, as there may have been patients "in a weakened condition who were more susceptible" to the virus.
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Wales hooker Ken Owens has received an honorary fellowship by the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.
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The 32-year-old Scarlets captain has won 64 caps for Wales and played in two British and Irish Lions Tests.
He follows Llanelli greats Delme Thomas, Ray Gravell, Phil Bennett and Roy Bergiers in being honoured by his home-town campus in Carmarthen.
Owens attended the ceremony before flying out for Wales' pre-Rugby World Cup training camp in Switzerland.
"I grew up less than a 100 metres from the university and it has played a huge part in my life growing up," Owens said.
"To receive this award is a huge honour and to see the people who've received it in years gone by just shows how important and how much of a privilege it really is."
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West Midlands Ambulance Service says it plans to close its Warwickshire control room and move staff to Stafford.
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No redundancies will occur from the move, affecting about 15 staff. Alternatives will be made for workers who cannot move, a spokesman said.
Coventry and Warwickshire will also join the main control system, which shows what resources are available across the West Midlands region.
The proposals, backed by the service's board, are being discussed with staff.
It is not known when the control room in Leamington Spa will close.
'No cost-cutting'
The service has two control rooms, one in Stafford and also in Brierley Hill in the Black Country.
Trust chief executive Anthony Marsh said all ambulances currently based in Coventry and Warwickshire would remain in the area.
"It is important to state that there will be no redundancies involved in this change.
"Ideally, the majority of staff will move to work in Stafford
"But where that is not possible, we will work with the individuals to find suitable alternatives in roles such as working in one of our non-emergency control rooms or by training to work on an ambulance vehicle."
He added the decision was not a cost-cutting exercise and that local knowledge would not be lost.
He said: "It is quite wrong to suggest that there will be a loss of local knowledge by this change.
"The local knowledge will remain with the crews on the ground. It is not a cost-cutting measure.
"The trust has invested heavily in the technology that it uses to ensure better patient care."
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The government's flagship immigration policy is a "blunt instrument" and risks damaging the economy, a leading backbencher.
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By Gavin StampPolitical reporter, BBC News, Birmingham
Nadhim Zahawi said he supported the goal of cutting net migration - set out by the Tories in opposition - from more than 200,000 to "tens of thousands".
But he said he was worried it was dissuading foreign students from coming here and hurting British universities.
"It effectively pits our border policy against our growth policy," he said.
The Conservatives pledged in their 2010 manifesto to substantially reduce annual net migration - the difference between the numbers entering and leaving the UK - by 2015.
'Being straight'
The target was not included in the coalition agreement and has caused tension with the Lib Dems - who argue it could deter highly skilled workers required in sectors of the economy.
Mr Zahawi, MP for Stratford-on-Avon, who was born in Baghdad, Iraq, to Kurdish parents, who sought asylum in the UK during Saddam Hussein's rise to power, co-founded polling company YouGov.
He told a Tory conference fringe meeting that migration targets could be useful "yardsticks" for holding the government to account but he had concerns about how it was being explained.
"We need to be straight with the British public about what we mean when we sign up to targets.
"When you boil down a set of values and principles into a single numerical figure, a target can become an end in itself rather than a means to an end."
The net migration target was designed to usher in a more efficient, fairer system but the government had to be honest with the public about "what it meant and how it can be improved".
"The current target is a blunt instrument. And it effectively pits our border policy against our growth policy and we are not being straight with the public about that."
'Clumsy'
The Home Office's recent decision to strip London Metropolitan University of its right to sponsor overseas students has prompted concerns among MPs about how students are treated within the immigration system.
Ministers have been urged to remove foreign students from net migration statistics to allow the UK to continue to expand its share of the lucrative overseas student market.
About 2,600 London Metropolitan students will have to find an alternative places or face deportation after the UK Border Agency acted on evidence there were students without any right to remain in the UK, without adequate English and their attendance was not being monitored.
Mr Zahawi said it was right for the government to clamp down on bogus students and colleges.
But he said the Home Office's handling of the Metropolitan case had been "clumsy" and it raised questions about the message it was sending to foreign students about how welcome they were in the UK.
"We are not being upfront about out attempts to meet the (immigration) target by dissuading a group who provide an obvious economic benefit, who are disproportionately less likely to settle and who of all migrant groups attract less public concern," he said.
He said there was clear evidence the public wanted tighter controls over immigration, but the issue was "more nuanced" than media stories about abuse of the system suggested.
"For far too long we have sort of become prisoners of the Daily Mail headline. We need to pull back from that."
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A Guernsey politician has asked the island's government to save £1.8m found from efficiency savings instead of funding nine new projects.
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The money has been saved as part of the Financial Transformation Programme.
Deputy Martin Storey wants all saving made by the programme to be used to reduce the States overall expenditure.
The States Strategic Plan suggests £1.4m be spent on projects including bowel cancer screening and a restorative justice service.
Deputy Storey said the current States was setting a bad example for those in government in the future.
He said: "Over the first three years of the States Strategic Plan we've saved £5.9m and spent nearly all of it.
"There's a big risk in not getting the increased income that was being forecast and spending too much of the savings that are being made and so not being able to fill that gap in the fiscal pot."
Deputy Storey also wants an annual transfer to the Capital Reserve Fund to cover spending on essential infrastructure.
The Financial Transformation Programme, a five-year project that is due to end in October 2014, has been estimated at delivering a total saving of £31.8m.
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Japanese carmaker Nissan has announced it will invest £100m in its UK plant to build the new Juke model.
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The investment will secure thousands of jobs at the Sunderland factory, which produces the current Juke, Qashqai, Note and electric Leaf models.
The firm said the money gave "security to our Sunderland plant beyond 2020".
Chancellor George Osborne welcomed the "fantastic news" that was "an important sign of Britain being chosen as a global leader in car production".
The plant made 500,000 cars last year, making it the biggest car plant in the UK, according to Nissan.
According to Prof David Bailey from Aston Business School, Nissan's Sunderland plant makes more cars than the whole of the Italian car industry.
The new investment will secure 6,700 jobs at the plant and more than 27,000 in the supply chain.
Unite union assistant general secretary Tony Burke said: "We warmly welcome the decision of Nissan to build the new Juke model in the UK, when it could have gone to one of Nissan's plants abroad.
"The decision demonstrates the confidence the industry has in a highly skilled and dedicated workforce across the UK automotive industry."
Global market 'turbulent'
Nissan Europe chairman Paul Wilcox told the BBC the plant was "probably the most productive in Europe and, I'd argue, globally".
He added that although demand in Russia and China was slowing, the car market in western Europe was "very good and improving, and the market in the UK is very, very good".
"We are not getting carried away as the global market is turbulent, but we are seeing slight growth in demand."
