asi as i said earlier this week people know i take classified documents seriously. russians fighting in ukraine claimed they have found the body of one of two british aid workers who ve been reported missing. bumper christmas sales for some of britain s biggest retailers despite the cost of living crisis. and tributes for the legendary rock guitaristjeff beck who died at the age of 78. there s more evidence today of the crisis in the nhs in england: ambulance response times in december were the worse on record. for category two emergency calls, including strokes, they were more than an hour and a half on average. the target is 18 minutes. (ani the highest priority calls with an immediate threat to life took almost 11 minutes on average; the target is seven. and patients are waiting even longer in accident and emergency 35 % waited more than four hours that s another record. our health correspondent jim reed reports. long queues for ambulances, the most 999 calls eve
south wales fire and rescue says the worst flooding is in porth and pontypridd. bbc wales today s stephen fairclough reports. this was the devastating scene in peterston super ely in the vale of glamorgan. cars left abandoned, almost submerged in floods, the aftermath of another night of heavy, persistent rain. it was a similar story on the a470 near pontypridd on the morning commute. high water levels in the river taff causing disruption in the town, and feeling the full impact, not for the first time, since february 2020, partially reopened, we fully reopened in november. and now, as you say, barely three months and it s flooding again. it s nowhere near as bad as it was, but it will take us a couple of days, at least a weekend to clear