jordan spieth won the open four years ago. could he do it again? but, among the long grass, others were losing their way, big—hitting bryson dechambeau lurching from one calamity to another. golf can sometimes seem a very cruel game. yes, this course is always a really tough test for the players. lots of long grass, lots of humps and bumps. very early days of course at the moment but at the moment's canada's mackenzie hughes leads the way. andy sullivan and danny willett both in the chasing pack. lots of big names still to start their rounds, including rory mcilroy, who goes off at 3:20pm. many thanks, andy. time for the weather now, here's chris fawkes.

i thought we'd start off by looking at the weather in europe. massive thunderstorms hitting the same kind of areas, the heaviest of the rain was to the south—west of bonn. across parts of western germany we saw up to 158 millimetres of rain, that looks to be about three times the amount of rainfall we'd normally expect in the whole ofjuly, falling in one day. it's been extreme rainfall. you seem catastrophic damage and flooding as a result, partly caused by this upper low pressure. in the uk we are under the rich part of the jet stream and what that does is it bill's area of high pressure. here is our high and in the next few days that will be with us through the rest of the week, the weekend and will influence the weather into next week as well. today, we've got the sunshine out in full force across northern parts of the uk. that's where the best of the sunshine has been. across central and eastern england some areas of cloud but it's pretty thin, so i'm

pretty hopeful that we should see some sunshine break through that, more especially late afternoon and towards the evening time but for many sunny and warm, temperatures widely into the low to mid 20s, about 25 in cardiff. overnight tonight we keep the clear skies initially but we'll see some cloudy weather start to move into scotland and northern ireland as well. it's going to be another fairly warm night for sleeping for some, 15 degrees is the lowest temperatures get in belfast and liverpool. tomorrow the area of high pressure is still with us. there will be a chance of an odd spot of rain across the far north—west of scotland but otherwise the morning cloud breaking, sunny spells coming out in full force and the sunshine, it gets warmer still. 2a celsius in aberdeen, 23 in belfast, 26 for birmingham, cardiff and london. we continue with that heating process as we get into the weekend. in the north—west of scotland missing out to a degree, there will be some thick cloud here, may be an odd patch of rain but for most of us it's hot and sunny, temperatures 25

in aberdeen, 28 further south in london and cardiff, but it looks like it's on sunday we will see the higher temperatures of the weekend will stop the exception to that story, scotland, where we have some slightly fresher air beginning to make inroads so more in the way of cloud. it's still pleasant, low 20s in terms of celsius here. further south temperatures will probably hit 30 celsius so it's very warm. one by day means warm by night, these are the kind of temperatures you might encounter as you are going to bed in london. it gets increasingly uncomfortable, really, into the weekend. a reminder of our top story... tax sugary and salty food to improve our nation's health, says an independent review. but the prime minister responds coolly to the idea. that's all from the bbc news at one. it's goodbye from me. on bbc one, we nowjoin the bbc�*s news teams where you are. bye— bye.

good afternoon, it's 1.30pm, i'm lizzie greenwood—hughes here with your latest sports news... golf's oldest major is back, the open championship is midway through the first round at royal st george's in kent. despite its notorious difficulties, the course is playing well with plenty of players under par. the canadian mackenzie hughes is out in front on 5 under. the best of the british players is andy sullivan who's in the clubhouse on 3 under par. rory mcilroy tess off at 20 past 3 along with american patrick reed. great britain's women's football squad will take the knee before their matches at the tokyo olympic games. earlier this month, the rules around athletes protesting at the games were relaxed by the international olympic committee. the gb coach hege riise said the squad "were all united" in their decision to make the gesture. staying with the olympics and britain's men's tennis number one — dan evans has had

