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Britain's economy grew 1.2% in the second quarter of the year, a faster pace than first thought and at a rate not seen for nine years, according to official figures.
The Office for National Statistics upgraded its estimate for growth of gross domestic product between April and June, from an already surprisingly high 1.1%.
The advance, the strongest since the same figure was achieved in the first quarter of 2001, was attributed to record-breaking gains in the construction sector, which helped lift the country's industrial production.
The latest figures showed a slight downward revision to growth from the key services sector, which accounts for more than 70% of GDP, from 0.9% to 0.7%, compared with a 0.3% rise in the first quarter.
But a record-breaking performance in construction sector output, revised upwards from 6.6% to 8.5% - its strongest rate since the first quarter of 1982 - led to the upward revision of the GDP growth rate.
The estimated growth rate for the quarter at 1.1% was already the strongest in four years when it was released last month, so a further increase will add to hopes for a solid economic recovery. However, economists have warned growth in the second quarter represents a peak in the rate of recovery and any further gains of such magnitude are unlikely.
There was no upward revision to the manufacturing sector growth in the quarter, which remains at 1.6%, compared with a 1.4% rise in the previous quarter.
A fall of 2.2% in the transport and storage industries was attributed to a poor performance from air transport, as a result of disruption caused by the volcanic ash cloud.
The figures revealed household spending rose 0.7% in the second quarter - compared with a fall of 0.1% in the first quarter. The rise in spending - the largest since the first quarter of 2008, when it was 0.8% - was attributed to a pre-World Cup spending spree, with notable rises in food and drink, households goods and recreational purchases including televisions.
Government spending was also a main driver, up 0.3% on the quarter.
The outgoing chief executive of BP has refused US officials' requests to appear at a hearing next month over the release of the Libyan man convicted of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie.
Tony Hayward told Senator Robert Menendez, a Democrat, in a letter that he is focusing on ensuring a smooth transition of leadership at the company and will be unable to testify.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is looking into whether the British-based oil company had sought Abdelbaset Al Megrahi's release to help get a 900 million dollar (£583 million) exploration agreement with Libya off the ground.
In the letter, obtained by The Associated Press, Mr Hayward noted that UK and Scottish officials said they found no evidence that BP played a role in Al Megrahi's release.
He said BP has nothing to add to those statements.
An England footballer has won a continuation of a High Court gagging order preventing the "misuse" of private information about him.
The ruling was made by Mr Justice Kenneth Parker, sitting in London.
An injunction was originally granted by a different judge to the unnamed star on August 19, blocking publication of allegations about his private life. The move came shortly after another England international star was granted a similar court order. Neither of the footballers can be named under the terms of the orders.
The latest decision means the injunction granted on August 19 continues until trial of the action or further order.
The case - listed in the anonymised form of ZXC v BNM - was heard in private, but lawyers confirmed afterwards that the order had been continued by the judge.
Before the proceedings went into private session, Hugh Tomlinson QC, for the footballer, told the judge that an injunction was granted on August 19 "to prevent the misuse of private information". He stressed that it was not a super-injunction.
Mr Tomlinson added: "It is an injunction which does not seek to conceal its own identity, but seeks to conceal the identity of the claimant and the defendant because it is an injunction which relates to private information."
The QC then applied for the hearing to be held in private.
Mr Tomlinson told the judge that publicity would "defeat the object of the hearing" as the case involved confidential information - confidentiality would be "damaged" if the proceedings were held in open court. Granting that application, the judge said he had considered the matter and had decided it was "an appropriate case to be heard in private".
Concern has been mounting about the use of injunctions to stop the reporting of potentially embarrassing revelations. Chelsea football captain John Terry was granted an injunction - later overturned - preventing reporting of information about his alleged affair with Vanessa Perroncel, the former partner of his England team-mate Wayne Bridge.
Asil Nadir has returned to Britain to face fraud charges after 17 years on the run, declaring he had a "little injustice to sort out".
The fugitive tycoon said he was confident he would clear his name of the multimillion-pound allegations relating to the collapse of his Polly Peck empire that have hung over him since he fled the UK in 1993.
