there is no punishment, there is no brexit bill, the financial settlement is only about settling the accounts. i m nicholas owen. the other main stories on bbc news at 5. a 20 year old student is found guilty of planting a home made bomb on a busy london underground tube train. ten years on from the disappearance of madeleine mccann we return to praia da luz as british police say their investigation remains open. a big fall in profits at sainsbury‘s. the supermarket giant blames tough market conditions and a fall in the value of sterling. good afternoon i mjane hill at westminster on the day that the general election campaign officially got underway. theresa may has launched an attack on european officials accusing someone on european officials accusing someone to try to influence the outcome of the british general election by using threats. she said that talks would be tough and the position of the uk had been represented the standards of the european commission harden
we speak. and in wales they ve lost overall control of bridgend and merthyr tydfil, two councils in their south wales heartland. although they have held on to the capital city, cardiff. also newport and swansea. and it has been a bad night for ukip overnight they lost every seat they were defending. and the party has been wiped out on councils like lincolnshire, hampshire and essex. their vote share is down dramatically, most of it going straight to the conservatives. coming up, we ll be live in glasgow. the snp are trying to take the city council from labour. the scottish counting has onlyjust started, so those results are all to come. labour have had decades of controlling glasgow city council. we ll be covering the results from scotland as they come in. to say the least, there is plenty to talk about! here in the studio we re joined by our political editor laura kuenssberg. the home office minister brandon lewis for the conservatives. the shadow foreign secretary labour
bollywood film of all time? and coming up in the sport on bbc news, england s cricketing summer has started. they re in bristol, playing a one day international against ireland. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the conservatives have made big gains in the local elections, recording their best results since 2008. many of the votes cast yesterday across england, scotland and wales are still being counted, but labour has fared badly in many areas, including losing control of its former stronghold of glasgow. ukip has seen its vote collapse, only winning a single seat so far. the liberal democrats have had a mixed result, and haven t found the breakthrough they had been hoping for. just a few moments ago, this is how things looked. it means the conservatives have so far gained 240 seats, labour have lost 177, the liberal democrats of lost 177, the liberal democrats of lost 31 and ukip have lost 68. when it comes to councils. the tories have picked up five counci
saturday the 6th of may. the campaign of the french presidential candidate emmanuel macron says it s suffered a massive hacking attack before france goes to the polls. the teenage british racing driver who lost both legs in a formula 4 crash says he ll get back behind the wheel. i want to take the positives out of this and that is it for now, i have still got a few years in this for sure. still got a few years in this for sure. in sport chelsea are on the brink of the premier league title as their closest challengers, tottenham, are beaten by west ham at the london stadium. these papers are taking part in the first ever festival of makers and we will find out what it is all about. and we will find out what it is all about. another north south divide across the country. the chilly start for scotland. some outbreaks of showery rain into the extreme south west. some outbreaks of showery rain into the extreme south west. good morning. first our main story. after a day of tory tr
at west ham last night. and the travel show heads to the church of the holy sepulchre injerusalem. that s in half an hour here on bbc news. good morning and welcome to bbc news. theresa may has sought to play down talk of a landslide general election victory after the conservatives made major gains at local elections. the tories gained 500 seats and seized control of ii councils, with the gains mostly coming at the expense of labour and ukip. the tory leader said she would fight for every vote on 8thjune to strengthen her hand in brexit talks. labour leaderjeremy corbyn said his party faced a challenge on a historic scale to win back power, but insisted he could close the gap on the tories. meanwhile, the lib dems say they would raise income tax by a penny in the pound to raise £6 billion for nhs and social care. the conservatives did well in the book for six metropolitan mayers. metropolitan mayers. andy street was the victor in a tight contest for mayor in the west midla