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good morning. it s thursday october 20th. our main story. the prime minister s position is looking increasingly vulnerable today after some of her own mps called for her to resign. it followed a chaotic day for the government with the resignation of the home secretary, accusations of bullying, and confusion over whether the chief whip had resigned. our political correspondent ione wells reports. reporter: is this a coalition of chaos, mr schapps? - another day, another new cabinet minister. grant shapps, sacked just six weeks ago by liz truss, returns as her new home secretary. look, obviously it s been a turbulent time for the government, but i think the most important thing is to make sure that people in this country know that they ve got security and that s why it s a great honour to be appointed as home secretary. he stepped up after suella braverman stepped down, resigning over two data breaches. but have a look at her resignation letter. she wrote to the prime minister
you have trees that are down, you have a lot of hazards right now. we do anticipate a lot of the water will subside in some of the barrier islands and some of the coasts but some of those inland places of rivers and these inlets, you are likely to have standing water there throughout all of today and even in the days ahead, so that is a hazard and just please be aware that that is something that if you have weathered the storm to this point, going on doing and getting involved in that is totally not worth it and we want to minimise any harm to anybody as a result of what we are seeing right now in the streets. it s gonna be put to use, i don t think we ve seen in effort mobilise for this minutes rate rescues this quickly, but we appreciate and we will make good use of it. we want people to be safe, those people who are in need of life supports, health is on the way help. they are able to see the areas that were hardest hit, and they are focusing assets there. obviously the
of thundery downpours tucking in behind so sharp showers the order of the evening and they will continue to push through the midlands into the north of england and towards that scottish borders in the early hours of tuesday morning. behind it, somewhat quieter, a very warm at night again with temperatures sitting widely in the mid teens. we start tomorrow with the showers clearing from scotland, another batch moving into the borders and then some further showers developing in the south west but not everywhere will see them tomorrow and there will see them tomorrow and there will be a slightly drier and brighter interlude for a time before further showers arrive. the difference for all of us tomorrow it will be a bit fresher, top temperatures generally 16 21 and if you dodge the showers in east anglia we could see 2a celsius. but it s all about low pressure this week, it s not moving far or fast and it drifts a bit further east in the middle of the week. that means there a gre
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