Nadir, 69, left his home in northern Cyprus this morning and flew via Antalya in Turkey before touching down at Luton Airport at 1.23pm.
He was whisked in a grey Jaguar with a police escort to the house in London's exclusive Mayfair district where he will have to live as part of his bail conditions.
Arriving at the property, the businessman insisted he was innocent and said he hoped to achieve justice.
Asked if he had any regrets about fleeing the UK, he said: "Absolutely not. What I regret was the behaviour that I was faced with because if I had not gone I don't think I would be alive."
Nadir, a former Conservative Party donor, refused to rule out giving more money to the new Government, telling Sky News: "We will see how life goes. We've got a little injustice to sort out."
But when asked if he had a message for his creditors, he said: "I think you need to give me a little more time before we go into all that."
Nadir was facing 66 counts of theft involving £34 million fraud allegations when he fled Britain in May 1993 for northern Cyprus, which has no extradition treaty with the UK.
He is due to be fitted with an electronic tag as part of the court-imposed conditions and will be expected to report weekly to a local police station.
The Government has urged councils to cut street clutter by getting rid of unnecessary signs, railings and advertising hoardings.
Ministers are worried the character of urban spaces is being damaged.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles and Transport Secretary Philip Hammond have written to council leaders calling on them to reduce the number of signs and other "street clutter".
The Government believes that in some cases traffic signs and railings are installed by councils in the mistaken belief that they are legally required. However, although some signs are required by law, Government advice is that for signs to be most effective they should be kept to a minimum.
To help councils do this the Department for Transport is reviewing traffic signs policy and new advice on how to reduce clutter will be published later this year.
The Department for Transport said that, for example, the cathedral city of Salisbury, in Wiltshire, was littered with bollards, with a parking area for 53 cars having 63 bollards.
Also, the removal of street clutter from Kensington High Street in west London had reduced accidents by up to 47%.
Mr Pickles said: "Our streets are losing their English character. We are being overrun by scruffy signs, bossy bollards, patchwork paving and railed-off roads - wasting taxpayers' money that could be better spent on fixing potholes or keeping council tax down. We need to 'cut the clutter'.
"Too many overly cautious town hall officials are citing safety regulations as the reason for cluttering up our streets with an obstacle course when the truth is very little is dictated by law. Common sense tells us uncluttered streets have a fresher, freer, authentic feel, which are safer and easier to maintain."
In 2006 a survey by the Hampshire section of the Campaign to Protect Rural England of a seven-mile section of the B3006 in the South Downs National Park revealed an average of 45 signs per mile.
Campaigners have claimed that the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War had paid only "derisory" attention to Iraqi casualties in the conflict.
The UK-based Iraq Body Count project, which compiles figures for Iraqi civilian deaths since the 2003 invasion, suggested a separate full judicial inquiry into all those killed or injured in Iraq might be needed.
The group said the Chilcot Inquiry had "obsessed minutely" about battles between politicians and generals in Whitehall to the "detriment" of everything else.
"One would almost think that the Iraq war largely took place in Britain," it said in a statement.
Iraq Body Count said it received a letter from inquiry chairman Sir John Chilcot in November, in which he said the information collated by the group would be "very useful" for him and his team.
Former armed forces minister Adam Ingram admitted in his evidence to the inquiry last month that the British Government probably should have tried to establish how many Iraqi civilians were killed in the war.
But he said: "Establishing that fact wouldn't have altered where we were because we couldn't, in one sense, easily have stopped the civilian casualties... The establishment of the facts probably should have been carried out by elsewhere in Government. I don't really think it was a Ministry of Defence function in that sense."
Mr Ingram also said British lives would have been put at risk to make an accurate calculation of the number of Iraqi deaths in the conflict.
He said: "If I had been asked as the minister of the armed forces 'are you prepared to put units in every one of the hospitals to count the bodies in and the bodies out?' and it was my choice, 'no' would have been my answer."
Iraq Body Count has recorded up to 106,000 documented violent Iraqi civilian deaths since 2003, although the true figure is likely to be much higher.
Former first minister Jack McConnell has announced he will leave the Scottish Parliament at the next election.
