Readers. Good evening, welcome to murmur. I am stephanie valdes, coowner of humidity bookstore and m b, its also a hardcore indie bookstore crowd. Tonight were thrilled to welcome Rebecca Solnit on the publication date of her new book recollections of my nonexistence. She will be in conversation with Leslie Jamison area is no that there will not be assigning tonight after the event but Rebecca Solnit did arrive early to sign each and every one ofyour books. So Rebecca Solnit is the author of 20 books including a field guide to getting lost, the faraway nearby, a paradise built in hell, river shadows and wanderlust. A history of walking. She is also the author of essays on feminism, activism and social change, hope and also the climate crisis. A product of the California Public Education System in kindergarten to graduate school shes a regular contributor to the guardian. Leslie jamison is the author of the New York Times that sellers recovering and the empathy exam and the novel gin cl
Week a shop worker, but lenka thomson has given that up after she and her husband steve scooped 105 Million Pounds in the euromillions lottery. The couple from west sussex have 3 children. They say they were stunned when they realised what had happened. Duncan kennedy went to meet them. Cheering bubbles amid the disbelief. Steve and lenka thomson with the smiles of super winners and the cheque for £105 million. I believe thats mine. It is indeed, and the couple still cant believe whats happened. Its life changing. Its life changing for. Not just for us, our family. The family. Our friends in the community. Yeah. Definitely. We are going to do a lot of good with this. Lenka has a job in a grocery store, steve is a builder, and he went back to work after his win. Still had to go and paint a ceiling. So, why would you painting the ceiling . Because i fell through at the previous week insulating someones loft. The couple say they are going to be sensibly generous with their new pot of ric
Gps have voted to reduce visits to patients homes, saying they no longer have the capacity to offer them. Doctors supported the proposal at a meeting of english local medical committees on friday. But the health secretary, matt hancock, said the idea of taking home visits out of gps contracts was a complete non starter. Jenny kumah reports. Family doctors say their workload is on the rise and this, coupled with falling gp numbers, mean something has to give. In his surgery in leeds this doctor is well aware of the challenges facing surgeries like his. One of the daily pressures that gp practices are under is the obligation to do home visits. What would be much better is if we had a dedicated Home Visiting team with people with the time to be able to do this throughout the day, rather than gps having to squeeze it in. Under the proposals, home visits would not be scrapped completely but delivered by a separate service. Similar to the way out of hours care has been contracted out. Someti
I think the funding needs to be increased. I think its a very low amount. As i said, for us as a charity its not an issue, but for other places that have got high costs, high staff costs, that then is a real thing. So i think if you are going to be giving more hours, you need to be giving more money per hour. And thats a real problem for lots of people. Childcare may not be the main headline grabber of this particular general election, but it remains an important issue for parents, for communities, and for the politicians seeking to represent them now and in the future. John maguire, bbc news, bristol. Now time for a look at the weather. Louise layer is at the map. Is it one of those mornings where it would be nice to pull the duvet back of your head and pretend it isnt happening . It certainly was for me. Beautiful perfect symmetry but it is not perfect weather. It is great and there is a lot of cloud across the country so this blanket of cloud will sit right across us for much of the
Expectations. Im joined again with the sports controversial quarterback Colin Kaepernick holds a tryout session in front of team scouts but only on last minute change of venue well tell you why in the next 60 minutes. Police in hong kong have used tear gas and water cannon on protest is that a University Campus whos been throwing petrol bombs large fires have been in this around the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and some of the most dramatic scenes 5 months of on the wrist all schools have been told to stay closed on monday because of the violence lets go to our correspondent vehicle pollen she is joining us live from hong kong it has been a hectic day there via whats happening there now. Thats right elizabeth all day long youve seen Police Confront the protesters have barricaded themselves in front of their university trying to firing tear gas water cannon at them trying to get them to Disperse Protesters move back a little bit then they come back for then they hurl petrol bombs an