good morning. it s thursday october 20th. our main story. the prime minister s position is looking increasingly vulnerable today after some of her own mps called for her to resign. it followed a chaotic day for the government with the resignation of the home secretary, accusations of bullying, and confusion over whether the chief whip had resigned. our political correspondent ione wells reports. reporter: is this a coalition of chaos, mr schapps? - another day, another new cabinet minister. grant shapps, sacked just six weeks ago by liz truss, returns as her new home secretary. look, obviously it s been a turbulent time for the government, but i think the most important thing is to make sure that people in this country know that they ve got security and that s why it s a great honour to be appointed as home secretary. he stepped up after suella braverman stepped down, resigning over two data breaches. but have a look at her resignation letter. she wrote to the prime minister
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exhausted to isolated to go out. that was until a children in need funded charity called oscar birmingham came along. how do i look, pudsey? let s go. this project is helping young people like sanna in the heart of birmingham, and it has really helped turn her life around. right. welcome to oscar birmingham. i first started off myjourney with oscar at around 12 years old, receiving support, but now i m here to mentor young children as well, which is amazing. this is where sanna gained a new social circle which understood her condition. and it s where sanna today is a mentor helping other young people on the same journey. right, ears on! 0k. here we go. ready? can you tell me a bit about how brilliant this charity is, and how children in need has helped us so much? absolutely amazing charity. we re the only ones to be able to reach out to children and young people who are isolated, low in confidence and affected by sickle cell thalassemia,
and i want to tell you all about thalassemia. thalassemia is an inherited blood disorder. it means sanna must get a blood transfusion here at birmingham city hospital once every month. so usually i d go in for about nine tp half nine, and i d finish around half four or five. so i m here with rejoice who is looking after me today. the staff here are all lovely and really supportive. and really amazing. but as amazing as the medical care is, thalassemia is usually a lifelong condition, not easy to live with. i think the biggest impact was just feeling different from everyone else. i just felt very isolated and i didn t want to sort of socialise or be around others. ijust wanted to lock myself away in my bedroom and just sleep. it was hard? very hard, yeah. so instead of spending her childhood doing all the things children usually do, sanna was too often too tired, too
offer a variety of workshops, mentoring, support. really to kind of connect with each other outside of a hospital environment. without the support of the public and children in need, we wouldn t be in existence. and now, to pay it back, a new challenge lies ahead the rickshaw relay. sanna needs all the support she can get. you have to make a confession, don t you? yeah. which is what? i have never ridden a bike before. laughter. yeah. so my actual route will be around 28 miles, and that s approximately six to seven hours, which is obviously not an easy sort of first time bike around birmingham. so if anyone s free around in birmingham on thursday, you know, does anyone want to come see me? that would be really appreciated. sanna, you re going to be absolutely amazing. i know you ve never ridden a bike before. we have every faith in you.