Six millions pounds with planting planned over the next 25 years. The final preparations are made for the Golden Globes the first major ceremony since hollywood was hit by Sexual Harassment scandals. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. The Prime Minister has defended the governments record on the nhs, saying it was better prepared for a winter crisis than ever before despite the decision to postpone tens of thousands of non urgent operations in england. In an interview with the Bbcs Andrew Marr show, she said she recognised peoples concerns about the Health Service but insisted extra money was being spent. The Prime Minister has also confirmed that she is preparing to reshuffle her cabinet, as our Political Correspondent susanna mendonca reports. It has been a tough year for theresa may. She lost her majority in the election, faced a rebellion from her own backbenchers, had to deal with resignations and even had to sack her second in command, meaning she now needs to have a Cabinet
Of those whove signed an open letter defending the right of men to make sexual advances. He was tipped to be the next Lewis Hamilton before a horrific accident had both his lower legs amputated. But billy monger is now getting back behind the wheel. What else am i going to do with my life . I want to do something positive that can get a good message to other people. Rescue workers in Southern California are searching for survivors after mudslides and flooding in which at least 13 people have died. Hundreds are reportedly trapped and the number of deaths is expected to rise. More than 160 people have been taken to hospital, and 50 people including small children have been rescued. Police have described the scene as looking like a world war one battlefield. 0ur north america correspondent, james cook reports from los angeles. The rains came suddenly just before dawn. Torrential and terrifying. They coursed over the slick, scorched earth, gathering speed until mud was roaring down to the
Of the complainant cuddling the defendant in bed. Hello. It is thursday already. Welcome to the programme, were live until am this morning. Were also talking about Breast Cancer screening this morning after researchers in london suggested all women should be tested for the so called Angelina Jolie gene mutations to the bcra gene. For all women over the age of 30. If you carry of the faulty gene, or youve been tested for it, wed love to hear from you this morning. Irrespective of your age. What kind of information did you get from the screening . How has it impacted on your behaviour . What have you done about it . Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the hashtag victoria live and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today, britain is to increase its contribution towards border controls in france by 44 and a half Million Pounds, and commit to taking more migrants. The money will be spent on fencing, security camer
One of the themes that emerged in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire was the link between the disaster and austerity. Thats an idea thats particularly galling, given just how rich the royal borough of kensington and chelsea actually is. Im here in elm park gardens, which is a road about three miles south from Grenfell Tower, on the other side of the borough. The average Property Price here is £1. 8 million. But its actually here that the real story of the grenfell fire begins. You see, on this road, the council sold off a load of its property, including some of these basement flats. They took £6 million from those sales, they added in £3 million from elsewhere, and they put that £9 million or so budget towards renovating and refurbishing Grenfell Tower. That refurbishment was supposed to make it a nicer, warmer place to live. Grenfell was selected by the borough and kctmo, its tenant management organisation, to complete the renovation of buildings in this corner of the boroug
Papers for tomorrow morning saying that they think that the bomb probably was not on the train when the bomb detonated. And possibly at detonated hourly. There is some speculation that it was intended to expose mitterrand, possibly even at westminster when the train reached that destination stop intended to explode later on. Take as to the daily meal, not quite so many papers are pleading with the attack as we all thought they would, but the daily mail, that is not spilling its target as far as some of the web Search Engines are concerned. This isa Search Engines are concerned. This is a theme that the daily mail keeps coming back to. The paper feels strongly that you can access a recipe to make a bomb on various Search Engines, even on facebook, google. Web giants like them needs to do more to stop people getting that information, they say. That information can be found elsewhere apart from google. It is hard to know where to draw the line. The Prime Minister is going to the us next w