and the legendary british rock guitaristjeff beck has died at the age of 78. and coming up on the bbc news channel. australia refuse to play cricket in aghanistan in a stand against the treatment of women by the taliban.. as they withdraw from march s one day series. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. if you called an ambulance in england back in october for someone who was having a heart attack or a stroke, the average waiting time was an hour. the latest figures from nhs england showjust how much the situation has worsened since then. if you made the same call last month, the wait was half an hour longer a full 92 minutes on average before an ambulance would get to you. the target is 18 minutes. for weeks, we ve been reporting on the unrelenting pressures facing the nhs this winter. senior doctors have told us the health service is operating on a knife edge. now our health editor hugh pym has been allowed into the royal bolton hospital, and into a&e, which i
asi as i said earlier this week people know i take classified documents seriously. russians fighting in ukraine claimed they have found the body of one of two british aid workers who ve been reported missing. bumper christmas sales for some of britain s biggest retailers despite the cost of living crisis. and tributes for the legendary rock guitaristjeff beck who died at the age of 78. there s more evidence today of the crisis in the nhs in england: ambulance response times in december were the worse on record. for category two emergency calls, including strokes, they were more than an hour and a half on average. the target is 18 minutes. (ani the highest priority calls with an immediate threat to life took almost 11 minutes on average; the target is seven. and patients are waiting even longer in accident and emergency 35 % waited more than four hours that s another record. our health correspondent jim reed reports. long queues for ambulances, the most 999 calls eve
and tributes for the legendary rock guitaristjeff beck who s died at the age of 78. there s more evidence today of the crisis in the nhs in england, ambulance response times in december were the worse on record. were the worst on record. for category two emergency calls, including strokes, they were more than an hour and a half on average. the target is 18 minutes. the highest priority calls with an immediate threat to life took almost 11 minutes on average, the target is seven. and patients are waiting even longer in accident and emergency, 35% waited more than four hours that s another record. our health correspondent jim reed reports. long queues for ambulances, the most 999 calls ever, record waits in a&e, new figures today show in blunt terms the pressure the nhs is under. martin started feeling chest pains in his home in east sussex in november. his family rang three times for an ambulance. we kept thinking, the ambulance will pull up any minute, it is going to ar
he s not coming back. she discovers, finally, he s not coming back and she gets a war widow s pension. and she decides, ok, i m going to make my dream come true. i m going to take whatever money i have, whatever other money i can get together, i m going to go to paris and i m going to buy myself a dior dress like i have seen in the houses of these glamourous women that i clean for. so she goes to paris and she turns up at the house of dior, where isabelle huppert is, let s be honest, not pleased to see here. here s a clip. she speaks french this lady wishes to buy a dress. direct her to a suitable shop. go. please, let me escort you out. no, no, no, no, hang ona minute! i ve come miles, saved every penny, scrubbing floors and i don t know- what, so i can buy this frock. a christian dior gown is not for pennies. if you think i ain t - got the money, there. are you mr dior? oh, no, i m mr fauvel, accounts. let me help you. she speaks french excuse me, cher madame, but it
got the money, there. are you mr dior? oh, no, i m mr fauvel, accounts. let me help you. she speaks french excuse me, cher madame, but it would be my honour to have you view the collection as my guest. there you are. merci. shall we? 0h! now, the first thing to say is, lesley manville, isabelle huppert two of the greatest screen talents currently working in the cinema together in what is a complete piece of fluff. now, that s not a criticism, 0k? particularly at times like these, a bit of fluff goes quite a long way. the thing with the film is, it kind of constructs this fairy tale concoction. there are a few nods to the real world. there s a bin strike going on when she gets to paris, so there s a little bit of rubbish. there s lots of french people walking around with paper bags with baguettes sticking out of them, so we re still in that kind of very artificial version of france. what works about this is that the performances are really charming. jason isaacs plays a kind