Particular. Labour focus some changes to planning in particular. Labourfocus on it because they think there are blockages in the system. Too much time taken to make decisions which are holding the whole thing up. Theyve been clear they want to change the Planning System to overcome some of those blockages. They have reintroduced mandatory House Building targets. Local authorities will have a target for the homes they need to get built and will have to meet it. That was scrapped under the last government. While there is an accepted about when and where and how it is built might not be popular with local communities, so it has been in focus. I think we will hear Angela Rayner talk about that today, not just increasing the number of houses built overall, but she has also made a point of saying she wants more social and affordable housing as well, and another element of her speech we were expecting today is going to Focus On Standards in housing. We have seen the reports that have come to
Stretches and fog developing as well. Saturday rain showers for parts of northern and eastern england, South East Scotland seeing a bit of rain, but this snow will fall to lower levels and there will be some snow over the Higher Ground of Northern England later in the day. The driest of the weather to be found further south and west during saturday afternoon. Saturday night and into sunday those temperatures are going to be dropping like a stone. Code mac Easterly Winds pushing a close and heavy persistent snowfall across east anglia, the South East Of England and snow flurries further north. An Amber Warning in force for that potentially disruptive snow. There could be more than ten centimetres in places. Thats all from the Bbc News At Six so its goodbye from me and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc s news teams where you are. Hello and welcome to sportsday with me, katherine downes. Coming with me, katherine downes. Up this friday evening a century on his century joe root passes 100 on h
Even my worst enemies. Firefighters continue to battle dozens of raging bushfires in eastern australia. Officials warn residents that conditions are expected to worsen today. And coming up Hillary Clinton tells the bbc that its inexplicable and shameful the uk government hasnt published a report on alleged russian interference in british politics. Im dumbfounded that this government wont released a report about russian influence because every person who votes in this country deserves to see that report before your election happens. Good morning. Its november 12th. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The labour party says there has been a sophisticated and la rge scale cyber attack on its digital platforms. The party said the attack had failed because of their robust Security Systems and that no data had been taken. In a statement, the party said. Our security procedures have slowed down some of our campaign activities, but these were restored this morning and we are back up to full speed. We
Rising water levels posing a danger to life. This was the scene last night at fish lake in doncaster where a severe Flood Warning has been issued. A0 people had to be rescued from their homes overnight. It adds to the severe flooding that has hit other parts of South Yorkshire and derbyshire. This wall shows you clearly where the water came up to. The basement storeroom of this florists in north derbyshire is completely ruined. All the stock ready for the run up to christmas now worthless. To get things started again is going to cost a lot of money, the insurance comely will help out but of course we have to get those things to start with. We are talking between five and £10,000, a lot of money, a lot of money to recoup. Other businesses in the town have suffered a similar fate. This new toy shop didnt get a chance to open its doors to the public. Everybody has had a terrible time of it, but our shop was due to open yesterday, so we were here the day before yesterday until ten oclock