pope francis has used his easter message to renew calls for an immediate ceasefire in the middle east. tens of thousands of worshippers gathered in st peter's square to hear the pontiff lead easter sunday mass. as the war in gaza continues, ceasefire talks between israel and hamas are expected to resume in cairo. the israeli prime minister's office says a delegation has been sent. they will also discuss the release of hostages. voting is under way in local elections across turkey, with president erdogan�*s party hoping to regain control of cities it lost five years ago. the vote takes place amid severe economic issues, millions of workers in the uk will see their pay increase tomorrow as more people become eligible

for the national living wage. previously you had to be 23 years old to qualify, but that's been reduced to 21. it has been just over £10 an hour — just over £12. it's going up to just over £11 an hour. our business correspondent marc ashdown has the details. barista sam loves hisjob, but after paying his essential bills he's often left with just a few hundred pounds a month to live on. pay rises just help him stay afloat. i think they balance, because obviously everything else goes up in price so it sort of evens out every single year. maybe for, like, a month you'll be like, "ooh, i've got money this month!" and then it'lljust be, like — the next month will be a bit of a rough one. workers across the uk in some of the lowest—paid jobs are about to get a boost in their pay. from tomorrow, the national living wage is going up from £10.42 an hour to £11.44 an hour. that's an increase of 9.8%. the age at which a worker qualifies has also been reduced from 23 to 21 years old.

the treasury says a full—time worker should be paid about £1,800 extra over one year. this is the largest increase in a minimum wage in cash terms and the first time it's gone up by more than a pound in one go, and it reflects, really, the strength in pay growth across the economy — which looks set to continue. minimum wage levels for workers aged between 16 and 21 will also rise. the lobby group uk hospitality says taken across all the pay scales, businesses could be having to find an increase of 17%. got significant cost headwinds they're facing into, notjust wages, but energy, food price inflation, and the cost of living pressures. so there's a perfect storm going on here, and on top of this, a 17% increase in their wage bill. charities want to see more businesses sign up to the so—called real living wage, which sets minimum pay at a higher rate. but tomorrow's increase will give a pay boost to millions of workers. mark ashdown, bbc news.

supporters of india's main opposition alliance are holding a major rally in the capital ahead of next month's general election. it's the first meeting since the arrest of the chief minister of delhi, arvind kejriwal, on corruption charges ten days ago. opposition parties accuse the governing bjp of using investigative agencies to detain their leaders and prevent them from campaigning. the government denies this. our south asia editor anbarasan ethirajan has more. opposition supporters have gathered here and they are coming from delhi and other neighbouring states near the capital city. now they are calling for the release of the delhi chief minister. he was taken into custody ten days ago on corruption charges, which he denies. major leaders are addressing this rally, saying that india's democracy and constitution should be saved, and that is the motive of this major rally here.

the congress party says its bank accounts have been frozen and they have been asked to pay more than $200 million in fines for allegedly violating tax rules. but the government denies any political motive behind this action, saying the law will take its own course. india's elections are due to start on 19th april and will be held in several places. the campaign is going across the country for this mammoth exercise, but what the opposition is saying is that there is no level playing field. for example, they accuse the election commission of being biased towards the governing bjp and they said that investigating agencies are being used to cripple them, to stifle dissent, to prevent them from campaigning. however, the governing bjp denies these charges and the mammoth exercise of india's general election, in which prime minister mahendra

modi is seeking a third straight term, is starting on 19th april. let's go to baltimore and show you the latest pictures following the collapse of the francis scott key bridge during the early hours of tuesday morning, that is the cargo ship and you can see the metal structure and what's left of the bridge collapsing onto the deck of the cargo ship after the ship appeared to lose control. quite a lot of video made its way onto social media. you could see lights flashing and then going out on the cargo ship before it crashed into one of the beams, the support beams of the bridge itself, and then a

