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Welcome to bbc news. A british woman accused of smuggling drugs into egypt has been sentenced to three years in jail. Laura plummer, whos 33 and from hull, was arrested in october with 290 tablets of the painkiller, tramadol, which is banned in egypt. A spokesman from the Foreign Office says they will continue to provide assistance to the family. My colleague in cairo, hanan razek, has been speaking to laura plummers family who say they are shocked by todays sentencing. I was just speaking to la...

He hits his eighth hat trick of 2017 and breaks the record for the most premier League Goals Scored in a calendar year as tottenham thrash southampton. Englands misery continues down under. They have it all to do after david warner hits a century on the opening day of the fourth ashes test. And might bite wins the days feature race, the king george the sixth, to give trainer Nicky Henderson a big race double at kempton. Hello and welcome to sportsday. What a year its been for harry kane, his hat...

The car he was driving was in collision with another on the a 57 in sheffield. Now it has been a memorable year in the sport from the world athletics championships to the rise to the top of world boxing for anthonyjoshua. We go on a trip through the sporting highlights of the year. Hello, and welcome along to a look back at what has been another fantastic year in sport. Yes, from the womens cricket world cup to the british and irish lions tour of new zealand and Everything Else in between. Well ...

Welcome to bbc news. A british woman accused of smuggling drugs into egypt has been sentenced to three years in jail. Laura plummer, whos 33 and from hull, was arrested in october with 290 tablets of the painkiller, tramadol, which is banned in egypt. A spokesman from the Foreign Office says they will continue to provide assistance to the family. Our correspondent hanan razek sent the latest from cairo. They found around 300 tramadol ta blets they found around 300 tramadol tablets in her suit ge...

Here on bbc news. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. A british woman has been sentenced to three years in prison in egypt after being found guilty of smuggling drugs into the country. Laura plummer, whos 33 and from hull, was arrested in october when 300 tablets of the painkiller tramadol were found in her suitcase. Daniela relph reports. Laura plummers family and friends say she is naive, not a criminal. But today the 33 year old shop workerfrom hull is beginning a three year sentence injail...

Polls close in liberias president ial runoff the voters choosing between a former football superstar and the Vice President. Barbara sarah this is al jazeera live from london also coming up on the program perus former president of the fujimori pleads for forgiveness as thousands of protesters rally against his release from prison the kremlin says it wants russian Opposition Leader alexina browny investigated for calling for a boycott of next years president ial election and the straw less in sea...

Walk into the room anymore. Laura did bring the coffee. [laughter] would you fix your tie, please . David well, people wouldnt recognize me if my tie was fixed, but ok. Just leave it this way. Alright. David i dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . David at what point di...

Attack on a shia district of the Afghan Capital. Global humanitarian law fails to protect children in times of war. Also hundreds of prisoners i was exchanged in ukraine with one of the biggest swaps agreed and. Im joining the days news including stripped of victory one of sailings most famous racist faces control the city as wild oats eleven has denied line on as a city to hobart because of protests i have all the details coming up for you. Welcome to the news afghanistans president ashraf ghan...

Least forty people. The un says saudi led ass strikes killed sixty eight yemeni civilians on choose day including fourteen people from just one family. Targeted in their homes schools and playgrounds unicef warns that attacks on children have reached shocking levels. And President Trump lambaste china on twitter saying its being course right handed allowing oil into north korea. Time Tatiana Sanchez with the day sports news including saudi arabia i knocked out of the gulf cup i have all those de...

Expectations are higher, but i try to remind myself, i dont think its normal and realistic to aim for the same things i did this year. I will try to keep it cool, try my best and we will see what happens, but preparation has been good so far. We will see how things go in perth. Thats it from us. You can listen to commentary on Crystal Palace against arsenal on radio five live, and test match special is on this evening. Is i will be back with more sport throughout the evening, but now it is time ...