And well be talking to a senior irish politician about the key issue of the border. The other main stories on bbc news at 5. The hillsborough match commander, David Duckenfield, is to face a re trial in connection with the deaths of 95 liverpool fans. A court hears that a passenger lee pomeroy died after being stabbed 18 times, in front of his son, on a train from guildford to london. Southern water is ordered to pay a record £126 million in fines and customer rebates, over what regulators call shocking failings. And england are struggling in their cricket world cup match against australia. After being set a target of 286 theyve already lost four early wickets. Five wickets. Good afternoon. Borisjohnson has given his firmest commitment yet that britain would leave the European Union on the 31st of october if he became Prime Minister. He told talk radio that brexit would happen on the halloween deadline do or die, come what may. And in a letter to his rival jeremy hunt this afternoon,
Snails are being released back into the wild after a successful Breeding Programme at chester zoo. Hello, a very good morning to you. Welcome to bbc newsroom life. The first round of voting in the conservative leadership contest is under way, tory mps have their first chance, this morning, to vote for the person they want to see lead the party in the country. At least one of these ten candidates vying to be oui of these ten candidates vying to be our next Prime Minister is going to be knocked out of the race today. The mps are holding a private ballot, with contenders needing a minimum of 17 votes to carry on. Voting started in the house of commons this morning at around 10am, with a result expected to be announced by the 1922 committee at around 1pm this afternoon. Further ballots will be held next week with the two most popular mps moving to a run of five tory Party Members. The winner is expected to be announced in the week of the 22nd ofjuly. Lets talk now to our political assistan
of living continues to soar. and it s the final day of the commonwealth games with gold for scotland in the diving. we ll be live in birmingham. good afternoon, and welcome to bbc news. bbc research has found that only one in ten nhs dentists in the uk are taking on new adult patients. the most extensive survey in years has revealed that some areas are dental deserts . out of nearly 6,900 nhs dental practices contacted 90% said they were no longer accepting any new adult patients. only a quarter of those dental practices said they operated a waiting list to become an nhs patient and for most of those, the wait was at least a year or more. and in 12% of local authority areas in the uk, we couldn t find a single practice that would accept a child. 0ur correspondentjenny kumah has the story. my partner was in so much pain, she asked me to take her tooth out with a pair of pliers. this is the second tooth i pulled out myself because i was in so much pain. i am living on porr
the commons work and pensions committee say vulnerable people will be pushed into destitution. and i in victoria square in the centre of birmingham where the city and the region are preparing to host the 2022 commonwealth games. rail passengers are facing huge disruption after thousands of workers walked out in a continuing dispute about pay and working conditions. only about a fifth of britain s train services are running many areas having no services at all today. the red lines here show the routes where some trains are operating but network rail has warned people to travel only if absolutely necessary. many journeys will many journeys manyjourneys will be manyjourneys will be ending manyjourneys will be ending earlier manyjourneys will be ending earlier than they normally work this evening. our correspondent emma simpson has this report. going nowhere. once again, half of the uk s rail network brought to a halt. at manchester piccadilly some trains were leaving with tr