Everywhere we look, there is a blank where she should be. Families of the victims in the boeing ethiopia air crash demand to know why the 737 max was allowed to fly. In pioneering surgery nerves inside paralysed peoples bodies are rewired to give movement to their arms and hands. Good morning, welcome to bbc newsroom alive. We willjust start with some breaking news on the death ofJohn Mccririck, the racing broadcaster whose family have announced that he has died aged 79. He was at the face of channel 4 racing, one of the sports most recognisable figures, famous for his idiosyncratic fashion sense and his larger than life personality. Idiosyncratic fashion sense and his la rger than life personality. He was, of course, an Award Winning journalist for the sporting life and work for itv before he worked for channel 4. His death announced this morning, in the last few minutes, the death ofJohn Mccririck, the racing broadcaster. We will have more on that later. The british car manufacturer,
Matches, she will be able to lift a level. Kim, thank you very much. We will see andy murray, not before 5 30pm, with Serena Williams, on a court to be decided. Look out for koko gauff. Time for a look at the weather heres sarah keith lucas. Contrast across the country, the southern half of the uk getting the lions share of the sunshine. This is the picture in cromer, norfolk. You will probably see the sunshine tomorrow if you are not today. We have that north south split, sunny skies in the south, more cloud and spots of showery rain in the north. Looking at the recent radar picture, you can see where the rainfall has been. Pushing on across the north west of scotland, in particular. A lot of cloud across scotla nd particular. A lot of cloud across scotland and Northern Ireland, patchy cloud in Northern England too. Further south, patchy cloud in Northern England too. Furthersouth, clearer patchy cloud in Northern England too. Further south, clearer skies, across the central and south
On day 5 at wimbledon, djokovic and 15 year old cori gauff in action later as well as andy murray and Serena Williams in the mixed doubles. Well be live there at 2. 30 and bring you news on England International karen carneys retirement from football. Matt has all the weather sunny and warm in places but will it last . 28 this afternoon in some southern areas, to live this weekend, will it stay dry . I will let you know. I will explain more in 25 minutes. Thanks matt. Also coming up tributes are paid to horse racing puinditjohn mccririck. Pundit. With his signature deerstalker hat and flamboyant style, he was a familiar face on british television. Hello, everyone this is afternoon live. A gang behind the biggest modern day Slavery Network ever exposed in the uk has been convicted of offences including trafficking, Money Laundering and forcing people into forced labour. Police believe there were up to 400 victims put to work by the polish organised crime gang in the West Midlands. A thr
now let s turn to the uk, and the impact of the pandemic on young people s education. in a huge policy reversal, affecting hundreds of thousands of pupils, england, wales, and northern ireland have all announced that a level and gsce results will now be based on teacher assessments rather than grades generated by computer modelling. the education secretary gavin williamson, who last week said the system was robust and fair, apologised for the distress caused. our education editor branwenjeffreys has more. i m steph, i was predicted a and two as by my teachers and i was given a , b, b on results day. steph has lost a place at cambridge, first from her family in birkenhead to go to uni. this morning, she told me teacher grades should stand. and we have to work extra hard for where we are and we still haven t got anything out of it. i know obviously my grades are still very good, but i ve still missed out on brilliant opportunities. out of anyone in this, we should just be trus
the prince of wales has led british commemorations of the allied victory overjapan 75 years ago, which ended the second world war. 50,000 british and commonwealth troops died in the war againstjapan, half in prison camps. some of their relatives joined surviving veterans at britain s national memorial arboretum for a ceremony to remember them. sian lloyd was there. 96 year old joan burfield, known as ‘johnny‘ since her navy days, one of the remaining few who remember vj day because they were there. she was then a wren, aged 21, stationed in the far east and tasked with decoding signals, one of a group of young women who d joined the navy to serve their country. 75 years on, she hasn t forgotten the most important message she came across. we were receiving signals, you know, from all over the place. and, well, somebody just shouted, it s over! it s over! the war‘s finished! but we still had to carry on. for sergeant francis raley, the japanese surrender signalled the