To tackle the growing problem of fly tipping. The local Government Association says there were more than a million offences last year, but only 5 of fines were above £1000. Richard galpin reports. This cctv footage captures the moment a lorry starts illegally dumping huge amounts of waste in the middle of the night. The premises of a small company, used by the fly tippers to get rid of the rubbish. In recent years, fly tipping has been getting steadily worse, blighting the environment, causing pollution and threatening Public Health and wildlife. It tends to be businesses trying to avoid paying the costs of disposal. Of course, the rural areas tend to be the areas that are particularly badly affected, private landowners or public land. People will find quiet places to dump sometimes quite large loads. Fly tipping in england was at a comparative low ofjust over 700,000 incidents back in Financial Year 2012 13. But by 2018, there had been a sharp rise to more than a million incidents, p
This is bbc news. Im samantha simmonds. Our top stories. As huge crowds take to the streets to bid farewell to irans general soleimani, a call for a un investigation under International Human rights law, it is very unlikely that the killing of mr suleimani was lawful. Australia suffers one of the worst bushfire days of the season as temperatures nudge 50 degrees celsius and howling winds fan the flames. This is what the firefighters were dreading, because it fans these blazes, making them unstoppable, but it also spreads those embers, making the fire behaviour quite unpredictable. And china sacks its official in charge of relations with hong kong, six months and in indonesia, thousands are unable to return to their homes after the worst flooding in a decade. Hello and welcome to bbc news. The Iraqi Military has confirmed that several rockets have landed this in baghdad near the us embassy and at the balad airbase north of the capital. The base houses us forces and the baghdad attacks t
Hello. This is bbc news. Well be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment first the headlines. Two mortar rounds land near the us embassy in baghdad as huge crowds join funeral processions in iraq, for irans top military commander, killed by a us drone strike. Iranian president rouhani visited the dead generals family promising that americans will feel the impact of their actions for years ahead. The queen sends her condolences to the people of australia, as fears grow that high winds and temperatures will push bushfires towards heavily populated areas. The shadow brexit secretary, keir starmer enters the race to become labour leader. Hell launch his campaign in stevenage tomorrow. And coming up after the papers, the click team look back at their highlights of last year. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me arejohn rentoul, chief political commentator at the independent, and benedicte paviot, uk correspondent for
This week. Spotting a face, a ticket to space and a drag race. It can only be the finest tech from click in 2019. Hello, welcome and a very happy new year. 2020 always sounded like the future, didnt it . Whereas now that it is here i guess its not. We are going to get stuck into the new year next week but first we are going to take you on a trip back through 2019. It was the year that we celebrated our ioooth show with an interactive episode online, where you could choose your own path through. Imagine if everything that you watched was interactive and if you could change your experiences depending on your mood, your desires or even how much time you had. If you go online at the address that is on screen now you will find a special version of this programme that is interactive. You get to choose which tech stories you get to hear about and in how much detail. As you watch, youll be given options to dive deeper, or may be to look at things from a different perspective, or maybe to skip
Push back on a controversial now 0 grading policy. Shannon fox and friends first continues right now. You are watching fox and friends first. Carley thanks for starting the day with us. Lets get back to Hurricane Dorian and the story on the carolinas overnight. Rob four people have been killed as the storm system brings tornadoes, torrential rain and flooding to millions of people in its path. Live Team Coverage with janice dean and todd pyro. Carley what is the weather like . Reporter im taking a bad beating, the wind gusts are out of control. Nothing like charleston, south carolina. The wind is picking up, the rain all over the place, hurts when it hits my skin and when that wind hits my face it is hard to breathe. I have to swallow my breath for a second. These are not the conditions you want to be out in. There is a curfew in place in Morehead City starting at 9 00 last night, cops making their rounds, wanting to know who we were, why we were not inside already. The good news is th