fredricka reynolds used to do all the flowers for the weddings, but in an instant, that key part of her business was snatched away. they rang me on the thursday before the asylum seekers came on the monday, and cancelled all my weddings for the foreseeable. that s a huge amount of work and income to me. and she told me it s notjust the loss of thousands of pounds. me and my boys used to go swimming every saturday there. i ve got two little ones and every time we drive past there, they want to go swimming and, unfortunately, that s closed now. because of the small boats crossing the channel, the number of asylum seekers in hotels has gone from 3,000 to 51,000 in just three years. it s the government policy that almost no one is in favour of not even the government and it s costing the taxpayer £6 million a day. daniel sandford, bbc news, kegworth. more than 100 metropolitan police officers, who are being investigated for domestic abuse or sexual misconduct, are being allo
market in birmingham to explain what it all means for you. ella kissi debrah was the first person in the uk to have air pollution listed as a cause of death. ten years on, her mother continues her fight for cleaner air. i do say, ah, bubba, i know you suffered so much, and it will never make up for it, but so much is being done in your name and so many lives are being saved. i think that s important. a council is accused of ruining a new artwork by banksy, as it removes a key part of the mural because of safety concerns. it all went wrong for tottenham last night antonio conte s team losing to italian side ac milan in the first leg of their champions league tie. good morning. some early mist and fog that will clear quite quickly. they moving across northern ireland and scotland. as it sinks across england and wales it will weaken. many will have some sunshine and a few showers in the north west. all the details later in the programme. it s wednesday 15th of february. our
perfect and there was more that needed to be done but he said that every year that the conservatives were in power, they had built more houses than labour did in its previous administrations and we will have to go and fact check that but thatis have to go and fact check that but that is the claim from michael gove this morning and also, finally, on levelling up, i put to him that people from the red wall that did very well under boris johnson s people from the red wall that did very well under borisjohnson s of look for money for northern communities in particular, they would have really noticed a difference and will they really put conservative? and he said that real money had gone into these communities and more can be done but they won t need a conservative government to do that. the liberal democrats are talking about the country s roads today with a promise to invest £300 million in the next parliament to fill 1.2 million pot holes a year. the party says money from the