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halifax, nova scotia — new scotland! perfect! are you enjoying "old scotland"? absolutely.e for over 30 years to play golf and saw my first open in 2005. fabulous. it'sjust gorgeous. we've been over for a week — we're staying down— in rockcliffe, down| on the south coast. yes. and, yes, we're - driving around here. weather like this isjust - stunning, it certainly helps. so far, the week's been glorious weather—wise.| but it's great. it'sjust a really, really. lovely part of the world. i'm used to walking in anyway because i live here locally. so i walk along the beach and cross over, but it's great. it's such a good vibe and it's so buzzy in the town, so it's good. and in the midst of the crowd, always practice. in this game, it doesn't come bigger than the open. troon awaits its latest winner. chris mclaughlin, bbc news. our reporter ben croucher has been at royal troon ahead of the first round and earlier sent us this. one little subplot to this week has been the subject of prize money. now, the open championship has increased its prize money. it's $17 million in total n

with the halifax results today, north carolina gives the nation a symbol representing, one of our dearest treasures, the reverend billy graham, a man of faith, a man of north carolina, the the reverend graham was known as a minister to millions as the pastor to presidents. a selfless man of god who lived out calling by preaching and teaching across the world, always returning to his beloved home in the blue ridge mountains of north carolina, for respite. then return again to worldwide ministry. i'll never forget as a child, hearing him preach in carter findley stadium in raleigh, he brought together people of different faiths and different races. today, we acknowledge that he is a better representation of our state than the statue it replaces, which brought memories of a painful history, of racism. not that reverend was perfect. he would have been the first to tell us that. instead, he realized that he and all of us here today had feet of clay. we are imperfect. we have been found wanting. but he believed, as many of us do, that there is redemption. and he gave his life to delivering that

halifax, nova scotia, new scotland. enjoying the old scotland?art of the world. i am used to walking it anyway, i live here locally will— stop it is great, just lovely, such a good| vibe and is so buzzy in the _ town so it is good. in the midst of the crowds, always practice. in this game it does not come bigger than the open. troon awaits its latest winner. england women have completed a 5—0 t20 series clean sweep against new zealand, after winning the fifth and final match at lords by 20 runs. england started poorly and were 87 for six at one point but captain heather knight and charlie dean steadied the ship — knight top—scoring with 46 as they set the kiwis a target of 156 to win. lauren bell then shone with ball taking three wickets as england restricted the visitors to 135 for eight. a positive summer for england with the t20 world cup a few months away. england's men have been preparing for their second test against the west indies which gets under way in nottingham tomorrw. they'll be without james anderson, following his retirement after

in halifax, a new solar—panelled bus terminal., this sight will be repeated up and down the country. one local entrepreneur says speed is of the essence. rachel says that she has a plan and that plan needs to be implemented. how much time has she got? we've run out of time already and that's the reality, isn't it, that there's businesses that are folding. local authorities have gone bankrupt. this afternoon at the treasury, a glass ceiling in british economics broken at last. it is also a huge privilege to be the first ever female chancellor of the exchequer. so every young woman and girl... earlier in her seat in leeds, the new chancellor was candid to bbc news about her room for manoeuvre. i know the scale of the challenge. there's not a huge amount of money there and so what we need to do is unlock private sector investment. does this suggest that you're willing to see some political pain in order to get the growth the country needs? we're willing to have that fight because unless we can unlock that investment, unless we can re

in halifax, mum of two helen rutherford agrees with the idea of a uniform but says it can add up.*s, you know, making fun out of people for not having a decentjumper on or whatever else. we'll put a badge on this before it goes, we can embroider it here as well. but the industry feels the rules have gone far enough. changes have been made, and we can see that the number of compulsory school branded items has gone down about 7% since 2022, which is quite a significant reduction. if you get tagged, what do you do? the government has not made a decision yet on what the new limit will be, but it's something both schools and parents will be keeping a close eye on. vanessa clarke, bbc news, birmingham. the government is meeting leaders of thejunior doctors and train drivers today, hoping to end two long—running industrial disputes. the health secretary wes streeting will hold talks with the british medical association, after 11 strikes since the spring of last year, while officials from the department of transport will meet leaders of the train drivers union aslef. our health correspond

hitler, he went to meet him in germany, he and lord halifax visited rome, but who they sent to russiaador was just talking about sabotage from both chamberlin and daladi. due to consistency. the sabotage of chamberlain and daladier, who were betting on germany's unleashing of the soviet war, the tripartite negotiations finally reached a dead end, the dispute over the passage of soviet troops through the territory of poland and romania was only the last and the decisive link in a long chain of previous disappointments was, in fact, a very british policy, they pitted two forces that, to varying degrees, threatened british interests: hitler’s germany and the soviet union. and as senator truman will later say, let them kill each other as much as possible, this is the meaning of politics, of course, this was not an accident, this was not a piece of shit, this was not some kind of ideological thing, although there was ideology here , but even if the soviet union were not red and white, then this policy, in my opinion, would still be so. well, let ’s read what our historian mikhail meltyukho

