We spend the day with prince harry as he makes a surprise visit to a Charity Event for bereaved military children. Aston villas European Dream is over. Disappointment in athens as theyre knocked out in the semi finals of the Europa Conference League by olympiakos. Good morning from the blue peter garden, which is going to be fine in todays lovely weather once again. Is it going to last of the weekend . Join me throughout the programme. Its friday 10th may. Officalfigures released in an hour are expected to show the economy is no longer in recession, after growing in the first three months of this year. The uk entered recession after output fell during two consecutive quarters at the end of last year. Our Economics Correspondent andy verity reports. At this butcher on the Gloucester Road in bristol, business is ticking along, but hardly roaring away. After the soaring price rises ofjust over a year ago some customers are now seeing wages rise faster than prices, and the price of meat or cheese and eggs has fallen, allowing some of them to buy more. But even in this prosperous part of town, they are still very cautious. We find a lot of our customers tend to come in most days and buy a little bit of something thats fresh that they can use straight away and theyre not wasting things. Whereas before, people would buy a lot at the end of a week, stick it in their freezer, and then people put things in their freezer and it stays there. So at the moment, i think people are a little bit more conscious of buying and using and not having any waste. The economy is no longer in a slump, but economists forecast that it will grow by less than 1 this year compared to last. Thats far lower than before the 2008 financial crisis. And its a lot to do with chronically weak investment. Public investment in the postwar era used to be between 4 and 5 . Now its dropped to somewhere between 1. 5 and 2 per year and private investment, too, has been persistently weak. You need a long term, credible, coherent plan for spending, for tax and for public investment, on the basis of which and on the back of which private businesses can then commit to their investment. And the point of our policy is this. Policy is supposed to help us absorb shocks and create somewhat greater certainty and some measure of stability when actually policy in recent years has just done just the opposite. Its contributed to uncertainty. One Thing HoldingEconomic Growth back is tax. Where cuts to National Insurance benefit higher earners, theyre more than offset for lower earners by frozen tax bands, which dont rise with inflation. So a greater and greater chunk of their income is exposed to higher rates of tax. That tends to mean less spending overall and with it a slower economy. Andy verity, bbc news. Coming up to four minutes past six. Naga, you have more around the issue of small boats, all Political Parties laying out their plans more and more. The labour party has been under pressure to be much more clear about its plans when it comes to immigration and migration. The labour leader, sir keir starmer, will visit dover this morning where hell give details of how hell tackle People Smugglers and migrants arriving on small boats. Hell promise to make britains shores Hostile Territory for the criminal gangs by setting up a new Border Security command. Our Political CorrespondentDamian Grammaticas reports. So far this year, nearly 9,000 people have crossed the channel in small boats. The numbers arriving and staying via legal routes are far greater but tackling this issue of Boat Crossings is high up the political agenda. So today the labour leader, sir keir starmer, will set out labours alternative strategy. Labour will promise new Border Security measures. There will be a new Border Security command reporting to the home secretary. Hundreds of investigators working across the National Crime agency, Immigration Enforcement and mi5. With new powers like enhanced stop and search, financial investigations, search and seizure warrants, and £75 million earmarked for the Rwanda Scheme would be used to fund it. Well set up a new Border Security command with additional new cross border police, specialist investigators, but also make sure that theyve got new powers, Counter Terror style powers. Currently, some of those powers can only be used for terror investigations. But we think the threats to our Border Security and to life in the channel are so serious that we need to now apply those powers to criminal gangs who are undermining our Border Security instead. Rishi sunak� s plan is his Rwanda Scheme. The law has been passed, but no Asylum Seekers have yet been deported under it, though flights have been promised within weeks. By his side in Dover Last Summer was the local tory mp natalie elphicke. This week she defected to labour, saying mr sunak was not stopping the boats and she was confident labour would deal with the crossings. Sir keir starmer has said he would replace what he called gimmicks with graft and labour would deal with the backlog of people who have applied for asylum and are sitting in hotels. The conservatives believe labours plan would be no deterrent and they say they have been working hard to prosecute the smugglers and block their flows of money. Damian grammaticus, bbc news, westminster. 