Debenhams has begun closing 19 of its stores as part of plans to try to secure its future. In another blow to the high street, mothercare will stop trading today, with the loss of 2,800 jobs. Our business correspondent, emma simpson has more. From kirkcaldy in fife, and wolverhampton, to Walton Upon Thames in surrey, debenhams is pulling out. Not much left for bargain hunters, though. 50 stores are to go, the first wave this month, the rest in 2021, a restructuring to save the rest of the business. This is altrincham, one of six to close today. Once our generation is gone, in another30 years, therell be no shops. We used to buy quite a lot of stuff from there. Yeah, very sad, and i feel for the staff as well. Debenhams has been struggling for yea rs, debenhams has been struggling for years, weighed down with debt and falling sales. It did a restructuring deal to cut costs and close its worst performing shops. This year is make or break. For mothercare the challenges were too great. It
Society to drift back and allow division to grow. And well be taking an in depth look at the papers with our reviewers broadcaster, Lynn Faulds Wood, and the journalist and commentator, anne ashworth. Good evening. Senior members of the royal family, including the queen, will meet on monday to discuss the future for prince harry and meghan. It follows their decision, announced last week, to step back from their prominent roles in the royal family. The summit will take place at the queens sandringham residence in norfolk, and is expected to look at a range of possibilities. The issue of funding is expected to play a central role. Meghan is in canada. Its likely, though not certain, that she willjoin the conversation by phone. Our royal correspondent, nicholas witchell, gave us a few more details about mondays meeting. I think officials have a better, not complete, idea of what they want and a range of possibilities will be suggested and a reality check perhaps for the sussex and they ho
Hello and welcome to bbc news. Borisjohnson has said that irans admission that it shot down by mistake a ukrainian passenger plane over tehran is an important first step. Four britons were among the 176 People Killed in wednesdays crash. A Senior Iranian military official said the airliner was misidentified as a cruise missile. Irans president rouhani has called the downing of the jet an unforgiveable mista ke. Our Diplomatic Correspondent Caroline Hawley has more. This is the moment iran made a catastrophic error, firing a missile into a passenger plane, killing everyone on board. For three days, in the face of mounting evidence, iran adamantly denied it was responsible. But this morning brought an extraordinary about face. On state run television, a Senior Commander of the powerful revolutionary guards came out, on the orders of the supreme leader, to come clean. He explained that irans air defences had been on alert. They thought american cruise missiles had been fired. A quick deci
Been fired. Some have given press statements a quick decision was behind us. We saw Arlene Foster go taken and it was wrong. Translation in these in with the dup mlas and sinn fein difficult circumstances, i am here before you to explain what happened. Went ten as well. They are all now in the chamber, the processes were but before that, i have to say supposed to get started at one that we accept all the oclock, i think things were ever so responsibility for the accident and we lay ourfate into our higher slightly delayed. But it is northern officials hands. There is anger that the plane ireland, things never go to time was allowed to take here. We are going to get the offjust after iran had fired speaker and deputy speakers missiles at american bases in iraq, nominated and sworn in, and once and when the country was braced for a response. That happens, then we get into the the disaster has piled pressure nitty gritty, the processes of on the regime both from within iran and from getti
Sky News has been tracking locations visited by party leaders in the first half of the general election campaign to decipher what their choices tell us about the parties' election strategies.