Christmas messages. The Prime Minister highlighted the courage and dedication of the Emergency Services who responded to the Grenfell Tower fire and terrorist attacks in manchester and london. The messages also call on people to look out for Vulnerable People including the homeless over the festive period. Plans to scrap the armys crest and the slogan be the best have been halted by the defence secretary, gavin williamson. According to the mail on sunday, a leaked internal Army Document suggested the slogan was regarded as dated and elitist. The mod says mr williamson believes the army to be the best of the best and had put the proposals on hold. Rail passengers are being warned they could face disruption as network rail carries out its biggest ever christmas engineering programme. 260 projects across england, scotland and wales will lead to numerous station closures over the festive period. Many of britains mainline routes will also be shut or running reduced services over the coming
After warnings about a busybody approach to anti social behaviour, the government issues new guidance for councils in england and wales. A very good morning. In sport, a late goal damages Manchester Uniteds slim title hopes. They draw 2 2 at leicester, leaving them 13 points behind Runaway Premier League leaders Manchester City. And louise has the weather. It isa it is a rather grey, dell, damp story this Christmas Eve for england and wales but wet and windy further north and west. More details later. Good morning. First, our main story. A relief operation is under way in the philippines, where almost 200 people are known to have died in flash flooding and mudslides. The president of the philippines will today visit communities devastated by Tropical Storm tembin. Sarah corker reports. In the raging floodwaters, rescue efforts are frantic and dangerous. Ropes are all these villagers have to pull each other to safety. Storm tembin tore through mindanao, the philippines second largest is
Dijk willjoin liverpool when the transfer window re opens for £75 million a world record for a defender. And at 11 30 well bring you the paper review, with the independentsjosie cox and tom bergin from reuters. A very good evening to use and welcome to bbc news. The met office has issued 15 snow or ice warnings tonight, covering Northern Ireland, all of wales, and most areas of england and scotland. It follows a day of disruption in much of the uk with dangerous conditions on major roads and the rac warning that things could get worse. The runway at Stansted Airport was closed twice during the day with a number of flights cancelled. And thousands of homes have been left without power, as our correspondent phil mackie reports. Horn blasts. The motorway at a standstill. Its always busy here anyway, but throw in five centimetres of snow and youve got chaos. 0n the a14 things were even worse. This lorry span out of control, leaving drivers stranded. Good morning. Its just gone past ten oc
Jarrod Bowen has been ruled out of West Ham United’s Europa League quarter-final first leg against Bayer Leverkusen on Thursday.
The forward had to be substituted 54 minutes into West Ham’s 2-1 victory at Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday after hurting his hip in a collision with defender Joao Gomes.
West Ham manager David Moyes said after the match he hoped the injury was “not too bad”, but Bowen’s condition has not improved and he will now miss the trip to Germany.
The 27-year-old has scored 19 goals in all competitions for West Ham so far this season and.