to pull out after... testing positive for covid—19. he's now self—isolating. evans is one of several players missing the games including yohanna konta, who announced she'd tested positive on tuesday. rafael nadal and roger federer are also out. although not because of covid. well, jamie murray will take evans�* place in tokyo as doubles partner to neal skupski. it'll be murray's fourth olympics, having competed in beijing, london and rio. he partnered skupski on the atp tour last season, and they've also played together in the davis cup. it's been announced today that the rugby league world cup in england, will go ahead this autumn. the holders and favourites — australia have yet to sign up — but organisers are confident they will — now it's been agreed. it'll start in october with the men's, women's and wheelchair tournaments taking place simultaneously for the first time. games will be held at 21 venues with capacity crowds before the finals at old trafford in manchester in november. i have been working with the irs see over a couple of months and we are

confident, they will send strong team is all competitions. we have been meeting with nations this week and talking about the details on the measures we are prepared to take. so we are fully confident that we will see 21 competing nations representing 16 and the men, eight and the women and eight in the wheelchair. alun wynnjones has been named amongst the replacements for the british & irish lions�* final warm up game in south africa. the tour captain will have only been in the country a couple of days after making a remarkable comeback from dislocating his shoulder in the japan match less than 3 weeks ago. well last night the lions suffered their first defeat of the tour losing to a very strong south africa a team which included several of the springboks�* world cup winning squad as they were short of match practice after a covid outbreak... and the hosts dominated in cape town — leading the first half 17—3. the lions did score a try for the lions early in the second half but south africa "a" held on for the win, despite being down to 13 men

after two yellow cards. it finished 17—13. the first test is a week saturday. differently one that we needed to. we will take a lot of tonight and it will be good for us, sort of building the next team days for the first test. goes to show i think these test matches will be a real arm wrestle and that what was this evening, it was as close to a test match as you�*re going to get. the indian wicketkeeper—batsman rishabh pant has covid—19, and is isolating from the rest of the squad. pant was tested after having a sore throat. he won�*t travel to durham, where the team are due to enter a "bio—bubble and begin training for the series against england. india are scheduled to play a tour match against a select counties xi on tuesday, and begin the five—match match test series on 11th august. that�*s all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. lisa shaw was ali—years—old

when she died 3 weeks after having her first astrazeneca vaccination. the award winning bbc radio presenter�*s family say she was treated for blood clots days after her firstjab, a side effect experts stress is extremely rare. official figures from the regulator the mhra, up to the end of last month, show there were 399 cases of blood clots and 71 deaths after more than 46 million doses of the vaccine. and public health england says the vaccination programme has so far prevented an estimated 27,000 deaths in england alone. but lisa�*s husband gareth eve is calling for everyone to be given a choice about which vaccine they have. victoria derbyshire spoke to him in his first interview since her death. scary thing for me is that the vaccines are being given to people, and have been given to people and we were aware early in the year, we are aware that these vaccines come with certain risks. but for whatever reason, we don�*t know who these

adverse reactions are going to appear in. it is a lottery. and... that thought is quite scary, that, you know, people are getting these jabs and we don�*t know whether it is going to have a bad reaction or not. and the guys in the hospital that were treating lisa, as i say, they didn�*t really know what they were facing. they did not know how to treat it, and for me, in a situation like that, you know, and i say this, and i am absolutely not an anti—vaxxer, but i say this, while we don�*t know this information, while we don�*t know how to treat people, while we don�*t know who it

is going to affect, maybe the answer is to give people the alternative. there are alternative vaccines available. there is astrazeneca... so you are not saying pause the astrazeneca roll—out? you are saying, give people a choice? um, if l there is a choice available, yeah. i l can understand it. it is not as if we don�*t have other vaccines available to us. we do. you know, so while there is this cloud over astrazeneca, then maybe put it on ice and say, look, we are going to look into giving people the other 'ab. ~ ., ., , ., ., the regulator, the mhra, and they say, "we are deeply saddened to hear about the death of miss shaw and our thoughts are with her family. over 81 million doses of vaccines against covid—19 have now been administered

