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Jane Frances Kelly has more. The Prime Ministerflew in to see the dam for himself and to meet displaced residents. Nice to see you. Some appeared pleased to meet him, enjoying a diversion from the stress of the last few days, but he was also heckled. Fix the infrastructure so this doest happen again we are borisjohnson also met some of the Emergency Service crews who have been working around the clock. Well, it is looking dodgy, but stable is how i would describe it. I mean, they have done an amazing job. As you can tell, the chinooks have brought in about 400 bags of stone, huge, huge quantities of agregate have gone in to that hole and you still cant really tell that the hole has been filled. So, there is a major, major structural problem with the dam. Raf chinook crews have been carefully dropping bag after bag in an attempt to hold back 300 million gallons of water. The fire service are also hoping to install more pumps over the weekend to reduce water levels. The dam was built in the 19th century and has a simple construction of clay surrounded by mud. In order to relieve pressure during torrential downpours, it was designed to allow water to flow over the top. But the flow on wednesday was so powerful, it damaged the structure. I must stress that the Structural Integrity of the dam wall is still at a critical level and there is still a substantial threat to life should the dam wall fail. So our play is that we would ask for residents to continue to heed, to heed Police Advice please advise and stay away from Whaley Bridge. But because many were made to leave so quickly, the authorities are now allowing one resident per household to return to their homes for 15 minutes to collect pets and other vital possessions. When everyone will return for good remains uncertain. Jane Frances Kelly, bbc news. Well, lets speak to our reporter, stuart flinders, whos in Whaley Bridge for us this morning. Whats the latest, stuart . The Emergency Services have been working overnight. It has been a second night that residents have been away from their homes. Second night that residents have been away from their homeslj second night that residents have been away from their homes. I know it is only seven oclock in the morning, but Whaley Bridge would normally be coming to life about now. We have barely seen a soul in the hour or so we have been here. That is because the heart of the town just beyond the lees roadblock there is empty, it had been evacuated now for 48 hours, nobody is allowed in or out. The residents left witty unceremoniously 48 hours ago, they were not given much time to decide what they wanted to take with them, and they are being allowed back into day in small numbers, 15 minutes at a property at a time, one person at a time to recover essentials such as medicines oi recover essentials such as medicines or pet supplies. A family is going on holiday and their passports and holiday bags are in the town and they need to get back and get them. They will be allowed in later in the day. 1500 residents as you say evacuated, family, friends, local authorities have six people up with hotels or better rest if they need them. Because i have quite a detailed plan that swung into action the other day when this started, a list of contacts offering accommodation that they could send those people too. The uncertainty must be really difficult for people not knowing when they will be allowed to go back. Is there any indication when they might be able to go home . There is a residence meeting yesterday evening and they we re meeting yesterday evening and they were told that it could be another week before the town reopens. Disturbing news for them, but that is because the water level in that reservoir has really dropped very little, it needs to go down by metres. It has gone down so far by a fraction of a metre. There is still water running into it from the hills, from the rain from a few days ago. There is a yellow weather warning for tomorrow, more heavy storms on the way which could hamper those efforts even further. Beyond all this, one of the questions residents will want answered is how safe is that reservoir from here on in . It is nearly 200 years old. Would have to be drained completely so would have to be drained completely so the engineers can look at the dam to make sure it is safe . 0r so the engineers can look at the dam to make sure it is safe . Or they have to demolish it and rebuild it . They may not be questions for today but residents will want answers because as one said yesterday, it feels as though they have been living next to a ticking time bomb. Thank you very much. We will of course keep you up to date on that story, and just after eight oclock, we will speak to the environment minister Therese Coffey about this as well. 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It requires a carefully worded piece of legislation, which takes into account business owners, building owners, landowners, as well as Telecommunication Service providers, and lets face it, the government has other things, other pressing, urgent issues that they need to deal with. The telecoms industry is setting a challenge to the new Prime Minister. The government told us it is committed to creating the right opportunities for investment and speeding up Digital Infrastructure roll out. Katy austin, bbc news. The home secretary, priti patel, has said she wants criminals to feel terror at the thought of committing an offence. In herfirst interview since being appointed last month, she said her mission was to restore Public Confidence in policing. Ms patel also distanced herself from her past comments supporting the death penalty. Heathrow airport is to cancel 172 flights on monday and tuesday after members of the unite union voted go on strike in a row over pay. 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I was thinking to myself, what is the definition of an ultra runner . Imagine running for that amount of time and little sleep. Exactly, 90 minutes before the last leg is superhuman. Well done from all of us. Now, you wouldnt be surprised to hear a locomotive at a railway station, but what about a locomotion . Com on, baby, do the locomotion come on, baby, do the locomotion this is the moment kylie minogue, alongside a team of backing dancers, caused quite a stir when she performed at scarboroughs north bay railway station. The pop star was taking a tour of the area ahead of her sell out performance at scarboroughs open air theatre on thursday. Ijust keep thinking if you were just sitting on a bench. Rocking up waiting to get the train and there is kylie. It is not the busiest train station in the world. Suddenly kylie is there. You would join in. Would you join in . Wadeye . If it was kylie minogue. I would be too embarrassed. I would never be able to live up to the standards. Would you . No, i would standards. Would you . No, iwould probablyjust standards. Would you . No, i would probablyjust watch. Posted on the internet. Post it. Lets return to our top story now. More than 1,000 people have spent a second night away from their homes as specialist crews attempt to stop a dam from bursting. Prime minister Boris Johnson visited the town of Whaley Bridge in derbyshire yesterday to see for himself the scale of the emergency unfolding. 