speaking to mps in the commons an hour or so ago, mr grayling said the uk should not be allowed to fallcountry has one of the largest aviation sectors in the country has one of the largest aviation sectors in the world, contributing £22 billion to our gdp, supporting half a supporting half a millionjobs million 285 million passengers and transporting 2.6 million tonnes of freight in the last year. the time for action is now. the evidence shows the remaining london heathrow is already full, and the evidence shows the remaining london airports won't be airports would be far behind. —— and the evidence shows the remaining london airports won't be far behind. despite being the busiest two—runway airport in the world, heathrow's capacity constraints means it is falling behind its global competitors, impacting the uk's economy and global trading opportunities. expansion at heathrow will bring real benefits across the country, including a boost of up to £74 billion to passengers and the wider economy. in response to the government's decision, labour — who backed the idea, and won a vote on it

so an official call from labour for mr grayling to resign. things out. let's talk to our correspondent charlotte gallagher, who is at preston railway station for us. it is one of the busy interchanges in the north—west. we have had the statement from the secretary of state, but give us more detail on the kind of disruption that passengers have had to face?|j the kind of disruption that passengers have had to face? i don't think many people here at preston train station are going to be that reassured by what chris grayling had to say. they faced weeks of misery here. they have had less minute consolations, long delays. they have had to get on the dreaded rail replacement buses. they have been late for work, later picked up their children and late for important appointments. so this new emergency timetable which was implemented today, they were hoping this would help solve the crisis and that things would be back to normal ma, but hasn't worked out like that. when they arrived at preston station this morning, you could see a line of those rail r

i asked him whether he felt any sympathy for the beleaguered mr grayling. i have sympathy for him because he was on the rack. at another level, i was almost shouting at the television to say, "chris, you should have learned will one about being a minister," advice given to me by a conservative minister patrick mayhew when we were in opposition, which is, whatever goes wrong in your department, however much it is an‘s length to you, you're not responsible in practice for it, you have to take responsibility for it because the british people expect that one of the elected ministers should be held accountable to the elected parliament and, if they see a minister trying to say, it wasn't me, guv! it was network rail or a train operating company, the thing, this guy is washing his hands of it. is it hard, though? he had responsibility without control or power. yes, it is. there are lots of government departments, including the home office, where you have some of these agencies which are supposed to be semi—autonomous on the run themselves. the fact of the matter

but labour hadn't forgotten mr grayling's appearance the day before.cretary of state came to the house yesterday to explain the calamitous implementation of new rail timetables. and he now stands here today at the dispatch box and expects this house to accept what he says about the most significant of infrastructure projects. i'm sorry, but this secretary of state has form. the only reason he's at the dispatch box today is because the prime minister is too weak to sack him. i regret that the secretary of state simply doesn't enjoy the confidence of this house. labour will consider a proposed expansion through the framework of our well—established for tests. expansion should only happen if it can effectively deliver on the capacity demands, if noise and air quality issues are fully addressed, if the uk's climate change obligations are met in their entirety and that growth across the country is supported. mr speaker, i think you will agree with me that was a rather disappointing response. the one thing he didn't say was whether or not he actually support

and at the end of the debate, mps rejected by 305 votes to 285 the proposal of no confidence in mr graylingster has said that tax rises may be needed to pay for a boost in england's nhs funding. theresa may conceded the public would pay more, but promised this would be done in a "fair and balanced" way. the government has said economic growth and a "brexit dividend" will help cover the costs of increasing the budget by 20 billion pounds by 2023. but that was challenged by a labour mp, who raised the response to the announcement of the institute for fiscal studies. the ifs says there is no such thing as a brexit dividend. so the secretary of state will need to put up taxes to fund our nhs. will he be transparent and promise nhs workers in portsmouth who he has onlyjust given a pay rise to, that the burden will not fall on hard—working families like them. or is he robbing peter to pay boris? will he be transparent if he disagrees with the brexit dividend and challenge his own party leader who supports it? a conservative suggested the money raised could be ring fenced — a system known as hypot

