colder. i will have the details shortly. good morning. it s six o clock on 6 january. our main story: the metropolitan police has confirmed it s investigating potential fraud offences, in relation to the wrongful prosecution of hundreds of sub postmasters by the post office. around 700 people were blamed for accounting mistakes caused by faulty it software, which made it look like money was missing. some were wrongfully imprisoned, in a scandal which was dramatised on itv. our reporter vincent mcaviney has more. mr bates vs the post office has brought to light a story for years those in power wouldn t believe. for the post office branch managers across the country over two decades, it s been a nightmare they couldn t escape. i haven t got that money. and i don t know where it s gone. noel tomas, a former sub postmaster in anglesey, was one of those wrongly sent to prison in 2006. this week has offered some catharsis after years of torment. the rest of the country knows how th
to see a car over my shoulder that has become stuck in the floodwater as well as this road closed sign which not too long ago would have been submerged. that would have started recede. this is the riverside publisher still had a delivered this morning, so they may still expect to be open, but as you can see the damage is caused as quite extensive. nottinghamshire county council yesterday declaring a major incident after more than 100 homes became flooded. lots of people were evacuated because of that. it was a peak on the river trent close to what it had seen in the year 2000. that is starting to recede. some of the helicopter images we have seen show a path to the river trent almost a mile wide as it has flooded into those nearby fields. there are still 244 flood warnings and alerts across the midlands, east anglia, and the south of england. but for people living here whose homes have been flooded this is just the start of the nightmare is now unable now wait months for their