Across New South Wales and the community really is going to have to stay alert and understand what they are going to do if threatened by fires. The government approves the takeover of uk defence and aerospace specialist cobham by an american company. A man who confronted the fishmongers hall attacker with a narwal tusk describes his deep hurt that he couldnt save the two people who died. Prince philip spends the night in hospital in london to be treated for whats being described as a pre existing condition. Seasons greetings the Prime Minister serves a christmas lunch to british soldiers stationed in estonia. These troops here are giving the whole continent protection, support, a guarantee of their security and its quite an amazing thing to see. Everton have their man, Carlo Anchelotti returns to english football after signing a four and a half year deal with the club. And later on i will be looking at the stories we have covered from britains coastal towns. That is in half an hour. Mo
We will have more on the oval celebrations plus the latest on england at the netball world cup. They take on jamaica later england at the netball world cup. They take onjamaica later on. England at the netball world cup. They take on jamaica later on. Nick is looking at the weather. High pressure to start, low pressure later. I have the forecast plus i will be getting on your goat, simon, with news of something old but increasingly popular in the way of dealing with spreading wildfires. More celebrated in death than in life alan turing the mathematician who helped invent modern computing and break the german enigma code will be the face of the new £50 note. 1966, 2003, and now 2019 the years we heard the words england have won the world cup first in football, then rugby, and now of course cricket. And those words are still echoing in our ears after that remarkable cricket game yesterday described by many as the best final ever. And one of the most remarkable games ever. The players he
On bbc news at five. Escalation into a military conflict. You saw how our present reacted when englands world cup winning cricketers head to a reception in downing street he was about to take that step, he this evening to celebrate backed off and said, you know, lets as the sport looks to build talk about this a while. The iranians are certainly talking. They on their momentous victory. Denied that they did it, for example, which is the first step for backing down. You dont have to tell your people you did and it failed. Its probably sunken a little bit more this morning butjust a really we are seeing tendencies for great day yesterday. Restraint rather than to lean forward and escalate. We were seeing a new study described pictures in the gulf of one of the as groundbreaking into the eating disorder tankers that was allegedly attacked anorexia claims its origins are in both the mind and the body. By the iranians, and their gunboats, a serial thief who targeted victims and putting mind
To introduce tougher sentences. The United Nations is urged to take stronger action to protect christians facing persecution around the world. Performers from this years the United Nations is being urged Glastonbury Festival to take stronger action to protect including Kylie Minogue christians facing persecution have donated items of clothing around the world. To oxfam, to campaign against cheap throwaway fashion. One of the worst attacks this year was in april and coming up in sport, a big day at wimbledon in sri lanka, when at least 207 people were killed and 450 hurt in with 15 year old coco gauff, facing her biggest challenge yet, in former world explosions at churches and hotels. Now a review, carried out by the bishop of truro, number one simona halep. Says christians are the most widely targeted religious group. He says governments in the middle east and north africa should do more to protect religious freedoms. I spoke to the bishop earlier this morning and asked him about the
Johanna konta and coco gauff. Lets have a look at the weather, and matt is here. We have sunshine top and tail of the country, a very pleasant afternoon. Cloud is pushing in from the atlantic, just pushing south and east, turning the sunshine hazy for some, but thickening up across Northern Ireland. They have seen outbreaks of rain already today. That will spread into south west scotland, the isle of man and anglesey later. A bit of cloud bubbling up now that could produce one or two isolated showers for devon and cornwall, into the south midlands. Pleasant in the sunshine, and plenty of it in the north east of scotland, where we go into tonight on a clear note. Elsewhere, plenty of cloud, outbreaks of rain. Rain spreading more extensively into scotland, Northern England and north wales, temperatures around io isdc for the Tuesday Morning commute. High and low pressure fighting it out this week, never one dominating over the other. High pressure to the south tomorrow, low pressure to t