positive stories of all the people who will be doing the race through the capital. a rare treat for rail fans as the flying scotsman travel alongside three modern trains on the east coast mainline. and our sunday morning edition of the papers is at 9.35 this mornings reviewers are preshant rao , from the international new york times and peter conradi, foreign editor at the sunday times. good morning and welcome to bbc news. and i should say happy saint georges day. labour is attempting to win over voters ahead ofjune‘s general election, with the promise of four extra uk wide bank holidays. they would fall on the patron saint‘s day of each of the home nations. the conservatives have responded by saying the british economy would be on a permanent holiday under labour. here s our political correspondent ben wright. good morning, everybody. good morning! working hard to get your vote. butjeremy corbyn thinks britain s workers deserve a break, and says if labour wins the gen
a rare treat for rail fans as let the train take the strain. the flying scotsman travel alongside three modern trains on the east coast mainline. and in half an hour, pop up lebanon heads to the dangerous bekar valley, a border region with syria to meet a drugs kingpin. good morning and welcome to bbc news. labour is attempting to win over voters ahead ofjune s general election, with the promise of four extra uk wide bank holidays. they would fall on the patron saint‘s day of each of the home nations. the conservatives have responded by saying the british economy would be on a permanent holiday under labour. here s our political correspondent ben wright. good morning, everybody. good morning! working hard to get your vote. butjeremy corbyn thinks britain s workers deserve a break, and says if labour wins the general election he will try and introduce four new uk wide bank holidays. bank holidays are a devolved matter in scotland. butjeremy corbyn says he would introduce f
turnout of people who have come to witness what they cold a once in a lifetime event. let s hope we get the opportunity to do it again soon. we certainly picked the right day for it, because i m afraid the good times might be over. ben has more. the week ahead brings a big change in the weather with colder air and quite a shock to the system. the rest of the day will bring sunny spells, is more chance of a shower. northern ireland and scotland more cloud with outbreaks of rain, and heavy rain across northern scotland with strengthening winds. this evening, a band of wet weather sinks south, and behind that we get into a cold northerly wind with wintry showers beginning to develop and cold enough for a frost. more cloud across england and wales so not as cold into tomorrow morning. tomorrow, our cold front sinks south, with wintry showers, rain, sleet, even some slow over fairly modest high ground. temperatures in aberdeen only three degrees. that cold air sinks south to all p
as france goes to the polls that s at 12:30pm here on bbc news. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. on the first weekend of the general election campaign, jeremy corbyn has announced that a labour government would introduce another four bank holidays. he says marking the patron saints days for the four home nations would recognise the historic diversity of the uk . meanwhile, mr corbyn has raised the prospect that a labour government could scrap the uk s trident nuclear submarines. speaking to the bbc this morning he refused to confirm whether maintaining the deterrent would be in the party s general election manifesto. it is still an entirely unresolved question as to what you are going to do. your spokesman has said clearly that keeping trident will be in the labour manifesto. we haven t completed work on the manifesto yet. as you would expect less than 100 hours into this election campaign. so we could be in for a shock? no, no. we are having that discussion within
election, jeremy corbyn kenned outline labour party policy. this is still an unresolved issue. your defence spokesman says keeping trident in the manifesto. we haven t finished the manifesto yet. we are having that discussion within the labour party and we will produce ma nifesto. labour party and we will produce manifesto. trident is a potentially explosive issue four of labour, where divisions run deep. its leader has long wanted to scrap the party s policy of renewing the nuclear weapons defence system, while its mps back it. just a couple of hours afterjeremy corbyn threw doubt on weather it would be renewed, a labour party spokesperson was forced to contradict him and reconfirm labour s commitment to keep it. the eu referendum revealed huge fault lines within labour on brexit. immigration was a key issue of reporters then, as it is likely to be in this election. it s an issue jeremy corbyn knows he needs to provide clarity on. the free movement ends when we leave the eu,