wycombe upset swansea who are a division above them to progress.rrod bowen to beat bournemouth. and newcastle are through after their game against nottingham forest went to penalties. let's end the programme back at the paralympics. boccia champion david smith won gold at the rio games in 2016, did it again in tokyo three years ago, and so he's hoping to make it a hat—trick of golds in paris. but he's also hoping to inspire the next generation to get into the sport. he's been talking to our reporter kimberley boak. i know there's a lot of people with my sort of disability who are smart, articulate, competitive, but without a competitive outlet. for me, it's like, why are they not playing boccia? so, david, how did it all start for you with boccia? i went to a school when i was 11 called treloar�*s. there was lots of activities going on and there was an opportunity to play boccia in the evenings. i wasn't particularly keen on the sport at the time, but it meant i got out of doing homework. so i went to the club, played regularly, and as i started pl

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a woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of a child in swansea.stigating the death at a house in the gendros area of swansea. emergency services were called to cwm du close at 8:30 in the evening on thursday. a 41—year—old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is currently in custody at bridgend. it is known that the child and the woman lived together and at this moment police are not looking for anyone else in connection with the death. soon as we have more information on that we will bring it to you. the mother of a 13—year—old british girl who died after a severe allergic reaction to a hot chocolate drink says she wants to make sure no other parent loses their child in the same way. hannahjacobs had a severe dairy allergy and died within hours of taking a sip of the drink on 8th february last year. her mother is calling on the food industry to take allergy training more seriously. our reporter tim muffett has been speaking to her. hannah was a bright child, funny, full of life. she loved doing tiktok, what any 13—year—old liked doi

wycombe wanderers lead swansea city 1—0brentford lead swansea city 1—0, brentford lead colchester unitednemouth is goalless. you can keep up—to—date on the bbc sport website. you can keep up—to—date on the bbc sport website. and that's all the sport for now. let's get some more now on the paralympics. the opening ceremony is underway and the first events start tomorrow morning. over the next 11 days, 4,400 athletes with disabilities, permanent injuries or impairments will compete for 549 medals across 22 sports in paris. let's speak to peter norfolk, a former wheelchair tennis player and pa ralympian who won five medals, including two golds, across three games. great to have your the programme. i imagine that you have been glued to the opening ceremony. thank you very much for being with us. tell us a sense of what is paralympian to go denied as there games go under way and how they're going to be prepare mentally and physically?— physically? the opening ceremony _ physically? the opening ceremony is _ physically? the opening ceremony is the - physically? the opening ceremony is the piec

one match in the championship today, an all—welsh clash with swansea city at home to cardiff.cting quickest to ethan horvath's save. that was before irish international callum robinson equalised for cardiff's first league goal of the season and theirfirst point. 1—1 the final score. celtic made it three wins from three at the start of their scottish premiership campaign, with victory at st mirren this afternoon. brendan rodgers' side took an early lead through captain callum mcgregor�*s long—range strike, before reo hatate — who picked up the player of the match award — was given the space to double it. alistairjohnston made it 3—0, putting celtic back at the top of the table ahead of aberdeen on goal difference. aberdeen hosted kilmarnock, beating them 2—0 to continue their winning run and moving them to 9 points. elsewhere, motherwell beat hearts at home by three goals to one. let's have a quick look at some of the other stories making the headlines today. armand duplantis broke his own pole vault world record for the tenth time. the swede cleared the mark of 6.26m in his se

a woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of a child in swansea.town last night. a 41 year old who lived with the child is being questioned in bridgend. >> detectives aren't looking for anyone else and dame priti patel has officially launched her conservative leadership campaign , conservative leadership campaign, promising to revive the party with clear goals and a focus on the future. >> the former home secretary also denounced the keir starmer's recent speech as feeble, pitiful and dishonest, criticising his approach to trade unions, criminal justice and the economy. she's one of six candidates in the running to replace rishi sunak, including james cleverly, kemi badenoch , james cleverly, kemi badenoch, mel stride robert jenrick and tom tugendhat . and the tom tugendhat. and the government says it won't impose a four day working week, but it does support flexible working options. labour says it's focused on compressed hours, allowing employees to work longer over fewer days, not reducing total hours. the conservatives have criticised the propos

