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MPs Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell will face no further action after being interviewed by police following a pro-Palestinian rally.

McDonnell said the pair had been questioned by officers after taking part in the demonstration in central London in January.

He told MPs: "It was alleged that we failed to follow police restrictions on the protest. This is untrue, and at all times we followed police instructions".

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn accused the Metropolitan Police of "picking on us two as members of Parliament".

A rally involving several thousand people took place in Whitehall in January after police blocked plans to hold a march from Portland Place, near the headquarters of the BBC.

Police had imposed a condition on the organisers of the rally under the Public Order Act that prevented them gathering outside the corporation's headquarters because of its close proximity to a synagogue and a risk there could be "serious disruption" as congregants attended services.

A further condition required the rally to be confined to Whitehall.

Speaking in the Commons on Friday, McDonnell said: "We can now report that the police have dropped the case against us, and there will be no charges".

He added that in correspondence with their solicitor, the Met had "informed us that our case was referred to the Crown Prosecution Service because as MPs we were to be held to have, and I quote, a 'greater culpability'".

"This is an unacceptable practice that flies in the face of the principle that we are all equal before the law," he added.

"I wish to place on record my concern about this behaviour by the Metropolitan Police".

Speaking after him, Corbyn said: "I saw this whole effort as being a means to try and silence the democratic rights of everyone in our society by picking on us two as members of Parliament".

Former Labour leader Corbyn was re-elected as an independent MP for Islington North after losing the Labour whip in 2020.

Hayes and Harlington MP McDonnell currently sits as an independent, after Labour suspended the whip from him for in July 2024 for voting against the government over child benefit rules.

In a statement on social media, the pair also called for charges to be dropped against Christopher Nineham, 63, of Tower Hamlets, and Benjamin Jamal, 61, who are facing trial next month on public order charges following the protest.

A Met spokesperson said: "No further action will be taken against nine people who were interviewed as part of an investigation into alleged breaches of Public Order Act conditions during a protest on Saturday 18 January.

"The decision in two cases was taken following a review of the evidence by the Crown Prosecution Service, while the remaining seven cases were decided on by police officers.

"Two men have been charged with breaching the same conditions as well as inciting others to do so. They will stand trial next month. A further two individuals remain under investigation."

A spokesperson for the Crown Prosecution Service said: "Following a thorough review of the evidence provided by the Metropolitan Police Service, we have decided not to bring criminal charges against two men, aged 76 and 73.

"We have concluded that the case did not meet the evidential test to provide a realistic prospect of conviction against the two men."

Two men have been jailed for stealing a £4.8m gold toilet from from an art exhibition at Blenheim Palace.

Thieves smashed their way in and ripped out the functional 18-carat, solid gold toilet hours after a glamorous launch party at the Oxfordshire stately home in September 2019.

James 'Jimmy' Sheen, 40,pleaded guilty to burglary, transferring criminal property and conspiracy to do the samein 2024, while Michael Jones, 39,was found guilty of burglaryin March.

The men, from Oxford, were sentenced to four years and two years and three months in prison respectively.

During sentencing at Oxford Crown Court on Friday, Judge Ian Pringle KC described it a "bold and brazen" heist that took "no more than five-and-a-half minutes to complete".

It happened just days after the artwork, entitled America and that was part of an exhibition by the Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan, went on show.

Sheen was a key player – a career criminal and the only man convicted of both burglary and selling the gold.

He pleaded guilty last year after police found his DNA at the scene and gold fragments in his clothing.

Police also recovered his phone that contained a wealth of incriminating messages.

Shan Saunders, the senior crown prosecutor on the case, said it was "unusual to have a phone that when downloaded contains so much information".

During the trial, jurors heard voice messages sent by Sheen to Fred Doe, a Berkshire businessman who was convicted for conspiring to sell the gold in March.

Saunders said interpreting the messages was "a long and complicated process", due to the blend of coded language, Romany slang and Cockney rhyming slang used.

