Englands decIsIon to cut Interest Rates have a new . I wIll have the detaIls. A legend baIls out. Andy murrays glItterIng career comes to an end wIth defeat at the olympIcs. I gave as much as I could to the sport. I love competIng In the olympIc games and for my country. Good mornIng. Today we are lookIng at a mostly dry day wIth some sunshIne, but a Weather Front In the North West IntroducIng wet and wIndy CondItIons Today and tomorrow wIll also Introduce fresh condItIons for us all thIs weekend. All the detaIls shortly. Good mornIng. Its frIday the 2nd of august. Our maIn story. The Culture Secretary, LIsa Nandy, has raIsed concerns about the bbc s InvestIgatIon Into Huw Edwards. In a meetIng wIth the CorporatIons DIrector general, TIm DavIe, she asked the bbc to explore what optIons are avaIlable to recoup some of edwards taxpayer funded salary. Mr davIe has defended the decIsIon not to sack the presenter despIte knowIng last november that he was arrested Over the most serIous categ
Hello, welcome to the programme. There was a grim, inevitability, aboUt the attack in kabUl today. The intelligence was specific, the threat was well known, bUt amid the Fear And Desperation of those trying to get oUt, no conceivable way to stop it. The first Explosion CamejUst before dUsk, close to the Abbey Gate of the kabUl airport. It is on the SoUth Side of the perimeter, where dense crowds of people had been waiting, some of them knee deep in a sewage drain, for a vanishingly slim chance of escape. There are deeply Upsetting Images of the dead lying in the water and the woUnded being ferried to hospital sometimes on the back of wheelbarrows. Not long after there was a second explosion this Time OUtside the baron hotel, fUrther along the airport perimeter, where terrified afghans woUld sUrely have been rUnning from the first blast. A senior afghan Health Officials says at least 60 people have been killed and 140 injUred. In the last hoUr The Pentagon has confirmed that 12 Us servi
Have you been affected by an increase in covid related school absence? do get in touch, you can find me on twitter @vicderbyshire. Another warning about music festivals they could face devastating consequences without more government support. And the new £50 banknote featuring a portrait of the code breaker alan turing enters circulation for the first time. Hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. The body representing british airlines has told the government they must act now or never if the summer season is to be saved. Cabin crew, airport staff, and travel agents in the uk will stage co ordinated protests today, calling for more support for the sector and for the list of countries safe for tourists to be expanded. Ministers are expected to update the so called traffic light list of destinations tomorrow, but there s concern that the number of countries classified as green will remain low. At the moment there are no special exemptions for vaccinated uk h
as protests take place in support ofjailed opposition leader alexei navalny. i wanted freedom for our country. the situation now is the worst, i think, in the last ten years. mps will debate the cladding crisis tomorrow as campaigners say residents of flats covered in the flammable material are being financially crippled by rising insurance costs. almost 600,000 people received their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine in the uk yesterday a new daily record. officials say the impact of the immunisation programme should be felt in the infection rate in the next two weeks, but dr susan hopkins, from public health england, is warning coronavirus restrictions should only be eased very slowly and very cautiously . here s our health correspondent, jim reed. here at this basketball stadium in newcastle, the vaccine roll out continues. across the uk, more than half a million received theirjab yesterday, a new record, 2,000 at this site alone. it means a lot, and i m pleased that p
media at its worst . mps will debate the cladding crisis tomorrow as campaigners say residents of flats covered in the flammable material are being financially crippled by rising insurance costs. a global paper shortage due to online shopping during the pandemic. industry leaders say there s a temporary lack of cardboard packaging. new figures reveal about one in six adults in the uk have now received the first dose of their coronavirus vaccine after a record number of people were vaccinated in the past 2a hours. 8.98 million people have had theirfirstjab, according to the government. despite the rapid progress of the inoculation campaign, health officials say england s covid lockdown will need to be eased very slowly and very cautiously with the focus on preventing another wave of infections. that s according to dr susan hopkins from public health england, who said the uk should start seeing the impact of the vaccination programme within a fortnight. meanwhile, a happy an