tasked with turning things around at the john lewis partnership. she had impeccable career credentials, except for the fact she never done a day s work in retail in her life. could she really be the person to pull off what would be one of the biggest turnarounds in british business for a generation? a daughter of the windrush generation, born in the east end of london, sharon white had scaled the height of civil service is one of the senior economist sharon white had, before taking charge at ofcom. but within weeks of her surprise appointment, she found herself having to take some very tough decisions permanently shutting almost a third of the department stores factory outlets. this was a very bitter pill to swallow indeed. and yet, two years into a five year plan, there are some signs that the medicine is working. she s never given an major lengthy broadcast interview before. the question is simple, and a lot rides on the answer notjust for her, but for the very idea of
i had no right to overturn the election, the presidency belongs to the american people and the american people alone. emergency workers in morocco say they re hopeful of reaching a five year old boy who s spent four days trapped in a well. british ministers are strengthening a bill that will force social media companies to take down reported content more quickly. and the queen reads cards from well wishers ahead of the 70th anniversary of her accession to the throne. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. a former uk government minister has joined calls for borisjohnson to resign over the claims of downing street lockdown parties and submitted a letter of no confidence. nick gibb who was schools minister until last year accused the prime minister of flagra ntly disregarding the rules . mrjohnson has written to all of his mps, pledging to improve the way downing street operates. our political correspondent damian grammaticas reports. borisjo
and coming up the bbc sjiyar gol travels to israel on the trail of half a ton of missing iranian secret documents. that s in the hidden war at 1.30. a good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. a former government minister has joined calls for borisjohnson to resign over the claims of downing street lockdown parties and submitted a letter of no confidence. nick gibb who was schools minister until last year accused the prime minister of flagra ntly disregarding the rules . mrjohnson has written to all of his mps, pledging to improve the way downing street operates. our political correspondent damian grammaticas reports. borisjohnson left downing street for the weekend last night and escaped to the countryside, perhaps, but there s no escaping his difficulties. nick gibb, a former schools minister, the latest mp to submit a letter of no confidence. in today s telegraph, which once carried mrjohnson s columns, he says. adding. others disagree. of course there are problem
at sandringham house for members of the local community ahead of the 70th anniversary of her accession to the throne. rescue workers in morocco are believed to be less than a metre from a five year old boy who s been trapped in a well for the last five days. this is the scene live at the site now. this is just near the entrance to the well. rayan awram is stuck 35 metres below ground. mechanical diggers have been working round the clock, to try to reach him. you can see a few of those who are closest to the entrance of the well. we understand they have got as close as one metre to him but efforts to rescue him have been complicated by concerns of a possible landslide, thatis concerns of a possible landslide, that is what they want to avoid happening, that would make the task of reaching him even more difficult thanit of reaching him even more difficult than it already is. and the tunnel itself, the narrowness of the well, has been hampering the efforts. the diameter of the wh