In one message, Sheen confirmed he was in possession of some of the gold toilet.

It read: "I think you know what I've got… I've just been a bit quiet with it."

He also used the word "car" as code for gold.

" The car is what it is mate, innit? The car is as good as money," he said.

Within two weeks of the heist Sheen had sold 20kg (44lb) of gold – about one fifth of the toilet's weight – to an unknown buyer in Birmingham for £520,000.

A BBC investigation in Marchrevealed Sheen's criminal history.

It found he had been jailed at least six times since 2005 and led organised crime groups that had made more than £5m from fraud and theft – money that authorities had largely failed to recover.

There was no reaction from either of the men when their sentences were read out.

Sentencing Sheen, Judge Pringle said he had a "truly shocking list of previous convictions".

Speaking directly to Sheen, he said: "You were almost certainly the figure who carried the sledgehammer on which your DNA was found and which was used to sever the functioning toilet from its connecting pipes."

Sheen was already serving a 19-year sentence for previous crimes, and he will serve the four-year sentence for the heist consecutively.

The judge said Jones, who worked for Sheen as a roofer, also had a "long and unenviable list of previous convictions".

In the week leading up to the heist he paid two visits to Blenheim.

Just a day prior to the raid, on Sheen's instructions, he booked a timeslot on Blenheim's website to use the gold toilet.

While inside the cubicle, Jones snapped pictures of the golden toilet and a lock on the door.

In one of the trial's lighter moments he confirmed he did use toilet, calling the experience "splendid".

"Your role was to carry out a reconnaissance of the museum, to know exactly where the golden toilet was situated and to work out the quickest route in and out of the palace, I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever," Judge Pringle told Jones.

Speaking after sentencing, Det Supt Bruce Riddell, of Thames Valley Police (TVP), described Sheen as the "driving force behind the burglary, with his motive to make money by any means necessary".

"Jones also played a key part in the burglary, as he carried out two recces at Blenheim Palace in the days leading up to the burglary, and it is our belief that he also was there on the night," he continued.

Shan Saunders, for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), described it as an "extraordinary case" and "audacious theft".

"However, given the level of planning… it was unusual that the offenders left such a trail of evidence in their wake," she added.

"From phone messages to DNA traces found in a stolen car and on the sledgehammer used in the burglary, this wealth of evidence ultimately enabled us to secure their convictions."

She said the CPS had reviewed 30,000 pages of evidence.

In October 2019, just one month after the heist, police arrested Sheen and Jones but they were subsequently released. They were not charged for another four years.

Det Supt Riddell said: "We arrested 12 people in total in the investigation, and that brings with it a huge amount of digital devices to examine."

He also said it took months for key forensic evidence to be identified and that the investigation was slowed by the pandemic.

The BBC asked the probation service why Sheen was not recalled to prison in October 2019.

The Ministry of Justice said an arrest did not necessarily mean the offender had breached their licence conditions, and that Sheen was recalled to prison in May 2020 as soon as there was evidence he had done so.

Sheen has remained in prison since May 2020.

Five men were seen on CCTV carrying out the heist but it remains unclear whether Jones was actually at the raid, meaning either three or four burglars remain at large.

Det Supt Riddell said he was "fairly certain" officers knew who two of the other burglars were.

Only four of the 12 people arrested met the evidential threshold to bring charges, according to the CPS.

Det Supt Riddell said police were reviewing the case and appealed for anyone with information about the heist to contact TVP.

"I am aware that over the passage of time allegiances may change and it might be that someone out there has that one piece of evidence that may assist us in bring others to justice," he said.

Doe, from Windsor, Berkshire, was found guilty of conspiring to sell the gold and given a 21-month suspended sentence in May.

Bora Guccuk, a jeweller from London, was cleared of the same charge at trial.

The UN Ocean conference has been heralded a success, with more countries ratifying a key treaty to protect marine life and more progress on curbing plastics and illegal fishing in our seas.

Nearly 200 countries came together in Nice, France to discuss how to tackle the most pressing issues facing the oceans.

