our culture editor katie razzall is here now. katie, what more have we learnt today?have been suggestions since the there have been suggestions since the story broke last week at the museum was one several years ago of the theft, and now we have seen e—mails first seen by the bbc that appear to back that up. so they are from a whistle—blower, and we have also seen responses from senior staff at the museum. of course, we cannot know fully what happened, we don't have all the answers, that is computed, but here are the details of my story about what we have learned from this correspondence today. the e—mails appear damning, suggesting that firstly deputy director and then the director of the british museum were alerted to allegations of theft more than two years ago. the whistle—blower was a dealer based in denmark who bought items on ebay which he later discovered work british museum property. he wrote tojonathan williams, the museum deputy, in february 2021, about a disturbing discovery i have made, involving theft from the british museum. he folded up injune, asking

katy razzall, bbc news.le wanted in connection with the death of a ten—year—old girl in surrey have detained three of their relatives for questioning. sara sharif�*s father, stepmother and uncle flew out of the uk before her body was found. they have not been located but three other members of the wider family have. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford is in woking. bring us up to date, daniel. it is almost two weeks since sara sharif�*s body was found in this house in the early hours of thursday morning and since then surrey police have urgently wanted to speak to the three adults that were living in the house at the time, her father, double sharif, his brother old —— also advocate on the day before her body was found. surrey police have asked pakistani authorities for help but the authorities have not been able to trace those three adults that the police want to speak to but what i have been able to do is find an question urfan sharif�*s two pakistan —based brothers and his father but as far as w

katie razzall, bbc news.ata breach of the police service of northern ireland two weeks ago. the leak saw the surnames and initials of 10,000 police employees excellently published in a freedom of information response. the review was announced by the police board following a meeting with the chief constable on tuesday. any statement, mr byrne said he recognises the gravity of the situation and challenges ahead. a senior doctor who worked on the neo natal unit where lucy letby was a nurse has called for hospital managers to be made more accountable for the decisions they make at hospital trusts. dr stephen brearey first raised concerns about lucy letby in 2015. he said instead of acting on his warnings he and his colleagues' lives were made very difficult. it's also emerged the nursing regulatorfor the uk is looking into claims against lucy letby�*s former boss, alison kelly. 0ur health correspondent dominic hughes reports. managers in charge of the countess of chester hospital at the time lucy letby was murder

katie razzall, bbc news. our top story this evening...rder of seven babies and the attempted miuder of six more. coming up... the girl with the golden gloves, but you still can't buy a replica shirt for lionesses hero goalkeeper mary earps. coming up on bbc news, dina asher—smith and daryll neita go for gold later in the 100 metres at the world athletics championships in budapest. the british duo looking to follow katarina johnson—thompson, who won the heptathalon yesterday. now, we all know our faces age as we get older but so do our organs. now a new ai tool can reveal the ageing affect on our hearts of a lack of exercise, poor diet, drinking and smoking. it allows doctors to work out how much younger or older someone's heart is compared to their actual age, as our science correspondent pallab ghosh has been finding out. heart beats. this is a heart scan of a 61—year—old person, but the chances are that the heart itself is older and has aged prematurely because of their genes or unhealthy lifestyle. not even experts can tell from the sc

katie razzall, bbc news.o and founder of art recovery international who specialise in locating and recovering works of stolen art worldwide. welcome to the programme. so the reporting today is the museum might never know what exactly has been stolen because of the gaps in its inventory, how much more complicated does that make it in terms of recovery?— does that make it in terms of recove ? ~ . ~ , ., , recovery? well it makes it virtually impossible. _ recovery? well it makes it virtually impossible. you — recovery? well it makes it virtually impossible, you can _ recovery? well it makes it virtually impossible, you can imagine - impossible, you can imagine something that has not been catalogued in the museum ends up being sold on ebay, purchased by a collector in france, sold to another dealer, and then my role is to contact the possessor of the stolen objects and say, where did you get this, and they say, well, how do we know it was stolen? how do we know it belonged to the british museum? we don't have th

katie razzall, bbc news. a lack of exercise, poor diet, drinking and smoking. doctors know that what is known as your heart age can be younger or older than your actual age. can be younger or older than your actualage. ourscience actual age. our science correspondent has actualage. ourscience correspondent has this report. heart beats. this is a heart scan of a 61—year—old person, but the chances are that the heart itself is older and has aged prematurely because of their genes or unhealthy lifestyle. not even experts can tell from the scan how much the heart has aged, but a new ai tool can. there are already plenty of ways to assess how healthy our heart is through scans, blood pressure, ecgs. but these just give you a snapshot and can vary from day to day, month to month. but this new ai technique is different. it can give you an accumulated total of all the bumps and scrapes your heart has had through lack of exercise, poor diet, smoking and drinking. let's see how i get on. the first step is to have an mr

our culture editor katie razzall reports.y bc, have disappeared from a storeroom and police are investigating. —— british museum collection. the investigation started in january after the museum collection. the investigation started injanuary after the museum contacted scotland yard. it wasn�*t made public until last week to safeguard the police probe here at one of the country�*s most cultural institutions. but it�*s becoming clearer that the disappearances date back several years. the missing items are said to be small and included jewellery from this collection acquired in the early 19th century. one item listed on ebay three years ago and sold to a dealer alerted two roman gem experts. dealer alerted two roman gem exerts. , .. , experts. they were exactly the same as one in the — experts. they were exactly the same as one in the british _ experts. they were exactly the same as one in the british museum. - as one in the british museum. clearly things were disappearing. when you went to the museum, what was the response? th