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Sakir Starmer's weighing up his political future as he faces growing pressure to step down following Andy Burham's victory in the Makerfield by election. The Prime Minister's record has been attacked by President Trump who said, a in social media post that Sekir will resign. Downing Streets told the BBC the two leaders haven't spoken over the weekend. Paul Ovenden, who's a former aide to Sekir, explains how he's likely to be feeling. Kir's way of thinking was always put the country first, the Labour Party second and probably his own ambitions or well being third. And so I think that whatever decision Kier makes over the coming days . I know that is what will guide his way of thinking. He will be entirely focused on what he thinks is best for the country. Police have named the train driver who died in Friday's crash near Bedford as sixty year old Sean Burton. Works continuing to remove the two trains involved and services between London, St. Pancras and Bedford will be disrupted for at least the next week. Our correspondent Simon Browning says network rail have today revealed the huge operation need ed to clear away the wreckage. They've told us they have planning to actually build a new road close to the site to be able to get access to the trains that have crashed because the site of a midland mainline between Luton and Bedford is pretty inaccessible so they are laying concrete to build a new road. They are going to need to bring in cranes to recover the vehicles that have crashed and they're also going to need to take down the electrical power lines within that area. A thirty two year old man from Syria has been arrest ed on suspicion of manslaughter after a woman died yesterday attempting to cross the channel in a small boat. She was found unresponsive by border force officials in a dinghy carrying more than ninety people in UK waters. US and Iranian negotiators have been meeting in Switzerland in an effort to turn their ceasefire into a lasting peace agreement. The Vice President JD Vance says significant progress has been made, but key differences remain. Our correspondent Jess Parker says there's a real sense of urgency. They've given themselves initially it is potentially extendable but just sixty days to potentially reach a deal on a range of very complicated difficult issues. The former agreement that was negotiated under President Obama, that took I think twenty months, best part of two years to negotiate. But it does give you an idea of how complicated these things can be, but they started the clock running on these talks now . The e commerce site Woucher has apologized for an email that appeared to joke about last week's crocodile attack on a three year old who suffered serious injuries at a zoo. The company says the wording was unacceptable and that re itv'iews ing its approval processes. The Met Office has issued an amber warning of extreme heat covering much of central and southern England and Eastern Wales over the coming days when temperatures could reach thirty eight degrees Celsius