Good afternoon, and welcome to the Bbc News at one. The government has actIvated Emergency Measures to ease PrIson OvercrowdIng In parts of Northern England and the mIdlands. OperatIon early dawn means that defendants waItIng to appear In court wIll be kept In PolIce Cells untIl a PrIson Space Is avaIlable for them. It comes as more people are sentenced for takIng part In vIolent dIsorder across england and Northern Ireland earlIer thIs month. Lauren moss reports. Protesters and rIoters tore up the streets In parts of england and Northern Ireland earlIer thIs month. WIth more than 1,000 people arrested for vIolent dIsorder, the governments announced another Emergency Measure to try and ease the Pressure PIlIng onto an already creakIng prIson system. From today, OperatIon Early Dawn wIll allow suspects to be kept In PolIce Cells untIl a PrIson Space becomes avaIlable. Its to help deal wIth overcrowdIng after the government took what It called decIsIve actIon to tackle vIolent thuggery o
the decision of a coward, unwilling to listen to parents of the babies she murdered giving the most emotional and moving testimony that you will ever hear. it s far from the first case of its kind either. in the past 18 months, the killers of sabina nessa, zara aleena, and olivia pratt korbell have all failed to attened sentencing. that is just in the past year. so, 08085 909693 do we need to force the guilty to face court? what can we do when an offender doesn t want to come to the courtroom? particularly if they re likely to be disruptive if they do attend? streaming the proceedings to their cell has been mentioned. do we go the american way, bring them forcibly into court? it s more than a year since rishi sunak, when he was running for tory leader, first promised to change the law on this. yesterday he said letby was cowardly for refusing to face sentencing. the labour leader, sir keir starmer, has promised to close what he called the shamefully exploited loophole i
the fa cup semi finals. chelsea come alive in injury time to knock out leicester and make the last four. is it now a two way race in the wsl? manchester city and chelsea are level pegging once more. also coming up on sportsday. matt fitzpatrick leads the british hopes in the final round of the players championship in sawgrass. and can carlos alcaraz claim back to back titles in indian wells? hello again. sometimes we can be a little prone to hyperbole with the fa cup. but this weekend s quarter finals. well, three of them, have matched every cliche and more, with none beating the drama at old trafford. amad diallo s 120th minute winner ended a game that captivated and confounded. manchester united 4, liverpool 3 was the score. patrick gearey has the story. a rivalry that began with a canal is now channelled through football. manchester united versus liverpool, a local grudge gone global. both sides arrived in very different places, united s position the weaker, perhaps their
widespread and heavy for northern ireland, western scotland, a few getting in to the north west for england and wales but still dry where we need that rain. temperatures 8 111, a comfortable night ahead, and tomorrow, weather wise it s almost exactly a carbon copy repeat of what we ll have to day. we ll see further showers for scotland and northern ireland, maybe a few for the north west england and wales but the further south you go across the midlands, southern wales, east anglia and the south, it s another dry day with sunshine and temperatures not really changing much either, where the sunshine comes out it will continue to feel pretty warm. it means for the commonwealth games tomorrow, no problems for the athletics, almost perfect conditions with like winds and lots of dry weather. for the start of the week and something of a change for the north of scotland with thick cloud on the way here with thick cloud on the way here with the weather front moving in, we ll see a bi
western isles first thing tomorrow. temperatures tonight sitting in the mid if not high teens so another uncomfortable night out there but it s a warm start tomorrow and a zone of cloud and patchy rain all the way from the south west to the wash which will work to the south east and not much rain at all for the gardens in the south and then sunshine breaks through more widely. a few showers dotted around through scotland and northern ireland in the afternoon and the of heavy and thundery one and starting to feel fresher but a reasonably humid day across england and wales, especially east anglia and the south east, 29 or 30 degrees but humidity dropping a little and you will notice it in birmingham tomorrow but with increasing sunshine for the commonwealth games. a fine end to tomorrow, a few showers through scotland and northern ireland and northern england to take us through the night and into thursday morning and starting to feel more comfortable out there but we still see