Jeremy Vine has said he will no longer post videos of his encounters with motorists while cycling because of the level of online abuse he receives - saying "it did get to me".

The TV and radio presenter has for years been posting clips of his London commute, and making the case that some motorists in his videos are driving dangerously and greater consideration needs to be given to cyclists.

He spoke to BBC Radio 4's World at One on Monday about his decision, after announcing on social media on Sunday that he would stop uploading the videos.

"I do have to deal with quite a lot of incoming, what you would have called flak in the olden days, but now they call it trolling," he said.

"I shouldn't mind, but in the end I just thought I just want to now switch the narrative, I don't want to do this any more and in the end it did get to me," the BBC Radio 2 presenter added.

"Car driving is a religion in this country," he said, adding "if you say anything that runs counter, that's what you get."

He read out examples of the comments he had received online, in which people said they wanted to see him injured on the road, or made personal comments about his family.

"Please only upload another cycling video if it's you getting run down and hospitalised," was among the comments Vine read out.

Many of Vine's posts spark debate online over both the driver's actions and his own, while some language used by Vine when talking about motorists has been divisive.

Last week he told broadcaster Gaby Roslin's podcast "all the people who are not getting enough sex lock themselves in small metal boxes and drive around London" when describing his experiences in the capital.

"That's fundamentally what's going on in our society," he added.

Challenged by World at One presenter Helen Montague over whether his own behaviour had been militant, Vine said he was "just a safety first kind of a guy".

"If you drive and you're wanting your kids to be safe on the back you're just a sensible person," he added.

"If you cycle and you'd really rather not have your head crushed by the wheel of a bus you're described as militant or radical."

Vine also mentioned his bike recently being stolen from his home as among the reasons why he plans to stop posting the clips.

Writing on social media, he said: "The trolling just got too bad. They have had well over 100 million views but in the end the anger they generate has genuinely upset me.

"My aim was only to get all of us who drive to think about the dangers of trying to move around cities on a pushbike.

"I know I've sometimes got a little cross when a driver has, say, pulled out without looking, but I only ever uploaded the film to show the danger."

In 2018, Vine told the London Assembly transport committee that he filmed up to 40 driving offences every day cycling from Chiswick in West London to the BBC offices in Oxford Circus.

The year before, a woman was jailed for shouting and making a gun sign at him as he cycled home from work.

The first sign of trouble Peter Hughes noticed was when his train to Madrid starting to slow down.

Then the TV monitor and lights went off. Emergency lights switched on, but did not last, and the locomotive ground to a halt.

Four hours later, Mr Hughes was still stuck on the train 200 kilometres (124 miles) outside of Spain's capital. He had food and water, but the toilets were not working.

"It will be getting dark soon and we could be stuck here for hours," he told the BBC.

The massive power cut that stranded Mr Hughes triggered chaos across Spain and Portugal, and also impacted Andorra and parts of France, from about midday local time (10:00 GMT).

Traffic lights shut off. Metros closed. Businesses shuttered and people joined queues to get cash as card payments did not work.

Jonathan Emery was on a different train halfway between Seville and Madrid when the cuts hit.

For an hour, he sat on the train, the doors closed, until people could pry them open to let in ventilation. Half an hour later, passengers left, only to find themselves stranded.

That was when people from local villages started coming and dropping off supplies – water, bread, fruit.

"Nobody is charging for anything, and word must be getting around in the local town because people just keep coming," he said.

In Madrid, Hannah Lowney was half way through scanning her grocery shopping at Aldi when the power went out.

People were coming out of their offices and walking home because they could not tell when the buses were coming, Ms Lowney said in a voice message sent to BBC Radio 5 Live.

"It's a bit disconcerting that it's the whole country, I've never experienced this before," she said.

Mark England was eating lunch in the restaurant of the hotel where he is staying on holiday in Benidorm when "everything went off and the fire alarm started going off and the fire doors started closing".

