barbenheimer goes on. this summer s blockbusters barbie and oppenheimer lead the golden globe nominations. the deaths of dozens of people in the last six months in the uk have been linked to a new group of street drugs that can be hundreds of times stronger than heroin. they re called nitazenes and they are synthetic opioids that are believed to be coming to the uk from china. our midlands correspondent navtej johal and producer alex homer have been speaking to the mother of a young man who s thought to have died after a fatal overdose. he was funny. pretty. brilliant dancer. so kind. just kind. simeon mcanoy, who was 33, died just nine weeks ago from a drug overdose. an inquest will determine his cause of death, but the coroner has told his family that a powerful synthetic opioid was found in his system, belonging to a class of drugs known as nitazenes. it is believed that at the time, simeon thought he was taking heroin. we re sitting in the living room, with simeon in
more than 4.5 million people were waiting to begin hospital treatment in england at the end january, that s the highest number since records began in 2007. the royal college of surgeons has called the situation to turn things around. here s our health editor, hugh pym. hospital wards devoted to covid. the surge in numbers over the last two months led to widespread cancellations of less urgent types of care, and there s still a backlog from last year s first covid peak. today s figures highlight again the scale of the problem. charmaine has severe arthritis, and last year was hoping to have a knee replacement. she was told in november she d have to wait another 12 months. she s currently out of work and the task of finding a newjob keeps getting harder. i hate not being able to work. how do i say to a new employer, thanks for thejob, but maybe in a couple of months, i might need three months off for a knee replacement. patient waits for non urgent care have increased around t
the nhs test and trace system, which is likely to cost the taxpayer £37 billion failed to prevent lockdowns and there is no evidence that cut the number of coronavirus infections. those other findings in the house of commons public accounts committee, publishing a highly critical report of the scheme. it said the cost was staggering and the taxpayers were being treated like a cash machine. hugh pym reports. a testing site, today, now part of everyday life, but it has cost a lot of money to get where we are and a highly critical report by mps has fuelled a new debate on what test and trace has achieved. it was raised at prime minister s questions. the government is throwing a staggering £37 billion at a test and trace system that we know has made barely any difference. the prime minister defended its performance. it is thanks to nhs test and trace that we re able to send kids back to school and begin cautiously and irreversibly to reopen our economy and restart our lives. t
much further than the paris accord, to limit global warming. now on bbc news, the travel show. this week, a look back at some of our favourite european adventures. we test drive the continent s fastest and highest ride. watch some masterpiece maintenance in the netherlands. it looks incredible. yeah. 0h, here we go again. and travel back in time over 2000 years as wejoin the crew of a replica galley in greece. hello, and welcome to the travel show, coming to you from a very chilly st pancras station. now, normally, this place would be bustling with people going back and forth from the uk to the continent on the eurostar. pre pandemic, it was carrying around 11 million passengers every year between britain and mainland europe, but that number has dropped by 95% since last march and, today, i can only see two outbound trains on the board. unfortunately, i m not catching a train today as we are still under lockdown, but that isn t going to stop us from looking back at some o
Afternoon looking pretty dry. One or two showers dotted across the north west, most places will be dry. Temperatures of 12, maybe 17 in the south. Clear skies for most but the winds will be picking up, especially gcioss winds will be picking up, especially across the south and west. Some Rain Arriving in cornwall and devon by dawn. It will be quite mild but even elsewhere we are looking at 8 9 and shine for scotland, Northern England, the midlands and across Eastern England. Rain will continue to spill northwards. In the sunny spots it will be quite warm with top temperatures of 17 or 18 degrees. Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines at 2 30pm. European Union Leaders meeting in brussels have unanimously adopted guidelines for negotiating britains withdrawal from the eu. Labour Leaderjeremy Corbyn urges young people to claim their future by Voting Labour in the general election. Theresa may is campaigning in scotland for the First Time Since calling the election. One of the men arreste