The Labour Party has suspended MP Dan Norris after "being informed of his arrest", a party spokesman has told the BBC.

The suspension means Mr Norris, the MP for North East Somerset and Hanham, is also understood to have had the party whip suspended, meaning he is not able to sit as Labour MP in the Commons.

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A 48-year-old man and a girl, aged 10, have died following a fire at a caravan park in Lincolnshire.

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Emotional win for Mullins family

Sir Elton John has said he can't see his sons playing rugby after an infection last summer left him struggling with his eyesight.

"I can't see TV, I can't read. I can't see my boys playing rugby and soccer," the 78-year-old superstar told The Times.

"It has been a very stressful time because I'm used to soaking it all up. It's distressing," he added.

In September, the singer wrote on Instagram that a "severe" infection had left him with "only limited vision" in one eye, adding that his recovery would "take time".

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Sir Elton and his filmmaker husband David Furnish have two sons, Zachary and Elijah.

The songwriter said he "can't see the telly", adding: "I haven't been able to see anything since last July."

He admitted he does get "emotional" about his sight loss.

"But you have to get used to it, because I'm lucky to have the life I have. I still have my wonderful family, and I can still see something out of here," he said, pointing at his left eye.

"So you say to yourself, just get on with it."

Sir Elton previously said he'd been unable to finish his new album due to his eyesight issues.

In November, he said "it's been a while since I've done anything".

But on Friday, he released his new collaborative album with US musician Brandi Carlile, Who Believes In Angels?

The pair worked with producer Andrew Watt and his long-term songwriting partner Bernie Taupin on the album.

Sir Elton said that they "didn't all agree", adding that he became "frustrated" when they stood up to him.

He said: "If I want to make a great album aged 76 or 77 I've got to be told and they put up with my little foibles, which were really about anxiety, self-doubt and not feeling very well at the time.

"I was tired so I thought, I'm going to abandon this.

"The problem was three other people were involved and I knew that if I walked away from it I would hate myself for the rest of my life."

He added that it is not the first time he has had doubts about his music.

"You wouldn't be human if you didn't have fear and doubt. It's good for artists. Every album I've done, good, bad or indifferent, I've had doubts about," he said.

"And the most doubts I've ever had have been with this one."

The album has mostly been praised by critics. Writing in the Guardian, Lisa Wright awarded it four stars, praising its "poignant moments", while The Telegraph's Neil McCormick gave it five stars, calling it a "glorious return to his bombastic, melodious 1970s pomp".

In January, Sir Elton's career-spanning greatest hits collection, Diamonds, reached number one after 374 weeks on the charts.

Featuring signature songs like Tiny Dancer, I'm Still Standing and Rocket Man, the 51-track collection has gave the star his ninth number one album.

Last year, Sir Elton also won his first Emmy Award which finally gave him EGOT status, meaning he joined an exclusive club of performers who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award.

The Fab Four came together on stage this week for an all-star Beatles announcement that left some of the internet swooning.

No, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr aren't reuniting through AI for a joint album with Taylor Swift.

Instead, the 60s rock 'n' roll icons will be played by four leading heartthrobs of the moment: Paul Mescal (McCartney), Harris Dickinson (Lennon), Joseph Quinn (Harrison) and Barry Keoghan (Starr), in a big-screen quadrilogy directed by Sir Sam Mendes - all set for release in 2028.

Each actor fits the mould of "the internet's boyfriends" - a term defined by Glamour magazine as "a famous or semi-famous male person whom your entire Twitter feed has a crush on at the same time".

When Sir Sam walked out on stage with his "band" at Las Vegas' CinemaCon on Tuesday, the message was clear.

If 1960s Beatlemania was defined by teenage girls fainting and screaming, the plan now is arguably to get Gen Z - in internet parlance - "screaming, crying, throwing up" from behind their phone screens in excitement.

"Each star brings their own brand of modern-day hysteria," says the Evening Standard's celebrity reporter Lisa McLoughlin, "the kind fuelled by social media virality and fan video edits".

This is particularly true of Mescal, whose "popularity mirrors a smidge the frenzy the Beatles once sparked".

After shooting to fame in 2020's BBC adaptation of Normal People, the Irishman scored an Oscar nomination as a tormented father in Aftersun, before finding blockbuster status in Gladiator II - rising from indie heartbreaker to Hollywood heartthrob.

Similar is true of fellow Irishman Keoghan. Also Oscar-nominated for Banshees of Inisherin, he embraced rugged sex symbol status in last year's cult hit Saltburn.

Dickinson and Quinn are earlier in their trajectory, but still burning bright - the former recently starring alongside Nicole Kidman in erotic thriller Babygirl and the latter turning heads in Netflix's Stranger Things.

McLoughlin describes the casting as "logical and predictable" - a strategic move as the band look to secure their legacy with a new generation, while studios grapple with the ambition of luring streaming era, post-Covid, audiences back to the cinema not once, but four times in close proximity.

A day in the life?

The timing and scope of the project sums up the Beatles' unique heritage as the best-selling band of all-time - the catalyst for shifting youth culture and the boundaries of pop.

It's been 56 years since all four members last recorded together. Lennon was shot dead just over a decade later at 40, while Harrison died of cancer in 2001, aged 58. The two surviving Beatles, Sir Paul and Sir Ringo, are now into their 80s.

And yet, as the band's only official biographer Hunter Davies told Radio 4's Today programme on Wednesday: "The strange thing about the Beatles is that the longer we get from them, the bigger they become".

Recent years have seen Sir Paul seemingly work to bookend the Beatles' music - becoming Glastonbury's oldest ever headliner at 80, before driving the 2023 release of Now and Then, a "final" Beatles track rebuilt from Lennon's demo vocals. It became the band's 18th UK number one single, over five decades from their last, and won a Grammy.

The forthcoming biopics appear to be a way of continuing this on the big screen.

Four years on from Peter Jackson's sprawling Get Back docuseries, this is the first time that all four band members and their estates have granted full life story and music rights for a scripted film.

The casting reflects the distinct identities and histories of the members, each offering something different to lovelorn girls and copycat boys so intoxicated by Beatlemania.

McLoughlin feels the choices "make commercial sense" as the perfect foil for an audience now two generations removed from the original Beatlemania.

"They all have dedicated younger fan bases (many of whom may not be regular cinema-goers or deeply connected to the Beatles), acting credibility and experience leading or co-leading major productions".

Each film will focus on an individual member of the band. "They intersect in different ways - sometimes overlapping, sometimes not," Sir Sam explained.

"They're four very different human beings. Perhaps this is a chance to understand them a little more deeply."

'Binge cinema'

The Barbenheimer phenomenon of summer 2023 highlighted the increasing influence online audience reactions hold on cultural currency.

It also turbocharged Hollywood's acceptance of "event cinema" as a way to lure younger audiences. A generation that Warner Bros Discovery's executive director Vera Chien previously told Forbes, already see the streaming-social media relationship as the norm.

Sir Sam's four-film schedule plays into this. It's aimed at creating what Sony executive Tom Rothman described as "the first bingeable theatrical experience".

"Frankly, we need big cinematic events to get people out of the house," Sir Sam said.

Films can now develop distinct digital identities through audience projection, as seen by the viral success of Saltburn.

The makers of the Beatles biopics are arguably betting on its cast of "internet boyfriends" pulling younger audiences - without the same nostalgic attachment to the Beatles - engaged on social media and, executives hope, looking up from phone screen to big screen.

The extent to which musical performances will feature is unknown.

But the Beatle biopics could capitalise on the booming money-spinning genre that's found awards success over the past decade. .

It's also proven fertile heartthrob ground, with the Beatles cast following Jacob Elordi and Austin Butler's turns as Elvis, alongside Timothee Chalamet's Oscar-nominated take as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown.

Still, there are risks, says Dade Hayes, business writer at Deadline and co-author of Binge Times.

He says that whilst he commends Rothman's "clever handle" and the cinephile in him values the biopics' "bold statement about the value of cinemas and communal viewing," market realities present cautionary signs.

First, the UK box office is yet to fully bounce back from the pandemic, whilst US takings are more than 20% below pre-Covid levels. "If people aren't dying to return at regular intervals to cinemas," says Hayes, "then you are holding an expensive set of assets that are hard to monetise".

And a multi-release strategy relies on the "fuse being lit with the first instalment", Hayes says.

He points to Kevin Costner's Horizon films, originally envisioned as a multi-part theatrical franchise, only to flounder once the first instalment tanked, as an example of the dangers.

For McLoughlin, the three-year gap between the casting announcement and 2028 release date adds further risk, especially in the fast-moving online space where fanbases can shift.

Liverpool walking alone

But beyond industry dynamics there's also a cast talking point much closer to home.

The Beatles biopics, celebrating four Scouse lads who conquered the world and put Liverpool on the map, will not feature any local talent in the lead roles.

As one Liverpudlian put it in a TikTok video liked over 200,000 times: "I love Mescal as much as the next gal but [the lack of representation] is breaking my heart".

McLoughlin agrees, pointing out that James Corden last week urged the TV industry to be "bolder" and back ideas that "might scare you a little." She feels film studios should do the same.

"The Beatles themselves were unknown until they weren't," she says. "This could have been a chance for a newcomer to have their own Beatles moment - rising from obscurity in real-time".

And perhaps the biggest missed opportunity of all McLoughlin adds, is the failure to put Liverpudlian actors front and centre in a Beatles biopic. "The band is Liverpool's greatest cultural export, yet the city's deep talent pool was completely overlooked," she adds.

Social media, meanwhile, is already awash with doubt over Keoghan's ability to deliver a consistent Scouse accent, questioning his attempts in Saltburn.

