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bumper profits for the owner of british gas centrica more than a billion pounds this year as household bills keep rising. right on time! and from the railway children to the wombles and doctor who bernard cribbins has died at the age of 93. and coming up on the bbc news channel, we ll be in birmingham ahead of the commonwealth games and we ll look at what threat germany pose to england in the final of the women s euros. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. you the commonwealth games 2022 opens here at the alexander stadium in birmingham injust two hours time. this huge space seats 30,000 people, and although we don t entirely know the themes of the opening ceremony you do get hints of how they want to celebrate birmingham, with a mock canal and brickwork heralding its industrial past, and graffiti and skateboard ramps celebrating its gritty present. and we ve also been told to watch out for exactly how the royal guests arrive. 0rganisers say it s the ....
hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. large parts of the uk s railway network are facing disruption once more just a few weeks after it was hit by three days of strikes. thousands of rail workers are taking industrial action again today in the continuing dispute over pay, jobs and working conditions. only 20% of the country s rail services are set to run today but even these services will be limited. some parts of britain will have no trains at all. the disruption is widespread across the uk. today more than 40,000 members of the rail, maritime and transport union have walked out. they work for network rail and 1a different train operating companies around the country. the tssa union is also striking at avanti west coast meanwhile, the drivers unions aslef has announced another strike this saturday there are more strikes planned for the 18th and 20th of august and it may not end there there have been threats of further strike dates later i ....