ufrflmru wm clarifying information about what we may all be dealing with over the next few years. of course, today, we have had a lot of discussion about customs unions and tomorrow we will be hopefully finding out more about how this issue of the border between northern and southern ireland will be handled after brexit. what the i will be saying is there will be no land border. we have only seen the front pages and what i found amusing about this front page is that it says, brexit blueprints, we beat them so you don't have to. laughter —— we read them. hopefully we will have more detail and tell people slightly more detail on this. that is the critical point, it looks as though the proposal will be no land border as such. this is

particularly sensitive for the irish republic because they will continue to have the relationship with the european union but have this island in the way! it is important for the u and the irish republic, at a red line as well for the eu, you suspect. how this... there is a whole and of history now resting on this, the legacies ofjohn major and tony blair and the good friday agreement and all of the rest of it. if they had gone down, or were considering going down the road of a ha rd considering going down the road of a hard border and all the checkpoints that some of us remember driving through, which were awful, then you would be quite fearful of the direction of travel. the difficulty is the and practicality of this was

the technology means you could drive a lorry through and you could sweep it with a radar gun and know what products were in there and whether ever thing was being properly declared. but then you have got to a nswer declared. but then you have got to answer that with free movements, which is supposed to end for the uk. there is talk of free movement within the island of ireland. i don't agree third any senior conservative politicians seriously talk about the possibility of there having to be a land border. this would appear to confirm that that is the case. we look forward to the detail of that. what we don't have is the detail of what happens at the external border. northern ireland voted to stay in, did it not? that was an important vote. these problems were an inevitable result

of the vote. an interesting link here because she could almost suggest that all of these papers coming out were an answer to the story about your namesake at the top of the times today. my namesake indeed, without the e, indeed. of the times today. my namesake indeed, without the e, indeedm doesn't spell it properly! isn't politics a lovely business? you have the former chief of staff accusing the former chief of staff accusing the brexit secretary of leering, of bullying and laziness, on the very day that this morning... i couldn't turn ona day that this morning... i couldn't turn on a television and listen to radio without him popping up. he will deal with it. i do know him a little, i suspected of him reasonably well, and he will be all that in that fairlyjolly way, whatever he thinks privately about whatever he thinks privately about what his former chief of staff is saying. the only thing i would say

isi saying. the only thing i would say is i think i'm right in saying he has not had a holiday, and is not having a holiday in the month of august. without any question, whatever you think about the eu and staying in or coming out or whatever, david davis has got the most wretched job in government, trying to satisfy... it is a job he has wanted for any years was up in many ways, he is supremely qualified because of his detailed understanding of how boot he was europe minister 1000 years ago, in political terms. if there were any truth in this that he only works three days a week, it could be that he knows what he is doing. 26 countries placating the european commission, the parliament, that is before you get to the tory party. he

will need to lie down for the other four days! the telegraph now. this isa four days! the telegraph now. this is a disturbing one about brain injuries in newly born children. is a disturbing one about brain injuries in newly born childrenm is. this is a story that the telegraph seem to be running exclusively, and they have looked into a rather alarming increase in the number of babies being born with brain damage. it has gone up from, 01’ brain damage. it has gone up from, or medical claims for damages have in the last year gone up from something like 180 up two 230. what is called here

normal birth, or what might have been referred to as natural birth. that seems to be the suggestion that thatis that seems to be the suggestion that that is partly behind this obviously rather disturbing trend. it's a hugely disturbing trend. it is a horrendous story for those of us who have seen the fantastic pressures on medical staff, be they doctors or whatever in these units who, in my case, brought two children and one grandchild into this world, they owed them everything. i can only imagine what it is like. the skill and care that they show. it was only la st and care that they show. it was only last week that the royal college of

