sarah walton, bbc news.hale, director of policy at universities uk, the collective voice of 136 universities in england, scotland, wales and northern ireland. thank you very much forjoining us on bbc news. what would the impact be on universities if tuition fees we re be on universities if tuition fees were reduced to £7,500 and there was no other funding to make were reduced to £7,500 and there was no otherfunding to make up were reduced to £7,500 and there was no other funding to make up the shortfall? if it wasn't made up by the government, i think that would cause quite a lot of problems for several universities. they would have to think carefully about stu d e nts have to think carefully about students and they want to protect quality, but there may be areas such as investment in new facilities, new labs, innovative teaching methods they may have to think twice about. which of the institutions are at risk of going bust? a number of institutions if their fees are reduced and there is no top up from the t

sarah walton, bbc news.res as it had said it would earlier this week. the group, which own brands such as topshop, burton and dorothy perkins, said it would close a further 23 sites as part of a rescue plan. our business correspondent katy austin gave us the latest from their headquarters. sir philip green's retail empire, arcadia, once dominated britain's high streets but it has been struggling in the face of falling sales and rising costs. now this week arcadia announced that as part of a plan to secure the group's future, it would look to shut 23 stores, topshop, burton, dorothy perkins, and cut rents at nearly 200 more. that would mean hundreds ofjobs would be lost. now today sources have confirmed that whatever happens with that deal, which is yet to be approved by landlords, pension trustees and creditors, whatever happens with that, 25 additional stores are set for closure under separate insolvency proceedings. they're mostly evans shops along with some miss selfridge branches as well. now this doesn'

sarah walton, bbc news. presidnet for higher education at the national union of students. thank you forjoining us. what difference would it make to your members, students and universities across the country if tuition fees we re across the country if tuition fees were dropped to £7,500 a year? this will be a complete disaster if it is not topped up by the government. this is outrageous that in the dying days of this government, they put the blame on universities. they set unsustainable funding for universities in this country. we wa nt to universities in this country. we want to see a fully funded, education system right through higher education. in terms of the cost to an individual student, how will it help? i don't think it will make that much of a difference. most people don't pay their loans and it's not clear whether that would be the case. we have been saying that a simplistic cut in fees is not going to cut it. you have to look at why this review came about. students voted with their feet at the last

sarah walton, bbc news. by paul cottrell, acting general secretary at the university and college union who's in harrogate for their annual conference. thank you forjoining us on bbc news. why would you object to a reduction in tuition fees if they makes university more affordable for most students? a reduction in university fees to £7,500 would immediately wipe £i.8 billion a year of university income. that could have a devastating effect on universities. it would lead to widespread closure of departments and even to the closure of whole institutions. the effect it would be to reduce access to higher education for future students, as well as reducing the quality of education they receive when they get there. it wouldn't resolve student debt, they wouldn't resolve student debt, they would still be leaving university with debts of £23,000. this is the worst of all possible solutions. the a nswer worst of all possible solutions. the answer is to abolish tuition fees and look at other ways of funding university.

sarah walton, bbc news.ild extensions without planning permission are being made permanent. ministers say families will now avoid time—consuming red tape, but the local government association has warned that councils won't be able consider the impact of such extensions on neighbouring residents. an investigation is under way as a man and a woman are questioned on suspicion of murdering two boys aged 13 and ia in an incident at a house in sheffield. police were called to the property on friday and six youngsters were taken to hospital. the four other children are aged between seven months and 11 years and are not seriously injured. a a8—year—old man is to appear at westminster magistrates' court charged with the murder of an elderly couple in west london. the bodies of a 69—year—old man and a 68—year—old woman were found by police officers inside a flat in kensington on thursday. the duchess of sussex will not be joining the royal family to welcome president donald trump for his state visit to the uk next mon

sarah walton, bbc news.ose twice as many stores as it announced earlier this week. arcadia, with brands including topshop, burton and dorothy perkins, initially announced 23 stores would close as part of a plan to rescue the struggling business. now it has emerged that a further 25 stores will shut, under separate insolvency proceedings. a 48 year—old man, charged with the murdering his elderly parents at their west london flat, has appeared in court. sergey koudriavtsev handed himself in to police in surrey before the bodies of a 69—year—old man and a 68—year—old woman were found inside a flat in kensington on monday. rules that allow homeowners in england to build larger extensions without planning permission are being made permanent. the decision means people can make additions to terraced and semi—detached homes of up to six metres and up to eight metres on detached properties. ministers say families will now avoid time—consuming red tape, but the local government association has warned that councils won

what the bbc proclaims as a technological landmark for broadcasting, described here by reporter sarah waltont british broadcaster to go live using a commercial 5g internet connection. if we are breaking up that may be because as you hurt in the report, the coverage is still at the moment a little bit patchy. yes, and u nfortu nately a little bit patchy. yes, and unfortunately in this brave new world, a 5g things didn't get any better. the sort of things we do all day long on our phones, streaming music, downloading tv programmes in film and putting photos on social media. we can do that almost instantaneously. still only available in a few places. sarah, iwill available in a few places. sarah, i will have to interrupt you there. bizarrely, the 5g sarah, i will have to interrupt you there. bizarrely, the 56 line is not working properly. on twitter... thank you for all your comments this week. please get in touch with your opinions about what you see on bbc tv news online or bbc social media. you may even appear on the programme. you can e—mail it newswatch or you can find us on twitter. you c

