This. Well, to go through the papers this morning, im delighted to be joined by australias former high commissioner to the uk, the former minister former foreign minister Alexander Downer, whos now chief not chief chief chair, actually not chief chair policy Exchange Chair of the policy exchange think tank. Nice to see you this morning, thanks morning, alexander. Thanks for joining me, i know weve been talking green room about talking in the green room about these mad stories now about Penny Mordaunt being the answer to tory prayers. Lets talk about that appears about the polling that appears in sunday. First of in the mail on sunday. First of all, basically predicting electoral oblivion. Wipe out whatever word you want. An armageddon for the tories. Do you agree with that analysis that labour could be winning, or on course to win a 250 seat or plus majority . Yes, i must say, as i go around the country that is the impression i get. But people arent very enthusiastic about laboun arent
but my attitude is very much day by day. you know, that keeps my spirits high. returning to cash to stay on top costs. the post office reports a record number of cash withdrawals, as people reduce card use to feel more in control of their finances. good morning from birmingham. more in control of their finances. the last day of the commonwealth games after a golden sunday for all the home nations, with victories on the track, in the boxing ring and in the women s hockey too. good morning, through this week some of us will once again experience a heatwave with some parts getting up to 35, 36, with a lot of dry, sunny weather. i will have all the details throughout the programme. it s monday, 8th of august. our main story. a bbc survey of more than 7,000 dental practices has found that nine in 10 nhs dentists across the uk are not accepting new adult patients for treatment on the health service. those in need are having to wait years for treatment and some have taken matters in
time for a look at the weather. here s tomasz schafernaker. good evening. for many of us, a quiet end to the week on the weather front, very tranquil weather at the moment. that is more or less how it will stay over the weekend, plenty of sunny spells on offer and a few showers. this window of weather has opened up over us just showers. this window of weather has opened up over usjust in time showers. this window of weather has opened up over us just in time for the weekend. for many of us it is also the august bank holiday. high pressure will be building across the uk which means settled weather but around this area of high pressure we will also see a strong wind developing particularly around coastal areas, the north sea coast being chilly at times. here is the forecast for saturday morning, 16 in london with sunshine. 8 degrees in glasgow. through the course of the afternoon, showers developing almost anywhere across parts of england and wales. your local weather forecast
and we will find you. joy and relief for some but on gcse results day, there are major regional differences in how pupils performed. and back from extinction the blue butterfly has its best summer for 150 years. and coming up on the bbc news channel: james anderson proves life very much begins at a0. he s among the wickets, as england seek revenge against south africa. good evening. pressure is growing on the government for action to be taken to help households and businesses cope with soaring energy costs, with calls from a think tank for a universal 30% cut in bills and businesses saying ministers should bring in covid style emergency grants to help firms. the upper limit of what suppliers can charge per unit of energy in england, scotland and wales called the energy price cap is set to be announced tomorrow. take a look at how things have changed injust 12 months. less than a year ago, a typical annual home energy bill was about £1,200. it s now about £2,000 an
ambassador is arrested on the same day the uk announces new sanctions against the military regime. more calls for the government to step in as the cap on energy prices is set to triple, compared to a year ago. and we ll hear from a french politican who says britain is threatening france s coastal waters, by dumping raw sewage into the sea. we start in ukraine, where there are growing fears of a nuclear accident at the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant which is held by russian forces. in the past few hours the nuclear plant has been temporarily disconnected from ukraine s electricity grid for the first time ever, because of a fire. the zaporizhzhia plant is the biggest in europe. it sits on the south bank of the dnieper river in the country s east, on the front line of the war. russian forces took the site just after the invasion of ukraine began. since then, it s been under moscow s control but run by a team of ukrainian staff. there are reports up to 9,000 ukrainians work