Qualification event in tokyo after crossing the finish line hand in hand. Good evening. New figures out today reveal the extent of britains drug crisis in the starkest terms possible. Deaths caused by the mis use of drugs mainly heroin and cocaine hit a record high in england and wales last year. In scotland too, drug related deaths are at their highest. Almost 3,000 people died from illicit drugs in england and wales last year. Thats a rise of 17 on the previous year. Throughout the week weve been reporting on one of the key factors behind this crisis the supply of drugs from the cities to britains towns and even villages or what police call the county lines. All too often children are involved and today our special correspondent, ed thomas, has been showing the police what hes discovered. As heroin deaths reach record highs, for three months weve investigated the rise in county line drug dealing, exploited teenage drug runners, vulnerable, long term users. Just taking it to feel norm
Match away from reaching the group stage of the Europa League after victory in the third round of qualifying tonight. Both took comfortable first leg leads into tonights matches. Wolves already 4 0 up against armenians pyunik. There were four more tonight including a first senior goal for teenager Morgan Gibbs White and a brilliant finish from diogojota saw them go through 8 nil on aggregate. Rangers swept aside fc midtjylland, 3 1 on the night, 7 3 on aggregate to set up a play off with legia warsaw the winner ino the group stage. Welsh side new saints are out, losing nine nil on agregate to ludogorets whilst aberdeen fell at the Europa League third qualifying round for the sixth consecutive season with an abject defeat at the hands of croatian side rijeka. The head coach of the scotland Womens National team, shelley kerr, has spoken about a row with her players after they were knocked out of the world cup in france which left some in tears. Kerr admits she, along with other members o
Murder of pc Andrew Harper. Because of death has been recorded as multiple injuries, it is consistent with our current belief andrew was caught between the vehicle on the surface of a road and then dragged for some distance. However the circumstances as to how andrew came to be out of his vehicle and caught under the suspect vehicle are as yet unknown. Therefore i would reiterate oui unknown. Therefore i would reiterate our plea for the public and media not to speculate on the circumstances of this incident while the investigation is ongoing. What we do know is andrew and his crew made where attending a reported burglary in bradford southend. While responding dedicated vehicle suspected to be involved in that burglary and as we said a gesture date within an hour of the incident happening we had arrested ten males aged between 13 and 30 on suspicion of murder. I can confirm that the males were arrested from a local authority run caravan and mobile home site, in reading road near burghfi
The headlines this evening a Great Partnership between lacazette and aubameyang saw arsenal secure a second win of the season. After being hit twice steve smith goes on to top score for australia and its england whore now in pain struggling with the bat at lords. Officially number one wales victory over england put them at the top of the rankings and bodes well for the world cup. Also coming up on the programme we round up the home nations action on day two of the mens eurohockey championships in antwerp. The canoeist who crowdfunded to have her own leg amputated and is now hoping for success at the World Championships in hungary. We begin with a promising start to Arsenals Premier League campaign. Theyve won their opening two fixtures for the first time in a decade. In a new look team where david luiz made his arsenal debut they narrowly beat burnley 2 1 at the emirates with the arsenal manager, unai emery saving particular praise for his new signings. Rhia chohan reports. This is one
Using computers to detect disease. The nhs is to get £250 million to build an Artificial Intelligence lab. And its set to be a busy transfer deadline day. Manchester united have agreed to sell striker Romelu Lukaku to inter milan in a deal worth up to £74 million. Good morning, and welcome to the bbc news at 9. Police say an officer who was attacked with a machete in east london is seriously injured, but will recover. The policeman was stabbed several times after he tried to stop a van in leyton at around midnight. A man in his fifties has been arrested. Our correspondent andy moore is in east london. Andy, what do we know so far . This incident happened just behind me just before midnight last night. Two officers in a marked patrol car were following a large white van, and we think it was not insured, which is why they were following it. They had the blue lights on and were trying to get it to pull over and it eventually did, just behind me and when the officers got out they were co