abroad. good evening. a fifth conservative figure is now being investigated by the gambling commission over alleged bets on the timing of the general election. the conservative party has withdrawn its support for two candidates, craig williams and laura saunders. now russell george, a conservative member of the welsh parliament, is being looked into as well. and labour has suspended one of its candidates, kevin craig, who admitted he had bet against himself losing in a suffolk constituency. and now a cabinet minister has said he was joking when he told the bbc he d won more than £2,000 on the timing of the election. more on that in a moment, but here s our political editor chris mason. this is craig williams, a friend and parliamentary aide to the prime minister, he turned down my request for an interview but said this on social media this afternoon. i remain on the ballot paper on the 4th ofjuly and i hope to secure your support after years of delivering. i committed an err
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let us look at the official data. the number of daily coronavirus cases has risen for the first time in a week. the latest official figures show there were 29,312 new cases in the latest 24 hour period. last wednesday there were under 28,000. 119 deaths were recorded in the past 2a hours. that s an average of 81 deaths a day in the past week. the number of people in hospital with covid seems to have levelled off atjust under 6000. almost 89% of uk adults have now had their firstjab. and nearly 73.2% are now fully vaccinated. it s been a record breaking day for team gb at the olympic games in tokyo, boosting britain into fourth place in the overall medal table, with just four days
politician in scotland, to put it mildly. aand his visit does risk backfiring and, perhaps, even stirring up more support for independence. james cook, bbc news, glasgow. it s been a record breaking day for team gb at the olympic games in tokyo, boosting britain into fourth place in the overall medal table, with 15 gold medals in total. hannah mills and eilidh mcintyre won gold in the sailing, making hannah the most successful female olympic sailor of all time. our sports editor dan roan reports on the sailing triumph. british sailing making a splash at these games yet again. after a performance as sparkling as the waters of the enoshima harbour, hannah mills and eilidh mcintyre able to celebrate team gb s third victory of the olympics here. the world number one pair, will it be gold? it had never really seemed in doubt.