the is a years and six months. the days he has already spent in custody will be deducted. i appreciate this is the same for the first defendant, but having applied the guideline, the factors that have let me there are different. when i have considered and balanced the individual features of each defendant, that is the clear conclusion that i have reached for each of them. the second defendant will also remain on licence for the rest of their life. there will be conditions decided when he leaves custody which he will have to follow for the rest of his life. if he breaks those conditions, he may have to return to custody. i order a separate penalty for the first defendant on count two, confession of a bladed article in a public place. i ordered no separate penalty for the second

defendant ongoing to. i order forfeiture and destruction of the machete. i make no order for costs and new order for compensation. the victim surcharge applies. finally, i would like to extend the corpus my condolences to shawn seesahai's family, and to thank them for the dignified way in which they have conducted themselves during this trial. i would also like to thank the police, the council, the intermediaries and all the court staff involved. that concludes the sentencing remarks. concludes the sentencing remarke— remarks. you have been listening _ remarks. you have been listening to _ remarks. you have been listening to justice - remarks. you have been i listening to justice amanda remarks. you have been - listening to justice amanda to pulse their outlining the sentencing of the two boys who murdered shawn seesahai in wolverhampton last year. they have been sentenced to detain at his majesty's pleasure. they will serve 8.5 years in custody

before they are eligible for parole. she started off by talking about shawn seesahai himself, saying he was a humble person who'd love to help others. his mother described him as generous and compassionate. he came to finish his education in the uk. she talked about the circumstances around the killing, saying that the facts of the case were horrific and shocking. and the first defendant had bought a machete from a friend for £40 and kept it under his bed. he and a friend had attacked shawn seesahai, who had been sitting on the bench in a park and they had had a discussion. they then attacked shawn seesahai and gave him a 23 centimetres stab wounds. she said she was sure they intended to kill him. she said the attack was on the spur of the moment, not premeditated. she went on to

outline how she had come to the sentencing guidelines. to come up sentencing guidelines. to come up with this figure of eight years and six months minimum that they will have to serve before they are eligible for parole, then they will be on licence for the rest of their lives. she said the first defendant had experienced violence at home and had complex needs and had been a victim of developmental trauma. the second defendant had come from a supportive family and had shown remorse. she entered her remarks by talking about giving her condolences to shawn seesahai's family. earlier we seesa hai's family. earlier we heard seesahai's family. earlier we heard from a chief superintendent who spoke after the sentencing.— the sentencing. shawn's life was taken — the sentencing. shawn's life was taken by _ the sentencing. shawn's life was taken by two _ the sentencing. shawn's life was taken by two boys - the sentencing. shawn's life was taken by two boys who l the sentencing. shawn's life - was taken by two boys who armed themselves with the machete. it is that a huge impact on us

all. it is shocking and saddening. the impact of knife crime is devastating no matter where you live in the country. this is an issue that affects us all. much work has been done and we have had successes in some areas, however, this is clearly not enough. we are listening to families affected by knife crime and acting on their feedback by knife crime and acting on theirfeedback to by knife crime and acting on their feedback to see what more we can do with partners to stop the devastation caused by knife crime. 0ur the devastation caused by knife crime. our responsibility is to work together with partners to understand why children and young people think it is ok to carry weapons and take further action to stop this extremely dangerous behaviour. 0ur action to stop this extremely dangerous behaviour. our work will not stop and any death or injury as a result of knife crime will never be acceptable. the two boys are not being

named for legal reasons. they are detained during his majesty's pleasure and will be serving at least eight years and six months as a minimum time in custody before they are eligible for parole and even at that point there will be subject to being on licence for the rest of their lives. we now know that these are the youngest convicted murderer since the killers of james bulger more than 30 years ago. shawn seesahai, who died aged 19, at the hands of two i2—year—olds who will now be detained at his majesty's pleasure. flash flooding has caused damage to homes and businesses in parts of england after another night of heavy rainfall.

well, the rain has been coming down heavily all morning and there is real concern about the level of the river here. if you take a look normally you'd be able to walk past along the path, but you can't today because there is so much water and it's flowing very quickly now. local residents tell me on monday, the river actually reached the highest level that has ever been recorded here, and a number of homes nearby flooded so anxiously. people are watching what is going to happen as water feeds into this river following the torrential rain we have seen overnight. there are a lot of flood warnings in place across england, meaning that flooding is likely also flood alerts, meaning that flooding is possible. weather is going to do. the weather warnings that were in place for this morning have now expired, but certainly a lot of problems on the roads around here.

