Youre questions answered. Thats with plaid cymrus liz Saville Roberts. Taking you straight to Ironbridge Gorge in shropshire for the pictures of the demolition of four cooling towers the. We just got to that a couple of moments later after the charges were set. 120 metres high and they cost of £10 million. Crowds gathered to see that historic moment as the towers at the coal fired power station in Ironbridge Gorge in shropshire came down. The work of so long comes down in a matter of seconds and as you can see, a cloud of dust is all that is left. 0ur correspondent phil mackie is watching the demolition. That was quite an amazing sight. It has gone completely to plan. There was concern that some would fall into the river severn. Essentially where that dust cloud is at the moment, but everything seemed to happen quite perfectly on time. You really have to be 60 years old or older than that to remember what it was like before that. 55, 60 years ago when they started building these power
What was a marginal seat, with the victorious labour candidate notching up a majority of more than 9,000 votes, his party describing it as a seismic and historic win. They said that we couldnt change the labour party, and we did it. They said that we couldnt win in the south of england and the north of england, and we did it. They said, youll never beat the snp in scotland, and, rutherglen, you did it. From the partys leader to activists working the streets, labour poured resources into this constituency and their win was much, much bigger than many had expected. Michael shanks, Scottish Labour party, 17,841. Labour winning double the votes cast for the snp. The party of power at holyrood faced challenges going into the vote and had been managing expectations of a win, but even so, this was a bruising result for them. I do recognise that we have a big challenge on our hands and as a party, we need to come together collectively to right the wrongs that have happened in the last few mont
Narges mohammadi has been arrested 13 times, convicted five times and sentenced to a total of 31 years in prison. The Committee Said her brave struggle has come with tremendous personal cost. Irans state News Agency Says the decision is politicising the human rights issue. Caroline hawley reports. In iran last year, spearheaded by women, an extraordinary Rebellion Set off by the death in Police Custody of a young woman detained for allegedly not wearing her veil properly. The nobel Committee Said this award was for the hundreds of thousands of iranians who have stood up against the theocratic regimes policies of discrimination and oppression against women. Narges mohammadi is irans most prominent human rights activist. Here she was several years ago, criticising the regime for forcing women to wear the hijab while allowing corruption to run rampant. Shes currently serving a ten year sentence. Her brave struggle has come with tremendous personal cost. Altogether, the regime has arrested