Why fewer shoppers and more closures made july an especially tough time for retailers. Ill have the details. A Fabulous Four and a perfect start to the new premier League Season for Manchester United, who thump chelsea at old trafford and inflict a first defeat for Frank Lampard. Good morning. Today we are looking ata good morning. Today we are looking at a mixture of sunshine and showers. Showers in the north and west, have very heavier and thundery showers in the south east, in between some sunshine, and this weeks weather remains unsettled. Ill have more in 15 minutes. Its monday, august 12. Our top story drug crime has risen in rural areas but fallen sharply in major city centres. A bbc investigation has found that in some villages in england and wales it has more than quadrupled in five years. The findings highlight concern about the spread of so called county lines gangs which traffic drugs using children and vulnerable people. Dan johnson reports. The latest frontier in the figh
Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at nine. A bbc investigation has found that drug crime in some villages in england and wales has more than quadrupled in five years. Thats as drug crime as a whole has risen in rural areas and smaller towns, but fallen sharply in major city centres. The findings highlight concern about the spread of so called lines gangs which traffic drugs using children and vulnerable people. Dan johnson reports. The latest frontier in the fight against drugs. Heroin and crack cocaine are pouring into north wales from merseyside and manchester. Theres a lot of money to be made in this town. Children and young people are running drugs hundreds of miles. They are vulnerable and at risk. If someone becomes established here, then llandudno is their town, if you like, so if another rival gang or someone from manchester or Something Like that tries coming into town and muscling in on the business, well, youre going to start getting sort of fighting between the two g
The g7 summit, the amazon inflames, and china all discussed in dateline london in half an hours time, here on bbc news. Hello, good morning. World leaders from the g7 nations have begun arriving in biarritz ahead of this weekends summit. Boris johnson will tell the gathering that britain wont retreat from the International Community as it leaves the european union. Lets take a look at some of the details of what is on the agenda at the summit this weekend. Leaders of most of the Worlds Largest economies make up the g7 the uk, canada, france, germany, italy, japan and the us all take part in the summit. Now china and now core economies are from the south of the globe. No china and no countries are from the south of the globe. Issues on the agenda in the coming days include the global economy, tackling inequality, and responding to the challenges of the digital age and the rise of artificial intelligence. Yesterday, mr macron who is hosting the summit and german chancellor Angela Merkel
Scotla nd will stay dry. A bit cooler for scotland and northern ireland. We are in between areas of low pressure. Keeping an eye what is happening in the atlantic. Seems that to increase. Set to increase. For many it should be mainly dry on thursday, warm spells of sunshine, cloud and rain already starting to gather in the south west. That is all tied in with this area of low pressure. Unusually deep for this time of year, it will slide across through friday, bringing some heavy rain. As that clears, north and east words will turn dry, still with some sharp showers and the winds will be strengthening all the while. So it is wet at first and then windy later in the day. In between weve got some sunshine, up to 23 celsius, more like the mid to high teens where weve got the heavier rain. Well be concerned for the strength of the wind. Over time we get to saturday, it could be touching gale force across much of england and wales and you can see this area of low pressure. The isobars are re
Line from edinburgh to glasgow. More patients than ever before attended a e units in england last month a record high of 2. 27 million. And for the first time in more than 500 years the two separated halves of Tintagel Castle will be reunited by a footbridge. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Police say an officer who was attacked with a machete in east london is seriously injured, but will recover. The policeman was stabbed several times after he tried to stop a van in leyton at around midnight. A man in his fifties has been arrested. In a tweet, the home secretary priti patel said shes horrified by the shocking stabbing of one of our Brave Police Officers and wished the officer a full recovery. Our correspondent andy moore is in east london. What is in east london. Do we knew so far . Mail, please say what do we knew so far . Mail, please say that it had been a routine patrol stopped. Two officers in a patrol stopped. Two officers in a patrol car so a large, white van and t