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speaking to his family. owen carey. let me start again. his family say he lived life to the full. owen was a fantastic lad. he'd just turned 18, full of life, fantastic sense of humour. owen had managed his allergies throughout his childhood, but a meal out in april 2017, an 18th birthday treat killed him. having told staff at byron burger in london about his dairy allergy, owen ordered what he understood to be plain grilled chicken. it was marinated in buttermilk. ingredients triggered a severe reaction. soon after leaving the restaurant, he collapsed and died near the london eye.
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the only warning about the allergen was in small print on the back of the menu. his family are campaigning for change to make restaurants safer for those with allergies. more than 10,000 people have signed the petition supporting the proposals, which include making it compulsory for men to list allergens. this afternoon, mps will debate it in parliament. six years after losing owen, the family hope the campaign will help prevent further deaths. now it's time for the news making headlines across the uk. it's 50—years since a local government reorganisation created greater manchester and merseyside. but some people have never been happy their towns were taken out of the control of county councils. and in one — bolton — the campaign to return to lancashire is growing. as mairead smyth�*s been finding out.
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i need a dozen red roses. what have you got? the red rose. the symbol of lancashire. but here in bolton, it is simply a symbol of love. well, these look nice. unless a campaign to return the town to the county of lancashire succeeds. one time i would have said yes, it should stay in lancashire, but now i'm greater manchester. ijust don't feel right being part of greater manchester. i will always be a lassie from lancashire. the call to return bolton to lancashire isn't a new one, but next year it will have renewed energy from one of the candidates for mayor of greater manchester, who wants to see bolton return to lancashire 50 years after it was made part of greater manchester in the local government act of 1974. and it's notjust bolton. i've had feedback from people - in wigan and rochdale and stockport, and they want the same, - the same sort of thing, to go back to those historic counties that
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meant something to them. i but the current mayor of greater manchester isn't convinced. bolton benefits from its closeness to manchester. bolton is getting the b network. is mr buckley really saying that he wants to take bolton out of greater manchester's integrated public transport system? and for many in bolton, the red rose campaign means little to them. do counties even matter these days? do they matter? i don't think they do. unless it affects my bills. if it's cheaper for me in lancashire, me council tax come down. i'm all right with that. i'll do that. but whatever. it doesn't really matter. parking has been banned on one of pembrokeshire's most popular beaches. �*pembrokeshire coast national park authority�* has bought land at newport sands, to stop people from taking their vehicles onto the beach — because of anti—social behaviour, dangerous driving, and concerns about overnight parking. but some locals are angry
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about the decision. aled scourfield has the story. newsreel: brought the threat - to newport sands and their answer is to ban vehicles. visitors have been parking on newport beach for decades, paying a small fee. this was the scene last summer, but the beach's popularity has caused problems. pembrokeshire coast national park authority has decided to purchase the entrance to the beach and the land near the sand dunes where cars have traditionally been parked, at the cost of £125,000. we have illegal overnight camping, littering, safety issues where cars drive where children are playing, for example, there. therefore, we were given the opportunity of purchasing the land and we took advantage of that opportunity and immediately stopped vehicles from coming onto the beach. the former owner told me there had been dangerous near—misses on the beach. the beach became more and more popular and sadly, like everything else,
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a minority spoilt it for the majority because they used to drive on the beach, took no notice of what we were trying to do, and on one occasion we nearly had a fatal accident. one couple i spoke to had driven onto the beach without realising there was now a ban, but they were supportive of the change. some people, when we've been down here, they've been driving like lunatics. and i think i think in a good way it's good and it's safer for the children. visitors to the beach will now either have to pay to park in the nearby car park, catch a shuttle bus or park in newport itself. some locals are concerned there won't be enough space, particularly for disabled visitors, although the number of disabled spaces in the car park will double from 3 to 6. this will prevent disabled people accessing the beach and being able to take the vehicles onto the beach.
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and i can't see where the benefits are in terms of sustainability that they're arguing about, because you can have a queue of 150 cars going up the golf club road standing and producing more pollution. pembrokeshire coast national park authority say they won't be fining visitors or putting barriers upon the beach for now, but that could change if people flout the ban on parking. a major archaeological dig to expose an imperial bathhouse in carlisle could prove that the city was once at the centre of the roman empire. preparations are underway to discover the extent of the structure which was used by the third century emperor, septimius severus. mark mcalindon reports. this site at carlisle cricket club has been dug up before. some of its history is well known, but land beneath this new trench hasn't been examined and it could throw up exciting new discoveries.
