Brands barbie, fisher price and moi, that is mattel to find out how his company s fortunes are being revived. Wherever you are joining around the world, once again hello and welcome to the programme. It is a billion dollar industry driven by creativity and innovation with a global reach and a diverse market. The toy industry is forecast to reach $302 billion in sales by 2030 and that estimate is at the conservative end of the scale. But falling birth rates and some of the highest inflation rates we have seen in decades have created challenging conditions for manufacturers and retailers and signal more tough times to come. While the covid pandemic boosted sales of toys and games temporarily, big name companies reported sales have started to slip back once again. Let s look at some of those numbers. Local toy sales reached $108. 7 billion in 2023, a 2% drop compared to 2022 with toy companies calling it a normalisation process after that exceptional growth linked to the pandemic. But acr
To move very quickly. Dan roan, bbc news, sydney. This programme continues on bbc one. After a trial lasting 10 months, a jury decided nurse lucy letby deliberately injected seven babies with air, force fed others milk and poisoned some with insulin. Her victims included twins and two boys in a set of identical triplets, who she murdered within 2a hours of each other. Consultants who told Hospital Managers they had concerns about letby were forced to apologise to herfor raising suspicions. Well ask why bosses at the countess of Chester Hospital, where she worked, failed to investigate the deaths for so long. There is only one Serial Killer of babies. The Executive Team were not the people who were responsible for the deaths of those babies, but they had some opportunities to get to the bottom of what was happening. And why does a Health Professional trained to save lives become a Serial Killer . The person who kills within a Healthcare Setting has already developed the desire to kill,
Downpours through the rest of the day. Enough rain to give poor travelling conditions, may be some localised flooding. Temperatures struggling as well. In newcastle under the rain it is 16 degrees this afternoon. Further south and east may be 24. It is a sunshine and showers story for most places. Through this evening and overnight this wet weather will start to pull away. Clinging onto the coast of South East Scotland and North East England for much of the night. Further west a few showers, some clear spells in the mix as well. Temperatures between 11 and 15. For tomorrow it will not be raining all the time, but they will be some showers. Todays rain clears away quite smartly and then some showers pppin9 quite smartly and then some showers ppping up, quite smartly and then some showers popping up, one or two heavy ones. Some places may avoid all the showers completely. Temperatures no great shape for this time of the year. If you get into the sunshine it will not feel too bad. Into we
On the harry kane story . That is exactly where we will pick things up. That potential transfer. A deal has been agreed in principle for Bayern Munich to sign the captain. But it is now his call to make. He has a year left. 30 came in a campaign where spurs finished eight, meaning they missed out on european football. Its not all done and dusted. It is now up for harry kane to decide. Hes been in this club since 200a. Hes been in this club since 200a. He said many times, he wants to win trophies. Hes second in the all time score list. Hes got 213 at the moment. Alan shearer has 360. Ive been speaking to fans who say they dont think that record will be enough to keep kane at the club. Bit of enough to keep kane at the club. E; it of a surprise, enough to keep kane at the club. E; t of a surprise, and we came to the stadium and it was Breaking News that we agreed the deal he agreed. That we agreed the deal he aareed. , ~ that we agreed the deal he aareed. , ~. ,. , agreed. Its kind of