ivf can be free on the nhs if certain criteria is met.e treatment but there came a point where she thought it was her best option. the boccia world championships start in liverpool later. it's the fastest growing paralympic sport and 181 athletes from 33 countries will take part in the competition. it can be played by people with some of the most severe disabilities. our disability correspondent nikki fox has been trying it out: boccia is a bowls—type game for those with severe disabilities. we are the most severe in the paralympic games. i love the sport. no matter what your disability, you have the ability to take part at the highest level. my name is david smith, i am a boccia player for the gb boccia team, i am paralympic champion, european champion, world number one and i received an mbe 18 months ago. not much. pretty good, happy days. i feel inadequate! so the object of the sport is to get closer to the white than your opponent. six red balls, six blue balls, you can propel them in any way that you can. in theory, with six balls, y

ivf can be free on the nhs if certain criteria is met.hought it was her best option. cornwall is "struggling to cope" with "unprecedented mass tourism" this summer according to visit cornwall, the county's tourist board. it said that it has actively stopped promoting two beaches because of problems caused by overcrowding. porthcurno beach and kynance cove, traditionally quieter beauty spots, have seen an influx of visitors after social media promotion. local people said traffic gridlock was making some communities unsafe. joining me now from truro is malcolm bell, chief executive of visit cornwall. you have been a bit too successful? also, the tremendous weather we have had this summer, but can never be underestimated, the power of people surfing at 30 degrees and enjoying the coast. we do have 400 beaches, so the coast. we do have 400 beaches, so two overcrowded and some under pressure but we have more than enough teachers to satisfy the people of great britain. you will have seen the pictures at porthcurno, the traffic backing up and pe

. >> when you think about the ivf process, you might say, if those are people, can we freeze them?ct, a lot of the procedures that take place in an ivf clinic in the laboratory may actually be illegal. so declaring an embryo a person is very, very difficult for the whole field of infertility. >> if a fertilized embryo is determined to be a person, in all aspects of the law that would fundamentally change abortion laws as well, because it would effectively make abortion illegal in every state and would mean that roe versus wade is effectively being overturned. >> reporter: for wendy the fight is deeply personal. after six miscarriages, she says her doctor encouraged her to undergo in vitro fertilization, ivf, as a protective measure. >> we wanted to go and have the procedure done so that when the time came, or if we couldn't figure out the reason behind my miscarriages, that we would at least have the embryos frozen so that we could have children in some way in the future. >> reporter: she was able to have her son and daughter without using any of her embryos. but the couple's world

of ivf, as the process of putting themselves to harvesting eggs is pretty much half of ivf.e dangers? there is an awful lot to be said for fertility counselling, pre—conceptual counselling. it is important that women who are considering freezing their eggs make use of these services. any those sessions, these issues will be discussed, and the clinician should go through with them their physical risks, and be able to talk and take an opportunity during counselling to talk about the emotional risk, the difficulties they may encounter. that is why it is so valuable. you have talked about some of the complications and the cost of all of this, but at the moment, most women who wanted, can get it on the nhs. women who are rushing to needing to freeze eggs due to some sort of medical reason, like chemotherapy, can apply to the local surgery to get the treatment far free, however the women who are freezing debt eggs for what it is sometimes termed live cell reasons, are currently having to pay to freeze their eggs. in some reasons, there are multiple cycles to get enough eggs for fu

after many failed ivfs in the uk.delivery or suffer issues bonding because of horrific births. i researched meticulously and i spoke to the president of the world college of obstetricians who listened carefully and told me it was likely i was phobic about childbirth probably as a result of being adopted or no history of childbirth type conversations with my mum. he had seen this before in some adopted people and told me it was not uncommon to get only a little way through labour and panic and end up needing an emergency c—section. it then took seven years for me to become pregnant and he had retired. luckily, he put it on my hospital file. even so, i still had to get past two subsequent consultants and get quite animated before finally getting my way. luckily i have a very supportive husband who com pletely very supportive husband who completely agreed with my decision, my daughter was born atjust over 39 weeks, perfect. easy recovery, iwas offered the chance to go home after the date and i have had a few snooty comme

