in their latest t20 match fresh hope for the world s largest colony of gannets off the east coast of scotland after thousands died last year from bird flu. good morning. we have some heavy and persistent rain coming into northern ireland as we go through today and then later into western scotland. a few scattered showers around but for many we will have a dry day with some sunshine, especially in the south and east. i will have all the details throughout the programme. good morning. it is thursdayjuly the 6th. our main story. the bosses of the four biggest banking groups are meeting the financial watchdog today to discuss concerns that interest rates on savings accounts aren t increasing as quickly as those for mortgages. the banks have denied accusations from mps that they ve been profiteering. our cost of living correspondent, colletta smith, reports. bank customers are feeling the pressure charged lots to borrow money, but given very little reward to save it. so today,
the conduct of former deputy chief whip chris pincher shows the continuing hangover for the government of the era of borisjohnson. is rishi sunak holding back from being more critical of his predecessor? he s not suited to this kind of confrontation, so i think his idea is, if i don t engage with the provocations of borisjohnson s supporters, maybe the story will burn out that little bit quicker. how do we clean up the culture in parliament? the conservative chair of the commons equalities committee, caroline nokes, is here. and on the tunisian border, the migrant crisis turns violent amidst beatings and abuse. what happens now? we ll ask the tunisian human rights league. good evening. we open tonight with a story which some believe could be the next big miscarriage ofjustice in this country one for which there is evidence of a state led cover up. this is 43 year old tom hayes. he didn t see his young sonjoshua grow up because mr hayes was jailed in 2015 when joshua was j
he has pledged to improve pupil s speaking skills and said he wants half a million more children to reach their early learning targets by 2030. the speech on labour s education policy was interrupted by green protestors. our political editor chris mason reports. the smiles are big, the dreams are bigger at this primary school in rochester in kent. how does society match boundless aspiration with providing the opportunities to ensure they come true? what would you like to be when you grow up? i would like to be a rugby player. i would like to be a graphic designer and make movies. tell me what you would like to be when you grow up. a scientist. what do you like playing with the car? it s not playing, it s working. good point! in gillingham, keir starmer said he wanted to tear down barriers to home. down barriers to hope. more children must reach early learning targets, he said, snobbery must go. alongside his albeit broad vision for the economy, the health service, energy an
following this story hejoins me live.. first of all, or remind us what this is about and what this ruling now means? , , . ., ., means? this is a argument that blew between the means? this is a argument that blew between the official means? this is a argument that blew between the official coronavirus - between the official coronavirus inquiry now under way at looking into the governments handling of the pandemic, and the government itself where the inquiry chair had ecstasy the whatsapp messages exchanged between boris johnson the whatsapp messages exchanged between borisjohnson and other senior officials. a few dozen of them. so, matt hancock was one of them, the senior medical figures involved in handling the pandemic, senior civil servants, and she wanted to see all of those whatsapp messages and barsjohnson s personal handwritten diaries, his government diary, all of that communication. the government came back and said it wanted to redact things and put a black pa
leader was in exile indefinitely, think again. what does that mean for the war in ukraine? difficult day for number ten. the standards committee says former government whip, chris pincher, should be suspended for eight weeks for groping two men in a london club. it will likely trigger another by election. alongside that, the cabinet office lost a legal challenge today to prevent the covid inquiry from seeing borisjohnson s unredacted whatsapp messages and diaries. we will get into a busy day in westminster. but let us begin with that news from belarus that the boss of the wagner paramilitary group, yevgeny prigozhin, has returned to russia according to the belarusian leader alexander lu kashenko. mr prigozhin, who led wagner s mutiny in russia last month, was supposed to have gone into exile in belarus and yet the belarusian leader says he may now be back in st petersburg. for the past week or so, his whereabouts has been something of a mystery. we know his private jet ha