Good evening. A man who broke into Windsor Castle with a loaded crossbow to kill Queen Elizabeth on Christmas Day in 2021 has been jailed for 9 years after pleading guilty to treason. Jaswant chail, whos now 21, will initially be kept in custody at broadmoor hospital. He is the first person in the uk to be convicted of treason since 1981. Daniel sandford reports from the old bailey. Just a few metres from the queens private apartments, and with his crossbow discarded on the ground, the moment when Jaswant Crossbow discarded on the ground, the moment whenJaswant Chail crossbow discarded on the ground, the moment when Jaswant Chail was arrested. Seen here moments later, he had used a rope ladder to get into Windsor Castle on Christmas Day 2021. When challenged by the armed officers, he said, i am 2021. When challenged by the armed officers, he said, iam here 2021. When challenged by the armed officers, he said, i am here to kill the queen. Wearing this metal mask inspired by his obsessio
Coming up in bbc news, 4 0 after a morning session with the afternoon for is under way. Good afternoon. A school coach full of children has overturned on the m53 motorway in merseyside. Its understood the coach hit the central reservation during rush hour this morning. Fifty patients are being assessed at the scene and a Major Incident has been declared. The coach was carrying pupils to two separate Grammar Schools. 0ur correspondent yunus mulla is close to the scene now on the wirral. Yunus, whats the latest . Im just a short distance away from the scene of this accident this morning, just a few hundred yards over my shoulder is the m53 motorway close to Junction Five. It was about eight oclock this morning that North West Ambulance service described this as a Major Incident. It involved a school bus, which ended up on its side. We understand there was a collision of some kind. That bus had pupils from two schools in west kirby, west Kirby Grammar School and Calday Grange Grammar Scho
i m anjana gadgil. our top story. we start in the uk where a manhunt is continuing for a suspected terrorist who escaped from a london prison. daniel khalife escaped from wandsworth prison on wednesday morning, by clinging to the underside of a food delivery van. thejustice secretary has ordered an urgent investigation into what happened, and why the former soldier wasn t held in a higher security prison. our reporter simonjones has more. they have released a statement, saying cuts of consequences. they said you cannot reduce the budget and expect the prison service to operate as if nothing has happened. the government has to take response ability for the decimation of the prison service with less staff and more prisoners and one is worth as a technology example of what life is like for serving prison officers operating in a stressful and violent workplace with staffing levels meaning you care for more than 100 prisoners and they are calling for urgent commission notjust fo
showers perhaps across the far north east and temperatures will respond after the chilly start, eight to 11 degrees. the rain is gathering down to the channel isles by the end of the day and to the isles of scilly. that will bring wet weather overnight into the south west and into south wales. it is this collection of weather fronts that will spill more moisture potentially on sunday, so there is a greater chance of widespread dense fog first thing in the morning. fingers crossed it will lift but it could be a drab and dreary remembrance sunday. more of a breeze in scotland so here it should lift and it will be a quite day. it will stay dry too much of the day. at 11 o clock in the morning, hopefully dry weather into the north of england. northern ireland and across to wales and the midlands, showery outbreaks of rain. i suspect the cenotaph should stay dry but it will be murky first thing in the morning. the rain will move erotically north and east, turning showery in nature