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7,000 extra hospital beds this winter including in pop—up sites — the nhs in england unveils its plans to cope with expected pressures. and the shortlist is announced for hosting next years eurovision song contest — seven uk cities are in the running. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news channel. a drought has been declared across more than half of england, after the driestjuly on record in some areas of the country. it means water companies can impose stricter measures ove...

There are commitments from the water companies to reduce leakage by 50%. there is a process under way to bring forward some of those big strategic water supply infrastructure investments, which have not happened over the past 30 years or so. but there is really at the level of commitments, plans, in some companies, as we havejust heard, things are heading in the right direction in relation to leakage, but we are not really seeing much faster action on the ground. it seeing much faster action on ...