As the nhs braces itself for the new year period its often its busiest time a pioneering scheme in wales is aiming to take the pressure off hospitals and doctors surgeries. Five members of the Welsh Ambulance service have graduated to become the uks first prescribing paramedics and the team can be deployed across the nhs. Our Health Editor hugh pym has been on the road with some of them. It enhances the role greatly and it makes our role a lot more flexible. Patients dont always phone 999 because they think they have a life threatening emergency. So we probably see on average 19 or 20 patients a day and deal with them and the gp will have time for those more complex patients. We can speak to them and say rather than put them in the back of the ambulance and take them, how about we get one of our cars to attend . Mike is one of a new breed of prescribing paramedics, one of the first five. Theirjob, where possible, is to keep people out of hospital. Here, he is called to a Diabetic Patie
Widely in double figures. Coolest in lincolnshire and east anglia. The dryer theme continues on sunday with sunny spells. Still some rain in the hebrides. Some of the modest conditions with temperatures peaking at 14. Conditions with temperatures peaking at 1a. More coming up later. Hello, this is bbc news with christian fraser. A powerful typhoon tears through parts of the philippines, killing at least 16 people and leaving thousands homeless. Firefighters continue to tackle out of control bushfires in australia, with a warning that more record breaking temperatures could be on the way. The owners of a Spanish Hotel where a british man and his two children drowned say their deaths were a tragic accident. Israels prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, faces a political fight as his likud Party Decides who will lead them into the countrys third general election in a year. Now on bbc news, its witness history, and a look back at one of the highlights of the series. Razia iqbal has five stor
Weather before the arrival of these weather fronts, which will gradually bring in some rain. Maybe cloud will be thick enough for the odd spot of drizzle, a touch on the chilly side into eastern scotland, but generally a mild start to thursday morning. But the winds will continue to strengthen. We are sitting across the milder airfor the time being, the milder airfor the time being, the cold air waiting in the wings. It is going to slip in as these weather fronts seep in east. To start the day, some rain abound in scotla nd start the day, some rain abound in scotland and northern ireland. Once the weather front to sweep its way south east, it will be replaced by. For the middle of the afternoon, winds gusting in excess of 60 miles an hour across this coast, and some showery outbreaks of rain in the north west, that weather front slipping south out of the Scottish Borders into north wales. It states cloudy and blustery, into the north and west. That said, a mild afternoon, with temperat
This is bbc news, the headlines huge crowds have joined funeral processions in iraq, for irans top military commander, killed by a us drone strike. Crowds chanted death to america as the coffin travelled through iraqi cities on its way back to iran. There are calls for the un to investigate the attack. The premier of New South Wales warns that australia is in what she called, unchartered territory after the worst night of bushfires since they started two months ago. Temperatures have nudged 50 degrees celcius in some parts with winds spreading the fire and making its path even more unpredictable. The death toll from the new year flooding in indonesia hasjumped to 60 with fears growing about the possibility of more torrential rain. Tens of thousands in jakarta are still unable to return to their waterlogged homes after some of the worst flooding in years hit the enormous capital region. Councils in england have urged the courts to impose biggerfines to tackle the growing problem of fly
The contest to become the next leader of their party. After much speculation, Jess Phillips has confirmed she will run. On a visit to grimsby, the mp for Birmingham Yardley said the party needed a leader who could take on borisjohson and who was willing to try something different. And the wigan mp lisa nandy has alsojoined the race, and said thejob should go to someone from what she called the neglected areas of labours heartlands, who could win back the trust of the partys traditional voters. Our Political Correspondent nick eardley has more. The wigan mp was another one of those people who had said over the Christmas Period that she was considering whether or not to stand, and tonight shes confirmed, in a letter to her local paper, the wigan post, that she is indeed throwing her hat in the ring to be the next labour leader. Her argument is that labour needs to focus on winning back its heartlands, areas that had voted labour for decades and stopped doing so back in december. Let me j