The headlines atjust gone 12 30pm theresa may comes under pressure to lift the 1 cap, on pay increases for Public Sector workers the Environment Secretary michael gove says the government should listen to pay Review Bodies recommendations. Council tenants whose services have been disrupted by the Grenfell Tower fire have had their rent suspended. Three blocks have been without hot water since a boiler, located beneath the tower, was destroyed in the blaze. Iraqi forces say theyve taken control of the main base of the so called Islamic State in mosul. Militants were driven from a hospital compound, where several senior is leaders were thought to have been hiding. Now on bbc news, its time for click. This week, food, glorious food. Fake kippers and burgers. We are in the mood for pink herbs and green motors. This is salad, grown the Old Fashioned way. You know, in shipping containers, under led lights, without soil, in an optimised water and nutrient mix. As farmer spock called it, good
But they dont automatically get the minimum wage. But could that be about to change . Ill look at what it means for workers. Good morning from wimbledon. It all went well yesterday, didnt it . Injury fears prove unfounded as andy murray breezes into the second round at wimbledon with a straight sets victory on opening day. Carol has the weather. Not much of a brief today. It will be dry and sunny but we have persistent rain gcioss sunny but we have persistent rain across the central area of the uk breeze. If you come to wimbledon, only 10 chance of a shower. And we only 1096 chance of a shower. And we might play tennis something to look forward to. Good morning. First, our main story. A plan to revolutionise the treatment that Cancer Patients receive, through individually mapping their dna, is being proposed by the Chief Medical Officerfor england. The proposals would mean millions of patients would have treatments that were directly targetted at the particular strain of cancer they ha
are hearing that the public sector review bodies are going to recommend increases of between six and 6.5% for each of those different groups of workers. we also know that government departments have done the maths and they think they can afford to pay a pay rise of around 3.5%. that obviously leaves a pretty big gap to fill of around 2.5 to 3.5%, so where is that money going to come from? the chancellor said that in a speech last night that public sector borrowing could not be used to make these pay rises for public sector workers. that would of course mean that the money would have to be found from within existing department budgets. that could create a bit of a problem, because we have already heard from unions. they say no, this needs to be new money. it cannot be coming from existing budgets like the schools, hospitals, gps, because they are all ready to stretch to find extra savings that would be needed to
0k, members accept this 6.5% pay offer. ok, charlotte, thank you very much. as always, you can go to the bbc s website if you want all the very latest on what exactly this means. it affects millions of workers in england and some in wales as well. there is a good expiration, actually, about what exactly pay review bodies are. basically, there are bodies that are made up of economists and experts on human resources who advise the government on what they think pay offers should be at the government doesn t have to take their advice, but usually it does accept the recommendations, which are not legally binding. very, very clear explanation, as always, on the bbc s website. let s move on from that now and take you to many parts of southern europe. we start with the fierce heatwave gripping parts of southern europe. temperatures are forecast to rise above a0 degrees celsius in parts of france, spain, greece, croatia and turkey. in italy, temperatures could reach nearly 49 degrees. red alert
chancellor will have been balancing when they held that meeting this morning, and also, in the evidence they have given to the public pay review bodies, because of course, these independent review bodies, they are taking evidence from different people. they will hear both from the government, about spending pressure, but they will also be hearing from those public sector employers who will be telling them, we have a problem in terms of being able to both recruit and retain staff. the pay review bodies themselves are also having to do some of that balancing to reach this recommended figure. some of that balancing to reach this recommended figure. charlotte rose, we will leave recommended figure. charlotte rose, we will leave it recommended figure. charlotte rose, we will leave it there recommended figure. charlotte rose, we will leave it there for recommended figure. charlotte rose, we will leave it there for now. - we will leave it there for now. thank you very much. i know yo