So far this october, but the rain has clearly led to numerous Flood Warnings. Two severe Flood Warnings in scotland. The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency has more information, as does our website. Some respite today, this weak Weather Front. You website. Some respite today, this weak weatherfront. You can website. Some respite today, this weak Weather Front. You can see how it has been petering out north of northern ireland, through Southern Scotland and northern england. It is a dryer window of weather, brighter but still that rain coming down from the mountains and the ground is saturated. Patchy rain edging its way north, further south plenty of sunshine to come. Misty and murky conditions around southern and western coast, but warm again, temperatures of 5 10 celsius above average. Overnight, the rain heads to the northern isles, then we do have more rain coming back in on the next weatherfront, have more rain coming back in on the next Weather Front, the winds are strength
Conference, it is time that we have a government that matched the ambition that people have for their families and communities, a Government Siding with the builder is not the blockers. A government that will get Britain Building again and with labour we will. Let me give you one example. Our energy grid. Today, new developments are being forced to wait up to 15 years, into the late 2013s, to connect to the grid. £200 billion worth of projects stuck in limbo. Into the late 2030s. So i can announce labours plans to rewire britain, working with ed miliband. 0pening britain, working with ed miliband. Opening up new Grid Connections at competitive tendering. And so that the british people should own a stake in their energy system, the publicly owned Great Britain energy will look to bid into a competition. 220,000 newjobs, lower bills for good and Energy Security for britain. And theres more. We will invest in expanding local authorities planning capacity to speed up decisions and here is
The hamas fighters broke through the border fence from gaza at these points marked in green, and then reached these areas in red. Israel says 700 of its citizens have been killed, with many others taken hostage. Israel has compared it to the 9 11 attacks and in retaliation, its launched a wave of air strikes on gaza, where nearly 500 palestinians have died. Live now to my colleague anna foster, whos in ashkelon, close to the gaza border. We are only a few kilometres from the border and i can hear an israeli plane overhead and the regular sound of explosions, which have continued notjust of explosions, which have continued not just through the of explosions, which have continued notjust through the night but through the morning. We were in ashkelon this morning as people they are dived for cover, the Commander A Barrage of missiles that had been fired in from gaza. It is something the people here are used to, but sites like this feel very different. You can see Israeli Military vehicle