and now michael dunlop. michael dunlop is he going to make it 2017?business. michael dunlop takes the lead to glen helen from the grandstand 3.4. he continued to pull further and further away from the opposition. yeah, the speed difference. that is a big difference. massive. colossal. there was one pit stop and unlike the last race when a helmet issue cost him a victory lap. this time all went smoothly. michael dunlop held his nerve over the final two laps to take an unforgettable win. that's it. michael dunlop is going to make history. he is the greatest rider of all time. dunlop wins gold medals at the olympics. you know, i mean, this is the highest you want won here. that's what it's all about. and joey's heritage has lived on for years and years upon years. and no matter where you go and in the world of people's always. joey dunlop you know, they don't really know much more about, you know, aboutjoey. and if i get halfway around the world, as he did to to the point that people knew who i was, that's fantastic. and that's what i've always achieved

now michael dunlop, michael dunlop, is he going _ now michael dunlop, michael dunlop, is he going tot? from the very start, michael _ is he going to make it? from the very start, michael dunlop i is he going to make it? from the i very start, michael dunlop showed he meant business. and hit the front quickly. meant business. and hit the front ruickl . ~ . . meant business. and hit the front ruickl. a ., , , quickly. michael dunlop takes the lead! continuing _ quickly. michael dunlop takes the lead! continuing to _ quickly. michael dunlop takes the lead! continuing to pull _ quickly. michael dunlop takes the lead! continuing to pull further i quickly. michael dunlop takes the l lead! continuing to pull further and further away _ lead! continuing to pull further and further away from _ lead! continuing to pull further and further away from the _ lead! continuing to pull further and further away from the opposition. i further away from the opposition. colossal! 0ne pit stop and unlike the last race where an issue costing the last race where an issue costing the victory, this time all we

well, with me is still mutaz ahmed and indeed tessa dunlop . tessa, you've been tessa dunlop.ons . you've been to gold occasions. you've been to gold beach, the main beach where the brits landed . brits landed. >> yeah, i have that. the terrain is fascinating, the stories fascinating . i can't get stories fascinating. i can't get enough of it. there's so many different aspects. there's a brilliant podcast series, actually. tide turns d—day by noise. that's just dropped, with paul mcgann voicing. it's absolutely spellbinding. the drama, the tension. my only fear is that it becomes at the moment the way it's covered. and i'm doing pick of the week friday. of course, i'm listening to all the networks. i'm a little bit wary that are we joining the dots ? what are we choosing to dots? what are we choosing to learn from this? i love the feel good factor stories. we want to hear about champagne buried in french gardens given to british troops, but we also need to bnng troops, but we also need to bring the story bang up to date, because at the moment we've got a line that needs held a

dunlop, and broadcaster tessa dunlop, and the writer, broadcaster, occasional gb news presenter to emmathis story? are we importing problems particular to america, into the united kingdom? it is appropriate in the civil service to be talking about it . about it. >> just watched you two, and i sort of feel like i'm existing in a parallel universe. >> two young white men doing really well, thank you very much . on a news channel that has been called out for a lack of diversity, your boss in front of a house of commons committee saying he would love to employ more people from a diverse background, but whoops, he only has one presenter of colour and your presenters of colour. you've got one main albie amankona nana akua okay, 22i amankona nana akua okay, 221 have an entire legion you've named two and we've just had two white men. >> so diversity is more than just racism. >> i'm just taking one example. but if you want political diversity, you're all stacked up on the right. so there isn't my point. my point being that no, but i'm not a presenter. i should be sitting there with jacob away, b

dunlop�*s success took his total number of wins at the event to 28 and made it three in the week for european athletics championships in rome, as athletes prepare for this summer's olympics in paris. let's go live to our sports correspondent natalie pirks who is there for us. we spoke earlier and it was very loud, lots of action.— loud, lots of action. what is the latest? britain's _ loud, lots of action. what is the latest? britain's female - loud, lots of action. what is the latest? britain's female has - loud, lots of action. what is the | latest? britain's female has one loud, lots of action. what is the - latest? britain's female has one the one good metres hurdles, third fastest. she stumbled to years ago so hoping for much better tonight. the men's 110 so hoping for much better tonight. the men's110 metres hurdles semifinals are happening, the british man is third in the long jump. the javelin has finished, the penultimate event. we heard last night the blow that katarina johnson—thompson had to pull out because of a slight issue with her right leg. they didn't want to take an

