moore universities spent years eavesdropping on orangutans, and analysed more than 5,000 of their "kiss squeaks" that sound like this. squeaking well professor serge wich, a primate biologist at liverpooljohn that each individual we are trying to dive back into the past to figure out the earliest source of human speech evolution, and we have always focused on vowels, and with this research we show that in consonants there is a lot of information, so now we think that the earliest words might have been a mixture of consonants and vowels, not adding complexity but repeating the same information twice so that a listener would have a higher chance of getting the message. let's ta ke let's take a look at the weather forecast with louise hunt. good evening. at this time of year the battle between winter and spring can bring some contrasting conditions from one data the next. that's what we've seen this week. on wednesday we've seen this week. on wednesday we had double digits with sunshine to the west. cold in the east and that cold flow dragged quite a lot of cloud further west. we run the risk of that driving in some showers through the night as well. rain to the coast, sleet and snow with som

moores universities spent years eavesdropping on orangutans, and analysed more than 5,000 of their "kiss squeaks" that sound like this. high-pitched squeaking. professor serge wich, a primate biologist at liverpooljohn to dive back into the past to figure out the earliest source of human speech evolution, and we have always focused on vowel—like sounds and with this research we show that in consonants there is a lot of information, so now we think that the earliest words might have been a mixture of consonants and vowels, not adding complexity but repeating the same information twice so that a listener would have a higher chance of getting the message. just part of his team's research. more on that later in the afternoon. we'll be talking about the nhs after 2pm. time for a look at the weather. helen willetts has the latest. it is a cold forecast for the next couple of days. if you don't like the cold weather, we can't promise much sunshine although there will be some sunshine. we have had some at port talbot in the western side of wales. for the majority, this is probably much more how it looks out of the window at the moment. there is the extent of the cloud. it is called as well with that cloud b

liverpooljohn ever spoken. researchers from durham and liverpool john moores ever spoken. researchers from durham and liverpooljohn moores universityat liverpooljohn moores university. he says each kiss squeaks is unique. we have tried in the past to figure out the earliest source of human speech evolution and we have always focused on a vowel like sounds, and this research shows that in consequence there is lots of information. so the earliest words might have been a combination of co nso na nts might have been a combination of consonants and vowels, actually repeating the same information twice, so that a listener would understand. an australian man has survived hours struggling to keep his nose above water after his excavator rolled into a damn. daniel miller had been on the machine north of syd ney miller had been on the machine north of sydney when the edge of the dam gave way and he was pinned down. he says he adopted a yoga pose and spent the time thinking about his wife and two young children. spent the time thinking about his wife and two young childrenlj spent the time thinking about his wife and two young children. i wen

moore universities spent years eavesdropping on orangutans, and analysed more than 5,000 of their "kiss squeaks" that sound like this. high-pitched squeaking. laughter well, professor serge wich, a primate biologist at liverpooljohnearliest source of human speech evolution, and we have always focused on vowel like sounds, and with this research we show that with consonants there is a lot of information, so now we think that the earliest words might have been a mixture of consonants and vowels, not adding complexity but repeating the same information twice so that a listener would have a higher chance of getting the message. the decision by surrey county council not to raise council tax by up to 15% was "theirs alone" says the local government secretary sajid javid. labour had claimed that ministers were prepared to offer a "sweetheart deal" to the council, to avoid holding a referendum on the rise. joe anderson is the mayor of liverpool and leader of the council and is in our studio there. this time yesterday you were saying you are going to get the truth to this. how is that investigation going? we have sent some freedom of information requests to see what was actually said by the leader of surrey and nick and w

we can speak to professor serge wich, a primate biologist at liverpooljohn moore university who is theey are, whether they are male or female and also a little bit about the context in which they make the sound. it provides quite a bit of information in a very odd sounding sound. yeah. what does it have to do with the way we speak? well, all our words were made of co nsta nce well, all our words were made of constance and vowels. a lot of our research has focused on fouls and we a lwa ys research has focused on fouls and we always thought most of the information is in vowel sounds. now this is a consonant sound, a lot of information about population and context. it means early on in our revolution the consonant sounds might have been important to relay messages. ok, i'm not sure i quite understand that professor. i'm sorry. are you saying the kiss squeaks are consonants? we always thought they did not contain much information, that they were basically like an alarm call, just saying, i'm afraid or something like that, but now we've discovered there is as much information on these as in