in england louise mason didn't see her parents and three siblings for months at a time. i was let alone most of the time my parents had other children there's no way that they could leave them with my nan it was my crime i was old so they just stopped coming. i went home three weeks. for week week in the summer making a christmas easter. if the policy was not. your brothers sisters again. in your kansas gadgil and al's in law's parents decided the best way to get their arm less son to cope with life was to turn his toes into fingers for hours alvin was given manual task to perform with the teacher. granted having no arms or the exact rather simple disability very complicated disability and i'd be lying if i didn't say it was a lot of work a lot of work a lot of time spent by myself very long and very afraid very frustrated but i think it was the character that was built by my parents especially by a lifer. that allowed me to not really think that i was all that different. it's not an easy thing to get dressed but. again it goes back to the basic theory of my life and tha

after eleven days in hospital her parents took louise to an institution for handicapped children where she would spend the next eighteen years of her life but louise was fortunate her father had not asked another doctor to end her life because i'm questionable. midwives and doctors were killing disabled children. in the hospitals and the delivery rooms on a large scale in britain. in germany and if they're probably everywhere else. in canada another armless baby was spared by a poor ukrainian family in a rural cisco. years later alvin law learned how horrified his natural parents were when he was born ultimately it was the perturb grandmother who didn't want to have anything to do with us she said you're not going to bring that devil baby home with you ease he's deformed because of a curse. the armless baby wasn't taken home after doctors warned he would never lead a normal life but after six weeks an elderly couple jack and hilda law who had already raised their own children volunteered as foster parents and got their first look at . it took one look and i thought no wonder nobody wan

louise so has come into contact with many different bacteria this morning how many of it here to our. reason in the course of the day louise is being contaminated with some bacteria that aren't necessarily pleasant alongside gut flora and enter a caucus that was a stuff a caucus or ias which is a pos forming germ in the pan and as a need to back on a germ the causes lung infections in hospitals in immune compromised patients especially when it's antibiotic resistant become. love luisa can wash their hands it's a good idea to wash for twenty seconds after going to the toilet and before eating to try your hands thoroughly to keep the bacteria from multiplying. i personally can understand why some are afraid to be in the dark because you can use darkness as he likes to darkness he'll go hey. this is what rebecca to man will see for the next forty two hours absolutely nothing. darkness therapy involves spending time in a room without any light. yamato soullessness i know i felt this really strong draw this pull a feeling that i would like to spend several days in the dark and i wasn't afr

mostly louise s. place was hired to help integrate the seventy albanians in the program question has come for advice on finding a new apartment ever since he arrived last year escalation has been the go to person for any problems. we help take care of a lot of official things she says we get them health insurance open a bank account go to the company doctor get the contract signed. by christian isn't sure how long he'll stay in germany but says he feels comfortable on the ward a sign of the program's success in october it'll start bringing in nursing staff from mexico and that was the week in business. into the. zome with tim sebastian. challenging those in power asking tough questions demanding ourselves. as complex intensify i'll be meeting with kid players on the ground in the stands as a. gushing through the rhetoric holding the powerful to account facts of the conflict zone. conflict zone with jim sebastian on the d.w.i. . being the fun beethoven. his work and the goddess for turning up. the maes

boarded it was called the jolly gardens and my wife and i sadly lost one of our twins named bree louise back in two thousand and three so we asked him the licensing if we could change the name of it and for a thing they granted is that permission and it's been the brain louise ever since so it's more than just a business there's a huge emotional attachment you had a nice premise and it was a house in the minds of this thing is as well and you want plenty of awards understand that we're going to tell us about that it was here locally yeah we were big reliable inside a pub we would be allowed part of the year for london camera brands in two thousand and nine and again in sixteen and we saw the part of the year in two thousand and three thing what was it like coming back and seeing in this state. destroying from a law life couldn't even face being here today what would your message be to chris grayling transport say to. get things in on budget i think would be the first thing and get those people paid fairly and is quickly as paul. and you saying you haven't been paid anything yet not yet

movie louise as a place was hired to help integrate the seventy albanians in the program question has come for advice on finding a new apartment ever since he arrived last year escalation has been the go to person for any problems. we help take care of a lot of official things she says we get them health insurance open a bank account go to the company doctor get the contract signed. by christian isn't sure how long he'll. stay in germany but says he feels comfortable on the ward a sign of the program's success in october it'll start bringing a nursing staff from mexico and that was the week in business. so this is the view from my seat in the horn section. sarah with knows her stuff. and conductor. and she shows just how diverse classical music can be. sarah's music contemporary classical. w. . and the french are going on appearing swedish and. don't miss this story for john j. should johnson takes you along on a thrilling bone chilling journey. as you can discover tony's and much a. telling his story on instagram. in the.

