Dame Louise Casey has called for a newly-announced inquiry into grooming gangs to be used as a "moment to have a national reset" on the issue.

The crossbench peer's report into the nature and scale of group-based child sexual abuse in England and Wales paved the way for a new national inquiry announced at the weekend by Sir Keir Starmer.

Baroness Casey urged those called to give evidence to the inquiry to be open to scrutiny and change.

She told the Commons home affairs committee she wanted the government to "crack on" with the inquiry, suggesting it could be completed within three years, with regular updates before the final report.

She was also quizzed by MPs about her report's finding that the ethnicity of people involved in grooming gangs had been "shied away from" by the authorities.

The peer urged people to "keep calm" on the subject of ethnicity.

Pointing out that her report had said data on the ethnicity of perpetrators was "incomplete and unreliable", she said: "If you look at the data on child sexual exploitation, suspects and offenders, it's disproportionately Asian heritage.

"If you look at the data for child abuse, it is not disproportionate, and it is white men.

"So again, just [a] note to everybody really, outside here rather than in here, let's just keep calm here about how you interrogate data and what you draw from it."

Baroness Casey said she did not think it was "unreasonable" to hold the government to account in six months' time on whether her 12 recommendations have been implemented.

"I hope this is a line in the sand, and I think the 12 things that we're asking for are not impossible.

"They're not pipe dreams, they're achievable."

She also told the committee she would like to see "quite a significant uplift in the prosecutions, the action, the criminal investigations on child sexual exploitation, both historic and current".

DNA testing firm 23andMe has been fined £2.31m by a UK watchdog over a data breach in 2023 which affected thousands of people.

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said the company - which has since filed for bankruptcy - failed to put adequate measures in place to secure sensitive user data prior to the incident.

"This was a profoundly damaging breach that exposed sensitive personal information, family histories, and even health conditions," said Information Commissioner John Edwards.

23andMe is set to be sold to a new owner, TTAM Research Institute, which said it had "made several binding commitments to enhance protections for customer data and privacy."

23andMe's users were targeted by what is known as a "credential stuffing" attack in October 2023.

This saw hackers use passwords exposed in previous breaches to access 23andMe accounts for which people had used the same or similar credentials.

They were able to access 14,000 individual accounts - and, through those, download information relating to about 6.9m people linked to as possible relations on the site.

According to the ICO, this included access to personal data belonging to 155,592 UK residents, such as names, year of birth, geographical information, profile images, race, ethnicity, health reports and family trees.

Stolen data did not include DNA records.

"As one of those impacted told us: once this information is out there, it cannot be changed or reissued like a password or credit card number," said Mr Edwards.

Due to its more sensitive nature, genetic data is considered special category data under UK data protection law and requires further protections and safeguards.

Firms controlling it should consider having additional security measures in place to help secure it, according to the ICO's guidance.

Its investigation - launched along with Canada's privacy commissioner last June - found that 23andMe breached UK data protection law by not having appropriate authentication and verification measures for customers during its login process.

This included not having mandatory multi-factor authentication to allow users logging in to verify themselves through additional means or devices.

The company also did not have secure password requirements or more verification requirements for users trying to download raw genetic data, it added.

Mr Edwards said such failures and delays in resolving them "left people's most sensitive data vulnerable to exploitation and harm".

"Their security systems were inadequate, the warning signs were there, and the company was slow to respond," he said.

The company says it resolved the issues identified during the ICO and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC)'s probe by the end of 2024.

Both watchdogs recently called on 23andMe to protect the sensitive personal data of its customers amid its bankruptcy proceedings.

The company was initially set to be sold to biotechnology company Regeneron Pharmaceuticals in a $256m deal.

But 23andMe said on Friday it had agreed to the sale of its assets to TTAM Research Institute - a non-profit biotech organisation led by its co-founder and former chief executive Anne Wojcicki.

It said the purchase of the company for a new price of $305m would come with binding commitments to uphold existing policies and consumer protections, such as letting customers delete their accounts, genetic data and opt out of research.

A bankruptcy court is scheduled to hear the case for its approval on Wednesday.

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Downing Street has said the small boats situation in the English Channel is "deteriorating" ahead of a key UK-France summit next month on border security.

Meeting on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Canada, Sir Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed to "work closely" to tackle crossings, a No 10 spokesperson said.

They added that both leaders agreed migration should be a key focus of their meetings during Macron's state visit from 8 July to 10 July.

Official figures show more than1,500 migrants crossed the Channel in small boats last week, pushing the total for the year to just over 16,000 - 42% higher than at the same point last year.

The leaders agreed "that their teams should pursue high-ambition outcomes that deliver for the British and French people," the spokesperson said.

"Migration should be a key focus given the deteriorating situation in the Channel, they confirmed," the spokesperson added.

Ministers have been pushing for the French government to implement new rules to make it easier to intercept boats.

In 2023, the previous Conservative government struck a deal to give France almost £500m over three years to go towards extra officers to help stop migrants making the journey.

Official figures show French authorities have intercepted fewer than 58% of recorded boat crossings this year.

In March, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the French government was reviewing its policies to tighten up policing around small boats, and recent days have seen a more aggressive posture from French police.

