have a look at this! a rare sight on the railways this morning as four engines, including the flying scotsman. line up to show the past, present, and future of rail transport. you can see the smoke. and ben has the weather. good morning. quite a decent day to come for many of us today. spells of sunshine. brace yourself. a big change for the start of the new week. something much colder on the way. all of the details are coming up. thank you, ben. good morning. first, our main story. labour would introduce four extra uk wide bank holidays if they win the general election. and it s being reported that the conservatives will pledge to cut energy bills for the seven out of ten households that pay standard variable tariffs households by capping some tariffs. with the details, here s our political correspondent, ben wright. good morning, everybody. working ha rd to good morning, everybody. working hard to get your vote. jeremy corbyn thinks britain s workers deserve a break, and sa
of households is expected to be included in the conservative manifesto. good morning. it s sunday the 23rd of april. also ahead: tight security across france as voting begins in the first round of the presidential election. this is the start line of the 37th london marathon where work is furiously getting under way to get things ready because 40,000 runners are expected to take part. that is a record number. in sport, chelsea are unstoppable. matic makes his mark as the premier league leaders beat tottenham, to reach the fa cup final. have a look at this! a rare sight on the railways this morning as four engines, including the flying scotsman. line up to show the past, present, and future of rail transport. and ben has the weather. good morning. quite a decent day to come for many of us. spells of sunshine. brace yourself. a big change for the start of the new week. something much colder on the way. all of the details are coming up. thank you very much, ben. good morning. fir
37th london marathon. a lot of activity trying to get everything ready for the race, which starts at ten o clock. there are 40,000 people expected to take part this year. also in the sport, chelsea are unstoppable, they re already top of the premier league, and now they re into the fa cup final. a rare sight on the railways this morning as four engines including the flying scotsman line up to celebrate the past, present and future of rail transport. and ben has the weather. good morning. quite a decent datacom for many of us today. there will be spills of sunshine, but there is a big change for the start of the week. something much colder on the way. all the details coming up. good morning, first our main story. labour is attempting to win over voters ahead ofjune‘s general election, with the promise of four extra uk wide bank holidays. they would fall on the patron saint‘s day of each of the home nations. the conservatives have responded by saying the british economy
positive stories of all the people who will be doing the race through the capital. a rare treat for rail fans as the flying scotsman travel alongside three modern trains on the east coast mainline. and our sunday morning edition of the papers is at 9.35 this mornings reviewers are preshant rao , from the international new york times and peter conradi, foreign editor at the sunday times. good morning and welcome to bbc news. and i should say happy saint georges day. labour is attempting to win over voters ahead ofjune‘s general election, with the promise of four extra uk wide bank holidays. they would fall on the patron saint‘s day of each of the home nations. the conservatives have responded by saying the british economy would be on a permanent holiday under labour. here s our political correspondent ben wright. good morning, everybody. good morning! working hard to get your vote. butjeremy corbyn thinks britain s workers deserve a break, and says if labour wins the gen
welcome to bbc news. on the first weekend of the general election campaign, jeremy corbyn has announced that a labour government would introduce another four bank holidays. he says further marking the patron saints days for the four home nations would recognise the historic diversity of the uk . the proposal has been criticised by labour s opponents, and some business groups. meanwhile, mr corbyn has raised the prospect that a labour government could scrap the uk s trident nuclear submarines. speaking to the bbc this morning he refused to confirm whether maintaining the deterrent would be in the party s general election manifesto. this is still an entirely unresolved question as to what you are going to do. your spokesman has said clearly that keeping trident will be in the labour manifesto. we haven t completed work on the manifesto yet. as you would expect less than 100 hours into this election campaign. so we could be in for a shock? no, no. we are having that discussion