mr grayling insists the government is driving the biggest modernisation of the network since victorianports. they stand, they watch, they wait. for almost three weeks now, passengers on the northern rail network have been facing severe disruption after a new timetable was introduced. here at manchester piccadilly station, frustration is growing. very inconvenient and inconsiderate. i don't think it's cost—effective, what they're doing. everybody‘s disgruntled with it. every day, it's the same thing, it's cancelled or delayed. after work, i have to get a taxi to get home. these things probably don't count for the national rail service, but for me, it's money lost out of my pocket. it's five miles into manchester and you'd rather catch the train, but it seems to me that people are going to stop using the trains and go back to the car. they keep saying there's no drivers. well, the drivers were there before they changed the times. i don't understand it. northern rail says this isn't a problem caused by a lack of staff or rolling stock. instead, it's blaming logistics, saying under the new

speaking to mps, mr grayling said the uk should not be allowed to fall behind its competitors. be far behind. despite being the busiest two—runway airport in the world heathrow‘s capacity constraints mean it has fallen behind its global competitors, impacting the uk's economy and global trading opportunities. expansion at heathrow will bring real benefits across the country, including a boost of up to £74 billion to passengers and the wider economy. that was chris grayling. in response, labour — who backed the idea, and won a vote on it in 2009 before plans were scrapped — have said the expansion should only go ahead if it meets a set of tests. here's labour leaderjeremy corbyn. the issue has to be looked at in the context of the select committee report which says tests must be undertaken on the economic impact for the whole country, noise pollution, air pollution, and connectivity to heathrow for transport links. those are the tests that have to be put before any decision is made. yes, there is a demand for increased airport capacity across the south—east. two of the south—eas

mr grayling insists the government is driving the biggest modernisation of the network since victorianreports. they stand, they watch, they wait. for almost three weeks now, passengers on the northern rail network have been facing severe disruption after a new timetable was introduced. here at manchester piccadilly station, frustration is growing. very inconvenient and inconsiderate. i don't think it's cost—effective, what they're doing. everybody‘s disgruntled with it. every day, it's the same thing, it's cancelled or delayed. after work, i have to get a taxi to get home. these things probably don't count for the national rail service, but for me, it's money lost out of my pocket. it's five miles into manchester and you'd rather catch the train, but it seems to me that people are going to stop using the trains and go back to the car. they keep saying there's no drivers. well, the drivers were there before they changed the times. i don't understand it. northern rail says this isn't a problem caused by a lack of staff or rolling stock. instead, it's blaming logistics, saying under the n

you're going to be seeing mr grayling in a few minutes. what will you say?ash. incredibly underwhelming and i'll say that to chris grayling. he had another duty to do what he did to stagecoach for the east coast main linea did to stagecoach for the east coast main line a couple of weeks ago and actually remove a franchise from an operator who is failing. a reader northern have completely failed to deliver on their contract. —— arriva northern. the lakes line from 0xenholme to windermere has had permission to suspend all services for eight fortnight, which i raised with him in the commons earlier. this is the result of the department for transport cancelling and shelving electrification and the other things you mentioned in your package. it's unacceptable. i'll tell chris grayling that and he needs to act on that by removing the franchise from northern. will you tell him he should resign?” franchise from northern. will you tell him he should resign? i don't see the point, he made the point himself, he made the point about network rail, you shouldn't sack peop

are you being kept waiting, mr grayling?” bet he was wondering if perhaps he would not be let in. is grayling. thank you very much. we are going to be talking that heathrow more in the programme. if you live there and work their tellers the bit about the fact that todayit tellers the bit about the fact that today it appears the cabinet will say yes, it will go ahead and tell us say yes, it will go ahead and tell us how you expect your mp to build on it. we are told you they will vote in the next few minutes. now the rest of the news. joanna gosling is in the bbc newsroom with a summary of the rest of the day's news. at least 69 people are now known to have died in the most violent volcanic eruption to hit guatemala in more than a century. the country's disaster agency said rescuers had recovered more bodies from villages on the slopes below the fuego volcano, but dozens of people remain missing. 0ur correspondent, aleem maqbool, reports from the scene. the first funerals tell of just how cruel the eruption was and the victims it took. here they carry the coffin of three—year—old je

