Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Saturday 16 Jun 2018

Fire has broken out at Glasgow School of Art, four years after
it was severely damaged in a blaze. More than 120 firefighters and
20 fire engines were tackling the fire, which broke out 11.30pm on
Friday night. No casualties were reported. The building was badly
damaged by fire in May 2014 and was due to re-open next year
following a £35m restoration project.

The European Union is preparing for the possibility of Brexit
being postponed, internal documents have shown. As talks with the
UK appear unlikely to reach a conclusion by March, the European
Council paperwork shows that the bloc is planning what to do “in
the event that the United Kingdom is still a member state of the
union” after the deadline.

A mother says her epileptic son “could die” unless he is given
cannabis oil. Charlotte Caldwell tried to bring the oil into the UK
from Canada, but it was confiscated at Heathrow on Monday. Her son
Billy was hospitalised after his seizures “intensified”. The Home
Office said it was contacting the 12-year-old’s medical team, and
would “carefully consider” the options.

Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was
taken into custody on Friday after a federal judge ruled that he
had violated the terms of his bail. He is awaiting trial on
multiple federal felony charges. Manafort, 69, is the second former
Trump aide to go to jail related to charges brought by the special
counsel Robert Mueller.

Tributes have been paid to EastEnders actor Leslie Grantham, who
has died aged 71. Anita Dobson, who played his on-screen wife
Angie, said she was “deeply shocked and saddened”. June Brown, who
plays Dot Cotton, said she was “very fond of Leslie and am so sorry
that he has gone”. In 1966, Grantham was convicted of murdering a
German taxi driver while serving as a soldier.

A bill to make upskirting a specific criminal offence has been
blocked in the House of Commons after a Conservative MP objected to
it. Christopher Chope blocked the bill, which would have made
upskirting – taking surreptitious, sexually intrusive images –
punishable by up to two years in prison.  “He hardly knows
what upskirting is, I think. It’s just he doesn’t like private
member’s bills,” said another MP.

Oxfam is to axe jobs and aid programmes as part of a £16m cuts
programme. An internal document circulated last week by the chief
executive of Oxfam GB, Mark Goldring, says the charity will “have
to save substantial amounts of money to put [us] on a more stable
and sustainable footing”. The news comes after allegations that
members of its staff used sex workers during a relief mission in
Haiti. 

Former Treasury officials have rejected government claims that a
“Brexit dividend” could fund a large cash injection for the
National Health Service, reports the Financial Times. Nick
Macpherson, Treasury permanent secretary until 2016, said: “There
is an element of desperation in announcing more expenditure outside
the Budget cycle . . . at a time when we still are running quite a
large structural deficit.”

The Taliban leader believed to have ordered the shooting of
Malala Yousafzai has been killed in a drone strike in Pakistan,
according to reports. Officials say that Mullah Fazlullah died with
four other insurgents in the attack on Thursday morning near the
border with Afghanistan. Malala Yousafzai was 15 when a Taliban
gunman boarded her school bus and shot her in the head.

Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo “lit up the World Cup” with a
spectacular performance against Spain last night, says the BBC.
Pundit Rio Ferdinand said of the hat-trick hero: “The night was
about Cristiano. He is relentless in his pursuit of greatness. What
he is doing on the world stage is ridiculous.” Chris Waddle added:
“I’m going to get a flight back tomorrow because I won’t see a
better game.”