sarah, thank you very much indeed, sarah walton with the latest from indeed, sarah walton with the latestst hours to live and transferred her to intensive care at a hospital in san diego. but she's beaten all expectations and, five months later, has been discharged, weighing a healthy 5.6 pounds or 2.5kg. now it's time for a look at the weather with chris fawkes. hello again. a real mixture of weather coming up this afternoon, for some of us quite cloudy, others seeing outbreaks of rain, particularly across the north and the west of the uk. meanwhile, for much of england, cloud tending to break to allow some warm spells of sunshine. that said, we do have some showers pushing across northern england now. where the sunshine comes out, feeling warm and humid with highs of 23, and even further north not much sunshine. it's not exactly cold, 18 for example in belfast. similar temperatures there in glasgow overnight. there will be some further pulses of rain coming and going across the north of the uk, across much of england and wales is dry, and it's mild for most of us, although the cool air

sarah walton, bbc news.w homeowners in england to build extensions without planning permission are being made permanent. ministers say families can now avoid time—consuming red—tape — but the local government association has warned that councils won't be able consider the impact of such extensions on neighbours. have a look at these pictures. crew had to evacuate a cargo ship after it began tilting in the river mersey. the container vessel began listing at gladstone dock in liverpool in the early hours of yesterday morning. the maritime and coastguard agency said the ship was back on an even keel, and all crew were safe. as you can see, it was a little precarious for a time. girl power is back, time to look out your unionjack dresses, tracksuits, platforms and leopard print because last night the spice girls returned to the stage to kick off their arena tour with their hit single spice up your life. i never put mine away. that would be your leopard print vest underneath the shirt. baby, scary, ginger, and sp

sarah walton, bbc news. way as a man and a woman are questioned on suspicion of murdering two boys aged 13 and 1a in an incident at a house in sheffield. police were called to the property on friday and six youngsters were taken to hospital. the four other children are aged between seven months and 11 years and are not seriously injured. crew had to evacuate a cargo ship after it began tilting in the river mersey. the container vessel began listing at gladstone dock in liverpool in the early hours of yesterday morning. the maritime and coastguard agency said the ship was back on an even keel, and all crew were safe. girl power is back, you will be pleased to know. it never went away. time to look out your union jack dresses, tracksuits, platforms, and leopard print because last night the spice girls returned to the stage to kick off their arena tour with their hit single spice up your life. baby, scary, ginger, and sporty took to the stage, minus posh, for theirfirst performance since 2012's opening ceremony

sarah walton, bbc news.ary at the university and college union, said that reducing tuition fees for university students would have a serious impact on university finances. a reduction in university fees to £7,500 would immediately wipe £1.8 billion a year off university income. that could have a devastating effect on universities. it would lead to widespread closure of departments and even to the closure of whole institutions. the effect it would be to reduce access to higher education for future students, as well as reducing the quality of education they receive when they get there. it wouldn't resolve student debt, they would still be leaving university with debts of £23—30000. this is the worst of all possible solutions. the answer is to abolish tuition fees and look at other ways of funding university. for example, getting a business and industry to contribute more. corporation tax has been cut, those cuts could be reversed and that could fund universities and make them fit for dealing with what is a ver

sarah walton reports.orpe dominates the landscape, but it also dominates life here, with 3000 people from the town working in the plant. today, their future, like the company's, is unclear. it's notjust this town that gets affected, it's everywhere around it. that's a lot of people's lives up in the air, really, so they need to do something. if it goes under, the town will disappear, really, there'll be nothing left. there's all your little businesses, they'lljust... there'll be nothing here. i feel that the steelworks is the life of the town. basically, it's the heart of the town. and if the heart stops beating, services, retail, everything else that's around it will be affected massively. british steel employs 5000 people across the uk and abroad, but it's thought the company supports a further 20,000 jobs in its supply chain. it's notjust the people that are directly employed here, but it's the contractors that rely on the steelworks here forjobs. house prices, people aren't going to be able to buy a ho

sarah walton, thank you.st for a nine—year—old girl over claims pollution contributed to her death. ella kissi—debrah died in 2013 and an inquest initially ruled her death was caused by acute respiratory failure and severe asthma. but her mother has been campaigning for a new inquest, that would link her death to air pollution where she lived in south east london. our correspondentjon donnison is outside the high court now. he is with her mother. this decision made in the last half hour also, now ella had been a healthy young girl up ella had been a healthy young girl up until about 2010 when she developed acute asthma after a chest infection. she then had a period of three years with some 27 odd visits to hospital and eventually died just nine years old in 2013. that original inquest in 2014 said she died asa original inquest in 2014 said she died as a result of a severe rest between problems and acute asthma. but herfamily between problems and acute asthma. but her family have always maintained that was dir

