Computer system have won a high court victory. Protests spread across india against a controversial new citizenship law. Indias Prime Minister appeals for calm. Around £50 million worth ofjewellery is stolen from the home of formula one heiress, Tamara Ecclestone. A tough draw for english clubs in the Champions League holders liverpool will play Atletico Madrid in the last 16, while Manchester City will face real madrid. While while chelsea while chelsea inspires face german opposition. Good evening. Welcome to bbc news. The Prime Minister borisjohnson has been making appointments to his cabinet four days after winning a large majority in last weeks general election. Simon hart is the new welsh secretary, while nicky morgan has been re appointed culture secretary, despite no longer being an mp. Shell be given a life peerage. Meanwhile, newly elected mps have been arriving in westminster for the start of a new parliamentary session. The conservatives have 109 new mps, including many fr
Bringing us tomorrow. With me are kate andrews, news editor at the institute of Economic Affairs and sebastian payne, whos political leader writer at the ft. Many of tomorrows front pages are already in. The times says allies of the labour Leaderjeremy Corbyn are planning to deselect 50 labour mps. The telegraph leads with comments from the foreign secretary Boris Johnson, arguing the uk should welcome a visit from donald trump. The sunday express says more than a 100 tory mps will demand the Prime Minister Ends Free Movement and leaves the Single Market as soon as the uk exits the eu in march next year. The new look observer leads with a pledge from the Prime Minister to punish bosses who fail to protect their Workers Pension schemes. And the mail on sunday leads with an investigation carried out by channel four into three former conservative cabinet ministers, in what the paper calls a cash for brexit controversy. Well, as usual a mixed bag of stories in tomorrow mornings papers poli
Prue leith apologises after revealing the winner of tonights Great British bake off on twitter. Good evening. Theyre called the crack cocaine of gambling fixed odds betting terminals on which you can currently gamble up to £100 every 20 seconds. They made nearly £2 billion last year for the betting industry and hundreds of millions for the treasury. But now the government is considering limiting the amount that can be gambled at any one time to as little as £2, in an attempt to deal with problem gambling. Jim connolly reports. A few months ago, nathan would have struggled to walk past a bookmakers. His gambling problem started with fixed odds machines. He has stopped betting with help from gamblers anonymous. I found myself suddenly with debts that i could not cover at all. I lost about £5,000 in 48 hours. You lose all sense of time around you. The moneyjust. The money becomes a number on a screen. Youre de sensitised to everything that is going on. Gamblers anonymous was my last r
Because of coronavirus. Britains top literary prize, the booker prize for fiction, has gone to the scottish author Douglas Stuart for his novel, shuggie bain. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Theres yet more encouraging news about coronavirus vaccines tonight. This time from researchers in oxford who are working with the Pharmaceutical Company astrazeneca. Britain has ordered 100 million doses of this vaccine. Researchers say trials have so far shown a promising immune response for people in their 60s and 70s. Final data on how well it works should be ready by christmas. The vaccine is easy to store and cheaper than the ones being developed by pfizer and moderna. Heres our medical editor, fergus walsh. Go right in. Hi. It is volunteers like ian from southampton who are crucial to vaccine trials. How are you feeling today . We were there injuly when he received the first of two doses as part of the Oxford Astrazeneca trial, but we are only finding out today how the over 70s are res