Reservation, colliding with at least two cars. The motorway between almondsbury and falfield remained closed in both directions. Jon kay has sent this report. Horrific and harrowing the words from police tonight to describe the m5 crash. The motorway was busy when the lorry smashed through the central reservation into three lanes of oncoming traffic, hitting at least two other vehicles before ending up in a ditch. As well as the four people who died this afternoon, a woman and two children have life threatening injuries. The lorry driver was taken to hospital as a precaution. Eyewitnesses have told us that, as soon as the accident happened, people abandoned their cars on the carriageway and ran to the scene to help out, with those who were medically trained offering first aid to the injured. There was a senior gp, and myself, as a cardiologist. We scanned the area to see who was affected. We found the truck driver, who was ok, but his legs was trapped in the car itself. And then we wen
This is bbc news. The Headlines Police investigating the london tube bombing have arrested a second man. Hes 21 and was detained in west london last night. The home secretary, amber rudd, has accused borisjohnson of being a backseat driver following his newspaper piece setting out his views on brexit. I dont want him managing the brexit process. What weve got is theresa may managing that process. Shes driving the car. And as far as im concerned, and the rest of the cabinet are concerned, we help her do that. The un secretary general says myanmars leader, aung san suu kyi, has a last chance to end the military offensive thats forced 400,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to neighbouring bangladesh. And Gennady Golovkins world middleweight title fight with saul alvarez ends in a controversial draw. You are up to date. Vicki will be here at two. Thank you for your company. Now on bbc news, its time for the travel show. Coming up this week, scotlands most beautiful roads. Its some of the most am
To drink driving and was arrested near his home in cheshire this month. Dan roan was in court. Less tha n month. Dan roan was in court. Less than 2a hours after playing for his club, when ruby lviv at Stockport Magistrates Court this morning over a drink driving charge. Flanked by police and security guards the former england captain was escorted through a media scrum and accompanied by his agent. He was arrested in the early hours of september after being stopped by Police Driving a car belonging to a woman he met on a night out and who he was driving home from this part. The court heard that the 31 year old had been three times the legal alcohol limit. Wayne rooney spoke only to confirm his name, address and date of birth, issuing a guilty plea three his solicitor. He said his client had genuine remorse for the terrible mistake. The district judge handed him a two year driving ban and ordered him to carry out 100 hours of community work. He was told to pay £170 in costs. He wrote a
Votes entitled to be cast at the convention has been selected as the Republican Party nominee for president of the united states. Party leaders held a state by state roll call on tuesday in cleveland. Trump took 70 of the delegates. Indiana governor mike pence was officially confirmed as trumps running mate. Trump appeared via video link to address the convention. He said he was proud to be the nominee. Were going to win the presidency and bring real change and Leadership Back to washington. Republican Party Leaders will get behind trump and his Campaign Slogan make America Great again. But the Party Remains divided with some mainstream republicans unwilling to back their partys nominee. Speakers at the convention have been calling for unity and focusing their attacks on Presumptive Democratic nominee hillary clinton. A foundation towards comfort women will be launched next week. The south korean government will set up the foundation. It aims to help restore the honor and dignity of th
Residents remain in shelters. Authorities say there are no reports of casualties. One resident says windows were shattered and sliding doors went flying. Typhoon chaba is expected to change course, moving eastward towards northern kyushu. With more on the typhoon and where its headed next, our meteorologist robert speta joins us. This storm is not over yet by any means. Yes, we are seeing the improving conditions across the Southern Japanese islands. Thats some good news. But people across Western Areas of kyushu and southern areas of the korean witness want to keep a close eye on this. I want to talk about these wind gusts we were seeing out there in kumijima where the right front quadrant of this storm system blew right overhead. This storm did shift a little bit further towards the west than we previously anticipated. You can see that right front quadrant right there, and thats where we saw just shortly after midnight a gust of 215 kilometers per hour. And really the lack of reports