i think, you know, having that person there, i think it's kind of apt you are talking about a best man project, so to speak. that relationship that you have... he hasn't asked me yet. laughter. it could be a sensitive issue. he hasn't asked him yet! i suspect that might happen quite soon. time for a look at the weather. nice to see some sunshine. let us hope for some on the 19th of june as well. it is not sunny everywhere. this is in the highlands with the snowcapped and on scarborough. you can see the sunshine is further west. still some stubborn fog —— this is scarborough.

through the night it will thicken up against the brightness lasts for the next few hours but where we have thatis next few hours but where we have that is where we get the fog, really come overnight. even in eastern areas with that front starting week we will see labour breaks and some fog here. these are temperatures in the towns and cities that we will see some breaks and some fog. some hope that a little earlier than in recent days for northern ireland because of the through the day. probably a good deal of sunshine again to start across scotland. cold, and with the fog. again, the fog, we think north—west england, parts of the midlands and parts of east wales down towards the west country, central and southern england. those are the main areas but it will not be for all. still some drizzly showers around so cloud still tomorrow particularly in eastern areas and the best of the sunshine outside of that. this is the change by the end of play tomorrow as they go into friday

night, turning quite wet for northern ireland, so alleviates fog problems but becomes quite a dank day on saturday. a few showers overhead as well. later that front will start to weaken and narrower northern ireland. temperatures on a par with what we are seeing at the moment, 56. with the fog, only two oi’ moment, 56. with the fog, only two or three but hopefully not as much of that over the weekend with the breeze but that doesn't stop it being rather closely. that is then swamped by this next front coming in late on the day on sunday, which signifies quite a big change. a speu signifies quite a big change. a spell of heavy rain, and gale force winds sweeping eastwards sunday night into monday and behind that, you may have heard, we are in for a blast of cold air again and it will feel better actually because the wind strengthening at times to gales, was with that cold here, going with the risk of some snow. just to reiterate, the main issue will be the fog through this evening and overnight once again. helen, thank you. i —— a reminder of our

main story. the nhs a&e doctors warn that patients are dying in corridors because conditions are at him intolerable. —— at times intolerable. —— at times intolerable. we will nowjoined the bbc news teams wherever you are. goodbye. welcome to the bbc sports centre in salford. i'm jessica creighton. kyle edmund and johanna konta face tough opening tests in tennis‘s australian open. edmund, the only british man in the draw following murray's withdrawal, faces iith seed kevin anderson. british number one konta will face the american madison brengle, a player she has a poor record against. earlier i spoke to our tennis correspondent russell fuller. johanna konta has won only one of their four matches.

johanna konta has won only one of theirfour matches. board isn't currently 92 in the world. if konta makes progress she will be having some challenging matches but given how she finished last season, losing five in a row, she will relish that opportunity where she has a very good record. she could play a recent world number one in the fourth round and the current world number one simona halep in the quarterfinals, but for another day. heather watson meanwhile will start against the world number 50 from kazakhstan, a player ranked slightly higher than she is. if you look at the mentors might ‘s drawer, in terms of —— the men's draw, kyle edmund being the only brit after andy murray pulled out. what a top drawer he has. yes, it will be just kayal edmund in the men's draw for great britain. and it is tough, as you say, against kevin anderson —— kyle edmund. they played at roland garros in the third round

last year and he ultimately lost in five sets. the advantage for edmund, if he is one of these people who sees the glass as half full rather than half empty he can beat him in the opening round and he is playing well, assuming his ankle skier from last week's events in brisbane is not a major concern, he would find himself in a reasonably favell section of the draw after that —— ankle scare. a reasonably favourable section of the draw. england's one day side have beaten a cricket australia 11 team, in a warm—up match in sydney. just four days after that 4—0 ashes series defeat, the tourists switched formats and recorded a much—needed five—wicket victory. their opponents had just one full international in matt renshaw. having restricted the hosts to 258 for nine captain eoin morgan hit an unbeaten 81 to lead his side to victory. james vince and mark stoneman have kept their places in england's test squad for the tour of new zealand, despite struggling with the bat in that ashes defeat. there's a first test call—up

