Qualification event in tokyo after crossing the finish line hand in hand. Good evening. New figures out today reveal the extent of britains drug crisis in the starkest terms possible. Deaths caused by the mis use of drugs mainly heroin and cocaine hit a record high in england and wales last year. In scotland too, drug related deaths are at their highest. Almost 3,000 people died from illicit drugs in england and wales last year. Thats a rise of 17 on the previous year. Throughout the week weve been reporting on one of the key factors behind this crisis the supply of drugs from the cities to britains towns and even villages or what police call the county lines. All too often children are involved and today our special correspondent, ed thomas, has been showing the police what hes discovered. As heroin deaths reach record highs, for three months weve investigated the rise in county line drug dealing, exploited teenage drug runners, vulnerable, long term users. Just taking it to feel norm
Minutes. The flagship Free Childcare scheme in england now one charity says parents are subsidising it from their own pockets. Are of champagne. It is really bound to in small doses. Id offer you a glass of champagne. He was the actor behind television sleuth jason king Peter Wyngarde has died in hospital at the age of ninety. Taxpayers owe private Companies Like carillion almost 200 billion pounds to complete big building projects and the public spending watchdog says its not the best value for money. In sport curtains for konta. The british number one is out of the Australian Open after a shock defeat to the world number 123. Good morning. First, our main story. Britain is to increase its contribution towards border controls in france by nearly 45 Million Pounds, and commit to taking in more migrants calais. The deal will be announced at a summit between theresa may and the french president Emmanuel Macron this afternoon. Their meeting at the armys Officer Training Academy in sandhur
Whi this bill would authorize with ional park Service Private prperty owners, h. R. 2611 wilt do more. And even physical abuse to desegregate Little Rock Central High School. On that historic day in 1957, nine young people showed the United States and the world that we were and are better than segregation, better than racism and injustice. That roved to the world as americans we really do believe the declaration of independence when it says that all men are created equal. I believe that allowing the historical residenceser is rounding the Little Rock Central High School to slip into disrepair or oblivion would be a severe injustice to those who gave of themselves to further the cause of civil rights and equality. Id like to thank my colleague from representative, representative french hill, and congressman john lewis for their work on this important issue and i urge my colleagues to support this bill. Yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from utah reserves. He gentlelady f
Okay. He just has a skinned knee. His parents have taken him to the doctor. You can imagine it was very frightening for him. Apparently he was pretty brave too and only cried a little bit. The park says youre supposed to cross your arms and legs when you go down that slide. He did not cross his legs, although its still very concerning this happened at all. As a result, the park has closed that slide to make sure its safe. We have a Maintenance Person from the installer coming out right now to check that piece of equipment with us and make sure that everything is operating as per the guides. So well make sure its safe before we turn it back on. Reporter and this is the grand opening of the park as you said. It was supposed to be a special weekend that now has a little bit of issues that were trying to figure out. People are still showing up and there are still kids on the slides. Well have more coming up in the next hour. A hayward teen subbing hailed a hero after he rescued his little
Today again. Its confined to the north bay in the far reaches. And that is the area of concern. Thats where we have a Flash Flood Watch in effect for lake, mendocino and humboldt counties. You have to think about this. 300,000 peopleplus live in those areas. You are going to receive up to 6 of rain by thursday evening. Also, the soberanes burn area, thats another area of concern due to mudslides. So right now lowlevel moisture. You do need the umbrella. Kind of hazy conditions. Temperatures we are into the 50s and later today topping off in the 50s and up to about 63 degrees in san jose. Also in oakland through piedmont into alameda, 63 tri valley, and fremont. We are going to track the incoming system. Well talk about how much rain you should expect and plus, gusty winds, as well. First heres roqui. Thank you, roberta. That will affect the roads too but lets start off in richmond. Westbound 80 before el portal a threecar crash blocking two left lanes so we have some slowdowns in the a