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be finding out more. a nightmare night for aston villa. they now have a mountain to climb to keep their european dream alive, after a big defeat at home, to olympiacos. stormzy and the beautiful game. the rapper on home ground, as he opens his own youth centre in south london. good morning. we will see some sunshine for scotland and later southern england. very cloudy with patchy rain elsewhere. all the bank holiday details coming up. it s friday, the 3rd of may. our main story. labour has won the blackpool south by election with a convincing majority. the conservatives came second, they previously held the seat until their mp resigned after a lobbying scandal. the reform party came a close third. the first wave of results for the local elections in parts of england has also started to come through overnight so far, the conservatives have lost council seats, while labour s made some key gains. our political correspondent, damian grammaticus, has the latest. commonly known a ....
this is breakfast, with katherine downes and ben thompson. the parents of madeleine mccann tell the bbc they re convinced real progress is being made as they try to discover what happened to their daughter. speaking ahead of the 10th anniversary of madeleine s disappearance, kate and gerry mccann talk of their regret at the time they ve lost together and of their hope that she ll be found. no parent s going to give up on their child unless they know for certain that child s dead. and theyjust don t have any evidence. we should have been a family of five for all of that time. and, yeah, it does feel like stolen time. good morning. it s sunday the 30th of april. also ahead: an spectacular win for anthonyjoshua. it was billed as the biggest fight in british boxing history, and it definitely lived up to expectation. joshua powers past wladimir klitschko to become the unified heavyweight champion of the world. a pension pledge from theresa may. she promises to tackle irrespo ....
and at 12:30, click investigates a company claiming to offer ‘absolute security‘ and discovers all is not what it seems. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. theresa may says the conservative party has no current plans to raise tax and has ruled out a specific rise in vat. she has also said that pensions would continue to rise but wouldn t commit to retaining the triple lock. and speaking to the bbc‘s andrew marr, mrs may also restated her earlier assertion that no deal is better than a bad deal in brexit talks with the european union. meanwhile, labour are campaigning on workplace conditions today. jeremy corbyn‘s party says they ll end zero hours contracts and raise the minimum wage. the liberal democrat leader tim farron told andrew marr that mrs may had called the election out of cold political calculation and said he wants voters to make him the real leader of the opposition. with me is our political correspondent jonathan blake. we can start with ther ....
we speak. and in wales they ve lost overall control of bridgend and merthyr tydfil, two councils in their south wales heartland. although they have held on to the capital city, cardiff. also newport and swansea. and it has been a bad night for ukip overnight they lost every seat they were defending. and the party has been wiped out on councils like lincolnshire, hampshire and essex. their vote share is down dramatically, most of it going straight to the conservatives. coming up, we ll be live in glasgow. the snp are trying to take the city council from labour. the scottish counting has onlyjust started, so those results are all to come. labour have had decades of controlling glasgow city council. we ll be covering the results from scotland as they come in. to say the least, there is plenty to talk about! here in the studio we re joined by our political editor laura kuenssberg. the home office minister brandon lewis for the conservatives. the shadow foreign secretary l ....
than 100 years. he is the sky diver who has broken a world record byjumping out of a plane at the age of 101. and matt has the weather. good morning. certainly not whether for skydiving. it is a wet start to the week for many of you but i will see if i can find some sunshine in the forecast to get you through the next few days. all the details coming up inis next few days. all the details coming up in 15 minutes. good morning. first, our main story: there is a warning of fresh disruption from the global cyber attack this morning, when workers switch on their computers for the first time at the start of the working week. microsoft has described the attack, which began on friday, as a wake up call, and criticised customers who didn t keep their systems up to date. let s take a look at where things stand this morning. it is thought there are more than 200,000 victims of friday s cyber attack, but that figure may rise as people return to work this morning. organisations in ....