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eager to express themselves, and also find who they are and who they are made of. but for bob, this is a moment of farewell. do you feel sorry to say goodbye to them? no, it's ok. they're all documented, and it never looks as good as it did on that woman that day she put it on for the first time. indeed, when you've got someone like freddie, that's when a dress becomes a bob mackie. david sillito, bbc news. we are getting reports of staff at gatwick airport having to write reports on whiteboards following a technology failure. staff could be seen rubbing out information. time for a look at the weather. here's stav da naos. good job i'm not going back to the
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magnetic weatherboard! a lot of cloud around but it is going to remain pretty warm and humid. but it will be turning cooler towards the end of the week. this is the satellite picture for the last few hours. you can see some holes in the cloud, for example, across the south—east, where there has been some sunshine. the cloud will tend to build up into the afternoon, some of it the odd spot of light rain and drizzle, particularly in parts of northern ireland, north wales into central and northern england. on either side of that it should be largely dry. warm for everyone, despite the cloud. temperatures up to 26 in the south—east. this evening looks like it will be a bit try a rat. like last night i think it will be relatively cloudy. a few clear spells in there. but those temperatures fairly decent. heading into tuesday, this is the big picture, we are still under an area
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of wea k picture, we are still under an area of weak high pressure but to the north—west this area will make inroads, bringing more rain. for much of the country again tomorrow will be largely dry with variable cloud. through the afternoon i think there is a greater chance of seeing some sunshine across england and wales. where you do get the sunshine it is going to feel very warm again. it will be turning wetter across the north—west corner of the country. that weather front migrating slowly south—eastwards as we head in towards wednesday. leaving something a bit fresher but brighter in its wake. starting off on a wet note in the morning, weakening in the afternoon, but we could have some heavy showers developing through the midlands. we could see up to 27 degrees given some sunshine in the south—east. further north—west, a
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kick cooler. and that is the trend on thursday and friday, notice the blue colour is extending south—eastwards to all areas with brisk north—west winds. bringing plenty of showers, some of them heavy across the north—west corner of the country. starting off warm and humid this week, engineered much cooler and fresher. hello there, you're watching bbc news. i'm olly foster at the bbc sport centre. england's cricketers are up against it in the third test against india. they were bowled out for 161 in a single session yesterday and the tourists are now building a big lead in their second innings. patrick gearey is at trent bridge. good afternoon. nothing spectacular
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from india this morning, but no wickets. and they are just slowly turning the screw? absolutely. pretty quiet morning in comparison to yesterday when we saw 16 wickets, all ten english wickets in a single session but no wickets falling this morning. it reflects india's position of complete dominance. almost 300 ahead going into today's play and haven't had to take risks oi’ play and haven't had to take risks or even push on the scoring, they have enough time left in this match. they gave england one opportunity but england dropped it. that is the fifth chance england have dropped in this match, another area where they haven't been up to scratch. the pujara and virat kohli pushed onto 50 and they will probably back into the afternoon, perhaps the evening if they can and giving in a nasty session later. 194—2, a lead of 362 at lunch, that means complete control. england will probably need
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something pretty heroic and miraculous with the bat if they will get anything out of this test. jonny ba i rstow, get anything out of this test. jonny bairstow, what is his condition because he had a nasty knock, the wicketkeeper, with his finger? because he had a nasty knock, the wicketkeeper, with his finger7m didn't look good. he was keeping wicket, kick his middle finger. best is hard as nails and looked in real pain and had to go. he will be missed for his wicketkeeping but england have two other specialists, jos buttler and lee pope. he will be missed for his batting, second best batsmen afterjoe root. england will have two bad for so long in this test, if they are going to survive. this latest setback since they won the toss and decided to bowl, that was the decision that did not work. it will be difficult to see how they will get out of this from here. thanks. the test series is still alive and india looking to pull one back. england 2—0 up at the moment. england's women play japan in the semi—final of the under 20's world cup at 3pm this afternoon. they play in brittany.
