Yes, really tough, she made it to the semifinals of the Australian Open two years ago but she could face a tough route, if she is to get there this time around, the draw has been made, we will tell you her potential opponents at half past. And in the Weather Forecast, looking quite tough ahead. Big contrast, rainy in the south east, glorious sunshine in the west, all of us at risk from some fog through tomorrow night and tomorrow morning. Also coming up, tributes to the man behind metal s biggest riffs, motorhead guitarist fast eddie clarke has died. Its a very bleak picture of the nhs this winter and its painted in a letter from doctors to the Prime Minister. They say that patients are dying in the corridors of accident and emergency units in england and wales as safety is compromised by intolerable conditions. And the pressure is growing nhs staff have been faced with rising numbers of flu cases and respiratory illness with 48 flu related deaths in england so far this winter. Our Health CorrespondentCatherine Burns reports. Is that the one that you want . Yeah. Voiceover rosie dawson was in severe pain when she went to a e last week. She had a gynaecological problem and was bleeding heavily, but the hospital was so busy that she was examined on a trolley in a busy corridor. I think i was trolley number 12 and there were trolleys going all the way up. You cant see to someones dignity, you cant ensure they are having a private conversation and that if they break down in tears, which i think i did, i think im pretty sure that i cried as well, but you cant look into anybodys kind of right to privacy or anything like that. Today, doctors from almost half the a e units in england and wales have written to the Prime Minister saying that plans for the winter had failed to deliver anywhere near what was needed. They talk about patients dying in hospital corridors under intolerable conditions. In terms of these winter pressures that we see the nhs under, there have been a number of measures that we have taken that have helped. For example, for the first time ever, urgent gp appointments being available throughout the christmas period. But still, figures from nhs england show that at some point last week, just 3 of hospital trusts in england had enough beds free to provide safe care. They are supposed to have no more than 85 of beds occupied, but on thursday, just four out of 137 trusts were below that safe level. To add to this, more statistics showing that december was the worst month for a e waiting times since records began in 200a. Three thousand patients in england were not seen within the four hour waiting target. And so, a warning that this is a watershed moment for the nhs. We have now clearly reached the point where the nhs cannot meet the standards of care that we would, all of us in the nhs, ministers included, want to provide. So the key question is, do we abandon those standards, and none of us in the nhs will do that, or does the government make the decisions it needs to make about the long term funding and it needs to make those decisions quickly. Authorities in wales and Northern Ireland say they are under pressure too, and a e waiting times in scotland hit their worst ever levels at the end of december. The message from Health Care Professionals is that despite staffs best efforts, the nhs is chronically underfunded and the government must act soon. Catherine burns, bbc news. Earlier we heard from one of the 68 senior a e doctors who wrote to theresa may, saying winter planning has not been adequate and Patient Safety is at risk. All the doctors stress they are talking not as representatives of their trusts, but as doctors. She summed up her colleagues position this is stuff that has not happened over the last few weeks, this has been progressive change and deterioration over the last year, in particular, with increased numbers of very sick patients coming to the department with lack of capacity and flow, through lots of different Emergency Departments across the country. When the department is full, the flow is decreased, we cannot get to patients so quickly, and the more patients staying within the department, the sick they may become, and it increases their length of stay. Our frustration is that this was predictable and did not require last minute winter funding, it needed proper investment in the Service Across the board including social care to improve the flow throughout, not just for accident and emergency but throughout the hospital. Please can we sit down and have a proper conversation and stop putting sticking plasters on little problems to keep them away for a few months ata to keep them away for a few months at a time. Lets invest properly where money is needed for something thatis where money is needed for something that is sustainable into the future. Our Health CorrespondentCatherine Burns joins me now. Ijust want i just want to talk about this letter, it is very bleak. Damning stuff, front line staff from 68 of the hospitals in england and wales, they do not hold back on what they have said, they talk about safety compromises they are making, calling them intolerable. Plans for the winter, they say they have failed to deliver anywhere near what was needed. And budgets are chronically underfunded. They talk about some of their own experiences, mentioning patients prematurely dying in corridors in intolerable conditions. Talk about patients waiting ten to 12 hours for a bed after the decision has been made to admit them. It is important to say that this is not every single accident and emergency doctor, but it is understood that some were asked to sign itand understood that some were asked to sign it and said no, understood that some were asked to sign itand said no, but understood that some were asked to sign it and said no, but this is a major chunk of the most important people on the front line and this debate will not go away any time 