Footballer oj simpson has died of cancer at the age of 76. His family said today he died surrounded by his children and his grandchildren. Oj simpson his grandchildren. Oj simpson was famously acquitted of killing his wife , nicole brown killing his wife, nicole brown simpson, and her friend ron goldman in 1994, in a trial that gnpped goldman in 1994, in a trial that gripped america almost 100 Million People tuning in to watch live tv coverage of now that famous pursuit of oj simpson driving a white ford bronco followed by multiple police cars across l. A. After his record breaking career in the nfl, he became an actor and had roles in naked gun. But in 2008, he was convicted for his role in a las vegas Armed Robbery and served almost nine years in prison. Well, as far as years in prison. Well, as far as news here in the uk is concerned , the Prime Minister says his plan is working as new nhs figures show hospital waiting lists in england have fallen for the fifth month in a row. Over 305,000 people have been waiting more than a year to start routine hospital treatment at the end of february. Thats down the end of february. Thats down from just over 320,000 at the end of january. The government and nhs england have both pledged to eliminate all waiting lists of more than a year by march next year. Rishi sunak said there is, though, more to be done well when i became Prime Minister, i said that cutting waiting lists was one of my five priorities and whilst we havent made as much progress as i would have liked, todays figures show that we are making headway towards that goal over the last five months, a reduction of around 200,000 in the overall waiting list, which is positive. Waiting list, which is positive. And if it wasnt for industrial action, an extra 430,000 patients would have been treated. So whilst theres of course a lot more work to do, the plan is working. Meanwhile, nearly half of Health Service workers have spent time looking at jobs outside the nhs. Researchers have found around 47 have looked at employment outside the service, with 14 applying for non nhs jobs between march and june last year. Its understood job stress, workload, Staff Shortages and pay disputes are the top reasons for staff wanting to leave. A man was wanting to leave. A man was remanded in custody today after being charged with murdering a woman who was fatally stabbed in yorkshire, as she pushed her babyin yorkshire, as she pushed her baby in a pram. 25 year old Habibur Masum will appear in court again at Bradford Crown court tomorrow. Speaking today only to confirm his name, date of birth and address during a six minute hearing, 27 year old Kulsoom Akhtar died after being stabbed in bradford on saturday afternoon. Her baby was unharmed afternoon. Her baby was unharmed in the attack. The metropolitan in the attack. The metropolitan police here in london has referred itself to the independent office for Police Conduct following the murder of a woman in london. Officers were contacted twice by camerman tim freenets friends because they were worried about her safety. The 27 year old, known to her friends as angela, was found inside her home address at a property in bayswater on monday. A post mortem examination carried out yesterday found the cause of death. There was sharp force trauma. There have been no arrests and Police Enquiries continue. Hundreds of tata steel continue. Hundreds of tata Steel Workers are set to go on strike over the proposed closure of port talbots blast furnaces in wales. Around 1500 steelworkers based in port talbot and llanwern in south wales have voted for industrial action over the companys plan to close the furnaces, resulting in potential job losses of 2800. Its the first time in over 40 years that port talbot steelworkers have gone on strike. Institutional bias prevented further investigation of complaints made by subpostmasters about the faulty post office horizon. It software system. Former post Office Managing Director david smith has been giving evidence today to the horizon. It inquiry. Between 1999 and 2015, more than 900 subpostmasters were prosecuted due to the flawed software. Mr smith also flawed software. Mr smith also apologised today for a 2010 email he sent, saying a pregnant sub postmistress prison sentence was brilliant. News meanwhile, royal mail is say its working hard to remove counterfeit stamps from circulation in britain after an increase in reports of fakes being sold in shops and online, the telegraph reports today , china is flooding reports today, china is flooding britain with counterfeit royal mail stamps and small retailers are buying forgeries online. Its understood the fakes are causing a rise in complaints when stamps are bought from legitimate stores. And yet theyre being deemed fraudulent, resulting in a £5 fine for any receiver of those letters. Gb news asks shoppers in horsham, west sussex, today what they thought about the problem. Thought about the problem. Awful. But this is what happens. Theres a lot of counterfeit, items right across the patch, really, so it doesnt surprise me, but i dont know whether theres anything that can be done at the borders. Dreadful. Really dreadful situation. Just in addition to Everything Else thats going wrong in the world. Well, i dont use stamps very often, to be perfectly honest. So its. But i did see the difference between the real and the counterfeit. And you know, youd be hard pressed to see it, wouldnt you . Wouldnt you . Thats it from me for now. For the very latest stories, do sign up to gb news alerts. It is worth it. Scan the qr code on your screen or go to gbnews. Com alerts. Im back in an hour. Thanks very much for that, polly. I am Michelle Dewberry polly. I am Michelle Dewberry and im keeping you company until 7 00 tonight. Alongside me, the former editor of the sun, Kelvin Mackenzie, and the co founder of novara media, Aaron Bastani. Good evening, Aaron Bastani. Good