that is akin actually wealthier than swansea . actually wealthier than swansea.parts of the world than areas of the uk. and as you mentioned in your introduction, these include projects such as i sort of air traffic control and indeed areas of things like in shanghai, shanghai, again, being a very, very wealthy part of china, china also being a hostile country to the united kingdom. and we are spending huge amounts of money, £200,000 on a all female opera over there. now, the reason why i think this is really interesting is even if you are pro foreign aid, you would fundamentally argue that money should be going to areas of the world that are much poorer. so to just put this into context, a malaria vaccine, the new malaria vaccine r 21, is cost about £2 per vaccine. so for the cost of the all female traditional chinese opera over in shanghai, we could have actually funded 100,000 malaria vaccines. so just to put that into context, this money is really being wasted in so many areas of the world. and the reason for this, which to answer your question, the reason fo

that is akin actually wealthier than swansea . actually wealthier than swansea.parts of the world than areas of the uk. and as you mentioned in your introduction, these include projects such as i sort of air traffic control and indeed areas of things like in shanghai, shanghai, again, being a very, very wealthy part of china, china also being a hostile country to the united kingdom. and we are spending huge amounts of money, £200,000 on a all female opera over there. now, the reason why i think this is really interesting is even if you are pro foreign aid, you would fundamentally argue that money should be going to areas of the world that are much poorer. so to just put this into context, a malaria vaccine, the new malaria vaccine r 21, is cost about £2 per vaccine. so for the cost of the all female traditional chinese opera over in shanghai, we could have actually funded 100,000 malaria vaccines. so just to put that into context, this money is really being wasted in so many areas of the world. and the reason for this, which to answer your question, the reason fo

. >> now, a woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of a child in swansea. police were called to a home in the town last night. a 41 year old who lived with the child is being questioned in bridgend. detectives aren't looking for anyone else. a mother has pleaded guilty to stabbing her ten year old daughter to death in the west midlands. jaskirat kaur admitted to manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility after the child was found with fatal wounds at their home back in march. prosecutors accepted the 33 year old's plea and march. prosecutors accepted the 33 year c.d's plea and in shock. >> i'm feeling really sad and i don't know whether to blame ourselves or our service or our government. are we failing? it's going to be really sad for the family as well to live with that. their child is not normal and for the community as well . and for the community as well. it's going to have a very effect on the whole of the community that it's actually come to our doorstep now because you hear about it in other areas. somebody's been stabbed. some child has

police were called to a home in swansea last night.being questioned in bridgend. detectives say they are not looking for anyone else . a looking for anyone else. a mother has pleaded guilty to stabbing her ten year old daughter to death in the west midlands. juskowiak admitted to manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility after the child was found with fatal wounds at their home in march of this year. prosecutors accepted the 33 year old's plea at the court and heard that there was no dispute over the facts. she has been remembered by her school as a bright, a happy and fun loving girl. dame priti patel has officially launched her conservative leadership campaign today, promising to revive the party with a focus on the future. the former home secretary also denounced sir keir starmer's recent speech as feeble, pitiful and dishonest, criticising his approach to trade unions, criminal justice and the economy. she's one of six candidates running to replace rishi sunak , and replace rishi sunak, and speaking earlier in london,

there may be someone who may know of lydia, or know of a family member to connect it to lydia in swanseaof a postcard that kind of came to our head office is amazing. meaning so much to so many, the family have decided to donate the postcard to west glamorgan archive service. as for this group, now the chance to do what most families do — get on with a good gossip. so that would be david... after all, there's a lot to catch up on. lucy vladev, bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather. hello again. yesterday we reached 30 celsius in cambridge. today it's more likely to be 23. being our top temperature, it's going to feel fresher and we're looking at a mixture of sunny spells and scattered showers. now, most of the showers today will be across northern england, northern ireland and scotland, enhanced by this weather front moving from the west to the east. driven along on quite a brisk breeze come further south. the spacing in the isobars is much wider, not much of a breeze at all. so away from the showers in the north a lot of dry weather, some sunshine, fair—weather cloud bubblin

