mark denten there in gateshead. much _ beyond belief. mark denten there in gateshead.ave a look at the weather prospects. most of us will see some rain at some stage today. most of us are ending the day with bright skies. some heavy showers around in cumbria. a lot of the showers going to fade away into tonight. you will see where they keep on going, though, particularly across western parts of scotland. much cooler than last night, especially in wales and england. 5—10 cooler than it was this morning. there will be a few showers in going again. a cloudy zone across north wales, northern england, with some showery rain developing here. largely staying dry further south. gust of wind stronger than this, 40—50 mph, across northern areas, and it will be on the cool side in northern england and scotland, some sunshine towards the southeast. 20, 20 one celsius. turning lesser in the end of the day and scotland for saturday, across the uk, looks mainly dry —— turning wetter. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: after a u—turn on tax and a possible squeeze on benefits, the

more now from our correspondent in gateshead, mark denten. a desperate case.are the police saying?— police saying? all, the police are still continuing _ police saying? all, the police are still continuing to _ police saying? all, the police are still continuing to search - police saying? all, the police are still continuing to search the - police saying? all, the police are| still continuing to search the area behind me, which is a nature park in gateshead. they tell us that they are investigating and it is very much ongoing, as you said, a few hours ago they named the 1a—year—old who died as tomasz 0leszak. tomasz we are told was a keen sportsman and a member of a local and a fifteens football club and had just played his last match on sunday, just a day before he died. tomasz was attacked and stabbed around eight o'clock on monday night, he was taken to hospital but sadly he died in the early hours of tuesday morning. police at the moment are continuing to question two teenagers, the first a 1a—year—old boy who was arrested on suspicion of murder in the sec

that was mark denten reporting.unced it aimed to become carbon neutral by 2028. that means reducing the greenhouse gases to a minimum and offsetting what's left. for residents, that should mean lower energy bills and warmer houses. but a report out today has calculated that doing what's needed will cost billions, as our environment correspondent sally bowman reports. council tenant kevin hill knows how lucky he is. external wall cladding with new doors, windows, etc. taking the roof right off. as part of the city's drive to become the uk's first carbon neutral city by 2028, kevin's 1970s home in radford, nottingham, is one of 77 to have what is called a deep energy retrofit. my electric has gone from about £14 a week to £17, £18 per week. but 77 houses is a drop in the ocean. the report out today from the university of nottingham says around six in ten of nottingham's properties got an energy rating of d or below, leaking heat from walls, windows, roofs and floors. but putting that right is expensive. retrofitting s

mark denten reports.ifferent estate agents. people were queuing for estate agents that have released the previous week even, just because they knew that there were more properties coming out. so there were queues all the way down the streets. many of them blame the university for expanding at a very fast rate. they've been expanding for a few years. they blame covid in particular for kind of grade inflation. and we can certainly see that the student numbers between 2020 and 2021 went up by about 1,000. so there certainly was a spike. but student numbers have been growing since 2017, 2018, and they have been increasing college numbers. many estate agents in the city put all their accommodation on the market in one go in what's known as the drop. engineering students tom and peter queued for six hours for a house. they've still not got a confirmed room for next year, and they say many students were signing up for accommodation they hadn't even seen. so we decided to get up about half three, get there for fo

mark denten reports.ext year. there were hundreds of students there and there were also hundreds of students outside different estate agents. people were queuing for estate agents that have released the previous week even, just because they knew that there were more properties coming out. so there were queues all the way down the streets. many of them blame the university for expanding at a very fast rate. they've been expanding for a few years. they blame covid in particular for kind of grade inflation. and we can certainly see that the student numbers between 2020 and 2021 went up by about 1,000. so there certainly was a spike. but student numbers have been growing since 2017, 2018, and they have been increasing college numbers. many estate agents in the city put all their accommodation on the market in one go — in what's known as the drop. engineering students tom and peter queued for six hours for a house. they've still not got a confirmed room for next year, and they say many students were signing up

mark denten reports. students queuing for hours for a roof over their heads.21 went up by about 1,000. so there certainly was a spike. but student numbers have been growing since 2017, 2018, and they have been increasing college numbers. many estate agents in the city put all their accommodation on the market in one go in what's known as the drop. engineering students tom and peter queued for six hours for a house. they've still not got a confirmed room for next year, and they say many students were signing up for accommodation they hadn't even seen. so we decided to get up about half three, get there for four o'clock, and then queuejust straight the way through. and i think we were probably there for about six hours before we actually even got in the door. when you're seeing these big drops, where they're dropping everything at once, you know that if you don't get there immediately and try to sign it, then you're probably going to end up with nothing and have to move on to the next estate agent. and as it's got through this period of about two weeks of where

a 13—year—old girl who is being held on suspicion of assisting an offender. 0ur correspondent, mark dentenasz was attacked and stabbed around eight o�*clock we are told on monday night, he was taken told on monday night, he was taken to hospital but sadly died in the early hours of tuesday morning and police at the moment are continuing to question two teenagers, the first a 14—year—old who was arrested on suspicion of murder and the second a 13—year—old girl who is being detained on suspicion of assisting an offender, both those teenagers at the moment are still in custody. police have thanked people on this housing estate here in gateshead for their assistance of information that they provided what they�*ve asked people not to speculate about the death of tomasz saying what might seem as an innocent social media post could actually hamper the investigation. they do tell us the family of tomasz are devastated beyond belief. new images show an asteroid deliberately struck by a nasa spacecraft has left a stretch of debris across thousands of kilometres. a telescope in chile saw the plymouth