According to figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, UK car production in the first half of the year hit a seven-year high of 793,642 cars - the equivalent of three cars every minute.
This was the highest production since 2008, the year of the financial crisis that sparked a deep recession in the UK.
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For years now, Halloween has been ballooning as an event in the UK, influenced heavily by the US. But is it squashing the indigenous Bonfire Night?
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By Tom de CastellaBBC News Magazine
The dust has now settled on the Halloween-Bonfire Night period.
Many people will have noticed the crowds of twenty and thirty-somethings staggering through British city centres as zombies, vampires or in less ghoulish fancy dress.
Trick or treating children are legion, but the occasion has become a significant date in the social calendar for adults as well. It's now viewed by many chains as the third biggest retail event of the year in the UK after Christmas and Easter.
Supermarkets devote aisles to spiders, skeletons, witches and vampires. Tesco sold 28 different types of Halloween cakes this year and two million pumpkins.
It's big business, says Tim Angel, chairman of fancy dress firm Angels. The total retail market for Halloween has grown from £12m in 2001 to £300m in 2011, he estimates. When it comes to fancy dress, the costume market has grown by a factor of 30, he adds.
The Halloween-flation seems to emanate from the US.
But is this a zero sum game? With Halloween and Bonfire Night so close, is the latter in decline?
One aspect, the traditional Penny for the Guy seems to have largely fallen out of favour a while ago, a trend bemoaned by traditionalists.
"When I had kids we'd never heard of Halloween," Angel says. "But it's replaced Bonfire Night up to a point. Most kids don't know the history of it (Guy Fawkes)."
But judged by another measurement, sale of fireworks, Bonfire Night is healthy.
Firework sales have grown for the last three years, says Phil Murray, chairman of the British Fireworks Association. That said, they are dwarfed by the money going on Halloween, he admits. Retailers' preference for Halloween paraphernalia - and safety restrictions - create problems, Murray says.
Fireworks have been shunted to the back of supermarkets. Shops now have strict age restrictions. Children under the age of 18 are banned from buying them and many supermarkets ask people who look under 25 to show ID.
Waitrose and Tesco figures suggest sales of sausages, toffee apples and fireworks are all up. A YouGov survey suggests people actually prefer Bonfire Night to Halloween. The same YouGov survey suggests that despite Halloween's growth more money is still spent on Bonfire Night.
And it's still easy to find a bonfire or a fireworks display. In Lewes, the celebrations are still organised by a slew of societies. Elsewhere, the associations with Guy Fawkes and anti-Catholicism may have faded, but fires continue.
Firework sales perhaps don't tell the full story.
The pressure on parents is shifting from Bonfire Night to Halloween. "The pressure to spend on Halloween is increasing each year," says Siobhan Freegard, founder of Netmums.
"Where once families would make basic outfits for kids such as a sheet over the head for a ghost, now children are clamouring for professional costumes and asking adults to dress up plus host a party too."
It's not just costumes. Part of Halloween's thrill for children is it gives them permission to demand sweets from total strangers. "They've grown more aware of trick or treating as confectionery firms now bring out ranges weeks in advance, ramping up the pester power factor," Freegard says.
It's probably not a case of Bonfire Night decline, but rather a shift in priorities.
It may be that both festivals can spur each other on. Some firework manufacturers are already embracing Halloween by creating new products like the ghost fountain and the pumpkin fountain, says Murray.
There are new trends in the bonfire ritual. Guy Fawkes masks have proved popular and some of the more quirky bonfire societies have replaced the Guy with effigies of celebrities in the news - including Lance Armstrong and Mario Balotelli - and even politicians.
The emphasis has moved. The bonfire with a Guy on top - indeed the whole story of the Gunpowder Plot - has been marginalised. But the spectacle remains.
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A court in Kenya has found two men guilty of helping Islamist militants to attack an upmarket shopping mall in 2013.
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At least 67 people died in the assault by al-Shabab on the Westgate shopping complex in the capital, Nairobi.
The state said the four militants who carried out the attack were found dead in the shopping centre's rubble.
The militants occupied the mall for four days, in one of the deadliest jihadi attacks in Kenya.
A third man was found not guilty on all counts of conspiracy to commit a terrorist act.
The trial is the only one so far over the Westgate shopping mall attack.
More than 140 witnesses testified in the case. The accused denied conspiring to commit terrorism.
The presiding judge ruled that the two suspects, both Kenyan citizens, will be sentenced on 22 October.
The BBC's Ferdinand Omondi in Nairobi says their convictions will be welcomed in a country that remains on high alert over possible attacks by al-Shabab.
The al-Qaeda affiliate is based in neighbouring Somalia, and has carried out a series of attacks in Kenya.
Kenya has troops in Somalia to help fight the militants.
Who are the convicted men?
Mohammed Ahmed Abdi and Hussein Hassan Mustafa were charged with planning and committing acts of terror, as well as supporting and helping a terrorist group.
The third suspect, Liban Abdullahi, was found not guilty. The Somali refugee was also acquitted of the charge of being in Kenya illegally and possessing identification documents by false presences.
What happened at Westgate?
On a Saturday afternoon in September 2013, gunmen entered the mall and opened fired on shoppers, leading to a four-day siege.
"People were panicking, children were crying," survivor Surajit Borkakyoty told the BBC that day.
"We were trying to calm people and tell them not to use their phones, or to keep them on silent. All the time we could hear gunfire. It was a war-like situation."
Live television broadcasts showed smoke billowing from the complex, as armed police and military vehicles surrounded the site and dozens of terrified people escaped.
When it was over days later, at least 67 people had been killed - 62 civilians, five security officers and the four attackers.
Al-Shabab said it carried out the attack in response to Kenyan military operations in Somalia.
Initially the authorities said there had been 10 attackers, but then revised the figure down to four. They said all of them had been killed but forensic tests on their remains have never been released.
Were lessons learnt from the attack?
Rivalry between police and military forces has previously been pointed out as a factor that hindered the response.
Since the attack there has been better co-ordination, correspondents say.
This helped in the response to the nearby DusitD2 hotel and office complex attack in January 2019, where 21 people died.
Police and military counter-terror units, foreign security personnel, ambulance and fire brigade co-ordinated to end the assault.
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A series of shooting incidents in Salford have been blamed on a dispute between two warring groups.
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Greater Manchester Police has been called to four incidents in which shots were fired and a fifth report of gunfire in the area since 9 September.
No-one has been injured in the shootings.
Ch Supt Kevin Mulligan said the shootings were not believed to be random but part of a continuing dispute.
'Reckless acts'
Patrols in the area have been increased and armed officers are present in the area.
