A man in his 50s has died after a Bugatti sports car and an ambulance collided in Bedfordshire.
Police were called to reports of a crash involving the classic blue sportscar and an ambulance travelling with blue lights on along the northbound carriageway of the A6.
The victim was pronounced dead at the scene, near Barton Road junction, and police later confirmed he was the driver of the car.
While the man has not been formally identified, police have said his next of kin have been informed and are receiving support.
Two other people were also injured in the incident.
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Sergeant Tim Davies, from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire road policing unit, said: "Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the victim at this time."
He also urged anyone who witnessed the collision and those who were driving along the road at that time to get in touch with Bedfordshire Police.
Health campaigners say the government's obesity strategy is "falling apart", after it delayed bans on multi-buy deals for junk food and pre-watershed TV advertising for at least a year.
Chef Jamie Oliver said banning adverts was vital to protecting child health.
Multi-buy deals made "people spend more on junk, and less on healthy food", the Children's Food Campaign said.
The Department of Health and Social Care said the planned ban - due to be brought in in October - on "buy one get one free" deals for food and drinks high in fat, salt or sugar as well as free refills for soft drinks, would be put on hold for 12 months.
Plans to restrict TV advertising of junk foods before the 21:00 GMT watershed and paid-for online adverts are also being paused and will not come into force until January 2024, the department added.
It added curbs on junk food placement in stores would still go ahead this October.
Writing on Twitter, Mr Oliver - who has long campaigned to improve children's access to healthier food - said restricting junk food advertising was crucial.
"This is a wasted opportunity and it starts to erode the whole obesity strategy - which at some point looked progressive and world leading written down, but is falling apart when it comes to acting on these policies," he said.
"Parents and kids don't want to hear any more excuses from the government. I really hope the Prime Minister @BorisJohnson proves me wrong and shows real leadership to give young people a healthier and fairer future."
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The delay was also criticised as "unconservative" by former health minister Lord Bethall, who said it would be "extremely difficult" for the government to come back to the plans before the next election.
Lord Bethell, who previously served in Boris Johnson's government, said illnesses caused by excessive junk food consumption were placing a burden on the NHS and the taxpayer.
It also found that people do not stockpile the extra food and drink, but increase their consumption instead.
A study released by Cancer Research UK in March has also found "strong evidence" of targeted advertising of junk food on social media directly influencing young people aged 11 to 19 into making unhealthy choices.
The charity's chief executive, Michelle Mitchell, said she was "incredibly disappointed" over the decision to postpone the bans, saying obesity was the second biggest preventable cause of cancer in the UK.
Obesity - what does the data say?
About two thirds of adults in England were overweight or obese - with 28% of these considered to be obese - according to the NHS' most recent health survey in 2019.
When surveying children aged 10 to 11 years old, this rose to 25.5% obese and 15.4% overweight.
These figures showed large increases on the previous year, when 9.9% of children aged four to give and 21% of children aged 10-11 were obese.
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Barbara Crowther, of the Children's Food Campaign, said ministers should be urgently curbing multi-buy offers.
"Obesity is spiking and millions of families can't afford to put proper food on the table. Multi-buy offers make people spend more on junk, and less on healthy food," she said.
"This delay threatens the UK target to halve childhood obesity by 2030. Boris is playing politics with our children's health."
Labour's shadow health minister Andrew Gwynne said: "Instead of cutting childhood obesity, preventing ill-health and easing pressure on the NHS, this chaotic government is performing another U-turn."
However, public health minister Maggie Throup insisted the government remained committed to tackling the issue of childhood obesity.
"Pausing restrictions on deals like 'buy one get one free' will allow us to understand its impact on consumers in light of an unprecedented global economic situation," she added.
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The British Retail Consortium said the ban on multi-buy deals was unlikely to make much difference as retailers have "largely moved away" from them in recent years.
Andrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the consortium, welcomed the delay on adverting rules as "one less distraction" for companies looking to focus on keeping prices down.
And industry body the Food and Drink Federation argued that it makes sense to delay restrictions on multi-buy deals as families and manufacturers struggle with high inflation. It would also give the industry time to prepare for a change in the law, it said.
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The government has delayed plans to crackdown on unhealthy food deals and TV adverts for junk food for a year.
Promotions such as buy-one-get-one-free (bogof) offers and extra free deals on products high in fat, salt and sugar (HFSS) would have been banned under the new measures, part of the wider Obesity Strategy, in October.