dunlop's success took his total number of wins at the event to 28 and made it three in the week for theips in rome, as athletes prepare for this summer's olympics in paris. let's go live to our sports correspondent natalie pirks who is there for us. natalie, another busy day. what has been happening in rome today? the women's been happening in rome today? tie: women'sjavelin, been happening in rome today? tte: women'sjavelin, the been happening in rome today? t'te: women'sjavelin, the penultimate event, is going on behind me. we found out last night the world champion has pulled outjust before the tudor metres. she had a slight issue in her right leg —— 200 metres. they didn't want to take any chances. she aims to win her first ever olympic medal events. the belgian will be the biggest threats, the reigning olympic champion in first place going into the age of the metres and looks odds—on to retain her european title. britain's jade was eighth after five events. looking good to finish in the top eight. you can watch the final of the heptathlete at around 845 uk time tonight. we have had

and delight for the dunlop�*s, as michael surpasses the record shared with his unclejoey to become thethe history of the isle of man. hello and welcome to the programme. well, there were a few shocks at roland garros with two top seeds going out in the women's singles. the 2022 wimbledon champion elena rybakina lost her quarterfinal against italy's jasmine paolini. it means that 28—year—old paolini makes it through to a grand slam semifinal for the first time in her career. rybakina, who is the fourth seed and who was yet to drop a set in the tournament, had recovered from a set in a break down to take this to a decider. however, i2th seed paolini took the match. 6-2, 4-6, 6-4.

not just dunlop, the historian. not just that as well.as been the subject of political violence in the past. is it something we should be more worried about? >> jam packed show. great to have got bim on the numbers , have got bim on the numbers, crunching the maths. i will as ever be back tomorrow at 7 pm. with vote 2024. of course, you must stay tuned to watch tom. but first, here's the weather with annie shuttleworth . with annie shuttleworth. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boiler is sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> hello! welcome to your latest gb news weather update from the met office. tomorrow's going to be another fairly cool day across the north west, with a risk of some further heavy showers, and we could see some further heavy showers this evening with a northwesterly wind pushing showers into similar areas. it's north—west and scotland, where we're going to see the highest rainfall totals through the next 24 hours or so. we could see a mix of hail, possibly some hill snow in there as well. we

i'll also be joined by my panel historian and broadcaster tessa dunlop and the journalist and broadcaster benedict spence. now it's broadcaster benedict spence. now wsfime broadcaster benedict spence. now it's time for the news bulletin with polly middlehurst . with polly middlehurst. >> set to lose most of their seats and will likely have fewer seats and will likely have fewer seats than the liberal democrats. which means , democrats. which means, according to this new research, the lib dems are most likely to become the official opposition. the new poll looks like this. it's from electoral calculus, andifs it's from electoral calculus, and it's forecast labour will win 450 seats, the lib dems 71 and the conservatives 60. it's likely the reform party, the new research says, will get around 18 seats, including those of nigel farage, richard tice and lee anderson. the forecast labour victory would be more significant than tony blair's landslide election result of 1997, and it would be the largest win by any political party over the last 100 years. well, with just over a week to go until the

i'll be joined by my panel historian and broadcaster tessa dunlop and associate comment editor of theelegraph , mumtaz editor of the telegraph, mumtaz ahmed. now it's time for the news bulletin with polly middlehurst . middlehurst. >> michael, thank you and good evening to you. well, the top story from the newsroom tonight is that a new poll is forecasting the worst election defeat for the conservative party in its nearly 200 year history. yougov's latest study projects 425 seats for labour, which is 125 more than they won in 2019. that would leave the tories with just 108 seats and the lib dems with 67, 20 going to the snp and five seats for reform. i'm as far as the economy is concerned and away from the election, for the first time in nearly three years, inflation has fallen to the bank of england's 2% target. that rate has in turn boosted hopes of an interest rate cut in the coming months. most analysts were forecasting that drop, which is down from 2.3% in april. the prime minister, rishi sunak , said the news was proof sunak, said the news was proof that the government's difficu

