Hello, youre watching afternoon live im simon mccoy. Today at 2pm. Shock resignation chancellor sajid javid quits the government in the middle of Boris Johnsons cabinet reshuffle. Its understood he rejected an order to fire his team of advisers he was due to deliver his first budget in four weeks time. He will now have to deliver the budget chief secretary to the treasury rishi sunak becomes chancellor just seven months ago he was a junior housing minister how do you feel about taking over any circumstances . Delighted to be appointed. Lots to get on with. Thank you very much. Out too are Theresa Villiers, Andrea Leadsom, esther mcveigh, and the Northern Ireland secretary julian smith, who oversaw the restoration of devolved government at stormont. A steep rise in the number of deaths
from coronavirus in china yesterday was the deadliest day of the outbreak so far. Ministers announce an independent inquiry into Maternity Services at an nhs trust in east kent after the deaths of a numbe
This is bbc news our latest headlines Manchester Police and local authorities let down dozens of Vulnerable Children a damning report says grooming gangs were operating in plain sight. Hello, youre watching afternoon live im simon mccoy. The Prime Minister signals his today at 2. 00pm desire for a new nuclear borisjohnson says the Iran Nuclear Deal with iran, negotiated agreement could be replaced by donald trump as eu countries by a deal negotiated by donald begin a dispute process trump. Over iranian breaches. He says there has to be a new way of stopping gambling firms are to be banned from accepting credit Irans Nuclear ambitions. Cards from customers in an attempt to tackle dozens of children, problem gambling. Abused by grooming gangs, were failed by Manchester Police and local authorities, the government considers according to a damning report. Cutting air Passenger Duty on domestic flights to help rescue Regional Airline the perpetrators appear to be flybe from collapse. Operat
Time for the headlines at 11 30pm. Time for the weather for the week ahead with lucy. Hello there. It looks like we will see a spell of Stormy Weather through the second half of the weekend. They could cause some damage and disruption. Before that though its a fairly calm and settle picture. Friday looks like it will be largely dry although a little windier in the west than it was on thursday. Here is the reason why. High pressure Still Holding on as we move into friday, although these weather fronts out was the worst will bring more in the way of cloud and eventually some rain. So for friday chilly start for many. There will be a patch of mist and fog that will be a patch of mist and fog that will clear quite quickly. Good spells of sunshine. Cloudy in the west. The cloud they can offer the odd spot of rain or drizzle. Temperature similar to thursday, 6 10 degrees celsius. As we move towards the weekend, out towards the atla ntic towards the weekend, out towards the atlantic a string
Years old to have achieved what i have in the game but at the same timei have in the game but at the same time i probably feel i achieve more as well. I played in a number of different positions, i moved to 12, 13 and moved to 15, managed pretty much my whole career. I suppose they are the big things, the silverware. The grand slams and the six nations title and the lions caps and things like that, something i will look back on with pride but i think 2007 against england, the last game of the six nations, we played for the wooden spoon and i moved to town which is, iforth i play my best by which is, iforth i play my best rugby and ten and just felt really i had arrived on the international scene. I think one that always sticks out is a world
cup semifinal, i was tough one to ta ke cup semifinal, i was tough one to take andi cup semifinal, i was tough one to take and i still look back and think what if . But it was really tough, it is not one you like to talk about too much, but that wa
Hello, youre watching afternoon live im simon mccoy. Today at 2pm. A gp practice in brighton is shut temporarily after a staff member tests positive for coronovirus. The number of confirmed cases in the uk has now reached eight. Storm ciara continues to cause chaos across britain, with severe travel and power disruption one man has been killed by a falling tree. Id like to know where the Environment Agency is. We have seen nobody today at all. Nobodys been round. A bbc investigation uncovers further claims of preventable baby deaths at an nhs trust. Coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with jane dougal. Hello. Storm ciara has impacted sport too. The postponed scotland against england womens six nations
match is under way now, after extreme weather in glasgow meant it couldnt go ahead over the weekend. Thanks,jane, and nick miller has the weather. So much weather disruption, simon. Storm ciara may be moving away but the disruption continues. More on the disruption continues. More