West Yorkshire Police are continuing to search for people involved in violent disorder in leeds on thursday. Five people have already been arrested in connection with the disturbances in which a Police Car was overturned and a bus set alight. The trouble began after social services investigated a Child Protection Issue at a house. Our reporter Phil Mccann is in leeds. Talk us through the response. Talk us through the response. Leeds talk us through the response. Leeds City Council has released a statement on behalf of the council and on behalf of the romanian and Roma Community, which signifies the kind of tension is that there have been here come up with local people especially in the romanian and Roma Community blaming the council for being biased against them. This all goes back to the incident that happened here on Thursday Night when some children were removed by social services with Police Assistance from a localfamily. That lead over the coming hours to disturbances on the stree
Arrested in connection with the disturbances in harehills, which saw a Police Car was overturned and a bus set alight. The trouble began after social services investigated a Child Protection Issue at a house. Our reporter Phil Mccann is in harehills and sent us this update. Leeds City Council says that its, well, its released a statement which it says was on Behalf Notjust of the council but also of the romanian and Roma Community, which really signifies the kind of tensions that there have been here with local people, especially in the romanian and Roma Community, blaming the council for being biased against them. This all goes back to the incident that happened here on Thursday Night, in which some children were removed by social services with Police Assistance from a local family. That then led, over the coming hours, to disturbances on the streets. It led to a car, a Police Car being overturned, a double decker bus, which i think you mayjust have seen, being set alight. That actual
The cyber Security Firm responsible, warned of bad actors that will try to exploit events like this. In total, more than 9,000 flights have been cancelled since friday with the potential for more delays on saturday. Here in the uk, airports, which saw severe disruption, say that systems are working again but advised people to check before travelling. A flawed update rolled out by the cyberSecurity Firm, crowdstrike, knocked many machines offline, hampering Retail Systems and health care, with problems for gps and pharmacies. Heres our Technology Editor zoe kleinman. Yesterday, the global It Outage caused worldwide chaos. Today, were still dealing with the aftermath. Thousands of flights were grounded and while airports are getting back to normal, there are still many travellers who are stuck. My flight got cancelled while i coming out of my aeroplane while i was coming out of my aeroplane and ive been stranded for around. 0ver 2a hours by now, i think. I have been on my feet for four d
rory cellan jones and his wife, diane having been rescued from the streets of romania. she made her home behind the couple s sofa, only emerging briefly for treats of steak and cheese. and her story has gone viral on twitter, with thousands of people regularly tuning in to see how she s progressing. yesterday, there was a bit of a breakthrough, as sophie was coaxed out from her safe space for the first time for a quick cuddle. we ll have more on her story on tonight s six o clock news. time for a look at the weather. here s chris fawkes. follow that! today, a good deal brighter with sunny spells and showers. but there are still concerns about flooding. look at this, the river severn coming out the flood low lying ground. and flood warnings in force, 82 across england, the majority of these four stretches of the river severn, and more heavy rainjust around the corner. on the satellite picture, this area of developing cloud and low pressure is going to bring a return of heavy
RICHARD BURGON is on the campaign trail for re-election as Labour MP for Leeds East constituency in West Yorkshire. He talks to Morning Star northern reporter Peter Lazenby