ireland in new york as they begin their t20 world cup with a convincing victory and delight for the dunlop's record shared with his unclejoey to become the most successful rider in the history of the isle of man. hello and welcome to the programme. well, there were a few shocks at roland garros with two top seeds going out in the women's singles. the 2022 wimbledon champion elena rybakina lost her quarterfinal against italy's

historian and broadcaster tessa dunlop, welcome and muthama from the telegraph was with us before, whatou make of that from ash regan or in particular, what did you make of the snp's performance today, claiming to be the most left wing party, talking about independence again, talking about joining the european union, but with the background, let us just remind people of various scandals within the snp and pretty unimpressive, performance on things like the national health service. >> yeah, well, john swinney has been around the block . i mean, been around the block. i mean, he's almost your generation. michael. derek, thank you so much for starting with an ageist remark. could have been a compliment . remark. could have been a compliment. in fact, i recall him at my parents kitchen table campaigning because he was a perthshire politician , and he perthshire politician, and he was dull then, and he was decent and dull, and he remains decent and dull, and he remains decent and dull, and his politics remain inconsistent. i mean, ash is the kind of example of a lightning rod independence ch

the historian and broadcaster tessa dunlop and the journalist and broadcaster ben& jerry's spence .'s spence. welcome back. and it's quite interesting, actually . david tennant put his actually. david tennant put his finger on the point there, but didn't seem to recognise it. he said he was in favour of people having these rights as long as they don't hurt anyone else. now they don't hurt anyone else. now the argument is that some rights that might be given to trans people, for example, to elect to go into women's spaces , toilets, go into women's spaces, toilets, to, to go into women's sport , to to, to go into women's sport, to go into women's prisons. these do hurt someone else. they do affect the rights of other people, which is why there is a debate. and it's quite interesting to me that, you know, he had the words there, but he didn't quite understand the application of the words. discuss >> well, i he was incredibly clumsy of course, towards the end of what he said, because i think when he said he wished her out of existence, the equalities minister kemi badenoch the extraord

michael dunlop says "it is something special" to have equalled his uncle joey's record of 26 wins at first race of this year's event in the supersport class. the northern irishman has seven chances to surpass the total in the remaining solo races this week. meanwhile it was an action packed sprint race at motogp�*s italian grand prix weekend. former champion fabio quartararo crashed out on just the second lap. championship leaderjorge martin followed with four laps to go. reigning champion francesco bagnaia delighted his home crowd at mujelo by claiming his first sprint race win of the season to cut martin's advantage to 27 points. you're watching sportsday. let's have a quick look at some of the other stories making the headlines today. world rally championship points leader thierry new—ville blamed a lapse in concentration after crashing out on the eighth stage of rally italy sardinia. he was third overall at the time. britain's elfyn evans is second in the championship but he's struggling to take advantage — he's fourth with four stages to go. great britain's men returned to pro l

michael cole came into cameron walker was there with tessa dunlop , tessa dunlop, the dunlop, tessa dunlope did. >> and how did you think, princess of wales. >> i thought she looked incredible. and i immediately put out on social media. she looked just like, my fair lady. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> yeah. audrey hepburn. yeah. amazing. >> well, yes. but a lot of people read into that didn't they, that, you know, this. so that character. yeah. in pygmalion is the play, of course. and then that character is about a commoner who, who is possibly tied up with their accent . accent. >> well, in a sense and always remains an outsider. kate middleton was a middle class girl who married into the royal family, and she is now a part of the upper class aristocracy. and there is no doubt that her accent has changed since she first came on the scene. she went off and had elocution lessons. she looks but the daughter. what's a charlotte? charlotte dressed similar to mum, but you have to say the prince of wales looked incredibly thin. >> she looked really, really slim and very , very, very thin. sli

dunlop is. oh, he. yes. he, has an injury and so is speaking remotely. good morning, mr. dunlop.d morning. thanks for joining us. honored to be. but i just wanted i'm very honored to be able to speak to the elected board and, am ready for any questions you might have. and, just to let you know, i've. this is now my second and a half term. this would be, if approved, my second and a half term and i have i feel that the board itself, the title board, has made great strides at certainly one of the biggest going projects that we have in the city. and as i had mentioned, i have no doubt that the citizens are the public will be very proud of the finished product of treasure island. thank you so much. hello. hi. did you finish making remarks, just yes, a brief remarks, and i'm looking forward to any questions that, any of the supervisors might have, that said, you know, i started out my life, my dad was a developer. and so i have a certain, inborn knowledge on, on development and, this project has certainly both been a challenge and a, i many successes, as you've probably noticed, if yo

