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Has the sport. We are going to look ahead to the match between the champions liverpool and norwich city. All the details coming up. And sarah has all the weather. As if it hasnt been wet enough, now we have got the wind to content with. That is right, some very unsubtle, Stormy Weather conditions over the next couple of days, with some heavy rain in the forecast and also some thunderstorms, and especially in the sad, very strong winds as well. They have caused disruption already, and they will continue to cause disruption over the next couple of days. But i will bring you all the details on this in half an hour. Sarah, thank you. Also coming up all the fun of the fair. The helter skelter giving visitors a unique view of Norwich Cathedrals roof. Hello, everyone. This is afternoon live. Im martine croxall. A 28 year old churchwarden has been found guilty of the murder of a retired lecturer in buckinghamshire. Benfield lived at the home of peter barker inmates morton. Joe black has been following the trial. He thought he was losing his mind and suffering from a mystery illness. He would often fall and injure himself. But all along he was secretly being drugged by his partner, benfield, who was targeting him to try to inherit his house. He got massive pleasure from other peoples misery and pain, and it was all about financial gain, or some kind of gain to benfield. He was a nasty, cruel man. He was one of his students. They met at the university of buckingham, and even pledged to marry at a betrothal ceremony. As peter farquars health declined, field suggested dementia or alcoholism could be to blame. And when the lecturers body was discovered next to a half empty bottle of whiskey, even a coroner thought he had drunk himself to death. The police now believe field suffocated him. Ben field did inherit peter farquars house. His focus then switched a few doors down this road to the house of Ann Moore Martin the 83 year old became his next target. Despite the 57 year age gap, they had a sexual relationship, but for field it was more pretence. His sketchbook shows one of his tactics, writing religious messages on her mirrors, some saying she should leave her house to him. She was deeply religious and believed they were communications from god. Then, there was this. Hello, im thinking of withdrawing all my accounts, money held in my accounts. Ann moore martin released £27,000 from her bank and gave it to field after he said his brother was ill and needed his own dialysis machine. It was another lie. Its actually quite urgent. In life, one must not be selfish. She died of natural causes, but before her death she confided in her niece about her relationship with field and the mirrors. The court was told she said he had given her white powder to help her sleep. A Police Investigation revealed fields links with both neighbours and 18 months after his death, peter farquars body was exhumed. New forensics showed he had drugs in his system. In terms of the death of peter farquar, there is a very good chance that benjamin field would have gotten away with that death had it not been for the suspicions that were raised once Ann Moore Martin was removed from benjamins control. In fact, at that stage he had already gotten away with it. In ben field, they thought they had found someone they could love, but motivated by greed, he preyed on their loneliness and vulnerability. Jo black, bbc news. The economy shrank for the first time in more than six years between april and june, according to the First Official estimate. The office for National Statistics says gdp decreased by 0. 2 in the Second Quarter, as manufacturing and construction reduced and the Service Sector stalled. The figures were worse than economists had expected, and follow a strong start to the year, when businesses were stockpiling in anticipation of brexit. Heres our economics correspondent, andy verity. This Food Packaging company in leicester grew rapidly until this year, and was looking to open a second site, stepping up its turnover from £25 million to £45 million. It piled up stock ahead of the march brexit deadline, diverting funds from its new site. Then in the Second Quarter, orders dropped off, and it had to refinance to keep its expansion plans on track. Political uncertainty isnt helping. Its all about the cloudy sky again. We went through this pre march, and now between march and october, we have had a lot of unstable uncertainty, and the cloudy sky is upon us again. We cant move forward, we cant move back. We are static, we are stuck in a rut. Thats where we are. Most economists were expecting a weak performance in the Second Quarter of the year, but not this weak. You have to go all the way back to 2012, when the eurozone crisis was in full swing, to find a weak economic performance. Weve got record employment. Weve got unemployment at its lowest level for 44 years. Wages are growing at their fastest rate for a decade. Weve got National Debt falling as a proportion of gdp. In fact, the imf is forecasting that we will grow faster this year than germany, than italy, than japan, as fast as france. And so the fundamentals of the uk economy remain resilient and strong. Manufacturing activity shrank in the Second Quarter. Its now shrunk over the past year. And output from industrial production, heavy industries such as oil and gas, also dropped as a global slowdown took hold. Most people can see for themselves the lack of business confidence, of investment, thats taking place. People not knowing whats going to happen from one week to the next. Will we be in europe . Will we be outside of it . I think that is corrosive. Its undermining peoples confidence in the economy, and i think these figures reflect that. Business investment is essential to improving the amount each worker can produce so employers can afford inflation beating pay rises, but that also dropped. I think its a bit about a global slowdown, and we can see that in the weak manufacturing numbers, the weak export numbers. But there are some Political Uncertainty factors here as well, so Business Investment falling, exports falling, particularly to the eu, and that weakness in the Service Sector as well, all adds up to a sense that Political Uncertainty is weighing on the economy. The Services Sector that makes up most of the economyjust about grew, by 0. 1 . Because the figures hark back tojune, we dont yet know whats been happening to the economy since then. The hope is the Second Quarter will be the only time the economy shrinks this year. The fear is it wont be. Andy verity, bbc news. With me is our Business Correspondent katy austin. The chancellor is saying that this was entirely predicted, but that is not entirely true, a contraction being predicted. It is not entirely true, growth had been expected to stagnate, be about zero. Negative contraction is definitely worse than that, but there were unusual factors in the past year that have made the economy quite volatile. The impact of brexit and contingency plans around that, and the shifting date, have of course made it very difficult for businesses to plan, and there were some specific factors that might have contributed towards manufacturing shrinking, such as car factories bringing forward their summer factories bringing forward their summer shutdown is around the original brexit date as a kind of contingency plan. So there were sometime specific factors, but some a nalysts sometime specific factors, but some analysts will see this contraction isa sign analysts will see this contraction is a sign there are underlying weaknesses, especially when you see the Services Sector really not performing as well as it had been doing. So some of those things that have contributed to this will only have contributed to this will only have happened once, and we shouldnt see anything like that happen again. So what does that mean for the rest of the year because . Are we heading for a recession . If you ask sajid javid, he will say no, these things wont happen again, and he will say the government is making it so certain that brexit will happen on october the 31st, he will say that will provide valuable certainty that means businesses can start to invest again, to plan more for the future. And are we in a recession . Technically know at the moment, because that is normally defined as two consecutive quarters of contraction, and most of the conditions we have seen recently are pointing to the uk avoiding that, evenif pointing to the uk avoiding that, even if not by much. So it is very difficult to predict what will happen in the future, but nobody is at the moment looking at this as a kind of long term recession in the pipeline. Of course a lot of finalists will say that very much depends on what does happen with brexit and whether a new deal does affect the picture somewhat. Katy austin, thank you very much. Jeremy corbyn has written to britains most senior Civil Servant, to ask him to intervene to prevent a no deal brexit happening during a general Election Campaign. The labour leader is concerned that an election might be called this autumn, just as britain is due to leave the eu and take place after brexit has happened. That could leave mps powerless to intervene, because parliament wouldnt be sitting. Jeremy corbyn says that brexit in those circumstances would be an abuse of power. More details from our Political Correspondent tom barton. Since he became Prime Ministerjust over two weeks ago, borisjohnson has been consistently clear about one thing. We have to leave the eu in october the 31st. But would suggestions the Prime Minister can make that happen by ensuring brexit date falls during an Election Campaign, Jeremy Corbyn has asked the countrys top Civil Servant to intervene. Writing to mark sedwill to say that forcing through a no deal brexit against a decision of parliament and denying the choice to voters in a general election already under way would be an institution or an unprecedented, unconstitutional and anti democratic abuse of power. If we dont have a Prime Minister who will do the decent thing and behave honourably, we have to go around him and say to the head of the civil service, you also have duties here that you must adhere to, and we might end up in a situation where her majesty the queen becomes involved in this. The reason this matters is because some mps, determined to try to stop a no deal brexit, could try to pass a vote of no confidence in Boris Johnsons government. If Boris Johnsons government. If Boris Johnson lost that, under new government wasnt formed a couple of weeks, then a general election would follow. If that happened, the date of the election would be in the hands of Boris Johnson, of the election would be in the hands of borisjohnson, and his advisers are said to believe he could choose to set a date in november, forcing a no deal brexit by default. If Boris Johnson cant hold the confidence of parliament, i am convinced there is nobody else who could and we could go for a general election, and it is up to the Prime Minister, borisjohnson, to set the date. And i think setting the ist of november is a political masterstroke. With just 83 days to go until the end of october, and brexit talks still stuck in a stalemate, politicians are gearing up stalemate, politicians are gearing upfora stalemate, politicians are gearing up for a stormy autumn. Tom barton, bbc news, westminster. So what could happen when mps return after the summer break . Parliament sits again on the 3rd september if a no confidence vote is called and the government loses, mps will have 14 days to find an alternative government. If no alternative is found, a general election must be called within seven weeks. If there isnt a no confidence vote the house will sit until 13th september when they break up for Party Conference season. After that, mps return to westminster on the 9th october. Eu leaders will meet for a summit on the 17th and 18th of october. And currently the uk will leave the European Union on the 31st of october. Our Political Correspondent mark lobel is in westminster. A lot of ifs and buts. It is extremely complicated, everybody agrees that. Let me run you through the scenario to make sense ofJeremy Corbyns letter. Borisjohnson could well face and could well lose a no confidence vote when the mps return in september. If a general election was under way, it is strongly believed from what Boris Johnson is saying that he would still push ahead with leaving the eu by the end of october. That has propertyJeremy Corbyn to write this letter to sir mark sedwill, the head of the civil service, saying that if no deal brexit fell during that period, it would be unconstitutional and must be stopped. So the issue there is whether a no deal brexit would be considered a new policy, if you like, that would bind the hands of the incoming government, because that wouldnt be allowed, and this is what vernon bogdanor, professor of government at kings college, had to say about that. Brexit, and even a no deal brexit, is not a new policy for this reason. In 2017, parliament voted by a majority of nearly 400 of the notification of withdrawal act, to leave the European Union. Three times, parliament has rejected the deal that has been negotiated. The European Union says no other deal as possible. Therefore, logically, if you want to leave the European Union, you have to leave without a deal. Now, parliament has had two years to alter its mind from 2017. It hasnt yet done so. So you cant say that leaving without a deal is a new policy. It is implementing a decision of parliament two years ago. So the professor saying it is not something that mark sedwill would stop. He is a constitutional expert. Another expert, if you like, joe moore, the former director of legislative affairs at downing street, the person inside downing street, the person inside downing street until recently he would advise on these things, has come out and agreed with him, saying it is not the wrong thing if a no deal brexit was to fall within that general election period. That could continue. He says person he thinks it would be unconstitutional, but it would be stopped. He was asked, what would be stopped. He was asked, what would stop at . He said one word, legislation. New legislation would have to be introduced in parliament probably by mps taking control of the order book, and they would have to rush it through very quickly in order to mandate the government to not leave the eu at all or to extend article 50. As i said, all fiendishly complicated. You are right there, it will have a lot of people scratching heads mark, thank you very much. Youre watching afternoon live, these are our headlines. A Church Wardens found guilty of murdering University Lecturer Peter Farquhar after trying to benefit from his will the uk economy shrinks for the first time in 6 years raising fears of a recession. Jeremy corbyn calls on britains top Civil Servant to block the plan the Prime Ministerfrom Civil Servant to block the plan the Prime Minister from forcing for a no deal brexit in a snap general Election Campaign. And deaths from asthma hit a ten year high in england and wales was what in sport, it is the return of the premier league, and it starts at anfield this evening, last years runners up, liverpool, european champions cup my face newly promoted norwich city. Jurgen klopp says he wa nts norwich city. Jurgen klopp says he wants his Liverpool Team to be the one that nobody wants to play this season. England have named their tea m season. England have named their team to face wales in a Rugby Union World cup warm up at twickenham on sunday. Bath wing Ruaridh Mcconnochie is one of two uncapped players in the side. And england name their ashes squad for the second test later this afternoon. Pace bowlerjofra archer is expected to be included withJimmy Anderson out injured. All the details coming up out injured. All the details coming up on afternoon live in the next 15 minutes. Some very unsummery weather is causing huge disruption to peoples Holiday Plans. Heavy rain and strong winds are affecting many parts of the country, with the met Office Forecasting winds of up to 60 mph for parts of the channel coast, South West England and west wales. Rail and Ferry Services are affected, and a number of festivals and Outdoor Events have been cancelled. Lisa hampele has the details. Its the height of summer, but you wouldnt know it. What the met office is calling unseasonal weather is expected to hit nearly all the uk. West lothian in scotland has already got problems, with localised flooding from heavy rain. And overnight, cctv pictures from a village car park in wrexham in wales show lightning striking a car. Weather warnings for wind, then rain will cover most of the uk over the weekend. Heavy rain along with strong winds are forecast for almost everywhere on saturday. A strong jet stream blowing across the atlantic has spun up an area of low pressure. Its the sort of low pressure system we would expect to see on our weather chart in autumn or winter, not in august, but its because of the depth of that low that were going to see some very strong, destructive winds and some heavy downpours as well. The duke and duchess of cambridge took part in the yachting regatta on the Isle Of Wight yesterday. It was held a day earlier than planned because of the weather. Now its predicted sailing on the first day of cowes week has been abandoned because gusts of 52 miles an hour are forecast. Its not unusual for us to have to make changes to the schedule. Usually in august because theres not enough wind. But sometimes there is too much, and this year, very clearly forecast the on sailing conditions so we have abandoned everything on saturday. Very good morning to you all. This morning, the bbcs forecaster matt taylor had good news for some festival goers. At the Fairport Cropredy convention festival. Its one festival which has not fallen foul of the deteriorating weather conditions over the next few days. But the forecast has caused the cancellation of the boardmasters festival in newquay. Police and organisers felt a summer storm was too big a risk for the 50,000 people to there. Most would have been camping. A hot air Balloon Festival was also hit. And this is the site of horton dance Music Festival in norfolk. It might look good in these pictures, but heavy rain and high winds are forecast and its been cancelled. Drivers are being urged to check conditions before travelling. Train services between edinburgh and glasgow have reopened after a week of torrential rain. The flooding trapped passengers for several hours yesterday. Sorry, we need to leave that report and go to a Police Press Conference following the conviction of benfield for the murder of peter farquar. M is unique due to the Detailed Planning by benfield, and due to the scale and complexity of the investigation. Murders are usually the result of one moment of madness, but in this case, there was extensive planning by benfield to befriend, manipulate and then kill peter farquar. Our two year investigation was like a jigsaw, with each piece of evidence eventually revealing the full picture. During the investigation, we took 1407 statements, recorded 2671 physical exhibit and downloaded material from 127 electrical devices, including computers, usb sticks and phones. We also conducted 40 suspect interviews. Ben has never shown any remorse for what he has done, and shown any remorse for what he has done, and i an convinced he is unable to show human empathy. His arrogance led him to believe that he would literally get away with murder. I think i will get away with most of it, he said to martin smith. Giving evidence in court, he never appeared to show any genuine emotion or contrition. Despite admitting to defrauding both peter and Ann Moore Martin by allowing