The world's seas are facing threats on multiple fronts from plastic pollution to climate change.

Sir David Attenborough said ahead of the conference that he was "appalled" by the damage from certain fishing methods and hoped leaders attending would "realise how much the oceans matter to all of us".

The key aim was to get the High Seas Treaty ratified by 60 countries to bring it into force. The agreement was signed two years ago to put 30% of the ocean into protected areas. Fifty countries had ratified by Friday, but dozens more promised to ratify by the end of the year.

This and other progress on plastics and illegal fishing appears to have restored faith in the ability of governments to work together.

"UNOC has given us a glimmer of hope that the challenges facing our ocean are being seen and will be tackled," said Tony Long, chief executive officer of Global Fishing Watch.

"As we edge closer to the High Seas Treaty coming into force, governments need to double down – using both transparency and new technologies – to safeguard the ocean," he added.

Prior to the UN Oceans Conference confidence in the multilateral process for solving the world's most pressing issues was low.

In 2024, key negotiations on biodiversity, plastics and climate collapsed or concluded with limited progress.

The aim of the meeting was not to sign a new legally-binding agreement but make progress on previous treaties.

Three years ago, countries agreed to protect 30% of land and sea by 2030 to support biodiversity.

For international waters this is hard to achieve as there is no clear controlling nation. So, in 2023 countries signed the High Seas Treaty agreeing to put 30% of these waters into marine protected areas.

Prior to the conference only 27 out of the 60 states needed to bring it into force had ratified. Over just a few days that figure jumped to 50, and a dozen more agreed to would ratify by the end of the year. The UK said it would begin the process before 2026.

This is record time for a UN agreement, explained Elizabeth Wilson, senior director for environmental policy at environmental NGO The Pews Trust.

"We have worked on many different treaties over the years and ratification often takes five years, seven years.

"So the fact the High Seas Treaty is on the cusp of it entering into force really shows the global momentum behind working to protect more of the high seas," she said.

Major nations including the US and China have not ratified the treaty although they are signatories, indicating their intention to do so in the future.

And Russia, which has never supported it because of concerns over its impact on fisheries, said on Friday it would continue with that stance.

But US diplomats experienced in UN negotiations praised the progress.

"From progress on the High Seas Treaty to French Polynesia's marine protected area, UNOC provided the latest proof that when we work together, real accomplishment is possible," said John Kerry, former US Secretary of State and Climate Envoy.

More countries also came forward with promises to put their own national waters into marine protected areas (MPAs) and restrict the most harmful fishing practices.

During the week the UKannounced it would seek to banbottom trawling in nearly a third of English MPAs.

This has been long been a demand of environmental charities, and more recently Sir David Attenborough, who argue that without such bans the protection just exists on paper.

The largest ever marine protected area was also launched by French Polynesia in its own waters, and 900,000 sq km of that will ban extractive fishing and mining – four times the size of the UK.

With this commitment and others made during the conference, 10% of the oceans are now in protection.

"This is sending a message to the world that multilateralism is important," Astrid Puentes told R4's Today programme on the final day.

"We need this leadership. The ocean is a single biome in the planet, it is all connected so we absolutely need to strengthen international law," she continued.

However, progress on limiting destructive fishing practices globally has been difficult without the participation of China – which operates the largest fleet in the world.

But at the conference its government announced it had now ratified the Port State Measures Agreement – a legal commitment to eliminate illegal and unregulated fishing.

Despite French President Macron opening the conferencewith a stark warning on the threats from deep sea mining, countries remained split on the issue.

Last week 2,000 scientists recommended to governments that all deep sea exploration be paused whilst further research is carried out; just 0.001% of the seabed has been mapped.

Despite this only 37 countries heeded the advice and have called for a moratorium on deep sea mining.

"More and more states need to call for a moratorium on seabed mining so that we have this regulatory framework in place before any mining activities can happen," said Pradeep Singh, an environmental lawyer and marine expert with the Oceano Azul Foundation.