it is a quiet area i would say, louise, for traffic, having been here this week but we're just a blockaway from a very main roads that runs right the way through this pa rt that runs right the way through this part of these london, so for those moments, drivetime back in the afternoon and rush—hour in the morning, very busy. this is a brand—new sign, showing you the timing to say vehicles should abandon the zone between 7am and 10am in the morning, 4pm and 10pm in the afternoon and there is a large country school behind me, so that school will be pleased to see this brought in. but will it work? we will find out more in a second. we

louise, thank you indeed. getting warmer!uise. plastics have been called a scourge on the environment, but now a group of scientists think they may actually be able to use them to do some good. it's estimated there's around a00 million tonnes of the material buried in landfill around the uk which could now be mined to make green fuel. but some environmentalists think it's better left where it is. david whiteley reports. every week, 1100 tons of household waste are buried in this landfill site. it isjust waste are buried in this landfill site. it is just one of 20,000 landfill sites in the uk and between them, they contain a00 million tons of plastic. chris cornell has been working on this landfill sites for the last three years. is it quite shocking to see how much plastic is here, and this is relatively small landfill? definitely. it has been noticeably more plastic in the last few years. what do you do with it? where does it go? how can you recycle this sort of stuff? doctor stuart wavell and is leading a government backed

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louise would not just a woman. who was flying planes and racing planes. she was a mother. having a first child in 1930, and her second in 1933. at a time when men, husbands and our culture believed that a woman should stay home after they have their children. the home and raise those children. louise did something very unusual at the time and something i think all of us can appreciate now. she tried to have it all. to juggle her personal dreams and ambitions. with her children and her love for them. because of some of the sacrifices louise would make over your four children, she too, would be forgotten. one of the questions i've gotten a lot in recent days and also recent months, about this woman, how are they the same or different? and, it's a difficult question to answer because really they were both. some came from money, some did not. some were educated, some were not. their fathers were lawyers and wall street traders, bus drivers and laborers. but they did have a few characteristics in common. that i actually try to identify early on while i was still writing because

now it's back tojohn and louise. hello, this is breakfast withjon kay and louise minchin.after their loved ones. we'll meet a woman whose life was turned upside down, following her partner's dementia diagnosis. grime musician novelist will be on the sofa ahead of tonight's mercury prize to tell us how no matter what life has thrown at him, he's managed to turn it into a positive. we know he's fanatical about film, but ever since seeing a movie about slade, mark kermode has been giddy about guitars. he'll tell us about his musical misadventures. that is all coming up later. first, let's tell you that the main stories from bbc news. —— let's tell you the main stories. theresa may has urged the 27 leaders of the european union to consider what she describes as a serious and workable plan for brexit during an informal summit in salzburg last night. the prime minister had just 10 minutes to pitch her vision, she urged her counterparts to drop what she called "unacceptable" demands. eu leaders say the stalemate on the irish border remains unbroken. the rail regulator says nobody

good morning, louise.ll out firefighters very early into the incident and deal with external firefighting only until we got full control. we protected one wing and stopped the fire spreading to the ce ntre stopped the fire spreading to the centre part of the building and the other fire on the frontage of the building. we were pretty prompt in our actions in that regard. after four or five hours we got control of the building and we have been hot spotting and damping down overnight. we are likely to be on the scene for several hours during the day to conduct fire in depth investigation. we have the main arterial road now open into liverpool. the upper floors of the roof have been damaged. is the structure of the building more or less intact? the internal structure has been severely damaged and a building surveyor will make a further assessment during the day. we are confident that what you see on the outside, the art deco bit which is taking some interest, can survive and that the information we have had so

