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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Papers written by World War Two codebreaker Alan Turing have sold for a "record-breaking" price of £465,400 after they were found in a loft and almost shredded.

The 1930s collection, which included a copy of Turing's PhD dissertation, went under the hammer in Etwall in Derbyshire on Tuesday.

Turing, considered by many as the father of modern computing, played a key role in WW2 in helping to break the German Enigma codes at Bletchley Park.

According to Hansons Auctioneers, one of the papers - On Computable Numbers - sold for "a remarkable" £208,000.

Auctioneer Charles Hanson said he was "astonished" when the documents surfaced during a valuation event in Nottinghamshire.

"To think these precious papers could've been lost to the shredder and now they will go on to educate and inspire generations," he said.

"Turing was a man ahead of his time, and through these pages, he lives on."

The papers were originally gifted to Turing's friend and fellow mathematician Norman Routledge.

After Mr Routledge died in 2013, the documents were found at his home in Bermondsey, London, and taken away by one of his sisters.

One of Mr Routledge's nieces, who has not been named, said they were untouched for years until the sister moved into a care home.

Her daughters found the collection and "considered shredding everything" before they checked with the nieces and nephews.

According to Hansons, Turing's PhD dissertation and On Computable Numbers are both hailed as foundational works in the field of theoretical computer science.

Lichfield-based Rare Book Auctions, sister company to Hansons, had valued both of the papers at between £40,000 and £60,000.

But the dissertation from 1938 or 1939, called Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals, sold for £110,500.

Other top selling lots included Computability and λ-Definability and The World Problem in Semi-Groups with Cancellation, which sold for £26,000 and £28,600 respectively.

Turing's final major work from 1952, called The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis, went for £19,500, while his first published paper from 1935, Equivalence of Left and Right Almost Periodicity, sold for £7,800.

In addition to the academic works, the sale featured personal items, including a handwritten letter from Ethel Turing explaining the gift of her son's papers to Mr Routledge.

Jim Spencer, director of Rare Book Auctions, said: "This was the most important archive I've ever handled.

"The papers came within inches of being destroyed, and instead they've captured the world's imagination.

"It's a once-in-a-lifetime discovery – not just for collectors, but for the sake of preserving the story of one of the greatest minds in history."

Mr Hanson added that the buyer was "absolutely over the moon" with the purchases.

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Activists in Venice have launched a series of protests against Amazon's founder Jeff Bezos, who is due to marry fiancée Lauren Sánchez next week in a lavish, multi-million dollar ceremony that could shut parts of the famous city down.

Jeff Bezos, 61, is the world's third richest person, with an estimated net worth of $220.9bn. He owns Amazon and space tech company Blue Origin.

Hundreds of high-profile guests are due to descend on Venice between 23 and 28 June for the nuptials, which will reportedly take over the whole island of San Giorgio, opposite St Mark's Square.

According to Italian media almost every luxury hotel has been booked out by the wedding party, as have many water taxis.

"Venice is being treated like a showcase, a stage," said Federica Toninelli, a 33-year-old Venetian activist affiliated with the No Space for Bezos protest group.

"And this wedding is the symbol of the exploitation of the city by outsiders... Venice is now just an asset."

No Space for Bezos unites activists belonging to various Venetian collectives – from those campaigning for more housing for Venice's dwindling population to the anti-cruise ship committee.

"These topics are all linked," Toninelli told the BBC. "They all have to do with Venice turning into a place that puts tourists, rather than residents, at the centre of its politics."

On Thursday the collective unfurled banners against Bezos from the bell tower of the San Giorgio Maggiore basilica and the Rialto Bridge. Next week, they plan to disrupt the festivities by jumping into the canals to hinder the water taxis and blocking various calli, Venice's narrow streets, to prevent the wedding guests from reaching the venue.

In a social media call-out for people to join the protests, activists accused conservative Venice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro of treating residents "like a nuisance... because for him the only valid use of Venice is as a backdrop for events that make the rich richer."

Organisers say the aim of the protests - which they insist will be entirely peaceful - is twofold.

"We want to spark a citywide conversation and to say that people like Bezos – who represent a future we don't want and a world we don't want to live in – are not welcome here," Toninelli said, citing Bezos' business ventures and his proximity to the Trump administration.

But Mayor Brugnaro said he was "ashamed" of the protesters: "What other city would organise a committee against the wedding of such an important person?"

"I hope [Bezos] doesn't have second thoughts," he said.

Echoing the mayor's indignation, jeweller Setrak Tokatzian – who heads the association of St Mark's shopkeepers – told Italian media that those who protest "hurt the city".

"This kind of event brings in work and wealth, otherwise all we have left is increasingly low-cost tourism."

Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez, an author and former news presenter, have been together for a number of years and became engaged in 2023.

Although details of the wedding have not been revealed, the No Space for Bezos committee believes the couple will tie the knot in the 10th Century Church of the Abbey of Misericordia.

About 200 guests are expected, with many staying in Venice's most exclusive hotels as well as on Bezos' yachts, the Koru and the Abeona.

According to Vogue magazine the guest list could include Kim Kardashian - who attended Sánchez's bachelorette party in Paris last month - and pop star Katy Perry, with whom Sánchez flew to space on a Blue Origin rocket earlier this year. Members of the Trump family are also rumoured to be attending.

Ms Toninelli said protesting Bezos' lavish wedding would bring attention to the wider problems facing her city and its fragile lagoon.

As local housing is replaced by holiday rentals, Venetians have left the city in droves. According to local activist group Ocio, in 2023 the number of tourists surpassed that of residents for the first time.

Its current population is just under 49,000, versus 175,000 in 1950.

Last year the city introduced an entrance fee for day trippers on peak dates. Mayor Brugnaro celebrated the scheme as a success, but opposition politicians argue it has not helped spread out the flow of tourists which flood Venice's narrow streets on a regular basis.

However, Ms Toninelli insisted she and other activists were not against the concept of tourism. "We also like travelling around the world. The problem here is not tourists - it's exploiting tourism and basing everything on it."

"We need to think about a post-tourism transition," she said, highlighting the need to move away from the concept of Venice as a stage for large, glitzy events.

"A city administration that puts residents - and not visitors - front and centre would be a good step forward."

Jeff Bezos' wedding is not the first large-scale celebration of this kind to take place in Venice.

