Good morning. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. Snow across country. It has caused disruption as winds bring cold weather from the arctic. The Environment Agency says the first high tide along the east coast of england this morning was not as bad as feared but thousands of homes still face a danger of flooding. Currently there are 11 severe warnings which mean there is a danger to life. This is the picture in skegness were snow has been lighter but Flood Warnings have been issued and soldiers have been deployed to assist where needed. Where some might have been cursing the conditions this morning, others of course have been making the most of it here near birmingham. Meanwhile, in canterbury in kent while it was knowing this morning i is now seems to be more of an issue. This is the scene coming up for you from the roof of the bbc here in london where it has recently started to snow. We we re it has recently started to snow. We were taught to our number of correspondence in the next while
happened on saturday afternoon. they also want to speak to witnesses who may have seen what happened to brianna at the weekend. households across england are facing a rise in their council tax from april, as local authorities try to balance the books. research by the county councils network suggests the majority of councils with social care duties are planning a 5% increase. council leaders say they have little choice but to raise tax to protect services. no council wants to put up council tax by the maximum, especially not during a cost of living crisis. but with inflation at over 10%, even a 5% council tax doesn t match the costs that are going up, particularly with social care costs going up by more than 10% and construction costs going up as well. this means that councils have to put up their council tax, otherwise we d be having even worse cuts to services. bbc analysis of accident and emergency waiting times in england shows wide variations in how services have coped this winter.
identified as somebody who exposes himself, a sex offender, they would have realised he was a police officer and he could have been stopped. it also feeds into this idea that many women have that inde cent exposure dismissed as flashing and we know that often leads to more serious offences. sadly in the case of sarah everard it did lead to more serious offences and we have an officer from serious offences and we have an officerfrom kent serious offences and we have an officer from kent and an officer from the metropolitan police both being investigated. thank you. bbc analysis of accident and emergency waiting times in england shows wide variations in how services have coped this winter. at some of the 107 hospital trusts that provided data, more than half of patients waited longer than four hours but at the best performing units fewer than one in ten did. 0ur health correspondent,
bbc analysis of accident and emergency waiting times in england shows wide variations in how services have coped this winter. at some of the 107 hospital trusts that provided data, more than half of patients waited longer than four hours, but at the best performing units fewer than one in ten did. 0ur health correspondent dominic hughes has more. it s been the toughest winter for the nhs in a generation. across the uk, there have been record waiting times for ambulances and in a&e departments. and that s had a real impact on patients. the bbc has analysed nhs england data on average waiting times in emergency departments over december and january. among the best performing were nhs trusts in northumbria, maidstone and tunbridge wells and blackpool. but patients in hull, wye valley, and shrewsbury and telford face the longest waits. and in all the ten worst performing trusts, patients were five times more likely to face
action of liverpool supporters that saved lives. more on that story, reaction from liverpool football club, welcoming the report into the chaos at the uefa champions league final in paris, which vindicates liverpool fans and lays the blame very firmly at the door of the organising body, uefa. bbc analysis of accident and emergency waiting times in england shows wide variations in how services have coped this winter. at some of the 107 hospital trusts that provided data, more than half of patients waited longer than four hours but at the best performing units fewer than one in ten did. our health correspondent dominic hughes has more. it s been the toughest winter for the nhs in a generation. across the uk, there have been record waiting times for ambulances and in a&e departments. and that s had a real