The catch-up: Your daily 5pm round-up of today's top stories

Tesco confirms thousands of jobs at risk

Tesco has revealed up to 9,000 jobs are at risk at its stores and offices across the country.

The supermarket giant said up to half of the staff affected could be redeployed to other roles.

It confirmed around 90 large stores would lose their fish, meat or deli counters.

18-year-old female paedophile is jailed

Britain’s youngest named female paedophile has been jailed for seven years after taking indecent images of children and sending them to a man she met online.

Sophie Elms, now 18, committed the “devastating” sexual offences against two young children aged just two and three years old.

She carried out the attacks after sex offender David Gearing contacted her online and incited her to abuse them and send him the pictures.

McDonald’s and KFC warn they could run out of food under no-deal Brexit

Some of the UK’s best-known fast food chains and supermarkets have warned of food shortages and higher prices under a no-deal Brexit.

The chief executives of McDonald’s, Pret a Manger, KFC, Sainsbury’s, Marks & Spencer and Waitrose were among those to sign a letter to MPs warning their customers could be ‘first to experience the realities of a no-deal Brexit’.

The CEOs urged politicians to find an urgent solution, saying it was impossible to stockpile enough goods.

Boy, 3, who went missing in woods ‘was looked after by a bear’

A three-year-old boy who went missing in the woods for two days says he was protected by a bear.

Casey Hathaway spent two nights alone in freezing conditions after disappearing from his grandmother’s garden in North Carolina on Tuesday.

He was found tangled in thorny bushes last Thursday evening, and he told his family he had been looked after by a friendly bear while he was lost.