Eric cantona reinvents himself as a musician. Also this hour, a palestinian restaurant in london says and coming up in sportsday later in the hour on bbc news. Well get the latest from france and the Rugby World Cup semi finals, england are prparing to face the world champiosn south africa tomorrow. Good evening. Three people have been killed in the high winds and flood waters brought by storm babet and another danger to life red warning has been issued by the met office for the north east of scotland from midnight tonight. Hundreds have had to be evacuated from their homes. You can see the areas worst affected by the heavy rainfall since midnight last night, and theres more to come with warnings in scotland in parts of angus and aberdeenshire. Well be live with our correspondents in derbyshire and north yorkshire, but first, lets go james cook in brechin. This has been an extraordinary and exceptionally difficult day and tonight there is still a major operation under way here in brec
Dominated by conservative mistakes, from which labour are profiting and now need to and solidify. I think one could seriously ask the question, if partygate didnt happen, would labour at the moment be enjoying a 17 point lead, let alone getting 20 point swings . Let us speak to a column nhs at the observer. Sonia, good to have you with us, keir starmer called It History In The Making but he says i dont want to get carried away, there a long way to go. We know a lot can change in politics in the 12 months we would be waiting for an election but it has not been a great night for the conservatives, has it. No, it is a hugely positive result for labour. Professorjohn curtice was saying there, we have not seen this sort of swings from the conservative party to labour in by Election Results since the 92 97 parliament, when there were four by elections, which labour took from the conservatives, in swings of over 20 , we havejust seen the conservatives, in swings of over 20 , we have just seen
Of former culture secretary nadine dorries. Here our political helen kat. These by elections were billed as nail biters. Close, tense. In the end, they delivered two significant victories to labour. First in tamworth the 57th Safest Conservative seat in the country before last night. Edwards, sarah siena, labour party 11,719 votes. Cheering. The new mp was elated. They are seeing the conservatives do not have anything to offer. The defeated conservative candidate chose not to stick around. In a statement the tories described it as a difficult result on a much reduced turnout. But it was about to get even more difficult for them. Over in Mid Bedfordshire, when the ballot boxes started arriving, it had still been too close to call, in a rare three way fight between the conservatives, labour and the lib dems. The liberal democrats doubled their share of the vote, but once again it was labour who emerged victorious. I therefore duly declare Alistair Luke Strathern Elected as Member Of Parl
Weather prospects. Before we do that, we havejust had weather prospects. Before we do that, we have just had an update on the last few minutes. We were talking earlier about storm babet. We are just hearing from Angus Council that it is telling 350 households that they must evacuate in the brechin. That news is through in the brechin. That news is through in the brechin. That news is through in the last few minutes and that gives you a sense of the scale of that situation. Lets get a Weather Forecast wherever you live in the country. Chris fawkes is here with the weather. A lot of difficult at times coming. Ifeel this isjust the a lot of difficult at times coming. I feel this is just the start of it. The met office have issued a rare red warning covering angus where we have seen evacuations and also aberdeenshire, dundee, perth and kinross. It is the chelation of rain building up over the next few days that will cause problems with flooding from various parts of the country as we will