Patients say it could be life changing. And a chef receives Death Threats online after claims she deliberately prepared a non vegan dish for a Vegan Customer. Good morning and welcome to bbc news. Storm eleanor has swept across the uk, causing flooding, damage to homes and disruption to motorists. Gusts of up to 100mph were reported in the pennines and hundreds of homes across Northern Ireland, wales, the midlands and South West England are without power. Jon donnison reports. As storm eleanor whipped in from the atlantic, the republic of ireland was the first to take a pounding. In galway, theres been severe flooding. Some, though, still prepared to take their chances. In the uk, the met Office Issued an amber weather warning for parts of the country. This is anglesey in wales. Waves driven by winds gusting up to 80mph. Horizontal hail was what greeted anyone foolish enough to brave blackpools promenade. Weve got a hell of a storm here. And in corby, the midlands, john wright recorded
Is this new front in the culture war a modern necessity, or dangerous censorship . Hello. So, today, the carillion blame game. The world has not fallen in, yet, but the horror of the company carillion going bust with we now know a mere £29 million in the bank, with so many contracts in operation, so many smaller suppliers unpaid, so much unfunded pension commitment and so many workers jobs dependent on it all while it has found the money in the recent past to handsomely reward its executives and make big dividend payouts. The government knows the optics dont look good and has asked for an accelerated investigation into the actions of the directors. Jeremy corbyn thinks it makes a bigger point about trying to contract everything out. Time to bring it in house, he says. But for the moment, contracts rule in the Public Sector from prisons and schools, you can also see train franchises as the same thing. Some private Companies Make a mint. Others as carillion knows operate on dangerously
Good morning. Its wednesday 17th january. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. More nurses left the nhs in england last year thanjoined. The statistics, given exclusively to the bbc, reveal that more than 33,000 gave up jobs with the service, thats 3000 more than signed up. The Royal College of nursing says more must be done to support younger nurses at the start of their careers. Heres our Health Correspondent, dominic hughes. She became a nurse to help people, excited at the prospect of making a difference but in the end, the job overwhelmed mary trevelyan. I would end up in tears during a shift because there wasjust so much pressure and stress. A never ending list of things to do, guilt over not having enough time to care for patients. Stress led to depression and mary has had to leave thejob she loved. I want to be a great nurse and i want to give my patients my best but i feel i cant do that at the moment because we are just too short staffed, too busy. Theres far too
Carrilian apprentices some of whom ive met locally. Its not good enough to pass the buck to cibt so will the Prime Minister guarantee today that every one of those apprentices will be able to complete their training and will be paid . Hear, hear i can say to the honorable lady that i recognize that of course, this has been a difficult time for a number of people and concerned about their jobs and about Public Services and about their pensions. I want, first of all, if i may, mr. Speaker, to provide reassurance to all employees who are working on Public Services for carrilian that they should continue to turn up to work confident in the knowledge that theyll be work for the work that theyre providing, but of course, the government is not running carrilian. The government is a customer of carrilian and our focus our focus has been on ensuring that we are providing the Public Services that they are continuing to be provided uninterrupted to reassure workers on those Public Services that t
Tea m Lizzy Yarnold, she has been named as team gbs flag bearer. More from her later. Louise has the weather. that is 1; our l. That iseeeizz they that is ; they are they are glorious start, cold and frosty, 6 vii; fiifc in southern england. Unfortunately, the cloud has arrived and we have a weather front. It is the cloud has arrived and we have a weatherfront. It is bringing rain, if we look at the Lake District, we ¥ w 7 12 ; ii can see rain pushing east overnight. More coming up. Thanks, louise. Also coming up well be giving a warm handshake and not in any way a dodgy one to the head of the freemasons in england and wales. Hell tell us why he thinks theyre getting an unfair press. We always seem to talk in a negative way when we discuss seen on the ie Interest Rate rises, have seen on the banknotes, is the seeing eye, but for millions of savers efi ourselves z z ~ of course they are good news. They, at least, will take cheer from bank of england chief mark carneys suggestion that