good afternoon. there are warnings of further disruption for air travellers this summer, with more flights expected to be cancelled in the coming days — including at heathrow, britain's busiest airport. airlines look set to change their schedules as the busy school holiday period begins. british airways said it would help provide "certainty" to customers. our business reporter noor nanji has more.

after big queues at airports this summer, warnings of more disruption, with a new wave of flight cancellations expected to be announced next week. we are now right in the midst of the peak summer travel season but we're still experiencing the problems of lack of manpower, not only for airlines but across airports, ground handlers and even in some cases border control staff, so the mix of high volumes and lack of people is causing tremendous dislocation at many airports. the government is allowing an amnesty on airport slot rules, which they say is part of their plan to tackle disruption ahead of the summer season. it means airlines are able to cancel flights without being penalised for not using their slot, but they must finalise their schedules by this friday. british airways services from heathrow are likely to bear the brunt of any cancellations. but ba said the relaxed rules would help them provide certainty to customers by making it easier to consolidate some quieter flights.

ba is already facing the threat of summer strikes from cabin and ground crews over a pay dispute. today, there are already strikes by ryanair and easyjet cabin crew in spain, and some passengers have been stranded across europe. so what should you do if you're caught up in all of this? crucially, i know what my rights are if anything is cancelled and that is to get a replacement flight on the same day if there's anything available that will take me there at the airline's expense, and then furthermore hotel accommodation if need be and compensation if it's the airline's fault, which if it's technical issues or staff shortage, it generally is. but for one passenger who's stuck in geneva after having his flight to bristol cancelled for three days in a row, it's tough. i don't have any available funds to pay for anything. easyjet have said they'll refund me any expenses, but i can't pay for anything at the minute.

after two years of covid rules, the travel industry and passengers were hoping for a return to normality, but for now those fears of delays and cancellations are not going away. noor nanji, bbc news. a parliamentary watchdog is to examine allegations of sexual misconduct by the former conservative deputy chief whip, chris pincher. the mp resigned from his role earlier this week after being accused of groping two men at a private members' club, in london, and has now been suspended from the conservative party. in a statement today, he says he's seeking professional medical support. our political correspondent damian grammaticas is here. what else is mr pincher saying? he has repeated what he said in his resignation letter on thursday which said he got far too drunk, he said embarrassed himself and others and

he was truly sorry for the upset he had caused. he said he is seeking medical help and that means he hopes he said to return to his constituency duties as soon as possible. he is making clear he is not in his mind to resign at this stage. he wants to wait until the parliamentary inquiry takes place. that leaves open some questions, won his future role as an mp. the inquiry will look into those very serious allegations. conservatives and opposition parties are said if they are found to have merit he should resign, stand down. even in the meantime, there are questions. we know for his constituency, we have been hearing today, many in his constituency are quite upset about the mp who represents them with the serious allegations hanging over him. that is a question. also questions will be looked at for the decision of borisjohnson to appoint

chris pincher into this very important role overseeing discipline and mps management at a time earlier this year when downing street had made clear there were allegations known about him, just not specific ones the prime minister knew to stop the appointment. that will be a focus as well. damian grammaticas there. thank you. the foreign office says it's working closely with the ukrainian government to try to secure the release of two british men reported by russian state media to have been charged with being mercenaries. andrew hill is believed to have been caught while fighting with ukrainian forces, while dylan healy was captured while doing humanitarian work. hundreds of thousands of people are marching through london today, for the city's first pride parade since 2019, because of the pandemic. it's also the 50th anniversary of london's first pride event, which was back in 1972. our lgbt and identity correspondent lauren moss reports.

