it was called the cheshire cheese because it came from cheshire. but was it cheddar cheese, or what is the relationship between cheshire cheese and cheddar cheese? chuck: i don't know. they both begin with the same letter. jane: there you go. chuck: that is the only connection i can think of. it was called the cheshire cheese also, which makes the expression mammoth cheese all the more pointed. someone went to the trouble to call it mammoth cheese. as i said to coin the word at the same time. but it was also known as the cheshire cheese because it came from cheshire, and it was cheddar. that is all i really know about it. maybe cheddar lasts longer. maybe that is why they opted for cheddar. i don't know. jane: your friend has been enjoying the talk and sends you his greetings. but he has a very important question. he said is that where they came , up with the idea of calling the president the big cheese? chuck: dick, you would ask that. [laughter] i don't know when that expression started, but i am probably not the only one who is going to google a

it's cheddar and it was also called cheshire cheese because it was from cheshire. perhaps cheddar last longer? maybe that is why they opted for cheddar. i don't know. >> your friend who has been enjoying the top and sent you is greetings. he has an important question. he said, is that where they came up with the idea of calling the president the big cheese as a way to tease him? >> dick, you would ask that. honestly, i don't know where that expression started, but i'm probably not the only one who's going to go right to google as soon as this is over and find out the origins of that expression. maybe it is. it would make sense. i'm not sure jefferson would not appreciated to be honest. >> one of the people asks, where the religious services open to the general public or where they just for members of congress? >> no, this is the point. it was the general public. it was a public service to the community. to have them in the capital. it was intended as a public service. the community was invited. >> one of the other things you noted in your comments was that jefferso

sarah corker, bbc news in cheshire.news, bbc sport's nick hope talks to a taekwondo fighter turned cross—country skier, in his homeland to learn about the tongan‘s humble beginnings. it's the ‘topless tongan‘s tokyo quest. samba music welcome to brazil for the greatest show on earth. listen to the welcome for tonga and flag bearer pita taufatofua. the country's flag bearer won gold on the internet with his shirtless and oiled—up performance. they said, "you're trending everywhere in the world." i said, "i don't know what trending means, but it sounds good." a social media sensation. could you ever have imagined what was going to happen next? we had no idea. 3 billion people saw that. 200 million google hits. where is tonga? who is the tongan flag bearer? all of a sudden, now you're a celebrity. bruce willis, his face was kind of superimposed on your body. bruce, bruce. maybe one day, if he keeps working out, he can become a tongan warrior. bruce, if you're watching, i'll teach you. tonga is best known for its two forces

sarah corker, bbc news in cheshire.ffected the second day's play in the third and final test between england and pakistan. england resumed in a strong position in southampton, with batsman zak crawley closing in on a double century, but then the weather intervened. play did briefly resume before a second rain interruption, with england on 336—4. that's all for now. the next news on bbc one is at six o'clock, bye for now. you're watching bbc news. let's get more on the extra restrictions that have been put in place in parts of north west england. council leaders in the region are calling for more clarity on new coronavirus restrictions which came into force in some areas at midnight. the measures ban people in oldham, blackburn and parts of pendle in lancashire from socialising, but have stopped short of a full economic lockdown. earlier i spoke to the labour leader of pendle borough council — mohammed iqbal — who told me there is a lot of frustration locally. i am extremely concerned and confused by these restrictions b

the northern limit of the storms it's really merseyside, cheshire, north wales as well.night, 15 or 16 degrees, quite murky, misty fog patches around the coast and hills and the patches of drizzle. the monday, more unsettled weather to come, an area of low pressure drifting northwards stop so although you might start off with some bright skies, even a bit of morning sunshine, we are looking at some and noticed there is some rain drifting further northwards affecting northern ireland and scotland, where it has been mainly dry over recent days. tuesday, more of their showers to come, again some of them slow—moving, heavy and thundery, perhaps some of the heaviest ones working across northern england and scotla nd working across northern england and scotland by this stage but is immune from seeing the downpour, bit of sunshine between their showers, temperatures still widely getting into the low to mid 20s and still feeling slightly on the humid side but we are going to see some changes towards the middle of the week, low pressure comes on of the atlantic and as these weath

the northern limit of the storms probably getting really into merseyside, cheshire, north wales as well around some of our coast and hills and the odd patch of drizzle. but for monday, really, we have more unsettled weather to come. an area of low pressure is going to be drifting northwards, so although you might start off with some bright skies, even a bit of morning sunshine, we are looking at some further, heavy thundery showers and notice there is some rain drifting further north with this time, also affecting northern ireland and scotland, where it has been mainly dry over recent days. tuesday, we have more of those showers to come. again, some are slow moving, heavy and thundery, perhaps some of the heaviest ones working across northern england and scotland by this stage, but nowhere is immune from seeing the odd downpour. bit of sunshine between those showers, temperatures are still widely getting into the low to mid 20s and are still feeling slightly on the humid side, but we are going to see some changes towards the middle of the week. low pressure comes in off the atlantic and