welcome to breakfast, with dan walker and louise minchin. our headlines today: bill cosby spends his first night behind bars after being jailed for up to ten years for sexual assault. jeremy corbyn will promise to tackle "greed is good" capitalism as his makes his leader's speech at the labour conference. more misery for manchester united. paul pogba watches from the stands as his side lose on penalties and are dumped out of the league cup by championship side derby. off life support. a deal is reached to restart construction of a new hospital in liverpool, after the collapse of carillion left the future of the project in doubt. we will be live in gravesend as a beluga whale is spotted for the first time in the river thames. good morning, from one of the largest spaces outside in london. we are in the hunt for some conkers this morning. a cold start in the south, very mild as we push further north, sunshine in the south. more in15 north, sunshine in the south. more in 15 minutes. it is wednesday 26 september. our top story: the american ente

louise mason was determined to drive no matter how difficult it was for her just physically to get behind the wheel and do our best. in the. little bit remember the good be looking guy that played the drums with us and remember the words i live by every day. there's no such word as can't. thanks. allen travels over one hundred thousand miles a year on his own but after thirty years on the road his body is starting to wear it takes its toll career and that stuff around i mean you know my body may not last as long as normal bodies do because of what i'm putting it through i mean as much as i make this look easy i'm still put my body through a lot of stuff just the pain in my back from carrying my luggage scar tissue in my shoulder from carrying a briefcase for thirty five years and you know there's not really a shoulder here so what i'm carrying it with i should be doing this i should have like a sherpa or something. how does a guy without arms function on the road all by himself i carry my own luggage with straps i check into all tells all on my own i i rent cars my keys are you go oh than

for comfort dr ben smith patient louise has come to ask him for feral. pay to. have. affairs here it's here we spoke you said that in the solar cell which has you know this housing but how about all mine for too long you know down into it so movie on the move you referred to i've been seeing it the vast majority of the ferals like those at celtic street are based solely on the doctor's clinical judgment. but recently some practices have been rewarded for non referral by the local health authorities in an effort to cut costs where the hope ability service has the right thing i don't know i don't mean a level where services is that you know is it where is it reviewed it is actually pretty quick it's the internet and monitors e.c.a. so out which is. what i mean i can have a little bit of a look into that service and see what the sort of criteria are for getting there but i suspect it's quite severe quite eerie but what often will be for me to refer you to was called the most fiercely course they will know about high probability service and they are able to

louise, thank you.ands during world war two is generally regarded as a dark chapter in their history. but every so often a story emerges which demonstrates the humanity shown by some members of the german forces. that 5 what happened when workmen found a box of personal possessions during a house clearance in guernsey. from the channel islands, robert hall reports. a dusty box, from a dusty cupboard, but its contents could transport one guernsey visitor back through the decades to a family story she never knew. a story which unfolded when she was a child. and herfather, dr albert kowald, was among german forces occupying these islands. tremendous character. he came here injanuary1943, he was posted as an air force doctor, and he was posted to look after the luftwaffe troops on the islands. and here, carefully packed away, albert kowald's medical books, his pistol, his cameras, letters from home and photos of his family. he told us about guernsey, he was very fond of guernsey, but he was very lonely and

what kinds of bacteria are to be found on louise's hands to begin with the petri dish is used to collect the samples. professor brian waters from the institute for medical microbiology and hygiene at philips university of marburg will be analyzing the samples for us. so what did he find right after louisa got up . we found lots of germs that are typically found on the hand like strains of micro caucus and stuff. we would expect to clean washed and to yield about fifty colonies on a dish like this and this kind of one up at louisa had three hundred so quite a few times more than a few thousands the smarter maybe she didn't wash their hands properly or the towel she used to dry them wasn't clean up talk with. what other bacteria will join those germs to find out louisa won't wash their hands for a while. the first candidates a lurking in the kitchen in sponges for instance. how long was this one been in use . for a five weeks it's certainly never been washed. the direct contact test shows that the sponge contains guts and skin for. but also fecal bacteria most of them come from food in ser

louise mason had been a single mother for ten years when she received. a christmas card from an old boyfriend i've heard that louise haven't been very well and went to a christmas card and come down and had a loan i think the spark reignited his is the best way to describe it he kissed me goodbye and butterflies were. i was floating on on a cloud and he told his wife he was leaving. she helped impact all. and then he moved danny reading together sent. to live out of other an understanding with the two of them it's really weird that we cannot on their own and you guys wouldn't know what i'm talking about you don't about right now straight away what you're going to go with a lot of the head or a mannerism you pick up you know a little more if you just pick up on it what it is though that sticks then you know it really is really fascinating we communicate here we go there without even talking. and i think we all think we were made for it to that we are. i remember thinking for twenty years all divorced got a kid losing my hair gaining a gut no arms what a p

