good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news channel. police have issued cctv images of a man they want to question over the death of a nine year old girl, who was fatally stabbed in boston in lincolnshire, on thursday. two people previously arrested in connection with lilia valutyte s death have also been released. our reporter, phillip norton, reports from boston. this is the man police want to talk to in connection with the murder of nine year old lilia valutyte. the images were released this morning by lincolnshire police. the force also confirmed that two people previously arrested in connection with the child s murder have been released without further action. i am urgently appealing for the public s help to identify the man in these photographs, who we want to speak to, following the death of nine year old lilia. as part of our fast moving murder investigation, we now have cctv images of a man who we need to locate. if you see him, do not approach him, but immediately ca
good evening. there s yet more disruption on britain s railways this weekend as train drivers who are members of the aslef union walk out, in a row over pay. drivers from seven rail companies are involved in the strike. it s the second this week affecting passengers, with more strikes scheduled for dates in august. our correspondent, judith moritz, reports on the scale of the disruption. folkestone station this morning was a gateway to nowhere. no southeastern trains running and passengers who didn t know about today s strike caught by surprise. so we were planning to go to brighton and now we ll have to find an alternative. probably we ll have to take the bus or something. not right, because i don t go to london very often and i ve got a lunch date with my daughter and a friend. but not all stations are closed. though around 5,000 train drivers at seven companies have walked out over pay on a busy sporting weekend, not all lines are affected. at leeds station, northern rail
more extremes of both hot and wet weather and that is exactly what we saw in july, weather and that is exactly what we saw injuly, which globally was the world s hottest month on record but in the uk it was a decidedly cool and wet months and impact northern ireland s wettestjuly on record and look at these figures. preston in lancashire saw 304%, more than three times the rain for it would expect in a typicaljuly but why did that happen? the weather got locked in a pattern, stuck in a rut, if you like, with the jet stream, the winds high in the atmosphere to the south bringing weather systems our way a bit like a conveyor belt, one after another after another. if you are waiting for a break in the weather, something more dry, let s look ahead to next week and this will not be a heatwave, we are not looking at long, dry, sunny hot days but with a bit more high pressure on the chart, a bit less low pressure, it might be
and that s bad news for farmers. robin milton has been growing oats in this field to feed his animals. about a fortnight ago, this was beautifully stood upright, a nice level, even crop. now the oats are on the ground, having buckled in the wind and rain. it s a scene being repeated across the country food starting to spoil and rot in soggy, windswept fields. what would you say to people who say, farmers are always complaining? one month, they complain it s too dry, the next month, they complain it s too wet. i would say they re right. the reality is that what we re seeing, or it feels like we re seeing, is a climate now that is showing extremes, ratherthan a more seasonal pattern that we became used to, and that s concerning. after all the rain injuly, august
across the country food starting to spoil and rot in soggy, windswept fields. what would you say to people who say, farmers are always complaining? one month, they complain it s too dry, the next month, they complain it s too wet. i would say they re right. the reality is that what we re seeing, or it feels like we re seeing, is a climate now that is showing extremes, ratherthan a more seasonal pattern that we became used to, and that s concerning. after all the rain injuly, august has started in a very similar way, and that s left farmers looking rather nervously up at the skies, hoping for a break of several days in the weather, when the ground and the crops can dry and a harvest take place. the forecast doesn t look great at the moment, and i see it come out today,