it's loud, it's proud and it's back... ..where it all began. the pride march has taken to the streets once again, with thousands of people walking under the rainbow flag. generations came together, including 17—year—old erin and her mum vicky, who have travelled from leicestershire. i came out this year to my mum as bi. i'd always wanted to come to one of these festivals. when i discovered we'd be down here anyway for the guns n roses concert yesterday, i asked if we could go, and my mum was so for it. i'm so proud of erin, i really am. to see everybody today, it's the most amazing experience. and for others, it's a homecoming. jamieson came to his first pride 46 years ago. it's wonderful now to see the progression of what it was, and what we have become. it's thought around 30,000 people took part in the parade today, passing some of the route the original march took in 1972.

it's one of the most colourful celebrations in the country. but pride is still a protest at its heart. we're celebrating the progress made over the last 50 years but also continue to campaign. the party will go on into the night. pride celebrations will continue around the uk for the next several weeks. lauren moss, bbc news. with all the sport now, here's sarah mulkerrins at the bbc sport centre. hello. two more british players have been knocked out of wimbledon. katie boulter and liam broady both lost their third—round matches today. 0ur sports correspondent joe wilson was watching. court 2 lies on the perimeter of wimbledon, farfrom centrestage. down there is where the tournament placed katie boulter in round three — an occasion strangely missing energy. the small arena slowly filled, boulter admitted she felt drained. at the top of the screen, her opponent was inspired.

harmony tan. commentator: we've seen it all now. she'd previously knocked out serena williams, you may remember. afterjust 51 minutes, this match finished with a double fault, all rather dispiriting. unless of course you were supporting harmony. quite right. she was great. no british player matches fred perry: he won all four grand slam titles. but one man here shares his birthplace, third—best player from stockport is how liam broady has described himself. he'd excelled himself to reach round three but now faced australia's alex de minaur, the demon. commentator: goodness me, how's he doing that? _ speed, power, precision — it's a serious combination. broady was trying, like a head against a brick wall. two sets down, come on. if he kept in the rallies, kept up his standards, de minaur might falter. and that was a break back. and it became a 72—minute third set to de minaur. 7-5.

but respect earned by both men. welcome at the match we are keeping a close eye on right now is uncle number one. right now suntec is against cornetto. cornette took the first set. —— cornet. it's been an incredible day at edgbaston, where rain has once again interrupted the rearranged fifth test between england and india. stuart broad bowled the most expensive over in test history. india's stand—in captain jasprit bumrah hitting him for 35 runs, as they made a16 all out. and bumrah then removed both england's openers cheaply — they're now 60—3, with the covers on again. all four home nations are in rugby union action today. wales are currently leading against the world champions, south africa. scotland take on argentina later, but ireland have already lost to new zealand, and there was a humiliating defeat

for england in australia. patrick gearey reports. when australia host england, they put on a show. both stand back and it can get lively. the sparks had hardly settled when new fires ignited. if that was the gift that this was the but. swain sent off in australia would need to play most of the match a man down. the england defence seemed on demand. jordan is higher brought the wallabies level. whatever the circumstances they head relentlessly towards weakness. the england boss should know can he used to coach them. eddiejones was staring at a fourth defeat in a row. there is a world cup next year. aaron jill there is a world cup next year. aaronjill will not be 21 then. he gave his team something to cling to. if you are an england fan, remember the name, but probably forget the game. across the tasman sea, one of

the most daunting prospects in sport. new zealand have not lost here in 18 years. the way ireland started that record seemed in peril. this tribe is the high point. new zealand blitzed them because going four tries in seven minutes. two more tests for ireland to try and come back. carlos sainz will be on pole position for the first time in his career for tomorrow's british grand prix at silverstone. the ferrari driver edged out championship leader max verstappen, with lewis hamilton in fifth. the former scotland and rangers goalkeeper andy goram has died at the age of 58 after a short battle with cancer. goram was capped 43 times for his country at football — and four times at cricket. he helped rangers win five scottish premiership titles, as well as five cups. and there's more on the bbc sport website, but that's it from me. that's it from us.

we'll be back at ten. bye for now.

