the economy, dealing with their waiting lists, getting british people back to work, setting up great british energy, those are the changes this country desperately needs. and i think so many people are yearning for change, if you want change, you have to vote for it. that was at the leader of the labour party, sir keir starmer speaking a little earlier on today. their battle bus going off to essex to do more campaigning. that was launched this morning. the conservative party battle bus also lunch today. we can see the image of rishi sunak there. our correspondentjess parker is there. we can see the battle bus behind you. a lot more at the conservative party are offering throughout this election campaign. party are offering throughout this election campaign. yes, we ust the prime minister election campaign. yes, we ust the prime minister lunching election campaign. yes, we just the prime minister lunching effectivelyl prime minister lunching effectively the battle bus.
rishi sunak has pledged to give 30 towns across the uk £20 million each, if the conservatives are re elected. my colleaguejess parker has been following the conservatives and gave me this update earlier. i am on the conservative battle bus. it s on its inaugural campaignjourney. and there s a little bit of confusion because, of course, myself and other reporters have been reporting from buses since the campaign began. that was on a different bus. didn t have conservative branding. didn t have the prime minister on board. but we re now on the officially branded bus that was launched earlier today in redcar, and we re continuing to travel across the north east. just to give you a sense of this bus, if the camera will kindly do a little crowd view. this is producerjack bbc producerjack. and then down the aisle there there are other reporters from different broadcasters, from newspapers as well. and of course the idea is that you get to follow the campaign, you get to be in re
there s a fresh warning about the dangers of mud on beaches after several reports of people getting stuck following extreme weather. the coastguard says there s been a recent increase in incidents and it s stepping up training for the busy summer ahead. our reporter crispin rolfe joined emergency crews in cleethorpes. racing against time. pumping up the raft. ..and sometimes against the tide. presumably, this would be time critical in an emergency? very time critical. it s about practice. the more we practise to do it, the quicker you can do it. yes, the challenges faced by volunteer coastguard teams along the cleethorpes coast as they go about saving the lives of those who get stuck in its mud. the coastguard teams practise regularly and they have to because they say that the number of people getting stuck is increasing.
and hours to different pharmacies taking these scripts. finishing second year is like carnage for. really stressful for, like, a normal student, but a student that can t eat properly like, can t find the medicine that keeps me alive that stress is just unimaginable! pharmacists say they are increasingly having to turn patients away. it has a big impact on patients, it means their health may worsen. and of course it s very distressing. the hidden issue here as well is of course it s very distressing for the teams in community pharmacies because they work and strive to support the public and their communities. they want to be dispensing these medicines. the uk is not the only country in the world experiencing problems with drug supplies it s a global issue. but the npa says it wants all the main parties in the election to commit to tackling the shortages. dominic hughes, bbc news. there s a fresh warning about the dangers of mud on beaches