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asi as i said earlier this week people know i take classified documents seriously. russians fighting in ukraine claimed they have found the body of one of two british aid workers who ve been reported missing. bumper christmas sales for some of britain s biggest retailers despite the cost of living crisis. and tributes for the legendary rock guitaristjeff beck who died at the age of 78. there s more evidence today of the crisis in the nhs in england: ambulance response times in december were the worse on record. for category two emergency calls, including strokes, they were more than an hour and a half on average. the target is 18 minutes. (ani the highest priority calls with an immediate threat to life took almost 11 minutes on average; the target is seven. and patients are waiting even longer in accident and emergency 35 % waited more than four hours that s another record. our health correspondent jim reed reports. long queues for ambulances, the most 999 cal ....
next week. widespread impact on health and infrastructure so one to watch. at the moment we have got hot conditions in the south and east. somewhat cooler conditions and a few showers in the north and west. quite breezy across the north of scotland. that is blowing in the art shower. by that is blowing in the art shower. by and large fine weather. temperatures quite considerably lower apart from the south east. but the cloud we have in the south holds onto that heat and humidity and that slips away overnight tonight with a few showers to follow. and still warm but not tropical as it was last night in the south east. a little bit more comfortable for sleeping in the next couple of nights. tomorrow the next couple of nights. tomorrow the best of the sunshine again in the best of the sunshine again in the south with a peppering of showers in the north of scotland and across northern ireland and northern england. the wind starting to switch to the north west. again in the s ....
of speculation about how it will deal with an estimated $5 billion of debt due to pandemic losses. pressure intensifies on the exam board, pearson, to explain why hundreds of students have still not received their btec results, four days after they were due to be released. the duke and duchess of cambridge say they will permenantly move to adelaide cottage in windsor and send their children to school in nearby ascot from september. good afternoon. criminal barristers in england and wales have voted for an all out strike next month joining a wave of industrial action as workers seek pay rises to keep up with high inflation. some barristers say they earn less than the minumum wage the government claims strike action will simply delay justice for victims of crime. railway workers, dockers, postal workers and refuse collectors are among those who ve already gone on strike in what s been called a summer of discontent while nurses are to be balloted on industrial action ....
were treated to a super blood moon overnight. the effect was created by a lunar eclipse, which is when the earth moves between the sun and the moon. time for a look at the weather. here s nick miller. something else in the sky last night, all the lightning that came in a southern england, as captured by some of our weather watchers. stones came out of france on sunday, came to a close, what a lightning show here, and we as they moved further north in the first part of the day. some of the areas with the thunder and lightning last night were treated to some sunny spells and feeling quite warm today. don t put the umbrella away wherever you are this week. we have a low pressure to the west bringing warmth and humidity at times this week, but also with low pressure as you might imagine there will be rain and thunderstorms at times too. the rain this afternoon is in scotland, and into the far north of england. and with a cool north easterly wind. for northern ireland, the r ....
South wales fire and rescue says the worst flooding is in porth and pontypridd. bbc wales today s stephen fairclough reports. this was the devastating scene in peterston super ely in the vale of glamorgan. cars left abandoned, almost submerged in floods, the aftermath of another night of heavy, persistent rain. it was a similar story on the a470 near pontypridd on the morning commute. high water levels in the river taff causing disruption in the town, and feeling the full impact, not for the first time, since february 2020, partially reopened, we fully reopened in november. and now, as you say, barely three months and it s flooding again. it s nowhere near as bad as it was, but it will take us a couple of days, at least a weekend to clear ....