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More than 100 flood warnings are in place across the north of england, following hours of torrential rain. Dozens of people spent the night in a Shopping Mall in sheffield after torrential downpours flooded the streets. Firefighters in rotherham rescued people by boat after they were stranded in the parkgate centre. Among those affected isjon from totley near sheffield, who sent us this footage. You can see just how high the river is. And this is the scene from outside the Meadowhall Shopping Centre last night. A Major Incident has been declared in sheffield after the river don burst its banks. Residents in doncaster and rotherham have been told to leave their homes only if its essential. 35 homes have been evacuated in mansfield and nottinghamshire following a mudslide, and there are now more than 100 flood warnings across the region. Lots of updates for you this morning on all of this, the first reporters from tom ingle. A violent flood. The river don breaks its banks and surges through the heart of rotherham in the small hours. Elsewhere in the town, abandoned cars litter empty roads. The council here advised people to stay at home. Upstream, next to the Meadowhall Shopping Centre, the new flood defences were tested and bettered by the same river. A Christmas Event had to be cancelled at the centre as transport was seriously disrupted, staff and shoppers finding themselves boxed in by gridlocked traffic. My friend said shed give me a lift home, so weve walked to the staff car park, and it was so flooded, she just couldnt get her car out. So weve walked back again and my husband has come in to fetch us. I went to leave at 4 40. I went 100 yards out of the staff car park, back into the staff car park, it took me an hour and a half hour to do so, and i came back into meadowhall. My biggest concern is all the children that are stuck in there, Walking Around in pyjamas, because theyve come to the concert and theyve not been able to get home. Well, this is just one of the roads that people mightve used to get away from Meadowhall Shopping Centre, but you can see what the effect of hours of rain have been. And it isntjust here in sheffield. Villages and towns across yorkshire and the north of england have also borne the brunt of this tremendous rainstorm. Homeowners suffered too. For some in the village of whiston, it was a heartbreaking repeat of the catastrophic South Yorkshire floods of 2007. But there were no compulsory evacuations. However, when day breaks, it will be time to really assess the damage and keep a close eye on the river levels, should worse be to come. Tom ingall, bbc news, sheffield. Luxmy gopal is in rotherham for us now. Luxmy, a really dramatic scene behind you with those partially submerged vehicles. Absolutely, some abandoned cars there behind me, as you can say, the road is submerged in flood water, and just over the bridge back there, that is parkgate Shopping Complex, where last night people had to be rescued from there because they were trapped because of the flood waters, stranded, and so fire and rescue had to send out boats to rescue them. Emma, you are the deputy manager of a pet shop there, so earlier we saw you being ferried over by one of the fire and rescue service bouts, what was it that you had to go back to the Shopping Complex for. We just wanted to make sure all the animals were safe, or got food and water for the minute, make sure that there was no breach of water. And has it reached the shop . It has got to the store, so the shop . It has got to the store, so it is in there, but not high enough to affect anything. It is just paddling, really, not too bad at the minute. So damage to the shop at the minute. So damage to the shop at the minute. So damage to the shop at the animals are ok . They are perfectly fine and safe, nice and warm, completely safe. And the water will never reach them where they are. You have had a bit of a glimpse inside the complex, you were taken there by boat, how bad is the flooding overall in the Shopping Complex . A bloody left hand side, asda, morrisons, is not too bad. The other side, that is where the water is, that side. You say you personally, your home hasnt been flooded. What about the people that you now . How has it been in your local community . Last night, we had to rescue my parents caravan that was flooded in mexborough, so it has been quite an upset, really. How bad has it been compared to what you have seen before . In 2007, i was on holiday, i messed it all, so quite an eye openerto see holiday, i messed it all, so quite an eye opener to see the destruction it has caused. Will you be coming back to check on the animals later today . Yes, we are going to get some waders, try to get in and make sure they are all fed and watered for the night, hopefully get in tomorrow to sort them all out. Emma, thank you, we will let you get on. So emma is just one of the people who had to be ferried in and out because, as you can see, there is no access for vehicles, it has taken fire crews from across the area to come and support South Yorkshire fire and rescue, west midlands, Greater Manchester services involved in just this area here in terms of helping ferried people back and forth. And South Yorkshire fire and rescue say they have also deployed other resources from elsewhere as well, including high volume pumps to help pump water away, because the flooding in this area is really severe, but it