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leicestershire police are investigating circumstances surrounding the deaths.the year, including closures that had been announced. sse has been fined almost £10 million for overcharging we national grid, 0fgem claimed excessive fees for switching off the supply of renewable power at times when the grid had to much supply. the number of people living in temporary accommodation in england has reached accommodation in england has reached a record high, officialfigures show almost 105,000 households were affected at the end of march. live with bbc news, global attention has been focused in ukraine, while global attention has been focused on the war in ukraine, yemen' s long running conflict is grinding on — and children remain in the firing line. the united nations says more than 11,000 children have been killed or injured in nine years of war, in the arab world s poorest country. there's been less violence since a temporary truce last year between houthi rebels backed by iran, who seized the capital sanaa in 2014 and a saudi—led coalition backed by the uk and the

pitchfork was jailed for life for raping and strangling two teenage girls in leicestershire in the 1980snd two children lost their lives in cambridge on friday, has concluded that it was probably caused by an e—bike which was being charged at their home. the fire service is now urging people to avoid charging e—bike or e—scooter batteries overnight. a cabinet office inquiry has found the official who led the investigation into lockdown parties at downing street broke the civil service code as a result of "undeclared contact" with the labour party. sue gray was cleared to work for labour by parliament's advisory appointments body last week. labour said the cabinet office's findings were a "political stunt" by the conservatives. a man who claims he was sexually assaulted by the actor kevin spacey, has described the hollywood veteran as a �*predator�*. kevin spacey is on trial facing 12 counts of sexual assault against four men, all of which which he denies. our correspondent helena wilkinson reports from southwark crown court. kevin spacey arriving at court for the second day of his trial

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leicestershire police say they're investigating the circumstances surrounding the deaths.p to 2000 jobs by the end of the year. the company is following vodaphone and bt in significantly reducing its workforce. and if you provide a ssc find. the number of people living in temporary accomodation in england, has reached a record high. official figures show almost 105,000 households were affected, at the end of march. that includes more than a 130,000 children. you're live with bbc news. the governor of florida, ron desantis, who's running for the 2024 republican presidential nomination, has been involved in a car accident. a spokesman said neither mr desantis nor his team had been injured. mr desantis was travelling to a campaign event in tennessee. he's seen as the main rival of the former president donald trump in the republican contest. live now to washington, we can speak to sean dilley. what details are here in about the accident? ~ ., ., , ., , accident? more details then released b the accident? more details then released by the camping _ accident? more details then r

this map here | shows the area where the air ambulance covers, so we got derbyshire, leicestershire,e last 20 years, they have been over 50,000 missions. last 20 years, they have been over50,000 missions. normally, there are between three to five flights a day, and the average costis flights a day, and the average cost is around £1700. pack light. the crews say that so far this year they are busier than ever, but they are dedicated to help people whenever they need it. for more stories from across the uk, head to the bbc news website. you're watching bbc news. new details are coming in about the us soldier detained in north korea after crossing the border without authorization. us officials say the american soldier crossed the demilitarized zone between north and south korea while on a tour. commonly known as the dmz, the area is one of the most heavily fortified in the world. the army has identified the soldier as travis king. he was reportedly being escorted back to the us for disciplinary reasons, before he turned around at the airport and joined a tour of the north and south kore

. >> that's london and the south—east, the east of england, leicester, leicestershire , leicester, leicestershireessex, all that sort of area. for that's gusts of up to 55mph, which doesn't seem that high. but remember that the trees are in full leaf at the moment. so strong gusts can cause more damage than they would do, say, for november when for example, in november when all down, junior for example, in november when all have down, junior for example, in november when all have been down, junior for example, in november when all have been strikinginior for example, in november when all have been striking forr doctors have been striking for a third day in england . third day in england. >> the bma has warned the government that their members will not back down over demands for a 35% pay rise. that's despite the prime minister adopting the recommendations of independent pay review bodies and making a final pay offer of 6. the five day strike, the longest in nhs history, runs until tuesday morning . one of until tuesday morning. one of the last two ships exporting grain from ukraine under an agree

. >> that's london and the south—east, the east of england, leicester, leicestershire , leicester, leicestershireessex, all that sort of area. for that's gusts of up to 55mph, which doesn't seem that high. but remember that the trees are in full leaf at the moment. so strong gusts can cause more damage than they would do, say, for november when for example, in november when all down, junior all the leaves are down, junior doctors been striking for doctors have been striking for a third day in england . third day in england. >> the bma has warned the government that their members will not back down over demands for a 35% pay rise. that's despite the prime minister adopting the recommendations of independent pay review bodies and making a final pay offer of 6. the five day strike, the longest in nhs history, runs until tuesday morning . one of until tuesday morning. one of the last two ships exporting grain from ukraine under an agreement with russia has arrived . now in istanbul, the arrived. now in istanbul, the black sea grain deal, which expires on monday, has enabled ukraine to export grain an

