now, kate rigby knows that she has been given the best chance possible to survive magnetic cancer.. coming up at 6am on breakfast, charlie and naga will have more on that story and the rest of the days news business and sport. president trump's fired the communications chief he appointed less than a fortnight ago. the white house said anthony scaramucci had made inappropriate comments in an interview in which he attacked mr trump's then chief—of—staff. paris looks almost certain to host the 202a summer olympics after los angeles agreed to host the olympics four years later, the first time both cities have held the summer or winter games. nicolas maduro of venezuela says sanctions imposed on him area venezuela says sanctions imposed on him are a sign of desperation and hate. the sanctions were imposed after sunday's vote for a new constituent assembly. the hollywood actor and playwright — sam shepard — has died at the age of seventy—three. he was nominated for the best supporting actor 0scar for the right stuff in 198a, and also wrote more than a0 plays. now it's time for our newspa

for now, kate rigby knows she's been given the best chance possible to survive pancreatic cancer.ma unit in oxford is being closed for up to a year because of fire safety concerns. cladding on the building at thejohn radcliffe hospital was assessed following the grenfell tower disaster. 52 inpatient beds will be moved to other wards in the hospital by friday. the local nhs trust says a combination of fire safety factors is the reason for the closure. they found a number of things. first, they found the cladding was flammable. second, they found that the measures in place to stop fire from spreading from to floor were not as good as they should be. we have good measures to stop fire from spreading within a single floor, but we do not have measures it turns out in that building to stop spread from floor to floor as reliably as we want. all babies born in the uk will today be offered a new vaccine to protect from hepatitis b. it also immunises against five other diseases including diphtheria, polio and looping cough. it replaces the so—called five in one injection which has been give

kate rigby was amazed at how smoothly the nhs worked when she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.y at the queen elizabeth hospital in birmingham. i feel quite emotional, actually. i feel privileged. i could have died. i can't control nhs budget, and all the other things for the poor people who aren't as lucky as me. but i can spread the word. normally, people with jaundice like mrs rigby have a stent put in to relieve symptoms, which delays the main operation. but the hospital bypassed this step. a nurse was employed to speed up treatment from two months to 16 days, meaning a fifth more patients were able to have their cancer removed. cutting out the step also said the nhs £3,200 per patient. we save the nhs potentially £200,000 per year, with the number of patients that have surgery in ourteam. and so that, then, is a reproducible model, that other units up and down the country could use to go forward. pancreatic cancer has a very low survival rate. it will be two years before doctors can say whether treating patients more quickly actually means that they live longer. and, if the

kate rigby was amazed at how smoothly the nhs worked when she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.at the queen elizabeth hospital in birmingham. i feel quite emotional, actually. i feel privileged. i could have died. i can't control nhs budget, and all the other things for the poor people who aren't as lucky as me. but what i can do is spread the word. normally, people with jaundice like mrs rigby have a stent put in to relieve symptoms, which delays the main operation. but the hospital bypassed this step. a nurse was employed to speed up treatment from two months to 16 days, meaning a fifth more patients were able to complete surgery to remove their cancer. cutting out the stent also said the nhs £3,200 per patient. cutting out the stent also saved the nhs £3,200 per patient. we save the nhs potentially £200,000 per year, with the number of patients that have surgery within our team. and so that, then, is a reproducible model that other units up and down the country could use to go forward. pancreatic cancer has a very low survival rate. it will be two years before doctors can say

for now, kate rigby knows she's been given the best chance possible to survive pancreatic cancer.ing as many as 130 deaths which may have been caused by overdoses of the synthetic opioid, fentanyl, in the past eight months. the drug is usually used to treat cancer patients in the later stages of the disease, but is being taken by heroin addicts. for more on this let's talk to harry sumnall. he's a professor in substance use at the public health institute at liverpooljohn moores university who joins us via webcam. professor, why do you think this is turning out to be such a dangerous drug? we know heroin in itself is a dangerous drug. we are experiencing record levels of drug related deaths. women are girly fentanyl type drugs, and there are several on the market, —— when we look at the fe nta nyl type the market, —— when we look at the fentanyl type drugs. the market, —— when we look at the fenta nyl type drugs. users the market, —— when we look at the fentanyl type drugs. users are being exposed to it without realising it. they are not going out to take fe nta nyl, they are not g

for now, kate rigby knows she's been given the best chance possible to survive pancreatic cancer. yes, well you talked about those specially trained riot squads, the tornado squads and we have seen them arriving in the last hour or so at the prison. some are in vehicles with blue lights flashing. others in vehicles that are towing trailers. that will have their specialist equipment on board. those tornado teams are beginning to assemble here. what happens is that the prison will wait until the teams are assembled, until they are fully equipped and then go in to end the disturbance. the bbc are hearing from well placed sources that the prisoners managed to get hold of some weapons. they have taken control of the nash wing. the prison officers have retreated. the prison service are keen to emphasise that the situation is contained and there is no risk to the general public. this is a prison of 1,000 inmates, a medium security prison and there was a disturbance here yesterday which lasted several hours. so we saw similar scenes here yesterday with the tornado squads turning up and th