local leaders say it will remain busy but safe. bournemouth remains a really fantastic place to visit and, you know, this incident needs to be investigated properly and we are confident with our partners that any lessons that need to be learned in the future will be learned. this safe, benign setting has been transformed into one of pain and distress. and we still don't know exactly what happened but two families have been left grieving the loss of their children. duncan kennedy, bbc news, in bournemouth. in the past hour, the government has said it will launch a legal challenge over demands from the covid public inquiry that ministers' whatsapp messages from the pandemic will be released. in a letter, the cabinet office said it was doing so with regret but a big guns meat goes beyond the remit of the inquiry. the
correspondent ben wright. good to see used to talk us through what is going on here. i see used to talk us through what is going on here-— going on here. i think the main event today is _ going on here. i think the main event today is still— going on here. i think the main event today is still the - going on here. i think the main event today is still the fact - going on here. i think the mainj event today is still the fact that the government are bringing a review against the inquiry, the covid—19 inquiry because it does not want to hand over unredacted whatsapp messages, diaries and it looks as demanded by inquiry route has been going on for weeks as baroness hallett gave the government till 4pm today to hand over the material but the government digging in and now wants it settled at the high court. it does not feel the remit of the inquiry stretches to secure the unredacted, unedited documents the baroness is asked for savannah will go off to the high court. separately borisjohnson, the former prime minister, hasjust released borisjohnson, the former prime minister, has just released a letter that he has sent to the chair of the inquiry saying that in his youth he is completely happy to hand over his
the covid public inquiry that ministers�* whatsapp messages from the pandemic are released. in a letter, the cabinet office said it was doing so "with regret", but that the request goes beyond the remit of the inquiry. a deadline for the government to submit the messages passed at 4pm this afternoon, but the inquiry says it instead received notice of legal action. in the last hour, we have also heard from borisjohnson, who said he is more than happy to hand over any letters. we are going to speak to our corresponded ben wright on that story in just a moment, corresponded ben wright on that story injust a moment, he is standing by in westminster, but i want to bring you a line of breaking news, and this of course relates to the drowning of two young people, two children, off the peer in bournemouth. police say they were investigating. they held initial inquiries. they arrested a man in his 40s. he was in the water at the time of the deaths of those two young people. police now say they have released him pending further
the bill moved a step closer last night, passing through the house of representatives on wednesday, but the clock is ticking. and do you know your o's from your e�*s, your g's from yourj's? the pressure mounts in washington, as the final of the national annual spelling bee gets under way. i'll put our panel to the test. but first — the legal challenge launched by the government. it's over demands from the covid public inquiry that ministers�* whatsapp messages from the pandemic are released. in a letter, the cabinet office said it was doing so "with regret" but that the request goes beyond the remit of the inquiry. a deadline for the government to submit the messages passed at 4pm this afternoon, but the inquiry says it instead received notice of legal action. in response, borisjohnson said he was "happy" to hand over unredacted material if asked. let's talk about it with the panel, and, jim, what do you make of this? because the government here is saying we are not going to handed over because it bridges privacy
there will be a review, obviously. i really can't comment on that. my remit was seven weeks and eight games to keep us in the premier league and unfortunately, ifailed. a terrible season for leicester city, just three wins in theirfinal17 games, just the one clean sheet since november. this was the reaction from some fans outside the king power stadium. we tried our hardest. no, i think we deserved it, because we've not played well. them players are not playing for the club, for the shirt. disappointing, - but what can you do? poor all season. the whole season has been not right from the word go. the belief wasn't there. you can tell the club has been quite toxic, the players on the pitch, the heart hasn't been there. our motto, foxes never quit, and we quit a long
i think people will have to look into the future and what we do, what the club does. there will be a review, obviously. i really can't comment on that. my remit was seven weeks and eight games to keep us in the premier league and unfortunately, ifailed. a terrible season for leicester city, just three wins in theirfinal17 games, just the one clean sheet since november. this was the reaction from some fans outside the king power stadium. we tried our hardest. i don't think we deserved it, because we've not played well. them players are not playing for the club, for the shirt. disappointing, - but what can you do? poor all season. the whole season has been not right from the word go. the belief wasn't there. you can tell the club has been quite toxic,