The Motherwell and Wishaw MSP - now known as Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale - said the decision marks the beginning of "part two" as he looks forward to "new challenges".
The ex-Labour leader is the longest-serving first minister since devolution in 1999 and helped bring about the smoking ban during his term in office.
In a statement, he said: "I will be forever grateful to the many people locally and nationally who have helped me in the causes I have promoted and the decisions I have made.
"Together we have made Scotland, and the constituency, better than they were on my election in 1999.
"I have been an elected representative for most of the last 30 years and it is time to move on.
"I have been involved in national Scottish politics, including the creation of the Scottish Parliament and serving in Government, for most of those 30 years, and it is time for others to take Scotland forward now."
Mr McConnell, an MSP since 1999, led the Labour-Liberal Democrat Scottish Executive from 2001 to 2007. Previous ministerial duties included finance, education, Europe and external affairs.
He was instrumental in forging links between Scotland and Malawi, in Africa, and became the Prime Minister's special representative for peace-building in 2008.
In his website statement, he described his hopes for devolution and his efforts to improve areas of health and the economy. He is looking forward to "new challenges" such as post-conflict reconstruction and the partnership with Malawi.
The radicalisation of Muslims in British prisons could produce hundreds of home-grown terrorists as the UK faces threats from lone bombers and assassins sent out to try their luck, experts have said.
Large-scale coordinated attacks are being replaced by highly-motivated but poorly trained individuals operating with the expectation that eventually one will succeed, a report in the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) journal found.
The UK has more to fear than any other western country from home-grown terrorists and the conditions are all there for a series of attacks to begin at any time, the report for the defence and security think-tank said.
Its authors, Rusi director Michael Clarke and research fellow Valentina Soria, said estimates showed one in 10 of the 8,000 Muslim prisoners in high-security institutions in England and Wales were "successfully targeted" by radical jihadists. They wrote: "Perhaps some 800 potentially violent radicals, not previously guilty of terrorism charges, will be back in society over the coming five to 10 years."
Coupled with a foreign policy that "serves to focus alienation and resentment", the phenomenon of home-grown terrorism in the UK is growing, they said, adding: "The natural reaction to improved counter-terrorist operations is for jihadist attacks to evolve towards more individual efforts."
They continued that "a powerful al-Qaida media campaign" would make them "appear as dramatic and threatening as earlier attacks".
They said: "If lone bombers and assassins are being sent out to try their luck... the key variable will be the effect these lone or spontaneous attempts have on the motivation of others to join the jihad. Lone killers will always exist and some of them will succeed. The key question is whether their acts remain that of individuals or become part of a structural phenomenon."
Under a new generation of leaders such as Anwar Al-Awlaki, considered one of the world's most wanted terrorists, "it appears that high motivation is followed by fairly rudimentary training", the authors wrote, pointing to the apparent lone bomber behind the Times Square car bomb in New York in May.
The Rusi report went on: "The possibility of attacks now hangs over all major sporting events from the Commonwealth Games in India and the 2012 Olympic Games in London, to all future signature events such as football World Cup tournaments."
For the British public, it warned, the "greatest danger is public complacency".
This summer's GCSE science papers were still too easy, the head of England's exams regulator has warned.
More work is needed to toughen up the qualification and rectify inconsistent standards between exam boards, according to Isabel Nisbet, chief executive of Ofqual.
In an interview with the Times Educational Supplement (TES) she said that there had been a "collective falling short of the standards that young people and teachers have a right to expect".
The standard of GCSEs in science and additional science had been a cause for concern for the watchdog over the past two years.
In March last year, Ofqual published a highly critical assessment of the qualifications taken by students in 2007 and 2008.
The exams, which were introduced for the first time in 2006, failed to challenge the brightest pupils, and contained too many multiple choice papers, it said.
And just last month, an updated report looking at last year's entries, found there was still "evidence that standards are currently too low". In one case, students only needed six marks to score a C on a paper, it found.
Speaking to the TES this week, Ms Nisbet said: "If you asked me 'Is GCSE science good enough?' I think the answer would be 'No'." She added: "I think we have made some progress in toughening up the standards and reducing the disparities but we still have a bit to go."
