the world s first fully working sand battery is installed in finland, with developers calling it a major breakthrough for green energy. and england chase victory over india at edgbaston to win the fifth test. borisjohnson s decision to appoint chris pincher as deputy chief whip is facing further scrutiny as a former top civil servant at the foreign office, lord mcdonald writes to the parliamentary standards commissioner this morning, saying that borisjohnson was briefed in person about an investigation into chris pincher s conduct as a foreign office minister. downing street had previously claimed that the prime minister wasn t aware of any specific allegations against mr pincher when he was appointed in february. but the bbc learned last night that boris johnson and the foreign secretary at the time, dominic raab, both knew about the issue. mr pincher resigned as deputy chief whip last thursday and was suspended as a conservative party mp after being accused of groping two
that black spirit, that darkness. he just points the gun at my forehead. the first thing i started thinking of was my children. at first i was saying what does kidnap mean? my dad was stolen by bad guys. i lost everything that i knew just like that, gone. it was such a mystery, who was behind this. it was just tearing me apart. i was suffering so much. we if it takes everything we have, everything i can humanly do. i saw things that no 12 -year-old should see. i mean just the cruelty of incredible fear and agony. when is this going to end? and all the hell that we went through on all the pain has made us unbreakable. the green and white taxi parallel down the highway, something was wrong. why had the man paid ten times the fair for a simple package delivery? we can didn t pry open the alarm full of. the cabbie pried open the package. their terrifying story, more than a decade in the making was about to come to an astonishing climax. i was 12 years ol
It comes to not do this. In sport, Jordan Spieth leads the open championship. Hes two shots clear of the field, after mastering all the british summer had to throw at him, at Royal Birkdale. Prince george at four a new official portrait is released to mark his birthday. And stav has the weekend weather. Its looking like a sunshine and showers weekend for most of us. Sunday is probably looking like the better of the two. All the details in about 15 minutes. Good morning. First our main story. Almost 1,000 children are being forced into temporary accommodation every month because more families are becoming homeless, according to councils in england. The local Government Association says the number has increased by a third in three years. It wants more powers to build what are described as genuinely Affordable Homes. 0ur social Affairs Correspondent Michael Buchanan reports. Councils say more than 900 children, what they describe as the equivalent of a secondary school, become homeless ea
It comes to not do this. In sport, Jordan Spieth leads the open championship. Hes two shots clear of the field, after mastering all the british summer had to throw at him, at Royal Birkdale. Prince george at four a new official portrait is released to mark his birthday. And stav has the weekend weather. Its looking like a sunshine and showers weekend for most of us. Sunday is probably looking like the better of the two. All the details in about 15 minutes. Good morning. First our main story. Almost 1,000 children are being forced into temporary accommodation every month because more families are becoming homeless, according to councils in england. The local Government Association says the number has increased by a third in three years. It wants more powers to build what are described as genuinely Affordable Homes. 0ur social Affairs Correspondent Michael Buchanan reports. Councils say more than 900 children, what they describe as the equivalent of a secondary school, become homeless ea