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they beat the netherlands 2—1 in the quarter finals last friday to set up their first appearance at this stage of the tournament. japan have been going really well. japan beat germany to reach the last four. france play spain in the other semi. something's got to give at selhurst park this evening. crystal palace and liverpool are looking to make it two wins out of two and join five other sides on maximum points in the premier league. at this early stage in the season. palace beat fulham in their opening match and the manager is expecting a much tougher game tonight. you look at the attacking threat they pose and you think and you work on the training field at trying to make certain players know where that threat is coming from and what they might be able to do, tactically and positionally, to nullify it, to some extent. when i say nullified, you're not going to stop it completely,
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because we are talking about players of the highest possible class. the european para athletics championships start in berlin today. double paralympic champion libby clegg won't be taking part though. a massive blow for her. she's had to pull out of the 100 and 200 metres for athletes with visual impairments because of an injury to her guide runner, tom somers. there is another athlete who will be getting under way in long jump, came forth at the world championships. long jumper zac skinner is in action later — he's the sun of england and lions rugby legend mick skinner. in my individual events i am excited. in the long jump, it will bea excited. in the long jump, it will be a very, very good competition. about five of us all and similar marks, you could easily come in hopefully and win it but you could also, if you have a bad day, you could come in fifth. but i back my chances. i am a good competitor and i think chances. i am a good competitor and ithinki chances. i am a good competitor and i think i can bring it when i need to. you can follow the european para athletics from berlin on the bbc
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sport website. a lot more on there. i'll have more for you in the next hour. let's go back to the story of a british woman who was rescued after ten hours in sea off croatia. kay longstaff says she's lucky to be alive after being pulled from the sea. earlier my colleague, joanna gosling, spoke to ross macleod, a coastal safety manager at the royal national lifeboat institution and asked him about the rescue operation that saved kay's life. a fall alone like that, lucky to survive at all. to be in the water for a further ten hours, she certainly had a lucky escape. from what i understand about the incident, the water temperature where she fell in, near croatia played a large part in her survival. it's reported to have been between 28—29 degrees, which isn't far off standard swimming pool temperature in terms of water. that would have really helped, because the colder the water gets, that starts to affect the body's ability to survive. in the uk, you're looking at average sea temperatures of around 12—15 degrees, which would cut your survival times of up to six hours, potentially.
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but that's if you overcome some of the initial impact of the cold shock. if you were to fall into the water when it's 15 to 20 degrees you can suffer from cold shock, which is a physiological response. it doesn't matter how good a swimmer you are, how fit and healthy you are, it causes you to gasp uncontrollably. it can send your heart rate up. you lose control of your breathing for a few seconds, to a minute or two. if you are panicking and you have fallen into the water, you can really start to get into difficulty quite quickly. whether you are falling in unexpectedly, off a ferry, as kay did, or whether it is slipping into a lake, reservoir or canal, or maybe getting cut off and ending up in the water on the coast. the key thing is rest and relax for the first couple of minutes. get hold of your breathing, get back control of the situation.
