River Search For Teen Who Jumped From Ferry

A search is under way for a 16-year-old boy who went missing after he jumped from a ferry into a river in Cornwall.

Jordan Cobb, from Plymouth, was last seen leaping from the Torpoint ferry into the River Tamar, Devon and Cornwall Police have said.

Brixham Coastguard received a distress call at 9.15pm on Monday reporting that a person was overboard near the ferry's slipway in Torpoint.

Authorities conducted an extensive search for the teenager, and officers are now appealing for information.

Chief Inspector Ian Drummond Smith said: "We are treating Jordan as a high-risk missing person and we are working with the coastguard to try and locate him.

"The river was extensively searched by air and sea for several hours, but there remains a possibility that he managed to swim ashore, and I would ask anyone with information to call the police on 101."

The search for the missing teenager resumed early today.

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New Year Celebrations: UK Welcomes In 2013

Large crowds lined the banks of the River Thames in London and the streets of Edinburgh as the UK welcomed the start of the New Year.

Along the Thames, up to 250,000 people watched a major fireworks display which saw the night sky illuminated with pyrotechnics to round-off a momentous year.

Revellers were able to watch clips from the 2012 Olympic Games during an 11-minute firework display set around the London Eye. Millions more watched it all on television.

In Edinburgh, tens of thousands of people descended on the streets of Scotland's capital for the world-famous Hogmanay celebrations.

Around 75,000 party-goers counted down the last 10 seconds of 2012 before joining in a mass rendition of Auld Lang Syne after the clock struck midnight.

Scottish rockers Simple Minds headlined the Hogmanay concert and street party.

The View, Bwani Junction, Reverend and the Makers and The OK Social Club also played, and fireworks were set off to mark the start of 2013.

Fireworks explode around the London Eye

Pete Irvine, artistic director of the Hogmanay celebrations, said: "I think it's going really well this year. It's really, really busy here tonight - probably busier than we've seen it in some time because the weather is so good."

Following their hard work during the London 2012 Games, more than 150 of the mayor's "Team London Ambassadors" volunteered at the Thames event to help ensure it was a success.

They gave out maps, helped direct people to the viewing areas, and provided guidance and advice on getting home safely.

As daylight broke in London, some 200 clean-up staff cleared 160 tonnes of rubbish left by revellers in Westminster.

The workers took just six hours to clear the streets ahead of today's New Year's Day parade in the city centre.

The Metropolitan Police said 96 arrests were made during Monday night's celebrations, with drunkenness, public disorder and assault the most common offences.

More than 3,500 police supported the organisers and stewards of the event, working alongside colleagues from the British Transport Police and other emergency services to keep revellers safe.

Kisses exchanged during Hogmanay celebrations in Edinburgh

Chief Inspector John Williams said: "This year saw the viewing areas fill up earlier than ever before with thousands of revellers coming to see in the new year London-style.

"Officers worked hard, alongside the stewards, in very large crowds to keep people safe in what is a challenging policing environment, helping to ensure revellers and visitors alike could make their way home at the end of the night."

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said: "What an amazing end to an incredible year.

"Watched by hundreds of thousands in the capital and millions around the globe, London has proved, yet again, that it can pull off spectacular world-class events in style."

Today's New Year's Day parade will see a procession of Olympic Games Makers, drummers, stilt walkers and Bolivian dancers greet 2013 as they snake their way through central London.

The New Year celebrations got under way in Edinburgh as early as Sunday night, when a torchlight parade was held.

A record crowd estimated at 35,000, including 7,000 torch carriers, were led by the massed pipes and drums and the Up Helly Aa' Vikings from Shetland.

The procession made its way through the city streets to the burning of the effigy of a Viking boat and a spectacular Son et Lumiere display on Calton Hill.

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Bulging Bill Of Britain's Obesity Epidemic

By Gerard Tubb, Sky News Correspondent

Britain is in the grip of an obesity epidemic costing £5bn a year - and not enough is being done to tackle it, according to the Royal College of Physicians.

