Thousands of NHS patients were given blood products from abroad that were infected with hepatitis C and HIV in the 1970s and 80s. Prime Minister Theresa May ordered an inquiry into the scandal on Tuesday. But Haemophilia Scotland said there were still questions about how the UK-wide inquiry would be carried out. The prime minister has said the probe would establish the causes of the "appalling injustice" that took place. It has been described as the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS. Many of those affected and their families believe they were not told of the risks involved and there was a cover-up. Bill Wright, of Haemophilia Scotland, told the BBC: "After many years, we very much welcome a UK-wide inquiry. We've waited literally decades for this to happen. "However, there are a lot of details that are yet to be determined, such as how it's going to be conducted, where it's going to be held, what it's going to look at - and when it's going to start and how long it might last." An inquiry into contaminated blood has already been carried out in Scotland, publishing its findings in 2015. The Penrose Inquiry concluded few matters could have been done differently and made only a single recommendation - that anyone in Scotland who had a blood transfusion before 1991 should be tested for Hepatitis C if they have not already done so. There was an angry response to the report from victims and relatives who had gathered at the National Museum in Edinburgh to see its publication after a six-year wait, with shouts of "whitewash" after its conclusions were read out. On Tuesday, the Scottish government said it was "very surprised" that the new inquiry was expected to extend to Scotland. A spokeswoman added: "The UK government did not seek to discuss this with us in advance of their announcement. We will be seeking clarity as a matter of some urgency. "People in England and Wales should get the same opportunity to get answers as we have already given through the Penrose Inquiry in Scotland." A recent parliamentary report found about 7,500 patients were infected by imported blood products. Many were patients with the inherited bleeding disorder haemophilia. They needed regular treatment with the clotting agent Factor VIII, which is made from donated blood. The UK imported supplies and some turned out to be infected. Much of the plasma used to make Factor VIII came from donors like prison inmates in the US, who sold their blood. Families of those who died will be consulted about what form the inquiry should take. It could be a public Hillsborough-style inquiry or a judge-led statutory inquiry, the prime minister said.

Question: The UK inquiry into contaminated blood products must establish lessons that @placeholder public safety , campaigners in Scotland have said .


Inclusion on the index would have been a major step forward for Beijing as it attempts to open up its financial markets and attract foreign capital. Regulation worries and accessibility for global investors were some of the reasons behind MSCI's decision. MSCI is world's biggest stock index provider. China has in recent months increased its efforts to reform its often volatile stock market, but MSCI said global investors were looking for more. "International institutional investors clearly indicated that they would like to see further improvements in the accessibility of the China A shares market before its inclusion in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index," Remy Briand, global head of research at MSCI, said. The index provider said on Tuesday that China's authorities had demonstrated "a clear commitment"  in bringing accessibility of their A shares market closer to international standards. It also said it was looking forward to the "continuation of policy momentum in addressing the remaining accessibility issues." However, analysts said they were not particularly surprised by MSCI's decision. "It really was fifty-fifty regarding the inclusion," Catherine Yeung from Fidelity Investment told the BBC. "What's important to note is that while we have seen some significant improvements in terms of how foreign investors access domestic Chinese stocks, [but regarding] the criteria that was set last year, a lot of it still needs to be fulfilled," she said. Ms Yeung said what was very interesting was that MSCI said the inclusion of A shares could occur within the next year "outside of the normal review period which falls every June". "So if we see further developments in terms of regulation, in terms of how we access the market as investors from a foreigner perspective, then indeed we could see inclusion," she said. "But don't forget, it's likely to be a partial inclusion, let's say 5%, and inclusions do take years to actually be implemented. "So this is very much a long-term story."

Question: US stock index provider , MSCI , has again delayed the inclusion of China 's @placeholder domestic shares in its emerging markets index .


Media playback is not supported on this device You can relive the 2016 FA People's Cup highlights - and watch the winners receive their trophies at Wembley - on the BBC iPlayer now. If you want to find out how to get in to football then have a look at our guide.

Question: Remember the Pompey Amputees and THAT goal ? Did you miss Jan @placeholder walking football , the worldies and all the strange team names ?


Nearly 300 people responded to a consultation about how the collection changes should be carried out, and the council agreed to more communication. However the local authority also said "smelly" food waste would be collected weekly from special food waste bins. The new rubbish collecting schedule, which covers general waste and recycling bins, will launch in October. The leader of the Labour-run council, Richard Farnell, said financial pressures were partly behind the change. And he pointed out that Rochdale had the lowest recycling rate of Greater Manchester's 10 boroughs. Bury Council became the first local authority in England last October to only collect household rubbish once every three weeks.

Question: Bins in Rochdale will only be @placeholder once every three weeks instead of fortnightly , the council has decided .


Broadwater Cemetery has run out of space for new burials and will be closed soon. Linda Thorne, whose sister is buried there, said she found its current condition "really upsetting and heartbreaking". Worthing Borough Council said it had been given approval to maintain the cemetery as a "wildlife haven". Ms Thorne said graves and monuments were being broken up by weeds and trees because the area was not being looked after. Her wheelchair-bound mother had also been unable to visit her daughter's grave in recent years because of the state of the paths, she said. Ian Hart, a funeral director, said he thought the state of the graveyard was disrespectful. Tom Wye, of the Friends of Broadwater Cemetery, said: "Making a cemetery into a nature reserve is not a licence to do nothing." He said he sympathised with the council as funding had been cut over the last four years but the site still needed to be actively managed. Worthing Borough Council said the site was now considered a nature reserve because of a lack of space for new graves. A spokesman insisted the cemetery was still being looked after with the grass being cut four times a year. However, grass cutting was now "less intensive" with a focus on "meadow management" in places where there is wildflower interest, he said.

Question: Relatives of people buried in a Worthing cemetery have @placeholder how the local authority maintains the site .


Crolla, 28, who also broke his ankle in two places, has had his January WBA world lightweight title bout cancelled. "He was in bits in the hospital," Gallagher told BBC Radio 5 live. "His world title dreams are in tatters. "The more I think about it, he is lucky to be alive. Unbelievable." Promoter Eddie Hearn told BBC Sport the Manchester-based boxer was in a "stable condition" and that he was in talks to try and reschedule the world title fight. Police confirmed that a 28-year-old man was left with a fractured skull after being struck "with a heavy object" when chasing burglars he had spotted leaving his neighbours' home. Detective sergeant Richard Arthern of Greater Manchester Police said: "Thankfully he is recovering well in hospital." Trainer Gallagher added: "The next-door neighbours were being burgled, and the burglars came into his garden. He gave chase and apprehended one of them. "The other one lifted a slab of concrete and hit him with it, and he fell and broke his ankle. "He is in bits and heartbroken." Crolla, who has won 29 of his 35 professional fights, will need to have surgery on his ankle, Gallagher said. Crolla was set for the biggest bout of his eight-year professional career in Manchester on 23 January against WBA champion Richar Abril, 32, from Cuba. Hearn added: "Unfortunately the 23 January fight is off but our concerns right now are with Ant and his family. "I'm devastated for him. He has been training for six weeks for this and has a shot at the world title in his home town. "I have spoken to Richar Abril's team and we are trying to reschedule the fight."

Question: Anthony Crolla is " lucky to be alive " after suffering a fractured skull when he was hit by what his trainer Joe Gallagher said was a concrete slab as the boxer @placeholder burglars .


Scientists held their breath as they waited to see whether Juno would make it into orbit - or whether it would just fly off and miss Jupiter completely. Luckily, it successfully began its orbit on Tuesday. It's part of a special mission to help scientists find out more about our biggest planet, and how the solar system began. Juno blasted off in 2011, and will now orbit Jupiter 32 times - floating just 3,100 miles above the planet's cloud tops, for around one year. During this time it will be gathering lots of research and feeding it back to scientists here on Earth. There will also be three passengers on the spacecraft - these three Lego figures. They are the Roman god Jupiter, his wife Juno and the 17th century Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei. They had to be made from aluminium rather than plastic so they could cope with the extreme conditions of going into space. Juno's main goal is to try to understand how Jupiter was formed and how it has changed over the years. Scientists hope that by researching this, they will have a better idea of how other giant gas planets are created in different solar systems as well as our own. This is because Jupiter is one of our largest planets, and it's likely it was one of the first planets in our solar system to form when a huge cloud of dust and gas collapsed more than four million years ago. It's mostly made from two gases, hydrogen and helium, which are also present in the Sun. So, scientists think that by studying Jupiter's atmosphere they will learn more about how our planets formed. Jupiter has a very thick layer of gas and cloud surrounding it. Scientists hope that by observing these clouds, and discovering what they are made of, monitoring their temperature, and movements, they can learn more about the planet and other gas planets. One of the things they are hoping to find out, is how much water and ammonia is in Jupiter's atmosphere. Researchers are hoping to find out whether or not Jupiter has a solid core in the middle of the planet. As it is covered in a thick layer of gas, it has been very hard for scientists to learn more about its structure in the past. However, Juno is equipped with some pretty special gadgets which they are hoping will reveal the secrets of Jupiter's centre. It will help to research Jupiter's gravitational and magnetic fields, to help figure out how big its core is, or if it even has one!

Question: A Nasa spacecraft @placeholder Juno has begun its orbit of the planet Jupiter .


Essex-based E2V created the imaging detectors used on the New Horizons probe in its historic flyby. Chief engineer David Morris said the firm's two detectors would send back both colour and black and white images. He said: "It will continue taking more images for the next couple of weeks, looking back at Pluto as it recedes." One of the images to come back has shown an area of icy mountains on Pluto. "These were completely unexpected for Pluto, which was why you heard all the 'oohs and ahhs' in the background from NASA. "It was anticipated it would be icy, it was anticipated that it would be quite smooth with some craters but the formation of what are mountains was quite unexpected." He said: "There was a certain nervousness that it could all have been for nothing. "Getting the timing right and the image timing right was going to be crucial. It worked. I was excited and, of course, quite relieved. And very proud." The team has had a 10-year wait to the see the results of their efforts. Dr Paul Jerram, chief image sensor engineer at E2V, said: "To see that they have worked after their nine-and-a-half-year journey and have produced images that are way beyond anybody's expectations is amazing." Mike Culley, of Southend Planitarium, said: "Pluto has been this distant tiny little dot and we've now got these incredible pictures. "It has turned from a blob into a real world."

