Over the right to chose when to end his life. Also this hour sales of new cars have declined for the sixth month in a row. Just over 400,000 new vehicles were registered in september down more than 9 from last year. And the home nation fortunes hang in the balance as england, scotland and Northern Ireland prepare for World Cup Qualifiers tonight. Good morning. Its thursday 5th october. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. We begin with breaking news, police have said former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath would have been questioned about allegations of child sexual abuse by seven people had he still been alive. Wiltshire police, which has led a two year £i. 5 police, which has led a two year £1. 5 million inquiry into the late tory leader, has today published a report detailing its findings. Its a News Conference in swindon isjust beginning, lets go to swindon and the Wiltshire Police News Conference. Wiltshire police on behalf of the National Police chief s council took
This is bbc news. The headlines at 103m. Iran admits unintentionally shooting down the Ukranian Airlines passenger plane, killing all 176 people on board, because of human error. The Northern Ireland assembly will today sit for the First Time Since the collapse of power sharing three years ago. Keir starmer the shadow brexit secretary today launches his Leadership Campaign in the race to lead the labour party. Today he defended anti austerity policies. Sometimes when you lose an election there is a tendency to say that everything must go. That is wrong in my view. In the sport, more var controversy
after west hams injury time equaliser is denied due to an accidental handball picked up on the cameras. Coming up, cutting your train fares we look at how split ticketing can save you money, as its rolled out by a major ticketing firm. And at 10. 30 transporting you to outer space, in northern spain. An other worldly experience, in the travel show. Good morning. Iran has admitted that it uni
It will be interesting to see how far the current Rail Minister gets with his invitation to his shadow to work together to get the Draft Bill through Parliament before the election. The general consensus seems to be that timings remain challenging.
Jason Chamberlain, partner at law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, looks back at 30 years of rail privatisation and asks what the future holds for the railway