Richard parker, narrowly beat the conservative s Andy Street Who had served two terms in the role. The labour mayor of london, sadiq khan, was re elected for a historic third term. Overall, the conservatives lost hundreds of councillors in the local elections in england. This morning, the transport secretary, mark harper, said while the results were disappointing, the General Election was still all to play for. But speaking to the bbc, Suella Braverman insisted her party here is this report from our correspondence, damian grammaticas. Its a result that will send a shudder through conservatives. The shudder through conservatives. Tie Conservative Shudder through conservatives. Tue Conservative Party candidate, 224082. , Conservative Party candidate, 224082. ,. , 224082. Labour victorious in the West Midlands 224082. Labour victorious in the West Midlands mayoral 224082. Labour victorious in the West Midlands mayoral race. I 224082. Labour victorious in the West Midlands mayoral race. Al
Of two ways, couldnt it . He wouldve hated it. Yeah, either he wouldve hated it. We were taking the mickey. Yeah as a teenager, hed have really creative moments, where hed be, ive done this ive written this song, mum. Listen to it, this is great. Then thered be a time when hed lock himself in his room and wouldnt come out. He was a down place, in a dark place. Dylans family tried to get him Mental Health support, and eventually sent him to rehab after discovering he was using heroin. What did you know about dylans drug taking . He was very secretive, when it came to that stuff. He wasnt proud of it. I was 20 when he died, and he was 21. Erm. So, losing him was like, my whole world ending. It was, erm, the hardest thing ive ever had to deal with. Yeah. It was the 24th ofjuly, in 2021. Round about 4 oclock in the morning, and it was his girlfriend, who was calling me. Dylans taken something. I think its heroin. It doesnt look good. I said, ok, well, im coming. Im on my way. An ambulance
The release of scores of hostages still held in gaza. People are hostages to the right wing government, and the people of gaza are hostages to hamas, and basically there has to be a way to overcome that. They are protesting because the last five months of Military Assaults on gaza have failed to release those israeli hostages. Not everybody in israel wants this ceasefire deal. There are some, especially hardliners in the coalition government, who want to see instead an immediate Military Operation against hamas in rafah. Meanwhile, the Israeli Government has voted unanimously to close the operations in israel of the qatar based tv channel aljazeera. A tweet from the Israeli Prime Ministers Office called it the incitement channel. In cairo, Ceasefire Talks are still in play. Hamas has sent a delegation, but they have been locked in talks with mediators. The Sticking Point appears to be they want a permanent end to the fighting, notjust a pause, and israel isnt ready to give that commitm
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Gathered behind me here, and we are waiting at this Convention Centre in birmingham for the official final declaration, so at the moment all we know is that Labour Sources are saying that they have won. If that is the case, that would be a huge coup for the party and for sir keir starmer, the incumbent conservative mayor andy street is still hoping, it has been hoping for a third term here, and it was very fought race, and throughout the day, both partys sources have been telling me that they believed it was a knife edge, they believed it was a knife edge, the result here. But as we are hearing from the labour party now, they believe they have pulled it off, and Richard Parker, their candidate, has won. I was down on the floor five minutes ago, Richard Parker was down there as were other members of the labour party, Jess Phillips mp as well. They had all just go down on the floor, we didnt really know why, but they all seemed fairly positive. Could that have been the first sign before