the christmas—themed card was recently delivered to a branch of the swansea building society.ind gusts of more than 70mph to some parts of the uk, storm lilian is already clearing away but the weekend does still look quite unsettled. not as windy as it has been, but still fairly windy. some heavy rain at times. equally, some spells of sunshine. there goes storm lilian. this hook of cloud on the earlier satellite image clearing away northeastwards. we find ourselves right now in this slightly clearer slot, albeit with some showers. the showers most frequent up towards the north and the west of the uk, parts of northern ireland and scotland. staying pretty breezy, but not as windy as it has been. these are the wind gusts we can expect around the end of the afternoon. temperatures peaking at around 22 degrees across east anglia and the south east. scotland and northern ireland more like 16 to 17 degrees. now through this evening and tonight, we will continue to see some quite hefty showers. and for the second half of the night, this stripe of cloud and rain developing across sout

a 41—year—old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of a child in swansea.e gendros area. it is known that the child and the woman lived together. the woman is in custody at bridgend, and police say they are not looking for anyone else in connection with the death. the house of commons' biggest landlord, a newly elected labour mp, is renting out flats with black mould and ant infestations — the bbc has learnt. jas athwal, the mp for ilford south, owns 15 rental flats. tenants of some of these flats spoke of having to regularly scrub bathroom ceilings to remove mould — one told us of ants crawling up their child's body. mr athwal has denied this. the northwest switzerland city of basel will host next year's eurovision song contest. geneva had been widely regarded as the favourite. switzerland hosts the competition next may as they won this year's contest — with �*the code' performed by nemo. you're live with bbc news. here in the us, republican presidential nominee donald trump has been staking out his positions on pregnancy: how to start one, and how to end

sheffield united drew 2—all with qpr, while there were 3—nil wins for swansea and watford against preston non—league clubs are continuing on the long journey to wembley this weekend, in the preliminary round of the competition. it was honours even in the north—east derby between ashington and bishop auckland live on the red button. the visitors, bishop auckland, took the lead midway through the first half in northumbria. but the two sides will have to do it all over again after the hosts — ashington — equalised, an hour into the game. the knockout stages of the league cup got under way in scotland today. defending champions rangers are on course for the quarterfinals. they're currently leading stjohnstone 2—0 thanks to goals from cyriel dessers and ross mccausland. there's just a few moments of added time left at hampden park. premiership side ross county were knocked out by league 2 spartans i—nil. aberdeen beat queen�* park i—nil. dundee thrashed airdrieonians 6—1. there was another shock as championship falkirk beat hearts 2—nil. staying with football, and crystal palace�*s england def

molumby�*s goal in first—half added time was enough to secure all three points for west brom against swanseall. in the space of a0 sensational minutes in the swimming pool — paralympics gb won three gold medals this afternoon. that includes a first individual title for alice tai. with more on that and medals elsewhere — ben croucher reports. saturday in the parisian pool where great britain demonstrated the ultimate flex. three golds, five medals and just no stopping them. commentator: she is swimming away from . the rest of the field! since her last paralympics, alice tai had her right leg amputated below the knee to relieve increasing pain, and leave herfree to experience true elation. alice tai is a paralympic champion! her first individual title. she will have four more chances to add to that this week. stephen clegg won three medals in tokyo. no golds. no doubt that would be changing in paris... he takes it in a world record time! just like william ellard in the 200 metre freestyle, who added gold to his 100 silver. will ellard is the champion! and in para cycling, archie atkinson, fres

when a postcard sent to swansea in 1903 finally reached its intended destination 121 years late, it ledf your relatives here. yes. so i'm nick, ewart�*s grandson. i'm margaret. margaret. i'm stanley's granddaughter. granddaughter. and i'm margaret's sister helen, also stanley's granddaughter. i nice to meet you. you too - this group of complete strangers are in the rather novel position of realising they're, in fact, long—lost relatives. i'm lydia's great granddaughter. wow. connected through three siblings and a postcard that turned up last week. before this, we'd never heard of each other. so this has been quite a magical moment, really, to discover, especially for us that are trying to build ourfamily trees and going into genealogy to... this has opened up so much information. a note from a brother to his sister. this postcard, it turns out, set off a century—long chain reaction, now bringing together the grandson of the sender ewart, great granddaughter of the recipient lydia, and the granddaughters of their brother stanley. it's quite bizarre. we are looking for family likenesses _

