Clinic and investigation is under way into the cause of a fire at a block of student flats in bolton. Witnesses say the blaze spread quickly to the upper floors, prompting concerns about the cladding on the block. Two people we re cladding on the block. Two people were injured. These videos posted on social media show an intense fire which spread rapidly, sending chunks of burning cladding and sparks to the ground. At first, some of the students ignored the alarms. There was this girl who came running and she banged on the doors of the people on my floor, and she just started screaming, saying that theres a fire, get out of here right now. When we were running down the stairs, it was getting higher and higher and catching really quickly. The cladding on this building is not the same as that which has been blamed for exacerbating the fire at Grenfell Tower in 2017, which killed 72 people, and the students living here in the cube have been reassured it was safe. But the videos posted on
More than 100 people have had to be rescued by Emergency Services as pa rt rescued by Emergency Services as part of the midlands were hit by more flooding and drivers were caught out by rapidly rising water. There are more than 100 flood warnings in place and parts of england under. 0ur Midlands Correspondent reports from evesham in was to show where the river even burst its banks. So would you like us to bring you out of the property, because of the water . You would like to be evacuated . Rescue boats have been launched throughout the day in evesham, as water levels on the avon continue to rise. Its been quite a protracted incident for us. Theres been a number of incidents across the county, and this is just one of many that our crews are dealing with currently. The river has reached its highest level since 2007, with only one road through evesham left open. This is one of the main routes through evesham, but half a mile is currently submerged beneath the floodwater. Its meant that m
Into israel hours after a truce went into place. Hello im Maryanne Demasi in london with the top stories from europe including investigators probing the shooting down on the Malaysia Airlines flight in 2014 telephone calls showing close links between top russian officials and rebels and ukraine. And in sports as much cricket as sets returns of pakistan for the 1st time since 2009 acts on the host sri lanka 10 years after the Sri Lankan Team were attacked by gunmen in look. We begin this news hour with the global effort to defeat Foreign Ministers from more than 30 nations are in washington to discuss how to eliminate the group but on the other side of the atlantic turkey is sending more suspected i. So fighters and their families back to their home countries 7 german citizens accused of the longing to iceland in a short while ago another 23. 00 european nationals are expected to be deported in the next few days Officials Say just over 1200. 00 eisel fighters are currently being held in