Around 100 people are rescued by the service from floods in the midlands with warnings of more rain on the way. The mother of a 10 Year Old Girl who died after contracting an infection in a cancer ward in glasgow claims there was a cover up over her death. Sleeping on the streets, in parks, on peoples sofas a Charity Warns that more than 20 thousand young people are at risk of homelessness this christmas. And eastenders stars take on strictly for tonights children in need. Coming up on tonights news watch, the strange tale of how three year old footage of Boris Johnson laying a wreath at the cenotaph came to be broadcast on monday morning. Join us tonight here on bbc news. Labour has unveiled plans to give every home across the uk free broadband in the next decade by partly nationalising bt. The shadow chancellorjohn mcdonnell said his partys proposals were visionary and the £20 billion cost of doing it would be paid for partly by introducing a tax on tech giants. The Prime Minister c
On day 5 at wimbledon, djokovic and 15 year old cori gauff in action later as well as andy murray and Serena Williams in the mixed doubles. Well be live there at 2. 30 and bring you news on England International karen carneys retirement from football. Matt has all the weather sunny and warm in places but will it last . 28 this afternoon in some southern areas, to live this weekend, will it stay dry . I will let you know. I will explain more in 25 minutes. Thanks matt. Also coming up tributes are paid to horse racing puinditjohn mccririck. Pundit. With his signature deerstalker hat and flamboyant style, he was a familiar face on british television. Hello, everyone this is afternoon live. A gang behind the biggest modern day Slavery Network ever exposed in the uk has been convicted of offences including trafficking, Money Laundering and forcing people into forced labour. Police believe there were up to 400 victims put to work by the polish organised crime gang in the West Midlands. A thr
Vehicles in birmingham. And in wimbledon teen sensation coco gauff takes Polona Hercog to a final set on centre court meaning andy murray and Serena Williams match is postponed to saturday. Peter saves europe from the bad guys in spider man, far from peter saves europe from the bad guys in spider man, farfrom home, starring tom holland. Find out whether mark was blown away by that and the rest of the weeks releases in the film review. Good evening. A gang has been convicted of running the uks largest modern slavery ring. Police believe up to 400 victims were forced to work by a gang of polish criminals in the West Midlands who raked in millions. The gang lured Vulnerable People from poland to the uk where they forced them to work for a pittance. Eight people have been found guilty of offences including trafficking, Money Laundering and forcing people to perform forced labour. Sima kotecha has been at Birmingham Crown court and sent this report. Their victims, some as young as 17, were
An extra hour in school for some pupils in wales as heads try out changes to the Academic Year. The Winter Olympics torch relay kicks off in beijing as chinas capital gears up for the games. Good morning. Quite a lot of Cloud Producing Light Rain in the north and east. Not as windy as it has been but it is still going to be mild. Details later in the programme. Good morning. Its wednesday, the 2nd of february. The government will today set out its long delayed Manifesto Plan to level up the lives of millions of people across the uk. The proposals include a series of pledges to improve education, Public Transport and housing in some of the most disadvantaged areas of the country. Labour have dismissed the project as more slogans and strategies. Our Political Correspondent Jessica Parker reports. We are a government committed to levelling up. It is absolutely what levelling up is all about. What were doing is levelling up. Level up across the whole of the uk. Ministers have talked about