In 2014 actor George Clooney married human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin in a glitzy affair that saw a host of celebrities descend on the Italian city's canals. There was no significant uproar against their event at the time.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stolen data did not include DNA records.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1. Bowing to Netanyahu pressure and escalating

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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2. The middle ground - holding the course

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

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

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

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

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

3. Listening to the Maga voices and pulling back

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This represents a considerable vulnerability for Trump.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Really?" asked McLean.

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

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

Hair-raising drama

Bad hair days. We've all been there.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This Morning interview gets a tad awkward

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Come Dine With Me - or drink with me?

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

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

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

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

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

Endless one-liners

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Additional reporting by Chris Gibson and Steven McIntosh.

Every time Aryan Asari heard the sound of an airplane, he would go darting out of the house to look for it.

Spotting planes was something of a hobby for him, his father Maganbhai Asari said. Aryan loved the roaring sound of the engine fill the air and then grow louder as the plane cruised above him, leaving behind chalky threads of contrail in the sky,

But now, the very thought of it makes him sick.

Last Thursday, the 17-year-old had been on the terrace of Mr Asari's house in Ahmedabad city, making videos of airplanes, when an Air India Dreamliner 787-8 crashed right before his eyes and burst into flames, killing 241 on board. Nearly 30 people were also killed on the ground.

The moment was captured by Aryan on his phone.

"I saw the plane. It was going down and down. Then it wobbled and crashed right before my eyes," he told BBC Gujarati in an interview earlier this week.

The video, now a crucial clue for investigators trying to find the cause of the crash, has sent ripples through the news media and put Aryan - a high school student - at the centre of one of the worst aviation disasters in the country's history.

"We have been swamped by interview requests. Reporters have been milling around my house day and night asking to speak to him," Mr Asari told the BBC.

The incident - and what has followed since - has had a "devastating impact" on Aryan, who is traumatised by what he saw. "My son is so scared that he has stopped using his phone," Mr Asari said.

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A retired army soldier, who now works with the city's metro service, Mr Asari has been staying for three years in a neighbourhood close to the airport. He recently moved to a small room located on the terrace of a three-storey building, with a clear view of the city skyline.

His wife and two children - Aryan and his elder sister - live in their ancestral village near the border between Gujarat and Rajasthan states.

"This was Aryan's first time in Ahmedabad. Actually, it was the first time in his life that he left the village," Mr Asari said.

"Whenever I'd call, Aryan would ask if I could spot airplanes from our terrace and I would tell him you could see hundreds of them streaking the sky."

Aryan, he explained, was an aeroplane enthusiast and liked looking at them as they flew in the sky over his village. The idea that he could see them much more closely from the terrace of his father's new home was very appealing to him.

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An opportunity presented itself last week when Mr Asari's daughter, who wants to become a police officer, travelled to Ahmedabad to write the entrance examination.

Aryan decided to accompany her. "He told me he wanted to buy new notebooks and clothes," Mr Asari said.

The siblings arrived at their father's house around noon on Thursday, roughly an hour-and-a-half before the crash.

The family ate lunch together, after which Mr Asari left for work, leaving the children at home.

Aryan stepped out on the terrace and started making videos of the house to show to his friends. That's when he spotted the Air India plane and began filming it, he told BBC Gujarati.

Aryan soon realised that something was not quite right about the aircraft: "It was shaking, moving left and right," he said.

As the plane went on a downward spiral, he kept filming it, unable to grasp what was about to happen.

But when thick smoke filled the air and fire spewed out of the buildings, he finally realised what he had just witnessed.

He sent the video to his father and called him up.

"He sounded so frightened - 'I saw it papa, I saw it crash,' he said to me and kept asking me what would happen to him. I told him to sit tight and not to worry," Mr Asari said. "But he was beside himself in horror."

Mr Asari also asked his son to not share the video further. However, too scared and shocked, Aryan sent it to a few of his friends. "The next thing we knew, the clip was everywhere."

The next few days were a nightmare for the family.

Neighbours, reporters and camera persons flooded Mr Asari's small house day and night, requesting to speak to Aryan. "We could do nothing to stop them," he said.

The family also received a visit from the police, who took Aryan to the station and recorded his statement.

Mr Asari clarified, that contrary to reports, Aryan was not detained, but that police questioned him for a few hours about what he saw.

"My son was so disturbed by then that we decided to send him back to the village."

Back at home, Aryan has resumed school but is "still not feeling like himself. His mother tells me that every time his phone rings, he gets scared", Mr Asari said.

"I know he will be fine with time. But I don't think my son will try looking for airplanes in the sky again," he added.

Additional reporting by Roxy Gagdekar, BBC Gujarati, in Ahmedabad.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reality star Kim Woodburn has died at the age of 83, her manager has confirmed.

The TV personality was best known for appearing on How Clean Is Your House and Celebrity Big Brother star.

Her manager told BBC News: "It is with immense sadness that we let you know our beloved Kim Woodburn passed away yesterday following a short illness.

"Kim was an incredibly kind, caring, charismatic and strong person. Her husband Peter is heartbroken at the loss of his soulmate.

"We are so proud of the amazing things Kim achieved in her life and career."

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Many Iranians have reacted with fear and dismay at Donald Trump's instruction to "immediately evacuate Tehran".

The capital's almost 10 million residents have now been left to decide whether to shelter in their homes - bracing themselves for what could come next - or attempt to join the heavy traffic leaving the country's capital.

President Trump made his comments just moments before cutting short his trip to the G7 in Canada, leaving many wondering if this could mean a further escalation in the conflict between Israel and Iran was imminent.

Many of those deciding to leave Tehran are posting images of their homes online, a poignant trend in Persian-language social media for those leaving their city behind.

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BBC journalists are currently unable to report in Iran due to restrictions by the Iranian government. However, BBC Persian and other BBC correspondents have received messages from people affected. They have also conducted interviews and monitored social media to gather people's stories. Many fear speaking to media could put them at risk inside Iran, so real names have not been used.

Some Iranians had already taken the decision to leave well before Israel issued the first evacuation order for parts of Tehran on Monday.

One resident, Arash, set off from Tehran at about 08:45 on Monday, driving through the town of Qazvin, in north-western Iran.

A journey that would typically last an hour-and-a-half took him nearly five hours.

"Many, especially those who live abroad, are trying to leave the country," he said.

