A "New" Descendant of the Bavarian and Spanish Royal Families? DNA Testing May Tell.

The Spanish press has recently carried reports about a Spanish man, about forty-seven years-old, who is trying to find his paternal roots. The gentleman, who is unnamed, was born in the 1970s to an unwed mother. The mother allegedly worked as a maid in the household of the man's father, who passed away about two decades ago. After becoming pregnant, the mother was fired from her place of employment.

Almudena Cathedral in Madrid may hold the answer.

The man was raised in Madrid. He now lives and works in Malaga. With the passage of time, this man has sought to discover the truth of his paternity. In 2017, his search led to a legal suit, in which the claimant is represented by lawyer Fernando Osuna. Now, a judge in Malaga desires the exhumation of the remains of the claimant's putative father, who is said to be buried at the Catedral de la Almudena in Madrid. Reportedly, this gentleman was not his father's firstborn child, so his recognition would not interfere with the transmission of any noble titles or inheritance that his father may have possessed and passed down to his offspring.

Only one individual appears to meet the criteria for being this man's father...although, anything is possible, naturally.

The marriage of Infante José Eugenio of Spain, Prince of Bavaria, and doña Marisol Mesia y de Lesseps (1933).

This individual would be don Fernando Juan Luís José Maria Santiago y Todos los Santos de Baviera y Mesia, who was born at San Remo, Italy, on 3 April 1937 as the first son and second child of Infante José Eugenio of Spain, Prince of Bavaria (1909-1966), and his wife doña Marisol Mesia y de Lesseps (1911-2005). Fernando's paternal grandparents were Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria (1884-1958) and Infanta Maria Teresa of Spain (1882-1912); Fernando's maternal grandparents were Don Fernando Mesia y FitzJames-Stuart, Conde de Mora, Duque de Tamames, and Marie Solange de Lesseps (1887-1943), who was herself the daughter of vicomte Ferdinand de Lesseps, the developer of the Suez Canal. Fernando de Baviera y Mesia was a great-grandson of King Alfonso XII of Spain (1857-1885) and his second wife Queen Maria Cristina(1858-1929; née Archduchess of Austria).

Don Fernando de Baviera y Mesia

On 14 May 1966, Fernando de Baviera y Mesia married Sofia de Arquer y Aris (1941-2005) at Biarritz, France. The couple had one daughter, doña Cristina de Baviera y Arquer, who was born at Geneva on 7 February 1974. 

The death notice of don Fernando de Baviera y Media, Borbon y Lesseps, Principe de Baviera (1999).

The resting place of don Fernando de Baviera y Mesia and doña Sofia Arquer y Aris at La Almudena.
Photograph (c) ABC / Ernesto Agudo

Aged sixty-one, Don Fernando de Baviera y Mesia died at Madrid on 15 March 1999. His burial was privately held at La Almudena Cathedral, and his funeral took place on 8 April 1999. He was survived by his widow doña Sofía, his daughter doña Cristina, his mother doña Marisol, and his sisters, doña Cristina and doña Teresa.

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La catedral de la Almudena guarda en su interior la clave para una demanda de paternidad por descendencia real

Reclaman la paternidad del que fue heredero de una rica dinastía centroeuropea exiliada en España

Buscan los restos de un aristócrata en La Almudena por la demanda de paternidad de un malagueño
Así es la cripta de la catedral de La Almudena, la más grande de España

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Nigel Bruce: The Man Who Would Be Watson

Internet research is indispensable, but sometimes you just have to ask the right person to get the right answer.

Over the weekend, I had a vague recollection that Nigel Bruce wrote an unpublished autobiography. That’s all I remembered. So, on Saturday afternoon I popped an email over the ocean to my British friend Roger Johnson, the always-helpful editor of The Sherlock Holmes Journal, to ask him if there was indeed a Bruce memoir.

On Sunday, Roger sent me a PDF of eight pages from the Winter 1988 number of the Journal. A couple of pages consists of Nicholas Utechin’s interview with Nigel Bruce’s daughter, Pauline Page, and the rest is made up of excerpts from Bruce’s unpublished memoir, Games, Gossip and Greasepaint.