hello. this is bbc news. let's go back to our top story today, and those warnings of further disruption for air travellers this summer with more flights expected to be cancelled in the coming days, including at heathrow, britain's busiest airport. lisa minot is the sun's travel editor and she told me she's been affected by the cancellations. i fell victim to a ba plane in bari airport that went tech on thursday. we were due to take off 8:25pm thursday. we eventually took off at about 3pm friday with many of the people

impacted by that, having to spend the night on the floor in the airport at bari airport. so i do appreciate just how stressful this situation is for people when they're caught up in it. interestingly, your guest you just had on, really, he should have been getting on to easyjet. i know it's not easy to get hold of them — i'm not saying that's going to be not a challenge in itself — and demanding that they put him on any other airline, he shouldn't have to accept easyjet delaying his flight by 2a hours. they should be asking to get back by any other means, even with another airline, back on the day of his originalflight. but this just shows you just how chaotic the situation is, and particularly to these destinations where there are multiple flights a day. that's where the airlines are looking at their schedules and going, we don't need five flights a day to geneva — let's just do three. it makes sense. but if you can't actually get on to one of those three flights, that's when we see the situation as it's just happened there. i mean, it is really chaotic. hopefully, the moves that the government has asked

the airlines to sort of slim down their schedules, airports are saying, you know, we're going to have less flights taking off. hopefully, that will mean that people start to see a slightly more positive view rather than the very chaotic scenes we've seen over the last few days. so what should people watching here in the uk who've got a fly booked over the next few months be doing? because it's notjust heathrow which is experiencing problems. do you just have to wait until the day and hope for the best? how can you be sure you're going to get away when you plan to? well, what the government is saying is that they want airlines to make these cancellations far further in advance. the scenes we saw at heathrow this week, where the airport had to say to airlines, right, you need to cut 30 flights, we just physically can't actually process this number of people through the airport, that's what they're trying to avoid because that creates chaos — people being told at check—in at the gate sometimes that their flight�*s been cancelled is not right. what they're asking airlines to do is look at their schedules for the next two months and start cancelling flights now so at least

people have got a bit of notice, they can make other plans, they can change their original sort of plans for holidays or trips, but you need the notice to be able to do that. and hopefully that's what's going to be happening with this. now, the slot amnesty as well, the fact that airlines are now no longer required to operate 70% of their schedules just to retain those slots, and, for somewhere like heathrow, those slots are worth millions and millions of pounds to the airlines. having not having to do that will make a big difference because it will mean that airlines can cancel flights without the fear that they're going to lose that slot, and perhaps another airline who isn't in as bad a position can then jump in, take that slot, and then that will free up other flights to then be available to the public. and the government's suggesting looking at easing night—time restrictions, but even allowing the possibility of more flights. are they going to be the people to crew the planes and to work in the airports because it's staff shortages which are causing these problems? exactly, yeah. i mean, although that could be a way of looking at trying

to relieve the problems, i'm not sure how that's going to help. you know, having flights at different times of the day or night isn't going to address the pure problem and the fact that they don't have enough people. we've got this shortage of staff across the entire aviation industry, and that's from the airline crew through baggage handlers to caterers, cleaners, security staff, border force staff, and then the airports themselves. so, i mean, it really is not a situation that i think flights at night is going to solve. it really is a state about actual numbers of people they've got actually working at any one time. let's go back to the story about the former conservative deputy chief whip, chris pincher, who resigned earlier this week after being accused of groping two men at a private members' club. a parliamentary watchdog is to examine those allegations of sexual misconduct. earlier, i spoke to eliot wilson, a former clerk for the house of commons, and asked him if downing street had been slow to act in this case. well, i think it has been

a pattern of behaviour with downing street, to be honest, that they have consistently failed to get ahead of stories. and i say this in a purely political and rather cynical sense, and they have let things run on and been slow to respond. but i think it is important to see this in two ways — it is both a political story, in terms of the handling of it, and, of course, a personal story for the mp involved and for all mps who have been under suspicion for any sort of sexual impropriety. so, as we know, there is now an investigation, and we have all been urged to wait for that to conclude. what is the kind of timeframe, do you think? well, i think the independent inquiry will take at least some weeks because it will want to be very sure that it has got all the facts available to it, and, of course, it sounds prosaic but we are coming up to the summer recess shortly when parliament will go into its periodic adjournment and mps will go back to their constituencies. but i think it is important that this is dealt with quickly, i think even more important than that, it is important that it is seen to be dealt with quickly because this

