Days of rainfall across the uk. It is basically the story of autumn and early winter so far as rain sweeps north across the uk. This is yesterday, no one escaped that. This has brought flooding across parts of south east england today. The west about rain has pushed north, but more rain in the forecast of the next couple of days. For some of us, turning drier. But right now, we are dealing with that flooding and disruption, particularly into parts of south east england. So much rain the past couple of days, of a 60 millimetres, the wettest part of the brecon beacons. In east grinstead, over 50 millimetres. A large part of the december rainfall in such a short time, which is why there are so many flood warnings from the environment agency. More rain in the forecast. Go to our website for details of the flood warnings and the met Office Weather warnings. It isa the met Office Weather warnings. It is a bit dry aware it has been wet today, but heavy showers moving in. This rain this aftern
Underwater motorways heavy rain and floods put the brakes on the christmas getaway. Buckingham palace confirms that the duke of edinburch is in hospital. Coming up on afternoon live all the sport with connie. Waiting for announcement from arsenal . Were waiting for confirmation that mikel arteta is the new arsenal manager. Up until this week he was assistant coach to Pep Guardiola at Manchester City and in the last hour or so hes confirmed that arteta has left the club and hes in london. Chris has all the weather parts of the country flooded . We will be looking at how much rain has fallen over the last couple of days, bringing flooding seems like these, but also crucially as the Christmas Holiday getaway gets under way, we will be looking at what the weather has in store over the next few days. Thanks, chris. Also coming up. Three, two, one and lift off a new era in human space flight. Could this capsule one day take paying passengers into space . Hello, everyone this is afternoon liv
Will take them to the euros. Holidays are coming, and that means so are the christmas ads. Nearly £7 billion will be spent on them this year, so as thejohn lewis film is revealed, ill have a look whether the focus is on tv or online. Westlife are back with a new album, with a helping hand from ed sheeran. They will be here after 8 00am to tell us how it happened. It isa it is a cold start to the day, for some of us a frosty one, but also some of us a frosty one, but also some heavy rain extending through wales to central and south eastern england. That will move northwards today towards Northern England. U nfortu nately today towards Northern England. Unfortunately it is also going to rein in areas where we already have some flooding. I will have more details in 15 minutes. It is thursday 1a november. Our top story the army is preparing fresh defences for flood stricken parts of South Yorkshire as more heavy rain is forecast across the uk. The village of fishlake near doncaster has be
Im dumbfounded that this government wont release the report about russian influence, because every person who votes in this country deserves to see that report before your election happens. Coming up after 09. 15 and all day on bbc news as part of our general election series, we take a close look at the town of Bishop Auckland finding out why its notjust brexit butjobs, crime and the decline of the high street that are among the big issues for voters. And coming up in sport Raheem Sterling is dropped by england after being involved in an altercation with liverpoolsjoe gomez at theirtraining camp, a day after they clashed in the premier league. Good morning, and welcome to the bbc news at nine. From serious breathing problems linked to e cigarettes. Ewan fisher was connected to an artificial lung to keep him alive after his own lungs failed and he couldnt breathe. Doctors have told bbc news that the case is not an isolated incident, with one warning young people should never go near vap
Even my worst enemies. Firefighters continue to battle dozens of raging bushfires in eastern australia. Officials warn residents that conditions are expected to worsen today. And coming up Hillary Clinton tells the bbc that its inexplicable and shameful the uk government hasnt published a report on alleged russian interference in british politics. Im dumbfounded that this government wont released a report about russian influence because every person who votes in this country deserves to see that report before your election happens. Good morning. Its november 12th. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The labour party says there has been a sophisticated and la rge scale cyber attack on its digital platforms. The party said the attack had failed because of their robust Security Systems and that no data had been taken. In a statement, the party said. Our security procedures have slowed down some of our campaign activities, but these were restored this morning and we are back up to full speed. We