Silent night. And coming up on bbc news. Ferrari confirm theyve had social discussions with mercedes six time formula one World Champion over driving for them in the future. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. After weeks of campaigning, voting is under way in the general election. This morning, the Party Leaders were out casting their ballots. Its the third election in less than five years and the first to be held in december for nearly a century. The first results are expected before midnight. Heres our Political Correspondent ben wright and a warning his report includes some flashing images. Voting at 7am. The prime minister, borisjohnson, had voting at 7am. The prime minister, boris johnson, had some voting at 7am. The prime minister, borisjohnson, had some canine company as he cast his ballot at this polling station in westminster. Have you all got your pictures, are you all right . The labour leader Jeremy Corbyn posed for the cameras too after voting in his north
News is coming into us of an earthquake near yeovil in somerset s. Reports are varying as to the strength of the earthquake. Some are saying it has measured 4. 5 on the Richter Scale and others are saying it measured 3. 4, but nonetheless we have got some comments from people in the taunton, yeovil and bridgwater areas. If youve ever wondered what its like to be at home when an earthquake of this kind of magnitude strikes, well, here you go 0ne witness said they initially thought it was the rumbling of a passing tractor but the dogs reacted and it was unnerving and apparently the shower door rattled. Another person said the bed shook. The daughter thought a lorry was going but they walked past and there was no lorry and a wooden board on its side did fall over upstairs. Someone else reported it sounded like a collision on the road, a kind of whoomp noise with a hanging of medals rattling on a door handle. Someone else reported nothing fell off the shelf but the cat wasnt happy. Someone
Sports the Calgary Flames hockey team denying best stalling a racism investigation at coach bill pate is accused of virtually abusing a player and issuing a misleading apology. Top story informal talks have resumed between the Afghan Taliban and u. S. Officials the taliban has told al jazeera that some preliminary meetings have taken place here in doha and could pave the way for the resumption of formal peace talks President Trump canceled negotiations in september following the death of a u. S. Soldier but on the a short trip to afghanistan he told american troops that he believed the taliban was willing to strike a deal Stephanie Decker has more. It was a surprise visit and is often the case with president donald trump. Rising announcement taliban wants to make a deal and were meeting with them and were saying it has to be a cease fire they want to do a cease fire but now they do want to do is use fire i believe it probably work and there were times admission their meeting with the t
To sell their home again, and you have no idea what it costs. The metropolitan police is to pay the former mp Harvey Proctor £900,000 in compensation and legal costs he was wrongly accused of being part of a westminster paedophile ring. A manuscript written by elizabeth i is discovered a translation of a book praising the monarchy, complete with her distinctive messy handwriting. Unai emery is sacked as arsenal manager after 18 months in charge. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The energy firm npower is set to cut up to 4,500 jobs in the uk as it plans to restructure to make itself more profitable. Unions have called the move a cruel blow for workers. The company, which is german owned, described the uk market as particularly challenging. Npower has a uk workforce of around 5,700 staff. They announced plans injanuary to cut 900 jobs. Npowers owners, e. 0n said that profit for the first nine months of its Financial Year fell 27 to two billion pounds. Lets get more from our B
Year and the long nights it means we pick up the frost again but increasing amounts of fog. It might not be as sunny but it is dry. The satellite picture is largely sunny with bubbles of cloud providing us with bubbles of cloud providing us with some showers down the east coast. Still the legacy of yesterday and its cloud across the far south west but again, clutching at straws, for most of us its cold but dry and bright and sunny. Soon after dark, temperatures plummeting below freezing. We had a fairly widespread frost last night and an even wider one tonight. There will be an ice risk. The far south west keaton of cloud and breeze to escape the frost but temperatures will be a degree or two down. Frosty and by morning potentially more fog. Already warnings are out for that, the fog patches can become quite dense by the time we get to the morning and that will be clearly hazard rate users. Critically for england and wales, even in southern areas. It shows you how widespread it is. Som