latest headlines... patients are dying in corridors, that's the warning from more than 60 a&e doctors who have written an open letter to the prime minister. plastic free supermarket aisles and a5p plastic free supermarket aisles and a 5p bag charge extended to small shops, theresa may lays out her 25 year plan to improve the environment. rescuers desperately searching for eight people still missing in the california mudslides. i7 missing in the california mudslides. 17 are known to have died. a look at the market numbers... this is how london and frankfurt ended today, and across the atlantic in the us, this is how the dow and the nasdaq are getting on. let's get more now on the news that the heads of 68 accident and emergency units have written to theresa may warning of what they say are "intolerable" conditions, resulting in patients dying prematurely in hospital corridors. the letter says the nhs is chronically underfunded, while the plans, drawn up by the government to cope with the winter pressures, have been "nowhere near" good enough. taj hassan, who's president of the royal college of emergency medicine, has been telling our health editor, hugh pym, how bad the situation has become. well, i think the latest figures, as well as the letter today from 68 co nsulta nts well as the letter today from 68 consultants in emergency medicine show the scale of challenge that emergency departments are facing at the moment in what is the worst set of figures in the last 15 years. you have used some strong language too, how serious is the situation? we've said for a long time that the situation is very serious and what we situation is very serious and what we need now is we are in the middle of what is clearly a crisis and we need to work collaboratively together, as colleges, department of health, and other bodies to be able to address the problems that we face and identify solutions that are going to help us in the next few weeks and months. and then move on to medium—term solutions. weeks and months. and then move on to medium-term solutions. every january there a lot of pressure. how serious is it this time, given that injanuary serious is it this time, given that in january there is always serious is it this time, given that injanuary there is always a lot of stress 7 injanuary there is always a lot of stress? there's always a lot of pressure january to march, in what we pressure january to march, in what we call winter but in the last few yea rs we call winter but in the last few years we've got steadily worse in terms of the pressures facing not just emergency departments but the rest of the hospital. the reason for thatis rest of the hospital. the reason for that is we do not have enough beds in our hospitals and social care funding has decreased. we have challenges with staffing. what we are putting forward as a college is are putting forward as a college is a range of measures in the short and medium—term to address those measures. the nhs works hard and by but how critical is this situation right now? the situation in our emergency department has steadily worsened. there is no doubt, as all of the figures have shown, that it has reached a clear crisis point where people are trying very hard to maintain stability in our emergency departments, both in england as well as the rest of the uk. the woman behind a book that led to a lingerie company losing its royal warrant has said she meant no offence by its publication. rigby and peller had supplied lingerie to the queen and royal household since the 605. june kenton, the former owner of the company and author of "storm in a d—cup", said discretion had always been at the heart of her relationship with the royals. you never come out of the fitting room talking about a customer, ever. i certainly wouldn't come out talking about the queen. i've never said a single word every time i have been about the queen. so, i feel that whatever is in this book, that i wrote for my family, of all of the wonderful things that i've done during my life, iwrote wonderful things that i've done during my life, i wrote this book and called it a storm in a d—cup and now it is a major storm. i've never spoken about a major customer who i have fitted in the fitting room, let alone the queen. i mentioned the conversation that we had, she was obviously as nervous, probably as nervous, as i was. maybe not as much but she put me at ease and she was wonderful. to go to where the queen's private apartment is, you have to go through where all of the flowers are done and where all of the cooking is done, through all of the cooking is done, through all of the working areas. that's what i described. then you go up in the left and then you are in the queen's private apartment. june kenton, the former owner of rigby & peller. meanwhile for one devon butcher one food product has proved not just an income...but a vital life—saving tool. chris mccabe had to use a frozen black pudding to free himself after he became trapped in his walk in freezer. as he told johnny rutherford he believes the sausage saved his life. this butcher is lucky to be alive... not because he uses sharp knives but because he had become totally trapped inside of this bruiser. -- freezer. it was a terrifying experience, i came to the back of the shop to collect something for a customer and i opened the deep freeze and as i walked him, the wind caught the door and slammed it shut. i tried to get out by using the button on the door. i found that it was solid with eyes and i tried kicking it and that was no good. i looked around to find something to hit the button with and there were a couple of things that were not suitable until i found a stick of black pudding which is solid and i was able to use it to battle my way through the door. i was so frightened i could not work out how to do it initially but then i found the black pudding stick and moved all of this to get an angle on this button here. i did it by hitting it like this... and as you can see, it isn't that easy now! let's get out of here, it is very cold!|j isn't that easy now! let's get out of here, it is very cold! i agree with you! i normally fry them, gently... not too hot. the button was frozen because when the box was installed , was frozen because when the box was installed, there wasn't a silicon gel put around the button. now i have had it mended.|j gel put around the button. now i have had it mended. i guess you would never think of a black pudding in the same way again. you could say it isa in the same way again. you could say it is a very special black pudding because although it tastes very nice, to me, it saved my life. johnny rutherford, bbc spotlight. he would have thought a black pudding could save your life. let's have a look at the weather now, phil averyjoins us. i have to say i did not see a lot of sunshine today but i wasn't on my own, but a better chance of sunshine, the north of wales even better towards the south—west of england where things turned out to be glorious. clear skies in some parts allowing fog to form overnight, rather akin to what we form overnight, rather akin to what we had last night. some spots with northern ireland having fitting flop, —— fog. if the breeze does not pick up, there's no cloud to get rid of the fog. they could be an issue first up on friday. bear that in mind if you're journeying through many central and western parts. through the day, a lot of dry weather. a sprinkle of showers through eastern parts of the british isles but many of you could stay dry throughout the day. top temperatures of eight or 9 degrees. at the weekend, it there on the bbc weather website. you're watching beyond 100 days. president trump keeps the world waiting on the iran nuclear deal. ahead is an important deadline tomorrow and we still don't know if he plans to reimpose us sanctions. mr trump is under pressure from europeans and his own national security team to stick with the nuclear deal. he also faces pressure from the russia investigation but insists, repeatedly there was never any collusion. also on the programme... searching for survivors — eight people are still missing after the mudslides and flash floods in southern california that left 17 dead. the new york times was barred from publishing any more classified documents about the vietnam war. the pentagon, a newspaper and power — we sit down with steven spielberg to hear about his latest film, the post.