breaking news from swansea.to dawn and for nana the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gb news. >> .com. forward slash alerts . >> .com. forward slash alerts. >> .com. forward slash alerts. >> hello and welcome back. this is britain's newsroom alive across the united kingdom on gb news. with me dawn neesom and the lovely nana akua. >> well, around 1130 at about that time, former home secretary and conservative leadership candidate dame priti patel will be hosting a major event in central london. we'll try and bnng central london. we'll try and bring that to you live. >> we're joined now by gb news political correspondent katherine forster. catherine, what are we expecting priti patel to say this morning ? patel to say this morning? >> yes. good morning. both. well she's saying that she's going to lay out her vision for the party and for the country and her sort of tagline, if you like, is pretty unite to win. we're going to hear a lot about uni

middlesbrough�*s victory over swansea is their first on the opening day of a season for ten years.ve hull a draw against bristol city. wrexham are back in league one for the first time in 19 years and have got off to an impressive start. they beat wycombe 3—2, and there is already an early contender for goal of the season — this superb effort from jack marriott was wrexham's second. dundee's solid start to the scottish premiership season has continued after they beat hearts at 3—1 dens park to go top of the table. scott tiffoney put dundee ahead after 20 minutes. gerard taylor then scored an own goal, followed by a luke mccowan penalty. frankie kent pulled one back for hearts. dundee have played two and won two. rangers are beginning the scottish premiership season in the strange surroundings of hampden park while their ibrox renovations are completed. but it didn't seem to make much difference. they beat motherwell 2—1 to register their first league win of the season — all the goals in the first 2a minutes of the match. elsewhere, ross county and dundee united drew 1—1. champions

david, we're in swansea today where you've created a whole boccia community.ecause i've been playing the sport for so long now, coming to the part of my career where i'm starting thinking about what's next, for me, it's important to get more people with my sort of disability the opportunity to play the sport, because there is no other sport that i could potentially do at the paralympics. you know, i know there's a lot of people with my sort of disability who are smart, articulate, competitive, etc, but without a competitive outlet. for me, it's like, why are they not playing boccia? i know the reason for that and i want to make a difference. thats david smith, who is one of the 215 athletes representing parlaympics gb over in paris. the opening ceremony getting under way any moment now in paris. you can follow it's on radio five live, five live without commentary on key events when the competition starts tomorrow. for now, for me and the rest of the sportsday team, have a good evening, goodbye. hello there. we've certainly seen some contrasting weather conditi

league one side wycombe wanderers beat championship team swansea 1—nil.into the tournament, and withdrew from the tournament in toronto with a thigh injury. meanwhile, britain�*s harriet dart has lost the first set in her second round match against marta kostyuk. it was a close—run thing, kostyuk eventually winning ten points to nine in the tie break. its currently 5—1 in the second set to kostyuk. cricket and england and sri lanka are making their final preparations ahead of the second test at lord�*s tomorrow. england beat the visitors by five wickets in the opener at old trafford last week, chasing down a fourth innings target of 205. england captian ollie pope says he�*s expecting another challenging game from sri lanka who impressed with their tenacity in manchester. for the guys to put together some good scores, and set us a chase from a hundred deficit is a credit to them. but i think we can hopefully keep getting better and i�*m sure they�*ll be confident and they will feel strongly. if we can better —— men play our best cricket hopefully we can c

sheffield united drew 2—all with qpr, while there were 3—nil wins for swansea and watford against prestonthe long journey to wembley this weekend, in the preliminary round of the competition. it was honours even in the north—east derby between ashington and bishop auckland live on the red button. the visitors taking the lead midway through the first half in northumbria but the two sides will have to do it all over again after the hosts equalised an hour into the game. the knockout stages of the league cup got under way in scotland today. premiership side ross county were knocked out by league 2 spartans i—nil. aberdeen beat queen' park i—nil. dundee thrashed airdrieonians 6—1. there was another shock as championship falkirk beat hearts 2—nil. rangers are taking on stjohnstone at hampden right now and. it's 0—0 at half time staying with football, and crystal palace's england defender marc guehi has been the subject of interest from newcastle this week. despite a number of reported bids for the player though, he has spoken to kelly somers on football focus this week — and says he's very muc

