alpa patel, bbc news.e same road for more than 30 years have both turned 100 years old on the exact same day. josie church and anne wallace—hadrill, from oxford, were born on the 1st of april 192a — and celebrated with a special party, as briony leyland reports. # happy birthday to you...# a neighbourly birthday chorus for two much—loved senior residents of this north 0xford road. josie church and anne wallace—hadrill are both 100 years old. they've lived next door to each other for more than 30 years. neither wanted a fuss about theirjoint milestone, but their neighbours had other ideas. actually, overwhelmed! i can't believe it. i mean this... i'm so lucky. this road is to me exceptional. i know most of the people in it. they all seem to know me, and we're all so friendly. how do you feel on your 100th birthday? i feel about 100. and what do you think of all the attention? good fun! anne, who's living with dementia, had a career as a lexicographer, and during the war she was in the women's royal naval se

alpa patel, bbc news. lead in the tenth end, but germany had the hammer, and scored two to take the victory 8—7. the scots , who are defending champions, lie fifth in the table after six matches, with another six to play. you can watch all those on the bbc sport website over the rest of the week. every curling stone used at the world championship is shaped from granite that comes from the island of ailsa craig, off scotland�*s west coast. the company which makes the stones has shown us the work that goes into making them good enough for elite competition what stood the test of time is certainly this type of rock that�*s here, this metamorphic rock from this small island. it is hard to believe that taken from a rough rock like this ends up into a masterpiece, and somebody throws that rock and ends up winning the gold medal. we manufacture curling stones for the olympics and world championships in over 17 different countries, we have been here for 174 years. this where we use all the hand tools. and it is re

alpa patel reports. he's been called a teenage climbing sensation and four months time.e at the olympic games. how did you get into climbing? so i got into climbing an after school club. i was just eight years old. my science teacher egged me on to give a go and then i went there. i absolutely loved it. i found it so addicting and i was just hooked from that point i started. my parents weren't climbers. i had nothing...like no idea about climbing. ijust kept going to the climbing wall. i kept enjoying it and then it slowly started progressing to find myself here. now, just having qualified for paris feels feels absolutely incredible. what's your top tips? if you were a beginner. using your body to get off it and not just pulling as hard as you can, so like trying to turn your body into the wall to use, like, less strength and more of technique to get up. close by is dad and coach christian who tells us what the last ten years have been like. it's easy now because he's at this level, but things that you don't necessarily realise, like doing homework in between sets of pul

alpa patel, bbc news. picking up. that doesn't mean it will be dry. this is the rainfall accumulation chart, look at the blue, and this green, which means thatis blue, and this green, which means that is 70 millimetres of rainfall. that is falling on already saturated ground, not good news at all. we have got a lot of cloud across northern england, northern ireland and scotland, with some rain. it should brighten up in northern ireland and northern england through the day. for the rest of england and wales, some sunshine, isolated showers, we are saying goodbye to the showers in the south—east. later, maureen sweeps in from the south—west with strengthening winds. —— later, more rain sweeps in. we hang onto the cloud and rain in the east of scotland tonight, brisk north—easterly wind. the rain in the south will journey north—easterly wind. the rain in the south willjourney north through the night, quite a lot of cloud around generally, with one or two clear spells. it is going to be mild in the south, 11 d