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the first hosepipe ban in wales for 30 years comes into effect, as drought is officially declared in parts of the country. apple has released an urgent security update for its iphones, ipads and macs after two serious vulnerabilities were found that could allow attackers to gain access to someone s device. good morning and welcome to bbc news. i m samantha simmonds. four out of ten young people in the uk signing up for new private tenancies, are spending an unaffordable amount of their income on rent, new figures suggest. housing experts say spending more than 30% of income on rent is unaffordable, and the proportion of young renters grappling with high housing costs is at a five year high. our consumer affairs correspondent colletta smith reports. no one likes paying rent, but right now, people under 30 like mia are paying through the nose. my tenancy is ending soon and looking for new tenancies is just more and more expensive. it s disheartening because it feels lik ....
cheering. time for a look at the weather. here s helen willetts. some beautiful weather watchers last night. as you can see from the skies, these are from highlands scotland but it s a strong our rowrah at the moment so if we get clear skies we may see it. towards the north we have that coming in to parts of scotland and perhaps a bit further south as well. we do have cloudier skies here, you see at the moment, on that weather front. lots of showers and still the remnants of the overnight rain, pacific oceany rain in the south. between it, sow good spells of sunshine and we have lost the humidity. so while we have a blustery breeze and showers continuing across scotland, northern ireland, they tend to ease, temperatures aren t quite as high, as they were last night, because we have lost the humidity. sorry, yesterday, but it feels pleasant out there. we should see evening sunshine as the showers fade away, so an opportunity to witness the northern lights in the north bu ....
a plot twist in the world of cinema. top gun and bond draw in the crowds but one of the world s biggest chains says a lack of blockbusters is hurting the industry. i ll be looking at what s going on. dina asher smith is calling for more research into the effect periods have on performance as she reveals that was the reason she pulled up with cramp in the 100 metres final. and we meet the women united by grief, putting together a giant quilt to remember those lost to suicide. good morning. a day of sunshine and showers today, most across northern ireland and scotland, one or two into north west england. sunny spell developing towards the south, all of the details in about ten minutes. it s friday 19th august. our main story. wales first hosepipe ban for more than 30 years comes into force today across pembrokeshire and parts of carmarthenshire. the bans begin as the wider south west wales area will also be declared as being in drought, as the effects of the driest year since ....
the bomb maker responsible for the murder of more than 200 people nearly 20 years ago in bali could walk free from prison this year. apple has released an urgent security update for its iphones, ipads and macs after two serious vulnerabilities were found that could allow attackers to gain access to someone s device. hello, and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. a series of explosions have been reported at two russian military installations. in sevastopol, in russian occupied crimea, the governor claimed a ukrainian drone was shot down by anti aircraft defences near a key military airfield. in russia itself, the authorities said villages close to the border with ukraine were evacuated after a fire broke out at an ammunition depot. the blasts occurred as the un secretary general, antonio guterres, undertakes a two day visit to ukraine. gareth barlow reports. this is russia, about 50 kilometres from the ukrainian border. an arms depot, exploding into the ....
Trialled in birmingham, from where david gregory kumar reports. in many ways, irene and andrew are people who haven t been able to move on with their lives. they re still locked in the early days of the pandemic because, for them, the covid vaccines don t work. i don t go to as many theatres or cinemas or crowded places. ijust avoid them. well, i was shielded from the beginning anyway, and i ve virtually been shielded ever since. i ve not been anywhere. and the only people who ve been in the house have been family or people who ve lateral flow tested before they came. andrew and irene will be the second and third people taking part in a trial of a new drug, here at the queen elizabeth hospital in birmingham. it s called sotrovimab, and it s designed to stop patients with immune system problems getting coronavirus in the first place. so how does it work? antibodies are made by the body to help protect us against infection. ....