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lie on your back, extend your arms and legs and gently skull. that gives you the best ability to calm down, assess the situation and make your next move. how often does it happen that people fall off ferries and what normally are the outcomes? fortunately, it doesn't happen very often, but people do go overboard. probably more often than you would think. the rni ran a survey a couple of years ago with leisureboaters and around one in eight claim they have been accidentally overboard in the last 18 months or so. if you are in that situation when you are in close proximity to the water, out on a boat or kayaking, there are some measures you need to take to make sure if you fall into the water, you are better prepared. things like wearing a life jacket or a buoyancy aid and make sure you have a means for calling for help should the worst happen. fortunately people don't often fall off ferries but when they do, especially around the uk and north mediterranean, the water temperatures are quite cold. unfortunately, sometimes the outcomes are not quite as positive as kay. it is the impact of the cold water, people will start to drown a lot more quickly because of how cold
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the water is. if you think about the position in the water, the likelihood she would have been bobbing around at most with her head and shoulders above the water, that is incredibly difficult to find from a search and rescue effort, even the helicopter. if you are possibly expecting to be in the water, however unlikely, we urge you to make sure you have some kind of buoyancy aid and then have a means for calling for help, whether that is a radio or a mobile phone. hopefully, everyone will learn from this and be a lot more careful on those ferries. stay away from the edges. kay was very lucky to survive in this situation. families living in a tower block in north london have told the bbc they are living in fear after being told that there is a risk their block could collapse. safety tests on tower blocks run after the grenfell tower fire found
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the building could be highly vulnerable if there was even a minor gas explosion because of the way it's been built. noel phillips reports. the future is uncertain for some of the 87 households on this north london estate, who are being forced from their flats after being suddenly told injune this year by haringay council that their block is at risk of collapse because of a construction fault that's been known about for years, but only now being addressed. in a way, i have made this my home. and now, all of a sudden, theyjust want to get us and kick us out, and put us somewhere may be worse. patrick started squatting in tangmere, the block that is being evacuated, when he was 21. you've lived here a long time? 30 years. probably. i've never moved in my life, so, to me it is hard just thinking about it. in the wake of grenfell, structural tests were carried out on older the tower blocks on this estate.
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tangmere was built using a large panel system in the 19705. it's the same kind of construction, which caused a section of this high—rise block, rowland point, to collapse 50 years ago. haringey council has told residents that a risk of a similar collapse is low, but the threat is sufficiently high that they need to be moved out. how are you feeling, at the moment? i'm feeling bad, because i'm scared. and my children should go to work. and i leave my children home. i'm scared. because i don't know what is going happen. it's a combination of the large panel system of construction and a gas supply that makes this block unsafe. this is my bedroom. it's all the packing. archbishop frimpong, who has lived here for over 20 years, has already started packing. he says the council has neglected the building for some time. you can see the damp in this place everywhere.
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people in this block, a lot of them are suffering. every situation they call me, you go to somebody‘s flat, you see the number of damp leakings and you say why? the neglect of the block over many years might have put residents' health at risk but the council also failed to heed warnings about the danger to people's lives. we've been told by one expert who raised concerns as far back as the 19805 that residents have long been at risk. well, the council has always had people at risk here, ever since they put the gas in in the 805. in the mid to late 805, the building research establishment did a report on large panel systems saying that they were dangerous and you should regularly check them. what has happened to those reports? what has happened to all the reports in between? lord heseltine, who was responsible for reviving rundown estates in high—poverty areas across in the 19805 wants the government to offer more support to local authorities.
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i'd like to see far more power from london switched to local people and local authorities, and local communities. despite patrick's crumbling flat, he is reluctant to move without assurances of a better life. the council says of the 87 residents in tangmere, 60 have been offered alternative accommodation but only 19 have so far accepted their offers. well haringey council sent us this statement: in a moment, we'll have all the business news, but first the headlines on bbc news. birmingham prison is being taken over by the government from private firm gas, after inspectors say it's fallen into a "state of crisis". a man has appeared in court charged with two counts of attempted murder after allegedly crashing a car outside the houses of parliament. a british woman says she's lucky to be alive after falling from a cruise ship off the coast of croatia and spending ten hours in the sea. this is the business news.
