good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. we start this hour with breaking news teachers in england and wales will go on strike in national disputes over pay. the national education union says the ballots meet the legal thresholds for both turnout and a vote in favour of strikes. seven strike days are being announced between february 1st and 16th march. for more on this, i m joined by our education editor bra nwen jeffreys. what more do we know about this teacher strike which is going to start very soon? the teacher strike which is going to start very soon? teacher strike which is going to start very soon? the paint teachers have had, 5% start very soon? the paint teachers have had. 5% pay start very soon? the paint teachers have had, 5% pay increase - start very soon? the paint teachers l have had, 5% pay increase in england and separately in wales this year, the union says that falls far below inflation in the cost of living and everyone is seeing that. and the result
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Two first, lets catch up with the sport headlines. Hello there, we know that the Premier League title will be decided on the final day, but theres a significant match coming up for aston villa on monday night. The former european cup winners can secure qualification for the champion league. A win against liverpool at villa park will be enough to ensure a top four finish, that would see them return to europes top Club Competition for the First Time Since 1983. Its the penultimate game in charge for liverpoolsjurgen klopp, and hes one booking away from a touchline ban. He doesnt want to spoil his farewell at anfield next sunday. Unai is more of the best in the business, wherever he was in sometimes clubs are not ready to wait. You always organise a team extremely, extremely well. Thejob he is doing is exceptional. We all know how important it is for a club to qualify for the Champions League, how difficult it is to do so and that he probably very likely will do that. It is absolutely exc
We can cross live to westminster and our Political Correspondent hannah miller. We have had some previewing of the speech. Tell us what we can expect. If they choose to spend more money on defence then it is likely going to have to come from other departments. There are questions about the extent to which that is an affordable commitment. We also expect rishi sunak to make the speech about him as an individual rather than his party. It is significant because it is her first among his first major outing since the terrible local Election Results just a couple of weeks ago. In that sense, trying to use this again to canterbury the tone. Labour, as you say, are out around the country trying to talk about the impact that their new mayor that won in the local elections could have and damage under a labour government. Their response to the speech so far before the speech is to say the conservatives cant fix the country because they are the problem. As the Prime Minister rishi sunak has the Pr
Jimmy anderson could be set to bring the curtain down on his record breaking england career this summer following talks with the head coach, brendon mccullum. Its been reported that mccullum recently made a whistle stop five day visit to the uk, To Meet Anderson and play a round of golf and tell him england are looking to build a pace attack for the future. Its not clear if anderson has played his last test, or whether he could get a farewell in the home summer. Anderson is englands leading all Time Test Wicket Taker in tests with 700 dismissals, all rounder Nat Sciver Brunt will miss englands First T20 International Against pakistan at edgbaston tomorrow, after undergoing a minor medical procedure. Shell return for the Second Match At Northampton next friday. England will play three t20 s and three odis against their opponents, captain Heather Knight is expecting it to be tough. And at some really good results recently and they went to new zealand in the series over there and we will