Floods left many people homeless. For many local residents, it was a break from the flood clean up. Alasdair gill reports. Christmas in fishla ke has not been cancelled, at least the local fair hasnt. And its a warm and welcome respite from Flood Recovery for the villages residents. As you can see, its very full and very busy because of the determination here within fishlake to rebuild what we had and to do our best to keep it alive. 11 days ago, much of thorninghurst farm was under water. Today looks a lot better, but the hidden cost is huge. Farmer steven gilliard reckons hes looking at a bill of around £250,000. Contamination now, fuel burst, central heating tanks out the village. All that fuels flowed to me. And now sat all over the grassland, which we need to graze and were pedigree breeders, were now going to vaccinate for diseases which you you could get from flooded grazing land. Who pays for that . Looking at me at this moment. Community spirit here is what is getting people
The model display destroyed by vandals now on show once more thanks to help from sir rod stewart and thousands of other supporters. And coming up on sportsday at 7. 30 Jose Mourinhos first game in charge at tottenham, ends in a 3 2 win at west ham. Gps have voted to reduce visits to patients homes, saying they no longer have the capacity to offer them. Doctors supported the proposal at a meeting of english local medical committees yesterday. But the Health Secretary, matt hancock, said the idea of taking home visits out of gps contracts was a complete non starter. Jenny kumah reports. Family doctors say their workload is on the rise and this, coupled with falling gp numbers, mean something has to give. At his surgery in leeds this doctor is well aware of the challenges facing surgeries like his. One of the daily pressures that gp practices are under is the obligation to do home visits. What would be much better is if we had a dedicated Home Visiting team with people with the time to be
The police ban on protests by the Climate Group Extinction Rebellion across london last month, is ruled unlawful in the high court. Nicola adams has announced her retirement. And the weather. We have been looking at the latest climate statistics. And also the forecast over the next few days with particularly heavy rain for england and north wales. Thanks, chris. Also coming up anger as firefighters responding to an out of control bonfire are attacked by a gang of young people throwing fireworks. Idid not i did not define what young actually meant there. We will talk about that later on. Hello, everyone this is afternoon live. Its not what anyone would want minutes before they launch their Election Campaign. As borisjohnson prepared to address voters from downing street the news that a cabinet minister was resigning. Welsh secretary alun cairns quit following claims he knew about a former aides role in the collapse of a rape trial. Certainly not the best start for a campaign which was l
Cancer and the number of teenagers with the disease is rising. The thames riverboat in which 51 people lost their lives. 30 years on, tributes are paid to those killed in the marchioness disaster. The government has reiterated its insistence that there is no prospect of a brexit deal until the eu agrees to scrap the irish backstop from the current Withdrawal Agreement. The backstop is intended to prevent a hard border on the island of ireland. Speaking earlier this evening, the Prime Minister, whos due to meet european and World Leaders this week, said he would try to persuade brussels to renegotiate the exit terms to get an agreement that would be passed by parliament dont forget why we are doing this. The existing agreementjust does not work for the uk. They have rejected it three times and we cannot have this backstop. So im going to go see him ourfriends and then going to germany and france and i am going to germany and france and i am going to make the point that the backstop is g
Please allow me to negotiate. 50 years after british troops were sent to Northern Ireland, we talk to some of the soldiers on patrol at the start of the troubles. And Manchester United get off to a flying start in their premier league campaign, hitting four against chelsea. And well be taking an in depth look at the papers with our reviewers, journalist and author Yasmin Alibhai brown, and former conservative advisor mo hussein. Stay with us for that. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The government has announced a package of measures on law and order, saying its serious about fighting crime. Labour has dismissed the plans as no more than empty promises ahead of a possible general election. So what is the government proposing . Ministers want to create 10,000 new prison places across england and wales. And a pilot scheme giving the police wider powers to stop and search suspects will be extended to all 43 forces. Critics say theres little detail about how the policies will be funde