them to think he was in a loving relationship with them. And also admitting that he was repeatedly dragging peter without his knowledge. This speaks volumes as to ben s character. Im convinced that had he not been stopped, he would have posed an ongoing danger to society. Im grateful to thejurors who have taken this most Important Public Service so seriously. They listened diligently to all the evidence during the 12 week trial, deliberated their verdicts for more than 77 hours, and returned their verdicts. Further, iam extremely grateful to all the prosecution witnesses who gave evidence in the court. That is never a pleasant experience, and their contribution cannot be underestimated. I also wa nt to cannot be underestimated. I also want to thank all the Police Officers and staff, and the crown prosecution service, who helped to piece thisjigsaw prosecution service, who helped to piece this jigsaw together and present the case to the court. My thoughts remain with peter and ann s families and loved ones, who have shown nothing but dignity and bravery throughout. This has been a two and a half yearjourney for the families also. Their patience and support of the lengthy and sometimes distressing Police Investigation and Court Process is to be admired. This investigation highlights the fact there are many ways people can be vulnerable. Peter and ann were defrauded through their age, independence and religious beliefs. As the average age of the population increases, our Society Needs to be more aware of the additional dangers which elderly people may face. Thank you. This is a Statement Released on behalf of the family of Peter Farquhar. We are pleased that the trial is over and justice has been served to account to all of the life that peter has lost. Peter was a very loving and supportive man. He was a wonderful brother and uncle, and he is very greatly missed. It was a great pleasure to have had him in our lives. Peter was a schoolteacher and so many things in his life revolved around that, and around stowe school in particular, where he was head of english. When he was teaching, he would enthuse the students. People have been in touch with us since he died about how he completely transformed their understanding of literature. He retired mainly to start writing novels, of which he wrote three, but he missed a common room activity, and being part of a school community, so he started to lecture at buckingham university, and went on to become such a renowned academic. It was here that he first met ben field and martyn smith. Listening to the trial adhering ben field giving evidence about what he did to peter has been its externally difficult. His actions have been unbelievably callous and he has told lie after lie after lie in order to achieve his goals, deceiving everyone he met. Ben field is an arrogant man, who has an extremely high opinion of himself. He used my brother is some kind of object to get his ends. All the things that we re get his ends. All the things that were precious to peter, ben rob tim. He did it alljust to get some money, which we find absolutely astonishing. If people hear this story, we hope that they are very, very careful if somebody unexpected walks into the life of a loved one when that loved one is vulnerable and lonely. There must be other people out there like benfield, and we would not want anyone to have to go through the things that we have. Thank you. The following tribute is released on behalf of the family of Ann Moore Martin after ben field was convicted of defrauding her. Our auntie was the core of our family. She wasnt just an auntie was the core of our family. She wasntjust an aunt, but a mum, grandmother and aunt all rolled into one. Our lives have all been changed for ever, and the world is a much darker place without her. Auntie ann was an inspiration to us all. She faced challenges with strength and courage and even wore a smile in face of adversity. Our and Peters Family are united in grief and sorrow, but also in love and memories. Auntie ann was a kind, gentle, beautiful soul, who touched so many lives, leaving behind a legacy of wonderful memories. We are truly blessed to be able to call her our aunt. We will take a few questions. How would you describe ben field . The first word that springs to mind and is foremost is evil. He is a cold, calculating, devious man who took pleasure from inflicting both physical and mental torment on his victim, yes, evil. And it is not too strong a word for him. How concerned are you of what he could have gone on to do . How relieved are you that you are able to stop him when you did . I am obviously very relieved. It was a long process, and we had to have various safeguarding methods in place during the period of the investigation. As came out in the court case, there was a list of 100 or so clients that he had documented himself, not necessarily people that he was going to do harm to, but people that he could use and abuse in some way, and he documented that himself and admitted it himself. So im very relieved that ben field is no longer a danger to society. Give us an no longer a danger to society. Give us an indication of the signs. This case as i said has kind of highlighted the other ways in which people can be vulnerable. Normally we look at the age, perhaps the mental and physical state of the people. But as was highlighted in this case, they were in good health, they were independent, they were perhaps vulnerable through their independence, their reasonable wealth. And certainly their religious beliefs. So to answer your question, there is a lot of different ways in which people can be vulnerable, and as i alluded to also, the fact that the average age of the population is getting older, then we should look out for this, and the advice i would give is if anybody finds themselves or thinking that they are in a similar situation, then talk to their families. If they have concerns within an organisation, there is a lwa ys within an organisation, there is always safeguarding leads. And if they think any criminal behaviour has taken place, then come and see the police as it is what happened in this case. That is a difficult question to a nswer that is a difficult question to answer because of the period of time that it covered. What i can say is that it covered. What i can say is that as soon as the authorities were alerted, safeguarding procedures we re alerted, safeguarding procedures were in place, and referrals via multi agency safeguardings were done, so i think to be fair, it probably happened as it should have done. Question inaudible. We would have to go away and review where we are in terms of the investigation. What i can say is that we have no ongoing investigations into benfield at the moment. Obviously if new further investigation comes to life, we would have to assess and review that in line with what we know already. We know that he was in contact with dozens and dozens of other people, and at least one resident in a care home. Have you investigated his past conduct . Will they be more cases to come forward . We will always conduct investigations with an open mind. As i stated, we have taken over 1400 statements, that is actual physical state m e nts statements, that is actual physical statements that we have taken, but during the course of the investigation we have been and seen a lot more people than that, and as you say, we have been to the care home and we have been to other organisations as well, and obviously we have interviewed staff that employed him and spoken to them, and of course it will be with an open mind. Investigating officer answering questions from reporters following the conviction for murder of the churchwarden ben field. We were hearing some of the details of the investigation following the death of the retired lecturer peter who was befriended and manipulated by ben field. A long investigation that led to the conviction and also for the defrauding of and. Tributes were paid to both there. You are watching bbc news. The weather has already forced the cancellation of major events so what are your rights if you have paid up for a ticket and travel and accommodations but you have nowhere to go . Lets speak to jane bradley. A lot of people will be asking these questions given the number of events that have been cancelled. It seems like the weather is atrocious across the uk and there area is atrocious across the uk and there are a lot of big scale events that have been cancelled. What can you do . Lets deal with the ticket to the event itself. How likely are you to get your money back . It depends on your event but if you are looking ata on your event but if you are looking at a big event like a festival, youre probably going to get your money back because they are likely to have insurance which will cover their costs. It is a small event, thatis their costs. It is a small event, that is not necessarily the case. You might be able to push it and ta ke you might be able to push it and take it down the legal route but if it isa take it down the legal route but if it is a £5 take it down the legal route but if itisa£5a take it down the legal route but if it is a £5 a ticket in your local beer garden you probably are not going to. You are entitled to refunds in other ways. If you bought the ticket with a credit card and it is over £100, you are entitled to your money back under the Consumer Credit act. But if you bought it with a debit card things are more difficult. There is a route you can go down but it is a lot more tricky. What about other costs like train travel or flights, accommodation, which you are only using because you are going to a particular event which might not go to any more . That is going to be a big problem. In the case of the festival, a lot of Train Companies and Bus Companies said they are going to be funded but that is good well. They do not have to do that. You may have travel insurance, if you have a annual policy you might be able to get the money through that but you have to look at the and conditions of everything. Terms and conditions. You might say you are not entitled, if the hotel can still accommodate you, chances are you will not be able to get your money back. What if the event is going ahead, but it looks soggy and you think twice . If you do not fancy it, you do not have any rights to get your money back. You have to put on your raincoat, get your umbrella and get on with it or lose your money. Thank you very much for talking to us. I weather presenter is here and we have had a lot of wet weather already. We are seeing several weather hazards so we have had heavy rain, flooding, particularly across parts of scotland and thunderstorms but now it is all attention turning to the strength of the wind. There has been lots of events already cancelled and it is the middle of august to the middle of the School Holidays and lots of families away on holiday. We can talk to the readerfamily, clare on holiday. We can talk to the reader family, clare reid on holiday. We can talk to the readerfamily, clare reid isjoining us. You have been camping for a couple of days, how is your holiday going and how was it slipping in the tent . It has been good so far. It is very windy and to starting to pick up. We had a dicey night last night and we lost a couple of tentacles and a couple pegs. We were up tentacles and a couple pegs. We were up about one oclock this morning putting our intent back up and trying to strap it down. We have sown in the towel and packed our tent up this morning. In gale force winds, we are going to stay with rainfora winds, we are going to stay with rain for a couple of nights because it is too much for us. How did the childrens sleet last night . The children slept incredibly well which was quite surprising. We do not sleep very well at all. We were listening to the tears and snaps of the polls but the children slept like logs as children do. You have packed up your tent for a couple of nights. Have you got some good board games or how have you planned change for your camping holiday . Were not going to be visiting the beach today, i am sure the surf is great but it is not my cup of tea and i dont want to build sand castles in this weather. We probably play some cards, have some meals and spend time with friends. Not what we were planning but i am sure we will have fun and make the best of it. Wonderful, thank you very much for coming to speak to us. It sounds like you are making the most of the fairly horrendous weather. How is it looking over the next couple of days then . We have got some unseasonably stormy conditions and this is from cornwall. The weather is causing disruption to events and Holiday Plans that offer travel. You have a combination of heavy downpours and thunderstorms and strong winds are crossing the down wales. Here is the area of low pressure that is bringing us all that unseasonable u nsettled bringing us all that unseasonable unsettled weather, moving in from the south west of the heavy rain is sitting across northern parts of scotla nd sitting across northern parts of scotland but to the south of thunderstorms as well. Northern ireland into Northern England. Gusts reaching about 40 to even 50 mph, stronger around the south coast with the Bristol Channel as well. Quite warm and humid with tropical air mixed in, temperatures about 25 or 26 degrees. Tonight if you are camping you will notice the strength of that winds, 60 mph gusts possible along the south coast and heavy showers and thunderstorms pushing their way northwards. It will be a milder night. Here is this area of low pressure in charge. It is very slowly drifting eastwards across the uk through the day tomorrow. It is to the south of the centre of low pressure that we see the strongest winds. Windy weather across england and wales, heavy shower and thunderstorms especially for Northern England, Northern Ireland and scotland. Not everywhere will see the showers but with the wind is fairly light across scotland, we see a heavy shower it will be prolonged so some local heavy Water Service flooding possible. Anyway south of manchester it is going to be drier but windy. But windy weather is continuing through the course of saturday afternoon with plenty of heavy downpours and it is going to be feeling cooler and less humid than today. As a mere three saturday evening and overnight into sunday, the winds turn to a more northerly direction and then they will ease and the showers will fade away. Sunday is the better day of the weekend, it will not be a complete right off. Still some heavy showers with the odd rumble of thunder but a fresh feel to the weather. After a couple of windy days, it is good news though is winds will ease for the second half of the weekend. Fingers crossed. It will keep changing though, wont it . Three months since Manchester City pipped liverpool by a single point, 98 points to 97 to win the premier league, here we go again. All eyes will be on anfield for a friday night start for liverpool against newly promoted norwich city. Liverpool incredibly only lost once in the league last season. The manager wants them to pick up where they left off. He says they need to be angry and greedy in the way they approach every game. What is very important as a team who won the Champions League last year, we have to stay the team who nobody wa nts to we have to stay the team who nobody wants to play against and not because of the name, the equality we have now but the intensity we have in the game. That is what i will ask the boys for and what we will show them tomorrow night. We played a team who won the Champions League title, you can discuss about it but it is one of the best teams in the world. For me at the moment probably the best team in the world and it is one of the toughest tasks you can get. You can follow that match on the bbc sport website and all the other weekend fixtures. The champions Manchester City start away at west ham on saturday lunchtime. The Rugby World Cup starts injapan towards the end of next month. Wales and england have named their teams for their first warm up game at twickenham on sunday. They then play each other in cardiff next weekend. Fly half george ford will captain england and there are two uncapped players in the england side, the bath wing rory mconnachie and gloucester scrum half willie heinz, the final 31 man squad will be named on monday, so what an opportunity. It has been a world wind couple of months. Getting the call to say he was interested in how he was playing and to get named in the training squad, to start going for the world cup, has been incredible. Still pinching myself that i am here and just feel so grateful to be surrounded by quality players and the squad that have helped me prepare this week, and really looking forward to sunday. The welsh were six nations grand slam champions this year and its a strong xv. Captain alun wynjones will become wales most capped player, it will be the 33 year old forwards 135th test match, 9 with the lions. Its also an unchanged back line for wales. After these england games they will face ireland twice. Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend has released gary graham, nick grigg, kyle steyn and henry pyrgos from his world cup training squad. He says the door is still open, he is not going to finalise his squad until early next month. Former wasps and England Rugby union wing Christian Wade only played once for his country and quit the sport in october to pursue his dream of playing in the nfl. He made his debut for the Buffalo Bills on thursday afterjoining them in april, and he scored a sensational 65 yard touchdown in preseason as his team beat the indianapolis colts. Wade, who is third in the all time premiership try scorers list with 82, now hopes to earn a place on the bills squad for the start of the season. England name their ashes squad for next weeks second test later today. Jofra archer should get the nod he missed the first test defeat with a side strain after starring for england at the world cup. Hes uncapped at test level. Jimmy anderson is out with a calf injury, possible for the rest of the series. Another pace option olly stone is also ruled out. Hopefully archer will be fit for england. Thats all the sport for now. The number of people dying from an asthma attack is at its highest for more than a decade, in england and wales. Analysis of official data suggests 1400 people died from an attack last year an increase of a third since 2008. The Charity Asthma uk says too many lives are being cut short by a lack of basic care, such as inhaler checks. Heres our health correspondent, dominic hughes. Nearly five Million People in england and wales suffer from asthma, which can cause coughing, wheezing, a tight chest and breathlessness. Treated properly, it should be easy to manage, but the number of asthma related deaths is now at a ten year high. It may be a result of people not getting really good very basic care which we know is a problem. I think there is an issue of complacency. People with asthma dont themselves take it terribly seriously and different weather patterns and pollution that could be also causing and led to those deaths. So i think its really difficult to pin it down to one thing. More than 1,400 people died from an asthma attack last year. Thats equal to two and a half people out of every 100,000 dying from asthma. The number of deaths is up by 8 when compared with the previous year. Overall more than 12,700 people have died from asthma in england and wales over the last decade. There is particular concern over the impact of air pollution on the health of children. Nhs england says a third of childhood asthma cases are linked to poor air quality. Ella kissi debrah died in 2013 after suffering a series of asthma attacks. Her family believe air pollution contributed to her death. A lot of people still do not know about the impact of air pollution. I think all the urban cities across the uk have issues with asthma. Manchester, birmingham, all over. So there needs to be a whole program of education in school and out of school about the impact of air pollution on young peoples health. Asthma uk acknowledges there are signs that care is getting better. Nhs england says its worked with asthma uk to improve standards, but it warns the link between air pollution and asthma shows the challenge is not one the nhs can meet on its own. Dominic hughes, bbc news. Dr Rosemary Leonard is a gp in west dulwich and joins us now. Thank you for coming in, you have brought a inhaler with you. They are pretty rudimentary things, most of them have seen them but we can get into ms for not knowing how to use them properly. This is the blue standard in hilo which every asthmatic will have but the trouble is far too many asthmatics rely on this alone. If you need to use this more than two or three times a week, you need to have a preventer in hilo and lots of asthmatics do not realise that. They are using this far too often which is when they are at risk of having a nasty attack. They are fairly rudimentary things. Youre supposed to take a deep breath in and press the button at the same time, coordinating it all. We are supposed to check peoples inhaler technique and quite often we do not have time to do it. You tried it beforehand and do not think it was working. I had some for steroids when i had pneumonia and i do not think i was doing it properly, based on what you said. A lot of people, the active drug is going on there tongue or are they are swallowing it and it is not going where it is needed which is why children and some adults should have a spacer device, a big plastic device that sits on the end of the inhaler and you can take several press via the spacer to get the drug where it is needed. So it holds the drug in the spacer and you do not have to get the timing. Yes, you do not have to coordinate the deep breath with pressing the button. You mentioned two inhalers, what would be best practice if you need two . You should have a preventer inhaler if you need two. For the them to work properly, they have to be used regularly every day all the time. They take several days to take effect and they prevent the information and the narrowing of the information and the narrowing of the airways. A lot of people abandon it when they feel better, feel they dont have to use their preventer and that puts them at risk of having and that puts them at risk of having an acute attack. Anyone who is using this regularly, she got back to see their practice nurse and doctor it, talk about a preventer and they come in brown, orange or purple. You dont get them mixed up, know how you should use your inhaler and you should have a written asthma plan so you know what to do. Can you use them too often . If you use this too often, if you are in emergency situation, no, you just need to get the drug in but far too many people are reliant on these, using them too often and you can end up getting a little bit shaky and having a rapid heart rate. But the bigger problem with using this too often is you are not managing your asthma properly. We know it is difficult for gps to see everybody and the unlimited. They are limited. How do you make time for this . Many surgeries you should see the practice nurse who will have a longer appointment time and will be better skilled than a lot of us gps. A man has appeared in court charged with the attempted murder of a policeman in east london. The officer, pc stuart outten, is in a serious but stable condition in hospital, after being hit on the head and body with a machete. Richard lister has been following the case at thames magistrates court. 56 year old Muhammad Rodwan from luton was in court for less than five minutes. He confirmed his date of birth, his name and the fact that hes british and of no fixed address but was otherwise silent. He is facing two charges, one of attempted murder, and one of the possession of a offensive weapon, namely a machete. These charges relate to this incident in leyton in east london in the small hours of thursday morning, just after midnight when the car in which he was travelling in was pulled over by traffic officers. Its alleged he attacked one of them with the machete, injuring him in the head and the hand and its alleged that the injured officer was able to fight him off with a taser and subdue him. That officer, pc stuart outten, hes 28, said to be in a serious but stable condition in the Royal London Hospital where he is recovering from surgery. He has been with the force for ten years and Muhammad Rodwan will face trial at the old bailey and will appear there next on september the 6th. In a momentjamie is going to bring us the latest business news. A look at the headlines on afternoon live a Church Warden is found guilty of murdering retired lecturer Peter Farquhar after trying to benefit from his will. The uk economy shrinks for the first time in 6 years raising fears of a recession. The chancellor says the dip is not a suprise. Jeremy corbyn calls on britains top Civil Servant to block the Prime Minister from forcing through a no deal brexit if there were a snap general Election Campaign. Heres your business headlines on afternoon live. Sterling has fallen close to its 34 year low against the dollar after the release of those gdp figures, at1 dollar 20 and a half. It is also at a ten year low against the euro having dropped to 1. 075. As weve been hearing, the uk economy contracted 0. 2 between april and june, its worst performance since 2012. The numbers are official government statistics but may be revised at a later date. It follows an uptick in Economic Growth in the first three months of the year because of stockpiling ahead of the expected brexit date in march. Malaysia has charged 17 former and current Goldman Sachs bankers including richard gnodde, goldmans most senior banker in london over the corruption and Money Laundering investigation at its state Development Fund 1mdb. Goldman helped raise 6. 5 billion through Bond Offerings for 1mdb. The bank said it would vigorously defend the charges. What is going on with the economy . Wouldnt we all like to know. It shrank 0. 2 in april tojune. If it continues injuly shrank 0. 2 in april tojune. If it continues in july and shrank 0. 2 in april tojune. If it continues injuly and september, that would be technically speaking a recession. It does not feel like a recession, we have lots of people employed and some growth. If you compare it to other economies we come at the bottom of the g7 companies in terms of Second Quarter growth but actually there is not a huge amount on it if you look at france, italy spain, the uk and germany. It is about three quarters of 1 growth differential between the top countries. We are all having a hard time because of a trade voice and a sewing Global Economy and brexit. All of those things go into the mix. With brexit, it is largely around indecision and a lack of investment, all of those things are conspiring to slow the economy down. This quarter we are in at the moment is likely to be, well, it has been announced by politicians so we know there is going to be a lot of spending and that could push Economic Growth back up in this quarter. What is happening with oil . We can blame that on trade was, wa rs we can blame that on trade was, wars and slowing growth. We are not going to see it through to the petrol pumps because we have got so much tax. So little is the petrol price tax. Submittal is the actual petrol price but the tax. What about the us . This is between social Media Companies, Tech Companies and the white house and they are going to be talking about they are going to be talking about the really nasty parts of social media and what we can do to stop them. Samira hussainjoins me now from the new york stock exchange. It is going to be there and what are they going to be talking about . It is going to be there and what are they going to be talking abounm is not clear exactly which social Media Companies or Tech Companies are going to be represented at this meeting at the white house. We know that us President Donald Trump will not be there for this meeting and believe the focus has to do with a dark web place where people can go and say whatever they want. It is not monitored and things are not usually taken down so unlike some of the more traditional social media sites like facebook or twitter, if there is something that is deemed and goes against the values of that company, it is immediately taken down and that is why you are seeing some of these people responsible for these Mass Shootings in america had taken to this site to try and put out their manifesto. That is what this meeting is about. Do you get the impression perhaps, the president is not going to be there, we dont know which social Media Companies are going to be there, you get the impression that is not an enormous amount of commitment to this . You would be fair in making that observation, especially since we dont know what social Media Companies are going to be there, the president is not going to be there. All of it was a bit nebulous and at the root of it, a lot of people are saying, this idea of going after Tech Companies, we salt that was a call the president made on monday when addressing these attacks, saying more needs to be done and he wa nts to saying more needs to be done and he wants to talk to Tech Companies to try and find these mass shooters before they execute what they want to do, of course that raises a lot of privacy issues are fundamentally a lot of people are saying, that is all well and good but if you are trying to address the issue of Mass Shootings and gun control needs to be part of that conversation. Thank you very much indeed. You dont feel very heartened by that interview, do you . It is rather depressing. It is, a difficult thing to do with. The interesting thing is the pound against the euro, we are at a ten year low against the euro. We have got to go a couple of tenths of a percent against the dollar before we get to 35 year lows. Not a very nice interview. Lovely to see you. The weather will not cheer you up much either. Nothing to cheer you up with the weather either. We have already had heavy rain and wind. This is the picture from the scottish border. Into the weekend the weather is going to continue to cause disruption with heavy downpours and strong winds. All wrapped around this area of low pressure that you can see on the satellite image. This cloud has been moving in from the south west. The heaviest and most persistent aesthetic because they know the heaviest rain is sitting across the northern half of scotland. We could get even 50 Miles Per Hour wind, 60 mph even possible. With the wind coming from the south west it is quite warm and humid, many of us in temperatures into the mid 20s. Into this evening and overnight, we will see heavy showers and the main band of rain clearing from northern scotland. It is not going to be a cold night and temperatures holding up in the mid teens. Tomorrow, this low pressure is in charge and you can see the proximity of these isobars to the south of the uk, for england and wales, we will see the strongest of the winds around exposed hills and coasts in the south and south west. Lots of showers once again, some of them heavy and thundery and across scotla nd them heavy and thundery and across scotland the wind will not be a strong but we see show as it could be prolonged system heavy rain, surface water around and thunderstorms to contend with. Thunderstorms will be hit and miss but for the rest of england and wales it is going to be the strength of the wind that is causing problems. 60 mph gusts possible. We are seeing disruption to several big events happening through the day on saturday but as we head into saturday but as we head into saturday evening and overnight into sunday the strongest of those winds will ease away and the heaviest of the showers and thunderstorms should start to peter out as well. It will not be dry across the board on sunday with a couple of showers for parts of scotland and Northern England, perhaps later in the day wales and the south of england, but some sunshine in between, a different feel to the weather and it will be cooler. At least there is very strong winds over the next day or so it should ease during the second half of the weekend. Hello. Youre watching afternoon live. Im martine croxall. Today at three a Church Warden is found guilty of murdering retired lecturer Peter Farquhar after trying to benefit from his will. His actions have been unbelievably callous, and he has told lie after lie after lie in order to achieve his goals. The uk economy shrinks for the first time in more than six years raising fears of a recession. The chancellor says the dip is not a suprise. Im not expecting a recession at all, and dont just im not expecting a recession at all, and dontjust take my word for it. There is not a single leading forecast out there who is expecting a recession. Jeremy corbyn calls on britains top Civil Servant to block the Prime Minister from forcing through a no deal brexit if there were a snap general Election Campaign. And with Stormy Weather forcing the cancellation of a string of events this weekend, well be live at a Balloon Festival in bristol that organisers say will go ahead. It is of course three oclock. All the sport coming up with ollie, and premier League Season under way tonight. All eyes on liverpool against newly promoted norwich city, the new season starts this evening, and england have just the new season starts this evening, and england havejust named their squad for the second ashes test next week. Jofra archer is included. All the details coming up. Ollie, thank you very much. Sarah has all the weather for us, and we you very much. Sarah has all the weatherfor us, and we need you very much. Sarah has all the weather for us, and we need to you very much. Sarah has all the weatherfor us, and we need to be careful in some places. We have got some fairly disruptive weather on the cards over the next few days, already causing headaches for event organisers, families on holiday as well. Heavy rain and strong winds in the forecast, but i will bring you all the details and about half an hour. Hello, this is afternoon live. Im martine croxall. A 28 year old Church Warden has been found guilty of the murder of a retired lecturer in buckinghamshire. Ben field lived at the home of 69 year old peter fa rquhar in the village of maids moreton. The family of Peter Farquhar said he would be very greatly missed, and that ben fields actions were unbelievably callous and robbed peter of all the things that were precious to him. Our correspondentjo black has been following the trial. Peter farquhar, peter fa rquhar, vulnerable Peter Farquhar, vulnerable and confused. He thought he was losing his mind, suffering from a mystery illness. He would often fall and injure himself, but all along he was secretly being drugged by his partner, ben field, who was targeting him to try and inherit his house. He got massive pleasure from other peoples misery and pain. And it was all about financial gain in some way, shape or form. It was all about financial gain in some way, shape orform. A nasty, cruel man. Field was one of Peter Farquhars students. They met at the university of buckingham, and during their relationship, even pledged to marry at a betrothal ceremony. As Peter Farquhars marry at a betrothal ceremony. As peter fa rquha rs health marry at a betrothal ceremony. As Peter Farquhars health declined, field suggested dementia or alcoholism could be to blame. And when the lecturers body was discovered next to a half empty bottle of whiskey, even a coroner thought he had drunk himself to death. The police now believe field suffocated him. Ben field did inherit peter fa rquha rs suffocated him. Ben field did inherit Peter Farquhars house, and his focus then switched to the house of Ann Moore Martin, and the 83 year old became his next target. Despite the 57 year age gap, they had a sexual relationship. But volcanic field, it was more pretence. His sketchbook shows one of his tactics, writing religious messages on her mirrors, some saying she should leave her house to him. She was deeply religious, and believed they were communications from god. Then, there was this. Hello, im thinking of withdrawing all my accounts, money held in my accounts. Ann moore martin released £27,000 from her bank and gave it to field after he said his brother was ill and needed his own dialysis machine. It was another lie. Its actually quite urgent. In life, one must not be selfish. She died of natural causes, but before her death she confided in her niece about her relationship with field and the mirrors. The court was told she said he had given her white powder to help her sleep. A Police Investigation revealed fields links with both neighbours and 18 months after his death, peter farquars body was exhumed. New forensics showed he had drugs in his system. In terms of the death of peter farquar, there is a very good chance that benjamin field would have gotten away with that death had it not been for the suspicions that were raised once Ann Moore Martin was removed from benjamins control. In fact, at that stage he had already gotten away with it. In ben field, they thought they had found someone they could love, but motivated by greed, he preyed on their loneliness and vulnerability. Jo black, bbc news. Senior investigating officer in the case, Principal Investigator mark glover, has been speaking outside oxford crown court. There was extensive planning by ben field to befriend, manipulate and then kill Peter Farquhar. Our two year investigation was like a jigsaw, with each piece of evidence eventually revealing the full picture. During the investigation, we took 1407 statements, recorded 2671 physical exhibits, and downloaded materialfrom 2671 physical exhibits, and downloaded material from 127 electrical devices. Including computers, usb sticks and phones. We also conducted 40 suspect interviews. Ben has never shown any remorse for what he has done, and im convinced he is unable to show human empathy. His arrogance led him to believe that he would literally get away with murder. I think i will get away with murder. I think i will get away with most of it, he said to martin smyth. Giving evidence in court, bent never appeared to show any genuine emotion or contrition, despite admitting to defrauding both peter and Ann Moore Martin by allowing them to think he was in a loving relationship with them, and also admitting that he was repeatedly drugging peter without his knowledge. This speaks volumes as to bens character. I am convinced that, had he not been stopped, he would have posed an ongoing danger to society. Investigating officer mark glover. Another officer on the case, detective Sergeant Richard earl gave a tribute on behalf of the family of peter fa rquhar we are pleased now that the trial is over and justice has been served to account for all of the life that peter has lost. Peter was a loving and supportive man, a wonderful brother and uncle, and he and supportive man, a wonderful brotherand uncle, and he is and supportive man, a wonderful brother and uncle, and he is very greatly missed. It was a great pleasure to have had him in our lives. Peter was a schoolteacher, and so many things in his life revolved around that and around stowe school in particular when he was head of english. When he was teaching, he would absolutely infuse the students. People have been in touch with us since he died about how he completely transformed their understanding of literature. He retired mainly to start writing novels, of which he wrote three, but he missed a common room activity and being part of a school community, so he started to lecture at buckingham university, and went on to become such a renowned academic. It was here that he first met ben field and martyn smith. Listening to the trial and hearing ben field give his evidence about what he did to peter has been extremely difficult. His actions have been unbelievably callous, and he has told lie after lie after lie in order to achieve his goals. Deceiving everyone he met. Ben field is an arrogant man who has an extremely high opinion of himself. He used my brother is some kind of object to get his ends. All the things that were precious to peter, ben robbed him of. He did it alljust to get some money, which we find absolutely astonishing. If people hear this story, we hope that they are very, very careful if somebody unexpected walks into the life of a loved one when that loved one is vulnerable and lonely. They must be other people out there like ben field, and we would not want anyone to go through the things that we have. Thank you. In other news. The economy shrank for the first time in more than six years between april and june, according to the First Official estimate. The office for National Statistics says gdp decreased by 0. 