hours of this morning, we have another four on the way. so the processing time through the port has improved. however, today was always going to be the busier of the two days. we have got over 10,000 tourist vehicles booked to go outbound today. yesterday we handled about 8,500. we do have quite a significant backlog of lorries, mainly up on the m20. it will take them a while to get through. we are processing vehicles fairly smoothly right now, so we are trying to get everyone away as quickly as possible. we can cross live to dover and our correspondent danjohnson. what is the situation there at the moment? what are you seeing and hearing? moment? what are you seeing and hearin: ? , , ., hearing? things in dover itself do seem fairly hearing? things in dover itself do seem fairly calm hearing? things in dover itself do seem fairly calm now. hearing? things in dover itself do seem fairly calm now. i hearing? things in dover itself do seem fairly calm now. ijust - hearing? things
an open air drug market. people in crisis seem to be everywhere. oregon voters thought it would be different. in 2020 they overwhelmingly passed the first state law decriminalizing possession of small amounts of all hard drugs. meth, heroin even fentanyl. the idea was treatment not jail time. but 15 months into the experiment drug overdose deaths in oregon hit an all-time high last year at 1,074. portland set a record for murders many tied to drug turf wars and just 116 people have even bothered to call the help hotline with only 24 seeking services. it is predictable, was predicted, and now, unfortunately is coming to pass in front of our eyes. it is a tragedy and it s a self-inflicted wound, i fear. law enforcement officers across the state rarely write drug possession tickets because most people fail to appear in court. but the law is keeping cops busier. as drug possession has been decriminalized, property crimes have increased. and so, too, have some violent crimes.
getting louder and louder, busier and busier where you are this morning. no barbecues but there will be the service of thanksgiving at 11:30am. there will be about 400 people attending. prime minister boris johnson will be giving a reading. the archbishop of york will be giving a sermon. and then we had the dean of st paul s, he will be giving the service, conducting the service. lots of people taking part here just behind me. the sun is shining now and let s hope it continues. inside, it will be a very, very i think my thoughtful atmosphere. someone who has given this a lot of thought is the right reverend and right honourable dame sarah mullally dbe. she s the bishop of london and will be taking part in today s service. how are you feeling? excited, i
pharmacy is often the last to - decisions at the top? unfortunately pharmacy is often the last to be - pharmacy is often the last to be recognised, sometimes, and there s so much good work being done by our pharmacy teams up and down the country. 0ver pharmacy teams up and down the country. over the course of the pandemic we ve been involved in offering more and more advice on self care, with the busier, we ve been handing out those lateral flow tests, and on that point, really, it s concerning that the decision may be made to change the availability of lateral flow tests because we know there are patients who struggle each month to choose which medication they might be able to have because they can t afford their medication, and then to have another measure such as this, where they may have to fund their own lateral flow tests, is set in the concerning. and health care inequalities have really increased during the course of the pandemic and this would really not be necessarily a welco
station in poland near the border. polish mothers leaving their strollers filled with supplies at the station for desperate ukrainian parents traveling with their children. joining us now, kelly cobiella, live from the polish border with ukraine. kelly, are you seeing something like that continue and just, it seems like it s increasing. yeah, well, we re one of the busier one of the busiest transit points, really. this train station. you can see how hectic as it s as we show you around here a little bit. this is the world central kitchen. they re handing out meals, sometimes the first hot meal that these people have had in days. you can get, down here, you can get free sim cards, so you can keep in touch with your family and friends. and there are signs offering rides to all different places, to estonia, offering consular assistance, to people from japan, and then there s a room here where women and children can just spend a little bit of time, warm up, rest up, before