内容摘要：A police force is struggling to keep up with a growing number of cases involving images of children being sexually abused, inspectors have said.

A police force is struggling to keep up with a growing number of cases involving images of children being sexually abused, inspectors have said.

The fire is believed to have been started deliberately.Firefighters used backpack sprayers and beaters to extinguish the fire.

The incident was declared over by 00:27 GMT on Tuesday morning.Since Bekki Thomas was a teenager, she has experienced crippling pain and chronic fatigue that lasted weeks at a time.Despite the severe symptoms, it took eight years for doctors to diagnose the Clevedon woman with endometriosis. GPs initially said her pain was caused from "over-exercise" or "anxiety".

The 26-year-old is now calling for more research and awareness about the condition to help other women."When I was 11, I remember being in a lot of pain. I thought it was pretty normal and just meant to be like that. There wasn't any research going into it, we didn't know much about it," she said.

are thought to have the condition, which causes pain and extreme tiredness as a result of tissue similar to the womb lining growing elsewhere in the body.

When she was 13 years old, Ms Thomas said she remembered "keeling over in agony" at the back of the classroom.The only exceptions to this have been countries where elections were seen as neither free nor fair, such as Chad and Rwanda, or in which governments were accused by opposition and rights groups of resorting to a combination of rigging and repression to avert defeat, as in Mozambique.

Three trends have combined to make it a particularly difficult year to be in power.In Botswana, Mauritius and Senegal, growing citizen concern about corruption and the abuse of power eroded government credibility.

Opposition leaders were then able to play on popular anger at nepotism, economic mismanagement and the failure of leaders to uphold the rule of law to expand their support base.Especially in Mauritius and Senegal, the party in power also undermined its claim to be a government committed to respecting political rights and civil liberties - a dangerous misstep in countries where the vast majority of citizens are committed to democracy, and which have previously seen opposition victories.