Stages of the Champions League. That is despite losing to Bayern Munich in theirfinal group game. Good morning. Weve got cloud and rain spilling in from the south west. Its moving north and eastward through the course of the day, possibly leaving some snow on the hills. Its going to be a blustery day, but the wind will strengthen from the south west later. I will have more in 15. Silent night. Christmas comes early for terrence, the age uk volunteer who wont be home alone for the first time in 20 years. It is thursday 12 december. Our top story after six weeks of campaigning, polls are about to open across the country for voting in the general election. It is the third ballot in less than five years, and the first to be held in december in nearly a century. Our Political Correspondent Jonathan Blake is in westminster for us this morning. Jonathan, talk us through the day ahead. Good morning, yes, decision day has arrived. The time for politicians to do the talking is over and it is tim
One neighbours bury face the same deadline to complete the sale of the club. Strictly stars take to the stage ahead of the shows 17th series. We hear from a familiar face as he prepares to take a leap into the unknown. Good morning from Primrose Hill. After a weekend some record breaking late Bank Holiday August temperatures, today once again in the south east its going to be hot, dry and sunny, but there are some thunderstorms in the forecast. Ill tell you where in 15 minutes. Its tuesday the 27th of august. Our top story the labour Leaderjeremy Corbyn will today meet other Opposition Party leaders as he looks to secure support for his plans to block a no deal brexit. Mr corbyn has said hes open to different strategies after coming under pressure to drop his plan to lead a caretaker government. Lets cross to westminster and join our Political Correspondent iain watson. Good morning to you, iain. How likely are they all to get to an agreement . I think its going to be difficult. They a
Ceasefire resolution passed by the united nations. Chair order, order. Welcome to this session of the liaison committee. We are taking evidence from the Prime Minister. Welcome, Prime Minister, and thank you for being with us. We have two particular overriding, or rather underlying, themes to the discussion today. One is the pressures on public spending and the challenge of squaring the circle between all the demands on public spending, particularly the rise in threat and Security Issues and the pressure on the defence budget and the need to control public spending something that no doubt preoccupies you every hour, Prime Minister. The other is in the context of our ongoing inquiry into how parliament and select committees in particular can promote better Strategic Thinking in government. And so in this session, we will start with a postbudget section on the economy and Public Services. We will move on to global issues, and conclude with a few questions about scrutiny of Strategic Thin
People who are absolutely desperate its almost like asking people to be schizophrenia you know the two opposites and that is why that is why we need we dont need to believing we cant live in poverty to local authorities we have to have a almost a kind of minister of poverty a minister who looks after who runs of the poverty unit who runs the prevention unit and is in a in a way struggling to kind of balance all of this and bringing people into the fray rather than just leaving it to Kensington And Chelsea or westminster westminster its some of the poorest people this isnt Tower Hamlets this isnt you know this isnt you know sell sheffield its a mile and i should say labor councils. Do the same as the library. Unisa paul you missed municipal socialism is as guilty as municipal can. Services and in this area the most revolutionary idea arguably youve come up with and im surprised that you know whether you thought you were going to get it through the private members bill given the property
General election joining me now is the founder of the big issue crossbenchers lord bird who is proposing the creation of a new body to curb the excesses of capitalism on bird welcome back to going underground so whats governments response to your proposal for a poverty prevention unit well when i spoke to her previous to the election just before a few days before she announced it. She liked the idea of looking at this how you could make all departments passed through the prism of how does this relate to prevention she like the idea of it are made the point to save or making it the most units never really car use so theyre bureaucratic n. G. O. S here i mean that is one of those form filling in an order and we know damn well that every every government minister and their departments are told clearly a lot. You know chasing the greyhounds chasing the rabbit of their department and then you know in the slightest bit interested in working across party and across government so you really go