Question: An engineer involved in the sensors for the space probe @placeholder to study Pluto has told of the " nervous " wait for the first images to come back .


Eric Schneiderman said independent reviews of such cases would "restore trust" in the justice system. Meanwhile, the family of an Ohio boy, 12, killed by police last month have called for the officer to face trial. Protests against police killings of unarmed black men continued on Sunday, but turned violent in California. Others demonstrations, including in Miami, Minneapolis, Philadelphia and New York City, were peaceful. Protesters have been angered by the deaths, including those of Eric Garner, killed in a chokehold in New York, and Michael Brown, who was shot dead by a police officer in Ferguson. In both cases grand juries decided not to press criminal charges against the white police officers responsible. "The horrible events surrounding the death of Eric Garner have revealed a deep crisis of confidence in some of the fundamental elements of our criminal justice system," Mr Schneiderman said in a statement. The New York attorney general has asked Governor Cuomo to sign an executive order putting his office in charge of investigating such deaths. "A common thread in many of these cases is the belief of the victim's family and others that the investigation of the death, and the decision whether to prosecute, have been improperly and unfairly influenced by the close working relationship between the county district attorney and the police officers he or she works with and depends on every day," the statement continued. Mr Schneiderman said he had no doubt that the "overwhelming majority" of local prosecutors are "conscientious about our ethical duty to see that justice is done in every case" but said it was a matter of public confidence. Also on Monday, US Attorney General Eric Holder announced new guidelines banning law enforcement from racial profiling - the use by police of race as a factor in their decisions. The protocol, which updates a previous version of the guidelines, will require federal agencies to provide training and collect data on profiling complaints. The mother of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was shot and killed on 22 November by a Cleveland, Ohio, police officer, spoke publicly for the first time on Monday. Samaria Rice said her son, Tamir, was a "bright child" with a "promising future" who helped out at school. Rice, who was holding a toy gun, was shot twice and later died in hospital. Police had responded to an emergency call about someone with a gun near a playground. CCTV video of the area released by police shows Tamir was shot within seconds of a police vehicle stopping nearby. A lawyer for the family was "very distrustful" of local authorities' ability to bring charges against police. Ms Rice said she would like to see the officer convicted for her son's death. Protests against police killings continued on Sunday, although a peaceful march from Berkeley towards neighbouring Oakland turned violent during the evening. Some started vandalising local businesses, smashing shop windows, lobbing bottles and setting dustbins on fire. One person was hit with a hammer in Berkeley trying to stop another protestor vandalising a shop. In Oakland, demonstrators flooded a highway, throwing rocks at police who responded with tear gas. Protesters on the highway at Oakland tried to set a patrol vehicle on fire, according to the California Highway police. Five people were arrested in connection with the demonstrations and two officers were injured.

Question: New York 's attorney general has asked the governor for the @placeholder to investigate and prosecute local police killings of unarmed civilians .


Eight civilians, including two children, were killed after Pakistani artillery hit two areas on Tuesday, Indian officials said. Pakistan said Indian gunfire killed six civilians on its side on Monday. Tensions have flared over the long-running dispute since an Indian army base was attacked in September. Shelling across the de-facto border in recent days has created a "tragic humanitarian crisis", the chief minister of Indian-administered Kashmir says. Mehbooba Mufti called on both sides to calm the perilously hostile situation on the Line of Control (LoC), which has seen intense exchanges of fire between the two armies. Indian army sources told the Press Trust of India that two Pakistani soldiers were also killed on Tuesday. An Indian soldier and civilian were killed a day earlier, reports say. Six people were killed in Nakyal and Tatta Pani sectors on the Pakistani side on Friday and Saturday, the government in Islamabad says. Who is destroying schools in Kashmir? Did India really "surgically strike" Kashmir militants? What is Kashmir? The teenager blinded by pellets in Indian Kashmir Both India and Pakistan have accused each other of violating a 2003 ceasefire agreement. "It appears as if a full-blown war is going on between India and Pakistan," Mohammad Saeed, a resident of Mohra village in Pakistan's Nakyal sector, told Reuters news agency. Hundreds of civilians in villages on both sides of the LoC have been evacuated in recent weeks, according to authorities on the Indian side. Pakistan's foreign ministry summoned India's deputy high commissioner in Islamabad to protest at the six civilian deaths on Monday. It pressed India to "stop targeting villages and civilians" and condemned "unprovoked ceasefire violations". The territorial dispute between India and Pakistan over Muslim-majority Kashmir has been running for decades. Both nuclear-armed states claim the territory in its entirety but control only parts of it. Two of the three wars fought between the two sides since independence have been over Kashmir. After the 18 September army base attack on the Indian-administered side, the Indian military said it had carried out "surgical strikes" against suspected militants along the LoC. Pakistan called the strikes an "illusion" and denied Indian claims it was behind the militant attack. A subsequent BBC investigation found that while India did not airdrop commandos to hit militant camps or conduct ground assaults deep into Pakistani-administered territory, troops did cross the LoC a significant distance to hit border posts and then pulled back.

Question: India and Pakistan have @placeholder accusations over cross - border firing in the disputed region of Kashmir that has killed at least 24 people since Friday .


They claim City knew the details of a release clause in striker Taylor's contract before making an offer. EFL rules state that such details are confidential and cannot be disclosed to other clubs. BBC Radio Bristol understands Bristol Rovers have made contact with the league's legal department. In a statement to the Daily Mail, Bristol City confirmed they "made an offer over the weekend to Bristol Rovers for an undisclosed fee for Matthew Taylor and that offer was accepted". The club declined to make further comment when contacted by BBC Sport. Taylor, 26, scored 61 goals in 118 league appearances for Rovers. He is the first player to leave them and join City since Trevor Morgan in 1987. Media playback is not supported on this device

Question: Bristol Rovers are to make an official complaint to the English Football League over Matty Taylor 's @placeholder - day move to local rivals Bristol City .


The Westbury cement works were constructed in the early 1960s and mothballed in 2009. In a bid to attract investors, non-operational parts of the site, including the 122m-high (400ft) chimney, are to be cleared. The structure will be brought down with a series of controlled explosions, site owners Tarmac have said. The chimney is just short of the height of the spire at Salisbury Cathedral, which stands at 123m-high (404ft) above ground level. Earlier this month Tarmac said it had submitted a prior notice to Wiltshire Council to demolish part of the complex. At present, the site is an attraction to trespassers and is "a security and maintenance liability". "Demolition will result in reduced trespass and reduced needs for maintenance," he said. The cement works are about 1.6km (1 mile) to the north east of Westbury, and the chimney is visible from miles away.

Question: An industrial chimney which has @placeholder over part of Wiltshire 's countryside for decades is to be demolished .


Aberdeen, Glasgow, St Andrews and University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) have been accused of having "significant" gender pay gaps. The University and College Union (UCU) said the difference in pay amounted to thousands of pounds. But the universities said UCU had used out of date data that did not reflect "hard work" to redress pay issues. The union criticises the universities in its Holding Down Women's Pay report, released to mark International Women's Day. UCU compiled the gender pay figures using its new online tool, Rate for the job, which allows union members to make comparisons between pay rates at universities. UHI was found to have the biggest gender pay gap in the UK, according to UCU's tool. The union said UHI paid female lecturers £18,637 less a year than their male colleagues. The pay gap at Aberdeen was £9,914, Glasgow's £9,244 and St Andrews' £8,699. UCU Scotland official, Mary Senior, said: "These universities should not have allowed such shameful levels of pay inequality to persist. "It's nearly 50 years since the Equal Pay Act came into force and they're still flying in the face of it. "Today on International Women's Day, we'd like to see a firm commitment from sector leaders to close the gap and are offering to work with institutions to put an end to pay inequality." UHI is a partnership of 13 colleges and research institutions spread across the Highlands, Western Isles, Northern Isles, Moray and Argyll. A spokesman for the university said UHI recognised that it did have a gender pay gap, but it was not of the "magnitude" suggested by UCU. He said: "The figure and gap quoted derive from the data the university submitted to Higher Education Statistics Agency in 2013/14 in respect of the small number of staff  - 44 - who had academic roles and were employed directly by the university. "A number of these roles represent the academic staff within the Centre for History and the Centre for Health Sciences, but a significant number are senior roles with pan-university responsibilities." Aberdeen University said the UCU figures were not up to date. A spokesman said: "We have worked extremely hard to redress gender pay issues. Our current gender pay gap for lecturers is 1% and for senior lecturers is 2.5%. "The professorial pay gap has reduced in recent years to a level of 7% and we continue to address this matter through our senior staff pay policy." Glasgow said it was fully committed to gender pay equality. A spokesperson added: "The gender pay gap across the majority of our grades falls well within statistically permitted parameters including those encompassing lecturer, senior lecturer and reader. "The impact of professorial zoning continues to narrow the gap at a senior level." Prof Verity Brown, vice-principal for enterprise and engagement at St Andrews, said the university had made "significant progress" in recent years to tackle pay gaps. She said: "Our figures for 2015 show that the gender pay gap among lecturers in St Andrews is £173 per year, nowhere near the figure of over £8,000 quoted by the union. "We are committed to continuing to address gender pay gaps across all grades of staff and like many universities have made strong and significant progress in recent years."

Question: Four Scottish universities have @placeholder their records on pay for male and female members of staff .