0ur Political CorrespondentHelen Cattjoins us from westminster. Helen, morning to you. As i was saying to charlie, there has been a lot of pressure on the labour party to offer a plan and even though there will be some things said today, its all about detail, isnt it . It today, its all about detail, isnt it . ,. , today, its all about detail, isnt it . It is, yeah. The conservatives have for a it . It is, yeah. The conservatives have for a while it . It is, yeah. The conservatives have for a while now it . It is, yeah. The conservatives have for a while now been have for a while now been criticising labour saying that they have not got a detailed plan to deal with this. Today we are going to get labours answer to that, they are going to put some flesh on the bones of what they have been saying about tackling those criminal gangs and you had a bit there about what they are planning to do. Hearing the government or labour, rather, trying to frame this about being graft, doing the low key Background Things that they think will work as opposed to what they see as the governments gimmicks, things like the Rwanda Scheme. Sources in government are saying, they are doing things to tackle the Smuggling Gangs, its not all about rwanda, there are things like trying to make sure that gangs cant get hold of boats, that sort of thing. What is interesting though that in common with the government, what is not in this kind from labour and admittedly we have not had the full speech from sir keir starmer yet, is any mention of increasing safe and legal routes will be able to apply for asylum in the uk without having to physically get here. Thats the solution that charities have long been saying is the way to tackle this. Its worth remembering that while all the focus is on small Boat Crossing is at the moment, this is the latest iteration of a very long running problem. Before that it was people stowing away in lorries to make dangerous crossings. There have been concerns for about 25 years now about the number of people congregating in Northern France to try to come to the uk and it is a problem that successive governments have not managed to fix. Successive governments have not managed to fix. Indeed, thank you, helen. New evidence, seen by the bbc, shows that contaminated blood continued to be given to nhs patients even after screening for hepatitis c was introduced in september 1991. Now there are calls for the compensation cut off date to be extended to include patients who were infected after that date as our Health Editor hugh pym reports. Remembering those whove died after being given blood contaminated with potentially fatal hepatitis c during surgery. For some living with the virus, theres been financial support, but only if infected before september 1991. Caz challis was given a Blood Transfusion during Cancer Treatment in 1992 and was infected with hep c. Shes received no support. Its the stress when youre fighting for every crumb on benefits and youre not recognised and youre not considered worth. Its the feeling of being told youre not worth it. Thats whats hit me the hardest. On september 1st, 1991, the uk officially started screening all new blood that was donated, but no formal system to check blood collected before then was ever introduced. We have more than one client who was infected by way of a Blood Transfusion with hepatitis c after september 1991. There was no such cutoff date for people that were infected with hiv, and so we cant see any reason for there being such a cut off date for people that were infected with hepatitis c. During hearings at the infected blood inquiry, doctors confirmed that untested blood did remain within the nhs blood supply even after screening began. I did remember at the time feeling a little bit nervous about the possibility of hcv emerging among some of our recipients. These are the individual scans. The test system itself, according to one expert, was not as reliable as it is now. It was based then on testing for antibodies. The test for the virus itself, what we call an rna test, took a little longer to develop than the antibody test. And there is that potential situation whereby somebody newly infected with the virus may have the virus circulating in their bloodstream but have not yet produced the antibodies. We now screen all Blood Products for the virus itself rather than the antibodies, but the initial screening was purely with antibodies, so that possibility did exist. The government says it will set up a new compensation scheme, but crucially, whether all support should extend beyond 1991 is likely to be addressed by the inquiry� s final report. Hugh pym, bbc news. Israels Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said he hopes he can overcome his differences Withjoe Biden after the us president withheld the delivery of some of the us� s biggest bombs to israel. Mr biden is unhappy about israeli plans to attack the southern gazan city of rafah, although the white house says it will continue working with israel to Inflict An Enduring Defeat on hamas. Five babies have died this year from whooping cough, following a surge in cases that have been reported by health officials. There have been nearly 2,800 cases in england this year. The Uk Health Security Agency says a decline in uptake of the vaccine and the