manchester city could meet arsenal in the semifinals of the champions league. first, city will need to beat real madrid and arsenal, bayern munich. good afternoon. the chancellorjeremy hunt says the conservative party good afternoon. the chancellorjeremy hunt says the conservative party is absolutely transparent about the donations it receives. but so far the party has neither confirmed nor denied reports it s been given another £5 million by the businessman frank hester, on top of the ten million he s already donated. mr hester has been widely accused of racism after allegedly saying the mp diane abbott makes him want to hate all black women. the tech boss apologised for making what he said rude comments about her. here s our political correspondent hannah miller. learning to use a camera on a visit to the university of sunderland, the chancellor and prime minister can t escape the glare of scrutiny over donations to the party. this week, they said that comments made by o
good evening. russians have begun voting in a presidential election which vladimir putin is certain to win when the polls close on sunday. there have very unusually been some protests such as this woman pouring dye into a ballot box but president putin faces no serious opposition, with his rivals dead, in prison or in exile. this report from our russia editor, steve rosenberg. russia s democracy is the best in the world, the kremlin says. and at polling station 38 in moscow, we found a choice of candidates and plenty of voters. democracy in action, right? not quite. realistically, only one man can win this. vladimir putin! the man who s been on russia s political stage for the last quarter of a century. vladimir putin faces no serious challenger. his fiercest rivals are in exile or in prison. not that this woman, whose son is fighting in ukraine, wants any change at the top. of course i voted for putin, she says. i trust him. but not everyone who came out today was ac
at a funeral directors in hull that is at the centre of a major police investigation. the national crime agency has been called in to assist. detectives have received more than 1,500 calls in the past week from people who have used legacy independent funeral directors and are now worried about what happened to their relatives bodies. danny savage has heard from some of them. this is rita shaw. she died last october after a short illness. her husband has her ashes at home. i don t know if i ve got rita s ashes at all. it could be anybody s, i think. but like so many people in the hull area who used legacy funeral directors, he s now wondering if they really are her ashes. you get over the initial part of rita passing away, it s hard, but it s on top of it, if they aren t rita s ashes, it s like torture for the rest of your life, i would have thought. police have taken 35 bodies from this funeral home in hull. they now say they have contacted the families of those people. but
has been in the newspapers this morning but as far as i can tell the equalities minister is one of those calling for the guidance to be strengthened from original drafts who wanted to go further in restricting the ability of people at school to identify as a different gender. we have reached this place where we do not know when the government is going to do in terms of the timetable for issuing new guidance, we do not knowing exactly when it will arrive when it comes to what it should look like short despite repeated assurances including in the last few weeks when we have been asking the government about when it was coming, it has been delayed and we do not know when and tell. voters in three constituencies across england will go to the polls tomorrow in byelections and over the next few days well be in all three seats. over the past two days we ve been in selby and ainsty in north yorkshire and somerton and frome in somerset. today we re in uxbridge and south ruislip to the