Still, as Hunter Davies put it, the Beatles have long been more than just a local band. They keep growing.

Way back in 1966, Lennon infamously described them as bigger than Jesus. Over five decades on, the studio behind the four films - and perhaps cinema in general - is no doubt banking on a Beatlemania revival.

Empty nesters should not worry they are too old to become foster carers, as those who have made the move tell the BBC they have "a huge amount to offer" .

Parents who started fostering after their grown-up children left home encouraged others to "just go for it".

It comes after the children's minister urged empty nesters to consider fostering due to a "decline in the number of foster carers to the point of crisis".

But charity The Fostering Network warns government action falls short of what is needed to recruit and retain dedicated carers.

When Sharon quit her job and became a foster carer aged 51, her friends and family asked: "Why would you want to?"

Her own children had grown up, and she had more time to spend with her husband Tim at their home in Leicester.

But Sharon was set on fostering because she "wanted to make a difference".

Foster carers provide a home to children who cannot live with their birth family for different reasons.

These include short-term family crises like an illness, or experiences such as abuse and neglect. Children can be looked after for short or long periods of time.

At first, Sharon and Tim had "some very difficult times" with the foster child, who the BBC is not naming.

He has since had "a complete transformation", she said. He is thriving at school, has lots of friends, and is learning to play the trumpet.

Sharon says she now does her "own advertising" for fostering later in life with family and friends.

"Some of my friends say, 'I couldn't do it'. I say, 'why not?'

"Just go for it, you see there's so many children who need just the basics in life, a loving secure home, and to feel that sense of belonging."

More than 56,000 children were in foster care in England in 2024, according to government data, while The Fostering Network estimates there is a shortage of 5,000 foster carers.

Minister for Children and Families Janet Daby has urged empty nesters to help address this shortage.

"Maybe your child has left for university, you are retired, or you feel like you can give a child the fulfilling family they deserve," she told the BBC.

"We urge anyone who is interested to reach out to your local council to find out more about making a difference to a child's life chances."

'We've not been written off'

Allan's first question when he and his wife first looked into fostering, aged 64, was: "Am I too old?"

Without their three adult children, their four-bedroom family home in Scotland was not as full as it once was.

"I began to feel a bit selfish," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

"I said to my wife, we really could do this and take someone in."

Their children were surprised and urged their parents to "enjoy life".

But Allan and his wife were told "if you're healthy, fit and you feel that you want to do this, you're definitely not too old".

"They gave us a bit of a lift really, thinking we've not been written off."

However, Allan admits the child they came to foster was curious about his age.

"He saw my date of birth (and asked), 'are you really?'"

The Fostering Network estimates there is currently a shortage of 400 foster carers in Scotland, where the latest figures show more than 3,900 children were in foster care in 2023.

The Scottish government provided more than £2m to support foster carers in 2024-25, and more than £150,000 towards carer recruitment, training and advice services.

When Allan's foster child arrived, he was "scared, very unsure - not knowing how long it's going to last".

Now, he sees Allan's grandchildren as his cousins, and the grown-up children as his aunt and uncles.

"My message to older people is, if you're even thinking about it, at least pursue it."

Steve and Liz had reservations about fostering when the idea occurred to them 20 years ago.

"But we just felt we had such a huge amount to offer," said Steve, 70, from the West Midlands.

"We had space in the house, were used to having children, and had the time."

Since then, they have fostered 16 children.

Steve said people should approach fostering with their eyes "wide open".

"The young people have experienced lots of different things your own children wouldn't normally do," he explained.

"But you can pick the phone up and speak with a supporting social worker very easily… they'll come back to you with strategies.

"Once you get into the swing of it, it feels natural."

Steve and Liz are currently caring for two boys who are progressing "absolutely brilliantly", and are eager to see what the future holds.

In the short term, they are planning their "huge" annual Easter egg hunt - in which their children, grandchildren, and former foster children will take part.

"Certainly if you've got an inkling you'd like to try it, try it," Steve added.

In the Spring Statement, the chancellor announced £25m over two years to recruit 400 more foster families in England, improve support for carers, and ensure placements were available to children when needed.

The Fostering Network's chief executive Sarah Thomas agreed more carers were "desperately needed," but said further action on retention was crucial.

Dedicated carers were stepping away due to "a lack of support, insufficient respect from professionals, and burnout", she told the BBC.

"Without addressing these fundamental issues, the system will continue to struggle."

The children's minister recognised the impact foster carers have "on breaking down barriers to opportunity and nurturing some of our most vulnerable children".

She said the government was "committed to removing barriers for carers – ensuring that age, training and background don't stand in the way", and offering support and advice at regional fostering hubs.

Treatments to remove wrinkles and tone arms, thighs and stomachs are driving a rise in cosmetic surgery, the latest figures from UK private clinics suggest.

There were 27,462 procedures performed in 2024 - a 5% rise on 2023 - of which more than nine in ten were on women.

Boob jobs remained the most popular treatment, followed by breast reduction surgery in second place.

But much of the rise was driven by increases in facial rejuvenation surgery, such as face and brow lifts and body contouring procedures like liposuction and tummy tucks, according to the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS).

The association's president said surgery has become cheaper and easier to access, while some patients say there is less stigma around cosmetic procedures.

The most popular cosmetic surgeries, with their change from 2023 to 2024, are:

1. Boob job (up 6%)
2. Breast reduction (up 1%)
3. Blepharoplasty, or eyelid surgery (up 13%)
4. Abdominoplasty, or tummy tucks (up 6%)
5. Liposuction, or fat removal (up 8%)
6. Rhinoplasty, or nose jobs (down 1%)
7. Face/neck lift (up 8%)
8. Fat transfer (up 5%)
9. Breast implant removal (down 5%)
10. Otoplasty, or ear correction (up 2%)

There was also a 24% rise in thigh lifts, and a 13% increase in brachioplasty, or "bingo wing" removal.

Non-surgical procedures like botox and fillers were also popular: nearly 10,000 were performed by BAAPS members in 2024.

But "designer vagina" labiaplasty surgery, which changes the shape or size of the labia, appeared less popular, with the number carried out down by 7%.

Nugent said that cosmetic surgery had become "more accessible", and while she acknowledged that treatments still were expensive, she said that they had become a bit more affordable.

This has coincided with a "shift in attitude" towards cosmetic procedures over the past decade because of a movement in society "towards wellness and looking after oneself", she said. Cosmetic surgery is "more normalised", she added.

Some of the growth in cosmetic surgery is also caused by people who previously had non-surgical procedures, like filler and Botox, now choosing to go under the knife because they were getting "fatigue" from repeatedly going to clinics to get the work done, Nugent said.

And the rise of weight-loss injections such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro have played a role, too. Nugent said that some people taking these medications, also known as "skinny jabs", are getting surgery on their face.

"As they lose weight they start to notice deflation and some sagging of their face," she said.

The BAAPS statistics do not show how many people have surgery after taking weight-loss drugs, but Nugent said that of the patients she has treated, "more and more" are people taking the medications.

'There's not as much stigma'

People have cosmetic surgery for a wide range of reasons.

Kirsten White, 33, a talent acquisition specialist from Sheffield, had a breast reduction and uplift after losing weight with a gastric sleeve.

She said her "breasts were basically down to my bellybutton" before surgery, leading to backache and the need for physiotherapy, she said.

"I don't think people are surprised when I tell them I've had cosmetic surgery because I think it's pretty normal now," she said.

"There's not so much the stigma that there used to be that it's really taboo and people are a lot more supportive of doing what will make you feel happy."

Men underwent 1,799 surgical procedures in 2024, a slight drop from 2023 - making up just 6.6% of all surgeries in the BAAPS dataset.

Nose jobs (rhinoplasty) remained the most popular among men, with 332 surgeries done in 2024, which is a 14% drop on 2023.

Face and neck lifts increased by 26%, with 140 done in 2024, suggesting a growing interest in anti-aging procedures among men - though Nugent said it was harder to spot trends for men due to the smaller numbers treated.

Video calls 'heightened our awareness of our appearance'

Beauty standards are shaped by social media and celebrity culture, said Dr Beth Daniels, director of the Centre for Appearance Research at UWE Bristol.

The pandemic also caused a shift, when the move towards video calls "heightened our awareness of our appearance" because people saw their own faces on their computer screens.

Dr Daniels said that society places value on youthful looks, which could push some women to get cosmetic procedures.

"As women age, they're often discounted in a number of ways" and are "made to feel invisible in society", she said.

BAAPS vice president Anthony Macquillan suggested the overall increase in facelifts could be linked to societal changes, such as the rising pension age.

He said: "For many, this type of surgery is not just aesthetic but also functional, helping to maintain confidence, secure employment, and reduce anxiety associated with age-related bias."

The BAAPS data is based on statistics from 233 of its members. Jim Frame, president of the UK Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons and professor at Anglia Ruskin University, said that it does not cover all of the cosmetic surgery operations that happen in the UK because some is carried out by ENT and maxillofacial surgeons, or by non-BAAPS members, especially fillers and Botox.

The data also does not include surgeries carried out overseas, where the lower cost of treatment in countries like Turkey attracts Brits.

Cosmetic procedures and surgery carry risks and the NHS warns that they "can lead to serious complications if they're not done correctly".

It advises people to research thoroughly beforehand, including checking the credibility of the clinic and getting information about the most common complications of the procedure.

"There are a lot of susceptible people that are committing to surgeries that a fairly large proportion will regret," Prof Frame said.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has fired one of his deputies for taking a "lavish" trip to Antarctica with his wife during Nowruz, the Persian new year.

