it s thursday, the 6th of october. our main story. hundreds of thousands of nurses across the uk are being asked if they re willing to walk out over pay. the royal college of nursing is balloting its members for strike action for the first time in the union s 106 year history. the rcn wants a payrise of 5% above inflation, but no uk nation has offered close to that. our correspondent, caroline davies, has more. through the darkest days of the pandemic, the uk s nurses were some of the nation s heroes. now, they re being balloted to strike over pay. my love for it was to make a difference in people s lives. and that s why i am here. but then, sometimes when i look at it, it s like, is it really worth it? victoria is a mental health nurse in an nhs trust. after she came back from maternity leave, she went part time and receives universal credit because she says her pay wouldn t cover the cost of childcare if she worked full time. even now, she struggles. sometimes you end up ha
and how much there was. oh, yes. i remember he wrote them every night and i knew about them. i didn t read them because they were private but i knew he wrote them. day by day, who you met, what are you up to. were there bits of it that surprised you? i think what i was pleased about more than anything was his humour, because he was very, very funny, alan, and the humour is very much in the book. and it soundsjust like him. rima, reading between the lines, in a way, the reason he was able to do so much and be so good, i think a lot of people this, and maybe you have said this too, is because of you. you know, there was a constant thing which meant he could go out and befriend people, do his thing. is that something.? he says quite a few times in the diaries, something i didn t know he s written. and then rima turned up, and i calmed down. so i did that role in his life of, i suppose, keeping him stabilised. alan was a classic pisces, swimming in two directions at once, and because i w