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shares in luxury handbag maker mulberry have plunged 30% after it said it was setting aside £3 million to cover the cost of house of fraser's troubles. the company also warned full—year profits could be "materially reduced" if current tough uk trading continued into the second half of the year. greece is now free to borrow money on the financial markets. the country's bailout programme officially comes to an end. the government says it can stand on its own two feet, after three financial rescue packages totalling over $300 billion. countrywide, the uk's largest estate agency group, has cancelled plans for a new bonus package for its bosses following an outcry from investors. the package could have paid out a total of £20 million to three executives, depending on the firm's share price performance over the next three years. hello, good afternoon,
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welcome to business news. lots to get through this monday. more on greece — now long before brexit, the possibility of grexit loomed over our heads. the greek economy had huge debts and so the european union, the european central bank and the international monetary fund loaned greece a total of 289 billion euros in three programmes, in 2010, 2012 and 2015. the economic reforms — austerity measures, that those creditors demanded in return, brought the country to its knees, with a quarter of its gross domestic product evaporating over eight years. greece has however returned to growth. and today it has exited that bailout programme. joining us now is vicky pryce, chief economic adviser at the centre for economics and business research. thank you forjoining us. firstly,
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it's been a long journey to get here. lots of tough austerity measures. greeks, ordinary greeks, are necessarily celebrating this milestone. no, but it does make a difference if the bailout is over, 01’ difference if the bailout is over, or the period of the bailout is over but the conditions are still there. we will see in 2019, pensions will be cut again and more tax increases. the austerity hasn't really finished. it will go on for quite some time. because the way in which the debt has been restructured to make it sustainable or little bit more sustainable than it otherwise would be is by extending maturities, lowering interest rates and having some interest rate periods where you don't actually pay any of this. so you have a holiday from paying interest. which is very helpful. but to get that agreement, greece has had to agree itself to be very tough on its own budget. so they will need to produce surpluses on the primary
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balance, in other words, surpluses on the bands which does not include debt repayments. that's pretty tough. —— on the balance is which. in order to achieve that, they are going to either continue to cut or get great to be considerably faster thanit get great to be considerably faster than it has been for the last few yea rs. than it has been for the last few years. that's going to be quite a challenge. unemployment is around about 25%, very high. how are they able to get this balance right? they have managed to exit the bailout programme, but how do they win over the people and make sure the economic conditions aren't as tough a5 economic conditions aren't as tough as it has been? it will be very difficult. there is some money available to the prime minister, to use ina available to the prime minister, to use in a certain way. there are a few tens of billions that are kept in reserve, if you like, from everything that has been paid to the greeks a5 everything that has been paid to the greeks as part of this bailout. it can be used to pay back other debts that are becoming due and a bit of leeway to use the money in a different way to help the economy. apart from that, there isn't an awful lot. greece is going to have to rely on foreign direct investment
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coming in, on confidence improving and on the market thinking that in fa ct and on the market thinking that in fact they are going to keep to a tight schedule in relation to their spending. so that the credit rating can be quite good. and that interest rates are quite low, if greece is to borrow and pay on the capital markets. it's going to be a really difficult situation and there will be elections coming up in the next year. that's going to unsettle the markets. but the most important thing of all is that there is still this huge debt. 180% of gdp has been rescheduled a bit but actually the size is still enormous. unless there is some agreement at some point in the future to get rid of some of this debt. i think greece will find it hard to not be in difficulty again. thank you. now as we heard in the headlines, shares in luxury handbag maker mulberry plunged 30%. that's after it said it was setting aside £3 million to cover the cost of house of fraser's troubles.
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mulberry has concession sections in 21 house of fraser stores and employs 88 people. it was owed about £2.11 million when the department store collapsed and fell into administration. house of fraser was then bought by sports direct, but its owner, mike ashley, has said he will not pay creditors for debts incurred before the takeover. the handbag maker gets about 70% of its revenue from the uk — it's planning on moving into other markets though. it has its eyes on korea at the moment, singing a deal this month to launch the brand there. countrywide, the uk's largest estate agency group, has cancelled plans for a new bonus package for its bosses. the package could have paid out a total of £20 million to three executives, depending on the firm's share price performance over the next three years. investors were not happy about this and so the estate agent has had to cancel plans. shares in countrywide plunged earlier this month, when it said it needed to raise funds because of a weak housing market.