short time later, the bridgejust snapped and was seen toppling into the water. at the time, there were a number of construction workers on the bridge. thankfully, there wasn't much in the way of traffic. we do know one the may day had been put out police were able to shut the entrance both sides to the bridge itself, so reducing the risk of casualties. construction workers, though, did end up in the water. two were pulled out alive, but others were pulled out alive, but others were announced presumed dead. it was treacherous conditions on the water too. two bodies remain missing and are still being searched for but at the moment, we understand that there is a crane that has been taken to the bridge to help to clear that

debris and president biden also said he will be travelling to baltimore next week following that bridge collapse, confirming that on friday. one in four people experience a mental health problem each year in england. now after a successful trial, a new treatment is being rolled out in one nhs trust, a headset which delivers low—level electrical pulses. it should only be used under the guidance of a doctor and is being prescribed to patients who don't respond to medication. 0ur reporter nikki fox explains how it works. you open up the app and it works on bluetooth so it tells you to attach the pads. like a lot of men his age, ashley riley suffers from depression. the app tells you how to line it up, which is there. then you press start stimulating and you're away. but since wearing this device, his symptoms have improved. and that's it for 30 minutes. and you get a slight tingling and i'll sit and do emails or work on my laptop and you do that every day. the place i was in was

a pretty bad place. i'd had some really bad depression and anxiety, so i tried lots of medication, i tried lots of different things. i couldn't work, couldn't interact with my family on a day to day basis. and so, yeah, i was pretty ill, i was pretty poorly. i've become much calmer. i take a day at a time and i feel much more settled and there's much more hope in my life. he wears the device five times a week. it uses electrical pulses. they target a part of the front of the brain called the prefrontal cortex. it controls things like how we express emotions and can influence depression. the weak pulses aim to restore activity in that part of the brain. the nhs in northamptonshire is helping to trial the device. about 30 to 40% of patients with depression do not respond to antidepressants. some people do, and for them antidepressants are appropriate. we can'tjust keep giving antidepressants hoping something

is going to be different because we need a different approach. it's one of the first nhs trusts to give patients the headset because it can be used at home. it's cheaper than other therapies. what would you say to people who are skeptical of this kind of alternative treatment? what i would say is research shows and we've known for many years, that the brain runs on electricity. that's the mother tongue. and effectively, when you look at brains of people who are depressed, there's less activity in the region associated with mood and memory. and what we're doing is targeting that region with electrical impulses to push it back to sort of a healthy state. i'm able to be a full—time dad, which i love. i go running with with my son, i'm out with my daughter. i'm able to be a proper husband to my wife. my family means everything to me. and so to be able to to be a full part of that, how i should be, is really, really important to me. it's also being trialled in america as part of a wider study

where more than half of patients showed improvements. ashley did have counselling as well, but feels the brain stimulation has played a major part in helping him get his life back. the mother of a 15—year—old boy, who was killed by a speeding driver in 2018, is urging parents to talk to their children about organ donation. debbie enever donated her son dan's organs because they'd had a conversation before he died, and that decision has now helped save the lives of three other people. debbie has been speaking to our reporter nicola rees. welcome to the bereaved parents club podcast. i'm your host, debbie ennova. it's the club no parent wants tojoin — surviving the death of a child. for debbie, podcasting has been therapy since she lost her son dan in 2018.

there was that moment when i turned up to look for him and realised that there were just police cars there and nothing prepares you for the sight of your child lying on a gurney in a&e with their head in a brace and intubated to help them breathe. nothing prepares you for something as horrific as that. dan was killed by a speeding van driver. he died in sheffield children's hospital. on that day, debbie made a decision that saved the lives of three other people. hi. come on in. i'm all right. come on, paul. she agreed to donate her son's organs. paul neil is forever grateful for the kidney he received from dan. i'll pull him out of being dead now. i do think about dan. i haven't forgot about dan, which i don't think i ever will. and debbie, we've been in talks for last five years,