A report commissioned by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said the authority was "not fit for purpose". Council leader Paul Lakin has resigned and the council cabinet will also quit. An earlier inquiry found 1,400 children were abused by gangs of men, mainly of Pakistani origin, from 1997 to 2013. The National Crime Agency (NCA) said the latest report, by Louise Casey, the director-general for troubled families at the Communities Department, identified "a number of potentially criminal matters". Files passed to the NCA relate to one former and one existing councillor arising from the inquiry, Ms Casey's spokesperson said. Investigators found the council had a "deep-rooted" culture of cover-ups and silencing whistleblowers, Ms Casey said. It also found the child sexual exploitation (CSE) team was poorly directed, suffered from excessive case loads, and did not share information between agencies. Ms Casey said: "This inspection revealed past and present failures to accept, understand and combat the issue of child sexual exploitation, resulting in a lack of support for victims and insufficient action against known perpetrators." A spokesman for the NCA said it would "examine a number of potentially criminal matters identified during a recent inspection of Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council." Mr Pickles said he planned to give control of the council to a team of five commissioners, including an overall lead and one tasked specifically with looking at children's services. 1,400 children were abused, 1997-2013 5 resignations, including South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner Shaun Wright and Council leaders Roger Stone and Paul Lakin 5 reports published since August 2014 10 South Yorkshire Police officers under investigation by the IPCC 7,000 documents reviewed for Louise Casey Report They would "provide new leadership" and take over the roles of the "wholly dysfunctional cabinet," he said. The council has 14 days to respond to his "wholly exceptional" proposals, Mr Pickles said. He also plans to impose early elections in 2016. The elections would give people a chance to "renew the membership of their council and elect those they have confidence in", he explained. He said he hoped control would be returned to Rotherham Council as "rapidly as possible". In a statement the council said it needed "time to understand and respond to the detailed report". It said: "We recognise the need for a fresh start that is so clearly identified in the report, but also appreciate that we need to continue to deliver services to the people of Rotherham, and ensure business continuity. "We should not forget that the publication of this report will re-open old wounds for the victims and survivors of CSE. "We will continue to put in place the help and support they need at this difficult time, including our dedicated helpline." Ms Casey was asked by Mr Pickles to inspect the council in the wake of the Jay Report in August 2014. A victim's story "You could tell with my appearance. I went to five-and-a-half stone and different coloured hair. I was a totally different person. "Obviously, there were warning signs there. I wasn't going to school, I wasn't going home so there's no way that they couldn't have realised that something was wrong. "A worker got involved with me. She was trying to tell people what was happening but nobody would listen. "There were various authorities that knew what was going off and decided to ignore it. I had a child protection officer, she ignored it, someone from social services, they ignored it. "There were various meetings about me, which were saying if there was anybody found to be dead it'd be me." The inspection team reviewed about 7,000 documents, looked in detail at case files and met more than 200 people, including current and former staff, council members, partners, victims and parents. According to the report, child abusers in Rotherham are identified but "little or no action is taken to stop or even disrupt their activities". Rotherham Council demonstrated a "resolute denial" of the child abuse that was taking place, the report found. Ms Casey said the local authority was "repeatedly told" by its own youth service what was happening. It chose, she said "not only to not act, but to close that service down." Attitudes within the council include dismissal of Prof Jay's findings, denial of knowledge of the "scale and scope" of CSE, blaming others and denial that CSE remains a serious problem in present-day Rotherham. The council also had an "excessive deference" to South Yorkshire Police, preventing the use of council powers to tackle perpetrators, and a lack of scrutiny over the police's actions. Investigators were told that former council leader Roger Stone had been "a bully". "What Stone said, went," a senior officer told the investigation. "Everyone was terrified of Stone." A councillor said: "He is a bully, in my opinion. In Labour group he would impress himself on people, male or female. A lot of women have felt a sense of suppression and macho culture." Mr Stone declined to be interviewed by investigators but sent a statement instead. Michael Buchanan, BBC Social Affairs Correspondent In the days after the Alexis Jay report was published, Rotherham council promised much - they'd learn lessons, they'd support victims, they'd change. It hasn't happened. Behind closed doors, they've poured scorn on the Jay report, still fear being called racist rather than acknowledge problems with Pakistani heritage men and most damningly of all are still failing to protect vulnerable children. Faced with such appalling incompetence, the government have acted in the only way they could. Changing the culture and practices of the council won't happen overnight but it's necessary. The people of Rotherham - in particular the children at continuing risk of sexual abuse - deserve nothing else. Ms Casey's report is the latest in a series of investigations following the publication of the Jay Report in August 2014. Prof Alexis Jay found an estimated 1,400 children had been sexually abused in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013. Children as young as 11 were raped by multiple perpetrators, abducted, trafficked to other cities in England, beaten and intimidated. Staff at the council did not report issues for fear of appearing racist, Ms Casey's report found. But the investigators said that by failing to take action against the abusers of Pakistani heritage, the council had "inadvertently fuelled the far right and allowed racial tensions to grow". The report added the lack of action had done a great disservice to the Pakistani community. Two investigations by Commons committees have been launched since the Jay Report was published and a number of high-profile figures have resigned including Shaun Wright, South Yorkshire's police and crime commissioner, who had been a councillor in the town and responsible for children's services. Roger Stone, the chief executive Martin Kimber and the council's director of children's services Joyce Thacker also quit. Mr Wright also refused to be interviewed for Ms Casey's report and sent a statement saying he had been unaware of the extent of the abuse. The National Crime Agency has taken over the investigation into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham and is in the preliminary stage of its inquiry. Last month, Ofsted admitted to the Communities and Local Government Committee that its inspections of children's services in the town had been "not good enough". Inspectors from the regulator failed to spot the extent of child sexual exploitation in the town over several years, rating the council as adequate. Meanwhile, police watchdog the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is investigating 10 South Yorkshire Police officers over their handling of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham.

Question: Government commissioners have been lined up to @placeholder at Rotherham Council where a culture of " complete denial " over child sexual exploitation in the town was exposed .


The pair, who are employed by the World Food Programme (WFP), arrived in Beijing on Thursday. North Korea and Malaysia on Tuesday banned each other's citizens from leaving, in a row over the killing of the North Korean leader's half-brother. Kim Jong-nam was killed with a potent nerve agent at Kuala Lumpur airport. Malaysia has not directly blamed North Korea for this, but there is widespread suspicion Pyongyang was responsible. Investigators have demanded North Korea hand over suspects, three of whom are thought to be hiding in North Korea's embassy in Malaysia. North Korea has fiercely denied culpability and the row over the killing - and who has the right to claim Mr Kim's body - has rapidly escalated over the past two weeks. In a brief statement, WFP confirmed its employees were now in China. "The staff members are international civil servants and not representatives of their national government," it said. A government official told AFP news agency Malaysia did not play a role in securing the release of the pair, who hold UN travel documents. Their departure leaves nine Malaysian nationals in North Korea. The Malaysian authorities say there are about 1,000 North Koreans currently in Malaysia. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak wrote on Facebook that he had spoken to Encik Mohd Nor Azrin, counsellor at the Malaysian Embassy in North Korea. "I have given him my assurance that the government will do everything we can to ensure that they return home safely soon," he wrote. "Even though they are refrained from leaving the country, the North Korean government have assured us of their safety and they are free to go about their daily lives." North Korea enacted its travel ban first, saying Malaysians could not leave until "the incident that happened in Malaysia is properly solved". Malaysia described Pyongyang's move as an "abhorrent act" and put in place a reciprocal ban. Immigration officials in Sarawak, Malaysia have since detained dozens of North Koreans, saying their work permits have expired. But Mr Razak said on Thursday that diplomatic ties between the two sides would not be cut. "We need to continue communicating with them to find a solution," he said. On Wednesday he said officials were still trying to get DNA samples from Mr Kim's immediate family to formally identify his body, saying maybe they were "scared to come forward''. A video emerged on Wednesday of Kim Han-sol, the son of Kim Jong-nam. Officials at South Korea's Unification Ministry and National Intelligence Service confirmed his identity. In the short clip, he said he was with his mother and sister but did not say where. It was his first appearance since the death of his father. "We hope this gets better soon," he said.

Question: Two UN workers who were among 11 Malaysians banned from leaving North Korea have @placeholder out of the country , the UN says .


Historic England is looking for photos of the country's first mosque set up in Liverpool in 1887 by English Muslim convert Abdullah Quilliam. The Gloucestershire site of the first smallpox vaccination by Edward Jenner is also on a list of 21 places that require updated details. Historic England said it wanted people to help "unlock the secrets". "We want people and community groups across England to share their knowledge and pictures, so we can record important facts about places," it said. The organisation curates the official list of England's 400,000 most significant historic places and items for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Roger Bowdler, director of listing at Historic England, said: "Many buildings on the list are well-known and even world-famous. But in some cases there is much that remains unknown." Details and photos are also being requested on:

Question: People are being asked to " chronicle the nation 's missing @placeholder " by sharing details of key sites .


Edward Barr, 45, began terrorising Ann Begg when she became pregnant. The attacks happened at addresses across Ayrshire, including in Cumnock and Auchinleck, between May 1993 and May 2000. Lord Clark ordered Barr to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work as part of a 12-month community payback order. Barr, from Cumnock in Ayrshire, appeared at the High Court in Glasgow, having earlier pleaded guilty to assaulting Ms Begg, 51, However, before his guilty plea, Ms Begg had to give evidence against him at a trial in Livingston. She had told the court: "It was fine at first, but I was not able to give him the full attention he was getting before, so he did not like that. "I noticed things were not the same. There was a lot more arguments leading up to the violence that happened throughout that period." She recalled being "pummelled" by Barr while pregnant after rowing with him for going on a day out with a  friend rather than her. She said: "I was dragged from the living room out to the hallway of the flat by the hair. All I can remember is fists coming at me." Barr also went on to pour "a plate of boiling hot custard" over her as she cooked a meal. Miss Begg eventually ended up staying in women's refuges. The pair split up in 2000 when Barr started seeing someone else. Barr has already spent the equivalent of eight months on remand. He was earlier cleared of 10 further charges of domestic violence after a key witness failed to turn up to give evidence.