evening, gentlemen. To both of you. Hello. You know the drill. As well on this programme, dont you . Ifs well on this programme, dont you . Its not just about us. Its about you at home as well. Whats on mind tonight . You whats on your mind tonight . You can touch with me all the can get in touch with me all the usual ways, but also the new snazzy havent snazzy way. If you havent already, get yourself to already, you can get yourself to our gbnews. Com. You can our website gbnews. Com. You can go slash your say and go to then slash your say and you can talk to me on there. Ive already been in touch with a few of you already, and that will continue as well throughout the programme, also , did you the programme, also, did you know today lots that i want to talk to you about, tonight well be picking up on the oj simpson stuff. I want to talk to you about high streets, about rough sleeping. I want to talk to you about buses and whether or not your boss should leave you alone when for when youve finished work for the not. But before the night or not. But before i do, its national day. Do, its National Pet Day. Everybody, of you have been everybody, lots of you have been getting with to getting in touch with me to share your we need a bit of share your pet. We need a bit of light heartedness, dont we . So let quick look a let me have a quick look at a couple of them, now, here we go. Look at this. This first one. This is paul and rascal. I can tell ones paul which tell which ones paul and which ones i think rascal is ones rascal. I think rascal is the , from northumberland. The budgie, from northumberland. Look at this one. Oh, hey, look at that. I dont know what kind at that. I dont know what kind of dog it is. Im absolutely rubbish when it comes to dogs, but that is a very cute dog, thats from frank. There in the west midlands. What is that . A basset cocker spaniel, i think spaniel. Be think cocker spaniel. I might be wrong. Think cocker spaniel. I might be wronglooks like. It looks like. It looks like. No liver markings on no idea. Liver markings on the face. Cannot tell one dog from i cannot tell one dog from another. I must confess, also a friend the show. One of my friend of the show. One of my panellists, tom bodett. Look at this. Sent picture of this. He sent us a picture of his is mimi in his cat, this is mimi in cheltenham. There you go. Keep cheltenham. There you go. Keep your pet stories and your pet pictures coming in National Pet Day today. But of course, the big news theres not many people in tracks actually, today, in their tracks actually, today, many , many people. Right. When many, many people. Right. When i say you the word oj simpson , say to you the word oj simpson, many of you, will immediately have very strong opinion, and have a very strong opinion, and it perhaps wont be about the fact that he was an iconic nfl player. It perhaps wont be about the fact that he was, a movie star to many people, or the fact that he was a Brand Ambassador for places like hertz. No, of course it will be. The fact that he was accused of murdering his ex wife and her friend , something that he very friend, something that he very passionately denied. Many people passionately denied. Many people absolutely do not agree, though , absolutely do not agree, though, that he was innocent. I can tell you that now, Kelvin Mackenzie , you that now, Kelvin Mackenzie, i mean, you are you know, you are a man. Youve spent your whole career telling stories. If someones fresh theyve someones fresh to this, theyve just switched on the telly. They were not one of those 95 Million People that watched this car chase. They were not one of the 150 million that watched 150 Million People that watched the trial give a very potted history , just an overview of history, just an overview of this story about oj simpson. This story about oj simpson. Okay, so its about 30 years ago, and this was in brentwood, which is a reasonably fashionable suburb of los angeles. And its at night. Fashionable suburb of los angeles. And its at night. And angeles. And its at night. And a man with a knife , stabs to a man with a knife, stabs to death, as it turns out, to be 0. 1. Death, as it turns out, to be o. J. Simpsons ex wife and her friend , a guy called, goldman, friend, a guy called, goldman, i think. And then what happened was the reason that Everybody Knows about it is because for the First Time Ever , the the First Time Ever, the networks all broke into whatever they were showing, whether its soaps or anything else, and showed a chase of the police, trying to catch oj because he he tookit trying to catch oj because he he took it on his he took it on his toes and here it is now. Yeah. Here you go. So this is the car chase, actually. So as kevin was just saying, Nicole Brown Smith was the ex wife. Ron goldman was the friend. He was actually waiter , in actually a waiter, in a restaurant. I think he was apparently returning Something Back when back to nicole when this incident happened. We incident happened. And when we say, these two were say, these two people were stabbed, i nicole, aaron, stabbed, i mean, nicole, aaron, she was stabbed in the head. In the neck. She was almost decapitated anyway. Oj simpson, he was then supposed to be turning himself in. Instead, he was, basically, they couldnt find him. He then ended up in this absolutely bizarre car chase. Were watching this now. This is a ford bronco. It was apparently being driven by one of his team mates, who then later went on to say that apparently oj simpson had a gun to his own head. Oj simpsons head. During this whole time, 95 Million People apparently watched this car chase unfold. The car chase, plus the standoff at the end lasted for about 19 minutes in total. This was such a spectacle. I want to put you in context in case you know, in case youre not really familiar with this, this would be like someone akin to like, a david beckham, this level