senior civil servant sue gray a topjob, after her inquiry into lockdown parties was critical of number 10. the arctic monkeys and guns n rosesjoin eltonjohn at the top of the bill at this year s glastonbury festival. and a final sign off, from ken bruce on bbc radio 2, after 31 years. and coming up on the bbc news channel, jason roy returns to form with a brilliant century as england close in on a one day series win against bangladesh. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. constance marten and mark gordon, the couple charged with gross negligence manslaughter and concealing the birth of a child, are appearing before magistrates. it follows the discovery of the body of a baby, found in woods near brighton on wednesday. police say it s too early to tell when the infant died. a postmortem examination is taking place. duncan is taking place. kennedy has the very latest. mark gordon arrived at the court and was helped out of the van by police and prison officers. he
as veteran broadcaster ken bruce prepares for his last show on radio 2. it s entirely within the bbc s right to ask me to step away a little early and gardening leave is a known concept in broadcasting and in many other areas. good morning. the bbc understands that some energy firms are expecting the government to keep support at, or near, current levels and they are amending their bills with that expectation in mind. the typical energy bill for a household in the uk is set to rise to £3,000 a year from april, but there are calls for the government to keep its current level of support. that support currently means the government is limiting the typical bill to £2,500 a year, plus a £400 winter discount. that support is due to end in april and fuel poverty campaigners say that means the number of households struggling to afford bills could rise from 6.7 million to 8.4 million. a treasury source said it wouldn t comment on speculation, but the chancellorjeremy hunt told the
as veteran broadcaster ken bruce signs off from his radio 2 show for the last time. borisjohnson may have misled parliament over law breaking parties at downing street during the coronavirus pandemic. that s according to mps investigating the former prime minister s conduct. the privileges committee says evidence strongly suggests breaches of coronavirus rules would have been obvious to mrjohnson, and identified four examples where he may have misled the house of commons. mrjohnson said there was no evidence he knowingly misled parliament. our political correspondent, iain watson is at westminster. joining me now is caroline slocock director of the independent think basically the privilege committee just be clear who they are as a committee of eight mps appointed by the whole house of commons and are answerable to the house of commons. the conservative majority on a committee so borisjohnson s party, some of his own mps in majority on a committee of its chaired by harri
former england captain michael vaughan is appearing at the hearing into racist behaviour at the cricket club. it follows allegations made by azeem rafiq in august 2020. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the former health secretary, matt hancock, has described the leaking of thousands of his whatsapp messages written during the height of the covid pandemic as a massive betrayal and breach of trust . he says the messages were released in a biased account to suit an anti lockdown agenda . but the journalist, isabel oakeshott, who revealed the messages, insists she s acted, in the public interest. the messages suggest mr hancock pushed to close schools during the pandemic, while the education secretary at the time, sir gavin williamson, wanted them to stay open. our political correspondent, jonathan blake, has more from westminster. the impact of the pandemic on education. we the impact of the pandemic on education- the impact of the pandemic on education.
if you thought we d left winter behind, technically we have, next week you may well be doubting that because it is set to turn colder, cold enough for some of us to see some snow. more on that in a moment. back to the here and now, we ve got a lot of cloud around, its quite quiet, not moving quickly as far as the weather goes this afternoon. a lot of cloud, some showers through scotland, northern ireland and northern england, the best of the sunshine in south wales and southern england and temperatures where they have been during the week, 7 10, not particularly windy. tonight we will see more cloud rolling westwards across england into east wales, northern ireland and southern scotland. staying pretty cloudy. there could be the odd light shower. but when we see leo breaks in west wales, the south west of england, the north west of scotland, we could see a touch of frost but it s also when we have the chance for sunshine tomorrow, the best of that across northern and central