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Imagine goodood growth in every postcode and hope in every heart. Well, imagine no more. Let's make it happen. Andy Burnham says he'll spread power around the country and set up a number ten North. But three weeks before he's likely to enter the one in Downing Street, he offers a few details and takes no questions The conservative leader says he should be explaining himself to MPs Andy Burnham is about to start off a summer of chaos what he is announcing does not even scratch the surface of the problems that the country needs to deal with Bulllletin will analyze the speech and get the thoughts of our political editor, Chris Mason. Also tonight, resident doctors in England have just voted to accept the government's latest offer and end their strikes former Tory MP who put bets on the dayate of the last general election, pleads guilty to using inside information to cheat Survivors are still being rescued more than a hundred hours after the earthquakes in Venezuela will'll have a report from one devastated town The first rescuers arrived two days after the earthquake, and until then locals were hearing screams and shouts from the people who were buried under the rubble. And will remember the actress Dame Penelope Keith, the goodood lifeife's Margot Leedbetter, who's died aged eighty six The O R bird is so called because it lays square eggs In sports, the England cricket captain Ben Stokes ends his international career with a series defeats to New Zealand And we'll have all the latest action from the first day at Wimbledon where the strawberries have lasted slightly longer than British hopes The likely next Prime Minister Andy Burnham has set out a vision for what he says would be the biggest change in the way the country is run in our lifetime Taking inspiration from the city where he's been mayor for nine years, he described his plan as Manchesterism He said the city would house a new Prime mininister's office called Num ten North which would drive greater devolution. Speaking in Manchester, he pledged to reduce the welfare bill and said his top priority would be a cououncil House building program and he'd do it all within the constraints of the twenty twenty four manifesto current government's fiscal rules political correspondent Ian Watson was listening This didn't sound like a speech from a mere candidate for his party leadership. but a manifesto for an orbit certain move to number ten Downing Street. Andy Burnham pronounced that he would do politics differently drawing in his experience as a mayor of Greater Manchester. his watchword was collaboration, not confrontation When I started as mayor In twenty seventeen, we set about building a new approach A new politics based on the exact opposite of the Westminster approach placelace first party first Problem solving, not point scoring Long term not short term decade on, it's incredible how much we've been able to achieve by working together instead of fighting against one another. Behind the surfet of soundbes, there was some substance. would be a new number ten North, based in Manchester and charged with pushing powers and resources away from Whitehall and towards the nations and regions of the UK English mayors would be given a greater say over housing, welfare and post sixteen education Burnham's contention, it's that those who know their areas well also know how best to grow their local economies Number ten North will be the nerve centre of a rewired Britain It will be the conduit through which we redistribute power and resources across the UK. It will coordinate all parts of government at national and local level to agree a long term economic strategy and help all places set new growth ambitions. There wasn't much detail in the practicalities But the speech signaled the scale of Mr. Berer's ambitions, which stretched far beyond remodelling the machinery of government He promised the biggest social housing program since the war, describing it as his top priority. and more public control over the utilities, though not necessarily public ownership. potentially in every market, Mr Burnerham made it clear all this will be done within the current government's rules on debt and borrowing Despite these constraints, he was determined to demonstrate a political vision Tim and again, repeating a word associated with a working class hero not from Manchester But Liverpool Imagine what it would feel like to live in a country wired to work for ordinary people rather than against them Imagine if all local areas build homes people can afford to the point where they could guarantee one for everyone. Imagine if we could bring down the cost of energy for people and businesses and the good things that would come from that. Imagine good growth in every postcode and hope in every heart. Andy Berham committed to a ten year mission to raise living standards Given that the current Prime Minister is standing aside after just two years in office A restless electorate may judge his success or failure on a rather tighter times scale Conservative leader Kemmy Badenock described number ten North as a gimmick She suggested that devolution was a useful tool for leaders who didn't have the answers themselves Devolution is not a silver bullet. It is not an answer, it is a process. I think a lot of politicians hide behind devolution because they don't have any answers. So they say, well, why don't we let local people sort it out? But they don't give them the real tools, the