westminster to pay respects in person at the site of queen elizabeth s coffin. they are accompanied by dr. jill biden, the first lady. in jane hardly the u.s. ambassador. signing a condolence book. the condolence book he also spoke afterwards about what the queen meant to him. they last saw each other in cornwall just a year ago at the g7. he said she reminded him of her mother. his mother, rather. the ones who stand out in your mind are those whose relationship and interaction with you are consistent with their reputation. the queen had us to the castle for tv, we were joking about crumpets. she kept offering me more i kept eating everything she put in front of me. [laughs] she was the same in person as she had an image. decent, honorable, all about service. meanwhile as we count down the hours before the funeral people are still joining in incredible numbers, joining the queue to pay their respects in person. hundreds of thousands spending long hours, as long as 24 hours
we re closed now. go fight to the gates have been closed temporarily on the queue where people have been waiting to see the queen s off. the gates have been closed temporarily. we ve already had a problem with the trains and had to come by bus, but we are tough, we are not worried about it. we re not worried. we re going to stick it out for the long haul. at one stage the gates were closed to stop more peoplejoining. since then, the gates have reopened and people are again able to join the queue. it is about 1k hours at the moment. also this afternoon. two police officers stabbed in london s west end one of them with what may be life changing injuries. more than 400 bodies discovered in a mass burial site in ukraine in territory recaptured from russian forces. and also in the programme the striking ways some people are choosing to pay tribute to the queen. coming up on the bbc news channel, the premier league resumes this evening after its postponement of matches as a
in the available if they continue and stay in the nhs. we ll have the latest on a comprehensive survey of dental practices conducted by the bbc. also on the programme. following the anger over the strip searching of a teenage schoolgirl it s revealed that hundreds of other children have been strip searched by the metropolitan police. ryan giggs, the former manchester united star, attends court to deny a charge of coercive behaviour and assaulting his former girlfriend. and i m here at the alexander stadium in birmingham where the final day of the commonwealth games is due to end with a musical celebration of the city after more golds for the home nations. england came second in the medal table with 57 gold medals. they included a spectacular performance by england s noah williams and 17 year old andrea spendolini sireix in the diving mixed synchronised iom platform final. and coming up on the bbc news channel. england finish second in the medals table as declanjames and jam
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aggressive behaviour and assault. the final medals have been one of the common wealth games. australia top the table with a record breaking middle hole petit mangan. and i am reeta chakrabarti live from the alexander stadium where the closing ceremony is due to start in around happen our marketing the end of the competition of ii happen our marketing the end of the competition of 11 days of sport. good evening and welcome to the bbc news channel. bbc research has found that only one in ten nhs dentists in the uk are taking on new adult patients. the most extensive survey in years has revealed that some areas are dental deserts. out of nearly 6,900 nhs dental practices contacted. 90% said they were no longer accepting any new adult patients. only a quarter of those dental practices said they operated a waiting list to become an nhs patient and for most of those, the wait was at least a year or more. and in 12% of local authority areas in the uk, we couldn t find a single pra