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Welcome to bbc news. Safety inspectors are carrying out urgent checks on hundreds of high rise buildings after the fire at Grenfell Tower in west london. The government estimates that around 600 buildings in england are covered in some sort of cladding. So far its been disclosed that 11 residential blocks have been fitted with the kind of cladding that can catch fire. 79 people are presumed to have died in the Grenfell Tower disaster. Our home editor mark easton reports. The consequences of the ...

Start to his debut and it got far better as they also followed. Perhaps it was time to shoot the wickets around. Enterjimmy anderson. The captain Faf Du Plessis out and three Modesty Mates also. Stuart broad getting a brilliant wicket on a brilliant day for england. A pretty special day and coming and we knew we wanted to try to push ourselves as hard as possible. Still pretty testing conditions at times and i thought it was outstanding. We always felt it would be pretty competitive in the game,...

Start to his debut and it got far better as they also followed. Perhaps it was time to shoot the wickets around. Enterjimmy anderson. The captain Faf Du Plessis out and three Modesty Mates also. Stuart broad getting a brilliant wicket on a brilliant day for england. A pretty special day and coming and we knew we wanted to try to push ourselves as hard as possible. Still pretty testing conditions at times and i thought it was outstanding. We always felt it would be pretty competitive in the game,...

Then a Leave Minister said they had waited their life to do it. Theresa may wants to get on and trigger article 50 well before her self imposed deadline of the end of march. The possible date is the ninth or 10th of march. It has to be a formal letter from the uk. The reason why they want to get an early if they have been advised the European Commission and the European Council will be able to give their formal response before the first round of the president ial election on the 23rd of april, b...

HSHS and Prevea Health are experiencing a systemwide outage due to an IT issue, temporarily taking nearly all operating systems offline. Patients are asked to p

Works is abigails party, which people think about as a play for today on television, but it actually started out on the stage. it was written as a stage play. are you surprised at the enduring appeal of that piece? yes and no. i mean, one of the reasons why it became so popular is because when it was... i mean, we did it in a theatre, hampstead theatre in north london, and it was very successful. and the producer, margaret matheson, was short of something, because something had been cancelled an...

Roberts secret mission was exposed. he resigned from m15. the operation looked like a failure. but thats not the end of the story. the ira still had a desire to carry on discussing a way forward, remembering roberts words, "the final solution is union, this island will be as one." i believe that roberts words helped pave the way for the ceasefire and, ultimately, the good friday agreement of 1998. it also meant that an uncountable number of lives were saved. looking back, its a degree of pride t...

Peter�*s full story on bbc 2 at 7pm tonight, at 9:50 in northern ireland — and its also on the iplayer. and for international audiences theres full coverage on the bbc news website. travelling at 17,000 miles an hour, a massive asteroid dubbed the city killer, because of its size, is passing between the earth and the moon this weekend. experts say the asteroid will pass by safely and can be seen through binoculars and telescopes. heres richard galpin. it may look like a tiny dot, but this as...

The operation looked like a failure. but thats not the end of the story. the ira still had a desire to carry on discussing a way forward, remembering roberts words, "the final solution is union, this island will be as one." i believe that roberts words helped pave the way for the ceasefire and, ultimately, the good friday agreement of 1998. it also meant that an uncountable number of lives were saved. looking back, its a degree of pride that ive played a small part in history, done some good in ...

With the french scoring 16 first half tries. arnau vargas with this one. afterwards wales captain stuart williams said he was "a bit low but im so proud," just getting underway now is scotland and usa. you can watch it live on bbc 2. those are the live pictures on the usa are off to a good start, leading 12-0 at usa are off to a good start, leading 12—0 at the moment and the usa have never been to a world cup so far and an unknown quantity, and look at this, we might get a scottish drive. scot...