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wilkie. >> david wilkie. yeah. we should pay >> david wilkie. yeah. we should pay tribute to david wilkie. one of our greatest swimmers of all time. won the olympic 200 metre breaststroke in 1976, passed away yesterday at the age of 70, which is now age, but a great swimmer and a true legend of the sport, without a doubt. >> okay, paul, thank you very much indeed. >> pleasure. i'll see you tomorrow. okay. here's the weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news. who's . news. who's. >> good morning. welcome to your latest gb news weather update. brought to you by the met office. further rain to come this morning with weather warnings still in force for some areas for much of the day, but it will turn drier as the day goes on. amber rain warning still in force until around lunchtime for parts of northwest england, north wales and rain warnings for a large swathe of northern england, northern ireland and much of scotland as well. as i said, it will turn dry as the day goes on, bu
wilkie. >> david wilkie. yeah. we should pay >> david wilkie. yeah. we should pay tribute to david wilkie. one of our greatest swimmers of all time. won the olympic 200 metre breaststroke in 1976, passed away yesterday at the age of 70, which is now age, but a great swimmer and a true legend of the sport, without a doubt. >> okay, paul, thank you very much indeed. >> pleasure. i'll see you tomorrow. okay. here's the weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar...
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some sad news to bring you now — the former british olympic swimming champion david wilkie has died at the age of 70. scotsman wilkie won olympic gold in the 200 metres breaststroke at the 1976 games in montreal, and he won in style, breaking the then world record time by more than three seconds. the scottish great also won two olympic silver medals and three world titles. his family said that he died peacefully this morning, surrounded by his family, following a battle with cancer. runaway giro d'italia overall leader tadej pagacar couldn't make it a hat trick of stage wins but still retained his huge race lead after stage 17. after a day of incessant climbing, the peloton showed no real urgency in pursuing germany's georg steinhauser who powered on to take the stage win. pogacar then accelerated away from the main group to finish second and put a huge seven minutes and 42 seconds between himself and the rest of the field in the overall standings. novak djokovic celebrated his 37th birthday with a win at the geneva open, beating germany's yannick hanfmann in straight sets. in a match
some sad news to bring you now — the former british olympic swimming champion david wilkie has died at the age of 70. scotsman wilkie won olympic gold in the 200 metres breaststroke at the 1976 games in montreal, and he won in style, breaking the then world record time by more than three seconds. the scottish great also won two olympic silver medals and three world titles. his family said that he died peacefully this morning, surrounded by his family, following a battle with cancer. runaway...
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british olympic swimming champion david wilkie has died at the age of 70. his family have released a statement confirming he had cancer. the scot won 200m breaststroke gold in montreal in 1976 as well as two olympic silver medals and three world titles. we will be back with charlie in downing street shortly. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning from bbc london, i'm alison earle. scotland yard has referred itself to the independent police watchdog after a man officers were pursuing died on a tube line. the met says officers were called to reports of a fight outside colindale station in the early hours of sunday morning. a man they tried to detain ran on to the tracks and was fatally injured. a primary school in north london where staff went on strike this week has announced it will close for three more days over the next month due to industrial action. it's over plans to turn byron court primary in wembley into an academy after it was rated "inadequate" in its last ofsted inspection. the national education union has announ
british olympic swimming champion david wilkie has died at the age of 70. his family have released a statement confirming he had cancer. the scot won 200m breaststroke gold in montreal in 1976 as well as two olympic silver medals and three world titles. we will be back with charlie in downing street shortly. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning from bbc london, i'm alison earle. scotland yard has referred itself to the independent police watchdog after a man...
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wilkie, who was then a living artist. i think we were definitely pioneering in the sense that we weren't founded from a royal collection varne, unlike our continental peers like the louvre in paris or the prado in spain. but we were founded by an act of parliament, and that made us quite special, that we were always a people's picture gallery bought for the people by the people. and i think also what made us quite special was that we're quite a small, compact collection. we only have about 2400 paintings, again, in comparison with the prado, the louvre. we're very, very tiny, but that makes us almost like a treasure trove of gems and i'd, i think we're also pioneering in the sense that in 1855 we were reconstituted and we didn't then only collect sort of baroque masterpieces of the type that found were in the foundational collection, but we expanded quite radically to start collecting early italian art to tell the whole story of western european painting from its origins in italy in the middle of the 13th century. so we w
wilkie, who was then a living artist. i think we were definitely pioneering in the sense that we weren't founded from a royal collection varne, unlike our continental peers like the louvre in paris or the prado in spain. but we were founded by an act of parliament, and that made us quite special, that we were always a people's picture gallery bought for the people by the people. and i think also what made us quite special was that we're quite a small, compact collection. we only have about 2400...