pippa crerar and daily mail columnist sarah vine. hello and welcome. at the 2019 election, borisjohnson captured a slew of northern constituencies in england with the promise to level up the country. the government said it would rebalance the economy, share the prosperity of london, to address long standing underinvestment in the regions. and now we have the policy, a bill published today by the levelling up secretary michael gove which, finally, spells out how they aim to achieve it. this white paper lays out a long term economic and plan to make opportunity more equal. it shifts power and opportunity towards the north end midlands, scotland, wales and northern ireland. it guarantees increase investment in overlooked and undervalued communities. in research and development, in education and skills, and transport and broadband, in urban parks and decent homes, and grassroots ports and local culture and in fighting crime and tackling anti social behavior. it gives local comm
it is after he kissed one of the players, jenni hermoso, on the lips during the trophy presentation. he apologised for grabbing his crotch in celebration at full time, while standing yards away from the queen of spain. he kissed one of the players, jenni hermoso, on the lips during the trophy presentation. he says that was consensual. fifa opened disciplinary proceedings against him yesterday. footballjournalist semra hunter says this doesn t come as a surprise and spanish football still has a problem with equality. sexism is very prevalent, unfortunately. it is something that is their normalised here, which is why you have someone like we ruby alice basically saying he does not understand what he did wrong and he feels as though he clearly did not do anything wrong. and that is a major red flag, it is a major concern, and even pedro sanchez, the president of spain himself, said this is a perfect example of the long ruby have had of ourselves in terms of achieving equality of
odd thunderstorm, the same across northern ireland, wales, south west england. they are starting to develop widely across north west england, the west midlands. they will develop a bit further south. it has been quite a nice start to the day across much of the midlands, eastern england. some of the heavier showers will be a north east scotland. we have got a yellow thunderstorm warning there for the chance of some surface water flooding. temperature is cooler, 17-22 flooding. temperature is cooler, 17 22 from north to south across the country. the reading and leeds festival today, some showers which could turn out to be therapy and sunny and both places, but some good spells of sunshine. through this evening and overnight, it is mostly dry towards central and southern areas, clear spells of through this evening and overnight, it is mostly dry towards central and southern areas, close pals with scattered showers elsewhere. some of the few nights, ranging from 7 11. tomorrow, t
of today s noon deadline. we will ask tonight where the case in georgia goes from here and how quickly it will come to trial. also tonight, energy prices in the uk are coming down ahead of the winter surge, but will we feel any benefit in our pockets? and the president of the spanish fa defies calls for him to resign over his behaviour at the women s world cup. in response, members of the senior men s team are boycotting the national side. good evening. donald trump is the only us president to have ever posed for a mugshot an image that becomes instantly iconic. in short order, he had posted it on x, the site formerly known as twitter, with the words election interference. never surrender! which is, of course, richly ironic given that he has now surrendered to the authorities in four differentjurisdictions. what has taken place here is a travesty ofjustice. we did nothing wrong. i did nothing wrong, and everybody knows it. i ve never had such support. mr trump and his advis
stories. we will be lift in plymouth in a moment or two. first, let s head to the bbc sport centre. good evening. we re starting with cricket. england should sleet a little bit easier ahead of day two of their fourth test. already, of course, 2 down in the series and they need a wind. that is more realistic now after their disappointed start was rescued. in test cricket, sometimes the stage can be the main character. these cracks on the pitch are like chasms of our batters. they make everything unpredictable. decided to brave it and they made a solid enough start until. again, deep trouble. watch how that bill moved and look how this one kept low. england s captain said he had never seen a pitch like this. his team, five wickets down. they now did something unusual. they were careful. nudged past 50. this was a new tempo. slow moving, gradually regaining control. he allowed others to add occasional rays of sunshine. the odd glimpse of ultra attacking cricket to which cricket