The president's office described Shahram Dabiri's trip as "unjustifiable and unacceptable given the ongoing economic challenges" in Iran.

A picture of Dabiri and his wife posing in front of MV Plancius, which was bound for the South Pole, circulated widely on social media and caused outrage in Iran.

In a statement on Saturday, Pezeshkian said Dabari had been removed as vice president of parliamentary affairs for "indefensible" actions, regardless of whether they were financed from his own pocket.

"In a government that seeks to follow the values of the first Shia Imam (Imam Ali), and amid significant economic pressures on our people, the lavish travels of government officials, even when personally financed, are indefensible," Pezeshkian said.

Iran's economy is under significant strain, and subject to Western sanctions due in part to its support of groups including Hamas and Hezbollah, which have been proscribed terrorist organisations by the US, UK and the EU.

Iran's unemployment rate as of October 2024 was 8.4%, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), while its annual inflation rate was 29.5%.

Pezeshkian said Dabiri's actions "starkly contradict the principle of simplicity that is paramount for those in positions of authority".

The Antarctica expedition on the MV Plancius reportedly has a starting cost of equivalent to $6,685 (£5,187).

Usually, visits to the coldest and least populated continent in the world are carried out by scientists and seasoned explorers.

However, tourism voyages on cruises have surged in popularity in recent years. The Dutch vessel pictured in the picture of Dabiri, for example, was used by the Royal Netherlands Navy for military and civilian research between 1976 and 2004.

It is not clear what expedition package Dabiri chose or what mode of transport he took from Iran to Antarctica.

On one of the many package deals available online, explorers need to embark and disembark from Ushuaia, one of the southernmost points of Argentina. The town is about 3,079km (1,913 miles) from Buenos Aires, the Argentinian capital.

The Iranian president was elected last year with a promise to revive the economy and improve Iranians' daily lives. He replaced Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a helicopter crash.

Iranian media reported that many of Pezeshkian's supporters urged him to remove Dabiri from post as the public grew disgruntled over the trip.

A 48-year-old man and a girl, aged 10, have died following a fire at a caravan park in Lincolnshire.

Emergency Services were called to Coastfields Holiday Park, Roman Bank, Ingoldmells at about 03:53 BST, Lincolnshire Police said.

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The son of a British couple who were detained by the Taliban nine weeks ago is calling on the US to help secure their release from an Afghan prison.

Peter Reynolds, 79, and wife Barbie, 75, were arrested on 1 February while returning to their home in the central Bamiyan province.

Their son Jonathan called on the White House to intervene after Faye Hall, an American who was detained alongside them, was released last week by the Taliban, which returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021.

He told BBC News the detention of his parents - who have lived in Afghanistan for 18 years and ran education projects - had been "harrowing and exhausting" for their family.

Mr Reynolds said: "Anybody who has the ability to unlock that key and let them out, whether it be the Taliban, whether it be the British government or whether it be the American government, I would ask - do it now, please.

"And if you have the ability to put the pressure on the people who hold that key, do it now, please."

Ms Hall became the fourth US citizen to be released by the Taliban since January after talks between officials in Kabul - in what the group described as a "goodwill gesture" towards the Trump administration.

That prompted Mr Reynolds to appeal to US President Donald Trump directly to aid in Peter and Barbie's release, in a video taken outside the White House earlier this week.

Mr Reynolds, a US citizen, told BBC News that his parents had not been formally accused of any crime.

He said: "They've been in and out of court, which is infuriating for them because there's no charges and they are told every single time: yes, they are innocent, it's just a formality, we've made a mistake."

An Afghan interpreter was also arrested alongside the British couple.

Mr Reynolds said his parents had sought to work with the Taliban and had "been open" about their work in the country.

He said he believes his mother received "the only certificate for a woman to actually teach and train even men", despite women typically being banned from employment under Taliban rule.

"They deeply love the country," he added.

The couple married in Kabul in 1970 and later became Afghan citizens. They are being held separately in prison and Peter's health has deteriorated while detained, Mr Reynolds said.

He said he had been able to speak to his parents via a prison payphone and described the conversations as "excruciatingly painful".

He continued: "Just to think of your parents, elderly parents and grandparents to my kids - and they've got great-grandkids even - and wondering if we're going to see them again.

"We want to see our parents again, to hug them and hold them."

Mr Reynolds said securing his parents release was "complex" as they wish to remain in Afghanistan and continue their education work.

He said: "They want to be released from prison because they've done nothing wrong, but they want to be released so they can carry on doing the work they're doing - which just speaks to the character and the stamina and the vision and conviction that they have."

He said the UK government had been "very supportive" and discussions with he US State Department had been "encouraging".

A Taliban official told the BBC in February that the group planned to release the couple "as soon as possible".

The UK shut its embassy in Kabul after the Taliban returned to power. The Foreign Office said this means its ability to help UK nationals in Afghanistan is "extremely limited".

India is a cricket-crazy nation, and it seems the AI chatbot ChatGPT hasn't missed that fact.

So, when its founder Sam Altman fed it the prompt: "Sam Altman as a cricket player in anime style", the bot seems to have immediately generated an image of Altman wielding a bat in a bright blue India jersey.

Altman shared his anime cricketer avatar on X on Thursday, sending Indian social media users into a tizzy.

Though the tech billionaire had shared AI-generated images before - joining last week's viral Studio Ghibli trend - it was the India jersey that got people talking.

While some Indian users said they were delighted to see Altman sporting their team's colours, many were quick to speculate about his motives behind sharing the image.

"Sam trying hard to attract Indian customers," one user said.

"Now awaiting your India announcement. How much are you allocating out of that $40bn to India," another user asked, alluding to the record funding recently secured by Altman for his firm, OpenAI, which owns ChatGPT.

Yet another user put into words a pattern he seemed to have spotted in Altman's recent social media posts - and a question that seems to be on many Indian users' minds.

"Over the past few days, you've been praising India and Indian customers a lot. How did this sudden love for India come about? It feels like there's some deep strategy going on behind the scenes," he wrote on X.

While the comment may sound a bit conspiratorial, there's some truth to at least part of it.

Just hours before Altman shared his image in the cricket jersey, he'd shared a post on X praising India's adoption of AI technology. He said it was "amazing to watch" and that it was "outpacing the world".

This post too went viral in India, while the media wrote numerous stories documenting users' reactions to it.

Someone even started a Reddit thread which quite comically aired the Redditor's curiosity, and perhaps, confusion.

"Can someone tell me what Sam Altman is talking about here in his tweet?" the person posted on Reddit sharing Altman's post.

A few days earlier, Altman had retweeted Studio Ghibli-style images of Prime Minister Narendra Modi which were shared by the federal government's citizen engagement platform.

All these posts of Altman have generated a fair amount of comments questioning his motives.

The scepticism around Altman's perceived courting of India could be because of his past views on the country's AI capabilities.

During a visit in 2023, he had sounded almost dismissive of small Indian start-ups making AI tools that could compete with OpenAI's creations.

Asked at a event how a small, smart team with a low budget of about $10m could build substantial AI foundational models, he answered that it would be "totally hopeless" to attempt this but that entrepreneurs should try anyway.

But when Altman visited India again this year, he had changed his tune.

In a meeting with federal minister Ashwini Vaishnaw in February, Altman expressed an eagerness to collaborate with India on making low-cost AI models.

He also praised India for its swift pace of adopting AI technologies and revealed that the country was OpenAI's second-largest market, with users tripling over the past year.

The praise comes even as his company is locked in a legal battle with some of India's biggest news media companies over the alleged unauthorised use of their content.

Experts say that Altman's seemingly newfound affinity for India might have to do with the country's profitability as a market.

According to the International Trade Administration, the AI market in India is projected to reach $8bn by 2025, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 40% from 2020 to 2025.

Nikhil Pahwa, founder-editor of MediaNama.com, a technology policy website, says that when it comes to founders of AI companies making "grand statements" about India, it has much to do with the country's massive user base. He adds that Altman isn't the only CEO wooing India.

In January, Aravind Srinivas, founder of Perplexity, an AI search engine, also expressed an eagerness to work with Indian AI start-ups.

Mr Srinivas said in a post on X that he was ready to invest $1m and five hours of his time per week to "make India great again in the context of AI".

Technology writer Prasanto K Roy believes that the Ghibli-trend revealed India's massive userbase for ChatGPT and, potentially, other AI platforms as well. And with competitor AI models like Gemini and Grok quickly gaining Indian users, Altman may be keen to retain existing users of his firm's services and also acquire new ones, he says.

"India is a very large client base for all global AI foundational models and with ChatGPT being challenged by the much cheaper DeepSeek AI, Altman is likely eager to acquire more Indian customers and keep Indian developers positively aligned towards building on top of OpenAI's services," Mr Pahwa says.

"So when it comes to these grand overtures towards India, there's no real love; it's just business," he adds.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer watched in his flat. Chancellor Rachel Reeves saw it in her study. The Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds, accompanied by staff and pizza, took in President Donald Trump's big tariffs reveal on Wednesday from his office in Old Admiralty Arch, from where the British Navy was directed to protect and control trade on the high seas in days gone by.

Ministers can only dream of having that kind of power now, as the UK watches on in growing horror at the bust-up between the US and China.

"Sometimes people don't realise they are living through a moment of history," a cabinet minister notes, as Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping square up to each other, and stock markets plunge. Trump has slapped a 10% tariff on all nations – including the UK – for imports into the US, and much higher rates on some countries, including China, which has responded with fresh tariffs of its own.

So what's happening in Whitehall right now to try to limit the harm to the UK, perhaps by making a deal with the US, and make the most of any opportunities?