of kind of stardom, if not, perhaps beyond. People were lining the streets of route. They kind of this, route. They were kind of this, route. They were kind of they to call of cheering. They used to call him juice, like oj, obviously. They used to call him juice. They used to call him juice. They were free juice. It was a huge, huge spectacle. All of huge, huge spectacle. All of this, as ive just been mentioning. Then, of course, it was then went to the trial. Youll be perhaps familiar with many of the things that happened in that trial. It was absolutely dogged by accusations of racism. Many that many people were saying that people were people in the police were racist, theyd planted racist, that theyd planted evidence tampered with evidence or tampered with evidence. Of came evidence. Much of it then came down. Ladies and to down. Ladies and gents, to a glove. Do remember that . Glove. Do you remember that . This what they were then this glove, what they were then saying is that theyd found this glove. Bloody glove. And if glove. This bloody glove. And if oj could get on. Here oj simpson could get it on. Here we look, ive got the we go. Look, ive got the footage of said glove, if you could get it on, then, you know, that might show us one thing. But he couldnt get it on, if but if he couldnt get it on, if it didnt fit, it was if the glove. If the glove dont fit, you must acquit. Look at him. There pulling that on. And there pulling that glove on. And i to say, i dont even i have to say, i dont even think oj took stand after think oj took to the stand after that, because that apparently convinced the members the convinced the members of the jury convinced the members of the jury such a point that that jury to such a point that that is seen by many, aaron, as the moment that he apparently came across has been innocent. Do you think was . Think he was . Well, i dont know, beyond all reasonable doubt. I mean, at the time it was a bit of a standing joke that hed sort of quote unquote, gotten away with it. And there was a broader context rodney context of the rodney king riots, the time, riots, around the same time, slightly earlier la, and slightly earlier in la, and there was a concern there probably was a concern with public disorder with regards to public disorder and surrounding it. And the politics surrounding it. But i think his his case but i dont think his his case was overwhelming. I do remember was overwhelming. I do remember i was young when this was i was very young when this was of being broadcast. I do of course, being broadcast. I do remember overwhelming shock, in response , but particularly for response, but particularly for me in a uk context, why this stands out as memorable is that it marks a singular it really marks a singular moment you use the word spectacle. I think thats absolutely right. People began to engage with television in a quite different new way. We saw quite different new way. We saw that as well, with lady dianas, passing a few years afterwards , passing a few years afterwards, maybe a year or two after that as well. There was a shift as well. So there was a shift going there, transatlantic going on there, transatlantic with television being this new medium, quintessential medium by how we make sense and understand the world, it is really, really odd. I must, however , it must be i must, however, it must be said that even although although the way the may america divided was the White Community thought he was guilty as sin and the black community didnt. However, when it went to a civil court, when one of the family then sued him , the civil family then sued him, the civil jury family then sued him, the civil jury found that he had done it and awarded 33 million to the families. And they they theyve hardly had a penny of it, to be honest. The guy the guy was a criminal. I mean, after all, do you think he was innocent . No, i think he was. The america was going through a strange period at that time. First of all, there was huge kind of racial tension that was mainly tension that jury was mainly black, right . There was black, right . And there was a lot played on that issue. Lot of played on that issue. Right. But that tension , it was right. But that tension, it was the same kind of idea that cleared michael jackson. You cleared michael jackson. You know, there was a sense that if you were famous, if you were famous, you didnt do things right. That would be different today america. Yeah. Mean, today in america. Yeah. I mean, today in america. Yeah. I mean, today would today in america, he would i mean, hes had 30 as far as im concerned. Hes had 30 years and he have of his he should have died of his cancer jail. But, you know, cancer in jail. But, you know, he ended up getting 17 years for Armed Robbery later on. So this was not some innocent guy, you know, this was this was a killer and a criminal and it is. But here we are. Were now, what, 6000 miles away from from los angeles. And yet this is leading, leading the news. So its a its a big story of his death as well as his life. One of my viewers, julie, shes got in touch and said, michel, i was actually in las vegas, due to fly to la. The very next day when the verdict came we was warned that came in and we was warned that if oj simpson was found guilty of the murders, our flight would perhaps have cancelled perhaps have to be cancelled because was unquestionable because it was unquestionable the that there would the sentiment that there would be race rioting in la. And it wouldnt be appropriate or safe to fly in. Thats an interesting point, and i do think as well, oj simpson i think at that time there was quite, like a black activism movement going on. But i dont actually think oj simpson can have aligned himself to that. So before all this stuff, obviously he was like a huge Brand Ambassador for places like hertz, but he was always quite reluctant to get involved with that, kind