Of the english Football League. And the countdown to the new series of strictly come dancing has begins, with the stars donning their sequins for last nights launch in london. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Jeremy corbyn is meeting Opposition Party leaders as he looks to secure support for his plans to block a no deal brexit. The labour leader has said hes open to different strategies after coming under pressure to drop his plan to lead a caretaker government. The conservatives said allJeremy Corbyn offered was chaos, delay and uncertainty. Lets speak now to our political correspondent, peter saull. In terms of whatJeremy Corbyn wants to do, lets not focus on who might lead to the plans but on these various mps uniting, how likely is it we will hear something about that today . They will have to put on a bit of a united front when they emerge from this meeting in westminster because when this plan was first mooted byJeremy Corbyn the response from the liberal democrats was
Outbreaks of rain in the north and west of the uk. This more active weather front is pushing west of the uk. This more active weatherfront is pushing into parts of Northern Ireland and western scotla nd of Northern Ireland and western scotland but you notice we have this other feature ahead of it across western england into the south west and also for wales. A few showers on it but most of the rain across western Northern Ireland and western scotla nd western Northern Ireland and western scotland at the moment, some heavier bursts increasing too. Heat and sunshine, but these showers with thicker cloud across the west and southwest will blossom through the afternoon and we could see thunderstorms developing. Those temperatures reach 30 degrees across england and wales, another scorcher, but cooler than that north and west. Notice a line of showers and heavy thunderstorms will continue to affect the midlands as we head through this evening and overnight. Some torrential downpours and als
All the sport john watson. Things are changing, it will get nervous waits for bolton and bury as cooler for the rest of the week and they try to secure deals by five it will get thundery. We will take a oclock tonight to secure their look at some lively storms further afield. Futures. Thanksjohn. Thanks susan. And susan powell has also coming up the two teenage sisters who rescued a man and a toddler all the weather susan. From drowning off the aberdeenshire coast with the help of a lilo. Things are going bump in the night we did notice that they started tonight, some thunderstorms and the going out deeper and then the man way as we lose our heat. We will started shouting for help as he was taking his breaths, look at storms in europe as well. He was up on top of the water. And then we realised also coming up the two teenage sisters he was in actual trouble. Who rescued a man and a toddler from drowning off the aberdeenshire coast with the help of a lilo. They started going out deeper
In tehran, over what it calls the illegal seizure of an Iranian Oil Tanker off gibraltar both contenders for the tory Party Leadership are told to raise the standard of Adult Social Care if they become britains next Prime Minister. This is the scene live now in stirling where the Prime Minister is about to make a speech calling on her successor to strengthen the union of the United Kingdom. And back at the bridge Frank Lampard one of chelseas grestest players is named as the clubs new manager. Its 5 oclock. Our top story. The betting group william hill is planning to close around 700 shops across the uk putting more than 4,500 jobs at risk. The Company Blames it on new government regulations, which reduce the maximum stake on fixed odds betting terminals from £100 to £2. William hill says its suffered a significant fall in revenues as a result. Campaigners, who warned that fixed odds machines were encouraging addiction have welcomed the news but employees say the scale of the losses
Wimbledon 2021: Djokovic marches on with another convincing straight-sets win
Friday, July 02, 2021
By Andy Sims, PA
Novak Djokovic admitted he was not at his best despite overcoming the latest bump in the road on his seemingly inexorable march towards the Wimbledon title with a straight-sets win over Denis Kudla.
The world number one extended his winning streak in grand slams to 17 matches and took another step towards a sixth Wimbledon crown, the third leg of the calendar-year grand slam, and a record-equalling 20th major title.
Djokovic can even still emulate Steffi Graf in 1988 when she won all four grand slams and gold at the Olympics – a feat yet to be repeated.