Which was planted to mark two decades since Princess Diana died. Police are investigating after a box of 70 fireworks was set off in a pizza shop in liverpool. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Tropical storm harvey has moved east to neighbouring louisiana, after battering the city of houston in texas for the past four days. Lets go straight to houston and join laura trevelyan. Welcome to houston, a city where so many neighbourhoods are underwater. Look at the destruction and devastation the flooding and aftermath of Hurricane Harvey has caused. In this neighbourhood were still seeing flooding even though the storm has passed, because reservoirs outside houston are so full with water they are over spilling so the authorities are over spilling so the authorities are doing controlled release of the water through the dams, which means water through the dams, which means water levels here are still rising. There are more than 10,000 people in shelters in houston, yet another shelters
Premier League Champions Leicester City issue their unwavering support for manager claudio ranieri, despite being just one point above the relegation zone. Good evening and welcome to the Bbc News At Six. Tonight we bring you the second of our Special Reports on the mounting pressures facing the Nhs In England. It comes as the latest Economic Forecast from the influential Institute For Fiscal Studies says spending on the Health Service is struggling to keep pace with Population Growth and ageing patients. More on that in a moment, but first, bbc news has been given exclusive access to the royal blackburn hospital. It was built to serve a population of 300,000 people, but now looks after half a million. As our Special Correspondent ed thomas reports, that is just one reason why doctors and nurses are pushed to their limits as they care for their patients. You may find some of the images in the report distressing. Every bed on every ward. Never know what is coming through the door. Never
Be done and a lot of discipline to be maintained. Breakthrough in brussels as theres been agreement on the brexit withdrawal bill as the uk drops clauses in the controversial internal market bill. This means that both sides have agreed rules for trade across the border in Northern Ireland after brexit for issues including Border Control posts the archbishop of canterbury and the uks chief rabbi talk about coping with death having each lost a child themselves. The fightback has begun. The first person in the uk to be given a Coronavirus Vaccine outside of a Clinical Trial is a 90 year old woman. Margaret keennan received the historicjab at University Hospital in coventryjust after half six this morning. That was just the start, hundreds of other patients have been given the jab in the past few hours as the biggest Vaccination Campaign in the history of the nhs gets under way. Borisjohnson has thanked Health Workers and scientists but urged people to remain cautious. The uk has an initia
This is bbc news. The headlines further restrictions are expected to control the spread of coronavirus this is bbc news with the latest in both england and scotland. Headlines for viewers in the uk in england, the Prime Minister has and around the world. Warned of tough weeks to come. Im rebecca jones. What we have been waiting for is to see the impact of the tier 4 measures on the virus. The roll out of the oxford it is a bit unclear at the moment, astrazeneca jab begins in the uk this morning but if you look at the numbers the government describes it as a Pivotal Moment in the pandemic. There is no question that we are going to have to take the vaccine means everything to me. Tougher measures and we will be announcing those in due course. I mean, to my mind, its the roll out of the the only way of getting back Oxford Astrazeneca jab has begun to a bit of normal life. The Prime Minister says tens you know, this virus of millions of doses will have been is terrible, isnt it . Administe