frank gardner, bbc news. life—saving scans when the nhs cancelled non—essential hospital appointments in the first few months of the pandemic. analysis by the bbc shows that in england alone, at least 4.4 million fewer scans were carried out between april and september, compared with the same period in 2019. our health correspondent dominic hughes has more. sherwin hall is one of those caught up in the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. the 27—year—old first went to hospital with leg pains in march, just as the crisis was growing, but it took 13 more visits until a scan at the end of may revealed cancer. his death was announced earlier this week, and his wife, latroya, says more should have been done. everything was overrun and tired. nobody was paying attention to him, and it's literally cost him his life, and no one can... it's not right you should be able to turn around and just be, like, i'm sorry now. the government needs to take accountability for what's happened. it's cost my husband his life, it's

frank gardner on john le carre, david cornwall, who's died today. thank you very much.r reviewers the chief business commentator at the independent, james moore, who i know is a very big john le carre fan. and the property and personal finance commentator, anne ashworth. that's coming up after the headlines at 11.30pm. now it's time for a look at the weather with darren bett. hello there. well, today was certainly a day to forget. lots of cloud around, lots of rain, too. an inch of rain or more in some parts of the country, leaving us with some very soggy scenes today. the weather did change later on across the far west of england and wales, and here in northern ireland, the cloud break, and this is the sort of air that we're moving into tonight and tomorrow. it's a much more showery airstream coming in the base of that area of low pressure that's chasing in behind those weather fronts that have been bringing the more persistent rain. through tonight, that more persistent rain will move its way out into the north sea, but you can see a whole rash of showers packing in b

frank gardner, bbc news. first few months of the pandemic. analysis by the bbc shows that, in england alone, at least 4.4 million fewer scans were carried out between april and september, compared with the same period in 2019. our health correspondent dominic hughes has more. sherwin hall is one of those caught up in the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. the 27—year—old first went to hospital with leg pains in march, just as the crisis was growing, but it took 13 more visits until a scan at the end of may revealed cancer. his death was announced earlier this week, and his wife, latroya, says more should have been done. everything was overrun and tired. nobody was paying attention to him, and it's literally cost him his life, and no one can... it's not right you should be able to turn around and just be, like, i'm sorry now. the government needs to take accountability for what's happened. it's cost my husband his life, it's caused my eight—month—old child not to have a father any more. and it's caused me

our security correspondent, frank gardner, gave us his thoughts about the death ofjohn le carre., was always adamant that what he was writing about was fiction. but he was considered by some to be quite anti—establishment in that he tore away the mask of glamour, i think, from the world of espionage. he portrayed it as being a pretty seedy, treacherous, and rather grubby place. but he did it in such a clever way that his novels — and later, the film adaptations of them — were so incredibly successful. he survived the end of the cold war in 1990. a lot of people said to him, "what will you write about now? the cold war is over, the soviet union doesn't exist any more. there's no longer an enemy." but he went on to write about big pharma, for example, in the constant gardener. he wrote the night manager in 1993 after the gulf war — although that didn't come to our screens until 23 years later. and actually he was ahead of his time, i think, in the sense that he stripped away that glamour. he was writing at a time when ian fleming was writing james bond novels, and bond was the quin

let's speak to frank gardner, bbc security correspondent.he only ones. i'm pretty incredulous too, i was in tripoli at the time that the verdict was announced, and we all thought that that was going to be the end of it, there was a very thorough extensive trial held at a dutch military camp. this was the scottish courts, very unusually holding a trial on neutral territory in the netherlands, and there were two suspects one who was acquitted and then the libyans suddenly expected both of them to be acquitted, we as journalists were summoned to tripoli to be ready for the plane that would bring him home, instead of which this was very bad news for libya. libby always insisted that they were innocent of this, but gadhafi's regime was certainly involved in terrorism. so, the big thing now was was anybody else involved? you know, how extraordinary is this? nearly 32 years on, as you say stick in the work of an investigative journalist who seems to have uncovered what the fbi didn't, which is quite extraordinary. now, this person does exist, he is

frank gardner, bbc news.ing for the next week. portugal's prime minister, antonio costa, who met monsieur macron yesterday, is now self isolating, as is the prime minister of spain, pedro sanchez, following a lunch with the french president on monday. marcus rashford's campaign to tackle food poverty has been widely talked about, and he's been open about how his childhood experiences inspired him to help others. now his mother mel has spoken for the first time about her son's work during the pandemic; — sally nugent reports. i had threejobs. if i didn't, it would not have been possible to have food. marcus is speaking from the bottom of his hard. —— his heart. i would rather give the food to the kids and myself. sometimes it was really bad. sometimes i didn't get anything to eat and they'd ask me, "have you had yours?" and i'd say yeah, but i didn't. sometimes we didn't even have a loaf of bread in the house. it's embarrassing to say, but we didn't. all them little struggles and the sacrifices that you made,