this is bbc news. the headlines at eight. a major power failure across many parts of the uk affecting trains, airports and homes national grid say the problem was caused by two generators and has now been been resolved. growth fell by 0.2% in the three months tojune but the chancellor says the "fundamentals of the economy, remain strong." a churchwarden is found guilty of murdering an author he'd tricked into changing his will. now police warn he'd drawn up a list of future targets. here is a cold calculating devious man who took pleasure from inflicting both physical and mental torture on his victim. and in football liverpool host norwich city in the first premiership game of the new season.

the director of band—aids like beckham has a new movie out, a coming of age story set the classic of bruce springsteen, find out what he makes of that and the rest of this week's releases in the film review. major power failures have been reported across large areas of the uk, affecting homes and transport networks. large parts of the country have been affected. some of the areas include london and the south east, the north west and other parts of the country. the uk power network say the outage was due to a failure

on the national grid. in the past half hour the national grid have released a statement: "we experienced the power cut has caused a knock on effect on the friday night rush with disruption gci’oss the rail network. kings cross station has been shut due to overcrowding. lner trains are telling passengers not to travel our reporter michael cowan is at kings cross station for us now. it looks a little bit, behind you, what is going on? it is, behind me and that's because this station is officially closed. i just tried and that's because this station is officially closed. ijust tried to go in officially closed. ijust tried to goina officially closed. ijust tried to go in a few minutes ago actually in staff told me that they are only letting people out of the station so thatis letting people out of the station so that is the service that i managed to come in. and they don't expect

any service is to go tonight. that is not an official statement that was a member of staff. they have all been cancelled, they have told passengers that they can use that ticket tomorrow. that power outage we are told in this area and it lasted 12 minutes. just 12 minutes of power outage has caused hours and hours of disruption here tonight. passengers here don't know where to go. the station is closed, kings cross and down the road are the gateways to the north of england. and passengers don't know where to go. it's the middle of the summer holidays, it's a friday night, people will be going away from the weekend and committed will be coming home but also tourists, peak tourist season here and those tourists don't know what to do. i had seen many of them walking around asking strangers saying where do i go, what do i do. good news for them, kings cross station said they will be putting on buses to take people onto their destination. we don't have any further information on that at the

moment but they will be doing that we believe. we have been told by a bbc producer that trained in north london have been stuck on the tracks. they are being taking off the strains and escorted onwards to a destination point. to a station that for hundreds and hundreds of people here and thousands across the capital, it is a very difficult and frustrating situation.” capital, it is a very difficult and frustrating situation. i don't know if you manage to ask an official at the station why it is that although electricity is back up and running again they continued to cancel their services. we don't have a concrete a nswer services. we don't have a concrete answer on that but what is believed that that power outage caused every significant post in an enormous patch to stop working, to be wiped out and that means there are a number of trains stuck on the lines that cannot move the stair. which means trains cannot get out of the stations because those are still

blocked but you don't have much clarity on there. you know there was that blockage which caused a power outage which caused the signalling stage yet —— stations to stop working and that is what network rail tonight are seeing is because of this major disruption. some of those trains aren't stopped, we are going to speak to somebody who is stuck. state able age travelling from edinburgh to london by train. how is the journey? what is going on for you. i am standing in the station which we went through about two and a half hours ago, we ended up two and a half hours ago, we ended up in two and a half hours ago, we ended upina two and a half hours ago, we ended up in a place called sandy where the training grounds to a halt for two hours and then they move the train back to peterborough and at the station you can see the panoramic field with people saying how are we getting to london and the answer is nobody knows. because of the chains are cancelled, there is no

suggestion there is any chance of getting into london at all for the rest of tonight. so, people are milling around peterborough because it's a possibility there is no buses on yet and coaches on yet so we are standing around more or less politely scale waiting to see what happens. they have not given any indication yet of when the service will resume? they don't know. people who work here no more or less as little as we do. they are asking how to get into london and the answer is that there may be a bus, there may bea that there may be a bus, there may be a coach but they don't know what that is. and if you look at the signalling board it says cancelled all the way down and we came through here three hours ago stopped and started and then the guy on the train said there is a 17—year—old girl next to me was talking to the guard and saying my parents aren't with me i don't know anyone in peterborough what do you expect me to do? and everyone around is