Ms. Page lovingly describes her father as a gregarious, intelligent, very funny man who read at least a book a day and fit in well with Hollywood’s British colony, which included David Niven and Boris Karloff as well as his great friend, Basil Rathbone. She remembered Rathbone fondly as a “wonderful, kind, loving, gentle – really gentle – man without a nasty streak in his body.”

Bruce took just over three years to write his autobiography, ending on Nov. 3, 1947. The extracts in the Journal are limited to his role as Dr. Watson. That began in 1938 when Basil Rathbone sent him a telegram in New York, where he had been involved in a failed Broadway play: “Do come back to Hollywood, Willie dear boy, and play Doctor Watson to my Sherlock Holmes. We’ll have great fun together.”

“Willie,” as all Bruce’s friends called him, was soon making The Hound of the Baskervilles. He earned nearly $10,000 for the picture.

“I never worked with a nicer man than Basil,” he writes, “and I never acted with a more unselfish or more co-operative actor.”

His assessment of Rathbone was based on an experience that included 13 more Holmes films and a long-running Holmes radio series. They also spent many hours together playing golf, both having a 10 handicap.

“Our (Universal) Sherlock Holmes pictures took between 18 and 22 days to make,” he reports. For this he was initially paid a salary of $850 a week in 1942 for 40 weeks. By 1945 his contract was for $1,150 a week, but he was laid off for 12 weeks – during which time he arranged an operation on his legs, which had been wounded in World War I. He acknowledges that Watson "was made much more of a 'comic' character than he ever was in the books."  

Bruce was also playing Dr. Watson on the radio for $500 a week at the same time. This was not only good money, but security for an actor.  

Although Pauline Page blames Basil Rathbone’s “very ambitious, rather pushy little wife” Ouida for ending the Holmes film series, Bruce’s final words about Rathbone in the excerpt are: “Ours had been a very happy association and one which had brought me much publicity and a lot of money. During our long time together Basil and I never had a row or any unpleasantness of any sort.”

Bruce ends his memoir with the hope that his two daughters “will enjoy their lives as much as their father has enjoyed every minute of his.”

It is good to know that William Nigel Ernle Bruce, who gave so much happiness to the rest of us, was a happy man himself. He died in 1953 at the age of 58, one month shy of five years after finishing his memoir.

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SEA GYPSIES - The Hogshead Pub, Emba - 19 September

 

SEA GYPSIES

The Hogshead Pub, Emba

Saturday 19 September - 8pm

Tickets €5.  Reservations 99 994449

Classic 3 piece, playing blues, fusion.  Original arrangements of classic numbers.   Tammy Joe Stewart [guitar], Jim Williams [bass], Dave Samwell [drums].

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ONE NEW CASE AND ONE DEATH TODAY

 Filenews 7 September 2020

The death of a male patient, aged 76, with underlying diseases that was being treated in the Intensive Care Unit of the Nicosia General Hospital is announced. The final cause of death is COVID-19. Therefore, the total number of deaths in SARS-CoV-2 positive patients is 29, and deaths with the final cause of COVID-19 are 22, 16 men and 6 women, with an average age of 72 years.

The Ministry of Health informs that, according to an update received today by the Epidemiological Surveillance Unit from contracting laboratories, a total of 2,049 laboratory diagnoses have identified 1 new case of COVID-19 disease.

The virus-positive atom was detected from 110 samples taken from the Microbiological Laboratories of the General Hospitals.

In addition, the following laboratory tests were carried out, without the detection of a case:

• From samples taken through a private initiative, 149 laboratory tests were completed,
• From samples taken through the process of tracing contacts of already confirmed cases, 112 laboratory diagnoses were carried out,
• From samples taken in the context of passenger and repatriated checks, 1,523 laboratory tests were carried out, and
• From samples taken as part of the programme of referrals from Personal Physicians and control of special teams through the Public Health Clinics, 155 laboratory diagnoses were completed.

Therefore, and on the basis of the data so far, the total number of cases amounts to 1,510.

In addition, a person positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus is treated in a ward at Famagusta General Hospital. A COVID-19 patient is being treated in the Intensive Care Unit of the Nicosia General Hospital.

Source: eyenews

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CHINA CELEBRATES SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH OF SECRETIVE SPACECRAFT

 Sky News 7 September 2020

China is celebrating the successful launch and return of a reusable spacecraft which reportedly orbited Earth for two days before safely returning to the ground.

