is failing victims. this month marks a year since gemma robinson 5 death but the latest figures show that kent still has some of the worst backlogs of criminal court cases in the country. the government has opened 25 temporary nightingale courts to help clear the backlog including one in maidstone. i really, really do think if they had dealt with this a lot sooner, i think my sister would possibly still be here. i do think they have a lot to answer for, the court system. the number of police patrolling beaches in france is to double in an attempt to reduce the number of migrants crossing the english channel to reach the uk. nearly 8,500 people have made the journey in small boats so far this year. the uk will pay more than £54m as part of the deal agreed between ministers in london and paris. meanwhile, seven people have been arrested by police trying to disrupt an organised crime group involved in transporting hundreds of albanian
for us this morning. lots to talk about including more weather warnings. lots to talk about including more weatherwarnings. i lots to talk about including more weather warnings. i am on the roof of broadcasting house in london. the sun is beating down. the temperature did not full much overnight. yesterday we were talking about the met office warning for extreme heat. that is based on an impact basis. we do not have much from the high temperatures during the day. overnight they are not falling away too much. that impact on health, particularly vulnerable people and also the infrastructure. we do have two met office extreme heat warnings in. apparently. the one that was out yesterday runs until midnight on thursday. that have as much of wales, then west midlands,
you are still looking at something drier. interesting talking about the next three days, i am seeing the rac is telling people this weekend to tell people to travel up to eight o clock. that is because there will be lots of people on the roads but the temperature will remain hot buy into their late part of the day. if you are stuck in a car it could be 30 plus degrees. we were looking at the temperatures yesterday at 11 o clock at night. in birmingham and london, they were still 20 to 2024 degrees. they will be pretty good daytime temperatures, roughly what they expect. we do not expect it late at night. that is why it is so oppressive, so uncomfortable to sleep, if you can sleep in it. see you in half an hour.
four new sports. with lockdown restrictions in england lifted, hospital leaders are expressing concerns at the rising number of covid cases being admitted. doctors say patients are younger than in the last wave, with some being in their 20s, and the majority are unvaccinated. our health editor, hugh pym, has visited one of london s busiest hospitals to find out how they re coping. there has been no summer let up, and now another covid surge is developing. king s college hospital in london, like many others, extruding more covid patients, and they are younger. one of them is henry, who is 28. he became ill a few days before he was due to have a first vaccine dose. i few days before he was due to have a first vaccine dose. first vaccine dose. i felt like i was dying- first vaccine dose. i felt like i was dying. your first vaccine dose. i felt like i was dying. your head - first vaccine dose. i felt like i was dying. your head is - first vaccine dose. i felt like i was dying. your he
simonjones is simon jones is in simonjones is in doverfor us this morning. another 287 migrants reach the uk by boat yesterday, there is talk of more activity in the channel this morning. the big hope is a new agreement between britain and france stepping up the number of officers patrolling beaches on the north of the french coast, and also increasing aerial surveillance. but the government accepts this issue is not going to be quick and easy to fix, so given the conditions today, more arrivals seem inevitable. meanwhile, seven people have been arrested by police trying to disrupt an organised crime group involved in transporting hundreds of albanian migrants to the uk. officers from the national crime agency carried out raids in a number of areas including south london and surrey, and detained the alleged ringleader of the people smuggling network which investigators believe used lorries and vans to transport individuals from northern france last year. a reading charity in london whi