pope francis leads mourners for his predeccessor benedict xvi at an open air funeral mass at the vatican. upset for emma raducanu after she retires from her second round match at the asb classic in auckland with an ankle injury. and coming up this hour hear more from the girl group flo, who are the winners of the bbc s sound of 2023 award. sir keir starmer has promised that a labour government would devolve more power out of westminster by giving local authorities more say in areas such as transport and housing. the labour leader said in a new year speech that taking back control borrowing from the brexit slogan would be central to his party s agenda if it won the next election. it s not unreasonable for us to recognise the desire of communities to stand on their own feet. it s what take back control meant. the control people want is control over their lives and their communities. so we will embrace the take back control message, but we ll turn it from a slogan in
it calculates that without human induced global warming we would expect a year as warm as last year once every 500 years. in the current climate we can expect one every three or four years. and last year s mild temperatures are part of a long term pattern. this graph shows the coldest and hottest years ever recorded in the uk. all the hottest years are within the last two decades and you can see this year tops them all with an average temperature of 10.03 celsius. the first time uk average annual temperatures have topped 10 degrees. the planet is warming up as a consequence of climate change, due to the emissions of greenhouse gases. and as the world is warming, we are seeing that reflected in our own statistics for uk weather and climate. 0ur climate here in the uk has warmed by about 1