for 24—year—old lancashire batsman liam livingstone, while bowler mark wood is also in the i6—man squad. a bit surprised, to be honest — i'm pleased to be back in. i think that with obviously tom curran and jake ball being part of ashes squad, and i felt they did well, i was surprised to get the call. but it is nice to be back involved and it is something that i have wanted to get back in and hopefully i have got a point to prove and can i do well. the nba comes to london tonight as the boston celtics and philadelphia 76ers go head to head at the o2 arena. despite the increasing popularity of basketball in this country, nba chief adam silver says the chances of a british based team are increasing unlikely. if someone had said to me 15 years ago by 2018 they will be a chance you will have a team in europe or in london, and i would have said, fairly likely. i think we then have learned more about the impact of

travel, changing time zones, fatigue, on our players, especially in correlation with injuries, so we have actually gone the other way. so it is not something we are ruling out. we have to completely revamped oui’ out. we have to completely revamped our schedules from the first until the last day of the season. so there is no doubt that innovation volcano have an impact. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. that's bbc. co. uk/sport and that's bbc.co.uk/sport and i'll have more for you in the next hour. more now on the nhs. 68 senior a&e doctors have written

to theresa may saying winter planning has not been adequate and patient safety is at risk. all the doctors stress they are talking not as representatives of their trusts, but as doctors. one of them is dr miriam harris — who works at the london north west hospitals nhs trust. she told me what made her and her colleagues write to the prime minister. —— annita mcveigh asked her and she told her about her colleagues writing to the feminist. —— to the prime minister. this is stuff that has not happened over the last few weeks. this has been progressive change and deterioration certainly over the last year in particular, with increased numbers of very sick patients coming through the department with lack of capacity and flow, through lots of different emergency departments across the country. when the department is full, the flow is decreased, we cannot get to our patients so quickly, and the longer and the longer the patients stay within the department the sicker they may become and we know it increases their length of stay. 0ur frustrations are this was predictable and did not require last—minute winter funding. it needed a proper investment in services across the board including social care, to improve the flow throughout not just the ed, but the whole hospital. have you seen patients suffer because of all of this? it depends how you define suffer.

i would say on a daily basis seen patients stranded on beds and trolleys in corridors waiting, you know, they have probably even been assessed but there is no bed to off—load them into, so, yes, on a daily basis i would consider that to be a degree of suffering. i would say there has not been increased clinical error and that we provide safe care, but it is not always good care because we are not able to meet the dignity requirements for patients. for someone on the front line what do you see is the fundamental things that need to be done to change this? the fundamentals, i know there is a great call for increased investment in the nhs and i think that is part of it, but i think it is also a service that will never be fully funded

because there's so much movement in medicine, we can do more for more people. i think as a society we need to think carefully about how we extend patient‘s lives and keep people alive when they are very very old and frail and stuck in bed. i think we also need to look at other services that can provide urgent care, and even education within schools to start teaching people how to care for themselves at home. what is your message to theresa may today? please, please, can we sit down and all have a proper conversation and stop putting sticky plasters on little problems to keep them away for a few month at a time, and invest properly where the money is needed for something that is sustainable into the future. that was doctor miriam harris speaking to annita mcveigh earlier. two teenage boys have been arrested by officers investigating the murder of a shop worker in north london at the weekend. vijay patel was attacked during an argument in the store in mill hill and died in hospital.

the two boys, aged 15 and 16, are being questioned on suspicion of violent disorder. another boy of 16 has been remanded in custody charged with murder. 0ur correspondent tom burridge has more details on this story. well, i think it's worth just reminding people what happened on saturday night, annita. so three teenage boys, it's alleged, went to the newsagents where vijay patel was working, alongside the owner of the shop in mill hill, a fairly affluent part of north london, just before midnight. the police say three teenage boys went into the shop, they tried to buy a number of items including rizla, which is a make of cigarette paper, and in the uk under law it is illegal for underratings to buy cigarette papers, so the owner of the shop, working alongside mr patel challenge the three boys, it is alleged. police say when the boys were refused the sale of rizla they became aggressive and threatened to vandalise the shop. they went outside, it's alleged, and then mr patel, the worker at the store, went outside after them. it is then alleged that one of the three teenage boys then punched mr patel. he fell to the ground

and hit his head on the floor and basically suffered severe damage to his head and damage to his brain, ultimately, and bleeding on the brain. he died tragically in hospital in paddington on monday afternoon. a paramedic who was one of the first at the scene of the grenfell tower disaster has avoided a driving ban after being caught speeding at 116mph. david hickling was caught while off duty on the a55 near caerwys in flintshire in july. he admitted breaking the 70mph speed limit, but said a driving ban would cost him hisjob. the incident occurred three weeks after the grenfell fire and a psychotherapist‘s report showed that hickling was under exceptional stress. flintshire magistrates have given him a fine and six points on his driving licence. the prime minister's spokesman says britain will not hold a second eu referendum, after nigel farage said he's warming to the idea.