middlesbrough's victory over swansea is their first on the opening day of a season for ten years, whilengs of hampden park, while their ibrox renovations are completed. but it didn't seem to make too much difference. they beat motherwell 2—1 to register their first league win of the season, with all the goals in the first 24 minutes of the match. elsewhere, ross county and dundee united drew 1—1, while dundee will go top if they beat hearts. it is certainly heading that way, because they are three—zero up. champions celtic have kicked off the scottish women's premier league with an emphatic 9—0 trouncing of dundee united. celtic were 3—0 up at the break, with lucy ashworth—clifford opening the scoring after almost half an hour. united then let in six more goals, with maria mcaneny completing the rout with a late double. next, let's bring you the transfer stories of the day. tottenham have completed the signing of dominic solanke from bournemouth in a deal worth up to £65 million. spurs will pay an initial £55 million with £10 million in add—ons for the striker, who's signed a six—year c

for context, some of these places have the same gdp per capita as places like swansea or walsall.not think that maybe taxpayers in those areas might prefer the cash themselves? china has sent a robotic craft to mars. and yet we're still sending them foreign aid, while pensioners in britain are now coming to terms with the fact that they might not be able to heat their own homes this winter. now, apparently in 2022, we sent £555 million to the taliban stronghold of afghanistan. how's that going ? afghanistan. how's that going? lovely stuff. as far as i can tell, there are two main points behind foreign aid. firstly, soft power. well, i mean again, how's that going? the taliban hate us. and china are eyeing up an invasion of taiwan. in fact, outgoing us president joe biden secretly upped america's preparedness for nuclear war after china added 90 nuclear warheads in one year last year to take its total arsenal of world destroying weapons to 500. please tell me again why they need our money. the other aspect of foreign aid is stopping people fleeing their own countries to come here a

david, we're in swansea today where you've created a whole boccia community. sport for so long now, coming to the part of my career where i'm starting thinking about what's next, for me, it's important to get more people with my sort of disability the opportunity to play the sport, because there is no other sport that i could potentially do at the paralympics. you know, i know there's a lot of people with my sort of disability who are smart, articulate, competitive, etc, but without a competitive outlet. for me, it's like, why are they not playing boccia? i know the reason for that and i want to make a difference. we wish him luck in paris. louis rees—zammit, who quit rugby union to try his hand at ameican football, has not been selected in the kansas city chiefs' 53—man squad for the 2024 season. the former wales winger has been training with the chiefs and played in all three of their pre—season games, but missed out on the nfl's cutdown day. still aren't stable, a month after issuing what's known as an "amber alert" — meaning supply shortages could have an

wolves beat burnley colchester lost to brentford and swansea lost to brentford and swansea lost to brentforda lost to wickham forest one, newcastle one and newcastle go through on penalties as well because in this stage of the carabao cup no extra time, so they play the 90 minutes because they're going to get tired. yeah. so then straight, straight to penalties. and in the draw for the third round, which was made straight afterwards, barrow town. oh yes. who have never reached this far and whose manager is a friend of mine, stephen clements, who used to play stephen clements, who used to play for spurs. son of ray clemence, the late great ray clemence, the late great ray clemence . they barrow my barrow. clemence. they barrow my barrow. oh, is it your barrow? barrow. this is his barrow. yeah. that's it. i didn't know you were a barrow. barrow? >> yeah, from barrow, man. >> yeah, from barrow, man. >> oh, you should buy the club by the ridiculous with all your millions and trillions. i've got a wheelbarrow. if that's. that's as close as i get . apart from. as close as i get. apart from. well,

it's got a gdp per capita comparable to swansea.f wealth from our government. >> i mean , that sounds quite >> i mean, that sounds quite incredible. so regions where the gdp is a is the same as swansea. that's not exactly what people would think, where people would think that their aid money would be going. but i'm looking at some of the examples you have in your report. projects include an all female traditional chinese opera in shanghai, a rural crafts exhibition in shenzhen, and a temporary cycle lane in mexico city , explain if you can, mexico city, explain if you can, harrison, why we're doing this . harrison, why we're doing this. >> it does seem bizarre on its face, but there is a pretty simple explanation for it really. so imagine that you're a bureaucrat of some kind, a civil servant, or a decision maker, and you've been given a pot of money that needs to be spent, because we commit every year to spending 0.5 to 0.7% of our gdp on foreign aid . and you're based on foreign aid. and you're based there. you've got a pot of mon

