jingling as shoppers head to the high street for the boxing day sales. these were the scenes in london as bargain hunters turned out to bag cut price deals but footfall may be down due to pre christmas discounts. and it s been such an intense year in british politics is enough to make you want to escape to a log cabin in the middle of nowhere. i m going to review it all in half an hour. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the music world has been paying tribute to george michael who died last arrived from suspected heart failure at the age ofjust 53. his career spanned four decades. he left to fame with wham!, enjoyed global success to fame with wham!, enjoyed global success in the 1980s and then forged a successful solo career. he struggled with presentation and his band members said that he was bereft at the loss of his friend. george michael doing what we did best. even then, he was potentially a music superstar. he and his school formed one in the 1980s. formed w
immigrants, so the mentality of the two things. and my mother was also very british in that she had very. i get my attitude to money from her, which is that it was something to be afraid of and that of a long time for me to get over. yet, my father s attitude to money was to grab it and move up. was it to be rich and famous, your ambition? i realised about six months ago that somebody asked me a question and i realised that at no point during my early life when i was. in all my ambitions and when i started to realise them, at no point did i ever ordered it ever occurred to me that one of the by products of this would bei one of the by products of this would be i could buy whatever i wanted live in a big house and have flashy car. they are all very pleasant things, but it hadn t occurred to me. idid things, but it hadn t occurred to me. i did not want to be rich, i wa nted me. i did not want to be rich, i wanted to be filled fully famous. did you think it will make you more at
likely across parts of the midlands and down into southern counties. where it doesn t linger, 0 degrees will be more typical. hello. this is bbc news with lukwesa burak. the headlines. fans travel to george michael s homes in london and oxfordshire to pay their respects as the world remembers him. russia says the bodies of eleven victims of the military plane crash in the black sea have been recovered and flown back to moscow. all 92 passengers and crew on board died when it came down shortly after taking off from sochi. bargain hunters turn out for boxing day sales but it s thought many have stayed home after already splurging on pre christmas discounts. the former governor of the bank of england, lord king, says britain should be more self confident about leaving the eu. he s suggested the uk would be better off if it was completely out of the single market. and coming up after the sport, we ll hear from alexander mccall smith that in meet the author in about fifteen minu
tribute to george michael, who died yesterday, from heart failure, at the age of 53. the singer sold more than 100 million albums in a career spanning nearly four decades. he rose to fame with the pop duo, wham, enjoying global success in the 80s, before leaving to forge a successful solo career. but he struggled with the pressures of fame and press attention. his former band mate andrew ridgeley said he was heartbroken at the loss of a beloved friend . our arts editor will gompertz looks back at his life. # wham bam, i am a man #. wearing a bikerjacket and a white tee, george michael takes his first steps into the limelight as one half of the pop duo, wham. back then, he had big hair and a perma tan it was his idea of early ‘80s glam. the reality was a little different. so they stuck us in this hotel that couldn t have hotel that couldn t have been more than 80p a night. i was sleeping the night before my first top of the pops in polystyrene sheets and it was a childs
he became known as one of best players never to win a major. he had grown up wanting to be like his idol, seve ballesteros, a two time winner of the masters green jacket. garcia s breakthrough came on what would have been ballesteros‘s 60th birthday a day when talent and fate came together for the perfect fit. katie gornall, bbc news. that s almost it from us. newsnight is coming up on bbc two. here s emily. tonight, will russia listen to the west as they plan sanctions over syria? and west as they plan sanctions over syria ? and we west as they plan sanctions over syria? and we speak to howard jakonson on his novel about donald trump. here on bbc one, it s time for the news where you are. hello, you re watching bbc news. the time is 10.32pm, i m olly foster at the bbc sport centre, these are our headlines tonight: more questions about arsene wenger‘s reign, aftera bruising night for the gunners at palace. claudio ranieri doesn t think a players revolt was behind his le