At whether e scooters are legal, and tests out new fingerprint based contactless cards. Thats in half an hour. Ten people, aged between 13 and 30 years old, are being questioned on suspicion of murdering a Police Officer in berkshire who was dragged along a road by a vehicle. Pc Andrew Harper, who was 28, died on thursday evening while responding to reports of a burglary. Flags have been flying at half mast across the Thames Valley force area, in memory of the officer, who married only four weeks ago. Our correspondent simonjones is at the scene and i spoke to him a little earlier. Morning. There is still a big Police Presence at the scene here where pc harper lost his life. This part of the road remains cordoned off and if we have another look at the other side of the all, a lot of officers there as part of an ongoing investigation. We believe pc harper was dragged across the road by a vehicle and ended up back at their side of the street. At this side of the street. Weve seen a stead
Weekend, in their opening win against southampton. Theres text commentary on the bbc sport website. Liverpools adrian is hopeful of starting against southampton this afternoon, despite being injured by a fan who ran onto the pitch during the teams super cup celebrations. Adrian made his debut in the win over chelsea on wednesday, with regular keeper alisson injured and managerjurgen klopp had this to say to the unwelcome pitch intruder. There is no doubt about how much we love our fans, there is no doubt about that. But if they could all stop doing that, doing. Thats now the worst example ive so far heard about. Its not funny. What can i say . I dont know what you can do against it but its not. I like the fact that we dont have fences in the stadium but that means theres a lot of responsibility for the supporters as well. Bath winger Ruaridh Mcconnochie is out of the england team to face wales this afternoon in a world cup warm up match. He was set to make his debut in cardiff but he h
The big names on the move. He is on his way to inter milan from manchester united. And welcome to edinburgh, where we have singers, we have acrobats. A little worried about them in their warmup this morning. 4 Million People come to edinburgh throughout the month of august for the Edinburgh Festival. We have the red sofa here, all with the wonderful backdrop of edinburgh castle. Good morning. Today we are looking at another day of sunshine, and fewer showers than of late, but later, a deep area of low pressure is going to swing into the south west, bringing some heavy rain and strength ending when. I will have more in 15 minutes. Strengthening wins. Winds. It is thursday 8 august. Our top story a Police Officer is in a Critical Condition after being repeatedly stabbed with a machete in east london. The attack happened at around midnight. A man in his 50s has been arrested. Lets get more from our reporter simonjones, who is at the scene in leyton. Simon, what do we know . Well, the poli
The headlines this evening a Great Partnership between lacazette and aubameyang saw arsenal secure a second win of the season. After being hit twice steve smith goes on to top score for australia and its england whore now in pain struggling with the bat at lords. Officially number one wales victory over england put them at the top of the rankings and bodes well for the world cup. Also coming up on the programme we round up the home nations action on day two of the mens eurohockey championships in antwerp. The canoeist who crowdfunded to have her own leg amputated and is now hoping for success at the World Championships in hungary. We begin with a promising start to Arsenals Premier League campaign. Theyve won their opening two fixtures for the first time in a decade. In a new look team where david luiz made his arsenal debut they narrowly beat burnley 2 1 at the emirates with the arsenal manager, unai emery saving particular praise for his new signings. Rhia chohan reports. This is one
Using computers to detect disease. The nhs is to get £250 million to build an Artificial Intelligence lab. And its set to be a busy transfer deadline day. Manchester united have agreed to sell striker Romelu Lukaku to inter milan in a deal worth up to £74 million. Good morning, and welcome to the bbc news at 9. Police say an officer who was attacked with a machete in east london is seriously injured, but will recover. The policeman was stabbed several times after he tried to stop a van in leyton at around midnight. A man in his fifties has been arrested. Our correspondent andy moore is in east london. Andy, what do we know so far . This incident happened just behind me just before midnight last night. Two officers in a marked patrol car were following a large white van, and we think it was not insured, which is why they were following it. They had the blue lights on and were trying to get it to pull over and it eventually did, just behind me and when the officers got out they were co