finale of melrose play. title undetermined, by the way. chairman of the board. do something with that, you freak. i bet the board is spelled b-o-r-e-d. it took me about 15 minutes to recover from that. of course former saturday night live star norm mac donald who tragedy passed away after a long battle with cancer. we ll have more about his legacy coming up. norm macdonald was one of the funniest guys out there. he just held a special place in so many of his fans hearts. such sad news. truly, i mean, i gasped when i saw this yesterday. i guess he had been sick with cancer for almost a decade, and hadn t told anybody, kept it private or had told very few people anyway. nobody makes me laugh harder. i know that s for sure, and you could see it on conan s face as the clips were going on. these are the funniest people in america, conan, letterman, john stewart, and nobody did the slow burn joke on a talk show, better than norm macdonald, he would wind it up for two
city of ghazni as the un warns of an unfolding humanitarian disaster. the uk economy grows by nearly 5% between april and june following the easing of restrictions. new zealand says it will keep its border closed until at least the end of the year to keep covid out. and more wildfires in italy, as sicily records what could be europe s hottest ever temperature. and coming up this hour we ll talk to the new star of the track 23 year old matt walls who won gold and silver at his first olympics. sorry about that delay. good morning. good morning. more than half a million students in england, wales and northern ireland are receiving their gcse grades this morning with record results predicted. for the second year running, the grades have been based on teachers assessments, after exams were cancelled. let s speak to elaine dunkley, our education correspondent, who s in dagenham. have they got their results yet, or is it imminent? is it imminent? they have got the results. is it
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by tweeting me @annita?mcveigh or by using the hashtag bbcyourquestions. labour demands an investigation into text messages exchanged between borisjohnson and the businessman sirjames dyson. as demand for foodbanks goes up by a third, footballer and campaigner marcus rashford teams up with chef tom kerridge to create cheap, healthy family meals. if i could literally go back as a kid, this is the thing that i d learn to do. as well as, like, do what i was doing with my football and stuff, when i went home, i would have loved to have been able to sit down and just learn to cook. the brit awards ceremony will go ahead next month with a live audience of 4,000, who don t need to wear masks or socially distance, but will have to show proof of a negative coronavirus test. hello, good morning and welcome to bbc news. more than 100,000 black and asian service personnel who died fighting for the british empire were not properly commemorated due to pervasive racism that s acco
everyone, whether they ve requested one or not and they are being accused of racism. republican say they are trying to restore order to a system that went through extraordinary people due to the unique circumstances of the coronavirus pandemic. the fact is, election fraud has occurred. election officials created drive-through voting, which is not authorized by law. shannon: texas lieutenant governor dan patrick says texans are fed up with corporations trying to dictate public policy. big business though was under a lot of pressure to do just that. floor coca-cola had expressed some support for it. but then after headquarters in atlanta, now coke and delta are among those speaking out forcefully against the new law. the wall street journal hammering their leaders tonight as woke and weak ceos, referring to george s new law, the journal says the state provides far more days of early voting than new york. it offers no excuse absentee ballots unlike mr. biden s beloved de