the former ukip leader and brexit campaigner told channel 5's the wright stuff programme that he is close to backing a second brexit vote, to end what he called the "whinging and whining" of anti—brexit campaigners. let's return now to the prime minister's pledge to eliminate all avoidable plastic waste within 25 years as part of a new government drive on the environment. the 5p charge for plastic bags at supermarkets will be extended to all shops in england, and stores will be encouraged to introduce "plastic free aisles." some campaigners have said that the measures don't go far enough. we can now talk to the shadow environment minister holly lynch. she's in westminster for us now. eliminate all plastic waste within 25 years. could you do that faster? i think we could. we all watched

david attenborough‘s blue planet 2 andy saull the degradation it is having on our marine environment. there are calls to go further on this we were disappointed to see this we were disappointed to see this government will take 25 years to ta ke this government will take 25 years to take the action we would all like to take the action we would all like to see happen much faster —— and we all saw the degradation. how would you do it much faster? certainly lots of ways. the audit committee published two reports over the winter recess. you can do this are on both carrot and stick, sidhu liquor taxes and changing people's behaviours. there are ways to deliver this much sooner —— so we can look at taxes and changing. it does give you the ability to think long term but they should have been doing this much sooner, not taking the whole length of the plan to deliver this plastic band. you would add a consumer tax, for example, on plastics that should be recycled or just to encourage people to use fewer of them? you would do that, at

the tax? that is one of the ways you can do it. i spoke about the combination of carrot and stick. this government really did top of expectations in the budget at the end of last year that it would take decisive action along those lines. even by its own rhetoric everyone is left disappointed when they have just announced a consultation this year. again, the expectation was high for the environment plan announced today. again, people are leaving feeling let down but this will take so long to deliver. the government is arguing that actually working with retailers is often quicker than bringing in new legislation, that they have a good relationship with retailers, and thatis relationship with retailers, and that is the way they can make it work. well, of course there are different ways you can do this. one thing to say about the environment plan, it has no underpinning legally at all. there is very little in the way of timelines are legislative underpinnings to really make sure it is delivered. but if they are saying it is the way to do it then something has gone wrong, because again it will take until 2042 to

deliver what we would all like to see happen much sooner. if you do have to resort to legislation to make that happen, it is certainly something we would support in the labour party and look to do ourselves. plastics are certainly grabbing the headlines but this is all part of a much broader plan, much broader proposals. they are talking about restoring britain's nature, increasing woodland cover, bringing nature back to four months. do you accept there are some bold radical ideas in there? there are certainly some ideas that we welcome. i wouldn't necessarily accept they are bold and radical. remember, this is a government where theresa may, one of the first things she did, having taken up the role of being prime minister, was to end the department for energy and climate change. then triggering the snap general election and she spoken about opening up the fox hunting ban again. this is not a government we really believe is committed to environmental progress. we know they have seen an opportunity to engage with voters that they were not

connecting with in that general election, so of course we do welcome progress on these environmental issues, but what we seem to see within this plan, it simply doesn't rise to the really serious challenges we have to work collectively together to meet and it is just not happening with the conservative government. holly lynch, thank you. in a moment a summary of the business news this hour, but first the headlines on bbc news: senior doctors warn that patients are dying in hospital corridors as a&e waiting times in england are at their worst for 13 years. a pledge to eliminate all avoidable plastic waste within 25 years is made by the prime minister, as she announces a new government drive on the environment. a woman has appeared in court charged with murder, after police found a body buried in a garden in greater manchester. hello there. in the business news: it looks as if the big retailers had mixed fortunes over the vital christmas period.

