Eu leaders met to discuss their response to the uks request for an extension this morning insisting that the deal is not dead. Police in hong kong fire tear gas at protesters as violence erupts at an illegal march in one of the cities main shopping districts. The hardcore protesters who have really been upping the ante, throwing petrol bombs at the police. A quick game of cricket for the duke and duchess of cambridge as they visit an orphanage in pakistan as their royal tour to the country comes to an end and after a nailbiting finish wales beat france by one point winning themselves a place in the Rugby World Cup semi final. And at 11. 30 well hear how volunteers helped save a Somerset Heritage railway line thats in inside out south west. Borisjohnson has sent a letter to the eu, asking for an extension to the uks withdrawal date. But hes refused to sign the document and hes also sent a second letter warning against any further delay. The Prime Minister was legally obliged to ask for
Down just yet, not after yesterdays events. Westminster is setting up four more battles to come, but ministers say they are confident that the Prime Minister wont be steered off course. The game changer this week, which was hardly talked about at all, is that he has defied the people who doubt and got a deal. We appear to have the numbers to get this through. The only question is, why arent we getting on with it because might it is after Boris Johnson had to, by law, send this letter asking for a delay. But where there would be a signature normally there would be a signature normally there was a blank. Another letter makes it clear he thinks any extension would be damaging. Labour is not impressed. The low is very clear. He should have signed one letter in accordance with the law. He is being childlike. There are opposition plans again to try for a further referendum. We need an amendment to say that whatever deal gets through, it should be subject toa gets through, it should be subjec
Happened, very early stages yet, i dont want to comment on specific causes. No indication of any connection with drug dealing networks or anything . A gap as i said, very early stages of the investigation, we will assess the information we have got and progress from there. We will follow our normal process, postmortems will ta ke normal process, postmortems will take place in due course, we have deployed specially trained officers to support the families, and names et cetera will follow in due course. Any indication of how big the party was and whether these four were invited . A gap that is difficult to sayjust invited . A gap that is difficult to say just now. I invited . A gap that is difficult to sayjust now. I do believe that the people involved as the victims here we re people involved as the victims here were invited to that address, and i was about 15 20 people present for most of the time, that is as far as ican go most of the time, that is as far as i can go in terms of the i
Late last night at a house party. Two men who were also injured have been treated in hospital. We are doing all we can to gather all the information. We know there were a number of people present at the Party Last Night so officers are deployed and they will be speaking to all the people, trying to piece together exactly what happened. Further violence on the streets of hong kong as Police Fire Tear gas at demonstrators marching in defiance of a police ban. And after a nail biting finish, wales beat france by one point to book a their place in the Rugby World Cup semi final. The government says its pressing ahead with efforts to pass a brexit deal this week in spite of a letter the Prime Minister was forced to send to brussels last night asking for a delay. Ministers today insisted that the uk will leave the eu at the end of this month. It comes as labour says it will push for a new Eu Referendum when the government brings its brexit plans to the commons. Heres our political correspond
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