It s monday, the 29th ofjuly. Our main story. It was a dramatic second day at the olympics for team gb, winning two medals in the swimming and kayak. Adam peaty won silver in the 100m breaststroke final last night missing out on gold by 200ths of a second, while kimberley woods won bronze in the women s kayak single. Joe lynskey reports. For eight years, adam peaty has pushed his sport to new limits. He s not used to silver but he now has perspective. In the 100m breaststroke, he went for a third gold in the row and britain s first at these games. He missed out by a margin, two hundredths of a second. Commentator: the gold has gone to martinenghi of italy. and a joint silver medal, it s gone to adam peaty of great britain. Less than two years ago, he said this sport had broken him. To get so close might have felt cruel. But, for peaty, the breakthrough wasjust to be here. It s just incredibly hard. Like, to win it once and to win it again then to win it again. I m not crying becaus
nation can start to get back to normal. watch. if everything falls into the right place and we get this under control it s conceivable that you might be able to pull back a bit on some of the public health measures as we get into the late fall of this year. but there is no guarantee of that. late fall, maybe, as revelers hit the streets after the super bowl in tampa, laura was just talking about this, some not wearing masks or distancing at all. florida republican governor ron desantis slammed for going maskless. he said he was sipping a beer in the stands. how are you going to drink a beer with a mask on. the authorities, however, are going after you. check it out. those people will be identified and the tampa bay police department will handle it. meanwhile the 20 days into the biden administration it s on defense over its record on jobs. as the new york post puts it the white house press secretary mocking fox news reporter peter ducey when he asked about job losse
with both the chair and vice chair now consigned to a virtual waiting room, jackie weaver asks whether they should be let back in, but the other members aren t in forgiving mood. i m afraid that i would be loath for that to happen, because we ve got work to get through, and i can only see everything being. even more disrupted. hundreds of thousands of views of the lively scenes have awakened what would normally be a sleepy parish council meeting into an internet sensation, with one presenter tweeting out loud, but what happens next? ! mark lobel, bbc news. in a moment we ll get the snowy weather forecast, but before we do, let s take you to somewhere in the uk that s had plenty snow over the last month. in the village of tomatin in the scottish highlands, the pearson family have been getting comfortable in the cold. they made this igloo and even managed to spend a night in it. well, when you re locked down with arctic conditions, there are ways to make the most of it. tim
about the technology that made her a billionaire. and peter snakebite wright wins half a million pounds after winning the pdc world darts championship for a second time. lawyers for prince andrew will today try to convince a new yorkjudge to throw out a civil case brought by a woman who accuses him of sexually assaulting her when she was 17. the duke has consistently denied the claims. it follows the release of a document that shows the woman, virginia giuffre, was paid half a million dollars in exchange for agreeing not to sue any potential defendant connected to the disgraced sex offenderjeffrey epstein. here s our legal correspondent dominic casciani. a woman making the gravest of allegations. the unprecedented defendant, a prince of the realm. and now, a day of critical court hearings for both virginia giuffre and the duke of york. she says she was sexually exploited by the man on the right, jeffrey epstein. ms giuffre, then known as roberts, said epstein coerced the
morning, morning! it is great to be back. let s give a warm welcome to piers morgan, the broadcaster and chief eyebrow raiser, chef and campaigner hugh fearnley whittingstall, and with kids in england about to go back to school, the woman who speaks up for their welfare, children s commissioner dame rachel de souza. a very warm welcome for this new political season. a very warm welcome for this new politicalseason. let s a very warm welcome for this new political season. let s start with a look at some of the newspaper front pages. quite a mixture today. the observer leads on the concrete in schools story. it s found a whistleblower who says there s a culture of complacency. the people says 7,000 more schools are at risk of closure but the express leads on the chancellor s cost cost of living to halve inflation. and the telegraph says sunak is going to defy the climate change committee s net zero ban on new airports. we will get into that a bit later on. first of all, rachel,