Day, but it was that forjodi after her sister collapsed with a cardiac arrest. She was walking down the aisle as her maid of honour. She will be here to tell their extraordinary story. Hello, welcome to the programme, were live until 11 this morning. Also later in the programme we will talk to the families of six former british servicemen who four years ago today were detained in india after the ship they were protecting from pirates drifted into indian waters and they were arrested. Several years later they are still locked up in an indianjail. We will talk to the sisters and fiancee of three of the men. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use victorialive and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. The government has set out details of its plans to cap the gas and electricity bills of 12 million households. Its published draft legislation to introduce an upper limit on on poor value standard variable tariffs,
And the Luxury Fashion brand gucci will go fur free from next year joining a growing number of fashion houses amid pressure from Animal Rights activists. Good morning. Its thursday 12th october. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Whitehall officials have refused to deny reports that a british woman, who travelled to syria to support the so called Islamic State group, has been killed in a drone strike. Sally annejones, formally a punk musician from kent, went to syria in 2013 and joined is. She became a high profile supporter and propagandist for the group, using social media to encourage western girls to join, and posted messages threatening britain online. A convert to islam, her british husband junaid hussain, also an is militant, was killed by a drone in 2015. Its thoughtjones was killed by the us air force injune but her death has only been made public news now. In their set, but whatever you tell us in their set, but whatever you tell us about the death of Sally Anne
Heres phil avery. A mini heatwave coming . You are getting excited, arent you . Your word. It was a glorious and a start, as yet again evidenced by one of our more artistic weather watchers and thursday are always was going to be one of the more better days of the week, with regard to the amount of dry weather and the amount of sunshine on offer. Thats not to say that its sunshine all the way. Its quite breezy across scotland and come the latter part of the afternoon there will be enough cloud around for there to be just a gaggle of showers running through on that rather noticeable breeze and you will lose the sunshine late on gcioss will lose the sunshine late on across the western side of northern ireland. Those are the exceptions to a drywall. A fresh appeal to today compared to yesterday. Will still make 18 somewhere. Then we will push the weather front cover which we seen the first sign of the cloud, there comes the rain again, and pretty strong winds. Theres a gale to be had acro
Billion take over of formula one and remove Bernie Ecclestone as Chief Executive, ending his a0 year reign in charge of the sport. A surge in cyber crime pushed the cost of fraud above £1 billion last year. And its getting worse despite attempts to tackle it. Im looking at why and what more needs to be done. And were going to be talking about the happiest children in the world. Studies suggest they live in the netherlands. But what makes them so happy . Well meet two mums now living there whove been trying to find out. Carol is always happy and she has got the weather. Good morning. Across england and wales, dense, patchy fog. Some spots of reasoning. Scotla nd patchy fog. Some spots of reasoning. Scotland and Northern Ireland, much more mild. Patches of rain but later, some sunshine. Good morning. First, our main story. The Supreme Court will rule today on whether its up to parliament or government to start the process for exiting the European Union. The government argues that minist
The government will comply with the judgment of the court and do all that it can to implement it. Brexit secretary david davis is due to make a statement later setting out how the government will respond. Good morning from the Supreme Court which today has made legal, constitutional and political history. With this judgment by eight to three, it is parliament that has to three, it is parliament that has to trigger article 50 to begin the formal process of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union. It is a defeat for the government, which said that through its Prerogative Powers it could trigger article 50 alone. But that was the decision by eight to three of the Supreme Court justices as it was read out this morning here the Supreme Court by the president , lord neuberger. Today, by a majority of 8 3, the Supreme Court rules that the government cannot trigger article 50 without an Act Of Parliament authorising it to do so. Book briefly, the reasons given in a judgment written by al