Hes walked 700 miles with no shoes and socks, but today major Chris Brannigan can finally put his sore feet up as he completes his epicjourney. Its european heartbreak for wolves. They were knocked out of the Europa League in the quarter finals by spanish side sevilla. Good morning. Its been another hot, humid night. Weve had some big showers and thunderstorms. In the heatwave is set to continue for at least another day. Temperature is set to continue for at least another day. Temperatures again expected up in the mid 305. But be prepared for some severe dowiipouis. In the mid 305. But be prepared for some severe downpours. I will have all the details throughout the programme. Its wednesday 12 august. Our top story just 2a hours before a level results are released students have been told they might be able to use their mock exam scores if theyre unhappy with the grades they receive. After coming under pressure to follow scotlands lead in upgrading the results, the government has come u
Dozens of flood warnings are in place across the uk. Forecasters say a months worth of rain could fall in some places. The storm is scuppering travel plans for many. Hundreds of flights have been cancelled and trains services are disrupted. France has recorded the first death from coronavirus in europe, as beijing orders everyone returning to that city from holidays to go into quarantine for m days or risk punishment. From today, companies which provide phone, broadband and Pay Tv Services will have to alert customers when their contracts are coming to an end. And now on bbc news, Victoria Derbyshire takes a look at some of the highlights from her programme this week. Hello and welcome. For the next half an hour, we will show you some of the highlights of our Award Winning journalism over the last week. First, when simon oleary was growing up in ireland and his mum used to say goodnight to him, when he was a boy, he would tell her that he did not want to wake up in the morning. Because
Hello and welcome. For the next half an hour, we will show you some of the highlights of our Award Winning journalism over the last week. First, when simon oleary was growing up in ireland and his mum used to say goodnight to him, when he was a boy, he would tell her that he did not want to wake up in the morning. Because, for years, simon was terrified about his own sexuality. Simon is a producer on our programme. He has returned home to dublin to make this film for you. It does have discussion about suicidal thoughts and self harm. Which some people might find upsetting. So this is where i used to come when i wanted to clear my head. I was 12 and i used to come here and i feel like the only thing i should have been worrying about was getting my homework done, but in my head i was making a master plan to stop myself from being gay. From what i can remember, i started having suicidal thoughts when i was about ten. And i knew id never act on them, but it was the idea that i could put th
Threat to Public Health, well talk to matt wraw, whos spent the last nine days in quarantine on the wirral. In an exclusive joint interview, we talk to the three black mps who were mis captioned by three Media Organisations last week. It is really disappointing and quite upsetting, because obviously im a woman in my own right. I just felt as though, you know, as an individual, im visible, im here and i almost felt as though labelling me as my colleague and friend dawn, just felt as though theyve categorised us all is just one grouping. And. Parasite cheering and applause. Parasite has made oscars history, by becoming the first non english language fim to win best picture. When i was young and studying cinema, there was a saying that i carved deep into my heart, which is, the most personal is the most creative. And that quote was from our great martin scorsese, so. Hi, welcome to the programme. Were live until 11 this morning. Do get in touch regarding the stories we are talking about t
Shutting workers. I think it helps to underscore the catastrophic effect this pandemic is having here on the american economy, but we are seeing that repeated in other countries around the world. And just to put in context for you, when you look back at 2008s recession in america, there were roughly 9 millionjobs lost. Now america, there were roughly 9 million jobs lost. Now we are talking about 10 million injust two weeks. The figures are staggering, when it comes to europe, the continent is very badly hit with the coronavirus. Talk us through how europe is comparing . Italy and spain are obviously the two countries that economists are talking about the most as having been the epicentre of europes coronavirus pandemic. In italy, the numbers people are talking about again, to benchmark it to the 2008 recession, which is what many people still remember, they are saying this could be two times worse than what that was like for italy. It gives you a sense of scale of the depth of the prob