© Getty China has launched and landed a reusable spacecraft, state media claims. File pic.

The launch and landing "marked an important breakthrough in my country's technology research on reusable spacecraft", said the government-run Xinhua news agency.

There are very few details available about the spacecraft itself, but reports from independent media in China suggest it is a spaceplane similar to the US X-37B orbital test vehicle.

The X-37B is a reusable and robotic spaceplane which has been tested by the US Air Force by being launched on a rocket and is then capable of gliding back to Earth once it exits orbits.

© N/A China's spacecraft has been compared to the US X-37B

It has flown four classified missions carrying secretive payloads during long-duration orbits for the US military.

Xinhua news agency described this weekend's mission as advancing China's "peaceful use of space".

Beijing is typically secretive about its launches, but the spacecraft tested this weekend is especially mysterious - there are no official photographs or computer images of the spacecraft, and it was not even named by Xinhua.

© Imagebridge China launched a rover to Mars back in July

According to the independent South China Morning Post, an official memo regarding the launch which circulated on social media warned people at the launch site not to film the take-off or discuss it online.

A military source told the newspaper that the document was authentic and explained it was because the spacecraft was new and the launch method was different from usual.

This source declined to explain much about the launch, but provided the comparison with the X-37B spaceplane.

The launch follows China joining the search for signs of life on Mars by sending a rover towards the red planet.

Tianwen-1, which means "quest for heavenly truth", took off successfully from Hainan Island off the south coast of China back in July.

The rover will take seven months to reach the red planet and plans to search for underground water and evidence of possible ancient life forms.

The tandem spacecraft - with both an orbiter and a rover - is expected to enter Mars' orbit in February and is aiming for a landing site on Utopia Planitia.

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GRAPHIC - SURGING EURO, VANISHING INFLATION - FIVE QUESTIONS FOR THE ECB

 Reuters 7 September 2020

© Reuters/Ralph Orlowski ECB headquarters in Frankfurt

By Dhara Ranasinghe and Ritvik Carvalho

LONDON (Reuters) - Thursday's European Central Bank meeting should be anything but dull: the euro is surging, inflation is negative for the first time since 2016 and there is heightened uncertainty about the coronavirus as the number of new cases edges higher.

No major policy moves are expected since the ECB has acted aggressively to shore up an economy tipped to shrink around a tenth in 2020 due to COVID-19.

But pressure to act again soon is rising. Here are five key questions for markets.

1. How dovish will the ECB be?

A negative inflation reading in August points to an explicit dovish bias. Annual euro zone inflation fell to -0.2% from 0.4% in July. Underlying inflation, watched closely by the ECB, tumbled. That suggests the bloc's deepest recession in living memory could become a bigger drag on consumer prices.

Comments last week from ECB board member Isabel Schnabel imply there is no hurry to deliver more stimulus. But weak inflation and a firm euro are fuelling expectations that the ECB will have to expand asset purchases -- possibly in December.

Graphic: ECB policy response to the COVID-19 crisis - https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/mkt/xklvynjrlpg/ECB0309.PNG

2. What about a soaring euro?

Anything ECB chief Christine Lagarde says about the euro's rapid ascent will be watched closely. The currency hit $1.20 for the first time since 2018 last week and has rallied 4% since the July meeting.

On a widely-watched trade-weighted index published by the central bank , the euro is trading near six-year highs, adding to downward pressure on inflation.

ECB chief economist Philip Lane said last week "the euro-dollar rate does matter" in a sign that concern about currency strength is growing among rate-setters.

"The move in the euro has been incredible and the ECB has to respond to this," said Jim Caron, a fixed income portfolio manager at Morgan Stanley Investment Management.

"Do they say something like we're going to intervene? We don't think they'll say that but if they say nothing, the euro's going higher."

While the ECB has broadly adopted a hands-off approach, it has previously resorted to verbal intervention, such as in 2014.

Graphic: Euro during the coronavirus crisis - https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/mkt/xegpbobwbvq/Pasted%20image%201599140904172.png

3. Will the ECB use emergency bond purchases in full?

Euro strength and negative inflation could settle the debate among policymakers about whether the full firepower of the bank's 1.35 trillion euro emergency bond-buying scheme should be deployed.