ultimately futile. i think people will have to - ultimately futile. i think people will have to looki ultimately futile. i think - people will have to look into the future and what we do, what the future and what we do, what the club does. there will be a review, obviously. i really can't comment on that. my remit was seven weeks and eight games to keep us in the premier league and unfortunately i failed on that. fix, league and unfortunately i failed on that.— failed on that. a terrible season for _ failed on that. a terrible season for leicester - failed on that. a terrible | season for leicester city, failed on that. a terrible - season for leicester city, just three wins in their final 17 games, just the one clean sheet since november. this was the reaction from some plans outside the king power stadium. we tried our hardest. i outside the king power stadium. we tried our hardest.— we tried our hardest. i don't think we _ we tried our hardest. i don't think we deserved _ we tried our hardest. i don't think we deserved it, - we tried our hardest. i don't. think we deserved it, because we've — think we deserved it, because we've not_ think we deserved it, because we've not played well. them players — we've not played well. them players are not playing for the club, — players are not playing for the club, for — players are not playing for the club, for the shirt. disappointing, but what can you do? poor— disappointing, but what can you do? poorall_ disappointing, but what can you do? poor all season. _ disappointing, but what can you do? poor all season. the - disappointing, but what can you do? poor all season.— do? poor all season. the whole season has _ do? poor all season. the whole season has been _ do? poor all season. the whole season has been not _ do? poor all season. the whole season has been not right - do? poor all season. the whole season has been not right from | season has been not right from the word go. the belief wasn't there. ., .., the word go. the belief wasn't there. ., . , there. you can tell the club has been — there. you can tell the club has been quite _ there. you can tell the club has been quite toxic, - there. you can tell the club has been quite toxic, the l has been quite toxic, the players _ has been quite toxic, the players on the pitch, the heart
off into the sunset as a lot of people seem to think. yeah, i do, actually. i think it was a bit stupid to do that. i think that the context of it is probably worth just pointing out, which was the morning before i lost my rag about watching this whine—a—thon with oprah winfrey, which meghan and harry had done. in the interview with winfrey, the duchess had claimed she had felt suicidal, but her pleas for help were ignored by the palace. morgan dismissed her story as lies. who did you go to? what did they say to you? i'm sorry, i don't believe a word she says, meghan markle. well, that's a pathetic reaction... i wouldn't believe it if she read me a weather report. and the fact that she's fired up this onslaught against our royal family, i think is contemptible. now, these were opinions immediately countered, as always, by susanna reid, my co—presenter, who disagreed with me and believed all the claims, and by most of the guests we had, actually. so it was a good old ding—dong show and i felt absolutely fitted the remit of what i'd been brought to do at good morning britain, which was stir debate, express my honestly held opinion and be challenged by
my co—presenter, who disagreed with me and believed all the claims, and by most of the guests we had, actually. so it was a good old ding—dong show and i felt absolutely fitted the remit of what i'd been brought to do at good morning britain, which was stir debate, express my honestly held opinion and be challenged by guests that came on. but, and there's a big but here, as the day went on, the mob on twitter grew, and it was all, if i didn't believe meghan markle, i must be a racist. it had nothing to do with her skin colour. my criticism of her never has done. then the mental health charities piled in as well. and because i didn't believe her claims about going to the palace and saying she was feeling suicidal and they said she couldn't get treatment, i said ijust can't believe that conversation would have happened and we've never seen any evidence for that. i also was denying her claims, denying her truth. amid this tension, morgan says alex beresford contacted him and asked to come on the show the next day to contribute to the debate. morgan wasn't expecting the harsh criticism that followed.
is a public asset that ought to be used for public benefit? and we are asking them to open the books and invite the people of teesside in, so that they can understand what decisions are being made on their behalf, and what public money is being spent on. we would expect this for any other project in national politics. the national audit office would have a remit to investigate. the covenant has not seen fit to give it a remit to investigate the whole works, it says it can only investigate one very limited part, the money that was originally handed over. we say that is not right, it's not fair. people on teesside deserve more respect than that. that is why we have written to the secretary of state to ask him to act. ben houchen is the conservative mayor of tees valley. thank you for talking to us. why do private investors own 0% without a