they've been speaking to our reporter, wendy hurrell.to play violin after removal of a brain tumour and a surgeon's understanding of the intrinsic value of music that led to this moment in medical history. my oncologist was very, very good. he said to me, "dagmar, we need a plan." 0nly that plan didn't involve my music. so in the end, i said to them, "do you think i should play my violin during operation?" and he looked at me and said, "well, we need to discuss this with the professor, but what an interesting idea." i said, "yes, we can try that." and the rest is pretty much history. music was so important to dagmar's quality of life and everything that she was. she was kind of hesitant to have this conversation with somebody who was a great surgeon but didn't understand the musical side, whereas because of my musical background, dagmar felt that, 0k, we can at least have that conversation. now they're part of the newly refurbished hunterian museum at lincoln's inn fields. pretty cool, isn't it? it is pretty cool! i mean, as a medical st

wendy hurrell has more.eathers and sequins, delicious wafts of food, vibrant music... ..and two million people. so provision must be made. many local businesses decide to shut and board up — so a busy day for the builders. every year we come up here, sort of day before, get it boarded up and then normally it's the tuesday after. so, yeah, it's pretty full—on. it was already graffitied last night. we had to clean some off. so, yeah, it'sjust to stop — just to stop damage. private and council housing gets a similar protection — not least to stop front gardens becoming, well, public latrines. it's a pretty basic system, but these compost loos are unique to the notting hill carnival, as they're built on site. so we're building a95 across 47 locations, and then an additional 39 accessible units. we have four days to build, which isn't too bad — it's about 120 a day, which is fairly achievable with a team of about 12 of us. 2a hours to pack it all down afterwards. so that's the harderjob. as is the policing of suc

wendy hurrell, bbc news. what an incredible story. the middle of next week it looks like things will settle down a touch as high pressure starts to build in. today, what we've got are isobars showing the direction of the wind coming from the north or indeed north—west. it is pulling in a fair bit of cloud across northern scotland with patchy rain on and off through the course of the day. this morning's rain across the southwest and channel islands continuing to pull away. in between, we will see further showers develop, they will be scattered. you could see some heavy ones across south—east scotland, northern england and also the west midlands. top temperatures, up to 21 degrees. through this evening and overnight, these showers will move from central parts of the country over towards the east, allowing clearer skies and fewer showers in the west. still quite blustery, though. overnight lows, 10 to about 13 or 14 celsius, a little bit cooler than last night. tomorrow then, we have extensive cloud across eastern england, producing show

wendy hurrell, bbc news. heavy security in washington, also around the us capitol building which is where the donald trump supporters rioted in 2021. the atmosphere is tense but a big day and we will be across all the developments here on bbc news so i hope you stay with us. hello. the weather is not looking too bad over the next couple of days, generally sunshine and showers knocking around. however, as we head into saturday, it's going to turn very wet, particularly so across northern ireland, england and wales. and bear in mind parts of the south of the uk, even though we're only three days into the new month, have already had a third of the average rainfall. there's more on the way, as i say. today is an ok day, though. sunny spells and passing showers. the showers probably most frequent across parts of the midlands running into eastern england. quite a few showers for northern ireland, but they'll tend to be quite light and i suspect the showers become a little bit less widespread for wales and south wes

wendy hurrell, bbc news. what a lovely story.eru—set—us colossus could have weighed 200 tonnes, more than even the very largest blue whales of today. 18 of its bones were found in a desert region in southern peru. this is what so much of the world's media are watching today, the courthouse in washington where we are expecting donald trump to be formally charged at a court hearing later today for allegedly plotting to overturn the 2020 presidential election. he will be appearing in front of the federal courthouse in washington, dc at about four o'clock local time which is eight o'clock gmt. we will have coverage of that here. stay with us here on bbc news. hello. the weather is not looking too bad over the next couple of days, generally sunshine and showers knocking around. however, as we head into saturday, it's going to turn very wet, particularly so across northern ireland, england and wales. and bear in mind, parts of the south of the uk, even though we're only three days into the new month, have already had a third of the ave

wendy hurrell, bbc news. what an amazing uplifting and happy story.arth. the mammal could have weighed 200 tonnes. that's more than the very largest blue whales of today. 18 of its bones, seen here, were found in a desert region. plenty more news coming up here on the bbc. stay with us, wherever you are. hello. quite a bit of cloud here. most of us did manage a bit of sunshine. some of the heaviest showers worked across the midlands into central — southern england to the afternoon but it did become largely driver whales. quite a few showers there in northern ireland. talking about showers commits another shower a day for friday before we get some heavier rain into the weekend. from northern ireland for england and for whales with those rainfall totals once again really building up. overnight tonight, a few showers left over. northern and eastern scotland. otherwise it is largely dry with some clear spells and temperatures ranging between around 11-13 temperatures ranging between around 11—13 celsius. for friday's forecast we start off on a bright and

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