a little bit of fair weather cloud bubbling up in the skies over worcester earlier today.ene, repeated up and down the country. you can see the extent of the sunshine. even this cloud working into northern ireland, which is thin and high, meant we had some sunshine coming through that. overnight, cloud thickening for a while in northern scotland, so not as chilly here as it has been over recent nights. maybe the odd spot of rain getting into the northern isles, but otherwise it's dry. underneath those clear skies, it's a chilly night. cold enough for some patches of frost to develop in the countryside first thing monday morning. monday, another glorious start to the day. a little bit cooler first thing in the morning. the afternoon, fine with light wind. in the sunshine it's going to feel warm across—the—board. across western and northern parts of the country will see the highest temperatures. 19 in edinburgh, and temperatures much higher across the north—east of scotland. that's your weather. hello this is bbc news with shaun ley. the headlines... a cabinet minister descr

the 29—year—old's been left out of scotland's training squad along with the worcester fly—half, duncanrecently recovered from a lengthy back injury to feature for the french league leaders, toulouse. england's national cricket team coach feels batsman alex hales can come back to the team stronger and better than ever. trevor bayliss feels hales, who was dropped from the world cup squad after a reported positive recreational drugs test, can still have a future with the side. england continue their preparations for the tournament on home soil with a one—day series against pakistan starting tomorrow. the players we have got in the team have really made strides in their culture that they have tried to stick to. unfortunately, it was decided that alex did not quite get it right. but we are more than helpful that he will come back stronger and better than ever. do you think he has a place in this england team in the future? definitely. that has been related to him, that it is not the end of the road. he has been an important part of this england one—day set up for the last number of years an

but i can tell you grewing up in the 1960s in worcester, massachusetts, i had a great education, and it in this country. today so many kids are just growing up without those tools. liz: it's interesting, because i think if you ask people who went to public school -- myself included -- of our age, people who have gone to public school, then once they become successful, do they put their kids in public school, or do they then look at public schools and say, i can't, identify -- i've got to put my kid in private school. education is one thing, but you as a self-made person, you sold circus tickets to make your way through johns hopkins, and then you got to harvard business school, and you had no money. you managed to do this. who needs the help, truly, and to you understand when you went to occupy wall street and heard some of their complaints, did they ring true, or at least did you understand them from a certain perspective? >> well, i understand the frustration of people. look, it's interesting, growing up in the 1960s in massachusetts, which, you know, worcester was a blue collar to

some fair weather cloud bubbling over the skies of worcester earlier today, repeated up and down theas then and high, sunshine coming through there as well. 0vernight, cloud thickens for some time in northern scotland, not as chilly here as in recent nights. some rain on the northern isles but otherwise dry. underneath, clear skies but a chilly night, cold with patches of frost developing in the countryside first thing monday morning. 0n countryside first thing monday morning. on monday, a glorious start to the day. in the afternoon, fine with light winds. in the sunshine, warm across—the—board. with light winds. in the sunshine, warm across—the—boa rd. but with light winds. in the sunshine, warm across—the—board. but across western and northern parts of the country receive the highest temperatures, 19 in edinburgh and temperatures, 19 in edinburgh and temperatures much higher across the north—east of scotland. that's your weather. switch to your red button right now for the trophy presentation. goodbye for the trophy presentation. goodbye for now. a thrilling battle for the premier

some fair with a cloud in worcester. that's repeated around the country.through that. 0vernight, the clown thickening in northern scotland, so not as cold as it has been. maybe some rain in the northern ireland. 0therwise dry. clear skies elsewhere, and a cold night —— some rain in the northern ireland —— northern isles. tomorrow afternoon, fine with light wind. warm across—the—board. across western and northern parts of the country we will have the highest temperatures. 19 in edinburgh. hello this is bbc news with shaun ley. the headlines... a cabinet minister describes the european elections as the ultimate protest vote and predicts they will be "difficult" for the conservatives. a light aircraft has crashed on a dual carriageway between raglan and abergavenny in south east wales. three people were helped from the plane before it burst into flames. as the usa flexes its military might and renews sanctions against iran its president issues a stark warning about difficult times ahead to his country. the national crime agency says organised criminals are ki

there were also final day winds for sale, bristol and worcester.munster 2a—9 in their semi. later ospreys and scarlets play—off for a place in the champions cup next weekend. it's a 7:a5 kick off. there's live commentary on bbc radio wales of that one. catalans dragons are celebrating after beating wigan in a historic super league match in spain. they won 33—16 at barcelona's nou camp — in their first appearance at the stadium. catalans scored the game's first try — michael mcilorum going over against his former cloud. wigan fought back though — this superb solo try from liam marshall reduced the deficit to two points at half time. but catalans were too strong in the second half — scoring four tries to win in front of a record cloud of over 31,000. ok it's a big day in netball. karthi and emily are here to take us through it. karthi? we've been talking about trophies and how is that big month this may. we have today with a grand final in netball. and the end of this month byjuly, we have the well kept coming up. talk about this our reporter, emily

