our reporter nick garnett was at the scene.t had been planned for about four days went rather out of control. the protest was because there've been complaints about people in the hotel harassing local children and a group that has been named in various places as a right—wing political group came down to protest outside the hotel. there's about 100 rooms in this hotel and it's being used as a hotel for seeking asylum in great britain for a few months now. so, when they came down and were protesting outside, another group came up and there was a confrontation between the two. at that point, there were some police officers here, but not very many, and a petrol bomb or some ignition was thrown at this petrol — at this police van behind us — we'll go over and have a look at it. it's been completely burnt out. you can see the amount of damage now. the fire service has been down to make sure it's all safe but you can see the level of damage that's been done to it. there's also on the ground, there's huge amounts of rocks and stones th

nick garnett reports. flames light up the dark as a police van is set on fire.st called after claims about the behaviour of some people staying at the hotel towards young girls living locally. some rooms at the suites hotel have been used to house people seeking asylum. but as fighting broke out between protesters, counter—protesters and the police, all those inside could do was watch what was happening below as officers tried to restore calm. stones, bottles and bricks rained down. hundreds of protesters were involved. a number of arrests were made for public order offences and criminal damage. eventually, after more officers were drafted in and local roads were temporarily closed, police were able to disperse the crowd. well, this is what the van looks like now. now the police are withdrawing, things have calmed down and the roads are being cleared. but rebuilding relationships here — well, that's going to take a lot longer. as most police withdrew from the area and the roads were cleared of debris, half a dozen vans with officers and police dogs spent the nig

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nick garnett, bbc news, st michael's on wyre. the uk. public health officials have detected the disease in otters and foxes. more targeted testing and surveillance is to be carried out, but currently the risk to human beings is described as very low. here's our environment & rural affairs correspondent, claire marshall. more than 200 million birds have died as a result of the worst avian flu outbreak in global history. now the virus is being found in mammals. in the uk in a small number of foxes. they could have eaten infected birds. it's also been found infected birds. it's also been found in a handful of otters, another animal likely to encounter diseased birds. we were given rare access to the government lab in surrey at the heart of the uk's fight against avian flu. this is where they test and monitor changes in the virus. this buzzard has been sent in. it is not infected. tt’s this buzzard has been sent in. it is not infected-— this buzzard has been sent in. it is not infected. it's ten times as many birds as we — not infect

nick garnett, bbc news, lancashire.my in the final three months of last year. and after seven years away, rihanna returns to the stage, headlining this year's super bowl. coming up on the bbc news channel: after chelsea reached another league cup final where they'll play arsenal, we'll tell you who both clubs will face in the quarterfinals of the women's champions league after this lunchtime's draw. specialist prison wings which have been set up to tackle the problem of drug taking inside prisons are being expanded in england and wales. the new drug—free units aim to treat addiction and to cut crime rates — and inmates receive privileges in return for doing regular drug tests and attending courses on substance abuse. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford has been to hmp pentonville in london to see how it works in practice. every day i needed cannabis. when i woke up, i'm smoking weed. before i'm going to bed, i'm smoking weed. i became lazy, paranoid. it was destroying relationships. it was leading me on to ot

nick garnett, bbc news, knowsley. let's talk more about this issue.his issue of housing and the right and appropriate accommodation for people has been a really thorny and difficult issue over the last couple of months, especially? yes. couple of months, especially? yes, it absolutely _ couple of months, especially? yes, it absolutely has _ couple of months, especially? yes, it absolutely has and _ couple of months, especially? yes, it absolutely has and we _ couple of months, especially? yes it absolutely has and we need to remember that this is a decision made by this government in 2020 is a covid safety measure to move people out of the ordinary asylum accommodation that had been used up until then and into hotels. and it is a deliberate political choice to continue to house people and hotels. everybody who works with refugees knows about their needs and their welfare has been asking the government to move people out of hotels. it is completely inappropriate form of accommodation for them and now it has become a target for organised far right viole