in the uk, saving thousands of lives, through the biggest vaccination programme that has ever taken place in this country. no effective medicine or vaccine is without risk and our advice remains that the benefits of the astrazeneca vaccine outweigh the risks in the majority of people and it is still vitally important that people come forward for their vaccination and for their second dose, when invited to do so." i appreciate those numbers, those figures will be absolutely zero consolation to you and to your little boy. but you want to speak about what happened to lisa. , , , ., talk about there are staggering, incredible. what the vaccine has done is unbelievable and as i say, lisa and i both queued up to get our jabs and had no qualms about doing that. like you say, we were very positive about it. and as i say, the work these people have done to get the country back on its feet is outstanding. but... we need to recognise that there are families

who have been affected by... by this jab. you know, i have seen, i have seen numbers that have been... taken from the government�*s own yellow card system, you know, a reputable doctor has pulled this information out that suggests that... the number of fatalities is approaching 1500 people, and... iappreciate... gareth, those are not the figures i have, just to say, in terms of a yellow card reports, that is when people report adverse reactions, there were 399 cases of blood clots with low platelet counts like lisa in the uk, following the astrazeneca jab. the overall case fatality rate was 18%, with 71 deaths. that is out

of more than 32 million doses of the vaccine. as i say, i amjust going by the numbers i have seen. an l independent doctor has reviewed the yellow card system, and she talked about approaching 1500 deaths. even 1500 deaths, like you say, versus the number of people that have been vaccinated, it is a drop in the ocean. it is, you know... but it hasn�*t been a drop in the ocean for our family. i want to ask you - finally, gareth, how would you like lisa to be remembered? lisa was always smiling. lisa was... so kind. she was my best friend. she was a fantastic mummy. and daughter and sister. and she was an excellent broadcaster. she would do anything for anybody. and... she wasjust

doing the right thing. that�*s all she was doing. and... i just don�*t want what has happened to her to be brushed under the carpet. if anything good can come of what has happened to lisa, so this does not happen to other people. you know, we sat there in the intensive care unit and we saw what they did to my beautiful wife to try and save her. i don�*t want that to happen to other people. i don�*t want anybody else to have to tell their children

that their mummy�*s not coming home. as i say, if she can be remembered in that way, that she has done some good, that would be a positive. gareth, i am so, so sorry. thank you very much for talking to us today. ok, thanks. and victoria also spoke to our medical editor fergus walsh — who talked us through the risks associated with the vaccine and explained a little about lisa�*s condition. let me tell you about about this condition. in lisa�*s case, we have to wait for the inquest but the certificate talks about complications coming from the astrazeneca vaccine

for covid—19, first dose. there is an unknown side—effect, very rare, known as vaccine induced thrombosis and thrombocytopenia, a condition where clots form in combination with low platelet levels, and that is something that does not happen naturally. and therefore, the medical regulator, the mhra, thinks that there is a strong likelihood that it is the vaccine causing this. we have had just under 400 cases of that, most of them after the first dose, and we have had 71 deaths. so it is about one death per 650,000 doses. now all medicines, including vaccines, have risks as well as benefits, but you have to obviously set that

against, for individuals and society, against the risk that you are trying to caution against and prevent, which is covid. with covid, there have been something like 1900 deaths per1 million people in the uk. and of course, covid itself is known to be a serious cause of clots, something like one in five people who are hospitalised with covid will end up with clots. this condition, i mean, it was first identified in march. it did not crop up in the trials, the global trials of the vaccine, because it is so rare. but it first started being investigated in around march. haematologists really went on a real quest to discover what was happening here and it relates, it is very similar to a condition caused very rarely by a blood thinner called heparin, where, for some reason, the body seems to create antibodies against platelets. we want the immune system to create antibodies against covid

but in these very rare cases, it seems to create antibodies against platelets. they start to clump together. you get low platelet levels as well. and the fatality rate initially was much higher but it is now something like 17%. there is some suggestion that there is a slightly higher risk in women than men but it is not absolutely clear, and slightly higher incidence in younger people. and that is why initially thejcvi, the body that recommends what vaccines go to which age groups, said ok, not going to give... we think that people under 30 should not have the astrazeneca vaccine, and that policy was introduced. and then in may, early may, they said actually, people under a0 should have moderna or pfizer and that is the policy now. our medical editor fergus walsh, there.