the world according to cheshire. today we discussed the end of nucular arms control as we know it. and plans to steal syria's oriel sit tight the show starts now. the war. issue i am privy to santos for our top story today the u.s. military newspaper stars and stripes reports that the army national guard is moving its brigades and reorganizing its fighting from asians to prepare for possible fights with russia and china the army will now be able to deploy 18 fully manned divisions instead of 10 the realignment is based on the national defense strategy crafted by former defense secretary jim mattis which places new conflicts with china and russia as america's top national security threat jesse this comes as the state department negotiates with the taliban to end the war in afghanistan now it seems like when one war ends another probably isn't far behind but it were between these countries would be catastrophic for the world absolutely they would be version but you know world war culture here in america a great deal of our economy relies on the war machine and producing it and contin

the fire has broken out in a slum close to the cheshire. the firemen are on most all volunteers from nearby small. the narrow lanes and lack of axis make it difficult to reach the source of the 5. am. i. i. am. homes have been destroyed but luckily no one has died. however the danger always remains in dos numbs one of the most densely populated places on earth. people have come to expect a lot from al-jazeera over the years it's their reporting the commitment to one the reporter places the commitment to the human story. but it's also the idea of challenging those in power if a politician comes on this channel they will be challenged and that's what people expect of us they want the questions unanswered. and that is what we've always done that's what we will continue to do. in 2008 al-jazeera documented a groundbreaking skiing. preparing some of india's poorest children for entry into its toughest universities. we return to see how the students and the scheme of helping change the face of india. super 30 announces they are. stories of life.

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and hunt thunderstorms, but it may well be warmer before them across yorkshire and lancashire into cheshireheadlines at 7: borisjohnson says it would be morally indefensible to keep schools in england closed because of coronavirus and insists it should be a national priority — a view shared by some head teachers. in terms of routine and structure and systems, they desperately need to get back into some kind of routine, as do their families. the bbc has apologised and says mistakes were made after a news and calls that lebanon must not be allowed to descend into chaos.

school in cheshire that staff and pupils wet face coverings?unicate that clearly to the country. we need to understand if our government and scientists say it is not necessary, they need to explain that properly. the government are not explaining things properly so why not bring back the press conferences to allow them to communicate directly to the nation. thank you very much for being on bbc breakfast. let's go back to our main story, the blast in beirut yesterday. we can get more on the situation this morning. what do you know of the number of casualties? good morning and thank you for having me. as this morning, we have over 4000 people injured and at least 80 have lost their lives. the numbers are still... changing every hour. people, search and rescue teams are still looking for people around the area so the numbers are changing quite often and thatis numbers are changing quite often and that is for this morning. can you give us a sense of other hospitals and medical centres in beirut are coping? we understand they are under enormous pres

sarah corker, bbc news, in cheshire. the time now is 8.43.y walks, attracting viewers from around the world, so when they decided to raise funds for pets charity pdsa, the response was amazing. it is their way of paying back what the dogs have given them through lockdown, and it has been their way of saying thank you for the dogs giving them i°y thank you for the dogs giving them joy through that dark time. harry and paddy raised around £46,000 by scaling ben nevis with kerry, who initially set a fundraising target of just initially set a fundraising target ofjust £2000. i think within ten hours we had hit £10,000, and in a week it went up to £30,000, and the day that we climbed ben nevis, it was standing at about £46,500. it was standing at about £46,500. it was just incredible. max was standing at about £46,500. it wasjust incredible. max has played his part too. donations to mark his 13th birthday, along with an online raffle boosted the total to just over £100,000. a special amount, and a special canine companion. in 2006, kerry had a ser

and there he is, grinning like a cheshire cat for that picture, you know?ed, as far as we knew, perfectly legal. >> he told his brother that it would be several thousand dollars in quote-unquote adoption fees and provided a bunch of phonied-up paperwork to him, including a certificate of adoption from the probate court, the johnson county court. >> so for $5,500, he has just made the mother disappear and handed the child off to his brother, who has no concept of what's going on or anything john has done. >> my brother was an excellent forger. he was an artist when he was young. he still is an artist. >> we were all really a little skeptical and wondering about, what's the brother's role in this? and we looked at him more. and i think that became pretty obvious that his brother was just another victim of all this. >> it's our belief that this adoptive family had no knowledge of any criminal activity relating to the adoption of baby tiffany. they believed they were the legally adoptive parents of this little girl, but it was not a legal adoption. >> the infan

