hello, welcome to the programme we re live until ”am this morning. also, does the accent you have mean people think you are thick? or more intelligent than you are? this after angela rayner, the shadow education secretary, was called thick after being on the andrew marr show yesterday. let me know what perceptions people have of you because of where you were born. use the hashtag #victorialive. if you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate. our top story today. the case of the terminally ill 11 month old boy, charlie gard, returns to the high court today, as judges consider new evidence relating to potential treatment for his condition. an earlier ruling supported the view of his doctors that nothing can be done to improve his quality of life, and they should be allowed to switch off his life support systems. kathryn stanczyszyn reports. he s still fighting, so we re still fighting. a phrase that chris and connie gard have used many times as they battle
5urging to 27 celsius, the 805 in fahrenheit. today it is a different 5tory, good news for gardeners. for those without a garden, it is probably not such exciting news is that we will see this heavy rain. and it has already started to come down pretty heavily across parts of southern wales. it will move eastwards as we go through the rest of the afternoon. a few showers at the moment but we will see them merging into lengthy spells of rain this afternoon. staying wet across the midlands, much of wales and south west england to take us through the rest of the afternoon. cumbria and northumberland just about missing out, staying dry in northern ireland with sunny spells, and we will see sunshine and showers in scotland. it looks like we ll see this area of high pressure as we go on into thursday. another dry day for thursday with some sunshine. a few isolated showers possible through western areas. the winds will also pick up in western scotland. temperatures reasonable again,
adam peaty breaks his 50 metres breaststroke record twice in one day. a devastated greg rutherford pulls out of the world athletics championships injury means he won t defend his long jump title. more criticism for the rfu now mps want to know why they re not renewing the contracts of the england women s 15. and i m in the netherlands at the women s european football championships as england and scotla nd championships as england and scotland prepare for their crucial final group matches. the day started with a bang for adam peaty and itjust got better. he smashed his own world record in the 50 metres breaststroke heats at the world swimming championships in budapest and then did it again in the semi finals. andyjamieson and steve parry were the incredulous commentators. adam peaty right in the centre, that isa adam peaty right in the centre, that is a better start, very good start from the russian entry, but no adam peaty goes, looking very strong indeed, the bra
police used the gross indecency laws to continue to criminalise gay behaviour and social activity. voiceover: it is a deadly disease and there is no known cure. in the ‘80s, hiv and aids brought a new atmosphere of moral panic. by the end of the decade, the number of gross indecency prosecutions against gay men was as high as it had been in the 1950s. many many lead completely double lives. the writer maureen duffy who campaigned for the 1977 act who campaigned for the 1967 act says it was not a moment of sudden liberation. it was the beginning of a process. but never assume that what you have achieved you have got for good and it cannot be reversed because at any time, anything can be completely changed. and there are sometimes still some very nasty rumblings and utterances, partially stoked by the use of social media, that could turn very nasty indeed if we re not vigilant. injuly 1967, the home secretary roy jenkins told parliament that homosexuality was a disability tha