nearly 7,000 people in the uk right now need organ transplants. sometimes the wait for these lifelines can be long and agonising, and not everyone survives them. we clearly need more donors. but 3d printing might be able to offer a solution. yeah, scientists are developing a method to create organs from living tissue, which can then be translated into patients who need them. shiona mccallum has been to gothenburg in sweden to find out more. it s been more than 70 years since the first successful organ transplant a kidney. the chances of further operations of this kind being conducted. people who want to donate their organs can have their names put on a computer by using, for example, a new type of driving licence application form. and thanks to the donor register, heart, lungs and livers are now among the 100,000 organs replaced every year. when you lose someone and they ve given that gift, that huge gift, you are immensely proud of them. but even now, it remains a difficul
in a dramatic final. morning, all. heavy overnight rain continues to push its way steadily north and east. it will linger for much of the day across southern and eastern scotland accompanied by gail with gusts of winds. elsewhere it is a blustery sunday afternoon, sunny spells and scattered showers, but some of those will be heavy in bunbury. all of those details coming up bunbury. all of those details coming up shortly. heavy and thundery. it s sunday october 29. our main story: the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has warned that the war with hamas will be long and difficult after his ground troops entered gaza, supported by heavy air strikes. israel has told residents of gaza city to leave what it calls the battlefield , claiming more humanitarian aid will be available further south. israel says it is targeting hamas, which is designated as a terrorist organisation by the uk government, following the attacks of october 7 that killed 1,400 people and saw mo
Ta ke i can connect with my children and take them to my friends Birthday Parties and go on the old claygate every now and then and actually be present in my childrens lives. Playdate. From today, bigger businesses will have to reveal how much they pay their male and female staff and if theres a gap between their wages. Im looking at the rules and what they hope to achieve. In sport, eden hazard scores twice to keep chelsea at the top of the Premier League. And carol has the weather. Good morning. A chilly start. For many of us, a fine day with sunshine and variable amounts of cloud. Through the next the days, by sunday, it will be warmer than it has been. More in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. The Supreme Court will rule today on whether parents can take their children on holiday in term time, without Breaking The Law. Its considering the case ofjohn platt, who refused to pay a fine after taking his daughter to florida for a week in 2015. The decision could have far