of the driver, a woman in her 40s, has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. police officers, firefighters and paramedics, including london s air ambulance, responded to the incident at the study preparatory school in wimbledon just before 10am this morning. the metropolitan police say the incident is not being treated as terror related. the prime minister is sending his deepest condolences. his thoughts are with all wood involved. it would have been terrifying for children, spy have been terrifying for children, spy staff and parents. the staff. in the last hour, the emergency services gave this update. very sadly, one of the children, an eight year old girl, died at the scene. our thoughts are with her family at this incredibly difficult time. the driver of a car, a woman aged in her forties stopped a woman aged in her 40s, stopped at the scene and has since been arrested for causing death by dangerous driving and remains in police custod
i m lewis vaughan jones. i m lewis vaughanjones. welcome to the daily global, where we bring you the daily global, where we bring you the top stories from around the world. we start in south london where an eight year old girl has died and 15 people have been injured after a car crashed into a primary school. it s a girl school for children between 4 11. it happened just before 10am during what was thought to be a children s garden party for the last day of term. ten people were taken to hospital. a woman in her 40s has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. our special correspondent lucy manning reports. tables, chairs and mats laid out. a sense of excitement about the last day of term. the young girls celebrating the end of school for the summer. now a terrible, heartbreaking scene. this outdoor party crushed beneath the car. just before ten this morning, the land rover smashed into one of the buildings at the study prep school. the damage done to
he has pledged to improve pupil s speaking skills and said he wants half a million more children to reach their early learning targets by 2030. the speech on labour s education policy was interrupted by green protestors. our political editor chris mason reports. the smiles are big, the dreams are bigger at this primary school in rochester in kent. how does society match boundless aspiration with providing the opportunities to ensure they come true? what would you like to be when you grow up? i would like to be a rugby player. i would like to be a graphic designer and make movies. tell me what you would like to be when you grow up. a scientist. what do you like playing with the car? it s not playing, it s working. good point! in gillingham, keir starmer said he wanted to tear down barriers to home. down barriers to hope. more children must reach early learning targets, he said, snobbery must go. alongside his albeit broad vision for the economy, the health service, energy an
following this story hejoins me live.. first of all, or remind us what this is about and what this ruling now means? , , . ., ., means? this is a argument that blew between the means? this is a argument that blew between the official means? this is a argument that blew between the official coronavirus - between the official coronavirus inquiry now under way at looking into the governments handling of the pandemic, and the government itself where the inquiry chair had ecstasy the whatsapp messages exchanged between boris johnson the whatsapp messages exchanged between borisjohnson and other senior officials. a few dozen of them. so, matt hancock was one of them, the senior medical figures involved in handling the pandemic, senior civil servants, and she wanted to see all of those whatsapp messages and barsjohnson s personal handwritten diaries, his government diary, all of that communication. the government came back and said it wanted to redact things and put a black pa
leader was in exile indefinitely, think again. what does that mean for the war in ukraine? difficult day for number ten. the standards committee says former government whip, chris pincher, should be suspended for eight weeks for groping two men in a london club. it will likely trigger another by election. alongside that, the cabinet office lost a legal challenge today to prevent the covid inquiry from seeing borisjohnson s unredacted whatsapp messages and diaries. we will get into a busy day in westminster. but let us begin with that news from belarus that the boss of the wagner paramilitary group, yevgeny prigozhin, has returned to russia according to the belarusian leader alexander lu kashenko. mr prigozhin, who led wagner s mutiny in russia last month, was supposed to have gone into exile in belarus and yet the belarusian leader says he may now be back in st petersburg. for the past week or so, his whereabouts has been something of a mystery. we know his private jet ha