it would be great for women who are going through ivf. no more harvesting of eggs. that's a painful, slow, unreliable process. it opens up all sorts of other possibilities that might be very disturbing. >> what about genetics and brain function and thought? [inaudible] a history everybody who's ever lived. [inaudible] zeros and ones and trace it back genetically. what are your thoughts on that, where it's going? >> relationship between genetics and brain function and can you hack your brain? >> scientists are identifying a lot of genes that do particular things in the brain. the problem is that, i think it's about 80% of all of our genes are active in the brain basically everything. which in a way isn't too surprising because it's a brain. it's really complicated. and so, and i can try to dive into some of this complexity in the book about looking at intelligence because intelligence, it's really the thread that runs the history of heredity, for good and for bad. there was this idea in the early 1900s and the united states that may be intelligence or evil mindedness

to their son's gift so we got in touch and had been in touch several times and we had three lots of ivf have an eight—year—old daughter and we also wrote back to tell them the gift meant we could go on to have a daughter as well. reaction in meant quite a few times. and how do they respond you telling them that? they were amazed and gobsmacked and we have become really good friends. they keep coming in and talking to us. here's chris with a look at this morning's weather. hello, good morning. we have been talking about the heat in spain and portugal quite a bit. how hot did it get? we got close to the spanish record, just seven tenths away from the record. this figure in portugal could still yet be revised because we will get more information as the morning goes by. the national records didn't go yet, but it was very hot. the heatwave is not moving on yet. we will see 47 today across the far west of spain and into portugal as well. temperatures will be easing in the week ahead. king at us be easing in the week ahead. king at us today, some hot spells of sunshine, not that hot, just into

that rate is below the rate that we see for ivf, which of course isn't a guarantee either.reezing. it is important to say that social egg freezing is becoming more common. but actually, there are lots of women who have to undergo medical procedures for cancer, for example, who do need to freeze their eggs one that treatment might damage their infertility. there are different groups of people who might be considering egg freezing. sarah, what we are talking about here is this message that you can pause the biological clock and choose when to have babies if you freeze the embryos. obviously we are talking today about the fact it is not as efficient as people might have hoped. does the possibility mean there is a different debate around when women can have babies and what the options are? i really welcome the options are? i really welcome the report today. it urges people to cancel their patients and be cautious about relying on this. for some people it will work, for others it want. others may not seek recourse to it. they can have babies the old—fashioned recourse to it. the

a couple who received a £2,000 donation to help them get ivf treatment have revealed they are expectings we still have some warm and humid conditions, elsewhere it is much fresher and there is a bit of sunshine. as you can see from our weather watcher in derbyshire. quite a bit of cloud in the south—east of england, still some outbreaks of rain clearing away eventually. rain moving its way from northern ireland, giving showers in north—west england, north and west wales, particularly in the west of scotland, further showers coming into the west of northern ireland later, much fresher feel for many, temperatures down by good few degrees, 27 celsius yesterday in lincolnshire, 23 celsius at best a day. overnighter night showers continue in the north—west with lengthy clear spells, and it could turn quite chilly in the countryside across northern parts. those temperatures could get down into fairly low single figures. on friday there will be a mixture of sunny spells and showers, it will feel cooler still, though, through tomorrow, temperatures in northern areas 1a—70d at best, 19 in the so

basically, it is like ivf.at, i get it, i get why it is illegal. 0bviously get it, i get why it is illegal. obviously in some countries, like china, where they are only allowed one child, if that happened everywhere we would probably have a population of just boys, everywhere we would probably have a population ofjust boys, because a lot of people want boys first. for me, personally, i have got four boys. it is just something me, personally, i have got four boys. it isjust something i long for. i don‘t want to get to 50 or 60 and not have done it, and have thought to myself, why, why didn‘t i do it when i had the chance? you have received some pretty vicious abuse, personal messages to you, not on your public profile, because there is quite a lot of supportive m essa 9 es there is quite a lot of supportive messages on social media. what kind of criticism have you had?” messages on social media. what kind of criticism have you had? i think it has been more from women who cannot actually have children. i don‘t th