looking out for her but the answer is we don't know. resume it —— at some point in the night i had baylor have to sort it out are hundreds of people here not going to a they are supposed to go and no one wants to... it's not everyone's preferred destination. at what point on the journey down did you realise something was wrong? we left edinboro at one and we were racing along and let me cut to peterborough actually, there is an announcement that there's something going on and there's been a fungus on lightning strike and they said there is this thing where they seek is out, they have to fix the things before they can get the tree moving forward and before the power outage is over. it

isa before the power outage is over. it is a systemic problem outside. i am standing around in the train station. we hope your week is not too long. vince is is that many people trying to get back to family including yourself. serve —— safe journey onwards. joining us on the line is david hunter, who is director of market studies at schneider electric. thank you for speaking to us. your assessment of what has gone wrong this evening. essentially, the national grid confirmed that the stations have had unexpected outages and that's a result of the problems we have seen today, it's a problem on the national grid that has you have already described has a significant knock on implication. what causes an outage? it can be a number of things, it could be a

substation or transformer on—site for example. it is quite unusual to knock out in a short space of time but not absolutely unheard of i can think of examples in the last couple of years where this happened and to power stations have gone off—line and coincidentally in those cases the national grid has been able to manage by bringing other services back online quite quickly. what happens when it occurs and these are significant ones is the frequency of their supply of electricity drops suddenly and the frequency has to be held within certain relatively type occurrences and there are situations where frequency drops to the extent you might see the dimming of lights but in some cases the national grid in this case has to protect its

infrastructure potentially equipment around the country and maximise as many people around the country as possible by instigating selective outages as he had seen across the country. does the national grid have the equivalent of a back—up generator? yes, absolutely seller there are a number of different schemes that allow for back—up supplies quickly so the national grid has capacity and it also has what we call demand—side response measures or sites that live for example industrial sites require people self generating electricity and supplying it to the great or reducing that at that point in time there is a number to manage frequency and supply that happens

every day but i think the difference in this case is it's unconfirmed but i've seen a couple of reports suggesting it's the offshore farm off the coast of yorkshire and the gas turbine station and that the check north of london so these are fairly significant sources power supply to knock out in a relatively short space of time very close together. sometimes you can have blackouts as a result, this is easily the most significant blackouts we have seen in the uk for some years. we have got a statement from the national grid themselves confirming what you said is unexpected and unusual events, the loss of two generators that connect to the transmission system which led to the transmission system which led toa to the transmission system which led to a fall in the frequency of electricity system even though these events a re electricity system even though these events are outside of our control we have plans in place to respond and

the system operated as planned by disconnecting an isolated portion of electricity demand and if the statement goes on to say we appreciate the inconvenience caused. i want to go back to the section where they say these events are outside of our control. surely there must be something that triggers a dip in frequency? what would trigger the deep in frequency is the outages in the fire stations, that will be the overall national grid to the frequency because of you can think of it as turning the water pressure down because of the lack of fresh air is supplied in this case the frequency drops. what triggers that if the patient outages. we don't know the reason for those outages at the moment. there are two stations that happen to have issues very close together. that is what we assume at the moment and that can be for local factors it can assume at the moment and that can be for localfactors it can be switchgear or transformer is on—site

that cause problems and normally if that cause problems and normally if that happens to one it's can happen in more than one very and as he explained at the top of the interview that does not always be an issue, this grade manages that in this case of the city is not being able to provide thatjump off in frequency and fill the gaps for a short period of time in this case which has significant implications as you have mentioned before transportation so it will last for a long longer than the power outage did. thank you. the uk economy has shrunk. it felt in the three months from april to june this year by 0.2%. the contraction in gdp, or the total value of goods and services made and sold by all sectors of the economy was worse than some had expected. but the chancellor, sajid javid says

