it s sunday, the 24th ofjuly. our top story: holidaymakers and hauliers are being warned to expect a third day of disruption around the port of dover and the channel tunnel. a major incident alert remains in place as officials work to clear a backlog of more than 1,000 lorries stranded on nearby motorways. simon jones has the latest. working through the night at the port of dover, to try to clear the backlog of traffic. and there is a third warning, but that they may as we approached all of the roads, in all directions, i think the infrastructure around the ports and the channel i think the infrastructure around the port, around the tunnel, needs to be looked at. because it isn t fair on the locals. the immediate challenae fair on the locals. the immediate challenge has fair on the locals. the immediate challenge has been fair on the locals. the immediate challenge has been to fair on the locals. the immediate challenge has been to get - fair on the locals. the immediat
that could do with some rain. not an awful lot of that in the forecast and after a relatively cool start to the week, temperatures set to climb again as we move into thursday and friday. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: holidaymakers and hauliers face a third day of disruption at the channel tunnel with some stuck in queues overnight. delays around the port of dover appear to have eased though. the board of cricket scotland resigns ahead of a review expected to find scottish cricket to be institutionally racist. russia admits it was responsible for a missile strike on the port of odesa on saturday targeting military installations, ukraine s president denounced the attack as barbaric . the two contenders to be britain s next prime minister rishi sunak and liz truss vow to toughen controls on migration into the uk. and supermodel kate moss tells the bbc that being asked to take off her bra during a photoshoot when she was 15 years old opened her eyes to the danger
at the weather with chris fawkes. hello again. it s been a hot and sunny day across east anglia. temperatures in a number of sites exceeded 30 celsius, but further west, it wasn t nearly that hot. indeed, we had thicker cloud and outbreaks of rain. quite a few of these pulses of rain turned out to be quite heavy as well. now, looking at the weather picture overnight tonight, there s a little bit more rain to come. light and patchy stuff across north western areas generally, but some heavier, more persistent rain hanging around, loitering in northern scotland. that s a weather front that s going to start pushing back southwards. a fresher night for scotland, northern ireland and the far north of england. much of england and wales, though, warm once again 16 18 degrees for many. now, tomorrow s forecast, this weather front pushes southwards, taking the rain across scotland, eventually moving into north east england. will be a few showers elsewhere, but some dry, some sunny
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his tax policies and linking it to the nhs. so he is beginning to unpack more of his thoughts. this trust is doing the same, she is out and about in kent later. liz truss. so real battleground is being set out there. of course it is a crucial weekend because a ballot papers gripe this week and because of that people can start voting this week so she do not cram your messages in now, people may have voted and you have six weeks of campaigning by you could just be shouting into the wind. there will be a lot of people watching this morning who can t vote but they will in two years time. that was quite a big speech for him to make he knew all eyes were going to make he knew all eyes were going to be on him. how do you think you did? because i felt he seemed a lot more relaxed off script then on. yeah, it was clearly rehearsed speech. he had key messages to get across and he put them across. but then questions from journalists, questions from party members, some misstatements f