Question: A man who @placeholder boiling custard over his former partner 's head during seven - years of abuse has been ordered to carry out unpaid work .


4 February 2016 Last updated at 17:45 GMT The Meem cable is designed to make a copy of your phone contacts, photos and more every time you plug it in to charge. The company's chief executive Kelly Sumner told the BBC's Chris Foxx some people didn't trust the cloud services smartphone manufacturers provide.

Question: A phone charging cable that backs up your @placeholder as you top up your battery has been produced by a British firm .


Tesco jumped 7% and Sainsbury's added 3.25% after Morrisons reported much better than expected results. Shares in Morrisons, which is a FTSE 250 stock, soared more than 8%. Debenhams led the FTSE 250 higher with a 16% surge, after it also reported better than expected results. Overall, the FTSE 100 was 57.41 higher - 0.57% - at 5929.24 points. Building firms were also among the leading shares, with Berkeley Group up 4% and Barratt Developments up 2.5%. Analysts at Jefferies upgraded their rating of those shares to buy from hold. Barratt is due to issue a trading update on Wednesday. Shares in BP rose 0.9%, helped by a rebound in oil prices during the session before losing 1.5% by the close. The company also announced plans to shed 600 jobs from its North Sea operations over the next two years. Miners lead the closing fallers' list, with Rangold Resources faring worst with a loss of almost 4%. Meanwhile, on the currency markets, the pound fell 0.85% against the dollar to $1.4419 and fell by 0.6% against the euro to â‚¬1.3309.

Question: ( Close ) : The FTSE 100 ended higher - @placeholder by a surge in supermarket shares .


The Ovo Foundation is working with Bristol City Council to give young apprentices the skills to find future work and get homes back into use. Gaby Sethi, from Ovo, said: "It's great that its having a positive impact on young people." So far two homes have been renovated under the pilot which began in October. The project involves the charity paying for the decorating materials and the council providing the housing stock. Once the homes are ready for habitation they are leased out for a peppercorn rent. Ms Sethi said: "The main problem for young homeless people who are in supported housing or hostels, is that they find it really difficult to move out even if they are ready to. "We also had a look at the skills gap in Bristol and there's a major need for construction workers. "We wanted to design a programme to help them get back into training and learn the relevant skills to access long-term employment." Council figures show there are more than 700 young homeless people in Bristol. Sophie, 18, who took part in the pilot, said: "I'm looking forward to making it look homely and nice and add extra decoration to it. "It is a big, big bonus to get a property to live in, as well." The apprentices were trained up on a free-three month construction skills course at SGS College in Bristol which began in October. The charity says it hopes to find more derelict homes to bring back into use and help young homeless people.

Question: A pilot scheme offering young homeless people the chance to renovate derelict council houses for them to live in is being @placeholder out .


A new generation of digital cameras will be operational by the end of June along a 32-mile stretch of the A77, between Monkton and south of Girvan. The number of cameras will stay the same but some will be repositioned. Transport Scotland said the cameras had cut deaths and serious injuries by 75% since they were introduced in 2005. Transport Scotland's head of network operations, Stewart Leggett, said: "Safety is an absolute priority and the investment in camera upgrades are central to ensuring that we continue to positively influence driver behaviour on the A77. "The latest available figures for the A77 show that in the last three years there have been 77% fewer deaths and 74% fewer serious injuries compared to the 2005 baseline. "We expect the new and improved cameras will continue to support this reduction in casualties."

Question: The first average speed cameras used in Scotland are being @placeholder - 11 years after they were introduced and hailed for cutting road deaths .


The money is aimed at supporting people and communities to "overcome challenging circumstances". The biggest beneficiary in the latest round is Kirkcudbright Development Trust, which receives £850,000 to turn a former school into a community hub. Maureen McGinn, who chairs the BLFS, said the money could "transform the lives of local people". The Kirkcudbright project will see the transformation of the former Johnston Primary into a hub which incorporates a childcare centre, a tourist attraction, business units and an emergency service base. The Glenkens Community and Arts Trust in Dumfries and Galloway has secured £148,772 while the Peeblesshire Youth Trust in the neighbouring Scottish Borders has been awarded £97,000. Other schemes to receive support include: Ms McGinn said: "Each of these inspiring projects will assist people at the times when they need most support, providing them with the tools, confidence and skills to work towards a more positive future."

Question: Fifty @placeholder from across the country have received a share of £ 9.6 m from the Big Lottery Fund Scotland ( BLFS ) .


Hana Gul Khan, 22 of Meyrick Road, north-west London, was convicted of sending the money to Jafar Turay, 28. Mr Turay left the UK in July 2012 to join rebels fighting President Assad's regime. He first travelled to Saudi Arabia and Egypt before crossing the border into Syria from Turkey in June 2013. Mr Turay was previously known as Joel Kelvin Daley before he converted to Islam and was wanted by police in connection with a serious assault before he fled the UK. During the trial the jury heard that Khan and Mr Turay kept in touch via the WhatsApp message service. Khan raised some of the cash she arranged to be transferred by selling the contents of his flat, the court heard. The jury was also told Mr Turay sent pictures of children posing with weapons and of him posing with an AK-47 and heavy machine guns. In response, Khan told Mr Turay: "You look beautiful", the court heard. Anton Atkins, 30, of Woolwich Common, south-east London, who was also accused of helping Mr Turay, was cleared of all charges. Khan will be sentenced on 27 March.

Question: The girlfriend of a British man fighting in Syria has been found guilty of terrorism offences after she @placeholder him with £ 1,000 in cash .


Bobbi McBurnie, 14, was born weighing less than 2lbs and had to be given blood transfusions to survive. Ms McBurnie and her mother, Carol, are now encouraging people to give blood and to know their own blood type. The campaign aims to highlight the importance of the the four main blood groups A, B, O and AB. As part of it Ms McBurnie stars in a film along with other patients from 21 countries around the world. She said: "I have always known I was born very prematurely, and my mum has told me I was lucky to survive. Now I am 14, I understand that without blood donors I wouldn't be here. "I'm proud to represent Scotland in the video, and hope it makes lots of people think about becoming a blood donor." Research from the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS) shows only 38% of people in Scotland know their own blood type. This rises to 61% among those who have given blood. The Missing Type campaign has been joined by 23 blood services around the world. Over 30 organisations across Scotland will be removing A, B and O from their social media posts to raise awareness in the campaign. SNBTS Associate Director of Donor Services Dr Moira Carter said: "In total there are eight different blood groups of which SNBTS aims to maintain a six to eight day supply at all times. "We are asking the people of Scotland to register as blood donors, donate and support us by being blood group aware." SNBTS also said that blood stock levels change from day to day and sometimes they need to make an appeal for donors with a particular blood type whilst they may have an adequate supply of other types. The number of new blood donors in Scotland has declined by 30% in the last five years. Statistics also show that, while 96% of new donors are under the age of 55 years, SNBTS increasingly rely on donors over 55 to make sure that there is always enough blood for patients.

Question: A teenager who received blood transfusions for the first two years of her life has @placeholder to launch a campaign urging Scots to donate blood .


The Mid-Infrared Instrument (Miri) will gather key data as the $9bn (Â£5.5bn) observatory seeks to identify the first starlight in the Universe. The results of testing conducted at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK have just been signed off, clearing Miri to travel to America. James Webb - regarded as the successor to Hubble - is due to launch in 2018. It will carry a 6.5m primary mirror (more than double the width of Hubble's main mirror), and a shield the size of a tennis court to guard its sensitive vision from the heat and strong light of our Sun. The observatory has been tasked with tracking down the very first luminous objects in the cosmos - groupings of the first generation of stars to burst into life. To do so, Webb will use its infrared detectors to look deeper into space than Hubble, and further back in time - to a period more than 13 billion years ago. "The other instruments on James Webb will do massive surveys of the sky, looking for these very rare objects; they will find the candidates," explained Miri's UK principal investigator, Prof Gillian Wright. "But Miri has a very special role because it will be the instrument that looks at these candidates to determine which of them is a true first light object.  Only Miri can give us that confirmation," she told BBC News. JWST is a co-operative project between the US (Nasa), European (Esa) and Canadian (CSA) space agencies. Europe is providing two of the telescope's four instruments and the Ariane rocket to put it in orbit. Miri is arguably the most versatile of the four instruments, with a much wider range of detectable wavelengths than its peers (5-28 microns). Fundamentally, it is a camera system that will produce pictures of the cosmos. But it also carries a coronagraph to block the light from bright objects so it can see more easily nearby, dimmer targets - such as planets circling their stars. In addition, there is a spectrograph that will slice light into its component colours so scientists can discern something of the chemistry of far-flung phenomena. Miri is a complex design, and will operate at minus 266C. This frigid state is required for the instrument's detectors to sample the faintest of infrared sources.  Everything must be done to ensure the telescope's own heat energy does not swamp the very signal it is pursuing. The hardware for Miri has been developed by institutes and companies from across Europe and America. The job of pulling every item together and assembling the finished system has had its scientific and engineering lead in the UK. Miri has just gone through a rigorous mechanical and thermal test campaign at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire. This included shaking the instrument to simulate the pounding it will receive during the ascent to orbit on the Ariane. It was also put in a vacuum chamber and subjected to the kind of temperatures it will experience in space. "It's been a real privilege to work on Miri and great to see it finally ship out," said Paul Eccleston, the engineer at RAL who has overseen the test campaign. "It will be so exciting when we put it on top of the rocket and light the blue touch paper, so to speak, and watch it go up into space." The paperwork signing off the test results has now been accepted by Nasa. The next step is for Miri to be put in a special environment-controlled shipping box, so it can travel to the US space agency's Goddard centre. The Maryland facility is where the final integration of James Webb will take place. Miri will be fixed inside a cage-like structure called the Integrated Science Instrument Module and positioned just behind the big mirror. The years to 2018 promise yet more testing. Recommended 16 years ago as the logical evolution beyond Hubble, the JWST has managed to garner a fair amount of controversy. Technical difficulties and project mismanagement mean the observatory is now running years behind schedule and is billions of dollars over-budget. Elements of the US Congress wanted to cancel the telescope last summer.  That did not happen, but Capitol Hill now has James Webb on a very short leash, with Nasa required to provide monthly updates on milestones met or missed. Much of the talk around James Webb tends to centre on cost.  The current estimate for the US side is $8.8bn, which covers the full life cycle of the project from its inception to the end of initial operations.  Extra to that bill is some $650m for the European contributions like Miri and Ariane. Dr Eric Smith is Nasa's deputy programme director for James Webb.  He believes taxpayers do appreciate the venture. "When you're able to show people that James Webb will do things that not even Hubble can do - then they understand it," he told BBC News. "People recognise how iconic Hubble has been, and how much it has affected their lives. "The images and scientific results that Hubble has returned have permeated popular culture. Webb pictures will be just as sharp but because the telescope will be looking at a different part of the spectrum, it will show us things that are totally new."