midwives dropped its campaign for normal births and abandoned the use of the term. maybe we are heading in a different direction, and that is a turning point. a lot of pressures which will come up as part of the nhs review as well, with the moves towards specialism and fewer but better sites, as the government is hoping for. that is a story that will have disturbed people. this is one that will anger people, which is the railfares. an annual treat one that will anger people, which is the rail fares. an annual treat for journalists. the railfares, the expected rise of 3.6% is running across all of the newspapers. especially alarming headline in the telegraph, saying that the soon to see £10,000 rail tickets for people on particular routes for the annual

season on particular routes for the annual season ticket. clearly, as you say, this is going to infuriate people because not only are they paying a great deal more but in many cases, the service seems to be wholly inadequate. some of the modernisation is having to be put back and delayed because it will cost more money. am i not right in saying that government... there has beena saying that government... there has been a conservative led government since 2010, governments can control fares. it will be interesting to see in the budget in the autumn whether anything is done about this. if you can control fuel, presumably you can control rail fares. there have been increases for seven years. that is what some of the papers will be alluding to. there will be an argument about this. the good news is, if you need your £10,000 to pay for your railfare, you is, if you need your £10,000 to pay foryour railfare, you might is, if you need your £10,000 to pay for your railfare, you might be able to sell your house to pay for it according to the daily express.

that is extrapolating! indeed. the express have got a story that seems to fly against some of the other trends around house prices. the average price of a house has gone up by £10,000. i think the interesting thing, reading between the lines is how they are presenting this as a sign that britain after the vote to leave the european union has got a healthy economy. some people would suggest, and i have a lot of sympathy with it, thatjust stating the health of the economy on ever rising house prices is not a healthy way to look at it. in fact, the threat that george osborne made about house prices falling, would not necessarily have been a bad thing. (all me old-fashioned, but are house prices that carry on going

up are house prices that carry on going up forever are house prices that carry on going up for everand a are house prices that carry on going up for ever and a day, is that good? possibly not for your son's generation. 0r possibly not for your son's generation. or your grandchild's generation. or your grandchild's generation. it is unsustainable, isn't it? this is a story that might have been seen earlier. a lot of the papers got excited by this story of millie forrest, described as a cloakroom girl turned overnight singing sensation. what a patronising way of putting it! singing sensation. what a patronising way of putting mm singing sensation. what a patronising way of putting it! it is a classic august story, and that your dream comes true. you start off handing out the cloakroom tickets and you end up standing in for the top soprano of the night. that appears to be the story. it is a view weeks old, apparently, as well(!) she ended up singing

schubert and vaughan williams and purcell. let's hope it plays on for her. any publicist is good publicity. we will be back in under an hour's time. that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. up up next, it is the weather. it is very quiet on the weather front out there right now. lots of clear weather. there is a bit of rain on the way. it is just about approaching ireland. through the course of wednesday, some of us will be getting a train. before that happens, a chilly start to the day for many of us. in some parts of scotland, only around 5 degrees, and singer figure temperatures in other

areas as well. this is the low pressure that will offset the weather during because of wednesday. this is the weather front coming through. it gets into northern ireland, fringing on western parts of wales and the western isles of scotland. by the afternoon, many of us are scotland. by the afternoon, many of us are still under the sunny skies, especially across eastern and central areas. temperatures come to be getting into the 20s quite widely. newcastle at 20 degrees. many western areas, gloomy and cloudy with low cloud across the hills. plenty of drizzle. that will push across the country into thursday. still some rain around across the eastern and south—eastern areas. for thursday, we are forecasting a day of sunny spells, some showers. a little on the breezy side, but a fine day on thursday. temperatures getting up to 21

degrees in newcastle, leeds and sheffield, and the mid—20s in london. friday, low pressure still close to our neighbourhood. that bees there will be some showers around, so not a completely dry picture on the way. breezy as well, but most of the showers will be across the western and north—western areas. the best of the weather along the channel coast on friday. saturday, a blustery day on the way. it will feel a little on the cool side, plenty of showers around as well. what we are watching is a hurricane off the coast of north america. we will not be getting a hurricane, but what we will getting is the storm system getting mixed up with our own weather crossing the atlantic. quite a blustery weekend on the way. this is bbc news. the headlines at 11: the government outlines plans for trade

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