and he s doing it in honour of tom smith, the former scotland rugby captain, who died from the disease back in april, aged just 50. martin geissler went to meet him. andy petersen has lost family and friends to bowel cancer. so he decided to get on his bike to raise awareness of the condition and help to fight it. the symptoms, broadly, are blood in your stool, is a big one, abdominal pains, sudden loss of weight, change in bowel habits, all of which, actually, i m about to experience in the next seven days. but not because of bowel cancer, but because i am spending 16 hours a day on a bike. this is no ordinary challenge. over the next week, with no support team and just the bare essentials strapped to his bike, andy will cycle literally the length and breadth of britain. starting at lizard point, the southernmost tip of the mainland, he will go to the easternmost lowestoft in east anglia. from there, it is an enormous schlep up to dunnet head, the most northerly tip of mai
france will play germany on wednesday. the winner of that game will take on either england or sweden in the final. now on bbc news, the travel show. coming up on the travel show. we are finding out what s at the bottom of venice s most popular canals. they re something really big on the line here. it looks really, really heavy. we meet the chef bringing a comforting taste of ukraine to london. welcome to my kitchen! thank you. and lucy checks out the latest tech designed to inject more fun into festival season. i just love the fact that i can film hands free effortlessly. i can listen to music, i can make calls on these things. we start this week in one of europe s most breathtakingly beautiful destinations, venice, in north east italy. this city on water is made up of over 100 islands, interconnected by a labyrinth of picture perfect canals and elegant bridges. life around here has remained the same for hundreds of years and steadfast through that time have been the gondolie
it s sunday, the 24th ofjuly. our top story: holidaymakers and hauliers are being warned to expect a third day of disruption around the port of dover and the channel tunnel. a major incident alert remains in place as officials work to clear a backlog of more than 1,000 lorries stranded on nearby motorways. simon jones has the latest. working through the night at the port of dover, to try to clear the backlog of traffic. and there is a third warning, but that they may as we approached all of the roads, in all directions, i think the infrastructure around the ports and the channel i think the infrastructure around the port, around the tunnel, needs to be looked at. because it isn t fair on the locals. the immediate challenae fair on the locals. the immediate challenge has fair on the locals. the immediate challenge has been fair on the locals. the immediate challenge has been to fair on the locals. the immediate challenge has been to get - fair on the locals. the immediat
that could do with some rain. not an awful lot of that in the forecast and after a relatively cool start to the week, temperatures set to climb again as we move into thursday and friday. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: holidaymakers and hauliers face a third day of disruption at the channel tunnel with some stuck in queues overnight. delays around the port of dover appear to have eased though. the board of cricket scotland resigns ahead of a review expected to find scottish cricket to be institutionally racist. russia admits it was responsible for a missile strike on the port of odesa on saturday targeting military installations, ukraine s president denounced the attack as barbaric . the two contenders to be britain s next prime minister rishi sunak and liz truss vow to toughen controls on migration into the uk. and supermodel kate moss tells the bbc that being asked to take off her bra during a photoshoot when she was 15 years old opened her eyes to the danger
at the weather with chris fawkes. hello again. it s been a hot and sunny day across east anglia. temperatures in a number of sites exceeded 30 celsius, but further west, it wasn t nearly that hot. indeed, we had thicker cloud and outbreaks of rain. quite a few of these pulses of rain turned out to be quite heavy as well. now, looking at the weather picture overnight tonight, there s a little bit more rain to come. light and patchy stuff across north western areas generally, but some heavier, more persistent rain hanging around, loitering in northern scotland. that s a weather front that s going to start pushing back southwards. a fresher night for scotland, northern ireland and the far north of england. much of england and wales, though, warm once again 16 18 degrees for many. now, tomorrow s forecast, this weather front pushes southwards, taking the rain across scotland, eventually moving into north east england. will be a few showers elsewhere, but some dry, some sunny