power, they don't change the regulation The reform UK leader Nigel Farage said more devolution wouldn't solve everything by magic. Mr. Burnham also spoke of devolving more power in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. He said the people of Dundee and Bangor felt just as distant from Hollyroood and the Sennith as they did from Westminster But the SNPMP Kirstie Blackman said no government in London should be telling the people of Scotland how their country should be run I think that's up to the people of Scotland. I think it should be the Scottish Parliament that is making those decisions. I think when we see elections and manifestos, if the elections and manifestos for Hollyroood are calling for that and people are voted in on that basis, then absolutely, but I don't think it's the job of Westminster to tell us that it's the responsibility of the Scottish Parliament about which powers are devolved, and it should be for them on behalf of people of Scotland to make those decisions The deputy leader of the liberal Democrats, Day Cooper, said Mr. Burnhamhood nicked her party's ideas Ady Burnham's speech was designed to give a blueprint for how his premiership would rebalance and reset the British economy His economic advisers have been cheered by a mutral response in the financial markets Our economic editor Fiz Islam has this assessment Andy Burnham quoted the idea that in Manchester, They do things differently a reference from the film twentyenty four Hour Party People. His approach certainly did point to a rather different way of seeing and running the whole United Kingdom The deepartment in Greater Manchter Mare presented a diagnosis of what has caused economic malays but not a detailed plan for the economy at this moment. It rather appears that he's trying to keep as much powder dry as possible on the precise trade offs for as long as possible In two specific areas, Mr. Burnham appeared to want to communicate a capacity for being prudent on spending and borrowing He confirmed he would adhere to existing borrowing rules and also backed the Milbourne review into young people's employment outcomes, which could lead to welfare savings Many questions remain, however How does this all square with sticking to the twenty twenty four manifesto not to raise the major taxes and the fiscal rules The announcement on a Chancellor will wait for three weeks two, with so far no decision made. The markets appear to be relaxed, despite the past week's political upheavals, borrowing rates for UK debt are down a sense of direction, confidence and optimism alongside promises of prudence can go some distance But even famous Mancunian swwagger can only get you so far Mister Burnham spoke for thirty five minutes but declined to take questions. The Labour Party deputy leader Lucy Powell, one of his key allies, said this meant the news coverage would be about Mr. Burnham's own words. rather than reporters' questions It's still not known who might be in his cabinet and how they might try to achieve his vision Our political editor Chris Mason considers what this morning's speech told us about a likely Burnham preremiership This was a home fixture for Andy Burnham geographically and politically The audience in the room on side upbeat Mr. Burnham is a politician who revels in being on stage and is comfortable doing the vision thing Don't underestimate the contrast many Labour MPs will see on both counts. compompared to the Prime Minister, he's likely soon to replace There is no such thing as stararism, and there never will be, Saka once reputedly said, The equivalent line wouldn't be one you'd hear from Andy Burnham. todayod's speech, his team claim the foundational text of his programme for Gvernment Broad and bold en vision, yes, but his challenge will be fleshing out the detail and delivering noticeable change amid the climate of contributors to Sakia's demise, an impatient electorate of fracturing politics Andy Burnham has been notably shy about scrutiny in the last ten days or so, avoiding reporters questions after he won the by election and avoiding them again today too Mr. Burnham has vanishingly little time to get ready a man whose nurtured prime ministerial ambitions for years The final dash to the door is in all likelihood, happening in days twenty one to be precise three weeks today If he's not challenged, In the past hour, resident doctors in England have voted in favor of the government's pay offffer, marking a breakthrough in their long running dispute The package includes faster increases in next year's pay and more training places The doctors's Union, the British Medical Association, said the decisive vote brought to an end brought an end to strike action Our health correspondent, Sophie Hutchinson reports After more than three years, four health secretaries and fifteen strikes, this dispute over resident doctors' pay in England is finally over. The doctors had been fighting to restore their pay to the level it was in two thousand eight after taking inflation into account Over the past four years, they've had pay rises worth thirty three percent, including a three point five percent increase this year The government said it couldn't afford anything more, but the offer doctors have accepted included faster progress through the pay scales and that seems to have been enough, along with four thousand five hundred extra training places for newly qualified doctors and exam fees paid This will no doubt come as a huge relief to other NHS staff and patients