the "fundamentals of the economy remain resilient and strong," and he's not expecting a recession. however, concerns over brexit, and a global economic slowdown, are affecting trade and business confidence. so, what does the fall in growth mean for us all? here's our economics editor, faisal islam. this is a stockpile, reams of printing material, plastics, inks shipped into this leicesterfood labelling company to beat the last brexit deadline. this across tens of thousands of british warehouses boosted the economy before march and took away from it between april and june helping leave the british economy shrinking for the first time in years.

for now it isn't generally expected the uk is in its first formal recession, that is two consecutive quarters of the year where the economy gets smaller, since the great financial crisis a decade ago but this is the first shrinkage over a three—month period for six and a half years when the crisis in the eurozone was raging. the first quarter of this year was flatter by the effect of millions of pounds of stock piling which explains some, not all of today's weakness. the question now is what happens in the next three months? what a welcome for a new chancellor of the exchequer who played down his shock on a visit to the national grid. no one will be surprised by a today's figures, there was a general expectation growth in this quarter would be slower than the previous quarter and the important thing is the fundamental of the uk economy remain very strong. can you rule out a recession? i'm not expecting recession at all, and don't take my word for it, there isn't a single leading forecaster that is expecting a recession. the east midlands is a hub for logistics and freight and these lorries and giant storage sheds is an economy trying to deal with the prospect of more fundamental changes to the way this country trades. the government's argument that the disappointing numbers down to the fact that

in warehouses up and down the country they had to wind down the extraordinary level of stockpiled parts and products for the brexit that never was in march but this is only part of the story. a recession although not likely is now possible. the economy far from turbo—charged at a sensitive point. here in nottinghamshire the chancellor was meeting apprentices and acknowledged a brexit factor in the numbers but not a jolt from the rising chances of no deal in october. most of all we want to bring certainty which is why we must leave on october 31 and if that means leaving with no deal, that is the way it's going to be. it is the certainty of no deal that is impacting on certainty, that is what the bank of england has said. businesses want certainty around brexit. but what sort of certainty? the labelling boss says he is fed up

of stockpiling and he has delayed investing to fit out his new factory. we went through this before march and now between march and october, we have had a lot of unstable, uncertainty, and the cloudy skies are upon us again. we can't move forward or back, we are stuck in a rut, that's where we are. expectation is britain avoids a formal recession by growing but with the pound tumbling again nothing seems too certain in the british economy. in the event of an ideal brexit, that's according to a government memo seen by the bbc then knelt raises the issue of the number of vessels available to carry out the

task. it's an emotive issue for the united kingdom and this memo that we have seen is looking at the uk's readiness potentiated theory with a milledgeville brexit, if there were a new deal brexit the rules in terms of access uk fishing waters change so fishing vessels from eu countries would not be coming any closer than any miles off coast or the midway point between two countries will lead you to be in a position to monitor that situation and invoice dates. in this memo that seems since the the bbc it discusses the fact that at this stage there is a lot of uncertainty about this efficiency of enforcement in a milledgeville because we have 12 vessels that need to monitor space three times the size of the surface area of the uk now we have heard from a government spokesman in reaction to this

evening there is a sufficient number of expertise on hand to deal with the scenario to pledge all the uk's waters but i have been speaking to the former security minister and formerfirst the former security minister and former first sea lord the former security minister and formerfirst sea lord of the former security minister and former first sea lord of their labour appear former first sea lord of their labourappearand he former first sea lord of their labour appear and he says this does raise serious concerns about the uk's capacity to deal with a milledgeville brexit. i've been speaking to a fisherman who works along the south coast and he has been saying actually a lot of fishermen want to see a no—deal brexit because they are worried that their rights could be sold off as some kind of bargaining chip further down the line still has a bear with brexit not cut and dry but obviously this we have seen this evening seems to raise question from inside the government as to whether they think they have the capacity to deal with a milledgeville brexit in terms of patrolling the uk fishing waters. sport and for a full round up,