0ur reporter sam fenwick spent the day with some residents. This is the only pub to remain open and it has become the centre of the community. Everyone has come together through social media and making sure everyone is all right. They need a place to stay, they have a lwa ys they need a place to stay, they have always got one. At six oclock last night they said the situation had deteriorated. Engineers were in touch with police and we needed to leave. We pretty much got a bag together and evacuated the area along with the rest of the street. John, his wife, two sons and their two cats have now moved into a friend was my house in the neighbouring village. We are ok. We are very lucky. It is really kind that you can stay. Yes, and the surrounding villages have also been great apparently. They have been taking people in. Everyone left in Whaley Bridge is looking up to the sky, watching raf general helicopters as they drop hundreds of tons of aggregate onto the dam in the hope that it will shore up the reservoir. Local businesses are being called in to help as well. When you see that helicopter picking up when you see that helicopter picking up the bags and helping the community, unbelievable. Really, really proud. We felt really proud to be helping. There is a really Big Community spirit. Massive. The amount of people helping is unbelievable. Chapel diy was the first one to get an emergency call from the local council. How many times did you get rid of . 136 last night, so we were busy. 136 tons . 136 of those bags. How long does it normally take to sell that . Over a month. In a few hours. We were co nsta ntly month. In a few hours. We were constantly loading last night. Every 15 minutes, the town he has the rumble of a general. Where we are now, you can see the general helicopter. We have been watching that all day. I can hear another one. It is constant. They have been unbelievable. They have been coming in all day, dropping the aggregate, the sand onto the dam. That is quite a sight, isnt it . It is extraordinary because it is so very quiet for the rest of the time, no cars, no trains, no people, and there is just silence and then all ofa there is just silence and then all of a sudden you just here in the distance. The chin up coming in and getting louder and louder and louder. And that is all you can hear chinook. Louder. And that is all you can hear chinook. While people in Whaley Bridge are nervous about what might happen to the town, their spirits to remain high. We can go live now to Whaley Bridge and speak to the local mp, ruth george. We we re we were just seeing that some of the operation going on with the Emergency Services. How is everyone feeling at the moment . Emergency Services. How is everyone feeling at the moment . I think everybody is being very realistic about the situation. It is a dire emergency for the town. People recognise and understand that and they have pulled together, individuals, families and business and they are supporting those who have been evacuated as well as the Emergency Operation here. It is fantastic that people just understand that we need to make the dam safe and keep the town safe. 0bviously dam safe and keep the town safe. Obviously it is an area you represent but on a personal level, your daughter was one of the people evacuated. What did she tell you about that . Yes, my daughter was working at the holiday club in the local school just down the working at the holiday club in the local schooljust down the road behind us near the foot of the dam. 0n behind us near the foot of the dam. On thursday afternoon she was asked to ta ke on thursday afternoon she was asked to take the children up to a higher place of safety and i obviously knew what was going on then from a fairly early stage that there was some concerns and so i early stage that there was some concerns and so i am early stage that there was some concerns and so i am glad that the police and everyone involved have been risk averse and have played very safe and people understand that, that saving lives and keeping people safe is the priority. 1500 people, we understand, have been evacuated. This is clearly having a massive impact on the area, isnt it . It is having an impact on the area. We have some fantastic local families who are putting up friends and the local hotels around the area have offered rooms and service. We actually have more people who have offered to assist in that way than we have demand because many people are away anyway or have people they know they can go to. Is everybody getting everything they need, would you say . Yesterday was obviously a difficult day. It was the first full day after people had been evacuated. They had had to leave possessions and medication and supplies at home because they were asked to leave in a hurry. Somewhere at work and were not even allowed to return home to get anything at all. So we had local chemists on standby and the doctors we re chemists on standby and the doctors were helping people get medication they needed. And then in the evening they needed. And then in the evening the police were able to allow residents back individually for a 15 minute basis when they plopped in and clocked out of the road box to pick up essential supplies. And borisjohnson was saying earlier, he visited the area last night and he promised to make the area safe. Do you think the government is doing enough . I think the emergency plan has kicked in and the Government Support has come in once they realised what a serious situation we had here and that is excellent to see. I have thanked the Prime Minister and the secretary of state for the environment for their support for the emergency effort going on here. That i have also highlighted that it is notjust about the emergency and making the dam safe at the moment, we need a solution for Whaley Bridge and the surrounding area or the long term as well. And to make sure that when the cameras have gone away that we actually have the resources in place to support the canal and rivers trust that own the reservoir to make sure it can be made totally safe. Thank you very much for your time this morning. We really appreciated. We arejust this morning. We really appreciated. We are just looking at life pictures now of the area because the Weather Forecast is not great for the next few days and that will put more pressure on the Emergency Services there who are trying to do everything they can to bring the water level down. Coming up we will speak to water level down. Coming up we will speakto an water level down. Coming up we will speak to an environmental engineer who will tell us more about what they are doing to make sure it is as safe as they can be, even thou