Up to 200 firefighters have been tackling a huge blaze at a student accomodation block in bolton. It must be love. A star studded line up helps children in need raise nearly £48 million for good causes. Great britains Rugby League Lions are heading for another tour defeat. A spectacular try sets off a Papua New Guinea fightback, in their final game in the Southern Hemisphere. Still some rain around for some of you this weekend but there is a window of drier weather coming in for the start of next week. The details right here on breakfast. Its saturday, 16th november. Our top story. In an unprecedented interview, Prince Andrew has told the bbc that he let the royal family down by staying at the home of the convicted sex offender, jeffrey epstein. He spoke to Emily Maitlis at Buckingham Palace, addressing accusations that hed had sex with a 17 year old american girl. He said he couldnt remember meeting Virginia Roberts the prince denies allegations of inappropriate conduct. Our royal co
Health charity, mind. Regardless of who the biggest band in the world is, you will have to realise that youre going to be polishing ed sheerans boots. In a world exclusive, Coldplays Chris Martin speaks to the bbc about why hes taking the band off the road to save the planet. And england make a promising start to the first test in new zealand. Theyre 241 4 at close with ben stokes 67 not out. Good morning, and welcome to the bbc news at 9. Lawyers for women who say they were sexually assaulted by the convicted paedophile, Jeffrey Epstein, have urged the duke of york to give a sworn legal statement about his links to the american financier. Prince andrew said yesterday he was willing to help investigations into epstein if required. Hes also withdrawing from public duties because of what he called his ill judged association with epstein, who killed himself injail. 0ur royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell reports. He and Buckingham Palace accepted his position had become unsustainable. I
We start in sydney where we could be seeing the dawn of a new era of ultra long haul commercial flights. In the last few hours a boeing 787 belonging to Australian Airline qantas has landed after flying non stop from london to sydney. It left heathrow around 6am yesterday flying almost 18,000 kilometres over 19 hours and 19 minutes. Its part of a bigger project looking at ultra long haul flying, made possible by the boeing 787 and rival airbus a350 long rangejets. 0ur correspondent lukejones was one of just a0 passengers and crew on board. They were all subject to rigorous testing to assess the impact of the flight on their health, wellbeing and body clock. Lets get more on this story lets speak to luke hearing you go through those statistics again, i am feeling tired all over it. Did you think you would be safe and did your friends and family feel worried 7 be safe and did your friends and family feel worried . Nobody was worried about me but it was absolutely fine because of it was q
Immigration and of course Scottish Independence could all figure highly with voters here. Yes, billions of barrels of oil have been pulled from the sea, providing energy underjobs been pulled from the sea, providing energy under jobs for this been pulled from the sea, providing energy underjobs for this local economy. But what is at stake in this election . What do businesses wa nt to this election . What do businesses want to hear from this election . What do businesses want to hearfrom politicians . England seal their place at euro 2020 with a huge win. Harry kane scores a first half hat trick as they beat montenegro 7 0 at wembley. More than 140 Flood Warnings are in force after more heavy rain. Well be live in yorkshire where the pumps have been going all night. And while there will be some more rain around today and this weekend, not as heavy or as persistent as we have seen. Join me for the full forecast right here from the stunningly beautiful and redeveloped Aberdeen Art Galler
Announced he is leaving. He is not running in this election. And i ought to declare a Letter Campaign of 130 British Indian groups against Corbyns Labour Party because they are damaging relations between the uk and india. I would declare that force first and foremost. Tom watson was seen as a moderate voice and if this pushes them more to the left where presumably there are fewer vote rs left where presumably there are fewer voters and a report today in one of the newspapers, the metro, said they would lose by about 100 seats. What a whopping disaster. This would move them, presumably, to an even greater defeat. Not necessarily. And remember, we cant rely on the polls, as we have learned in previous elections. will give you that about the poles but if you are moving further towards the left and there are fewer people in support of you, i have never seen the kind of campaigns we have been running ever before the election so i think there is a lot of enemies of the party. It doesnt mean