In an international school in Lisbon, the electricity flickered on and off for a while, then gave up, teacher Emily Thorowgood said.

She kept teaching in the dark, the children in good spirits, but lots of parents were taking their children out of school, she said.

Will David, a Briton living in Lisbon, was having a haircut and beard trim in the basement of a barber when the power went down. The barber found him a spot by the window upstairs to finish the cut with scissors.

"The walk home felt very strange, both with the lack of traffic lights meaning a complete free-for-all for vehicles and pedestrians on the roads - as well as so many people milling around outside their places of work with nothing to do," he said.

Initially, mobile phone networks also went down for some, leaving many scrambling for information.

Curtis Gladden, who is in La Vall D'Uixo, about 30 miles from Valencia, said it was "scary" as he struggled to get updates about what was happening.

Eloise Edgington, who could not do any work as a copywriter in Barcelona, said she was only receiving occasional messages, could not load web pages on her phone and was trying to conserve her battery.

An hour and a half after the power went out, one resident of Fortuna, in south-east Spain, said her husband was driving around, trying to find a petrol station that could supply fuel to run a generator and keep their fridge powered.

"We are worried about food, water, cash and petrol in case this goes on for a couple of days," said Lesley, a Brit who has been living in Spain for 11 years.

Locals "have more to worry about" than the Madrid Open tennis tournament being suspended, she said, adding there is "very little news about what's happened".

Mr England said walking down the street in Benidorm, a "majority of shops are in darkness and shuttered or have people on the entrances saying you can't come in. There's no cash machines, no traffic lights so it's strange."

After Mr Gladden's phone signal returned after about two hours, he and others ventured out to cafes, but found "nothing is working – we came to get some food and a drink but they can't cook without electricity".

Within two hours, Spanish power grid operator Red Electrica said it was beginning to recover power in the north and south of the country.

But two-and-a-half hours after the cuts, Madrid's mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida still urged all residents to "keep their movements to an absolute minimum and, if at all possible, to remain where they are", in a video recorded from the city's integrated emergency security centre.

At 15:00 local time, Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez pulled together an "extraordinary" meeting of Spain's national security council.

Red Electrica CEO Eduardo Prieto said at a news conference shortly afterwards that it could take "between six and ten hours" to restore power.

Just before 16:00, electricity flicked back on in Malaga. By 17:00, the grid operator said power was being restored "in several areas of the north, south and west of the [Iberian] peninsula".

Portugal's power firm REN gave a more dire prediction, saying that it could "take up to a week" before the network was back to normal.

'No plan for where to stay'

Knock on effects continue: Back-up generators at airports kicked on, allowing most flights to leave on time, but some have been unable to operate.

Tom McGilloway, on holiday in Lisbon, was due to return to London on Monday night, but as of early evening did not know what would happen.

He said for the time being people were getting drinks and food - but vendors told him they would only be able to keep working until the batteries ran out on their payment terminals.

"If I need to book a hotel if the plane is cancelled, I don't know how I can do it if payments are down," he added.

"My partner's parents are trying to get petrol so they can pick us up to take us back to Alentejo but many petrol stations are closed or not taking payment. We might be stuck with no plan for where to stay tonight."

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When is a ceasefire a genuine attempt to secure peace? And when is it simply PR?

It's a question that's been asked a lot lately.

Mostly in relation to Russia's president.

Short ceasefires are becoming quite the Kremlin thing.

First, Vladimir Putin declared a 30-hour cessation of hostilities over Easter, portraying it as a "humanitarian" gesture.

Now the Kremlin leader has announced a three-day unilateral truce for early May. It will run from 8 May to 10 May to coincide with events marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two.

In a statement, the Kremlin said that for 72 hours all military actions would cease. It cited "humanitarian" considerations (again) and made it clear Moscow expected Ukraine to follow suit.

In response to the proposal, Ukraine questioned why Russia could not commit to a ceasefire immediately and called for one to be implemented for at least 30 days.