2 in the Second Quarter, as manufacturing and construction reduced and the Service Sector stalled. The figures were worse than economists had expected, and follow a strong start to the year, when businesses were stockpiling in anticipation of brexit. Heres our economics correspondent, andy verity. This Food Packaging company in leicester grew rapidly until this year, and was looking to open a second site, stepping up its turnover from £25 million to £45 million. It piled up stock ahead of the march brexit deadline, diverting funds from its new site. Then in the Second Quarter, orders dropped off, and it had to refinance to keep its expansion plans on track. Political uncertainty isnt helping. Its all about the cloudy sky again. We went through this pre march, and now between march and october, we have had a lot of unstable uncertainty, and the cloudy sky is upon us again. We cant move forward, we cant move back. We are static, we are stuck in a rut. Thats where we are. Most economists were expecting a weak performance in the Second Quarter of the year, but not this weak. You have to go all the way back to 2012, when the eurozone crisis was in full swing, to find a weak economic performance. Weve got record employment. Weve got unemployment at its lowest level for 44 years. Wages are growing at their fastest rate for a decade. Weve got National Debt falling as a proportion of gdp. In fact, the imf is forecasting that we will grow faster this year than germany, than italy, than japan, as fast as france. And so the fundamentals of the uk economy remain resilient and strong. Manufacturing activity shrank in the Second Quarter. Its now shrunk over the past year. And output from industrial production, heavy industries such as oil and gas, also dropped as a global slowdown took hold. Most people can see for themselves the lack of business confidence, of investment, thats taking place. People not knowing whats going to happen from one week to the next. Will we be in europe . Will we be outside of it . I think that is corrosive. Its undermining peoples confidence in the economy, and i think these figures reflect that. Business investment is essential to improving the amount each worker can produce so employers can afford inflation beating pay rises, but that also dropped. I think its a bit about a global slowdown, and we can see that in the weak manufacturing numbers, the weak export numbers. But there are some Political Uncertainty factors here as well, so Business Investment falling, exports falling, particularly to the eu, and that weakness in the Service Sector as well, all adds up to a sense that Political Uncertainty is weighing on the economy. The Services Sector that makes up most of the economyjust about grew, by 0. 1 . Because the figures hark back tojune, we dont yet know whats been happening to the economy since then. The hope is the Second Quarter will be the only time the economy shrinks this year. The fear is it wont be. Andy verity, bbc news. Jeremy corbyn has written to britains most senior Civil Servant, to ask him to intervene to prevent a no deal brexit happening during a general Election Campaign. The labour leader is concerned that an election might be called this autumn, just as britain is due to leave the eu, and take place after brexit has happened. That could leave mps powerless to intervene, because parliament wouldnt be sitting. Jeremy corbyn says that brexit in those circumstances would be an abuse of power. More details from our Political Correspondent tom barton. Since he became Prime Minister just over two weeks ago, borisjohnson has been consistently clear about one thing. We have to leave the eu in october the 31st. But with suggestions the Prime Minister can make that happen by ensuring brexit day falls during an Election Campaign, Jeremy Corbyn has asked the countrys top Civil Servant to intervene. Writing to mark sedwill to say that forcing through a no deal brexit against a decision of parliament and denying the choice to voters in a general election already under way would be an unprecedented, unconstitutional and anti democratic abuse of power. If we cant have a Prime Minister who will do the decent thing and behave honourably, we have to go around him and say to the head of the civil service, you also have duties here that you must adhere to, and we might end up in a situation where her majesty the queen becomes involved in this. The reason this matters is because some mps, determined to try to stop a no deal brexit, could try to pass a vote of no confidence in Boris Johnsons government. If Boris Johnson lost that, under new government wasnt formed within a couple of weeks, then a general election would follow. If that happened, the date of the election would be in the hands of borisjohnson, and his advisers are said to believe he could choose to set a date in november, forcing a no deal brexit by default. If Boris Johnson cant hold the confidence of parliament, i am convinced there is nobody else who could and we will go for a general election, and it is up to the Prime Minister, borisjohnson, to set the date. And i think setting the ist of november is a political masterstroke. With just 83 days to go until the end of october, and brexit talks still stuck in a stalemate, politicians are gearing up for a stormy autumn. Tom barton, bbc news, westminster. So what could happen when mps return after the summer break . Parliament sits again on the 3rd of september. If a no confidence vote is called and the government loses, mps will have 14 days to find an alternative government. If no alternative is found, a general election must be called within seven weeks. If there isnt a no confidence vote the house will sit until 13th september when they break up for Party Conference season. After that, mps return to westminster on the 9th october. Eu leaders will meet for a summit on the 17th and 18th of october. And currently the uk will leave the European Union on the 31st of october. Our Political Correspondent Jessica Parker is in westminster. I will let you deal with the complications. There is a complicated picture emerging over what might happen in the autumn when mps return from their summer break. The majority of mps we know are against a no deal, but the big question is whether they can stop borisjohnson pursuing question is whether they can stop Boris Johnson pursuing a question is whether they can stop borisjohnson pursuing a policy if thatis borisjohnson pursuing a policy if that is the policy he decides to go for, if he hasnt managed to broker a new agreement with brussels. Joining me now is mp chris leslie from the independent group for change he wants to stop brexit, wa nts to change he wants to stop brexit, wants to have another referendum. First of all, your take onJeremy Corbyn was my letter to mark sedwill. It would be outrageous for a Prime Minister who has dissolved parliament to then proceed with the crashing out no deal brexit, but in a way, Jeremy Corbyn really should have thought about this before we we nt have thought about this before we went on to a summer recess, because now parliament is sitting in the summer, you cant table a motion to have a vote of no confidence. By the time we get back into september, if Jeremy Corbyn tables it then, it might well be too late, and we might have dissolved parliament, we might not have those protections to prevent, for parliament to stand in the way of that kind of crazy pathway of crashing out with no deal. So a lot of mps pathway of crashing out with no deal. So a lot of mp5 i think will now be thinking, what is the right strategy here . Now be thinking, what is the right strategy here . If now be thinking, what is the right strategy here . If we want to prevent the country from crashing out . Is it to dissolve parliament, or maybe there are other options. I think there are other options. I think there are other options, potentially legislation could prevent this. Thank you very much for your time. We will leave it there because it is a bit noisy at the moment. We have a lot of speculation at the moment as to what might happen in the autumn when mps return, a lot of discussion as to whether statute might be used to try to block a no deal brexit, whether that is possible, whether there is time to have a general election or whether a general election or whether a general election might happen after october the 31st. We might have to wait until autumn the 31st. We might have to wait untilautumn in the 31st. We might have to wait until autumn in order to get clarity on that. Jessica, thank you very much. Jessica parker competing with the noise in westminster. You are watching afternoon live. These are our headlines a Church Warden is found guilty of murdering retired lecturer Peter Farquhar after trying to benefit from his will. The uk economy shrinks for the first time in 6 years raising fears of a recession. The chancellor says the dip is not a suprise. Jeremy corbyn calls on britains top Civil Servant to block the Prime Minister from forcing through a no deal brexit if there were a snap general Election Campaign. And in sport, the new premier League Season starts at anfield this evening. Last years runners up liverpool, the european champions cup face newly promoted norwich city. Managerjurgen klopp says he wa nts city. Managerjurgen klopp says he wants his team to be the one that nobody wants to play this season. England have named a 12 man squad for the second ashes test at lords next week. Pace bowlerjofra archer is included, expected to start in place of the injured Jimmy Anderson. Moeen ali has been dropped. England have named their team to face wales in a world cup warm up at twickenham. Bath wing Ruaridh Mcconnochie is one of two uncapped players in the side. All the details in15 players in the side. All the details in 15 minutes. A flybe flight was held in lockdown at Manchester Airport for two hours after a passenger fell ill. Flight be3122 from paris arrived just after 10am but passengers were not allowed to disembark. Flybe said this was a precautionary measure to collect the full Contact Details from all 107 passengers on board. A spokesman for the airline said it was working closely with Public Health england. One passenger posted a video as passengers were let off the plane, which he said was surrounded by police. A man has appeared in court charged with the attempted murder of a policeman in east london. The officer, pc stuart outten, is in a serious but stable condition in hospital, after being hit on the head and body with a machete. Two people have been warned they face jail after they admitted accessing cctv footage of the postmortem examiniation of footballer emiliano sala. Sala, who was 28 when he died, had just signed for cardiff city when the plane he was travelling in crashed into the English Channel in january. His body was recovered in february. Sherry bray and Christopher Ashford have admitted they illegally accessed and photographed mortuary footage of the argentine strikers body. Some very unseasonal weather is causing huge disruption to peoples Holiday Plans. Heavy rain and strong winds are affecting many parts of the country, with the met Office Forecasting winds of up to 60mph for parts of the channel coast, South West England and west wales. Rail and Ferry Services are affected, and a number of festivals and Outdoor Events have been cancelled. Lisa hampele has the details. Its the height of summer, but you wouldnt know it. What the met office is calling unseasonal weather is expected to hit nearly all the uk. West lothian in scotland has already got problems, with localised flooding from heavy rain. And overnight, cctv pictures from a village car park in wrexham in wales show lightning striking a car. Weather warnings for wind, then rain will cover most of the uk over the weekend. Heavy rain along with strong winds are forecast for almost everywhere on saturday. A strong jet stream blowing across the atlantic has spun up an area of low pressure. Its the sort of low pressure system we would expect to see on our weather chart in autumn or winter, not in august, but its because of the depth of that low that were going to see some very strong, destructive winds and some heavy downpours as well. The duke and duchess of cambridge took part in a yachting regatta on the Isle Of Wight yesterday. It was held a day earlier than planned because of the weather. Now its predicted sailing on the first day of cowes week has been abandoned because gusts of 52 miles an hour are forecast. Its not unusual for us to have to make changes to the schedule. Usually in august because theres not enough wind. But sometimes there is too much, and this year, very clearly forecast the on sailing conditions so we have abandoned everything on saturday. Very good morning to you all. This morning, the bbcs forecaster matt taylor had good news for some festival goers. At the Fairport Cropredy convention festival. Its one festival which has not fallen foul of the deteriorating weather conditions over the next few days. But the forecast has caused the cancellation of the boardmasters festival in newquay. Police and organisers felt a summer storm was too big a risk for the 50,000 people to there. Most would have been camping. A hot air Balloon Festival was also hit. And this is the site of horton dance Music Festival in norfolk. It might look good in these pictures, but heavy rain and high winds are forecast and its been cancelled. Drivers are being urged to check conditions before travelling. Train services between edinburgh and glasgow have reopened after a week of torrential rain. The flooding trapped passengers for several hours yesterday. Travellers are being warned that summer storms could cause problems on the railways. The weather has already forced the cancellation of major events, including boa rdmasters Music Festival in newquay. But some events are continuing despite the conditions including the bristol balloon fiesta which had to ground all its hot air balloons for today. But they are making the most of it, and to talk us through how they are adapting to the conditions is the event director ben hardy. We have got to admire your determination. What kind of conditions do you ideally want for hot air ballooning . Conditions do you ideally want for hotair ballooning . We need really calm winds, and bestie unfortunately most of the uk today has got some gusting winds across the whole of the uk, so unfortunately we have had to cancel this morning and this afternoon, or postpone todays mass ascents, but the weather is starting to improve from tomorrow lunchtime, and the event finishes on sunday evening, so hopefully will we get one or two more mass ascents. The ambient noise around you is proving your point exactly. You are going to carry on, so what will you be able to provide for people if not the main event that people would ordinarily expect . Here at bristol we are used to having other activities in addition to the hot air balloons, so we have got a bandstand, loads of local food and drink. We are celebrating 50 years of concord here, so we have a massive exhibition of all sorts of a rtefa cts massive exhibition of all sorts of artefacts about concord which of course was built in bristol, so there are loads of things to do while we wait hopefully for the winds to calm down and hopefully get another mass ascent tos on the way. We are looking at a naked blow, which looks impressive, even without the balloons aloft. What is it . Normally would do a night glow and a fireworks finale, that is where the balloon is inflated at nightline and they glow like big light bulbs. Last night the winds were just too high, so we had to do it without the fabric envelope part of the balloon, and as your viewers will have just seen, the result wasjust and as your viewers will have just seen, the result was just a spectacular. We may have to take a similar decision on saturday evening, and do another night glow the same way. It is a free event other than reserving a parking space, so you dont have the complication of refunds. Indeed, we provide parking here but the event has been free over the last 41 years of its history, and that is something we are really proud of, and we hope will continue for a long time. How long have you had to deal with conditions like this, how often . With conditions like this, how often . I have been doing this job for 11 years, and we have only had one year where we have flown all seven of the slots that we try to fly, seven of the slots that we try to fly, so it is quite normalfor us to not fly every slot. Obviously this weekend is proving a little bit more challenging, but as i keep saying, the Weather Forecast is improving from saturday lunchtime, afternoon, onwards through to sunday, so we hope these gusty winds are going to come down, and we will be able to fly some balloons. I hope you can too. Ben hardy, event directorfor the bristol balloon fiesta, thank you very much. Time for a look at the weather. Sarah hasjoined sarah has joined us, sarah hasjoined us, and it has been immensely wet for a lot of people, and now the wind to content with too. Yes, we have had several hazards, heavy wane, thunderstorms and strong winds as well, and we have been talking about the storm being quite unseasonable, so more at home during autumn and winter. Us meteorologists have been looking at why, and one of the reasons we are getting this unseasonably strong area of low pressure is to do with what is happening in the atlantic. This map shows how sea surface temperatures are varying from what we would expect, and this comes from the National Hurricane centre in the usa. What we can see is a lot of the atla ntic usa. What we can see is a lot of the atlantic is pretty warm. We have a lot of warm water, temperature is about 2 degrees above what we would expect from the time of year, but just to the north there is this blue blob, so a colder bit of water that is welling up of the atlantic. The water is warmed or cooled from below, so this contrast in sea surface temperatures means we have had contrasting air temperatures, and it is that contrast that we think is driving this particularly deep area of low pressure. You like it hasnt been named, this storm . It hasnt been named, and although it is very windy for the time of year, we do quite frequently see wins this strong at other times of year, so it has been well forecast for quite a few days now, and it doesnt like people are making plans to avoid the worst of the weather, so that means we are hoping the impacts from this particular low pressure system shouldnt be too bad, because people are certainly taking steps to cancel