a huge response to the tv drama about the post office scandal that saw hundreds of innocent branch managers wrongfully prosecuted for theft. we ll hear from one who s fought forjustice for 20 years. whilst there are some brighter skies ahead for us all there is still some rain in the forecast today particularly across the south, i will have your full forecast here on breakfast. it s thursday 4th january. our main story. a row about emergency cover has broken out between nhs bosses and union leaders, as a strike byjunior doctors in england enters its second day. yesterday nhs leaders made 20 requests for striking doctors to return to the wards and help overstretched services but the british medical association accused them of misusing the system, which is known as derogation. a number of nhs trusts have reported long waiting times in a&e, with some declaring critical incidents. here s more from our health editor hugh pym. # hey, vicky, ooh, ahh # i wanna know when you ll pay u
there is fewer than 18,000. so welcome to the scott house museum. this is where the bill pattern study first started in 1963. this winter is the 60th anniversary of the bewick s swan survey. it was started by conservationist sir peter scott, who sat at this window meticulously painting the beaks of every swan. you can see here these beautiful drawings that he did of each individual bill pattern and you can see that there are three perspectives that he painted for each swan. this is one of the world s longest running animal research projects. the advantage of having so much data year after year is the information it provides notjust about how they live and how they migrate, but how this beautiful swans are adapting to our warming, changing climate.
sirindi, who is at slimbridge at the moment, he s one of the divorcees, but the cheese dynasty was quite a big one. roquefort, cheddar, stilton. i think that s maisie. that s maisie coming in on the right hand side. so she s number two. number two family on the pond and making that point known there, by pushing that other family away. probably best to think of them as mafias rather than families. this year, 91 bewicks swans have been seen at slimbridge. in the 19705, there was sometimes more than 600. the bewick swan, sadly, its numbers are plummeting very, very quickly and have been for quite some time. sojust to give you an idea, in the mid 1990s we were looking at around 29,000 birds in the population in europe, and now we think there s fewer than 18,000. so there s a huge decline in their numbers. so, welcome to the scott house museum. this is where the bill pattern study first started in 1963. this winter is the 60th anniversary of the bewicks swan survey.
in the 1970s, there was sometimes more than 600. its numbers are plummeting very, very quickly and have been for quite some time. so just to give you an idea, in the mid 1990s, we were looking at around 29,000 birds in the population in europe. and now we think that s fewer than, there is fewer than 18,000. so welcome to the scott house museum. this is where the bill pattern study first started in 1963. this winter is the 60th anniversary of the bewick s swan survey. it was started by conservationist sir peter scott, who sat at this window meticulously painting the beaks of every swan. you can see here these beautiful drawings that he did of each individual bill pattern, and you can see that there are three perspectives that he painted for each swan. this is one of the world s longest