northampton regain possession of the final play—off berth with a comfortable bonus—point victory against worcesteral in three sets by maria sakkari. this was konta's first final since 2017, and her first ever on clay. she took the first set comfortably 6—2 and was a break up in the second, but it all fell apart with sakkari battling back to claim her first wta title. it would have been konta's first tournament win in two years. she should be free —— pleased that she is showing some form on the clay with the grass season on the corner. let's takle a look at the day's other stories. in hockey's new look fih pro league great britain lost to spain in a shootout after their game finished 1—1 in normal time. the tournament provides teams with a chance to qualify for the olympics and world cup, they went down 3—2 in the shootout. fabio quartararro has become the youngest rider to claim pole position in moto gp. the french rookie broke the track record injerez and will start the spanish grand prix alongside his petronas yamaha team mate franco morbidelli. britain's cal crutchlow will start from sixth. the

there were also final day wins for sale, bristol and worcester.at rivals munster 24—9 in their semi. 0spreys and scarlets are playing—off for a place in the champions cup next weekend. it's just kicked off. there's live commentary on bbc radio wales of that one. catalans dragons are celebrating after beating wigan in a historic super league match in spain. they won 33—16 at barcelona's nou camp — in their first appearance at the stadium. catalans scored the game's first try — michael mcilorum going over against his former club. wigan fought back though — this superb solo try from liam marshall reduced the deficit to 2 points at half time. but catalans were too strong in the second half — scoring four tries to win in front of a record crowd of over 31,000. big day interns and silverware and netball. karthi and emily are here to take us through it.. trophies galore so far and we have more coming up in the month of may. and this summer with the world cup. today manchester thunder have beaten wasps to win the 2019 netball superleague title and coming

gained north east lincolnshire, but they lost control in st albans, southend, broxtowe, peterborough, worcesterlsewhere. these were always going to be difficult elections for us and there we re difficult elections for us and there were some challenging results for us last night, but it was a bad night for labour too and i think people we re for labour too and i think people were sending a very clear message, a simple message, to both main parties, to us and the labour party. just get on and deliver brexit. applause not all of her colleagues here at the welsh conservative conference are altogether supportive though. thank you, everybody... why don't you resign? we don't want you! mrs may, told to herface, she should go. crowd chant ‘0ut'. he is crowd chant ‘out‘. he isjeremy corbyn in trafford in greater manchester, but labour lost control in hartlepool, the wirral, and bolsover. we have one micro trafford to an open mole —— overall majority, we have swings to labour in a number of boroughs across the whole of the country, and that gives us a basis on which we can unite and seats such as swindon

this was earlier today around worcester.hine across—the—board. this different parts of the uk. sunshine across—the—boa rd. this cloud different parts of the uk. sunshine across—the—board. this cloud in northern ireland is quite thin, so even here we are seeing some sunshine. overnight, the cloud thickening over northern scotland, so thickening over northern scotland, so not as cold as we've seen recently. maybe some rain. otherwise clear skies and a cold night, again cold enough for a bit of frost in the countryside. monday morning, a cold start but likely to be a glorious day. high pressure is over the east of england. wind spinning ina the east of england. wind spinning in a clockwise sense. the warmest area is going from the north and west of the country. 18 in cardiff, much warmer in edinburgh, 19 and 17 in aberdeen. warmer than today. sunshine across—the—boa rd, temperatures into the high teens for the afternoon. hello this is bbc news. i'm shaun ley. the headlines... a cabinet minister describes the european elections

further south, in worcester showing just a little bit of power weather cloud. we will see some thicker cloud working into northern scotland, not as cold a night here. an odd spot of rain to the northern isles. 0therwise an odd spot of rain to the northern isles. otherwise it is a dry night, a clear night and a cold one as well stop can giving them to a few patches of mist in the very coldest areas. the better picture into the few days, we are looking at a lot of dry weather, with warm spells of sunshine coming this way. it changes all down to the weather pressure does make the area of high pressure which continues to build across the uk on monday. those parameters will continue to rise. pressure is increasing. from monday will see lots of... we could see some slightly fresher air getting into east anglia and caused in kent and essex as well. even in the sunshine it is going to be won. hejumped in temperatures for north—east scotland, feeling much warmer here. that is all due to a change in the wind direction, usually coming from the set is joy direction, temper

