in the men s 10 metre synchronised diving. it was third time lucky for 27 year old tom, after bronze at the last two olympics. there was another gold medal in the men s mountain bike cross country event. tom pidcock with the victory, just two months after breaking his collarbone. earlier, the swimmer adam peaty won team gb s first gold medal in tokyo, with victory in the 100 metres breast stroke. the 26 year old finished in just under 57.4 seconds, the fifth fastest time in the event s history. he s become the first british swimmer to retain an olympic title. overnight, team gb also secured another silver medal, thanks to alex yee in the men s triathlon. and in the last few minutes, lauren williams was just pipped for the gold in her taekwondo final. but britain isn t the only country celebrating a good day at the games. momiji nishiya made history at the age ofjust 13, as she became the first women s olympic street skateboarding champion. let s get a round up of all the action from an
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airline to increase the number of flights it operates, following a surge in bookings. but ryanair warned that it would still make a loss of more than £230 million for the first quarter of this year. singer and tv presenter ronan keating has accepted substantial damages from news group newspapers over phone hacking of his voicemails. his legal team said stories which emerged in newspapers between 1996 and 2011 caused him considerable distress, and led to him distrusting some of his closest friends. news group newspapers apologised for the distress caused in relation to the news of the world, which closed in 2011. the government says it s spending £48 million to try to improve adoption services in england. the aim is to provide better support to families who adopt, no matter where they are in the country. adoption support groups have welcomed the plan. vintage, pre loved, or second hand whatever you call them, clothes that have had a previous owner are all the rage,
a jury has found that teenager bernadette walker, who went missing in peterborough one year ago, was murdered by the man she called dad. the un says record numbers of afghan civilians, many of them children, have been killed in the first half of this year. about half the country is under taliban control. and coming up, could canterbury cathedral be the home to some of the oldest stained glass in the world? new research suggests it dates back nearly 900 years good afternoon. it s been a great day for team gb at the tokyo olympics, with three gold medals and two silvers. in the pool, tom daley and his partner matty lee took the gold with an emotional victory
the number of civilian deaths in afghanistan has surged since taliban militants launched their offensive against government forces that s according to figures from the united nations. the insurgents have captured vast swathes of rural territory, after foreign troops began their withdrawal from the country. our afghanistan correspondent secunder kermani has the latest. 1600 civilians were killed in the first six months of this year, what is more than three and a half thousand injured. that includes a record high number of child casualties and it is amongst the highest figures of that period to ever be recorded since records began a little over a decade ago. kit it can be a little difficult at times to fully comprehend those figures, but it means basically on average, every day these nine ordinary men, women and children in afghanistan lost their lives as a result of the conflict. violence really spiked in may and june when the taliban began an offensive that has seen them capture arou