Many more Iranians living in Tehran have decided to leave since Monday, braving traffic jams of up to 14 hours and fuel queues to flee - unsure if their homes will still be standing when they return.

It is expected that even more will attempt to make the arduous journey out of Tehran following Trump's comments.

Posting on social media, one resident wrote: "I packed up keepsakes from loved ones and necessities, watered my plants, and hit the road. Leaving home is unbearably hard when you don't know if you'll ever return."

Another said: "My home has never felt this sad. I don't know if I'll ever come back."

One user posted a picture of a workspace, with a computer and headphones, and wrote: "I said goodbye to the things I worked so hard to earn... I hope they'll still be here when I return."

Another added: "I said goodbye in silence, hoping to return one day to my beautiful safe haven."

'Where would I go?'

Others in Iran's largest city feel the evacuation orders are simply impossible to follow.

Narges has decided to stay in Tehran, despite becoming increasingly afraid. "Ever since Trump urged people to leave last night, it seems like many more are fleeing."

She says the roads are "overflowing" and "the traffic is a nightmare". Narges sees no point in trying to leave and being trapped on the road.

Israel's strikes in Tehran on Iran's state broadcaster on Monday served as a reminder of the risk she is taking. She lives near the headquarters. "It was terrifying, and so close," she said.

Some residents have decided to stay put because of elderly parents, young children, pets, medical needs, or simply lack of options.

One woman told BBC Persian she was pregnant and had a young daughter: "Everything I've built is here… where would I go?"

Another said she was single and did not want to risk undertaking the 800km journey to her family in Shiraz alone.

And a woman who said she was 40 years old and had two small children told the BBC she was "not going anywhere".

"If everything is going to be ruined, then I'd rather my kids and I go with our home - because I don't have the strength to start over again."

Trump's evacuation comments in the early hours of Tuesday were reportedly followed by explosions and heavy air defence fire in Tehran. Iran launched two waves of missiles in response to the Israeli attacks, setting off air raid alerts in parts of central and northern Israel.

Boarding Air Force One after leaving the G7, Trump told reporters that he wasn't flying back to Washington just to broker a ceasefire – he wanted something "better than a ceasefire".

"A real end," he said, which might include "a complete give-up".

Israel launched a surprise attack on nuclear infrastructure, scientists and military commanders on Friday last week.

Israel's strikes on Tehran have killed at least 224 people, according to Iranian state media. Tehran's retaliatory missile strikes against Israeli cities have claimed at least 24 lives, Israeli officials say.

Civilians on both sides have been killed in the exchange of strikes, with both Iran and Israel accusing each other of targeting residential areas.

Additional reporting by Taraneh Fathalian, BBC Persian

Thousands of Britons are stranded in Israel and unable to leave, as Iran and Israel continue to attack each other in an intensifying conflict that has been ongoing for days.

The Israeli airspace is closed until further notice and all flights have been grounded, with no sign of an imminent pause in hostilities.

Iran has launched hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel over the past few days in retaliation for Israeli strikes on its military infrastructure on Friday.

Speaking to the BBC, British nationals spoke of sleepless nights punctuated by the wail of sirens, constant trips back and forth to bomb shelters and the uncertainty of not knowing when they will be able to get home.

Many of those stranded are pressing for the UK government to do more to help them, but the BBC understands that, at this stage, there are no plans for an evacuation.

The UK government has advised against all travel to Israel and told British citizens in the country to follow local guidance.

Deborah Claydon, 41, a teacher from Hertfordshire, flew to Israel last Wednesday for what was supposed to be a three-day trip to attend her cousin's wedding.

She now finds herself trapped in Herzliya on Israel's central coast with her 81-year-old mother, as missiles fly overhead.

Three hours after they returned from the wedding last Thursday evening, "we heard sirens and had to go to the bomb shelter," she told the BBC.

"It was a trip of two halves: from elation to fear."

Every night since, Ms Claydon says she has been woken multiple times by alarms warning of incoming missiles and a count-down to get to a shelter. They are lucky, she says, as their hotel has a well-equipped shelter but "it's scary and a lot of people are panicky".

"I'm staying positive because my mum's here with me," the mother-of-three says. "But it's horrible. I don't want to be here anymore. I don't want to be woken up three times a night thinking I might be hit by a missile. I want to get home to my job and my kids."

At least 24 people have been killed in Israel since Friday, according to the Israeli prime minister's office. Iran's health ministry said that as of Sunday, Israeli strikes had killed more than 200 people across the country.

As hostilities entered the fifth day on Tuesday, both countries vowed further retaliation.

Tel Aviv's main international airport was shuttered on Friday and will not open until further notice, authorities have said. All flights to and from Israel have been suspended and thousands cancelled.

Around 40,000 tourists are stuck in the country, Israel's Ministry of Tourism has said. Among them are those who travelled to Tel Aviv for its annual Pride parade, which had been due to take place on Friday but was cancelled after hostilities broke out.

Some people are considering leaving Israel via land crossings to neighbouring Jordan or Egypt and getting flights from there.

On Tuesday, Ms Claydon, along with a group of tourists from other countries, began a long journey by car to the border with Egypt where she plans to travel to Sharm El-Sheik and fly home.

She said it is "too risky" to bring her mother, who will stay with her brother in a neighbouring town.

Speaking to the BBC ahead of the journey, Ms Claydon said she was "terrified".

"It's a very unstable, uncertain situation, not knowing am I safer to go or am I safer to stay? Neither is safe. You don't know when the airport's going to open. Could be days, could be weeks."

For some Britons, travelling by land is an impossibility.

Hannah Lyons-Singer, 43, arrived in Jaffa last Tuesday to care for her father, after he was hospitalised while on holiday in Israel with her mother. A few hours after he was discharged following a heart procedure, "war broke out," she says.

The mother-of-three, from London, said the situation was a strain on her elderly parents, particularly when her father, who is in his eighties, should be recuperating.

"We hear the explosions outside," she told the BBC. "Some of them sound really close. There's been direct hits within a couple of kilometres of us both over the past two nights."

She added that it is "stifling hot" in the shelter.

Ms Lyons-Singer is desperate to get home to her children and her father requires further treatment in the UK, but making the hours-long journey to the border isn't feasible in his current condition.

She has called on the UK Government to better support British citizens to return home.

"There's no guidance other than a warning not to travel to Israel," she says.

