borisjohnson urges energy companies to act in the national interest and do more to cut rising bills as he meets energy bosses at downing street. the police watchdog says forces in england and wales are failing victims of burglaries, robberies and theft with too few suspects being charged. the crisis of local swimming pools the bbc finds more than 60 have closed across the uk in the past 3 years. hello and welcome to bbc news at 5:00pm. an amber heat warning for large parts of england and wales has come into force, as temperatures look likely to peak at 37 degrees celsius over the next four days. the met office has also warned there s an exceptional risk of fires spreading in many places and water companies believe a drought could be declared soon. celestina 0lulode has this report. this is what emergency services want to prevent. tinderbox dry conditions helped cause these fires last month. london fire brigade said it needs the public s help to prevent grass fires.
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liverpool cruised into the europa league knock out stages with a match to spare as a 4 0 victory over lask confirmed their place as group winners. they fired out of the blocks and were 2 0 up inside 15 minutes, thanks to luis diaz and cody gakpo. mo salah added a third from the penalty spot, before gapko made it four in stoppage time. and as toulouse didn t to beat union st gilloise, it means liverpool cannot be caught at the top of group e. elsewhere, roberto de zerbi says it s a historic day for brighton, as they beat aek athens to book their spot in the knockout phase of the europa league. the club are playing in europe for the first time in their history, and joao pedro scored the only goal of the game, from the penalty spot to give them the victory. if brighton beat marseille in theirfinal group game, they would avoid the knockout play offs stage. elsewhere, tomas soucek scored a late winner as west ham secured their place in the knockout stage at serbian side batka to
you re very welcome along to sportsday, wherever you are watching around the world. let s start, then, with football as liverpool cruised into the europa league knockout stages with a match to spare as a 4 0 victory over lask confirmed their place as group winners. they fired out of the blocks and were 2 0 up inside 15 minutes, thanks for luis diaz and cody gakpo. minutes, thanks to luis diaz and cody gakpo. mo salah added a third from the penalty spot, before gapko made it four in stoppage time. and as toulouse didn t beat union saint gilloise, it means liverpool cannot be caught at the top of group e. well, elsewhere, roberto de zerbi says it s a historic day for brighton as they beat aek athens to book their spot in the knockout phase of the europa league. the club are playing in europe for the first time in their history and joao pedro scored the only goal of the game from the penalty spot to give them the victory. if brighton beat marseille in theirfinal group game,
you re very welcome along to sportsday, wherever you are watching around the world. let s start, then, with football as liverpool cruised into the europa league knockout stages with a match to spare as a 4 0 victory over lask confirmed their place as group winners. they fired out of the blocks and were 2 0 up inside 15 minutes, thanks to luis diaz and cody gakpo. mo salah added a third from the penalty spot before gapko made it four in stoppage time. and as toulouse didn t beat union saint gilloise, it means liverpool cannot be caught at the top of group e. well, elsewhere, roberto de zerbi says it s a historic day for brighton as they beat aek athens to book their spot in the knockout phase of the europa league. the club are playing in europe for the first time in their history and joao pedro scored the only goal of the game from the penalty spot to give them the win and if brighton beat marseille in theirfinal group game, they would avoid the knockout play offs stage. el