a cash pay out for 29 million smartphone owners? the company behind the computer chips that make our phones work is accused of overcharging. good morning. it s 19 wins in a row for manchester city. they have one foot in the quarter finals of the champions league and that keeps them on course for an unprecedented quadruple. good morning. yesterday was the warmest day of the year so far with temperatures in parts of eastern england are getting to just over 18 degrees. not quite that mild today. temperatures are still above average. a lot of dry weather but some showers. i will tell you where in about ten minutes. good morning. it s thursday, the 25th of february. our top story. teachers will decide exam grades this summer after the cancellation of gcses and a levels in england. the exams watchdog quual has confirmed that schools can use a combination of coursework, mock exams and essays to assess pupils, and results will be published earlier in august to allow time for appeal
now, back to the breakfast team. good morning from edinburgh. we re here at the palace of holyroodhouse. where the queen s coffin has made the journey from balmoral. during the next 2a hours people will be given the chance to pay their respects. we thought we would go through the events for people want to come to edinburgh orwant to events for people want to come to edinburgh or want to understand what we can expect. king charles will also travel to scotland later, as he begins his first tour of the uk nations. but the king and queen consort will begin the day with a visit to westminster hall, where both houses of parliament will meet to express their condolences. they will then fly to edinburgh, where they and other members of the royal family will accompany the queen s coffin as it travels by procession from the palace of holyroodhouse to st giles cathedral, this afternoon. the queen will lie at rest at st giles and members of the public will be able to view the coffin fo
photograph of footballers and their girlfriends of the world cup. she was giving evidence in her high court libel trial against rooney. the first picture of the enormous black hole at the centre of our galaxy and the passenger with no flying experience match to land the plane after the pilot passed out. the metropolitan police have issued more than 50 new fines for breaches of covid rules in downing street and other government buildings. these fixed penalty notices are in addition to more than 50 handed out last month, including to borisjohnson and chancellor rishi sunak. neither mrjohnson nor his wife carriejohnson are among those to be fined this time. our political correspondent ben wright reports. are you shocked at the scale of lawbreaking in number ten, prime minister? how could you let that happen under your watch? the fallout from whitehall rule breaking has followed the prime minister to stoke. for a cabinet away day also attended by the uk s top civil servant, simon
katie gornall is there for us. this has been called the group of death from the start, with the champions, south africa, in there too. it won t come as a surprise that all three are fighting for a knockout place on the final weekend. yes, you are right, it is a huge pool b decider and there is a web of permutations around this one. if ireland when they go through and scotland go home. if ireland lose, things become complicated. scotland need to win by at least eight points to go through and deny ireland a four try bonus point. that would put them through alongside south africa. there is also a permutation work by south africa go out. if scotland scored four tries, beat ireland by 21 points and ireland score four tries of their own, that would put south africa out and see scotland and ireland advance. south africa have already played their final group game. they have played their hand, now it is going to scotland and ireland to play theirs. the permutations and ireland to
in what s being seen as a key test of the party s ability to regain seats in scotland. with a larger than expected swing of 20.4%, labour s michael shanks secured just under 18,000 votes, more than double the total for the snp s katy loudon, who came second. the by election was triggered by the removal of the snp s margaret ferrier, after she broke covid lockdown rules. 0ur scotland correspondent lorna gordon was at the count. welcome to scotland s newest mp, michael shanks! fix, welcome to scotland s newest mp, michael shanks! michael shanks! a striking victory in what was michael shanks! a striking victory in what was a michael shanks! a striking victory in what was a marginal michael shanks! a striking victory in what was a marginal seat, - michael shanks! a striking victory in what was a marginal seat, with the victorious labour candidate notching up a majority of more than 9000 votes, his party describing it as a seismic and historic win. the?a as a seismic and hi