of something from her interiority and it's a difficult record so he says the journalist from the worcester spine he sees her at the statehouse says that she, let me get the words exactly right. she sparkled as she regarded the gold codfish mahal dust like any other girl. so there's a little bit of bias there obviously, it's a slightly racist comment but it suggests something about her response to something so i got on the seat and i went up to the statehouse to try and see the codfish for myself. it's made of gold and it's strange that there's a fish in the hall in massachusetts so it's not surprising that she would respond inthat way but after 13 years of looking, those are the only things . those words are the only notes towards a personality or a note towards mary that i was able to find. her record has been completely silent, so she's there in the 19th century. she's there to be looked at, she's a spectacle, not necessarily to be consulted or to have a conversation with. i feel quite blessed by the five words that we have about oskar, he has when he was 16 was wonderful that it was rec

the greens hold the balance of power in worcester. seats but may be a force in the future. corin is with me, the chief executive of the black country chamber of commerce. it is a local election, what impact does that have on area thatis what impact does that have on area that is big in manufacturing and particularly thinking about exports when it looks like people i've kind of voted on a national rather than local base is mostly about brexit? —— have kinda voted. local base is mostly about brexit? -- have kinda voted. it is a big shame, there needs to be a bigger debate about brexit but at local level, we wanted a council with a clear mandate to address local issues for that we know manufacturing is struggling at the moment and we have some big issues around imports but in an area like dudley, we have a massive regeneration agenda to push through, school improvements to be done, late payments for businesses and we want a council focusing on local tasks, not like a hung parliament. you kind of almost did not guess who won but he wanted

northampton regain possession of the final play—off place with a comfortable bonus—point victory against worcesterme to the film review here on bbc news. taking us through this week's cinema releases, we've got mark kermode. what a surprise! what is your selection this week? we have long shot, which is a comedy starling seth rogen and charlize theron. we have tolkien, a biopic of the author of the lord of the rings books. and extremely wicked, shockingly evil and vile, in which ted bundy is played by zac efron. long shot, this is an american romantic comedy. it's got the comedy like there's something about mary. 0n the other hand, political satire of wag the dog. seth rogen is a kind of slightly disreputable investigative journalist who is called in by charlize theron‘s secretary, because she is going to run for president and she needs someone to punch up her speeches to make them seem a little more funny, to grab the public‘s attention. it turns out ages and ages ago, she used to babysit for him and he had a huge crush on her. the question is, is his anarchic streak going to help or hinder her ca

some fair weather cloud bubbling up in the skies in worcester earlier today, repeated up and down thenshine through that as well. 0vernight night, cloud thickens in northern scotland, not as chilly as it has been in recent nights. the odd spot of rain in the northern ireland but otherwise dry and under those clear skies elsewhere, a chilly night. cold enough with some patches of frost developing in the countryside first thing on monday morning. 0n countryside first thing on monday morning. on monday, a glorious start to the day. in the afternoon, firing with light winds and it will feel warm across—the—board. with light winds and it will feel warm across—the—boa rd. but with light winds and it will feel warm across—the—board. but across western and northern parts of the country we see the highest temperatures, 19 in edinburgh and temperatures, 19 in edinburgh and temperatures much higher across the north—east of scotland. there is your weather. hello this is bbc news with shaun ley. the headlines — a thrilling battle for the premier league crown — but manchester city have triumphed, f

role models, they have blue takes on instagram, they are celebrities, in such a small city like worcesterit‘s there, whether you think you‘ve deleted it, or your friend whether you think you‘ve deleted it, or yourfriend thinks whether you think you‘ve deleted it, or your friend thinks they have deleted it, it will always be there. why the hell did they write these messages? they are professionals. how was this even i don‘t even have any words. no. the judge did, describing it as a pathetic sex game and he said to alex hepburn at sentencing, you probably thought it was flattish behaviour at the time, in truth it was felt sexism, it demeans women and trivialised rape, a word you personally through around lightly. what do you think of alex hepburn? —— lad —ish behaviour. it's it‘s difficult. i will never forgive him. his arrogance is prevalent throughout all of this. again, it‘s really difficult, it goes back to the stereotype. he, in my eyes, initially wasn‘t a rapist, he was a quy initially wasn‘t a rapist, he was a guy similar to initially wasn‘t a rapist, he was a guy similarto me, initi

he joins us from worcester. thank you forjoining us. is a range of things over many years. we haven't created enough, although there has been an increase recently which is very gratifying to see. then the other issue is, my generation of doctors, i am in other issue is, my generation of doctors, iam in my other issue is, my generation of doctors, i am in my late 50s, quite frankly, the volume and complexity of patients we now see, we just don't have time. when we talk to particularly senior gps, they are saying they are not able to do the job they would want to do. if i look at where i was in the surgery in bromsgrove yesterday, i was picking up bromsgrove yesterday, i was picking up all sorts of things as patient rang in and came in. what i need to do over role to do myjob properly, i need to see fewer patients for longer and just to give you one very clear example, the lady i saw who had just come out of hospital, with a diagnosis of cancer, i spent 45 minutes with her and her daughter, talking through what that meant and what we, as