here's louise with a look at this morning's weather.the weather abroad before we look here, because that hurricane, it's a tropical storm now that it's not going anywhere. just to clarify the difference between the two storms we have been highlighting, there were two storms into oceans, won a hurricane, one a cyclone, but florence was a category one when it made landfall but it is moving at such a slow pace, it is a rain event, we will see record—breaking rainfall totals across carolina, we have already seen across carolina, we have already seen 23 inches and it will stay for a couple of days, not pushing into virgin earand a couple of days, not pushing into virgin ear and pennsylvania until next tuesday so we are still looking at the potential for flooding. mangkhut, which was a super typhoon, made landfall in the northern philippines, it was the equivalent of up hurricane but moved across quickly and then it broke up and weakened as it pushes through the south china sea, expected to make a second landfall towards southern china. close

welcome to breakfast, with dan walker and louise minchin. a move to break the deadlock on brexit. to improve its offer on the irish border. £2 billion to help build more social housing. the government announces long—term plans for more affordable homes. labour says it is not enough to tackle the housing crisis. the first litter pick in space. orbiting the earth. taking on the budget supermarkets at their own game. the likes of aldi and lidl. night at anfield. but spurs lose to inter. and travel disruption, especially in scotland and northern ireland. it is wednesday 19 september. ahead of a crucial meeting of european leaders. to improve his offer to the uk over the irish border. where she will try to win support for her brexit plan. our europe reporter gavin lee has more. and will ask the eu to show willingness to compromise. to prevent the need for a hard border in ireland. of the uk, on sites away from ports and airports. checks could be performed. we can also clarify that most checks can take place away from the border. while the rest of

of her louise hadn't been very well and went to a christmas card and converted a loan i think the spark reignited his is the best way to describe it. he kissed me goodbye and butterflies were. i was floating on on a cloud and he told his wife he was leaving. she house impact all. and then he moved on in reading to get a sense. to it about it other than understanding with the two of them it's really weird that we cannot on then and you guys wouldn't know what i'm talking about you don't about run out right away what you're going to go with a lot of the head or a mannerism you pick up you know a little more if you just pick up on it what it is though that if explained it really really fascinating i would always communicate he would go there without even talking. and i think we all think we were made for it to that we are. and i remember thinking twenty years all divorced got a kid losing my hair gaining a gut no arms what a package and then i got to thinking you know i've got to change this that's how alan introduce him to out of a future wife. living in the audience one day that conferen

now they're probably sticking to louise's fingers and that's not good because places the lots of people are often ideal for bacterial exchange. here louis said except a few more bacteria. experts actually consider the metal bars in the stop button fairly harmless but of them so it's harvey you're going to see large numbers of germs on the seat of your skin flora but also germs that shouldn't be there like us anita back to high in other words someone sat here with a bacterium that could be a pathogen the coach transmitted in large numbers of it could cause an infection. for two oscars betty was making posse of. many people expect to find large numbers of but here but in fact the germ load on an escalator rail is quite low. something carts though are a different story they're often lots of classic human bacteria on the grip mostly harmless skin germs but also pathogens the cause diarrhea is included luckily there were no pathogens on it of reason but you do commonly find them on shopping carts is a poser hygiene problem because they're rarely if ever cleaned him. his workplace is also a h

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here's louise with a look at this morning's weather.nd and the wind will strengthen, mostly through the night to night. saturday, not a bad start, patchy rain around at the moment in northern ireland, the irish sea, the north of england, south of that, sunny spells, cloud will develop and u nfortu nately sunny spells, cloud will develop and unfortunately it will impact the sunshine in the afternoon, where we will have the best of the weather. sunny spells in northern scotland, although not as warm, 13 to 15 degrees, highest values of 20. you can't miss it, the cloud and rain pushing in, the wind strengthens, eventually wind of 30 or 40 mph on exposed coasts, the rain tony heavey through northern ireland, scotland, pushing through the isle of man and then into north wales, so a real north— south divide to start the day on sunday. the best weather will be in central and southern parts of england. here we will see sunny spells continue, and some warmth. the weather front moves steadily southwards. it will take time doing so. it will bring

