Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Saturday 30 Jun 2018

A series of 17 treatments including tonsils removal, breast
reductions and snoring surgery will be offered to far fewer
patients from next year. NHS officials are to consider proposals to
stop or reduce 17 routine procedures deemed to be “ineffective or
risky”. The health service hopes the measures will save £200m a
year. “We have to spend taxpayers’ money wisely,” said a
spokesperson.

Intelligence agencies in the US believe North Korea has
increased production of fuel for nuclear weapons at secret sites in
recent months. NBC news says it is believed that Kim Jong Un may
try to conceal the sites during talks with the United States. The
news is a blow for Donald Trump who tweeted earlier this month that
“there is no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea”.

David Duckenfield, a retired chief superintendent, has been
charged with manslaughter by gross negligence relating to the
Hillsborough disaster in 1989. Duckenfield, 73, was the match
commander for South Yorkshire police at the FA Cup semi-final when
Liverpool fans were crushed. He faces 95 charges of gross
negligence manslaughter. Asked last year how he would plead, he
said: “It wouldn’t be appropriate to speculate.”

The BBC reports that there has been a surge in UK citizens
acquiring the nationality of another EU country since the Brexit
referendum. Last year, a total of 12,994 UK citizens obtained the
nationality of one of the 17 member states the data covers,
compared with 5,025 in 2016 and just 1,800 in 2015. The most common
new nationality was German.

Roads are melting and train lines are buckling as the heatwave
continues in Britain. As temperatures continued to soar with 33C
(91.4F) recorded in Porthmadog, Wales, the public are being urged
to reduce the amount of water they use and the first hosepipe ban
is set to come into force. A spokesman for the Met Office said: “I
think for now temperatures have peaked.”

Virgin Atlantic has announced it will stop working with the Home
Office on forcible deportations of people deemed to be illegal
immigrants. The airline said the move was “in the best interest of
our customers and people”. Concern and controversy have grown over
the ejection of Windrush generation migrants and LGBT asylum
seekers.

Britain faces a shortage of food supplies as part of the growing
crisis sparked by the shortage of carbon dioxide. Chains have
warned that some products are already unavailable and the situation
may worsen. The shortage of CO2 has been caused by unexpected
closure of factories. It is used for carbonating soft drinks,
packaging meat and bakery items and in the slaughter process of
pigs and chickens.

Donald Trump has declared that the European Union, Nato and the
World Trade Organisation are bad for America, reports The Times.
During a Brussels summit this week, EU leaders discussed fears that
the US president’s policies could lead to the “worst-case scenario”
of Nato breaking up. Donald Tusk said Trump posed a serious threat
to western unity.

The diver Tom Daley and his US film-maker husband Dustin Lance
Black have become parents. The couple revealed the news in The
Times. Their announcement read: “BLACK-DALEY On 27th June 2018 to
Thomas Robert Daley and Dustin Lance Black, a son, Robert Ray.” The
Olympian’s father, who died of cancer in 2011, was also called
Robert.

A great white shark has been spotted off Majorca in the first
confirmed sighting in Spanish waters for more than four decades.
The five-metre (16.4 ft) shark was tracked by an international
conservation team in the Cabrera Archipelago National Park. This is
the first confirmed incident since 1976, when a Majorca fisherman
caught a specimen measuring more than six metres.