this part of leicestershire?loughborough this of loughborough and this part of the leicestershire. >> whether you come here a >> so whether you come here as a student, whether you're a local resident, person in resident, if you're a person in business loughborough, business here in loughborough, it's our it's it's part of our dna. it's really, really important. people cherish the carillon tower. they like to hear the bells chiming as they do regularly . so that's as they do regularly. so that's part of the life of loughborough. if you're here for the market, you hear the bells chiming and it's something which people really like and i think respect it. at the same time, we can hear those bells in the background right now, which means that caroline, who we saw in the video we just played, is up there on own . up there on her own. >> not an army of bell ringers, which get a local which you might get in a local village here in that village church here in that sound hearing, the special recitals that are going to take

regiment, along with calvert illustrated right up of the hut camp, were given to the museum of the leicestershireegiment. the descendant regiment of the 17 foot wall. one of the coldstream guard built plates. not this particular specimen was donated to the guards museum in london. lewis fedele, loza amelio. a now forgotten hero served as captain in the 54th massachusetts volunteer infantry. the second all-black regiment raised by the union during the civil war. he emerged from the attack on fort wagner in command of the regiment. since every other officer was killed or wounded. now, do you remember matthew broderick as colonel robert gould shaw in glory? yeah, i think that that's the event we're talking about. he was there. amelia was a rabid button collector and was long in contact with calvert. in 1911, he'd donated his collection of 1569 military buttons spanning three centuries to the essex institute in salem, mass. today's peabody, essex museum. as for the terms of the gift, the essex issued a partly illustrated catalog of the collection. it was to become the standard reference work on revol

, essex, all that leicestershire, essex, all that sort of area. for gusts of up to 55mph, which doesn't seem that high. but remember that the trees are full leaf that the trees are in full leaf at the so strong gusts at the moment. so strong gusts can damage they can cause more damage than they would example, in would do. say, for example, in november the leaves are down. >> well, it won't affect wimbledon because of the roof on centre court. of course, later on, ons jabeur will take on marketa vondrousova in the women's final . ms jabeur from women's final. ms jabeur from tunisia suffered heartbreak last yearin tunisia suffered heartbreak last year in the final , so hoping to year in the final, so hoping to go one better on centre court this time around and if she does it she'll become the first female winner of a grand slam for an arab or an african country. meanwhile her czech opponent will become the first unseeded women's title winner in wimbledon history if she goes to on lift the famous trophy . on lift the famous trophy. that's it for the

, and leicester, leicestershire, essex, all that sort of area.ch doesn't seem that high. but remember that the trees are in leaf at the moment. so in full leaf at the moment. so strong cause more strong gusts can cause more damage would do. say, damage than they would do. say, for in november for example, in november when all well it all the leaves are down. well it comes as the cerberus heatwave continues to sweep across europe i >> -- >>a >> a forest fire has broken out on the spanish island of la palma in the canaries. authorities have had to evacuate more than 500 people with an area of about 140 hectares destroyed by the fire. well, in breaking news for you now. israel's president, benjamin netanyahu, has been admitted to hospital. he is in a good condition, we understand, but at undergoing checks after reporting chest pain, his office has said. and we'll bring you more details on that story as we get it . now marketa vondrousova get it. now marketa vondrousova has made wimbledon history by becoming the first unseeded woman to win the title

but all these american guys, they'll be flocking to leicestershire. yeah. ham. >> tottenham court road. yeah >> tottenham court road. yeah >> an friend of mine >> an american friend of mine said he'd go. was coming to said he'd go. he was coming to tottenham and it turned out he was trying to at tottenham was trying to meet at tottenham court road. >> tottenham, tottenham. i always there was some always remember there was some australian wanting to go to lugan >> brugge loughborough, loughborough. >> oh yes. luca. >>— >> oh yes. luca. >> luca brugge edinburg. >> luca brugge edinburg. >> oh, that's oh. >> oh, that's oh. >> edinburg . >> edinburg. >> edinburg. >> well, it makes sense, but it's all wrong. >> these only britain could come up with names like that, couldn't they? you know, it's so british, it , really? and british, isn't it, really? and so inconsistent . how would so inconsistent. how would anybody know to how pronounce anything? exactly. >> leicester , leicester square. >> leicester, leicester square. >> leicester, leicester square. >> difficult

linda de—man and dawn ashworth in leicestershire . he ashworth in leicestershire.s back behind bars two months later for breaching licence conditions of his release. now by the release. i'm joined now by the barrister, chris dore. chris, thank you very, very much. is the government right to intervene here and ask them to reconsider their decision to allow this guy to be released? do you think? >> yeah, i think they are right to do that. just so your viewers understand the process the parole board makes, the original decision. so that's a group of members of the parole who members of the parole board who are completely independent of legal process and of government. but but there are a number of checks and balances in the system, the first of which is for the secretary to for the secretary of state to intervene ask a judge. so intervene to ask a judge. so this is a quite a senior judge this is a quite a seniorjudge usually to look at everything the parole board has done and consider whether they followed their properly , whether their process properly, whether or de