a day after equalling his uncle joey's record for the most wins at the isle of man tt, michael dunloprd, a problem with the visor on his helmet forced him to stop to fix it and he finished fourth. he's got another six chances to surpass the total over the coming week. meanwhile, defending champion francesco bagnaia completed the sprint and race double at the italian motogp on a "difficult weekend" for championship leader jorge martin. the spaniard saw his lead cut from 39 points to 18 after crashing out of yesterday's sprint and finishing third in today's race at mugello in tuscany. rally fans witnessed the joint closest finish in the history of the world rally championship when oit tanak secured a surprise victory at rally italy sardinia. the estonian was the penultimate driver to take part in the final stage and in his interview immediately afterwards said he thought he'd finish in second place overall. but a puncture saw eight time champion sebastien ogier lose byjust two tenths of a second, equalling the previous closest finish from 2011. britain's elfyn evans was fourth and drops

a day after equalling his uncle joey's record for the most wins at the isle of man tt, michael dunlopn his helmet forced him to stop to fix it and he finished fourth. he's got another six chances to surpass the total over the coming week. meanwhile, defending champion francesco bagnaia completed a sprint—race double at the italian motogp on a "difficult weekend" for championship leader jorge martin. the spaniard saw his lead cut from 39 points to 18 after crashing out of yesterday's sprint and finishing third in today's race at mugello in tuscany. let's have a quick look at some of the other stories making the headlines today. oit tanak has leapfrogged britain's elvin evans into second place in the world rally championship's driver standings after a surprise victory at the rally italy sardegna. a puncture saw eight time champion sebastien ogier lose byjust two tenths of a second, equalling the record for the closest finish. denmark's mads pedersen won the opening stage of the criterium du dauphine, one of the key warm—up races for the tour de france. britain's owain doull was fifth. t

i'm joined once again by historian tessa dunlop and tessa.s of wales to public duties. >> no, but it's a very good sign. i'm tickled by the idea of prince louis dancing to highland laddie. it sounds like he's having a better day in the major general's office than the tartan army are in munich at the moment. yes, i tell you what, he's . the thing is that talking he's. the thing is that talking about the princess of wales, it's worth bearing in mind that there she is. as a mother of three children. none of them, you know, yet in secondary school , these aren't sort of school, these aren't sort of kids that you can hand the mantle of responsibility to. so there's an unpredictable element there, louis, of course, always delivering on that front , a bit delivering on that front, a bit like the weather. i was saying, oh, we need to cut to the flag because it's about the only aspect of the royal parade that's actually having a good day, because it's really going for it in what is a pretty hefty breeze. >> yes, it certainly is. this flag. of course,

michael dunlop says "it is something special" to have equalled his uncle joey's record of 26 wins atn's men and women in hockey�*s pro league. the women came from behind to get the better of the usa at lee valley, winning 3—2, grace balsdon with the second goal, and they now play india this afternoon that's the same for great britain's men, too, later. they thrashed ireland by five goals to one, with sam ward scoring twice. and the cricket t20 world cup co—hosts usa have beaten canada by seven wickets in the tournament opener in texas. defending champions england play scotland in the first game for both countries on tuesday, if you want to become a town crier, you need to know how to stand out from a crowd — and luckily for martin wood, he's 7'2". well, martin's been announcing major events in shrewsbury for a0 years — and to mark the occasion an exhibition is being held in his honour. james bovill went to meet him. when you're seven foot two inches tall with a voice... 0yez, oyez! ..louder than pneumatic drill, attracting attention isn't difficult. thank you. it's definitely very di

and what they are doing is they are now trying to take von dunlop's forces under pursuit out who are retreating up towards princeton, where there's a british brigade holding out. karl walter identifies that washington now re crossed into philadel into pennsylvania excuse me. and so he starts to get cold feet and he wants to abort the mission again. the marines are having none of it. his associates are having none of it. no. ask washington. come back over the river and let's continue this fight. we have the advantage. we have the initiative. so washington does make the decision to cross over once more into new jersey and now wants to try and consolidate his forces to see how he might explore the advantage they now have and that result in a second battle known as the second battle of trenton or more commonly known as the battle of us in pink creek, washington recross the delaware at the end of december and he was able to now consolidate 6000 troops outside of trenton to include the continental marines. but the americans were not the only ones preparing for a fight because lord cornwall

