Morning briefing Friday 28th August

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0:46More than 900 people are missing and at least 389 have died in Nepal, with 33 British nationals among those unaccounted for. A lake of rising water has formed near the Nepal-China border, prompting fears it could burst its banks and send another surge through communities already devastated by Wednesday's flooding. Anjil Adhikari is a disaster risk management specialist for Oxfam in Nepal. The risk is significantly high, but the authorities have warned the downstream communities to remain on high alert. The next few days are particularly going to be more important for us, because we need to ongoing our current response in the ground, but still we need to be cautious that we protect the people who are alive and also who are responding on the ground.

1:31More than 200 extra officers have been drafted in to support Cleveland police, following a series of violent incidents around Middlesbrough. Nine people have died in less than a week, including two police officers and five young men killed in Saturday's A66 crash and a seven-year-old girl and her aunt who died in a house fire on Wednesday. 19 arrests have been made. Police are investigating possible links to organised crime. Former Middlesbrough Mayor Andy Preston gave Times Radio his assessment. What I want to do is make sure that people don't have the impression that Middlesbrough and other places are out of control.

2:09But what is true is that there are significant, small but growing pockets of lawlessness of people without a stake in society, people with no values, and they torture the lives of decent, working-class people. NHS leaders are warning that the soaring cost of ADHD assessments has become out of control and unsustainable. Spending has risen as much as tenfold in some areas as patients facing long NHS waits use their legal right to be assessed privately. Some private clinics are charging the health service up to£3 ,000 per assessment, with a backlog of people on the waiting list running into hundreds of thousands.

2:50The Times Health Editor, Eleanor Hayward has more details. In Cheshire and Merseyside, the bill for diagnosing adults with ADHD has gone from 11 million two years ago to projected 51 million for the upcoming financial year. This is largely due to huge demand. There's about 800 ,000 people on waiting lists for an ADHD assessment. Donald Trump has signed an executive order seeking to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America amid an escalating trade dispute with Canada. Canadian Prime Prime Minister Mark Carney has rejected the move, insisting the lake will be called Lake Ontario today and forever. And LinkedIn is increasingly being used to find love as younger professionals grow tired of traditional dating apps.

3:35A survey suggests almost one in four US users believes using the professional networking site for dating is acceptable. There's more on these stories throughout the day on Times Radio.

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