nick garnett has this report.ola was seen by a fellow dog walker at 8:50. and then again at 9:10 in a field further along the river bank. at 9:20, police have now established her phone was left on a riverside bench. 13 minutes later, her phone was found, along with her dogs harness. but nicola had disappeared. and that is all we know for sure. the police think that she fell down into the river and drowned. but it is a theory. there is no actual evidence for it. nevertheless, a specialist search team volunteered to help and, using sonar equipment, combed the bottom of the river in the village, but nothing was found in the stretch of river they were working in. if nicola was in that river, i would have found her, i can guarantee you that. we would have found her, and she is not there in that section of the river up there. for her partner, it has been two weeks of hell. right now, it is as though she has vanished into thin air. like, yeah, just insane. police have consistently called this a missing persons inquiry. t

nick garnett reporting. _ let's get some of the day's other news.aine on friday, hitting several energy facilities and leaving millions without power. at least 17 missiles hit the south—eastern city of zaporizhzhia. local officials say it was the heaviest attack since the start of the invasion. several regions have issued alerts about incoming russian drones. the fbi has recovered one additional document with classified markings from the home of the former us vice president mike pence in the state of indiana. the search was described as "consensual". sports ministers from 35 countries have been holding an online meeting to discuss whether athletes from russia and belarus should participate in next year's olympic games. the international olympic committee wants them to be allowed to compete in paris as neutrals. ukraine has threatened to lead a boycott. the us military says it shot down an unidentified object drifting over alaska nearly a week after a chinese surveillance balloon was destroyed as it travelled through american airspace. the white hous

nick garnett, bbc news, lancashire.me, personally, and this isjust my opinion - _ water. for me, personally, and this isjust my opinion - i'm _ water. for me, personally, and this isjust my opinion - i'm personally i isjust my opinion — i'm personally 100% convinced it's not the river. people don'tjust vanish into thin air. it's absolutely impossible. something has happened. something has happened. my plea now is personally, i want every house, every garage, every outbuilding, the land scrutinised. i wanted all searched and scrutinised. every piece of it. i'm just pleading with them, please, anything. no matter how tiny, just please come forward with it. please. that could be the key to finding her. the family, we're not bothered about anything else. there's nothing else. the only thing is we just have to find her. we want to know what happened. pauli we want to know what happened. paul ansell, the partner of nicola bulley. a recent investigation by the times found that agents for british gas had broken into vulnerable

our correspondent nick garnett is in st michael's—on—wyre. situation in trying to find her? what is a situation with that? it find her? what is a situation with that? , ., .,y , that? it is a day where everything is on the everything _ that? it is a day where everything is on the everything but - that? it is a day where everything is on the everything but the - that? it is a day where everythingl is on the everything but the search operation. that is going on to my right as her river winds its way through lancashire and goes into the irish sea. the search is going on there with mounted police and police on foot and buggies walking alongside the river. as the tide comes in the operation changes. the boats go out and they search the inlets and the mud banks and the areas around the river in an effort to try and find where she is or any sign of where purse or has been. central to today has been the issue of the abuse and the false stories that have been circling for days the family. that has been the focus of the family statements. there has bee

lancashire police have been widely criticised for their handling of the investigation, as nick garnettearch that stretched from a tiny hamlet to the lancashire coastline, on land, on water and by air and back again. the police were called just after 11.30 yesterday morning. the nearest road was closed and the footpath along the river, sealed off. police divers and specialist officers went into the water and recovered the body from the weeds and undergrowth at the edge of the river bank. a forensic tent, erected while the officers worked. the river at this point is tidal, but the body may have been trapped underwater, hidden from sonar and the search teams. a huge police operation which stretched to the irish sea and yet the discovery was made so close to where nicola bulley was last seen more than three weeks ago. the a5—year—old had just dropped her children at school. she had left her phone on a bench next to the river wyre and now, a body found downstream just a mile away. at the centre of it all, there is a distressed family who are waiting for news and now the focus turns to them.