i'll also be joined by my panel, the historian and broadcaster tessa dunlop, and the writer, broadcaster

i'll be joined by my panel historian and broadcaster tessa dunlop

i'll be joined by my panel historian and broadcaster tessa dunlop and associate comment editor of the the telegraph, mumtaz ahmed. now it's time for the news bulletin with polly middlehurst . middlehurst. >> michael, thank you and good evening to you. well, the top story from the newsroom tonight is that a new poll is forecasting the worst election defeat for the conservative party in its nearly 200 year history. yougov's latest study projects 425 seats for labour, which is 125 more than they won in 2019. that would leave the tories with just 108 seats and the lib dems with 67, 20 going to the snp and five seats for reform. i'm as far as the economy is concerned and away from the election, for the first time in nearly three years, inflation has fallen to the bank of england's 2% target. that rate has in turn boosted hopes of an interest rate cut in the coming months. most analysts were forecasting that drop, which is down from 2.3% in april. the prime minister, rishi sunak , said the news was proof sunak, said the news was proof that the government's difficult decisions were paying of

i'll also be joined by my panel, the historian and broadcaster tessa dunlop, and the writer, broadcasterll coming up after your very latest headlines with polly middlehurst . middlehurst. >> tom. thank you. good evening . >> tom. thank you. good evening. the top story from the newsroom tonight, the prime minister and the labour leader are facing questions tonight ahead of the release of labour's electoral manifesto tomorrow. during the q&a session , sir keir starmer q&a session, sir keir starmer said that his party's manifesto will focus on wealth creation, adding there'd be no tax rises for working people. >> nothing requires us to raise tax and i'll tell you, no, no, i do want to challenge me and i want to deal with this. i want to do things differently. i want to do things differently. i want to grow our economy. i accept that previous labour leaders have sort of pulled the tax lever every single time and dnven lever every single time and driven up spending. i want to grow our economy . the manifesto grow our economy. the manifesto tomorrow will be a manifesto, a plan for wealth creat

we are proud of that _ harry dunlop amendment. we are proud of that they— harry dunlop amendment.to sweep up their americans and get them out of their americans and get them out of the country— their americans and get them out of the country whenever they have done anything _ the country whenever they have done anything wrong. the country whenever they have done anything wrong-— anything wrong. finally, how are you all doinu anything wrong. finally, how are you all doing now? _ anything wrong. finally, how are you all doing now? we _ anything wrong. finally, how are you all doing now? we need _ anything wrong. finally, how are you all doing now? we need to _ all doing now? we need to concentrate _ all doing now? we need to concentrate on _ all doing now? we need to concentrate on ourselves. | all doing now? we need to - concentrate on ourselves. none of all doing now? we need to _ concentrate on ourselves. none of us are doing _ concentrate on ourselves. none of us are doing particularly well. our mental— are doing particularly well. our mental health over the years has suffered.

i'll also be joined by my panel historian and broadcaster tessa dunlop and the journalist and broadcasterce. now it's broadcaster benedict spence. now wsfime broadcaster benedict spence. now it's time for the news bulletin with polly middlehurst .

i'll also be joined by my panel historian and broadcaster tessa dunlop and the journalist and broadcasterce. now it's broadcaster benedict spence. now wsfime broadcaster benedict spence. now it's time for the news bulletin with polly middlehurst . with polly middlehurst. >> set to lose most of their seats and will likely have fewer seats and will likely have fewer seats than the liberal democrats. which means , democrats. which means, according to this new research, the lib dems are most likely to become the official opposition. the new poll looks like this. it's from electoral calculus, andifs it's from electoral calculus, and it's forecast labour will win 450 seats, the lib dems 71 and the conservatives 60. it's likely the reform party, the new research says, will get around 18 seats, including those of nigel farage, richard tice and lee anderson. the forecast labour victory would be more significant than tony blair's landslide election result of 1997, and it would be the largest win by any political party over the last 100 years. well, with just over a week to go until the general elect