"If Russia truly wants peace, it must cease fire immediately," Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said, adding: "Why wait until May 8th?"

So, from the Russian president who launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than three years ago, is this a sincere effort to end the fighting?

Or simply a public relations exercise by the Kremlin to impress Donald Trump?

Kremlin critics will suspect PR.

During the extremely brief so-called Easter ceasefire, Ukraine had accused Russian troops of violating it repeatedly.

Moscow had used its announcement of a 30-hour pause in the fighting to send a signal to the White House: that in this war Russia is the peacemaker and Kyiv the aggressor. It accused Ukraine of ignoring what Moscow presented as an olive branch and of prolonging the war.

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Recent comments by Trump suggest the US president hasn't bought that.

In a post on his Truth Social platform at the weekend, Trump wrote that "there was no reason" for Putin "to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities and towns [in Ukraine], over the last few days".

"It makes me think," he added, "that maybe he doesn't want to stop the war, he's just tapping me along, and has to be dealt with differently, through 'Banking' or 'Secondary Sanctions?' Too many people are dying!!!"

Cue today's announcement of another Russian ceasefire. This one slightly longer: three days. And, again, that claim of "humanitarian" concerns.

Another attempt to signal to Washington that the Kremlin has only the best of intentions? That Russia is really the good guy in all of this?

If so, it doesn't appear to have worked. Not immediately. The White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt noted Moscow's offer of a temporary ceasefire, but said: "The president [Donald Trump] has made it clear he wants to see a permanent ceasefire first to stop the killing, stop the bloodshed.

"He is increasingly frustrated with leaders of both countries," Leavitt said.

It's an indication that the US president may be losing patience now with the Kremlin, despite having directed most of his public criticism in recent months towards President Zelensky.

Last month the Trump administration was pushing both Russia and Ukraine to agree to a 30-day comprehensive unconditional ceasefire. Ukraine had signed up to that. Russia did not.

Already senior Russian officials are using President Putin's three-day ceasefire offer to try to cast Ukraine in a bad light.

"It is doubtful that [President] Zelensky will support the decision of our president and accept the ceasefire," the speaker of the lower house of the Russian parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin, told Russian state TV.

Hardly an encouraging sign, so soon after the announcement of another brief ceasefire.

Authorities arrested two men in connection with the theft of a designer handbag belonging to US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

Noem's bag was stolen on Easter Sunday while she was dining in a popular Washington DC restaurant.

On Saturday, police arrested 49-year-old Mario Bustamante Leiva.

And on Sunday the US Secret Service said it apprehended an alleged co-conspirator in Miami. CBS News, the BBC's US news partner, named the suspect as 51-year-old Cristian Rodrigo Montecino-Sanzanaat.

Bustamante Leiva was charged with robbery, aggravated identity theft and wire fraud.

A criminal complaint filed Monday alleged that he was involved in two other robberies, and spent the proceeds on gift cards, hotel rooms and other purchases.

Noem, the former governor of South Dakota, was eating at the popular Capital Burger restaurant with her Gucci handbag sitting by her feet underneath her seat.

After he allegedly was spotted on security video taking the bag, Bustamante Leiva got on a bus and was seen later that evening at an Italian restaurant. He is accused of spending $205.87 (£153.21) on food and drinks, paying with one of Noem's credit cards.

Montecino-Sanzanaat was arrested in a Miami drug store, authorities said, and Secret Service officials said he was connected to "a pattern of robberies and thefts" in Washington.

Lawyers for the suspects could not be immediately identified. In 2015, Bustamante Leiva, a Chilean citizen, was jailed for three years by a court in London after a string of thefts from sandwich shops, bars and pubs.

In a post on X, Noem said the suspect "is a career criminal who has been in our country illegally for years."

Noem had $3,000 (£2,330) in cash, along with credit cards, her Homeland Security badge, medication and her driving licence in her bag.

