Very exciting to be here. But im trying to understand what has happened to this land of yours, because when you arrived here, this was an intensively farmed land, wasnt it . It was. My husband, charlie, inherited it from his grandparents when he was in his early 20s, and this was back in the 1980s. And every inch of the land was ploughed, it was producing arable crops and dairy. And we fully expected to be farmers for the rest of our lives. Mm. 17 years on, we were £1. 5 million in debt, tearing our hair out and realised that, you know, this is very marginal land. Were walking on 320 metres of clay, over a bedrock of limestone, and its an absolute pig to farm. So you were literally close to going out of business . Yeah, the farm was a failing business. And we did everything we could. We diversified, we tried different crops, we tried different cows. We sold ice cream. We did everything we could. But always it was this clay that was against us. So lets just stop for a second and look a
we invetigate why so many buildings that should have withstood the tremors collapsed. travel disruption and thousands of homes without power after storm otto sweeps across northern england and scotland with gusts of up to 80 miles an hour. and the hollywood star bruce willis is diagnosed with dementia at the age ofjust 67. on bbc london. coming up on sportsday later, will united find a new owner? tonight, the deadline for potential investors, forwarded ten p:m.. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. a spy at the british embassy in berlin has beenjailed for more than 13 years for selling secrets to russia. david smith was caught in an undercover sting using fake russian agents who in fact worked for the british security services. the 58 year old had been passing on details to the russians of other members of staff as well as photographs and videos of buildings. british police described smith s actions as reckless and dangerous . our home affairs correspondent tom s
good evening, welcome to bbc news. in memphis, tennessee, five former police officers have pleaded not guilty to second degree murder and other charges in the case of tyre nichols. mr nichols, a young black man, died after a police beating in memphis, tennessee last month. videos showed the officers repeatedly kicking and punching nichols in a traffic stop close to his home. the five officers, all out on bail, entered their not guilty pleas during an arraignment hearing in shelby county criminal court. tyre nichols mother made this statement outside the court. i know my son is gone. i know i ll never see him again. but we have to start this process ofjustice right now, and i want each and every one of those police officers to be able to look me in the face they haven t done that yet. they couldn t even do that today. they didn t have the courage to look at me in my face after what they did to my son. so, they re going to see me at every court date, everyone. exactly. ..u
washington. we re in the situation room. we want to welcome our sures near the united states and around the world. we re standing by to hear from president biden as he faces reporters to hear about the classified documents found in his former private office here in washington. any moment now, president biden will face reporters as he attends this key summit in mexico city. right now let s bring in our chief white house correspondent phil mattingly. phil, the revelation of classified documents found at the president s former office here in washington has clearly overshadowed his trip to mexico right now. he is about to face questions from reporters there. we ll have live coverage of that coming up. but set the scene for us. what you re looking at right now is where the president s focus has been and where white house officials have wanted it to be over the course of these last two turbulent days, given the revelations tied to those ten classified documents that were discov
80% of the population are displaced, almosti million are children and they are being pushed further and further south into areas that are overcrowded and without any of the basics that need to survive. humanitarian aid at the moment is the only lifeline for people and we are simply not able to get the access that we need to get through. for the past four, five, six days, aid agencies such as unicef only been able to access rafah and it is only limited aid and if we cannot get through soon people are going to really struggle because there is not enough water, food, shelter. meanwhile, the head of the israeli army has called for the military campaign in gaza to be stepped up, saying there are signs that hamas is falling apart. translation: | see the - achievements from day-to-day. we are seeing every day, terrorists who were killed, terrorists who were injured. in the last few days, we see terrorists who are surrendering. a sign of the collapse of the system. a sign we need to