The PM is spending another dramatic weekend working the phones from the peace of his country pad, Chequers. So far, the other calls that could really matter, from US negotiators, have not yet resumed.

Trump dangled a possible trade deal that might exempt the UK from some of the costs from tariffs during the pair's chummy White House press conference in February. There have been significant negotiations since then by a team of around 20, led out of No 10 by Michael Ellam, the Treasury and banking veteran, and the PM's business adviser Varun Chandra alongside the business secretary.

Those talks included ideas about the UK watering down rules on electric vehicles, possible changes to a tax on tech companies ("space to talk about it", one minister says) and changes to online safety rules ("not happening", says a government source).

But as the US government prepared for its announcements on Wednesday, talks about a deal ground to a halt. Now, after the announcement, the "ball is in their court", said one government source involved, waiting to hear if, in the chaos of Trump's new tariff world, the White House can find time and energy to push a deal with the UK.

"We're expecting to hear from them any moment," one of those involved hopes. The risk, in the visible turmoil, is that any economic agreement could become a case of: don't call us, we'll call you. We'll be asking Darren Jones, the Treasury Minister, about it when he join us in the studio tomorrow.

If a deal is done, however, do not expect an all-singing all-dancing arrangement. Instead, "it would be a basic agreement on principles – rather than a super detailed trade agreement", says a government source, contrasting these "quick and dirty" moves to long-running negotiations with India ("we're on our 15th chapter with them!").

Uncertainty around the talks, and the limited nature of what a deal could achieve in any case, means No 10 is "not sitting here waiting for it – it's not the basket where all our eggs are".

For weeks the government told us they were preparing for all kinds of scenarios. A secret cabinet committee was considering how the UK might react if Trump's tariffs materialised.

But now they are here, the actual response is… not to respond, and to spend four weeks asking businesses if they would like the government to respond later on. That is not just Whitehall dither: at this stage, there seems to be almost zero appetite among ministers to join in with the rounds of tariffs between the US, China, and perhaps the EU in coming days.

One Whitehall figure working with business says "there has not been a single voice in business, big or small, saying this is the wrong strategy".

Ministers' approach to get businesses on board, like when Sir Keir invited dozens of big wigs to No 10 the morning after Trump's tariff announcement, is in part because of the anger when the government increased National Insurance contributions. "The really calm reaction," one source says, "is because we got people into the headspace where tariffs were going to happen – one of the businesses said they were being borderline stalked, we've been trying to persuade business to trust the process."

The government is in no rush, and has no enthusiasm to introduce its own new tariffs, and for now at least, demands on them to do so are muted. According to a minister: "Most people have considerable numbers of jobs in their constituencies on the line – even in cabinet there might have been some question marks but there weren't this week."

And they joke that the Lib Dems, who are calling for tariffs in retaliation, "keep demanding a trade war but I don't think they'll lead the nation". Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, who also does not want extra tariffs, will be on tomorrow's show too.

But just as the government is going slow on hitting back, they are cracking heads to crack on with their existing plans faster.

This isn't all about Trump. I understand the chancellor is looking at whether any of the money announced in the government's vital Spending Review can be brought forward from June. If government departments are able to finalise their deals, can that be sorted and made public as soon as possible?

There are discussions too about whether it's possible to speed up the long waited-for Industrial Strategy – a plan to get investment into the UK pencilled in for June, but could it be brought forward? A decision hasn't been made but the prime minister is again, his team indicate, trying to use the jeopardy around the world as an impetus to push the government machine harder. "We have to run quickly towards this," a government source says – and the chancellor is looking at it this weekend.

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You might feel, haven't I heard this before? You'd be right. Since the start of the year, the prime minister and the chancellor have both repeatedly said the government has to go faster, work harder. So why after years in opposition weren't Starmer's team ready to go with all of these changes when they got into office? For a government that promised to be radical, its plans have not always been forthcoming.

You may not fancy the kind of radicalism we're seeing out of the White House, but radical it certainly is. To compete, the UK may need to be that too.

It is ludicrous to imagine the PM is "very happy" that the UK has been hit with tariffs as Trump suggested – "artistic licence", a government source remarked. No British action can completely insulate our economy from disruption abroad. But the government's own actions do matter, and this could be a defining moment.

While there's been no lack of trying to soften the blows for the UK, the government's hopes have been dashed already. First, ministers believed the UK could escape tariffs, then they said they were prepared in case, then disappointed when they arrived. As Sir Keir spends another weekend on the phone, and officials hope the phone rings, the government doesn't know what they will be able to say next.

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Mobile phone footage has emerged that appears to contradict Israel's account of why soldiers opened fire on a convoy of ambulances and a fire truck, killing 15 rescue workers.

The video published by the New York Times, and said to have been filmed by a Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) paramedic who was killed, shows the vehicles moving in darkness with headlights and emergency flashing lights switched on early on the morning of 23 March - before coming under fire.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) initial statement said "several uncoordinated vehicles were identified advancing suspiciously toward IDF troops without headlights or emergency signals. IDF troops then opened fire at the suspected vehicles."

A surviving paramedic previously told the BBC that the ambulances were clearly marked and had their internal and external lights on.

The IDF has been approached for comment about the video, which the PRCS said had been shown to the UN Security Council.

The video shows the marked vehicles drawing to a halt on the edge of the road, lights still flashing, and at least two emergency workers stepping out wearing reflective clothing.

The windscreen of the vehicle being filmed from is cracked and shooting can then be heard lasting for several minutes as the person filming says prayers. He is understood to be one of the dead paramedics.

The footage was found on his phone after his body was recovered from a shallow grave one week after the incident. The bodies of the eight paramedics, six Gaza Civil Defence workers and one UN employee were found buried in sand, along with their wrecked vehicles. It took international organisations days to negotiate safe access to the site.

Israel claimed a number of Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants had been killed in the incident, but it has not provided any evidence or further explained the threat to its troops.

Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Saar earlier this week echoed the army account, saying "the IDF did not randomly attack an ambulance".

The IDF promised to investigate the circumstances after a surviving paramedic questioned its account.

In an interview with the BBC, paramedic Munther Abed said: "During day and at night, it's the same thing. External and internal lights are on. Everything tells you it's an ambulance vehicle that belongs to the Palestinian Red Crescent. All lights were on until the vehicle came under direct fire."

He also denied he or his team had any militant connections.

"All crews are civilian. We don't belong to any militant group. Our main duty is to offer ambulance services and save people's lives. No more, no less," he said.

Speaking at the United Nations yesterday the President of the PRCS, Dr Younis Al-Khatib, referred to the video recording, saying: "I heard the voice of one of those team members who was killed. His last words before being shot…'forgive me mum, I just wanted to help people. I wanted to save lives'. It's heartbreaking".

He called for "accountability" and "an "independent and thorough investigation" of what he called an "atrocious crime".

One paramedic is still unaccounted for following the 23 March incident.

A 48-year-old man and a girl, aged 10, have died following a fire at a caravan park in Lincolnshire.

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Blanca Castro puts on a builder's helmet before opening the door to her kitchen. Inside it, the ceiling has a large hole that is dripping water and it looks as if it could collapse at any moment.

Because the kitchen is unusable, Blanca has to wash her dishes in the bathtub, and she has improvised a cooking area with a gas camping stove in a corner of her living room.

Many of her fellow tenants in this apartment block near Madrid's Atocha railway station have similar problems. They say the company that owns the building has stopped responding to requests for basic maintenance in recent months, since informing them that it will not renew their rental contracts.

"The current rental bubble is encouraging a lot of big owners to do what they are doing here," says Blanca. "Which is to get rid of the current tenants who have been here a long time, in order to have short-term tourist flats, or simply to hike up the rent."

Blanca and her fellow tenants have vowed to stay in the building despite what they see as efforts to push them out by the owners, who were not available for comment for this article.

The tenancy contracts last five years, during which time rent is fixed, but this area of central Madrid has seen housing costs soar in recent years.

"For another home like this [in this area], I'd have to pay double or more what I'm paying now," says Blanca. "It's not viable."

She and her neighbours are among millions of Spaniards who are suffering the consequences of a housing crisis caused by spiralling rental costs.

While salaries have increased by around 20% over the past decade, the average rental in Spain has doubled during the same period. There has been an 11% increase over the last year alone, according to figures provided by property portal Idealista, and housing has become Spaniards' biggest worry.

It's also generating anger, with Spaniards taking to the streets to demand action from the authorities to make housing more affordable. On Saturday, 5 April thousands of people are expected to protest in Madrid and dozens of other cities.

A report by Spain's central bank found that nearly 40% of families who rent now spend more than 40% of their income on their accommodation.

"The current problem is a huge imbalance between supply and demand," says Juan Villén, of Idealista. "Demand is very good, the economy is growing a lot, but supply is dwindling very fast."

Mr Villén offers the example of Barcelona, where rental increases have become notorious. Whereas nine families were competing to rent each property in the city five years ago, that number has risen to 54. Rental costs during that time have increased by 60%, he adds.

"We need to build more properties," says Mr Villén. "And on the rental side we need more people willing to rent their properties, or willing to buy properties, refurbish them and put them on the rental market."

The central government has described the situation as "a social emergency" and agrees that a lack of supply is driving the crisis. Last year, the Housing Ministry estimated that the country needs between 600,000 and one million new homes over the next four years in order to meet demand.

This need for more housing has been pushed up in part by the arrival of immigrants who have joined the workforce and are helping drive Spain's economic growth. The ministry also pointed to a lack of social housing, which at 3.4% of total supply, is among the lowest in Europe.

In 2007, at the height of a property-ownership bubble, more than 600,000 homes were built in Spain. But high building costs, lack of available land and a shortage of manpower have all been factors in restricting construction in recent years, with just under 100,000 homes completed in 2024.