President Trump abandoned the idea of a global approach in April when he declared that the US administration would start issuing permits for the activity.

But Mr Singh thinks even without calling for a ban most countries do not support the US approach.

At the final meeting of the conference countries passed the Nice Ocean Action Plan summarising their commitments.

The issue of plastic pollution is one that is particularly profound for the oceans, but in December talks on reducing the levels of production broke down.

There are nearly 200 trillion pieces in the oceanand this is expected to triple by 2040 if no action is taken.

Both the physical plastic and the chemicals within them is life-threatening to marine animals, said Bethany Carney Almroth, Professor of Ecotoxicology at the University of Gothenburg.

"There are more than 16,000 chemicals that are present in plastics, and we know that more than 4,000 of those have hazardous properties, so they might be carcinogenic, or mutagenic, or reproductively toxic," she said.

At the conference ministers from 97 countries, including the UK, signed a joint political statement saying they wanted an ambitious treaty to be signed on the issue.

But this only included one of the top ten oil-producing nations – Canada. Plastic is made from oil, so any commitment to reduce production could harm their income, the countries claim.

Reducing oil production is also crucial if countries want to see a drop in planet-warming emissions and limit the worst impacts of climate change.

The oceans are at the forefront of this – 90% of the additional heat put into the atmosphere by humans has been absorbed by the oceans,leading to increasingly destructive marine heatwaves.

This conference did not see any new commitments on reducing emissions, but poorer nations did push their richer counterparts to release previously promised money for climate action more quickly.

"I share the frustration of many small island developing nations in terms of the non responsiveness of international financial facilities," said Feleti Teo, prime minister of Tuvalu.

"We don't have influence to change their policies but we need to sustain the pressure, meetings of this sort give us the opportunity to continue to tell the story."

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Australia's defence minister woke up to a nightmare earlier this week – and it's one that has been looming ever since the United States re-elected Donald Trump as president in November.

A landmark trilateral agreement between the US, UK and Australia – which would give the latter cutting-edge nuclear submarine technology in exchange for more help policing China in the Asia-Pacific – was under review.

The White House said on Thursday it wanted to make surethe so-called Aukus pact was "aligned with the president's America First agenda".

It's the latest move from Washington that challenges its long-standing friendship with Canberra, sparking fears Down Under that, as conflict heats up around the globe, Australia may be left standing without its greatest ally.

"I don't think any Australian should feel that our ally is fully committed to our security at this moment," says Sam Roggeveen, who leads the security programme at Australia's Lowy Institute think tank.

On paper, Australia is the clear beneficiary of the Aukus agreement, worth £176bn ($239bn; A$368bn).

The technology underpinning the pact belongs to the US, and the UK already has it, along with their own nuclear-powered subs. But those that are being jointly designed and built by the three countries will be an improvement.

For Australia, this represents a pivotal upgrade to military capabilities. The new submarine model will be able to operate further and faster than the country's existing diesel-engine fleet, and allow it to carry out long-range strikes against enemies for the first time.

It is a big deal for the US to share what has been described as the "crown jewel" of its defence technology, and no small thing for the UK to hand over engine blueprints either.

But arming Australia has historically been viewed by Washington and Downing Street as essential to preserving peace in the Asia-Pacific region, which is far from their own.

It's about putting their technology and hardware in the right place, experts say.

But when the Aukus agreement was signed in 2021, all three countries had very different leaders – Joe Biden in the US, Boris Johnson in the UK and Scott Morrison in Australia.

Today, when viewed through the increasingly isolationist lens Trump is using to examine his country's global ties, some argue the US has far less to gain from the pact.

Under Secretary of Defence Policy Elbridge Colby, a previous critic of Aukus, will lead the White House review into the agreement, with a Pentagon official telling the BBC the process was to ensure it meets "common sense, America First criteria".

Two of the criteria they cite are telling. One is a demand that allies "step up fully to do their part for collective defence". The other is a purported need to ensure that the US arms industry is adequately meeting the country's own needs first.