some roads are flooded leading up to the village of sharnbrook, and they've taken the decision there to close the academy. school and buses are being cancelled. further afield on the m5 near bristol, part of the motorway has had to be shut because there's so much water on the carriageway that is causing a lot of traffic disruption now. we have had heavy rain for a number of days that have caused so many issues. there are people saying, "how much more are we going to get?" well, it is going to be an improving picture according to the forecasters. but certainly it is going to be another difficult day ahead as people deal with the consequences of all the rain that has come down overnight and during the course of this morning. let's ta ke let's take a quick look at what has been happening in other

parts of the country. in gloucestershire, councils have been handing out sandbags. this is birmingham where men had —— a man had to be rescued by police after his bmw became submerged up to its bonnet. afc telford have shown pictures of its pitch in water. the club is appealing to fans to turn up today and help with work needed. it has been revealed by lawyers. repr lawyers. esenting victims of alleged abuse at the hands of the former harrods boss mohammed al fayed, that more than 60 people have come forward as part of a claim, with more to come. justice for harrods survivors say their claim is becoming increasingly global in scope. this comes after the bbc heard testimony last week from more than 20 former harrods employees who said the billionaire sexually assaulted or raped them.

we have been looking at the enablers, the people that perhaps made it happen for mohammad awwad fired and harrods. what did authorities who are made aware of this issue do about it? one of those issue do about it? one of those is the uk's general medical council, who effectively says if doctors are fit to practice. i spoke to a woman who went for a job interview at harrods in 2008 was asked to do a very intimate medical examination and it was fun she had an infection. she was told it would be kept confidential, but then she had a meeting with mohamed al fayed and he seemed to know all about it. he asked if she had picked up the thing, and she believed that was a reference to the prescription she was bent to have picked up. she was traumatised by this, but then went to the general

medical council nine years later. the response she went to the gmc has angered her because in 2017 they said they could not investigate because more than five years have passed since the allegations and it would only be able to waive that if it was in the greater public interest. they felt that this allegation wasn't serious enough to let them do that, saying they couldn't investigate mohamed al fayed anyway because it was not a doctor and would not be able to get at the bottom of why harrods was doing these tests. this woman said it was just another example of a missed opportunity to hold to account those who enabled mohamed al fayed. russell findlay has been elected as the new scottish conservative leader, winning a majority of votes in the first round. addressing members immediately after his win was announced, mr findlay — who was elected to holyrood in 2021

after decades working as an investigative journalist — urged the party to come together following a bruising period. he pledged "common sense" under his new leadership, and urged everyone to come together as one united team applause. fair enough, fair enough. thank you. i want to start by thanking everyone who put their faith in me and thank, obviously, to every single member who voted for me and every sausage. sorry, sorry... every supporter who worked so hard for my campaign. thank you, of course, to my fellow candidates and megan and murdo, who i greatly respect and value along with the rest of my msp colleagues. now everyone must come together as one united team. let us start the hard work right now to win back public trust. i want to deliver a message to people across scotland who do not feel that anyone represents them, who are scunnered by the divisiveness and the fringe obsessions of the scottish parliament, who feel let down and failed

by politicians of every single party, sometimes including ours, who think politicians are all the same. if you feel that way, i get it, but i'm not the same. i'm not a career politician. i understand your frustrations and your sense that nobody really represents the views that you share and hold, and that is going to change under my leadership. the scottish conservatives are going to change. we will work hard to earn your trust by doing things differently. we will be a voice for decent, mainstream scotland and the values of hard work, self—reliance and value for taxpayers. we will spend our time and energy on your concerns, your hopes and your needs. the partner of nicola bulley has described

the online obsession with her disappearance as a "monster" that got out of control. the 45—year—old mother—of—two went missing while walking her dog in january last year. her disappearance received world—wide coverage and became the subject of online conspiracy theories by amateur internet detectives. nicola's family has shared publicly, for the first time since her body was found, how they were impacted by the intense social media speculation over her case. emergency. hello, my partner left this morning at 8:30 to take my two children to school, and the dog went with her. and then the school's just rung me to say that they've just found the dog, somebody found the dog, and my partner's put her phone down on a bench and the dog lead. nicky would usually get back after taking the girls and walking willow. when i got there, got

handed willow and like, then i was handed nicky's phone and i'm just sort of stood there like, what? what? i wasjust sat on my desk and i got a phone call from paul, and he was panicky and frantic, and he was like, "something's happened, something strange has happened." we got a phone call, i didn't we, from louise to say nicky's missing. we drove over as quick as we could to paul's, and i said, "i've got to go to st michael's." i've got to try and help. there was a possibility that she'd entered the water. there was a possibility that she'd sought time alone and left the area. there was a possibility that she was ill or injured on land. but the biggest thing was the dog, willow. she was off the lead, there was nothing to keep her in that location physically, but she wouldn't leave the area between the bench and the water. in my mind she was in the water. i was really hoping we'd hear something before dark. somebody will be in touch with you there, 0k? we didn't sleep much. no.