A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said Noem had withdrawn the cash to treat her children and grandchildren to dinner, activities and holiday gifts.

Like other cabinet officials, Noem receives a Secret Service protection detail. Agents were in the restaurant at the time but did not immediately detect the theft.

Samir Shah's anger was obvious, the BBC chairman's voice shaking with fury as he delivered his message of change. "If you think you're too big to live by the values of this organisation, you are wrong and we will find you out," he promised.

He left little doubt about his personal determination to stamp out bad behaviour at the BBC.

But will he succeed?

The Respect at Work 2025 report was commissioned following Huw Edwards' guilty pleas last year. The corporation was reeling from the revelations surrounding one of its biggest names.

But 12 years ago, a report was published after a scandal involving another former BBC star.

That 2013 Respect at Work review looked into BBC culture in light of Jimmy Savile's depravity. It found bullying was an issue inside the corporation, with some people viewed as "untouchable" because of their status and colleagues too scared to speak up, for fear of reprisals.

The then director general, Tony Hall, said he wanted "zero tolerance of bullying". The BBC brought in a series of measures, including updating its policies and setting up a confidential helpline.

'We have your backs'

On Monday, the current director general, Tim Davie, said he was "totally committed to make long-lasting change."

He said staff must feel confident to speak up and they will be supported (unless their complaints are malicious) without any negative impact on their careers.

"We have your backs," he said. He announced a series of measures including a new code of conduct, a more robust disciplinary policy and leadership training.

All organisations have bad apples, but the power dynamics in a media company are multi-layered. Well-known presenters, for example, can wield extraordinary influence, as well as behind-the-scenes editors and managers.

Then there is the issue of an industry that often relies on freelancers, who have even less power. 30% of freelancers told the report they had seen inappropriate behaviour at the BBC. Less than half said they would feel safe speaking up. That is sobering.

Equally, in BBC news and current affairs, only 48% of staff who answered a recent survey said they thought the corporation dealt with bullying and harassment concerns appropriately.

This is all about power imbalances. Will BBC employees ever feel confident that the organisation really will have their backs if they decide to complain?

My sense is that the biggest consideration when deciding whether to make a formal complaint is the fact that the person you are complaining about will be told you have done so. If that person is your boss, or a close colleague, how can you be sure that it won't have an impact on your career?

But equally, if you don't take formal action, then there is a perception that offenders consistently get away with bad behaviour. There are rumours and stories about particular individuals inside the BBC, just as there are in all organisations.

The proof, perhaps, of whether these new policies are working will be whether the small number of people whose names are often raised internally, accused informally of bad behaviour, will now face more scrutiny; whether colleagues will feel confident to raise a formal complaint.

The report makes clear the majority of people enjoy working at the BBC and that there isn't a toxic culture. But it also talks of some names repeated several times as people who are "not being held to account for poor behaviour".

Who are those people and is any action being taken in light of this review?

The report doesn't name names, either complainants or those accused.

A BBC source told me the corporation will always act if necessary on any information it becomes aware of.

But in pockets of the BBC there is real anger that bullying by individuals is an open secret - and there's a belief that complainants aren't protected. Shah and Davie are promising that will change.

It takes time to change cultures. While some behaviour is always unacceptable - sexual harassment or physical assault for example - the report also talks about grey areas, including colleagues being tetchy or rude, ridiculing ideas or using aggressive language. The plan is to nip these in the bud.

Sometimes this kind of behaviour has been blamed on working in a high pressure environment, for example a newsroom, where short-term emotions can run high. It's not an excuse, Davie said.

The report was commissioned because of the BBC's newsroom's most high-profile star, Huw Edwards. But his name was never mentioned over its 60 pages.

Perhaps the evidence of real culture change will be if this is the last report the BBC ever does about workplace culture.

The number of people who have crossed the English Channel in small boats in 2025 has exceeded 10,000, an increase of about 40% compared with the same period last year.

A total of 247 people crossed on Sunday, taking the total to 9,885 migrants the Home Office has recorded arriving in the UK since the start of the year.

