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around that time, scientists learned something extraordinary. whales were communicating with each other. sometimes by song over long distances. in part, because of that discovery, scientists and conservationists rallied to enact laws to protect the whales and it worked. the humpback whale population has made a remarkable comeback. now they face a host of new threats. global warming is killing off their food source and human activity is causing thousands of whale deaths a year from the stress of underwater construction noise to fishing entang amments and ship collisions. in the next h...

storms _ yesterday we had the really intense storms for— yesterday we had the really intense storms for part of the uk and localised _ storms for part of the uk and localised flash flooding. today it further _ localised flash flooding. today it further heavy and thundery downpours. all the details throughout the programme. it's sunday 9thjuly. our main story: there are new allegations concerning a bbc presenter, accused of paying a teenager for sexually explicit photographs, beginning when they were 17. the claims in the sun newspaper allege the unnamed male presenter paid the teen...

the people who are affected most by high interest rates would tend to be younger households. older people, older house holders, are more likely to have paid off their mortgages — they are mortgage free — so they don't feel the impact of the increase in mortgage rates. you could spread the pain more broadly, so those households that, perhaps, aren't facing higher mortgage rates currently — households that don't hold mortgages — would potentially contribute towards the squeeze in demand by paying higher taxation. you could argue for a property tax, for example. yet there are al...

things did suddenly pick up and kick in from last thursday when the sun reported it, but when you look at the timeline, the question is partly because the bbc said the sun's report contained new allegations — what was the initial complaint? in terms of the situation we've got on our hands, i want to say one thing upfront, which is you are balancing serious allegations, duty of care, privacy issues and legitimate public interests, and how do you navigate that fairly, calmly and do due diligence? i've given a bit of context to a few people in terms of the numbers of issues we get com...

50 years ago humpback whales were considered an endangered species after decades of commercial whaling decimated the population. around that same time scientists learned something extraordinary. whales were communicating with each other, sometimes by song over long distances. in part because of that discovery scientists and conservationists rallied to enact laws to protect the whales, and it worked. the humpback whale population has made a remarkable comeback. but now they face a host of new threats. global warming is killing off their food source, and human activity is causing thous...