in the converting of blank discs into coins, decimal naturally... the queen, and then prince charles, saw for themselves how much it took to strike new sovereigns, all part of a process that goes back over a millennium. we've actually been around as long as the royal family has. so we've struck for every monarch, including from alfred the great up to today. so something we've done a long... a lot of times before, but something we haven't done for a very long time. eventually, every denomination will carry the king's image. they'll be introduced on demand, to ensure the cash flow keeps coming. hywel griffith, bbc news, at the royal mint. time for a look at the weather. here's ben rich. . thank you. gp, our extraordinarily mild spell of weather continue, it has been very persession tent and where you get yourself into sunshine

it feels really warm, we will continue to do so until the weekend, staying mild, windy with rain at times. now, we have already seen very heavy rain in places today. the radar shows that, it has been driving northwards and eastwards, it is clearing just about all area, lingering in northern scotland. we will see rain in the northern isles, elsewhere spells of sunshine, one or two shower, particularly in northern ireland, we will stay windy out there, the wind only slowly easing through the rest of the day. these temperatures for some a little down on where they were yesterday, but still, well above where they should be, at this time of year. now through this evening and tonight we will see more rain pushing up from the south. the wind will continue to ease a little. largely dry across the northern half of the uk, temperatures generally between eight and i2 temperatures generally between eight and 12 degrees as we start saturday morning. this low pressure has been with us for some time now, feeding

another area of wet weather northwards but also continuing to import this very warm air from a long way south. see the orange colours surging across the chart. tomorrow is really going to be a very mild warm day, if you get yourself into sunshine. i won't be sunny all the time. cloud and patchy rain pushing northwards, heavy rain into northern ireland, northern scotland likely to stay dry for much of the day, heavy showers feeding into wales and south—west england. 14 degrees for glasgow, but 33 in london, pretty extraordinary for late october. now through saturday night we will see this rain pushing northward, so soggy for a time across scotland. stays fairly breezy an don't forget on saturday night, put the clocks back an hour, the end of british summer time, to take us into sunday morning. for sunday, a bit of rain to clear grey the south—east. this is a frontal system, behind it we do change the feel of the weather slightly. it starts to feel a bit cooler. will

stay windy on sunday, further heavy showers perhaps, some thunderstorms into the west, still these temperatures above where we would expect them to be, but not quite as warm by this stage, and that theme continues into next week, the temperatures will continue to drop away, but #4r0u7 remains in charge of our weather, so there will continue to be some heavy rain at times. thank you. 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, it'sjust after 1.30pm and this is your latest sports news. england's hopes of reaching the semifinals of the t20 world cup are in the balance after their must—win match against australia was abandoned.

persistent rain throughout the day in melbourne means the game never got under way — and both sides have been given a point each. england will now probably need to win both their remaining matches — and that still might not be enough to progress. australia against england at the mcg in a must—win world cup match is as big as it gets in your career, and they are the games you want to be involved in, and no matter what the result would be, it is something you want to experience as a cricketer and you don't know how often those opportunities will come around, so there's an element of sadness that you don't get, win, lose or draw, to play the match. well, the draw leaves england second in the group — just ahead of ireland, whose match against afghanistan earlier this morning was also rained off, without a ball being bowled. it leaves four teams on three points and the group wide open. the football association say progress is being made towards their

football leadership diversity code targets — despite seeing a decrease in the number of diverse candidates being hired into specific roles. in an annual report released today, figures show clubs have collectively exceeded targets of hiring black, asian and mixed heritage candidates in senior coaching roles in the men's game and in coaching roles in women's football. however, numbers have fallen for diverse candidates being hired into senior management and coaching roles in the men's game, as well as a drop in female coaches hired in women's football. in italy, serie a club monza have asked for their next league match against bologna to be postponed — after their player pablo mari was stabbed. the defender — who's on loan from arsenal — was one of the five people injured in the attack at a local supermarket, while one other person died. mari has now undergone surgery but is expected to be out for the next two months. lewis hamilton says he has no plans to retire, ahead of this weekend's mexico grand prix. it's been a year to forget

for the seven—time world champion, having failed to top the podium. he's won at least one race every season since joining formula i, hamilton, though, says he still has plenty to offer. it's like this whole thing of retiring is always lingering around, and honestly, i don't like the idea of it and i don't think i'm near it. we have a lot more work to do as a team and a lot more to do as a sport and i want to be a part of that shifting in the sport, particularly the things, and we talk about diversity and we are getting more and more women into the sport and it's notjust about getting drivers, it's about finding out what the barriers are for women in in the areas back here, the engineers and mechanics. there'll be a moment of history at the women's rugby world cup this weekend — sarah hunter will become england's