More than 200 people made the crossing on Monday, taking the figure over 10,000. In 2024, that figure was reached on 24 May.

A Home Office spokesperson said the government were "strengthening international partnerships and boosting our ability to identify, disrupt, and dismantle criminal gangs whilst strengthening the security of our borders."

Labour campaigned at the July general election on a promise to "smash" the criminal people-smuggling gangs after a surge in small boat crossings since 2018.

Since coming to power, the government has announced a series of measures to tackle people smuggling, including a new criminal offence of endangering the lives of others at sea.

The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill currently going through Parliament sets out Labour's plan to treat people smugglers like terrorists - with suspects facing travel bans, social-media blackouts and phone restrictions.

A Home Office spokesperson said: "We all want to end dangerous small boat crossings, which threaten lives and undermine our border security.

"The people-smuggling gangs do not care if the vulnerable people they exploit live or die, as long as they pay and we will stop at nothing to dismantle their business models and bring them to justice.

"That is why this government has put together a serious plan to take down these networks at every stage."

Official forecasts estimate 5,400 migrants have been prevented from arriving in the UK on small boats through returns, arrests or and individuals being prevented from departing France.

Conservative shadow home secretary Chris Philp blamed Labour's scrapping of the last government's Rwanda scheme for the rise.

"We know deterrents work," he told the BBC.

"It stands to reason that if somebody illegally crossing the Channel from France ends up somewhere else like Rwanda, they won't bother attempting the crossing in the first place.

"Keir Starmer's claims to be smashing the gangs are laughable, they lie in tatters," Philp added.

Lib Dem Home Affairs spokesperson Lisa Smart said the figures were concerning.

"After the Conservatives trashed our asylum system, allowing criminal gangs to act with impunity the Labour government has failed to get a grip and turn things around," she said.

"We all want to stop these dangerous Channel crossings and that starts by improving our cooperation with international partners."

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage told the BBC: "If this carries on at this rate, by the end of this Labour government another quarter of a million people will have come into this country, many of whom don't fit our culture and will cost us a fortune."

He claimed Reform were "the only party that says unless you deport those that come illegally they will continue to come".

Between July 2024 and March this year, the government said more than 24,000 individuals with no right to be in the UK had been deported. Official figures show 6,339 of these were "enforced returns".

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A massive power cut has caused widespread disruption in parts of Spain and Portugal, with airports, trains and petrol stations impacted.

The chaos has also hit stores, with some supermarkets shutting and local grocery stores switching to cash as card payments stopped working.

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A major power cut across large parts of Spain and Portugal has resulted in dozens of flights being cancelled as well as disruption to rail and road networks.

Some 96 departing flights from Portuguese airports have been grounded so far, with the country's capital city airport in Lisbon worst affected.

A total of 45 flights have been called off from Spain, with Barcelona and Madrid airports impacted the most.

The cause of the outage has not yet been established and, while some power supplies have been restored, the head of Spain's electricity grid said on Monday afternoon restoring all power could take "between six and ten hours".

The outage began soon after midday Spanish time and cities across the country have been impacted, although the popular tourist destinations of the Balearic and Canary Islands have not been as badly affected.

The blackouts have led to public transport being disrupted, with trains being cancelled. Traffic lights being affected led to the mayor of Madrid to ask residents to keep the roads clear as tunnels of certain highways were closed.

According to aviation analytics firm Cirium, Lisbon airport had the most (29.6%) departure cancellations in Portugal by Monday evening. A total of nine flights from the UK to Portugal were also grounded.

The BBC understands that Lisbon airport has limited its flow rates - effectively not allowing planes to arrive or there are delays getting planes in, which then knocks on to the tight system of airport operations, where planes normally arrive and leave in strict timeframes.

Barcelona and Madrid made up the majority of cancellations from Spanish airports, but zero flights from the UK to Spain have been scrapped, according to Cirium.