who've seen hundreds of thousands of appointments cancelled due to industrial action over the past few years The BMA has said that the strikes will now end, but that the pay review process must continue to deliver improvements in the future. The Health seecretary James Murray described the agreement as good news for doctors, patients and the whole NHS. Resident doctors in Northern Ireland are taking part in a twenty four hour strike about pay The Union, the British Medical Association, rejected proposals for a three point five percent rise They say members' pay has decreased by more than twenty percent since two thousand eight The deevolved government said there was no scope for a larger increase Close aid to the former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has admitted using confidential information to place bets on the date of the twenty twenty four Gal election Craig Williams, who's forty one was the conservative MP for Montgomerishyshire when the allegations were first made against him He subsequently lost his seat. correspondent Joe Pike has more Two years ago, amid the drama of the twenty twenty four Gal election campaign, there were a flurry of stories alleging men and women with links to the Conservative Party had bet on the election date before the Snap poll had been announced When I tracked down and confronted one of them, Rishi Sunak's then parliamentary private Secretary Craig Williams, he told me it had been a huge error of judgment Today, Williams pleaded guilty to cheating at gambling The prosecutor said he bet two hundred and fifty pounds one hundred pounds and twenty two pounds fifty on the date of the election Afterwards, I tried to speak to him outside court Hell, Mrter Willam Why did you do it Why did you plead guilty today? Are you sorry for what you did? Amy Hind, the wife of the Conservative Party's deputy digital director, also pleaded guilty to cheating on the date of the election. She had placed bets of ten pounds five pounds and twenty pounds before later attempting to stake seven hundred sixty seven pounds and seven hundred pounds on a July poll. Twelve others, including a former metropolitan police officer and a former member of the Welsh Senetith pleaded not guilty Crag Williams is only likely to be sentenced after their trials, which have been set for september twenty twenty seven and january twenty twenty eight The maximum penalty for cheating is two years imprisonment or an unlimited fine, or both. Venezuela's acting President Delsea Rodriguez says people displaced by last week's twin earthquakes will be housed in temporary camps Earlier, a four point six magnitude aftershock hit the country Nearly fifteen hundred people are confirmed to have died, but tens of thousands more are still believed to be missing A twenty one year old man has been rescued after spending nearly five days buried in the rubble in Laguara correspondent Yoga Limaya, send this report from the region, which is one of the hardest hit When you drive into the coastal town of Lag Guirea, on one side you see the striking blue ocean, and on the other immediately the scale of destruction becomes evident What's also really obvious here is how understaffed the rescue effort is, how many more pairs of hands are needed, how much more equipment is required to dig through the rubble At one site we saw two tall buildings, sixteen stories high, which had collapsed into a pile of debris Local residents told us hundreds of people live there The first rescuers arrived two days after the earthquake, and until then locals were hearing screams and shouts from the people who were buried under the rubble. They managed to rescue some of them, just a few dozen But the others Hundreds are estimated to have been killed We saw volunteers climbing onto the rubble of wearing just masks and a pair of gloves and trying to dig through it with their bare hands but no sign of official rescue efforts When we speak to people here, they're telling us they're angry at their government because they feel like they've been left to their own devices to deal with the aftermath of this massive disaster. There are rescue teams arriving from different parts of the world, but it's just not enough. Outside the Morgue in the capital Caracas, you can see it's completely overwhelmed. It's full, and as new bodies are arriving there, they don't have the space to take them in until they can be identified and returned to their families. The next big challenge for this country is going to be how to dispose of all the dead and how to stop the outbreak of disease You're listening to the six o'clock newews on BBC Radio four. The main news so far The man who's expected to become Prime Minister, Andy Burnham has set out his plans to extend devolution promising to rewire Britain with a number ten North. Resident doctors in England have accepted the government's latest pay offffer, ending a series of strikes that started more than three years ago still to come hand from Kismanich who miss hits and Sina wins in five W test on day one of Wimbledon. The men's defending champion survives a scare, but Britain's best hopes are out already. Discover a spectacular island destination with crystal blue seas, endless sunshine, and the cool Bahamian breeze. 