A report by the RCP says severely overweight patients are suffering from what it calls "patchy" NHS services and a lack of joined-up thinking from the Government.

Thirty-one-year-old Matthew Briggs, from Strensall, near York, says the NHS was of little help when he weighed more than 31 stone.

Now more than 17 stone lighter, and Slimming World's 2012 champion, he says he was offered slimming pills and a drastic diet.

"They gave me very limited options of what I could have," he said.

"You only see your GP for 15 or 20 minutes (and) you've got an entire week or month before you see them again."

He says he eventually relied on a combination of willpower and encouragement from other overweight people to help him slim down so much he is now training for the London Marathon.

The RCP report calls for teams of specialists to be set up around the country along with a national anti-obesity group similar to Action on Smoking and Health, which is credited with helping to reduce the number of people who smoke.

The authors also want to see an obesity champion in each NHS trust, better training for health care professionals, more research into obesity and help for overweight NHS staff.

With around a quarter of UK adults classed as obese, the report says too many doctors and nurses are seriously overweight and setting a bad example to the people they are trying to treat.

Professor John Wass, academic vice-president of the RCP, said: "Britain is getting bigger and whilst we try to prevent the increase in obesity, we must also prepare the NHS for the influx of patients presenting with severe complex obesity."

A Department of Health spokeswoman said: "We are committed to tackling obesity and are taking action to help people keep a healthy weight and prevent them needing hospital care for obesity-related conditions.

"The medical profession has a key role in providing advice and treatment to people who are overweight or obese, and the Royal College of Physicians can help its members do this."

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Christopher Martin-Jenkins Dies Aged 67

Christopher Martin-Jenkins, the cricket journalist and former president of the Marylebone Cricket Club, has died at the age of 67.

He was diagnosed with terminal cancer a year ago, and passed away on New Year's Day.

The Test Match Special commentator was given an MBE in 2009, and served as the MCC's president in 2010 and 2011.

A statement on behalf of his family said: "We are very sad to say that Christopher Martin-Jenkins died peacefully at home this morning after his brave resistance to cancer.

"The family is extremely proud of all that he did to pass on his love of cricket worldwide with his gift of communicating through the spoken and written word.

"He was above all a much-loved husband, brother, father and grandfather. The family would be grateful if our privacy could be respected for the time being."

The official account of Lord's Cricket Ground tweeted: "Sad, sad news to start the new year."

Former England cricket captain Sir Ian Botham wrote: "Very sad to hear of the death of the 'Major' ... Christopher Martin-Jenkins. Our thoughts are with the family. A true gentleman!"

Wisden editor Lawrence Booth described him as a "warm voice from childhood and beyond".

Former England cricketer Graeme Fowler said: "A magnificent writer, broadcaster, and man. The world has lost a gentleman. Cricket has lost a wonderful voice."

Mr Martin-Jenkins was born in Peterborough and had a modest cricketing career before moving into journalism.

He joined the BBC in 1970 as cricket correspondent, and went on to work for The Daily Telegraph and The Times.

His son Robin was a professional cricketer for Sussex until his retirement in 2010, making 162 first class appearances for the county.

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Anger Over TV Show's Crude Royal Joke

The broadcasting watchdog has received complaints after a Channel 4 show featured a lewd joke about the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.

The Big Fat Quiz Of The Year 2012, presented by comedian Jimmy Carr, went out just after the 9pm watershed on Sunday and lasted for two hours.

The show, which had been pre-recorded, also included sexual gags about US President Barack Obama, sprinter Usain Bolt and singer Susan Boyle.

A spokesman for the watchdog Ofcom confirmed complaints had been made about the show, but was unable to say how many.

Most of the controversial material came from Gavin & Stacey star James Corden, 34, and award-winning comic Jack Whitehall, assisted by Jonathan Ross.