David Gleave, an aviation investigator, told the BBC any interruption to power supplies at airports would not affect air traffic control as "a battery will kick in a maximum of a second later, so airplanes are safe".

"From then on, a diesel-powered generator will keep power running so air traffic control can function," he added.

He said it was likely airports in Spain and Portugal have independent power supplies, "which will see big diesel generators which fire off when it senses no power from its usual grid supply".

Enaire, Spain's air navigation organisation, confirmed that a back-up generator had meant air traffic management operations were continuing to run from its five control centres.

"Appropriate regulations are being implemented to ensure the complete safety of operations," it added.

Iberia, Spain's national airline confirmed on X that despite the widespread power outage its systems were "operating at 100%".

"However, given the difficulties at several airports, we are offering all passengers with flights scheduled for today the option to reschedule their trip," it said.

While some flights are running as normal, the issues impacted the roads and public transport is likely to be a problem for travellers trying to get to airports.

Spain's Transport Minister Oscar Puente said it was not likely that medium and long-distance trains would resume normal service on Monday.

He said the plan was to resume shorter-distance commuter services as soon as electricity supplies had been restored. Work is also under way to rescue people trapped on stranded services.

Three young children who are US citizens - including one with cancer - were deported to Honduras alongside their mothers last week, according to advocacy groups and the families' lawyers.

One of the children is a four-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was sent without medication, a lawyer for the child's family said.

Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan said the mothers had made the choice for their citizen children to be removed with them. "Having a US citizen child does not make you immune from our laws," he said, adding the mothers were in the US illegally.

Trump faced a backlash during his first term for a policy that separated thousands of children from their parents.

On Friday, New Orleans Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials deported the two mothers and three children aged two, four, and seven, to Honduras from Louisiana, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said in a statement.

The two families - including one pregnant mother - had lived in the US for years and were "deported from the U.S. under deeply troubling circumstances that raise serious due process concerns", the ACLU said.

One of the US citizen children who was removed was suffering from metastatic cancer and was deported without the ability to consult with doctors, the advocacy group alleged.

Speaking to reporters at a news conference on Monday morning, Homan said deporting families together was better than separating them.

"We're keeping families together," he said. "What we did was remove children with their mothers who requested the children depart with them. There's a parental decision."

Homan dismissed the use of the word "deported" to describe the removal of the children from the country.

"They weren't deported. We don't deport US citizens. Their parents made that decision, not the United States government," he said.

Last week, a federal judge said he had a "strong suspicion" that one of the children deported to Honduras, a two-year-old citizen, - was sent away with "no meaningful process".

The Louisiana-born child and her family members were apprehended during a routine appointment at a New Orleans immigration office on 22 April, according to court documents.

Homan, in an interview with CBS Face the Nation on Sunday, said "the judge was due process", adding that the two-year-old's mother "had due process at great taxpayer expense and was ordered by an immigration judge after those hearings, so she had due process."

A hearing has been scheduled in the case for 19 May for the government to address whether the family was given due process.

The second family was detained on 24 April, when ICE refused to respond to their attorneys' and family members' requests to contact them, the ACLU said.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday touted the administration's immigration enforcement actions during its first 100 days.

Leavitt said Trump would sign two new executive orders as a part of his crackdown on immigration, including one that directs officials to publish a list of places that administration has identified as "sanctuary cities".

The term "sanctuary city" has been popular in the US for more than a decade to describe places that limit their assistance to federal immigration authorities. As it is not a legal term, cities have taken different approaches, some establishing policies in law and others simply changing policing practices.

Leavitt also touted an immigration raid at an "underground" nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Sunday, where she said officials detained more than 100 undocumented immigrants and seized weapons and drugs.

The Drug Enforcement Administration wrote in a post on X that 114 immigrants were arrested and placed "on buses for processing and likely eventual deportation".

Thousands of undocumented immigrants have been detained since Donald Trump returned to the White House on 20 January.

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