you may recognise her from the tv show the real housewives of cheshire.difference between why you can still come in to have your nails done or a body massage and yet you can't have a facial treatment done? from our point of view, if the therapist is fully pped up, why you can't do someone's eyelashes or injectables on the top part of the face, ijust cannot understand, i am really frustrated. and you can feel at sense of that frustrate —— frustration. how do you keep people safe ? frustration. how do you keep people safe? we ensure the sterilisation after every client and ensure we ta ke after every client and ensure we take everyone's after every client and ensure we take eve ryone's temperatures after every client and ensure we take everyone's temperatures as well before arrival. thank you, some of the measures in place. now, ampika, you must have some clients who were desperate after four months of not being able to do this? we have had people extremely sad. i've had clients actually crying on the phone because they have been waiting for so because they

a that is why he is walking around looking like a cheshire cat?as anyone ever thought he might be a carrier? host: a carrier of the virus? caller: yes, he might be a carrier. host: why do you say that? caller: because he has not gotten sick. he is playing with death, he does not wear a mask, and his followers feel they are invincible because he feels like he is invincible. i think trump is a carrier. sick, but heople is not sick. host: we move on to carl from west virginia. good morning. caller: good morning, steve. how are you? host: good. how are you? caller: i am good. i wish you would cover the democrats like you do trump. not thehe h1n1 this was coverage on this channel or any other channel. you let that guy from georgia beat up on trump. i want to tell you something about biden. all the politicians are crooked and they make their relatives rich. that is what biden has done to his family. crackhead son on air force two, came back from china with investments, and there is no coverage of stuff like that. biden wins the next election, i'm anxiou

towards the west, which is why we are seeing brighter skies for parts of wales, south—west england and cheshireo easing. this evening and overnight it will be cloudy in the northern half of the country. clearer skies in the south, still a few showers around, but by the end of the night, an area of the pressure coming our way will introduce a more showers. here it is, coming in with its collection of france to the west and that will be over the next day or so, moving towards the east. isobars quite well space, not as windy and we are starting thursday with some sunshine where we have had the clear skies. in the north we hang on to the cloud with a few showers. showers coming in with the low pressure starting to spread on some of the emerging to give heavy downpours, as denoted by the greens and yellows. temperatures disappointing, 12 in aberdeen to highs of 19 disappointing, 12 in aberdeen to highs of19 in disappointing, 12 in aberdeen to highs of 19 in london, 20 in norwich. overnight thursday into friday, there goes the area of low pressure with its fronts and rain. the wind vias towards a nor

cheshire lived in the place after she after he died. host: how far from new york city doris: probably couple of hours prayed by train is 11 hours along with the river. in dutchess county. host: in those years, the warriors to be writing about here where did the roosevelt spend their time besides the white house and the park . doris: the path of the most important place for both of them he would drink the whole presidency 200 times to the parks. that is the most important place pretty he would get the return pretty often get on the train in washington maybe at ten or 11 at night and i would reach i parked by the morning . so he would be asleep on the train pretty loved charlie what train. his own apartment pretty he didn't like fast-moving transportation and he hated airplanes. he feel grounded on the train pretty eleanor like to get places fast . so she only like to travel by plane. for she would go with him by train as well. sue nieves what you did he die. 1945, april 12th. what year did he contracted polio and ff the leg irons . 1921

some thunderstorms, too, but it may well be warmer before then across yorkshire, lincolnshire, into cheshireshire. again, those temperatures at their peak in the south—east of england. we do start to see more rain, heavy and thundery, developing —

our education editor branwen jeffreys has spent the day in warrington in cheshire.me dread. that walk to the results table at school. gcse grades this year like none before. after turmoil and u—turns, they have got what their teachers think they deserve. i just didn't know what was going to happen, if i was going to have lower than what i was hoping for, but it is, yeah, it's pretty nerve—racking. i was worried about being downgraded. i put in all of that time and effort in the last four years, not being able to continue my life and go to college or apprenticeships. english literature, which i'm doing at a—level, i never thought i would have got a nine at that which i'm really proud about. same at french, grade eight, which i'm really happy about. my target was six, so two above that, i think i did really well. oh, my god! i got an a! they are not the only ones pleased today. overall good grades are up, and no pupil will lose out, getting whichever is the higher mark. in maths and science, we have a number of students, between ten and 15 students in each of the subj