in sport, he s done it luke littler s dream run continues, as the 16 year old becomes the youngest person to reach tonight s world darts final. tha nkfully thankfully not as windy today but there are now over 300 flood warnings across the uk following storm henk. at least the prospects are a little bit drier. full forecast on breakfast. good morning. it s wednesday, 3rd january. our main story. junior doctors in england are about to begin a six day strike the longest in nhs history. tens of thousands of routine operations and appointments are likely to be postponed as hospitals focus on emergency care. members of the doctors union, the bma, have asked for a 35% pay increase. the government says that is unrealistic. 0ur health correspondent sophie hutchinson reports. what do we want? fair pay! when do we want it? now! a new year, but still no end in sight to the junior doctors pay dispute, which started last spring. the six day walk out is their longest yet, and comes
of the audacity, the accuracy. keep up, he hasjust won. 6 2, simple, staggeringly simple. so far, no opponent can live with luke littler and there is just one match to come. it terrorised the oceans millions of year ago, and now the skull of a giant sea monster, discovered in dorset, has gone on display for the very first time. the two metre long fossil belongs to a pliosaur, one of the most fearsome predators that ever lived. and this computer generated image shows what it would have looked like. the fossil was discovered where else on thejurassic coast in dorset, and has now gone on display nearby for the first time. time for a look at the weather. darren s here. hello, the weather is coming down a bit, the winds have dropped but earlier we had a gust of 81 mph at exeter airport and in the strong winds drove into the south east where we had a gust of 69 at heathrow. it will take a while longerfor heathrow. it will take a while longer for the flood waters to recede, we h
his lastjob was in the saudi pro league, where he won the title with al ittihad, but he was sacked by them last month. hejoins forest one place above the reelgation zone with just one win in 13. big chance. i m very honoured, it s a pleasure to be at forest and be able to manage such a great club with such great history. so i m delighted. we had a good training session today, we had the chance to build up the players. and more important is the knowledge, i think, the chance to be with them personally, me knowing them, them knowing us as coaching staff, the ideas. of course we have a lot of things to improve. but at the same time, we are motivated to do it. what i found was a good atmosphere among them, i think the players are engaged. and now we have to meet ourselves together to improve things, and that starts today. he also said he wants to build on steve coopehs also said he wants to build on steve cooper s legacy. his predecessor was much loved by the fans despite the str
one of the nhs s most busy periods. 0ur health correspondent sharon barbour has the story. hospitals across england, already struggling with the pressures that winter brings, are bracing themselves, as tens of thousands ofjunior doctors walk out for three days. whose nhs? 0ur nhs! dr greenhlagh is a surgical registrar. he s already qualified to undertake major knee and hip surgery. every time that i go and see a patient in the accident and emergency department, and i can t examine them in a room because there s no space, and so they re on a trolley in the corridor, it s not right. and when you see how little it seems the government values us, again that is a real blow to many doctors morale. we re not asking for a huge pay rise. what we re asking for is our pay to stop being cut and to reverse the pay cuts we ve already suffered. have you thought about leaving? i think alljunior doctors, to be honest, i think most have thought about leaving. the strike action will mean the c