Whitehall, 24, made a joke about the bladder infection suffered by the Duke of Edinburgh last summer and also said Olympic gold medallist Bolt could "rake it in" by going to stud like the retired racehorse Frankel.

He and Corden reportedly each drank a bottle of wine during the recording of the show, and Whitehall later told his Twitter followers he had been drunk.

Fresh Meat star Whitehall was named King Of Comedy in a viewer vote for the UK Comedy Awards in December.

Ross was suspended from the BBC in 2008 after he and Russell Brand left lewd messages on the answerphone of veteran Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs.

He later quit the BBC and said one reason was to avoid the "sheer volume of negative press" he was attracting to the corporation.

Carr himself was the butt of other comedians' jokes in the summer when a row blew up over his tax affairs.

Channel 4 was later reported as saying the programme was a well-known satirical review of the year that had been broadcast after the watershed with appropriate warnings.

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IDS: Tax Credit System 'Haemorrhaging Money'

More than £10bn of public money has been lost in fraud and error under the tax credit system put in place by Labour, the Work and Pensions Secretary has claimed.

Attacking the welfare model developed by the last government, Iain Duncan Smith said tax credits were "not fit for purpose" but had been extended ahead of the 2005 and 2010 general elections in a pitch for votes.

The system was "wide open to abuse" and "haemorrhaging money", he wrote in an article for The Daily Telegraph.

"In the years between 2003 and 2010, Labour spent a staggering £171bn on tax credits, contributing to a 60% rise in the welfare bill.

"Far too much of that money was wasted, with fraud and error under Labour costing over £10bn."

Mr Duncan Smith said HM Revenue and Customs conducts checks on far fewer tax credit claims than suspected benefit fraudsters.

That is despite about one in 12 tax credit claims being incorrect or fraudulent, compared with fewer than one in 25 benefit claims.

Payments are based on estimates of income for the coming year, and after 2008 HMRC did not attempt to reclaim overpayments of less than £25,000.

That is set to be reduced to £5,000 under the coalition, alongside moves to require proof of payments from those claiming for childcare or that children aged between 16 and 19 are in full-time education.

The Government hopes to save more than £300m in the next three years by reducing fraud and error, and also wants to recover more than £400m in unpaid debts.

Mr Duncan Smith is overseeing a fundamental overhaul of welfare which will see tax credits rolled into a new Universal Credit which is meant to simplify the system and better incentivise work.

"Even for those in genuine need of support, tax credits were not fit for purpose," he said.

"The system was haemorrhaging money while at the same time trapping people in a system where those trying hard to increase the amount of hours they worked weren't necessarily better off."

Mr Duncan Smith said tax credit payments had risen by 58% in 2005 and by more than 20% in the two years before the 2010 election.

"At the most basic level, Labour used spending on tax credits as an attempt to gain short-term popularity. They knew what they were doing - it was a calculated attempt to win votes," he claimed.

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Plastic Surgery Campaigns Target 17-Year-Olds

By Jason Farrell, Sky News Correspondent

A study commissioned by the Government to look into the cosmetic surgery industry has found that 17-year-olds are being targeted by aggressive marketing campaigns.

The interim report has found people want to see tighter restrictions around the industry to protect patients from certain sales techniques.

The review was commissioned by the Department of Health following the PiP breast implant scandal.

Science journalist Vivien Parry, who is on the review panel, told Sky News: "I have been really shocked by what I've seen.

"Extraordinary things. For instance, 17-year-olds being plagued by texts saying, 'In less than a year's time you'll be able to have cosmetic surgery.'"

She added: "I just think that's awful. What it does to the psyche of young girls is one thing. But it sets up a cosmetic procedure, which has both short-term and long-term risks, as if it were something entirely trivial."

The report found patients and industry groups want tighter restrictions on advertising including banning two-for-one or time-limited deals, and cosmetic surgery as competition prizes.

The final report is due to be published in March

They want to introduce a two-stage written consent process so that people have time to reflect.