The Trump administration has consistently expressed frustration at allies, including Australia, who they believe aren't pulling their weight with defence spending.

They also say America is struggling to produce enough nuclear-powered submarines for its own forces.

"Why are we giving away this crown jewel asset when we most need it?" Colby himself had said last year.

The Australian government, however, is presenting a calm front.

It's only natural for a new administration to reassess the decisions of its predecessor, officials say, noting that the new UK Labor government had a review of Aukus last year too.

"I'm very confident this is going to happen," Defence Minister Richard Marles said of the pact, in an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).

But there's little doubt the review would be causing some early jolts of panic in Canberra.

"I think angst has been inseparable from Aukus since its beginning… The review itself is not alarming. It's just everything else," Euan Graham, from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, tells the BBC.

There is growing concern across Australia that America cannot be relied upon.

"[President Donald Trump's] behaviour, over these first months of this term, I don't think should fill any observer with confidence about America's commitment to its allies," Mr Roggeveen says.

"Trump has said, for instance, that Ukraine is mainly Europe's problem because they are separated by a big, beautiful ocean. Well of course, there's a big, beautiful ocean separating America from Asia too."

Washington's decision to slap large tariffs on Australian goods earlier this year did not inspire confidence either, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese saying it was clearly "not the act of a friend".

Albanese has stayed quiet on the Aukus review so far, likely holding his breath for a face-to-face meeting with Trump on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Canada next week. This is a chat he's still desperately trying to get the US president to agree to.

But several former prime ministers have rushed to give their two cents.

Scott Morrison, the conservative leader who negotiated the Aukus pact in 2021, said the review should not be "over-interpreted" and scoffed at the suggestion another country could meet Australia's security needs.

"The notion… is honestly delusional," he told ABC radio.

Malcolm Turnbull, who was behind the French submarine contract that Morrison dramatically tore up in favour of Aukus, said Australia needs to "wake up", realise it's a "bad deal" which the US could renege on at any point, and make other plans before it is too late.

Meanwhile, Paul Keating, a famously sharp-tongued advocate for closer ties with China, said this "might very well be the moment Washington saves Australia from itself".

"Aukus will be shown for what it always has been: a deal hurriedly scribbled on the back of an envelope by Scott Morrison, along with the vacuous British blowhard Boris Johnson and the confused President Joe Biden."

The whiff of US indecision over Aukus feeds into long-term criticism in some quarters that Australia is becoming too reliant on the country.

Calling for Australia's own inquiry, the Greens, the country's third-largest political party, said: "We need an independent defence and foreign policy, that does not require us to bend our will and shovel wealth to an increasingly erratic and reckless Trump USA."

There's every chance the US turns around in a few weeks and recommits to the pact.

At the end of the day, Australia is buying up to five nuclear-powered submarines at a huge expense, helping keep Americans employed. And the US has plenty of time – just under a decade – to sort out their supply issues and provide them.

"[The US] also benefit from the wider aspects of Aukus – all three parties get to lift their boat jointly by having a more interoperable defence technology and ecosystem," Mr Graham adds.

Even so, the anxiety the review has injected into the relationship is going to be hard to erase completely – and has only inflamed disagreements over Aukus in Australia.

But there's also a possibility Trump does want to rewrite the deal.

"I can easily see a future in which we don't get the Virginia class boats," Mr Roggeveen says, referring to the interim submarines.

That would potentially leave Australia with its increasingly outdated fleet for another two decades, vulnerable while the new models are being designed and built.

What happens in the event the US does leave the Aukus alliance completely?

At this juncture, few are sounding that alarm.

The broad view is that, for the US, countering China and keeping the Pacific in their sphere of influence is still crucial.

Mr Roggeveen, though, says that when it comes to potential conflict in the Pacific, the US hasn't been putting their money where its mouth is for years.

"China's been engaged in the biggest build-up of military power of any country since the end of the Cold War and the United States' position in Asia basically hasn't changed," he says.

