the cost of a degree. students from the poorest backgrounds could leave university with debts of over £57,000. also coming up, it s day three of wimbledon. first up on centre court this afternoon isjohanna konta, who plays donna vekic, the player who beat her in the final of the nottingham 0pen last month. and mark cavendish is out of the tour de france, following a crash which saw his sprint rival peter sagan disqualified from the race for his involvement. good morning and welcome to bbc newsroom live. it s understood the goverment is to send a taskforce in, to take over parts of kensington council, in the wake of the grenfell fire tragedy. it is thought the housing department and other departments will be run by an outside organisation, but the council itself will not be taken over. most of the families who lost their homes are still living in hotels, despite government pledges to rehouse them all by today. there was anger and frustration at a meeting with police and the
end takes joanna konta into the next round at wimbledon. and coming up on bbc news. we ll have all the latest from a big day for the british players at the all england club. join me for wimbledon sportsday at 6:30. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. knife crime is now one of the greatest challenges facing police forces across the country. in fact, the knife is britain s number one murder weapon. the figures are all the more shocking because increasingly both victims and perpetrators are young children and teenagers. last year nearly 32,500 knife crimes were committed in england and wales. that figure was up 14% on the previous year. senior police officers say there needs to be a change in attitudes and behaviour. our home affairs correspondent, june kelly, has been on police patrol in birmingham and met some of those working to end knife culture. a summer evening in birmingham and the force response teams from west midlands police are dealing with dozens of em
good evening and welcome to bbc news. the new leader of kensington and chelsea council has rated rated her apology to residents of grenfell tower, saying it was not there for them at the time it was needed has reiterated her apology. at a meeting tonight, police have updated residents about several issues, including recovery work. it comes as the government has announced a task force to run several areas, including housing. lucy manning reports. the missing posters have been here for three weeks. they flutter a painful reminder, because time has not brought any answers. now the police search through the 15 tonnes of debris on each floor, still trying to find all the grenfell victims. karim musilhy was at the meeting the police and coroner called last night. his uncle, hesham rahman, is missing from the 23rd floor. he went over to comfort some young children, which, for me, is very heroic. i want that to stick and stay with the family. we may never know if my uncle is ever
to exercise restraint. it is because we inherited the biggest deficit in history. the prime ministerfound £1 billion to keep her ownjob, why can t she find the same amount of money to keep nurses and teachers in theirjob, who after all serve all of us? contrary to all of what he said, we have more nurses working in the nhs today compared to 2010. let me remind the right honourable gentleman of what happens when you don t deal with the deficit. it s not a theoretical issue. let s look at those countries who failed to deal with it. in greece, where they haven t dealt with the deficit. what did we see with failure to deal with the deficit? spending on the health service cut by 36%. that doesn t help nurses are patients. or patients. i hope the prime minister is proud of her record of controlling public sector pay to the extent that hard working nurses have to access food banks in order to survive. and the frozen wages of teaching assistants, paramedics and council workers, b
time to ditch it or keep it? what should be done with the limit on pay rises in the public sector? the low pay epidemic is a threat to our economic stability. it is not fair to bankrupt our economy because that leads to people losing theirjobs and losing their homes. the government s new chums are the democratic unionist party of northern ireland. but one observer warns them, watch out. this is a great moment for them and nobody can take it away but there are many snares and many responsibilities, particularly they do have to make some concessions to bring back power sharing devolution, which is overwhelmingly in their interest. and it s a hung parliament with close votes expected. ties could occur. but it s the other sort of ties that are most concerning male mps just at the moment. i won t be taking interventions from anyone who s not wearing a tie. do you think that there is a risk of a slippery slope which might lead that member to refuse to take interventions from member