内容摘要：The government is expected to pass a new law to make the welfare changes, giving MPs a chance to vote on the plans.

The government is expected to pass a new law to make the welfare changes, giving MPs a chance to vote on the plans.

Mr Cooper had already been in the role on a temporary basis since August and was confirmed as Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) John Campion's preferred choice for the job last month.He is the force's first permanent chief constable since

"I'm delighted," said Mr Cooper. "It's a big job, so in terms of responsibility ahead of me, we've got lots of work to do."There's lots of good stuff going on. Crime is going down in West Mercia; we're solving more of it. But the force needs some stability so we can keep up that momentum."Mr Cooper acknowledged there was room for improvement in the force's relationship with local communities and in terms of communicating the work it does.

"The single biggest thing we can do to improve [that] is that when there are local problems that need addressing, either when someone's suffered a crime or there's an issue that's affecting their local are, or even if something is going on behind closed doors, that we do our utmost to solve those problems," he said."And we communicate what we've done really clearly."

He added that the force was facing plenty of challenges.

"Crime is getting more complicated; there's a big budgetary challenge in terms of the cost of running the organisation outstripping the money available. But… the job of policing is to overcome challenges and solve problems."We can't allow that to happen," he said.

The sight of senior Russian and American officials back around a giant negotiating table is extraordinary.For many, most of all Ukrainians, it will have been very hard to take.

In Saudi Arabia, Moscow achieved something major: after three years of all-out war on its neighbour and isolation by the West, it was back at the "top table" of global diplomacy.Not only that, Russia looked for all the world like it was the one calling the shots.