is becoming a pattern and a bit of a running sore for parliament. yeah, why do you think that is? i think there is a cultural problem within westminster. we talk about the westminster bubble and, in a way, this is it at its worst, people think that, you know, their behaviour, however egregious or however minor — we wait to see — can be sort of pulls behind the ramparts and it can be dealt with behind closed doors. and i think increasingly, the public, quite rightly, see that that is not acceptable any more. there has been criticism that downing street failed to act quickly enough over this because mr pincher is an arch borisjohnson loyalist, do you think there are double standards at play here? i don't know about double standards, it may well be that mr pincher was dealt with differently because he was seen as a close ally, and of course he was deputy chief whip, and the whips have an important place in this kind of investigation, but i think it is just downing street reacting slowly and cack—handidly, as it

has a tendency to do. it sees its job as getting to the weekend, and it doesn't really see much beyond that. now, he was deputy chief whip, we tend to think about the traditional avenue of complaints as being the whips, so how does this work? i mean, who polices the police, in this case? who makes sure that the whips are behaving appropriately? well, it is a difficult issue. parliament has an independent complaints and grievance system which will work its way through, but traditionally the whips have been seen as fixers, in all sorts of ways, and to be fair they do operate a kind of sort of pastoral role. but i think too much is now being seen as something that can be dealt with in metaphorically smoke—filled rooms and behind closed doors, and i think the whips are going to need to come out into the light a little bit and to be quite explicit about the way they are helping mps who may have genuine problems as well as just egregious conduct. i mean, it's all sorts of things. but i think the whips are going to need to consider their reputation and their image very carefully here. hundreds of people are taking part

in a silent vigil for zara aleena, who was murdered in east london while walking home. the 35—year—old was minutes from her front door when she was attacked in ilford last week. 29—year—old jordan mcsweeney has been charged with her murder. ayshea buksh has been in ilford for us throughout the day. it has been an extraordinary day here, obviously very emotional for the family, but they wanted to invite people here to gants hill in east london and, in their words, to walk zara home. hundreds of people joined them in doing that. they walked through the streets of gants hill to the point where we are now and, as you can see, there are women and men and also very young children. i spoke to one mother who said she wanted to bring herfour sons because she wanted them to be educated and to remember that it is not acceptable to ignore the issue of violence against women and girls and also to show respect for women. there are also here local politicians and national leaders who have come

to show their respects. the family have said that zara was a brave and fearless and independent young woman. she was 35 years old, she had just secured a job at the royal courts ofjustice and was an aspiring lawyer. one of her friends told me she would have been fully in favour of what has happened here today, that people are walking to demonstrate their demand for change and for solutions of this very, very pertinent and important issue, in their words. yesterday, jordan mcsweeney, 29—year—old from dagenham in east london, appeared in court. he is charged with zara's murder, burglary and attempted rape. the family have said they do not want zara's life to be defined by her death. and you can see that here that, with the solidarity of so many other women's groups, million women rise, end violence against women,

for example, they have said they want zara to be remembered as the brave and independent woman that she was. the amount of people in the uk falling victim to fraud is expected to increase sharply, according to her majesty's inspector of constabulary, matt parr. mr parr described an "ever increasing tide of damage being done to people" with no realistic plans to stop it. earlier, i spoke to money box reporter dan whitworth, who told me how widespread the problem is. fraud is an epidemic in this country. matt parr was speaking to us on money box in the context ofjust a few days ago, there were figures released by uk finance, the trade industry business body for the banking and financial sector, and it described how a certain type of fraud when victims are tricked and manipulated into transferring money to criminals themselves — that was up by 46% in the course of just one year. to put that another way,

