Home at last to Whaley Bridge the dam is shored up and water levels are safe. And the bottle of vodka produced from grain grown inside the chernobyl exclusion zone. Coming up on sportsday on bbc news, celtic take an away goal advantage into the second leg of their Champions League qualifier against cluj, after it finished 1 1 in romania. Good evening. President trump has just arrived in el paso in texas, where 22 people were killed in a mass shooting at the weekend. Its now being investigated by police as an act of domestic terrorism. Earlier the president visited a hospital in dayton, ohio, where nine people were also shot dead at the weekend. Mr trump said he was concerned about any group of hate. Whether its White Supremacy or any other kind of supremacy. But he himself has been accused of inflaming tensions with his rhetoric. Our north america editorjon sopel has the latest from el paso President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrived in el paso a short time ago and its fair to
Degenerate on twitter. The number of people dying from asthma in england and wales is the highest for more than a decade. The number of people dying from asthma in england and wales is the highest for more than a decade. Nine year old ella kissi debrahs died after an asthma attack. Experts have linked her death to air pollution. And tomorrow, qprs loftus road stadium will be renamed after a member of the teams Youth Academy who was stabbed to death when he was just 15. Well talk to kiyan princes dad, mark, about why it means so much to him. Hello. Welcome to the programme. Were live until 11 00 this morning. Its something we dont often think about until we have a to bury a loved one the cost of cremations. The bbc has discovered that the cost of a local authority cremation has risen by nearly a fifth in the last four years and varies hugely across the uk. In belfast, you could payjust under £1100. Compare that to almost £1,000 in milton keynes. Thats before youve paid for flowers, a
Seriously so i think thats an issue. Met Office Weather warnings for most of the uk today, with thunderstorms likely to bring more flash flooding and travel disruption. The premier League Season gets under way tonight as european champions liverpool take on promoted norwich city at anfield. Good morning, welcome to bbc newsroom live. Our top story the chancellor sajid javid has said its a challenging time for world economies as new figures revealed the uk economy shrank in the Second Quarter of this year. The gdp figures show a 0. 2 decline between april and june, the worst performance of the uk economy since 2012. It follows a 0. 5 growth the previous quarter, which was largely put down to manufacturers stockpiling before the missed brexit deadline on march 31st. Even the usually Strong Services sector, showed just 0. 1 growth in todays figures, which have led to fears of a uk recession. Lets get more from our correspondent katy austin, katy what do the figures tell us . It had been e
Time for a look at the weather. Heres alina jenkins. By by the end of this, you could be forgiven for thinking we have skipped straight to october. A good deal of sunshine across eastern counties of bingen, but for many, frequent showers, heavy and thundery, bringing torrential rain in places, all driven by this slow moving area of low pressure, going nowhere fast. The showers are concentrated across scotland and Northern Ireland and the isle of man. And the north west of ingle. Not so many showers across the southern parts of northern ingle, so good news for whaley bridge, the showers few and far between. The showers few and far between. The showers were movies through the afternoon, some getting across to east anglia and south east england. A better chance here of staying dry with spells of sunshine. Where we have the showers, heavy with thunder and lighting. Lightning. Pleasa ntly warm and lighting. Lightning. Pleasantly warm in the sunshine, 23 celsius, quite cool across scotland a
Filled with smoke ten happening, things turning a bit minutes before landing. Unseasonable in the next few days. On friday and saturday, low coming up on afternoon live, pressure, not so normalfor this all the sport with sarah mulkerrins. Pa rt pressure, not so normalfor this part of august but fairly potent and wayne rooney in talks it will bring heavy rain and strong with derby county. With ben. Wayne rooney in talks winds on friday and saturday in with derby coun particular but to that in a moment. Hes been playing in america for the last couple of years, before that, to date has been sunny but wayne rooney is back in the uk as we speak. Hes in discussions skies with lively downpours that with derby county with a view to becoming a player coach continues through this afternoon. We can show you where that rain is at the Championship Club. Falling with some lightning particularly in scotland, Northern Ireland and the isle of man and the sunshine and showers for the next show in parts