The government has taken measures to incentivise construction, apportioning land for the building of affordable homes, while trying to ensure that public housing does not end up in the private market, which has been a problem in the past.

But the Socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has also expressed a willingness to intervene in the market in order to bring rental prices under control.

At a recent event to mark the opening of 218 low-rent flats in the southern city of Seville, he declared that Spaniards "want us to act, they want the housing market to operate according to the law of reason, of social justice, not the law of the jungle; they want to ensure that vulture funds and speculators are not doing whatever they like".

The central government and a number of local administrations have identified short-term tourist accommodation as part of the problem. Last year, the Canary Islands, the Balearic Islands and several cities on the mainland saw protests by locals against surging tourist numbers, with their impact on rental costs the main complaint.

Several city halls have responded by announcing plans to restrict the granting of tourist-flat permits, while Barcelona is going further, revoking the licences of all of the city's 10,000 or so registered short-term apartments by 2028.

The Sánchez government has also pushed through parliament a housing law, which includes a cap on rentals in so-called "high-tension" areas where prices are climbing out of control. Political resistance has meant that the legislation is so far only being implemented in the northern regions of the Basque Country, Navarre and Catalonia, and its success is open to debate.

The Socialist-led regional and central governments have pointed to a 3.7% drop in rental costs in "high-tension" areas of Catalonia since the cap's introduction there a year ago, with Barcelona seeing a decrease of 6.4%.

However, critics warn that the rental cap has spooked owners and caused thousands of properties to be withdrawn from the market.

"On the supply side, the problem is that all measures taken by the local or national governments are going against landlords," says Mr Villén. "Even people that were doing build-to-rent new properties have been selling their properties because they don't want to get into the rental market."

Another initiative proposed by the central government which has stirred up debate is a tax of up to 100% on properties bought by non-residents from outside the EU, on the grounds that such homes are often barely inhabited. This is a measure that, if rolled out, would heavily affect British buyers.

The conservative opposition has accused the government of being too heavy-handed with its approach. However, as public anger builds over this issue, there are many others who would like the country's leaders to act much more stridently.

Gonzalo Álvarez, of the Sindicato de Inquilinas e Inquilinos, an organisation that campaigns for tenants' rights, agrees that a shortage of available homes is a problem, but insists that building more is not the answer.

"There is a lack of housing because homes are being hijacked - on the one hand tourist flats, and on the other hand all the empty flats belonging to vulture funds and the banks," he says. "So there's no need to build more, it's not necessary. But the housing we have has been hijacked."

His organisation wants the government to impose drastic mandatory reductions in rent on owners and is threatening to orchestrate a nationwide strike by tenants that would see participants refuse to pay their rent.

"The [central and local] governments are not setting any limits," says Mr Álvarez. "So who is going to? We will have to do it."

Rural North Yorkshire is having its Hollywood moment.

The latest production to be filmed in the region is a new adaptation of the classic novel Wuthering Heights, which has just finished shooting in the Yorkshire Dales National Park.

It stars Australian actress Margot Robbie, who recently took the lead role in Barbie, and will play Cathy alongside Jacob Elordi's Heathcliff.

Emily Bronte's novel was written in 1847 and set in the rugged Yorkshire moors.

The locations chosen for the new film included Arkengarthdale, Swaledale and the village of Low Row. Robbie, 35, stayed at the hotel Simonstone Hall, near Hawes, with other cast members.

She was also photographed in a white wedding gown surrounded by film crew for a scene believed to be her marriage to Heathcliff's rival, Edgar Linton.

Fashion bible Vogue has criticised her dress as being historically inaccurate, as the style was only popularised by Queen Victoria 40 years after the story is set.

The hotel is a "historic country lodge" where presenter Jeremy Clarkson famously got into a fight with a Top Gear producer in 2015.

A staff member said Robbie was "very lovely" and even enjoyed a Sunday roast and afternoon tea there with her husband and new baby.

The employee told the BBC: "It was a very positive stay for over a week and they enjoying the restaurant and and eating in the bar with her co-stars and production crew too.

"The weekend was great fun, where she met lots of other guests and visitors and she introduced her baby to the resident pigs and peacocks here."

The film crew's base camp was near Holiday Home Yorkshire in Reeth, whose owner said it was "very exciting" seeing the trailers in the tiny village.

One local holiday let owner said he saw Robbie driving a tractor with her co-star - although the agricultural vehicles were not invented until the late 19th Century.

He said: "There were four tractors, old-fashioned open-to-the-elements style and they were being escorted by two Range Rovers."

Another Dales resident said he had seen filming at Surrender Bridge, which is close to an old lead smelting mill. The landmark also featured in the opening scene of the BBC series All Creatures Great and Small in the 1980s and is on the Coast to Coast path route.

Crew members also stayed at the Charles Bathurst Inn, in Arkengarthdale, and were described as "very friendly".

The film, directed by Emerald Fennell, is due for release in February 2026.

There are hopes that it will lead to an upsurge in interest in the Bronte sisters and their work.

The director of the Bronte Parsonage Museum, a literary museum located at the former Bronte family home in Haworth, West Yorkshire, said: "Every screen or theatre adaptation brings something fresh for contemporary audiences to think about.

"It is a testimony of Emily's legacy that her writing continues to inspire creatives today and we look forward to seeing what Emerald Fennell's adaptation adds to the mix."

Haworth Parsonage is where Emily Bronte wrote Wuthering Heights and lived with her sisters Charlotte and Anne, and it was gifted to the Bronte Society in 1928.

It has the largest collection of Brontë items in the world.

Director Rebecca Yorke added: "We're also delighted that some filming has taken place at nearby locations and hope that this will attract new visitors to the area and to the Brontë Parsonage Museum."

There have been at least 10 film and television adaptations of Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte's only novel.

One of the most well-known was the 1939 version starring Merle Oberon as Cathy and Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Other high-profile actors who have played Heathcliff over the years include Ralph Fiennes, Tom Hardy and Richard Burton.

Meanwhile, North Yorkshire was also the filming location for a Christmas film starring Rebel Wilson and Kiefer Sutherland.

Tinsel Town will be released in December 2025 and was shot in Knaresborough.

Wilson, 45, said at the time she "loved" the area and had been practising her Yorkshire accent.

In 2021, Tom Cruise surprised locals of Pickering when he touched down in a helicopter to shoot scenes for Mission: Impossible at a heritage railway.

The owner of a local B&B said in a Facebook post they had been walking the dog when they "bumped into" the Hollywood megastar.

Listen to highlights from North Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.

When Megan Ross was 14 years old, she opened some letters her dad had sent her from prison.

In them, Davie Clark explained why he had been absent throughout Megan's childhood.

He said he was addicted to drugs and did not want her to be around his lifestyle.

"I think that's probably the first time I understood why he wasn't in my life," she said.

"Because for a lot of years I did think: 'Did he not want me? Did he not love me?'

"But then reading the letters, it made me realise that wasn't the case at all."

Megan is now 26. Like her dad, she has spent years addicted to drugs - but they are both now in recovery.

Davie is at the beginning of the process, after relapsing into drug use last year. He wants to get sober and repair his relationship with his daughter.

Megan says, for her own recovery, she cannot be around her dad at the moment.

"That hurts, because he's my dad and I want to be there for him," Megan said.

"I can love him from a distance right now, and when he does go back into recovery then we can take the steps to be father and daughter again.

"Now that I'm sober, I want my dad back."

Addiction runs in Megan's family.

When she was five, her gran took her to live in Stranraer in south-west Scotland, about two hours' drive from her home in Glasgow.

She hoped bringing Megan up in a quieter area would keep her safe - but instead, her drug use would spiral out of control in the coastal town.

Megan started taking prescription pain relief medication at the age of 15 after being injured in a car accident.

She started swapping her medication for street valium. That term covers a number of different counterfeit versions of anti-anxiety medications, which make users feel spaced out and relaxed.

Megan began taking more and more, combining the pills with other drugs, such as cocaine.

She was soon involved in a party scene and her life became more and more chaotic.

Street valium was cheap and widely available. Megan could get 100 tablets for £25.

"I was probably taking about 50 valium a day," she told BBC Scotland's Disclosure programme.

"It was causing me to lie to my family. It was causing me to fight with the police, doing things that I just wouldn't do if I was sober.

"It was actually turning me into a horrible, horrible person."

Megan said pictures taken at the time showed how chaotic her life was.

"You can see it in my face, in my eyes. There's nobody there. I'm just lifeless inside."

Megan has now reached a point in her life where she is ready to stop using drugs and has been in recovery for seven months.

Her life is totally different.

She is at college, working towards qualifications she did not get when she was in high school. She is interested in science and hopes to become a lab technician.

Megan said moving from Stranraer to Glasgow had been fundamental in getting her life back on track.

She says there are more support services on hand to help her get off drugs.

Megan has been working with a service called Tomorrow's Women Glasgow.

It helps women who have complex needs with issues such as addiction, mental health and housing.

Megan has a support worker who has been there for her as she tries to rebuild her life.

"I feel like the luckiest person on earth, and I say that to everybody, because not everybody's as lucky as me," she said.

"Not everybody can get out, and I got out because of people I've got round me."

Megan says she cannot be around her dad at this stage in their recoveries, but hopes he will become part of her life again.

Davie is a cocaine and heroin user who spoke about his addiction as part of the BBC Disclosure documentary One More Fix.

He is among the 180 people who have used the UK's first drug consumption room, which opened in Glasgow in January. After a referral from the staff there, he has moved out of a hostel and into supported accommodation.

Now aged 47, he has been addicted to drugs for more than 20 years.

