senior civil servant sue gray a topjob, after her inquiry into lockdown parties was critical of number 10. the arctic monkeys and guns n rosesjoin eltonjohn at the top of the bill at this year s glastonbury festival. and a final sign off, from ken bruce on bbc radio 2, after 31 years. and coming up on the bbc news channel, jason roy returns to form with a brilliant century as england close in on a one day series win against bangladesh. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. constance marten and mark gordon, the couple charged with gross negligence manslaughter and concealing the birth of a child, are appearing before magistrates. it follows the discovery of the body of a baby, found in woods near brighton on wednesday. police say it s too early to tell when the infant died. a postmortem examination is taking place. duncan is taking place. kennedy has the very latest. mark gordon arrived at the court and was helped out of the van by police and prison officers. he
as veteran broadcaster ken bruce signs off from his radio 2 show for the last time. borisjohnson may have misled parliament over law breaking parties at downing street during the coronavirus pandemic. that s according to mps investigating the former prime minister s conduct. the privileges committee says evidence strongly suggests breaches of coronavirus rules would have been obvious to mrjohnson, and identified four examples where he may have misled the house of commons. mrjohnson said there was no evidence he knowingly misled parliament. our political correspondent, iain watson is at westminster. joining me now is caroline slocock director of the independent think basically the privilege committee just be clear who they are as a committee of eight mps appointed by the whole house of commons and are answerable to the house of commons. the conservative majority on a committee so borisjohnson s party, some of his own mps in majority on a committee of its chaired by harri
44 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. The xl bully dog was destroyed at the scene. Police say in order to make sure the safety of the public. We will bring you many developments. Lets turn to the conservative Party Conference in manchester where in just over an hours time, the Prime Minister is expected to confirm that the part of europes biggest Infrastructure Project the h52 high speed rail line connecting london to the north of england will not be built as planned. Costs have risen and the train line, which is already being built from london to birmingham, will not continue onto manchester. Hs2 trains will still run to the city, but on slower existing tracks, defence secretary grant shapps said earlier. The route from birmingham to leeds has already been scrapped. Lets get more reaction about the future of the h52 rail link. Frances read is at euston which is the designated terminus in london. What has the response been
Unexpected, the wife of the Prime Minister, rishi sunak, in a very personal, almost touching speech about her husband, introducing him to the Party Conference and the wider electorate, and here is the Prime Minister, rishi sunak, in his first speech to Party Conference as leader and Prime Minister. Leader and Prime Minister. Thank ou. Applause thank you. Conference, thank you. Thank you. Conference, thank you. Thank you. Conference, thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Thank you. Thank you for the introduction, and thank you for always being there for me, my wife, truly the best long term decision for a brighterfuture i ever made. Applause i have been blessed in my life. I have a wonderful wife and two daughters who make me proud every single day. And i was also lucky enough to grow up in the most loving of homes. My dad was a gp and my mum a pharmacist. You did need a small reminder of last summer, i know. In so man