0011. Debate will not go away any time soon. Not at the heart of this but a majorfactor is, the soon. Not at the heart of this but a major factor is, the lack of beds. Absolutely, if there is not enough beds in hospitals, patients cannot move. Statistics out from nhs england, showing how much pressure the hospital were under, just last week, at some time last week, 3 of hospital trusts in england had enough beds free to provide a safe level of care. Enough beds free to provide a safe level of ca re. To enough beds free to provide a safe level of care. To give you more idea, that is four out of 137 trusts. Talking about nhs under pressure, winter pressure, Public Health england have published figures on flu cases, which underline that pressure. It says the number of flu patients admitted to hospital were two and a half times higher than the same time last week. Two and a half times higher than the same time last week. This is quite a spike. Also talked about norovirus, thatis spike. Also talked about norovirus, that is a five year high, the average for that. Last week, an average for that. Last week, an average of 944 beds closed every day because of norovirus. Adding to the problem, closing beds because of. Shortage of beds and then beds are close as well because of the risk of infection. What do the government say . They have put out a statement talking about 68. 7 increase in the number of anp consultants, nhs was top priority. Accident and emergency consultants. It thanks staff for all their work and talks about an increase in doctor training. Breaking news, thank you very much. And if you want to find out more about how your nhs trust is performing, you can use our nhs tracker on the bbc news website. The Prime Minister has pledged to eliminate avoidable Plastic Waste within 25 years as part of a far reaching plan to improve britains environment. She has urged supermarkets to introduce aisles where shoppers can buy products with no plastic packaging. A small charge for disposable plastic bags will also be extended to all shops, notjust big retailers. Theresa may called Plastic Waste one of the great environmental scourges of our time. But environmentalists have criticised the plans saying they lack urgency, detail and bite. Heres our environment analyst, roger harrabin. A theres huge public anxiety about plastic litter, since David Attenboroughs blue planet series revealed Sea Creatures eating Plastic Waste. The Prime Ministers surfing that wave of concern, aiming for votes from young people who care deeply about the environment they will inherit. While the water in our rivers and beaches are cleaner than ever before, around the world 8 Million Tonnes of plastic makes its way into the oceans each year. But is mrs may being ambitious enough . That is 25 years from now. Environmentalists are not impressed. We dont think its urgent enough, we dont think its robust enough and we dont think its detailed enough. The oceans, which are bearing the brunt of our addiction to throwaway plastic, cant wait 25 years for solutions. But plastics form just part of the the governments 25 year plan for the environment launched today. The environment is something personal to each of us. But it is also something which collectively we hold in trust for the next generation. And we have a responsibility to protect and enhance it. But its a crowded island we live on. Woodlands, like here at lodge hill in kent, have been decimated over the decades. This is the uks prime site for nightingales but the local council wants to build much needed houses on part of it. If Housing Development was to go ahead at lodge hill, it would constitute the biggest destruction of one of our finest wildlife sites for 25 years. And at a time when the government has clearly expressed a commitment to restoring nature, it seems madness to conceive, let alone to consent to such a development. A walk in the woods is good for your mental and physical health. The governments acknowledged that. It wants to increase woodland cover, especially near where people live. It wants to bring back wildflower meadows and improve rare habitats like heathlands. But the pressures on for development. We have a housing target we have to meet of 29,500 between now and 2035, huge demand in medway and in north kent for housing, Affordable Housing and a whole housing mix, and those houses have to go somewhere. Theres pressure on the Natural World from road building too. The department for transport cant foresee a time when new roads wont be needed. The rail line hs2 will damage many ancient woodlands. And the Farmers Union is demanding that all prime Agricultural Land is kept forfarming, not wildlife, to maximise food output. But the governments plan for nature will attempt to bring some nature back to farmland and replenish depleted soils. Environmentalists welcome the governments plans to restore britains nature, but the problem they say that is so far it is just a plan. To really convince them, ministers would need to introduce legislation, and there seems no sign of that. 0ur chief Political Correspondent vicki young is at our westminster studio. In the times this morning, a former aide to theresa may suggested this was a fairly recent conversion to the environment by the Prime Minister. This goes back some time, Prime Ministers are often accused of talking the talk but will they act on it, you will remember David Cameron when he first became leader, leader of the opposition, talking a lot about voting blue, going green, it all got pretty much ditched when austerity started to bite. The question now is how serious are the government about it, it is interesting, since michael gove has been put into the department, the department of environment, he wants to raise the profile of the department and make a bit of an impact. Talk about plastics, for example, something they see as an opportunity to attract a different kind of voter. The