Question: One of Europe 's main contributions to the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST ) is @placeholder and ready to ship to the US .


Denis Thwaites and his partner Elaine, aged 70 and 69, from Lancashire, were staying at the Hotel Riu Imperial Marhaba in Sousse when the attack took place. The shooting on Friday killed 38 people, most of whom were British. The football club said it was "deeply shocked and saddened" by the deaths. Their son-in-law Danny Clifford earlier said news the family received telling them the Blackpool couple were in hospital was misinformation. Gordon Marsden, Labour MP for Blackpool South, tweeted: "Very sad to hear Denis & Elaine Thwaites from Blackpool among those killed in the terrorist attack in Sousse. Condolences to their family." Born in Stockton-on-Tees in December 1944, Mr Thwaites played for Birmingham City between 1962 and 1972 before retiring from football at the age of 27. Birmingham City posted a tweet saying: "We are deeply shocked and saddened by the death of former player Denis Thwaites and his wife Elaine in the Tunisian terrorist attack. "Our thoughts are with Denis' family. The club also offers its condolences to all who are mourning loved ones due to this atrocity. "May they rest in peace." Their deaths are yet to be officially confirmed by the Foreign Office. The Prime Minister confirmed the gunman, Seifeddine Rezgui, was thought to have been part of a network inspired by Islamic State militants. A national minute's silence will be held to remember victims of the attack on Friday at 12:00 BST, a week after the shooting.

Question: A former Birmingham City footballer and his wife were among those killed in the Tunisian @placeholder attack , the BBC understands .


13 April 2017 Last updated at 16:26 BST Police were called to reports of a stabbing on a 149 bus on Stoke Newington Road just before 14.00 BST on Tuesday. The victim, in his 20s, was taken to a nearby hospital but later discharged. No arrests have been made. An eyewitness told the BBC the two passengers had been arguing for a while when a fight broke out "suddenly". "It was only when they began struggling we could see that one man was trying to wrestle the knife off the other," the witness said.

Question: A man was left with cuts to his @placeholder and hand after he disarmed a knife attacker on a London bus .


His relentless barrage of abuse, not least about "fake news", has fatally undermined the trust of the American people in their traditional sources of news; and by denying the Washington press corps access to his administration, he has neutralised a key weapon in the armoury of political journalism. Meanwhile, his use of social media, talk radio and favoured alt-right websites has allowed him to communicate directly to voters, rendering journalists an irrelevant distraction. And the Spicer Doctrine - the belief held by the White House press secretary that it is the job of government to hold media to account and not just the other way round - poses a mortal threat to the trade we call reporting. Any combination of the above paragraphs could appear, without much contention, in almost every appraisal of Trump's relationship with the media that I have read in the past year. That it has limited basis in reality, and indeed is contradicted by the vast bulk of available evidence, has been no impediment to its ubiquity. In fact, contrary to the prevailing orthodoxy, Donald Trump is not the man who will kill the mainstream media. He is the man who could save it. Together with Dominic Hurst, a brilliant producer, I have been looking at Mr Trump's relationship with the media for Radio 4's PM programme. The evidence is emphatic: Trump has given many news organisations the sustainable commercial future they so desperately crave. The New York Times, one of Mr Trump's favourite voodoo dolls, which he has repeatedly admonished on Twitter and in rallies, is doing very well out of the new president. In the three weeks after his election, it sold 132,000 digital subscriptions - a tenfold increase. That's a lot of revenue with which to fund serious journalism. I spoke to Mark Thompson, the paper's chief executive and a former director general of the BBC. He told me that the president's actions and words "are causing hundreds of thousands of Americans who've never paid for news before to pay for it for the first time". And he added: "It's not a political point, it's purely a commercial point: the Trump era seems to be a very good era for quality journalism." CNN, the other organisation that Mr Trump has repeatedly labelled as fake news, also has plenty to thank the president for. Thanks to him, 2016 was CNN's most watched year. As for news websites like BuzzFeed News, the Guardian, Mail Online, the Independent and others, Trump has generated phenomenal traffic - which in turn boosts revenues. Two points about Mr Trump's benefit to the mainstream media strike me. The first is that it applies to different platforms and different business models. The New York Times is a newspaper and website with a semi-permeable paywall - the so-called free premium, or freemium model. The Independent has a low cost base and is funded by a huge range of advertising revenue streams. CNN is a cable news network. All are thriving just now. Second, Mr Trump has doubtless fortified the differences between the commercial and editorial departments of outlets such as these three. Take the New York Times. Columnists and leader writers on that gloriously high-minded body, the editorial board, are writing about how awful Mr Trump is, a threat to the republic, an American Putin, these are the end days, and so forth. Meanwhile, Mark Thompson is rubbing his hands with glee - not necessarily at the policies of the president, but at the ambient glow of his bottom line. Throughout my journalistic career, there have been serious questions about how journalism is funded. There is no one or easy answer to that. But based on the evidence above, a very good answer has two words - "Donald", and "Trump". This brash reality TV star has caused no end of discomfort for the mainstream media. But perhaps what should really make them squirm in their lofty op-ed conferences is the fact that he is doing more than any other modern politician to help them pay their mortgages and feed their families. Listen to my piece on PM, BBC Radio 4 at 17:00 GMT on Monday, 6 February or later via BBC iPlayer.

Question: Donald Trump is , by sheer force of character , @placeholder the mainstream media as we know it .


Kashket's 49th-minute strike, against his former club, registered his 11th goal of the season and gave Wanderers an eighth win in a row, while Orient are languishing close to the relegation zone. All eyes were on the in-form Kashket, facing Orient for the first time since his summer move, and it was the 20-year-old who opened the scoring just after the break. The ball fell to the winger who guided his left-footed shot beyond the reach of goalkeeper Alex Cisak. However, the visitors had nearly taken the lead on the half-hour mark when Jay Simpson's left-footed strike whistled past Jamal Blackman's post. And Orient again thought they had the lead when Paul McCallum turned Jay Simpson's low cross into the roof of the net. However, the goal was ruled out for offside. The game petered out in the final half hour as neither side went close, handing Wanderers maximum points. Report supplied by the Press Association. Match ends, Wycombe Wanderers 1, Leyton Orient 0. Second Half ends, Wycombe Wanderers 1, Leyton Orient 0. Nigel Atangana (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Garry Thompson (Wycombe Wanderers). Corner,  Wycombe Wanderers. Conceded by Nicky Hunt. Attempt missed. Sam Wood (Wycombe Wanderers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Attempt missed. Matt Bloomfield (Wycombe Wanderers) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Myles Weston replaces Paris Cowan-Hall. Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Sam Wood replaces Scott Kashket. Nicky Hunt (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Anthony Stewart (Wycombe Wanderers). Attempt missed. Aaron Pierre (Wycombe Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right following a corner. Corner,  Wycombe Wanderers. Conceded by Nigel Atangana. Attempt blocked. Luke O'Nien (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Corner,  Wycombe Wanderers. Conceded by Myles Judd. Substitution, Leyton Orient. Sam Dalby replaces Robbie Weir. Paris Cowan-Hall (Wycombe Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Sandro Semedo (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Paris Cowan-Hall (Wycombe Wanderers). Foul by Jay Simpson (Leyton Orient). Joe Jacobson (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Paul McCallum (Leyton Orient) is shown the yellow card. Nicky Hunt (Leyton Orient) is shown the yellow card. Teddy Mezague (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Paris Cowan-Hall (Wycombe Wanderers). Substitution, Leyton Orient. Sandro Semedo replaces Jordan Bowery. Corner,  Leyton Orient. Conceded by Joe Jacobson. Corner,  Leyton Orient. Conceded by Michael Harriman. Teddy Mezague (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Paris Cowan-Hall (Wycombe Wanderers). Delay over. They are ready to continue. Delay in match Alex Cisak (Leyton Orient) because of an injury. Foul by Nicky Hunt (Leyton Orient). Scott Kashket (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick on the right wing. Delay over. They are ready to continue. Substitution, Leyton Orient. Teddy Mezague replaces Callum Kennedy because of an injury. Delay in match Callum Kennedy (Leyton Orient) because of an injury. Attempt missed. Joe Jacobson (Wycombe Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Foul by Nicky Hunt (Leyton Orient). Scott Kashket (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing.

Question: A Scott Kashket goal was enough for Wycombe Wanderers to see off a well - @placeholder Leyton Orient side at Adams Park .