Minutes from the July meeting showed some officials were not keen for another increase in the Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme.

Comments from Lane suggest the PEPP, designed to protect the bloc from the coronavirus shock, is also a key tool in boosting inflation towards its near 2% target. Lagarde and Schnabel have said the scheme will be used in full.

Some economists expect the ECB to expand the PEPP by a further 500 billion euros by year-end.

Graphic: Will the ECB use the full PEPP envelope? - https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/mkt/xklpynjolvg/Pasted%20image%201599141019741.png

4. How does the ECB view the economic outlook?

ECB staff projections are due Thursday and the big question is whether new inflation forecasts are below earlier ones. The June forecasts had third-quarter price growth at 0.1% year-on-year and the fourth quarter at 0.0%.

There are also signs the economic recovery is stuttering after a sharp rebound between May and July. Growth in the dominant service industry almost ground to a halt in August, a survey showed.

Graphic: Core inflation during crises vs. current ECB projections - https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/mkt/qmypmaqwepr/Pasted%20image%201599142128604.png

5. Will the Fed's strategy change impact the ECB?

The Federal Reserve last month unveiled a significant policy shift. It will now target inflation at 2% on average, allowing prices to run hotter to balance periods when they undershoot.

That could have implications for the ECB, which is set to restart its own strategic review. Lagarde has hinted in the past that the ECB would take its cue from the U.S. central bank.

Danske Bank's chief strategist, Piet Haines Christiansen, expects the ECB to adopt a symmetric inflation target - treating an overshoot with the same vigour as an undershoot - to maintain flexibility.

Graphic: Inflation woes - https://tmsnrt.rs/358sh0m

(Reporting by Dhara Ranasinghe; Additional reporting by Saikat Chatterjee; Graphics by Ritvik Carvalho; Editing by Tommy Wilkes and John Stonestreet)

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GREECE WANTS TO BOLSTER DEFENCE SECTOR AS TENSIONS IN EAST MED GROW

 Cyprus Mail 7 September 2020 - by Reuters News Service

Greek army tanks are driven during a military parade marking Greece's Independence Day in front of the parliament building in Athens

Greece plans to acquire arms, bolster up its army staff and revamp its defence industry, its government spokesman said on Monday, as tensions with NATO ally Turkey over energy resources in the east Mediterranean grow.

Greece, which emerged from its third international bailout in 2018 and has been struggling with the economic impact of the novel coronavirus, wants to spend part of its multi-billion euro cash reserves on its defence sector.

“We are in talks with allies to boost our armed forces,” government spokesman Stelios Petsas told reporters, adding that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will outline his plans during an annual economic policy speech on Saturday.

A Greek government official told Reuters last week that Greece is in talks with France and other countries over the acquisition of fighter jets. Greece has also been trying for more than a decade to consolidate and privatise its loss making defence companies.

Mitsotakis will meet French President Emmanuel Macron in Corsica on Thursday, before a Southern European leaders summit (MED 7), and will discuss the issue, Petsas said. The French Presidency has not confirmed the meeting.

Turkey and EU member Greece vehemently disagree over the extent of their continental shelves. Tensions rose last month after Ankara sent an exploration vessel into disputed waters in the region, accompanied by warships, days after Greece signed a maritime deal with Egypt that angered Turkey.

Ankara has since been extending the vessel’s work in the wider region, issuing advisories which Athens calls illegal.

The Greek conservative leader discussed the latest twists in the row with European Council President Charles Michel, who chairs summits of EU leaders. Michel will visit Athens on Sept. 15, Petsas said.

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BELARUSIAN PROTEST LEADER DETAINED BY MASKED MEN - TUT.BY NEWS PORTAL

 Cyprus Mail 7 September 2020  - by Reuters News Service

Politician and representative of the Coordination Council for members of the Belarusian opposition Maria Kolesnikova

Unidentified masked men detained prominent Belarusian protest leader Maria Kolesnikova in central Minsk on Monday morning and drove her off in a minivan, the Belarusian Tut.By media outlet cited a witness as saying.

