and nowadays, you ve got something called a calculator, and these are just marvellous things. anybody that gets one of these, it does all the work for you. in other news. the investigation into the murder of nine year old olivia pratt korbel continues police are questioning a former drug dealer, who was the intended target of the attack. a think thank campaigning on behalf of low and middle income families has warned that a catastrophe is coming this winter , unless the government steps in to help with energy costs. search and rescue operations are under way in eastern ukraine, after russian missile strikes killed at least 20 people. and coming up this hour. we hear the remarkable story of the 66 year old man running inside a nine foot dragon costume in shropshire. good morning from denbigh high school in luton. we are here all day finding out how pupils at the school have got on in their gcses. like many others across their gcses. like many others across the country, tho
In the south and west. For the rest of us it will be fairly cloudy with sunny spells. But the wind will strengthen widely throughout the day. Details later in the programme. Good morning. Its wednesday, 18th october. Theres been International Condemnation after an explosion at a hospital in gaza is reported to have killed at least 500 people. The blast has raised the diplomatic stakes for President Biden, whos currently flying to israel to try to prevent the violence spreading elsewhere in the middle east. Hamas a group designated as a Terror Organisation by many western governments says the Al Ahli Hospital was hit by an israeli air strike. But israel has blamed the palestinian group, islamichhad, but its denied any involvement, describing the accusations as lies. Wyre davies has the latest. Pictures from Gaza Last Night showed scenes of utter chaos. Bloodied, wounded casualties from the partially destroyed al ahli arab hospital. Videos many too graphic to broadcast showed the broken
asthma uk put an appeal out on their social media for somebody to run as their dragon, so, yes, they sent it me and i started training round bridgnorth in this dragon costume. never been seen in bridgnorth before. social media was going mad. this summer, he was a queen s baton bearer in the run up to the commonwealth games. but in the first lockdown in 2020, dayna became ill. suffered a heart attack. first thing the ambulance people said when they came in, oh, it s puff, puff doesn t get injured! puff doesn t get ill. and they said, well, puff, you have got to come to hospital with us now. and you re not running, you re coming in the ambulance. it was heartbreaking. i was really frightened and scared. on st george s day a year later, he began training again. he s currently waiting for a thyroid operation but aims to run the london marathon as puff again next year.