but when she gives me a cuddles, it's because dan's liver is inside me. i think it's got done, skinnies in there done. and i had had conversations about organ donation from him being relatively little and was very much of the opinion that, look, if i'm dead, i don't need it, somebody else can have it. that was his approach. well, what can i say about dan? we've never met him, _ but we feel like we've known him all his life since paul— got his kidney and since we met up with their bear. we've got a great friendship out of it and that's nice _ when you get that friendship. i love that one looks of character. he does. and that was just such a natural photo. yeah. debbie's been using writing to help her cope with grief, and this is the result. her first published book. she coined the word middowed to describe a mother who's lost a child. i'd like to think that it will help other bereaved parents to recognise their own experiences. and also i'd like to think that it will give them a little bit of hope because i did survive the unsurvivable. there is hope. through her podcast and her book,

debbie hopes to encourage other families to talk about organ donation, something she knows dan would be proud of. nicola rees, bbc news. when it comes to the best of british wildlife, it's fair to say seagulls aren't at the top of most people's lists. they're seen by many as food—stealing pests, but scientists say they are actually very intelligent. conservation experts are warning that gull populations across the uk are dwindling and attitudes need to change. helen briggs reports. seagulls showing off their flying skills on a winter's day. they may be a common sight near the coast, but hit by bird flu and the loss of wild spaces, some populations are in trouble. i don't think people realise our numbers, especially of our breeding gulls have been declining. perhaps they don't take so much notice of them and realise that the numbers have been dropping off because they're quite a visual species, aren't they? they're in our towns and parks and urban areas and we've become quite familiar with them. three common gulls and 26

black—headed gulls there. in january, hundreds of volunteers took part in the first national survey of winter gulls in 20 years to get a better picture of the six main species that spend the winter here. we're looking sort the tide dropping and the gulls are together. so we've got a lot of black—headed gulls here, a few common gulls and some herring gulls. and the idea of today's exercise is to count them into a census. look at population change. but not everyone�*s a fan of seagulls. some species such as the herring gull, a notorious for raiding bins and stealing food. and here in brighton, people have mixed views. people are very unkind and cruel to seagulls. they throw stones at them. hate them. why do you hate them? the other day i ate a doughnut and theyjust stole right out of my hand. i know you can't walk around with food in your hand. - that's the only problem with the seagulls. - but other than that you are cushty. i had my sandwich here while i was,

i don't know, taking something from my bag. and then she just took my sandwich away from me. so i need to buy food now. but this scientist says seagulls aren't the problem. it's us. when we see their behaviour in terms of stealing or theft, what we should actually perceive is the intelligence of the animals. so we need to think differently about them. i would say so, yeah. to think of an animal as a pest is a negative mindset. if we think of them as intelligent creatures thriving in an environment that we've forced upon them, then that should give us a more respectful outlook on herring gull behaviour. the experts say it's likely more seagulls will settle in our cities and evolve ever more cunning behaviour. and when they visit the urban environment, sometimes they get a bad press. seagulls are misunderstood ? yes, absolutely. i think so. i think they're very charismatic creatures and definitely get a bad rap for sometimes aggressive behaviour in the breeding season.

but they are a part of our natural world and they're just taking advantage of the hand that's been dealt them. the data from the survey will be used to draw up new conservation plans for seagulls, with the hope we can learn to live better alongside each other. helen briggs, bbc news on the south coast. two newly discovered hymns written by a famous church composer have been performed for the first time at a special easter concert at blackburn cathedral. 0ur reporter mat trewern has more. # a0 days and a0 nights. # fasting in the wild... a glorious rendition of a recently discovered easter treasure. but the story of these two lost musical arrangements starts

