Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. The duke of edinburgh has returned to sandringham in time for christmas, after leaving hospital in london. Prince phillip, whos 98, spent four nights in the king edward vii hospital on the advice of his doctor. In her Christmas Day message, the queen will describe 2019 as a bumpy year. Heres our royal correspondent nicholas witchell. Afterfour nights in the king edward vii hospital, the duke emerged this morning and walked slowly but without assistance to the waiting vehicle. Theres been no information about the reason for his stay at the hospital. In the past hes been treated there for bladder and chest infections. Whatever the nature of this latest episode, the duke, who is 98 now, has clearly satisfied his doctors that he is well enough to return home. A helicopter took him from Buckingham Palace to the queens sandringham estate, where the royal family is gathering for christmas. In her christmas broadcast tomorrow, the queen will talk about a
Day programme of the decade. And coming up in half an hour on bbc news, amol rajan takes a look back at a year dominated by the power of social media, in review 2019 the media year. Spanish police have named a british holiday maker and his two children who drowned in a Swimming Pool on christmas eve. Gabriel diya had been staying with his family at a resort on the costa del sol. Police say the pool appears to have been working normally at the time. Emily unia reports. According to spanish police, gabriel diya, who was 52, died trying to rescue his nine year old daughter, comfort, after she got into difficulties in this hotel Swimming Pool. His 16 year old son praise emmanuel tried to help and also died. Postmortem examinations confirmed that all three drowned. A 14 year old girl, the childrens sister, raised the alarm. A british tourist whos staying at the resort told the bbc she spoke to the childrens mother. I noticed a woman was walking towards where i was. She looked really distrau
Year of front covers, cartoons and satire. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. The duke of edinburgh has returned to sandringham in time for christmas, after leaving hospital in london. Prince phillip, whos 98, spent four nights in the king edward vii hospital on the advice of his doctor. Our correspondent, charlotte gallagher, is at sandringham, where there is relief that the duke is back home. Yes, a real relief here that the duke of edinburgh is back with his family to spend christmas on the sandringham estate. Not just from the royal family, but also people who work on the estate, who say they see that him quite a lot, he walks around the estate, they check to him and he feels like part of the family. They are pleased he is back to spend christmas with his family. We will next see the royals tomorrow morning as they go to church, as they do on christmas morning, we dont know if Prince Philip will be there. Firstly, he has just been discharged and secondly because he did not go
And coming up in half an hour, bbc news gains exclusive access to the team trying to break the land speed record. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The duke of edinburgh has returned to sandringham for christmas, after leaving hospital in london. Prince phillip, whos 98, spent four nights in the king edward vii hospital on the advice of his doctor. His return to norfolk comes as its been revealed that the queen will describe 2019 as a bumpy year, in her christmas message. Heres our royal correspondent nicholas witchell. Afterfour nights in the king edward vii hospital, the duke emerged this morning and walked, slowly but without assistance, to the waiting vehicle. There has been no information about the reason for his stay at the hospital. In the past, he has been treated there for bladder and chest infections. Whatever the nature of this latest episode, the duke, who is 98 now, has clearly satisfied his doctors that he is well enough to return home. A helicopter took him from Buck
2019 the media year. Good evening, and welcome to bbc news. We start with breaking news and three members of the same family, reported to be british, have drowned in a Swimming Pool at a spanish resort in the costa del sol. Our correspondentjon donnison is here with more details. What more do we know about this . Tragic story, it seems. This happened as a resort thats very popular with british families on the costa del sol. The resort says that three members of the same family we re three members of the same family were found unresponsive in a Swimming Pool, the Emergency Services attended but they were unable to save them. It has been reported it was a nine year old girl, a teenage boy, and their father. Any idea as to the circumstances regarding how they couldve ended up like this . No, there is a question as to whether one of them perhaps got into difficulty first, thats been reported by some of the papers, that the young girl may be gone to difficulties and the other two went into