secretary chris grayling. mrpeaker, i come to this house to mark a historic moment which signals our commitment to securing global connectivity, creating tens of thousands of local jobs and apprenticeships, and boosting our economy for future generations, by expanding heathrow airport. so this is a test of whether the government is fit for purpose on big projects. it's going to be a battle going forward. there's still strong opposition to this, there's still some difficult stages to overcome. but we are absolutely determined to deliver this project which we think is crucial to all of our futures. at least, that is the plan — thousands of new jobs, around £2.6 billion in compensation and noise insulation for neighbours. 800 homes could be demolished. many here in harmondsworth don't believe cleaner, quieter planes mean less noise and air pollution. labour is split in two. protesters lined party headquarters this week, and the labour leader is not backing expansion yet. tests must be undertaken on the economic impa

the buck has to stop with mr grayling, the transport secretary.really given carte blanche for too long for gtr to plough the same furrow. this latest episode, for anybody that works in the rail industry themselves, they were not surprised, just disappointed that it had not been picked up before. there is absolutely no reason that it should have happened. isn't it also down to things like the mechanics, the management contract? they were under contract and basically the company was told what to do, they said get on and manage it. it didn't really have an enormous control over what they were doing. they weren't allowed to? well, absolutely. management contracts in this particular instance are very badly designed, a badly designed way of running such a vast chunk of the network. the vast majority of passengers' journey every day are made on the gdr network. millions of journeys every single day. to have such a vast franchise almost set up to fell from the start. you only have a set amount of money coming from the government, so internally they salami

network rail and its contractors who are trying to electrify railway lines except ours because mr graylingrld you'd have electric trains running here, so it is network rail not providing the infrastructure to the train operator so they have a major problem to be fairto them, having so they have a major problem to be fair to them, having said that, they are also not fit for purpose. they are also not fit for purpose. they are incapable of providing trains. we got the suggestion of maybe starting as early as next week, all of ourtrain starting as early as next week, all of our train timetable was suspended and it will be coaches. my reading is that a train operator should be operating trains. we are a rail user group, nota operating trains. we are a rail user group, not a bus user group, you know? point well made. thank you. italy's new antiestablishment government is being installed later today. it will be headed by the pride minister, and little—known law minister. the populists have raised expectations but can they deliver? the apprentices at this hair academy in rome know what their coun

the secretary, chris grayling. mri come to this house to mark a historic moment which signals our commitment to securing global connectivity, creating tens of thousands of local jobs and apprenticeships and boosting our economy for future generations by expanding heathrow airport. so this is a test of whether the government is fit for purpose on big projects? it's going to be a battle going forward, there's still strong opposition to this, there's still some difficult stages to overcome. but we are absolutely determined to deliver this project which we think is crucial to all of our futures. at least that's the plan — thousands of new jobs, around £2.6 billion in compensation and noise insulation for neighbours. 800 homes could be demolished, many here in harmondsworth and many don't believe cleaner, quieter planes mean less noise and air pollution. labour's split in too. protesters daubed party headquarters this week and the labour leader is not backing expansion yet. tests must be undertaken on the economic impact f

secretary, chris grayling. mrme to this house to mark an historic moment which signals our commitment to sing global connectivity, creating tens of thousands of local jobs global connectivity, creating tens of thousands of localjobs and apprenticeships are boosting our colony for future generations by expanding heathrow airport. —— boosting our economy. this is a test of whether the government is fit for purpose on big projects? there will bea purpose on big projects? there will be a battle going forward, there is strong opposition, there will be difficult stages to overcome that we are determined to deliver this project which we think is crucial to all of our future's. at least that's the plan. thousands of newjobs, almost £150 million compensation and noise insulation for neighbours. 800 homes could be demolished, many here in harmondsworth. and many don't believe cleaner, quieter planes means believe cleaner, quieter planes m ea ns less believe cleaner, quieter planes means less noise and air pollution. labour

