the council will carry out a study to see if trams could connect the north and south of the borough. other options including a light rail or rapid bus system. existing public transport in the area mainly provides east to west journeys. oxford street has earned the reputation as europe s busiest shopping street. but with visitor numbers down 20% compared with pre pandemic levels what s the future for the area? some retailers are adjusting to changing customer demands and footfall. thursdays and fridays, fuelled by office workers, was, back in 2019, our busiest two days of the week. now we are seeing saturdays and sundays as the busiest days. so people are coming for different reasons, they re coming purely to shop and enjoy themselves at the weekend, they re staying for longer to do that. sundays, in terms of the shopping day, it s obviously shorter but in terms of the days, in terms of the hours the shops are open, it s actually the busiest.
represents around 20% of travel agents. why? heavy rain in parts of the uk have led to a rise in last minute bookings, as holiday makers hope to catch some sun during this month. i don t blame them. the home secretary, suella braverman, has said those responsible for unrest in oxford street should be hunted down and locked up. it came after social media videos encourage people to turn up and cause disruption and looting on london s busiest shopping street, 0xford busiest shopping street, oxford street. you are watching bbc news. the waiting list for a routine hospital treatment has hit a record high in england. 7.5 million people for the first time. this is 3 million more than before the covid pandemic. it means that nearly one in seven of the population is waiting for nhs treatment. i have
attention on all these arguments all these views. newspaper articles always saying the feud continues. just stop. it s enough. [end of translation] patricia says that reggiani has stolen her name from her and she wants it back. my name is patricia gucci. it s the name i have. you re the only patricia gucci? i m the only patricia gucci, yes. it s very unlikely that patrizia reggiani will give up the gucci name. whether it s hard to keep or not. when she was released from prison in 2016, she proceeded to walk down millen s grandest shopping street with a pirate on her shoulder. apparently cherishing the paparazzi s attention. she would never disappear into oblivion. that is not in her nature. she feeds off attention. she s a narcissist. she wants to be the center of her own story. i think she was very authentic in her own way. i don t know if i would call
if you go out late at night on the streets of central london, you are likely to see significant numbers of people sleeping rough and new figures do show an increase of 9% on the same period last year. there were 3,272 people sleeping outside in the three months between april and june. over 1,600 were found to be rough sleeping for the first time, that s a 12% rise on the year before. the situation in london is being seen in some other parts of the country too, as our social affairs correspondent michael buchanan reports. london, july 2023. 3am on britain s most famous shopping street. along a small section of oxford street, dozens of people rough sleeping.
so what do we know about yekaterina kobrina? yes. so it is yekaterina kobrina. so it s definitely her. yeah. there s the obvious. she s a model. and, look, we found an online clothes outlet she works for. hello? we try to book her for a photo shoot. but the woman on the phone is suspicious. he s found something a facebook post. so this is like a shopping street or talking about a shop. she s saying that last week, she bought potatoes and it was in very bad conditions in the shops. and today she bought tomatoes. 0k, translate. so you can write. last week, we received rotten tomatoes, which looked tragic. so this is vilnius. so that is where