from the bbc sport centre. it's the opening weekend of the new prayer league season, to our snow players will not be involved in a developing story of the page and they will not be part of the squad for their match against newcastle on sunday because of security fears. with more on this developing story is of sports report there. most of them were on her it's in the incident, they were deemed not to be in the right mindset to be able to play their following preseason game. there is no suggestion in the press conference this week that to where it affected in any way but i snow this evening have released a statement and says they too would not be involved against newcastle following friday at security incidents being investigated by the police. they went on to say that

welfare of our players and families is always a top priority and we have taken this decision following discussions with players and their representatives in the air liaising with police and providing parents and families ongoing support and we look forward to welcoming players back to the squad as soon as possible. we hope this is only an isolated concern. it's a highly unusual move as well that i snow have taken unusual move as well that i snow have ta ken and unusual move as well that i snow have taken and they have on the field it's a bit of a blow for arsenal as they start the season. with their defence? of fragile that might be doing this using. the creativity going forward will be missing against newcastle as well. know which city are paying lassies and runner—up in their primary team of the season and it's currently 2—0 liverpool after 21 minutes. it follows the norwich defender

deflecting the ball into his own net after seven minutes and then 90 minutes in another norwich defence gave the ball away so i think the ball home. 2—0 liverpool and in that which is struggling. i will keep you updated on that match. after 23 minutes, 15 minutes gone. that is the match under way and there's a full football programme this weekend plus there are three new managers in the premier league this season, one more familiar than the rest. frank has taken that range at chelsea as he looks to mr he ‘s former glory as the all—time record goal—scorer he has a record with the blues and says he wants to ensure our fans can see the passion the game. he wants to ensure our fans can see the passion the gamelj he wants to ensure our fans can see the passion the game. i wanted the clu b to the passion the game. i wanted the club to be excited and i want defence firstly who are the club

thatis defence firstly who are the club that is what i would say. i want the players to work daily in trading is how they want to pay because they don't think you can switch it on and off come saturday and i think when the fantasy that input and they'll be proud to fight for it. that's the huge starting point as well and i wa nt to huge starting point as well and i want to bring the place together and one of the lucky things they had was one of the lucky things they had was on the first day here and it was not going to a new school he was familiarand going to a new school he was familiar and that's helped and i wa nt familiar and that's helped and i want everyone to come to work with a smile on theirface want everyone to come to work with a smile on their face with their work ethic to try and improve every day and then we will see how we go. rugby league now and there are two super eight matches this evening. the worriers are facing the rover is 12-6 the worriers are facing the rover is 12—6 after 30 minutes and the rhinos

are eating the dragons. they are 60-0 at are eating the dragons. they are 60—0 at the moment. not long after that he converted his own trice. andy murray has announced his return to singles tennis. seven months after a feeling he might have to retire because of a hip injury he has been paying matches sincejune but says he is pain free and ready to play singles again. you can find more on the stories and keep updated on the bbc sport website. a 28—year—old churchwarden has been found guilty of murder, after tricking his victim into changing his will. ben field manipulated peter farquhar who was 69 duping him into a relationship and then lacing his food with drugs and neat alcohol. however, field was found not guilty,

of the attempted murder of a retired headmistress who was 83, and whom field also admitted, he'd tricked into a relationship. tom symonds has the story. a respected former teacher and novelist, peter farquhar rendered helpless. he had suffered falls, injuries, he had no idea what was going on. i actually... that second voice is the man who talked his way into peter's life. despite the age difference, his student, ben field, promised to marry him while secretly lacing peter's food with drugs and neat alcohol, killing him slowly for his money. here is a cold, calculating, devious man, who took pleasure from inflicting both physical and mental torment on his victim.

