内容摘要：Two publicly owned swimming pools earmarked for closure next month have been reprieved after opposition councillors won a crucial vote to block the move.

Two publicly owned swimming pools earmarked for closure next month have been reprieved after opposition councillors won a crucial vote to block the move.

"I am absolutely delighted at this outcome and I would only urge those many, many people who campaigned against the cuts to start taking the bus more often as the best possible method of showing their true support for the services."An American man is being held in Russia after airport security discovered cannabis-laced sweets in his luggage, according to Russian state media.

The 28-year-old man, who is not named in the reports, is facing drugs charges after he was arrested at Moscow's Vnukovo International Airport last week.According to Russian state news agency Tass, a drug-sniffing dog alerted security to one of his bags which was then found to contain two jars and a plastic bag of cannabis products.The US State Department told the BBC it was aware of the reports and was monitoring the case closely.

The Tass report said the man arrived in Moscow from Istanbul on 7 February, and later explained to airport security that the items had been prescribed by an American doctor.He is facing a potential prison term of 5-10 years on drug smuggling charges as well as a fine of one million roubles ($10,880; £8,600), state media reports.

In recent years, Russia has detained a number of US citizens on drugs charges with some Western officials suggesting the Kremlin is "hoarding" Americans to trade for allies and operatives imprisoned abroad.

Prisoner exchanges occurred as recently as this week, when a Russian national jailed in the US on money laundering charges was freed in exchange for American Marc Fogel, who was arrested for cannabis possession in 2021.Despite his party doing better under the current system than in previous elections, the Lib Dem leader Sir Ed said on Friday morning that he felt the British political system was “still broken” and would continue to support electoral reform.

Though this is the most extreme difference between vote and seat shares seen across the whole of the UK and in England for over a century, other nations of the UK have seen more extreme cases in recent history.In the 2015 general election, the Scottish National Party took half of the votes and 95% of the seats in Scotland - a gap of 45 points between the vote and seat share.

The highest gap recorded in Wales was in the 2001 general election when Labour won just under half of the votes and 85% of Welsh seats in Westminster.The Electoral Reform Society used more complex statistical scoring systems to compare the 2024 election result to others in UK history, but also concluded it was the most disproportionate on record.