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is already facing winter pressures with people being told to avoid a&e. the i leads on the tory leadership campaign truss blow: voters want hand outs, not tax cuts its headline. in the guardian, nhs cannot be put on a pedestal quoting after prime ministerial candidate liz truss, who the paper says called for cuts. the daily mail tomorrow has an attack on nhs, accusing the health service of spending £1 million on woke groups for their staff. on the front page of the mirror, fergie s case for the defence after former manchester united manager sir alex ferguson testified in the ryan giggs trial. the express says the migrant crisis to last at least five more years. and finally, the financial times weekend pages carry a warning about a market rally from the bankers of wall street. do you want to kick us off with the front page of the times? michael gove bows out with a potshot of liz truss. it gove bows out with a potshot of liz truss. , . , ., truss. it is a
the shooting of nine year old olivia pratt korbel merseyside police say the suspected gunman has not handed himself in despite repeated appeals. we will not rest until we find you, and we will find you. a police chief in uvalde, texas is sacked after failing to send officers in to stop the gunman who killed 19 pupils and two teachers. how bad is flying for the planet? google is accused of airbrushing the answer. england make a great start to the second test against south africa at old trafford, as they try to level the series. and coming up on the bbc news channel. we ll have the latest from the second test between england and south africa, where the hosts made a strong start. good afternoon. students in england, wales and northern ireland have been getting their gcse results after the first exams in three years. grades are lower than during the pandemic when they were based on teacher assessments, but higher than pre covid. the government say that s part of the plan in t
rain. this is what happened through the small hours, these thunderstorms developed to the south, pushed northwards. we ve seen around 5000 lightning strikes so far today and a lot of rain as you can see from the radar picture. in some places but not in all places. however, where it has been wet, take this figure, bury saint edmonds, above 70 millimetres of rain so far, that is more than that place would normally expect in the whole month of august, so it has been an exceptionally wet day so far but this rain is now starting to clear eastwards, taking a while to do so i have to say but generally improving through the midlands and eastern england this afternoon. sunny spells elsewhere although cloud bringing showers for northern ireland and western scotland and asked that rain clears through a fresh feel than we have had of late and certainly cooler and fresher overnight. with all the moisture on the ground, could see some fog patches developing across parts of the midlands and
well, standing here on the boundary right now, i m actually feeling for the first time today real rays of sunshine. the morning session really took place underneath grey skies, overcast conditions, classic english conditions. beautiful those are for the likes ofjimmy anderson. ping lin will be finishing off their lunch knowing they have south africa five down. good so far but they would aspire perhaps to have south africa all out by t. it s a reasonable aspiration. play resumes here for certain minutes. thank you, joe wilson reporting there. time for a look at the weather. here s ben rich. the weather at old trafford is not too bad. they got off not badly because look at what the rest of us have had, this to the east of london, the day started with some quite vicious thunderstorms in places and with that across parts of the south and east of a lead, huge amounts of