This is still very much an ongoing operation. These teams have so far rescued around about 50 residents this morning. No one knows for sure how long this water will remain here, but it is thought it might stay flooded for the next couple of days. And listen to this. Just a0 miles up north in Aberdeen Winds of up to 70mph. Along the coast, these homes were submerged and damaged. Yesterday, the body of a 57 year old woman was rescued from a river in angus. Within the last hour, police have confirmed the death of a 56 year old driver after a falling tree hit the van near forfar. Some parts of scotland have now been issued a new red danger to life Weather Warning for tomorrow. But for today it has been downgraded to amber as it travels south. Parts of Northern England at the midlands are now bracing themselves for what is to come. Fiona lamdin, bbc news. Our reporter louise cowie is also in brechin and gave us this update. The rain has literallyjust stopped before we came on air, but its b
When a score of a00 had looked likely. In response, pakistan started brightly with an opening stand of 134 helped by some bad australian fielding. But the loss of set batters, including rizwan, threatened to tilt the contest in favour of australia again. This is the latest from bangalore. Pakistan now 297 8 in the 45th over. Weve arrived at the Semifinal Stage of the rugby world cup. England take on south africa tomorrow, but less than three hours to go now until new zealand play argentina. The all blacks are heavy favourites to reach their third final in the last four tournaments and avoid a repeat of their defeat at this stage four years ago. From the experience, you learn a lot, and it is clear weve got some outstanding leaders in the team. For the much all of them were there. And i know that that sort of loss is driving some of them. I know it is four years on, but you can still look back to that week and think about what you learned from it, and i guess make sure that, yeah, it do
Adding more rain to what is already a pretty nasty situation. Matt, really good to have you across that, i know you will follow events throughout the day and that new red Weather Warning that comes into force later. Matt taylor in the bbc wetter centre. Full detail on the bbc website and with your local bbc radio station. You saw some of that weather coming in and the disruption it is causing not only for homes but infrastructure train lines and other Public Transport heavily affected by that weather. Now, let us get more on what is happening in the middle east and that conflict between israel and gaza, earlier we were showing you the un Secretary General, he was at the rafa crossing between egypt and gaza, he was there with hundreds of lorries that are lined up trying to get goods into gaza, just 20 have so far been given the green light to enter the territory, we had to interrupt that to take you to keir starmer s speech, earlier, so let us bring you the rest of what we heard there f
A second red Weather Warning for the North East Of Scotland from midnight tonight. Fiona lamdin reports from brechin, north of dundee where people had to leave their homes because of flooding. In the dark, they hadnt realised just how deep it was. The South Esk River burst its banks in brechin around four in the morning. 70 year old muriel has lived here for 20 years. Last night, she was adamant she wasnt leaving. I heard the water in the garage of our house, and this is how close weve got to escaping in our car, which is a hybrid, but we thought for a horrible moment we were trapped in it, because we couldnt get the doors open. We feel rescued now. David and isla and their beloved spaniels were sheltering in their attic before help came. We all came out through the bedroom window. Ive been up in the attic since five oclock, basically, since the water started coming into the house. This is still very much an ongoing operation. These teams have so far rescued around about 50 residents t