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we've got four bathhouses on this site, one going back to hadrian, and then we got this monumental severan building. it's probably the largest building on hadrian's wall, and we have this imperial connection when septimius severus was up in the north of england. so in effect this was the centre of rome. it's just an incredible story. carlisle could have been, you know, the centre of the roman empire. each patch of freshly dug soil is carefully examined. anything potentially interesting is taken away, and already volunteers are polishing finds and sifting the earth for fragments of the city's roman past. found two roman coins this morning, so i'm made up. you always find little bits and you wonder what they are and you know, what they were used for. and who touched them last. we've always been interested in history of all ages, - and we just saw this advertised. so we thought, oh, i'll have a crack at it. - i always wanted to do a roman dig. there's some lovely, lovely people
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and everybody helps each other. and ifound my niche washing. i'm just a washer. anyone who wants to be involved as a volunteer from may 22nd can book places via the website eventbrite. we want to produce a publication to bring all this together. more importantly, we want something that is accessible to the general public because it's everyone's history. long term, it's hoped what's found here can either be preserved on site or put on display to illustrate the significance of carlisle's roman heritage. mark mcalinden. bbc look north, carlisle. david hunter, who is 75 and from
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northumberland, denies murder. his lawyers say it was assisted suicide. let's get more on this by crossing life to the courthouse where our correspondent is. fiona, what can you tell us?— correspondent is. fiona, what can ou tell us? , ., ., ., ., you tell us? 75-year-old grandfather soke for you tell us? 75-year-old grandfather spoke for over _ you tell us? 75-year-old grandfather spoke for over four _ you tell us? 75-year-old grandfather spoke for over four hours _ you tell us? 75-year-old grandfather spoke for over four hours through . you tell us? 75-year-old grandfather spoke for over four hours through an j spoke for over four hours through an interpreter here at court. he occasionally looked very tearful when he was talking about the last moments of his wife's life. at home here in paphos where they retired to. david hunter has waited 17 months for this day. he was arrested in december 2021. it is the first time he has had to give his full version of events. we heard how he regretted killing his wife. he said, i would never help her to take her life if she hadn't begged me, he said. he claimed that she had become hysterical and in an attempt to
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reassure her, he told her, i will do it, iwill reassure her, he told her, i will do it, i will not tell you how or when, and he said that that can't down. he said that he had no intention to kill her, he was hoping something good would happen, a small miracle, that she would change her mind. he said, i didn't want to kill my wife, i loved her so much. we also heard details of how her condition had deteriorated since the pandemic broke out. she couldn't get the injection she needed, and at one point had to wait three weeks for an injection when normally she would have two injections a week. she then began to have two blood transfusions a week and she was so ashamed of her condition that she didn't leave the house. david hunter told the court that janice house. david hunter told the court thatjanice said this, i am sick of being alive, it is just leaving hospital and sitting at home. it is what we have been doing for the past three or four years. what we have been doing for the past three orfour years. this is no life. when david hunter was cross—examined, the prosecution said
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to him that he had decided how and when this would happen without janice's consent. he had said that that was not true, he wanted her to calm down and waited eight or nine days for her to change her mind. i hope she would. there was no premeditation. this is really important because his legal team have always been arguing that this was not premeditated murder. assisted suicide it doesn't exist in cyprus which is why they were trying to change the charge to manslaughter. that was unsuccessful and that was because a judge said that the court had previously heard that the court had previously heard that janice that the court had previously heard thatjanice hunter was that the court had previously heard that janice hunter was suffocated over her mouth and nose and that was enough evidence to continue the trial on premeditated charges. the hearing has finished here in paphos for today. we spoke to his daughter who is following events in the uk. she says it has been an emotional experience to see her dad relive the worst day of his life. the trial is due to resume on the 23rd of may.
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fiona, thank you. that is our correspondent there. now it's time for a look at the weather with darren bett. hello there. in contrast to last week, this week is looking much, much quieter. now it's quite a cold start to the week. it's quite chilly out there today. gradually it gets a little bit warmer day by day over the week ahead. and whilst there are some showers around, its nowhere near as wet as it was last week. we've had this band of cloud overnight push south eastwards across the uk. that didn't produce much rain. following on from that, there are a few showers and we've got the winds more from the north or northwest, bringing in a chillier air. and within that chillier air we've seen the cloud building up today. for the most part, there's not a great deal of depth to the cloud, so there's a lot of dry weather around. but there's the chillier air. these are the temperatures that we've got. so 22 degrees in london yesterday, 15 today and a few showers dotted about late afternoon into the early evening, particularly across eastern scotland and northeast england. those will decay, though, overnight. skies will clear for the most part
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and the winds will drop as well, except in northern scotland where we've got more cloud and showers later. so here, not as cold as it was last night. otherwise, a chilly four orfive degrees perhaps first thing on tuesday morning, where many places will start dry and sunny. but we do have more cloud in scotland with some showers. that will move down across the country, bringing some showers into northern england. elsewhere we'll see the cloud bubbling up and spreading out a little bit, but it should stay dry. the winds won't be as strong tomorrow. it won't feel as cold tomorrow. and those temperatures creeping up by a degree or so, up to 16 or 17 degrees. now, things are going to be fairly quiet because high pressure is going to be building in across the uk. now, around the top of that area of high pressure, we do have a weather front which will bring this rain into northern scotland on wednesday. otherwise plenty of sunshine to begin with. again, the cloud builds up and it could just be thick enough to give one or two light showers through lincolnshire, east anglia and the south east of england. but again, its continuing to get a little bit warmer day by day, 17 or 18 degrees, but still quite chilly across northern
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parts of scotland. we do have high pressure though, extending across the uk through the rest of the week. that's bringing in these higher temperatures. but occasionally these weather fronts will move down from the northwest and this is where we're more likely to have some showers. but having said that, there aren't too many of those over the week ahead, some spells of sunshine at times. by the end of the week, temperatures are 19 or 20 celsius.
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live from london. this is bbc news volodymyr zelensky makes a surprise visit to the uk for talks with rishi sunak at his country residence, they discuss fighter jets and sunak at his country residence, they discuss fighterjets and training for pilots. turkey look set for a run—off vote for president in two weeks' time after the country's most closely fought election in decades. in the uk the bbc discovered some people are being wrongly diagnosed with adhd art online assessments by private clinics. —— after online assessments. hello and welcome.
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