events as well. So, tell us the details. The next few days are looking u nsettled the next few days are looking unsettled and windy across the uk. We have got warnings in force for those strong wins, heavy rain and thunderstorms too. So this is the scene in cornwall, big waves around the coast, so do take care if you have got plans to be near the coast across southern parts of england and wales, big waves, very strong winds. Heavy downpours are likely to cause some travel disruption as well as there is very strong winds, so do keep an eye on the forecast over the next couple of days. Now here is the satellite image showing the swirling cloud associated with the area of low pressure moving in from the south west. We have already had the heavy rain pushing northwards across the uk, the most persistent rain across the northern half of scotland through the rest of this afternoon. Elsewhere it is a story of sunny intervals and scattered heavy thundery downpours, so plenty of heavy showers blown in on those really strong southerly or south westerly winds with gusts of 40 or even 50 mph, more than that in the south west. And it is mild, quite humid air, 25 or 26 degrees. Into this evening and tonight, no respite for those strong winds in the south and south west for anyone camping or in a caravan, it will be very blustery once again overnight tonight. Mild, though, 16 or17 degrees overnight for most of us with further heavy showers rattling throughout the night. Low pressure very much in charge as we head into saturday morning, lots of isobars on the map, showing no strong winds we are going to see, especially across england and wales. For Northern Ireland and scotland, the wind not quite a strong, but we have got those heavy and thundery showers. So without the breeze to blow them through, if you catch a shout across scotland, it could well be quite prolonged. So some surface water flooding possible here with those heavy downpours, Northern Ireland and Northern England also seeing that mix of heavy, blustery showers, and some sunny spells, but further south, these black circles show the wind gusts, 40, 50 even 60 mph particularly around exposed hills and coast for parts of wales and southern england too. Tomorrow will also feel a little cooler, not assume it is today, around 19 23d on saturday. Those heavy downpours are going to continue right into the evening hours, but slowly overnight, they should start to ease away, and they should start to ease away, and the winds will gradually fall lighter too, so by the town we get to sunday, a better day generally, not as many showers, still a few here and there and the odd rumble of thunder, but there are a few here and there and the odd rumble of thunder, but the very strong winds over the next 24 hours or so will start to ease, and it will feel cooler and fresher, 14 22 degrees by the time we get to sunday, and the outlook still relatively unsettled, with a mix of some sunshine and some blustery showers as well. This is bbc news our latest headlines a Church Warden is found guilty of murdering a retired lecturer after attempting to benefit from his will. The uk economy shrinks for the first time in more than six years raising fears of a recession. The chancellor says the dip is not a surprise. Im not expecting a recession at all, and dontjust take my word for it. There is not a single leading forecast out there who is expecting a recession. Jeremy corbyn calls on britains top Civil Servant to block the Prime Minister from forcing through a no deal brexit if there were a snap general Election Campaign. And ill bejoined by a doctor from the Charity Asthma uk to ask why theres been a rise in people dying from asthma attacks. Sport now on afternoon live with olly foster. Its as if its never been away but the start of the premier League Season is just a few hours away now . We have had three whole months without it. You have missed it, be honest. Like a hole in the head. Iam glad like a hole in the head. I am glad its back. Three months since Manchester City pipped liverpool by a single point, 98 points to 97 to win the premier league, here we go again all eyes will be on anfield a friday night start for liverpool against newly promoted norwich city. Liverpool incredibly only lost once in the league last season. The manager wants them to pick up where they left off, he says they need to be angry and greedy in the way they approach every game. What is very important even as a team who won the Champions League last year, we have to stay the team who nobody wants to play against and not because of the name, the quality we have now but the intensity we have in the game. That is what i will ask the boys for and what we will show them tomorrow night. We are playing a team who won the Champions League title, they finished last season more than 90 points in the premier league. You can discuss about it but it is one of the best teams in the world. For me at the moment probably the best team in the world and it is one of the toughest tasks you can get. There is commentary on five live and the bbc sport website. I shall look over it later. England have announced their team for the second ashes test. Not go well for the first test, did it . Remember england lost heavily in the first test at edgbaston earlier this week. So change was needed, one of them is enforced, Jimmy Anderson might be out for the rest of the series with a sore calf, sojofra archer is the man most likely to take his place, he was in the provisional squad for the first test but was left out because hes been nursing a side strain, but has done well for sussex and he should win his first cap. He was leading wicket taker at the world cup with england here is the 12 man squad in full, no moeen ali, dropped because of poor form. Somerset left arm spinnerjack leach returns he was man of the match against ireland at lords a few weeks ago. Pace bowler olly stone also misses out, he was in the squad for the first test but has a back injury. Even more chnace for archer to play. Wales and england have named their teams for their first warm up game at twickenham on sunday. The Rugby World Cup starts injapan towards the end of next month. They then play each other again in cardiff next weekend. Fly half george ford will captain england and there are two uncapped players in the england side, the bath wing rory mconnachie and gloucester scrum half willie heinz, the final 31 man squad will be named on monday, so what an opportunity. It has been a whirlwind couple of months getting the call from eddie to say he was interested in how i was playing in the premiership season and get named in the training squad start appearing for the world cup, it has been incredible. Still pinching myself that i am here, i just feel so grateful to be surrounded by players in a squad who have helped me play this week, and really looking forward to sunday. The welsh were six nations grand slam champions this year and its a strong xv. Captain alun wynjones will become wales most capped player, it will be the 33 year old forwards 135th test match, 9 with the lions. Its also an unchanged back line for wales. After these england games they will face ireland twice. Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend has released gary graham, nick grigg, kyle steyn and henry pyrgos from his world cup training squad. He doesnt name the final squad until early in september. He says the door is still open for them, it is not looking very helpful. Hopeful. Former wasps and England Rugby union wing Christian Wade only played once for his country and quit the sport in october to pursue his dream of playing in the nfl. He made his debut for the Buffalo Bills last night afterjoining them in april, and he scored a sensational 65 yard touchdown in preseason as his team beat the indianapolis colts. His team mates loved it. Wade, who is third in the all time premiership try scorers list with 82, now hopes to earn a place on the roster for the start of the season. What a good start, impressing with that try. Good skills. Thats all the sport for now. Ill have more for you in the next hour. Thank you very much. The number of people dying from an asthma attack is at its highest for more than a decade, in england and wales. Analysis of official data suggests 1400 people died from an attack last year an increase of a third since 2008. The Charity Asthma uk says too many lives are being cut short by a lack of basic care, such as inhaler checks. Heres our health correspondent, dominic hughes. Nearly five Million People in england and wales suffer from asthma, which can cause coughing, wheezing, a tight chest and breathlessness. Treated properly, it should be easy to manage, but the number of asthma related deaths is now at a ten year high. It may be a result of people not getting really good very basic care which we know is a problem. I think there is an issue of complacency. People with asthma dont themselves take it terribly seriously so i think thats an issue and then maybe things like weather and different weather patterns and pollution that could be also causing and led to those deaths. So i think its really difficult to pin it down to one thing. More than 1,400 people died from an asthma attack last year. Thats equal to two and a half people out of every 100,000 dying from asthma. The number of deaths is up by 8 when compared with the previous year. Overall more than 12,700 people have died from asthma in england and wales over the last decade. There is particular concern over the impact of air pollution on the health of children. Nhs england says a third of childhood asthma cases are linked to poor air quality. Ella kissi debrah died in 2013 after suffering a series of asthma attacks. Her family believe air pollution contributed to her death. A lot of people still do not know about the impact of air pollution. I think all the urban cities across the uk have issues with asthma. Manchester, birmingham, all over. So there needs to be a whole program of education in school and out of school about the impact of air pollution on young peoples health. Asthma uk acknowledges there are signs that care is getting better. Nhs england says its worked with asthma uk to improve standards, but it warns the link between air pollution and asthma shows the challenge is not one the nhs can meet on its own. Dominic hughes, bbc news. Here to discuss the figures is the clinical chair for asthma uk professor sebastian johnston. Thank you for coming in, it looks like were going backwards from these figures. It does and that is very worrying. Asthma deaths were going down until around 2010, 2011 and they have started to increase again which is a huge concern. What you put it down to . I do not know, i know what the biggest single factor is in the risk of asthma death and thatis is in the risk of asthma death and that is using too much of the inhaler not enough of the brown inhaler, the preventer inhaler. We need to change the way people treat their asthma which is to put the reliever in with the preventer so people take them both together so when the asthma is more active, more troublesome, they take the believer because they need it and they get more of the preventive because it is in there with the believer. The temptation is, i start to feel better, i dont need it anymore and it is only when youre in a crisis stage you reach with the blue one. And that is all you have when you are in crisis you will overuse that and we know that overuse of blue inhalers has been linked with deaths for about years. We need to change practice and stop people overusing the blue. We know the adverse effects of the blue are prevented by the brown so if you put them in the same inhaler, you protect against the adverse effects of the blue and only get the benefit of the blue. We all know people who suffer from asthma, how great is the temptation to dismiss its severity . It is a very variable condition and the majority of people with asthma have relatively mild and some of them, their intermittent asthma. Treatment is appropriate for it but it is appropriate to treat them with a combination of the believer and the preve nter combination of the believer and the preventer together when you asthma is active. Believer. No question, you need to be on a preventer and to improve compliance, i think it is better to have them both in the same inhaler because people naturally reach for their reliever when the asthma is active but if they get the preventive because it is in the same inhaler, they will take it. If it is a separate inhaler, it will be in the draw. Is that an option . Does it exist . Yes, absolutely. Why have they not been prescribed . They have only been around recent and the benefits have only recently been recognised. There were a number of landmark papers published earlier this year. They clearly showed that using a combination as required is very much better than using blue as required, it reduces severe attacks of asthma by over two thirds. They other option is to take the preve nter other option is to take the preventer regularly. If you take it, it will work fine but a lot of people dont take it. If you put it in with the blue they will take it. We need to be realistic. Are all asthma deaths are preventable . would say so. It is a treatable condition. You may have severe asthma and may not be treated as well as you and we would like but you are not going to die from it if you are not going to die from it if you take currently available asthma treatments correctly. We report about the pressure gps are under to provide the right length of time to see patients and to provide a consultation at hull. Atoll. What would your advice be to patients who have not had their treatment reviews for some time . This is another argument in favour of the combination inhaler, however you ta ke combination inhaler, however you take it it will benefit you, whether you are intermittent or regular. Take the combination and your asthma will be better controlled. Thank you very much for coming in. Police in malaysia say they are using thermal Imaging Equipment in their search for the irish teenager who went missing from a Holiday Resort on sunday. 250 people are involved in the operation to find 15 year old nora quorin, who has special needs. Howard johnson reports from pantai daybreak over the berembun forest reserve. More than 250 search and rescue workers have been scouring the jungle for nearly a week to no avail. Nora nora went missing from the dusan resort last sunday, the morning after she had arrived for a two week holiday with her family. Her father sebastian raised the alarm after he discovered her bed was empty and a window to the villa open downstairs. Today loud hailers channelled a message from noras mother, meabh. Nora, darling, i love you, im here. Today police were handing out these leaflets in the local town of pantai, five minutes away from where nora went missing at the weekend. This is the sixth day of the search and rescue operation and police are well aware that time is running out to raise awareness to find out more details of what might have happened to nora. In the towns main mosque, a special Prayer Service was held to offer the Community Support to the parents of nora. Police said they had continued to scan the jungle using thermal recognition drones. They also scotched rumours that noras footprints had been found. There is no footprint of the missing person found yet. And so the search and rescue operation continues. Tomorrow it will be exactly a week since nora was last seen. In a momentjamie is going to bring us the latest business news. First a look at the headlines on afternoon live. A Church Warden is found guilty of murdering a fellow parishioner after tricking him into a relationship and trying to benefit from his will. The uk economy shrinks for the first time in 6 years raising fears of a recession. The chancellor says the dip is not a suprise. Jeremy corbyn calls on britains top Civil Servant to block the Prime Minister from forcing through a no deal brexit if there were a snap general Election Campaign. Heres your business headlines on afternoon live sterling has fallen close to its 34 year low against the dollar after the release of those gdp figures, at1 dollar 20 and a half. It is also at a ten year low against the euro having dropped to 1. 075 as weve been hearing, the uk economy contracted 0. 2 between april and june, its worst performance since 2012. The numbers are official government statistics but may be revised at a later date. It follows an uptick in Economic Growth in the first three months of the year because of stockpiling ahead of the expected brexit date in march. Malaysia has charged 17 former and current Goldman Sachs bankers including richard gnodde, goldmans most senior banker in london over the corruption and Money Laundering investigation at its state Development Fund 1mdb. Goldman helped raise 6. 5 billion through Bond Offerings for 1mdb. The bank said it would vigorously defend the charges. The economic figure we had today how much are they to do with the hard times in the Retail Sector . There are some of it in there but the real contraction came in things like construction, agriculture, fishing, manufacturing, oddly the Service Sector showed a little bit of growth, not as much as in the previous quarter but within that Service Sector, the Retail Sector was just growing, Service Sector, the Retail Sector wasjust growing, 0. 7 Service Sector, the Retail Sector was just growing, 0. 