our correspondent sarah walton is at covent garden in central london, where people have been able toar us, we i hope not, and i hope you can hear us, we are i hope not, and i hope you can hear us, we are the first broadcaster to broadcast over a 5g internet connection. if we are breaking up, that may be because the coverage is still a little bit patchy, just to demonstrate, this is a 5g enabled phone connected to the ee network in central london, and we are only getting a speed of 1a megabits per second, the equivalent of what you would get from your home internet connection. but ee says they have been getting speeds of up to 800 megabits per second. if we all started getting that our mobile phones, it means the sort of things we do all day on our phones, streaming music, downloading tv programmes and films, photos on social media, we could do that almost instantaneously. so only available in any few places at the moment up error, i am to interrupt you, because bizarrely the 5g line is not working properly! apologies to our viewers for that! the chancellor, philip hammond, says he ai

sarah walton reports. universities say they're worried about money.ucation secretary, damian hinds, says claims universities across england are struggling financially is scaremongering. the augar review was commissioned by theresa may to find ways of making university education better value for money. it's expected to suggest ideas like lowering maximum tuition fees from more than £9,000 to £7,500 a year, limiting student numbers, and offering incentives for shorter, cheaper, two—year degree courses. damian hinds has spoken in the past, revealing that while most sectors have had to tighten their belts since the financial crash, universities have seen their income from fees go up. he also pointed to an increase in the number of international students who pay more for tuition. but there have been reports of universities being on the brink of bankruptcy. and one institution has been revealed as having needed a bailout from the office of students. universities uk says any drop in fees should be replaced with funding from the government to avoid harm to st

our correspondent sarah walton is at covent garden in central london, where people can now access 5g.l here. we were hoping to be broadcasting to you live over the five g network and indeed we were doing that earlier today, but through the day we have seen the signal speed slow down so we are currently broadcasting in 4g. to put it in context, we are getting 250 megabytes per second on the 5g, if you compare that to what you would get on your home internet which is 50 megabits per second. and this is nothing to the 500 megabits we were getting earlier in the day. with me is the editor of which computing. is this what we would have expected? teething problems are inevitable. but even 250 megabits, that's pretty impressive. so when we get the high speed internet en 5g what could it mean for our lives? all sorts of things. we will be much more connected, smart cities, smart cars particularly, instead ofjust talking back to the cloud they will talking back to the cloud they will talk to each other and talk about real time problems on the road, so hopefully rhodes will be safer, it will pa

it is going to make thing so much betterfor all of us, as our correspondent sarah walton was finding bbc has today become the first british broadcaster to go live using a commercial 5g internet connection. if we are breaking up, though, that may be because, as you heard in rory‘s report, the coverage is still at the moment a little bit patchy. just to demonstrate, this is a 5g enabled phone, it is connected to the ee network here in the centre of london, and we are actually only getting a speed of a0 megabits per second. i thought that went swimmingly, don't you? shall we use next week? maybe not. i think it's a great idea, do it, christian. we have broadcast on west. yoghurt pot and a piece of string. hello again. we have had a real mixture of weather across the country today. quite a few of us have had cloudy skies but we have seen some have had cloudy skies but we have seen some sunshine in england. cornwall looks glorious early on this afternoon. that has not been like that everywhere, you can see the extent of the cloud across the north and west of the country, these weather fro

let's go over to our reporter sarah walton who is live from covent garden which has one of the strongests become the voice broadcasting in the uk to go live using a commercial 5g network and that means that there is no delay on the line and i'm hearing you instantaneously and hopefully it is nice and clear at your end as well, all very well if you are a broadcaster but if you don't have to go on television, what does it mean? it means if you have a mobile phone you can do things like download an ultra high definition film instantaneously, meaning if you were at home right now using your home internet connection you're properly getting 40 or 50 megabytes per second but this phone is from ee who launch the service today and right now we are getting 240 megabits per second that this has registered as high as 500 and getting some speeds of 800 megabits per second. kate bevanis of 800 megabits per second. kate bevan is with me. thanks for coming along. what could this ultra fast 5g mean? it means you have loads of bandwidth, so it's notjust the speed of getting things done it, it means more d

sarah walton reports. the steel plant in scunthorpe dominates the landscape.es life, with 3000 people from the town working in the plant. today, their future, like the company's is unclear. it's notjust this town that gets affected, it's everywhere around it. that's a lot of people's lives up in the air. if it goes, the town will disappear, really. there is all your little businesses, there will be nothing here. i feel that the steelworks is the lifeblood of the town. basically, it's the heart of the town. if the heart stops beating, services, retail, everything else will be affected massively. british steel employs 5000 people across the uk and abroad, but it's thought the company supports a further 20,000 jobs in its supply chain. it's notjust the people directly employed by the contractors that rely on the steelworks forjobs, house prices, people aren't going to be able to buy houses if they haven't got a regular income. today's news is the latest blow in the long decline of steel—making, which was once the bedrock of british engineering. the industry now e