Evening briefing Thursday 3rd July

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0:42The striker's been killed in a car crash just 11 days after getting married. The 28-year-old Portuguese international was travelling with his brother Andre Silva in the Zamora province of north-western Spain. Liverpool FC says it's devastated. Tony Evans is a former football editor with the Times. He says the timing could hardly have been worse. He'd just come from a team that had won the league. He got married last month to his long-term partner. They've got three children. The pictures were on social media. and only yesterday he posted pictures saying it was the best time of his life, the best day of his life, and then this news comes through.

1:19Times radio reporter Amelia Bell-Trow has been to Anfield. I'm seeing children in their uniforms coming straight from school thinking I need to be paying my respects, coming in their school PE kits, coming straight from sports day. He did have the number 20 on the back of his shirt, so there is a big balloon display behind me of the number 20. People today just want to be gathering around here, just to sort of bring that sense of community and togetherness to try and heal what's happened here. The Chancellor has spoken for the first time since she was seen crying at Prime Minister's questions.

1:51Rachel Reeves says it was a personal matter and she's not going to share the details. She was asked if she's still up for the job. I totally am. This is the job that I've always wanted to do. I'm proud of what I've delivered as Chancellor. Look, I think all of your viewers have had tough days, for personal reasons, for whatever reasons. I happened to be on the camera when I had a tough day, but today is a new day and I'm just getting on with the job. The Prime Minister says he didn't notice the distress the Chancellor was in during PMQs. I actually personally didn't even appreciate it was happening in the Chamber because I came in and I've got questions being fired at me in PMQs and so I'm sort of constantly up at the debauch box and down.

2:33But I think we just need to be clear, it's a personal matter and I'm not going to breach Rachel's privacy by going into what's a personal matter for her. The government wants to train more GPs at the expense of fewer hospital consultants under its 10-year plan for the NHS. Ministers also want to shift care out of hospitals and closer to home. Poppy Karonka, the Times' health correspondent, says the intention is to put a lot more information on the NHS app. We've got potentially your genome sequenced and your genetic risk scores on the app. You've got data that could be put in from smartphones, so wearables, Apple Watches, stuff like that that could be fed into the app.

3:15All of these things that are quite radical and forward thinking. I think it does perhaps lack on some of the detail on some of these proposals. And you can follow The Times News Briefing on Spotify and listen live to Times Radio online.

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