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emerged that the one of the prime minister s closest aides had placed a bet on the date of the election days before it was announced. as i said, i will not be expanding on that statement. today, the conservative party announced it will no longer support craig williams, there candidate in montgomeryshire nor laura saunders who is stsanding in bristol north west. in a statement, the party said. is it the right decision to withdraw support from these candidates? conservatives said the decision was the result of internal inquiries. if they had been suspended without any proper investigation, i think it would have been unfair. there has been an investigation, there are obviously questions to answer, possible criminal investigations going on and the gambling commission is doing its inquiry as well. the labour party is questioning why the decision didn t come sooner. it s taken rishi sunak the best part of two weeks to act on this. that is just weak leadership. it s too late for bal ....
palace. so, we rejust looking at those pictures, the king and the queen waiting for the arrival of the japanese emperor and empress. they arrived in the uk over the weekend, they carried out some private engagements. as we ve been talking about, the emperor has a keen interest in the river thames. that goes back to his time when he studied at oxford for two years. he studied at oxford for two years. he studied water transport on the river thames in the 18th century and then the emperor later went on to write a book called the thames and i say he has a very keen interest in the river thames, so much so that yesterday the emperor carried out a private engagement, went to look at the thames barrier, so he went on a visit to the thames barrier yesterday and later on this week the couple, both of them who attended oxford university, will be returning to the university, again, aside from a state visit that will be a private visit that will take place. for the moment the formal cere ....
both craig williams, who was a close aide to rishi sunak and laura saunders, who is married to the conservatives director of campaigning, are being looked into by the gambling commission over alleged bets placed on the timing of the election. our political correspondent hannah miller reports. did you have any inside information when you made the bet? i did you have any inside information when you made the bet? did you have any inside information when you made the bet? i made a huge error ofjudgment. when you made the bet? i made a huge error ofjudgment. it when you made the bet? i made a huge error ofjudgment. it is when you made the bet? i made a huge error ofjudgment. it is almost - when you made the bet? i made a huge error ofjudgment. it is almost two - error of udgment. it is almost two weeks error ofjudgment. it is almost two weeks since error ofjudgment. it is almost two weeks since it error ofjudgment. it is almost two weeks since it emerged error ofjud ....
protection measures in sports clubs. we will bring you all the details, including the extra background checks you might have to go through if you work with children. do get in touch on that, it would be really interesting to hear your views, two loopholes they are calling for the government to close immediately. i would be interesting to hear what it is like trying to get a background check now if you work with children. do get in touch on all the stories we re talking about this morning use the hashtag #victorialive. if you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate. our top story today. the us president donald trump has said he believes that torture can work to get information out of suspected terrorists. but he said he would seek further advice before deciding whether to bring back techniques such as water boarding. speaking to the american abc network in his first televised interview since becoming president, he also repeated his pledge to make mexico ....
Wrongly jailed back former sub postmaster who was wronglyjailed back in 2007. she will be with us on bbc news later. two brothers say time is ticking to find an heir to take over their cuckoo clock museum, which features hundreds of quirky timepieces from all around the world. roman and maz piekarski have devoted their lives to the collection in cheshire, but now they want to find someone who s as passionate as they are to take up the mantle for when they retire, as ian haslam s been finding out. with more than 700 cuckoo clocks, this is the largest collection of its kind anywhere, and represents decades of collecting. we eat, sleep, and live cuckoo clocks. we absolutely love them. roman and his brother, maz, grew up around cuckoo clocks and served clockmaker apprenticeships, but they are ....