"They could be offering secure travel to Egypt or reassuring us that once the airspace opens, they will provide evacuation routes, but they haven't offered us any help at all.

"My fear is that even once the airspace opens, commercial flights may not immediately start again."

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Howard Youngerwood, 79, from London, travelled to Israel earlier this month for his granddaughter's Bar Mitzvah. The Jewish coming-of-age ceremony was cut short when hostilities erupted and they were ordered to evacuate the kibbutz near Jerusalem.

"We are exhausted," he said. "We spend a lot of time - hobbling in my case - getting to the shelters. It is taking a toll, especially when you hear of the casualties."

The retired judge, who has several ailments, including mobility issues, is unable to attempt a land crossing and doesn't consider it a safe option.

Angus Edy, 52, who is stuck in Tel Aviv with his 22-year-old son, Samuel, said the situation was "horrendous" and the "lack of care" shown by the UK government towards stranded Brits "shocking".

Since their flight was cancelled on Friday, they have been in and out of shelters. On Monday, after they felt the reverberation of a massive explosion from their shelter at the Gymnasia Isrotel, opposite the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, the hotel announced that it was closing and said they should seek a shelter further underground.

"It seems like the situation is getting more and more and more difficult," he said.

Mr Edy added that they had been phoning the British Consulate every day who had advised them to register for email alerts.

"We even went to the Embassy in person [on Monday] and they wouldn't even speak to us. It's just shocking the lack of care."

The Foreign Office (FCDO) has advised against all travel to Israel due to a "fast-moving situation that poses significant risks" which has "the potential to deteriorate further, quickly and without warning".

Official advice also advises against all travel to Iran.

Tourists from other nations are also stranded. The BBC spoke to the Joyner family, from the US, on Sunday, who were among those wrangling with when and how to attempt to leave.

Poland has said it will begin evacuating around 200 of its citizens in the coming days.

On Monday, deputy foreign minister Henryka Moscicka-Dendys said those "stuck as tourists" would leave via Jordan's capital Amman and then fly to Warsaw.

Meanwhile, the German foreign ministry has called on nationals in both Iran and Israel to enter their contact details in an online emergency system. About 4,000 have done so in Israel and about 1,000 in Iran. A spokesperson said there were no current evacuation plans from either country.

But other nations have evacuated its citizens - on Tuesday morning, a Czech government plane landed in Prague carrying 66 people from Israel, the defence minister confirmed.

Some 100,000 Israelis are estimated to be abroad and unable to return to Israel. Authorities have advised Israelis not to attempt land crossings due to security risks and await safer travel options.

Yellow heat health alerts have been issued for most of England, which means the weather poses a greater risk to vulnerable people.

The alerts cover Yorkshire and The Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East England, the South East, the South West and London and will be in place from 12:00 BST on Wednesday 18 June until 18:00 on Sunday 22 June.

How does the weather health alert system work?

The weather alert service warns the public in England when high or low temperatures could damage their health.

The system is run by the UK Health Security Agency and the Met Office.

It includes both heat health and cold health alerts

Heat health alerts are issued between 1 June and 30 September, and cold health alerts are published between 1 November and 30 March.

As well as warning the public, the system sends guidance directly to NHS England, the government and healthcare professionals during periods of adverse weather.

Alerts are categorised according to severity and include:

• headline weather conditions expected in the coming days
• details of how weather conditions will affect each region
• links to additional information, advice and guidance

The system was designed to help reduce illness and deaths during periods of extreme weather.

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What do the alert levels mean?

The level of alert is based on Met Office forecasts and data.

There are four levels ranging from green (least severe) to red (most severe):

Green

Green is the normal level, when advice is given on how people should prepare to respond if temperatures rise or fall.

Yellow

Yellow alerts are issued during periods of hot or cold weather that are only likely to affect those who are particularly vulnerable, for example the elderly, or those with existing health conditions.

Amber

Amber alerts are issued in situations that could potentially put the whole population at risk. The NHS may see increased demand on GPs and ambulances, for example.

Travel disruption is also likely.

Red

A red alert is the most severe.

It is issued in situations when hot or cold weather would be a significant risk to life, even for the healthy population, and could lead to failures of critical national infrastructure, such as power outages or roads and rail lines being closed.

What does hot weather do to the body?

As the body gets hotter, blood vessels open up. This leads to lower blood pressure, and makes the heart work harder to push the blood around the body.

This can cause mild symptoms such as an itchy heat rash or swollen feet, as blood vessels become leaky.

At the same time, sweating leads to the loss of fluids and salt and, crucially, the balance between them in the body changes.

This, combined with the lowered blood pressure, can lead to heat exhaustion and heatstroke. Symptoms include:

• dizziness
• nausea
• fainting
• confusion
• muscle cramps
• headaches
• heavy sweating
• tiredness

If blood pressure drops too far, the risk of heart attacks rises.

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Israeli forces have killed more than 51 Palestinians and wounded many more after opening fire near an aid distribution site in southern Gaza, witnesses and rescuers say.

The Hamas-run civil defence agency said Israeli troops fired on crowds near the aid site in Khan Younis. More than 200 people were reportedly injured.

The Israeli military has told the BBC it is looking into the reports.

It is the latest, and potentially the deadliest, of the almost daily shootings that have been taking place recently near aid distribution sites in Gaza.

Witnesses say that Israeli forces opened fire and shelled an area near a junction to the east of Khan Younis, where thousands of Palestinians had been gathering in the hope of getting flour from a World Food Programme (WFP) site, which also includes a community kitchen nearby.

A local journalist and eyewitnesses said Israeli drones fired two missiles, followed shortly after by a shell from an Israeli tank positioned between 400 and 500m away from the crowd. The explosions caused many casualties.

The crowd had assembled near a key road leading to the town of Bani Suheila, an area that has seen weeks of ongoing Israeli military operations.

Nasser Hospital, the main functioning medical facility in the area, has been overwhelmed by the number of casualties. It is so overcrowded that the many wounded are lying on the floor as medical staff treat their injuries.

In a statement the IDF said "a gathering was identified adjacent to an aid distribution truck that got stuck in the area of Khan Younis, and in proximity to IDF troops operating in the area."

It said it was "aware of reports regarding a number of injured individuals from IDF fire following the crowd's approach" and the incident was under review.