there may be someone who may know of lydia, or know of a family member to connect it to lydia in swanseahat kind of came to our head office is amazing. meaning so much to so many, the family have decided to donate the postcard to west glamorgan archive service. as for this group, now the chance to do what most families do — get on with a good gossip. so that would be david... after all, there's a lot to catch up on. lucy vladev, bbc news. i suppose in a way you could see the impact the postcard has had given the time delay is much greater than had just been delivered in usual fashion. ., ., ., ., fashion. not the original intention but it is lovely _ fashion. not the original intention but it is lovely when _ fashion. not the original intention but it is lovely when things - fashion. not the original intention but it is lovely when things turn . but it is lovely when things turn out like that. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. a very good morning, welcome to bbc london. i'm thomas magill. two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after another man in a w

the christmas—themed card was recently delivered to a branch of the swansea building society.erm will gradually push away. talking of the winds, these are the areas of greatest concern of disruption, north wales, northern england, parts of dumfries and galloway. still the potential during the next few hours of winds getting close to 80 mph in some spots before they ease down. cross winds on the m6. best advice, if you are in a high sided vehicle, delay yourjourney a if you are in a high sided vehicle, delay your journey a little if you are in a high sided vehicle, delay yourjourney a little bit until those winds have died down. the winds are all strung further south. outbreaks of fairly showery rain across england and wales. more persistent rain in southern and eastern scotland. the rain does move out of the way by the time we reach mid—morning. the strongest winds ease down as well. still blustery into the afternoon. a mixture of sunshine across england and wales, and showers in scotland and northern ireland. whilst it does remain blustery, you can see from the wind gusts the

in the championship, the only game was an all—welsh affair, as cardiff visited swansea.away at st mirren. defender alistairjohnson scoring the last of their goals. they're top of the table — edging aberdeen, who've also won three from three, on goal difference. lydia ko's remarkable 2024 rennaisance continues, as she followed up her olympic gold medal by winning the women's open championship at st andrews by two shots. while others around her faltered, including world number one nelly korda, ko maintained her composure to finish 7—under. that then left defending champion lilia vu needing to hole a 15—foot birdie putt to force a play—off which she left short, to the relief of ko, who becomes this year's 0pen champion. it ends an eight—year drought for a majorfor the new zealander, who last won one back in 2016. ijust didn't have the belief that one day i could win the women's open. and, you know, of all the majors, i had never really put myself in contention that much at this championship. so almost too good to be true. this one is extra special because, you know, my moth

so there was a swansea bay proposal at one point, and that was given the kibosh, wasn't it?hink it's a problem for the environment and also a problem for shipping. right. >> the tidal is but it's also an eyesore argument. >> it was . no. listen. yeah. go >> it was. no. listen. yeah. go on. on. >> on. >> the problem. the problem is this is what people don't understand. electricity is not like coal. it's not a commodity, right? it is. it is a service. it needs to provide it all the time. it's think about it like heartbeats. think about it like taking breath. you cannot store your breath. you cannot store your breath. you cannot store your heartbeat. right? you cannot say, i'm going to breathe twice as hard today and then tomorrow. i don't have to breathe at all because we all know what happens if you try that tomorrow you die. and it's precisely the same with electricity and energy and the economy. to say that there is wind on some days there is solar, on some days there is tidal occasionally, and you can run your economy on occasional availability of abundant energy and then

