You are this morning. This is the current beach outside the studio in sa lfo rd. Current beach outside the studio in salford. A lovely picture. Good morning. After a chilly start, it will be dry with a fair bit of sunshine around. For the rest of england and wales, a bit more clouds, a few showers, a breeze picking up, and chilly on the east coast. I will have all the details inis coast. I will have all the details in 15 minutes. Thank you. Good morning. First, our main story. Theresa may will visit Buckingham Palace today, for an audience with the queen, to mark the Dissolution Of Parliament. It signals the official start of the general Election Campaign and just after midnight all seats in the House Of Commons became vacant. Attention turns to the local elections tomorrow, with crucial votes for 3h english councils, all scottish and Welsh Councils, as well as a number of local authority mayors. The deadline to register to vote in the General Election is may 22nd and polls open onjune
Peace deal, we will be working on it very, very diligently. Nationalist, Anti Immigrant, in power. Why polands controversial government provokes protest but still retains great support. Welcome to the programme. Im katty kay in washington, christian frasers in london. Nonsense is how President Trump describes news reports that his Campaign Team were in regular contact with russian officials during the election campaign. He followed up with this tweet information is being illegally given to the failing nytimes and washingtonpost by the Intelligence Community nsa and fbi . Just like russia. He was on a bit of a twitter storm this morning at a Press Conference in the past couple of hours, mr trump had this to say. Michael flynn, general flynn is a wonderful man. I think hes been treated very, very unfairly by the media. As i call it, the fake media, in many cases. I think its really a sad thing that he was treated so badly. I think, in addition to that, from intelligence, papers are being
They received £3 million for the last paralympic cycle. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Nearly every local authority in england is planning to raise Council Taxes in the coming year, most of them by 5 , to help meet the rising cost of social care. But the local government association, which represents councils, has warned that deep cuts to other services will still have to be made because of the huge cost of looking after growing numbers of elderly and disabled people. Heres our social Affairs Correspondent alison holt. Yes, and youll be fine. This is social care in action. Good girl. And i will be behind you. After several falls, 80 year old Maureen Edwards is being given support that will mean she regains some independence and rebuilds her confidence. It means she and her husband can cope at home. According to todays survey, the sheer demand for this sort of care is the reason why most local authorities in england plan to raise council tax. That was wonderful. Wev
Western governments seem to be in no doubt that president Bashir Al Assad is responsible for what appears to be a deadly Chemical Weapons attack in Idlib Province which has killed dozens of people including at least eleven children and injured hundreds more. The foreign secretary Boris Johnson said if proved then it is a war crime. The Un Security Council is holding an Emergency Meeting tomorrow to discuss the attack. If assad is the culprit, something the Syrian Regime denies, then it is surely evidence that he believes he can act with impunity not least because russia is his ally, and the white house has recently stated its priority is not removing assad but defeating is. But today the white house pointed the finger of blame at barak obama saying that these heinous actions are a consequence of the last administrations weakness and irresolution. President obama said in 2012 he would establish a red line against the use of Chemical Weapons and then he did nothing. Before we discuss the
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