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just of the the future and not just of the monarchy, but of the royal family. so although the cambridges will keep their home in norfolk, anmer hall, they will keep their apartment at kensington palace, a spacious apartment, it should be said, the home from now on, their main home, will be here, in windsor.— will be here, in windsor. nick, thank you _ will be here, in windsor. nick, thank you very _ will be here, in windsor. nick, thank you very much, - will be here, in windsor. nick, thank you very much, nick - will be here, in windsor. nick, - thank you very much, nick witchell, our royal correspondent. gps will start prescribing walking and cycling to help improve mental and physical well—being, as part of a trial in england. 11 local authorities have been given over £12 million to fund pilot social prescriptions, as well as projects like adult cycle training, walking groups and free bike loans. time for a look at the weather. thank you, it has been quite the morning of contrasts across the uk, so we have seen plenty of low grade clouds across the central belt of scotland, some outbreaks of rain
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here, too. further east for eastern england, well, blue sky and sunshine as you can see from our weather watcher picture from stunning kent. but even here, the clouds will increase through the afternoon and there will also be possibly outbreaks of light patchy rain and drizzle from our weather front that is gradually continuing eastwards. it will eventually clear overnight tonight. forthe it will eventually clear overnight tonight. for the rest of the day, still further outbreaks of rain, heavy downpours potentially for the scottish borders through northern england, maybe into east anglia by the end of the day, further south. then a lot of the rain is light and patchy. there could be sunny spells developing across devon and cornwall and northern ireland, but watch out for heavy and thundery showers, temperatures in the low 20s, may be 25 degrees in norwich, where we will see the sunshine last longest. and overnight, our weather front clears into the north sea. for many, it will be dry, but very moist and humid air creeps into the far south west of devon and cornwall. coastal and hill fog here. look at these
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temperatures, it is a lot milder across the board than it was over the weekend. as you can see from the pressure chart, most of us between weather systems on tuesday, but we do have this little feature approaching western areas of scotland, showers continue to move eastwards, even into eastern scotland perhaps, towards the afternoon. for most of us, it is set to stay dry with showery outbreaks of rain for west and wales by the end of the day. the dry weather concentrated towards the east in the afternoon, some sunny spells. in the best of those, temperatures rise to 27 celsius again for east anglia and winds stay light. there could be heavy outbreaks of rain perhaps across scotland and northern ireland which will clear on tuesday night into the first part of wednesday morning. then we are looking at this cold front heading southwards and eastwards which is more or less where the position of the rain is expected to be, but fizzling out as it goes. much fresher conditions behind this front towards the north and west with the warm, humid air sticking towards the south and east,
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may be 29 celsius in east anglia and the south east of england. but looking at the temperature chart for our capital cities, fresh feeling air by the time we get to friday. it is a rather messy picture weather—wise, so the details are likely to change. the best of the sunshine towards the east would still showery outbreaks of rain towards the north and west. a reminder of our top story: criminal barristers in england and where is about to take all—out indefinite industrial action, joining a wave of summer strikes. that's all from the bbc news at one, so it's goodbye from me. and on bbc one, we nowjoin the bbc�*s news teams where you are. good afternoon. you're watching bbc news.
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the time is 1:33pm i'm ben croucher with the latest from the bbc sport centre. it could well be a big night on and off the field at old trafford tonight. manchester united take on liverpool — with both on the hunt for their first win of the season. the build—up has been dominated though by the threat of protests against united's owners. jurgen klopp says his liverpool side should be given the points if the match is postponed because of fan disruption, just like 2021. joe lynskey reports. manchester united start the day in the premier league's bottom three. most fans say the cause is at the top of the club. last year when they played liverpool they made that clear. two police officers are injured after a major security breach at old trafford with hundreds of fans invading the pitch. it was the first premier league match called off due to protests and since then it has got worse. liverpool won here 5—0 last october. last week united lost 4—0 at brentford. now there are plans
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to protest again in a march before the match aimed at the owners. i think the feeling is that nothing has advanced, yes there is an interesting appointment as manager, but still the recruitment looks awful, haphazard. throwing huge amounts of money and whoever they can find, not getting the top level targets that liverpool, manchester city, chelsea and tottenham have got in. and that has resulted in very, very poor results on the pitch. and i think that is really revived a sort of understanding that the owners are at fault. i really hope that if it happens we should get the point. i really hope that it doesn't happen, i have no idea what could happen. but in a situation like there's
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always the other team should get the points. the owners want to win - and the defence we want them behind the club and i can understand sometimes. all the backgrounds. but we have to fight together. united are set to sign a real madrid midfielder, but the fans say the big names cover the cracks. tonight, both they and liverpool go for their first win of the season. most of all at old trafford, they want change. on the pitch and at the top. cricket and a year after cancelling their tour to pakistan, sighting security concerns — england have confirmed the schedule for their test tour to the country for the first time since 2005 this december. they'll play three test matches in rawalpindi, multan and karachi, with the first test scheduled for the first of december. it adds to the t20 series already in the calendar for next month. white ball captainjos buttler is expected to be fit for that tour and the t20 world cup, after being ruled out of the rest of the hundred due to a calf injury.
