and any ties to trump s campaign. the former tv presenter rolf harris is being released on bail tomorrow. the veteran entertainer is currently on trial accused of indecently assaulting three girls between 1971 and 1983. retail sales rose by 2.3% last month defying market expectations that rising inflation would cause a consumer slowdown. hello and good morning. welcome to bbc news. i m sophie long, in west yorkshire. where theresa may will promise to address the rising cost of social care in england and curb immigration when she launches the conservative manifesto shortly. it has been delayed due to travel problems and there have been a couple of protests which have sprung up. small protests at this stage. one to the side of the building and another to the entrance. shortly theresa may will arrive here and unveiled the conservative party plans for the election. let s take you through what we are expecting to hear from theresa may at this stage. the party is promising that
about 12:10am this evening a white van went down the seven sisters rd and they say it deliberately went into a and they say it deliberately went intoa group and they say it deliberately went into a group of people on the pavement. apparently they were helping an elderly gentleman that had collapsed beforehand. now, eyewitnesses again say they saw between four to eight people on the ground injured. we don t know how badly. and those people were wearing identifiably muslim clothing. many people had come out of the two mosques here, the finsbury park mosques here, the finsbury park mosque and the abu hamza mosque. they were attending last prayers, many came out to have a break, to have a snack. as i say there was a lot of anger because people feel they were deliberately targeted. we can see a really quite large crowd on our live pictures, jane, people gathered around. are they getting information from the police oi’ getting information from the police or is it too soon? we re
where mps are debating for a second day, a bill which would allow the prime minister to formally start the process of leaving the eu. the government is expected to win a vote on the legislation when it is held tonight at 7pm, despite opposition from some labour rebels plus the liberal democrats and the snp. we have been hearing more impassioned debates this afternoon as we did yesterday. let s hear a segment of it from the former chancellor, george osborne. truth is that while britain is seeking the maximum possible access to the single market for goods and for services, and while we hope that the fact that we have a trade deficit and a very important financial centre will count in our favour, the government has chosen andi favour, the government has chosen and i respect this decision, not to make the economy the priority in this negotiation. they have prioritised immigration control and that was a clear message from the referendum campaign and they ve also prioritised removi
the tone was sadness on all sides. by friday it had become steely. should we be preparing for a long and bloody war between the two sides before the deal is reached?” and bloody war between the two sides before the deal is reached? i think we should be preparing for a professional and hard edged negotiation which at the end of it will result in a strong partnership between both sides. it is absolutely the case that while donald tusk expressed his sadness that britain was leaving, he is also clear that he wants at the end of this process, all european negotiations want at the end of this process, a free trade deal between britain and europe and the preservation of security cooperation and other links which are in all our interests. i suspect that when historians come to look back on britain s membership of the european union, they will see those a0 odd years as an anomaly in britain s history, and they will conclude that people like hugh gaitskell and shall charles de gaulle