afternoon. temperatures tomorrow getting up to high of 20. next month, thousands of students across the uk will be heading to university and, for many, one of the biggest priorities is having somewhere suitable to live. a housing charity is warning that accommodation shortages in some cities are bad, and are only going to get worse as our education editor branwen jeffreys has been finding out. manchester, one of the biggest university cities, attracting students from home and abroad, creating huge demand for housing. they really haven t given us any information about it. so i ve been following one new student heading to uni. her mum graine has been trying to help aisling. over the summer, manchester uni s housing site has been down. how much does it mean to you to have the kind of accommodation you want to start university? i mean, that s going
to be like my home base. it s obviously really important. and i know there are often like facebook groups for, you know, the accommodation. so it d be nice to have a bit of time to talk to people i m going to be living with. aisling is worried because last year there weren t enough rooms. in several cities, including manchester, some first years had to commute. the university of manchester said its accommodation site was back up after a cyberattack and it s making every effort to help first years find somewhere. in those cities where you ve got a serious problem, the idea that all students are going to live next to the university in a reasonable rent is a thing of the past. unipol keeps a record of the rooms built and planned. the numbers are falling. things are not going to get any better in the areas of shortage. it s slightly worse than it looks, as well. to all intents and purposes, supply
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this is a picture from when they were younger. 16 year old kyrees sullivan and 15 year old harvey evans died shortly before these riots broke out. the bbc s verified this footage that appears to show a police van following two teenagers shortly before the crash. police have started digging near a reservoir in portugal as the madeleine mccann investigation continues. the operations being led by german police looking for evidence to link her disappearance to suspect christian bruckner. some other stories for you now. we probably all know someone who vapes, but do you know what could actually be in some of them? the bbc has found some vapes confiscated from school kids have high levels of lead, nickel and chromium. kids using them could be inhaling more than twice the daily safe amount of lead and nine times the safe amount of nickel. manchester uni is taking disciplinary action, which means students could face suspension against 11 students who occupied halls there this