Mr Mulligan said: "This is not something the community should be alarmed about but reassured we have officers on standby to respond quickly to any incidents and protect innocent people.
"No-one has been injured despite these reckless acts and we are doing everything we can to ensure not only does that stay the case, but that those involved are identified and arrested."
The first incident took place at about 22:30 BST on 9 September at Enville Road, Duchy, Salford. Police said a car window was damaged.
The following day at about 17:40 police were called to The Gardens, Eccles, following reports of shots being fired. However, officers who attended could not find any evidence of a firearms discharge.
On 13 September at 19:40 there was another report of a shot being fired at Summerville Road, Duchy.
At about 23:30 on Tuesday, police said shots were fired at the front door and window of a house in Hayfield, Salford.
The fifth incident took place on Wednesday at about 17:45. Officers on patrol noticed damage to the door of a house on Doveleys Road, Salford, consistent with a shot having being fired.
Mr Mulligan said anyone with information about the dispute could contact them in confidence if necessary.
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Police have pledged to clamp down on anyone causing anti-social behaviour at hotspots over the weekend.
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Dispersal orders have been put in place in Cardiff Bay, Swansea, Ogmore-by-Sea and Barry Island, giving South Wales Police powers to break up crowds.
Action is also being taken in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, due to concerns about "possible anti-social behaviour".
From Saturday, six people from six different households can meet outdoors under revised Covid rules.
The action comes after criticism of people gathering in large numbers and leaving litter in Cardiff Bay and further afield.
A dispersal order has also been put in place in Aberaeron, Ceredigion, in case large crowds gather with people advised to "be sensible when meeting with friends or family this weekend".
North Wales Police said it was putting on extra patrols as it was anticipating the area would "get very busy this weekend".
South Wales Police said it was the first time a dispersal order had been put in place at Ogmore-by-Sea due to recent anti-social behaviour.
"We are not there to monitor visitor numbers and prevent those visiting in a law-abiding manner from enjoying. We are there to ensure public safety," said the force.
"We all have a responsibility to make sensible choices when we are out and about, maintaining social distancing and not putting ourselves and others at unnecessary risk."
The dispersal order at SA1 Swansea comes as South Wales Police said it was aware of messages on social media about a gathering on a beach.
What is a dispersal order?
Dyfed-Powys Police has launched its annual Operation Lion initiative to ensure Tenby "continues to be a safe and popular destination for all this spring and summer".
Chief Insp Louise Harries said it had been adopted following recent incidents and after "listening to residents' concerns".
The force also said officers will be "conducting proactive patrols of areas identified as possible sites for illegal raves over the weekend" and it called on the public to alert them.
In north Wales, the force urged motorists to "take extra care on the roads" following several fatal and serious collisions this year.
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A review ordered by the health minister after the alleged neglect of an elderly patient is not investigating the time she spent in hospital, her family say.
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The review follows Lilian Williams' family's complaint about her care at two hospitals before her death in 2012.
But it has emerged the inquiry is only looking at the position at Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board now.
However, the Welsh government said it is likely the review will look at the time Mrs Williams was in hospital.
Mrs Williams, 82, from Porthcawl, was admitted to Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend, and Neath Port Talbot Hospital four times from August 2010 to November 2012, when she died.
Her family told BBC Wales she was left dehydrated and she failed to receive adequate care in hospital.
Health Minister Mark Drakeford ordered the review in October when he said investigators could look at the standard of care delivered by the hospitals during Mrs Williams' time as a patient.
'Very disturbing experience'
At the time he told AMs: "I will give you this assurance - there will be nothing in the terms of reference that would prevent Professor Andrews {the review's lead investigator} from looking at care standards in those hospitals at the time that Mrs Williams was a patient."
But in an email seen by BBC Wales, Prof Andrews said she was concentrating on what was currently happening at the health board.
"I am aware of Mr Williams' {Lilian Williams' son} very disturbing experience, and I can understand why the health minister has linked that to his decision that there is a need for a review of how the hospitals concerned are performing now," she said.
"However, at this stage the review is not looking at previous events, but rather auditing the current position."
But Gareth Williams said the review must look back in order to learn lessons from the past so mistakes were not repeated.
'Basic principle'
"The review, if it doesn't look back will not be able to establish the reasons why things have gone so badly wrong in those hospitals over a number of years," he added.
Peter Walsh, chief executive of Action Against Medical Accidents medical negligence charity, said: "In order to plan for the future we need to learn lessons from the past, that's a basic principle of patient safety work."
"This current review doesn't go anywhere near far enough, and that's what families and patients are telling us."
On Monday Mr Drakeford told BBC Wales that Prof Andrews was looking at the current situation at the health board.
But he added: "Where she feels in order to understand today she needs to look at things that have happened in the past then she is absolutely free to do so but it will be for her to make those judgements, not for me."
Later, a spokesman for the Welsh government said the first part of the review was an in-depth examination of current practice.
The second part is historical but it will be up to the investigating team to decide how far back they look.
There is nothing within the terms of reference to prevent the team from looking at previous standards of care if it believes it needs to do so, the spokesman added.
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Fewer than one in five Welsh voters say they would like to see an independent Scotland, a BBC Cymru Wales poll reveals.
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The survey found only 5% of people want to see an independent Wales, but that figure rose to 7% in the event of an independent Scotland.
The number of voters who want to see the Welsh assembly abolished has risen 10 percentage points in four years.
But more than a third said they would like to see it gain more powers.
BBC Cymru Wales' annual St David's Day poll, carried out by pollsters ICM, found the most popular constitutional preference was for more powers for the Welsh assembly, with 37% support.
But 23% said they wanted to see it abolished, a figure 10 percentage points higher than that recorded in 2010.
Prof Roger Scully, of the Wales Governance Centre at Cardiff University, said voters seem split on what they want from the assembly.
"We may just be seeing at the moment a little bit of a polarisation in attitudes. We also see a lot of people, even more, wanting the assembly to have more powers," he said.
"We see at the same time a slight increase in the number of people wanting the get rid of the assembly."
But overall he said people in Wales were largely supportive of devolution but there remains a limited appetite towards becoming independent from the rest of the UK.
Polling day
The survey suggests Labour are on course to make gains at the 2015 general election in Wales.
The poll shows the party has support of 42% - six percentage points higher than their support in the 2010 General Election.
Conservative support is at 24% - down two percentage points on 2010.
Plaid Cymru are on 14%, up three percentage points on 2010 while the Liberal Democrats are on 9%, down 11 percentage points on their 2010 showing in Wales.
UKIP were backed by 7%, five percentage points up on the 2010 results, the survey showed.
A BBC analysis of the results suggests that, if those results were repeated on polling day, Labour would win the Cardiff Central seat from the Liberal Democrats and the Cardiff North ward from the Conservatives.
