wound to his hand, which happened when he tried to grapple the sword away from the man attacking him and andrew pennington. and he spoke to the bbc this evening. i m horrified by it. he was a lovely man, he did the job to the best of his ability. he was a pal and i m just devastated that we will never see him again. over 20 years on from the attack in your constituency office on yourself, do you feel more needs to be done to protect mps in these types of situations? well, you can make a case for mp5 because they are in the public eye but it s notjust mps, it s everybody else. shop workers and anybody who comes face to face with the public. they can come to grief because there is someone who has some kind of grudge against them or the system, so i wouldn t like to make a special case for mp5. but i think more needs to be done to protect people and to get violence out of our society. however much you disagree with someone, you don t kill them. it is the nature of an mp s work,
i was working in the office, we stopped for something to eat. there was no party, there was no breach of the rules, i m confident about that. the police have obviously got to do theirjob. but, meanwhile, i m in scotland because we ve had a fantastic set of results, the best results for ten years, coming second in scotland. there s a smile on all of our faces and we ve taken this council. so labour is very clearly back on the pitch and we re turning the corner and now we re marching towards that general election. in terms of the uk results, it was a bit of a perfect storm with you, in terms of the tories at the moment, shouldn t you have done better? we did really well. we won in the north, i was in cumberland, in carlisle yesterday, where we won. we won in the south in southampton. we took seats in london that people said we d never take. we did really well in wales and here in scotland, best results for a decade. anas sarwar has been leader now for, what, 14 months and he s
asked questions about his position all the way to west dunbartonshire where he was keen to try and trump it with labour gains. he wanted to talk about their successes labour had yesterday, he wanted to talk about where labour had made inroads, he wanted to talk about a turning point for stock instead, he is now being hounded by questions about what he s going to do if he is fined by durham police. this relates back to a gathering that took place in the run up to a by election last year. he was filmed in an office of one of his mps, a constituency office of one of his mps drinking a beer. he has said repeatedly that he is confident no rules were broken. initially, durham police looked and assessed there have been no offence committed. yesterday, they announced that they were investigating following significant new evidence. i think this is awkward timing because it overshadows the election result. it also completely neutralises the line of attack that he has been employing an
ireland assembly election. while the counting continues, the leader of the dup conceded this evening that sinn fein will win the vote. a short time ago, sinn fein had 23 assembly members, the democratic unionist party had 22, and the cross community alliance party had 15 seats. 78 of 90 seats have been declared so far. it will be the first time a nationalist party in northern ireland has won the most seats with sinn fein s ultimate goal being for northern ireland to leave the uk and become one country with the republic of ireland. our correspondent chris page reports, and a warning there is some flash photography. it s all over bar the cheering. cheering when the final election result is in sinn fein will be on top. for the first time, a party which is dedicated to taking northern ireland out of the uk is the biggest political force here. it s a huge historic moment for irish nationalism and a massively symbolic shift. sinn fein s vice president michelle o neill is in lin
what the numbers don t tell you later this morning we re expected to learn that unemployment s falling, and wages are rising but set against rocketing costs are we really any better off? i ll take a look. as england edge closer to world cup qualification. northern ireland stand in their way. still unbeaten in this campaign, a win for the lionesses in belfast tonight would all but secure their place at the tournament next year. good morning. yesterday temperatures at heathrow reached 19 degrees. today they could be higher. for all of us from tomorrow, you will notice the temperature is going up, mean it will net necessarily be dry all the time. i will have the details throughout this morning s programme. it s tuesday the 12th april. our main story. the us and uk governments are investigating reports that chemical weapons have been used by russia in the ukrainian port of mariupol. a ukrainian paramilitary group claimed russian troops used a drone to deploy an unknown substa