let's speak to louise, whojoins us the philippines.is morning's weekend weather. let's look at the east coast of the us. it sounds as though it is the perfect storm, the wind, the pressure, the rain and it's just not moving. storm, the wind, the pressure, the rain and it'sjust not moving. this one potentially is going to be a record breaker through north carolina in terms of rainfall totals. the reason is the fact that it is so slow moving. it was only category 1 when it it is so slow moving. it was only category1 when it made landfall yesterday lunchtime uk time but it is not going anywhere very fast and it is going to stay close to north carolina right through the weekend. already we've seen 23 inches of rainfall that we are a way off, that has been recorded. we could see another couple of days of heavy rain. it has to be harvey in texas to beat the most rainfall which needs to be over 60 inches. we are really going to see some substantial rainfall totals. let's just take a look at mankhut as well, in the north of the philippines, cl

the lawyers for brazil's jailed former president louise in are suited to silver say he'll keep fighting to run in next month's presidential election lula is barred from running because of a corruption conviction in the supremes court has rejected his latest appeal his lawyers say they'll press the un's top court to make an exception so he can stand as a candidate. i have more on that story and everything else a bit later on do stay with us though for our next program my nigeria which looks at the life of a stand up comedian trying to grow his brand. that is a perfect formula for authoritarianism and me here let me ask you straight up korea is the two state solution now that the lights are on and there's no way it's high up front which hangs on his ear. right. now let me ask you i've never seen a black man and him up let me. think about the idea of a new for me because if i thought yes white man we're tough or is that going to guy that not like you call me. all we want to say is that school clothes. etc is crazy wife and never ever break you only time you see a white smile alfred is real

see you soon. —— louise. good morning, welcome to breakfast with louise minchin and jon kay.ocial media platform needs greater regulation? if you want to know anything, let us know. with less than a third of parents reading to their children every day, is there a magical recipe for improving the uk's literacy? authors, cressida cowell and nadiya hussain will share their views. ahead of the season finale of ‘bodyguard', we'll ask who is the mastermind behind the attacks, and is david budd really innocent? we'll examine all the evidence and conspiracy theories with a former met detective. here's a summary of today's main stories from bbc news. a senior cabinet minister has warned that britain is heading for a no—deal brexit unless the eu softens its position on the issue of the irish border. the transport secretary chris grayling says it's impossible for the government to agree to northern ireland having customs rules that are different to the rest of the uk. yesterday at the end of the salzburg summit, theresa may's chequers plan was rejected by eu leaders. but she insists it'

time for a look at the weather, here's louise lear.isa it is a week of windy weather across the country and that means the westerly wind blowing in a conveyor belt of cloud which at times will bring some rain. stretching right back into the atlantic. today already we had some sharp showers in scotla nd already we had some sharp showers in scotland but the rain has started to gather in intensity for northern ireland and south—west scotland and that continues for the rest of the day. we also see the wind strengthening with gusts up to a0 miles an hour. but further south we have some sunshine through the bristol channel and afterwards lincolnshire, anywhere south and east of that we keep the sunshine. make the most of it as it is not going to last throughout the week and overnight tonight we continue to see the rain gathering in intensity and the wind strengthening. gale force on exposed coasts of scotland. so tuesday morning in more detail, cloud and rain across the northern isles, still pretty windy with gusts still close to a0 miles an

good morning, louise. got small wheels, and the handlebars are quite narrow, so and the handlebars are quite narrow, so it can be quite challenging at times to deal with some of the things that are thrown at me. not literally thrown at me! when i left bristol, there were loads of conquers all over the road and they we re conquers all over the road and they were quite tricky. in somerset, had fallen apples because of the strong winds. it's been good, it's a great bike and it's been holding up well. and it's a bike that she loved? she did indeed. she got it for her last christmas. it was very special to her, very special to all of us and i couldn't think of a more fun and inspirational thing to do than to ride it from bristol children's hospital to lands end. what do people make of you when they see you on this tiny bike, what do they say to you? it certainly attracts a bit of attention and turns a few heads, but to be honest, all the way from bristol onwards, people have been running up to me, giving donati