7 so a very small amount. It is slowing down, not as much growth as we saw before, not as much growth as we saw before, not contracting, just slowing down. If you look at the Different Companies having problem, you have lk bennett, oddbins, debenhams, i have a huge list of all companies who have run into a demonstration or problems and closed stores. We have had reports that are not yet confirmed that the office to store it may be closing about half its stores. Office shoe store. That is not confirmed. Helen dickenson is chief executive, british retail consortium. Are we seeing a contraction of our high street or people shopping online . It is moving around but not getting smaller . The figures are not a surprise to many in the Retail Industry because as you are highlighting, we are in the midst of a perfect storm of Technology Changing the way that people shop, rising costs, many of them government imposed and this backdrop of sluggish demand so store sells are falling, online sales have been rising but much more slowly than they had been over the course last couple of years. That is why really, in order to prevent more of those store closures and job losses that you have just highlighted, store closures and job losses that you havejust highlighted, we need the government to take action and the government to take action and the place they can do that is in fixing the property tax system, the Business Rates which are what every retailer you ask that operates in stores up and down communities in the country, they will highlight as one of the reasons why they need to close doors. Arent you slightly avoiding the issue . What is really happening is people are changing the way they shop, shopping more online but if you want to continue to continue to sell shoes, you should buy a warehouse, do it online and sell from the warehouse . You are correct in saying there is that transformation going on but we have to remember that £4 in every £5 we stand as consumers still three shops and they play a vital role in communities up and down the country, giving lots of local jobs communities up and down the country, giving lots of localjobs to local people. It isnt really a case of one or the other, of shops or online. Actually, what we are seeing as consumers and shoppers, is the interconnectivity of the two much more closely today and in the future. It means we need a way of operating that facilitates and enables and incentivises that to happen ina enables and incentivises that to happen in a good way rather than the ha rd happen in a good way rather than the hard landing we are seeing at the moment with many forced to take action, whether that is the real and in scrap real extreme and in administrations or store closures. The government should facilitate that transformation any good way, rather than a negative way. Talk to me about the next six months is going to christmas. We have the brexit, i hate this word, uncertainty but that is in the middle of the period when your retailers are gathering together all the supplies they need for christmas. How do you deal with that . What is going to happen . That really highlights the importance of ensuring we get a deal, we get that deal before the 31st of october date that enables goods to continue to move easily across borders and without tariffs being imposed, either on what we are importing into the country or what we are exporting. The 31st of october is, in the context of a new deal, about the worst time if that were to occur for that to actually happen. There is such a limited capacity to build up is such a limited capacity to build up any stock in warehouses because many retailers will be doing that a nyway many retailers will be doing that anyway because of the lead up to christmas. The Space Availability is lower than it is at any other time of the year. That really highlights the importance of removing some of that uncertainty and ensuring there is some sort of transition arrangement and a deal before that date. Buy your christmas presents now, i imagine. Thanks very much indeed. Do you buy christmas presents now . I have orders for christmas cards about to go in. Get into the Christmas Spirit yet . Dont markets. The pound against the dollar, recovered just a little bit. Pound against the euro, recovered a tiny bit, one tenth of a cent improvement. Oil prices, a small improvement. Oil prices, a small improvement. The ftse100 has not moved a lot. You can really go off people jamie, very quickly. Iam not very quickly. I am not going to get a present, am i . A full size helter skelter has been built inside a cathedral, to allow visitors to get a unique view of the building and its medieval roof sculptures. The 50 foot high fairground ride took four people two days to build, in Norwich Cathedral. Mike liggins has been to see it. The lord is my shepherd, i shall not want. This is the Norwich Cathedral we have come to know and love, historic, beautiful and traditional. But now, the cathedral is letting its hair down a bit and having some fun. Whoo yeah the cathedral is hoping the helter skelter will help people see the building in a new light. A gimmick, perhaps. According to the dean, first down today, the answer is firmly no. Its certainly not a gimmick. It really is a very serious, its fun but it is about serious, really serious matters, in trying to get people to think about the meaning of life, think about their place in the world, the way they relate to other people. The helter skelter took two days to assemble, 55 feet high, 36 steps to the top, about six seconds to get down. There are a lot of people that wont come into a cathedral because they think its too big, or this is too posh, its not for me. We hope that people will see that actually, the cathedral is here for everyone. It was really good fun, faster than i thought it was going to be. Yeah, it was really fun, i enjoyed it. It was quite tricky, but i tucked it all in and held on tight so it was really fun. The hope is that people take care to look up and see the cathedrals 1000 medieval roof bosses, and when it comes to seeing things differently, how about this . The helter skelter lit up at night. Quite a sight. Mike liggins, bbc news, norwich. Hold on to your cassock. Now its time for a look at the weather with sarah. Good afternoon, we have Stormy Weather conditions over the next couple of days as a deep area of low pressure is approaching us. It will bring several hazards, heavy rain and thunderstorms. Strong winds across england and wales. On the satellite image you can see the swell of cloud and big area of low pressure pushing in already. We have had lots of heavy rain over the past 24 hours or so. The most persistent rain is across the northern half of scotla nd rain is across the northern half of scotland in the next couple of hours. Elsewhere we have sunny spells and scattered showers. Plenty of heavy showers and thunderstorms and strong gusty winds. 40 mph 30 mass power, even a bit higher than that towards the English Channel. Still quite mild with temperatures in the mid 20s but it is feeling windy and the winds are not going to be easing through tonight, especially strong across england and wales. Thundery showers are likely moving northwards on that brisk wind. It is going to be mild with temperatures sitting in the mid teens but tomorrow we have that low pressure with us and you can see a lot of asa buyers on the map, showing the strength of the winds, especially across england and wales where we had the strongest of the winds. Further north, plenty of thunderstorms. Saturday afternoon, lets ta ke thunderstorms. Saturday afternoon, lets take a look at scotland. Heavy showers, the odd thunderstorms likely here and there, not so windy. When we see the showers they will not be moving through too quickly, they will be sitting around. Samaria seem long spells rain. Heavy downpours into Northern England and wales. 60 mph wind gusts or more. Along the south coast and the Bristol Channel but even in land it is going to feel windy on saturday. Temperatures on the mild side, about 23 degrees in the south. That cooler air continues to move in across the uk as ahead through saturday night and into sunday. The pressure is clearly toys the east on sunday, still a couple of showers around, odd thunderstorm possible across scotla nd odd thunderstorm possible across scotland and Northern England but it will feel pressure, temperatures about 14 22d but not as windy by sunday. Goodbye. Hello, youre watching afternoon live im martine croxall. Today at 4. A churchwarden has been found guilty of murdering a retired lecturer after tricking him into changing his will. His actions have been unbelievably callous, and he has told lie after lie after lie in order to achieve his goals. The uk economy shrinks for the first time in more than six years raising fears of a recession. The chancellor says the dip is not a suprise. Im not expecting a recession at all, and dontjust take my word for it. There is not a single leading forecast out there who is expecting a recession. Jeremy corbyn calls on britains top Civil Servant to block the Prime Minister from forcing through a no deal brexit if there were a snap general Election Campaign. Coming up on afternoon live all the sport. Premier League Action starts tonight. Say it like you need it liverpool tonight against norwich city, it all starts at anfield. England have named their squad for the second ashes test, jofra archer should win his first cap next week. And time for a look at the weather as well later with Sarah Keith Lucas and it is looking wet and windy. Thats right, some unsubtle and stormy conditions over the next couple of days and some heavy rain, thunderstorms and especially in the south, very strong winds. They have caused disruption already and they will continue to cause disruption over the next couple of days. All the details and about half an hour. Also coming up just after 4. 30, well be live in newquay as we go nationwide to get reaction on the cancellation of the boardmasters surfing festival and find out how the weather is causing disruption to other events across the uk. Hello. This is afternoon live. Im martine croxall. A 28 year old Church Warden has been found guilty of the murder of a retired lecturer in buckinghamshire. Ben field lived at the home of 69 year old Peter Farquhar in the village of maids moreton. The family of Peter Farquhar said he would be very greatly missed and that ben fields actions were unbelievably callous and robbed peter of all the things that were precious to him. Our correspondentjo black has been following the trial. Peter farquhar, vulnerable and confused. He thought he was losing his mind, suffering from a mystery illness. He would often fall and injure himself, but all along he was secretly being drugged by his partner, ben field, who was targeting him to try and inherit his house. He got massive pleasure from other peoples misery and pain. And it was all about financial gain in some way, shape or form. A nasty, cruel man. Field was one of Peter Farquhars students. They met at the university of buckingham, and during their relationship, even pledged to marry at a betrothal ceremony. As Peter Farquhars health declined, field suggested dementia or alcoholism could be to blame. And when the lecturers body was discovered next to a half empty bottle of whisky, even a coroner thought he had drunk himself to death. The police now believe field suffocated him. Ben field did inherit peter fa rquha rs house, and his focus then switched to the house of Ann Moore Martin, and the 83 year old became his next target. Despite the 57 year age gap, they had a sexual relationship. But for field, it was more pretence. His sketchbook shows one of his tactics, writing religious messages on her mirrors, some saying she should leave her house to him. She was deeply religious, and believed they were communications from god. Then, there was this. Hello, im thinking of withdrawing all my accounts, money held in my accounts. Ann moore martin released £27,000 from her bank and gave it to field after he said his brother was ill and needed his own dialysis machine. It was another lie. Its actually quite urgent. In life, one must not be selfish. She died of natural causes, but before her death she confided in her niece about her relationship with field and the mirrors. The court was told she said he had given her white powder to help her sleep. A Police Investigation revealed fields links with both neighbours and 18 months after his death, peter farquars body was exhumed. New forensics showed he had drugs in his system. In terms of the death of peter farquar, there is a very good chance that benjamin field would have gotten away with that death had it not been for the suspicions that were raised once Ann Moore Martin was removed from benjamins control. In fact, at that stage he had already gotten away with it. In ben field, they thought they had found someone they could love, but motivated by greed, he preyed on their loneliness and vulnerability. Jo black, bbc news. Senior investigating officer in the case mark glover has been speaking outside oxford crown court. During the investigation, we took 1407 statements, recorded 2671 physical exhibits, and downloaded material from 127 electrical devices. Including computers, usb sticks and phones. We also conducted 40 suspect interviews. Ben has never shown any remorse for what he has done, and im convinced he is unable to show human empathy. Bens arrogance led him to believe that he would literally get away with murder. I think i will get away with most of it, he said to martin smyth. Giving evidence in court, ben never appeared to show any genuine emotion or contrition, despite admitting to defrauding both peter and Ann Moore Martin by allowing them to think he was in a loving relationship with them, and also admitting that he was repeatedly drugging peter without his knowledge. This speaks volumes as to bens character. I am convinced that, had he not been stopped, he would have posed an ongoing danger to society. The officer on the case, detective Sergeant Richard earl, gave a tribute on behalf of the family of Peter Farquhar. Listening to the trial and hearing ben field give his evidence about what he did to peter has been extremely difficult. His actions have been unbelievably callous, and he has told lie after lie after lie in order to achieve his goals. Deceiving everyone he met. Ben field is an arrogant man who has an extremely high opinion of himself. He used my brother as some kind of object to get his ends. All the things that were precious to peter, ben robbed him of. He did it alljust to get some money, which we find absolutely astonishing. If people hear this story, we hope that they are very, very careful if somebody unexpected walks into the life of a loved one when that loved one is vulnerable and lonely. There must be other people out there like ben field, and we would not want anyone to go through the things that we have. Thank you. Breaking news to bring you now from essex police. You will recall we reported yesterday three people had got into trouble in the water around cla cton got into trouble in the water around clacton pier in essex, and one of those people died, she was a 14 year old girl, and she has now been named by essex police, who say that her name was malika shamas, and she was 14 years of age and from luton. Malika shamas aged 14 named as the person who died after getting into difficulty near clacton pier yesterday. The economy shrank for the first time in more than six years between april and june, according to the First Official estimate. The office for National Statistics says gdp decreased by 0. 2 in the Second Quarter, as manufacturing and construction reduced and the Service Sector stalled. The figures were worse than economists had expected, and follow a strong start to the year, when businesses were stockpiling in anticipation of brexit. Heres our economics correspondent, andy verity. This Food Packaging company in leicester grew rapidly until this year, and was looking to open a second site, stepping up its turnover from £25 million to £45 million. It piled up stock ahead of the march brexit deadline, diverting funds from its new site. Then in the Second Quarter, orders dropped off, and it had to refinance to keep its expansion plans on track. Political uncertainty isnt helping. Its all about the cloudy sky again. We went through this pre march, and now between march and october, we have had a lot of unstable uncertainty, and the cloudy sky is upon us again. We cant move forward, we cant move back. We are static, we are stuck in a rut. Thats where we are. Most economists were expecting a weak performance in the Second Quarter of the year, but not this weak. You have to go all the way back to 2012, when the eurozone crisis was in full swing, to find a weak economic performance. Weve got record employment. Weve got unemployment at its lowest level for 44 years. Wages are growing at their fastest rate for a decade. Weve got National Debt falling as a proportion of gdp. In fact, the imf is forecasting that we will grow faster this year than germany, than italy, than japan, as fast as france. And so the fundamentals of the uk economy remain resilient and strong. Manufacturing activity shrank in the Second Quarter. Its now shrunk over the past year. And output from industrial production, heavy industries such as oil and gas, also dropped as a global slowdown took hold. Most people can see for themselves the lack of business confidence, of investment, thats taking place. People not knowing whats going to happen from one week to the next. Will we be in europe . Will we be outside of it . I think that is corrosive. Its undermining peoples confidence in the economy, and i think these figures reflect that. Business investment is essential to improving the amount each worker can produce so employers can afford inflation beating pay rises, but that also dropped. I think its a bit about a global slowdown, and we can see that in the weak manufacturing numbers, the weak export numbers. But there are some Political Uncertainty factors here as well, so Business Investment falling, exports falling, particularly to the eu, and that weakness in the Service Sector as well, all adds up to a sense that Political Uncertainty is weighing on the economy. The Services Sector that makes up most of the economyjust about grew, by 0. 1 . Because the figures hark back tojune, we dont yet know whats been happening to the economy since then. The hope is the Second Quarter will be the only time the economy shrinks this year. The fear is it wont be. Andy verity, bbc news. Joining me now is dr garry young, who is director of macroeconomic modelling and forecasting at the National Institute of economic and social research. The chancellor is saying this contraction was expected. Was that your understanding . contraction was expected. Was that your understanding . I think you was saying was unexpected, but we did see it in the most recent data that there was a good chance that the output would fall this quarter. The office for National Statistics released some numbers a few months ago which gave us a good idea that output would contract this quarter. What would you expect, then, for the rest of the year, if you could look that far into the future for us . In the Third Quarter we would expect very slow growth of about 0. 