they've gained walsall, but lost places like worcester, peterborough and st albans. but the big surprise is that labour is doing badly too. the party gained trafford from the tories. but his party lost both bolsover and wirral. and overall he's down about 72 seats. these are picture ofjeremy corbyn in trafford this morning. just visiting workers in rather heavy rain. not dampening the spirits of the party workers because they are pleased with the result. we will be talking about other areas we re will be talking about other areas were mr corbyn has not performed as well as some people thought he might. lots more results to come, with more than 100 councils counting this afternoon. i'll be here at my giant touch—screen with all the latest analysis. our chief political correspondent, vicki young, is here with her take on how this might affect the brexit deadlock at westminster. so stay with us throughout the afternoon on election 2019. well, lots of counting still going on and lots of results to come. we have had 116 councils declared. we have had 116 councils declared

they've gained walsall, but lost places like worcester, peterborough and st albans. the prime minister, in mid wales talking to the spring conference of the welsh conservatives, said voters had sent the simple message that her party and the labour party had to get on with delivering brexit. people had not expected labour to be losing seats. they thought they might have been gaining. jeremy corbyn was in trafford this morning because they gained trafford from the tories. they have lost bolsover and in the past hour, darlington. they are down more than 90 seats. reeta chakra barti will they are down more than 90 seats. reeta chakrabarti will be at the screen with the latest results and analysis. we will also talk to our chief political correspondent, vicki young, who is ready with her take on what is going on in the broader political picture, not least with brexit. stay with us throughout the afternoon. 148 councils already declared. 100 to go. plenty of results to come. we have had more than 4000 councillors elected. we are still waiting for the individual results of

let's talk now to drjonathan leach, from the royal college of gps, who joins us from worcester.many patients. actually, what they need to do in my surgery a need to see if you up for longer. so while, yes, we would support the use of pharmacists, support the use of extra nurses and paramedics, actually what is happening is because of the black cities of the patients i actually need to see them for longer. but what doctors are saying is essentially the workload is such that it is too much. i saw 40 ora is such that it is too much. i saw 40 or a dealt with 47 patients yesterday afternoon. it is just not sustainable in terms of providing safe, satisfactory, and quality service to our patients. going back to that number. the recommendation is that gps should see 30 per day and you saw 47. yes. a lot of those we re and you saw 47. yes. a lot of those were on the phone. 0bviously and you saw 47. yes. a lot of those were on the phone. obviously there has been a big ship in the way we deliver general practice. a lot of us now use the telephone for the more simple things. and for those w

we have seen the conservatives losing overall control in worcester tonight.vatives are defending a majority, in redditch. so there has to be a question there even that tonight has been disappointing for labour. is there a flip side to this were the conservatives will be fighting something of a rearguard action in the morning? very interesting. thank you so much, giving us something to discuss. patrick was really offering us discuss. patrick was really offering usa discuss. patrick was really offering us a thought about the balance of these results and whether actually, labour is soaking up some losses during this morning, but as we go into the rest of friday, the tory losses, which are currently at 227, laura, could look worse. they could indeed and we know the geographic pattern of where the overnight announcements were and pattern of where the overnight announcements were and where the announcements were and where the announcements that come back tomorrow r. labour was always more likely to have a rough night in the toy is a better night, and then flip at s

we have karen worcester, executive director of a wreath across america. organization with a mission to remember, honor, teach. we just appreciate your 30 plus years of the ride. yesterday when i saw the, you know, facebook posts of thousands of people that are out there remembering, mostly my gold star friends who were on the rides and appreciate it. i know you have a need. i know some monetary need. so wreaths across america would like to make that offer. there was a number, $200,000, but as i have read more and looked more into what is going on with your organization, i don't know any financial support we can offer, any help in you know, getting the word out about how you're going to restructure and all that. i just want you to know how much we appreciate your mission, remembering is too important to forget. that is something your organization has been doing for years. many in the country, many organizations, individuals, businesses join in saying we're going to give you our support. so i'm speaking not just for wreaths across america but a whole bunch

if you go michigan, worcester, e eye, people want to build things and they're not doing it with donald it's good to see you this morning. of course the 2016 campaign, the promise was that jobs are coming back. the industries will return, steel, auto, coal jobs. he. hope in the hearts of people who voted for him in youngstown, for example. now that plan in and there is some comfort that jobs are coming back. when you give the reality check, what hope do you give? >> you have to have a plan for them. you have to have vision for a new america, that if we come together, if we're not divided, that we actually can drop and the problem is china is dominating it. and you've got to go to coletory. tell them you're going to give them their cole job babb. but all of this, this have the growth has to be driven into the older areas of older countries, west virginia, west p.a., old steel, old auto, old rubber and you can use the tax code and the power of the federal government to. when you go to communities like that and explain it, it resonates with them. you say look, these areas of the economy ar