evil. peter even dedicated a book to field. in return, field tried to convince people he had dementia, and then peter was found dead. alcohol was suspected. suspiciously, he had signed his home over to ben field. but field wasn't done. three doors down from the house where peter lived, he found another elderly victim. and the deception started again. a sexual relationship with ann moore—martin, 57 year age gap. he targeted her religious beliefs, bizarre messages started appearing on her mirrors. ben field had planned it all in his notebook, and, then, this. hello, i'm thinking of withdrawing all my accounts, money held in my accounts. £27,000. but ann also told her niece

what was going on and the police got involved. they found out about field's abusive relationships. they exhumed and re—examined peter's body. the jury today found ben field had suffocated him. he had already admitted defrauding peter and field. field's friend, martin smith, was cleared of charges that he'd helped. in a statement read by the police, peter's family said there were lessons to be learned. if people hear the story, we hope they are very, very careful if somebody unexpected walks into the life of a loved one when that loved one is vulnerable and lonely. there must be other people out there like ben field and we wouldn't want anyone to have to go through the things that we have. in the quiet village of maids moreton, this was a chilling case. two devout but vulnerable people mentally and physically exploited. sadly, ann moore—martin also died of natural causes. ben field, his picture hanging over her dressing table, had blighted her final years. tom symonds, bbc news,

oxford crown court. a man has appeared in court, charged with the attempted murder of a policeman in east london. the officer, pc stuart outten, is in a serious but stable condition in hospital, after being stabbed several times with a machete. today his family have been speaking about how proud they are of his bravery. here's richard lister. police constable stuart outten, hailed as a hero after a machete attack which could have killed him. the 28—year—old has been a policeman all his adult life. his family said today he had been "overwhelmed" by the level of public support. it was on this east london street that pc outten was set upon after stopping a van suspected of having no insurance. despite horrific injuries to his head and hand, he subdued his attacker with a taser. 56—year—old muhammad rodwan from luton appeared

at thames magistrates' court this morning charged with the attempted murder of the young policeman and possession of an offensive weapon in public. muhammad rodwan was in court for less than five minutes. he stood to give his name, his date of birth and to confirm that he is british. he said he had no fixed address and there was no application for bail. he remains in custody and will now face trial at the old bailey. he'll return to court next month. richard lister, bbc news, at thames magistrates' court. a 14—year—old girl who died after she was pulled from the sea in essex has been named by police. malika shamas from luton, was rescued along with two of her teenage relatives clacton on sea on yesterday. an 18—year—old man remains in hospital in a critical condition whilst a 15—year—old girl

is in a stable condition. president donald trump has said us congressional leaders are having serious discussions about tightening up background checks on gun ownership. but the president has not addressed calls to control wider access to weapons, following 2 mass shootings this month. i spoke to senators, in some cases, friends of mine, pretty hardline senators, hardline, and when i say that, i say it in a positive way, hardline on the second amendment, and they understand, we don't want insane people, mentally ill people, bad people, dangerous people, we don't want guns in the hands of the wrong people. i think that the republicans are going to be great and lead the charge, along with the democrats. now it's time for a look at the weather. some parts of the uk has seen quite a lot of rain over the past 2a hours

and the winds have been strengthening as well and as we go through it tomorrow we can expect further heavy downpour is but also some very further heavy downpour is but also some very strong further heavy downpour is but also some very strong winds particularly in central and southern areas. those winds are strong and dusty tonight and they are eating a touch compared with today across scotland and northern ireland. lots of showers being flung in from the southwest. temperatures of 13 to 70 degrees as he got that tomorrow we will see showers and thunderstorms across the southern half of the country and be released through quickly given the strength of the wind. further north, northern ireland and the winds here will be right there so they showers will be right there so they showers will be right there so they showers will be slow moving and give localised flooding. the wind gusts and up to 50 mph even stronger than that around the coast. it could cause trouble problems and issues for outdoor events. buildings eased during sunday but turns very cool the north. hello this is bbc news. the headlines.