Around 802,000 pupils sat GCSEs in science and additional science this year, down from around 890,000 in 2009.
The drop comes at the same time as a rise in the numbers of pupils taking separate GCSEs in biology, chemistry and physics.
Defence manufacturers have urged David Cameron to clear up "confusion" over how the replacement of Britain's nuclear deterrent would be funded.
Uncertainty about whether the successor to Trident would impact on wider defence spending was causing "great concern" and "unsettling" investors, trade organisation ADS warned.
The industry body appealed to the Prime Minister after Defence Secretary Liam Fox clashed with Chancellor George Osborne about whether the Ministry of Defence would foot the £20 billion bill.
Dr Fox has warned that having to cover the cost from the MoD budget would impact on other defence capabilities. Mr Osborne has repeatedly insisted that the bill would fall to the MoD.
In a letter to Mr Cameron, ADS chairman Ian Godden said the UK-based defence industry had "reflected with great concern on the recent statements by senior ministers in the media about the nation's nuclear deterrent".
Private investors were looking for "real clarity" about the Government's defence priorities from its Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR), he said.
But the ministers' comments appeared to "throw doubt on the Government's full commitment to the deterrent" and suggested that "its costs will fall on MoD potentially at the expense of other expenditure".
Industry needed to know whether replacing Trident would lead to extra cuts in the requirements of the Armed Forces, he said.
"The uncertainty caused by these statements will be as unsettling for investors as it must surely be for our allies," Mr Godden wrote.
"A decision to move Trident renewal to the defence budget without a commensurate transfer of funding calls into question the integrity of the SDSR process and complicates the future funding of our conventional capabilities and our nation's ability to support its allies. It is vital that this confusion is cleared up as soon as possible."
BBC Director General Mark Thompson is expected to deliver a "head-on" challenge to the corporation's critics in a keynote speech on Friday night.
He is among the great and the good of the broadcasting world gathered in Scotland for the Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival.
In an email sent to BBC staff, Mr Thompson promised to use the MacTaggart lecture to lay out his view of the future of television and make the case for the corporation. He said: "It's time to take on some of the BBC's critics head-on."
Recent years have seen the BBC come under fire from both inside and outside the corporation. Staff are currently being balloted on whether to take strike action over plans to reform its pension scheme and its rivals accuse it of being overly-powerful.
Last year, News Corporation director James Murdoch used the lecture to deliver a withering attack on the BBC, accusing it of a "landgrab" and saying the size of the corporation was a "threat" to independent journalism.
Professor Steven Barnett, the author of the official history of the BBC, called on politicians to stand up for the corporation in the face of criticism.
He said: "There are a lot of powerful voices against the BBC, as we saw in James Murdoch's lecture this time last year. They will be hostile to Mr Thompson's speech, but our politicians must be prepared to recognise and stand up for the public interest rather than vested self-interest."
The lecture, dedicated to the memory of actor and producer James MacTaggart, was delivered by some of the biggest names in broadcasting including Jeremy Paxman, Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch.
Among the luminaries at this year's festival are Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media & Sport Jeremy Hunt MP, Coronation Street founder Tony Warren, Mariella Frostrup, Michael Grade and Katie Price.
Controllers from the major channels, including Jay Hunt (BBC1), Peter Fincham (ITV1) and Julian Bellamy (Channel 4) will be discussing their channel highlights.
The High Court rules on Friday on a bid by the widow of a suicide bomber to overturn a decision to refuse her legal aid for representation at the upcoming inquest into the deaths of 52 people in the 7/7 attacks in London.
Two judges in London will rule on a judicial review application by Hasina Patel, whose husband was plot mastermind Mohammed Sidique Khan, brought over the refusal to provide her with funding.
At a hearing earlier this week her QC, Ian Wise, told Lord Justice Thomas and Mr Justice Silber that the "important" question for them was whether the May decision was "rational and lawful".
He said: "If such funding were to be granted she would be in a position to make representations to the coroner as to why the inquest into the death of her husband should be resumed and whether it should be joined to the inquests into the deaths of the 52 victims of the bombings."
