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over 65 are less likely to shop in sales and if they are going to go to the sales, they will go to the shops the sales, they will go to the shops the way they traditionally always have done. younger people and those under 35, they are going to be the ones doing most of the sales shopping and they will be doing it online. even if there are sales and transactions going through today, they are probably going through ta blets, la pto ps, they are probably going through tablets, laptops, using your mobile phone. there are people going and queueing outside. those archive shots of people queueing up with cups of tea and having a jolly old time, that might be a time of the past. they used to be legendary queues. brown paper on the walls. it was more of an event. as you say, sales are on all year round. it s not so special any more. lovely to have you on the sale. on the sofar. sofa. hello, this is breakfast with steph mcgovern. good morning, here s a summary of today s ma ....
welcome to bbc news. a british woman accused of smuggling drugs into egypt has been sentenced to three years in jail. laura plummer, who s 33 and from hull, was arrested in october with 290 tablets of the painkiller, tramadol, which is banned in egypt. a spokesman from the foreign office says they will continue to provide assistance to the family. my colleague in cairo, hanan razek, has been speaking to laura plummer‘s family who say they are shocked by today s sentencing. i was just speaking to laura s mother and she tells me she is still shocked after the verdict. she says she cannot believe it after waiting the two months and then having this verdict. back in october laura was arrested as she tried to enter the country and they found around 300 tramadol tablets in her suitcase. laura said she brought those tablets for her boyfriend, as he suffers from severe back pain. this is a painkiller that is prescribed and it s fine to get it in the uk. but it s fine to get i ....
the car he was driving was in collision with another on the a 57 in sheffield. now it has been a memorable year in the sport from the world athletics championships to the rise to the top of world boxing for anthonyjoshua. we go on a trip through the sporting highlights of the year. hello, and welcome along to a look back at what has been another fantastic year in sport. yes, from the women s cricket world cup to the british and irish lions tour of new zealand and everything else in between. we ll have it all over the next half an hour. some huge nights across the world, and plenty of them in this stadium behind us. the world athletics and para athletics championships came to london this summer. the quickest, the strongest, the best in the business. and for us, the last chance to see some of them compete. he s stood like a colossus over this sport for so long. the cameras trained on one man. a moment of history, they hope. one more time for mo farah. two of the sport s m ....
he hits his eighth hat trick of 2017 and breaks the record for the most premier league goals scored in a calendar year as tottenham thrash southampton. england s misery continues down under. they have it all to do after david warner hits a century on the opening day of the fourth ashes test. and might bite wins the day s feature race, the king george the sixth, to give trainer nicky henderson a big race double at kempton. hello and welcome to sportsday. what a year it s been for harry kane, his hattrick helping tottenham hotspur thrash southampton 5 2 at wembley today. and it sees the spurs striker breaking records both at home and across europe. our sports correspondent natalie pirks was watching. boxing day is a time when most struggle to move from our sofas, but there was no such christmas slump for harry kane. when danny rose was fouled just outside the box, christian eriksen‘s ensuing free kick landed plumb on harry s head. here goes eriksen. it s in! alan sheare ....
snap election. good evening and welcome to bbc news. a british woman has been sentenced to three years in prison after being convicted of smuggling drugs into the country. a british woman has been sentenced to three years in prison in egypt after being found guilty of smuggling drugs into the country. laura plummer, who s 33 and from hull, was arrested in october when she was found carrying almost 300 tablets of the painkiller, tramadol, in her suitcase. daniela relph reports. laura plummer‘s family and friends say she is naive, not a criminal. but today the 33 year old shop workerfrom hull is beginning a three year sentence injail in egypt. her mother, roberta, and her egyptian partner, 0mar caboo, have been at court to support her during the hearings this week. laura plummer had been travelling to the red sea resort of hurghada to visit 0mar in october when she was stopped by the authorities. in her suitcase were 290 tramadol tablets, a painkiller which is legal on ....