paddington station in london, well, you're going to have a very pretty journey on your way to cardiff and swanseause you're going to be going to gloucester. since the severn tunnel junction is closed. so yeah, wherever you're going. so go to wales, you're going to go up into gloucester in the middle and then down. >> so you don't have to go over the bridge, but you're not going to be getting on a bus, which a lot of people will like. >> sorry. the train normally goesin >> sorry. the train normally goes in a tunnel, but they've closed that. so it's going to be quite scenic and it's going to take about an hour longer. oh, jov- >> yeah. well, that's , as >> yeah. well, that's, as i said, a bank holiday. but i mean, are we the only country that get this so badly wrong all at once? >> you should see what's going on in germany. it's an absolute mess. you would think. yep. germany. efficiency it's all going to be great. german rail is in a right old mess. i mean, i'm surprised. >> i would have thought there would be absolutely very efficient. >> yes. >> yes. >> my last journey i gave up and iended >> my

so, martin, if you fancy standing , get your centres at standing, get your centres at swansea, go andew years and learn a bit of welsh. and who knows, you could be in the senate in two years. >> well, lee, my welsh is worse than my king's english. >> and on that point i want to pass you over to chris. >> hope he's got a question for you, lee. >> lee anderson, great to see you.the >> lee anderson, great to see you. the polling does support what you're saying. we've got this polling from we think polling showing that labour is down six points since the election. reform's up five points. the tories becalmed at 20 points. that suggests that that support is leaching from labour towards reform uk. and that must be a worry. it seems. and how is you say you're well received in the pub there? when i was covering the brexit party campaign that nigel farage led in 2019, if a european parliament, he was heckled and booedin parliament, he was heckled and booed in merthyr tydfil, he was told to go, go home, we don't need you here, nigel farage. are you sure that's that's a fair reflection of all pe

if you're trying to get from south wales, cardiff or swansea through to london.d an hour to the journey. good luck everybody. >> thank you. thanks, simon. we'll be better off staying here for now. the weather's going to be great simon calder thank you. >> why does nothing ever work? broken britain, nothing works. >> some things work, some things work. the most important and busiest times i know. >> well, they always do that. >> well, they always do that. >> don't they? it's like bank shut when everyone's finished working. so you can't use them. up working. so you can't use them. up next we're going to talk about meghan markle's sparkling jam. my favourite subject? this is britain's newsroom on gb news 22 minutes after 11:00. good morning . if you've just good morning. if you've just tuned in, where have you been? this is britain's newsroom with ben leo and me. nana akua joining us, writer and broadcaster emma webb and director of worldwide cherry kerry dingle in the studio. right. should we start with visa kerbs which spark rapid fall in new migrants kerry dingle

well, we're joined by professor of law at swansea law school, andrew tettenborn.ow, i understand you've signed this letter to the education secretary, the accusation here is that essentially, bridget doesn't care enough about free speech and this move to get rid of this free speech act that was brought in by the conservatives will leave students and staff at risk of basically being cancelled for legitimate speech . legitimate speech. >> yeah, i think that's right, this government, i've had the impression for a bit of time doesn't really get free speech, it's desperate for a chance to control the discourse in the pubuc control the discourse in the public sphere . i think you've public sphere. i think you've also got to remember that one group of people who hated the free speech legislation, because it would involve them in extra work with the university , work with the university, university administrators . and university administrators. and it's an open secret that large numbers of them together with vice chancellors, bent the ear of labour shadow ministers and s

. >> andrew tettenborn, professor of law at swansea law school and amy ansell, entrepreneur and commentatorspirited discussion . >> good spirited discussion. right. okay. i do like this, this idea that we were all wandering around in loincloths , wandering around in loincloths, foraging for scraps of food before tony blair, some of the most intelligent people, some of the most intelligent people didn't go to university. >> they actually, you know, learn things in other ways. >> not practical training as well. what if you what if you lost your arms, lost your legs, lost your arms, lost your legs, lost your arms, lost your legs, lost your eyes, were unable to talk anymore? then what are you going to do ? well, nothing. going to do? well, nothing. obviously, it doesn't really matter . right? okay. anyway, let matter. right? okay. anyway, let us know your thoughts . us know your thoughts. >> gbnews.com/yoursay. >> gbnews.com/yoursay. >> okay. no no no no no. very much a shift in tone. okay. very much a shift in tone. okay. very much a shift in tone because another massive story that's been doin

