The firm they created. And peloton gets a rough ride after its exercise bike ad is mocked for being sexist and dystopian. And well be getting the inside track on how happy workers are productive workers much like myself and sally, who are of course always all smiles. Were talking about increasing diversity at the top today. So is positive discrimination in favour of ethnic minorities the answer . What do you think . Let us know just use the hashtag bbcworklife. Hello and welcome to worklife. Britains leading companies are failing to improve Ethnic Diversity at the top. Executive search firm green park found the number of black, asian and minority ethnic or bame Board Directors of major uk firms has stalled at almost every senior level. According to the firm just 3. 3 , senior execs in ftse 100 companies are from an ethnic minority and its barely improved over the last six years. In fact, there are more bosses called steve in the ftse 100 than there are those from ethnic minorities. And
As the hosts take a 2 1 series lead. On set with the cast of the new series of the crown we get exclusive access, including a royal audience, of sorts. A person made a vow in her 20s to serve the nation, she is now in her 90s, is extraordinary. Serve the nation, she is now in her 905, is extraordinary. A north easterly wind could develop, if you show is around two, but will they dampen the fireworks later . Your full forecast on breakfast. Its tuesday, november 5th. Our top story Party Leaders will step up Election Campaigning today by challenging their opponents plans for brexit. Labour and the conservatives will both attack each others proposals for leaving the eu, while the lib dems will officially launch their stop brexit agenda. Lets take a look at some of the detail. The Prime Minister has published a letter to the labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, demanding that he comes clean to voters about his brexit strategy. Mrjohnson poses five questions for labour to answer. Jeremy corbyn is o
uk drivers paid extra for fuel at supermarkets. the government promises more competition to drive prices down. and wimbledon gets under way, we will be back with more as novak djokovic and others take to centre court. hello, i m matthew amroliwala, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories and checking out the truth behind them. let s start without developing the story the middle east. israel has launched a major military operation in the occupied west bank one of the biggest in recent years. the israeli military says at least seven militants have been killed. palestinian health officials say eight people have died and 50 injured. it started with multiple drone strikes on thejenin refugee camp, and israeli army vehicles were seen moving in. israel claims the camp contains a command centre for palestinian militants. across the jenin skyline, smoke has been rising for much of the day palestinian leaders say it s an attempt to destroy a refugee camp and that
controversial end to the second ashes series. welcome back to verify life. a watchdog has found that uk drivers paid more for fuel at supermarkets last year because of a lack of competition between retailers. the competition and markets authority says drivers paid an average of an extra six pence a litre for fuel, with diesel 13 pence a litre more expensive. the government is now promising a change in the law to increase competition. simon williams, the rac s fuel spokesperson, gave us this reaction. yes, consumers have been overcharged for some considerable time. the rac has a programme called fuelwatch. we monitor the price of retailfuel but also, crucially, the price of wholesale fuel. and for the last three months, the price of diesel on the wholesale market has been lower than petrol. yet if you go to virtually any forecourt across the uk, you will see diesel being priced above petrol. now, that is simply not right, it s not fair. it doesn t reflect what s going on at al
little bit of cloud off the north sea, particularly into central and eastern england over thursday. not necessarily sunny all the time was that the outlook for the next few days, beautifully glasgow and belfast. plymouth, sunshine. the tourist board will be thanking me. and in cambridge it s not looking bad at all. temperatures up to the low 20s. we are all off to plymouth! thanks, tomasz. that s it. there s more analysis of the day s main stories on newsnight with kirsty wark, just getting under way over on bbc two. but the news continues here on bbc one, as wejoin our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are. have a very good night. the city of bakhmut we have a special report from another besieged town in the same province. and we ll try to get to the truth of russian claims that it has stopped a ukrainian incursion into the russia area of belgorod, killing seventy so called insurgents. we ll bejoined by a ukranian mp and a senior fellow at th