Another demand is for patients to receive better information before making their decision. For example, providing them with photographs showing expected bruising and scarring.

Ms Parry said: "Cosmetic procedures are being sold like double glazing. If you make a decision within a week, you'll get money off.

"You can buy one procedure, get another procedure for free, bring along a friend, or have cosmetic surgery as a raffle prize.

"It concentrates on the money side of it so people forget about the health side."

PiP victim Victoria Newton, who had to have her breast implants replaced after they both ruptured, welcomed the report.

She told Sky News that when she first considered surgery, aged just 19, she was pressured and misinformed ahead of her decision.

Victoria Newton was a victim of implants by the now-defunct PiP company

Ms Newton said: "There was nothing personal about my consultation. It wasn't like I was going in for an operation. It was like I was buying a car or booking a holiday.

"There was a time-limited offer and I was really encouraged to go for that. At the time, I thought I was getting a good deal. They offered £500 off the price of the surgery, if I signed up that day."

After sparking a global health scare, the implants made by now-defunct French company Poly Implant Prothese were pulled from the market in several countries due to fears they could rupture and leak silicone into the body.

The interim report into cosmetic surgery practices suggests anything that pressures patients like Ms Newton to make a snap decision about surgery should be banned.

It states that consultations should always be conducted by the surgeon who will carry out the procedure, rather than sales staff.

But the president of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, Rajiv Grover, says the recommendations do not go far enough.

"We're very pleased the report has focused on sales tactics used in cosmetic surgery. It's something we've been campaigning for, for the last decade," he told Sky News.

"However, we'd like to go further and suggest an outright ban on advertising, just as you would have for prescription-only medicines and other types of surgery."

He added: "This is a medical procedure and should be subject to the same regulations as any other medical procedure."

The suggestions highlighted in the interim report will feed into the work led by the NHS Medical Director Sir Bruce Keogh, who is due to publish his full recommendations in March.

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Curtain To Rise On UK's First City Of Culture

By David Blevins, Ireland Correspondent

To nationalists on one side of the River Foyle, it is Derry. To unionists on the other, it is Londonderry. Now, they are uniting around one name: the UK City of Culture.

Northern Ireland's second largest city beat off stiff competition for the inaugural title - Birmingham, Norwich and Sheffield were shortlisted.

Those behind the successful bid had a rich heritage to draw on.

Martin Bradley, City of Culture chairman, said: "When you look at the prominent people who left the city - Nobel Peace Prize winners, Eurovision Song Contest winners, a Poet Laureate, Field Day, Peter Cunnah, The Undertones - the list is absolutely endless."

Changing the image will not be easy. The place is synonymous with 'The Troubles'. In 1972, British soldiers shot 13 people dead during a civil rights protest on the streets here.

Memorial to those who died on Bloody Sunday

John Kelly, whose brother Michael died on Bloody Sunday, said: "We're in a much better place after the public inquiry. It helped heal our people and heal the city.

"The Saville Report and (Prime Minister) David Cameron's apology helped move things forward."

For others, the war will never be over. Hard-line republicans are still making their presence felt. Terrorist attacks and paramilitary-style "punishment shootings" remain part of the culture in some areas.

Eamon McCann, Derry Journal columnist, said: "The ideology being promoted by what are called 'dissident republicans' is part of what we are in Derry. Are we not to admit that there are these tensions, that there's still this incipient murder?"

For the most part however, things have changed. Protestants and Catholics, previously separated by the river flowing through the centre of the city, have been connected by a peace bridge.

The British army barracks is now a concert venue and the year-long programme is diverse - from Britain's Royal Ballet to the All-Ireland Fleadh, the world's largest festival of Irish culture.

Derry, Londonderry or #Legenderry - the promotional hashtag on Twitter - it certainly has no shortage of names. Most residents would prefer that their city had only one reputation: culture, not conflict.

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Northern Ireland Bomb: Family's Lucky Escape

A policeman in Northern Ireland targeted by a car bomb was taking his family for Sunday lunch when he found the device, it has emerged.