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he picked up the problem during manchester originals win over southern brave last thursday. boxing promoter frank warren says a world heavyweight unification fight between tyson fury and oleksandr usyk will be made — despite fury being in retirement. after being anthonyjoshua for a second time on saturday to retain his three heavweight belts, usyk said he'd only fight fury next — the currently holder of the other. it's a fight that i think will be made because both teams would like to see that happen. they said after the fai that it is the only fight he is interested in. that is the same case with tyson. it is just a matter of where it can generate most income because it is a unique fight, the first time so who knows how long that the form belts on the line. it is a historic fight. the whole world will be captivated, or anyone who is
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interested in boxing will be captivated by this fight. and certainly about where these guys can maximise the income from the fight. and you can read plenty more on that on the bbc website. that's all the sport for now. criminal barristers in england and wales have voted in favour of an all—out, indefinite strike from next month, in a dispute with the government overjobs and pay. the criminal bar association said almost 80 % of its members had backed ramping up their campaign of industrial action, which has been under way sincejune. earlier my colleague annita mc veigh spoke with michelle heeley, criminal qc and leader of the midland circuit — which provides support and advice for barristers. this has been growing and building for some years and the numbers have spoken. and what, as far as you're concerned, will this mean in practice? i asked dominic, does this mean that the criminaljustice system will seize up?
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he says that you would argue it's already seized up, but it does mean ultimately that justice is going to be delayed for many, many people. regrettably, it does. and this shows that the system cannot function without barristers. but also, for example, you wouldn't want somebody representing themselves and being allowed to cross—examine a complainant, say, in a case. but the delays have been building for some years because of systemic underinvestment in the criminal justice system and barriers that have been saying this for years, that if you do not invest, people will walk away. courts have been closed down, simply weren't enough judges sitting. so the backlog has built up and built up and we are now, unfortunately, at a critical point. was there any other option than to take this course of action? well, we started no returns in april as a warning shot to the government. we would hope that dominic raab would meet with, for example, the leaders of the cba. that didn't happen. we then started taking intermittent action, which was not taking work every alternative week in the hope
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that that would demonstrate, again, the depth of feeling. still, there has been no meeting and no face to face meeting. this, i'm afraid, is a last resort. we've shown that the strength of unifor rail workers, this is the only way of bringing the government to the table and saying, this is a serious issue and we want to discuss it and find a solution with you. but you need to work with us. so still no face to face meeting with thejustice secretary? no. and if he's listening to this, what do you say? please come and speak to us. there is a way forward here. we are genuinely trying to represent and look after the most vulnerable people in society. we are a fundamental part of a civilised society and we simply ask that we are paid to reflect that you can talk to us. what would it take to stop this escalation of industrial action happening on the 5th of september? i don't think i can speakfor everyone. but for example, dominique touched upon the issue of the 15% pay increase, which will start
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with a representation order. so for anyone charged after the 30th of september, if the government were to accept that we need that immediate injection now as recommended by sir christopher bellamy and therefore applied that 15% increase to any case where the trial had not, for example, yet taken place. then i believe that that members would very listen very carefully to that. that would be a fair offer. if a country can't exercise its justice system properly, what does that say? i think it unfortunately demonstrates the state that the country is in at the moment. we seem to have no effective government. people are scared for everything in their lives in terms of inflation, worrying about heating their houses. food banks are being overrun. this is another pillar of society that is crumbling before our eyes. how difficult is it for you personally to get involved in action like this? is this something that you ever imagined you would be involved in? no. if you think about lawyers, we are meant
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to represent the establishment. we're not on the whole, generally radicals who want to walk out and strike. and this is something that a lot of people have had sleepless nights about this thinking, is there any other way? and personally, i... it's something i feel deeply uncomfortable about. but at the same time, i will be supporting the action because i don't feel that now we are left with any other choice. it didn't need to get to this stage. we wanted to talk. when the bellamy report was issued back in november, we hoped for continuing dialogue. and regrettably, that is simply not happened. electricity use in some parts of china has been further restricted as a prolonged drought continues to limit power generation. in central hubei province, they have used rockets to sow the clouds with catalysts such as dry ice to make rain. the lack of water means many hydro—electric power stations have been unable to operate.
