Hello this is bbc news with shaun ley. The headlines. The queen has opened a new session of parliament, brexit and the nhs are at the heart of the new governments legislative agenda. More than 30 bills have been announced, with seven covering the uks depature from the eu. A cash injection for the nhs is to be made law. There were also promises of safer streets with the recuitment of more Police Officers and tougher action on the most dangerous criminals. Scotlands first minister, Nicola Sturgeon has set out her plans for another independence referendum and has warned borisjohnson not to block the will of the scottish people. New figures reveal the worst ever performance at accident and emergency units in welsh hospitals. Fewer than 75 of patients were seen within four hours in november. Reports from moscow say at least one person has been killed in a shooting called on the ministry of defence to do much more about racism. Reports from moscow say at least one person has been killed in a
Underwater motorways heavy rain and floods put the brakes on the christmas getaway. Buckingham palace confirms that the duke of edinburch is in hospital. Coming up on afternoon live all the sport with connie. Waiting for announcement from arsenal . Were waiting for confirmation that mikel arteta is the new arsenal manager. Up until this week he was assistant coach to Pep Guardiola at Manchester City and in the last hour or so hes confirmed that arteta has left the club and hes in london. Chris has all the weather parts of the country flooded . We will be looking at how much rain has fallen over the last couple of days, bringing flooding seems like these, but also crucially as the Christmas Holiday getaway gets under way, we will be looking at what the weather has in store over the next few days. Thanks, chris. Also coming up. Three, two, one and lift off a new era in human space flight. Could this capsule one day take paying passengers into space . Hello, everyone this is afternoon liv
Most evenings he used to be found in the sun, but now. Most of my evenings are spent alone, up here. People call in, which is very nice, but they are not here in the evenings late, so you spend quite a lot of time on your own, where you could be spending it down the pub having a game of crib, or darts or something. He joined the group trying to save it. Remember coming up over the hill and people sitting there. You couldnt wait to park your car, walk in and have a chat. A decade on and they are still battling the Property Developer who owns it. They say they wont give up. We have fought off a few planning applications successfully, and whenever we have had a big battle, we have won it. So we are going to drive across the border now to see a pub that has been saved by the locals. They had to raise £1 million to do it. This is south stoke in somerset and the packhorse in. Trading for more than 150 years, then sold by a big pub company to a Property Developer. Where festive drinks are be
Dangerous driving. Hampering the christmas get away, flooding caused a close to the m 23 in sussex as parts of southern england are inundated. Ina in a moment time for sports day ballistic a look at what else is coming up this evening here on bbc news. We will get reaction from mps after they backed a brexit deal at 7pm in the house of commons earlier today. Were also going to be looking back at how the frontiers of science and space will push this yearin science and space will push this year in review 2019, the year in science, that is at 8 30 p m. And then at 10 a0pm and 11 30 p m. , we ta ke then at 10 a0pm and 11 30 p m. , we take a look at tomorrow mornings front pages in the papers and all reviewers tonight, i have the author and journalist and Lucy Beresford and journalist and Lucy Beresford and broadcaster and psychotherapist. That is all coming up on bbc news but first hear a sports day. Hello, and welcome to sportsday. Im Lizzie Greenwood hughes. Heres what we have have comin
Week. Im at this recycling plant in manchester to see what weve been throwing out. Good morning. Catch us if you can the years not even out and liverpool are 13 points ahead of the rest in the premier league, after thrashing nearest challengers leicester. It may be another fairly great day across the country, the wettest scotland and Northern Ireland. All the details on breakfast. Its friday the 27th of december. Our top story around 60 people, including children, have been taken to hospital after a plane crash in kazakhstan. At least 14 people died when the bek air plane went down during take off from almaty, the countrys largest city. It was bound for the capital, nur sultan. It was carrying 95 passengers and five crew. Well bring you more on this developing story throughout todays programme. Tributes are being paid to a british man and his two children who drowned in a Hotel Swimming Pool in spain. Gabriel diya, who was 52, died along with his nine year old daughter, comfort, and 16