a statement from the national air traffic service says. monday marks the close of a holiday weekend here in the uk, so it s usually a very busy day for flights. clearing the delay of flight backlogs is now a big issue. airports across the country are currently facing delays and cancellations. airports in edinburgh, manchester, birmingham, and several airports in london, including heathrow, gatwick and luton, all confirmed they were affected by the system outage. a short while ago, the home secretary, suella braverman, spoke about the situation. what we do know is that there has. been a national outage at nationally control and this has affected uk airspace, it will affect all incoming and outgoing flights and those aircraft. which are in the uk airspace right now. i national air traffic control. i am very cognisant that this - will disrupt people s travels plans, those waiting to arrive in the uk, those waiting to depart, - and i do sympathise with any- disruption they m
british gas is to increase electricity prices by 12.5% from september. the move which will affect more than three customers has led to calls for a cap on energy costs. now on bbc news all the latest business news live from singapore. apple reports sweet earnings due to better than expect that sales of iphones and ipods. and it splits in two to form a new currency bitcoin. we start with apple, which has reported a juicy set of earnings. its shares are rising to record highs. it is best known for its iphones and computers, and they have reported a 7% rise in revenue to just over m5 have reported a 7% rise in revenue tojust over m5 billion. have reported a 7% rise in revenue to just over m5 billion. profits from apple watch, apple tv and other productsjumped from apple watch, apple tv and other products jumped more than 20% compared to last year. but revenue from china fell for the fifth straight quarter. we go to our north america technology reporter. he talked us thro
is going on in the weather notjust today but throughout this week, low pressure is close by and around the area of low pressure we have drawn colder air back in across the uk, so remember the start of last week got as high as 18 celsius, we will not see that this week, eight for some today if you are lucky. you can see all of the showers across england and wales, perhaps noble sum across parts of southern scotland and northern england. it is quite windy into southern england and south wales with the showers, drier, brighter moments in between, but hey, thunder and lightning for some of these as well and if you get wid of these as well and if you get wid ofa of these as well and if you get wid of a shower it may not be long before another comes along and the risk of longer spells of brain for southern scotland and northern england. one or two showers into northern ireland but also sunshine and elsewhere in scotland lighter winds, sunshine and it doesn t feel too bad for some.