it s currently more than four miles long, with waiting times of up to nine hours. away from westminster, today s other headlines authorities in ukraine say they re investigating evidence of a mass grave in the city of izyum, which was recently liberated from russian occupation. disruption for thousands of british travellers today, as air traffic controllers in france go on strike. and it s farewell to one of the greatest tennis players of all time, as roger federer announces his retirement. good morning. it s friday september the 16th. you re watching bbc breakfast from westminster, where her majesty the queen has spent a second night lying in state. the queue to enter westminster hall is now stretching back 3.6 miles, as thousands more people wait to pay their respects. here are some of the images here at westminster towards the end of the queue. the queueing time changes hour by hour, but at the moment it is approximately nine hours for those people queueing to pay their
Of the completion, if you like, of the bit that s relevant to the north east. is there going to be a complete whole of england trail? there will be. it ll be a 2,700 mile national trail right around the coast of england, linking up with the wales coast path in two places, of course, and linking with the scottish border in two places. you will be able to do the whole of the walk by the end of next year. there ll still be a few legal issues we ve got to sort out, a few gaps we need to plug, but it will be there and in place and waymarked. so there s no excuse to not venture out and take it all in. alison freeman reporting from berwick in northumberland. we just need to correct some wrong information in the report we have run this morning about the latest consultants strike in england. the bbc s health correspondent mistakenly said that the average salary of a consultant
Three farmers a week take their own lives. so it s a massively high statistic, and something we just want to change, we need to talk. i know we have all talked openly about how we felt after the loss of our daughters, and definitely when we, you know, we met three weeks after the loss of our daughters and having that support from each other, just as two blokes who didn t know each other beforehand was life saving. the response we were getting from all over the place, - |itjust reinforced how important| it was to see three crusty blokes talking openly about how they felt and what we d been through. - so, yeah, we ll keep doing it. probably the thing that s unusual about all three of us, when we do start talking, you can t shut us up. that was alison freeman reporting. if you ve been affected by any of the issues raised, you can find help and support at bbc.co dot.uk/action line. roger federer has announced he s retiring from tennis at the age of 41.
Deliver floral tributes to 0livia ian snowdon. the liverpool tributes said, you will never walk alone. 0n the often card, no words will lessen the pain or explain such a tragedy, our city stands united forever in our thoughts. but in the past few moments, that news there has been an arrest made on suspicion of 0livia s murder and the attempted murder of two other people on monday night. alison freeman reporting. let s return out to the cost of energy. the european union is also seeing soaring energy prices, as the bloc curbs its reliance on russian gas and russia tightens the taps. before the war in ukraine, germany got more than half of its gas from russia now this has dropped to 35%. and direct supplies via russian pipelines are down tojust11%. it s all coming at a cost, and leaving the country scrambling