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china urges calm after the united states said it s tracking a suspected chinese surveillance balloon seen over sensitive sites in recent days. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the partner of a woman who s now been missing in lancashire for a week says he s focusing on staying as strong as he can for their two daughters. nicola bulley, who s a5, hasn t been seen since last friday morning, as she walked the family dog along a river bank in st michael s on wyre. her partner paul ansell says it s as though she s vanished into thin air. a major search has so far found no trace of her. 0ur north of england correspondent, danny savage has the latest from the village. exactly a week on from when nicola bulley vanished, her friends staged a roadside appeal this morning hoping tojog the memory of anyone who was passing last friday. this is nikki in happier times with her pet spaniel, willow. the dog was found close to where she was last seen alive by the river wyre. it s been ....
south eastern parts of the uk but into this evening and overnight we will keep some showers coming in on the northerly breeze for a while, particularly across parts of northern england. scotland and northern ireland should see skies clearing, we make it clear skies across north west wales and england, so there could be a frost, may be as low as “4 in glasgow. across east midlands, yorkshire, east anglia and the south east, temperatures should be above freezing, enough cloud, enough breeze, but even here tomorrow we will find the breeze easing, the crowd breaking up and any showers won t last long at all and it should be a dry day for most of us with some spells of sunshine. we see more cloud and drizzle arriving at the far north west later in the day so 9 degrees here but elsewhere we are looking at highs around 6 8 c, near normalfor this time of the year. heading into the weekend that weather front is going to bring some rain down from the north west but it s running ....
designer dogs and organised crime a new investigation finds bulldogs being bred with extreme features, and sold for huge sums of money. rolling back the years in the premier league how arsenal and manchester united delivered a thriller as arsenal snatch a late win to pass another test of their title winning credentials. good morning. the north west to south east split in the weather today. in the southeast it is cold, frosty. we have fog, some slow to clear. where it does we will see sunshine. in the north west it is mild, cloudy and we have patchy rain. all the details later. it s monday the 23rd of january. our main story. pressure is growing on the former chancellor nadhim zahawi to release more details about his tax affairs it s as the bbc was told he did pay a penalty to hm revenue and customs. mr zahawi is said to be determined to stay on as conservative party chairman and the prime minister has expressed confidence in him but labour says his position is u ....
good afternoon, welcome to the bbc news channel. a serving metropolitan police officer has admitted he s a serial rapist who carried out sex attacks over almost two decades. pc david carrick, a member of the diplomatic protection squad, has pleaded guilty to 49 offences, including 2a counts of rape. the met has apologised to his victims, after it emerged it missed warnings about his behaviour over a long period of time. our home affairs correspondent, june kelly, has more. david carrick, the serial rapist and violent sexual predator, who for 20 years or a police uniform. in his private life he told his victims, you are my slave, as he controlled and abused them. subjecting them to appalling acts of degradation. in hisjob, carrick carried appalling acts of degradation. in his job, carrick carried a appalling acts of degradation. in hisjob, carrick carried a gun, as he guarded the houses of parliament and government buildings as part of the metropolitan police s parliamentary a ....
for humanitarian agencies, after five major non governmental organisations suspend their work in afghanistan. we ll have a look at the front page of the papers in a moment but first, some other stories to bring you. police say a tenth person has died as a result of a huge explosion at a block of flats injersey early this month. kathleen mcguinness, who was 73, lived next to the building in st helier which was destroyed in the blast. about 3 billion litres of water are lost every day through leaks in england and wales, according to the latest figures from the industry regulator. now to help tackle the problem, scientists have developed miniature robots that crawl through pipes to patrol our water supply network. our science correspondent, victoria gill, reports. the water company here in essex has detected a leak, but to find its location and fix it, they will need to dig through a complex maze of pipes. basically, we have a nine inch cast iron water main that runs dow ....