welcome to bbc news. new laws are to be introduced, giving people greater control over what happens to their online personal data. the government says the legislation offers the right to be forgotten, with proposals in the data protection bill making it easier to withdraw consent for information to be used. companies will also have to obtain explicit consent, rather than using pre selected tick boxes, to gather details online. here s our technology correspondent rory cellanjones. your data, a valuable resource flowing around the world, giving companies and governments all sorts of intimate details about how you lived your life. now, a new law is supposed to give us all more control. the law is an opportunity to keep up with the changing pace of technology. companies will have more accountability and consumers are going to have more control. the new law includes a right to be forgotten, making it easier to find out what they do companies hold on you and get it a race. ther
afternoon. fairly fresh on some of those coasts, but inland around 15 to 17 degrees. a couple weather fronts to 17 degrees. a couple weather fro nts m ove to 17 degrees. a couple weather fronts move across the country tonight. winds pushing through the cloud and the rain. all of us today will eventually get a few spots of drizzle. the north west of the country will be quite fresh. colder aircoming in behind country will be quite fresh. colder air coming in behind these weather fronts. across england and wales, milder. tomorrow, a different picture across the bulk of england. certainly in the morning a lot of cloud. it would be so stubborn, moving sluggishly across the south east and southern parts of the uk. if you live in wales, the north, the north west of the country, a much better picture in the afternoon. the rest of the week, not much happens. high pressure angering itself across the uk. the weather systems going around it a bit like a catherine wheel. we are in the cen
and, why more than 20 million adults in the uk are classified as physically inactive and could be at risk of coronary heart disease. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. at least nine people are reported to have been killed following an explosion in the st petersburg metro system. another 20 people were injured, according to russia s national anti terrorist committee. the committee also said a device had been found and made safe. an emergency services source said there was a single blast on a train between stations. the st petersburg metro system has now been shut down. russian president vladimir putin, who was in st petersburg for a meeting with the leader of belarus, said the cause of the blast was unclear and all possibilities including terrorism were being examined. in the immediate aftermath, the passengers tend to the dead and injured who ve been laid out on the station platform. while others mill around the scene, smoke from the blast hanging above them. it s report
heroic job our armed forces do to keep us safe. this morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others and, in addition to my duties in this house, i shall have further such meetings later today. i am sure we all wish to associate ourselves with the prime minister s fitting tribute. hard-working businessmen facing tough decisions, decent trade unionists and newspapers including the daily mirror will have been appalled by the so-called leverage tactics of unite in the grangemouth dispute. will my right honorable friend take steps to ensure that families, children, and homes are protected from a minority of militants? here, here. my honorable friend makes an important point. this sort of industrial intimidation is completely unacceptable. we have seen wanted posters put through children s letterboxes. we have seen families intimidated and we have seen people s neighbours being told that they are evil. it is completely shocking what had happened. it is also
perhaps particularly with the president of the republic of korea here, we should remember those who fell in that conflict and all those who served, many of whom are now coming to the end of their lives, and we should again pay tribute to the heroic job our armed forces do to keep us safe. this morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others and, in addition to my duties in this house, i shall have further such meetings later today. i am sure we all wish to associate ourselves with the prime minister s fitting tribute. hard-working businessmen facing tough decisions, decent trade unionists and newspapers including the daily mirror will have been appalled by the so-called leverage tactics of unite in the grangemouth dispute. will my right honorable friend take steps to ensure that families, children, and homes are protected from a minority of militants? here, here. my honorable friend makes an important point. this sort of industrial intimidation is comple