Triple and sales soar 20 at amazon. But with regulators circling, ill look at why its getting tougher to be a tech giant. Another day, another batting collapse from england, as ireland move within sight of what would be an historic first test victory at lords. How science is helping gardeners find the best way to water a hanging basket. Its friday the 26th ofjuly. Our top story more disruption is expected on parts of the rail network today, after yesterdays high temperatures caused extensive damage. Repair work has been taking place through the night, but services will be significantly reduced between london and the east midlands. Leigh milner has the details. It was the second halted day on record, the highest temperature recorded in cambridge. You might have been faster travelling on one of these than the trains. Chaos on rail lines. Passengers are rescued from broken down trains as power ca bles fell from broken down trains as power cables fell and sparked line side fires. Disruptio
Temperatures on record, but also the second highest temperature ever recorded in the uk, and those temperature records were tumbling in europe with new National Records set in belgium, netherlands, germany and luxembourg. At the moment we have a weather front bringing wet weather, stretching into kent, sussex, into the Greater London area and on to the Greater London area and on to the east midlands. This front isnt going to move very far, very fast. There could be a few areas that see a bit of rain from that, otherwise bright or sunny spells. Temperatures for most of us a more comfortable. Low to mid o 20s but there are some areas that see higher temperatures, we could see temperatures peaking between 28 and 30 given sunshine, an outside chance of a thunderstorm perhaps. Northern scotland stays dry and sunny. Temperatures in the high 20s so a few of us where the heat wave is just about holding on. Tonight outbreaks of rain, heavier as well before spreading on to scotland. Scotland. No
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good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the rmt union has confirmed that next week s rail strikes will go ahead. they say talks have failed to resolve a dispute about pay, jobs and working conditions. the strikes will affect railway lines across the country. our business correspondent vishala sri pathma reports. it s set to be a chaotic time if you re travelling by rail at all next week. three 24 hour strikes planned across the week on tuesday, thursday, and saturday, with strikes on the london underground to go ahead on tuesday, as well. for those who have plans to go on holiday by rail, or, indeed, go to work, the strikes are notjust disruptive they re costly. i think it s just down to greed, isn t it? i mean, government put in, is it £16 billion of our money, to keep the railways running during the pandemic? and now they re moaning because they re not getting a big enough pay increase. my sister is having cancer treatment, and in london, and that s affecting her treatme