of south west england. and this is the one day of the year when i turned from a serious bbc correspondent into a eurovision cocktail pianist. more details coming up. and coming up on bbc news. treble chasing manchester city are two games away from lifting their first champions league trophy after a kevin de bruyne wonder strike earned them a draw at real madrid. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. at the start of a trial about alleged phone hacking of several high profile figures including the duke of sussex, mirror group newspapers has been accused of using illegal methods on an industrial scale to get stories. the company, which has previously admitted phone hacking and paying private investigators, said it would never be repeated. prince harry and three other people are bringing claims at the high court against the group that publishes the mirror, the sunday mirror and sunday people. the claimants argue that executives at the company knew about widespread
prince harry is one of several high profile figures to bring a case against mirror group newspapers. and here i am in liverpool getting ready to plate your requests at a very special eurovision piano party. i am getting in some last minute practice. coming up on bbc news. we hearfrom britain s paralympic canoe champion charlotte henshaw who has called for more to be done to help women who suffer with endometriosis, after it took years for her to be diagnosed with the condition. thousands of people die every year in the uk with no one by their side. some patients will never have a visitor from the time they re admitted to hospital until they pass away. but a group of volunteers is working to change this. they re called the butterfly volunteers, and they co ordinate
people who make time to sit, read and be with people in theirfinal days. jo black has more. 0n the ward with sue and carol at the norfolk and norwich hospital. they re butterfly volunteers, people who provide companionship for patients who are near the end of life. some have no family at all, others have relatives who can t visit for long periods of time. it s very rewarding. ijust wanted to give something back, but actually you get far more in return than you ever give. some of the patients that they help are entirely lucid. others are unconscious. but butterflies will sit by their bedsides, dedicated tojust being there. if you ve got a little bit of love that you can actually pass on to somebody else, that s how i see it, and somebody that needs you just to give them some comfort, whether it s just holding their hand, talking to them, reading to them, singing with them.