here in the less grandiose surroundings of blackburn library archives. we have a collection here of documents belonging to a blackburn lad who became a world—famous organist and composer, a chap called william wolstenholme. and to my great surprise, we found two pieces by edward bairstow in amongst the hundreds of manuscripts that were part of the collection. sir edward bairstow was from yorkshire but worked in blackburn for many years. in 1932 he was knighted for his services to church music and his works have been regularly performed by choirs for more than a century. so, how exciting was it to find these two hymns? er, elated. there was something here which probably had not seen the light of day for over 100 years. nobody knows exactly when sir edward wrote these arrangements of a0

days and a0 nights and 0 come, 0 come, emmanuel but everyone involved in the concert felt these long lost gems had to be heard. it feels really special, and i think the fact that we're singing of a manuscript copy in his writing makes it a bit special, too. as well as a bit hard. this year is the 150th anniversary of sir edward bairstow�*s birth, and this is the first time in living memory, possibly the first time ever, these lost works have been sung. applause. back in 197a — and the eurovision song contest — it was abba's performance of �*waterloo' at the brighton dome

that clinched the title — and turned an unknown pop group into instant stars. a new exhibition marks 50 years since that moment of pop history — and our reporter sarah smith has been for a trip down memory lane. it was the performance which would steal the show. # my, my. # at waterloo, napoleon did surrender. # oh, yeah... for a week, brighton was in the grip of eurovision fever. this exhibition, a collection of stories from those touched by it. the big story is abba winning eurovision in brighton, which is a huge part of brighton pop history. but underneath that is all of the collective stories and memories from individuals. jacqui 0'byrne was assisting her father, a photographer. they were at the grand hotel to catch abba as they left for the dome. they came out of the lift in the most amazing satin pearls, but the man walked slowly, because they were in platform silver sparkling boots.

musician bobby ward was also in the grand that evening watching as the band emerged. so, i gave frida a smile and she gave me a wink back. it was just a moment in time of an unknown band who... it was like i didn't know i was witnessing a slice of musical history. mel bowden was the dj providing music before the show. the whole of brighton was buzzing, there were parties everywhere. - it was pretty glamorous for brighton 74. - # waterloo, i was defeated you won the war... carrol theobald was in the audience at the dome. i do remember how outstanding abba was. and we had a scoresheet in our programme, at the back, and i gave them top marks. behind the scenes, chris english, who worked for the electricity board, had spent a week ensuring there would be no problems with power. but it was still touch and go on the night. i suddenly realised that the amount of power that the dome was drawing from the grid had shot up,

because they'd put all the house lights on, which had never been on during rehearsals. so, i panicked a bit. the show did go on, though, and at the interval, this was the entertainment. # underground, overground, wombling free... a film of the wombles exploring the area. david grint was asked if he could drive one of them — wellington, as he remembers — around in his buggy. it was a flash of two or three seconds and then something else, so if you blinked, you missed it. but it was well worth doing — my claim to fame. # waterloo, i was defeated, you won the war. these images capture abba in brighton before and after the win which would catapult them to fame — a show which 50 years on, those who were there have never forgotten. sarah smith, bbc news.

that tune would win today, i'm sure. they might be just a normal part of your morning commute, but for one british man, railway departure boards have become big business. russell pirie was so fascinated with them as a child, he decided to make his own at home. and now, they're so popular, he's quit his job and enlisted his family to help him produce them. 0ur reporterjonathan holmes has the story. they're a familiar sight in stations up and down the country, the glowing panels telling you where you need to go and perhaps how late your train might be. russell used to commute to reading daily, and he spent a lot of time staring at these boards. i was fascinated with the departure boards. i really liked everything about them. so i decided i'd try and build my own one just for fun. he puts a video of his homemade board on youtube and was flooded with offers to buy it. now he's quit his old job just to build them. it's so niche and it's just something you'd never think would even exist or people wouldn't even want.

