内容摘要：This year's entrants, girl group Remember Monday, ended in a similar position, finishing 19th. Alexander praised their performance, adding that he "hopes to meet up with them soon and we can exchange stories".

This year's entrants, girl group Remember Monday, ended in a similar position, finishing 19th. Alexander praised their performance, adding that he "hopes to meet up with them soon and we can exchange stories".

Dame Vera Baird KC said the CCRC seemed "incapable of learning from their mistakes" and she wanted to "root out" the culture causing them.The government has given her the task of reviewing the CCRC, and to increase public confidence in the organisation and its work investigating potential miscarriages of justice.

The former victims commissioner and government minister was appointed on Tuesday after her predecessor Helen Pitcher quitSpeaking to BBC Radio 4 Today programme, Dame Vera described the CCRC as a "hugely important organisation for our criminal justice system" but criticised the agency in its current state."They seem incapable of learning from their mistakes," she said, later referencing that Mr Malkinson's case was not dissimilar to that of

"Even as the CCRC was looking at an identical case in Malkinson [they were] failing to refer to [past cases]," Dame Vera said. "There is some inability to grasp the level of failure that is going on."She also said she is writing to body's chief executive Karen Kneller to "discuss her position" and future, as well as some of the people who have not had their miscarriages of justice properly referred.

Mr Malkinson was accused in 2003 of raping a woman in Greater Manchester. He was later convicted and jailed for life despite no DNA linking him to the crime.

He spent 17 years in prison - during which time he applied twice for his case to be reviewed by the CCRC but was turned down - and was eventually released in December 2020.The Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem said three journalists, a father escorting his son to surgery, and another person died on Thursday morning when the hospital's compound was hit.

It condemned "in the strongest possible terms" the attack, which also injured 30 bystanders, including four hospital staff. The Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate accused Israel of a "full-fledged war crime".The Israeli military said it "precisely struck" a Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) fighter operating from a command centre inside the hospital's yard.

It came on the same day as more than 130 global news and press freedom organisations - including the BBC - called for international media to be given immediate access to Gaza and Palestinian journalists to be given full protection."For 20 months, the Israeli authorities have refused to grant journalists outside of Gaza independent access to the Palestinian territory - a situation that is without precedent in modern warfare,"