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reduced power has forced shopping centres to close early, factories to temporarily shut down and the lights on shanghai's famous waterfront to be turned off. our correspondent in china, steve mcdonell, told us more about how the drought was affecting production there. you've had this ongoing heatwave for months in china, which has resulted in a drought in half of china's landmass, if you can imagine. so a huge impact on crops, a huge impact on even shopping centres because they're being restricted in terms of the electricity they're able to use. it's just like one thing has been flowing on to another because there's not enough water in the yangtze river. this is restricted hydropower. now, sichuan province relies on its powerfrom hydro sources to the tune of 80%.
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so you can imagine what a huge impact that's having on the electricity on top of that inland shipping. the yangtze river is also a place where, apart from people travelling, there is a lot of commercial shipping as well, which has stopped because of the drought. not enough water in the river and unfortunately no sign of any rain to come. so, you know, quite devastating impact of the drought and heat wave across china. and chinese scientists are warning there could be more of this in the years to come because of climate change, unfortunately. the headlines on bbc news... criminal barristers have voted to go on an indefinite uninterrupted strike in england and wales from next month. it strike in england and wales from next month-— next month. it is the latest in a series of strikes _ next month. it is the latest in a series of strikes across - series of strikes across industries this summer. the government says the barrister�*s decision today is wholly unjustified. the labour leader has
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called for action. the battle to become britain's next leader, the conservative candidate lou rishi sunak accuses his candidate liz truss of avoiding scrutiny of her economic plans. now time for the stories making the headlines across britain. nottingham is one of 11 areas of the country to begin trialling new "social prescriptions" to improve mental and physical health. it involves gp�*s surgeries doing more to enourage people to get on their bike or walking. rob sissons is in nottingham. yeah, there's a big move in the nhs of instead of prescribing tablets, getting people to exercise more, get on their bikes, maybe join a walking club as a prescription.
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and social prescribing has been taking off. well, here at the victoria embankment in nottingham i met loads of people who are big fans of the power of exercise and actually think prescribing exercise is a good idea. when you're sat at home all day doing nothing you're not going to feel good, are you? so getting out on your bike is going to make you feel a whole lot better. hannah says getting a dog's got her moving more, typically walking with alfie six miles a day. it's the incentive to go out because you have to do it for them. so it makes you get out of the house and you're kind of walking with purpose rather than just going for a stroll, that you actually do it for a reason. in their 80s, this couple need no convincing, walking every day, it's just good for your health. you get fresh air, you're away from everybody, you know. it's something you can do on your own. nottingham city council's getting £1.5 million of government cash to encourage us to move more. we want to make sure that walking and cycling is safe, it's accessible, it's affordable to everyone
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and for some people there are just extra barriers and we want to make sure that we're prescribing through social prescribing, ways in which we can bust the barriers. and as well as encouraging people to get on their bikes. the money from the department of transport is also aimed at gathering evidence about the impact it has — the power of exercise. rob sissons, bbc east midlands today, nottingham. charities that care for stray, abandoned and unwanted dogs say they're struggling to cope with increased demand. one dogs' home in rhondda cynon taf says the problem is being caused by a "perfect storm" , due to an increase in dog ownership during lockdown, and a growing cost—of—living crisis. garry owen reports rolo, a euro terrier and a bundle of energy was brought to the hope rescue centre by the dog warden as a stray. but like dozens of other dogs here, rolo was looking for a new home. the centre says that the cost