Kolesnikova, a member of the opposition coordination council, is the last of three female politicians left inside Belarus who joined forces before an Aug. 9 presidential election to try to challenge veteran incumbent Alexander Lukashenko.

A vocal critic of Lukashenko, she has played an important role in weeks of mass demonstrations and strikes by protesters who accuse Lukashenko of rigging his re-election.

He denies that allegation and has accused foreign powers of trying to topple him in a revolution.

Three European Union diplomats told Reuters that the EU is preparing to impose economic sanctions on 31 senior Belarus officials, including the interior minister, later this month in response to the election and subsequent crackdown.

Facing the deepest crisis of his 26-year rule, Lukashenko retains the support of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has promised to send in police to support him if needed.

Kolesnikova’s abduction, if confirmed, comes as Belarusian authorities appear to be stepping up their efforts to try to halt the protests and obstruct the work of the opposition’s coordination council which they have accused of plotting to overthrow Lukashenko.

On Sunday, tens of thousands of people demonstrated across the country demanding Lukashenko step down. Security forces detained 633 protesters, Belarusian authorities said.

MASKED MEN

An eyewitness, Anastasia, was cited by the Tut.By media outlet as saying she had seen Kolesnikova pushed into a dark-coloured van by masked men in plain clothes in central Minsk.

She said Kolesnikova’s mobile phone had dropped to the ground during the tussle and that one of the masked men detaining her had picked it up before the van sped off.

Kolesnikova’s allies said they were checking the report of her detention, and that they were unable to get in touch with some other members of her team too and were concerned about their safety.

Police in Minsk were cited by Russia’s Interfax news agency as saying they had not detained Kolesnikova.

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius likened what had happened to Kolesnikova to something that the Stalin-era secet police in the Soviet Union would have done.

“Instead of talking to the people of Belarus, the outgoing leadership is trying cynically (to) eliminate (them) one by one,” he wrote on Twitter.

“The kidnapping…is a disgrace. Stalinist NKVD methods are being applied in 21st century Europe. She must be released immediately”.

Before the election, Kolesnikova had joined forces with opposition presidential candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya who later fled to Lithuania, and with Veronika Tsepkalo, who has since left for Poland.

Another leading activist, Olga Kovalkova, arrived in Poland on Saturday, saying she had been told she would face arrest if she stayed in Belarus.

The crisis is hitting the Belarus economy. Central bank figures published on Monday showed the former Soviet republic had burned through nearly a sixth of its gold and foreign exchange reserves, or $1.4 billion, in August, as it fought to prop up its rouble currency during the wave of unrest.

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NAVALNY OUT OF COMA AND RESPONSIVE, SAYS GERMAN HOSPITAL

 pa media 7 September 2020 - by Associated Press Reporter

© Pavel Golovkin Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny (Pavel Golovkin/AP)

The German hospital treating Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has said he has been taken out of an induced coma and is responsive.

Mr Navalny, a fierce critic of Russian president Vladimir Putin, was flown to Germany on August 22, two days after falling ill on a domestic flight in Russia.

German chemical weapons experts say tests show that 44-year-old Mr Navalny was poisoned with a Soviet-era nerve agent, prompting the German government last week to demand that Russia investigate the case.

Berlin’s Charite hospital said on Monday that Mr Navalny’s condition has improved, allowing doctors to end the medically induced coma and gradually ease him off mechanical ventilation. It noted that he was responding to speech but “long-term consequences of the serious poisoning can still not be ruled out”.

He has been in an induced coma in the Berlin hospital since he was flown to Germany for treatment.

German authorities said last week that tests showed “proof without doubt” that he had been poisoned with a chemical nerve agent from the Novichok group. British authorities identified the Soviet-era Novichok as the poison used on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in 2018.

Earlier, chancellor Angela Merkel’s office indicated she might be willing to rethink the fate of a German-Russian gas pipeline project in a sign of Berlin’s growing frustration at Moscow’s stonewalling over the poisoning of Mr Navalny.

© Provided by PA Media German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Markus Schreiber/Pool/AP)

Germany’s foreign minister Heiko Maas said in an interview on Sunday that the Russian reaction could determine whether Germany changes its long-standing backing of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

“The chancellor also believes that it’s wrong to rule anything out,” Mrs Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert told reporters after being asked about Mr Maas’s comments.