tesco, waitrose and john lewis all saw a jump in sales. but the likes of marks & spencer and house of fraser had disappointing sales. we'll have more on this in a moment. it looks like one of the country's old est it looks like one of the country's oldest amusement park has been saved. dreamland in margate went into administration but looks like it has secured 35mm and of investment which will save more than 250 jobs. foreign students are worth an astonishing £20 billion to the economy, according to the higher education policy institute. it says this benefits almost every part of the economy — and any fall in their numbers would hurtjobs. let's go back to those mixed

fortu nes let's go back to those mixed fortunes for the big retailers over christmas. marks & spencer has reported a fall in sales, tesco has reported solid growth, but one company which really had a bumperfestive period was boohoo. the manchester—based online firm doubled its revenues to £228 million, and expects further growth in 2018. joining us now is richard perks, a retail analyst. what is boohoo doing right? well, they brought a smaller company, pretty little things. it is coming from a low base as well, remember it is quite a young company. everything is quite a young company. everything is going well for that company at the moment. it is also really focusing on social media marketing. that has to make a difference as well? i think so, yes. i think it is taking advantage of the channels available to it at the moment. in the new internet era. just remember, the new internet era. just remember, the internet as a retail medium has

not been with us for very long, not much more than ten years. are the traditional retailers really acting quickly enough to take advantage of this trend? i think there is more they could do, and i think one of they could do, and i think one of the reasons boohoo is doing well at the reasons boohoo is doing well at the moment is that the young fashion retailers on the high street on the whole i'm not doing particularly well. but if you look at the figures, online will take about 60% of all retail sales in 2017. half of thatis of all retail sales in 2017. half of that is through the —— about 16%. say you can't see store based retailers are not doing anything. they are doing quite a lot, and growing not quite as fast, but pretty fast as well. do you think him retailers, bricks and mortar retailers, looking at what to do the future, they should get into the social media marketing? shouldn't ignore it, it is very important,

particularly the for that sections of the population that use social media most, and you can'tjust stand back and do nothing in refrigeration. richard perks, thank you very much indeed. time to catch up you very much indeed. time to catch up on you very much indeed. time to catch up on some you very much indeed. time to catch up on some of the other stories making the business news. economic growth in china accelerated to 6.9% last year, according to the country's prime minister. that's better than the 6.7% growth in 2016. the government says its because of their economic reforms. pricewaterhousecoopers has been banned from doing the accounts of listed firms in india for two years. it's after regulators investigated a fraud involving an it firm. pwc thinks it can get the ban delayed. bitcoin fell more than 10% on the bit stamp exchange after south korea said it was getting ready to ban cyrpto currencies. it fell to just over $13,000 — its lowest point since the beginning of the year. a quick look at the markets...

a lot of focus on retailers today. marks & spencer are feeling the pressure after those disappointing sales over christmas. tesco are also under pressure, despite seeing their sales rise. that's because the still were lower than expected. that's all the business news. back to you, sophie. thank you. for many women, it's a game they won't have played since they left school, but now england netball is teaming up with the women's institute to change all that. walking netball is designed to be easier to play and targeted at individuals who haven't played in years, or are recovering from an injury. john maguire has been shooting some hoops. put the bibs on, but shimmy off to your left hand side. discuss each others' names, make friends, let's go. gk, wa, wd — for these members of the wi, it's time to reacquaint themselves with netball. and for some it has been a long hiatus. when did you used to play regularly?

50 years ago! and you still remember the rules? yes. i'm very impressed. i played for my school team. and do the old skills come back easily? no, because we can't run. ah, so it's tricky, therefore? very tricky. but you don't mind the walking? not at all. sorry, my fault! nice and gently, that's it. take your time, ladies. remember, it's non—contact. this group in nottingham has been running — or should i say walking — for almost a year. they play walking netball. as with the equivalent in football, it's a variation of the game which can ease the return to physical activity. a lot of them haven't played netball or sometimes any kind of sport, as well, since they've left school. that's what happens sometimes with women. jobs, children, and so forth, and before you know it, time has passed by. with walking netball, you can just show up and play netball. it's amazing. the women can be any age, they can be inactive women as well. you don't have to be a certain age

to play walking netball. you can be returning from injury. well, i've had lots of injuries on my knee, and several operations over the last 30 years. and ijust never thought i would be able to come back and do something like this. but i absolutely love it. tonight's session is being watched by the boss of england netball, and it's calling this partnership ‘helping the wi get a wiggle on,‘ aiming to promote the game overall, not just to the very young the very talented. these ladies, if they love it, they're mothers and grandmas. they're going to influence their daughters and their grandchildren to play the sport they're enjoying. and there's a big problem with loneliness. women who hit 55, or above, it's not about that healthy lifestyle, it's about the social side of it. this really ticks that box for us. there have been pilot schemes with the wi in nottingham and cornwall. now, 140 courses have been run with the intention to see these smiles spreading far and wide.