He emphasised that her judicial review application was not about the judges being asked to adjudicate on the "merits" of any application to resume the inquest into the death of her husband, or whether "any such inquest should be joined to the ongoing inquests due to begin on October 11 this year". The barrister added that those "are matters for the coroner".
It emerged in April that ministers rejected two applications by relatives after ruling they did not meet the criteria for public funding for their lawyers. The Government already agreed that legal aid will be offered to the families of the four 7/7 bombers' innocent victims of the attacks in 2005.
Suicide bombers Khan, 30, Hasib Hussain, 18, Shehzad Tanweer, 22, and Jermaine Lindsay, 19, met at Luton station on the morning of July 7 2005.
They took a train to King's Cross in London, then hugged and separated to carry out their deadly missions.
Within three minutes of 8.50am, Tanweer detonated his bomb at Aldgate, Khan set his device off at Edgware Road and Lindsay blew himself up between King's Cross and Russell Square. Hussain detonated his device on board the number 30 bus at Tavistock Square at 9.47am.
As well as killing themselves and 52 others, the bombers injured more than 700 people.
Firefighters in the UK's biggest brigade will start voting on Friday on whether to take industrial action in a row over new contracts.
Thousands of members of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) in London will decide if they want to launch a campaign of action, which could start at the end of September.
The union went ahead with the ballot after complaining that firefighters were going to be sacked and re-employed on new contracts, including different shifts.
Matt Wrack, the FBU's general secretary said: "It's a great shame that London firefighters have to consider industrial action, but they won't tolerate attempts to threaten or intimidate them. The proposal to end the contracts of all London firefighters is the most disgraceful thing I have ever seen in the fire service. If they are going to go down this road there is only one way to challenge them and that is strike action. For our own self esteem we have to do something about it.
"Even under the last government we had fewer firefighters at the end of 13 years than we had at the beginning. There was no golden age in the fire service. There has been some expansion - human resources departments have expanded into little empires. The people who are taking these decisions about cutting the service and reducing night-time fire cover in London have not the first idea what firefighting is all about."
The ballot result is due on September 17.
Meanwhile, the FBU said a radio programme which claimed that millions of pounds were being wasted on unused fire engines and unoccupied new control centres as part of a revamp of the fire service showed a "shocking litany of wasted money".
BBC Radio 4's Face the Facts said nine new regional centres in England had been standing empty for up to three years because of problems in developing their computer systems. The monthly rent for the empty buildings was costing taxpayers £1 million a month, and they will not be all in use until 2013, sending the programme more than £350 million over budget, it was reported.
The FBU has been campaigning for years against the new centres, which were ordered by the previous Labour government.
Mr Wrack said: "The programme provided a shocking litany of wasted money in fire service procurement, on regional control centres which are still lying idle, on equipment that is not fit for use, on new recliners for firefighters which are not fit for purpose. Millions of pounds are being wasted. Decisions are being made by people who know nothing at all about firefighting. Meanwhile there are cuts in things that really matter - firefighters, fire stations, equipment - to pay for all this madness."
Downing Street has been asked to review security arrangements because insurgents apparently tried to bring down David Cameron's helicopter in Afghanistan.
An RAF Chinook transporting the Prime Minister during a visit earlier this year was forced into a last-minute diversion because of the threat.
Sources told The Times that the attempt on June 20 was "much closer than anyone said at the time", prompting calls from senior military figures for a security shake-up at Number 10.
Among the options being urged is a news blackout for future visits, to be lifted only when the Prime Minister has left the war zone, it was reported.
The threat arose during Mr Cameron's first visit to Afghanistan as Prime Minister.
He had been due to fly to the Shahzad base in Helmand to meet troops from the 1st Battalion Duke of Lancaster's Regiment.
But his Chinook helicopter was forced to change direction at the last minute to the main operating base in the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah.
Intelligence suggested insurgents might be planning to bring down a helicopter. Further information then indicated a possible attack on a VIP.
At that point the commander of Taskforce Helmand, Brigadier Richard Felton, who was due to meet Mr Cameron at the base, decided it was too dangerous for the visit to continue and it was called off.
