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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...

that evening, welcome to bbc news. culture secretary nadine dorries has called on european football's governing body uefa to "launch a formal investigation into what went wrong and why" after chaotic scenes at last night's champions league final between liverpool and real madrid in paris. french police have been criticised for firing tear gas and pepper spray at some liverpool fans waiting to get in to the stadium. ms dorries said the footage from fans and the media was "deeply concerning". the mayor of liverpool — who was at the game — described the police actions as brutal and ...

children and two teachers shot dead by a teenage gunman in texas. another day of travel disruption. waits of six hours reported for ferries at dover and hundreds of flights cancelled at some uk airports. and one of the greatest jockeys of all time — lester piggott — has died aged 86. we start in ukraine where, in a gesture of defiance — directed at russia — president zelensky has made a rare trip to visit his troops on the front line in the east of the country. he went to kharkiv, close to the russian border, an area once again under attack. mr zelensky described the situatio...

Is involved in such a decision. It beggers belief, really. Good morning. Its february 24th. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. The conservatives have labelled their victory in the copeland by election a truly historic event. They took the seat from labour by more than two thousand votes The First Time a Governing Party has won a seat from another party in a by election for 35 years. The area has had a labour mp since the 1930s. For labour, the Shadow Chancellor John Mcconnell called the result disappointing. The party did hold on to the seat of stoke on Trent Central, in the other parliamentary by ...