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Learn more at meaningfulbeauty d. comot One of the leading comedy actresses of the nineteen seventies and early eighties, Dame Penelope Keith has died. She was eighty six and had been diagnosed with cancer She played the snobby suburban housewife Margot Leedbetter in the sitcom The Good Life co star Felicity Kendall described her as a comic genius The former Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, who is a real life neighbor of Penelope Keith in Surrey, said that she had helped Britain laugh at it laugh at itself Our arts correspondent, David Silito looks back at her life and career The OR bird is so called because it lays square eggs On any list of most loved TV comedy characters of the last fifty years. I don't understand. Margot is surely near the top. You stupid man. Do we like that? I can but I pay your wages and get off my cock. Penelope Keith took the snobby, humorless neighbour of Tom and Barbara and made her one of TV's funniest and most lovable characters No, I have just cut my finger, clipping your blasted head. Don't swear, Jerry. And don't bleed in the sink, I just can't. Woman in Surrey, her mother heard after boarding school, sent her to acting school, but there wasn't a lot of encouragement. I was fairly plain looking, really. And tall, which was just a burden I carried with me from a very early age. One early appearance was an all action role in the Avengeance. But her springboard to fame was an Alan Acborne stage comedy. No, N that. Why not No man? Be it's wrck. There was more than a touch of Margot here, and both she and her co star, Philisty Kendall were offered parts in the goodood Life Although at the beginning, it wasn't a big role. I didn't even notice that I only had one line in the very first episode. The writers soon realized giveive Margot a line and Penelope Keith would give you a laugh. Please tell me why it's funny. And then came to the Manor Ball, and while her acting school had never thought of her as a romantic lead That's what she became, in a TV comedy that broke viewing records Nearly twenty four million at its peak that And a starring role in a Morkman Wise Christmas special said it all. I say is a unique honor. Well I'd rather you didn't kiss my hand. It's fright be unhygienic. She was comedy royalty. and more than forty years on, the good life was still being shown Keith is still making his laugh. you so much as sniggers. I'm going straight back indoors Britain is to invest more than half a billion pounds in a new biological defence laboratory as part of the government's long delayed defence investment plan. The announcement comes alongside radical changes to the Royal Navy, which will see proposals for six new destroyers scrapped in favour of hybrid vessels with drones and autonomous weapons The plan is usually published in full tomorrow is our security correspondent, Frank Gardner Potent down homeed to the government's defense Science and teechnology Labs is set to receive a major influx of cash for a new state of the art laboratory. The top secret base in Wiltsshire, which led the response to the twenty eighteen Novichok nerve agent poisoning in Salisbury, is to be given a five hundred eighty million pound investment under the revised Defence invvestment plan The move comes alongside radical plans to reform the way the Royal Navy will operate Instead of the six new Type eighty three destroyers it was expecting to get It'll get a similar number of smaller, cheaper, so called common combat vessels These will act as command hubs for a fleet of drones or uncrewed systems to be deployed on, above and below the surface The former Royal Navy Commander, Tom Sharp As reservations. Having very, very expensive ships Let's say for a number. is Perhaps not the way to go So the plan is a good one, but that's where the good news stops because I think what we'll find from here on in is that we don't resource it properly If you look at the common combat vessel that's the replacement for the destroyers, they will be much cheaper and much less capable on their own than the destroyers. The MOD insists this plan will help the Navy extend its reach without incurring further costs there are fears that corners are being cut just at the time when the perceived threat from Russia grabb H homeome Secretary Shabana Mahmouud has set out plans for members of the public to be trained to decide the outcome of asylum appeal cases, instead of judges. The government hopes the move, which will involve the creation of a new independent immigration appeals authority, will speed up the process. But critics have questioned whether the adjudicators will be impartial Our UK correspondents Daniel Sanford reports According to documents that accompanied the King's speech in May, tomorrow's immigration and asylum bill will produce significant changes, making refugee status temporary and requiring asylum seekers who start earning to pay back some of the costs of their initial accommodations It will also bring in a new streamlined appeal system Call the Independent Immigration Appeals Authority, it'll be staffed by trained up members of the public, known as adjudicators, rather than by judges This has raised concerns about the skills of the new adjudicators and their ability to be politically impartial But in response to an urgent question in the House of Lords, the Home Office Minister Lord Hanson said there would be rigorous checks. We will ensure, as of now, that individuals are vetted, that there are strong safeguards in place to ensure high standards and that those making decisions in the independent appppeals authority will be entirely independent of the executive Ministers said they're making the changes to reduce a backlog