here's louise lear.ting to clear up from the impacts of storm alli—macro aren't there another storm arriving as we speak, this time it's grown. there's going to be torrential rain put through the night tonight we will see some real squally gusts of wind that could cause some issues. if we look at the satellite picture we have this beautiful plume of cloud thatis have this beautiful plume of cloud that is driving this raining like a conveyor belt as the weather front stays with us all day and for most of the night as well. some relentless rain into parts of wales, the midlands and the north of england, but to the north of that just a breezy afternoon with a scattering of sharp showers. a better story for scotland and northern ireland in comparison this time yesterday, and for the south of the weather front, with that south—westerly flow, we're still seeing some warmth. temperatures sitting around 21—22, the last day of the warmth as over the next couple of days. the rain will start to be an impact through

now it's time for a look at the weather with louise lear.have seen some heavy and persistent rain and you can see that has been moving in across parts of wales, the midlands and along much of england. that is going to continue to britain's waste words, and then we will see an improving picture. it will take its time, a speu picture. it will take its time, a spell of wet weather to clear from east anglia and the south—east. sunny spells and scattered showers. the company by brisk north—westerly wind just making it feel really quite cool out there. 11—15 the overall height. urbanites tonight that rain will ease away from the south—east, the winds will fall and the showers will ease so skies were clear. it is going to be a chilly start to monday morning. with low single figures for many. to dry, saddled start across the country with just the exception in the far north—west. we'll have a scattering of showers and the far north—west of scotland. looking ahead the dry settled story continues. early morning mist and fog could be a problem across en

louise, thank you.tercontinental ballistic missiles. there were tanks, weapons and thousands of goose—stepping soldiers parading through the streets of pyongyang to show their devotion to their leader, kim jong—un. but the event focused on peace and economic development, with doctors, nurses and engineers taking part on colourful floats. the parade comes at a sensitive time as efforts to ease tensions with the united states have stalled. 0ur correspondent laura bicker in the south korean capital seoul — she told talked to me a little earlier about the significance of that decision not to parade ballistic missiles. a little bit of a softer approach, not what we've come to expect on many occasions from north korea but as you rightly point out there were those tanks, artillery, weapons, those tanks, artillery, weapons, those goose—stepping soldiers but missing were the intercontinental ballistic missile test which many believe are capable of reaching the united states. but showing them at this sensitive ti

louise ellman, the labour mp speaking to christian fraser a little bit earlier on this, morning. of staff being caught smuggling banned items into prisons. figures obtained by the observer newspaper show an increase of more than 50% over the past six years. but the prison service says this still represents a tiny proportion of staff. ben ando reports. in july, inspectors found that wandsworth prison in london, the most overcrowded in britain, had stopped scanning visitors for drugs and other banned items due to a lack of staff. the same month a 25—year—old prison officer was jailed for smuggling contraband into forest bank prison in salford, greater manchester. now the ministry ofjustice has admitted in figures released to the observer newspaper that in the last 16 years the number of prison employees, notjust officers but health workers, trainers or other support staff found smuggling illegal items like drugs, mobile phones, weapons or tobacco into prisons in england and wales has gone up by more than a half. the figures show that in 2012, 45 prison staff were caught smuggling b

louise, thank you.he tuc has said it will back the campaign for another public vote on brexit if the government doesn't secure a final deal. speaking on the bbc‘s andrew marr programme, the tuc‘s general secretary, frances o'grady, said the uk was in danger of crashing out of the eu, and called for more time for negotiations to take place. frances o'grady was also asked if unions supported a second vote on brexit. i want to serve notice to the prime minister today that if we don't get the deal that working people need then the tuc will be throwing our full weight behind a campaign for a popular vote so that people get a say on whether the deal is good enough or not because, you know, i'm a trade unionist. there is no way a trade unionist would negotiate a deal and not go back to their members. rules which prevent some victims of crime from being compensated if they lived with their attacker are being scrapped by the ministry ofjustice. the "same roof rule" was changed in 1979, but not retrospectively, m

