and dubbed the next david attenborough, a conservationist kid meets one of his biggest heros. hello and welcome to bbc news. teachers are calling for more children in england to be urgently given free school meals in order to support families struggling with the cost of living. they say the programme should be expanded to include all families who receive universal credit. in a letter to ministers, uniions are warning that more than two and a half million children live in households that miss meals or struggle to access healthy food and insist now is the right moment to act. alice key reports. lunch is served at this half term holiday club in stockport. staff here are responsible for keeping 20 children a day fed and entertained. but as rising prices start to hit parents pockets, there are fears that without more support, children could go hungry. we know that a lot of the families who come here are living in food poverty. and have certainly been impacted since the cost o
plate. she made a proper omelet in a proper omelet pan that night. the host was blown away by its lightness and its taste. you have to understand in those days, no one had an omelet pan in metro boston. we would not know where to start or a garlic press. smart mother, no more than 25 minutes, serve a meal that s rival over home cooking. pretty good? american food was focused on convenience food, frozen items and canned items that were all a advertised and touted as a great way to save time. everywhere that was packaged and processed and under plastics and inboxes. it was not recognizable. just pop them in a frying pan with a little water to produce mouth-watering fried potatoes in minutes. people discover can soup as sauce poured over the chicken soup and whatever that was your sauce. americans we eat jello. people used a lot of spam, it would not be unusual where there was grilled spam with slices of pineapple on top of it. we ate without much style flare
an emergency meeting in paris as the uk calls for an investigation into the treatment of liverpool fans at saturday s champions league final. new data will show how much food and drink prices have been rising as the cost of living crisis grows. we ll have all the details as those findings are released. president biden meets grieving families in texas amid anger at the slow police response to last week s school shooting in which 19 children and 2 teachers were killed. russia insists the liberation of eastern ukraine s donbas region is its unconditional priority as it continues its invasion of the country. that, as eu leaders gather to try to agree a ban on russian oil imports. and.we get a tour of the queen s floating palace the royal yacht britannia ahead of platinum jubilee celebrations this weekend. a bbc news investigation has learned that police forces are taking longer to respond to serious incidents in england and wales. information requests indicate that office
dark clouds, threatening and delivering plenty of showers, as you can see on the cloud and radar pictures. you might imagine with a showery picture we have low pressure sitting right over the uk. not the strongest, deepest one we have ever seen and the winds are fairly light. that doesn t mean the showers, when you have got them, lost a bit longer than they would do otherwise. very few fliess agriplace a shower or two today. very little in the way of sunny spells even in between them. temperature struggling today, a five o clock this afternoon come into the low teens for many. they will be fewer showers in northern ireland and sunny spells into this evening. a line of showers developing to south west england, the middles, home counties and towards eastern england which could be thundery in places. the channel islands may be dry with sunny spells throughout. quite often, showers die away towards the end of the day. not for england and wales, some will continue all night. turni