of parliament in westminster. plans to make britain an independent, sovereign nation will be published this morning just one day after theresa may started the process of brexit. the great repeal bill will outline how the government plans to repatriate more than a0 years worth of powers from the european union and convert thousands of eu rules into british law. yesterday, theresa may described britain s departure from the eu as an historic moment from which there can be no turning back . eleanor garnier reports. cometh the hour, cometh the moment, in westminster, belfast, edinburgh and cardiff the exact moment the uk took a new and different course. this is an historic moment from which there is no turning back. the letter, hand delivered by our man in brussels, telling the eu we are on our way out. written in a deliberately conciliatory tone. but a hint, too, of the steel in mrs may s stance. no overt threat to walk away, but a serious warning, as she wrote a failure
whitson is on track for breaking the record for the most spacewalks by a woman. football fans have been questioning the resemblance of a statue of cristiano ronaldo unveiled on the portuguese island of madeira. welcome back to the houses of parliament where the government has been outlining this lunchtime how it plans to transfer thousands of pieces of european union legislation into british law. the great repeal bill will give parliament or the devolved assemblies the power to scrap, amend or improve eu law. brexit secretary david davis told mps it would ensure the uk s smooth and orderly exit from the eu. the plan is also involve giving ministers the power to make changes without full parliamentary scrutiny. and that is proving controversial. our first and that is proving controversial. ourfirst report is and that is proving controversial. our first report is from political correspondent iain watson. the law that took us into the european union was passed in 1972 and now ou
the westminster attacker khalid masood died from a gunshot wound to the chest. colin gregg, the heir to the greggs bakery chain, is jailed for 13 and a half years for indecently assaulting four boys. search teams find the bodies of five people with the wreckage of their helicopter in snowdonia. prince harry and the duke and duchess of cambridge release a series of films to encourage people to talk about mental health. and the sculptor of a bust of real madrid star cristiano ronaldo defends his work, after football fans say it looks nothing like him. i m outside the houses of parliament in westminster, where the government has been outlining how it plans to transfer thousands of pieces of european union legislation, into british law. the great repeal bill will give parliament, or the devolved assemblies, the power to scrap, amend or improve eu laws. the brexit secretary, david davis, told mps it would ensure the uk s smooth, orderly exit from the european union. but the plan
and mesut ozil want to stay at the club but says his own future is not sorted completely . good evening and welcome to the bbc news at 6. there are thousands and thousands of pieces of eu legislation that currently shape almost every aspect of our lives in the uk. but today the government outlined its plans to transfer them into british law as the united kingdom gears up for brexit. the great repeal bill will effectively copy and paste all those eu laws onto our statute books to avoid what ministers are calling a legal black hole . once done parliament and the devolved assemblies will then have the power to scrap, amend or improve them. our political editor laura kuenssberg reports. locked inside the tower, preserved for safekeeping. scrolls and scrolls and scrolls of the laws of our land. but, this one, that has shaped so much for decades, will be disappearing. repealed, rolled back. the act that took us into the eu. he wants to pass instead a huge set of new laws