The poll also suggests Welsh voters would like to see the UK remain as part of the European Union, with 54% wanting to stay and 40% wanting to pull out.
But 60% of respondents thought immigration to the UK was too high, with only 31% saying the level was "about right".
ICM interviewed a random sample of 1,000 adults by telephone on 21-24 February 2014.
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The European Commission has launched an investigation into Google after other search engines complained that the firm had abused its dominant position.
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The EC will examine whether the world's largest search engine penalised competing services in its results.
The probe follows complaints by firms including price comparison site Foundem and legal search engine ejustice.fr.
Google denies the allegations but said it would work with the Commission to "address any concerns".
Earlier this year the attorney general of Texas launched a similar investigation following complaints from firms including Foundem.
The objections in both cases are from competitors which allege that Google manipulates its search results.
"The European Commission has decided to open an antitrust investigation into allegations that Google has abused a dominant position in online search," the body said in a statement.
It said the action followed "complaints by search service providers about unfavourable treatment of their services in Google's unpaid and sponsored search results coupled with an alleged preferential placement of Google's own services."
The Commission's investigation does not imply any wrongdoing by Google.
"Since we started, Google we have worked hard to do the right thing by our users and our industry," said the firm in a statement.
"But there's always going to be room for improvement, and so we'll be working with the Commission to address any concerns."
Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP, the world's largest advertising agency, welcomed the EU's decision to investigate.
"Search is the portal to the internet and Google has a colossal share," Sir Martin told the BBC. "I do not think that the investigation is surprising, given the strategic importance of the internet."
He said that many of WPP's big clients will also welcome the probe.
"When someone [like Google] is so successful you have to wonder why," he said. "If the EU find something it will ensure consumer choice is protected. If [the EU] doesn't find anything, that will be good."
ICOMP, a business group whose members include Foundem, said it welcomed the investigation. "This is not just about search results," said ICOMP's legal adviser David Wood.
"This is about the whole ecosystem of doing business with online content, online advertising companies and software companies."
Core business
Google offers two types of search result - unpaid results produced by the firm's algorithms that are displayed in the main body of the page and "ads", previously called sponsored links.
The investigation will try to determine whether the firm's method of generating unpaid results adversely affects the ranking of other firms, specifically those providing so-called vertical search services.
These are specialist search providers, and can include sites that offer price comparison, for example.
Foundem alleges that Google's algorithms "remove legitimate sites from [its] natural search results, irrespective of relevance". It also says that the firm promotes its own services over those offered by competitors.
"Google is exploiting its dominance of search in ways that stifle innovation, suppress competition, and erode consumer choice," Foundem said in its complaint filed in February 2010.
But Google argues that there are "compelling reasons" why these sites are "ranked poorly".
For example, it said, Foundem "duplicates 79% of its website content from other sites."
"We have consistently informed webmasters that our algorithms disadvantage duplicate sites," the firm said.
The Commission will also look into allegations that Google manipulated elements of its system that determine the price paid for ads from these sites.
Finally, the investigation will also probe how the company deals with advertising partners.
Advertising is the core of Google's business.
Google is alleged to impose "exclusivity obligations on advertising partners, preventing them from placing certain types of competing ads on their web sites, as well as on computer and software vendors," according to an EC statement.
In addition, the EC said it would also look into "suspected restrictions on the portability of online advertising campaign data to competing online advertising platforms."
Google says it already allows customers "to take their data with them when they switch services" and that its contracts "have never been exclusive".
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Pope Francis has chided the Catholic faithful for using their mobile phones during Mass.
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He said it made him sad when many phones were held up, and even priests and bishops were taking photos.
The pontiff is not known to have used a mobile phone in public since his election and once asked young people to carry Bibles instead of phones.
However, he is an avid user of social media and regularly allows himself to be snapped with pilgrims for selfies.
He has millions of followers on Twitter.
Speaking at his weekly audience in St Peter's Square in Rome, Pope Francis said that Mass was a time for prayer and not a show.
"At a certain point the priest leading the ceremony says 'lift up our hearts'. He doesn't say 'lift up our mobile phones to take photographs' - it's a very ugly thing," he said.
"It's so sad when I'm celebrating mass here or inside the basilica and I see lots of phones held up - not just by the faithful, but also by priests and bishops! Please!"
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President: Seretse Khama Ian Khama
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Seretse Khama Ian Khama - the son of Sir Seretse Khama, Botswana's first post-independence leader - took over as president in April 2008.
He was the chosen successor of Festus Mogae, who stepped down at the end of his second term, after a decade at the helm.
He secured a five-year term in October 2009 after his governing Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) party swept to victory in a parliamentary election, and in August 2014 polls he gained a second term when his party gained the most seats.
To select a president, the winning party needs to win 29 of the 57 parliamentary seats. And in the 2009 polls the BDP - in power since independence in 1966 - won 45 of the 57 constituencies. The main opposition party, the Botswana National Front, won 6 constituencies and its splinter party the Botswana Congress Party captured 4.
In the 2014 polls the BDP secured 33 of 57 seats.
Mr Ian Khama, graduate of Sandhurst officer training college in Britain, was commander of the Botswana Defence Force (BDF) before becoming vice president in 1998.
He became chairman of the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) in 2003.
Critics describe him as authoritarian while supporters say he is decisive and efficient.
His no-nonsense approach has made him popular abroad as he has broken ranks with regional leaders' timid approach to join international criticism of democratic abuses by Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe.
A call for the president to be elected directly by the people was rejected by parliament in 2008. Some critics have warned that the country was becoming a dynasty and that democracy was under threat.
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"It's all stupid."
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Sam Fender's laughing as he and his drummer Drew Michael sit in front of a green screen at Radio 1 discussing how his debut album, Hypersonic Missiles, has outsold the rest of the UK's top five albums combined.
Until now, his highest chart position was 59 with his single Will We Talk.
"I can't sum it up. What is our life? It's like The Truman Show."
Sam grew up in North Shields where he met his manager in a pub while he was celebrating winning a Brit with Ben Howard.
Since then he's played shows all over the world, performed on some of the biggest talk shows in America and won the Brits Critics' Choice award.
Despite acknowledging that "we've been working really hard for years" he's still struggling to come to terms with how "it's suddenly all clicked".
"Me and Drew are thick as mince". (Drew suggests it would be "that really fatty mince, too").
"We should just be kicking a football around a wasteland in the northeast. But right now, we're playing to 5,000 people.
"We have imposter syndrome, I feel like an imposter."
Drew says Sam and the band's journey is "one massive lucid dream".
"It's like a horrible game that someone's playing on us and we haven't been told about it yet."
Sam adds: "People were telling me it was likely the other day… Top five would have been ridiculous, let alone this."
