Frequency of these sorts of Freak Weather events. Itv says tonights episode of love island wont be aired, out of respect for the family of former presenter caroline flack. The broadcaster says its devastated by her death. Thousands of passengers face major disruption at Heathrow Airport, after a systems failure affects all terminals. The airport says its experiencing technical problems. Now calling only those american guests from emerald deck. Us citizens quarantined for days on a cruise ship injapan are leaving after america sends two planes to take them home. And in half an hour here on bbc news, the travel show goes to sri lanka, where electric tuk tuks are taking to the road as part of measures to tackle air pollution there. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Parts of south wales and england have endured flooded homes and streets and landslides, after storm dennis brought heavy rain and strong winds to much of the uk. Hundreds of flood warnings and alerts are in place across the
Thats the highest level in a decade. Its been largely driven by young adults at universities and colleges, who didnt as children, have the mmrjab thats measles, mumps and rubella. Public Health England says the rise looks set to continue this year, and its urging people to have both parts of the mmr vaccine for maximum protection. Catherine burns reports. This is david 0rwood now, and this is him when he became ill with the mumps. As the days went by, his face became more and more swollen. It started to affect his breathing. He says the pain was excruciating. It was just indescribable. Ijust kind of woke up and i couldnt do anything. It completely took over my body. So, you started to feel better and then you got a complication. It then went into. My balls. I just felt like someone had kicked me in the balls. On my right side, it swelled up like an avocado. It was huge and really painful. Mumps cases are at the highest level for a decade in england. They have dropped in Northern Irelan
Been widely criticised for his comments on issues including race and women in sport has resigned. Andrew sabisky had only been in post for a short time. Labour had called for mr sabisky to be sacked for suggesting in the past that black people had lower average intelligence than white people. Our political corrspondent alex forsyth says the episode has led some to question what kind of government borisjohnson wants to run. Andrew sabisky was hired as an advisor, a contractor, in number 10, and that was quickly condemned when these comments made in his name appeared. Among other things that he said, compulsory contraception could be used to stop a permanent underclass, and womens sport is more comparable to the paralympics than to mens. Now, after growing criticism, he tonight said he had quit that downing street role, taking twitter to say that the media hysteria about his past online comments was mad, that he had been a victim of character assassination, that this was a distraction fr
Look at the weather. We have seen significant disruption today thanks to storm dennis. The torrential rain lead to significant flooding and whistle have six severe flooding and whistle have six severe Flood Warnings in force, stretches of the river tapped, the river nene thin south west and the town river tea m thin south west and the town river team normal mac are all affected. Other Flood Warnings in the uk. Team normal mac are all affected. OtherFlood Warnings in the uk. We could see the funny get worse for some before it gets betterfor some and storm dennis its final act is pushing close to the north of scotland, sway the powerful wind gusts here. Gusts of around 75 mph, enough to cause disruption into monday mornings rush hour. For monday mornings rush hour. For monday itself we are working at a day of sunshine and bus reese showers. Most of us will see a downpour to, showers frequent across North Western area where their have and thunder mixing and no one is immune from catching
Who devoted a lot of time for playing with us. Doing arts and craft and going to her greenhouse to do gardening stuff and cooking with us. I try and incorporate a lot of the experiences that she gave us at the time into the experiences that i give my children now. Catherine also talked about her passion for the outdoors where she spent much of her time as a child. That passion was clear from the child centred garden she helped to design at last years chelsea flower show. A garden which was enjoyed by her own three children. Now its time for a look at the weather with ben rich. Hello there. Storm dennis is bringing extremely windy weather across the uk throughout the weekend. But i think of even more concern is the rain associated with this storm. A met Office Amber Warning because some spots are likely to see a whole months worth of rain throughout the weekend. That rain continuing to push its way eastwards throughout the afternoon. Thoroughly soggy in many spots, very windy as well. W