is also other parts of South Yorkshire. You heard about sheffield in a report earlier, and doncaster is an area of concern at the moment, because the Environment Agency has issued five severe flood warnings in the past hour or so for that area around a part of doncaster just slightly north of doncaster. And even though the rain has held off so far today, it is nothing like what we saw all throughout yesterday and last night, the torrential downpours, but there is still concern about the rising river levels. The river don is at a level comparable to where it was in 2007, which caused such tremendous flooding into trouble for people back then, is a really people are going to be keeping an eye on that river level, and even though it may well have peaked, we are still not ina clearand well have peaked, we are still not in a clear and there is still concern, particularly for those areas in doncaster where there is severe flood Warnings Issued by the Environment Agency, meaning there is a risk to people, homes and lives there. Obviously really busy night for everyone there and a busy day ahead, luxmy, thank you very much for that update from rotherham, luxmy gopal. We can talk to martin sapcote, manager at Carphone Warehouse in the Meadowhall Centre near sheffield, who spent most of the night at meadowhall. We do appreciate you talking to us this morning, i know you havent had very many hours of sleep, at what point did you realise you wouldnt be getting home to your own bed . Probably about 5 30pm, when it was cancelled. Did you attempt to get out at that point . Yeah, like many staff, we assessed the situation in the car park, advised by police to stay in meadowhall until the traffic situation calmed down a bit. And it became apparent, i guess, over the next couple of hours that actually it wasnt going to be possible to make your Journeys Home . It wasnt going to be possible to make yourJourneys Home . Yeah, exactly, so we got to about 5 30pm, and the council, we had lots of children running around through meadowhall, panicking, iguess, because they couldnt get in touch with theirfamilies because they couldnt get in touch with their families and didnt know how to get home, so we opened up the store and made it into a mobile phone charging hotspot, ended up with a shop full of customers quite quickly, getting in touch with their loved ones. I bet they were very glad you did that. Described in more detail what it was light in the Shopping Centre as the evening wore on, and you know, people were realising that they had to sleep there. Yes, i guess it wasjust confusion at some point, people Walking Around, not being able to get out, not being able to get in touch with people, so not knowing what to do, so all we could do was stay open, others are charge some pounds just do what we could to help. Did you manage to get some sleep yourself . Yes, i got home just before midnight, me and my collea g u es before midnight, me and my colleagues stayed behind, but we all managed to get home, is a back injury, meadowhall is open as usual, hopefully a normal day to day. What was the journey like, coming hopefully a normal day to day. What was thejourney like, coming back m, m was thejourney like, coming back in, in terms of traffic . Yes, still lots of roads are flooded this morning, lots of queues of traffic, running around rat runs, trying to avoid the main roads this morning. Martin, we do appreciate you taking the time to talk to us, thank you very much. Martin spent most of the night in his store at meadowhall. Matt taylor is with us now nice to see you, but talking about a very concerning situation for everybody in rotherham, sheffield, that part of england. What has happened . Why has there been so much rain leading to this flooding . Yes, shades of 2007, i will show you the radar picture, 2a hours of rainfall data, notice that band of blue where the rain was sat across the same areas, so rain was sat across the same areas, so the persistence and the intensity of that rain across the same areas. To the south of it, wins going in one direction, to the north another direction, nothing to push it on, so we saw the rain continuing for 2h hours. It has eased but dropped a huge amount of rain during that period. If you bear in mind that sheffield normally has 79 millimetres of rain during the entire month of november, during the last 2a hours they have had over that, and in the pennines, the south pennines. More in that, and in the pennines, the south pennines. More in 24 that, and in the pennines, the south pennines. More in 24 hours than the entire month . And even more than that in the pennines, reports of over 100 millimetres of rain in one 01 over 100 millimetres of rain in one or two spots. And this is all on the back of what was a particularly wet 0ctober, these areas had well over the normal 0ctober rainfall, so the ground is saturated, no evaporation, with more rainfall we are seeing the flooding situation. Bring us up to date with the weather warnings, because we have heard that there have been more warnings in doncaster. The warnings have lapsed because the rain has eased, things have turned drier, but there are severe flood warnings on the rivers. I beg your pardon, i said weather warnings, i meant flood warnings. Even though the rain has eased, bear in mind it takes a long time for the water to go to the river catchments from the hills, down towards the sea, so from the hills, down towards the sea, so some river from the