On Monday, the UN human rights chief Volker Turk said Israel was weaponising food and called for an investigation into the shootings near aid sites.

Addressing the UN Human Rights Council on Monday, he said: "Israel's means and methods of warfare are inflicting horrifying, unconscionable suffering on Palestinians in Gaza."

Yellow heat health alerts have been issued for most of England with temperatures set to soar across the country later this week.

Yorkshire and The Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East England, the South East, the South West and London are all covered by the alert which comes into force at 12:00 BST on Wednesday and lasts until 18:00 on Sunday.

The alert is the lowest behind amber and red on the UK Health Security Agency's (UKHSA) alerting system, but warns of possible impacts on health and social services.

Temperatures are set to be as high as 26C in London on Tuesday, with an area of high pressure building across the UK likely to bring the first heatwave of 2025 during the week.

All of the affected areas excluding Yorkshire and the Humber have been given a risk score of 10 out of a possible 16, meaning "significant impacts are possible" due to high temperatures.

The UKHSA's website says this includes a possible rise in deaths, particularly among those aged 65 and over or with health conditions, while younger age groups could also be affected.

An increase in demand for health services is likely, it said, and there is a risk the heat could affect the ability of people working in hospitals and care homes to deliver services.

Internal temperatures in hospitals, care homes and independent accommodation could also pose a risk to vulnerable people, it said.

Yorkshire and the Humber's score of seven means that only minor impacts are likely.

According to the Met Office, Tuesday will see cloudy weather with patches of rain in southern Scotland, the east of Northern Ireland, northwest England and northwest Wales.

Sunny spells and showers are expected in northern parts of the UK, and after a locally grey start further south, there will be some very warm sunshine.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman who was found with stab wounds at a house in east London following a suspected a gas explosion.

The Met Police and London Fire Brigade were called to reports of a blast with a person trapped inside a terraced house on Dumont Road, Stoke Newington, just before 05:00 BST.

The woman, 46, was pronounced dead at the scene.

The 44-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder was taken to hospital with slash wounds. His condition is not life-threatening, the Met Police said.

Two children aged seven and nine were also taken to hospital as a precaution, although they are not believed to have been inside the property at the time of the explosion.

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Patients who film their own medical treatment for TikTok or Instagram could be putting themselves and NHS staff at risk, the Society of Radiographers (SoR) has warned.

The trade union's annual conference heard that more patients were videoing their procedures on mobile phones, often without asking permission.

This could distract staff or make them feel uncomfortable and anxious, the society said.

Sharing material on social media also risks publicising the private medical data of other people who may be in the same room or area of the hospital.

"I had one patient whose relative started filming while I was trying to set up," said Ashley d'Aquino, a therapeutic radiographer from London.

"It wasn't the right time - I was trying to focus on delivering the treatment."

Ms d'Aquino, who is also a local union representative, said she had recently been contacted by other colleagues in a similar situation.

"We had a member of staff who agreed to take photos for a patient," she said.

"When the patient handed over her phone, the member of staff saw that the patient had also been covertly recording her, to publish on her cancer blog."

Most NHS staff wear identity badges and their names and job titles may be visible on videos posted online.

The union said another of its members, a department assistant from the south coast of England, was inserting a cannula as part of a cancer procedure, when the patient's 19-year old daughter started filming on her phone.

"She thought it would be entertaining on social media but she didn't ask permission," said the member of staff.

"I spent the weekend afterwards worrying: did I do my job properly? I know I did, but no-one's perfect all of the time," she added.

"I don't think I slept for the whole weekend."

NHS 'needs policies'

Ms d'Aquino said there were valid reasons for patients to record the audio of medical consultations - so they could listen back to the detail, for example.

"The difficulty is that our phones have become so much a part of our day-to-day life that recording and sharing has become second nature," she added.

Dean Rogers, the director of strategy at the SoR, is calling for NHS trusts to have clear policies in place that stop patients from filming without permission.

"As healthcare professionals, we need to think: does that recording breach the confidentiality of other patients? Does it breach our ability to deliver care?" he said.

"There are hospital trusts that have very good policies around patients taking photos and filming procedures but this is something all trusts need to have in place."

Prof Meghana Pandit, co-national medical director at NHS England, said it was vital that, if patients want to record any part of NHS care, they discuss it with staff first and it remains for their personal use only.

"Recording other patients inadvertently and without their permission risks breaching patient confidentiality – the information and treatment provided to other patients on NHS premises should never be recorded, let alone posted to social media," she added.

Plans to pedestrianise parts of Oxford Street will move forward "as quickly as possible", the mayor of London has said.

City Hall claims two thirds of people support the principle of banning traffic on one of the world's busiest streets, with Sir Sadiq Khan adding that "urgent action is needed to give our nation's high street a new lease of life".

Vehicles would be banned from a 0.7-mile (1.1km) stretch between Oxford Circus and Marble Arch, with further potential changes towards Tottenham Court Road.

Adam Hug, Westminster City Council's Labour leader, said the plan "was not the council's preferred outcome" but "it is now important for Oxford Street's future to move forward together".

Detailed proposals for traffic on Oxford Street, which sees an average of half a million visitors each day, will be consulted on later this year.

'Elephant in the room'

Tim Lord, chair of the Soho Society, said key questions remained unanswered, including about "traffic diversion and the impact of moving 16 bus routes into narrow, congested one-way streets in Marylebone and Fitzrovia".

He said: "No convincing plan has ever been presented; London is already a very slow city and will get worse.

"The elephant in the room is that Oxford Street's problems are to do with the quality and attractiveness of the retail offering, which is diminished by rents which are too high and which only ever increase."

He added that there were questions about bicycles and "equality of access for bus and taxi users" and "people with kids and heavy shopping or with mobility restrictions".

A previous consultation showed support for the scheme from local business owners (19%) and residents (34%) lagged behind visitors (62%).

In 2018, Westminster City Council - then led by the Conservatives - blocked the mayor's plans to pedestrianise the street, citing a lack of support from residents.

In 2022, the same council was widely mocked for a doomed attempt to entice visitors back to the area with the Marble Arch Mound, which opened incomplete, over budget and led to resignations.

The mayor's latest proposals depend on him obtaining permission from Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner in her role as secretary of state for housing, communities and local government to establish a new mayoral development corporation, which would provide planning powers.

