dame barbara was diagnosed with the disease in 2014.ways flight from heathrow to valencia had to be evacuated after smoke filled the cabin minutes before landing. the 175 passengers on board were told to use emergency exits to leave the plane and slide down the chutes. british airways has blamed a technical issue. sales in shops are rising at the slowest rate for 2h years, according to the british retail consortium. july was up by 0.3%, compared with an increase of 1.6% in the same month last year. poor weather, slow real wage growth and brexit uncertainty are being blamed. facebook‘s been accused of failing to shut down groups selling fake amazon reviews. despite a request by uk regulators to remove the pages, the consumer group, which? , that are still active. despite a request by uk regulators to remove the pages, the consumer group, which? , claims it's found many that are still active. facebook says it's taken down almost all of the reported group. tens of thousands of pupils in scotland are getting their exam results today. more t

dame barbara windsor has called on prime minister borisjohnson to "sort out" care for people who have patients was discussed on the victoria derbyshire programme this morning, let's take a look. when you have a diagnosis of dementia, and about 850,000 people across the uk have that diagnosis now, you are not actually entitled to any care as part of that diagnosis, because there isn't a medical intervention that can be made. so what happens is you are put at the mercies of the social care system, which is fantastically underfunded. that's the crux of the problem. we have a helpline where everyday we hear from people who can't access care they need. when they do and manage to access some care, it's not of the quality they need and at the end of all of that, they've got to pay for it. that's why we are just delighted that dame barbara and scott have put their names to this letter and are promoting it with us, because everybody watching can add their voices and stand alongside dame barbara and tell the new prime minister this really is the moment, those people have waited long enough to h

today, dame barbara windsor and her husband urge the prime minister to "sort out" dementia care fundingd with us by signing our letter to the prime minister, as he urgently needs to to address these challenges. she already met boris johnson a decade ago, when he asked herfor a pint. is that who i think it is? you said he was going to be around walford way, now is your chance. can i have a pint of bitter, please. also today: this woman, victoria smith, died months after her disability benefits were stopped. now the assessment company capita is going to court to fight a decision that it mishandled her claim. we'll talk to victoria's mum. she was a human being. she was my daughter. and she was my friend and my world.

was that something that dame barbara wanted to do as well? absolutely. want to talk about it and who would? nor would i. but it got to the stage where i had to talk about it and i spoke to barbara and said, look, we need to be able to go out. and that is an important thing as well. we must not think of people living with alzheimer's and dementia people who should be shut away. we need to go out and understand what it is. yes they may get confused sometimes, yes their behaviour may suddenly go a bit offkilter. but u nfortu nately suddenly go a bit offkilter. but unfortunately that is the nature of it. the barbara is more than aware of the fixed dementia campaign. i talk to her the whole time. that does not mean to say she will remember it. i have to constantly go over this, what we do, but when i tell her and when i told her first of all, her reaction was that of what it had always been, compassion for other people. when i said, barbara, people have to sell their family homes in order to pay for ca re family homes in order to pay for care for theirfamilies

dame barbara windsor is on the front page of the mirror and a few of the other papers this morning.funding "scandal". the eastenders star — who has alzheimer's — has signed an open letter to the government to mark her appointment as an ambassador of the alzheimer's society. brexit is the lead story in the telegraph. it says the eu expects the uk to leave the bloc without a deal. there's also a picture of james anderson leaving the field at edgbaston after a 251—run defeat against australia. we talked about it. the guardian also leads with brexit. it says european diplomats have been told a no—deal brexit is mrjohnson's "central scenario". the times writes that facebook friends are better than neighbours, that's according to a cultural historian who says the facebook generation is able to forge more worthwhile social connections based on choice and not proximity. which i think is very interesting, actually, isn't it? yep. and the talk about millennial is as well. we get so much contact with everyone here on breakfast. so much information, so many lovely things we communicate on socia