like the one at prestatyn, it's been closed without warning. closing, yeah, but that's as far as i'm saying. sorry. have thry told you you might have lost your job? possibly, yeah. are they saying why it is closing? no. a statement, pontins said the parks at... some people have suggested that the site here and the one at prestatyn could now be used to house asylum—seekers. but the home office said today that it had no plans to do that. from blue coats to boating lakes, pontins, like this one at prestatyn, were the dependable postwar option for generations of families. the original "staycation" before spain and other places beckoned. pontins once had 30 sites, nowjust four. a partial end to a cherished part of our holiday history. duncan kennedy, bbc news, at camber sands. in a nail—biting match tonight, england's women have kept alive team gb 5 chances of qualifying for next summers olympics. the lionesses beat the netherlands 3—2 at wembley. our sports correspondentjo currie was watching a tense game. lioness fans have roared their team on to

in a statement, they said the parks at prestatyn _ no.where the dependable postwar option for generations of postwar option for generations of post warfamilies, the postwar option for generations of post war families, the original steak asian before spain and other places back in the. they once had 30 sites, now, just four, a partial and do a cherished part of our holiday history. duncan kennedy, bbc news as camber sands. every year, millions of people travel through edinburgh airport, but the runway is becoming vulnerable to cracks, resulting in delays and disruption for passengers. construction teams are now working through the night to repair the surface in a race against the clock before the first flights take off in the morning. our reporter steve godden has spent a shift with them to see how it's done. the runway to edinburgh airport, unlike you have seen it before. it is just after two o'clock in the morning and the construction teams are involved in a race against time. the runway is closed for five and a half hours and we have go

the home office said neither of the sites, in prestatyn in denbighshire, and camber sands in east sussexfunds will be given to affected holiday makers. everton have appealed against the decision to dock them 10 premier league points for breaches of financial rules. the toffees were handed the largest punishment in premier league history by an independent commission. the appeal will be heard before the end of the season. the lionesses kick off against the netherlands injust over an hour — in a match they must win to keep alive hopes of team gb qualifying for next year's olympics. lionesses fans on their visit to wembley stadium, having won the euros here. tonight england face a different kind of challenge with the hopes of qualifying for the olympic games next summer are hanging by a thread. england find themselves with two games to play. they hope other results go their way. the captain is out with a knee injury so mary earps will wear the captain's armband. jae will wear the captain's armband. joe currie will wear the captain's armband. joe currie at a very noisy wembley stadium, sorry

sites at camber sands and prestatyn are closing "with immediate effect".. you're live with bbc news. a reminder of the breaking news we have seen in the last few minutes, the israeli defence force has said they have resumed combat with their conflict with hamas in gaza. a seven—day truce between the israeli military and hamas expired 20 minutes ago. there were reports of rocket fire coming from gaza towards israel. around an hour before the truce was set to expire. the statements we have received from the israeli defense forces is hamas has violated the operation, what they called the operational paul's, that it fired towards israeli territory and therefore the idf has resumed combat against the hamas organisation in the gaza strip. live now to amin saikal, professor of middle eastern studies at the australian national university. thank you very much for being with us today. we know those negotiations were continuing throughout the day yesterday with the us secretary of state antony blinken flying in to try and extend that truce. what are your thoughts as

pontins has said it is closing two sites — in camber sands and prestatyn in north wales — with immediateuld be refunded. train drivers in the aslef union have begun fresh industrial action, bringing more disruption to rail passengers. the ban on overtime — expected to last for nine days — will also affect some services in scotland and wales. our business correspondent theo leggett is at london waterloo station. how bad is the disruption going to be? well, it is certainly going to be very widespread and at times depending on where you are it will be very bad, so that overtime ban that you mentioned has already begun, that continues until saturday 9th and the effect of that will vary depending on where you are in the country. some companies are better geared up to dealing with a lack of drivers than others so the advice is check before you travel. then on top of that there will be a series of one day rolling strikes affecting different companies on different days starting tomorrow and the companies tomorrow are east midland and lner, on sunday it is aa vanity west coast, chiltern and thame

customers of the pontins in prestatyn and camber sands have been told they will receive full refunds.for the sudden closures has not been given. former health secretary matt hancock will continue giving evidence to the covid inquiry today. he used yesterday's appearance to criticise a "toxic culture" in government and denied lying to colleagues. our correspondent, ellie price has been following the inquiry. a return to the tv screens for matt hancock. the whole truth and nothing but the truth. health secretary through the pandemic, he had to make decisions on everything from lockdowns to vaccine rollout, care homes to test and trace. there was a lot to get through and some important what—ifs. if we'd had the doctrine that i proposed, which is as soon as you know you've got to lockdown, you lockdown as soon as possible, then we would have got the lockdown done over that weekend in on the 2nd of march, three weeks earlier than before. there's a doubling rate at this point, estimated every three to four days. we would have been six doublings ahead of where we were, which means that fewer