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
Sunshine but on sunday things start to break down, the increasing chance of some thundery showers. This is what is going on right now, for most of us you can see not a lot of cloud out there. Some cloud across the north of scotland giving some bits and pieces of rain but even here it is largely dry. Further south, patchy cloud, good spells of sunshine, perhaps turning a little bit murky for some eastern coasts of england but the temperature is easily 22 24, may be up to 25 degrees. This evening, if you are heading out and about, it will be fine, sunny skies giving weird clear skies overnight and if the skies are clear you may get a glimpse of the aurora borealis, a lot of solar activity. In fact a solar storm heading our way so dont be surprised if you get a glimpse of the northern lights, particularly in the northern lights, particularly in the north of the uk, may be further south, perhaps not across the central and eastern parts of england where cloud will be rolling in and it may t
his comments came in response to new figures that reveal the world is rapidly burning through its carbon budget. provisional data from the eu s climate service copernicus shows that for each of the past 12 months temperatures have broken the respective monthly record. the sequence started injune 2023 with the hottestjune, all the way through to may 2024 as the hottest may. most of the heat is due to climate change, with a small contribution from the el nino weather pattern. we the peoples versus the polluters and the profiteers. together, we can win. but it s time for leaders to decide whose side they are on. tomorrow, it will be too late. now is the time to mobilise. now is the time to act. now is the time to deliver. this is our moment of truth. and i thank you. but across europe, we are experiencing something of a greenlash . there is resistance to the transition wherever you look. the parties that make up the greens/european free alliance are currently the fourth biggest
and first of two days of commemerations in europe to mark the 80 years anniversary of the normandy landings. good evening, a day is a long time in politics. this morning the front pages brough some brief respite to the conservatives. snap polls suggesting that it was rishi sunak who had come out on top in the first leadership debate of the campaign. the prime minister had referred several times in that debate to a so called independent assessment of labour s spending plans, which the tories suggest will mean every working family paying £2000 more in taxes. the prime minister said that was a figure that had been signed off by civil servants at the treasury. the only problem is it hadn t. the bbc has obtained a letter from the most senior civil servant in the treasury, the permanent secretary, james bowler who wrote to labour making clear the civil service had not been as involved as the conservativesclaimed. as you would expect, labour is furious. here s our political editor