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in the push to win crucial votes. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. nurses are likely to take their first ever national strike action according to their union. the royal college of nursing is still counting ballot papers returned by its 300,000 members but says those counted so far suggest support for strike action, possibly before christmas. the rcn wants a 5% pay increase above the rate of inflation. nurses working in accident & emergency and critical care would be exempted from striking to maintain services. the government said nurses should "carefully consider" the impact o...

louis down there. you can see crowds lining the mall, as you can see, plenty more pictures from today's celebrations of the platinum jubilee and more to come, plenty more on the lighting of the beacons, which should be quite a spectacular thing to see was to plenty more of that to come. but first, i think we should go and get the sports round—up, as we need, from isaac here. have you got sports for us? ido i do indeed. it's been a fantastic start for england in the first test against new zealand at lords. they've bowled new zealand out for 132 runs. a day illuminated by excellent f...

only played six games for england. in a statement, sale said "a summer of rest and a full preseason is the best course of action". golf's us women's open is under way in north carolina. australian minjee lee, who won the first major of the year, the evian championship, has made a good start. she has just finished her round she hasjust finished her round on four under. this long range putt one of her seven birdies today. she sits one off the lead, alongside swede anna nordqvist, winner of last year's women's british open at carnoustie. this was one of her five birdies on the back nine...

Heres our Home Affairs Correspondent daniel sandford. A smiling sara sharif, seen here in a picture much more recent than those we had seen before. Surrey police have released the image and a School Photograph in the hope more people will come forward with information about her and her family. Both pictures show her wearing a headscarf, as she usually did in the last few months before her death. The ten year old was found dead six weeks ago at her family home in woking. She was found to have what prosecutors called a constellation of injuries which police said were multiple and extensive. Her ...

Will see a similar contrast in the next couple of days. 0vernight we have more of these thundery downpours threatening southern parts of the uk and elsewhere we will see me stand low cloud reforming and developing more widely in this muggy airand it will developing more widely in this muggy air and it will be another uncomfortable night for sleeping on the southward with temperatures no lower than 18 or 19 degrees. Tomorrow starts grey and misty in places and we should get sunshine coming through but we are likely to find a risk of further thundery downpours in wales, the midlands, east anglia...