how the iconic sea king helicopter has found new purpose fighting the russian invasion. and standing by for lift off from south america for an eight yearjourney to send a spacecraft to jupiter. and coming up on the bbc news channel, manchester united take on sevilla in the first leg of their europa league quarterfinal tie. but they will be without marcus rashford as they face the six times champions. hello and welcome to the bbc news at one. a man has appeared in court charged with murdering a policewoman in west yorkshire 18 years ago. pc sharon beshenivsky, who was 38, had been a police officerfor only nine months when she died while on duty in bradford. piran ditta khan was brought back to the uk on tuesday from pakistan. he is also charged with robbery and firearms offences. here s our home affairs correspondent, tom symonds. two police officers shot while responding to an armed robbery, a rare and shocking crime, but then it was confirmed they were relatively inexperienc
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Hello and welcome to the bbc news at one. In the last hour, the mp Natalie Elphicke has become the latest conservative to defect to the labour party. Natalie elphicke has been the mp for dover in kent since 2019. Our chief Political Correspondent Henry Zeffmanjoins Me from The Houses Of Parliament henry, was this a surprise . It was a shock. If you had asked me before this afternoon to list 100 conservative mps most likely to defect to the labour party, Natalie Elphicke would have been nowhere near that list. And i think that was reflected in the faces of conservative mps at prime ministers questions, as keir starmer announced at the start of his question that he wanted to welcome her to the labour side. Mps had not noticed her there, and they were expressing to bewilderment to each other. Natalie elphickes announcement will hurt rishi sunak, because she goes for him on an issue that is central to his attempt to recover his political position. She accuses him of failing on small boats.