Of drivers. Well be getting more reaction after Todays Team Gb olympic wins. Beth shriever s raced to gold in the bmx womens competition, and her mother kate told us how proud she is. Once she gets going and shes out the gate, as with the races that she did in the early hours of the morning, been out front and looking comfortable and happy. You know, im just so proud that she did it, and its just so amazing. Good afternoon. Theres been a sizeable Medal Haul for Team Gb at the Tokyo Olympics. Tremendous Bmx Racing by 22 year old Beth Shriever has won her gold, and Kye White took silver in the mens event. For a full Round Up of Todays Action at the olympics lets cross to Hugh Ferris at the bbc Sports Centre. Good afternoon. Six more medals for Team Gb on a day seven of tokyo 2020. More in the coming days as the result of some particularly impressive performances. It was on the Bmx Track were the biggest achievements took place and at the best stories told. She achievements took place and
Dry weather on the satellite picture, but it is a lot fresher out west with the humidity still with us, with areas of Thundery Rain pushing on, Were Clad for central and eastern areas, and the potential for some heavy, Thundery Downpours throughout the remainder of the day. Lots of Fine Weather to the north west. Temperatures down considerably in recent days but still warm and pleasant despite temperatures being down because of a cloud in the south east, the pollen is still high, to very high, for those who suffer, with the Grass Pollen at the moment really quite uncomfortable. I mention the prospect of further thunderstorms. We had some torrential rain last night. It will be a possibility again today, this evening and overnight and for the coming few days. You can see that area of cloud. The area at risk of these Thundery Downpours as we go through the evening and overnight, but for the evening and overnight, but for the majority, where we have lost that humidity it will be a far more
This week we are reporting from across the uk asking about life through the pandemic and asking how your community and your business has been affected. Today i am in somerset. Let us go straight to manchester. As everyone knows, a Suicide Bomber evaded the security outside the arena and detonated his Bombjust as the concert was coming to an end, killing 22 people and injuring many more. It should not be necessary to have security to protect us from murderers but while the Terror Threat remains and shows no sign of going away we do need to have in place protective measures which provides security against threats but do not prevent as enjoying the freedoms that are part of our way of life. The enquiry has examined in detail the Security Provision against Terrorist Attacks at the Manchester Arena on 22nd May 2017. I heard evidence from a 53 witnesses over a period of 32 days, lasting 154 hours, and considered over 1000 documents. For many of those witnesses, giving evidence was a very str
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