nick garnett thank you ve much the company. nick garnett thank you very much in — the company.ovens in england's health secretary, stephen barclay, is meeting representatives of the royal college of nursing after the union suspended a strike planned for next week. following months of disputes, the two sides have said they would begin intensive talks on pay, terms and conditions, and reforms. government proposals for next year's public sector pay in england are also being drawn up. here's our health correspondent, sophie hutchinson. no ifs, no buts, no nhs cuts! after a winter of strikes, finally, a glimmer of hope. nurses who've carried out six individual walk—outs, and who were planning to increase the pressure with the biggest, longest strike so far in england, have agreed to pause the action. now, instead of striking, today, leaders from the royal college of nursing will meet for intensive talks with ministers and officials. i've always said i wouldn't negotiate in public. the prime minister has now got the table prepared. we will be there and we will enter those negotiation

lancashire police have been widely criticised for their handling of the investigation, as nick garnett to the lancashire coastline, on land, on water and by air and back again. the police were called just after 11.30 yesterday morning. the nearest road was closed and the footpath along the river, sealed off. police divers and specialist officers went into the water and recovered the body from the weeds and undergrowth at the edge of the river bank. a forensic tent, erected while the officers worked. the river at this point is tidal, but the body may have been trapped underwater, hidden from sonar and the search teams. a huge police operation which stretched to the irish sea and yet the discovery was made so close to where nicola bulley was last seen more than three weeks ago. the 45—year—old had just dropped her children at school. she had left her phone on a bench next to the river wyre and now a body found downstream just a mile away. at the centre of it all, there is a distressed family who are waiting for news and now the focus turns to them. my deepest thoughts and sympathies for

nick garnett has this report.theory. there is no actual evidence for it. nevertheless, a specialist search team volunteered to help and, using sonar equipment, combed the bottom of the river in the village, but nothing was found in the stretch of river they were working in. if nicola was in that river, i would have found her, i can guarantee you that. we would have found her and she is not there in that section of the river up there. for her partner, it has been two weeks of hell. right now, it is as though she has vanished into thin air. like, yeah, just insane. police have consistently called this a missing persons inquiry. there is no evidence of a crime. our main working hypothesis, therefore, is that nicola has sadly fallen into the river, that there is no third party or criminal involvement and that this is not suspicious, but a tragic case of a missing person. but that has not stopped some people thinking otherwise. social networks are awash with conspiracy theories. there have even been wannabe detectives

earlier, our correspondent nick garnett told us more.e of the bridge the water is very narrow and very shallow. 0n the other side of the bridge it's slightly wider and an awful lot deeper so that is the difficulty, they are having to try to map out using the sonar equipment to get an accurate picture of what lies underneath. some of that is rock and rubble and mud and slurry. it's been very difficult for the underwater search teams from lancashire police to get an accurate picture so this company which normally works with police forces in the south has been brought in to try and help and see what they can find. speaking to the chief executive of the company earlier, he said the police and he believes that somehow and for some reason nicola went into the water 11 days ago and has not been seen since. he said if that is the case we are confident we will find her. it's 11 days since she went missing and in those 11 days there have been underwater drones operated by lancashire police, there have been helicopters in the air and over the weeke

nick garnett, bbc news, lancashire.milton. — are you? we are in a village, hamilton, several— are you? we are in a village, hamilton, several miles - are you? we are in a village, - hamilton, several miles downstream from where nicola bulley was last seen, and it is a large stretch of water that the police are trying to search an earlier we saw a police inflatable boat coming down carrying out a visual search along this stretch of water but the problem the police face is that the water here is tidal and there are currents so they have got to go back and search parts of the water which they may have surged earlier for any further clues. we have also seen as well as the police search, activity from friends of nicola bulley, they held a vigil in the church in the village where she is from at ten o'clock and they were holding placards on the street asking anyone with any information and any dash cam footage which may show her on it to come forward and hand that over to the police, because at the moment this is still a missi

