Million of us are expected to hit the supermarkets today for a last minute christmas shop. So what do you need to know and the top tips for survival . Ill have the details. Crystal palace are looking for a new manager after sacking alan pardew after just one win in 11 matches. He leaves the club sitting just above the relegation zone. And carol has the christmas forecast in a lovely, festive location. Good morning from Covent Garden, where we have got the tallest live Christmas Tree in london. The weather isnt very festive, though, Storm Barbara up on our shores bringing gusts up to 90 mph in the far north of scotland and the Northern Isles. The rest of scotland, Northern Ireland and Northern England, between 60 and 90 mph, not as bad as that further south but still looking at a windy day, plus some rain. More on all of that in 15 minutes. We will see you then. Thank you. Good morning, first our main story. The Prison Service says specialist guards have resolved a disturbance at swales
good evening. ambulance response times in england and waits in accident and emergency departments have reached the highest levels on record. the latest figures have exposed the alarming state of emergency care in the national health service. for some emergencies, including suspected strokes and heart attacks, the average wait was over 90 minutes. the target is 18 minutes. more than a third of patients waited more than four hours to be assessed after arriving at the a&e department and last month over 5a,000 patients waited over 12 and last month over 511,000 patients waited over 12 hours in emergency departments waiting for a hospital bed and that s the highest ever number. the new figures were published the day after the latest strike action by ambulance workers. our health editor hugh pym reports now from the royal bolton hospital is what patients and staff are going
fox nation host abbey hornacek is here to discuss abbey, welcome to the national infantry museum abbey abbey thank you, abby: thank you, pete. i think a worse punishment could have been just taking away his oscar in general because that was his first and only one. the next one he gets is going to be tainted anyway. i think an even worse punishment would be making him do an unknown distance march at the end of a top ranger competition day one. the reality is, pete, this actually helps the academy their viewership of the oscars went up by 511,000 people that s according to variety during that 15-minute span. will smith says he is a man of god but he should have turned the other cheek but not slapped chris rock across the cheek? pete: at least a consequence. you and i had one of the best possible assignments covering
that homo sapiens arrived 12,000 years before expected, and this population were then replaced after that by other neanderthal populations, and this rewrites literally all of our books on history. neanderthals had been living in europe for hundreds of thousands of years. the current theory is that homo sapiens arrived from africa around 42,000 years ago, and shortly after that, the neanderthals went extinct. but now, it appears that some of our species arrived 511,000 years ago that s thousands of years earlier and it means both homo sapiens and neanderthals may have lived on the same continent for much, much longer than previously thought before modern humans eventually gained the upper hand. scientists have been studying fossils for more than 100 years to find out why neanderthals went extinct and we survived. until now, the view was that we came along
about feeding their families or heating their homes. about feeding their families or heating their homes. thank you. the lawyer for the man convicted of the murders of lin russell and her six year old daughter megan in kent in 1996 says he s received a letter of confession to the killings from levi bellfield, jailed for murdering the schoolgirl, millie dowler. michael stone is serving three life sentences for the russell murders, but has always denied the killings. his solicitor says levi bellfield sent him a statement claiming he carried out the attacks. kent police say their position on stone s conviction is unchanged. the government s latest coronavirus figures show cases in the uk remain high, but have stabilised. there were more than 511,000 new infections recorded in the latest 24 hour period. on average, more than 83,000 cases were reported per day in the last week. there were 75 deaths that s of people who died within 28 days of a positive test, though some will have died of