we just kept saying, where are you? - yeah. 0n the day that i took over the case, i went to meet the family. at no point was paul ever a suspect. he'd not left the house until he was contacted by the school. she just seemed like a normal person, like myself. it could be me, like, i walk my dogs. i was then trying to understand what had happened, why it had happened. there was an update a couple of days ago... 0n tiktok i started to do the lives and we got over a thousand, sometimes nearly two, so you could see it escalating. it can absolutelyl spread the word. there's two billion users worldwide. and when i did that first video, it got. three million views. social media, nicky used it more than i did because she used to sell stuff so she would do live videos. hello, good afternoon. i hope everybody's having a lovely saturday. when you experience something like this, you realise what a huge monster it can be,

i guess. lancashire police say they believe that... it was all over social media. it was on the television everywhere. speaking german. it was almost as if people didn't want to believe the police. ijust had a message come up from a lady referring - to a video of me dancing - during lockdown, and she sent me a message saying "wow, they say life goes on, - but dancing around your kitchen like that already." _ and i was like, what the hell? awful things started to be said. i was getting direct messages from people that i've never met, and you can't do anything about it. we had arranged for a press conference in order to try and negate the conspiracy theorists. as soon as she was reported missing, based on a number of specific vulnerabilities that we were made aware of, nicola was graded as high risk.

ijust remember watching it and hearing about - the vulnerabilities and looking at you and thinking, _ "oh, god, media are not. going to leave that there." we had to do something. we spoke to the family, we came up with a form of words with their agreement, and by that i don't mean they were happy about this, they absolutely weren't. "it doesn't have to say that, it doesn't have to say this," and then before we knew it, it had just gone. we were still working on it and then they'd released it. lancashire police are facing a growing backlash for revealing that she'd had ongoing struggles with alcohol and the menopause. what would nicky think of all this? i mean, she'd be, bless her, she would be mortified. for anyone joining now, . lancashire police said this morning, "you may be aware of police activity around - the river to reports - of a body in the river wyre." at the river bank i could see the divers in the river with what i now know is nicky. so we put a tent up and i sat with nicky in that tent for quite a long time,

until she was taken to the hospital. nicky, she was so beautiful, she didn't know it. as far as nicky, going missing and the mystery to it, i guess, it was just an accident. it doesn't always have to be something sinister linked to something that happens. sometimes bad things just happen. cheers, mummy, i miss you,i and i wish you could be here. i still struggle talking about nicky in the past sense. i feel very blessed that we found each other. the prime minister has had a two—hour dinner with former us president donald

trump in new york. it is the first time the two men have met. sir keir was in new york for the un general assembly but made time to meet trump at his new york base, trump tower. 0ur political editor chris mason has more. hello from new york, where the prime minister has spent the last few days meeting world leaders at the un general assembly. but before heading back to the airport to fly back to the uk, a two—hour dinner at trump tower, meeting the former president. alongside the prime minister, the foreign secretary, david lammy, who has previously been pretty disobliging about mrtrump, calling him a racist and a neo—nazi sympathising sociopath. oh, to be a fly on the wall when those two men were talking. little detail from either side about precisely what was spoken about. intriguingly, the prime minister has not met the vice president, kamala harris, the democratic candidate. that wasn't possible because of diary commitments. he does hope to talk

to her soon. a year to the day since the sycamore gap tree was cut down, the national trust is offering communities across the uk the chance to re—plant the saplings rescued from the site. there was an outpouring of anger when the tree, which stood in a dip next to hadrian's wall in northumberland was felled with a chainsaw. now, after nurturing the young twigs and seeds from the site, 49 saplings are being offered. 0ur reporter harriet bradshaw has more. the iconic sycamore gap tree. it was shocking. it was devastating. it felt really brutal.

but, a small team managed to salvage seeds and twigs, which they successfully sowed and grafted in a secret greenhouse. this tree has been given a second chance at life. so, chris, the last time i was here, i could hold these seedlings in my hands. what's happened to them? well, they've grown a little bit. here they are. 0h, crikey! look at that. that one's taller than me. and i'm five foot five. yeah, they've done pretty well. how many have you got? we've got roughly about 100 at the moment, but we've got a few more seedlings coming on as well. and there's about nine or so grafts and budded plants. you can't help but feel hopeful handling new life and seeing the roots here are established. but the question now is... ..where will their new homes be?

