Hello, yes indeed. Also. You will be talking about how people are reacting here in stoke on trent to the tumultuous events of the last few days concerning brexit and the vitriol that has been expressed by both sides. I shall talk to you shortly. Also this afternoon President Trumps top intelligence official faces congress over a whistleblower complaint that sparked an impeachment inquiry. Coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with holly hamilton. 242 with 2a2 with england at the world cup and a conference victory over the United States put them top of the group. All reaction to 30 pm. At 2 30pm. Thanks, holly. Stav danaos has all the weather. Into the weekend, we could be looking at a potent area of low pressure, heavy rain on saturday night into sunday with also some strong winds as well, all the details a bit later on. Thanks, stav. Also coming up the duke and duchess of cambridge are to name the uks new Polar Research ship. No, not Boaty Mcboatface, but the sir david attenborou
My own home as reporters camped at john well come onto the show across the mens and womens singles today. The end of my road for two years. Courts in a second, but tell us we are awaiting an urgent question john watson is perched up coming up on afternoon what happened to the womens in the comments about that leaked high at the all england live all the sport. E mail. Sport now on afternoon live club surveying them all. A busy day at wimbledon. World number one. John lets start the womens draw. With ben, and weve got last 16 day for the men a 15 year old at wimbledon making us a couple of upsets today and the women. Yes Ashleigh Barty is out the won and jo konta hoping to cause already weve seen a shock another. The french open and was one of the with the world number one and top seed Ashleigh Barty dumped out favourites to lift the title in the feel very old. By american alison riske. Womens singles this year. She was yes indeed. She is the only on an unbeaten run of 15 matches. Jo kon
northern england, more cloud and the odd shower or a splash of rain. i will have all the details later. it s tuesday 25th june. the bbc has been told that the gambling commission is considering whether more police officers are involved in alleged betting on the date of the general election. four conservatives and a police officer assigned to the protection of rishi sunak are known to be facing inquiries. scotland yard has denied a report that it leaked the names of some of those under investigation. here s our political correspondent, iain watson. did you have inside information when you placed your bet on the election date? i made a statement. it s been nearly two weeks since this aide to the prime minister who s also a conservative candidate said he d made a huge error ofjudgement in betting on the date of the general election. another candidate and two members of the conservative party staff are also being investigated by the gambling commission. last night, interviewe
Four swing states. The president will also be in michigan, wisconsin and pennsylvania as joe biden goes flat out himself in pa with stops there and in ohio. The future of the presidency all but certain to come down to just a hand full of critical swing states even as our new polling numbers out just this morning from the key Battle Grounds show this race right now may be getting a little bit tighter with bidens overall lead in those places ticking down a point. Americas fate is in your hands, and as i said, we win florida, we win it all. To beat the virus, we first have to beat donald trump. We sure are. A Record Number of early voters have turned out. 94 million as of our count just in the last couple hours. And theres another more devastating record, too. Covid cases hitting historic highs around the country. The backdrop to an extraordinary election after a campaign that seemed to last forever. All of it coming to a head just 24 hours from now. We have an army of nbc news Battle Gro