we are just south of halifax up there.alley. but in brighouse they've had quite enough of political drama. it's very interesting, but it's all the same. all promises. will it be done? they're not intelligent. well, they're not, are they, or else they wouldn't be doing all these ridiculous things?! the country's a mess. it's nothing like the i country we knew, is it? nothing like the - country we knew, no. ailsa volunteers here. she knows how to cook for 50 people, but is less sure how to vote. we're in a real mess because of ukraine, because of covid. everything needs to be paid for somehow. nobody�*s saying how they're going to pay for it. so there's no point saying, we'll cut your taxes, so if you're going to cut taxes, or you're not going to put taxes up, where's the money going to come from? because it has to come from somewhere. and how do governments run countries? there needs to be taxes. you know, so, ordinary people pay. the river calder once powered a booming textile trade. now new industries, like this one, are

so yeah, it's a 60 miles to blackpool from halifax and then another 50 on to manchester. time it haven't you. >> you will if people want to donate to you ben, how can they find you, >> they can do. yes. am i just giving pages that justgiving.com forward slash page, forward slash kmf 2024, but yeah, if you just put my name into any of the internet search engines and, all the information will be on there and we're on facebook as well, so there'll be full coverage dunng so there'll be full coverage during the over the weekend as well. >> yeah . brilliant stuff ben. >> yeah. brilliant stuff ben. best of luck to you. and thank you very much indeed for talking to us. >> thank you very much. and god bless. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> right , ben >> thank you. >> right, ben mentioned the football. well good luck to ben. >> well, best of luck. speed it up a little bit towards he's got. on hell on sunday he's got to get back. >> he's determined to do it. >> he's determined to do it. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> because all eyes of course , >> because all eyes of c

host: lori, halifax, pennsylvania, republican. caller: hello. good morning. host: good morning. i would like to reference the trump-biden debate. how could a person watch that debate and not understand what trump relay to the american people? much of the time during the debate after biden would speak, trump had that precious time deflating the lies biden just told. it was purely evident. we're watching biden as a clown in this world circus. in biden's 51 years, he has stood nothing but corruption. if you can't see it or believe it, you are 100% brainwashed which does stem from the mainstream media every decade. so i ask you this. do you want a three freedman and thriving america, a controlled border, a fair and peaceful relation with other country? no wars. no national debt. no inflation. no crime, no racial discrimination. no violation of our constitutional rights and the list goes on and on. do you want to make our country great again? one leadership will bring us again. and it's obvious donald j. trump. there is a reason weather are millions of maga supporters worldwide. and

host: lori, halifax, pennsylvania, republican. caller: hello. good morning. host: good morning. i would like to reference the trump-biden debate. how could a person watch that debate and not understand what trump relay to the american people? much of the time during the debate after biden would speak, trump had that precious time deflating the lies biden just told. it was purely evident. we're watching biden as a clown in this world circus. in biden's 51 years, he has stood nothing but corruption. if you can't see it or believe it, you are 100% brainwashed which does stem from the mainstream media every decade. so i ask you this. do you want a three freedman and thriving america, a controlled border, a fair and peaceful relation with other country? no wars. no national debt. no inflation. no crime, no racial discrimination. no violation of our constitutional rights and the list goes on and on. do you want to make our country great again? one leadership will bring us again. and it's obvious donald j. trump. there is a reason weather are millions of maga supporters worldwide. and

i'm flying in a moment to dublin, and then i've got a quick change before i go to halifax in canada in it's a cheap way there because obviously if you go via dublin, you dodge air passenger duty. >> fantastic. yeah. you do. yeah. there you go. hot tip from simon calder. he's full of them. thank you simon. >> safe travels. safe travel. >> safe travels. safe travel. >> have a lovely time. speak to you again soon. thank you. my friend. god bless. bye bye. >> so i think we should head to paris. what do you think we can go see there? >> why come here? >> why come here? >> why come here? >> why would you want to go to the hockey or something? >> the only sports that should be in the olympics are track and field. right? that's what it should be about. yes. nothing anything else? who cares about archery and hockey and hockey and not even football. >> you love football? >> you love football? >> i don't love olympic football. i could care less about olympic football. >> oh, certainly. >> oh, certainly. >> i love football. i love manchester united. i know you do. no one religion, mufc that's all

in halifax, mum of two helen rutherford agrees with the idea of a uniform but says it can add up.f their uniform policy. um, but changes have been made, and we can see that the number of — the number of compulsory school branded items has gone down about 7% since 2022, which is quite significant reduction. if you get tagged, what do you do? the government has not made a decision yet on what the new limit will be, but it's something both schools and parents will be keeping a close eye on. vanessa clarke, bbc news, birmingham. we can speak now to sadie coventry, who's the director of merry go round — a community venture that sells pre loved school clothes. i don't know how loved those school uniforms whether i will take your word for it. how busy are things for you now? it word for it. how busy are things for ou now? , , , , , word for it. how busy are things for ounow? ,, ,, ,., you now? it is stepping up now we have one you now? it is stepping up now we have gone into _ you now? it is stepping up now we have gone into the _ you now? it is stepping up now we have gone into the scho