good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. six new claims of inappropriate behaviour by the former deputy chief whip chris pincher have emerged, days after he was suspended as a tory mp over allegations he groped two men. mr pincher denies the latest claims, which are reported in several sunday newspapers. borisjohnson is facing questions about how much he knew when he appointed the mp as the deputy chief whip in february. here s our political correspondent helen catt. it was what it s claimed happened on an evening of drinking here at london s carlton club that led to chris pincher s resignation from the government on thursday night and later his suspension as a conservative mp. in today s papers, there are more claims, denied by mr pincher, of incidents at other locations, stretching back a number of years. among them, that he made unwanted physical advances towards three male mps, including once in a parliamentary bar and once in his office. one of those mps, it s reported, t
good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. six new claims of inappropriate behaviour by the former deputy chief whip chris pincher have emerged, days after he was suspended as a tory mp over allegations he groped two men. mr pincher denies the latest claims, which are reported in several sunday newspapers. borisjohnson is facing questions about how much he knew when he appointed the mp as the deputy chief whip in february. here s our political correspondent helen catt. it was what it s claimed happened on an evening of drinking here at london s carlton club that led to chris pincher s resignation from the government on thursday night and later his suspension as a conservative mp. in today s papers, there are more claims, denied by mr pincher, of incidents at other locations, stretching back a number of years. among them, that he made unwanted physical advances towards three male mps, including once in a parliamentary bar and once in his office. one of those mps, it s reported, t
Beginning to start up, with things beginning to were with some comings and goings. And andy murrays first round match at the geneva opens was stopped due to pollen from the trees falling, which he said was like show. Snow. There will be heavy thunderstorms for some of us today. Then tomorrow brings the potential for persisting rain. Ill have more details coming up i so its been described as the day that shamed the nation after decades of failures, mismanagement and cover ups, the Prime Minister finally apologised over the infected blood scandal, which since the 19805 blood scandal, which since the 1980s has seen 3000 die and 30,000 infected. This is a day of shame for the British State. Todays report shows a decades long moral failure at the heart of our National Life , from the our National Life, from the National Health service to the Civil Service to ministers in successive governments at every level , the people and level, the people and institutions in which we place our trust fai
of tokyo. we re starting out this morning with a few clouds rolling by. we ve also seen patches of fog. in santa clara, in the upper 40s this morning. and once again very much like yesterday, a mix of sun and clouds and four our microclimate forecast mid-60s in the south bay, upper 50s to low 60s in the north bay. and we ll talk about rain chances in the weekend forecast coming up. mike is saying there is delays for the longer commute. we know we have some pretty long commutes. some folks coming in out of the north bay. others out of the altamont pass. so up to the traffic map, we ll see the traffic through the area. we do see green for most of the bay but out of the altamont, two spots with slowing. grant lion road and 205. there was chp activity at 205 before the merge and that cleared up and then another issue at grant lion, a minor crash or disabled vehicle and now the very much is slowed because 205 reopened for all lanes and the merge and that is slowing down out of t
Questions. So keep your questions that you have in mind for the first and second speaker, or after the third speaker. I will introduce them briefly. All three of them. And then have an opportunity to say a few more words about each as they begin their talks. The first book is a biography of lincoln, subtitled the man who saved america. Say a few more words about each and it is for the general reader. The author, david, will show, has some astonishing illustrations. The second book, by Elizabeth Smith brownstein, an experienced washington journalist, talks about what is today called president lincolns cottage. It was the other white house for lincoln and mary lincoln during three of the summers that they were occupying the white house the rest of the year. A third is carl adams, who has just moved to the washington, d. C. Area from illinois, where he did Landmark Research on the case of a young slave named nance or nancy, who was freed as the result of a lawsuit filed by Abraham Lincoln