. >> well, tesla, dunlop, emma webb, thank you very much for joining us.tion tonight. but i'm not going to be throwing you over to the weather. no. instead i'm going to be throwing you over to patrick christys who's got an extra special programme coming up. dissect a bit more about this strange election campaign. patrick >> yes, absolutely. i have just sat through that latest leadership event, so you didn't have to. there was unrelenting tosh from both sides there. there were gaffes. there were boos from the audience. there were laughs at times. did you know keir starmer's dad was a toolmaker? rishi sunak was held toolmaker? rishi sunak was held to account as well on a few of his failures. i'm going to take you right to the heart of the action now . action now. yes, indeed. the battle for number 10 is raging. this crazy general election campaign took yet another twist tonight, as rishi sunak and sir keir starmer got a grilling, with both of them trying to convince the nafion them trying to convince the nation that they are the man to lead britain before the

a your say on tessa dunlop's report.g achievements during the second world war and what she did to secure our freedoms. i cannot thank these incredibly smart ladies enough . thank smart ladies enough. thank goodness for their unique talents and that they were not wasted. but loads of emails on sir keir starmer and his energy policy. a lot of you don't think much of his great british energy policy . see this. labour and the policy. see this. labour and the tories always talk big. we will do then in power they do nothing. things can only get worse and on on, on starmer's energy policy, gerald says this labour's policy on north sea oil seems like madness . it supplies seems like madness. it supplies about 75% of our present oil and gas, and that means we have to buy it elsewhere. we will need huge quantities until 2050 and beyond, and cassie adds this the oil companies will not invest as much if they are taxed too heavily by the labour party, and thatis heavily by the labour party, and that is their problem. they see pound

. >> well, the historian and broadcaster tessa dunlop has paid a visit to one of those codebreakers , codebreakers, operation overlord, the unprecedented allied campaign to liberate western europe and defeat the nazis has long been immortalised in films , books and in films, books and documentaries, much less well known is the crucial role hundreds of thousands of women from all walks of life played in d—day. >> they occupied numerous vital roles, including at bletchley park, where the majority of recruits were female, working around the clock to deliver ultra intelligence on enemy movements in france for the allies , among their number was allies, among their number was ruth bourne. nowadays she's 98. but then she was a young wren fighting the same war as the men on the beaches. ruth operated one of alan turing's bombe machines that helped decrypt enigma encoded communications. >> we were initially told the work we were doing was specialised . it was to be quite specialised. it was to be quite hard work . hard work. >> so you are the coalface of the decryption with the bombe machine.

michael dunlop has secured victory in the super sport and super twins races of the week and it takescouple of stories about how you can send your sporting progress down the gene pool! absolutely! around 20,000 bikers completed aim mammoth ride in memory of dave myers who died of cancer in february. the procession made its way to his home town of barrow after setting off from the ace cafe in north—west london. sharon barber has been following the journey. it isa it is a big night in barrow, a celebration of the life of dave myers. tens of thousands have arrived, many of them hairy bikers. they are riding in all the way up the m6, thousands of people on every bridge, unbelievable. fits the m6, thousands of people on every bridge, unbelievable.— bridge, unbelievable. as were coming in throu~h bridge, unbelievable. as were coming in through the — bridge, unbelievable. as were coming in through the towns _ bridge, unbelievable. as were coming in through the towns and _ bridge, unbelievable. as were coming in through the towns and villages - in through the towns and villages leading _ in th

. >> historian and broadcaster tessa dunlop paid a visit to one of these codebreakers . of these codebreakersng been immortalised in films, books and documentaries. much less well known is the crucial role hundreds of thousands of women from all walks of life played in d—day. they occupied numerous vital roles, including at bletchley park, where the majority of recruits were female, working around the clock to deliver ultra intelligence on enemy movements in france for the allies, among their number was ruth bourne. nowadays she's 98, but then she was a young wren fighting the same war as the men on the beaches. ruth operated one of alan turing's bombe machines that helped decrypt enigma encoded communications . communications. >> we were initially told the work we were doing was specialised . it was to be quite specialised. it was to be quite hard work . hard work. >> so you are the coalface of the decryption with the bombe machine. but once this ultra rich material is being harvested, you then have to translate it differently from the original german . so to the original german. so to rewri