most capped international player — and the most capped women's player she'll captain the side in sunday's quarter final against australia — hunter made her england debut in 2007 and became captain after she won the world cup with the red roses in 2014. when you play whatever sport you play, when you've finished playing, if you can look back in goal, i gave my very best in every single thing i did and i was the best version of myself, i couldn't be any better, you are very lucky few can do that in very people can do that but said i can, i think. in very people can do that but said i can, ithink. i in very people can do that but said i can, i think. i think that would probably be the best tribute i could pay to her because that is what she is like, as good as she can be in everything she does improves other thing —— and puts absolutely everything into everything she does and it has been an absolute privilege to work with her and to know her as a friend. that's all the sport for now. a woman found guilty of murdering and decapitating her friend in order to inherit her

estate has been sentenced to life in prison live on camera at the old bailey today. jemma mitchell killed 67—year—old mee kuen chong at her home in north—west london last year, before putting her body into a suitcase and driving to devon to dump it. the judge sentenced mitchell to life in prison with a minimum term of 3a years. she is now the first murderer in england and wales to have their sentencing broadcast live. firstly, the amount of planning and premeditation that went into this offence, although it is right to acknowledge that this is bound to be an invariable feature of a killing done for gain, and i must avoid double counting in that regard. secondly, there is the issue of deborah's mental and physical

vulnerability to which i have already referred, and of which you were very well aware. thirdly, there is the chilling aspect of what you did to and with her body after you had killed her. you have shown absolutely no remorse, and it appears that you are in complete denial as to what you did. notwithstanding what, in my judgment, amounted to overwhelming evidence against you. the enormity of your crime is profoundly shocking. even more so given your apparent religious devotion. as well as the fact that deborah chong was a good friend to you and had shown you great kindness. the sentence of the court is one of

life imprisonment, and the minimum term of imprisonment that you will, in any event, be required to serve will be 3a years. petrol and diesel prices are not as high as they were in the summer, but the cost of filling the tank is creeping up again. the increase is hitting people living in rural areas the hardest, where there's less public transport and a higher dependence on cars. our transport correspondent katy austin has more. wherever you live, you'll have noticed filling up the tank empties your wallet more than it used to, especially if you're somewhere more rural, where driving often means longer distances and there's less public transport. offers support

with the cost of living. it also has a food bank and food pantry. demand has surged. regulars dave, joan and patience live in a mobile home park a few miles away. i've been down there 33, 3a years. and you're still driving? yeah, i know, and i'm 90 next year. you they all rely on their cars. have you noticed the price of petrol and diesel going up? oh, my god, yeah, yeah. i used to put £25 in, and that would last throughout. now we put £35 in so it's £10 more. you have to cut back on your spending, don't you? oh, yeah, you've got to cut back. and you'll think twice about driving, don't you? i do like what you call a slap and a dash. if you know what i mean. you just put a little bit in, what you need to put in. instead of going out for a ride, you know, you just go - to get the essentials, - you know, and do it that way. like, i used to pop into gloucester, which is 15 miles away, you know, i

but now it's too expensive. so are there buses? no, we haven't got a bus. but for you at the moment, you're still prepared to pay to have the car for the fuel because you don't think you've got an option? i haven't had a holiday- for years, you know, it pays for the car instead. for people who don't have a car or can't afford to get here, there's an option for the food bank to come to them. volunteers will go and deliver the food to them, but we don't actually pay volunteer costs. and so the volunteers are very kindly doing it out of their own pocket. and we haven't yet had anyone say to us that they can't afford to deliver food banks. i would anticipate that will start to happen. for many people who have to drive to get to theirjob or to keep their business going, the cost of fuel is also having a real impact. gardener, richard, depends on driving around the countryside to make a living. he's spending £240 more per month on diesel for his car and power

tools than last year, and won't take on jobs now i've actually turned down workjust because the fuel price would be too high to get to the job. i was looking to scale up the business, you know, employ a new member of staff and look at getting another vehicle for the business. but at the moment, it's just too uncertain times, to be honest, to be able to do that. and the risk isjust too high. for the under—pressure home care sector, costs are also a big challenge. this firm has upped the mileage rates carers get so they're not out of pocket, but it's also made their rounds smaller and more efficient. and that's not all. we're trying to look at alternative transportation for the carers. so one of the things that we thought of is having a moped that is much more fuel—efficient.

