new hormonal and chemotherapies. advances in radiotherapy. plus improvements in detection and public awareness. myrate mackenzie who s 69 and from surrey was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002 after finding a swelling under her arm. she s grateful for all her treatment, but remembers feeling very scared at the beginning. i had no idea what my future was going to be, you know, how long i was going to live, oranything, and i had the chemotherapy, then surgery, radiotherapy, drug therapy, so, the whole book thrown at me, but it s clearly worked. but there are concerns about the current state of cancer care with severe staff shortages. the charity breast cancer now says many patients are waiting far too long for a diagnosis and for treatment and without urgent action we risk seeing decades of progress unravelling. live now to cambridge. also taking part in the study, welcome. thank you for being with us how important is this research? is mainly about being able to offer reassur
but his owners say the secret to his 20 long years is the calm, peaceful environment he lives in. time for a look at the weather. here s tomasz schafernaker. the weekend is not looking bad at all for most of us, we have some sunshine in the forecast. the main feature is it is going to be turning a little bit colder and also overnight frosts will return, and on top of that we will have some mist and fog but it won t happen until early into next week. at the moment it is relatively mild out there, you can see this wedge of mild air, warm air over us, can see this wedge of mild air, warm airover us, but can see this wedge of mild air, warm air over us, but the wind will change direction from sunday onwards and we will have a colder area of whether over us. but at the moment mild and often cloudy, some of the cloud is quite thick, producing a little bit of drizzle and light rain here and there, particularly in northern scotland and western coasts of the uk. glimmers of brightne
we have a special report from ukraine on the effects of the conflict, on soldiers and civilians. and rory mcilroyjust misses out, as cameron smith s stunning final round wins the open, at st andrews. good evening. health officials are urging people to take extra precautions, as parts of the uk brace for record high temperatures over the next two days. there are also warnings of significant disruption on the roads and railways, because of the excessive heat. today, an amber warning came into effect for large parts of england and wales with temperatures peaking at 33 celsius in harden, in flintshire. but while the amber alert tomorrow extends to scotland, in parts of england, it changes to red, meaning a risk of serious illness or death, even among the fit and healthy. temperatures could climb as high as 41 celsius. 0ur correspondent, jon donnison, has the very latest. with an amber heat warning now in place for much of the country, limbering up for a half marathon perhaps not
And the health secretary, jeremy hunt, are chairing a meeting of the Emergency Response committee, cobra, this morning, to discuss the handling of the cyber attack, which hit parts of the Nhs In England and scotland on friday. Dozens of hospitals in england and scotland have been forced to cancel some operations and appointments today, and some gp surgeries are still experiencing problems as staff begin a new working week. Lincolnshire hospital said all tests, and routine surgeries have been cancelled. Meanwhile microsoft said governments around the world should treat the attacks as a wake up call blaming them for storing data on Software Vulnerabilities which could then be accessed by hackers. Its thought over 200,000 computers have been affected worldwide with russia hardest hit. In the past half hour the National Crime agency has tweeted this saying if youre a victim of ransomware do not pay theres no guarantee that access to your files will be restored. Here, security minister ben