claire marshall, bbc news.om casualty and followed the lives of the staff at the fictional holby city hospital. the bbc said it was proud of the show but it would end in march next year. england's cricketers are playing in front of a home crowd for the first time since 2019, in the first test at lords against new zealand. fan numbers have been capped at a quarter of capacity, meaning 7,500 fans a day are able to watch the opening international of the summer. our sports correspondent, laura scott, has been watching the action. "jerusalem" plays. a fanfare to greet the return of international cricket and the fans. for some, the start of summer is the 1st ofjune, others a trip to the beach or a pub garden, for the 6,500 here, it is a test match. it feels really emotional, actually. just coming off the tube and the trumpeter playing jerusalem, it really brought it home to me. it's the first time england have played at home in front of spectators since 2019. today here at lord's it will be only a quarter full for wh

claire marshall, bbc news. ben's up next with the news, but now...air, more humid air coming in, some parts of the country, but that warm air between those two weather fronts with the weather front in the north being more active, that is what we see the heaviest of the rain. it moves down across scotland, more rain later this afternoon with northern ireland. the first weather front produces this patchy rain and drizzle, towards east anglia and the south—east, it brightens up across northern england, with some sunshine, temperatures of 23 or 24. no football to watch today, but there is a live cricket, that is on bbc two this evening. maybe one or two showers first thing in cardiff, they will soon move away, and those clouds will brighten. the next band of rain arrives later. that moves away from scotland, northern ireland, heads into wales, later on in the evening and then pushing eastwards to england later on. it will be quite a warm night across england and wales, much warmer than last night, but it doesn't cool off a little but it does cool off a l

our environment and rural affairs correspondent, claire marshall, reports.s the pressure on our wild places. the government is now proposing to protect more of the landscape. these are the yorkshire wolds. they could be designated as an area of outstanding natural beauty. they wouldn't be immune from development but there would be more legal safeguards, such as tighter planning laws. the cheshire sandstone ridge is also being put forward for protected status. we've discovered over the years that by having area of outstanding natural beauty status, it does bring more people there. we have the most wonderful network of footpaths and bridleways across the country. we have wonderful tourism attractions in these places. and also within them are some of our wonderful national nature reserves. more of the surrey hills could also be protected. but business leaders worry that new laws could stifle economic development. tourism is to be supported. we have many members who are in this sector. 0ur concerns revolve around the word protection, and designation, and whether

with another board and elected grand marshal as well as nicole santa maria. and claire farley. uty mayor. deputy. >> all right. we need some music now. let's celebrate pride! happy pride. >> how i really started my advocacy was through my own personal experiences with discrimination as a trans person. and when i came out as trans, you know, i experienced discrimination in the workplace. they refused to let me use the women's bathroom and fired me. there were so many barriers that other trans folks had in the workplace. and so when i finished college, i moved out to san francisco in the hopes of finding a safer community. >> and also, i want to recognize our amazing trans advisory committee who advises our office as well as the mayor, so our transadvisory community members, if they could raise their hands and you could give a little love to them. [applause] >> thank you so much for your help. my leadership here at the office is engaging the mayor and leadership with our lgbt community. we also get to support, like, local policy and make sure that that is implemented, from all-gen

with another board and elected grand marshal as well as nicole santa maria. and claire farley. l. deputy mayor. deputy. >> all right. we need some music now. let's celebrate pride! happy pride.. >> my name is angela wilson and i'm an owner of the market i worked at a butcher for about 10 years and became a butcher you i was a restaurant cook started in sxos and went to uc; isn't that so and opened a cafe we have produce from small farms without small butcher shops hard for small farms to survive we have a been a butcher shop since 1901 in the heights floor and the case are about from 1955 and it is only been a butcher shot not a lot of businesses if san francisco that have only been one thing. >> i'm all for vegetarians if you eat meat eat meat for quality and if we care of we're in a losing battle we need to support butcher shops eat less we sell the chickens with the head and feet open somebody has to make money when you pay $25 for a chicken i guarantee if you go to save way half of the chicken goes in the enlarge but we started affordable housing depends on it occurred to us