A special report on one of the many victims of fentanyl the powerful painkiller linked to a growing number of drug related deaths. Fentanyls a killer, and those drug dealers are playing russian roulette with our lives. They give our children drugs, and our children, my child, died from it. A report from syria amid claims that rebel held areas were targeted by a suspected chemical attack at the weekend. And its a century since one of the biggest advances in gender equality but most women were still not able to vote. And coming up in sport. Chelsea in trouble again. Could the champions come back from a goal down at watford to avoid a second Straight Premier League defeat . Good evening. Theresa mays decision to rule out being a member of any kind of Customs Union after brexit will result in new trade barriers on British Goods and services. That was the warning delivered by the eus chief brexit negotiator Michel Barnier after talks in downing street today. Mr barnier went further and said
Grayling told mps the company is making significant losses, but said there could be no question of a bailout. He insisted there would be no impact on day to day operations. The National Audit office has already launched an investigation into the governments handling of the franchise which provides services between london and edinburgh as our Business Editor simonjack reports. The east coast mainline has been heading for trouble for years. Stagecoach owns 90 of the franchise, and virgin 10 . Both companies wanted to walk away from the losses they were making in 2020, three years early. Today it became clear they will be getting to the point of collapse even earlier. It has now been confirmed the situation is much more urgent. It is now clear this franchise will only be able to continue in its current form for a matter of a very small number of months and no more. That is because stagecoach has already lost £200 million running the line. This company cannot be allowed to run this franch
That can cause problems. Vehicles are being damaged and in some cases people are being seriously hurt in the cause of all this misery is the humble pothole. Here is martin friend. Potholes are the bugbear of every road user and it seems there are more now than ever. They are the cause of a big spike in breakdowns this time of year. You cant make it out now, but at this very spot five years ago there was a massive pothole on the road. It was a dangerous pothole, over four inches deeps of it if you keep it in the car, you could hear the flood. People were trying to avoid it because obviously they didnt wa nt to it because obviously they didnt want to damage their vehicles, but we have heavy goods vehicles coming, very dangerous. I reported it to the council and nothing happened. I reported it to the police and it was repaired within two hours. I needed to make sure i could do everything i could to make sure no one was injured. Thats what started your passion to rid the roads of potholes
More now than ever. They are the cause of a big spike in breakdowns this time of year. It seems everyone who uses them has a story to tell. But how bad is it . Ive come to northampton, ill meet someone who has made it his mission to rid our roads of potholes. You cant make it out now, but at this very spot five years ago there was a massive pothole in the road. Tell me what happened here. It was a dangerous pothole on that bend. People were trying to avoid it, because obviously they did not want to damage their vehicles, but we have very good vehicles coming along here. I reported it to the council and nothing happened. I reported it to the police and it was repaired within two hours. I needed to make sure i could do everything i could to make sure no one was injured. Thats what started your passion to rid the roads of potholes . I thought someone has to stand up. We spend an awful lot of money on our taxes and get a decreasing quality of roads, someone needed to make a stand so i star
And the breeze coming in from the south east, not a cold night or a cold start to tomorrow. The warm weather front that pushing its way across. The cold weather front that clears away a lot of the cold weather out in the atlantic, so were weather out in the atlantic, so we re pretty weather out in the atlantic, so were pretty much start with what we stuck with what we start with. Any good news . Yes, some brightness around the irish sea coast, and here 11 or 12 is possible. Time tojoin inside out time to join inside out for potholes. Hello. Im at the east Anglian Railway museum near colchester. Its kind of the Perfect Place for the programme really, because our second film is about british rail. But first, theres something nasty on our roads which can cause serious problems. Vehicles are being damaged, and in some cases people are being seriously hurt. The cause of all this misery . The humble pothole. Heres martin friend. Potholes are the bugbear of every road user. It seems there are