And smartwatch payments, the once essential item could become a thing of the past. Good morning. Its goals galore for chelsea and signs of lift off this season, as they beat barrow 5 0. All the Premier League sides in action avoiding an upset in Last Nights League Cup. A dry start to the day for many. A few showers around. When wilful on areas already saturated. All of the details shortly. When will all. Its wednesday, 25th september. Labours first Party Conference since the party was elected injuly is due to come to a close this afternoon, with the Prime Minister promising delegates that change is on the horizon. Today the focus will be on the scrapping of the Winter Fuel Payment for pensioners, and the debate from unions to reverse it. Our political correspondent Helen Catt sent this report. Applause. It was the first time in 15 years that a sitting Prime Minister had addressed labours Party Conference. In his speech, Sir Keir promised the country that change was coming. I know that
And Table Football is finally Coming Home this Weekend ive been to the birthplace of subbuteo in kent, as it stages the World Cup. And good morning. Today we will see some Sunny Spells developing across many parts of the uk, but like yesterday there will be the risk of some heavy and thundery showers. Where you catch them they will really be intense. Bring you all the details very shortly. Its saturday 21 september. A former manager of fulhams womens Football Team has told the bbc that extra precautions were put in place to protect female players from Mohamed Al fayed when he owned The Club. Mr Al Fayed, who died last year, was also the owner of harrods until 2010, and has been accused of rape and Sexual Assault by dozens of Women Who worked for the Department Store. Harrods says its utterly appalled by the allegations and has condemned his actions. Our reporter simonjones has More. How widespread was Mohamed Al fayeds alleged offending . Dozens of women have come forward to say that t
which would be a breach of the uk data privacy code designed to protect young people. good morning and welcome to the bbc news channel. the former health secretary, matt hancock, has denied claims he failed to follow covid testing advice during the early days of the pandemic. thousands of whatsapp messages leaked to the telegraph show mr hancock was advised in april 2020 to test everyone going into care homes. but a message reportedly from mr hancock to an aide said he would rather commit to just testing those going into care homes from hospitals. lord bethall was a junior minister in department of health and social care back in 2020. this morning, he was asked whether matt hancock should have taken the advice of the chief medical officer to test everyone going into care homes. no, ithink no, i think the key phrase here is this is obviously a positive step. it was absolutely crystal clear that we wanted to test everyone who went into social care. that was the ambition. gettin
win over loughborough. the late game was between bottom side leicester and harlequins. harlequins took an early lead and held on, eventually winning 33 24 leaving the tigers rock bottom of the premiership on just one point from six games. meanwhile the wolfhounds scored five tries away from home to knock edinburgh off the top of the celtic challenge table. aoife wafer scored twice, including the irish side s final try of the game as they secured a 27 17 bonus point win in the multi national rugby competition. the wolfhounds are in scotland again next weekend, as they take on the glasgow warriors. the opening finals of the new tennis season are set as the first of the australian open warm up tournaments reach their conclusion. it s just a week and a day before the first grand slam of the year. and the top two seeds holger rune and grigor dimitrov will meet in the brisbane internationalfinal. dimitrov beat the home favourite joredan thompson in straight sets whilst rune was also a comfor
saracens extended their lead at the top of the women s premiership as they thrashed sale sharks 69 points to 3. they re six points clear of gloucester hartpury who moved up to second with a a2 2a win over loughborough. the late game is between bottom side leicester and harlequins. at half time, the harlequins lead 19 7. meanwhile the wolfhounds scored five tries away from home to knock edinburgh off the top of the celtic challenge table. aoife wafer scored twice, including the irish side s final try of the game as they secured a 27 17 bonus point win in the multi national rugby competition. the wolfhounds are in scotland again next weekend, as they take on the glasgow warriors. the opening finals of the new tennis season are set as the first of the australian open warm up tournaments reach their conclusion. it s just a week and a day before the first grand slam of the year and the top two seeds holger rune and grigor dimitrov will meet in the brisbane internationalfinal. dimitrov beat