nearly a million people are affected bya nearly a million people are affected by a major power cut across large parts of the uk affecting homes and transport networks. they say the problem was caused by two generators and has not been resolved. growth fell by 4.2% but the chances says the fundamentals of the economy remain strong. the church warden is found guilty of murdering an author and tricked into changing his will. and the family of a policeman who survived a frenzied machete attack say they are proud of his bravery. major power failures have been reported across the uk affecting homes and transport networks. we are going to speak now to allison who

has had problems but from the looks of it allison, your train is back on the move. hello, allison. can you hear me? yes. mac we're just going to boost up yes. mac we're just going to boost up yoursound. it yes. mac we're just going to boost up your sound. it looks like you are back on the move again. we are going north, not south we had to turn around. what happened? we were told that there was a problem with the overhead cables and then, as we were moving into peterborough itself, it slowed down but then we were told that the train was turning around because it was closed. you are heading into london, where are you heading into london, where are you heading now? we are having to go

back to leeds were from because there was no way be could get in to london. so we are going back to leeds in the hope that we can catch another train back down tomorrow morning. so you are one of the lucky few that is able to go to a destination, go somewhere safe than being stranded at a station. yes. most of this train god of with —— got off. what what is like on the train with the atmosphere? the crew have been absolutely brilliant but they were starting to run out of water, it was quite hot but luckily, decisions were made that was rectified quickly. i do hope you're able to pick up your plans over the

weekend. thank you. two people have admitted a total of seven charges after a picture of the body of the footballer, emiliano sala, lying in a mortuary, appeared on social media. the argentine striker died in a plane crash injanuary. he'd just signed for cardiff city. sherry bray, who's forty nine, and 62—year—old christopher ashford will be sentenced next month. scott ellis reports from swindon crown court. pleading guilty and facing prison, 49—year—old sherry from gordon, and christopher, they heard that britt was a director at this company and as hford was a director at this company and ashford and employee. a company which looked after cctv security out of hours at the bournemouth mortuary where the postmortem was taking place. police officers and cyber

crime unit investigated this company in february and found that bray and as hford in february and found that bray and ashford not only recorded images from the bournemouth mortuary of sala's postmortem. great took photographs of this camera images, sending one to her daughter and then try to cover up the evidence subsequently by telling ashford to delete all the pictures. in april, she had also taken photographs of another man's autopsy, those andrew from dorset. they pleaded guilty to seven charges under the computer misuse act of 1990. a successful outcome to the new cybercrime unit and some consolation for sala's family after such a sudden and tragic loss for them and the world of football. the two families that have been at the forefront of our minds in this investigation. they have been significantly impacted over what it's been a difficult and traumatic time for them. their actions have caused unnecessary

distress to the families and now i hope there will be able to concentrate on grieving for their loved ones. mortuaries have been alerted to make them aware of this morbid crime. there are a number of things in place to look at how cctv and how images are recovered and are treated in such environments. and how images are recovered and are treated in such environmentsm there anything you like to see the family? they do not know what their was but they said that the face jail sentences before releasing them on bail until september the 20th. india has told pakistan to keep out of its internal affairs, as tension continues to rise, over the disputed region of kashmir. today some mosques were allowed to open, in the indian administered parts of the territory, after a communications blackout and lockdown, that's been in place since sunday. kashmir is claimed by both pakistan and india, with the two nuclear armed neighbours controlling different areas of the state.

but last week delhi revoked the limited autonomy, of the territory it administers, taking away its special status. for some observers, the move fits the populist agenda, of india's hindu nationalist prime minister, nahendra modi, as kashmir, is india's only majority muslim state. our correspondent yogita limaye is one of the few international journalists in kashmir. she's sent us this report from the city of srinagar. tensions are beginning to rise. young protesters have been coming out in many areas. pelting stones at security forces and jeering at them. soldiers fire lead pellets. and tear gas. to disperse the mob... voices that have been suppressed for days have begun to be heard.

