Welcome to bbc news. Polls have closed in two parliamentary by elections in staffordshire and cumbria, following the resignations of the labour mps in stoke on Trent Central and copeland. The polls closed just over an hour ago with the results expected ataround 3am. In a moment well get the latest from tom bateman at the copeland count in whitehaven. First, lets cross to chris mason in stoke. The challenge from labour perhaps comes from ukip . It does. Good evening from stoke, where the verification of the Ballot Papers is already under. About a dozen ballot boxes have already been brought here to The Camp Centre at the start of the law night. On nights like this the law night. On nights like this the word imminent gets used frequently, but you have to define that by every hour. This is a tussle between labour, a party that has held his seat or is it very similar to it since 1930, and ukip, which hopes the breakthrough in town and city that is seen as the capital of brexit. A large maj
Welcome to bbc news. Polls have closed in two parliamentary by elections in staffordshire and cumbria, following the resignations of the labour mps in stoke on Trent Central and copeland. The polls closed just over an hour ago with the results expected ataround 3am. In a moment well get the latest from tom bateman at the copeland count in whitehaven. First, lets cross to chris mason in stoke. The challenge from labour perhaps comes from ukip . It does. Good evening from stoke, where the verification of the Ballot Papers is already under. About a dozen ballot boxes have already been brought here to The Camp Centre at the start of the law night. On nights like this the law night. On nights like this the word imminent gets used frequently, but you have to define that by every hour. This is a tussle between labour, a party that has held his seat or is it very similar to it since 1930, and ukip, which hopes the breakthrough in town and city that is seen as the capital of brexit. A large maj
Welcome to bbc news. Polls have closed in two parliamentary by elections in staffordshire and cumbria, following the resignations of the labour mps in stoke on Trent Central and copeland. The polls closed just over an hour ago with the results expected ataround 3am. In a moment well get the latest from tom bateman at the copeland count in whitehaven. First, lets cross to chris mason in stoke. The challenge from labour perhaps comes from ukip . It does. Good evening from stoke, where the verification of the Ballot Papers is already under. About a dozen ballot boxes have already been brought here to The Camp Centre at the start of the law night. On nights like this the law night. On nights like this the word imminent gets used frequently, but you have to define that by every hour. This is a tussle between labour, a party that has held his seat or is it very similar to it since 1930, and ukip, which hopes the breakthrough in town and city that is seen as the capital of brexit. A large maj
By elections in stoke and copeland will give us some idea of how Jeremy Corbyn is going down in a part of britain that is not really his natural territory. Natural, strong labour areas that voted in favour of leaving in the referendum back injune. What did we learn . Do not make predictions before the votes have been counted so i will take the safer course of action of reporting on what the parties say. In stoke, labour say they think they might squeak ahead of ukip, two factors in their favour paul nuttall, the leader of ukip with those difficult questions about his involvement in hillsborough and the second, they genuinely think they have been connecting to those voters who supported leave in the referendum. Ukip say, dont count us out, they had a reasonable pace, ukip say, dont count us out, they had a reasonable base here, second place in the general election, 22. 7 of the vote but the problem was they said they had no idea where those voters were so they got out there, shoe leathe
bit of a boost to the people involved in these operations in southern turkey. as tom was just saying there, people are so desperate. there has been unrest in some parts of southern turkey, which has disrupted some of the rescue efforts that are continuing. attention is now being turned to whether human failings in the way buildings were constructed in this part of turkey have added to the impact of the natural disaster of the earthquakes. thousands of buildings collapsed. turkish officials have issued more than a hundred arrest warrants in connection with the poor construction of buildings that collapsed in monday s earthquakes. professor mustafa erdik is an earthquake engineering specialist and professor emeritus at bogazici univeristy in istanbul. he told me more about building standards in turkey. earthquake standards in turkey is as good as anywhere else in the world. the difficulty is not