i think the first moment really is when he was playing for leicestershire against notts in a t20 gameery during the edgbaston test match was testament to the fact he is continuing to work on his bowling and making himself better. you are riaht to be and making himself better. you are right to be proud. _ and making himself better. you are right to be proud. lovely _ and making himself better. you are right to be proud. lovely to - and making himself better. you are right to be proud. lovely to see - right to be proud. lovely to see those pictures in that recap. let's ask you before you go about this final day at the fifth ashes test. what is your prediction? the weather is looking dry. i what is your prediction? the weather is looking dry-— is looking dry. i am in london at the moment- — is looking dry. i am in london at the moment. it _ is looking dry. i am in london at the moment. it is _ is looking dry. i am in london at the moment. it is quite - is looking dry. i am in london at the moment. it is quite humid, | is looking dry. i am in london at - the moment. it is quite humid, qui

here at east midlands airport in leicestershire, we've seen scheduled flights returning from rhodes overnighted holidaymakers and their relatives here in the arrivals lounge. we've heard stories of evacuation, of power cuts at hotels, holidays cut short and lots and lots of smoke from those wildfires in rhodes. close up, it looked like hell on earth, to be honest. and, you know, there's a lot of fire, but ijust hope everybody is ok. we heard multiple sirens this morning. all the power went off, so we were panicked. you saw everyone coming out in their balconies trying to see what's going on. no—one was telling us anything. i think we went to some of the actual hotel staff, knew that there was fires and stuff, but i don't think anyone realised how bad it was when you're like, no, the centre of it. yeah. we got to the airport ati am. so yeah. you had to wait 16 hours for yourflight home. well, many flights and holidays to rhodes have been cancelled, but flights to repatriate stranded holidaymakers are still going ahead. and later today, easyjet putting on an extra two flights as well. and if yo

, that leicestershire, essex, all that sort of area. strong gusts at the moment. so strong gusts can more than they can cause more damage than they would for example, would do, say, for example, in november leaves are november when all the leaves are down. there's also down. and there's also a thunderstorm warning across scotland well. don't worry, scotland as well. don't worry, we get it here in the we won't get it here in the south, but a thunderstorm warning rain warning and there's a rain warning and there's a rain warning well warning across scotland as well for inches rain. so for several inches of rain. so we're getting any heatwaves. we're not getting any heatwaves. >> was looking >> all right. when i was looking at long term forecast a few at a long term forecast a few weeks ago, it said it was going to be hotter this year here than it was last year. so i bought an air con yeah, know you did. >> you told me. yeah. yeah. >> you told me. yeah. yeah. >> so was that a waste of money. >> keep it will keep. don't worry. yeah. you're

leicestershire police have said that an investor allegation is now being carried out. we will, of course, bring you more on this throughout the afternoon . this throughout the afternoon. well, back to our top story today and a plea in fighting wildfires in greece has crashed on the island of evia. if you're watching on television, you can see now the plane dropping water over a fire. and then as it takes a turn, it slowly descends and crashes into a hillside. the greek air force says two airmen were on board. the wildfires have consumed parts of greece for seven days, forced residents to retreat to shelters along the coast. greece's prime minister, kyriakos mitsotakis , says there kyriakos mitsotakis, says there is no magic defence against climate change in the next few days, especially today , days, especially today, tomorrow, thursday will be difficult. >> days after that . i hope that >> days after that. i hope that the conditions will help us more and that is why we obviously remain on high alert. we know that things will probably get worse , not better, with warme

we take a lookweek, my mystery guest was this week, my mystery guest was born in leicestershire and hasgside his dad, but news that he had special talent he had a special talent elsewhere. up , my elsewhere. so growing up, my mystery guest entered his first ever talent competition, winning first prize. he's also featured on our tv screens in the 80s and 90s, appearing on shows like celebrity squares, blankety blank . three, 2—1, 3—2, one. you blank. three, 2—1, 3—2, one. you remember that? could you do that? more? can you that? and loads more? can you guess this well i'll guess who this is? well i'll tell you more because following a stroke back 2012, was a stroke back in 2012, he was told never walk or talk told he may never walk or talk again. back and he's again. he fought back and he's now to join join us live. now here to join join us live. can you guess who this is? of course, comedian duncan course, it's comedian duncan norvelle duncan. hello nan. thank you very much for coming in. >> pleasure. well it's lovely to meet you, sir. >> duncan , first of all, though, >> duncan, first

now, there are some weird plants in here gathered from around the world, settled in leicestershire, butle. it kind of amazes me. well, it's quite extraordinary, really. we've never seen anything like it before. just absolutely amazing. yeah. so i've been giddy as a kid. ram singh and his wife saw the last agave flower and have come back to see this one. 25 years is a long time. although it doesn't look long. it seems as if it's going like that. what does it mean to you to see it? better than even looking at taj mahal or something like that? it's much better than that. better than the taj mahal? because it is, of course, in nature. once it's finished flowering, it will gradually die and the whole plant will die. by the end of the year it will have been removed. visitors are being encouraged to come and see the once in a generation flowering plant as soon as possible. incredible stuff, 25 years later. helen astle with that report. let's find out what's happening where you are this morning. a very good morning, welcome to bbc london, i'm thomas magill. rail passengers are being advised to