Gerry adams announces hes standing down as president of the party. In sport, england are into the Rugby League World cup semi finals in the last few minutes theyve beaten Papua New Guinea by 36 6 in melbourne. Philip as the weather. Good morning. There is a fine, and for some frosty start to sunday. A decent day in prospect for many parts of the british isles, but there is a change on the way. I will have all of the details in a few minutes. First, our main story, police in dorset say they believe theyve found the body of missing teenager, gaia pope. The 19 year old had not been seen for 11 days. Specialist search teams made the discovery on saturday close to a coastal path near swanage. Her family have said they are absolutely devastated. She is. Im not go going to say was, and i never will. She is the absolute light of my life. So beautiful, so emotionally wise and intelligent. And so passionate, and artistic, and creative, and understanding. Was the news that everybody was dreading.
The headlines zimbabwes Ruling Zanu Pf Party is expected to remove president Robert Mugabe as its leader today, as well as expel his wife, grace, from the party. Police say theyre confident that the remains of a body found near swanage is that of the missing teenager, gaia pope. Tests of Driverless Cars on uk roads are set to be given the go ahead in this weeks budget. Gerry adams, sinn feins leader for the past 3a years, will step down from the role next year. Coming up in a few minutes, our sunday morning edition of the papers this mornings reviewers are katy balls, Political Correspondent of the the spectator, and the journalist and broadcaster, James Rampton. Before the papers, sport. And for a full round up, lets go to the bbc sport centre. Good morning. England have made it through to the semifinals of the Rugby League World cup. They beat Papua New Guinea by 36 76 in melbourne. Tim hague has the details. England have strolled their way through the world cup so far, but with sam
Range of issues. Do you think there isa range of issues. Do you think there is a cultural problem . Im not sure of that is the case. Having said that, what is important. Wouldnt you like to find out . Im not sure thatis you like to find out . Im not sure that is the case, they are different types of complaints, but having said that what i think is important we make sure that the command team that we have within Police Scotland, three in livingston, is given the support required. Once we have had the outcome of these investigations into the complaint against the chief constable of the complaints we have relating to Bernie Higgins and the other officers, we will be in a better place to understand what the things were related to those complaints. Has there been any reaction from opposition parties . Opposition parties are expected to keep the press to rub on the Scottish Government over what they will do about this allegations up to scotland. The scottish conservatives have already respon
Alert telling airlines to avoid flying the volcano in bali. There are fears that the volcano could to the for the first time in more than 50 yea rs. Our weather has flip flopped between the weather of autumn and winter. Things have calmed down quite nicely for some, but others have recorded this weekend there first snow of the season. This weekend there first snow of the season. We are about to change again. Over my shoulder, an area of low pressure thrown their frontal systems down through the british out over the course of the night. Very wet in some places, 30 or a0 millimetres, and windy, gusts up to a0 miles and are. In the body of this weather fronts there is quite mild. For monday morning, some of this rain will be heavy, surface water and spray around where it has stopped drilling north of the rain band, but in the rain banter could be heavy bursts of rain. North of that it be heavy bursts of rain. North of thatitis be heavy bursts of rain. North of that it is a mixture of sunn
Welcome to bbc news. A british woman accused of smuggling drugs into egypt has been sentenced to three years in jail. Laura plummer, whos 33 and from hull, was arrested in october with 290 tablets of the painkiller, tramadol, which is banned in egypt. A spokesman from the Foreign Office says they will continue to provide assistance to the family. My colleague in cairo, hanan razek, has been speaking to laura plummers family who say they are shocked by todays sentencing. I was just speaking to lauras mother and she tells me she is still shocked after the verdict. She says she cannot believe it after waiting the two months and then having this verdict. Back in october laura was arrested as she tried to enter the country and they found around 300 tramadol tablets in her suitcase. Laura said she brought those tablets for her boyfriend, as he suffers from severe back pain. This is a painkiller that is prescribed and its fine to get it in the uk. But its fine to get it in the uk. But it is b