in england s local elections. the tories lost almost 500 council seats on thursday. the sunday express looks ahead to borisjohnson s queen s speech next week, which promises to slash red tape, boost economic growth and make the uk thrive. the mail on sunday splashes beergate on its front page. sir keir starmerfaces fresh questions over a leaked memo which, the paper says, undermines the labour leader s claim that his takeaway was actually spontaneous. the sunday people says ukrainian hackers halt vladimir putin s party vodka. booze missiles is its headline. the sunday mirror reports the duke and duchess of cambridge are set to scrap formalities when on duty including curtsies, bows and even using their royal titles. we will get to that, but we will start with the result in northern ireland. we ll we ll start we ll start by looking at the observer, which has the picture of the two sinn fein leaders taking a selfie and the headline. fuels debate on future of the union. joe t
difficult decisions to come. good mornin: difficult decisions to come. good morning from difficult decisions to come. good morning from this difficult decisions to come. good morning from this womenswear factory in derbyshire. i m here finding out what businesses like this want to hear from the new prime minister as hear from the new prime minister as he stitches together at his plan for the economy. the end of the road for the fiesta. ford is expected to announce the iconic motor is being scrapped. the miracle babies harry and harley are the most premature born twins to survive, and now they re celebrating their first birthday. good morning. chelsea are into the knockout stages of the champions league. they qualified in impressive style. and it s another mild start to the day today, with rain to clear in the far north east of the country, then a drive slot and then more shower remain pushing towards the east, and thenit remain pushing towards the east, and then it drie
to prepare for the pandemic. and the deepfake scam on fiona bruce. we look at how ai can be used to spread misinformation ahead of a major government summit on artificial intelligrance. 0n bbc london. a met firearms officer charged with murder of chris kaba in south london is to be named after a judge rules to lift an anonymity order. good evening from jerusalem where the israeli military have announced the first rescue of a hostage a soldier. she was kidnapped on october seven by hamas, classed as a terrorist organisation by the uk government. m00 people died in the attacks by hamas just over three weeks ago. she is private 0ri megidish she is said to be doing well and has been reunited with herfamily. no details have been given of the circumstances of her rescue. the families of three other hostages being held in gaza have spoken this evening, and called for every possible effort to be made to bring them home. we ll have more on those stories in a moment, but first th
and to wales. finally, let s look at the lib dem leader, ed davey. this is what he said about his party s manifesto. we put forward a very detailed, costed manifesto, and it s got a big health and social care package at the centre. it is true to say that the lib dems are promising a lot of extra cash for the health service but there are some questions from experts. have a look at this from the nuffield trust again. the funding proposal appears to be insufficient. that s for their social care plan. secondly, the ifs on the manifesto as a whole there are clear risks that their package of tax measures wouldn t raise the money that they claim, which would make it harder to pay for some of those commitments. so, hopefully that was some useful context about some of the claims made last night. as ever, there is plenty more on the bbc website. sir keir starmer has promised to put scotland at the heart of government and provide thousands ofjobs in sectors such as engineering,