as paris becomes the latest city to ban them after safety concerns, what will it mean for their future here in the uk? ready to roar rory mcilroy says he believes this will be the year he completes a career grand slam by winning the masters. good morning. it isa it is a mild start to the day. we have got some rain putting steadily eased. it will clear over the far north east of scotland. behind it, bright spells, sunshine and heavy showers. details throughout the programme. good morning. it s thursday, the 6th april. our top story. the metropolitan police commissioner, sir mark rowley, has said there are hundreds of officers serving in the force who should not be there. it comes after an update on a review, which was launched following the murder of sarah everard by a serving officer, and the jailing of former officer david carrick, for a series of offences against women. helena wilkinson reports. david carrick, the serving police officer who committed violent and degrading
for england s six nations opener after being punished for a dangerous tackle in club rugby on friday. good afternoon. ambulance workers in england and wales are striking over pay for a second time. managers are warning the impact is likely to be worse than last month s stoppage, because this time call handlers are also on strike. the prime minister has said it s terrifying that people don t know what will happen if they call 999. but ambulance staff have said they will leave picket lines to respond to all category one emergency calls where there s a threat to life, such as a heart attack. our health correspondent dominic hughes is in manchester, dominic. good afternoon. picket lines like this one in manchester are now in place outside ambulance stations across almost all of england and wales. the strike involves around 20,000 workers from the ambulance service. paramedics and also call handling staff. principally the strike is over pay. the unions say an offer of 4.75% is
them a draft copy of planned new legislation to clamp down on gambling. the mps code of conduct as specifically prevent any questions being asked in the houses of parliament other than for parliamentary reasons. scott benton has said that after this interaction he suspected that what he was being asked to do was not within the rules and didn t have any further contact with the company. it doesn t appear that any explicit rules have been broken in practice. however, the conservative chief whip, simon hart, in charge of party discipline, said he has referred himself to the parliamentary standards commissioner. he has been suspended from the conservative party while that investigation is ongoing. while it does seem like no rules have been broken in practice, this whole incident has raised fresh questions, after the tory mp 0wen paterson was suspended last year for breaching lobbying rules, about whether mps
former snp chief executive and husband of former first minister nicola sturgeon, as part of an investigation into party finances. the telegraph reports that police chiefs in scotland are being urged to reveal if they faced political pressure to delay the arrest, until after a replacement was found for ms sturgeon. mr murrell has since been released without charge. the times leads with its undercover investigation into the conservative mp scott benton. the newspaper said mr benton, who has since had the party whip removed, was offered a paid advisory role by reporters posing as gambling industry investors. he did not pursue the role and no rules appear to have been broken. the express focuses on prime minister rishi sunak s defence of government plans to house 500 migrants in a barge off the dorset coast. the paper says mr sunak has described it as fair and a saving for taxpayers. a photo of king charles