mr grayling will meet senior ministers this morning to approve planning permission for a third runwayconstituents affected by the rail disruption. she joins us now from westminster. thank you for your time, chris grayling, a man under pressure and our lead story this morning, we will come onto the railway in a moment, is about heathrow. we are told it's about to be given the go—ahead by ministers for the expansion of heathrow airport, a third runway, what do you make of that? well, it's probably going to be another quite difficult day for the transport secretary. opinions remain very divided on heathrow. the test will be the government persist with this, can they demonstrate they will be able to tackle the very serious environmental consequences that a third runway could potentially have? cost against benefit, how do you weigh those things up and the environmental damage, those are the three elements, i suppose. i think so. it's notjust the huge noise impact. a third runway would have a very real impact on air quality and we are subject to legally binding obligations on air quality. i

mr speaker, i simply say i completely agree with him, and i communicated that to the company concerned. chris graylingng time in the commons. now, mps have been mulling over how to respond to a controversial decision by the us president donald trump to impose import tariffs of 25% on steel and aluminium from the european union, canada, and mexico. the move poses a potentially serious blow to the british steel industry. so, will the uk retaliate against us products? the international trade secretary insisted the government was committed to free and fair trade. we're deeply disappointed the us taken this unjustified decision, particularly on grounds of national security. we share a strong defence and security cooperation relationship. the use of national defence as the rationale for this action threatens to create a worrying global precedent. we are clear that these unjustified additional tariffs could harm consumers, hold back growth, and alternately damage industry by driving up the price of imports and productions, and diminished global competitiveness. he said it was important not to escalate the si

anyway we will hear from chris grayling about half past 12. for mrset this through, that i think will come as some relief to her and her tea m come as some relief to her and her team because it will go some way to rebuff the kind of ditherer charge, that mrs may lacks the leadership and decisiveness to do anything. because she will have pulled off what successive prime ministers really going all the way back to harold wilson and edward heath have dodged. so, if she manages to pull it off, and the signs are that she has got the commons numbers, that would be a significant achievement. and if you think you're having a bad day it is worth looking at those pictures again of chris grayling, thatis pictures again of chris grayling, that is pressure, having to face the gamut of those reporters and the door not even opening! the grenfell tower inquiry has been told that the company which carried out the last fire risk assessment concluded that there was only a risk of slight harm in a risk of fire. tom burridgejoins us of slight harm in a risk of fire. tom bu

mr thorpe's former lover, norman scott, had died. but police now say the alleged hitman may be alive. the rmt union has called for the transport secretary, chris graylingernment are blaming network rail for leaving it too late to finalise new timetables. the new prime minister of spain, pedro sanchez, will officially be sworn into office today, less than 24 hours after forcing out his predecessor, mariano rajoy. the head of the socialist party won the backing of several other parties to win his motion of no confidence after mr rajoy‘s conservative party became implicated in a corruption scandal. we all know dashboard cameras are usefulfor capturing bad driving and accidents but sometimes they spot something extraordinary. such as this footage of a student pilot making an emergency landing on a busy street in los angeles. have a look at that again. she avoided hitting power lines and cars as she made the descent in her cessna plane just before 5pm yesterday evening after suffering from engine problems. notjust engine problems i would say! wow. it is amazing that the road in la with clear enough to land. those are the main stories this morning. now it's

month —— mr big. 37—year—old mark fellows will appear before south sefton margie straits court charged with two counts of murder. —— magistrate‘s court. the rmt union have called for chris graylingse new timetables. yesterday network rail said it is introducing an emergency timetable that will come into play on saturday, scrapping 165 daily train services until the end ofjuly —— northern rail. five people have died ina northern rail. five people have died in a majorfood poisoning outbreak in the us. more than 200 cases of e. coli linked to remain letters have been reported in 35 states. is the largest outbreak in more than a decade. the new prime minister of spain, pedro sanchez, will officially be sworn in today less than 2a hours after forcing out his predecessor, mariano rajoy. the head of the socialist party won the backing of several other parties to win his motion of no confidence after mr rajoy‘s people‘s party became linked toa rajoy‘s people‘s party became linked to a corruption scandal. john‘s here with the sport. you have cricket for us? nice when someone criticises you you can response with an impressive performance. never would i criticise you! stuart broad, who pla