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and it's being seen a5 a turning point for asian representation in hollywood. one of the latest films to be released by warner brothers, featuring an all—asian cast, has beaten expectations to take the top spot at the us box office on its opening weekend. the film is called crazy rich asians and it's the first romantic comedy in three years to take the top spot. that is the bride. it cost £23.3 million to make and has made an estimated £26.7 million. that's a very glitzy dress, i'm sure it costs a lot of money. the ftse opening the day in positive territory this morning. countrywide shares down after that announcement earlier today. that's all the business news. you've got to admire this lot. more than 200 competitors from around the world have been taking part in the british beard and moustache championships in the english town of blackpool. andrew plant reports. they're calling it
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a hairy extravaganza. all shapes and sizes of facial haircompeting in 21 different categories. best beard, best moustache, full bea rd freestyle, even finest fake beard, too. a lot of guys really do love their facial hair... well, they're attached to it. you know, they love it. so, a lot of guys like to show off. you get quite a lot of extravagant people here and you know, it's somewhere you can come and you feel comfortable, i suppose, amongst your peers. all manner of facial hair is here. from the distinctly european, to respectable english gentleman, sporting some of the world's most celebrated sideburns. i am the reigning world and british natural sideburns champion. it takes a lot of looking after. the conditions here today aren't perfect for the beard, the wind, the humidity is having an effect, but it's the same for everybody so... it's pretty big this time.
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there's a lot of people from germany and europe. one ex—world champion. there are guys from new zealand. it's going to be big. no—one takes it terribly seriously. but everybody... as long as you get beaten by a better beard, that's ok. first of all, i couldn't be bothered shaving! but then it becomes an identity. and then once you've grown it for so long, you're kind of like, you don't want to get rid of it, because it takes so long to grow. the british beard and moustache championships take place every two years and are getting more popular each time. as more and more people take part to compete for the acclaim and adulation of world's most winning whiskers. andrew plant, bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with stav danaos. thank you. it's looking warm and
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humid again this afternoon for many of us and the warm weather will persist for the next couple of days. towards the end of the week, much cooler and fresher with blustery showers in the north—west. we can see some sunny showers in the north—west. we can see some sunny intervals in between the cloud and it will be quite cloudy through the afternoon. especially for england and wales with the best of the sunshine across central and northern scotland. likely to persist into much of the afternoon. the cloud could be thick enough for some showers through central parts of the country but most basic should be dry. when you get the sunshine it will feel warm and humid with temperatures into the mid—205 in the south and south—east. closer to the high teens, low 205 further north. showers will clear away this evening and overnight it should be largely dry. light winds, variable cloud and some gaps in the cloud. generally, it will be another warm one, 12—17. there will be some mist and mark associated with moist
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air moving up the atlantic with sea fog in the south—west. weak area of high pressure, light winds across the country for tuesday. this weather front will bring a change to the north west. a5 weather front will bring a change to the north west. as the day wears on. most the north west. as the day wears on. m ost pla ces the north west. as the day wears on. most places will be dry, largely dry, the odd shower around. variable cloud around, sunny spells and in the afternoon, we could see sunny spells across england and wales and that will change for the north—west of scotla nd that will change for the north—west of scotland without outbreaks of rain. -- of scotland without outbreaks of rain. —— with outbreaks of rain. 25, 206 rain. —— with outbreaks of rain. 25, 20 6 degrees in the south—east. it brings more persistent rain into scotla nd brings more persistent rain into scotland and northern ireland during tuesday night —— 26 degrees. it will migrate south on wednesday, lying across central part of the country. quite a wet start in eastern and southern scotland and parts of northern england and into wales. some rain could be quite heavy. the skies were clear but it will turn chillier. across the southeast another warm one. given some sunshine, you could see 27 celsius.
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there will be some heavy bursts of rain through central parts in the midlands and wales. bad weather front will clear away and opens the door to something cooler and fresher —— that weather front. that cooler airwill —— that weather front. that cooler air will have reached the south east on friday. it will feel coolerfor many of us to end the week after what is starting off on a warm and humid one. blustery showers will be pretty evident by the end of the week where it will feel much cooler for all. hello, you're watching afternoon live. i'm martine croxall. today at 2: after scenes like these, birmingham prison is taken under government control. inspectors say it's fallen into crisis. it cannot be the case that the only time urgent action is taken to restore decency in a prison is when an inspectorate report is published. surely somebody must have been asleep at the wheel. a man appears in court charged with attempted murder, after a car crashed outside the houses of parliament. lucky to be alive.
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