18 weeks. for six months now and it s can be 18 weeks. a jury has been told that lucy letby, the nurse accused of murdering babies, wrote i killed them on purpose because i m not good enough on a post it note. the metropolitan police is investigating more than 600 domestic and sexual abuse claims against its own staff. britain s most prestigious architectural award good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. liz truss is coming under more pressure from some of her own mps to rethink her tax cutting plans following last month s mini budget. it comes after the goverment last week abandoned its plan to abolish the a5p tax rate for top earners. but senior conservatives have continued to voice grave concerns at liz truss s tax cutting measures without explaining how she will balance the books. this afternoon, the chancellor kwasi kwarteng said he s totally focused on delivering the growth plan, in response to speculation about a u turn on the measures. let s listen to what he had
pm, now scrapped because of a hydrogen leak. then there was this, pretty remarkable, slow developing drama unfolding all morning over the skies of tupelo, mississippi an ending in a cornfield. it began with the pilot threatening to crash that plane into a walmart. that is where we begin with this mississippi breaking news. the latest development we have just learned is that that plane is now down. apparently landing safely with the pilot now in police custody, after circling the skies for hours. i believe four hours total. and threatening to crash there in mississippi. it all started early this morning. people got rid of the plane, his pilot saying a planned to crash into a walmart in tupelo. that prompted evacuations from walmart. police that the pilot were apparently in by phone early on. then the plane flew this really haphazard manner for hours before coming down in that cornfield, again just minutes before we came on the air. here is part of the coverage from our affilia
a book is this popular, it s always very difficult doing an adaptation. yes. there were moments in this in which i could almost hear the book behind it, thinking, ok, i can sort of see what the text would have been. the performances are good. i mean, it s a very good cast, it s very well done. the production design is really beautiful. but it all feels very safe. it deals with some dark subject matter, but it feels like a very polite treatment of that subject matter. and i kept thinking, somewhere in here, there is an earthier, grittier version of this story, but it s kind of got a touch of the nick sparks about it. itjust felt oddly bland. that s not to say it s bad, and it may well be that if you have read the book, you get more out of it. but i did think, ok, it s kind of. like i said, despite that swampy setting, it had a very lukewarm feeling and i didn t get emotionally involved in the way that i had expected to, so. because reese witherspoon options some interest