wants his legacy to be overturning those bereaved payment changes. we ll talk to campaigners before 10am. and found alive after 32 hours in the sea. the extremely lucky surfer who was rescued off the coast of belfast. hello. welcome to the programme, we re live until 11am. throughout the morning the latest breaking news and developing stories and, as always, really keen to hear from you. a little later we ll hear from paula radcliffe who says european athletics proposals which could lead to world records being rewritten are cowardly. the governing body wants to eliminate any doping doubts. it means radcliffe s marathon world record from 2003 would be wiped out under the plans. do get in touch on all the stories we re talking about this morning use the hashtag #victorialive and if you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate. our top story today. labour is promising to put 10,000 more police on the streets of england and wales if it wins the election. the
it ll be a day/night encounter, with play between england and the west indies continuing well into the evening. and how many carrots in this diamond ring? the woman who waited 13 years to find her lost engagement ring in a very strange place. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the wait for a level results is over for hundreds of thousands of young people in england, wales and northern ireland. overall this year s results show a slight rise in a and a star grades, for the first time in six years. but the results in england were down slightly, where major changes were made to the qualifications meaning students now sit all their exams at the end of two years of study, instead of taking modules half way through. in the top grades boys have moved ahead of girls, the first time that has happened in many years. our reporter chi chi izundu has been with students opening their results at a college in east london. results day. years of studying and nervous expectation even to fin
are continuing the bbc‘s live coverage of the terror attack in spain, where a van has driven into crowds, killing at least 13 people. let s recap what we know. this happened in barcelona in the north east of spain. in fact, if i ta ke north east of spain. in fact, if i take you closer into the city, you can see that we have highlighted exactly where the attack occurred. las ramblas is the city s famous tourist hotspot area. a white van mounted the pavement and drove into pedestrians. 13 people have been killed and more than 50 others have been injured. according to police, the van entered the famous street from the north side. let s see if i can bring this up for you. it came in on the north side of las ramblas. and it went at some speed down the strip, coming to a halt about halfway down. to give you an idea of just how busy this area usually is, we have a photo from yesterday showing it is packed, it is extremely popular with tourists. police confirmed on twitter they hav
scotla nd scotland break out. and a spirited second half performance at murrayfield earns scotland their first six nations win over wales in ten years. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. good afternoon. the former labour foreign secretary david miliband says the party is the furthest it s been from power in 50 years. he was responding to labour s by election defeat in copeland in cumbria where the conservatives overturned a majority of more than two thousand to oust labour from a seat it had held for 80 years. jeremy corbyn has said he won t step down as leader. here s our political correspondent, matt cole. if these scenes in stoke, where labour held the seat, had been repeated in copeland, there would be fewer questions forjeremy corbyn. but it was theresa may s tories who celebrated an historic win in cumbria, turning this rock solid red seat blue for the first time in 80 years. not for the first time, labour s former foreign secretary has spoken his mind. in a newspa
the organisation s foundation is given to the conservation charity after more than a century in private hands. scotla nd scotland to break out and get goals. and a spirited second half performance at murrayfield earns scotland their first six nations win over wales in ten years. good evening and welcome to bbc news. tom watson labour s deputy leader has said the party must ‘do better‘ at winning over voters but he has said that now is not the time to change the leadership. he was speaking at the scottish labour conference in perth where he acknowledged that the party s by election loss in copeland two days ago had been hugely disappointing. jeremy corbyn has said he will stay on as leader. here s our political correspondent carole walker. jeremy corbyn has made it clear he has no intention of stepping down. he was in stoke yesterday, where labour saw off the challenge from ukip to win the by election. but he is facing questions about the party s defeat in copland. the