Across the uk, landmarks including the blackpool tower, Wembley Stadium and the london eye illuminate in his honour. This morning well have reaction and tributes from those he loved, helped and inspired. And the World Of Sport, that captain sir tom loved so much, has been paying tribute. The former Olympic Champion Jessica Ennis hill said he will forever be a hero to many people. She presented him with a special award in december. And scientists discover the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine is 76 effective during the three months after the first dose. Good morning. Today we have got some rain, sleet and mostly hill snow moving across Northern Ireland, Northern England and scotland. Southern england are seeing some heavy rain, but in between some heavy some sunshine and showers. Details later. Good morning. Its wednesday, the 3rd of february, and todays breakfast is a special programme to celebrate the life of a man who gave us so much of his time over the last ten months captain sir tom moor
with a drone attack on russian fleets near the crimean port of sevastopol. there s major disruption to rail services across scotland due to a 24 hour walkout by scotrail workers. more than 2,000 rmt members are on strike. and at li.30pm here on the news channel, bbc wales investigates and today the team is asking, what s killing our rivers? good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. i m samantha simmonds. the household energy supplier octopus energy has reached a deal to buy bulb, which was one of the largest energy companies to collapse last year because of soaring wholesale gas and electricity prices. the government has spent billions of pounds keeping the company afloat since it went into administraton. the agreement means octopus will take onboard bulb s one and a half million customers. our business reporter ramzan kamali has the details. bulb is the biggest - green energy company. it was the biggest energy company to go bust. last november, bulb found itself in administr
world cup as new zealand put in ten tries at headingley to show why they are the top ranked team in the world. # goodness gracious, great balls of fire! a rock n roll legend whose career was marred by scandal and violence we ll look back at the life ofjerry lee lewis. a bit of rain in the forecast today moving north across the uk, but northern scotland should keep the sunshine all day, and it is very mild once again. we could see temperatures in the south east of up to 22 degrees. i will bring you all the details here on bbc breakfast. the head of the royal navy has ordered an investigation into allegations that female recruits have been sexually abused and harassed on submarines. admiral sir ben key, the first sea lord, said anyone found culpable would be held accountable, regardless of rank. in a statement on twitter, the chief of the naval staff said that he was deeply disturbed by the allegations and wants to reassure people that any activity which falls short of the
members are on strike. and at 3.30pm on the bbc news channel, talking business with aaron heslehurst. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the household energy supplier 0ctopus energy has reached a deal to buy bulb, which was one of the largest energy companies to collapse last year because of soaring wholesale gas and electricity prices. the government has spent billions of pounds keeping the company afloat since it went into administraton. the agreement means 0ctopus will take onboard bulb s one and a half million customers. our business reporter ramzan kamali has the details. bulb is the biggest - green energy company. it was the biggest energy company to go bust. last november, bulb found itself in administration. it was only kept going by the government, who pumped hundreds of millions of pounds into the business, but now a deal has been struck that it is hoped will give relief notjust to customers, taxpayers, but also hundreds of staff. today, 0ctopus were confident
lot, the kicking game is really good, they have an automatic and we showed them the respect they ve got some really good players and we have our own ones, are players and we treated them like we inaudible play anybody so we have our due diligence on them and hopefully we can see the best of them this weekend. in rugby union at the women s world cup in new zealand, wales play the hosts and defending champions in their quarterfinal this morning a tough match which gets going at 7:30. meanwhile, last night, closer to home in the premiership, gloucester won their fourth match in a row as they beat exeter 38 22. there were six tries in total for the home team, including this one which sealed the bonus point, charlie chapman getting his second try of the evening here. the win moves them up to third in the table, nine points behind leaders saracens. it s the mexican grand prix this weekend. ferrari s charles leclerc was unhurt after a crash in friday practice. leclerc lost control and spu