Passengers on some of the country's busiest rail routes face disruption on New Year's Eve as workers stage a day of strike action in a long-running dispute over guards on trains.
Rail, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT) workers on South Western Railway (SWR) walked out at midnight.
The RMT claimed SWR will be "bailed out" by the government for revenue lost as a result of the strike action
The rail operator said it would run a reduced service across the network.
The 24-hour strike will affect services across the south of England, including London Waterloo, the capital's busiest station.
Some rail replacement bus services will be in place and SWR said it would "do everything we can to keep customers moving and reduce disruption".
"The RMT continues to play politics with their ongoing strike action, causing misery at a time when people just want to be with friends and family or get to work," it added.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said: "Official parliamentary answers have shown that the government is preparing to bail out South Western Railway for revenues lost as a result of strike action.
"Passengers will be outraged to know that instead of taking steps to resolve this dispute rail ministers are instead prolonging it by using tax payers' money to prop up South Western Railway on strike days."
Which services are affected?
Basingstoke to London Waterloo: Reduced service with one train an hour running in each direction
Salisbury to London Waterloo: An hourly reduced service will run
Guildford to Ascot: A bus service will be in operation
Portsmouth to London Waterloo: Due to planned engineering works there will be a reduced service and rail replacement services between Woking, Guildford and Haslemere
Portsmouth to Southampton: Trains will run between Southampton Central and Fareham, with one service every two hours
London Waterloo to Reading: Two trains an hour will run between Clapham Junction and Reading
London Waterloo to Weymouth: Hourly trains will run between Waterloo and Bournemouth, with a shuttle service between Bournemouth and Weymouth
A disability charity says it is "disgraceful" councils are failing to take action against people misusing blue-badge parking permits.
Analysis by the Press Association found 94 out of 152 (62%) local authorities in England did not pursue anyone for abusing the scheme in 2017-18.
Phil Talbot, from charity Scope, said thefts of disabled permits were rising.
The Local Government Association said councils had to take "tough decisions" on enforcement with limited resources.
Mr Talbot added: "Stealing blue badges isn't a crime without consequences. They are a vital lifeline for those who genuinely need them."
The analysis of the Department of Transport data showed the number of blue badges reported stolen totalled 4,246.
Zero prosecutions
It found 31 councils did not catch anyone despite claiming to have a policy for prosecuting offenders.
Local authorities in Nottingham, Middlesbrough, Shropshire, Luton, Milton Keynes, Bournemouth and Reading were among those to record zero prosecutions.
Martin Tett, transport spokesman for the Local Government Association, said gathering evidence and mounting a prosecution could be "time-consuming and expensive".
About 2.4 million disabled people in England have blue badges, which are issued by councils.
Almost every case involving the 1,215 prosecutions across the country involved drivers using someone else's blue badge.
The permits allow holders to park for free in pay and display bays and for up to three hours on yellow lines, except for where there are restrictions. Holders in London are exempt from the congestion charge.
The largest number of prosecutions were made by the London boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham (137) and Newham (88), with Leeds (78) in third place.
Mr Tett claimed the disparity in enforcement levels across England was likely to reflect "different levels of pressures on available parking".
The Bangladesh Election Commission told Reuters news agency that it had heard vote-rigging allegations from "across the country" and would investigate.
At least 17 people have been killed in clashes between ruling party supporters and the opposition.
What are the allegations?
Sheikh Hasina's Awami League has run Bangladesh since 2009, but one of the leading opposition parties has accused it of using stuffed ballot boxes.
A spokesman for the Bangladesh National Party (BNP) alleged there were "irregularities" in 221 of the 300 seats being contested.
Soon before polls opened, a BBC correspondent saw filled ballot boxes at a polling centre in the port city of Chittagong. The presiding officer declined to comment.
Only ruling party polling agents were present at that and several other polling centres in the second-largest city of the country.
Human Rights Watch South Asia director Meenakshi Ganguly said on Twitterthat "with serious allegations of voter intimidation, restrictions on opposition polling agents and several candidates seeking a re-poll, there are concerns about the credibility" of the election.
At least 47 candidates from the main opposition alliance withdrew before polling closed, alleging vote rigging and intimidation.
Activists, observers and the opposition party had warned that the vote would not be fair, but the governing party accused the opposition of peddling false claims.
Ms Hasina told the BBC on Friday: "On the one hand, they are placing allegations. On the other hand, they are attacking our party workers, leaders. That is the tragedy in this country."
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said that it would announce details of the plan in the new year but was looking at how it maintains whistleblower confidentiality; how information is shared between supervision and enforcement teams; and how it can enhance senior oversight of investigations.
The plan was first reported by the Financial Times.
The watchdog has called for better protection of people who come forward but has also faced criticism for its own treatment of whistleblowers.
Earlier this year, it was told to apologize to a former Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS.L) employee for having revealed his identity to the bank in a whistleblower case in 2013.
The Financial Regulators Complaints Commissioner, which handles complaints against watchdogs, said that the FCA had failed to take sufficient care to establish whether the complainant had sought anonymity.
Last month, the FCA said that most British banks are not assessing and escalating whistleblower concerns consistently, adding that some of them need to improve arrangements to protect those who lift the lid on wrongdoing from victimization.
The regulator received its highest number of disclosures from whistleblowers after its director for supervision, Megan Butler, warned financial firms in May about failing to tackle sexual harassment.
The disclosures related to racism, physical bullying and homophobia, as well as issues around gender, Christopher Woolard, the FCA executive director for strategy and competition, said this month.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond has been accused by his colleagues in the cabinet of failing to release the necessary funding required to prepare Britain for a no-deal Brexit, the Telegraph newspaper reported late on Sunday.
British Communities Secretary James Brokenshire has written to the Treasury saying his department was given 35 million pounds for helping councils prepare for Brexit, the amount being less than half of what had been requested, the newspaper reported.
At least another department had made a similar complaint about Hammond’s failure to release more money, the newspaper reported without mentioning further details.
Brokenshire said his department does not have enough to prepare for Brexit whether Britain leaves the European Union with or without a deal, the report added, citing the British Communities Secretary’s letter to the Treasury sent shortly before Christmas.
