we can speak to beverley hughes, thank you for joining speak to beverley hughes, thank you forjoining's completely distressing, when i first heard about it earlier this morning it sounded very serious. as time has gone on thankfully it looks as though injuries are not as serious as thought. it was a particular kind of incidents rather than gunfire. the police are going to make a statement at 2pm and may confirm that. most of the people in hospital have either been discharged will be very shortly, as far as we understand. but for the people involved it must have been terrifying, not knowing what the nature of the incident was. and for the community itself, it's very upsetting i think, and it causes a great deal of distress and people feel their reputation is challenged again. iwant feel their reputation is challenged again. i want to reassure them that the police will be doing everything they can, working with the community, to complete this investigation and find out who is responsible for this. the police have said they have deployed a number of armed and unarmed officers to the inci

that was the deputy mayor for greater manchester beverley hughes.troversial comments about the burqa — continues to rumble on. several newspapers are reporting splits in the cabinet over comments saying women in burqas looked like "letter boxes" or "bank robbers". the former close ally of theresa may, damian green, is the latest to intervene in the row, he says borisjohnson shouldn't go ‘full trump', but doesn't believe that the former foreign secretary breached party rules. i spoke to our political correspondentjessica parker, and asked when we were likely to hearfrom borisjohnson himself. borisjohnson has boris johnson has been borisjohnson has been markedly absent of last week, he was of on holiday, he returned home to the uk last night. we've still not heard from him, over the week what has been made clear is that we should not expect an apology, they have said they believed he was standing up said they believed he was standing upfor said they believed he was standing up for liberal values and actually arguing againstany up for liberal values an

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baroness beverley hughes said the current situation was chaotic and unacceptable, following the announcementeek of sunday cancellations. the operator has apologised and said those affected could apply for compensation. this morning scientists at the us space agency, nasa, are hoping that their dream to send a probe close to the sun will finally get off the ground. the unmanned parker solar probe was supposed to launch yesterday, but its departure was cancelled with just moments to go. john mcmanus reports. nasa's most exciting missions, destination, the neighbourhood of oui’ destination, the neighbourhood of our nearest star, the sun. close to the moment of liftoff, a helium pressure alarm caused the lodge to be delayed. due to weather conditions the next of virginity is this morning. all being well, the probe will travel through our solar system for three months, before arriving at the corona, the atmosphere around the sun, which is hundreds of times hotter than the star itself. 0ver several years it will gather valuable data about how activity on the son of excommunications here on earth,

earlier, i spoke to beverley hughes, greater manchester's deputy mayor for policing — who reassured localstgation will take place. well it's completely distressing, and when i first heard about it earlier this morning obviously it sounded very serious, as time has gone on thankfully it looks as if it may be that injuries are not as serious as thought. it was a particular kind of incident, rather than gunfire. the police will make a statement at 2pm and may well confirm that. we also think most of the people in hospital have either been discharged or will be very shortly. but nonetheless, for the people involved it must have been absolutely terrifying, not knowing what the nature of the incident was, and for the community itself it is very upsetting. it causes a great deal of distress and people feel their reputation is challenged again, and i want to reassure them the police will be doing everything they can, working with the community to complete this investigation and find out who was responsible for this. the row over borisjohnson‘s controversial comments about the burqa — continues to