And coming up in half an hour, bbc news gains exclusive access to the team trying to break the land speed record. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The duke of edinburgh has returned to sandringham for christmas, after leaving hospital in london. Prince phillip, whos 98, spent four nights in the king edward vii hospital on the advice of his doctor. His return to norfolk comes as its been revealed that the queen will describe 2019 as a bumpy year, in her christmas message. Heres our royal correspondent nicholas witchell. Afterfour nights in the king edward vii hospital, the duke emerged this morning and walked, slowly but without assistance, to the waiting vehicle. There has been no information about the reason for his stay at the hospital. In the past, he has been treated there for bladder and chest infections. Whatever the nature of this latest episode, the duke, who is 98 now, has clearly satisfied his doctors that he is well enough to return home. A helicopter took him from Buck
2019 the media year. Good evening, and welcome to bbc news. We start with breaking news and three members of the same family, reported to be british, have drowned in a Swimming Pool at a spanish resort in the costa del sol. Our correspondentjon donnison is here with more details. What more do we know about this . Tragic story, it seems. This happened as a resort thats very popular with british families on the costa del sol. The resort says that three members of the same family we re three members of the same family were found unresponsive in a Swimming Pool, the Emergency Services attended but they were unable to save them. It has been reported it was a nine year old girl, a teenage boy, and their father. Any idea as to the circumstances regarding how they couldve ended up like this . No, there is a question as to whether one of them perhaps got into difficulty first, thats been reported by some of the papers, that the young girl may be gone to difficulties and the other two went into
Demonstrators in the indian capital delhi towards vehicles in clash with police as they condemn a new law offering amnesty to refugees but not if theyre muslims and the car sized satellite that will explore planets beyond our solar system and search for a possible life in outer space. I bring it off its good to have you with us we begin with a story of death squads who allegedly silenced voices of dissent in the name of the president known as europes last dictator in the former soviet republic of belarus 3 opposition politicians disappeared without a trace 20 years ago now bella ruse has been ruled by president you see him right there. Alexander lukashenko for more than 2 decades his tight grip on power enabled by his pro russian stance and his 0 tolerance for dissent the missing men include a former interior minister this man you see right here yuri go there was speculation at the time that the president had ordered the assassinations and now in an exclusive interview the w. News has
Bringing us tomorrow. With me are chief sports reporterfor the sun, martin lipton, and broadcaster penny smith. Bringing a little bit of festive cheer. Sparkle. Many of tomorrows front pages are already in. On the front of the independent, a photo of footballer Martin Peters, whos died aged 76. He scored for england in their 1966 world cup victory over west germany. Peters has made it onto many of the back pages too, with the telegraphs sport section saying goodbye to englands gentleman. Back to brexit on the front of the sunday telegraph which reports that house of Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle will let big ben bong to mark the uk leaving the eu at the end of january. The sunday express reports that the Us Ambassador woodyjohnson has declared brexit will pave the way for the Roaring Twenties with wealth reportedly set to flood in from the future uk us trade deal. The observer leads with claims that the home office has ignored more than 1,400 offers from local councils, including wilts
Time for a look at the weather. We have some strong winds on the way for the uk but before that we have seen damp conditions for many of us and the worst of the rain is clearing eastwards followed by heavy showers, the heaviest across north east england and wales. Showers, the heaviest across northeast england and wales. Hefty downpours around. The winds are starting to turn north westerly dragging in coolerairand starting to turn north westerly dragging in cooler air and otherwise it isa dragging in cooler air and otherwise it is a mild afternoon. Overnight we will continue with breezy weather and a few showers. Some patchy cloud as well. It will not be the coldest of nights. We are going to see some big developments taking place in the atlantic. Looking at the jet stream which makes our areas of low pressure, it is going to get strong over the next 2a hours, reaching winds of 180 miles per hour. An area of low pressure form is just here and start spinning around the north atla ntic a