From one of their new signings. And good morning. The weekend ahead is looking fine, plenty of dry weather, sunny spells for many of us as well. They will bring you the full forecast shortly. Good morning. Its saturday, the 17th of august, our main story. The World Health Organization is asking countries with Mpox Vaccine stockpiles to donate them to nations with ongoing outbreaks. A wave of infections has killed hundreds of people in the Democratic Republic Of Congo as a highly contagious variant of the virus spreads. It comes as a company which manufactures one of the vaccines says it needs orders to be placed quickly so it can meet demand. Our reporter Leigh Milner has the story. In the democratic republic of the congo, hospitals like this one are filling up with patients who have mpox. Originally known as monkey pox, the disease can be passed on by close physical contact with anyone with the infection. It causes flu like symptoms and blisters, which is usually clear up into or thre
Boy george, welcome to this cultural life. Thank you. You were born George Odowd in 1961 and you grew up in South London in a Working Class Irish family. Tell me about family life. What was it like Growing Up . Well, i used to think that my family were the most insane family on the planet because we had, like, chickens, we had, like, dogs, you know, we were we stood out. We were like the hillbillies of the road. But Growing Up, ijust thought we were the maddest bunch ever. Did you feel irish Growing Up . Very i mean, my name is odowd. I grew up in the 70s, with all the bombing and, you know, Kids At School would be making comments and you were very aware of the fact that you were irish 0. I used to get called 0loud. Laughs. George oloud that was my name at school. And what were your interests at school . In fact, what was your education like . My education was probably spoilt by my behaviour. I wasnt a particularly compliant kid because at home, my dad ruled the roost you know, what
For a lot of people, Memorial Day weekend is synonymous with the unofficial start of summer and all the festivities that go along with that. That often