Instead the promotions will be banned in October 2023.
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said the new measures would have coincided with a rise in energy and goods prices.
The ban on HFSS adverts on TV before 9pm and paid-for adverts online is also being delayed for a year and will instead come into force in January 2024, due to a delay to the Health and Care Bill receiving royal ascent and the industry needing more time to prepare, the government said.
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It also said a consultation on TV and paid-for-adverts online would be launched in the coming weeks.
Health campaigners were dismayed at the news, with one accusing Prime Minister Boris Johnson of "playing politics" with children's health.
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Government should not be 'delaying and dithering'
However, Public Health Minister Maggie Throup said: "We're committed to doing everything we can to help people live healthier lives.
"Pausing restrictions on deals like buy one get one free will allow us to understand its impact on consumers in light of an unprecedented global economic situation."
But Barbara Crowther, of the Children's Food Campaign, said the government should not be "delaying and dithering" but should move faster on Bogof deals.
"Obesity is spiking and millions of families can't afford to put proper food on the table. Multi-buy offers make people spend more on junk, and less on healthy food," she said.
"This delay threatens the UK target to halve childhood obesity by 2030. Boris is playing politics with our children's health."
Shadow public health minister Andrew Gwynne said: "Boris Johnson's desperation to cling on to his job means the ideology of Conservative MPs is being placed above children's health.
"Instead of cutting childhood obesity, preventing ill-health and easing pressure on the NHS, this chaotic government is performing another U-turn."
Delaying restrictions 'makes sense'
However the "pragmatism" of the government's action was welcomed by industry body the Food and Drink Federation (FDF).
Kate Halliwell, the FDF's chief scientific officer, said: "At a time when both families and our manufacturers are struggling with high inflation, it makes sense to delay the restrictions on volume promotions for everyday food and drink products, including breakfast cereals, ready meals and yoghurts, as it risked further stretching already-pressed household budgets.
"We also welcome the delay to the start of advertising restrictions, given the time it will take our industry to prepare for the change in law."
Restrictions on the placement of less healthy products in key locations such as checkouts, store entrances and aisle ends and their online equivalents will still come into effect in October.
The government said addressing obesity remains a priority as it will reduce the strain put on the NHS as it works to tackle the COVID backlog.
Last month, the government introduced calorie labelling in large restaurants, cafes and takeaways.
Prince William has personally given bowel cancer awareness champion Deborah James her damehood.
The Duke of Cambridge visited her family home in Surrey to hand over the honour, and was seen beaming with the podcaster, who is also known as Bowel Babe.
Ms James said she was "utterly honoured" that Prince William had joined her family for afternoon tea and champagne.
"Prince William actually came to our family house today! It's quite surreal having a royal pop in at home, and yes you can imagine the cleaning antics and preparation went off the scale - but it was all irrelevant because William was so kind and he put us all at ease," she said in an Instagram post.
The 40-year-old has been moved to hospice-at-home care to treat her terminal bowel cancer after telling followers she does not know "how long I've got left".
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In a heart-breaking post, she said her body was no longer "playing ball".
On Friday, she revealed her donation fund - in partnership with Cancer Research UK - has raised more than £5m for clinical trials, research, and raising awareness of bowel cancer.
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Ms James thanked an "incredibly generous donation earlier today" and "every single person" who had helped raise funds, saying she was "completely lost for words".
It was announced on Thursday that Ms James would receive a damehood for her work raising awareness of the killer disease.
Commenting on her royal visit, she said it was a "special day" for the whole family and would make "memories to last a lifetime".
In a personal tweet, they described her as "inspiring" and thanked her for her "tireless efforts" on raising awareness of her condition.
"Deborah, our thoughts are with you, your family and your friends. Thank you for giving hope to so many who are living with cancer. W & C," they wrote.
Ms James was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2016 and has been sharing candid posts about her progress and diagnosis to hundreds of thousands of Instagram followers.
She hosted BBC podcast You, Me and the Big C, which had also been hosted by fellow presenter Rachael Bland until Ms Bland's death in 2018 from breast cancer.
Alliance Party leader Naomi Long said the DUP's announcement is ''frustrating"
"It's hugely frustrating, as members of society, that we're not going to have a Government formed, that we're not even going to have an Assembly where the basics can be done, like scrutinising ministers who are still in post ... It is an incredibly frustrating position that we find ourselves in," she told BBC Radio Ulster.
Ms Long said the DUP had "considerably less votes" than the other parties combined who were in favour of going back into government, PA report.
