mile away from a fracking side were exploratory drilling is about to begin. site. nearly £30 billion in mis sold ppi compensation has been paid out by british banks, and there s still much more to come. i ll be taking a look at when it will ever end. in sport, england s women ease into the quarter finals of the european championship, with victory over portugal but for scotland it s a case of so near, yet so far. and there s confusion at the races as a 50 1 winner turns out to be completely the wrong horse. an investigation has begun. and carol has the weather. good morning. iam i am below the streets of london. these tunnels were built over 100 yea rs these tunnels were built over 100 years ago. they used to be used to transport mail and parcels below the streets of london. they are about to be reopened to the public after being long abandoned. we will find out how and why later on. new line and sarah has the weather. 0ur unsettled theme continues. lots of cloud and hea
workers in greece and say they are dealing with hundreds of extremely vulnerable refugees held on the island of lesbos. bags of rubbish pile up in birmingham as rubbish collectors step up their industrial action. collection has already been disrupted for weeks. and it s only just bought it. a driver looses control of his new £200,000 ferrari. that was one hour after he picked it up that was one hour after he picked it up from the garage. good morning. it s friday 28th july. welcome to bbc newsroom live. the bbc understands that at least 60 high rise buildings, which used insulation and cladding similar to grenfell tower, have failed a new fire safety test. the test is seen as more thorough than previous ones, as more materials were analysed together for the first time. so farjust nine of the buildings which failed have been identified. they re in salford in greater manchester, where the local council is asking for help from central government to meet the cost of replacements
today. but as is typical with our weather at the moment it will be raining before the end of the day. two zones in our weather looking at the satellite picture, northern england, scotland, northern ireland, sunshine and showers. but the rest of england and wales turning cloudier as the system moves in from the south west with rain and stronger winds. that rain patchy in nature through southern england but more persistent for us and edging northwards in wales. cloud increasing in eastern england where we have seen sunshine today. patchy rain working to parts of the midlands and north west england. elsewhere in northern england we are back into sunny spells and a few showers and a few for northern ireland. more especially into scotla nd ireland. more especially into scotland and could be thundery. sunny spells in between. it s cool and breezy across the uk and a windy end to the day to the south west as this rain becomes more extensive across england and wales for a time going
alexei navalny, has been sentenced to 15 days in prison, for organising the biggest anti government protests the country has seen in several years.tens of thousands of people attended the rallies in several cities, demonstrating against alleged corruption by the prime minister, dmitry medvedev. 0ur moscow correspondent steve rosenberg reports. i m standing outside of a moscow court house in a spring blizzard. the short while ago, the russian opposition activist navalny was found guilty of organising sunday s mass protests, anti government protests across russia. he was fined the government of around $350, and then he was found guilty of disobeying police and for that, he was sentenced to 15 days in jail, and this police van behind me has arrived to whisk him off to jail. some of his supporters came and held up some of his supporters came and held up good luck signs hoping that he could see them through the windows of the ban. but then the police officer came up to them, and t