to call for national lung cancer screening. england fight back to reach the semi finals of the euros. an extra time time winner from georgia stanway sees them come from behind to beat spain. it s thought half of all kennels across the uk have closed during lockdown, but with many more of us now owning dogs, getting a space at a boarding house like this is now a very hard thing. good morning. today will be cooler than yesterday. for england, fairly cloudy with the odd shower. bright and sunnier in the west. i ll have all the details and more later in the programme. good morning. it s thursday zistjuly. our top story two candidates are left in the race to replace borisjohnson, as rishi sunak and liz truss go head to head to become the next prime minister. a key battleground is likely to be taxation, with ms truss promising immediate tax cuts, while mr sunak says he would wait until inflation was under control. our political correspondent jonathan blake reports. he s the forme
all children in london aged between i and 9 will be offered a polio booster vaccine after more traces of the virus are found in the capital s waste water. four days of extreme weather is forecast in england and wales. it comes as environmental groups say some rivers are starting to dry up seriously impacting wildlife. saying he the former football trail continues. # the author and illustrator raymond briggs, best known for the 1978 classic, the snowman, has died, aged 88. many families are falling behind on their gas and electricity bills, with the total owed by consumers to energy suppliers tripling since last september. a survey of 2,000 people for u switch suggests almost a quarter of households owe an average of more than 200 pounds to their provider. it comes as ministers are due to hold talks with the energy companies tomorrow about the impact of sharply rising bills. yesterday experts predicted the average household energy bill would reach 4000 200 pounds a year by j
together of neutron stars. and coming up on the bbc news channel, a peak tv audience of 7.6 million viewers tune in to see the lionesses book their place in the semifinals of euro 2022. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the foreign secretary, liz truss, says the treasury s economic policies have failed to deliver growth for two decades, including the past 12 years of conservative rule. she s rejected concerns that the tax cuts she s promised if she becomes the next prime minister would increase inflation. ms truss and her conservative leadership rival, rishi sunak, are now setting out their pitches to win over the party membership, who will have the deciding vote over the summer. our political correspondent iain watson reports. his report contains some flashing images. it s going to be a busy six weeks. liz truss has been in the cabinet for the past eight years, but she s fighting this leadership election like an outsider. her pitch to party members is that s