as nick garnett reports. flames lit up the dark as a police van is set on fire.ost police withdrew from the area and the roads were cleared of debris, half a dozen vans with officers and police dogs spent the night inside the hotel gates to make sure things remained calm. officials in the united states have been attempting to recover debris from a high altitude object, that was shot down over alaska last night. the white house said president biden ordered the destruction of the object "out of an abundance of caution". he's been facing criticism for his handling of the decision to shoot down a chinese balloon, nearly one week after it was discovered in american airspace. 0ur north america correspondent, nomia iqbal has the details. the details so far on this are vague. but the white house spokesman john kirby said that this unidentified object was flying at an altitude that was lower than the chinese spy balloon and therefore it posed a risk to commercial aircraft, which is what they were worried about. it was spotted about 24 hours ago, but they shot it down arou

earlier our correspondent nick garnett told us more.rom lancashire police to get an accurate picture so this company which normally works with police forces in the south has been brought in to try and help and see what they can find. speaking to the chief executive of the company earlier, he said the police and he believes that somehow and for some reason nicola went into the water 11 days ago and has not been seen since. he said if that is the case we are confident we will find her. it's 11 days since she went missing and in those 11 days there have been underwater drones operated by lancashire police, there have been helicopters in the air and over the weekend hundreds of volunteers came down and were handed out maps and told to go and search different sections of the river all the way along from here down to where the river becomes an estuary. the search boats by this private company at the moment are further downstream towards the estuary where the river goes out into the sea and they are moving from there all the way back. that mig

nick garnett reporting.th data centres who use an awful lot of fossil fuel energy at the moment, as well as water, and they are very precious resources. it will be part of a global network of thousands of data centres that house the cloud. from photos to boxset streaming. here in ireland, the centres now use 14% of the country's electricity. more than all of rural ireland. if the rise in data centres goes unchecked, then by 2030, 30% of all of ireland's power will go into the cloud. globally, the cloud is growing at an extraordinary rate. we all want storage, but it comes at a price. it is disputed by the industry, but as a rough comparison, research suggests a five—minute internet search uses around as much energy as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea. somewhere there is a machine that is doing all the analysis of the data, and all the indexing, which allows the search to be then done rapidly. there is machinery under the surface doing that on your behalf, and each of that has a carbon cost. the internet nee

our correspondent, nick garnett, is in st michael's on wyre and gave us the latest.w what that meant or what it was referring to. a few hours later, lancashire police then gave further clarification of that in an open public and press release that they issued just before 6:00 last night in which they referred to alcohol use and various other issues about it. in the last few minutes, lancashire police have just issued a tweet on twitter that says that their sole focus remains finding nicola and supporting her family. it then goes on to say that nicola's family has asked us to issue a statement. i'll read as much of it as i can. the family said it's now been three weeks since nikki went missing. we as a family believe that the public focus has become distracted from finding nikki and more about speculation and rumours into her private life as a family. we were aware that lancashire police last night released a statement with some personal details. although we know that nikki would not have wanted this, there are people out there threatening to sell stories about her. t

our correspondent nick garnett is in st michael's—on—wyre.action as yet. we have been in _ information as well? no reaction as yet. we have been in touch - information as well? no reaction as yet. we have been in touch with - yet. we have been in touch with lancashire police to ask them for comment and to answer this criticism and they haven't been back to us yet. they say they might be later in the afternoon. this all started because in 20 days of searching the police had held just two news conferences. the senior investigating officer hadn't appeared at either of them, it had been a superintendent who could talk to the media. those conversations with the media had been quite obtuse, i think is a good way of describing it. no real detail at all. they were very admin from the outset that no other person was involved and that no criminality was involved and that no criminality was involved in their search. that was the main thrust of the inquiry. why that was the case they did not say, so yesterday after a lot of criticism about that the senio