back at the community hub, they're focused on supporting people as much as they can. for many households and businesses in places like this, the cost of getting out and about has become just one more thing to worry about. the headlines on bbc news: a woman found guilty of murdering and decapitating her friend in order to inherit her estate has been sentenced to life in prison live on camera at the old bailey today. jemma mitchell killed 67—year—old mee kuen chong at her home in north—west london last year, before putting her body into a suitcase and driving to devon to dump it. new elections loom in northern ireland after politicians at stormont miss the deadline for restoring power—sharing elon musk finally completes his $41; billion —

that's £38 billion — takeover of twitter, and has apparently sacked the chief executive and other seniorfigures. now time for the stories making the headlines in newsrooms across the uk. if you know someone who's living away at university, you may be aware of how hard it can be to secure accommodation. earlier this week — some of them spent the night queueing outside estate agents. mark denten reports. students queuing for hours for a roof over their heads. these durham university students, some first years who only arrived in the city in the last few weeks, were queuing for accommodation starting next year. there were hundreds of students there, and there were also hundreds of students outside different estate agents.

people were queuing for estate agents that have released the previous week, even, just because they knew that there were more properties coming out. so there were queues all the way down the streets. many of them blame the university for expanding at a very fast rate. they've been expanding for a few years. they blame covid in particular for kind of grade inflation. and we can certainly see that the student numbers between 2020 and 2021 went up by about 1,000. so there certainly was a spike. but student numbers have been growing since 2017, 2018, and they have been increasing college numbers. many estate agents in the city put all their accommodation on the market in one go in what's known as the drop. engineering students tom and peter queued for six hours for a house that's still not got a confirmed room the next year, and they say many students were signing up for accommodation they hadn't even seen. so we decided to get up about half three, get there for four o'clock, and then queuejust straight the way through. and i think we were probably there for about six hours before we actually even got in the door. when you're seeing these big drops, where they're dropping everything at once, you know that if you don't

get there immediately and try to sign it, then you're probably going to end up with nothing and have to move on to the next estate agent. and as it's got through this period of about two weeks of where they're each dropping on different days, people have got more and more desperate. we had people last week coming to our house saying, "we've already signed your house, we queued since 5am." and they had no choice but to sign a house in a panic, basically, without even looking at the house. in a statement, durham university told us that they anticipated pressure on the private lettings market and increases in rents and had earlier engaged in a dialogue with private lettings agents. but they say the exceptionally early rush for accommodation was unexpected. and they say the university has been working rapidly to communicate and provide additional support for students. that was mark denten reporting. three years ago nottingham declared a climate emergency and announced it aimed to become carbon neutral by 2028. that means reducing the greenhouse gases to a minimum and offsetting what's left.

for residents, that should mean lower energy bills and warmer houses. but a report out today has calculated that doing what's needed will cost billions, as our environment correspondent sally bowman reports. council tenant kevin hill knows how lucky he is. external wall cladding with new doors, windows, etc. taking the roof right off. as part of the city's drive to become the uk's first carbon neutral city by 2028, kevin's 1970s home in radford, nottingham, is one of 77 to have what is called a deep energy retrofit. my electric has gone from about £14 a week to £17, £18 per week. but 77 houses is a drop in the ocean. the report out today from the university of nottingham says around six in ten of nottingham's properties got an energy rating of d or below, leaking heat from walls, windows, roofs and floors. but putting that right is expensive. retrofitting social housing to this

high standard costs around are £70,000 a property, and the report says ignoring flats and just doing houses alone in nottingham would cost around £7.2 billion. the university researchers behind the report say there are lessons here for the whole of the uk. with more than one fifth of greenhouse gases coming from where we live, replacing fossil fuels with renewables isn't enough. retrofitting housing fabric is really expensive. however, it is the first thing we have to focus on. if we just go down the fabircation route, the air source heat pumps are not going to be good enough. the eye—watering figures make nottingham's ambitious target look out of reach. they have a plea to the policymakers. well, i think the energy crisis has really helped to focus _ perspective on this issue. i would just say, please just look at the funding mechanisms, | look at the costs coming out of reports like this, i

and incorporate that into whatever help you can offer local authorities. - nottingham now has a factory pre—fabricating cladding for insulation. the university says that is just one example of how scaling up this sort of work could dramatically drive down costs, but strategic thinking is needed at national level. sally bowman, bbc east midlands today, nottingham. we're just hearing that a man accused of murdering his ex—girlfriend who died 21 years after he set her on fire has been found guilty of murder. her former artner found guilty of murder. her former partner has — found guilty of murder. her former partner has already _ found guilty of murder. her former partner has already served - found guilty of murder. her former partner has already served a - found guilty of murder. her former partner has already served a life i partner has already served a life sentence for causing grievous bodily harm without intent. jurors agreed

