another encore for serena williams. she showed she s got no intention of ending her singles career without a fight as she advanced to the third round of the us open, this time beating one of the top seeds. and we look at glasgow s chances of becoming the host city for the eurovision 2023. good morning. it s not of country this morning started off on a cool note with some dense fog patches but for many of us today, it is going to be largely dry. there will be some sunshine but there will also be some showers and some of those could be heavy and potentially thundery. i will have all the details throughout this morning s programme. it s thursday 1st september. the prime minister is expected to announce up to £700 million of investment for a new nuclear reactor in suffolk today. it s part of the government s long term strategy to bring down energy costs but it could take 15 years to build and a final go ahead will have to wait for mrjohnson s successor. jon donnison reports. is
that may mean to them, this is a risk worth taking. of course, none of this is new but it is a particular problem for hull where residential areas have lots of little lanes in and around the houses. and despite the efforts of councillors and campaigners, they re the perfect place to hide your waste. tracy, you ve been working hard to keep streets around your neck of the woods clean. why is it still such a problem for hull? because of the ten foots, we are absolutely covered in ten foots. and the problem is peoplejust fly tip in ten foots because they are closed spaces and nobody can see it. 0ver there i can see you ve got long standing rubbish, haven t you? that s been there a while, hasn t it? that one s been there for three or four years if not longer. it s actually got human poo on it. perhaps then it s no wonder that the council is keen to name and shame. it s left them with a £500,000 clear up bill. but some say the authorities could still do more to help themselves.
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heat their homes. could it be the beginning of a poop revolution? the bbc s john kaye. reporter: out of one pipe and soon it will be coming back through another. let me explain. this is didcot sewage plant. and coming in here is the waste from thousands of local toilets. now, i know what you want to know. and the answer is yes, it does. sites like this normally clean the sewage and turn it into water. but here they re turning it into household gas. and it starts in what they call the digesting chambers. so that is full of human poo? full of the poo from 60,000 people who live in this region. we warm it up. it ferments just like food does inside your stomach, it creates a gas, a biogas, which we then store inside this gas holder here. it s a mixture of methane and carbon dioxide. it s a dirty gas. so we need to clean it up, which is why we put it into those towers over there, where you