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of living crisis has led to a sharp rise in the number of dogs coming into their care. the situation is worse than it's been in the 17 years since the centre opened. in the last three months alone, they've had over 300 calls from people asking for help. i think it's been this perfect storm. we had a huge surge in dog ownership during lockdown. lots of those were bought by first time dog owners, little bit less experience. that demand was met by low welfare breeders, so not breeding for health or behaviour necessarily. now we've got the cost of living crisis on top, which is further compounded it and it is that perfect storm. now we are having to turn dogs away and that's the hardest hit. it's heartbreaking. centres across wales are struggling to cope with demand, but though many are full staff stress, there's still help at hand. some people unfortunately do find it quite difficult to ask for help, but it's just that one. don't be embarrassed. it is a difficult time at the moment. everyone is struggling and we are in a position at the moment where we can offer
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support and offer advice. and as we've said, it's always the most responsible thing to do. just to pick up the phone, just call and ask for advice. even if you're struggling with the decision of whether to hand your dog over or not, we can offer that support there and then to get you on the right track of knowing what to do. it's a similar story at the cardiff dog's home. every inch of space is being used to house dogs. ragnar, a two—year—old american bulldog, is described as a lockdown dog, a pet bought during a surge in demand in the covid pandemic. lockdowns, but now unwanted. there are many more like him. we shouldn't have a waiting list, but we do. so we try to prioritise people in desperate situations in the cardiff area because we are part of cardiff council. and then after that we look at the surrounding areas, penarth barry and we try to help people, you know, accordingly. veterinary charity, the pdsa estimates that depending on which dog you have, their potential lifetime cost could be £30,000. and for many dog owners
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that's just too high. that means more pets being given up or abandoned and looking for new owners. he's already appeared before crowds of more than 20—thousand people, but now the world's youngest club dj hopes his new found tik—tok fame could take him to the very top. dj archie, who's from essex in the east of england, is just seven years old but already he holds a world record — and he's attracting a new wave of followers on social media. let's hear more from him now. my name is dj archie and i'm seven years old. my favourite music is drum and bass because i like the beats and the drop. the biggest crowd i have played to is 20,000, and i felt quite scared for first because there was a lot of people everywhere.
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and then ijust got into it, like, always, and then ijust played with the tunes and they get hyped up. archie started by accident, really. one day i was out of the room and i came back in because i heard music, and he was djing, moving the cross fray from side to side, and the more i looked, i could see that the things he were doing were in time with the music. so it seemed like he knew what he was doing even though he was onlyjust three years old at that point. he has played lots of festivals now. he has played at boomtown twice, he mostly djs at festivals in the summer but the dream is to play at glastonbury or edc or something like that in las vegas, i don't know. but i'm extremely proud of archie. he is an amazing kid.
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when i'm older, i want to be a famous, really famous dj. and show off to people and a lot of other stuff. researchers say they've worked out what triggers children's carjourney tempers — and perhaps more importantly, what can be done to delay them. experts at nottingham trent university surveyed two—thousand parents of under twelves about their experiences. drjames hind led the research coming up with the formula — t=70+0.5e+15f-ios.
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that is the formula. joanna gosling asked him what it meant. it means that you can't buy your way out of a tantrum with entertainment. you will only get 30 seconds of tension free times every minute of entertainment you give. food will help, it won't surprise anyone to know that you can bribe children with food but there is an upper limit. any more than two snacks an hour and you are looking at sugar crashes, bathroom breaks, carsickness. and the last part is siblings. i am afraid they don't help. so, anytime you have got siblings in the car you are having to fight for attention and that again speeds up tantrums. when you are heading on a long journey with young kids in the back? i am afraid so. i think we need to move from thinking, i don't want a tantrum, to there is going to be one and how do we minimise it and how do we plan breaks to reset the clock? so what is the answer then?