If the US leaves, Aukus could very well become an awkward Auk – but could the UK realistically offer enough for Australia to sustain the agreement?

And if the whole thing falls apart and Australia is left without submarines, who else could it turn to?

France feels like an unlikely saviour, given the previous row there, but Australia does have options, Mr Roggeveen says: "This wouldn't be the end of the world for Australian defence."

Australia is "geographically blessed", he says, and with "a reasonable defence budget and a good strategy" could sufficiently deter China, even without submarines.

"There's this phrase you hear occasionally, that the danger is on our doorstep. Well, it's a big doorstep if that is true… Beijing is closer to Berlin than it is to Sydney."

"There is this mental block in Australia and also this emotional block – a fear of abandonment, this idea that we can't defend ourselves alone. But we absolutely can if we have to."

Former England football captain David Beckham has been awarded a knighthood in the King's Birthday Honours, as have actor Gary Oldman and musician Roger Daltrey.

UK Honours typically celebrate the contribution of well-known personalities, government employees and ordinary people who have served their community.

Most UK honours are awarded on the monarch's official birthday in June and at the new year.

The 2025 Birthday Honours also made Dames of author Pat Barker and singer Elaine Page, while Strictly Come Dancing presenters Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman were awarded OBEs.

The reality TV personality Georgia Harrison was made an MBE for her work on online privacy after her former partner was jailed for sharing a video of them having sex.

In themost recent New Year Honours, actor Stephen Fry, former England football manager Gareth Southgate and London Mayor Sadiq Khan were among those knighted.

The list also included an MBE for Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson, and CBEs for services to drama for actresses Sarah Lancashire and Carey Mulligan.

Dissolution honoursare typically given to politicians when Parliament ends before a general election.

Outgoing prime ministers can also awardresignation honours.

Former Prime Minister Rishi Sunaknamed 36 people in his resignation honours list- most of whom were high-profile former Conservative ministers, and advisors.

Boris Johnson and Liz Truss both issued resignation honours when they left office in 2022.

Johnson'scontroversial listinitially contained eight names rejected by the body which approves appointments to the House of Lords.

Trusswas widely criticisedfor submitting an honours list after only 49 days in the job.

TheNew YearandKing's Birthday honoursare awarded by the King following recommendations by the prime minister or senior government ministers.

Members of the publiccan also recommend people for an award. These nominations typically make up about a quarter of all recommendations.

Honours' lists include awards for people who:

Resignation and dissolution honours are decided by the relevant prime minister and do not go through the same process.

The Foreign Office has responsibility for the Diplomatic Service and Overseas List. Honorary awards for foreign nationals are recommended by the foreign secretary.

Honours are traditionally kept confidential until the official announcement.

Honours are typically awarded by the King, Prince of Wales or Princess Royal, at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle or the Palace of Holyroodhouse.

Recipients can select their investiture's date and location but not which member of the Royal Family will preside over the ceremony.

British Empire Medals are presented locally by lord-lieutenants, who represent the King.

People in line for an honour arechecked by the Honours and Appointments Secretariat, which is part of the Cabinet Office government department.

The Cabinet Office has agreements with other government departments to let it access confidential information about nominees.

For example,HMRC provides a low, medium or high-risk ratingon a nominee's tax affairs.

Peerages are vetted bythe House of Lords Appointments Commission.

A Parliamentary and Political Services Committee considers honours for politicians and for political service.

When somebody is approved for an honour, they are sent a letter asking if they will accept it.

A list of 277 people who turned down honours between 1951 and 1999 – and subsequently died -was made public following a BBC Freedom of Information request.

It includedauthors Roald Dahl, JG Ballard and Aldous Huxley, and painters Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud and LS Lowry.

The late poetBenjamin Zephaniah rejected an OBE in 2003because of the association with the British Empire and its history of slavery.

Some people have had their honours withdrawn by the Honours Forfeiture Committee.

