it s the hottest day of the year so far in the uk, with 30 degrees recorded in southern england, and heat health alerts for some areas in the south and east. djokovic, martina, all of us. do you eat the grass? just put it in our pockets, it s for good luck, it s great! tennis legend billiejean king, now also famous for her social campaigning, talks to the bbc about issues she believes are important today. every generation has to fight, because things are fragile constantly. i think it is really important to think about things being in a tenuous position always. and coming up on the bbc news channel, salt peppers the netherlands with runs as he claims his first century in an england odi match in the first of the three match series. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. britain s second busiest airport says it will limit the number of flights across the peak summer period because it hasn t got enough staff. gatwick airport said it was aimed at creating a more relia
here s chris fawkes. this is the hottest day of the year so far. temperatures in the last hour have reached 30 degrees at london s heathrow airport and continue to climb across east anglia and south east england, more widely, temperatures into the 30s. when i go on holiday for beach action, more often than not, somebody takes the sun loungers by putting towels on them, but not here in thejurassic coast. this is swanage in dorset looking absolutely glorious an hour orso looking absolutely glorious an hour or so ago. the heatwave has been building across western europe. across spain, we have had temperatures reach the mist 40s for much of the last week. the earliest heatwave we have seen here for over 40 heatwave we have seen here for over a0 years. and the heat has been spreading northwards. just yesterday, reaching southern france where temperatures reached a0 degrees as well. this is the earliest in the year we have seen temperatures that high. the heatwave is ferocious and
things that were £1 are now £1.10. it adds to the panic as well and you are just thinking, how am i going to get through this month? the average price of petrol reaches a record high amid new sanctions on russian oil. one week after the school shooting in texas, sir andy murray, who survived the dunblane massacre as a child, calls for changes to america s gun laws. surely at some stage you do something different, like, you can t keep approaching the problem, you know, by buying more guns and having more guns in the country. another senior conservative mp dame andrea leadsome blames the prime minister for lockdown parties in downing street. and customers from all over the world flock to a chippy in coventry that s become a social media sensation. and coming up on the bbc news channel. liverpool have demanded an apology from the french sports minister following comments suggesting fans were to blame for problems at the champions final on saturday. good afternoon, and
you can t keep approaching the problem, you know, by buying more guns and having more guns in the country. another conservative mp calls on the prime minister to resign over downing street lockdown parties. and former cabinet minister andrea leadsom criticises him for unacceptable failures of leadership. mega chippy. and the once humble chip shop in coventry, that s now at tiktok sensation. there are calls today to give more children in england free school meals to help tackle the cost of living crisis. teaching unions say all children from families on universal credit should be eligible forfree meals as part of an urgent expansion of the scheme. the cost of food, fuel and other goods has surged in recent months, pushing inflation to a ao year high. here s our education correspondent, elaine dunkley. more children than ever are coming through the doors. at capacity. we opened 11 minutes ago, we ve only got a small room, we are going to be busy. at this free half term
7:30, to say that the holiday had been cancelled. no explanation, and nobody s been in touch. another record high for the average price of petrol, as the pressure on global supplies shows no sign of easing. and 70 years of the monarch meeting her prime ministers we report on the mystique and mystery of the weekly audience. and coming up on the bbc news channel, a clash fit for a final two titans of tennis, novak djokovic and rafa nadal, go head to head later in the french open quarterfinals. good evening. access to family doctors is fast becoming one of the biggest problems for the nhs, according to patients groups, while some areas of england are having to cope with much lower numbers of gps per head than other areas. new analysis by the nuffield trust for the bbc has found that demand for gp services continues to rise, at a time when more doctors are switching to part time working. the areas with the highest number of patients per gp are shown on this map with darker c