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to reach the league cup final. good morning. storm jocelyn has been packing a punch overnight. only slowly today will they wind moderate and most of us will have a dry day. details later. good morning. it s wednesday, 24th january. in the next hour, the communications regulator ofcom will recommend options for changing how the postal service works, as part of its review of royal mail. one focus is expected to be on the future of saturday letter deliveries. currently, royal mail is legally obligated to deliver letters six days a week, something its owners say is unaffordable. our business correspondent theo leggett reports. britain s postal network has been delivering letters for hundreds of years. but these days, royal mail is finding it harder than ever to maintain the service, and its customers are getting frustrated. among them is tina from south east london. in november, she told us about her experiences. i have multiple medical problems, and hospital letters are not gett ....
alyssa used to gamble regularly in pubs, on fruit machines and down at the bookies. but she has got out of hand when she started doing it online in her 30s. started doing it online in her 305. i started doing it online in her 30s. ~ . . 30s. i think it started when i was quite 30s. i think it started when i was quite young, 30s. i think it started when i was quite young, so - 30s. i think it started when i was quite young, so about i 30s. i think it started when i i was quite young, so about nine years old or something like that. my mum had, i m not blaming my mum, she hated gambling, but she had a caravan that we were always in the arcade, and at the time you could play on the slot machines, it didn t matter if you are aged, like a 5p spin it was. and she would give me pocket money every night, and i was putting it in their, and i won £35, and i would give it to my mum to look after. and then i kept dipping into it. find my mum to look after. and then i kept dipp ....
i said i was going to a mental health facility, because people knew i had mental health episodes that were bad, but nobody knew i was an addict. i kept my gambling a secret for years, and obviously it did eventually all come out. these british women fought to keep their gambling addiction a secret, until they were offered a lifeline a place in a residential centre, and a chance to confront their addiction. i can t remember the exact amount, but it shocked my parents, it shocked my partner at the time, because i think it worked out to be about £30,000 in the space of three months. recent studies indicate that around the world, the number of women gambling is growing. and for those with addiction, is often done in secret. we seem to be sleepwalking, it feels like, towards a problem. elissa used to gamble regularly in pubs, on fruit machines and down at the bookies. but she has got out of hand when she started doing it online in her 30s. i think it started when i was qu ....
election goes to a runoff after the closest vote, in two decades. hello and welcome to bbc news. we start in the uk where ukraine s president has made a surprise visit to secure fresh promises of military aid to fight russia s invasion. prime minister rishi sunak promised to send hundreds of air defence missiles and long range attack drones but stopped short of sending jets. rishi sunak tweeted this picture welcoming president zelensky when he arrived at chequers the prime minister s country residence the pair in a bear hug, with the caption reading: welcome back . volodymir zelensky had earlier described rishi sunak as his friend . there were then handshakes on the doorstep before the pair held bilateral talks, lasting around two hours. uktraine s president says the pair discussed western nations providing kyiv with fighter jets, with the aim of creating what he called a jets coalition . rishi sunak pledged long term support for ukraine to ensure that it ....
sectors right across the globe. thank you forjoining us on bbc news. first off, is this model showing the truth, is it showing the future? are there any exemptions for what would being told? it’s what would being told? it s important what would being told? it s important to what would being told? it s important to realise all models are wrong, but this one is useful. we think it is useful because it produces a good match to current data and current maps of areas at risk of flooding and when we compare it to data of what s happened in the past, it does a good job of simulating. as far as we can tell, does a good job in the present day and that gives us some confidence of when we project it into the future, it is not going to be 1 when we project it into the future, it is not going to bet million miles. it is not going to be 1 million miles. , ., , it is not going to be 1 million miles, y., , y., it is not going to be 1 million miles. , miles. so when you put your factors ....