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are off the menu for school dinners according to some caterers, who blame shortages and rising costs. are you worried about the food on offer at your childs school? you can message me on twitter on @benmboulos. in other news, a mans died and thousands have been told to leave their homes — amid torrential rain and majorflooding in sydney. a new species of giant water lilly has been discovered by scientists — despite hiding in plain sight at kew gardens for 177 years. hello, good mor...

and her husband are being held on an immigration charge. and coming up this hour... the 17—year—old solo pilot whos broken two world records. hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. 25 people, including two children, are now known to have died in a russian airstrike in eastern ukraine, according to authorities in kyiv. the ukrainian president, volodmyr zelensky, said that a railway station was hit and several houses and cars were destroyed, in a series of...

and we will find you. a think—tank campaigning on behalf of low and middle income families has warned that a catastrophe is coming this winter unless the government steps in to help with energy costs. the pms former chief adviser dominic cummings has described mr sunak�*s criticism of the governments handling of the pandemic, as "dangerous rubbish. a police chief in uvalde, texas is sacked — afterfailing to send officers in, to stop the gunman who killed 19 pupils and two teacher...

on talking business. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the rmt union has confirmed that next weeks rail strikes will go ahead. they say talks have failed to resolve a dispute about pay, jobs and working conditions. the strikes will affect railway lines across the country. our business correspondent vishala sri—pathma reports. its set to be a chaotic time if youre travelling by rail at all next week. three 24—hour strikes planned across the week on tuesday, thursday, and satur...

the highlands and into northern ireland and are more showers than we saw today and temperatures in the mid to high teens but we are starting to build the heat in the south and east, 27 is the high in london and pollen levels shooting up for all including scotland and northern ireland and moderate to high levels here. into thursday, spot the difference, more showers for northern ireland and parts of western scotland and longer spells of rain. fair hazy sunshine for england and wales and...

In whats being seen as a key test of the partys ability to regain seats in scotland. With a larger than expected swing of 20. 4 , labours Michael Shanks secured just under 18,000 votes, more than double the total for the snps katy loudon, who came second. The by election was triggered by the removal of the snps margaret ferrier, after she broke covid lockdown rules. 0ur scotland correspondent lorna gordon was at the count. Welcome to scotlands newest mp, Michael Shanks fix, welcome to scotlands...

Correspondent frank gardner. Homs is roughly halfway up the country, it is under government control, it is a fairly major city. This is a Military Academy near the centre of town were Officer Cadets were graduating. Theirfamilies had come to watch them. It was supposed to be a proud moment. The Syrian Defence minister was attending the ceremony, but when it entered he left ten minutes later this multiple drone attack came out of nowhere. It was clearly at carefully planned and precisely targeted...

Now on bbc news, the right to die. Normally my day begins by changing my t shirt. Its soaking wet from the sweat from the nightmares. I wake up most mornings saying, not another day. As a person suffering from Mental Illness, i and other people are invisible. No one recognises us. They are embarrassed by Mental Illness, and thats. The stigma is vast. If medical assistance in dying had been available, back during those times where things were really, really low, like, there was no hope, i wouldnt...

Is expected to visit saudi arabia in the coming days. Meanwhile, hamas has posted a new video, which shows two of the hostages captured during its october attack. Keith siegel, and om ri mir an, both identify themselves. While the video is not dated, there is a reference to the recent passover holiday. Its the second such video that hamas considered a terror group by the uk and us governments has published in the past few days. Our correspondent, anna foster, is in tel aviv where families have b...

All swear clouds gathered without burkes outbreaks of rain. The full forecast coming up here on breakfast. Its saturday the 30th of september. Our main story. A teenage girl who died after a School Bus Crashed on the motorway in merseyside has been named as 15 year old Jessica Baker. She was killed along with the coach driver in the collision on the m53 at morning rush hour yesterday. Several other children were injured. Our correspondent Helena Wilkinson has the latest. This is a 15 year old Je...