During the weeks of promo leading up to the release of the album, the singer claimed he'd be jumping in the River Tyne.
Now that it's become reality, will he keep to his word?
"I'll be running in from Shields' beach.
"That goes into the dirty end of the river because it's where the sewage pipes are.
"I'm going to come out like one of those fish off The Simpsons with five eyes."
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The personal is political.
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Laura KuenssbergPolitical editor@bbclaurakon Twitter
As an Aberdonian schoolboy in the 1970s, the man who's now the Lord Chancellor saw his dad's fish merchant business go to the wall.
Over rowies (Aberdeen buttery rolls to the uninitiated) and tea, he and his parents, Christine and Ernie, flicked through family photos - including of Mr Gove's grandfather who had started the business more than a 100 years ago that in the end, went under.
The family blamed the European Common Fisheries policy then, and they blame it now. Mr Gove's father said it just "ruined the Scottish fishing industry, it all went downhill".
For Mr Gove, his early experience, followed then by what he described as "airy-fairy theorising" about Europe at university in the 1980s that had little connection with real lives, was enough to persuade him that the European Union is a flawed institution and we should vote to leave.
As you'd expect, by now, Mr Gove isn't deterred by the economic warnings about Brexit, including the doom-laden ones from his close colleagues.
The accusations that the "outers" just don't have a plan for the economy seemed like water off a duck's back.
He was however, as you would probably also expect, visibly uncomfortable when I asked him what it was like for his close friend David Cameron to accuse him and Boris Johnson of "untruths".
He said, perhaps not entirely convincingly, that he didn't mind that at all and wants the PM to stay in number 10 until 2020, whatever happens.
But Mr Gove seems if not perhaps confident, then resolute, that this vote will change things.
He said on 23 June people will give a "very clear instruction to the establishment that they want a change in direction".
It sounds rather like he expects the outers to take on the rest and win.
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Who do you trust?
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By Laura KuenssbergBBC political editor
That's no small question. But it's a fundamental one when it comes to politics.
For democracy to work well, voters have to have at least a modicum of faith that when politicians are taking decisions they are doing it in our best interests, or at least they are doing what they perceive to be the right thing even if you believe they are wildly wrong.
There's little doubt that the agonies of the Brexit process saw trust being stretched to breaking point.
While in such an era of political controversy there has been huge concern, thousands of column inches and hours of discussion on the airwaves about the damage that's been done, the British public didn't just wake up one morning and decide that their politicians were a bunch of charlatans.
And there were plenty of reasons why voters had concerns about whether they could trust them long before a certain campaign group put a certain number on the side of a red bus.
It seems a different age, but there were dramatic events in the previous decade that certainly undermined the relationship between the public and those in power.
And in a new documentary, The Decade of Distrust, to be aired on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday evening, we delve into the archive of 2000 to 2010.
We revisit the political controversies of the Iraq war, the jaw-dropping revelations of the MPs' expenses scandal, the estimate-busting increase in immigration, the horror of Harold Shipman's murders and, more than anything else, the financial crash, the moment when the foundations of the economy and the basis of our political assumptions simply fell away.
The programme takes us from Gordon Brown's living room in Fife and George Osborne's editor's office at the Evening Standard in London back in time.
It was almost eerie to talk to those two about how the crash unfolded and the impact it had on our faith in the political system.
The former prime minister now believes the people lost trust not because his government made mistakes in handling the crisis, but because they didn't explain to the public what was happening.
He told me: 'We didn't communicate properly, and trust was lost because of that.
"I look back to Roosevelt who did Saturday night radio broadcasts, I kept thinking what is the medium to get our message across?
"People wanted gameshows. Social media was becoming big but we didn't really realise the power of it.
"So we didn't get our message across properly, we didn't explain it's a banking crisis, it was worldwide, we had an answer."
George Osborne reflects that the combination of events in those years, the "rabbit punches of the expenses scandal, and of the bailing out of the banks" created a climate where people found it harder to trust the government, with consequences we are still living with today, although he jokes that the cartoons he publishes in the paper he edits now are far less rude than those in previous centuries.
British voters have always been a healthily sceptical bunch.
Politicians have never exactly been held up as paragons of virtue.
But it is hard for any political generation to restore the public's faith and trust once it has gone, and the first 10 years of this century set the scene for the turmoil in the UK we have just all lived through.
You can listen to our documentary tonight on BBC Radio 4 at 2000 GMT and on BBC Sounds afterwards.
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What do marine biologists do all day?
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By Mary HaltonScience reporter, BBC News
It's not all about time in the ocean, though Melissa Marquez often wishes it was!
A marine biologist and shark researcher based in Sydney, she has given BBC News a quick guide to ocean research, some of the Great Barrier Reef's residents, and what to do to if you get bitten while scuba diving.
What made you decide to focus your research on sharks?
I've always had an interest in misunderstood predators, and sharks just happen to be the most misunderstood.
When I was about seven, I put on [the Discovery Channel's] Shark Week. I remember seeing a great white shark breaching - so flying through the air, essentially - and I was hooked. By the end of the show I was like: that's what I want to do, I want to study these animals.
How much time do you spend in the ocean? Can you tell me about a recent dive?
It depends what kind of research one is doing, and how often you can get out.
I've always wanted to dive in the Great Barrier Reef, [so we went to Heron Island in August].
It has a very low percentage of bleaching and it's quite a healthy looking area right now.
I was actually there for the blacktip reef sharks. There were a lot of juveniles in that area, so I was kind of tracking to see if there's a nursery in that area and to see what factors make a nursery area favourable. I'm putting together a PhD project at the moment and I'm capturing pictures of all sharks here for a possible population study!
Setting up the dive is more important than anything... making sure you and your dive partners have a plan.
[But] I think the biggest thing I try and do when I'm diving is have fun... because a lot of people don't get the opportunity to see what's below the waves in such an intimate way.
Usually, dives are anywhere from 30 to 50 minutes: I'm always upset when the time is up.
I thought we were going to have a hard time spotting epaulette sharks, but they were everywhere! The epaulette shark uses its pectoral fins and pelvic fins… they actually allow this shark to kind of walk!
If it gets stranded at low tide it can walk out of one little puddle into another puddle. It's able to withstand very low oxygen environments for a time.
They are also masters of camouflage!
[We also saw] a cowtail stingray. That one was right as we were going into the water which was really cool.
All stingrays have a venomous barb near the base of the tail. They only use it for self defence.
So this is my first time diving after that initial dive in Cuba after I got bitten [in April].
I'm pretty sure my parents expected for a shark to bite me, not a crocodile.
Had you ever considered the possibility of a shark bite?