They includedisgraced former entertainer Rolf Harris, who went to prison for 12 indecent assaults on four girls, and Anthony Blunt, the former art adviser to the Queen who was revealed to be a Soviet spy.

In January 2024, former Post Office bossPaula Vennells said she would hand back her CBEafter facing mounting pressure over the Horizon IT scandal.

Twelve months earlier, actor and TV presenterAlan Cumming returned his OBEover what he called the "toxicity" of the British Empire.

The honour of knighthood comes from the days of medieval chivalry, as does the method used to confer the knighthood – the accolade, or the touch of a sword, by the sovereign.

A knight is styled "Sir" and their wife "Lady".

Women receiving the honour are styled "Dame" but do not receive the accolade.

The honour is given for a pre-eminent contribution in any field of activity.

The rank of Knight Commander (KBE) or Dame Commander (DBE), Order of the British Empire, appears on the Diplomatic Service and Overseas list.

The Order of the Bath is an order of chivalry and was founded in 1725 for service of the highest calibre.

It has a civil and military division and is awarded in the following ranks: Knight Grand Cross (GCB), Knight Commander (KCB) and Companion (CB).

The Order takes its name from the symbolic bathing which, in former times, was often part of the preparation of a candidate for knighthood.

Order of St Michael and St George

This Order was founded by King George III in 1818 and is awarded to British subjects who have rendered extraordinary and important services abroad or in the Commonwealth.

Ranks in the Order are Knight or Dame Grand Cross (GCMG), Knight or Dame Commander (KCMG or DCMG) and Companion (CMG).

Order of the Companions of Honour

This is awarded for service of conspicuous national importance and is limited to 65 people. Recipients are entitled to put the initials CH after their name.

King George V created these honours during World War One to reward services to the war effort by civilians at home and service personnel in support positions.

The ranks are Commander (CBE), Officer (OBE), and Member (MBE).

They are now awarded for prominent national or regional roles, and to those making distinguished or notable contributions in their own specific areas of activity.

The medal was founded in 1917 and was awarded for "meritorious" actions by civilians or military personnel, although the recipients did not attend a royal investiture.

Scrapped in 1993 by Conservative Prime Minister John Major, the BEM was revived in 2012.

By 1896, prime ministers and governments had increased their influence over the distribution of awards and had gained almost total control of the system.

In response, Queen Victoria instituted The Royal Victorian Order as a personal award for services performed on behalf of the Royal Family.

The ranks are Knight or Dame Grand Cross (GCVO), Knight or Dame Commander (KCVO or DCVO), Commander (CVO), Lieutenant (LVO) and Member (MVO).

Associated with the Royal Victorian Order is the Royal Victorian Medal which has three grades: gold, silver and bronze. The circular medal is attached to the ribbon of the Order.

Founded in 1883 by Queen Victoria, the award is confined to the nursing services. Those awarded the First Class are designated "Members" (RRC): those awarded the Second Class are designated "Associates" (ARRC).

Awarded for distinguished service in the police force.

Given to firefighters who have displayed conspicuous devotion to duty.

Awarded for distinguished service in the ambulance service.

Awarded to civilians, for acts of exemplary bravery.

King's Commendation for Bravery

Awarded to civilians and all ranks of the British armed forces, for actions not in the presence of an enemy.

King's Commendation for Bravery in the Air

Awarded to civilians and all ranks of the British armed forces, for acts of bravery in the air not in the presence of an enemy.

Israel has hit Iran with its biggest wave of air strikes in years, targeting the country's nuclear programme, and is promising to continue its attacks.

Senior military figures and nuclear scientists were killed in the overnight strikes and there are unconfirmed reports that civilians, including children, were also among the victims. In response, Iran launched about 100 drones towards Israel, most of which were intercepted, according to the Israeli military.

Israel said it had launched a another wave of strikes on Friday evening, with reports of more explosions in Iran, but the scale of that attack and the damage caused is not yet clear.

Video analysed by the BBC shows multiple strikes overnight in the capital Tehran as well near three reported military sites and Iran's main nuclear facility in Natanz.

