Day, but it was that forjodi after her sister collapsed with a cardiac arrest. She was walking down the aisle as her maid of honour. She will be here to tell their extraordinary story. Hello, welcome to the programme, were live until 11 this morning. Also later in the programme we will talk to the families of six former british servicemen who four years ago today were detained in india after the ship they were protecting from pirates drifted into indian waters and they were arrested. Several years later they are still locked up in an indianjail. We will talk to the sisters and fiancee of three of the men. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use victorialive and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. The government has set out details of its plans to cap the gas and electricity bills of 12 million households. Its published draft legislation to introduce an upper limit on on poor value standard variable tariffs,
Heres phil avery. A mini heatwave coming . You are getting excited, arent you . Your word. It was a glorious and a start, as yet again evidenced by one of our more artistic weather watchers and thursday are always was going to be one of the more better days of the week, with regard to the amount of dry weather and the amount of sunshine on offer. Thats not to say that its sunshine all the way. Its quite breezy across scotland and come the latter part of the afternoon there will be enough cloud around for there to be just a gaggle of showers running through on that rather noticeable breeze and you will lose the sunshine late on gcioss will lose the sunshine late on across the western side of northern ireland. Those are the exceptions to a drywall. A fresh appeal to today compared to yesterday. Will still make 18 somewhere. Then we will push the weather front cover which we seen the first sign of the cloud, there comes the rain again, and pretty strong winds. Theres a gale to be had acro
Second chance, i hope. The hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein responds to the claims of sexual miscounduct, as police in new york say theyre investigating. They are also investigating in london. And Gordon Strachan leaves hisjob as scotland manager, after the teams failure to qualify for next years world cup. Its 5pm. Our main story is the warning from Michel Barnier, the negotiator for the european union, of a disturbing state of deadlock in the brexit talks with the united kingdom. The main obstacle is whats called the divorce bill the uks financial commitments after brexit. He said the latest round of negotiations had made no major progress, and it wasnt possible to move on to talk about a future trade deal. But the brexit secretary, david davis, insisted significant progress had been made, though he added that the uk was preparing for all possible outcomes, including no deal. Our correspondent Richard Galpin reports. The brexit secretary, david davis, heads out for more talks in b
Athletes were subjected to unacceptable behaviour. Thank you very much. More from you later. Phil has the weather. A warm front coming. Yes, it hasnt been so bad so far today, simon. In many parts of the british isles, one of the best days we have had. Could this be the future . All the details live in half an hour. Also coming up. Forget your gordons, your hestons and yourjamies, if you want the best grub in the world you need to go to this pub in yorkshire. Hello everyone. This is afternoon live. Two sides, two negotiatiors and two very different assessments of where we are with brexit. As the latest round of talks came to a close david davies says progress is being made. His opposite number, Michel Barnier, disagrees using the words deadlock and disturbing. Richard galpin reports. The brexit secretary, david davis, heads out for more talks in brussels this morning. The first phase of the negotiations which deals only with the divorce settlement is still very much bogged down. And af
Recording that she never did that at all. That full exclusive story in around half an hour. And major disruption is expected in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic, as storm ophelia arrives from the atlantic bringing Hurricane Force winds of up to 80 miles an hour. Well keep you right across developments. Hello, welcome to the programme, were live until 11. Throughout the morning the latest breaking news and developing stories and, as always, really keen to hear from you. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the hashtag victoria live and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today britain and ireland are bracing themselves for the arrival of storm ophelia. Its the most powerful storm ever to have formed so far east in the atlantic. It has already hit the south west coast of ireland this morning and will make its way across the country, reaching Northern Ireland by 3pm this afternoon. The Irish Government has d