Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Tuesday 29 May 2018

A hospital consultant who treated Sergei and Yulia Skripal, the
former Russian spy and daughter who were poisoned in Salisbury in
March, has said he did not expect them to live. Dr Stephen Jukes
told the BBC: “When we were first aware this was a nerve agent, we
were expecting them not to survive.” Both Skripals have now
recovered.

South Korean news agency Yonhap says the most senior North
Korean official to visit the US for 40 years is heading to America
now for crisis talks on the proposed summit between President
Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un. General Kim Yong Chol is expected to
arrive in America today. Trump pulled out of the 12 June summit
last week.

YouTube has agreed to requests from London’s Metropolitan Police
to take down around 30 videos for songs by British ‘drill’ bands
over the last two years, it has emerged. The songs are said not
just to incite violence in general, but to relate to specific
real-world arguments between gangs, mostly in London, which can end
in violence.

The Financial Times says the Bank of England and the Treasury
are at loggerheads over the shape of Brexit. Bank Governor Mark
Carney is said to want the Chancellor to outline a ‘Plan B’ to stop
it from becoming a “rule taker” if his plans for maintaining close
financial services ties with the EU are rejected by the 27-member
bloc. 

Many young home buyers still rely on financing from their
parents – but the amount they are able to borrow has reduced as the
‘Bank of Mum and Dad’ feels the pinch, financial services firm
Legal & General says. The average parental contribution towards
a new home this year will be £18,000, down 17% from £21,600 last
year. In total, 27% of people buying a home now get help from
friends or family.

England footballer Raheem Sterling has said a tattoo of an M16
assault rifle on his right leg has a “deeper meaning” after
anti-gun campaigners said he should be dropped from the national
side. Sterling said his father was shot dead when he was two years
old – and “I shoot with my right foot”. He said he has vowed to
“never touch a gun”.

A private search for the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, missing
since 8 March 2014 with 239 people on board, has ended without
result – and is expected to be the last. US-based company Ocean
Infinity had undertaken 90 more days of searching unpaid, with a
£53m reward if it discovered what happened to the missing
plane.

A Malian man who has been living illegally in France will be
granted citizenship after he saved a child dangling from a
fourth-floor balcony in Paris by climbing the outside of the
building in a matter of seconds. Dubbed ‘Spiderman’, Mamoudou
Gassama met President Emmanuel Macron yesterday, to be told he had
set a “heroic” example.

The annual cheese-rolling races took place in Brockworth,
Gloucestershire yesterday – and two of the men’s races were won by
Chris Anderson, 30, who said afterwards he now has “nothing to
prove”. A professional soldier, Anderson has won 22 races in 14
years – a record. Competitors chase a wheel of cheese down a steep
hill.

The name Le Pen “for decades associated with anti-immigration
and often racist politics in France”, says The Guardian, appears to
have become so out of favour that even a leading member of the
country’s far right has abandoned it.

Jean-Marie Le Pen’s granddaughter Marion Marechal-Le Pen, often
tipped as a future leader of the far right despite stepping back
from public life last year, has revealed she has dropped one of the
most famous names in French politics.