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as official figures show the economy shrank slightly between april and june, the chancellor says he recognises the difficulties people are facing. we are looking at all the options of what additional help we need to bring in later on in the winter months, in december and january, work those up so they are ready to go. and the shortlist of uk cities that could host next year's eurovision song contest has been revealed, with seven left in the running. and coming up on the bbc news channel... great britain have won their first medals in the track cycling at the european championships in...

Order you to stop washing your car. remember 1976 — the water industry is saying it is very unlikely that we'll see the standpipes in the streets and water rationing the uk experienced during the famous drought back then. and i've got more bad news for you — i'm sorry! and look at an experiment by dr rob thompson at the university of reading. this shows just how long it takes for water to soak into parched ground. look, the wet grass has absorbed it all already, but the water level of the cup on dry ground has barely changed. what does that tell us? it shows why heavy rain next week is lik...

Jon: that is a weird one. jenna: "happening now" on dry ground at last, a crippled ship finally docks. passengers were stuck on this ship adrift for days and days. greg burke streaming live from rome. three days with no working bathrooms, greg? >> reporter: jenna, can you imagine? can you imagine the relief of being on dry ground finally? they were first adrift on the ship, the costa allegra. more than 1,000 people on the ship, totally adrift and a french fishing boat tugging them ever so slowly to the land. imagine what it must have been like. forget about the pirates. that was probably least...