The village was blocked for several hours after the vehicle became stuck in Walkern High Street, Hertfordshire, on Tuesday afternoon. Police tweeted: "Question, what is 50 feet long and unlikely to fit through the narrow streets of Walkern#satnavfail." The lorry was removed later. For more on this and other stories visit BBC Beds, Herts and Bucks Live A spokesman from Manea-based haulage company D&R Hankins said the driver had been to a farm in Walkern and was on his way back to its Cambridgeshire base. The driver's sat nav had taken him through the narrow village streets, he confirmed. There was "minimal damage" to the lorry and a recovery vehicle was sent to "manoeuvre" it out of its predicament, he added.

Question: A 50 ft ( 15 m ) lorry became wedged in a small village street after being @placeholder there by a sat - nav , it s driver said .


It relates to commemorations at Wales' 1-1 draw with Serbia on 12 November. The Irish Football Association is also under investigation for events prior to Northern Ireland's 4-0 victory over Azerbaijan on 11 November. Fifa is looking in to several incidents "of the display of poppy symbols". International Football Association Board rules ban "political, religious or personal messages" on kits, while Fifa ground safety regulations say "the promotion or announcement of political or religious messages" in stadiums is "strictly prohibited". Teams breaching the rules can be fined or have points deducted. The FAW said the incidents being investigated include "fans in the stands wearing the poppy" and the presence of "a member of the armed forces holding a bunch of poppies at the exit of the tunnel". Chief executive Jonathan Ford said the FAW is "disappointed and surprised" and will "strongly contest the charges". "Our intention was to show respect on Armistice weekend which we feel we did in the right and proper way," he said. "We also adhered to the rules and regulations of the competition and the communication from Fifa prohibiting the FAW request for the players to wear the poppy symbol on the armbands or the field of play. "We are particularly disappointed that one of the charges relates to supporters in the stands wearing poppies." The Irish FA said it "will robustly defend the disciplinary charges". It is understood that the wearing of poppies by supporters in the stands is not a charge that the IFA is facing, but investigations are being carried out into the holding of a minute's silence, the laying of a wreath and a poppy display by fans. Wales and Northern Ireland players wore plain black armbands during their respective matches. The English and Scottish Football Associations are being investigated, after players wore poppies during their Armistice Day World Cup qualifier at Wembley. Both teams' players wore black armbands with poppy emblems, after their associations said they would accept "any kind of sanction". Fifa said reports of a ban on wearing poppies were a "distortion of the facts" and that its disciplinary committee acted independently. Football's world governing body recently opened disciplinary proceedings over the Republic of Ireland's use of a logo during a friendly against Switzerland in March to commemorate the centenary of the Easter Rising.

Question: Football 's world governing body has @placeholder disciplinary proceedings against the Football Association of Wales for incidents including " fans wearing poppies " during a recent match .


These words have appeared more in Paris in recent days on signs, walls and the Eiffel Tower, marking people's resilience after the attacks of a week ago today. People have been going back to work, and going out to bars and restaurants. Here, Parisians describe the night of the attacks and how they have been trying to return to normality. Marine lives a few kilometres away from the Bataclan music hall where many of the victims died. "I heard police sirens near the Bataclan and I watched the story unfold on TV. "I couldn't believe this was happening so close to me. "I asked myself why the Bataclan and at the bars and restaurants. "Then I realised that was what the terrorists wanted." Marine works at Disneyland Paris and had to go in to work the day after the attacks. "Although the park was closed my department was open. "We took calls from people who were frightened and wanted to cancel their trips. "Kids were sad because they were looking forward to their visit but now wouldn't be able to come. "Some people asked about our security arrangements but at the time we didn't know. "But there were a lot of nice people who rang to say they were sorry about what had happened, and some called to say that they will be coming as planned. "A woman from England said we must not be afraid. "We try to be joyful and stay in a good mood but it can be difficult." On the night of the attacks Samuel Pean was at a bar watching the France v Germany football match. He did not know about what was going on outside until a friend in the United States messaged him to check he was OK. "When we left the district we saw restaurants and bars were closed but people were inside in the dark. "Police said we had to move because it was not safe. I didn't know if I could take the metro or not so I went to my parents' house. The following day Samuel went home but he felt the need to be with people. "I couldn't stay at home. I went to see friends in another district and took the metro. "But we all knew friends of friends who were affected or who had died. "I had to go to work on Monday but it was good to be close to colleagues - we are like a family. "A colleague was crying all day - we needed to be together. "We are all still a bit afraid. "I went out to a bar after work which I wouldn't normally do early in the week but it was more of a symbolic gesture. "It's not normal but we have to pretend. The military and police are everywhere, there are less people on the subway, and more suspect package alerts. "Paris is quiet and there is not a lot of cars. As it's less noisy you can hear sirens more." After work, Solene Bertelli planned to meet her boyfriend outside the Bataclan near to where he lives. She saw a crowd of people in front of the Bataclan having drinks, waiting to go inside to see a band play. "After that we walked down the street and saw a man who was shouting, "Run, run." "People were standing around not knowing what to do. Then suddenly everyone started running. "No matter what direction we went to there was panic. "We met some strangers who offered to take us into their home. "This was around 22:00 and we stayed there until 04:00." Solene and her boyfriend wanted to go to his home near the Bataclan. "At the beginning the police didn't want us to go as it was carnage. But a policeman walked with us. "There was blood and bullets everywhere, and dead people were being taken away." Solene works at a bakery and found it difficult to go back to work. "I work a few days a week at the bakery. It was hard for me to return. "I had to take the subway, and then I realised what had happened on Friday - I didn't feel safe. "But as the days go on I am feeling better. "There are more people on the streets - it's more alive."

Question: Fluctuat nec mergitur - that is the Latin motto on the coat of arms of Paris meaning , ' Buffeted ( by waves ) but not @placeholder . '


Media playback is not supported on this device "My mum found it quite funny," recalls Whiley. "But by the time the tournament finished they'd given me a trophy and I was all over the news out there. "A three-year-old in a wheelchair hitting tennis balls - they'd never seen it before. Ever since then I've been playing." "A three-year-old in a wheelchair hitting tennis balls - they'd never seen it before. Ever since then I've been playing." Raised near Birmingham, she was named after the American basketball icon Michael Jordan. But unlike the NBA megastar, the 22-year-old has never been able to run or jump. Born with brittle bone disease, she has broken her legs more times than she can care to remember. Her mum thinks it's about 26. The first time it happened Whiley was just three months-old and her father Keith was gently winding her at the time. Since then she has been in intensive care, had a series of rods and bolts put into her legs and heard doctors tell her she would never walk unaided. They were wrong - she can now. Along with dogged determination, what Whiley also has in common with her namesake is real talent. Fuelled by winning the British national women's title at the age of 14, she went on to claim a Paralympic bronze medal at London 2012. Of even greater significance was earlier this year when Whiley made history by becoming the first British woman to win a Grand Slam wheelchair tennis title. That ground-breaking Australian Open women's doubles triumph, however, went largely unnoticed. Unlike, say, Paralympic swimming or wheelchair racing, wheelchair tennis has a low profile. Whiley finds this a little surprising, given Britain's love for tennis. But she hopes to help change that. Success is the key to becoming the next David Weir or Ellie Simmonds and, with victory alongside Japanese partner Yui Kamiij at the French Open in Paris in June, a headline-grabbing Grand Slam clean sweep is becoming a distinct possibility. Whiley has lost in the last two Wimbledon finals so is doubly determined to go one better at her favourite tournament. Should success be sealed on home soil, she and Kamiji will be the duo everyone is gunning for at the US Open. "Winning all the Grand Slams would be amazing," says Whiley, whose partnership with Kamiji is ranked second, behind the previously all-conquering Dutch, in the doubles. "That's the aim for this year." Beyond that goal she would like to improve her singles ranking, which is currently fifth, but Whiley is not convinced she could ever top the feeling of winning a Paralympic medal in London. "The only thing that might be better is winning gold in Rio," she says. Already a countdown clock to the 2016 Paralympics is embedded in her tablet computer. Though the Paralympics are a huge motivation for Whiley - especially as it offers the largest scale of exposure - the biggest driving force of all is her father Keith. In an age when the Paralympics was almost unknown to the outside world, the design engineer won a bronze medal in the 100m sprint at the 1984 Paralympics, while also competing in other events such as wheelchair basketball. Taking up tennis when he retired, his passion was quickly transmitted to his daughter. "I've always been close to my dad," says Whiley. "Because he's got the same condition, he knows the excruciating pain that I can be in sometimes. "And he's still a pretty cool dude. He just doesn't seem to get any older and he's got all the latest tennis gear." Just as Keith is her hero, Whiley could easily go on to become an inspirational figurehead for a young generation of emerging athletes - disabled or otherwise. Whiley admits she could have been a bit of a rebel had she not taken up sport, but is now wise beyond her 22 years and travels all over the world. "I'm proof that you should never give up on your dreams. You can do anything if you put your mind to it," she says, smiling. If you have a disability and want to get into sport,

Question: The first time Jordanne Whiley played tennis was in Israel . She was three . Sitting by the court with a broken leg , she watched her beloved dad competing in a tournament and instinctively started to mimic him . Organisers soon thrust a racquet into her @placeholder .