Assistant Chief Constable George Hamilton revealed that the officer was going out with his wife and two young children when he checked his car as a matter of routine.

He found the bomb - believed to have been planted by dissident republicans - underneath his vehicle outside his home in Belfast.

The property is close to the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) headquarters at Knock and the Northern Ireland Assembly at Stormont.

"If that officer had not checked his car, we would have been looking at a murder or multiple murders," Mr Hamilton told a news conference as he appealed for witnesses to come forward.

Army robot used to examine the device

"We believe the consequences of this would have been absolutely devastating for the officer, his family, for the police family and for the communities across Northern Ireland.

"For some reason, those people who are anti-peace, who are still hanging on to the past, who aren't prepared to move forward, have tried to murder this officer and his family.

"We consider that completely repugnant. It's inhumane. By any standards in any society, this is wrong and we utterly condemn this attack."

He warned that there was a severe threat level across Northern Ireland and appealed to officers to be vigilant and check under their cars.

It is hoped that the bomb will be useful as evidence because it was discovered and did not engage.

Justice minister David Ford said: "It is ironic that this latest attack was carried out so close to Stormont, where those who are democratically elected seek to move matters forward through debate.

The bomb was planted on Upper Newtownards Road

"The people responsible for this and other recent attacks have no mandate and speak for no one. They need to recognise the futility of their campaign and respect the wishes of the vast majority of our community who want an end to all violent acts."

A second device was found close to a police station in County Armagh on Monday, prompting residents to be evacuated.

The bomb in Tandragee was declared "viable" after it was examined by army technical officers but it was made safe without anyone getting hurt.

Dissidents have repeatedly targeted security force members in recent years.

Over the last five years there have been 115 arrests and 35 charges and 64 officers have had to leave their homes, a police spokesman said.

In November, long-serving prison officer David Black, 52, was shot dead in a motorway ambush in Co Armagh as he drove to work.

A group styling itself the "new IRA" claimed that attack. The faction was formed in the summer when a number of splinter groups joined forces.

In April 2011 newly qualified police officer Ronan Kerr, 25, died when a dissident booby trap car bomb exploded under his vehicle at his home in Omagh.

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Ronnie Wood's Wedding Photo With New Wife

Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood has released an official wedding photo with his new wife and his two famous best men.

The 65-year-old married Sally Humphreys, 34, at the Dorchester Hotel in London earlier this month.

It is the third time the guitarist has been married, and he told Hello! magazine Sally was the perfect partner for him.

He recalled how at the ceremony on December 21, he told guests: "I wish I'd met Sal earlier. I can't think of another girl more suited to me."

He also told the magazine it was a wonderful day, saying: "She looked beautiful walking through that doorway. I feel very blessed to have a new family.

"My dad and brothers are no longer with us so it's really nice to be welcomed by a new gang. Her relatives are lovely."

Pictures of the wedding, taken for the magazine, show Wood and his new wife alongside rock star best men Rod Stewart and Sir Paul McCartney.

The photograph, which also features her seven-year-old niece Heather, comes from the official wedding album, with the couple donating their entire fee to charities.

Wood said his new wife accompanied him to Sir Paul's wedding to Nancy Shevell last year.

"Paul was saying at the time 'Wow, this is wonderful, you two make a great couple'," he said.

The 34-year-old bride married in the same wedding dress as her mother, and wore a red heart-shaped pendant designed by Wood.

Wood's children Jesse, Tyrone and Leah took pride of place in the front row.

"They are happy to see their dad happy," he said. The Stones star said he chose his two best men because "they have always been very supportive of me and Sally".

Wood also revealed how he was so relaxed before the ceremony that he played a game of snooker with friends.

He previously married Krissy Findlay in 1971, before divorcing seven years later.

Wood split from his second wife Jo in 2008, after 23 years together, when he had an affair with a 21-year-old cocktail waitress.

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