he and louise, his sister, grew up 34.newington area of north london. his killers were taking revenge on rivals who also live there. a friend of theirs had been attacked in prison. they picked the wrong man. he doesn't know them, he's got nothing to do with them, just lives in that area? it was evil. it was just mindless for them to even do an attack such as this. it was awful. these two were convicted of the killings today, along with three younger attackers. there will be plenty of trials. there have been 99 killings, approaching last year's 116, and it's only september. the only comfort, the figures were worth a decade ago. the police response, a creation of a violent crime task force. this is the southern end of the blackwall tunnel under the thames. on the northern side, the police are trying to spot organised criminals so that they can be pulled over here i'm aware there is no escape. it's a huge operation. it's a bit like stop and search on wheels. by law, under the road traffic act... every driver we saw stopped wa

i have to say thank you to all the local mps who have worked hard for us, and particularly louise ellmanr local mp, who has done a fantastic job of putting ellman, our local mp, who has done a fantasticjob of putting this forward. bbc northwest's health correspondence is outside the current hospital in liverpool. great news we have. is it all plain sailing from here? i'm not sure we can ever say it is plain sailing with this project. i am outside the current liverpool hospital, they we re current liverpool hospital, they were hoping to have been out of here more than a year ago but the problem has been beset by problems. eight yea rs has been beset by problems. eight years ago we have the collapse of carillion, the construction giant, which was supposed to bring everything here to a shuddering halt. a conflux pfi deal. since then the people behind this, the trust, the people behind this, the trust, the government, the remaining backers, have desperately been trying to find a way out of this. today they concluded the best way forward was to walk away from the deal and for the government t

welcome to breakfast with dan walker and louise minchin. our headlines today: breakthrough in treating child leukaemia. nhs patients in england will become the first in europe to receive a revolutionary new treatment. labour mps will vote today on the decision to include the full definition of anti—semitism in their party rules. good morning. time to balance the scales. a new report says the uk economy is not working. the archbishop of canterbury says a fundamental rethink is needed to make it fair for all. in sport, the history girls do it for scotland. they've qualified for the women's world cup for the first time ever, after beating albania. after a record breaking summer for renewable energy, we'll ask what the future holds for solar power in the uk. the solar panels will be working ha rd across the solar panels will be working hard across many parts of the uk, if you are in east anglia and the south—east, some rain and later on western scotland and northern ireland, it is your turn. it's wednesday 5th september. our top story: a revolu

welcome to breakfast, with dan walker and louise minchin. 0ur headlines today: bill cosby spends hisears for sexual assault. jeremy corbyn will promise to tackle "greed is good" capitalism as his makes his leader's speech at the labour conference. more misery for manchester united. paul pogba watches from the stands as his side lose on penalties and are dumped out of the league cup by championship side derby. 0ff life support. a deal is reached to restart construction of a new hospital in liverpool, after the collapse of carillion left the future of the project in doubt. we will be live in gravesend as a beluga whale is spotted

for those stories and more, breakfast will be coming up at 6am withjon kay and louise minchin, with thebc news. the latest headlines: britain's prime minister has asked her fellow european leaders to drop what she says are unacceptable demands over brexit. the world anti—doping agency is expected to lift its suspension of russia at a meeting in the seychelles. the us senate has given the woman who accused a supreme court nominee of sexual assault, until friday to decide if she will testify. let's look at what the global media is chewing on this morning. we begin with the independent, which reports on theresa may's attempts to sell brexit to eu leaders at the summit in austria. the article suggests the british prime minister is running the risk of a row from brexiteers as she tries to compromise on the irish border issue. next, we have the new york times which is warning that denuclearisation commitments made by kim jong—un during his talks this week with south korea's moonjae—in, which the us has welcomed, still fall short of what officials have demanded. let's look at bloomberg china's

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welcome to breakfast, with dan walker and louise minchin. 0ur headlines today: shocking new figures on are said to pose a threat to children online. borisjohnson savages the prime minister's brexit strategy, saying the uk will get diddly squat from the negotiations. a huge fire has ripped through the iconic littlewoods building in liverpool. good morning from this factory. last year saw the biggest investment in new trains in a decade so i have come to this factory to find out what they are doing to try and get more business.

good morning, welcome to breakfast with louise minchin and jon kay.theresa may appeals directly to eu leaders over dinner to drop what she calls their "unacceptable" demands. a damning verdict on a summer of rail chaos. a report finds nobody took charge, as new timetables disrupted hundreds of services. police investigating reports of a poisoning that triggered a major incident in salisbury at the weekend say they're likely to look at whether it was a hoax. two people have died, after storm ali swept across parts of the british isles bringing winds of up to 100 mph.