Hello this is bbc news. The headlines the cream sets out the legislative agenda in a speech in centuries of tradition yet at the heart of it was brexit. My covenants priority has a lwa ys brexit. My covenants priority has always been to secure the united kingdoms departure from the European Union on the. File barely there is dismissive and the Prime Minister says he aims to create a new age of opportunity for the country. At the heart of this speech is an Ambitious Programme to unite our country with energy and with optimism but also with the basic common sense of optimism but also with the basic common sense of one optimism but also with the basic common sense of one nation conservative. The Prime Minister promised that they screen speech would dazzle us, on closer inspection misty speaker, it is nothing more than fools gold. Inspection misty speaker, it is nothing more than fools goldm syria, the government causes are on the move to the border with turkey racing fair to the dangerous
and tributes for the legendary rock guitaristjeff beck who s died at the age of 78. there s more evidence today of the crisis in the nhs in england, ambulance response times in december were the worse on record. were the worst on record. for category two emergency calls, including strokes, they were more than an hour and a half on average. the target is 18 minutes. the highest priority calls with an immediate threat to life took almost 11 minutes on average, the target is seven. and patients are waiting even longer in accident and emergency, 35% waited more than four hours that s another record. our health correspondent jim reed reports. long queues for ambulances, the most 999 calls ever, record waits in a&e, new figures today show in blunt terms the pressure the nhs is under. martin started feeling chest pains in his home in east sussex in november. his family rang three times for an ambulance. we kept thinking, the ambulance will pull up any minute, it is going to ar
Air in ourdirection north westerly wind, bringing cold air in our direction over the next few days. The showers will increasingly turn wintry, some show was in the north could see snow, and it will be cold with strong winds too so it will feel chilly out there. Through the rest of the afternoon the showers packing in from the west, some heavy ones and especially over high ground in scotland, youve got showers beginning to turn wintry as the temperatures dip away as the afternoon goes on. During this a lot of showers packing in relentlessly on this strong westerly or north westerly wind. Notice more snow starting to show up on the chart, even to lower levels in scotland and Northern Ireland. Weve also got the potential for some ice with that. This is how the commute will look, with lots of these wintry showers across scotland, Northern Ireland and northern england, increasingly falling as sleet and snow to lower levels. In wales it will be mostly rain at lower levels, but sleet and snow
You. There will no government challenge to the decision to release the serial sex attacker, john worboys. The former black cab driver was jailed in 2009 for attacking 12 women, but he is suspected of assaulting many more. Thejustice secretary david gauke admitted he shares the concerns of worboys victims, but that it would not be appropriate to seekjudicial review of the parole boards ruling to free him. Two of his victims are mounting their own challenge to try to keep worboys behind bars. Our Home Affairs Correspondent june kelly has more. He is one of the countrys most notorious serial sex offenders. In his black cab, john worboys cruised for victims, not fares. He was convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting 12 women, one of them he raped. But its feared he may have attacked more than 100 in total. The decision to release him after less than a decade in prison provoked astonishment, including at the top of government. At the start of this week, it emerged that the justice secr