The Times said senior military figures believe the planned attack was more advanced than previously admitted and that insurgents knew which helicopter was carrying Mr Cameron.
The private life of a British code breaker found dead in his flat is being investigated amid speculation that he could have died during a sex game gone wrong.
Detectives investigating the murder of Gareth Williams are looking into the possibility that he lived a double life and may have known his killer.
A report in The Times on Friday claims that bondage gear and equipment associated with sado-masochism were removed from the 30-year-old's London apartment by police looking for clues.
The GCHQ mathematics prodigy's decomposing body was found stuffed into a bag in the bath of his central London Government flat on Monday, but the mystery over his final hours deepened after a post-mortem examination failed to identify a cause of death. Further tests will determine if the cycling fanatic was asphyxiated or poisoned, as well as if drugs or alcohol were present in his system.
A pathologist found Mr Williams was not stabbed or shot and there were no obvious signs of strangulation. Police refused to categorise the death as a murder, despite the bizarre circumstances, as they insist he may have died innocently.
One line of inquiry is that he is the victim of a sex game that went wrong and questions remain over why he was not discovered sooner.
Mr Williams was days from completing a one-year secondment to the headquarters of MI6 from his job at national "listening post" GCHQ in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
Police believe Mr Williams's body could have lain undiscovered for up to a fortnight and it is thought he was on holiday at the time of his death. They suspect the key to the case could lie in his private life and are examining his mobile phone and financial records as well as CCTV cameras around his home.
Sources played down speculation that the murder was linked to his secretive line of work. Investigators suspect Mr Williams might have known his killer as there was no sign of forced entry at his top-floor flat in smart Alderney Street, Pimlico.
On Thursrday, Mr Williams's parents Ian and Ellen travelled to London with his sister Ceri from their home in Anglesey to speak to police and formally identify his body.
Several people have been airlifted to hospital with serious injuries following a motorway pile-up involving eight vehicles, emergency services said.
The accident occurred on the northbound carriageway of the M5 at Cullompton, near Exeter, Devon, shortly before 9pm on Thursday.
The road was closed in both directions as firefighters cut people from the wreckage.
Seven people received serious injuries in the crash and were transported by helicopter to a nearby hospital. Others were treated at the scene by paramedics.
Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue sent six appliances to the scene.
On arrival emergency workers found that a number of people remained trapped in their vehicles. Using specialist cutters and thermal imaging cameras, firefighters were able to locate and release five people, with a further person needing assistance from a vehicle.
A spokeswoman for Devon Police said both the north and south carriageways were closed during the rescue operation. She added that a number of those injured remained in a serious condition.
Among those taken to hospital in the incident were a one-year-old girl and her parents, from Essex. The baby was admitted as a precaution, while both adults have a good prognosis, emergency services said.
A 21-year-old woman taken to Derriford Hospital is in a critical condition following the crash. All other injuries are thought to be non-life threatening.
The northbound M5 remained closed this morning as investigators worked to established what caused the accident.
Health experts have warned of obesity's "overwhelming" burden on the NHS as figures showed a 785% rise in weight-loss surgery.
Some doctors are "skirting around the rules" and not insisting on months of lifestyle change and pharmaceutical treatment before allowing patients to undergo surgery, specialists said.
Operations carried out for the most obese people in England soared over the past five years, according to the NHS Information Centre.
Data for 2003/04 showed there were 480 procedures, rising to 4,246 in 2008/09.
Tam Fry, from the National Obesity Forum, said: "These figures just show how bad things have got with the obesity epidemic.
"We have alternative ways of losing weight but when people realise this is a possibility, they could go for it.
"A lot of doctors are also starting to skirt around the rules and not insist on months of lifestyle change and pharmaceutical treatment - instead they are going straight for surgery."
Peter Sedman, bariatric surgeon and spokesman for the Royal College of Surgeons, said: "The number of morbidly obese patients in the UK is increasing rapidly and we need to continue to put even more resources into what is proven to be a successful and cost-effective method of treatment.
"The burden on the NHS in years to come in obesity-related illness will otherwise be overwhelming."
