in the rugby league world cup quarter finals. they see off france in bolton and have now played two, won two. we hear how 10 year old quinn became one of the youngest people to conquer scotland s 282 highest mountains. good 282 highest mountains. morning. if you are travell the good morning. if you are travelling the sunday morning, bear in mind there are heavy, thundery downpours out there moving northwards through the day. some sunshine as well. all the day. some sunshine as well. all the details coming up. it s sunday 23rd october. our main story: as the deadline to enter the contest to replace liz truss draws closer, two of the likely contenders borisjohnson and rishi sunak have held private talks. neither have publicly declared they are entering the race, but the bbc s tally indicates that mr sunak has already received the backing of at least 128 mp5. that s significantly more than the 100 needed to enter the ballot, which closes tomorrow afternoon. our political cor
The department are very adaptable. The department for education says that schools had to say if you choose do and is currently developing a sign language gcse with the hope of introducing it as soon as possible. Further north we had a lovely afternoon walk, but not the case in scotla nd afternoon walk, but not the case in scotland and northern ireland. As you can see, the front moves on through and takes with it what will have been a relatively mild day. We do amid pressure from anyone is doing course of sunday but it is not a new ice age by any means. The combination of wet and windy weather may keep you awake during the course notes as to weather front slumps towards is angry at the south east. Following on behind it will not be
called, we will start needing frost free in many parts of the british isles. The last of the ray will take an hourorso to isles. The last of the ray will take an hour or so to get away from. But then it is a day of sunny spells, blustery, the one future but n
Sunshine around with blustery showers. It will be increasingly infrequent from the north and west, where there is hale. It will be ecology for or across a note on the west. Temperature is in single digits. Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines. The number of people who have tested positive for cutrone in the uk has risen to 206. Milton keynes hospital is isolating people who came into contact with a man in his 80s, who died from the virus on thursday. 140 britons remain quarantined onboard a cruise ship off the coast of california in which 21 people tested positive for the virus. And in other news £306 million will be paid out by Insurance Companies to clean up the damage from storms denis and ciera. Now on bbc news, its time for sportsday. Hello, and welcome to sportsday. On the programme tonight. Well take you to twickenham, where england need to beat wales to keep their six nations dream alive. Nine points to go. It was far from straightforward against bournmouth, but liverpool ar
At the national theatre, he was an acclaimed king lear. Thou art a soul in bliss, but i am bound upon a wheel of fire that mine own tears do scald. Yet, for 17 years, he refused to appear live because of stage fright. I am old, gandalf. As Bilbo Baggins in the lord of the rings, he captured the characters good sense and selflessness. I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread. I need a holiday. A very long holiday. And i dont expect i shall return. Rarely the star, but scores of productions were lit up by sir ian holms wit, warmth and intensity. Sir ian holm, who died this morning aged 88. Time for a look at the weather. Hello. It has been a week of lively weather, to say the least. We are not quite done with the rain yet. A cloudy view for some of us so far today. Even where you have had sunshine, in parts of scotland for example, you may well end the day with thunderstorms. We had a broad stretch of cloud lifting northwards and some of these downpours tur
My Icon: Martin Offiah: The former rugby league superstar discusses the individuals that have inspired him. My Icon: Martin Offiah airs on Sky Sports Action HD at 3:00 AM, Monday 10 June. The former rugby league superstar discusses the individuals that have inspired him