brighter. there will be a few showers on the cards as we head through the course of the weekend but they won t be as heavy as the middle of the week and things should warm up by a few degrees. and that s bbc news at six. you can keep up with all the latest developments on bbc website. (mix) now it s time to join our colleagues for the news where you are goodbye. hello and welcome to sportsday i m jane dougall. it s a big call from southgate he hasn t picked marcus rashford for his provisional england squad leaving the striker down and out ahead of the euros. with marcus for just a long with marcus forjust a long time which makes the calls harder. ijust feel that players are not position that had of full season. in contrast he ll be delighted. the crystal palace youngster adam wharton gets a surprise first call up despite only making his premier league debut in february. also coming up on sportsday: jofra archer s fit and ready to play in england s series against
good morning. it is a cold start in some parts of the north of the country, temperatures close to freezing. for many, it will cloud over with scattered showers developing and some of those will be heavy and thundery. i will have all the details later in the programme. it s tuesday 21st may. rishi sunak says the government will pay whatever it takes to compensate the victims of the the infected blood scandal. details of the scheme are expected to be announced later today. it s been described as the biggest treatment disaster in the history of the nhs. yesterday a public inquiry highlighted a catalogue of failures over many years, which it said had catastrophic consequences. our health correspondent dominic hughes has more. cheering and applause. a moment of relief and joy after years of grief, frustration and anger. sir brian langstaff delivers his findings to just some of the thousands of people whose lives have been touched by the infected blood scandal. outside, some
In october 2021, the average energy bill in the uk was £1,200 a year. but the war in ukraine has set wholesale gas and electricity prices soaring. average annual bills are currently close to £2000 pounds. now some experts are warning they could jump to more than £3500 pounds in the autumn and more than £4200 pounds in january. our consumer affairs correspondent coletta smith has more. two of hannah s energy supplies had collapsed in the last year so she is finding it really hard to keep on top of what she owes. i hard to keep on top of what she owes. . ., ., , ., owes. i haven t got an updated builder that s owes. i haven t got an updated builder that s helping - owes. i haven t got an updated builder that s helping me - owes. i haven t got an updated builder that s helping me planl builder that s helping me plan but also i m that point where where else am i going to get more money from, and, you know until my financial circumstances change i have £95 to give to the electricit
People in panic now across the nation and the political theatre of allowing the 26th of august to come, when we get the price announcement with nothing firm in place is incredibly damaging. firm in place is incredibly damaging- firm in place is incredibly damaging. firm in place is incredibly damauain. , ,, ., damaging. under pressure to act now the chancellor damaging. under pressure to act now the chancellor s damaging. under pressure to act now the chancellor s meeting i now the chancellor s meeting energy bosses amid whispers of another windfall tax. we already have another windfall tax. we already have $37 - another windfall tax. - already have $37 billion and placed, myjob now is to get the into people s backyards because that s where it matters. because that s where it mattere because that s where it matters. ~ , . because that s where it matters. , . ~ , matters. when the price kept rises millions matters. when the price kept rises millions more matters. when the
Closure for hannah than for the sister of joe dimaggio. i m not so particularly concerned with her having a sense of closure. so if hannah doesn t want to do this, this is rather this might be rather uncomfortable for her in the sense of painful. i don t think she s going to do it. i don t know. actually i shouldn t say that because i don t know. i spoke with the anderson family spokeswoman. and she said that brett anderson, hannah s father, was disgusted by any suggestion that dimaggio fathered the two children. she said that dimaggio met brett anderson and christina anderson when christina was six months pregnant with hannah. she husband said that i m sorry. go ahead. i was just going to say that i ve got to go, elliott. but i guess we ll see what happens with this one. it certainly is a twist in a terrible story to begin with. elliott, thank you. thank you. straight ahead, the story