mind, which is a mental health charity, and spinal research, which is also uk—based but fund researchby with a guy called benjamin kennedy. he unfortunately had a spinal injury in 2010. since then, i have really wanted to do something give hope to people who have spinal—cord injuries. spinal research has been fundamental in our preparation. it has been great having their support. hopefully by raising this money, we can help to find a cure in the future. france's president has called for the baguette to be listed as one of the world's cultural treasures. emmanuel macron says a unesco listing is needed because the french daily staple is envied around the world — and its excellence should be preserved. it comes after the un's cultural agency awarded a similar status to italy's naples pizza. it is time for the weather. thank you. it has been one of those days again, especially in the western side of the british isles. not a lot of sunshine. it's down to this weather front. quite a of sunshine. it's down to this weatherfront. quite a bit of sunshine. it's down to this weather front. quite

for me, spinal research has particular importance. have really wanted to do something for people who have spinal—cord injuries. spinal research has been fundamental in our preparation. it has been great having their support. hopefully we can help to find a cure in the future. tributes are being paid to the comedian, bella emberg, who's died. the 80 year old became a household name on the russ abbot show as blunder woman, the hapless sidekick of cooperman. russ abbot himself has described her as "a woman of immense warmth and generosity", and herformer co—star les dennis has called her "a lovely friend" time for a look at the weather. to go with the grey skies, somewhat weathered three today. this wider front is not moving in any hurry. the knights, it stays across parts of western scotland, the fringes of england and wales. itjust starts to those allowed. the rain turning lighter and drizzle by the morning. brea ks lighter and drizzle by the morning. breaks will be limited but maybe a touch of frost entered the morning. for most of su

we set out as a charitable initiative, for two charities, mind, and spinal research. and in such style and with such great support and great success is amazing. just making it to the caribbean is a fantastic achievement but they have raised more than a quarter of a million and have rowed their way into the record books. dan johnson, bbc news. time for the latest weather prospects now, with matt taylor. some of you have had some rather wet weather, courtesy of a weather front which is not moving in a hurry. even tonight it will stay with parts of scotla nd tonight it will stay with parts of scotland and wales, but it starts to fizzle out. rain turning light and patchy, still lots of cloud, and maybe a touch of frost where there are any breaks. sunday begins with grade patchy rain, and the far west of england and, there might be some more breaks, but generally it is a cloudy story, turning windy across scotla nd cloudy story, turning windy across scotland and northern ireland. the speu scotland and northern ireland. the spell of heavy rain and severe gale force winds wi

for me the mind and spinal research.is commemorative for mum who struggled with mental illness. to bring that to fruition, complete it and do it thatjustice and do it in such style with such great support and success is amazing. just making it to the caribbean is a fantastic achievement, but they've raised more than £250,000 and rowed their way into the record books. we will be talking to them a little later in the programme. more now on our top story this morning. children in england are getting second—rate dental treatment compared to those in scotland and wales, that's according to the british dental association. it's after new analysis of nhs data found that children and teenagers had almost 43,000 hospital operations to remove teeth in england last year. that works out as 170 operations per day, a 17% increase in the last four years. the bda says children in england are receiving a "second class service" when it comes to their oral health, because, unlike wales and scotland, there's no dedicated national programme t

we set out as a charitable initiative, for two charities, mind, and spinal research.truggle with her mental health. to do it in such justice and in such style and with such great support and great success is amazing. just making it to the caribbean is a fantastic achievement but they have raised more than a quarter of a million and have rowed their way into the record books. dan johnson, bbc news. time's running out for carillion the government's biggest contractor as talks continue over the future of the troubled company. it comes as the government's warned by lib dem leader sir vince cable that it should not bail the company out. the government can'tjust do financial bail out. the shareholders and big banks have got to take a hit, they can'tjust offload the losses onto the taxpayer. "this is not a drill" — panic in hawaii as people are mistakenly told they face an imminent missile strike. no more extra charges to be levied on anyone using credit or debit cards to pay for goods. and exeter chiefs score six tries against montpellier, to keep alive their hopes of reach

we set out as a charitable initiative, for two charities, mind, and spinal research, the mind research do it such justice and do it in such style and with such great support and great success is amazing. just making it to the caribbean is a fantastic achievement but they have raised more than a quarter of £1 million and have rowed their way into the record books. dan johnson, bbc news. tributes have been paid to the comedy actress bella emberg has died aged 80, she made her name in the 80s and the abbot show playing characters like blunder woman. russ abbot called her a huge comic talent, les dennis said she was a lovely fa m ily talent, les dennis said she was a lovely family friend. a number of her friends lovely family friend. a number of herfriends and lovely family friend. a number of her friends and fellow celebrities have paid their respects and twitter. the author michael moran said she was one—of—a—kind, gone but not forgotten, posting a picture of her alongside russ abbot in her standout role. actor and songwriter bobby crush tweeted, such as sad news, my wonderfulfriend bell

we set out as a charitable initiative, for two charities, mind, and spinal research.um and her struggle with her health. to do it suchjustice and do it in such style and with such great support and great success is amazing. just making it to the caribbean is a fantastic achievement but they have raised more than £0.25 million and have rowed their way into the record books. dan johnson, bbc news. good morning, and great news for british tennis, today, because, johanna konta says she has recovered from the hip injury that disrupted her preparations for the australian open which starts on monday in melbourne. the british number one, who is seeded ninth, plays american madison brengle in the first round, and is aiming to reproduce the form that took her to the semifinals two years ago. iam coming i am coming into this year with slightly different challenges than i was at the end of last year so i feel actually very conscious of really appreciating being back playing and almost, almost being grateful for the challenges that i have now and almost working through the challen

