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and good morning. it is going to be another very wet day across the west of scotland. elsewhere, dry, cloudy, breezy. i ll bring you all the details very shortly. and we have a winner the strictly glitterball trophy is in new hands after a fabulous finale. it s sunday, the 17th of december. our main story: after years of denials, the former conservative peer baroness mone has admitted that she stands to benefit from tens of millions of pounds of profit made from ppe that was sold to the government during the pandemic. the company was led by her husband, doug barrowman. she says she did help broker the deal, but claims she has been made a scapegoat for the government s failings. our political correspondent laura kuenssberg has more. questions about the pandemic, profit and politics have followed baroness mone and her husband to southern europe. foryears, mone and her husband to southern europe. for years, they denied links to a firm that receives £200 million in taxpayer mo ....
calls to stop punishing addicts if it is to end its reputation as the drugs capital of europe. president biden has tested positive for covid. the white house says the symptoms are mild. the bbc has apologised to the former royal nanny tiggy legge burke over a number of serious and false allegations made against her by panorama reporter martin bashir in order to obtain an interview with princess diana. a coroner has said that the five people, including four teenage soldiers, who died in the guildford pub bombings in 1974, were unlawfully killed. and no ordinary telescope for the first time scientists will be able to detect the smashing together of neutron stars good evening. now that the conservative leadership contest has been whittled down to two candidates rishi sunak and liz truss, the focus is shifting to what each of them stands for. it s early days but the battleground appears to be economic policy. mr sunak was chancellor for nearly two and a half years but ms tr ....
On israels border with gaza, feels like a time capsule stuck in the horrors of october 7. Hamas broke in at dawn. They killed and took Hostage A Quarter of the 400 or so israelis who lived here. Sayed was laying there dead, nearthere. You could see that he was trying to hold the door closed, and actually, the door was locked. The army opened the door later. Ron behat and his family survived in their safe room. Then he recovered dead friends and neighbours, some in pieces. In this house, you know, that was the first time that we realised that we are not looking for only bodies, because the beginning, you know, we took a lot of bodies. The interrupted, terminated lives laundry neatly folded the night before the attack give israelis a sense of moral clarity. Going around this place, you can understand why israelis believe very strongly that theyre fighting a just war in gaza. Of course, their allies feel the same. Their quarrel is ....
for him to withdraw from the race for the new york times, the leading newspaper in the city he s visiting today, ironically, calling forjoe biden to withdraw from the race saying it would be a reckless gamble as a editorial put it were he to stay as a candidate for the and urging him to move aside to make way for somebody younger who could really take on donald trump. those sentiments have been echoed in the last few hours by another leading newspaper the chicago tribune. you mentioned joe biden is robust performance in north carolina yesterday for that you re absolutely right, he bounced back quite spectacularly for the taking to the stage seeming energised, everything but the shambling old man we saw on thursday night to tell his loyal supporters that yes, he wasn t drunk as he once was, he wasn t a great a debater as you d once been but he was in honest man and he told the truth. well, whether that goes down well with the very anxious candidates will have to wait and ....