And the celebrated american novelist Toni Morrison has died at the age of 88. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news, wayne rooney says he can still make a big contribution, as he signs for championship side derby county. Good evening. Evidence of sexual abuse and racism at Chelsea Football Club from the 1970s through to the 90s is laid bare in two separate independent reviews. 0ne reveals that youth players at the club some as young as ten were sexually assaulted in the 70s by the chief scout, eddie heath and that others at the club turned a blind eye. Its heavily critical of a former chelsea coach, dario gradi, forfailing to report a complaint from a parent of a young player which could have stopped the abuse. A separate review found that black players at the club were racially abused by another coach in the 1980s and 90s. The chelsea board have apologised unreservedly and offered compensation. 0ur sports editor, dan roan, reports from stamford bridge. In the 1970s, he was tasked wit
Football as they do now. Nobody asked for this to happen. Dreams, lives, basically ruined. Its back home for some, but its not yet all clear for the collapsed derbyshire dam. Tensions over kashmir after india scraps its autonomy. Pakistan says it could go to the un. The first black woman to win the nobel prize for literature, the american novelist Toni Morrison, has died at the age of 88. And at 11 30pm well be taking an in depth look at the papers with our reviewers ruth lea and torcuil crichton. Stay with us for that. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The minister in charge of no deal brexit preparations, michael gove, has accused the eu of refusing to engage in fresh talks, in a deepening war of words between brussels and westminster. Mr gove said the uk was ready and willing to resume negotiations and that he was deeply saddened by what he claimed was the eus approach. His comments came after eu officials described as unacceptable britains insistence on scrapping the backstop,
Floor of the tate modern broke his back and suffered a bleed on the brain. Shoring up the dam in derbyshire some residents are told they can finally go home five days it threatened to burst. And the first black woman to win the nobel prize for literature the american novelist Toni Morrison has died at the age of 88. And coming up on bbc news. Rooney returns the former england captain will leave dc united in the usa at the end of this year to join derby county as player coach. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Eddie heath was the chief scout at Chelsea Football Club in the 19705 but an independent inquiry has found that he was a prolific and dangerous paedophile who sexually assaulted player5 as young as ten, while others at the club turned a blind eye. The report criticises an ex chelsea coach, dario gradi, saying he failed to report a complaint from a parent of a young player, which could have stopped the abuse. A separate review found that black players at the club wer
One . Absolutely massive story in town today. 100,000 channel migrants have now arrived in britain. Like ive said, im going to be going through that piece by piece and also asking the question how many of them have gone missing . Views gbnews. Com gb views gbnews. Com headlines now. How. Now. Good afternoon. Its 3 01. Im Rhiannon Jones in the newsroom. The Police Service of Northern Ireland says dissident republicans claim to be in possession of officers. Details following a data leak. Chief constable simon byrne says hes deeply sorry for the industrial scale breach. He says the scale breach. He says the service is working hard to stop third parties from attempting to intimidate, corrupt or cause harm to serving officers. Harm to serving officers. Earlier he attended a behind the doors meeting with a policing board, the Police Service of Northern Ireland mistakenly shared details of 10,000 members of staff on tuesday day. Hundreds of officers have said they fear for their safety. They
Lights. We will show you more coming up. Question, is this nice weather ing to go last until the Holiday Weekend . Are these rumors of the white chris mass we have been talking about for days pan out lets start with the near term. Temperatures wise it feels good outside right now. We need light jacket, coat maybe some gloves but not too bad for a december night. Couple days before christmas were sitting at 48 degrees still in philadelphia 42 allentown. Fortyfour in reading. Temperatures on our mobile weather watcher right around 46 degrees, here in yardley. Storm scan three showing you the cloud in place, notice rain is not far off, green just starting to spread over west virginia, heading for maryland and that rain will get here overnight but it will bring warmer air witt. We will go from warm to wintry over the Holiday Weekend, period of rain all day tomorrow, not the best day to be out and about. Christmas eve Daylight Hours look dry but light snow arrives overnight Christmas Eve, r