She also warned DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson not to "overplay his hand" in negotiations with the UK Government over the Northern Ireland Protocol.
"When you play with fire, you will get burned. We saw this with Brexit where the DUP had influence - they overplayed their hand and they ended up with the mess that we are now in and they're now asking us all to fix it," she said.
"They are playing with fire again, because the institutions in Northern Ireland cannot survive in the way they are being abused.
"The people who need these institutions most and who need stability in Northern Ireland are unionists, so I would caution Sir Jeffrey about assuming that, in another election, there will be willing partners to go into government beyond it or indeed willing people to fight a further election.
"We have just had an election. It's incumbent upon us all to accept the outcome of it and to make it work. That's our job as politicians.
"I think the DUP is playing a very dangerous game with the institutions and with the future of Northern Ireland."
Richard Ratcliffe has warned the government that there are "lessons to be learned" from his wife Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's six-year captivity in Iran after she and her family met with Boris Johnson this afternoon.
Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was released in March after the UK agreed to settle a £400m debt with Tehran dating from 1979, was accompanied to the meeting in Downing Street byher husband Richard and their daughter Gabriella.
Other Foreign Office officials were also present at the meeting, which was the first Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe has had with the PM since her return to the UK.
Speaking in Downing Street after the meeting, Mr Ratcliffe told broadcasters: "It was two years ago that I stood here having seen the prime minister and I came out fairly forlorn, in the sense that we were having to battle for longer.
"I think there are lessons to learn, there is a wider problem.
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"We talked about the mistakes made at the end. It was rough at the end, and I think, when Nazanin is ready to talk about it, that is something that we need to go through.
"But no, I think, it is not like when this is over that you feel angry. Relief is what I honestly feel."
Mr Ratcliffe added: "I don't think it was an abrasive meeting."
Labour's Tulip Siddiq, Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe's constituency MP, also attended the meeting with the family.
Speaking afterwards, Ms Siddiq said Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe told Mr Johnson she feels "guilty" that she is back in Britain when others remain in the "same conditions that she went through" in Iranian prisons.
"We raised Morad Tahbaz and also raised the case of a man who is on death row who is from Sweden, because the prime minister has just come back from Sweden, and we said that the pressure has to be kept up," the Labour MP said.
"Nazanin kept making the point that people who went in quite soon around the time that she went in, they are not home yet and she is home and she feels very guilty about that.
"She wants them to be back as well and she can't sit here and enjoy her life knowing there are people going through the same conditions that she went through.
"And she talked a bit about what she went through when she was actually in jail and it was quite difficult to hear actually.
"It is not like I don't know the details but to hear it again quite in the manner she was laying it out was quite difficult to hear."
Image:Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was reunited with her family in March
Ms Siddiq added that the PM looked "quite shocked" when Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe told him she had lived in the "shadow of his words" for "the best part of four-and-a-half years".
Ahead of the meeting, the PM's spokesperson said: "We've said previously that the prime minister was open to meeting both Nazanin as well as Mr (Anoosheh) Ashoori.
"It is something we have been trying to arrange. I've set out that he is going to welcome her to Downing Street to discuss her ordeal in Iran."
The official said the meeting was "something we've worked together on to make happen".
In 2017, Mr Johnson erroneously informed MPs that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been "teaching people journalism" before her detainment by Iranian authorities.
Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's family and her employer have both maintained Mr Johnson's comments were untrue.
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Richard Ratcliffe told Sky News that the PM didn't apologise
Asked whether the PM would be apologising to Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the spokesman replied: "I think it is important to remember that it was the Iranian government who were responsible for her unfair detention, and the decision to release her was always in their gift.
"However, I would point back to the prime minister's words, his answers to questions on this before and he has previously apologised for his comments in 2017."
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Nazanin 'haunted' by imprisonment
Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been critical of the failure of the Foreign Office to secure her release sooner.
In a news conferencein March after her return to the UK, which saw her reunited with her husband Richard and daughter Gabriella, the former hostage said "what happened now should have happened six years ago".
She said: "I was told many, many times that 'oh, we're going to get you home'. That never happened.
"How many foreign secretaries does it take to get someone home? What happened now should have happened six years ago."
She added that the "meaning of freedom is never going to be complete" until Morad Tahbaz and other dual nationals who have been held in Iran are released.
Last month, chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee and Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat said Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe is "right to ask for answers" as he launched a select committee inquiry into the government's handling of her six-year Iran hostage ordeal.