we set out as a charitable initiative for two charities, mind, and spinal research.chievement but they have raised more than a quarter of a million pounds and have rowed their way into the record books. dan johnson, bbc news. now it‘s time for the weather with phil avery. it is going to get colder the sun, phil? all of us, eventually, and there is no escape from that. i‘ve been telling you that it has been on the cloudy side and i tell you that kirkwall was the lead on saturday with 0.6 of an hour of sunshine which was good enough to romp away with a prize. it has been went through the western end of cornwall, over 30 millimetres of rain in the last 24 hours, and it is still raining, and through the course of the night i think some of the rain will begin to peter away at last, at last. and not particularly cold and was the cloud pops. if it breaks will end up with a touch of frost and maybe a little bit of fog as well. early rises will still see the re m na nts of well. early rises will still see the remnants of saturday‘s rain across the western areas at a much more

we set out as a charitable initiative, for two charities, mind, and spinal research.such great support and great success is amazing. just making it to the caribbean is a fantastic achievement but they have raised more than a quarter of a million and have rowed their way into the record books. dan johnson, bbc news. france‘s president has called for the baguette to be listed as one of the world‘s cultural treasures. emmanuel macron says a unesco listing is needed because the french daily staple is envied around the world, and its excellence should be preserved. it comes after the un‘s cultural agency awarded a similar status to italy‘s naples pizza. now it is time for an update on the weather with phil avery. hello, i‘d expect your impression of the weather today depends on where you were, in the north—west where it was gloomy or if you had the good fortune to be a bit further to the north and east, you can‘t get much further than that but at least you got the sunshine. elsewhere, cloudy but at least it was dry, relative to those who had to endure bad weather front, wh

we set out as a charitable initiative, for two charities, mind, and spinal research.just making it to the caribbean is a fantastic achievement but they have raised more than a quarter of a million and have rowed their way into the record books. dan johnson, bbc news. france‘s president has called for the baguette to be listed as one of the world‘s cultural treasures. emmanuel macron says a unesco listing is needed because the french daily staple is envied around the world, and its excellence should be preserved. it comes after the un‘s cultural agency awarded a similar status to italy‘s naples pizza. now, time for an update on the weather with phil avery. the weather has been dominated by this weather from which hasn‘t gone very far very fast. 0vernight what i think will happen is the rain will tend to die out in some locations, perhaps the high ground in the north holding onto it for a length of time. if the cloud breaks, you may end up with a touch of frost, but not a particularly cold night if you do keep the cloud. that rain, what is left of it, dissipating away t

initiative in the first instance for two charities, for mind, the mental health charity, and spinal research commemorative. my mum had in a mental illness all alive and i a lwa ys mental illness all alive and i always felt a need and desire... i have this initiative and desire to do something to commemorate mum and to bring it to fruition and complete it and to bring it to fruition and complete itand do to bring it to fruition and complete it and do it such justice and do to bring it to fruition and complete it and do it suchjustice and do it in such style and with great support and success is amazing. just making it to the caribbean is a fantastic achievement, they've raised more than £250,000 and wrote their way into the record books. —— rowed their way. we will be talking to them a little bit later on, after what looks like quite a big celebration. did you know that two of them were seasick? fascinating. let's take a look at this morning's front pages. the times, you can see the headline. trump took offence at flights from the british. that's where he was invited to london to open the new

we set out as a charitable initiative, for mind, and spinal research, the mind research is commemorativeggle with her health. to do it such justice and do struggle with her health. to do it suchjustice and do it in struggle with her health. to do it such justice and do it in such style and with such great support and great success is amazing. just making it to the caribbean is a fantastic achievement but they have raised more than a quarter of £1 million and have rode their way into the record books. danjohnson, bbc news. congratulations to them. with ten minutes past nine. more on the top story, children in england getting second—rate dental treatment than those in scotland and ask according to the british dental association. it found children and teenagers have almost 43,000 operations to remove teeth in england last year which works out at 170 operation today. an increase of 17% in the last four years. the bda says children in england are getting second—class service when it comes to oral health because unlike wales and scotland there is no dedicated national programme to tackle the p

for decades researchers thought it was all in our brains. well, they now think our spinalds are responsible. in the 1980s, researchers found that hand dominance is said when we're in the womb. babies suck either their right or left thumb. but at that point of gestation, 13 weeks, the brain isn't controlling the body. the spinal cord is still in charge. so, that led scientists to look closer at developing babies spinal cords and they found significant differences of babies who are lefties and babies who are righties. >> i think the human body is still a great mystery. any time they can figure something out about us they didn't know before, i'm all for it, even if it's like right hand, left hand. >> they can't tell you which thumb you suck. >> right now storm team4 radar shows a monster storm. t that is coming in next is just as dangerous. doug is back with just how long this arctic blast is going to be on us. >> and cold could lead to frostbite faster than you think. going to show you how to protect yourself and when you should go see a doctor immediately. >> yeah, not anot