energy bosses have held talks with the government to discuss plans to help customers struggling with soaring bills. ministers are promising more help in the coming months. a british man accused of being a member of the islamic state group is remanded in custody charged with terror offences. and the crisis of local swimming pools. the bbc finds more than 60 have closed across the uk in the past three years. hello. welcome to bbc news. welcome to bbc news. a&e departments in england had one of their worst months ever injuly, with record numbers of patients waiting more than 12 hours to be admitted. this is from the latest monthly performance data from nhs england. and the number of people waiting to start routine hospital treatment has risen to a new all time high. 6.7 million. the ambulance are dealing with the most urgent cases took an average of 29 minutes longer took an average of 29 minutes longer to respond than injune. shadow health secretary wes streeting has told the b
National security law. The us buys up nearly all stocks for the next three months of the drug remdesivir one of the only ones shown to work against covid. The victims comissioner for london calls forjuries on rape trials to be given clearer directions about rape myths and consent to try to increase the 3 conviction rate for rape. And now because of the lies about me hes just out and he is free, even with all the evidence. Thats frightening. And if youve given evidence in the trial of an alleged rapist, what was your epxrience like . Do let me know you can email, anonymously if you prefer victoria bbc. Co. Uk. And remembering the man who shouldve been englands first black footballer jack leslie was subject to racism now fans want to see him honoured with a statue outside his club. A growing list of companies are now slashing jobs as the uk economy suffers its worst contraction in 41 years. The Worlds Largest aircraft manufacturer, airbus says it plans to cut 1,700 jobs from its uk workf
That priesthood vocation and that vocation and this pope reenergized, philadelphia and the world and will reenergize vocations, as well. Father martin, is it anticipated at all that pope francis will change the rules, tradition, change rules that might make it easier to recruit popes, for instance as you know better than i, there are married popes. Im sorry, married priests. There are married priests who converted. Would, is it expected that pope francis will change the rules at all . Its not expected. Its a practice. We have married priests already. There has been around the senate on the family, whose second part is coming up in october, a lot of discussion among cardinals and archbishops abthe possibility of married priests. Frankly, i think if anything does change, that will be one of the first things that does. Actually, this pope when asked that question before about that, he said it can change. Its only a discipline. Its not dogma, its not doctrine. If there is anything that per
Dana the former new york city mayor trying to start his candidacy with a massive ad buy. Over 30 million to influence voters in key primary states and the company he founded Bloomberg News caused controversy per the news outlets as itll continue their tradition of not investigating bloomberg, his family, foundation, and will do the same with other Democratic Candidates. President trump is not offlimits. Going to continue to cover him. Can get into all of this. Juan, can i go to you first . What is the constituency for a bloomberg run . Juan you have a lot in the donor class on the democratic side, wall street side who historically backed Hillary Clinton and are externally nervous about Elizabeth Warren. They were in apoplexy. They thought, if Elizabeth Warren gets it, what do we do . It was bill gates who said, maybe i would look at trump, right . That gives you an idea whats going on there. Now we have a billionaire versus a billionaire. I think its a real billionaire versus a guy who
IAN Jeffers became Victims Commissioner in the same month the British government published their Legacy Bill. The office was predictable clunky in response while experienced advocates across Ireland engaged comprehensively with these heinous proposals. However, Mr Jeffers recovered some credibility by launching his office’s findings on the needs of the bereaved of the conflict and recommended a scheme of reparations for all bereaved. Albeit in his last week in the office.