Previously, Mrs Merkel had insisted on “decoupling” the Navalny case from the pipeline project, which the US strongly opposes.

In early August, three Republican senators threatened sanctions against the operator of a Baltic Sea port located in Mrs Merkel’s parliamentary constituency over its role as a staging post for ships involved in building Nord Stream 2.

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WHAT IS THE UK INTERNAL MARKET BILL AND WHY DOES IT MATTER?

 Sky News 7 September 2020 - by Alix Culbertson, news reporter

The UK Internal Market Bill is causing friction between the UK and the EU after reports said it will override key parts of the Brexit agreement.

© Getty The UK Internal Market Bill will set out how the four nations will trade after Brexit

Due to be published on Wednesday, the bill was proposed in July and sets out the UK government's plans to ensure trade between all four home nations remains barrier-free after the Brexit transition period ends on 31 December 2020.

One of the major issues is how that can apply to Northern Ireland when it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland, which will remain in the EU.

People with knowledge of plans for the bill told the Financial Times that sections of it will legally override parts of the Northern Ireland protocol, which was signed alongside the Withdrawal Agreement last October.

© PA Northern Ireland will have to stick to some EU rules after the transition period

Sky News explains what the UK internal market is, what the plans are for it and what the Northern Ireland protocol involves.

What is the UK internal market?

Dating back to 1706 and 1707, when the Union between England, Wales and Scotland was created, the internal market ensures there is "open and unhindered trade" across the UK's four nations.

© Getty The UK's devolved nations, including Scotland, have been able to make their own decisions on some trade issues but under the EU's overarching rules

When the UK joined the then-European Economic Community in 1973, most of the British trade laws were replaced by European laws.

The devolution of powers to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in the 1990s was made within the context of EU membership, so they had power over some policy areas, such as agriculture, but they could not contravene EU law.

What is the purpose of the UK Internal Market Bill?

The Internal Market Bill aims to maintain the joined-up market to ensure all four of the UK's nations are not limited by regulations determined by each devolved government.

© Getty The bill means all four home nations will be able to trade freely with each other

It also aims to guarantee the international community has access to the UK as a whole, knowing the standards and rules are the same throughout.

© Getty The Northern Ireland protocol aims to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland

When the UK leaves the EU, the devolved powers will have no constraints from the EU so could set up their own rules on issues like food safety.

The bill aims to create common rules that apply across the whole of the UK - essentially replacing the EU's role as the ultimate arbiter of most trade policies.

What are the bill's proposals?

The bill proposes to bring forward legislation that will enshrine "mutual recognition and non-discrimination".

Mutual recognition is defined in the bill as making sure any goods, services and qualifications that can be sold or used in one part of the UK can also be in another part of the UK - with some exceptions for Northern Ireland as laid out in the protocol (scroll down to read more on the protocol).

Non-discrimination laws would make it unlawful for any of the four nations' governments to introduce rules or regulations that would favour goods or services in one part of the UK over another.

An independent body to monitor how the UK's internal market is functioning is also proposed in the bill to oversee the implementation of these principles and to consult with businesses and consumers.

But, the bill says this could not lead to the body directly overturning the decisions of a devolved government.

It also promises Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff will be given new powers to create their own laws in 160 policy areas once the transition period is over.

What is the Northern Ireland protocol?

A crucial part of the Internal Market Bill, and therefore the Withdrawal Agreement, the Northern Ireland protocol aims to avoid the introduction of a hard border on the island of Ireland in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

It states that Northern Ireland will remain part of the UK's customs territory so if the UK signs a free trade deal with another country, Northern Irish goods would be included.

However, Northern Ireland will have to stick to some EU rules to allow goods to move freely into the Republic.

Goods moving from the rest of the UK to Northern Ireland will not be subject to a tariff unless they are "at risk" of being moved into the EU afterwards.

Environment Secretary George Eustice said there will need to be "some checks on some goods" and "some customs processes but not customs checks" at the border with the Republic.

Goods coming from Northern Ireland to Great Britain can have "unfettered" access, according to the proposed Internal Market Bill.

This means that goods sold in Northern Ireland will be accepted everywhere else in the UK, but the reverse may not be true.

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