You know... no! I know it's a possibility, I know it's always going to be a possibility especially with the line of work that I do.
The reason I say no is because I'm really careful, and I know you can be the most careful… with the crocodile, we had every safety measure in there and yet it still happened.
But, for the majority of it, they're not freak accidents. Usually someone is at fault or someone has done something, like people swimming in a group of shiny fish, or swimming in really murky water where there's fishermen cleaning their catch up the current.
I know it's a risk, but I know it's a small risk and I know what to do if that happens.
What do you do?
It depends. A lot of people say to try and punch the shark in the snout. But I don't know if you've ever punched anything underwater? You're very slow.
I think the last thing you want is your arm or your hand near the teeth. [Sharks] are not slow underwater, they are quite fast underwater.
So, I would say that you would want to punch it in the gills. It's basically like punching it in the lungs and it will definitely not want to deal with you if you are punching it repeatedly in the gills, where it breathes.
So punching a shark is literally the advice if you get grabbed by one?
Yes, to be honest I wouldn't play dead with them! The same exact thing with the crocodile; if the crocodile had been more aggressive, I would have fought back.
The fact that [the bite] felt like really really really hard pressure, but not actually enough to make me cry out in pain, means that it was definitely an exploratory bite.
You definitely have to read the situation you're in, but more often than not I would say fighting back against a shark is what you would want to do.
But shark bites are so rare. You've got a bigger chance of a vending machine squishing you or getting hit by a coconut than you ever do of encountering a shark bite.
I've gone diving with four-metre sharks, no cage whatsoever, swimming belly to belly with them. No fear.
What's the one thing you would like people to know about sharks?
I think the one thing would be that we need sharks a lot more than most people think. They are a really important part of the oceanic ecosystem. And if you take this predator out of the equation, you're basically going to make it so that this ecosystem falls apart in multiple ways.
The fact that our planet is covered by water, specifically oceanic water... you wouldn't want that ecosystem to fall apart.
So, I think the one thing I would want people to know is just how important they are.
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A chronology of key events:
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1493 - Christopher Columbus lands on the islands and names St Kitts after his patron saint, Christopher.
1623 - The British establish their first Caribbean colony on St Kitts.
1626 - The British massacre 2,000 indigenous Caribs.
1628 - The British establish a colony on Nevis.
1783 - France relinquishes claims on St Kitts in the Treaty of Versailles.
1871 - St Kitts, Nevis and Anguilla united as a British dependency.
1932 - Centre-Left Labour Party founded to campaign for independence.
Self-government
1967 - St Kitts, Nevis and Anguilla become an internally self-governing member of the West Indies Associated States with Labour Party leader Robert Bradshaw as prime minister.
1970 - Nevis Reformation Party founded, campaigns for independence.
1971 - Anguilla placed under direct British rule following a rebellion against domination by St Kitts.
1980 - Anguilla granted a constitution and its union with St Kitts and Nevis formally revoked.
Independence
1983 - St Kitts and Nevis jointly attain independence within the British Commonwealth with Kennedy Simmonds as prime minister.
1993 - Anti-government demonstrations take place following an inconclusive general election.
1994 - A state of emergency is declared after anti-government riots by Labour Party supporters in the capital, Basseterre.
1995 - Prime Minister Kennedy Simmonds loses in a general election which he had called following a scandal involving allegations of drug smuggling; Labour Party leader Denzil Douglas becomes prime minister.
Secessionist threat
1997 - Nevis legislators authorise a referendum on the issue of whether the island should secede from St Kitts.
1998 July - St Kitts and Nevis carries out its first execution in 17 years despite international protests.
1998 August - Referendum on Nevis independence fails to achieve the two-thirds majority required for the island to secede.
1998 September - Hurricane George strikes.
2000 - Denzil Douglas begins a second term as prime minister after his Labour Party wins a majority of seats in a general election.
2003 March - Largest hotel complex in the eastern Caribbean opens on Frigate Bay, St Kitts.
2004 October - Denzil Douglas begins a third consecutive term as prime minister.
2005 March - Government decides to close the 300-year-old, loss-making sugar industry after the 2005 harvest.
2008 December - First execution in over a decade when Charles Elroy Laplace was hanged for murder. Government said it hoped this would serve as a deterrent against high levels of violent crime.
2010 January - Denzil Douglas wins a fourth consecutive term as premier.
2012 May - Paris Club of creditor governments agrees to restructure St Kitts and Nevis' public debt, cutting interest payments by 90%.
2014 May - The US Treasury warns that "illicit actors" are abusing a scheme offering fast-track St Kitts and Nevis citizenship in return for investing in the country.
2015 February - The Team Unity coalition wins elections, ending the former ruling Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party's 20-year reign.
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Westminster made it to the summer, just.
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Laura KuenssbergPolitical editor@bbclaurakon Twitter
It was messy, sweaty, with an almost daily roll call of nightmares for the government.
Senior MPs say privately there were genuine moments, even last week, when various colleagues - not the usual suspects - were agitating to try to remove the prime minister.
The government lost an important vote, but scraped through a vital one.
The chief whip got caught out with some epic skulduggery.
Big cabinet bruisers walked out, trashing the main government policy as they did.
As the temperature rose, so did tempers.
One senior MP told me that some significant Conservative backers were discussing withholding their next donations to the party because they were so unhappy at how Number 10 has been handling things.
There have been plenty of moments of "it can't go on like this". But, "it" can, and it normally does.
After the summer break then, when the prime minister will hope everyone in her party has calmed down, rather than plotted on WhatsApp from their sun loungers, how does the government "go on like this"? What are the ways through?
The first thing to say is that no country has left the European Union before like this. So there is no precedent. There is no map.
Whether you find it deeply thrilling, or deeply alarming, ask even those who have held some of the highest offices in the land what happens if it all goes wrong and they don't know.
There are, though, scenarios that can be sketched out.
This might be fantasy but it's not impossible. Say Theresa May manages to get the EU to broker something on the basis of her latest plan and comes back with what one of her longstanding allies describes as "Chequers minus minus".
There will likely have to be concessions on giving the EU more cash and more concessions on immigration, but it is a just about swallowable deal.
It won't have escaped your notice by now that warnings about "no deal" are coming thick and fast, and ever more scarily, from ministers' mouths.
This is no coincidence. It is not beyond the wit of man to see that stoking concern about "no deal" could, conveniently, encourage MPs to feel they have little choice but to vote for it.
However, it is abundantly clear that there is a solid core of Brexiteer Tories who simply would not vote for it.
And you can near as dammit be sure that Labour's official position won't be to back the government.
One of the Labour leadership team told me: "We will push her to the brink."
Don't underestimate either the concern that could spread far and wide about whether a deal like that would really be what people had voted for.