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best tips. two snacks an hour, if at all possible give your child all the entertainment that you can. avoid any sweet or salty snacks. the sweet ones lead to a sugar crash, the salty ones lead to more drinking and more bathroom breaks. ok, and when you are talking about entertainment. just sitting on an ipad or something or is that the parent singing along, playing all the usual i spy and everything else? the very best entertainment a child can have is their parent's attention. that really is what they are after. my heart goes out to any lone parents with several kids on the back. if you really can't then screens, books, music. anything you can to keep them entertained. maybe a personal question but, do you have young kids that this research inspired? no, i am the perfect person for this research. i have no children and i don't drive. i came into this with no
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preconceptions and no bias. so not necessarily empathy for those who do have? sympathy yes but perhaps not much empathy. kids temper tantrums are certainly nojoke. and speaking ofjokes we have had the award for the funniest joke of the edinburgh film festival. in a moment we are going to hear from the man who has been voted with the public�*s favourite pan. first of all let's hear some of the other one—liners that made it into the top ten. kicking off with the runner—up. what about this one? and... none of
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them very funny. but never mind. two—time winning comedian was voted the winner overall, we are going to leave him to reveal brilliant gag. i tried to steal spaghetti from the shop but the female guards saw me and i couldn't get pasta. hone shop but the female guards saw me and i couldn't get pasta.— and i couldn't get pasta. how is it 'udaed? and i couldn't get pasta. how is it judged? how _ and i couldn't get pasta. how is it judged? how do _ and i couldn't get pasta. how is it judged? how do they _ and i couldn't get pasta. how is it judged? how do they decide - and i couldn't get pasta. how is iti judged? how do they decide what and i couldn't get pasta. how is it i judged? how do they decide what is the funniestjoke was that judged? how do they decide what is the funniest joke was that you perform a comedy writer and a cracker? how does it work? basically, they had scouts coming to each show and they will put forward jokes and then they will compile a list and the public will choose the best of that list. somehow, they chose mine. the comedian masai graham talking to my colleagues on bbc breakfast. i have got a good joke. a meat pie walks into a bar and says i will
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have a pint of lager and a pie please and the barman says sorry we don't serve food. now it's time for a look at the weather with elizabeth rizzini. hello. there are rather mixed fortunes weather—wise across the uk today, with a weather front gradually moving eastwards, introducing rather grey stormy skies, some heavy downpours of rain for much of southern scotland, the central belt and into the scottish borders, also northern england too. but for eastern england there has been a lot of sunshine. we will see some outbreaks of light, patchy rain and drizzle though even here by the end of the day in places. for the next few days, we'll continue to see quite a messy picture. showers at times, especially towards the north and the west with some sunny spells and the air will feel really rather humid, especially towards the south. now, this is where our weather front is gradually spreading eastwards for the rest of the day today. it will pull out into the north sea this evening. temperatures are in the low 20s in celsius, maybe 25 degrees celsius in the best of the sunshine across east anglia. the high teens for much of scotland and overnight tonight,
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it will be a lot milder than it was last night. we've got this moist, very humid air moving into the far southwest of devon and cornwall here. some hail and some coastalfog, a few showers just edging into western scotland there, northern ireland and perhaps towards western wales. but these will be the temperatures as we start off tomorrow morning. so very mild indeed. now for tuesday then most of us are between weather fronts, but there will be some showery outbreaks of rain just moving eastwards across scotland into eastern areas of scotland through the afternoon there and starting to approach western wales and the far south west of devon and cornwall. but for many of us it will be dry. variable amounts of cloud, the best of any sunny spells out towards eastern areas. here we could see highs of 26 or 27 degrees celsius. the air will feel warm and humid and there could be some further showery outbreaks of rain for northern ireland and scotland, some of which will be heavy throughout the night on tuesday. but that then clears on wednesday. then this cold front starts to slip its way southwards and eastwards. this will be the position of the rain more or less on wednesday, but it is fizzling out much fresher feeling conditions out
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towards the north and the west on wednesday. still, the heat, the humidity hangs on towards the south and the east, 29 degrees celsius possible for many in norwich on wednesday. now these are the temperatures in our capital cities. as we head through the rest of the week. there could be some heavy thundery downpours maybe in the south east of england and east anglia on thursday night. we're all into fresher feeling air by friday.
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this is bbc news the headlines: the summer wave of industrial action in the uk continues — with criminal barristers to go on an indefinite, uninterrupted strike in england and wales from next month. barristers have been saying this for years, that if you do not invest, people walk away. courts have been closed down, simply weren't enough judges sitting. so the backlog has built up and built up and we are now unfortunately at a critical point. a bbc investigation unmasks the man responsible for a huge online community which traded non—consensual sexual images and videos of more than a hundred woman. cinema chain cineworld confirms it is considering filing for bankruptcy in the us after days of speculation about how it

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