this is bbc news. i m lewis vaughan jones. the headlines: eight days of strike action by staff at the uk s largest container port, felixstowe. the unite union is in a dispute over pay. the boxer tyson fury has called for an end to knife crime after his cousin rico burton was stabbed to death in cheshire. a 17 year old was also injured in the same incident. the met police say they had contact with student nurse owami davies on the day she was reported missing by her family. a car bomb in moscow kills the daughter of putin ally alexsandr dugin, a vocal supporter of the war in ukraine. the exam board pearson has apologised after some btec students didn t get their results on time, putting their university places in doubt. now on bbc news, the travel show s lucy hedges heads for the big this week i m taking a journey across yellowstone national park as it celebrates its 150th anniversary. oh, my god, just spectacular. i will meet the people using this milestone to address the par
tributes have been paid to the actorjosephine tewson, who has died at the age of 91. she was best known for portraying elizabeth the long suffering, tea spilling neighbour of hyacinth, played by patricia routledge, in keeping up appearances . it doesn t even wobble, so why can t i do it when hyacinth is here? elizabeth! 0h! josephine tewson also played miss davenport in last of the summer wine and appeared in sketches with the two ronnies . now it s time for a look at the weather with ben rich. hello. there will be places that stay dry through the rest of today with some lengthy spells of sunshine. but in other spots, some blustery winds and some quite heavy thundery downpours, particularly along the line of a weather front. this narrow band of rain pushing out of southern scotland and northern ireland into the far north of england could be the odd flash of lightning, the odd rumble of thunder, some heavy thundery showers into northwest scotland. quite windy out there f
the travel show. this week on the travel show: i m in the great american outdoors for a close encounter with some grizzly bears. we re heading to australia to wish a very happy birthday to one of the most iconic bridges in the world. and in mexico, we meet the people breathing life into an ancient ballgame that predates football by around 3,000 years. hello, and welcome to yellowstone park here in the united states. this is one of the oldest national parks in the world. it celebrates its 150th this year. now, this is a vast and mesmerising place. a little later on in the show i will be coming up close to one of yellowstone s most famous and fearsome residents, the grizzly bear. but we re starting this week somewhere where you definitely won t need bear spray to visit. now, the famous film director baz luhrmann once said if paris is the city of light, then sydney is the city of fireworks. that is certainly the case every new year s eve when the global party really gets started
the conservative leadership contest, joining a field of eight people, including two former health secretaries, sajid javid and jeremy hunt. the current favourite is the former chancellor rishi sunak, who resigned from his post on tuesday. now on bbc news, the travel show. this week on the travel show i m in the great american outdoors for a close encounter with some grizzly bears. we re heading to australia to wish a very happy birthday to one of the most iconic bridges in the world. and in mexico, we meet the people breathing life into an ancient ballgame that predates football by around 3,000 years. hello, and welcome to yellowstone park here in the united states. this is one of the oldest national parks in the world. it celebrates its 150th this year. now, this is a vast and mesmerising place. a little later on in the show i will be coming up close to one of yellowstone s most famous and fearsome residents the grizzly bear. but we re starting this week somewhere where
again, these other temperatures come the end the night 11 or 13 degrees. a bit warmer than last night. following on from that, a lot more sunshine to come tomorrow, the breeze picks up on the far north west and there is a bit more cloud coming into scotland and northern ireland, but ahead of that for england and wales, strong sunshine again, those damages continuing to rise all the way from southern england through the midlands into yorkshire, temperatures are going to be above 30 degrees tomorrow afternoon. not as warm as that of scotland and northern ireland, nor indeed in some coastal areas as well. because we have those sea breezes. both of those games on monday near the coast so temperatures will not be quite as high here, but are still going to be dry and sunny. that heat and sunshine is underneath that area of high pressure, that gets squeezed away overnight into tuesday as that weather front moves down from the north west, but i had a bit, still very warm airand north