Born to an Italian-Welsh father and Welsh mother in Cwm, Ebbw Vale, Spinetti was a regular performer in London's West End as well as with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He appeared in more than 30 films, including three Beatles movies. Sir Paul spoke about Spinetti's "wit and exuberant personality". The former Beatle struck up a friendship with the Welshman during filming for the first Beatles film, A Hard Day's Night. "Victor was a fine man, a great pal and a fantastic actor and someone I am proud to have known for many years," said Sir Paul. "His irreverent wit and exuberant personality will remain in my memory forever. "I will miss his loyal friendship, as will all the others who were lucky enough to know and love the wonderful Mr Spinetti." Spinetti died at a hospice in Monmouth on Monday morning, said his agent Barry Burnett. "He had cancer for a year, but he was very cheerful to the end," said Mr Burnett. "I spoke to him on Friday and he was talking about his plans and everything." News of his death prompted a stream of tributes from fans and members of the entertainment world on Twitter. Barbara Windsor, a lifelong friend and co-star in Oh! What a Lovely War, had visited Spinetti last Thursday. "We were very close. He was another of my great friends from that era. He was such a great man," she said. "We just chatted and chatted and talked about old things. But he said, 'let's not talk about all that, let's talk about the future'." Actor Rob Brydon tweeted: "So sad Victor Spinetti has died. The funniest story teller I've ever met and a lovely warm man. Proud to have been his friend. 'Eh, Vic...'" Britt Ekland, actor, wrote: "Just heard my wonderful friend, co writer and director Victor Spinetti died. Am devastated to have lost a true acting genius." Welsh actor Sian Phillips told BBC Wales she was shocked and saddened, adding: "He was such a force of joy and vitality. When one saw him across a crowded room, one couldn't wait to get together with him and have a chat and a catch-up." Spinetti was born in the living quarters above the chip shop his family owned in Cwm, Ebbw Vale. He attended Monmouth School and initially had ambitions to be a teacher. But after turning to acting he studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff. His early stage career saw him make a number of memorable performances with Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, whose production of Oh, What a Lovely War! transferred to the West End and Broadway. It was his Tony-winning performance in Oh, What a Lovely War! that prompted the Beatles to ask him to appear in A Hard Day's Night (1964), the first of the group's five films. Spinetti's collaboration with the Beatles saw him appear in their next two productions, Help! (1965) and the hour-long television film Magical Mystery Tour (1967). He also worked with John Lennon to turn the Beatle's book, In His Own Write, in to a play which he then directed at the National Theatre. As well as the Beatles movies, Spinetti's film career included Zeffirelli's The Taming of the Shrew and a version of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood, both alongside Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. Spinetti's television roles included voicing the arch villain character Texas Pete in the S4C animated series SuperTed. He was also a noted raconteur whose creative output included poetry, an autobiography and his one-man show, A Very Private Diary. A             BBC documentary  on his life and work saw contributions from Barbara Windsor and Rob Brydon praising a "great Welsh eccentric" and is due to be broadcast at 22:45 BST by BBC Wales on BBC One on 20 June.

Question: Sir Paul McCartney has @placeholder a host of celebrities to pay tribute to the actor Victor Spinetti , who has died at the age of 82 .


The Towering Inferno, released in 1974, won three Oscars and starred Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden and Faye Dunaway. Guillermin's action-packed 1976 version of King Kong, starred Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange. He died on Sunday at his home in the Topanga Canyon area of Los Angeles, his friend Nick Redman confirmed. In a statement, Guillermin's wife Mary called him "sensitive and passionate, full of a fierce rapture himself." Born in London to French parents, Guillermin attended the University of Cambridge before joining the Royal Air Force. His career directing began in France with documentary film-making. In 1950, he moved to Hollywood to study film-making methods. Following the success of disaster films such as Airport and The Poseidon Adventure, Guillermin assembled a star-studded cast for The Towering Inferno. The movie, still regarded as a classic of the genre, about a fire that breaks out on the 81st floor of a shoddily-built skyscraper starred McQueen and Newman - two of the biggest film stars of the day. Known for his big budget adventures, Guillermin also had a reputation of being a difficult man to work with. In his memoirs, film editor Ralph E Winters, described an incident he witnessed when he worked with Guillermin on King Kong. In the screening room, Winters said a frustrated Guillermin kicked the seat in front until it broke. He received  an apologetic phone call the next day. In his 1995 autobiography, Charlton Heston, who worked with the director on 1972's Skyjacked, described him as having an "irascible streak". For 1978's adaptation of Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile, Guillermin assembled a cast of top acting talent. Peter Ustinov played the legendary sleuth Hercule Poirot alongside David Niven, George Kennedy and Angela Lansbury. He won the Evening Standard British Film Award in 1980 for the movie. His final film was the Kong sequel King Kong Lives in 1986.

Question: British director John Guillermin , whose films @placeholder The Towering Inferno and Death on the Nile , has died aged 89 .


Whether for team building, forward planning, or to raise money for charity, the thought of such organised days away from the office can make even the bravest shudder. And it is hard to know what is worse - being forced to do something wacky, or having to sit in the conference room of a dreary hotel  for hours on end while your boss drones on about the year ahead. Thankfully for the sanity of middle managers everywhere, a new type of business away day is now increasingly on the menu - team-building cookery classes. So instead of having to try to keep up with Tim from accounting on a space hopper, or build a raft with Karen from HR, an office team or department will make a meal together in a professional kitchen. London-based Food@Work is one firm that organises such away days. Launched in 2002, it faced some tough trading in 2008 during the global financial crisis, but says business is now growing strongly again. Founder and owner Robinne Collie, 44, says there is not a "usual month" at the company, which charges from Â£125 per person. "Some months we do one very large event, like a charity event we ran for 500 participants, or we can run up to six smaller events with 12 to 40 participants. "I don't do more than six a month ever. I prefer four at most, because it's crazy busy." A recent customer of Food@Work was UK building products group SIG, which sent along a team to cook a three-course meal of twice-baked cheese souffles, roulade of chicken in a Madeira jus, and apple tartlets with a salted caramel sauce. "It was a frantic few hours of fun in the kitchen," says Duncan Longson, SIG's European financial controller. "It was great to experience the atmosphere of a professional kitchen, and an excellent team-building exercise." Peter Hallard, SIG's group talent and development director, adds: "The heat of the professional kitchen and the stress of making a souffle stretched even the most seasoned of senior executives." Another business that offers team-building cookery classes for corporate clients is Waffle Workshop, which is based in Brussels. Founded in 2015 by Titch Fauconnier, the 29-year-old was originally targeting the tourism market, but decided to add corporate events after visitor numbers to the Belgian capital fell sharply last year following the bomb attack at the city's airport. Waffle Workshop now organises two or three two-hour team building events per month, with up to 29 participants taking part each time, at a cost of 28 euros per person ($30; Â£24). Mr Fauconnier says that attendees "discover another side of the people they work with". At the beginning he says he worried that those attending the corporate events would be reluctant to participate because it wasn't their choice to be there, but he says that his fears were soon proved to be wrong. "After hosting many of these team-building events I have never experienced a lack of motivation from participants. They were always happy to do something out of the office," says Mr Fauconnier. In France, L'Atelier des Sens is one of the largest providers of cookery classes for corporate clients. Such events now make up 60% of its annual turnover of 2.5m euros. The business holds up to 150 team-building classes each month, with groups of typically 20 people cooking three-course meals at three venues in Paris, and one in Lyon. It uses 50 professional chefs to lead the events. Founder and owner Natacha Burtinovic, 42, says what is particularly interesting is the fact that "sometimes the hierarchy that exists at work does not exist in our kitchens". Back at Food@Work, which now uses up to 26 professional chefs to run the classes, Ms Collie says that running the events for 15 years has turned her into a keen kitchen-based psychologist. She says: "Naturally organised people keep a clean workbench, and are clear on what they are doing, the task to follow. "Process orientated people read recipes... while some people are so motivated by results and getting the job done quickly that they fail to get it done right. "We have seen it all - shock, horror, fear, delight, some people wanting to run away, some wanting to get stuck in immediately." But what do the experts think? Lisa Lyons, a human resources boss at consultancy group Mercer, says that like any team-building event, cookery classes "have the potential to accelerate the overall performance of the team". However, Ms Lyons cautions that team-building events should be "integrated as part of a longer-term approach to developing the team". In other words, a company cannot hold a one-off cooking day - or visit an assault course - and then expect to have a harmonious and successful workplace forever after.

Question: If you have ever been forced to race your boss around an assault course , or pass a beach ball to a colleague without using your @placeholder , then you have probably sampled the horror of a company away day .


The prospect of losing a vital source of income would force Mexico into a "one-time payment" of $5-10bn (Â£3.5-7bn), says Mr Trump. But US President Barack Obama said the plan was "half-baked" and unworkable. Mr Trump made his remarks as voters in Wisconsin go the polls to pick their presidential candidates in each party. The vote could reshape the Republican race, with front-runner Mr Trump, who has never held elected office, facing a strong challenge from Texas Senator Ted Cruz. In a memo to the Washington Post, the businessman says he would threaten to change a law to cut off cash transfers. Building a border wall with Mexico has been a core message of Mr Trump's campaign since day one, when he said there were rapists, drug addicts and criminals coming across the border. If Donald Trump isn't the 2016 Republican presidential nominee - if some time between now and the end of the party convention in late July the prize slips from his grasp, Wisconsin could be where it all started to go awry. At this point it's conventional wisdom that Mr Trump has had a terrible week on the campaign trail. His top aide was indicted for accosting a reporter. He stumbled when trying to answer questions about abortion, angering both the left and the right. Wisconsin's popular Republican Governor Scott Walker endorsed his opponent, Ted Cruz. And Mr Trump saw his lead in this pivotal mid-western state evaporate. By Sunday evening, at a rally in a half-full downtown Milwaukee theatre, the front-runner was showing signs of frustration. He mocked his opponents in the #neverTrump movement, which has vowed to fight the New Yorker to the July Republican convention and beyond. Is it all going wrong for Trump in Wisconsin? The wall plan has been widely condemned by, among others, Pope Francis. Mr Trump has also pledged to deport all 11 million undocumented migrants. The Mexican central bank said that money sent home from overseas hit nearly $24.8bn last year, more than its oil revenues. In dismissing the plan, Mr Obama said it would cause the Mexican economy to collapse, sending even more migrants north to find work in the US. "This is another example of something that's not thought through and put forward for political consumption," he said. The law Mr Trump wishes to change, as outlined in his memo, is part of the US Patriot Act - he would stop anyone living illegally in the US from sending money overseas. Just the threat of enacting this would make Mexico "immediately protest," the Trump memo reads, and they would be compelled to pay for the wall. He also proposed raising visa fees and cancelling visas for Mexicans. If Mr Cruz wins in Wisconsin, as polls suggest, it will help him close the gap on Mr Trump in the all-important delegate count. Delegates represent their states at the party's convention in July and are accumulated by the votes in each state. A Wisconsin defeat would make it is far less likely that Mr Trump will have the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the nomination. If he falls short, his unpopularity with sections of his party means he could be deprived of the nomination at the summer convention. Currently, Mr Trump has 735 delegates, Mr Cruz 461 and Ohio Governor John Kasich 143. Democratic voters are also voting in Wisconsin, with Hillary Clinton facing a strong challenge from Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders after his string of wins.

