some breaking news now from newcastle crown court.ound guilty of holly mick's murder at the crown court. he was also convicted of stabbing another boy who had tried to help her. mcphail had stopped holcomb —— holly, who was 15, before repeatedly stabbing her in an alleyway, this after he ended their relationship. let's go to newcastle and speak to our correspondence who has been following the case. a lengthy sentencing remark today, take case throughout the judge came to that sentence of 17 years. it was a long speech that the judge gave to us here after what has been an incredibly long legal process. holly newton was stabbed to death in that alleyway in hexham 18 months ago and it has been an incredibly complicated process to get here because logan macphail suffers from some learning difficulties and also has been diagnosed with autism spectrum —— autism spectrum disorder. they were trying to determine if he was fit to plead. that means 0c able to understand the court process. he was found fit to play because he ended up here at newc

today, at newcastle crown court, christopher bell pleaded guilty to being the owner.he president of the national farmers' union is accusing the government of an extraordinary betrayal, over its plans to charge some farmers inheritance tax. sir keir starmer said today, he understands the issue is causing concern. it's, getting noisier by the day and we are nearly three weeks on from the budget. we have a foretaste of what's to come tomorrow, i think, at the weekend, the labour conference in wales, in llandudno on the north wales and, look at this, the motorcade of tractors, noisy tractors and noisy farmers, absolutely livid with the government doesn't have a plan to introduce inheritance tax on farms worth more than £1 million. the government makes the case that some exemptions will apply up to £3 million and they'll be charged at 20%, half the rate others are charged at, but farmers are doing, look, the nature of a family farm as you pass on the whole thing to the next generation and plenty now won't be able to because they have to sell off part of the land. they are

alison freeman, bbc news, newcastle crown court.ar — caught up in a war they didn't start. last week, a bbc producer saw a photograph of a group of palestinian men who'd been detained by israeli forces injabalia in the north of the territory. in amongst them was one very young girl. our special correspondent fergal keane wondered what had happened to her. israel doesn't allow the bbc and other international media to enter gaza and report independently, but with the help of localjournalists inside gaza, he tried to find out. they were ordered to leave. the men made to strip to be searched, some of them elderly, as the israeli army hunted for weapons and anyone linked to hamas. but look to the left. in the crowd, a small child, facing away from the scene. who was she? what became of her? julia abu warda, three and a half years old. these photos were taken before the encounter at the israeli checkpoint, before the order to go. 0ur colleague found julia in gaza city one week after the photograph was taken, but with the family's memories

today, at newcastle crown court, christopher bell pleaded guilty to being the owner of a dog which caused. he will be sentenced injanuary. a convoy of more than 100 un aid lorries carrying food was violently looted in gaza over the weekend, unwra — the un agency for palestinian refugees — says. 97 lorries were lost, and their drivers were forced at gunpoint to unload their aid after passing through the israeli—controlled kerem shalom crossing in southern 6aza, in what is believed to have been one of the worst incidents of its kind. the parents of a british teenager who took his own life after becoming a victim of what's known as sextortion have made a direct appeal to criminals in nigeria to stop. murray dowey, from dunblane, was 16 when he ended his life last year. it's thought he'd been tricked by criminals in west africa into sending intimate pictures of himself and was then blackmailed. it comes as police scotland launch a campaign to help protect young people. angus crawford reports. a grieving mother and a criminal in their own words. i think they're completely and utterly evil. i d

alison freeman, bbc news, newcastle crown court.ll have to pay the higher employer national insurance contributions announced in the budget. gps are calling on the government to give assurances that practices will be exempt amid warnings that some surgeries will have to make staff redundant. gp practices up and down the country are going to have to find tens of thousands of pounds. and inevitably, that is going to mean a cut in services, longer appointment waits, and actually, for some practices, there is going to have to be a cut to staff and certain practices will actually go under, they'll hand their contract back. our political correspondent hannah miller is in westminster. hannah, what's the government saying about this? the government is not disputing that gps will have to pay the extra national insurance contributions, that's the way it has worked before and it is not about to change but they are suggesting that when it comes to negotiating the contract with gps later this year, the extra cost will be something that is taken

alison freeman, bbc news, newcastle crown court.fered. welcome to the programme. holly's mother said in a statement to the court she had no idea of the emotional turmoil she was going through and trying to end this relationship. these were two very young people, what we need to learn from this case? we need to learn _ to learn from this case? we need to learn fast _ to learn from this case? - need to learn fast that coercive controlling behaviour underpins all domestic abuse. this young man, this boy, his obsesses behaviour, his monitoring, the stalking, this is all aspects of coercive control, the foundations of what we understand as domestic abuse. and when left unchecked it can lead to horrific events like this, domestic —related suicide or living a life filled with abuse and control. it is power and control and it is necessary for schools, families, communities to come together to better understand this, equip ourselves and tackle misogyny in classrooms that goes left unchecked and breeds to create in minds like this. you don't