of the oxford astrazeneca vaccine urges the world to invest more to prepare forfuture pandemics, saying the next one could be even worse. anger in nigeria as it is added to the red list of uk travel restrictions from today. also coming up. lucky to be alive. the gap year student who was dragged under by a crocodile and lived to tell the tale. the government is promising to crack down on drugs gangs as part of a ten year strategy for tackling drug misuse in england and wales. ministers say they want to dismantle county lines drugs gangs. they re also promising the biggest ever single investment in treating and rehabilitating addicts, who are responsible for a large proportion of crime. according to the home office, drugs are connected to nearly half of killings in england and wales. they re also linked to two thirds of shoplifting, more than half of burglaries and just over a quarter of robberies. our home affairs correspondent, dominic casciani, has this report. and a warni
and just manage to get some sleep wherever you can? yeah. it can be really tough. yeah. it s still very hard for some of us to get a nap. oh, the world s biggest yawn. with osaretin off work on maternity, three mouths to feed and three babies to hold, life and finances have been a juggle. he has reduced his hours to 20 hours a week. so the money s really not coming any more. so you ve had to cut back your hours at work then, just to just to manage physically with looking after the babies? and it was really it was something hard, but we had to do the sacrifice. but lauren s been able to help out by giving a £370 grant. hi! are you 0k? it s gone straight on nappies, baby formula, and paying the energy bills. for lots of families . that we ve supported it sjust meant, you know, feeding their children, - heating their homes, you know, just those really important - butjust basic things that you really need to raise small children. lauren s team have now given money to 82 famili
here comes our active, cold front and some heavy, thundery rain with hail thrown in and wind gusts of 50, 60 may be 70 miles an hour whipping up 60 may be 70 miles an hour whipping up some rough seas and that could give rise to some coastal flooding. the intensity of the rainfall as it comes down in a short space of time might give surface flooding as well. it moves north eastwards overnight, some showers following on behind. a mild night and i ll start to tomorrow. tomorrow will stay quite windy with spells of sunshine. some showers push in from the west towards the east, some of which will be heavy and potentially thundery. they should move through quite quickly. those temperatures again a little bit above where they should be at this time of year. those temperatures are set to rise further as the week wears on. this is wednesday and again sunshine and showers on the face of it, but signs that those showers will tend to ease as we go through the afternoon. a weak ridge of h
you can see how widespread average temperatures have been. temperatures way above where they should be and not just way above where they should be and notjust by day but also through the night. take a look at the uk first thing this morning, the second column is the average overnight low so you can just see how incredibly mild it was first thing this morning and that mild air is going to stay with us for the remainder of the day. not as wet as yesterday, still some rain around across southern scotland. western fringes seeing some showers. cloud the channel coasts producing some drizzle. sheltered eastern areas having the best of any brightness. a blustery afternoon with gusts of wind up to 40 afternoon with gusts of wind up to a0 miles an hour on land. temperatures will peak at around 15 degrees. not surprising when you saw those temperatures first thing this morning. 0vernight tonight the cloud and rain tends to fizzle away and we will see clearer skies so that allows temper
dr cass is saying directly, i want to speak directly to children and young people how they ve been let down , that there wasn t adequate, in her view, research or evidence to support the long term use of puberty, blockers and hormone treatment. and that that was partly, i think she s she more or less implies, because of the toxic debate around the issue and the fact that some clinicians were shying away from the whole thing, didn t want to get involved, were reluctant to engage. and you had this large rise in referrals to the trust for the gender service. so i think there s that. but then there s the more forward looking aspect to it, which is how do you improve services now? and she s very clear that services need to be extended, made more available, notjust one centre in london, but a new centre in london and one in liverpool and then other regional hubs. because of the very long waiting lists for children and young people with gender dysphoria, and long waiting lists for