journalist dom phillips. and coming up at 6.30 all the day s sport, including leicester tigers dramatic win over saracens in english rugby s premiership decider. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the rmt union has confirmed that next week s rail strikes will go ahead. they say talks have failed to resolve a dispute about pay, jobs and working conditions. the strikes will affect railway lines across the country. our business correspondent vishala sri pathma reports. it s set to be a chaotic time if you re travelling by rail at all next week. three 24 hour strikes planned across the week on tuesday, thursday, and saturday, with strikes on the london underground to go ahead on tuesday, as well. for those who have plans to go on holiday by rail, or, indeed, go to work, the strikes are notjust disruptive they re costly. i think it s just down to greed, isn t it? i mean, government put in, is it, £16 billion of our money, to keep the railways running during the pande
hello and welcome to the programme. a series of leaked photos have emerged of the prime minister drinking at a gathering in downing street during lockdown in november 2020. the pictures published by itv news were taken at a number 10 leaving do for mrjohnson s former director of communications lee cain on 13th november 2020. they show the prime minister raising a glass, having put down his red box. the bbc understand that at least one person at this event was fined by the police. the prime minister was not.downing street says boris johnson will address parliament on the publication of civil servant sue grey s report. the problem for the prime minister is he has already addressed parliament about this gathering..0n the 8th of december last year. will the prime minister tell the house whether there was a party in downing street on the 13th of november? downing street on the 13th of november? ~ , ~ november? prime minister. mr seaker, november? prime minister. mr speaker. no.
Brighter with a few showers and it is still going to be worn this weekend. Its wednesday the 4th of october. After weeks of speculation, the Prime Minister is expected to use his leaders speech at the conservative Party Conference to confirm that hes scrapping the second leg of h52 from birmingham to manchester. Labours andy burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, accused the government of treating people in the north as Second Class Citizens, while the West Midlands mayor andy street, a conservative, was said to be distraught. Our Political Correspondent Damian Grammaticas reports from the conference in manchester. Pushing his way through the late night conference crowds, rishi sunak, relaxed and smiling. He has, it seems, made his mind up. Its the end of h52 to manchester. This was what the pm was saying 2a hours ago. What i want to do is make the right decision for the country. This is an enormous amount of peoples money, taxpayers money, everybody watching, billions and billions