normally run to yorkshire, north east england and scotland and then between london and south wales, swansea be going the pretty way via gloucester. we knew all about that. but here in exeter, for example, one of the two lines to london is completely closed at honiton tunnel, which is on the way to axminster, on the very lovely leafy line through dorset to london. and i've also heard from northern trains and this is for travelling tomorrow. they've issued do not travel warnings for six of their lines, including liverpool to blackpool, manchester to southport , manchester to southport, manchester to chester. and they say staff shortage. we're going to be making lots of cancellations . so making lots of cancellations. so that's just on the railways. i mean, if you do get where you're supposed to be going at roughly the right time, i would count that as a huge success. >> oh my lord, thank you very much, simon calder. have a lovely bank holiday weekend. at least it looks fairly dry where you are at the moment. thank you very much, simon. okay, right. we are running out of time very quickly. i'm

where in swansea, where it's been delivered and they're trying to track down the descendants of lydia> that's nice. good. have we lost the art of letter writing? i feel like people just don't write postcards anymore. or letters to each other. >> i got i got a lovely. yeah, i got a request. i was in aberdeen on holiday the last couple of weeks. i got a request from my friend in cork to show me a postcard from aberdeen, which i duly got a postcard, but i don't know how much it costs to send to ireland. i can't find a post office open. >> well that's it. >> well that's it. >> i can't remember the last time i wrote a letter or sent one or. no, no, no, i didn't tell you. >> i don't think we would do it anymore. >> no. >> no. >> well, not to the same extent. >> well, not to the same extent. >> well, not to the same extent. >> we found the letters from my grandad to my granny. the other day, and it was just gorgeous reading through them. and it's similar to that. it's talking about the train he was on. and you know what they're doing at the weekend. what dance they're going to go to. but it'

it is from one of our weather watchers taken earlier on the beach in swansea.atch of rain. look at the weather fronts in the atlantic. they are coming our way and they will bring wet and windy weather. a dry and bright and sunny start for some. showers in the west. the rain moves across northern ireland. heavy in western scotland. in through the north west of england and north wales. gusty winds, blustery in the south, and windy in the north. touching gale force around some of the coast. temperatures ranging from 13 to about 22 degrees. as we head on through the evening and overnight, this rain continues to push eastward, to be followed by another set of fronts coming in from the atlantic, following a similar track. it will eventually get into the south—west. the wind will strengthen through the night, again touching gale force. we will have some clear skies in the far south—east. it is not going to be as coolly start tomorrow as it is today. overnight lows between 12 and 16 degrees. into tomorrow, this weather front here contains the remnants of hurricane erne

this one is from helen in swansea. look how red that is.n from huddersfield sent this. is that of the moon? you are asking me?! do get in touch if you know about that or send us some photos. the details are on your screen. carol was telling us about the pretty wild weather this morning. yesterday on the programme we saw rugby union players, including billy twelvetrees, set off on an epic 350—mile cycling challenge, two years after their friend and former team—mate ed slater was diagnosed with motor neurone disease. to symbolise the urgency in finding a cure for the condition, billy and his team have been racing around the country overnight, repeating the route him and ed previously covered together in three days, but this time hoping to finish in one. they started at kingsholm stadium in gloucester, cycling through leicester, milton keynes, twickenham — and later this morning they're due back in gloucester. jayne mccubbin has been following theirjourney. the night has not been easy. we know they plan to cross the finish line during breakfas

so some professor from swansea university is fronting a lover maggot campaign . clinically bred so they'd be sort of cleaner. >> and there's still maggots . >> and there's still maggots. >> and there's still maggots. >> i mean, they can. when i was a kid, i saw them hollow out, and my friend's pet before. yeah. it was, it was a rabbit. we actually had a funeral for the rabbit in the back garden. this was in 1992, and i'm being serious here, but we turned it over and it was just completely hollowed out. >> well, yes, that's what maggots do. >> yeah, well, yeah, of course. yeah, yeah, yeah of course. but but, but i think the vet do don't they. now the vet said that that's what caused the, caused the death. >> oh well rabbits they do have what's it called with rabbits. >> it's myxomatosis. no myxomatosis. >> no no no i mean there's a thing with that actually this specifically feed on rabbits, right. that's a specific sort of maggot. it's the thing, with rabbits, it's grim, but no, maybe we need to look at this on it. i mean, i wouldn't like the idea of having maggot