question is, how farare kind of voter. The question is, how far are they as a conservative government prepared to go. Remember the plastic bag tax, the liberal democrats take the credit for that, they say it was their idea, conservatives would never have done it without them, what will the tories now do about that when it comes to first time use plastic. Michael gove saying it was an idea thatis michael gove saying it was an idea that is being considered and how will that go down with his own party . The idea of more regulation, forcing companies to do something, which is often the only way they do decide to act and make a difference, thatis decide to act and make a difference, that is not always popular among conservatives. Will be interesting to see whether michael gove and the Prime Minister and their own mps feel they are willing to go down that road if the voluntary action does not happen. They see this as an opportunity, notjust does not happen. They see this as an opportunity, not just to does not happen. They see this as an opportunity, notjust to get does not happen. They see this as an opportunity, not just to get voters onto their side but to talk about something different, something other than brexit, and saying they are being ambitious, they want britain to bea being ambitious, they want britain to be a global example of a country that takes the environment very seriously, and they would say, it is not eu regulations that have made the uk do this, clean up the beaches and the seas, written quite often goes further than required, and they clearly wa nt goes further than required, and they clearly want to go a step further. Different kind of voter, when you talk about that, you mean a young voter, this is seen as something that appeals to younger people. The conservatives, there has been a change at the headquarters, for the conservative party, they know they did not have a particularly good general election. Vote share went up in the under a5, but they did not do very well and they feel the environment is something that appeals to notjust those in their 20s but families concerned about air pollution. It is something that people care about. Conservatives wa nt to people care about. Conservatives want to be seen to be talking about the kind of issues that people might be talking about down the pub, may not always be brexit. In the last couple of hours, nigel farage has gone on television saying that he may you minded more towards a second referendum. This has been backed by arron banks, the co founder of leave eu. This is quite a vault farce. Volte face. It is for the opposite reason that vince cable wants a second referendum, the liberal democrats and others say that people have to have the terms of the negotiation, they have dinner what they are voting for, that is why you need a referendum but the lib dems would wa nt referendum but the lib dems would want people to vote to stay in. That is not what nigel farage is thinking, and arron banks, arron banks has said a second referendum would confirm support for brexit and then they would win by a landslide. Nigel farage and arron banks talk about true brexit, their fear is the talk of a transition period for example going on for a couple of years when nothing much changes, they feel that would be leaving the eu but only in name. Actually, it is not a clean break from the eu, it would effectively stay very much aligned and that is not what they want and they believe it is not what the british people want. Remarkably, we are in a position where the former leader of ukip, and the leader of the lib democrats, are in agreement, but for very different reasons. Christmas sales figures for retailers have presented a mixed bag this season. Marks and spencer sales fell over the key christmas period, while tesco reported record festive trade. A number of major retailers have alluded to difficulties in the market and tough trading conditions. Our Business Correspondent emma simpson reports now on the winners and losers. It worked out all right in the end, didnt it . It did, too, for britains biggest retailer. Despite problems with their turkeys, tescos christmas sales were up. Food has long been a bright spot for Marks Spencer, their premium product, but this christmas Quarter Sales went into reverse. The grocers have done well. Theres food inflation. And we also buy a lot of food over christmas because of entertaining and just eating. So it is very disappointing that Marks Spencer hasnt matched the rest of the grocers and i think its a lot to do with its competition producing very good premium ranges at low prices so it is up against a challenging market, and its clothing hasnt been doing well either. Christmas feels like a long time ago now. For retailers, it can be make or break. 0n the high street its been incredibly challenging. Consumers have less money to spend. House of fraser has been really feeling the pressure. It has seen another fall in sales today, but as ever there are winners and losers and this one is in the winner s camp. There is demand there, you just have to find it and create the conditions in which people want things and that comes down to having fabulous products. It means being brilliant in terms of experience people get in your shops has never been more important, and it means you have in your shops has never been more important, and it means you have to be outstanding at online and shops that is something we work very hard to do. In nottingham shoppers seem to be careful in parting with their cash. I had a budget and we tried to stick to it as far as possible. I did it all online because i didnt want to be in the rush of everyone. I normally look at deals with pop up, normally on facebook or a certain site will be doing e mails and then i have a look. No surprise then that online accounted for a quarter of non food shopping last month. A small but fast growing retailer, boohoo, expects