On Tuesday, officers used tear gas and batons to disperse migrants attempting to board dinghies near Gravelines, near Calais.

Labour campaigned on a promise to "smash the criminal boat gangs" bringing migrants to the UK, and the Sir Keir has made tackling illegal immigration and "restoring order" to the asylum system a priority for the government.

After coming to government, Labour immediately scrapped the Conservative government's plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, redirecting funds to enhanced border security initiatives.

But Channel crossings have hit 40,000 since Labour took office in July 2024 - a 21% increase on the same period the year before.

Over the same period, 940 boats have been intercepted - stopping nearly 28,000 migrants from reaching the UK.

The government has pointed to good weather and the willingness of people smugglers to cram more people onto small boats as factors driving the spike in migration crossings.

It has prompted the Conservatives to accuse ministers of "blaming the weather" for the rise in numbers.

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President Trump's comments on the Israel-Iran conflict have veered from full throated support for Israel's strikes to strongly distancing himself from them, and back again.

His ambiguity has added to the sense of uncertainty as the fighting itself escalates.

Meanwhile the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the attacks were "fully coordinated" with the US.

So what factors are weighing on Trump and, crucially, what are his options now?

1. Bowing to Netanyahu pressure and escalating

As Israeli missiles hit Tehran on Thursday, Trump threatened Iran's leaders with "even more brutal" attacks from his Israeli ally armed with American bombs.

We know Trump's ultimate objective. He says, like Netanyahu, that Iran can't have a nuclear bomb. Crucially, he has said his preferred option (unlike Netanyahu) is via a deal between the US and Iran (this route also reflects his self-described image as a world-class dealmaker).

But he has equivocated over how to get there, sometimes leaning into the threat of force, other times pushing the diplomacy. Last week he even said in the same breath that an Israeli attack on Iran would help a deal or it would "blow it".

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His unpredictability is sometimes portrayed by his supporters after the fact as strategic - the so-called "madman" theory of foreign relations. This theory is one that has previously been used to describe Trump's negotiating tactics and suggests that deliberate uncertainty or unpredictability about escalation works to coerce adversaries (or even allies in Trump's case) into complying. It was famously attributed to some of the Cold War practices of President Richard Nixon.

Some of Trump's advisers and supporters back the "maximum pressure" side of the madman theory when it comes to his approach to Iran. They think the threats will in the end prevail because, they argue, Iran is not serious about negotiating (even though in 2015 the country signed an Obama-led nuclear deal that Trump later pulled out of).

Netanyahu has applied constant pressure on Trump to go down the military not diplomatic path, and the US president - despite his oft-stated desire to win the Nobel Peace Prize - may in the end see a need to deliver on his more belligerent threats to Tehran's leadership

Israel may also push harder behind the scenes for American involvement to, as it sees it, to finish the job. The US has bunker buster bombs Israel believes can destroy Iran's underground uranium enrichment site at Fordow.

As the fighting escalates, so does the pressure on Trump from the hawkish camp of Republicans in Congress who have long called for regime change in Iran.

Trump will also see the argument that it could force the Iranians into negotiating with him with a now weaker hand. But the fact remains that the Iranians already were at that table, as a sixth round of talks due with Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff had been planned in Oman on Sunday.

The talks are now abandoned.

2. The middle ground - holding the course

So far, Trump has reiterated that the US is not involved in Israel's attacks.

Escalation comes with significant and potentially legacy-defining risks for Trump. American naval destroyers and ground based missile batteries are already helping in Israel's defence against the Iranian retaliation.

Some of Trump's advisers at the National Security Council are likely to be cautioning against him doing anything that could add to the intensity of Israel's attacks on Iran in the immediate days, especially with some Iranian missiles breaching Israeli-US defences to deadly effect.

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Netanyahu is now arguing that targeting Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei would end, not escalate, the conflict.

But an anonymous US official briefed to some news outlets at the weekend that Trump made clear he was against such a move.

3. Listening to the Maga voices and pulling back

One of the big political factors playing on Trump's mind is his domestic support.

Most Republicans in Congress still staunchly back Israel, including continued American arms supplies to the country. Many have vocally backed Israel's attacks on Iran.

But there are key voices within Trump's Make America Great Again (Maga) movement who now outright reject this traditional "ironclad" support for Israel.

Over the last few days they've asked why the US is risking being drawn into a Middle East war given Trump's "America First" foreign policy promise.

The pro-Trump journalist Tucker Carlson wrote a stinging criticism on Friday saying the administration's claims not to be involved weren't true, and that the US should "drop Israel".

He suggested Mr Netanyahu "and his war-hungry government" were acting in a way that would drag in US troops to fight on his behalf.

Carlson wrote: "Engaging in it would be a middle finger in the faces of the millions of voters who cast their ballots in hopes of creating a government that would finally put the United States first."

Similarly, the staunch Trump loyalist US representative Marjorie Taylor Greene posted on X that: "Anyone slobbering for the US to become fully involved in the Israel/Iran war is not America First/MAGA".

This represents a considerable vulnerability for Trump.