So far, Number 10's analysis that the majority of people just want the prime minister to get on with Brexit and are not paying huge attention has been shown to be more or less right (not withstanding very vocal groups on either side of the debate).
The dynamics of the actual deal might well change that.
But in Parliament, senior backers of Mrs May know that to get the vote through they'd have to rely on many Labour MPs either abstaining or voting with the government.
If rejecting the deal feels like opening Pandora's box versus supporting a fudgey compromise, there could well be enough of them to allow Mrs May to squeak through. Maybe.
And then, maybe, Europe will go back to being just another issue, albeit an important one.
We will be in the EU departure lounge for a couple of years. Trade talks will be tricky, there will be plenty to sort out - but a deal will have been done and the government can, in theory, tell the public we are out, and life can get back to something approaching normal. Hmmm.
It's also possible to see how the government does not even get that far.
Right now, it seems the prime minister is absolutely intent on getting a deal.
Those who know her well (it's not a long list!) say that is what is driving her above all else - getting something done.
The mantra "no deal is better than a bad deal" has not aged well.
But if the further concessions that the rest of the EU demands, for demand they will, are just too intense, requiring too much on immigration, or extra payments, forcing the prime minister not just to pinken her red lines but to scrub them out altogether, then maybe that could change and she could walk away.
Right now it seems unlikely, but the chances of no deal have been rising.
One diplomat, in sorrow more than anger, last week said to me he simply couldn't see how the EU would be able to offer anything that the prime minister could get through Parliament. Yes, anything that is viable at all.
But if there is "no deal", and the government actually puts that on the table, it is hard to see Parliament backing that either.
Many Tories, including many in government, are talking about when, not if, they make it plain that they would never support leaving without concluding an agreement. Those discussions are taking place, including among some serving ministers.
What some Brexiteers have always wanted - a simple free trade deal - does find supporters around the EU.
Indeed, one well-placed official suggested to me that if the White Paper wasn't coherent or workable, and the jury is very much out on that, then the EU could simply say in October, it's a basic deal on trade or nothing.
Some Brexiteers would rejoice. But that would also have to come with the backstop to prevent a hard border in Ireland, which right now, despite all sorts of ideas being floated, is still a huge obstacle to getting a deal done.
The prime minister says she simply couldn't sign up to it. And until there is a shift - or a magical solution - that way through the quagmire is out of reach.
And indeed, if it becomes obvious in the autumn that the prime minister wants to sign something that is even more of a compromise than Chequers, then her nemesis, the Eurosceptics, might try to oust her well before she gets to bring the deal to Parliament. Then we are properly in a land where anything is possible.
The Article 50 process is a legal mechanism, with a fixed deadline.
But if the ruling party crashed into a leadership contest? If there was no one to negotiate with?
Who knows?
Could that mean a general election? Perhaps, a second referendum? Not out of the question. The People's Vote campaign pushing for this are stepping up their activities - not just in Westminster but around the country.
By the time we sign off next summer, the government could have just navigated its way through the most complicated and troublesome political waters in decades.
Or there could be a new prime minister, and the Conservative Party might have actually succeeded in smashing itself to bits.
It will be 13 years then since David Cameron vowed the Tories would "stop banging on about Europe". It seems deeply optimistic to imagine that by then, they will have been able to move on.
I, however, for the next few weeks won't be banging on about anything. It's the political holidays. Thank you for reading this page through another epic political year, and I'll see you on the other side when, the only thing I am really sure of, there will be plenty more to discuss.
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What is President Putin up to?
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By Bridget KendallDiplomatic correspondent, BBC News
Roll back to late March: President Putin had annexed Crimea while denying Russian troops were involved.
He had put tens of thousands of Russian troops on high alert near Ukraine's border. He was insisting Viktor Yanukovych was still the rightful Ukrainian president even though he had absconded.
He was castigating the new Kiev government as illegitimate and neo-fascist, and rejecting Kiev's plan for early elections.
And he was warning that if Russian speakers in what he claimed were historically Russian lands in Ukraine were threatened, he might use the authority granted him by the Russian parliament to send his troops in.
His position was one of apparent strength and he was milking the opportunity to demonstrate Russia's clout.
Three months on the picture looks rather different. President Putin's position has shifted - so where does he stand now?
About turn
He has contradicted himself by admitting that Russian troops were in fact involved in taking over Crimea and even honoured some of them with medals, although he continues to deny Russian military involvement in eastern Ukraine.
He has stopped calling the Kiev government illegal, recognised Ukraine's new President, Petro Poroshenko, and engaged with him on peace negotiations.
And despite their repeated calls for help, he has not acted on his chilling threat to order a full-blown invasion of eastern Ukraine to aid pro-Moscow rebels. He has not even backed their secessionist moves - either their May referendums, or their proclamations of self styled republics since.
Instead, Russian troops near Ukraine's border have been ordered back to barracks (though the Americans say some build up may still be going on).
He has even unexpectedly asked the Russian parliament to rescind his authority to invade Ukraine if necessary.
It looks as though, having secured Crimea, President Putin has calculated he has gone as far as he can without bearing too much cost, and the time has come to offer gestures of conciliation, to wind the crisis down.
So is that indeed what is happening? Or is Mr Putin playing a more complicated game?
Lessons learned
Well, he has some good reasons to back off. His retaking of Crimea was popular in Russia in part because it looked so painless: a simple bloodless transfer of power.
But eastern Ukraine is different. It is a bloody, murky conflict with mounting numbers of casualties and refugees. This is a war most Russians do not want to see and which they certainly do not want their sons involved in.
Mr Putin needs to cast himself as a peace envoy, not threaten invasion any more.
To add to that, the Ukraine government's response has probably been tougher than Mr Putin expected. Having learnt a bitter lesson from Crimea that trying to avoid conflict can lead to territory being seized, President Poroshenko has ordered the army in, to push back at the rebels and negotiate a settlement from a position of relative strength.
And the West too has been more robust and less forgiving than perhaps Mr Putin expected, given what happened in 2008.
Then, Russia's short war with Georgia ended after some EU leaders hurriedly brokered a peace deal which left two chunks - South Ossetia and Abkhazia - nominally independent but actually under Moscow's thumb.
Mr Putin probably thought that once again EU leaders would weigh their economic interests and conclude that a damaging row with Russia was something they could not afford.
In fact, the experience of Georgia has had the opposite effect. It has made the annexation of Crimea look part of a pattern.
It has made some EU countries fear that Mr Putin plans might extend to seizing further territory. And this time they worry that the conflict is not far away in the Caucasus, but right on Europe's - and Nato's - doorstep. Hence the co-ordinated push on sanctions, currently still minimal, but which could become tougher in time.
