a pay increase of 8.8% has been awarded by the government and an extra 3% on top has been offered. but the doctors union, the british medical association, says that still doesn t reflect the rise in inflation. ministers argue that the union s demands are unrealistic. in scotland, doctors have already agreed to a 12.4% pay rise. our health editor hugh pym has more from university college hospital in london. facing up to the first day of strike action, ben, the lead consultant in the emergency department. morning, everyone. good morning. how was your night? we were handed 15. 15 patients waiting. that s a lot more than we normally have. junior doctors who ve been on overnight hand over to the consultants who ll take over. and aphra is supporting the strike action. i m only two years into being a doctor, so knowing the longevity of the career and seeing how many of my friends have already left
for the family, no punishment can bring back the partner, mother, daughter they have lost. but they hope that an increased sentence will send a message and save others the pain that they have had to endure. joe inwood, bbc news. a 39 year old man from lurgan, county armagh, has been arrested by detectives investigating a major breach of data from the police service of northern ireland. he s being held on suspicion of collection of information likely to be useful to terrorists. the data, which was mistakenly released, included the surnames and initials of 10,000 psni staff. scotland s junior doctors have voted to accept a pay offer from the scottish government. the deal will include a 12.4% pay increase for this financial year, which is in addition to a 4.5% boost for last year. the doctors had been planning to strike. wildfires on tenerife have prompted
the court of appeal will decide if it should be increased. that has been welcomed by calvin, who said. for the family, no punishment can bring back the partner, mother, daughter they have lost. but they hope that an increased sentence will send a message and save others the pain that they have had to endure. joe inwood, bbc news. a 39 year old man from lurgan, county armagh, has been arrested by detectives investigating a major breach of data from the police service of northern ireland. he s being held on suspicion of collection of information likely to be useful to terrorists. the data, which was mistakenly released, included the surnames and initials of 10,000 psni staff. scotland s junior doctors have voted to accept a pay offer from the scottish government. the deal will include a 12.4% pay increase for this financial year,
the psni has apologised for mistakenly revealing details of all its 10,000 staff last week. junior doctors in scotland have accepted a pay offer from the scottish government ending the threat of further strike action. they ll receive a pay rise of 12.4%, backdated to april with yearly negotiations for the next three years. meanwhile in england, junior doctors remain in dispute with the westminster government. you re live with bbc news. a bbc investigation has heard from ukrainian prisoners of war who say they were subjected to torture, including frequent beatings and electric shocks, while held in russia. a dozen former captives described extreme violence and ill treatment in apparent violations of international humanitarian law. many of them surrendered in the city of mariupol last year. they were taken to a detention facility in the southern russian city of taganrog before being released in exchanges.
years old. george osborne, former tory chancellor and now chair of the british museum, has described as a sad day and said the priority is to find out where the items are and try and get them back. is a hugely embarrassing security breach for the british museum. there are no enterprise this artefact is being cared for inside this building but what is that lots of things are unclear. they do not have a full inventory of what is missing, they don t know where it is, how long this has been going on for and they don t have a true value on what is missing. what we do know is that a member of staff has been sacked and the museum along with the metropolitan police is investigating what they fear may have been an insidejob. what they fear may have been an inside ob. ., , what they fear may have been an inside job- junior doctors in scotland have voted to accept a pay offer from ministers at holyrood, ending the threat of further strike action. the deal involves a pay increase of 12.4% this y