time for a look at the weather prospects with helen willetts. ferocious was the word to describe the winds last night in the south, but i want to look at october s rainfall because although it has been average, we are heading in the right direction, if you like. it has actually been well above average in northern ireland and the rainfall figures for last night and yesterday are still being collated. changeable describes our weather for the next few days, another area of deep pressure barrels and tomorrow. that rain hangs around in the south. more low pressure on thursday before finally, a drier day on friday, but it doesn t last, with more rain waiting in the wings. heading in the right direction, as i say. this chart shows the accumulation of rainfall over the coming few days. the blues get deeper as that rainfall the total up, perhaps as much as 50 millimetres in many places by the end of the week, particularly higher ground, but a good 20 or 30 at lower levels. the showers
in his party might agree. the deputy chairman of west suffolk conservative association, block your ears now if you have a sensitive disposition, has said, i look forward to seeing matt hancock eating a kangaroo s penis. yes, look, politicians do not tend to have a particularly good run on this show, they tend to be quite vilified, the public like to vote them into doing some of the more unseemly tasks, so it is a bold thing for matt hancock to do. he has developed a sort of celebrity of his own in the wake of his affair last year, more than a year ago now, which made him sort of quite famous for westminster. obviously he was front and centre of the pandemic response, fronting up those news conferences all the time, and i think he has a book out, dare i say, in december, so all the stars are aligning there. right, well, speaking
he spoke to my colleague tanya beckett earlier. he says he is doing it for charity. he says he is doing it to raise awareness for his campaign for dyslexia, but you do not do this without realising it is going to be controversial. when nadine dorries in 2013 did something similar, catching the party off guard, flying out to australia without telling anyone, she did lose the whip, so the precedent was there. that said, mr hancock s team put out a long statement in the last couple of minutes, last half hour or so, saying that actually he had already spoken to the whips, he was aware of this and thinks it is a good thing. he thinks that politics is quite stable now with the new prime minister, rishi sunak, so off he went. it has been noted however that he did miss out on a job in the reshuffle last week and he was running to be chairman of the powerful house of commons treasury committee and he has now obviously pulled out of that race and sits as an independent. he might think this is go
i haven t got a solution. what s got to happen? despite all the hot air that s going on in various countries, in various governments, there s no uniformed approach. and until you get a uniformed approach, you re not going to get a solution. people in dover have been living with this crisis for years. yesterday, the home secretary herself described the system as broken and out of control. graham satchell, bbc news, dover. former health secretary matt hancock has lost the conservative whip after announcing that he is heading to the australian jungle to take part in this year s series of i m a celebrity.get me out of here. he sjoining the likes of boy george and chris moyles on the reality series, which starts this weekend. harry cole from the sun broke the story.
something goes wrong so quickly and actually a direct line that can be drawn between the choices she made to not tell the whole truth about the scale of her ambition led to the catastrophic results that we saw in the markets in the days and weeks after her mini budget. harry cole from the sun newspaper, talking about liz truss and matt hancock. just a reminder now of the headlines here on bbc news. conditions at a migrant processing centre in kent are described as wretched as a watchdog calls on the government to get a grip of the situation. there is more debate about a windfall tax after the oil giant bp reports global profits of more than £7 billion in the three months to september. and, as we were just hearing, former health secretary matt hancock has been suspended as a conservative mp after revealing he is going to be on i m a celebrity get me out of here.