Sir Sadiq said: "We want to rejuvenate Oxford Street; establish it as a global leader for shopping, leisure and outdoor events with a world-class, accessible, pedestrianised avenue.

"This will help to attract more international visitors and act as a magnet for new investment and job creation, driving growth and economic prosperity for decades to come."

'Roared back to life'

Mr Hug said: "Since the mayor's new approach was made public last autumn, Westminster has worked pragmatically and productively with the Greater London Authority to ensure that the plan for Oxford Street more closely meets the needs of businesses, visitors and residents.

"Since 2022, Oxford Street has roared back to life after the pandemic. Such is the level of retail confidence that existing brands have spent £118m refitting their stores in the last 12 months alone, according to Savills."

City Hall Conservative Alessandro Georgiou AM said: "We are concerned that the mayor is driving coach and horses through the plan drawn up by Westminster Conservatives, which had the popular support of residents and businesses, in order to secure himself even a shred of a positive legacy after last week's disastrous Spending Review.

"The mayor's polling claims to show how strongly Londoners feel about this issue, but he has yet to make a cogent case for why he needs to take power away from local councils in order to achieve this rather than working with them.

"We will continue to hold the mayor to account on his empty proposals, and encourage him to be clearer with the public about the impacts on congestion, public safety and disabled access, as well as how much his plans will cost."

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The US Supreme Court has rejected an attempt to revive the long-running copyright trial over his hit song Thinking Out Loud.

On Monday, the court refused to hear an appeal from Structured Asset Sales (SAS), which claimed Sheeran's song copied Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On, in which it has a copyright interest.

The move ends a decade-long legal battle, including two separate plagiarism trials, both of which ruled in Sheeran's favour.

"It's a huge relief," said Amy Wadge, who co-wrote Thinking Out Loud with Sheeran in 2014. "It's been rolling news under my life for 10 years but, yes, it's done."

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the Welsh songwriter said the copyright trials had "haunted" her for the last 10 years.

"The absolute truth is that song changed my life. I didn't have a hit until I was 37 and that was the one.

"I was able to feel like I'd had a hit for a year and then all of a sudden it felt like the wolves were surrounding.

"It was incredibly frightening."

Thinking Out Loud is one of the biggest songs of Sheeran's career. It spent more than two years in the UK singles chart, racking up 4.8 million sales in the UK, and won song of the year at the 2016 Grammy Awards.

Gaye's boudoir ballad, which was a number one hit in the US, was co-written with singer-songwriter Ed Townsend, who died in 2003.

Townsend's family first accused Sheeran and Wadge of copyright infringement in 2016, seeking $100m (£73m) in damages.

In court, Sheeran's team accepted that the two songs share a similar syncopated chord pattern.

However, they characterised the chords as the "building blocks" of pop music, which had been used in dozens of songs before and since Let's Get It On was recorded in 1973.

A New York jury ruled in Sheeran's favour in 2023, after which the star spoke about his decision to fight the case in court, rather than settle.

"I am not and will never allow myself to be a piggy bank for anyone to shake," he told reporters.

SAS, which was founded and run by investment banker David Pullman, also has a stake in Townsend's copyright, and sued Sheeran and Wadge separately in 2018.

After losing that case, SAS launched a series of appeals, including demands for a re-hearing, which was denied.

SAS was then left with the option of appealing to the Supreme Court, which it did in March.

But the court agreed with earlier findings that the chord progression and harmonic rhythms in Gaye's song are too commonplace to be legally protected.

"And no reasonable jury could find that the two songs, taken as a whole, are substantially similar in light of their dissimilar melodies and lyrics," Judge Michael Park wrote for the New York-based 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals.

Wadge said the ruling had ended "10 long years" of uncertainty.

"It was certainly a financial threat, but there was also... this huge existential threat of what it meant for the world of songwriting I always felt the weight of that.

"People would tell me that everyone was looking at this case and I knew that had [SAS] been successful it really would have caused a huge issue for creativity in general," she added. "It was a big responsibility."

After the 2023 trial, Wadge and Sheeran both got tattoos containing a phrase from the judge's verdict: "Independently created".

Asked if she would do the same again, Wadge laughed, saying: "My husband might have a bit of a problem with another tattoo."

The songwriter added that she hasn't been able to speak to Sheeran since the verdict, as he's currently on tour in Europe, but she added: "I'm quite sure at some point we'll be able to sit down and say, 'Thank goodness'."

When North Korea's new warship capsized into the sea during its launch last month, it made international headlines. News organisations followed every development, from its successful refloating to its relaunch last Friday.

But why such interest, given there were no casualties, and the damage to the hull appeared relatively minor?

The intrigue has less to do with the failure itself and more with how Kim Jong Un reacted.

Kim immediately denounced the failure as "a criminal act" that "could not be tolerated", saying it had damaged the country's "dignity". He ordered that the ship be restored immediately, and those responsible be punished. Four party officials were subsequently arrested.

This furious outburst, followed by the ship's swift repair, teaches us a lot about the North Korean regime, whose moves are often so difficult to decipher.

First, it reveals how serious North Korea is about building a nuclear-armed navy.

Despite having a nuclear arsenal, which is growing in size and sophistication, and an enormous standing army, North Korea's navy is considered greatly inferior to those of its enemies - South Korea, Japan and the United States - who have some of the most powerful naval fleets in the world.

"Kim Jong Un believes nuclear weapons are the only way he can protect his country, and yet all it has at sea is an old submarine and some small support ships," said Choi Il, a retired South Korean navy captain.

Therefore, almost since the start of his reign, Kim has prioritised building a modern and powerful navy, equipped with nuclear weapons.

This warship is a key first step towards this goal. It is one of two destroyers North Korea has built over the past year, the first of which launched successfully in April. Weighing 5,000 tonnes, they are by far the biggest warships North Korea has, and are capable, in theory, of firing nuclear short-range missiles.

According to Mr Choi, who now heads South Korea's Submarine Research Institute, it is extremely rare for a destroyer of this class to capsize during its construction and launch, given the advanced technology required to build one.

This would therefore have been "a very embarrassing incident" for Kim Jong Un, he said, as it "highlights the limitations of North Korea's shipbuilding".

Worse still, this flagship project failed in front of his eyes. Kim was attending the ship's launch ceremony, along with his daughter and a crowd of spectators.