Israel's military said it had struck "dozens of military targets, including nuclear targets in different areas of Iran".

It later released a map of the sites it said it had hit which included nuclear facilities, missile facilities and radar defences, as well as scientists and military commanders.

Explosions were first reported in Tehran at about 03:30 local time (01:00 BST), with Iranian state TV saying residential areas were among those hit.

Blasts were heard in the north-east of the capital and explosions reported at the airport, according to analysis by the US-based Institute for the Study of War.

The BBC has confirmed one of the locations as the site where Iranian media reported that former head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation Fereydoon Abbasi and nuclear scientist Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi were killed. Iran has confirmed that at least six of its nuclear scientists were killed.

Iranian state media showed footage of fires burning in buildings and plumes of smoke rising from the city's skyline.

Key Iranian commanders have also been killed, including the chief of staff of the armed forces, and the commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

Among the other sites hit is Iran's main uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, in the centre of the country. Iranian state TV said it was struck several times, with pictures showing black smoke billowing from the site.

Israel's military said the strikes had caused significant damage.

The facility, about 225km (140 miles) south of Tehran, has enrichment plants above and below ground.

Uranium can be used to produce fuel for commercial nuclear power plants, research reactors or weapons depending on the level of enrichment.

The Institute for Science and International Security said satellite images show damage and destruction to several buildings around the complex, including the pilot fuel enrichment plant, which holds centrifuges and research facilities, as well as the on site electrical substation that provides power to the facility.

The global nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said it was informed by Iranian authorities that there has been no increase in radiation levels at the Natanz plant.

Iran has long maintained that its nuclear programme is for civilian purposes only. It has several facilities around Iran, at least some of which have been targeted in the Israeli strikes.

But many countries – as well as the IAEA – are not convinced Iran's programme is for civilian purposes alone. It has nuclear facilities spread across much of the country.

The strikes come as US talks over Iran's nuclear programme, which began in April, appear to have stalled in recent days. The next round of talks was scheduled for Sunday.

US President Donald Trump has urged Iran to "make a deal" on its nuclear programme, "before there is nothing left". Other world leaders have called for restraint on both sides.

IAEA head Rafael Grossi said nuclear facilities "must never be attacked" and such strikes have "serious implications for nuclear safety, security and safeguards, as well as regional and international peace and security".

In a statement to board members, he called "on all parties to exercise maximum restraint to avoid further escalation", saying "any military action that jeopardises the safety and security of nuclear facilities risks grave consequences for the people of Iran, the region, and beyond".

Most newspapers lead on the Iran-Israel crisis.

"All-Out War" is the main headline forthe Daily Mail.

The front pages of boththe Daily Telegraphandthe Daily Mirrorfocus on Tehran's retaliatory strikes on Tel Aviv, featuring photographs of a "fireball" and plumes of smoke in the sky.

The Timescarries an image of missiles being intercepted over the city.

The Guardian saysthe Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has warned that his country's attacks on Iran, targeting Tehran's nuclear programme, are "just the beginning".

The i Weekend offersmore details on the Israeli strikes.

The paper says videos released by Israel's military appear to show agents launching drone attacks from within Iranian territory.

The Times carriesa similar report, saying the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad, set up a secret drone base in advance in Iran.

According to the Telegraph,there are hopes the flickering lights seen by the sole survivor of the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad could help to reveal the cause of the disaster.

The British man who managed to escape the wreckage has spoken of how green and white lights in the cabin turned on and off shortly before impact.

Experts have suggested this points to problems with the plane's engine.

And many of the papers reflect on the King's birthday honours.

"Proper Posh" is howDaily Mirror sums upthe news that David Beckham is to be knighted.

And a couple of the front pages celebrate the fact that the 18-year-old darts sensation Luke Littler is being awarded an MBE.

The Daily Star jokesthat the initials should stand for Master of the Bulls Eye.

The Sun's headlineis "Luke who got a gong".

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