He first tried heroin inside HMP Barlinnie.

"I felt on top of the world if I'm being honest, because I had never had that feeling of anything doing that to me," Davie said.

"And from that day, at 21 years old, I couldn't wait to get out of prison to try it again, to get that buzz."

As a result of his on/off drug use, he has not been involved in Megan's life.

He has spent time living on the streets of Glasgow and begging for money.

Davie has also had periods in recovery when he has been doing well, taking part in stage productions and playing for Scotland in the Homeless World Cup.

But he relapsed last year, and in the last few months has been taking greater quantities of drugs than he had for years.

Now he is back in the early stages of recovery.

"I know where I can be, I know where I can get to... but time is running out," Davie said.

"My goals are to have a good relationship with my daughter, get to see my grandkids, and spend time as a normal human being and as a father."

'It's not my dad's fault at all'

Megan has been in and out of contact with her dad throughout her life.

When she told him she was using street valium, Davie blamed himself.

"I can see a lot of me in her, because of her age and, because that's the way I used to be," he said.

"I blame myself, because I wasn't there to guide her and tell her to stay away from this and stay away from that."

But Megan says she doesn't blame her dad for her drug use, or for being absent during much of her life.

"I ended up on drugs because the men I chose, the friends I chose, the lifestyle I chose. I don't for one minute think it's my dad's fault at all," she said.

Megan says her dad had been "lost" and stuck in a lifestyle which meant he did not want her around.

"As an adult now my heart just breaks for him, because I've been there."

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A man has been charged with murder after a 16-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Huddersfield.

Police were called to Ramsden Street in the town centre on Thursday and the boy was taken to hospital where he later died from a single stab wound to his neck.

Alfie Franco, 20 from Kirkburton, in West Yorkshire, is due to appear at Leeds Magistrates' Court later charged with murder and possessing a knife in a public place.

A man and a woman who were arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender have been released on police bail, West Yorkshire Police said.

The force said the incident was "not gang related" and has warned the public to be wary of false information.

"We are aware of misinformation circulating on social media, specifically X, regarding the circumstances of the incident and the ethnicities of those involved," a spokesperson said.

"We are limited in what we can say legally, but what we can advise is the incident is not gang-related or linked to any wider dispute between groups."

On Friday a crime scene remained in place around New Street and Ramsden Street as officers investigated.

The scene stretched from the borough's town hall up to the road's junction with New Street.

Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.

Rural North Yorkshire is having its Hollywood moment.

The latest production to be filmed in the region is a new adaptation of the classic novel Wuthering Heights, which has just finished shooting in the Yorkshire Dales National Park.

It stars Australian actress Margot Robbie, who recently took the lead role in Barbie, and will play Cathy alongside Jacob Elordi's Heathcliff.

Emily Bronte's novel was written in 1847 and set in the rugged Yorkshire moors.

The locations chosen for the new film included Arkengarthdale, Swaledale and the village of Low Row. Robbie, 35, stayed at the hotel Simonstone Hall, near Hawes, with other cast members.

She was also photographed in a white wedding gown surrounded by film crew for a scene believed to be her marriage to Heathcliff's rival, Edgar Linton.

Fashion bible Vogue has criticised her dress as being historically inaccurate, as the style was only popularised by Queen Victoria 40 years after the story is set.

The hotel is a "historic country lodge" where presenter Jeremy Clarkson famously got into a fight with a Top Gear producer in 2015.

A staff member said Robbie was "very lovely" and even enjoyed a Sunday roast and afternoon tea there with her husband and new baby.

The employee told the BBC: "It was a very positive stay for over a week and they enjoying the restaurant and and eating in the bar with her co-stars and production crew too.

"The weekend was great fun, where she met lots of other guests and visitors and she introduced her baby to the resident pigs and peacocks here."

The film crew's base camp was near Holiday Home Yorkshire in Reeth, whose owner said it was "very exciting" seeing the trailers in the tiny village.

One local holiday let owner said he saw Robbie driving a tractor with her co-star - although the agricultural vehicles were not invented until the late 19th Century.

He said: "There were four tractors, old-fashioned open-to-the-elements style and they were being escorted by two Range Rovers."

Another Dales resident said he had seen filming at Surrender Bridge, which is close to an old lead smelting mill. The landmark also featured in the opening scene of the BBC series All Creatures Great and Small in the 1980s and is on the Coast to Coast path route.

Crew members also stayed at the Charles Bathurst Inn, in Arkengarthdale, and were described as "very friendly".

The film, directed by Emerald Fennell, is due for release in February 2026.

There are hopes that it will lead to an upsurge in interest in the Bronte sisters and their work.

The director of the Bronte Parsonage Museum, a literary museum located at the former Bronte family home in Haworth, West Yorkshire, said: "Every screen or theatre adaptation brings something fresh for contemporary audiences to think about.

"It is a testimony of Emily's legacy that her writing continues to inspire creatives today and we look forward to seeing what Emerald Fennell's adaptation adds to the mix."

Haworth Parsonage is where Emily Bronte wrote Wuthering Heights and lived with her sisters Charlotte and Anne, and it was gifted to the Bronte Society in 1928.

It has the largest collection of Brontë items in the world.

Director Rebecca Yorke added: "We're also delighted that some filming has taken place at nearby locations and hope that this will attract new visitors to the area and to the Brontë Parsonage Museum."

There have been at least 10 film and television adaptations of Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte's only novel.

One of the most well-known was the 1939 version starring Merle Oberon as Cathy and Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Other high-profile actors who have played Heathcliff over the years include Ralph Fiennes, Tom Hardy and Richard Burton.

Meanwhile, North Yorkshire was also the filming location for a Christmas film starring Rebel Wilson and Kiefer Sutherland.

Tinsel Town will be released in December 2025 and was shot in Knaresborough.

Wilson, 45, said at the time she "loved" the area and had been practising her Yorkshire accent.

In 2021, Tom Cruise surprised locals of Pickering when he touched down in a helicopter to shoot scenes for Mission: Impossible at a heritage railway.

The owner of a local B&B said in a Facebook post they had been walking the dog when they "bumped into" the Hollywood megastar.

Listen to highlights from North Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.

Val Kilmer is joking around in his trailer on the set of Top Gun, pretending to bark demands into a packet of More cigarettes as if it's a phone and he's talking to the studio boss.

"He wants more! More sex! More drugs! More wine! More tobacco! More headaches! More ulcers! More herpes! More women! And less of Tom Cruise!"

Co-stars Rick Rossovich and Barry Tubb, also on a break from playing the film's elite fighter pilots, are in the trailer too, cracking up with laughter.

Rossovich, aka Cruise's on-screen partner Slider, is apparently the person who wants "more". Wearing shades but no shirt, he proceeds to pretend to throw a chair at Kilmer's head, before jumping out of the trailer into the sunshine and dancing off.

Kilmer took his video camera everywhere to film behind the scenes, and picked these snapshots of the carefree tomfoolery on the Top Gun set in 1985 as the opening shots for a 2021 documentary about his life.

"He had the first video camera I'd ever seen," recalls Tubb, who played Wolfman. "They got so tired of telling him to turn it off on the set of Top Gun that they finally just let it go.

"We had a fun time with it because we tried to catch everyone on the toilet with the video camera. That was our goofing around. So there's video somewhere of everyone with the door open on the toilet. We were goofballs."

He adds: "Cruise never hung out with us. It was all of us, except for Cruise. He was method acting as the loner, and we were all at this beach hotel, riding motorcycles down hallways and things."

And Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson, "unlike some producers, threw parties every other night", he says. "And so it was definitely in the air."

'Young and bulletproof'

Tubb is one of many former co-stars who have been fondly remembering Kilmer's acting and his antics, following his death at the age of 65.

"He was the coolest cat I've ever met," Tubb tells BBC News. "Not only did he have great acting chops, but he was funny as hell."

Top Gun was a breakthrough for Kilmer, who played Iceman, the rival to Cruise's hotshot Maverick at the US Navy's academy for elite fighter pilots.

On screen, saving the USA from Soviet MiG jets was serious business. Off screen, filming in California and Nevada, things were less serious.

"As Sean Penn once said, working in Hollywood is like being in high school with money," Tubb says.

"I was 22 years old, and I was the younger of the bunch.

"We had a deal that if one of us wanted to go to Mexico, all of us had to go. And Val had his van from high school, so we would all pile into Val's van and go over to Mexico for dinner.

"We were young and bulletproof."

Tubb whispered one of the film's famous lines when the class watched a video of aerial dogfights: "This gives me a hard-on."

That came about after he played a practical joke by switching the real tape in the academy's VHS player for a pornographic video.

"[Director] Tony Scott heard me say that and he said, 'Keep that in'. We were doing things like that. We were cutting up and having fun the whole time."

'Play up the rivalry with Tom'

Kilmer originally didn't want to appear in the film, saying he throught the script was silly and he disliked its warmongering.

To the audition, he "wore oversize gonky Australian shorts in nausea green" in an attempt to put the producers off, he wrote in his autobiography.

"I read the lines indifferently. And yet, amazingly, I was told I had the part."

The script contained "very little" substance to Iceman's character, he said in his documentary.

"So I attempted to make him real. I manifested a backstory for him, where he had a father who ignored him, and as a result, was driven by the need to be perfect in every way. This obsession with perfection is what made him so arrogant."

He added that he would "purposely play up the rivalry between Tom's character and mine off screen" as well as on.

"What ended up happening is the actors, in true method fashion, split into two distinct camps.

"You had Maverick and Goose on one side, and Slider, Hollywood, Wolfman and me, Iceman, on the other.