"North Korea is obsessed with showing off. I imagine they were planning a whole series of performances, so of course Kim couldn't help but be furious", Mr Choi added.

But experts in North Korea propaganda believe there is far more to Kim Jong Un's outburst than raw anger and humiliation.

Choosing to publicise the capsizing in the way he did was a deliberate political strategy, they say, and shows Kim is shifting away from the regime's tendency to conceal unpleasant truths.

Rachel Minyoung Lee from the Washington-based Stimson Centre, who has analysed North Korean propaganda for decades, explained how this has become a core pillar of Kim's propaganda strategy.

Before Kim came to power, and even in the early years of his rule, the regime would hide anything negative as a way to control the narrative.

But as information has started to spread more freely in North Korea, it has become harder to cover up such major incidents.

"The leadership decided it was almost silly to try and hide what people already knew, and much more effective to show people they were dealing with problems," Ms Lee said.

"Now, when there's a problem, you publicise it, you call out those responsible, and demonstrate to people that if you don't do your job, you will be held accountable. And in doing so, you let everyone know that the government and the leadership are doing their jobs well".

In the case of the warship, this strategy appears to have worked remarkably effectively. The repairs were completed ahead of schedule, in just over three weeks, defying the expectations of naval experts.

"The rapid relaunch shows how even a failure can be turned into a political success," said Kim Dong-yup, an assistant professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul.

But he and others say Kim has used this incident not just to project success but to strengthen people's loyalty to the regime and its ideology – another consistent feature of his rule.

The ship capsized as it was launched sideways from the dock into the sea – a complicated maritime manoeuvre – and part of the bow got stuck on the launching ramp. But rather than present this as a technical failure, Kim Jong Un claimed the incident was caused by "absolute carelessness and irresponsibility."

In contrast, he praised a worker who died during the ship's construction, for "putting his blood and sweat" into the project.

"They turned his death into a symbol of devotion, to strengthen people's loyalty," said Professor Kim Dong-yup.

Rather than present Kim Jong Un as an infallible god as was the case for his father and grandfather, they elevated the loyal worker, he said. "This is a big shift in North Korea's governing technique and shows Kim Jong Un's astonishing ability to adapt and control the narrative".

The biggest takeaway for Ms Lee, the propaganda expert, is that "the North Koreans achieve whatever they set out to do."

"They set this goal of having a nuclear armed navy, and now they're demonstrating they're on their way to achieving that".

No-one thought they could build the destroyers in just over a year, or repair this damage in less than a month, but they have, Ms Lee added, much like they did with their nuclear and missile programme despite the world's initial scepticism.

The retired navy captain Mr Choi agreed. "People may look at this episode and laugh, and think 'oh, North Korea is so far behind', but they're making significant progress", he said.

Most concerning, say he and others, is that Kim Jong Un is intent on transforming his navy from one that is limited to patrolling its own seas into one that will be able to sail the world's oceans and launch pre-emptive nuclear strikes.

"We must be vigilant and prepare accordingly," he said.

Additional reporting by Hosu Lee and Leehyun Choi.

President Donald Trump has signed documents to reduce tariffs on UK cars being imported to the US, which will bring into force parts of a tariff pact agreed between the two countries last month.

Speaking at the G7 summit in Canada, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer called the move a "very important day" for both countries.

The pact was the first that the White House has announced since it imposed tariffs on various goods entering America from around the world earlier this year.

But a 10% levy remains in place on most goods, including cars, arriving to American shores from the UK.

As agreed last month, the US said it would allow up to 100,000 cars into the US at a 10% tariff, instead of the 25% import tax imposed by Trump on all car imports earlier this year.

The document said the US would set up a similar system for steel and aluminium, but did not specify what it would be.

"We're gonna let you have that information in little while," the US President said when asked if steel tariffs would be axed for the UK - a major part of the original tariff pact.

The order also agreed to remove tariffs on certain kinds of aerospace products.

Sir Keir said the deal "implements on car tariffs and aerospace", and described the agreement as a "sign of strength" between Britain and America.

The deal will come into effect seven days following its official publication.

Business and Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said the announcement was "the result of work happening at pace between both governments to lower the burden on UK businesses, especially the sectors most impacted by the tariffs".

"We will update parliament on the implementation of quotas on US beef and ethanol, part of our commitment to the US under this deal," he added.

US beef exports to the UK had been subject to a 20% tariff within a quota of 1,000 metric tons. The UK has scrapped this tariff and raised the quota to 13,000 metric tonnes.

But the UK government has insisted there will be no weakening of food standards and that any US beef imports will need to meet food safety requirements.

Reality star Kim Woodburn has died at the age of 83, her manager has confirmed.

The TV personality was best known for appearing on How Clean Is Your House and Celebrity Big Brother star.

Her manager told BBC News: "It is with immense sadness that we let you know our beloved Kim Woodburn passed away yesterday following a short illness.

"Kim was an incredibly kind, caring, charismatic and strong person. Her husband Peter is heartbroken at the loss of his soulmate.

"We are so proud of the amazing things Kim achieved in her life and career."

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Patients who film their own medical treatment for TikTok or Instagram could be putting themselves and NHS staff at risk, the Society of Radiographers (SoR) has warned.

The trade union's annual conference heard that more patients were videoing their procedures on mobile phones, often without asking permission.

This could distract staff or make them feel uncomfortable and anxious, the society said.

Sharing material on social media also risks publicising the private medical data of other people who may be in the same room or area of the hospital.

"I had one patient whose relative started filming while I was trying to set up," said Ashley d'Aquino, a therapeutic radiographer from London.

"It wasn't the right time - I was trying to focus on delivering the treatment."

Ms d'Aquino, who is also a local union representative, said she had recently been contacted by other colleagues in a similar situation.

"We had a member of staff who agreed to take photos for a patient," she said.

"When the patient handed over her phone, the member of staff saw that the patient had also been covertly recording her, to publish on her cancer blog."

Most NHS staff wear identity badges and their names and job titles may be visible on videos posted online.

The union said another of its members, a department assistant from the south coast of England, was inserting a cannula as part of a cancer procedure, when the patient's 19-year old daughter started filming on her phone.

"She thought it would be entertaining on social media but she didn't ask permission," said the member of staff.

"I spent the weekend afterwards worrying: did I do my job properly? I know I did, but no-one's perfect all of the time," she added.

"I don't think I slept for the whole weekend."