hills, down towards the sea, so some river levels will rise for a good few hours yet, so worth heeding all the data from the Environment Agency. Five severe flood warnings at present, but you can see on the map that there are hundreds elsewhere. Severe flood warnings because danger to life and property, and hopefully we want see too many more of them. Yes, a very busy picture on that map, as we can see. Just looking ahead slightly, will conditions improve, or more rain on the way . We have got a bit of respite, more rain across some areas through tomorrow, it looks like the areas hit by flooding will avoid the worst, but heavy rain in the midlands could cause issues tomorrow, and we could be talking about disruptive snow in wales and the midlands, but overall things are improving. Thank you very much, matt taylor. The Scottish National party will launch its Election Campaign later with a pledge to protect the nhs from trade deals with foreign nations. Speaking in edinburgh, Party Leader Nicola Sturgeon is expected to say the snp will ensure the Health Service is not used as a bargaining chip in future negotiations. Meanwhile, labour is promising to increase the length of statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months if it wins power. And the conservatives have said they would introduce an nhs visa as point ofa would introduce an nhs visa as point of a points based immigration system to encourage foreign doctors and nurses to come to work in the nhs. We can talk to assistant Political Editor norman smith, who is in edinburgh for us. Lets begin with the snp, what is the focus going to be for them in this launch . Well, a lot of it will be familiar, of course, next sturgeon again setting out the partys opposition to brexit, talking about her demands for independence. I guess what a lot of people will be listening for are any of people will be listening for are a ny clu es of people will be listening for are any clues about the sort of conditions the snp might set before they are prepared to back, say, jeremy corbyn, if he were in a position to form a minority government, and what is interesting is that the snp appear to be raising the bar. They have already said that they would demand another referendum next year, when labour have signalled they are not in favour of another referendum and they wouldnt consider one in the formative years ofa consider one in the formative years of a labour government, but perhaps in years fourand of a labour government, but perhaps in years four and five, is saying, no, we want one next year. On top of that, today she is expected to put down few other demands, notably that she would want the Scottish Government to have control of its own immigration policy, because obviously the immigration demands in scotla nd obviously the immigration demands in scotland are very different from other parts of the uk, she would wa nt other parts of the uk, she would want a complete end to austerity with the restoration of various benefit cuts, she would want additionalfunding for benefit cuts, she would want additional funding for nhs hospitals, and on the nhs we will hear this idea of so called nhs protection bill, a piece of legislation that the snp want to introduce to ensure that the nhs is not part of any future trade talks. Now, we know the government have repeatedly said that is right, it wont be on the table, donald trump has said it wont be on the table, but still labour and now the snp are pressing on the issue. Why . Because they know it has salience with voters, because it wraps together donald trump, the nhs, brexit and raises questions about the american president and Boris Johnson, raises questions about the american president and borisjohnson, so no surprise this morning that the snps westminster leader, ian blackford, thatis westminster leader, ian blackford, that is what he was focusing on. We know that the current Prime Minister, borisjohnson, we know that the current Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, wants we know that the current Prime Minister, borisjohnson, wants to do a trade deal with donald trump, and we need to be very clear with people that there is a real threat to the national Health Service, so we need to make sure that we can fully protect the national Health Service, something that is so vital to all of us, so what we are proposing is bringing forward a bill that will give parliament the opportunity to ensure that our national Health Service is not a bargaining chip. Relatively quiet today for team corbyn today, probablyjust as well, becausejohn corbyn today, probablyjust as well, because John Mcdonnell seems corbyn today, probablyjust as well, becauseJohn Mcdonnell seems to be struggling with his voice after his big economy speech, a day off the campaign trail might help. That said, they are outlining policies to help with workers rights, a new initiative extending the amount of Maternity Leave that people can have from nine months to one year, so an extra three months of Maternity Leave. This was the shadow cabinet member shami chakrabarti. Lam iamso i am so excited to be able to say that we are going to have the greatest workplace revolution for women in 50 years on maternity pay, as youve said, we are going to extend the period of statutory maternity pay to a full year. That has maternity pay to a full year. That ha 5 gotta maternity pay to a full year. That has gotta be for both parents and for children. We have been getting a