Brighter with a few showers and it is still going to be worn this weekend. Its wednesday the 4th of october. After weeks of speculation, the Prime Minister is expected to use his leaders speech at the conservative Party Conference to confirm that hes scrapping the second leg of h52 from birmingham to manchester. Labours andy burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, accused the government of treating people in the north as Second Class Citizens, while the West Midlands mayor andy street, a conservative, was said to be distraught. Our Political Correspondent Damian Grammaticas reports from the conference in manchester. Pushing his way through the late night conference crowds, rishi sunak, relaxed and smiling. He has, it seems, made his mind up. Its the end of h52 to manchester. This was what the pm was saying 2a hours ago. What i want to do is make the right decision for the country. This is an enormous amount of peoples money, taxpayers money, everybody watching, billions and billions
All swear clouds gathered without burkes outbreaks of rain. The full forecast coming up here on breakfast. Its saturday the 30th of september. Our main story. A teenage girl who died after a School Bus Crashed on the motorway in merseyside has been named as 15 year old Jessica Baker. She was killed along with the coach driver in the collision on the m53 at morning rush hour yesterday. Several other children were injured. Our correspondent Helena Wilkinson has the latest. This is a 15 year old Jessica Baker, one of S Schoolchildren on the bus skilled in the crash. The driver who has been named online as Stephen Shrimpton also died. More than 50 children were on their way to school when their journey children were on their way to school when theirjourney ended in tragedy. This is the aftermath of the crash on the m53 On Merseyside. The coach overturned. It happened just after eight 0clock yesterday morning. A Major Incident was declared. Police, ambulance and fire crews were quickly sen
Rishi sunak says hes Slamming The Brakes on 20 mph speed limits and low Traffic Neighbourhoods. Police arrest a man in his 60s over the felling of the Sycamore Gap Tree in northumberland. And european elation at the ryder cup in rome after they stun the states. And on newsnight at 10 30, well go deeper behind the headlines and speak live to key players on todays big stories, plus a first look at tomorrows front pages. We begin tonight with news of a significant advance in the treatment of Prostate Cancer. An International Trial has found that thousands of men every year could be successfully treated with a more intense form of radiotherapy which would significantly shorten the time it takes to treat them. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men with 52,000 cases diagnosed every year. One in eight men, and one in four black men, will be affected. And 12,000 die from it every year. The study was led by the Royal Marsden hospital in london, which said the treatment could help 8,0