NHS 'needs policies'

Ms d'Aquino said there were valid reasons for patients to record the audio of medical consultations - so they could listen back to the detail, for example.

"The difficulty is that our phones have become so much a part of our day-to-day life that recording and sharing has become second nature," she added.

Dean Rogers, the director of strategy at the SoR, is calling for NHS trusts to have clear policies in place that stop patients from filming without permission.

"As healthcare professionals, we need to think: does that recording breach the confidentiality of other patients? Does it breach our ability to deliver care?" he said.

"There are hospital trusts that have very good policies around patients taking photos and filming procedures but this is something all trusts need to have in place."

Prof Meghana Pandit, co-national medical director at NHS England, said it was vital that, if patients want to record any part of NHS care, they discuss it with staff first and it remains for their personal use only.

"Recording other patients inadvertently and without their permission risks breaching patient confidentiality – the information and treatment provided to other patients on NHS premises should never be recorded, let alone posted to social media," she added.

At least 14 people have been killed overnight and dozens more wounded in Russian strikes on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, officials say.

It was one of the largest bombardments of the capital since the beginning of the full-scale invasion more than three years ago.

Ukraine's interior minister, Ihor Klymenko, said a total of 440 drones and 32 missiles had been launched at the country.

Meanwhile, Russian air defence units intercepted and destroyed 147 Ukrainian drones overnight, Moscow's defence ministry said.

The strikes on Kyiv lasted more than nine hours – sending residents fleeing to underground shelters from before midnight until after sunrise.

Officials said a ballistic missile hit a nine-storey apartment building in one district, with a total of 27 districts of the city coming under fire.

"Waking up in utter nightmare: people trapped under rubble and full buildings collapsed," Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko wrote on X.

Klymenko said rescue teams were still working to free people.

Loud explosions rocked the city, along with the rattle of the machine guns used by mobile Ukrainian air defence units to shoot down drones.

More sirens later in the morning disrupted rescue operations in the city, hampering emergency workers searching the rubble for survivors.

Russia has intensified its air attacks against Ukrainian cities in recent weeks, with a tactic of sending large waves of drones and decoys designed to overwhelm Ukrainian air defences.

Kyiv has launched attacks of its own, as direct talks between the warring sides failed to secure a ceasefire or significant breakthrough.

President Volodymyr Zelensky called Russia's most recent wave of strikes "pure terrorism".

He accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of carrying out the large scale strikes "solely because he can afford to continue this war".

"It is bad when the powerful of this world turn a blind eye to this," he said, adding: "It is the terrorists who should feel the pain, not normal, peaceful people."

Drone strikes also hit the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa, killing one person and injuring at least 10 others, Klymenko said.

Zelenksy had been hoping to speak with the US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Canada on Tuesday but Trump cut short his stay amid the escalating crisis in the Middle East.

The news will come as a blow to Zelensky and his administration, which had been hoping to secure US support at the conference for Ukraine's strategic and military goals.

US President Donald Trump has cut short his visit to the Group of Seven summit in Canada, with the White House saying he must return to Washington to deal with the escalating conflict between Iran and Israel.

"I have to be back early for obvious reasons," Trump said, as reports circulated he had instructed the White House National Security Council to meet upon his return.

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth earlier announced the "deployment of additional capabilities" to the Middle East to enhance the Pentagon's "defensive posture" in the region.

But American officials rejected suggestions that the US was about to join Israeli offensive operations against Iran.

The White House was at pains to emphasise that Trump had "a great day" at the summit, saying much was accomplished, including a trade deal between the US and UK.

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But the president's press secretary said he was leaving the gathering of world leaders at Kananaskis in the Canadian Rockies after dinner on Monday night because of "what's going on in the Middle East". She did not elaborate.

It means the US president will miss in-person meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum that were scheduled for Tuesday, the final day of the summit.

At a photo session on Monday, Trump said it was important he return to Washington for "big stuff".His departure came as Israel and Iran attacked each other for a fifth straight day.

Earlier the president posted on social media that Iran should have signed a deal that he put forward to them in the most recent round of US-Iran nuclear talks.

"Simply stated, IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON," he wrote. "I said it over and over again!"

Trump also urged Iranians on his social media platform Truth Social to "immediately evacuate" their capital, Tehran, a city of up to 17 million people. He did not offer further details.

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Shortly afterwards, Iranian media reported explosions and heavy air defence fire in Tehran early on Tuesday. That came hours after Israel targeted Iran's state broadcaster, forcing a presenter to flee mid-broadcast.

In Israel, air raid sirens wailed in Tel Aviv after midnight and an explosion was heard as Iranian missiles targeted the country again.

World leaders at the G7 summit said they understood Trump's need to leave early.

"If the United States can achieve a ceasefire, that's a very good thing," said French President Emmanuel Macron.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Trump's exit was "understandable", despite the two being scheduled to meet on Tuesday to discuss tariffs.

The G7 faced division earlier over conflicts between Russia and Ukraine and between Israel and Iran.

Trump was planning to reject a summit statement on the Iran-Israel conflict, according to the BBC's US partner CBS.

The draft called for de-escalation, included language about monitoring Iran, and urged both sides to protect civilians.

Trump also said at the summit that it had been a "big mistake" for the former G8 to expel Russia from the group in 2014 after it annexed Crimea.

"Putin speaks to me," said the US president. "He doesn't speak to anybody else... he's not a happy person about it."

But there was some progress as Trump and British Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer signed a deal on tariffs.

Trump told reporters the UK was "very well protected" from future import taxes. "You know why? Because I like them."

Monday also saw a bilateral between Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Trump, after which Carney said a trade deal might be struck between the two countries within 30 days to resolve tit-for-tat import taxes.

This marks the second time that Trump had left the G7 summit early. In 2018, at a summit in Quebec, Trump left the gathering to meet North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un.

Israel has claimed control of Iranian airspace since launching its air war last Thursday with a surprise attack that it says has killed many top military commanders and atomic scientists.

However, Israel does not appear to have achieved its goal of destroying Iran's nuclear development programme.

Military analysts say only the US has the bombers and bunker-busting bombs that can penetrate the deepest of Iranian nuclear facilities, especially that of Fordow.

Israeli strikes have killed at least 224 people in Iran, according to the Iranian health ministry. In Israel, the government said at least 24 people had died.

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