djokovic are in impressive form as they reach the final 16. and it s game, set and. mo? four time olympic champion sir mo farah is the latest athlete to take on our breakfast mug challenge. i wonder how he went. and helen has the weather. good morning. it looks like any other mostly fine and warm day for england and wales but for scotland and northern ireland there are changes. i will fill you and northern ireland there are changes. iwill fill you in and northern ireland there are changes. i will fill you in on in about 15 minutes. good morning, first our main story. the number of mobile phones and drugs smuggled into prisons is unacceptable according to the government. more than 20,000 phones and sim cards and over 200 kilograms of narcotics were found in jails in england and wales last year. the seizures follow a £2 million pound investment in technology to detect contra band, as james waterhouse reports. many will say this continuing trend of contra band being many will
warm and muggy night, but those nights will be cooler and fresher eventually, as we go through this week. let s look at things tomorrow morning. a fine start for most of us. morning. a fine start for most of us. in the northern half of scotland, the odd shower around. we pick up on the weather system that is affecting scotland and northern ireland at the moment. an area of showers from southern scotland, north west england and into north and west wales. the sun will come out and we will see a future hours. still the odd heavy shower around the wash and into east anglia to begin the day and one two around the far south west. for a large part of england and wales it will be dry start. through the day, umbrellas up the ready, sunshine and showers. as ever, some will miss them and stay completed dry, you might get a heavy downpour. it looks like there will be heavier, thundery downpours affecting east anglia, essex, kent and east sussex. maybe around the london area as well. mond
of the british poet philip larkin. but they re all part of a new exhibition of his belongings. our entertainment correspondent colin paterson reports. when getting my nose in a book cured most things, short of school, it was worth ruining my eyes to know i could still keep cool. philip larkin‘s poem a study of reading habits. now we know more about his own reading habits, because his personal book collection has gone on display, and there is a lot of agatha christie, billy bunter and beatrix potter. so here we ve got 3,700 of philip larkin‘s own books. they are part of an exhibition of his personal objects at the university of hull library, where he worked for more than 30 years. but what do ties, a lawnmower, and his tiny animal figurine collection tell people about one of the nation s greatest ever poets? well, what they will learn is what they cannot learn in books. lots and lots of words have been written about larkin, but what you can see here are the things he surro
great ormond street hospital in london, calling on doctors to allow the terminally ill baby to travel to america for experimental treatment. thousands of people gather at an opposition event in istanbul to protest against the government of president erdogan. hundreds of kilograms of drugs and thousands of mobile phones were found in prisons in england and wales last year. the government has described the situation as unacceptable. the church of england s ruling body, the general synod, has voted overwhelmingly in favour of welcoming transgender people and offering special church services for them. now on bbc news, it s time for the travel show. on this week s travel show, we re in a surfing community trying to hold back the tide of development on the chilean coast. also coming up. we go looking for lost ships beaneath the canadian waves. we discover a novel way to make a cake in rural france. and our global guru, simon calder, tackles the biggest question in travel. where n
he and his wife share this house in north london with six others they barely know. he gets up at 4:30am every morning to go to the first of his three cleaning jobs. saturday i start at five o clock and finish at two o clock. sunday i start at ten o clock and finish at 6am. so you work seven days a week? seven days a week. because the salary is a poor, poor salary. how much? £7.50 an hour. i am on 900. £900 a month? yes, 900. but i have to pay 500 for this room, the rent, and transport and food. the life is so, so hard. sam wadicor is 26, he is a mental health support worker. most of his wage goes on rent. he cycles around london because he can no longer afford the bus fares. i don t feel that i earn a fair wage for the work that i do. you are constantly told that having any sort of luxury in life is sort of bad and you need to knuckle down and work harder and it will all come to you. that is what i find most difficult about it. it is notjust not having enough money each mon