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The big names on the move. He is on his way to inter milan from manchester united. And welcome to edinburgh, where we have singers, we have acrobats. A little worried about them in their warmup this morning. 4 Million People come to edinburgh throughout the month of august for the Edinburgh Festival. We have the red sofa here, all with the wonderful backdrop of edinburgh castle. Good morning. Today we are looking at another day of sunshine, and fewer showers than of late, but later, a deep area of low pressure is going to swing into the south west, bringing some heavy rain and strength ending when. I will have more in 15 minutes. Strengthening wins. Winds. It is thursday 8 august. Our top story a Police Officer is in a Critical Condition after being repeatedly stabbed with a machete in east london. The attack happened at around midnight. A man in his 50s has been arrested. Lets get more from our reporter simonjones, who is at the scene in leyton. Simon, what do we know . Well, the poli
Using computers to detect disease. The nhs is to get £250 million to build an Artificial Intelligence lab. And its set to be a busy transfer deadline day. Manchester united have agreed to sell striker Romelu Lukaku to inter milan in a deal worth up to £74 million. Good morning, and welcome to the bbc news at 9. Police say an officer who was attacked with a machete in east london is seriously injured, but will recover. The policeman was stabbed several times after he tried to stop a van in leyton at around midnight. A man in his fifties has been arrested. Our correspondent andy moore is in east london. Andy, what do we know so far . This incident happened just behind me just before midnight last night. Two officers in a marked patrol car were following a large white van, and we think it was not insured, which is why they were following it. They had the blue lights on and were trying to get it to pull over and it eventually did, just behind me and when the officers got out they were co
Are carrying blades for protection others are being exploited by gangs. I used to have knives in my backpack. Id use it to threaten people. Give me what youve got. Take it off of them. A former gang member who carried a knife and a women whow as stabbed for the first time aged 12 will tell us their stories. She credits after school clubs for her love of football, but the captain of englands lionesses Steph Houghton warns that period poverty is stopping young girls from taking part in such activities. Hello. Welcome to the programme. Were live until 11 this morning. Many of you have been getting in touch about our story on beyonces diet plan. Deb on twitter potentially very dangerous to impressionable, young girls and boys who may have or be at risk of an eating disorder. This diet is not healthy for anyone. Daz on twitter shes never been overweight in her life. How can she give out a diet plan . Cynical me. Shell make millions from it. Gail on facebook the way to control weight is to e
Is this two front teeth. Now its time for the weather, with ben rich. Hello there. Is it august or is it autumn . You may well be wondering after you have seen what is in this weather forecast. Over the next couple of days some turbulent weather on the way. Some heavy rain at times, but also some unseasonably strong winds, which could well cause some travel problems. Now, the jetstrea m some travel problems. Now, the jetstream has been dipping a long way south across the atlantic, and these strong winds high up in the atmosphere have spun up an area of low pressure. You can see it here on oui low pressure. You can see it here on our earlier satellite image. A beautiful swell of cloud, the sort of thing we would be used to seeing ona of thing we would be used to seeing on a chart like this during the autumn of the winter, not really during the summer. But this area of low pressure pushes in our direction as we had to friday. We will see some outbreaks of heavy rain pushing northwards. A