"It was fun to play up the conflict between our characters, but in reality I've always thought of Tom as a friend, and we've always supported each other."

By the time a sequel was finally shot in 2018 and 2019, Kilmer had suffered from throat cancer. He had a tracheotomy operation, affecting his voice and making it difficult to speak.

But Cruise was the one who insisted Iceman should return. The pair shared a highly emotional scene as Kilmer's character, now an admiral, typed out part of his side of the conversation on a screen, before sharing a hug.

"Cruise couldn't have been cooler," Kilmer said. "Tom and I took up where we left off. The reunion felt great."

Many of the cast had remained friends after the original film, Tubb says, and Rossovich's home in the Hollywood Hills became the "Top Gun club house".

"I remember going to Rick's house and they were painting Rick's kitchen, and Val got up on top of the refrigerator and did 20 minutes of Hamlet. Never missed a word."

Kilmer was "an actors' actor", who raised the bar for the rest of the cast, Tubb says.

"He had a level of artistry that transcended the Hollywood norm.

"Val was a cool cat. Also, he could back it up. I remember seeing The Doors movie and I just saw Jim Morrison.

"His ability to disappear into characters was incredible. Same with Iceman."

He adds: "Val, among his peers, was well loved. He came fully loaded."

The love for Kilmer has shone through in the tributes from his fellow actors.

Kelly McGillis, who played Cruise's love interest Charlie and starred with Kilmer in 1999's At First Sight, told the BBC in a statement: "I need some time to process what Val has meant in my walk here on Earth.

"He was an enigmatic presence sprinkled here & there throughout my journey. A force with depth & weight which will take some time to sort out.

"There are just so many feelings at the moment.

"Gratitude being the first."

Cheeseburgers on set

English actor and dancer Will Kemp, who appeared alongside Kilmer in the 2004 slasher film Mindhunters, said the news of his death came as a "real shock".

He recalls how the star had set him at ease and made him laugh with his "wicked sense of humour" when he was a nervous young actor on his first production.

"I entered into it with sort of trepidation really because I had heard all sorts of rumours about possible bad behaviour on set, and also he's this acting legend that I'd grown up with.

"But Val was really sweet, fun, generous, but really, really unpredictable!"

His memories of his first ever big scene will forever be tied up with Kilmer.

"I have a very clear memory of the first scene that I shot that was in a helicopter, and we're flying around with [director] Renny Harlin shouting, 'why are we not shooting?'

"We're halfway through take one, and Val - totally unscripted - somehow pulls out a cheeseburger and was just casually munching on it.

"He turns over to me and goes, 'hey, is everybody having fun?'

"It just blew my mind."

Kemp, also known for his portrayal of the Swan in Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake, admitted Kilmer's acting methods on set sometimes appeared to be "crazy" while at other times there were "moments of absolute genius".

He added: "He created so many iconic characters and was a real enigmatic movie star."

A family affair

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'A very low day'

As stock markets continue to tumble after the US imposition of sweeping and swingeing tariffs, many are asking does this qualify as a stock market "crash" and what that could mean for them.

The word crash has been used sparingly over the decades and is usually reserved for a fall of over 20% from a recent peak in a day, or over the course of a couple of days.

On 19 October, 1987 - also known as Black Monday - the US stock market lost 23% of its value in a single day, and other stock markets had similar falls. The UK FTSE index fell 23% over two days – partly because it closes earlier than New York, and so it often plays catch up with whatever happens in the US the next morning.

That was most definitely a crash.

In 1929, the US stock market lost over 20% of its value in two days - and 50% within three weeks. That was the famous Wall Street Crash that ushered in the great depression of the 1930s.

By comparison, the US stock market has lost around 17% of its value from its peak in February and is now down 2% from where it was this time last year.

Nevertheless, these are the biggest and quickest declines we have seen in world markets since they were gripped by the panic of Covid-19 in early 2020.

A decline of 20% from a peak is considered a "bear market" - a description of a market that appears to be more likely to go down than go up. We are very close to that description right now.

How does it affect you?

While many people own stocks and shares directly, most people's exposure to stock markets come through their pension plans. There are two types – defined benefit schemes which guarantee a fixed pension income, and defined contribution where your pension pot rises and falls with financial markets.

That may sound like defined contribution plans are very vulnerable to this sell off – but not all of your contributions go into shares. Much of the money goes into safer investments such as government bonds. These tend to increase in value when stock markets fall as they are seen as a "safe haven" along with other assets such as gold.

That is exactly what has happened here.

Government bonds have risen in value and that can offset some or all of the fall in shares depending on how your pension savings are allocated.

The closer to retirement you are, the higher percentage of your pension pot is likely to be invested in bonds - so the less affected you will be.

There have been many falls like this in the decades since the Wall Street Crash but in the long term, shares have turned out to be a good investment – and pension savings is a long term game.

So, does it matter?

It does matter. A company's share value is a measure of how profitable those companies are expected to be in the future. A plummeting market is an indication that most people think that most companies are likely to see their profits fall.

The markets believe that US President Donald Trump's tariff bombshell is expected to raise prices, lower demand and reduce profits, making companies less valuable and more inclined to cut investment and jobs.

So the real warning sign here is not about the value of your pension but about the health of the economy in which we live and work.

Falls like this sometimes, often even, herald an economic downturn. That is more of a worry than the value of your pension, which has seen and will see volatility like this over the years.

But that's not to say this is not a very big moment for the world economy.

Susan was no more than puzzled when she saw the first results from her home DNA testing kit.

Now a woman in her mid 70s, she had never known much about her grandfather, and paid for the private test to see if it threw up anything unusual.

"I did notice there was a lot of Irish heritage, which as far as I knew was wrong," she says.

"But I just pushed it aside and didn't think any more of it. I stopped paying for my subscription and that was that."

Except it very much wasn't.

It took another six years for Susan - not her real name - to realise everything she knew about her family history was wrong.

She later found out that back in the 1950s, she had been swapped at birth for another baby in a busy NHS maternity ward.

Her case is now the second of its type uncovered by the BBC. Lawyers say they expect more to come forward driven by the boom in cheap genetic testing and ancestry websites.

Out of the blue

A sharp, funny woman with shoulder-length white hair, Susan tells me her story from her sunny front room somewhere in southern England.

Her husband is sat next to her, jogging her memory and chipping in from time to time.

After taking that DNA test almost a decade ago, the genealogy company entered her data into its vast family tree, allowing other users to make contact with their genetic relatives – close or distant.

Six years later she received a message out of the blue.

The stranger said that his data matched hers in a way that could only mean one thing: he must be her genetic sibling.

"That was just panic. It was every emotion I could think of, my brain was all over the place," she says.

Susan's first reaction was that she may have been secretly adopted. Both her parents had died some years before, so she plucked up the courage and asked her older brother.

He was sure the whole thing was a scam. His sister had always been part of his life, and he was "absolutely certain" that one of his first memories was of his mother being pregnant.

Susan though still had her suspicions. She was slightly taller than her brother and, with her striking blonde hair, had never looked like the rest of family.

Her eldest daughter did some digging and found a copy of all the births registered in the local area on the day her mother was born.

The next baby on the list, registered at the same NHS hospital, had the exact same surname as the man who had contacted her through the genealogy website.

It couldn't be a coincidence. The only possible explanation was a mistake or mix-up in that maternity ward more than seven decades ago.

Until recently cases like this were unheard of in the UK, although there have been a handful of examples in other countries.

The standard practice in the NHS today is to place two wristbands around babies' ankles immediately after birth and keep mother and child together through their hospital stay.

In the 1950s maternity care was very different. Babies were often separated, placed in large nursery rooms and cared for by midwives.

"The whole system was far less sophisticated back then," says Jason Tang, from the London law firm Russell Cooke, which is representing Susan.

"It may be that staff didn't attach a card or tag immediately, or that it simply fell off and was put back on the wrong baby or on the wrong crib."

From the late 1940s the UK also saw a post-war baby boom putting more pressure on busy maternity services in the newly formed NHS.

This, of course, meant nothing to Susan for decades.

She grew up as part of a "normal, working class" household, met her husband and ended up working for the NHS herself in a "hands-on" clinical role.

Other than "a bit of the usual trauma" in her teenage years, she remembers her parents as a "very good, loving" couple who "did everything they could and always encouraged me".

"In a way, I'm so glad they are not here anymore to see this," says Susan. "If they are up there watching me, I really hope they don't know what's gone on."

If home DNA tests had been available earlier, she doesn't think she could have told them the truth "because it would have been so awful".

"But I really don't think that for me, anything has changed about them, they are still mum and dad," she says.

On the other hand, her relationship with the man she has always known as her older brother has, she thinks, been strengthened by what she's gone through.

"It's actually brought us closer together. Now we meet up more often and I get cards sent to 'my dear sister'," she says.

"Both he and his wife have been absolutely fantastic, honestly I cannot praise them enough."

She remembers receiving another "lovely letter" from a cousin at the time who told her, "Oh don't worry, you're still part of the family".

As for her new blood relations, she says the situation has been more difficult.

She has met up with the man who contacted her, her genetic sibling, and laughs as she remembers how similar they both looked.

"If you'd put a wig on him and a bit of makeup, it could honestly have been me," she jokes.

She has also seen photographs of the other person who she was swapped with at birth and her sons.

But building a relationship with that new side of her family has not been easy.

"I know they are my biological relatives but I didn't grow up with them so there's not that emotional connection there," she says.

"They closed ranks, basically, through loyalty to their sister which is admirable and I understand."

Susan's genetic parents died some years ago but she's been told she looks like her biological mother.

"I'd still like to know a bit more about her – what she was like and all that – but I never will, so there you go," she says.