It adds pressure on him to put distance between the US and Israel's offensive and there are signs, in public at least, that he has responded.

The Maga debate over the weekend coincided with him posting on social media that he joined Russia's president Putin in calling for an end to the war. By Sunday he said Iran and Israel should make a deal, adding: "The US had nothing to do with the attack on Iran".

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Iran has already threatened to attack US bases in the region if, as is now happening, Washington assists Israel's defence.

The risk of any American casualties would likely see the Maga isolationist argument grow exponentially, in turn potentially adding pressure on Trump to pull back and urge Mr Netanyahu to bring the offensive to a swifter end.

Kim Woodburn, who has died at the age of 83, found fame relatively late in life alongside co-star Aggie McKenzie in Channel 4 show How Clean is Your House.

But when the show ended in 2009 following a six-year run, it was just the start for the acerbic star, who went on to create some of television's most memorable moments with her no-holds barred opinions.

Love her or hate her, Woodburn called a spade a spade in a celebrity world where being two-faced is arguably a survival technique.

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It earned her a new following on social media and had her in demand for custom videos and appearances at Pride events.

Her status as a "hun" - a British subculture involving the "stanning" of camp female pop and reality TV stars - saw her become the subject of several gifs and memes.

Here are some of the Clean Queen's best bits.

Celebrity Big Brother fireworks

Probably Woodburn's best-known outburst was her "You're an adulterer!" soap queen-style moment from Celebrity Big Brother, with the ensuing row resulting in the star being temporarily removed from the house.

Having taken aim at former footballer Jamie O'Hara, Woodburn also fell out with Nicola McClean, calling her "Miss Insecure" and "vile" and a "horrible, horrible girl".

"You're not worth saying anything to," she informed her.

"Really?" asked McLean.

"Truly," Woodburn replied succinctly. McClean, a former glamour model, later said Woodburn shouldn't have been allowed to speak to her that way.

Other CBB housemates who Woodburn fell out with included Loose Woman host Coleen Nolan, who went on to win the 2017 show. The row later spilled over on to an episode of Loose Woman.

Hair-raising drama

Bad hair days. We've all been there.

But when you're in the jungle, that humidity takes it all to another level.

During her time on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! in 2009, Woodburn gained a lot of attention after she became outraged over her hair products being confiscated.

"My hair plays a big part in my career," she explained. "I earn money with this hairstyle, it's my trademark."

Speaking in the hut, Woodburn says: "I have very fine hair and my hair is breaking." Later speaking to campmates, she added: "I just simply won't have it, I'm sorry, I won't have it.

"I'm not going to ruin my hair which I'm known for and has made me a jolly good living. It humiliates me as a female."

A tad dramatic perhaps but to be fair, Woodburn's plaited, platinum bun was iconic.

This Morning interview gets a tad awkward

Woodburn went on to discuss her time in the Celebrity Big Brother show on This Morning shortly after her stint in the house.

She said her fellow housemates lived "in stink and filth".

"Don't be cheeky, don't be naughty," she then quipped, when former presenter Philip Schofield asked her what she was paid to go on the show.

"I have not gone one second in my life for bull," she added.

"You are giving me the impression... you don't know what you're talking about, Phil."

Schofield said sarcastically: "What a delight to have had you here," to which Woodburn snapped back: "You big phoney."

Viewers loved it - as did the crew, who giggled in the background.

Come Dine With Me - or drink with me?

Woodburn also appeared on Channel 4 show Come Dine With Me, where contestants have their co-stars around to their house for a home-cooked three-course meal.

She wasn't the first person to get a bit squiffy on the show, memorably struggling to pronounce "mascarpone" at Claire Sweeney's dinner party.

In the taxi on the way home, Kim gave viewers her boozy verdict: "The food, okay, the vodka, lovely."

Comic Tom O'Connor looked slightly shell-shocked as he was driven home.

"I'd never met her before but I tell you what, I'll never forget her."

Endless one-liners

Woodburn had the rare ability to be both outrageous and oddly profound - like a foul-mouthed oracle in marigolds.

"I want genuine people in my life, not [idiots]," she said once, using a slightly stronger word than that - a mission statement Woodburn lived by.

She wasn't afraid to invoke bedroom activity on occasion. In one moment of affectionate overshare, she said: "My husband was a goer, y'know... ooh, he was a goer that man!"

Other standout one-liners from the Kim-tionary include, "Every wrinkle tells a dirty story". She also told one poor CBB housemate who was getting on her nerves: "You'd make a great town crier!"

Woodburn told one member of Jedward: "You'd eat a scabby-[bottomed] rat if the mood took you." Asked to clarify what that was, she clarified helpfully: "A rat with scabs on its [backside]."

She did mind her manners, in her own way, asking her fellow housemates once: "What the [expletive] hell - excuse me - has happened here?"

Similarly, after one contestant told her "don't start," she said in the diary room: "I didn't start it, but I'll bloody finish it - excuse me saying bloody."

And in one pensive moment, she reflected wistfully: "I may have another 10 years on this earth if I'm lucky. Do you think I'm honestly going to spend that time putting up with [expletive] bags?"

Additional reporting by Chris Gibson and Steven McIntosh.