because of soaring costs. homes reduced to ashes. california s largest wildfire this year the families who have lost everything. and after more than 9 million watched england thrash sweden in the euros, the team get ready for sunday s final at wembley. can they win their first major trophy? and coming up on the bbc news channel: dina asher smith pulls out of the commonwealth games, after failing to fully recover from a hamstring strain suffered at the world athletics championships. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. there s been yet more disruption on britain s railways today, as tens of thousands of railworkers walked out on the first of two more days of strike action this week. signallers and ticket office staff have walked out today. on saturday, it ll be train drivers at seven different companies who ll be going on strike. only around 20% of rail services have been running today those highlighted in red but services have been severely disrupted. the ar
we do get a lot of day trippers, which rely on trains and transport to get in, which does affect the business. just lack of customers, lack of income. our illuminations are being extended to january the 3rd. a few streets away is b&b owner claire. she worries about the ripple effect of repeated rail disruption. people thinking, oh, shall we go to blackpool? oh, no, the trains might be off, so they don t come. so it s affecting the accommodation, it s affecting the day trippers. you know, they can t come to blackpool, so it has a huge, huge detrimental impact on the industry. so why is this happening? the railway is under pressure to cut costs after the taxpayers propped up services during the pandemic, which changed travel patterns. bosses insist modernisations are needed to afford higher pay, but the rmt says jobs and conditions are under threat. network rail leaders say they were shocked the union set new strike dates after it made a new, improved offer earlier this month. i think