this was a spontaneous march by men who had just offered friday prayers. they won through small alleys because they cannot go on to the main roads. translation: in every part of india, people are celebrating but they don't know that our hearts are bleeding. we are under siege. we have been completely betrayed. they put a gun to our heads and told us that a few people in the government have decided ourfate. earlier, inside the mosque, too, there was sloganeering. there has been a lot of anger in this region since the indian it's the first friday since the move was announced. while most of the bigger mosques were closed,

in some places people were allowed to go out and pray. however, phone and internet lines remain cut off and separatist leaders have been moved out of kashmir. top politicians from the region remain under house arrest. in some places people have been allowed to come out and pray. the indian government taking no chances, worried that the situation here could spiral into widespread unrest. condition in hospital, after being stabbed several times with a machete. the attacks come after days of u nrest the attacks come after days of unrest and anti—social behaviour. social media pictures from last night appear to show a person brandishing a large knife in the cloud. violent clashes last night, this video appears to show a man

brandishing a knife. this was near a controversial bonfire. the focus of much disorder. it was late yesterday after a standoff between police and several young people. three officers we re several young people. three officers were injured. this is what remains of the bonfire. a short distance away of where the stabbings happened, leaving an 18—year—old man and a critical condition in the hospital and the hospital in a 39—year—old with injuries to his arm and his hip. footage of last nights disorder appeared on social media. and his hip. footage of last nights disorder appeared on social medial think it is disgraceful and an example of what this bonfire a tt ra cts example of what this bonfire attracts it i watched some of the videos on it and i hope the person wielding this knife has been arrested. this is not the community that i know. we are not sure of the expendables going to happen and we saw a young man in critical condition and other seriously injured and this is been frightening

in this bonfire was not wanted. to people were arrested this morning and the area. there has been trouble and the area. there has been trouble and anti—social behaviour in the past few weeks. yesterday, after attem pts past few weeks. yesterday, after atte m pts to past few weeks. yesterday, after attempts to remove the bonfire failed. in conjunction with the statutory partners work to have the bonfire removed for the safety of residents. but they add that this u nfortu nately residents. but they add that this unfortunately cannot be achieved. the housing executive said the intervening four times in recent weeks to try and stop the bonfire. yesterday, they advised residents to evacuate a nearby tower blocks, one of which was damaged. police of the vast majority of residents did not support the bonfire and they are appealing for information regarding last nights attacks. ina in a moment, we are going to be catching up with the film review, in

the meantime though, pakistan films are becoming increasingly popular in the uk and have grossed more than £900,000 annually for the past two yea rs. £900,000 annually for the past two years. now, two new movies are going head—to—head at the box office in an attempt to draw in british muslim residents celebrating. (music) a musical romantic drama about an aspiring actress. and a romantic comedy featuring a big ensemble cast. these two films go head—to—head at the uk box office this weekend in a bid to win over the british asian community celebrating eid. and the cash in on the festival began with 2015.m celebrating eid. and the cash in on the festival began with 2015. it was the festival began with 2015. it was the uk audience is that left it com pletely the uk audience is that left it completely and we realised that

audiences here want to connect with pakistan, you know? the clothes, the drama, the singing and the dancing in the culture. so i think that still exists. the success inspired several others to secure international distribution, which produces strategically planning their releases. this is a time where you can really have fun and go out there with their families, and enjoy and have the true experience of cinema and that is why eid is extremely important for pakistan. this is the highest grossing pakistan film in the uk. it was a 2017 eid released and was praised for its high production values and large—scale. some feel that only films of a certain standard should be allowed to take advantage of the

guaranteed. every content is not eid content. if a film is designed as an eid release, the content that is not designed as one which is more serious and of a different genre, should not be coming out and eid and thatis should not be coming out and eid and that is where the mistake happens. for some producers, releasing their films internationally is more about making —— that about making money. this is not that you get to see in the news, this is not the pakistan that you get to, people don't really know what pakistan really is. you need to tell people that this is pakistan. it is beautiful, it has colour, it has talent, it has everything. with tickets selling one of the uk box office, it looks like the producers hard work is paying off.