ijust basically built it for fun myself and it just appears that other people seem to want them and enjoy them as well. platform 2 for the 11:41 great western railway service to bristol temple meads. the boards run off real time data that's been provided by the railway companies. they're so popular that russell's wife and father have been roped in to help make them. he used to even sell overseas at one stage, which i could never really understand. why would someone in america want to know about uk trains? but these are ex—pats who wanted to see what was going on at their local station. they've also found an unlikely following with people who aren't regular commuters. quite a lot of them go to either people who autistic themself or autistic children, they they find them absolutely fascinating sort of like i did. so yeah, we get a lot of feedback from autistic children, parents saying they love them.

russell's now working with pop mogul and railway fan pete waterman to make the boards work with model railways across the country. not bad for a light bulb moment that came from staring at just another piece of railway furniture. the actor chance perdomo, best known for tv series like chilling adventures of sabrina and gen v, has died in a motorcycle accident. he was twenty seven years old. he was nominated for best actor at the 2019 bafta tv awards for his role in bbc three drama killed by my debt. in a statement, his publicist said "his insatiable appetite for life was felt by all who knew him. his warmth will carry on in those who he loved dearest." production on the second series of gen v has been delayed indefinitely following his death. let's leave you now with these pictures from windsor

a short while ago. king charles has attended the easter sunday service at st george's chapel. it's his most significant public appearance since being diagnosed with cancer. the king spoke to crowds and shook people's hands after the service, accompanied by queen camilla. the prince and princess of wales will not attend the service, as catherine continues her cancer treatment. the king has continued some work since his diagnosis, but all engagements so far have taken place in private. now it's time for a look at the weather with tomasz. hello. well, the sun has come out across some parts of the country this easter sunday, but it's not like it everywhere. in fact, farfrom it. closer to the north sea coast and across central england, rather a lot of cloud, a chilly breeze off the north sea. we had a few showers as well. but if we look at the satellite picture, you can see a rugged area of cloud.

basically, the brighter skies are the further north and west you are. and this area of cloud is part of a much larger circulation of rugged cloud, all linked to a big area of low pressure dominating the scene here. and if we look at the outlook for the next few days, smaller lows embedded within this larger vortex will be sweeping our way. here are the weather fronts. the blue is obviously the rain, stronger winds at times as well. so the next few days, the outlook is looking pretty wet after what has been already a very wet march in many parts of the uk. back to the afternoon, then. here are the temperatures you can see quite chilly on that north sea coast in the breeze, ten celsius, but 15 or 16 possible across some brighter skies here towards the west. now, tonight, across england and wales, rain is possible almost at any time. there could even be a crack of thunder for a time in the south. the driest of all weather will be across scotland, maybe a touch of frost in the highlands. but in cities, temperatures will be

typically between five and eight degrees celsius. 0nto our forecast for tomorrow. the wettest of the weather will be across northern england through the irish sea, just about into eastern parts of northern ireland as well. really quite a grey, rainy picture most of the day. to the south, we'll call it a mixture of sunny spells, but occasional heavy showers as well. and the temperatures typically ten in scotland, around 12 to 14 across more southern parts of the uk. then here's tuesday, then. that weather front will have moved a little bit further north, starting to fizzle out, but still bringing some damp weather to the northeast. and then the next weather front sweeps into the south west and then through the day and into the evening hours will be crossing the country as it moves northwards and eastwards. so here's that outlook, those weather fronts i showed you earlier on and those low pressures you can see from the outlook, often rainy but not particularly chilly. in fact, mid—teens in the south.

live from london. this is bbc news. king charles has attended an easter service in windsor followed by a walkabout to greet crowds. it's his most significant public appearance since being diagnosed with cancer.

pope francis pleads for peace in his easter message. he's been meeting worshippers after easter sunday mass — as thousands gather in st peter's square. as military strikes in gaza continue, ceasefire talks between israel and hamas are expected to resume in cairo. voting takes place in local elections across turkey , with president erdogan's party hoping to regain control of cities it lost five years ago. hello and welcome to bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak. we start in windsor, where king charles and queen camilla attended the easter sunday service at st george's chapel. here they are leaving the chapel a short time ago, much to the delight of crowds

who had lined up to see them.