In Southampton the city council warned that some schools 'do not have enough staff to reopen safely to all children', while Slough Borough Council in Berkshire said some primaries would stay closed amid 'confusion across the board' caused by the Department for Education.

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"I acknowledge that some of our competitors are currently charging for returns. We consider that free returns is a critical part of our value position, we are not considering to charge for returns," CEO José Antonio Ramos Calamonte told reporters.

Almost immediately, she was pregnant and sick nearly every day. She longed to escape the brutality, hunger and fear that marked virtually every day of her captivity. Yet when her son, Bana, persuasive prompts arrived, she could not help but love the boy.

Later in the morning, neighbours who heard Aisha's sobs came to help her bury the tiny body in the local cemetery.

One neighbour, Musa, confirmed Aisha's account of that episode, saying he saw the girl before she died, and saw Aisha grieving afterward.

The government, which holds jurisdiction over currency policy, spent 2.8 trillion yen ($19 billion) in dollar-selling, yen-buying intervention last month when authorities acted in the markets to prop up the yen for the first time since 1998.

Citing witness accounts and documents, the news agency reported on Dec. 7 that the army has run a secret abortion programme in the northeast, ending the pregnancies of thousands of women and girls freed from insurgent captivity.

The remarks by BOJ and government policymakers underscore the dilemma Japan faces, as the central bank's ultra-low rates aimed at supporting a weak economy help accelerate an unwelcome yen fall that inflates households' living costs.

TOKYO, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Bank of Japan policymakers on Wednesday stressed the need to keep monetary policy ultra-loose to shield the economy from heightening overseas risks, ruling out the possibility of raising interest rates to slow the yen's slump to 32-year lows.

He has also pledged to compile another spending package to cushion the economic blow from the rising costs of living, a sign fiscal policy will play a major role in combatting fresh downside risks to the recovery.

She began to feel terrified. The insurgents took the woman, in her 50s, to the village square and, in front of as many people as they could gather, beheaded her with an axe. Aisha said she can't forget the woman's head and body dangling as blood spurted from her.

In a speech on Wednesday, BOJ board member Seiji Adachi said it was premature to shift away from the central bank's ultra-loose monetary policy with Japan's economy facing mounting risks from slowing global growth and volatile financial markets.

With Fatima gone, Aisha was alone. She made her way to a displaced persons camp in the city of Yola, a crowded and chaotic place populated with many other women as traumatised as she was.

There was little food, and no money.

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Dozens of women in northeast Nigeria told Reuters of similarly wrenching experiences during the ongoing strife, which has claimed more than 300,000 lives, including those of civilians killed by violence, starvation and disease.

But she did not believe she could do so with Bana, as boys were particularly valued in the Boko Haram community. She said she also feared a boy associated with the insurgents would face stigma outside Islamist-held territory, where he would be seen as a potential enemy.

The following day, they told Aisha she had a vaginal infection. They injected two vials of medicine into her buttocks, without telling her what it was, and gave her an assortment of pills, she said.

An hour later, she said, she was in wrenching pain and began bleeding heavily from her vagina.

While it waits to hear back from Education Secretary Gavin Williamson, Brighton and Hove City Council has advised all primary heads to shut their schools, apart from for vulnerable children and those of key workers, and to move learning online.

The sister, who said she'd been a servant to the wife of a high-ranking Boko Haram leader during her captivity, had not seen Aisha since their arrival in Sambisa Forest. After they reunited, she said, Aisha shared the details of her life during their time apart - including her escape, the abortion and the suspected poisoning of Fatima.

"When looking at the global financial and economic environment surrounding Japan, downside risks are building up rapidly," Adachi said in a speech delivered to business leaders in Toyama, central Japan.