touch with me. blackpool s jake daniels becomes the first current male professional footballer in more than 30 years to come out as gay. now ijust do feel like i m ready to be myself, be free and just be confident with it all. lying all the time is not what i wanted to do, and it has been a struggle. football manager wayne rooney is due to give evidence in his wife s libel trial, dubbed wagatha christie , as the multimillion pound case enters its final days at the high court. hello and welcome to bbc news. the foreign secretary liz truss is expected make a statement to parliament today, paving the way for making changes to the post brexit trading arrangements for northern ireland, known as the protocol. one of the main parties, the democratic unionists is refusing to enter power sharing at stormont unless the existing protocol is changed or scrapped. devolution in northern ireland mean nationalists and unionists have to agree to share power for a governemnt to be formerd. ir
Storm doris hits the British Coastal stock we will bring you the latest from around the uk. I am in blackpool West Llanberis is battling the coastline but no strong winds are to come. This morning when a buttons most successful actors Dame Helen Mirren will be live on the programme later on. We are going to talk about food and footage fruit and veg, specifically eating ten portions, 12345678 910. Could you eat all that, including a lemon, a day . The lemon you dont have to, but we wanted to make it look nice as well. If you do, then you will live longer. That is the latest advice, that if we want to cut rates of Heart Disease further, we need to up the amount of fruit and veg. Ive struggled, ten amazing. Get in touch and all of the news. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the hashtag victorialive, and, if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top stories today, prisons will be expected to have fallen from oz as well as punis
Eating up to 10 portions of fruit and vegetables a day may help us to live longer. Research from Imperial College london claims boosting our intake to 800 grams a day could prevent thousands of deaths from Heart Disease and cancer. An investigation by the bbc has found there are nearly ten thousand drivers across the uk still on the roads despite having 12 or more points currently on their driving licence. Good morning. Its thursday the 23rd of february. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. Parts of the uk are facing Travel Disruption as storm doris arrives with winds reaching 9amph. There are Severe Weather warnings for across Northern England, east anglia, north wales and the midlands, and there is snow predicted in higher areas in scotland. About 8,000 homes and businesses are without power in Northern Ireland due to trees falling onto overhead lines. Network rail are imposing speed limit of 50 mph on several train lines and the aa is reporting Traffic Disruption on major roads including t
Wake up, the house is on fire. The house is on fire. A new sound for smoke alarms Safety Experts say a voice, rather than a beep, is much more likely to wake children up. And the Speeding Driver who clocked up 62 points on his licence whos legally allowed to drive. And coming up in sport on bbc news, Wayne Rooneys agent Paul Stretford is in china, to see if he can negotiate a Big Money Move for the Manchester United and england captain. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at 1pm. Storm doris has hit the uk, with gusts of wind of up to 100 miles an hour. Planes have been grounded, roads closed, and rail travel disrupted. In Northern Ireland, thousands of homes are without power. And in scotland, heavy snow and high winds led to the closure of the m80 near stirling. The storm is predicted to continue for much of the day. And in the last few minutes weve had reports that a woman has been killed in Wolverhampton City Centre ina killed in Wolverhampton City Centre in a weather relate