2 . So we dont think there is going to be a recession, but the economy are so choppy and volatile at the moment, there could easily be one, so i think there is a chance of about one in three that we will be in a recession, that we are already in a recession, that we are already in a recession at the moment. And we would need to see a contraction in the next quarter for that to be technically true . Thats correct. A technically true . Thats correct. A technical recession is defined as two quarters of a fall in output, and we have had one already, and with so little momentum in the economy, there is a good chance we will have another one in the Third Quarter as well. Looking beyond that, it depends on what happens about brexit. If there is a deal or some sort of extension of article 50, then we would expect growth to continue at a relatively slow but positive rate. If there is no deal, i think the economy could be a lot weaker, and there are risks that it could be a more severe downturn than we have seen already. Tell us what impact the various investments that the government has announced since borisjohnson the government has announced since Boris Johnson became prime the government has announced since borisjohnson became Prime Minister could have on correcting this contraction, though. They will help a bit, so they will add to demand in the economy, but it is important that the spending goes into the right places, so if there is a no deal brexit for example, that might impact on some sectors or regions more than others, and it would be important to really for the government put some money into those sectors. But on the other hand, we have been through almost ten years now of austerities, we have had cuts ina lot now of austerities, we have had cuts in a lot of areas, and there are some real shortages in public spending that also need to be addressed, for example in social care, police, so there are all these underlying issues that need to be addressed as well as brexit. Which at those particular sectors that might be most vulnerable to no deal that could do with a bit of help . Manufacturing could be one of them. We have seen manufacturing being week so far. Generally, the wea k being week so far. Generally, the Weak Exchange Rate would help that, but the manufacturing industry, as companies export to the European Union, ina companies export to the European Union, in a no deal brexit they will have to face tariffs in the European Union, and its likely that output will contract, so that could be one industry that could do with some help. Then the question would be how could you help it in a very positive way that is good for the future, so you might want to target parts of manufacturing which are looking to do lots of research and development, and looking to do new things. Some politicians, notably borisjohnson, have said that the certainty that the uk is going to leave the eu on the uk is going to leave the eu on the 31st of october whether there is a deal or not is better than uncertainty about whether we are going to go or not. Can you just speu going to go or not. Can you just spell out, why would a no deal brexit mean a weaker economy . The simple reason is that uk businesses would face tariffs in the European Union. It would also be the case that some services which we export a lot of might not be able to be exported at all as we leave the single market, so it would be very bad for that side of our trade. And i also think about this issue about certainty being better than uncertainty, i dont think there will be any certainty after a no deal brexit because you have still got to renegotiate the permanent relationship with the European Union and the long run, so the European Union as our biggest trading partner. We sell pretty much half of our exports of goods and services go to the European Union. You cant ignore it. You cant sort of get away from having to trade with them, and you have to put that ona with them, and you have to put that on a properfooting. So im not convinced at all that going for a no deal would be an improvement. In fa ct, deal would be an improvement. In fact, it is a bit like saying you are uncertain about whether you are going to be alive or dead in a few months, lets be certain about being dead. Thats not a good thing. No, its not, when you put it like that thank you very much for talking to us. Youre watching afternoon live, these are our headlines. A churchwarden is found guilty of murdering an author after tricking him into changing his will. The uk economy shrinks for the first time in six years raising fears of a recession. The chancellor says the dip is not a suprise. Jeremy corbyn calls on britains top Civil Servant to block the Prime Minister from forcing through a no deal brexit if there were a snap general Election Campaign. And in sport, the new premier League Season starts at anfield this evening. Last years runners up liverpool, the european champions, face newly promoted norwich city. Managerjurgen klopp says he wants his team to be the one that nobody wants to play this season. England have named a 12 man squad for the second ashes test at lords next week. Pace bowlerjofra archer is included, expected to start in place of the injuredJimmy Anderson. Moeen ali has been dropped. England have named their team to face wales in a world cup warm up at twickenham. Bath wing Ruaridh Mcconnochie is one of two uncapped players in the side. All the details in 15 minutes. I will have a full update for you in the next 15 minutes. See you then. Jeremy corbyn has written to britains most senior Civil Servant, to ask him to intervene to prevent a no deal brexit happening during a general Election Campaign. The labour leader is concerned that an election might be called this autumn, just as britain is due to leave the eu, and take place after brexit has happened. That could leave mps powerless to intervene, because parliament wouldnt be sitting. Jeremy corbyn says that brexit in those circumstances would be an abuse of power. More details from our Political Correspondent tom barton. Since he became Prime Minister just over two weeks ago, borisjohnson has been consistently clear about one thing. We have to leave the eu in october the 31st. But with suggestions the Prime Minister can make that happen by ensuring brexit day falls during an Election Campaign, Jeremy Corbyn has asked the countrys top Civil Servant to intervene. Writing to mark sedwill to say that forcing through a no deal brexit against a decision of parliament and denying the choice to voters in a general election already under way would be an unprecedented, unconstitutional and anti democratic abuse of power. If we cant have a Prime Minister who will do the decent thing and behave honourably, we have to go around him and say to the head of the civil service, you also have duties here that you must adhere to, and we might end up in a situation where her majesty the queen becomes involved in this. The reason this matters is because some mps, determined to try to stop a no deal brexit, could try to pass a vote of no confidence in Boris Johnsons government. If Boris Johnson lost that, under new government wasnt formed within a couple of weeks, then a general election would follow. If that happened, the date of the election would be in the hands of borisjohnson, and his advisers are said to believe he could choose to set a date in november, forcing a no deal brexit by default. If Boris Johnson cant hold the confidence of parliament, i am convinced there is nobody else who could and we will go for a general election, and it is up to the Prime Minister, borisjohnson, to set the date. And i think setting the ist of november is a political masterstroke. With just 83 days to go until the end of october, and brexit talks still stuck in a stalemate, politicians are gearing up for a stormy autumn. Tom barton, bbc news, westminster. A man has appeared in court charged with the attempted murder of a policeman in east london. The officer, pc stuart outten, is in a serious but stable condition in hospital, after being hit on the head and body with a machete. Two people have been warned they face jail after they admitted accessing cctv footage of the postmortem examiniation of footballer emiliano sala. Sala, who was 28 when he died, had just signed for cardiff city when the plane he was travelling in crashed into the English Channel in january. His body was recovered in february. Sherry bray and Christopher Ashford have admitted they illegally accessed and photographed mortuary footage of the argentine strikers body. Anger is growing in indian administered kashmir, days after delhi imposed a lockdown and said it would revoke the areas special autonomous status. Officials say the curfew has been eased to allow people to attend friday prayers but the main mosque in srinagar is closed and tight restrictions continue. Our correspondent yogeta limaye, is one of the few International Journalists in indian administered kashmir and sent this report. These are people who have just come from a mask after offering friday prayers, who have just from a mask after offering friday prayers, who havejust gathered into this spontaneous protest. You can hear their voices shouting anti india slogans. There has been a lot of anger in this region since the Indian Government removed its special status on monday. But because of the security clamp down, people havent so far been really able to express their discontent. This is one of the first few protest marches that weve seen. Its the first friday since the move was announced. In some places, people have been allowed to come out and pray. But many big masks are closed. There were reports earlier that the curfew had been lifted to allow friday prayers. When we stopped at a checkpoint, though, Security Forces told us they had no such orders. We have, though, see more people and vehicles out on the street today than the days before this. However, phone and internet lines remain cut off. Separatist leaders have been moved out of kashmir. Top politicians from the region remain under house arrest. The Indian Government taking no chances, worried that the situation here could spiral into widespread unrest. Yogita limaye, bbc news, srigatar. More now on one of our stories. Jeremy corbyn has written to britains most senior Civil Servant, to ask him to intervene to prevent a no deal brexit happening during a general Election Campaign. The labour leader is concerned that an election might be called this autumn, just as britain is due to leave the eu, and take place after brexit has happened the conservative mp john redwood joins me now from wokingham. How comfortable would you be being in the middle of an Election Campaign and allowing an election to happen without parliamentary oversight . Parliament has legislated twice, to send the letter to europe and legislated in uk law to confirm that, and so it is the clear legal requirement on the government to leave the European Union on the 31st of october, and if mr corbin wants to have a general election, while thatis to have a general election, while that is all going on, he will need to get a majority in the hazard, is to get a majority in the hazard, is to do so. If he gets a majority to do so then we will of fight election. But how long would you be prepared and content to trade on wto rules which would be necessary without a deal . We always trade on wto rules, we do at the moment because of course we are members of the wto, and all our non eu trade is done on that basis, and it works properly well. I would like a Free Trade Agreement with the eu as well, and i hope our government will soon offer one and the eu will come off its high horse and understand it needs to discuss things with the united kingdom, so it would be even better if we left with no new tariffs. But the eu would say that they spent quite a long time negotiating with the british government, and that is how we ended up with the withdrawal agreement. One of your colleagues, george freeman, transport minister, has said that it would be an absolute disaster, and politically for my party, we would be out of office for two decades, if we dont, if you dont very quickly get a deal with the eu. I dont agree with that. What is much clearerfrom i dont agree with that. What is much clearer from the European Election results is that both the labour and the conservative parties will be hammered mercilessly in any subsequent general election if we havent left the eu by the 31st of october. The two main party suffered the biggest collapse in the vote i have ever seen in that European Election, because they delayed the exit, and that isnt what the public wanted. We have just been speaking to dr gary young from the, and he says that without a deal, the economy will certainly weaken and we could even be in a recession already. And his view is very much that a deal would be better for the his view is very much that a deal would be betterfor the economy, that manufacturing will face a great many problems because of the tariffs we will face if we hadnt got a deal with the eu. I dont agree with that. We have had a very. He is an economist, and he say what a lot of economists are saying. I know quite a lot about business as well, and i have every right to express my view is you wanted to interview me. The Second Quarter in the uk was weak. We are not as weak yet as germany or italy, but it is disappointingly weak. What we need to do is get out on the 31st of october and have that brexit bonus budget that i and others have been talking about, and im very encouraged to see the Prime Minister and chancellor saying we need some tax cuts, we need to spend some more money. The squeeze on the uk economy has been far too tough on the last two or three quarters. I think we also need a little bit of monetary relaxation, which the americans are administering and the indians and the europeans are administering, and we are not. We need to have a progressive set of policies, and we can do that so much more successful if we are not found in by eu laws. What advice would you give in terms of the preparations that voters should make an event of a no deal brexit if we are likely to face food, water, medicine shortages, particularly when just in time items cant get into the country because they are stuck in the ports. This is just the most absurd scaremongering i have ever heard. Any continental supplier who wants to cancel the contract with us on the 1st of november if we have left the eu, and we have had reassurances from hmrc that they are not going to be imposing new restrictions at our borders which will get in the way of our food supply or our water supply or our medicines, and of course most sensible governments would do that. I dont understand the import scare stories, because we will control over the about the inputs arriving in the united kingdom, and the government has made it Crystal Clear it wants to extradite satisfactory arrangements. We import an awful lot of goods from non eu sources already with tariffs, and customs controls, and they come through our borders just fine. John redwood, mp, thank you very much. Speaking in the last few minutes, President Donald Trump has said us congressional leaders are having serious discussions about tightening up background checks on gun ownership. But the president has not addressed calls to control wider access to weapons, following two Mass Shootings this month. I spoke to senators that in some cases are friends of mine, but pretty ha rd cases are friends of mine, but pretty hard line senators, hardline and when i say that, i say that in a positive way. Hard line on the second amendment. And they understand, we dont want insane people, mentally ill people, bad people, mentally ill people, bad people, dangerous people, we dont wa nt people, dangerous people, we dont want guns in the hands of the wrong people. I think that the republicans are going to be great and lead the charge along with the democrats. Thousands of pro democracy activists are staging a rally at hong kongs international airport, as part of three days of protests. The activists are wearing black shirts and sitting down in the arrivals hall. They have banners criticising the hong kong authorities and the territorys police force. The protests started earlier this year over a proposed extradition bill and have now extended to democratic reforms. Chief executive of Hong Kong Carrie lam told reporters these actions were damaging the economy. They did not mind destroying hong kongs economy. They have no stake in the society which so many people have helped to build and that is why they resort to all this violence and obstructions, causing huge damage to the economy and to the daily life of the people. So, i am indeed very worried about this situation and thats why i appeal for calm, calmness, and rationality to help us to overcome this situation and this is also the consensus here of 33 members from the business sector, that they have told us during the session we just had with them. Now its time for a look at the weather with Sarah Keith Lucas. The chief executive of hong kong, carolann. Now its time for a look at the weather with Sarah Keith Lucas. There is disruptive weather on the cards with heavy downpours of rain and strong winds in the south, especially over the next couple of days. The weather has caused disruption to several events, lots of people camping for instance. Strong winds through tonight, especially across the south west of england and the coast. Heavy showers are going northwards with that area of low pressure and torrential downpours for some of us on saturday. Wales is seeing heavy showers, nowhere is immune. Look at the gusts of wind, even a 60 mph along the coast, certainly enough for a significant disruptions. Could be branches down and potential for power cuts. Heavy showers and thunderstorms further north. Sunday is not as windy and fewer showers, could be the odd downpour but things are turning cooler and fresher. Goodbye. This is bbc news our latest headlines. A Church Warden is found guilty of murdering a retired lecturer after luring him into a fake relationship. Ben field spiked his victim with hallucinogenic drugs to make him think he was going mad. The uk economy shrinks for the first time in more than six years raising fears of a recession. The chancellor says the dip is not a surprise. Im not expecting a recession at all, and dontjust take my word for it. There is not a single leading forecaster out there who is expecting a recession. Jeremy corbyn calls on britains top Civil Servant to block the Prime Minister from forcing through a no deal brexit if there were a snap general Election Campaign. Sport now on afternoon live with olly foster. As if to prove you cannot have too much of a good thing, the premier League Starts tonight. It is like christmas day. Do not mention christmas three months since Manchester City pipped liverpool by a single point, 98 points to 97 to win the premier league, here we go again. All eyes will be on anfield a friday night start for liverpool against newly promoted norwich city. What a tough start for them. Liverpool incredibly only lost once in the league last season. A couple of draws counted against them when they were pipped by a point. The manager wants them to pick up where they left off, he says they need to be angry and greedy in the way they approach every game. What is very important even as a team who won the Champions League last year, we have to stay the team who nobody wants to play against and not because of the name, the quality we have now but the intensity we have in the game. That is what i will ask the boys for and what we will show them tomorrow night. We are playing a team who won the Champions League title, they finished last season more than 90 points in the premier league. You can discuss about it but it is one of the best teams in the world. For me, at the moment probably the best team in the world and it is one of the toughest tasks you can get. Scrappy friday night plans, rush home and listen to five live sport. You can watch it on your bbc sport app. You can watch on the weekend fixtures. The champions Manchester City start away at west ham on saturday lunchtime. That is your friday for you. Yes, a do not disturb sign on the door. She lasted through gritted teeth. England have announced their squad for the second ashes test . Remember england lost heavily in the first test at edgbaston earlier this week. They got thumped on the final day. They got thumped on the final day. They new change was needed. They have named that squad. One change is enforced, Jimmy Andersons might be out for the rest of the series with a sore calf, sojofra archer is the man most likely to take his place, he was in the provisional squad for the first test but was left out because hes been nursing a side strain, but has done well for sussex and he should win his first cap. He scored a century so we should come into the side to face australia next week at lords. Here is the 12 man squad in full no moeen ali, dropped because of poor form. Somerset left arm spinner jack leach returns. He was man of the match against ireland at lords a few weeks ago. Pace bowler olly stone also misses out, he was in the squad for the first test but has a back injury. Even more chance for archer to play. The Rugby World Cup starts injapan towards the end of next month. Wales and england have named their teams for their first warm up game at twickenham on sunday. They then play each other again in cardiff next weekend. Fly half george ford will captain england and there are two uncapped players in the england side, the bath wing rory mcconnachie and gloucester scrum half willie heinz, the final 31 man squad will be named on monday, so what an opportunity. It has been a whirlwind couple of months getting the call from eddie to say he was interested in how i was playing in the premiership season and get named in the training squad start preparing for the world cup, it has been incredible. Still pinching myself that i am here, ijust feel so grateful to be surrounded by quality players in a squad who have helped me prepare this week, and really looking forward to sunday. The welsh were six nations grand slam champions this year and its a strong xv. Captain alun wynjones will become wales most capped player, it will be the 33 year old forwards 135th test match, 9 with the lions. Its also an unchanged back line for wales. After these england games they will face ireland twice. Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend has released gary graham, nick grigg, kyle steyn and henry pyrgos from his world cup training squad. He doesnt name the final 31 for another couple of weeks. He says the door is still open. But it is not looking good. Former wasps and England Rugby union wing Christian Wade only played once for his country and quit the sport in october to pursue his ambition of playing in the nfl. He made his debut for the Buffalo Bills last night afterjoining them in april, and he scored a sensational 65 yard touchdown in preseason as his team beat the indianapolis colts. He now hopes to earn a place on the roster for the start of the season. Thats all the sport for now. Now on afternoon live lets go nationwide and see whats happening around the country in our daily visit to the bbc newsrooms around the uk. We are out and about today. We have a weather special for you on news nationwide today. First we have spotlightsjen smith, shes in newquay and will be giving us some more reaction of the news that this years boardmasters festival had to be cancelled due to the bad weather. And slaley in northumberland, look norths Alison Freeman will be talking to us about how events are being affected up there. 0h oh dear, look at that mad but first, jen. Winds so strong that the boardmasters had to be cancelled . That is right, the boardmasters was cancelled due to the strong winds that were predicted and when that decision was first made, it caused some issues but now the winds are starting to have an impact and people are starting to understand. They are expected to increase this afternoon into this evening and all of tomorrow, and not ease until sunday. It has led to trees being brought down across the south west with some damage and disruption. It is the whole of the south west that has been affected but the north coast could be in for a special battering with wins around 35 mph but the one group of people, the surface, the conditions are far from not ideal. Surfers. There is a surfing competition that goes alongside boardmasters surfing competition that goes alongside boa rdmasters and surfing competition that goes alongside boardmasters and that has not been cancelled but it was postponed earlier today because the surf was too small. The surf has been picking up just like surf was too small. The surf has been picking upjust like the surf was too small. The surf has been picking up just like the wind as you can probably tell andy surfers are very happy that competition is under way. It is devastating, not just competition is under way. It is devastating, notjust for us but competition is under way. It is devastating, not just for us but for everybody. It is one of our busiest days of the year and being Community Owned is so important to get passing trade for the village to support us. Financially and also, the morale of the village is sad with it all. Lets carry on talking to you. You look like you are dressed for the winter, you are going to be sandblasted on that beach. People are still out and about and knew is still busy. Ido still busy. I do look like i am dressed for the winter but that is because there is sunshine, it is a little bit warm and then suddenly heavy showers. We are having every form of weather and newquay is disappointed that boardmasters has newquay is disappointed that boa rdmasters has been newquay is disappointed that boardmasters has been cancelled. It is the biggest event of the year with 50,000 people due to descend on the town but despite that cancellation, the message from the town is newquay is still open for business and for many people we have spoken to, the majority say they are staying and they are ready to brave the elements. Im glad to hear it, thank you very much. Look what has happened in the north. Alison is in slavery in northumberland where they have a show cancelled as well. It slaley. You can see why they had to cancel it. It was back on tuesday when they decided they had to pull the show after heavy rain and this field is sudden. There is no way they could put up their marquees where they would have the produce shows or get the animals into the pens. There was going to be showjumping, that could not take place neither could the wrestling which is a show stopper here. They made that decision on tuesday because they start the wet field and they know tomorrow those gales are expected to come and they were concerned they might lose some of their marquees. We have been chatting to the chair of the slaley show and she has been telling us how disappointing it is. It is very disappointing it is. It is very disappointing because nearly all year round, people make effort. We have to be realistic and the fact that the Weather Forecast is so atrocious, we have gales forecast for tomorrow, if you look at the state of the ground, it is sodden. It would be foolish really to go ahead and so we didnt want to be marquees going up and things getting stuck were blown away. We had to make a decision early about it. What is the knock on effect of the show being cancelled . Is the knock on effect of the show being cancelled . This is a historic show that has been going on 470 years. It is the only show, sorry, the only time the show has not gone ahead because of world war i, world war ii, foot and mouth, but because of the weather. We were chatting to the Community Pub owner and she explained it brings in a lot of business and the devastated it is not happening tomorrow. Business and the devastated it is not happening tomorrowm business and the devastated it is not happening tomorrow. It is devastating, not just not happening tomorrow. It is devastating, notjust for us but not happening tomorrow. It is devastating, not just for us but for everybody. It is one of our days of the year and being Community Owned is so important to get passing trade come through the village and support us. So financially and also the morale and everything of the village is sad with it all. A great shame and all those hopes and hard work has been dashed. Alison in slaley and jen has been dashed. Alison in slaley andjen in has been dashed. Alison in slaley and jen in newquay, thank you bill for taking us nationwide. Thank you both. You can find more on those stories on the bbc iplayer. The number of people dying from an asthma attack is at its highest for more than a decade, in england and wales. Analysis of official data suggests 1400 people died from an attack last year an increase of a third since 2008. The Charity Asthma uk says too many lives are being cut short by a lack of basic care, such as inhaler checks. tx earlier i spoke dr Rosemary Leonard, a gp in west dulwich, about how to use inhalers correctly. This is the blue standard inhaler which every asthmatic will have but the trouble is far too many asthmatics rely on this alone. If you need to use this more than two or three times a week, you need to have a preventer inhaler and lots of asthmatics do not realise that. They are using this far too often which is when they are at risk of having a sudden nasty attack. The other problem is they are fairly rudimentary things. Youre supposed to take a deep breath in and press the button at the same time, coordinating it all. We are supposed to check peoples inhaler technique and quite often we do not have time to do it. In our chat beforehand you tried it beforehand and do not think it was working. I had some for steroids when i had pneumonia and i do not actually think i was doing it properly, based on what youve said. For a lot of people the active drug is going on their tongue or theyre swallowing it and it is not going where it is needed which is why children in particular and some adults as well should have a spacer device, which is a big plastic i know plastic is not good a big plastic device that sits on the end of the inhaler and you can take several breathes via the spacer to get the drug where it is needed. In a momentjamie is going to bring us the latest business news. First a look at the headlines on afternoon live. A Church Warden is found guilty of murdering a retired lecturer after luring him into a fake relationship. Ben field spiked his victim with hallucinogenic drugs to make him think he was going mad. The uk economy shrinks for the first time in 6 years raising fears of a recession. The chancellor says the dip is not a suprise. Jeremy corbyn calls on britains top Civil Servant to block the Prime Minister from forcing through a no deal brexit if there were a snap general Election Campaign. Heres your business headlines on afternoon live. Sterling has fallen close to its 34 year low against the dollar after the release of those gdp figures, at 1. 25. It is also at a ten year low against the euro having dropped to 1. 075. As weve been hearing, the uk economy contracted 0. 2 between april and june, its worst performance since 2012. The numbers are official government statistics but may be revised at a later date. It follows an uptick in Economic Growth in the first three months of the year because of stockpiling ahead of the expected brexit date in march. Malaysia has charged 17 former and current Goldman Sachs bankers including richard gnodde, goldmans most senior banker in london over the corruption and Money Laundering investigation at its state Development Fund 1mdb. Goldman helped raise 6. 5 billion through Bond Offerings for 1mdb. The bank said it would vigorously defend the charges. So what are your main stories that you have been following today . Gdp is the main story, the contraction of the economy by 0. 2 . It was pretty expected, we were talking to an economist and they we re talking to an economist and they were expecting it to go this way. If people are talking about fears of a recession, i think because the government is spending money and people will be spending money ahead ofa people will be spending money ahead of a possible hard brexit, i think you will see a certain amount of Economic Activity growth during this quarter so we will avoid that technical recession which is to retracting quarters in a row. What happens after that is anybodys guess. We do not know what is going to happen on october the 31st and i will not ask you because nobody knows. The pound reacted to that and that went down to within a hairs breadth of 834 year low the dollar. A34 breadth of 834 year low the dollar. A 34 year low. There is a chance it could fall further. If people get pessimistic about the event of a no deal. A positive move for the pound, it has recovered slightly. If you are going to get an Exchange Going to the airport, you are not going to get much better im afraid. 1 euro for 1, a little bit better but not much. We arejoined by paola binns, senior fund manager, royal london asset. The oil price is going to come down and the fall in the value of oil is really to do with global issues, isnt it . The oil price is taking the lead from the weakening economic Global Growth that we have been seeing recently. This has fed through from the trade wars between china and trump. We have also had a slump in Interest Rates at the same time so we had three Central Banks cutting Interest Rates this week to a greater extent than expected. Why does that affect the oil price . M is an indicator of what the markets are thinking and what the Central Banks are thinking, there are clearly concerned about Economic Growth and the oil price is all about Economic Growth and demand. Wea k about Economic Growth and demand. Weak Economic Growth will mean less demand and that is going to put more pressure on the price and the only thing the Oil Producers can do to stop that is to limit the supply so that infantry scan file and that will be price supportive. Lets talk about the pound. Some people are talking about parity with the euro. It can be parity with the dollar, can it . Let us hope not. Those gdp figures were disappointed. The economy was we could then generate the market had expected. The trouble is we have so much uncertainty and thatis is we have so much uncertainty and that is weighing on everything at the moment, economically in the uk it means uncertainty and when there is uncertainty, there is less Business Investment and that is going to have a dampening effect on Economic Growth and on the pound but it is pretty binary. If we do get a deal, you can see the pound climb so we are in a sort of limbo but clearly the rhetoric from the government is heating up. It looks as though the probability of a no deal is much higher and in that scenario, you would expect sterling to remain low. Thank you very much. Hope youre not buying Foreign Exchange at the moment. Iam, buti exchange at the moment. I am, but i dont want to think about it. It means i am having a holiday though so i should not complain. Iam holiday though so i should not complain. I am very lucky. A full size helter skelter has been built inside a cathedral, to allow visitors to get a unique view of the building and its medieval roof sculptures. The 50 foot high fairground ride took four people two days to build, in Norwich Cathedral. Mike liggins has been to see it. The lord is my shepherd, i shall not want. This is the Norwich Cathedral we have come to know and love, historic, beautiful and traditional. But now, the cathedral is letting its hair down a bit and having some fun. Whoo yeah the cathedral is hoping the helter skelter will help people see the building in a new light. A gimmick, perhaps. According to the dean, first down today, the answer is firmly no. Its certainly not a gimmick. It really is a very serious, its fun but it is about serious, really serious matters, in trying to get people to think about the meaning of life, think about their place in the world, the way they relate to other people. The helter skelter took two days to assemble, 55 feet high, 36 steps to the top, about six seconds to get down. There are a lot of people that wont come into a cathedral because they think its too big, or this is too posh, its not for me. We hope that people will see that actually, the cathedral is here for everyone. It was really good fun, faster than i thought it was going to be. Yeah, it was really fun, i enjoyed it. It was quite tricky, but i tucked it all in and held on tight so it was really fun. The hope is that people take care to look up and see the cathedrals 1000 medieval roof bosses, and when it comes to seeing things differently, how about this . The helter skelter lit up at night. Quite a sight. Mike liggins, bbc news, norwich. Pakistani films are becoming increasingly popular in the uk, having grossed more than £900,000 annually for the past two years. Now two new movies are going head to head at the box office, in an attempt to draw in british muslims celebrating eid this weekend. Haroon rashid reports. A musical romantic drama about an aspiring actress and a superstar. And a rom com, featuring a big ensemble cast. These two films go head to head at the uk box office this weekend in a bid to win over the British Asian community celebrating eid. Both movies are from pakistan and the trend to cash in on the festival here in the uk began with bin roye in 2015. It was the uk audiences that lapped it up completely and we realised that the audience here wants to sort of connect with pakistan, you know . The clothes, the drama, the singing and the dancing and the culture, so i think that still exists. The success of bin roye inspired several others to secure International Distribution with producers and actors strategically planning their releases. Eid is a time when they can really have fun, go out there with their families, take them, eat popcorn, enjoy, have the true experience of cinema, and that is why eid is extremely important for pakistanis. This is the highest grossing pakistani film in the uk. Punjab nahi jaungi was a 2017 airbnb release and was praised for its high production values and large scale. Eid release some feel that only films of a certain standard should be allowed to take advantage of the guaranteed footfall. Every content is not eid content. I feel that if a film is designed as a eid release, then it should be able to come out, but content that is not designed as a eid release which is slightly more serious or thats a different genre should not be coming out on eid and thats where the mistake happens. For some producers, releasing their films internationally is about more than making money. We want to take our cinema abroad. We want to tell people, you know, this is not pakistan, its not the pakistan you get to see in the news, this is not the pakistan that you hear about from people who dont even know what pakistan is, right . We need to tell people that this is pakistan. Its beautiful, it has colour, it has talent, it has everything. With tickets for both films already selling well at the uk box office, it looks like the producers hard work has paid off. Now its time for a look at the weather with Sarah Keith Lucas. Good afternoon, we have Stormy Weather conditions over the next couple of days as a deep area of low pressure is approaching us. It will bring several weather hazards, heavy rain and thunderstorms. Particularly strong winds across england and wales. On the satellite image you can see the swirl of cloud, a big area of low pressure pushing in already. We have had lots of heavy rain over the past 24 hours or so. The most persistent rain is across the northern half of scotland in the next couple of hours. Elsewhere we have sunny spells and scattered showers. Plenty of heavy showers and thunderstorms and strong gusty winds. 40 mph 50 mph gusts, even a bit higher than that towards the southwest and the English Channel. Still quite mild and humid with temperatures in the mid 20s but it is feeling windy and the winds are not going to be easing through tonight, especially strong across england and wales. Thundery showers are likely, moving gradually northwards on that brisk wind. It is going to be mild with temperatures sitting in the mid teens through tonight but tomorrow we have that low pressure with us and you can see a lot of isobars on the map, showing the strength of the winds, especially across england and wales where we will have the strongest of the winds. Further north, plenty of thunderstorms rattling across Northern England and scotland where we really could do without seeing more in the way of heavy rain. Saturday afternoon, lets take a look at scotland first. Heavy showers, the odd thunderstorms likely here and there, not so windy. When we see the showers they will not be moving through on the breeze too quickly, they will be sitting around. Some areas seeing prolonged long spells rain. Heavy downpours into Northern England and north wales. Drier further south. 60 mph wind gusts or more. Windy along the south coast and the Bristol Channel but even inland it is going to feel windy on saturday. Temperatures on the mild side, about 23 degrees in the south but cooler in the north. That cooler air continues to move in across the uk as we head through saturday night and into sunday. Low pressure is clearing towards the east on sunday, still a couple of showers around, odd thunderstorm possible across scotland and Northern England but it will feel fresher. Temperatures about 14 22d but not as windy by sunday. Bye bye. Today at five a Church Warden found guilty of murdering an author he had tricked into changing his will. Ben field manipulated 69 year old peter fa rquhar for financial gain and tried to make his death look like an accident or suicide. Police warn field is evil and that hed drawn up a list of future targets. As the average age of the population increases, our Society Needs to be more aware of the additional dangers which elderly people may face. Well have the latest from oxford crown court. The other main stories on bbc news at 5pm. The chancellor says he doesnt expect the uk to slide into a recession after the economy shrinks for the First Time Since 2012. Im not expecting a recession at all, and in fact dontjust take my word for it. There is not a single leading forecaster out