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Year 415 (CDXV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Honorius and Theodosius (or, less frequently, year 1168 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 415 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

>Constantius, Roman general (magister militum), drives the Visigoths out of Gaul. He captures the usurper Priscus Attalus, and sends him under military escort to Ravenna.

>The Visigoths invade the Iberian Peninsula and begin to conquer territory taken previously by the Vandals. King Ataulf and his pregnant wife Galla Placidia leave Gallia Narbonensis; they relocate at Barcelona. Their infant son, Theodosius, dies in infancy, eliminating an opportunity for a Roman-Visigothic line. Ataulf is assassinated in the palace while taking a bath. Sigeric succeeds him, but after a reign for seven days he is also murdered.

>Autumn – Wallia, brother of Ataulf, becomes king of the Visigoths. He accepts a peace treaty with emperor Honorius, in return for a supply of 600,000 measures of grain. After the negotiations he sends Placidia to Rome with hostages.

Toys R Us staves off collapse after rescue talks

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-42437955

>Toys R Us has staved off collapse after creditors backed a rescue plan for the UK retailer.

>It follows last-minute negotiations with the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) to secure a £9.8m injection into the company's pension fund.

>However, the rescue plan entails closing 26 of its 105 UK outlets, putting 800 jobs at risk, although no stores will close until spring 2018.

>Toys R Us employs 3,200 staff in total in the UK.

Theresa May seeks to reassure UK's Polish residents

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42432390

>Theresa May has sought to reassure Polish people living in the UK that they are still welcome after Brexit.

>Speaking on a trip to Warsaw to sign a new defence treaty with the country, the PM said the one million Polish residents were a "strong part of [UK] society".

>She promised a "simple" and "easy" process to get "settled status" to remain after the UK leaves the EU.

>The trip comes after Mrs May sacked one of her closest allies, Damian Green.

Shell enters UK household energy market

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42441416

>Shell has agreed to buy the energy supplier First Utility, giving the oil giant its first foothold in the UK's household energy market.

>First Utility is the biggest energy supplier in the UK outside the so-called "big six".

>The company supplies 825,000 homes with gas, electricity or broadband.

>Shell is already active in the wholesale energy market, but this is the first time it will supply UK homes directly.

The Jungle: Bringing the stories of the Calais camp to the UK

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42424417

>It might be set in the infamous Calais refugee camp - but The Jungle is "full of life", says playwright Joe Robertson.

>"Everything is happening on top of everything else - just as it was in The Jungle."

>Robertson is describing the set that's been created at London's Young Vic, where audience members can share bread and tea in the Afghan Flag, a fictional cafe that's the setting of the play he's written with university friend Joe Murphy.

>The playwrights, known as the Two Joes, travelled to The Jungle as volunteers, setting up a makeshift theatre called Good Chance. It's a phrase that not only means hope, but was also used by those desperate to reach the UK when they believed they had an opportunity to make it across the Channel - through whatever means.