of more than one hundred fifty thousand cases President Putin has promised to increase production of air defensces after acknowledging that Russia is suffering fuel shortages as a result of Ukrainian attacks In an interview released by the Kremlin, Mr. Putin said strikes on Russian oil and gas facilities were creating problems the situation was not critical. Our correspondent, James Landdale reports from Moscow For ordinary Russians, the impact of Ukraine's missile and drone attacks is coming closer to us. widespread fuel ration ues at petrol stations, an outright ban on civilians filling their cars in annexed Crimea So acute as the problem, President Putin has now had to address it publicly On state TV, he accepted the long range strikes on Russian oil facilities were creating problems, not just for motorists but also farmers He admitted that there was just a few days' supply of energy left in Crimea He promised to step up air defense production, speed up repairs and increase fuel imports Russia already bnans the sale of petrol and jet fuel overseas. He said a diesel export ban was also being considered Ukraine hopes all this will increase political pressure on Russia's leader to negotiate an end to his four year war. President Putin said his aim of capturing four easastern regions of Ukraine remained changed and said Kieiv's offer of meetings and talks was designed to divert Russian attention from the front linine Police in northern Germany say six people have been shot dead in the northern city of Stradder. It happened at a youth centre. The authorities say all of the victims are adults. Two people have been arrested, a motive isn't yet clear The courourt has heard that a man who allegedly murdered two women and raped another in a series of predatory attacks in London last year previously been convicted of other sexual offences. Simon Levy denies the charges Fenel Dysimoni was at the O Bailey. Carmenza Valencia Truilio was found in a derelict block of flats in South London in march twenty twenty five. Months later, in August, the body of Cheryl Wilkins was discovered in a shop car park in North London close to where Simon Levy lived The jury heard that he was arrested and questioned by police in relation to the first murder before allegedly committing the second foral causes of death could not be ascertained. But the prosecution said the circumstances showed the women were murdered by Simon Levy He is also accused of raping, strangling, and leaving another woman for dead She was allegedly attacked in january twenty twenty five in the same car park where the body of Cheryl Wilkins was found. The Ct was told the three women were either sex workers or on occasion they performed sexual services in return for money or drugs And that's how Simon Levy encountered them and why he hoped he would get away with the crimes The jury also heard the defendant has a large number of convictions for sexual offenses against women, including sexual assaults in twenty eighteen and twenty twenty five trial continues The M offffice says the heat wave led to record UK temperatures for June on Friday, which were higher than previously thought. Updated figures show Lingwood in Norfolk. reached thirty seven point seven Celsius. A spokesman for the Duke of Sussex says he's still hoping to bring his wife and children on a visit to the UK next week There have been suggestions that a row over security meant they would not accompany Prince Harry on the trip. Our royal correspondent Sean Hochlan reports After some back and forth over who will be on this trip It now seems that Prince Harry, Meghan and their children, Archie and Lilet will be heading for the UK next week That will depend on security arrangements being put in place But Prince Harry's team are working on the assumption that he'll be traveling with his family The visit could see King Charles meeting his grandchildren And there are hopes the family trip will go ahead, despite Prince Harry's worries about the level of police protection The government has said the security arrangements for such high profile visitors are rigorous and proportionate The England cricket capaptain Ben Stokes' final international match has ended in defeat. New Zealand beat England by one hundred and sixty runs to wrap up their three match series Our sports correspondent Andy Swiss sent this report from Trentbridge There is inter Smith who hits this down the ground. It's in the air, it's floating towards Loman and it's Nathan Smith down there who rightly fittingly takes the catch that wins New Zealand this series. He's seen a few miracles in his England career, but for Ben Stokes, this was one too far, as New Zealand ruthlessly ended any hopes of a victorious send off Before the start of play, the crowd were treated to a video of Stokes's greatest moments. But England's chances of victory were all but over once Joe Rot had been brilliantly run out defeat in front of a half full Trent Bidge was not the ending Stokes would have wanted, but he insisted he had no regrets about his international retirement. I've got the things that my mind is sort of focusing on now and you know I've obviously sacrificed a lot There's also other people who have sacrificed a lot along the way for me and that includes my wife My children now who have 've got their own sort of interests and their own things that they want to do and I want to be able to go and share those experiences with them. For the England fans leaving Trent Bridge, there was a mix of frustration