内容摘要：This is significant whether or not Carney succeeds Justin Trudeau and ends up chairing the G7, which is the group of the world's seven largest so-called "advanced" economies.

This is significant whether or not Carney succeeds Justin Trudeau and ends up chairing the G7, which is the group of the world's seven largest so-called "advanced" economies.

The Attorney General has rejected calls for the Court of Appeal to review the length of Southport murderer Axel Rudakubana's jail sentence.Rudakubana, 18, is serving a minimum 52-year sentence for the murder of Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, Bebe King, six, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, in Southport in July 2024.

At his sentencing, the judge said Rudakubana, who was 17 when he carried out the attacks, would have been given a whole life prison order had he been an adult at the time.In a statement issued on Friday evening, Lord Hermer KC said after "careful consideration" he had "concluded that this case cannot properly be referred to the Court of Appeal".He added that no one would want the families to be put through an unnecessary further court process "where there is no realistic legal basis for an increased sentence".

Rudakubana's minimum term of 52 years means that he cannot be considered for release until he has served that amount of time in prison.Lord Hermer said Rudakubana's sentence was the "second-longest sentence imposed by the courts in English history".

He added: "Rudakubana will likely never be released and will spend the rest of his life in jail."

The calls to review Rudakubana's jail term came under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme, which allows members of the public to ask for sentences to be looked at by the Attorney General's Office. The scheme only applies to certain offences and an appeal is no guarantee that a sentence will be referred.Clean water campaigners Surfers Against Sewage said the fines were a win for campaigners, who had been “demanding those in power enforce the letter of the law”.

Chief executive Giles Bristow said: “Today’s fines illustrate the sheer state of disrepair of our broken water industry with nearly half of Yorkshire Waters storm overflows found to be in breach of their permits.“People demand healthy rivers, lakes and seas and the government must ensure they, and the water sector, delivers it.”

It's a bright spring morning in Hanover, Germany, and I'm on my way to meet a robot.I have been invited to see the G1, a humanoid robot built by Chinese firm, Unitree, at the Hannover Messe, one of the world's largest industrial trade shows.