内容摘要：Another outdoor tourist attraction from Donegal presented Mr Doherty with a €10,000 (£8,462) cheque earlier in the week.

Another outdoor tourist attraction from Donegal presented Mr Doherty with a €10,000 (£8,462) cheque earlier in the week.

Ofcom, the communications regulator, has warned parental enforcement of rules "appeared to be diminishing".An organisation dedicated to supporting young carers has said there are about 6,000 youngsters looking after others who are unaccounted for in Gloucestershire.

Gloucestershire Young Carers (GYC) said it has engaged with more than 1,000 young carers in the county butTo reduce the number of potentially unsupported young carers, the charity held a conference in Cheltenham last week, to help the "whole county become young-carer aware".Young carer Luna, 16, who cared for her mother while she was in primary school, said it was "such a big support" to meet and know people with similar experiences as her through GYC.

On a good day, Luna said she would need to look after her mother for an hour or two, but on "down days", she needed to be at home all day."It was a lot harder to explain to other peers what I'm going through because it's quite hard to understand at that age," she told BBC Radio Gloucestershire.

"I tended to struggle quite a lot in lessons, sometimes I'd find it hard to concentrate as much, or I wouldn't be able to go and spend time with friends and sometimes people wouldn't be able to understand why."

While Luna says the friends she has made through GYC "all have different stories", they "have a similar idea" of what her day-to-day life is like.For months after Hamas attacked Israel, the fear was that the war would spread, and get worse. Slowly, and then very quickly, it happened, after Israel’s devastating attacks on Hezbollah and Lebanon.

It is too late to say the Middle East is on the brink. Israel is facing off against Iran. The warring parties have plunged over it, and countries not yet directly involved are desperate not to be dragged over the edge.As I write Israel has still not retaliated for Iran’s ballistic missile attack on 1 October. It has indicated that it intends to inflict a severe punishment. President Biden and his administration, Israel’s constant supplier of weapons and diplomatic support, are trying to calibrate a response that might offer Iran a way to stop the accelerating climb up the ladder of escalation, a phrase strategists use to describe the way wars speed from crisis to disaster.

The proximity of the US elections, along with Joe Biden’s steadfast support for Israel, despite his misgivings about the way it has been fighting, do not induce much optimism that the US will somehow finesse a way out.The signals from Israel indicate that Netanyahu, Gallant, the generals of the IDF and the intelligence agencies believe they have the upper hand. October 7th was a disaster for them. All the major security and military chiefs, except the prime minister, apologised and some resigned. They had not planned for a war with Hamas. But planning for the war with Hezbollah started after the last one ended in 2006 in a humiliating stalemate for Israel. Hezbollah has suffered blows from which it might never recover.