the headlines on bbc news... tax salt and sugar to help support better diets — so says a review aimed at improving the nation�*s health. the raised could extend free school meal provision and support better diets among the poorest. at least 30 people have died — and dozens are missing — after unprecedented flooding in western germany. borisjohnson says his plans for ending inequalities in the uk won�*t make richer areas poorer. now it�*s time for our regular look at some of the stories from our newsrooms �*across the uk�* police are now treating the death of a newborn baby boy found in a canal as murder.

the discovery was made in may in a country park near walsall. a reward s being offered for information. giles latcham is at police headquarters in birmingham. it�*s nearly eight weeks since a sad discovery was made at rough wood country park in willenhall. it�*s thought the baby boy was full—term, that he had been in the water maybe as long as five days. today, police said as a result of further tests, they are now treating his death as murder. liaising with our pathology team, looking at other evidence that we have managed to collect and gather, we are concerned that the baby may have been alive for a couple of hours before death, and therefore we are treating this as a murder because we can�*t rule out an unlawful act as being responsible for the death. around 50 members of the public have come forward so far, some of them naming names of potential parents. none of them have checked out, though, and now crimestoppers have offered a reward of £5,000.

the reward is designed to be considered by people who may have information that they have not come forward and shared for one reason or another, and that is why we are asking them now to prick their conscience. the reward is on the basis of them identifying parents or persons responsible for the child�*s death, and ultimately, information that leads to their conviction. although this is now a murder inquiry, police have stressed that the parents will be treated with sensitivity if they do choose to come forward. and there is growing concern for the welfare and well—being of the mother. a sheffield gp says if they lose more reception staff because they have to self—isolate they may have close the practise. dr ally hobbs from pitsmoor surgery has started a petition calling for the government to bring forward the scrapping of the rule that people who are fully vaccinated have to self—isolate if they�*re a close contact of someone with covid—19. that�*s due to happen in england on the 16th august. look north�*s mark ansell reports.

doctor ally hobbs is on the verge of being forced to close the practice, because four staff members are having to self—isolate. despite most covid restrictions easing on monday, people will still have to self—isolate if they are a close contact of someone with covid—19, even if they have been fully vaccinated or are under 18, that is until the rules are lifted on the 16th of august. dr hobbs has started a petition, calling for the government to bring that forward to monday. as the pandemic rages on, more and more people are getting covid and more and more people are then contacts, but it seems ridiculous to us that we have staff here who are double vaccinated, you know, i had my first vaccine before christmas, we have been vaccinated for months and yet they are not able to come to work. eight of the team at numberplate manufacturersjepson in sheffield are having to self—isolate.

they are worried that it will get even worse as restrictions ease on monday, while at the same time, close contacts are still having to self—isolate. that is a problem for our business, because we will be letting down customers in a very competitive market, it adds cost to a business that has already had significant costs incurred last year, to everything that we have had to endure. you cannot make number plates from home, can you? you can't make number plates from home, no, not with the components that we sell, no. rob operates the laser cutter. he and his children have already had to self—isolate. from monday, there are going to be a lot more cases and the amount- of self—isolation will go up - because of the amount of contact that people will have, - without wearing these things, without wearing masks _ and the amount of cases will go up and we will be back to square one, i think _ the government says it is sticking with the 16th of august date for the lifting of the self—isolation rules. a government spokesperson says, with case rates expected to rise, it is vital that we make sure our systems for

self—isolation are proportionate and that they reflect the protection given by our vaccination programme. mark ansell, bbc look north, sheffield. the biggest battery of its type in europe — the size of a football field — has been built near a wiltshire village. it�*s taken more than a year to construct and will store excess energy generated from renewable sources. points west�*s business correspondent dave harvey has been to take a look. well, here it is, europe�*s largest battery. it connects the national grid from pylons like that down to batteries that are in these containers. there are a0 of these and altogether it is 100mw of electricity they can store. the idea being in the middle of the day, like now, we are making a lot of solar power, for instance, but we use it in the evenings. and we just store it till then. this is my simple version. kat newman, it is your project. so that is kind of it, isn�*t it, you are smoothing out holding it until we need it. yes, that�*s right. we�*ve got access power, so when it is very sunny, it is very windy, all the power that�*s being generated in solar