you are exercising when you wouldn't normally exercise, in my case. not having played netball in 50 years. just the fact we're all together. different groups of people, all these different subgroups. a good laugh, and you're exercising. you don't realise you're exercising — that's the thing. you go home aching and you wonder why, but your face is aching more than your body because we all have a good laugh, don't we? so tonight — no jam, nojerusalem, and in walking netball, no jumping either. john maguire, bbc news, nottingham. were there, but just were there, butjust a quick word on brexiter. we told you that nigel farage the former ukip leader said he is close to backing a second brexit referendum to end what he called the whingeing and whining of andy brexit campaigners. there has been a statement in the last few minutes from aaron banks, the co—founder of leave eu, who says a

second referendum is the only option. and he says if we do not act radically we will sleepwalk into a faux brexit in name only, and he says that leave would win by a landslide. well, time for a look at the weather now with helen. good afternoon to you, and for some it is afternoon to you, and for some it is a good afternoon, if you like sunshine. but it is not outside here, because it is raining. let me show you some of the sunshine, this was ilfracombe about an hour ago. some stunning weather watcher pictures coming in so please keep sending them in. this is the snow packed mountains, and you will not see them in scarborough because it is grey and we are under that front. a lot of rain yesterday but it is currently concentrated across the south—east of england. take an umbrella if you're going out for lunch there. northern ireland, fog, and it will thicken up this evening and it will thicken up this evening and overnight, not just for and it will thicken up this evening and overnight, notjust for northern ireland but in some parts of scotland, low clouds through the

central belt and we will see before coming to north—western england, across wales and the midlands, central and southern england as well. with temperatures in the towns and cities close to freezing in the outskirts it will be down to freezing therefore freezing fog for the travelled through tomorrow morning. 0bviously the travelled through tomorrow morning. obviously we will have the fog through tonight as well. it'll already thicken up quite quickly after dark. towards tomorrow morning, some signs of change. yes, the fog through the rush for northern ireland but it should lift more readily as the wind strengthens. a little patchy fog for scotla nd strengthens. a little patchy fog for scotland and a chilly start but after it clears a good deal of sunshine like today, and a similar story for the west of the country, we will see the best of the sunshine, but we have to clear that fog first. like today, when it has lingered throughout the morning it will in some areas make for a rather gloomy day along with the remnants of the weather front that has been here for much of the week and is still sitting in eastern areas giving some patchy rain and drizzle, and this is a more dominant front coming in, the change for northern

ireland through tomorrow night. holding the temperatures up, not as cold, more breeze around, but obviously waiter bleak start on saturday. elsewhere, yes, some brightness around but also quite a bit of cloud and dry weather. the front p to fizzle out across the western fringes of scotland, england and wales, brightening up behind. then this get swamped by the next front coming in, big changes on the way as we head towards the latter pa rt way as we head towards the latter part of the weekend. but for sunday for most of us, again rather cloudy with patchy rain and drizzle. little sunshine. behind that next front into next week, this blast of cold airso, yes, a risk of snow into next week, this blast of cold air so, yes, a risk of snow with that, but also we are thinking about heavy rain and gales sweeping eastwards during sunday night and into monday and then that means with that broad north—westerly wind, nothing to stop that saw further gales throughout the. nothing to stop that so further gales throughout the week.

goodbye. hello, you're watching afternoon live, i'm simon mccoy. today at 2. "patients dying in hospital corridors as safety is compromised by ‘intolerable' conditions", the warning from doctors in a letter to the prime minister.. this is stuff that has not happened over the last few weeks, this has been progressive change and deterioration over the last year in particular with increased numbers of very sick patients. plastic—free supermarket aisles and a 5p bag charge

extended to small shops, theresa may pledges to eradicate all avoidable plastic waste by 2042. time running out, hundreds of rescuers comb wreckage in southern california searching for those still missing after mudslides that have killed 17. the police hunt for robbers armed