the national trust wants these saplings to be symbols of hope and healing. each tree will go to a very special place. one of the first will be planted here in memory of 12—year—old fergus. everybody, it's fergus from the cricket channel. and today we're going to be looking at the sweet shop. let's go. we're going to start on one knee. fergus was an absolute delight. um, it was a joy and a real privilege to be his mum. fergus was planning a trip to walk hadrian's wall, along which the sycamore gap tree was nestled. but he never made it. yesterday, they gave me some news. i have some sort of cancer in my leg. he was diagnosed with primary bone cancer — osteosarcoma. your worst fear after your child dies is that he'll be forgotten. since fergus died, nature has been a constant source of strength to us — its power to regenerate

and to console. take me to where this tree is going to go, then, ruth. this is the spot we chose. fergus came here every day. there's something about the story of the new life being created from the sycamore gap that made me think of all — all the children affected by childhood cancer. they deserve a second chance of life. the original sycamore was 49ft tall, and there will be 49 saplings for communities to apply for. it's really satisfying seeing how well they've done actually. it was a little bit touch and go at the beginning. the trees will be going to projects such as this — tina's haven in easington on the durham coast. where do we think that the sapling might go then, eric? thinking about the entrance, because i think it could

be really powerful. and my daughter tina was absolutely a unique human being. through her life, although she had issues with childhood trauma, addiction and her mental health, she was bold, she was strong, she was beautiful. sue robson's daughter tina died in 2020, aged 35. following her death, sue wanted to create a wild sanctuary — a place of recovery for others dealing with the problems tina faced. when tina died, my hope died with her. and, equally, when that beautiful tree was cut down, you know, it was a violent, devastating act. but where the parallel came in was about those themes of hope, of nature, of recovery. having the tree, you know, such a significant symbol of hope is absolutely massive.

to be planted next year, they're being called trees of hope for the people and communities they'll become part of. harriet bradshaw, bbc news. in the moment we will be going to the one o'clock news. that will have all the national and international stories were recovering here on bbc news. first, let's find out what the weather is up to. it has been a very wet start to the day, making worst the flooding issues that we have flooded ground through much of england and wales. this afternoon it is brightening up for many with plenty of sunshine. that is the earlier rain clearing away into the near continent. strong northerly winds develop and drag down some colder air from

the arctic across all areas as we push towards the end of the day. it could be a slow clearance across the far south—east but sky is brightening up for many and there will be scattered showers. they could have a wintry element across wales and scotland. the winds will pick up, as well, at chilling north early. those temperatures below parfor early. those temperatures below par for the time of year, just into the low teens for many of us, but even cooler than that in northern scotland. tonight will be a chilly one under clear skies. showers will peppe" clear skies. showers will pepper coastal areas. temperatures were covering here by the end of the night, but a cold one for many. there will be a touch of frost in the north. high pressure profane from the site for the start of the weekend, bringing pleasant conditions, a lot more sunshine around. it will be a chilly start, dry and sunny for

england and wales. the cloud across scotland and northern ireland will filter further southward and eastward through the day. temperatures perhaps a little bit drier. low teens further north. saturday night will be another cold one under clear skies. sunday starts fine but the area of high pressure is short lived. low pressure begins to wind itself up, bringing wet and windy conditions across southern and western areas through the day on sunday. we have yellow warning is in force for strong winds in the south—west here. further north we will stay dry, turning cloudier through the day, temperatures beginning to lift a little bit, mid and the site, low further north. a quiet spell for the middle part of the upcoming week, with temperatures recovering, than it earns more unsettled again by the end of the week.

today at one... britain's youngest knife murderers — two 13—year—old boys are sentenced to a minimum of eight and a half years in custody. they killed shawn seesahai, who was 19, with a machete in a playing field in wolverhampton. police say his killing was shocking and saddening.

the impact of knife crime is devastating, no matter where you live in the country. this is an issue that affects us all. the two boys were 12 years old at the time — the youngest convicted murderers since the killers ofjames bulger. also on the programme... more than 60 flood warnings are in place in england as heavy rain causes flash flooding and travel disruption. questions for the doctors regulator after it refused to investigate a woman's complaint about alleged medical malpractice at harrods when it was owned by mohamed al fayed. nicola bulley�*s partner speaks out about the impact social media speculation over her disappearance had on him and his family. when you experience something like this, you realise what a huge monster it can be, i guess. a year since the famous sycamore gap tree was cut down, saplings from the tree will be planted across the country. and coming up on bbc news,

we'll tell you who each of the four british clubs involved will face in the women's champions league