"But if I take the emotion out of it, and just think logically and clearly, I was better off how I grew up."

Historic mistake

Susan is one of the first to ever receive compensation - the amount is not being disclosed - in a case like this.

She needed to take a second DNA test before the NHS trust involved accepted its historic mistake and made a "very lovely" apology.

Last year, the BBC reported on another decades-old case of babies swapped at birth, which again came to light after someone was given a DNA testing kit for Christmas.

Susan says the settlement was never about money but the recognition a mistake had been made all those years ago.

"I suppose you always want someone to blame, don't you?" she asks.

"But I know this will be with me for the rest of my life. I just wanted a conclusion."

On a quick drive around the small Ohio town of Delta, you can spot nearly as many Trump flags as American stars-and-stripes banners.

And at the petrol station near the Ohio Turnpike, the pumps bear relics of the last administration, with slogans slamming Trump's predecessor: "Whoever voted for Biden owes me gas money!"

This is Trump country - the Republican ticket easily won here in November's presidential election by a margin of almost two-to-one. And while the markets are in turmoil following Trump's unveiling of expansive global tariffs this week, plenty of people in Delta and hundreds of Midwestern towns like it still back the president's plans.

Those plans, to impose tariffs of between 10% and 50% on almost every country, have upended global trade and led to warnings that prices could soon rise for American consumers. Trump, meanwhile, has said the move will address unfair trade imbalances, boost US industry and raise revenue.

For some in Delta, the president's argument about fairness resonates.

"I don't want people in other countries to suffer, I really don't," said Mary Miller, manager of the Delta Candy Emporium, which sits in the middle of the village's Main Street. "But we need to have an even playing field."

Miller, a three-time Trump voter, believes other countries haven't played fair on trade. And like many here, she prefers to buy American-made goods.

As she watches over her stock of multi-coloured confectionaries, many of them made in the US, and weighs up how they might be impacted by fresh import taxes, she recalls how decades ago she heard that one of her favourite brands was moving its factories abroad. She hasn't bought another pair of Levi's jeans since.

Miller is unfazed by the possibility of price increases, which many economists say these new tariffs will bring.

"Sometimes you have to walk through fire to get to the other side," she said.

"If tariffs bring companies and business back to hard-working American people like the ones who live here, then it's worth it."

• Full list: See all Trump tariffs by country
• Watch: Why Trump's tariffs aren't really reciprocal
• Reaction: Americans react to the president's trade policy
• Explainer: What are tariffs, and why is Trump using them?
• Prices: Americans could pay more for these everyday basics

These sentiments are common in Delta, a village of around 3,300 people less than 100 miles (160km) south of Detroit, even as other Midwestern towns brace for sharp shocks.

The automotive industry, with its complicated global supply chains, seems particularly vulnerable to the impact of major new tariffs, with companies in Michigan to the north and Indiana to the west already announcing factory shutdowns and job cuts.

But on the outskirts of Delta, there is a cluster of steel businesses that have been here since the 1990s and which may be better placed in a new era of American protectionism.

One of these businesses, North Star BlueScope, has urged Trump to expand tariffs on steel and aluminium.

At the same time, however, it has asked for an exemption for the raw materials it needs, such as scrap metal.

North Star BlueScope did not respond to interview requests, but in a back room at the nearby Barn Restaurant, a few local steelworkers who had just finished the night shift were drinking beers together early on Friday morning.

The workers, who asked not to be named, mostly laughed and shrugged when asked about the sweeping new tariffs that were announced by Trump at the White House on Wednesday.

It was a pretty clear indication that this economic news is unlikely to ruin their weekend.

Outside the restaurant, some Delta locals considered the possible upsides of these import taxes.

"Nobody's frantic. We're not going to lose any sleep over it," said Gene Burkholder, who has a decades-long career in the agriculture industry.

Although he owns some stocks, Mr Burkholder said they were long-term investments and he was not obsessing over the sharp drops in the two days following the president's announcement.

"If you have some spare cash, maybe it's a good time to buy some shares while they're cheap," he said.

A couple of booths over, as she finished eating breakfast with her son Rob, Louise Gilson said - quietly - that she did not really trust the president.

But Gilson, along with many people here, said she wanted to see action. She wholeheartedly agreed when another diner commented: "Trump may be wrong, but at least he's trying."

"The other people wouldn't have done squat," she said, referring to the Democratic Party.

The Gilsons agreed that the big local industrial employers have generally been good neighbours, contributing to the local economy, charities and the wider community, even as they have seen some less desirable effects of industrial development and worry about unequal sharing of the economic pie.

And as they recounted Delta's history, they described a gradual erosion in quality of life that they believe has made many people willing to roll the dice even when economists say Trump's tariff plan comes with stark risks.

"It was a good little town to grow up in," Rob Gilson recalled. But he said it now seemed less safe and friendly than when he was growing up in the 60s and 70s.

"It seems like the heart of America is gone," he said.

Delta, Louise Gilson added, "is the kind of place where 25% or 30% of the people are struggling with their demons".

And while these issues have little to do with tariffs, the challenges faced by people in towns like Delta may go some way to explaining why many are willing to give President Trump the benefit of the doubt, even as markets plunge on faraway Wall Street.

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On a quick drive around the small Ohio town of Delta, you can spot nearly as many Trump flags as American stars-and-stripes banners.

And at the petrol station near the Ohio Turnpike, the pumps bear relics of the last administration, with slogans slamming Trump's predecessor: "Whoever voted for Biden owes me gas money!"

This is Trump country - the Republican ticket easily won here in November's presidential election by a margin of almost two-to-one. And while the markets are in turmoil following Trump's unveiling of expansive global tariffs this week, plenty of people in Delta and hundreds of Midwestern towns like it still back the president's plans.

Those plans, to impose tariffs of between 10% and 50% on almost every country, have upended global trade and led to warnings that prices could soon rise for American consumers. Trump, meanwhile, has said the move will address unfair trade imbalances, boost US industry and raise revenue.

For some in Delta, the president's argument about fairness resonates.

"I don't want people in other countries to suffer, I really don't," said Mary Miller, manager of the Delta Candy Emporium, which sits in the middle of the village's Main Street. "But we need to have an even playing field."

Miller, a three-time Trump voter, believes other countries haven't played fair on trade. And like many here, she prefers to buy American-made goods.

As she watches over her stock of multi-coloured confectionaries, many of them made in the US, and weighs up how they might be impacted by fresh import taxes, she recalls how decades ago she heard that one of her favourite brands was moving its factories abroad. She hasn't bought another pair of Levi's jeans since.

Miller is unfazed by the possibility of price increases, which many economists say these new tariffs will bring.

"Sometimes you have to walk through fire to get to the other side," she said.

"If tariffs bring companies and business back to hard-working American people like the ones who live here, then it's worth it."

• Full list: See all Trump tariffs by country
• Watch: Why Trump's tariffs aren't really reciprocal
• Reaction: Americans react to the president's trade policy
• Explainer: What are tariffs, and why is Trump using them?
• Prices: Americans could pay more for these everyday basics

These sentiments are common in Delta, a village of around 3,300 people less than 100 miles (160km) south of Detroit, even as other Midwestern towns brace for sharp shocks.

The automotive industry, with its complicated global supply chains, seems particularly vulnerable to the impact of major new tariffs, with companies in Michigan to the north and Indiana to the west already announcing factory shutdowns and job cuts.

But on the outskirts of Delta, there is a cluster of steel businesses that have been here since the 1990s and which may be better placed in a new era of American protectionism.

One of these businesses, North Star BlueScope, has urged Trump to expand tariffs on steel and aluminium.

At the same time, however, it has asked for an exemption for the raw materials it needs, such as scrap metal.

North Star BlueScope did not respond to interview requests, but in a back room at the nearby Barn Restaurant, a few local steelworkers who had just finished the night shift were drinking beers together early on Friday morning.

The workers, who asked not to be named, mostly laughed and shrugged when asked about the sweeping new tariffs that were announced by Trump at the White House on Wednesday.

It was a pretty clear indication that this economic news is unlikely to ruin their weekend.

Outside the restaurant, some Delta locals considered the possible upsides of these import taxes.

"Nobody's frantic. We're not going to lose any sleep over it," said Gene Burkholder, who has a decades-long career in the agriculture industry.

Although he owns some stocks, Mr Burkholder said they were long-term investments and he was not obsessing over the sharp drops in the two days following the president's announcement.

"If you have some spare cash, maybe it's a good time to buy some shares while they're cheap," he said.

A couple of booths over, as she finished eating breakfast with her son Rob, Louise Gilson said - quietly - that she did not really trust the president.

But Gilson, along with many people here, said she wanted to see action. She wholeheartedly agreed when another diner commented: "Trump may be wrong, but at least he's trying."

"The other people wouldn't have done squat," she said, referring to the Democratic Party.

The Gilsons agreed that the big local industrial employers have generally been good neighbours, contributing to the local economy, charities and the wider community, even as they have seen some less desirable effects of industrial development and worry about unequal sharing of the economic pie.

And as they recounted Delta's history, they described a gradual erosion in quality of life that they believe has made many people willing to roll the dice even when economists say Trump's tariff plan comes with stark risks.

"It was a good little town to grow up in," Rob Gilson recalled. But he said it now seemed less safe and friendly than when he was growing up in the 60s and 70s.

"It seems like the heart of America is gone," he said.

Delta, Louise Gilson added, "is the kind of place where 25% or 30% of the people are struggling with their demons".

And while these issues have little to do with tariffs, the challenges faced by people in towns like Delta may go some way to explaining why many are willing to give President Trump the benefit of the doubt, even as markets plunge on faraway Wall Street.