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nasa space probes have recorded a powerful collision on the surface of mars. the impact of a 200—tonne meteoroid smashing into the planet resulted in debris being hurled for more than 30 kilometres. researchers say it was the biggest such event ever documented as it took place. emer mccarthy reports. another mystery of the red planet has been revealed. the insight lander space probe witnessed a big impact crater being formed on mars. the impact was so violent it dug up huge chunks of buried ice. most exciting of all, we saw clearly in the high—resolution images that a whole lot of water ice had been exposed by this impact. you can see in this flyover video of the 3d data, boulder—sized chunks of ice in the craters, as well as splotches of ice thrown across the landscape outside the crater. this was surprising, because this is the warmest spot on mars, the closest to the equator we've ever seen water ice.

nasa says this is a crucial discovery as humans prepare to visit the red planet. discovery as humans prepare this is really an exciting result. discovery as humans prepare we know, of course, that there's water ice near the poles on mars. but in planning forfuture human exploration of mars, we'd want to land the astronauts as near to the equator as possible. and having access to ice at these lower latitudes, that ice could be converted into water, oxygen or hydrogen. that could be really useful. researchers calculate the falling space rock was about the size of a van. it dug out a 150 metre—wide bowl, hurling debris in all directions for more than 30 kilometers. the insight lander has been perched on the surface of mars since 2018, but its mission is coming to an end. it's due to run out of power and stop operations in the coming months. emer mccarthy, bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with christopher blanchett.

hello there. it's an improving picture across the country this afternoon after that earlier heavy rain that some of us saw. you can see the bigger picture on the satellite image there. low pressure out in the atlantic sending weatherfronts, cloud and rain ourway. but as i say, an improving picture through the afternoon with that rain clearing away from the north of scotland. lingering, though, for orkney and shetland. elsewhere in the sunshine, temperatures reaching the high teens, quite a brisk wind. into this evening and overnight, initially it's dry with some clear skies. but as we approach the early hours, this cloud and rain pushing in across the southwest, reaching in towards the midlands by the end of the night. further north, staying mostly dry and once again, it will be mild. looking ahead to the weekend and it does stay very mild, there will be some rain around for some, but also some sunshine with quite a warm feel.

here saturday initially, that band of cloud and rain and mistand murk working its way northwards in towards parts of northern ireland and then in towards the south of scotland, elsewhere across england, improving certainly in the southeast, some sunshine, feeling warm, 22 degrees for the west, more in the way of clouds, some heavy rain in towards wales and cumbria and clearing away from northern ireland but pushing in towards scotland. so for saturday evening, the cloud of rain still with is tracking its way northwards. elsewhere, though, mostly dry with some clear skies. looking ahead to sunday now and once again, they have we have low pressure out in the atlantic bringing weather fronts away with some outbreaks of rain initially across the southeast. cloud and rain on sunday morning — that should clear. and then on sunday, most of the wet weather in the west, some heavy showers, perhaps the odd rumble of thunder with those as well. temperatures down a notch. afternoon values there around about the mid, maybe high teens. and then as we approach next week, it remains on the unsettled side with monday, a band of rain turning quite heavy across northern ireland, monday, a band of rain turning quite heavy across northern ireland, pushing in towards the western coasts of the uk, one or two showers elsewhere, but equally some sunnier

skies to go with it, too. and once again, still mild — temperatures reaching the mid to maybe high teens. for monday evening, halloween, that heavy rain, pretty soggy through northern ireland and western coastal parts. a number of heavy showers elsewhere. and the general trend for next week, you can see in the icons it remains unsettled, but temperatures coming down closer to the seasonal average. one last thing — don't forget, this weekend, clocks go back overnight, saturday to sunday, one hour. into sunday, one hour.

this is bbc news, i'm lewis vaughanjones. the headlines... elon musk finally completes his $41; billion, that's £38 billion, takeover of twitter and has apparently sacked the chief executive and other seniorfigures. new elections loom in northern ireland after politicians at stormont miss the deadline for restoring power—sharing. and if we need to, we will go back to the people and we will seek to refresh and renew our mandate. the dup are in a — refresh and renew our mandate. the dup are in a perpetual stand—off. jemma mitchell has been given a minimum of 3a years imprisonment for the murder of mee kuen chong. she is the first murderer in england and wales to have their sentencing broadcast.

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