match of the tournament here in three days time. and good morning. remaining in charge at manchester united. after speculation he wouldn t be there next season, the club s board decides erik ten hag will stay on as manager. and she s the queen of funk who s been getting us on the dance floor for more than five decades. we hearfrom chaka khan in her new role as a music festival curator. good morning. it is a cloudy start for many of us this morning. the cloud will hang around in the east where we will see most of the showers. it will brighten up in the west, but it is still going to feel cool forjune. i would west, but it is still going to feel cool forjune. iwould have west, but it is still going to feel cool forjune. i would have all the details later. good morning. it s wednesday the 12th june. our main story. the green party will launch its election manifesto in brighton and hove today. they re promising a £50 billion a year investment into the nhs and social care. they
Laura plummer, whos 33 and from hull, was arrested in october with tablets of the painkiller tramadol. Her family say they are planning to appeal the sentence. The universities minister, jojohnson, has given his clearest warning yet that academic institutions must protect free speech. He says universities must open minds, not close them, and students should have the resilience to take part in frank discussions. The boxing day sales are under way with millions of shoppers hitting the high streets as they hunt for bargains. Meanwhile, a bbc survey has suggested that Online Shopping and early black friday deals have made the post christmas sales less appealing. A Police Officer and a 61 year old woman died in a crash on christmas day. The 46 year old officer was responding to an incident when the marked bmw 3 series he was driving was in collision with a citroen c3 on the a57 in sheffield. Now on bbc news, Rebecca Jones reveals the inside stories of world changing events from photographer
Make Funding Pledges to tackle Cash Shortages in schools in england. The boss of barclays will be facing pressure today over his pay and also his handling of a controversy surrounding recruitment in the bank. Ill have the details shortly. In sport, the french opens a fortnight away and andy murray says he still needs to get better but hes through to the third round in madrid. Our build up to this years Eurovision Song Contest starts here the bbcs Steve Rosenberg is in kiev with all the tunes and all the facts you need to enjoy the worlds biggest singing competition. And carol has the weather. Good morning. Thank you. Iam in kew gardens next to the Japanese Gateway. I will tell you more about it through the morning but if you adjust stepping out it is a chilly start although most of us will have a day of plenty of sunshine, except in the north of scotland where we have some patchy rain. Good morning. First our main story. President trump has fired the head of the fbi james comey in a mo
Trail, and understandably, the focus has been on preventing future terrorist attacks, after the grim events of saturday night. Jeremy corbyns been campaigning in the north east, saying hed back calls for the Prime Minister to stand down. That she was responsible as Home Secretary, for cuts in Police Numbers. But he clarified his comments in an interview with our alex forsyth. Im not backing away from anything. What im saying is there is an election on now, theres a choice before everybody. Im articulating what is a deep anger amongst those people that have seen 20,000 Police Officers lose theirjobs and firefighters lose theirjobs, seeing Ambulance Crews unable to cope with the services theyre under. I think she as Home Secretary needs to think about what she did when she was Home Secretary. So she shouldnt resign . I just want to be clear. She shouldnt resign . Lets be very clear, there is an election on, everybody has a choice and a lot of people are very angry and a lot of people wou
In sport more pressure on Arsene Wenger, as arsenal are humiliated in the Champions League. They are thrashed 5 1 by Bayern Munich in the last 16, 10 2 on aggregate. The last of the dambusters. We return to germany with the only surviving member of the air crews that carried out one of the Second World Wars most daring raids. And carol has the weather. Thank you, good morning. The weather has a 3 way split across the country. Windy conditions and showers in the north, dry and bright in the central swathes of the uk and in the central swathes of the uk and in the south, mild, cloudy and damp. I will have more details about 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story an upbeat assessment of the economy, but a warning that more austerity lies ahead they are expected to be the key messages when the chancellor, Philip Hammond, delivers first budget later today. He will stress that the government wont shirk difficult decisions to deal with the deficit. But he is expected to find extra mo