Their priority position and it is one candidate for the next slipping by the wayside, Harry Mcguire is the last man standing and admired for them a long time and it is staggering to hear that he joined Leicester City a few years ago for a lower fee and 2014 and moved to hull city to lester city by peanuts for comparison and it is an enormous fee. Many are staggered that Manchester United paid this much beforehand that united will be happy because he is rated very highly and is seen as a reader and likes his style of play, being able to bring the ball out from the back so Manchester United fans will be very happy to know. That transfer fee is the most any club has ever paid for a defender. But its not the first time Manchester United have paid the big numbers. Back in 2002 they splashed out 30million for rio ferdinand. Fast forward to 2017 and their neighbours Manchester City paid out £45 million for spurs full back kyle walker. Liverpool were next with the big spending for a defender
experiences its biggest ever outbreak of avian flu. good morning from birmingham, where england are celebrating a double diving gold one for the team s teenage star at her first commonwealth games and another for the most experienced diver retaining his title. it s friday the 5th of august. our main story. a hosepipe ban will come into force in parts of southern england later today, as recent extreme temperatures and a lack of rainfall continue to put pressure on waterways and water supplies. southern water said the move, which affects the isle of wight and parts of hampshire, was a vital step . other bans will follow later in the month in kent, sussex and parts of wales. zoe conway has this report. i ve actually used the hosepipe more. frances and john are neighbours, friends, and very keen gardeners. from today, people living here near alresford in hampshire will be banned from using a hosepipe in their gardens. frances, do you think people will follow the rules? absolut
up, all the bills have gone up. it s just really difficult. and all the food prices, the fuel prices. we ll be asking when we might hope for better economic news and what the two people vying to become prime minister might do to help. also on the programme. china releases images of the country s launch of ballistic missiles into waters around taiwan, in response to a senior us democrat visiting the island nation yesterday. the bbc should have done more to explore claims of sexual misconduct made against the former dj tim westwood says an internal review. and at the commonwealth games, geraint thomas suffers a bruising crash but still takes bronze in the men s cycling time trial. and coming up on the bbc news channel. we ll have the latest from the women s open at muirfield, where japan s hinako shibuno has impressed with a first round of 65. good evening. the bank of england has given a very downbeat assessment of the state of the economy warning that it will fall into
to counteract rising prices. if we don t act inflation will become more embedded, it will get worse and we ll have to raise interest rates by more and we have to act to stop we ll be asking just how badly this is going to hit us, and what the two people vying might do to help. also on the programme. china releases images of the country s launch of ballistic missiles into waters around taiwan, in response to a senior us democrat visiting the island nation yesterday. in ukraine, we have a special report from the conflict in the south as ukrainian fighters look to regain the strategic city of kherson. brilliant from jack laugher. and at the commonwealth games, england s jack laugher wins a third successive gold in the one metre springboard final. and coming up on the bbc news channel, hinako shibuno leads the way after the first round of the women s open at muirfield, but scotland s louise duncan is hot on her heels, just two shots behind. good evening. the bank of england has
hello. welcome to the programme. we start this hour here in the uk with the general election campaign. labour says it s committed to reducing the number of people legally migrating to britain if it forms the next government. but speaking earlier, the shadow home secretary yvette cooper refused to set a target or any date by which a reduction would be achieved. net migration, the difference between the number of people arriving in the uk and leaving, stood at 685,000 last year. labour s plans include more apprenticeships in jobs that are currently reliant on a significant level of migrant workers. here s our political correspondent ione wells. immigration is a sticky issue in this election campaign, and both major parties say they want to control it. labour says it would train more uk workers to fill skills shortages and it says firms that pay exploitative wages would be banned from hiring foreign workers. but labour have not put a figure on how much they would reduce it by, a