As the nhs braces itself for the new year period its often its busiest time a pioneering scheme in wales is aiming to take the pressure off hospitals and doctors surgeries. Five members of the Welsh Ambulance service have graduated to become the uks first prescribing paramedics and the team can be deployed across the nhs. Our Health Editor hugh pym has been on the road with some of them. It enhances the role greatly and it makes our role a lot more flexible. Patients dont always phone 999 because they think they have a life threatening emergency. So we probably see on average 19 or 20 patients a day and deal with them and the gp will have time for those more complex patients. We can speak to them and say rather than put them in the back of the ambulance and take them, how about we get one of our cars to attend . Mike is one of a new breed of prescribing paramedics, one of the first five. Theirjob, where possible, is to keep people out of hospital. Here, he is called to a Diabetic Patie
Now on bbc news, its witness history 7 a look back at one of the highlights of the series. Razia iqbal has five stories from the history of Space Exploration to mark the 50th anniversary of the moon landing in july 1969. Hello, and welcome to a special edition of witness history with me, razia iqbal. To mark the anniversary of the moon landings, i am here at the Science Museum in london to bring you five first person accounts of extraordinary moments in the exploration of space. Coming up, we hearfrom the commander of the mission that took the most famous photograph ever of our planet, we get a moving account of the challenger Space Shuttle disaster, and we find out more about laika, the soviet dog who became the first living creature in space. But we begin injuly 1969, when the world stopped in its tracks to watch the americans put a man on the moon for the first time. A Television Audience in the hundreds of millions held its breath as Neil Armstrong clambered out of apollo 11 and to
Widely in double figures. Coolest in lincolnshire and east anglia. The dryer theme continues on sunday with sunny spells. Still some rain in the hebrides. Some of the modest conditions with temperatures peaking at 14. Conditions with temperatures peaking at 1a. More coming up later. Hello, this is bbc news with christian fraser. A powerful typhoon tears through parts of the philippines, killing at least 16 people and leaving thousands homeless. Firefighters continue to tackle out of control bushfires in australia, with a warning that more record breaking temperatures could be on the way. The owners of a Spanish Hotel where a british man and his two children drowned say their deaths were a tragic accident. Israels prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, faces a political fight as his likud Party Decides who will lead them into the countrys third general election in a year. Now on bbc news, its witness history, and a look back at one of the highlights of the series. Razia iqbal has five stor
Updated. It has been day of sunshine and heavy showers, the most widespread have been affecting north east england and eastern scotland. This was scene in fife. Those showers fade away over the coming hours. It will eventually become dry across all parts of the uk overnight with clear skies and light winds. Not a cold one, though. Temperatures 10 14dc. Tomorrow we start off on a dry note with hazy spells of sunshine, but cloud will quickly gather in Northern Ireland, outbreaks of rain spreading in here, turning heavy and driven on by strengthening south westerly winds. Eventually, the rain will arrive through the afternoon. The south and east staying dry, but cloudier is the day goes by. That is your latest weather. Hello, this is bbc news with lu kwesa burak. The headlines following the seizure of a british flagged tanker in the gulf, the foreign secretary speaks to his irainian counterpart and expresses his extreme disappointment. We will respond in a way that is considered but robus
Now its time for a look at the weather with sarah keith lucas. Hello. We have got some pretty hot midsummers weather in the cards for you through the coming week. Its not going to be dry everywhere, but the heat and humidity are increasing, so lots of warm sunshine around. Some rain across the north west of the uk, and some wind as well over the next 2a hours or so. Middle of the week sees thundery downpours with all that heat and humidity around. Now, through the rest of this evening and overnight, we have got a bit of rain across Northern Ireland, scotland as well. A few showers possible for north west england into north wales, too. But further south and east, you should stay dry overnight, and temperatures staying in the mid teens. Monday morning starts off on a bit of a grey note, but it will be an improving day, the rain clearing out of Northern Ireland and northern england, but still sitting across the west of scotland, where it could be quite heavy at times. In the developing su