a huge response to the tv drama about the post office scandal that saw hundreds of innocent branch managers wrongfully prosecuted for theft. we ll hear from one who s fought forjustice for 20 years. whilst there are some brighter skies ahead for us all there is still some rain in the forecast today particularly across the south, i will have your full forecast here on breakfast. it s thursday 4th january. our main story. a row about emergency cover has broken out between nhs bosses and union leaders, as a strike byjunior doctors in england enters its second day. yesterday nhs leaders made 20 requests for striking doctors to return to the wards and help overstretched services but the british medical association accused them of misusing the system, which is known as derogation. a number of nhs trusts have reported long waiting times in a&e, with some declaring critical incidents. here s more from our health editor hugh pym. # hey, vicky, ooh, ahh # i wanna know when you ll pay u
back in half an hour, but for now let s go back to naga and charlie. hello, this is breakfast with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. you d hope to recognise a family member orfriend from theirface alone. you d probably recognise your pet dog or cat too. but what about a bird? well, each bewick swan has a unique face which enables researchers to count them and track their family histories and that s exactly what s been happening at the slimbridge wetland centre, in gloucestershire, for 60 years, as our environment correspondentjonah fisher reports. whistling. peter scott started this 60 years ago. whenever he was coming out with a feed, he d give a little whistle. whistling. just so they know someone friendly is coming out. breakfast time at slimbridge.
blamed in part on their wetland habitat being destroyed. climate change is also altering their migration routes. longer summers in the russian arctic and warmer european autumns mean the swans don t have to come as far as slimbridge to find winter feeding grounds. bewick swans are essentially barometers for what s happening to other birds and other species in the natural world. so when we see the bewick swans declining, we know that there s probably trouble in other bird populations as well. it sjust one lake and a single species. but chronicled over 60 years, the bewick s fate is a telling snapshot of our rapidly changing planet. jonah fisher, bbc news at slimbridge. for news at slimbridge. you, from the calm of the outdoors, for you, from the calm of the outdoors, to what went on last night, here is a contrast for you. by,
sirindi, who is at slimbridge at the moment, he s one of the divorcees, but the cheese dynasty was quite a big one. roquefort, cheddar, stilton. i think that s maisie. that s maisie coming in on the right hand side. so she s number two. number two family on the pond and making that point known there, by pushing that other family away. probably best to think of them as mafias rather than families. this year, 91 bewicks swans have been seen at slimbridge. in the 19705, there was sometimes more than 600. the bewick swan, sadly, its numbers are plummeting very, very quickly and have been for quite some time. sojust to give you an idea, in the mid 1990s we were looking at around 29,000 birds in the population in europe, and now we think there s fewer than 18,000. so there s a huge decline in their numbers. so, welcome to the scott house museum. this is where the bill pattern study first started in 1963. this winter is the 60th anniversary of the bewicks swan survey.