The upward trend of operations suggests figures for 2010 could be even higher.
The 33 men trapped in a copper mine in Chile have been shown to be alive and kicking, singing and shouting "long live Chile" and "long live the miners" in a video broadcast on national television.
The first footage released of the trapped miners shows them stripped to the waist and appearing slim but healthy.
About five minutes of what is reportedly a 45-minute video was shown by Television Nacional de Chile via the government.
The workers made the video with a camera sent down through a shaft drilled to their emergency shelter deep in the San Jose mine in the north of the country. The mine collapsed during a landslide on August 5.
The grainy night-vision images show some of the miners standing, others lying down and apparently just waking up. One man proudly displays the way they have organised the living room-sized shelter where they have taken refuge. He also showed off areas outside the shelter where they can walk around.
One miner says: "We have everything organised."
As the camera shows a table with dominoes laid out, another miner says: "This is where we entertain ourselves, where we play cards. We meet here every day. We plan, we have assemblies here every day so that all the decisions we make are based on the thoughts of all 33."
The camera was sent down through a bore-hole used for communications. Another small hole which reaches the men's shelter is used for lowering food, and a third provides ventilation.
San Esteban, the mining company which employs them, is doing nothing to help the rescue. It claims it cannot afford to pay their wages.
Earlier this week, lawyers for the firm said that with the mine shut down and no income, the company is at a high risk of bankruptcy.
A hospital has apologised and launched an investigation after medical staff plastered the wrong arm of a two-year-old girl.
Honey Wight was taken to the accident and emergency department of Southampton General Hospital on Wednesday by mother Katie after she jumped off a slide and hurt her left arm.
Medics X-rayed the arm and found the youngster had chipped a bone. Nurses then plastered the right arm and sent the family home.
Ms Wight, 29, said she did not notice the mistake until the next day because her daughter fell asleep in the car and she put her straight to bed.
"I was so angry. I just couldn't believe it," she told the Southern Daily Echo.
"The nurse was there and it said 'left elbow' but she put it on the right arm. It is just crazy.
"I did not even notice. I was busy singing songs to her, trying to distract her."
The mother said that staff even plastered the correct left arm of Honey's teddy bear to help calm her nerves.
She took her daughter to the hospital on Thursday, where the mistake was corrected.
Dr Michael Marsh, the hospital's medical director, said: "We are deeply sorry to Honey and her family. Incidents like this are extremely rare and we will be carrying out a full investigation into how it happened."
Britain's economy grew 1.2% in the second quarter of the year, a faster pace than first thought and at a rate not seen for nine years, according to official figures.
The Office for National Statistics upgraded its estimate for growth of gross domestic product between April and June, from an already surprisingly high 1.1%.
The advance, the strongest since the same figure was achieved in the first quarter of 2001, was attributed to record-breaking gains in the construction sector, which helped lift the country's industrial production.
The latest figures showed a slight downward revision to growth from the key services sector, which accounts for more than 70% of GDP, from 0.9% to 0.7%, compared with a 0.3% rise in the first quarter.
But a record-breaking performance in construction sector output, revised upwards from 6.6% to 8.5% - its strongest rate since the first quarter of 1982 - led to the upward revision of the GDP growth rate.
The estimated growth rate for the quarter at 1.1% was already the strongest in four years when it was released last month, so a further increase will add to hopes for a solid economic recovery. However, economists have warned growth in the second quarter represents a peak in the rate of recovery and any further gains of such magnitude are unlikely.
There was no upward revision to the manufacturing sector growth in the quarter, which remains at 1.6%, compared with a 1.4% rise in the previous quarter.
A fall of 2.2% in the transport and storage industries was attributed to a poor performance from air transport, as a result of disruption caused by the volcanic ash cloud.
The figures revealed household spending rose 0.7% in the second quarter - compared with a fall of 0.1% in the first quarter. The rise in spending - the largest since the first quarter of 2008, when it was 0.8% - was attributed to a pre-World Cup spending spree, with notable rises in food and drink, households goods and recreational purchases including televisions.
Government spending was also a main driver, up 0.3% on the quarter.