very low numbers seen during the pandemic were both factors in the rise. A 22 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman was stabbed near a bus stop in edgware in north west london. The woman, in her 60s, was treated by paramedics but died at the scene. Police are trying to contact the victims family. A section of the m25 motorway around london will be fully closed for only the second time in its history from this evening as part of a £317 million upgrade. The work being carried out over the weekend is aimed at improving traffic flow and reducing pollution. Drivers are being warned they could receive ulez Penalty Charges if they dont follow official diversion routes. The adult film star Stormy Daniels has clashed with Donald Trumps defence team, during her second day of testimony at his criminal trial in new york. The former president is charged with hiding a payment to ms daniels to cover up an alleged affair before the 2016 election which he denies. 0ur North America editor sarah smith reports. Stormy daniels lawyer posted this picture of his client looking very happy to have finished with a hostile cross examination. In the courtroom, she was repeatedly accused of being a liar, of having made up the story about having sex with donald trump in 2006. Referring to her career in adult films, mr trumps attorney said to ms daniels, you have a lot of experience in making phony stories about sex appear to be real. She replied, the sex in the films is very much real, just like what happened to me in that room, referring to her alleged sexual encounter with mr trump and then saying, if that story was untrue, i would have written it to be a lot better. Donald trump denies ever having sex with Stormy Daniels and claims the case against him is bogus. This is a frankenstein case. They took a dead misdemeanour, they attached it to a dead alleged federal felony and zapped it back into life. So many of us are just amazed to watch this actually walk into court because its not a recognisable crime. The judge and jury kept straight faces, as ms daniels described being called a human toilet online and replying that she was the best person to flush that orange turd down. Because she tweeted a link to her online store selling team stormy merchandise the day mr trump was indicted, ms daniels was accused of trying to make money from this case. Not unlike mr trump, she said. He sends out frequent emails to supporters trying to raise money to defend himself. Stormy daniels testimony over a day and a half was explicit and explosive, talking about Donald Trump In Black Silk Pajamas and describing having sex with him. But it may not have much impact on this criminal case. Legally, it doesnt really matter whether donald trump and Stormy Daniels had sex. In fact, his defence team had been arguing for a mistrial, saying all this explicit detail has nothing to do with the case in hand. They were denied that. Donald trump doesnt deny paying Stormy Daniels to keep quiet, and what hes actually charged with is falsifying Business Expenses because he marked those Hush Money Payments as legal expenses, so it doesnt really have anything to do with the sex. Sarah smith, bbc news, new york. The israeli singer, eden golan, has qualified for tomorrows final of the Eurovision Song Contest in sweden. Isreal are through. She was applauded and cheered at the semi finals but there was also some booing. Her victory came hours after thousands of pro palestinian protestors gathered in the city of malmo, where the contest is being held. Simon is in the blue peter garden on Salford Quays this morning with the weather. Good morning to you. Beautiful flowers there, what is the daylight . Day like . Yes, we are in the middle of the first long dry spell of the year so why not come out and enjoy it . Petras bust is here in the blue peter garden in Salford Quays. It was the warmest day of the year so far yesterday in london and widely, and it will last for the next couple of days at least. For today, it is going to be another dry, warm day with some sunny bells. Most areas of the uk have this. Throughout the morning, we will have sunshine in most parts. A bit more cloud in Northern Areas and into scotland. The rain that we have in the final yesterday mostly cleared away, one or two spots of rain in the Northern Isles where temperatures make be only 11 degrees, 16 in stornoway, elsewhere temperatures up to 21 to 24 elsewhere temperatures up to 21 to 2a celsius. Maybe 25 degrees in the South East Of England once again. Temperatures might be a little bit higher than they were yesterday. Uv levels are still pretty high so do take care if you are out and about. Tonight we are going to see some low clouds moving away and into Eastern Areas, Misty First Thing tomorrow morning. 8 12 overnight. The mist and fog in Eastern Areas will generally move back into the north sea. It might linger around coastal areas but for most of us it is going to be another fine day on saturday, temperatures getting up to 21 to 2a celsius quite widely. A small chance of one or or thundery showers in Northern England and Southern Scotland throughout the day on saturday but for most of us it is dry, fine, sunny, uv levels will be high so bear that in mind. A decent start their weekend. High so bear that in mind. A decent start theirw