The day the uks set to leave the eu. During a tumultuous time in british politics, hidden from view, this 4 year refurbishment has continued. All of the stone that we put onto the tower is hard carved, which is a phenomenal thing to see, brilliant, and it may take them between three and four weeks to produce a carving such as this crown that you can see along here. So, a real labour of love. So, this is the eastern clock face, high up the elizabeth tower, and the most striking thing is the colours. Its not the black paint were familiar with, but gold and blue. So, we found that as we scratched back through the layers, we were scratching, basically going back through time, and found that this was the colour that it was originally. So, its really exciting to find that blue colour as we went back through the layers. And its prussian blue. Prussian blue, yeah. This is gold leaf. And weve reglazed the whole of the clock face with hand blow opal glass. Even standing here, on a rainy day, sur
In a year that saw the planets hottest month on record, nick miller and Sarah Keith Lucas reflect on the most significant meteorological events of 2019 in weather world. This time on weather world, were in cambridge, where right here during 2019s record setting european heatwave, the temperature was the highest the uks ever recorded. At the uks hottest weather station, ill discover how you go about accurately recording temperature, and ill be finding out whats behind another year of record heatwaves. The science is overwhelmingly clear that the cause of this Climate Change is our activities as humans putting more and more Carbon Dioxide and other Greenhouse Gases into the atmosphere. And im at Cambridge University, where a new look at pioneering Data Collected in the 1970s is revealing the real impact Climate Change is having on our melting ice sheet today. Also on weather world, 2019s biggest storms, from devastation in the bahamas, hit by its most powerful hurricane, to the fire rava
And, in half an hour we take a special look back at the life of Eunice Kennedy shriver, the sister ofjfk, who used sport to help change the lives of people with intellectual disabilities. Good afternoon. Spanish police have named a british holiday maker and his two children who drowned in a Swimming Pool on christmas eve. Gabriel diya had been staying with his family at a resort on the costa del sol. Police say the pool appears to have been working normally at the time. Emily unia reports. According to spanish police, gabriel diya, who was 52, died trying to rescue his nine year old daughter, comfort, after she got into difficulties in this hotel Swimming Pool. His 16 year old son praise emmanuel tried to help and also died. Postmortem examinations confirmed that all three drowned. A 14 year old girl, the childrens sister, raised the alarm. A british tourist whos staying at the resort told the bbc she spoke to the childrens mother. I noticed a woman was walking towards where i was. She
Programme of the decade. Join us, the brexitcast gang, in half an hour, to look back at the year that was in the world of brexit. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Spanish police have named a british holiday maker and his two children who drowned in a Swimming Pool on christmas eve. Gabriel diya had been staying with his family at a resort on the costa del sol. Police say the pool appears to have been working normally at the time. Emily unia reports. According to Spanish Police, gabriel diya, who was 52, died trying to rescue his nine year old daughter, comfort, after she got into difficulties in this hotel Swimming Pool. His 16 year old son, praise emmanuel, tried to help and also died. Postmortem examinations confirmed that all three drowned. A 14 year old girl, the childrens sister, raised the alarm. A british tourist whos staying at the resort told the bbc she spoke to the childrens mother. I noticed a woman was walking towards where i was. She looked really distraught. When
In half an hours time, we take a look back on events earlier in the year, marking the 75th anniversary of the d day landings. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Spanish police have named a british holidaymaker and his two children who drowned in a Swimming Pool on Christmas Eve. Gabriel diya had been staying with his family at a resort on the costa del sol. Police say the pool appears to have been working normally at the time. The hotel says its continuing to co operate with the investigation. Emily unia reports. According to Spanish Police, gabriel diya, who was 52, died trying to rescue his nine year old daughter comfort after she got into difficulties in this hotel Swimming Pool. His 16 year old son praise emmanuel tried to help and also died. Postmortem examinations confirmed that all three drowned. A 14 year old girl, the childrens sister, raised the alarm. A british tourist whos staying at the resort told the bbc she spoke to the childrens mother. I noticed a woman was walki