graham satchell, bbc news, manchester.d heavily throughout the pool stage of the tournament, but he says he‘s named his strongest team for this evening‘s game. our sports correspondent katherine downes reports from belfast. belfast, a city proud of its past but one which chooses not to dwell there. swap nation for team and england‘s women have chosen to follow the same philosophy. they‘re defending world champions, grand slam winners but no one knows england‘s weaknesses better than today‘s opponents. france have won two of the last four six nations titles and finished third at the last world cup, they are england‘s toughest test yet. we know that every time we play france it will be one hell of a game, they are tough opposition, they have a lot of strength around the whole of the game, they are an all—round team, we know that, if we are to get the result we want, we will have to put in a performance that is an improvement from the games so far we have played in. england, the tournament‘s only fully professional side enjoy

graham satchell, bbc news, manchester. you are watching bbc news.niestjoke of the latest on bake. before that, the funniest joke of the the latest on bake. before that, the funniestjoke of the edinburgh fringe. i am funniestjoke of the edinburgh fringe. iam not funniestjoke of the edinburgh fringe. i am not a fan of the new pound coin, but, then again, i hate all change. if you think you can do better, you can send your offering to be. —— to me. and if we can, on grounds of taste, i will read some of them later. a colleague said to me earlier, where is the best place to hide in hospital? icu. we got there in the end! if you could hear what i could hear! it's no longer on the bbc — but the great british bake off returns to our screens later this month , on channel 4. three quarters of the presenting line up has changed, is it still is good? none of it sounds straightforward. we have to send someone away. you could send noel. i will go now. i will take a hit for the team. entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba had a sneak preview of the new style cha

graham satchell, bbc news, manchester.he broadcaster poached the show in a multi—million pound three—year deal. but as our media editor amol rajan reports, the television landscape is changing dramatically. and the bake off brouhaha may well just be the start of things to come this is channel 4's shiny new toy. nobody wants to be the first person to leave. great british bake off, poached from the bbc and due to air next week. the winner of the 2015 great british bake off is... this is what they want to recreate. ..nadiya. cheering and applause watched by 13 million people on bbc one. channel 4 paid a reported £75 million for three years. according to the man who ran both channel 4 and the bbc, bake off is outside channel 4's remit. personally, i think channel 4 were out of their minds. buying a show like that, using a chequebook to buy a ready—made bbc show, the most popular show on british television, it's not what channel 4 is there to do at all. it's there to be a nursery for talent and ideas. so i was quite shocked. th

graham satchell has been to meet the residents of a tower block in salford, which was refurbished withwas combustible? it is unbelievable. that on a block that was combustible? it is unbelievablem is not fireproof. it has failed all of the tests. so, no matter what they say, you feel uneasy now. ask us they say, you feel uneasy now. ask us what we want doing with our homes. do you feel safe? no. thorn court in salford, it is 22 stories high, the cladding and installation here has failed a series of fire safety tests. we're still up in the airabout safety tests. we're still up in the air about what's going on. residents likejohn had air about what's going on. residents like john had been air about what's going on. residents likejohn had been told the cladding on their block will be removed but as yet they don't know when. so have you got a timetable? no. what you think about that? discussed it, ‘cause everyone is on edge. three people on the 20th floor, to people on the 19th floor in wheelchairs, how are they going to get down? dawn has lived here for 26 years. she used to work as a sec

figen was talking to graham satchel there.ed and their families, those who were there, affected and injured and theirfamilies, then there is the next generation, the people in the outer circle who weren't directly impacted physically but were there and are suffering from survivor's guilt or some form of ptsd, post—traumatic stress disorder. today is a key point because it's the 12—week period which is a point at which ptsd can start to be diagnosed, so today is a crucial day for therapists and people in mental health. interestingly, i'm seeing people who weren't directly affected, they weren't directly affected, they weren't there, didn't know anybody who was injured but they're still directly affected and i feel that those people are slipping through the net because they weren't there and they feel that they can't get access to support because why should they, they weren't directly affected but they were indirectly affected and it's still impacting on them quite significantly. in terms of those who were there, what are the sy

graham satchell, bbc news, manchester.mments come as a series of politicians from across the political spectrum tell bbc newsbeat it's time for laws relating to the drug to be looked at. jim connolly has the details. at the last election the liberal democrats made headlines with one of the most eye—catching manifesto promises, to legalise cannabis. lib dem insiders tell us it wasn't that popular. so is it a policy the party continues to back? the evidence is clear that if you want to stop abuse and damage to young people, you've got to bring the trade into the open and out of the hands of the criminal underworld. attitudes to cannabis are changing across the world. take, for example, north america. in the us, 21 states have decriminalised personal possession, and eight have legalised it. next year canada is expected to go further and make the drug legal across the whole country. back in europe, portugal has some of the most liberal drug laws. all substances are decriminalised. we've come to meet the man often described as