that's £500 million that was stolen from 200,000 people in just the last year so, within those numbers, investment scams are up 60% to £166 million stolen, romance fraud scams, so not just the financial hit but the emotional hit as well, they are up as well, a 77% increase in the space of a year, to seeing £30 million stolen from just over 3,000 victims. fraud is a big, big problem in the uk. staggering figures. why has it got so bad? criminals, fundamentally, are extremely good at theirjob. they are ruthlessly efficient at manipulating people, they are very good at social engineering, and social engineering is when, for example, they harvest data from people, that people might put up online voluntarily, on social media. also, you might get a scam text, oh, you missed a delivery from royal mail, or here you can get

details of a covid vaccine. if you enter any details in there, a week later, you might get a call from someone pretending to be from your bank, they have your name and address, it is easy for them to manipulate people into thinking you are calling from their bank. so, criminals really are masters at their craft. there are not enough resources going into what is such a significant crime for so many people. i know, certainly, the banking sector and law enforcement indeed want greater collaboration between technology companies, social media sites, the telecoms industry, but it is a big problem because criminals are so good at it and there is not enough prevention in this country. gosh, i have nearly fallen for so many of those texts in the past, asking for details, or money for a payment from royal mail. you say there are not enough resources going into preventing it, what can be done? i think a lot of responsibility lies on the individuals and to do with awareness.

you know, you almost fall for these things but luckily you don't, but they can catch people when they are vulnerable, so a lot is to do with awareness, and people have to be aware there are horrible people out there trying to steal your money. and as the uk goes more digital, as we all get banking apps on our smartphone, that money can be stolen in a matter of minutes. the government is putting £100 million into trying to tackle fraud. it has launched a review into how to tackle this. it will be publishing that shortly. many of us will be hoping there are some real concrete moves in there that will see this epidemic of fraud tackled. there's been a huge rise in the number of people checking bowel cancer symptoms on the nhs website following the death of dame deborah james. visits to the website increased from 2,000 on tuesday to 23,000 on wednesday. dame deborah had been living with the illness since 2016 and worked tirelessly to raise awareness of its symptoms

and reduce the embarrassment of discussing them. graham satchell reports. dame deborahjames dressed up as a poo to raise awareness of the symptoms of bowel cancer. in posts on social media, she took people through the common signs. again and again, she urged anyone who had worries never to be embarrassed and to see their gp. dame deborah died on tuesday. her tireless campaigning has had a remarkable impact. this morning, nhs england has revealed a tenfold increase in traffic to their webpages about bowel cancer, up from an average of 2,000 a day to more than 23,000 on wednesday, the day after dame deborah died. deborah did the unthinkable in getting people to talk about bowel cancer and encouraging people not to be embarrassed or prudish. so deborah wasjust an extraordinary spirit, full of courage and determination, to raise awareness about

the importance of early detection because, generally, if you detect cancer early, the chances of cure are much greater. in a statement, the health secretary for england, sajid javid, said... deb is sat next to me in a poo costume. are you going to wear that for the whole podcast? well, the problem is, because it's designed for a six—year—old, - i can't really breathe in it. deborah's last words, posted on instagram, were, "check your poo, it mightjust save your life." today's figures shows the impact her words are already having and the countless lives that will be saved as a result. graham satchell, bbc news. time for a look at the weather with ben rich. hello. through the evening, some rain to

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north. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: warnings of further disruption for air travellers this summer with more flights set to be cancelled in the coming weeks at heathrow, the uk's busiest airport. hundreds of people have gathered in east london at a vigil dedicated to zara aleena, who was killed as she walked home from a night out. the conservative mp chris pincher, who is under investigation for allegedly groping two men, said he is seeking professional medical support and hopes to return to his duties as an mp as soon as possible. two more britons captured by russian forces in ukraine have have been

charged with being mercenaries, according to russian state media.