hello and a warm welcome to the programme i m sally bundock. thousands of military personnel have been taking part in the biggest rehearsal so far for king charles coronation this saturday. the rehearsal was held overnight in central london on the route between buckingham palace and westminster abbey. just hours before it got underway a man was arrested outside the palace on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon. here s our reporter vincent mcaviney. with the coronation just days away london s mammoth security operation was tested at the sovereign s own residence last night stopping the police say a man approached the front gates of buckingham palace at around seven o clock on tuesday evening, throwing what are thought to have been shot cartridges into the grounds. he was quickly detained and found to be carrying a knife for which he was arrested stop he was also carrying what they said was a suspicious bag, so the area was cordoned off and a controlled explosion w
a pygmy round eared bat returns to its termite nest home in the lowland forests of costa rica. time for a look at the weather, here s thomas schafernaker. it looks like the cold weather is here to stay for the rest of the week and into the weekend. there are hints that perhaps it will turn milder into next week but if so i think it will be a gradual process. so cold few days with light frost but no widespread snow. this is what the satellite picture looks like, the satellite picture looks like, the best of the sunshine to this central swathes of the country. most of the towns and cities around two or 3 c. so a showers across the scottish hills and north east of england, possibly along the north sea coast. but generally clear spells for most of us overnight and with temperatures even in some cities in the north as low as minus five degrees. we are talking about january, february weather. i slightly hesitated about that snow earlier on because we have this weather front which w
1 1 draw against newcastle. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. four teenage friends who were found dead in a crashed car in gwynedd in north wales earlier this month died from drowning, a coroner has said. wilf fitchett, jevon hirst, harvey owen and hugo morris had gone missing during a camping trip. our reporter chris deardenjoins us from the inquest in caernarfon. yes, this morning s hearing at the coroners court lasted just four minutes here in caernarfon, and another none of the families of the four young men were present. the senior coroner confirmed the names and ages of all four, 16 year old kevan hurst, wilf fitchett, jevon hirst, harvey owen and hugo morris, all four described simply as being from shropshire, we are told they were in north wales on a camping trip that weekend before last. the coroner said the post mortem exam nations had taken place and showed that all four had drowned when the car they were travelling in left the a4085, the car was l
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