And it seems that Western governments are no longer inclined to take Mr Putin at face value. Having concealed the use of Russian troops in Crimea, when he protests now that none of his troops are involved in Eastern Ukraine, he sounds disingenuous.
He is instead suspected of conducting another "maskirovka" - destabilizing part of Ukraine by stealth, through irregulars and volunteers who are nonetheless with their heavy weapons allowed free access across the Russian border, at the same time as he loudly appeals to Kiev to halt its advance.
Dodging both ways
So what happens now?
It may well depend on Mr Putin's calculation about how far Russia and Russians are prepared to stomach further sanctions - and that is more complicated than it seems.
There appear to be two opposing schools of thought on this in Moscow.
On the one hand there are nationalists and conservatives - including many involved in defence and security - who see the West as hostile and unfriendly and welcome sanctions as a means to decouple from it.
On the other hand there are pro-Western liberals and reformers who believe a long term rift with the West would be disastrous for Russia's economy.
Which side is Mr Putin on? I suspect his nationalist heart is with the anti-Westerners, but his pragmatic head may be with the economic reformers. And perhaps he will use that dichotomy to his advantage.
Years ago, in an interview with the BBC, his former judo instructor noted that one of Mr Putin's particular skills in judo was his ability to dodge first to the right and then to the left, to keep his opponent guessing.
Possibly this is an apt metaphor for his style as a political tactician.
Maybe his strategy is to seek to ensure that all former Soviet republics are in the hands of rulers who feel beholden to Moscow and can be relied upon not act against its interests. This certainly looks like his overriding security vision.
But if that is not possible, then in the meantime, his tactic may be to keep these countries weak. How?
Well, in Ukraine's case by on the one hand offering just enough apparent concessions to deter the West from imposing sanctions which would really start to bite, affect Russian living standards, and therefore his own popularity and chances of re-election in 2018.
But on the other hand, he may keep meddling in eastern Ukraine and anywhere else where he will not meet too much resistance, to reinforce his message - that Russia is a country and that he is a leader who is not to be trifled with and expects his viewpoint to be taken into account.
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Budgets are important of course.
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Laura KuenssbergPolitical editor@bbclaurakon Twitter
But on Monday afternoon, a cabinet minister joked to me: "We'll all be talking about Brexit again in a week."
At the moment though, there might not be that much to talk about.
Of course the process hasn't completely stopped. The UK's chief negotiator, Olly Robbins, has been back and forwards to Brussels and the two sides are "exploring" the issues that aren't resolved yet and trying to figure out ways out to fix them.
But I'm told it is too early to know if and when the deal can actually be done.
There is nothing new about the arguments of course, or the obstacles to getting there. The Irish border is the main problem, but not the only one.
And as yet, I'm told there isn't a deal in reach that could be guaranteed to get through the UK cabinet, let alone then through Parliament.
Who keeps the cat?
As the prime minister says, most of the withdrawal agreement is agreed - 95%, she claimed. But the rump is the tricky bit.
If you look at it like a divorce between the EU and the UK, it's easy to agree much of it. No one would go to the wall over who gets the tired old plants. Most separating couples can probably find an accommodation over the cushions and the cookbooks.
But as one senior MP joked yesterday, you can't cut the cat in half.
The main expectation in government and in Brussels is that there will be a deal of some kind.
But ministers and officials can't just stare at the same problems, wishing they will change.
There was of course the makings of a deal on the table a couple of weeks ago, but, one source said, "we failed then" - it's not clear how they will succeed now.
The pressure of time is perhaps the only dimension that is going to change.
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"He seems a nice fella."
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Laura KuenssbergPolitical editor@bbclaurakon Twitter
This morning, we watched the Labour leader perform what's known in the jargon as a walkabout.
Sir Keir Starmer was in Stevenage in Hertfordshire, held by Labour from 1997 until 2010, but by the Tories since then.
With social distancing in force, the normal "grip-and-grins" politicians take part in during these sessions were rather different.
There were no handshakes, and no high fives with unsuspecting children who happen to be out shopping with their families.
But for Sir Keir, it was his first chance at all to get out to meet the public in real life in his relatively new post.
Remember, he had to give his crucial speech accepting the Labour leadership in his own front room. The public has seen only him in Parliament, or in a clutch of press interviews over the last few months.
The party has found an increasingly confident presence as the government's green-bench opponents, alongside the fading influence of Jeremy Corbyn's supporters.
But while his victory in the leadership contest has made huge waves in Westminster, it's plain that he still has work to do to cut through to the public.
Before they can do much, opposition leaders have to build a rapport and recognition with the public. As we made our way around Stevenage market, it was obvious that work is far from complete.
Lewis on the fish stall told us he seemed nice enough after they had a chat, but before today he just hadn't heard of him at all.
Ryan, who sells beauty goodies, was well aware of who he was and that he was turning the party away from Jeremy Corbyn. But was not ready to put faith in him just yet, joking that he was "friendly and approachable, but all politicians are when they are out in the open!"
Labour's polling numbers have certainly improved, but as his team is aware, the brutal truth is that many members of the public do not yet know who he is.
That, of course, is the point of events like today's, and the digital mega conference calls that he's been trying to do in the last few months. Like it or not, political leaders who don't get recognised find it hard to get noticed too.
Swift action
But there's a different goal, which Sir Keir's backers believe today he scored, showing that he is willing to act decisively when things go wrong in his own party after a sometimes chaotic and often bitter era under Jeremy Corbyn.
As we discussed here so many times, racism against Jewish people was a completely toxic issue during Mr Corbyn's time in the top job.
Accusations were always denied, but he was considered by many inside and outside the party to have a blind spot when it came to anti-Semitism.
Having carefully avoided irritating Mr Corbyn's tribe in the party during the leadership campaign, when his former leadership rival Rebecca Long-Bailey shared an online article containing an "anti-Semitic conspiracy theory", Sir Keir moved fast to sack her.
For the leader's backers, and many in the Jewish community, his actions are proof that he meant his promises of zero-tolerance on anti-Semitism and will do what he said.
There is relief and respect in those circles. But there is a risk.
Internal tensions
Breaking out online tonight, there is real irritation among the section of the Labour Party that stood by Jeremy Corbyn. A left-wing group of MPs requested a meeting with the leader to protest, but that was denied.
Thus far, Sir Keir had managed to stop internal tensions from bubbling over. But his move today might drive them out into the open, and may even drive some members away.
His team certainly believed it is the right thing to do, and indeed, a public dispute with the left could prove politically useful as a way of showing a real break with Jeremy Corbyn's project.
Sir Keir has certainly shown today that he has more going on than simply being a "nice fella".
But as Labour has discovered over the years to its electoral cost, parties at war with themselves tend not to win.
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