sandwich. he tore off a corner of it, a piece of bread. he ate it, and he gave the rest to his dog. they ve taught me a lot too. i ll close by saying this. an act of kindness can change your day. change someone s day. an act or gesture of kindness can change somebody s life. thank you. [ applause ] what a night. we want to thank everybody for joining us. thank you, laura. oh, my goodness. thank you for holding my hand. that was beautiful. can you imagine the level of generosity to say give back immediately? this tells you why we do this. thank you so much. you can support all of our honorees right now by going to cnnheroes.com and click donate. each donate will be met dollar for dollar. if you know someone as amazing as tonight s honorees, you can nominate them to be a cnn hero in 2024 because officially, anderson, nominations are now open. we hope that some of these stories have inspired you to get involved and do your part because you, too, can be somebody s hero. t
In other words, understands what s going on, knows all the pros and cons then that child themselves could give consent. now, that s a very difficult position to find yourself in, and no school wants to face that scenario. our health correspondent, dominic hughes, reporting there. the number of suspected drug deaths in scotland remains close to a record high, with 722 deaths in the first six months of the year. that s only nine fewer than the same period last year. scotland continues to have by far the highest drug death rate in europe. and, it is more than three and a half times that of england and wales. the kremlin has announced that president putin is self isolating after members of his staff tested posititive for covid 19. a spokesman insisted the president was absolutely healthy and his work was not affected. the speakers of the house of commons and lords have ruled that china s ambassador in london cannot step foot in parliament while sanctions remain
Programmes go ahead in schools every year without controversy, and i think ministers will be hoping very much that when this rolls out in the next few weeks, it might be the same with the covid vaccination. that s our education correspondent. just to say, the downing street press conference where the prime minister will prevent the government s covid planned for autumn and winter will be this afternoon. he will be joined autumn and winter will be this afternoon. he will bejoined by autumn and winter will be this afternoon. he will be joined by the chief medical officer afternoon. he will be joined by the chief medical 0fficerfor afternoon. he will be joined by the chief medical officer for england, professor chris whitty, and the government s chief scientific officer patrick vallance. live coverage starts on the bbc news channel at 3pm this afternoon. tune in for that. the prime minister s mother has died at the age of 79. it was announced that charlotte johnson wahl died suddenly and