Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Tuesday 1 May 2018

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has enthusiastically backed
claims by Israel that Iran has reneged on its agreement to drop its
nuclear ambitions. The Israeli assertions were made by Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a televised presentation, complete
with powerpoint-style slides. Iran says the claims are rehashed and
untrue.

US actor Ashley Judd has started a legal action against
disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein, claiming he held back her
career in retaliation for her rejecting his sexual advances.
Weinstein denies all claims of non-consensual sex but has admitted
misconduct. Director Quentin Tarantino, meanwhile, says Weinstein’s
firm owes him $4m.

Sajid Javid, the new Home Secretary, yesterday tried to put
distance between himself and his predecessors, disowning the phrase
“hostile environment”, which was used by them to connote a
toughness on allowing migrants into the UK. He said he had been
greatly affected by the Windrush scandal as a second-generation
immigrant.

The price of high-strength, cheap alcohol in Scotland rises
today as a law to increase the minimum price at which drink can be
sold comes into force. The legislation was originally passed by the
Scottish Parliament in 2012 but has faced legal challenges since.
The idea is to target the drinks which problem drinkers favour,
like cheap cider.

A woman who was in a relationship for six months with an
undercover police officer who was using a false identity to
infiltrate a campaign group of which she was a member is asking the
Crown Prosecution Service to change its mind on charging him.
‘Monica’ says she would not have dated DC Jim Boyling if she had
known his true motives.

Researchers at the University of Leeds say a diet containing
lots of pasta and rice could bring on the menopause as much as
one-and-a-half years earlier, while women who eat oily fish, peas
and beans could delay the end of their fertility. Refined
carbohydrates were found to increase the risk of insulin
resistance, which can boost oestrogen.

The UK’s Supreme Court will meet in Northern Ireland for the
first time today and tomorrow as it hears an appeal by a bakery
which refused to make a cake celebrating gay marriage. Ashers
Bakery in Belfast refused to make the cake for rights activist
Gareth Lee in 2014. The Supreme Court is expected to deliver its
verdict next year.

The British Film Institute on London’s South Bank has apologised
after its staff forcibly removed a woman from a screening of The
Good, the Bad and the Ugly – her favourite film – because she was
laughing too loudly. Tamsin Parker, 25, explained she has Asperger
syndrome as she was ejected. Other filmgoers were appalled by the
decision.

Sainsbury’s has objected to ITV releasing video of its chief
executive, Mike Coupe, singing We’re In The Money, from the musical
42nd Street, on the day he announced a merger with Asda. Coupe said
he was composing himself for an interview and regretted the choice
of song, which includes the line: “Let’s lend it, spend it, send it
rolling along.”

The EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier is on a two-day
visit to Ireland amid rising tensions over the future of the Irish
border following Brexit.

“Twenty-two months on from Britain’s EU referendum, the Irish
question has become the most intractable of Brexit dilemmas,” says
the Financial Times.