farms and wind farms, the excess gets stored in these batteries. then we get peaks and demands. so when everyone turns on their light switches or kettles, it basically... we can discharge these batteries to make sure the power is consistent across the national grid. so we can use that solar power more effectively. when we have too much power, we can store it and when we have too little, we can discharge it from the batteries. this is big. but briefly, we are going to need more of these, aren�*t we? all those coal power stations being turned off and to balance that need, when it gets cloudy or when it is not windy any more, we need to have lots more batteries. currently, we�*ve got one gigawatt in the uk and were going to need up to 18 gigawatts by 2030. 18 gigawatts, 0k, well, thank you very much indeed. now, wiltshire is actually already the second biggest producer of solar energy in the country. and we are going to need more battery farms like this to go with, if you like, the solar farms. a question for the leader of the council. so, are you going to have a lot more of these? i think it is inevitable that we are going to see more of these and i think

that is a good thing. when you look at the need for the country to achieve zero carbon, urban areas are relatively simple to look at. rural areas are complicated. we've got challenges. we can make sure we are pay laying are part _ we can make sure we are pay laying are part -- — we can make sure we are pay laying are part —— playing our part to achieve — are part —— playing our part to achieve carbon neutral. so, quite a lot of our country might have these kinds of industrial installations on? i don't think you are talking about quite a lot. this is a big insulation. it is the largest in europe. it is on a tiny site compared to the size of wiltshire. it is extremely hidden. i've just been driving around, missing it, going past it twice. so, no, i don't think it is a problem at all. 0k, thank you very much indeed, councillor. so, when you are going around, you might see along with the solar farms, you might get a sneaky view of these battery installations popping up across the west country. injusta injust a moment it

in just a moment it will be the way but first i want to bring you some breaking news from the information commissioners office who says that electronic devices have been seized, following searches of two homes today in relation to the leaking of cctv footage that led to matt hancock�*s down for a cell secretary for the top you will remember those images from cctv within his office which showed him kissing his aid, and that was in contravention of the covid rules. electronic devices have been seized following searches. we will have much more on that coming up will have much more on that coming up during afternoon but for now here is the weather with chris today the best of the sunshine is across northern areas of the uk. this is cumbria earlier in the day with lots of sunshine. to have some cloud across central and eastern england, pretty thin, 300 metres thick, i�*m hopefulthat england, pretty thin, 300 metres thick, i�*m hopeful that should break up, more especially late this

afternoon and towards the evening time as well. where the sunshine comes out it will feel warm wherever you are. temperatures pushing on into the mid 20s in the warm response. overnight in it stays dry. probably a bit more cloud are starting to push back into northern ireland. western scotland as well. it will be another pretty one rate for sleeping. these are the lowest temperatures, 15 degrees in belfast and the poor who end of the night. warmer start to the day on friday, another day with plenty of sunshine for most of us. across the foreign press we could see thicker cloud and proximal spot of rain but for most of us, dry, sunny and increasingly hot. gets hotter still into this weekend.

this is bbc news, i�*m james reynolds. the headlines at 2: tax salt and sugar to help support better diets — so says a review aimed at improving the nation�*s health. the money raised could extend free school meal provision and support better diets among the poorest. you�*re not going to break this link, this interaction between our appetite and the commercial incentive of companies, unless you tackle it directly. but the prime minister responded coolly this morning to the idea of a salt and sugar tax. lam not, i must say, attracted to the idea of extra taxes on hard—working people. at least 30 people have died and dozens are missing after unprecedented flooding in western germany after the resignation of matt hancock — electronic devices have been seized following searches of two homes in connection

with the leaked cctv footage.