Question: Republican White House hopeful Donald Trump has said he would stop cash sent home by Mexicans @placeholder in the US , until the country pays for a border wall .


Villa midfielder Grealish, 20, has chosen to represent England rather than Republic of Ireland but must wait for international clearance to play. "We wanted to induct him into the England way," Hodgson told BBC Sport. "Tim made it clear it wasn't a good idea as far as he was concerned because he is behind after missing pre-season." Hodgson said he had "no problem" with Sherwood's view. Grealish represented the Republic at under-21 level but turned down a call-up to their senior squad for a friendly against England in June. The Birmingham-born player qualifies for the Republic through his grandparents. Hodgson added on BBC Radio 5 live: "The Football Association wanted him to come up to show that they were pleased that he had chosen England. "We often have young players training with us when we are up there. It wouldn't have been a problem. "But the thing he has to do now of course is to make certain through his performances for Aston Villa that he merits selection. Hopefully when November comes around he will be available." England have already qualified for Euro 2016 before their final two group games - against Estonia at Wembley on 9 October and in Lithuania three days later.

Question: England manager Roy Hodgson says he wanted to invite Jack Grealish to train with the national team but was @placeholder by Aston Villa boss Tim Sherwood .


The pro-Leave minister is being interviewed and taking questions from the audience in a Sky News special. Mr Gove was challenged at the beginning of the interview on the economy and one of the Leave campaign's key claims that the UK sends Â£350m a week to the EU. Mr Gove said the important thing was "we don't have control of that money". "Every year we give billions of pounds to the European Union, billions of pounds that we should be spending hereâ€¦ on our NHS and our priorities," he said. The referendum takes place on 23 June. Live: Michael Gove faces studio questions When asked whether he could name any economic authority in favour of an EU exit, Mr Gove said the big names that had come out for Remain "have been wrong in the past". He said 300 business figures had put their name to his campaign. His interview follows Thursday night's show which had a similar format but featured Prime Minister David Cameron, who is campaigning for Remain. Mr Cameron, whose party is split on the EU, has refused to take part in any head-to-head TV debates with fellow Conservatives who back leaving the union. But a number of debates and live Q&As are planned, including the BBC's event at Wembley Arena on 21 June. Ahead of the hour-long Sky News show, which started at 20:00 BST, Mr Gove said he was feeling "nervous" but was hoping to "allay people's fears" about leaving the EU. In his appearance, Mr Cameron was pressed on immigration from within the EU, warning that voting to Leave in order to try to control it would "trash" the economy. Mr Gove and the Leave campaign have been campaigning hard on migration in recent weeks, calling for a points-based system for EU migrants if the UK severs its ties with Brussels. Vote Leave said ending the principle of free movement would create a "fairer" system - but Remain campaigners said it would mean leaving the single market and could increase migration into the UK.

Question: Justice Secretary Michael Gove is taking part in the latest live set - @placeholder event of the EU referendum campaign .


The Airlander 10 nosedived during its second test flight from Cardington Airfield in Bedfordshire. The craft's cockpit was effectively destroyed when the Â£25m craft experienced a "heavy landing", although no-one was injured. Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) said the new cockpit will be painted over the Christmas period. The crash happened just before the vehicle came in to land after a 100-minute flight on 24 August. A spokesman for HAV said: "The early part of 2017 will consist of a series of rigorous tests before Airlander continues its flight test programme." Christened the Martha Gwyn, the aircraft was first developed for the US government as a surveillance aircraft, but the project was shelved amid defence cutbacks. HAV launched a campaign to return the Airlander 10 to the skies in May 2015. It claims it could be used for a variety of functions such as surveillance, communications, delivering aid and even passenger travel. It says the huge aircraft will be able to stay airborne for about five days during manned flights. The company hopes to be building 10 Airlanders a year by 2021. Airlander 10 in numbers

Question: Damage caused to the world 's longest aircraft which crash - landed during a test flight has been @placeholder .


The EU "sealed a solid pact to strengthen the euro," said European Council President Herman Van Rompuy. A permanent fund will be set up to bolster the euro in times of crisis, and the EU will have extra powers of scrutiny over national budgets. A 2.9% limit on the EU budget increase was also agreed, under UK pressure. But tough negotiations are expected with the European Parliament, which voted for a 5.9% rise. If no deal is reached by mid-November the 2011 budget will be frozen at the 2010 level. EU officials said the eurozone had almost collapsed during the Greek debt crisis in May because it lacked a rescue mechanism. Q&A: EU crisis mechanism EU budget: Where does your money go? Germany wants limited changes to the EU's Lisbon Treaty to reinforce the changes, but is facing resistance from other countries. The leaders will return to Brussels in December, hoping to agree upon any revision, which it is hoped will be ratified in all EU countries by mid-2013. Meanwhile, UK Prime Minister David Cameron won backing for his battle against a 5.9% rise in the EU budget. Germany and France were among 10 nations supporting Mr Cameron's attempt to limit the budget increase to 2.9% - a rise that would still cost UK taxpayers roughly Â£435m (500m euros). "Now we have agreed that the EU budget must reflect what we're doing in our own countries," Mr Cameron said, describing the deal as "incredibly important". He will have further talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at his Chequers residence on Saturday. The bigger prize for Mr Cameron would be a deal to keep the UK's hard-won budget rebate, as difficult talks loom on the EU budget period beyond 2013. The BBC's Jonty Bloom, in Brussels, says the new crisis mechanism is designed to force a country to put its house in order long before its economic problems threaten the eurozone. Under the rules, EU officials will warn governments about property and speculative bubbles, and will be able to impose stringent fines on countries that borrow and spend too much. The permanent crisis fund will replace a temporary one, worth 440bn euros, which expires in 2013. It was created earlier this year to bail out Greece and support the euro. Cameron's EU budget battleUK wins allies in EU budget spat But Germany has argued that the Lisbon Treaty will have to be amended to make the emergency fund permanent and legally watertight. The current treaty contains a clause banning members from bailing each other out. Chancellor Merkel said all the leaders agreed that creating a permanent crisis mechanism "will require a limited treaty change". It took almost a decade of hard negotiations and two referendums in the Republic of Ireland to ratify the Lisbon Treaty, and many states are reluctant to make a move which could trigger a similar process. The EU Constitution - the treaty's ill-fated forerunner - was rejected by voters in France and the Netherlands. Mr Van Rompuy has been tasked with finding out whether the fund can be set up without each of the 27 member states having to ratify the treaty all over again. The UK says a mechanism to ensure stability in the eurozone is desirable - and that the planned sanctions would not apply to the UK. But all 27 member states' budgets will come under close scrutiny in a "peer review" process. There would be escalating sanctions on countries which overshot the maximum debt level allowed under the EU's Stability and Growth Pact (SGP), which is 60% of GDP. Sanctions would kick in earlier than is the case under the current SGP, enabling the EU to take preventive action, for example against a country with an unsustainable housing bubble, or with mounting debt that undermines its competitiveness.

Question: EU leaders say tough new budget rules agreed at their summit in Brussels will protect the euro from a future Greek - @placeholder debt crisis .


Statutory pre-tax profits for the year to March to Â£1.054bn, down 17% from last year's figure of Â£1.279bn. However, Nationwide said 795,000 new current accounts had been opened in the year to March. That was a record for the society, it said, and more than any other provider in the UK. The rise of 35% represented one in seven of all new accounts opened. It added that nearly one in five people switching their accounts became customers of the building society. Chief financial officer Mark Rennison said: "Nationwide has delivered a very strong trading performance over the last year, with record levels of active members, mortgage lending and current account openings." The Bank of England cut its benchmark interest rate to a record low of 0.25% last summer following the Brexit vote. Nationwide said it kept rates unchanged on some savings accounts while passing on the rate cut to its mortgage customers. Mr Rennison said: "We chose to protect savers from the full effects of last summer's interest rate cut, knowing that this would reduce our full year profitability in the continuing low interest rate environment, but considering this to be in our members' best interests." Chief executive Joe Garner said the building society had seen "record use of online services driven by our mobile app" but added that branches continued to play an important part in the business. He said that Â£80m was being invested in upgrading branches this year and added: "We still see a vital role for the branch network, despite the continued withdrawal of financial services providers from High Streets over the last two decades. "We are exploring ways to ensure branches remain financially viable in a future where members may use them less. "Similarly, we're piloting a new community branch in Glastonbury, which opened in April, to test the viability of combining personal service and the latest technology to serve communities left without a bank." Mr Garner also revealed that Nationwide will stop offering car insurance to new customers from next month, will wind down its commercial lending business and will stop offering inheritance planning advice. "We believe it is not in the interests of our society to provide services which are not core to our business," he said.

Question: Profits have fallen at Nationwide after the building society @placeholder to protect savers from the impact of last year 's interest rate cut .