Why nearly one Million People across england and wales lost power yesterday National Grid says it will learn lessons. What we saw yesterday evening was an exceptionally rare event, one we have not seen since 2008, but we will be looking very hard at what happened to make sure that we minimise disruption in future. The us financier Jeffrey Epstein whose acqauintances included President Trump and Prince Andrew is found dead in his prison cell in new york while awaiting trial on child sex trafficking charges. Wet and windy conditions cause disruption to travellers, with the west coast mainline hit by flooding. Michael gove says therell be a bail out fund for businesses hit by brexit. The family of a 15 Year Old Girl missing in malaysia thank the search teams who are scouring the jungle for her. More than a Million People are evacuated from their homes as a powerful typhoon hits china. Now on bbc news, its time for the highlights of the week from the Victoria Derbyshire show. Hello, welcom
Ireland, and quite cold across scotla nd ireland, and quite cold across scotland with further snow falling over the hills. 1 4 degrees over the north, but a little milder across the south. It turns cold for a while through friday night, so we could see some snow but it will be transient, temperatures lifting further across the south, milder air continuing across england and wales through saturday, whereas scotland and Northern Ireland remain in the cooler air. England and wales bright with sunshine, and we start to see some heavy rain pushing into the far south west. 10 13, your temperatures in the south, a little bit cooler in the north. Good afternoon. Youre watching bbc news. These are the latest headlines. Heavy snow and icy conditions are expected to cause severe disruption to travel across parts of Northern England and scotland. Glasgow airport has reopened after temporarily suspending flights, but is advising passengers to check with their airlines. 12 people, including three ch
Very unsettled. Hello, good afternoon. This is bbc news. Our latest headlines more than 1,100 people are recognised in the new year honours with knighthoods for the beatles drummer ringo starr, bee gees singer barry gibb, and strictly come dancing judge Darcey Bussell is made a dame. The labour peer lord adonis says attempts to silence his criticism of the government forced him to step down as its infrastructure adviser. He quit yesterday, suggesting whitehall had been infected by brexit. Thousands of iranian government supporters are attending officially sponsored rallies across the country after two days of anti establishment protests. Millennials will enjoy the biggest inheritance boom of any post war generation, but not until theyre into their 60s, a report says. Now on bbc news, one of our Programme Highlights from the past 12 months. Africa is in the midst of a baby boom. The median age across the continent isjust 19. In september, Alastair Leithead investigated the potential pos
It will be windy ahead of this developing rain thats arriving in Northern Ireland later on in the day and that rain is going to sweep across all areas overnight. It comes with a deepening area of low pressure. It will be a windy week, an unsettled week and rain, when it comes, will be heavy at times. This is bbc news. Our latest headlines. Police appeal for information after four men are stabbed to death two of the british victims of a seaplane crash in australia are identified as emma bowden and her 11 year old daughter heather. Also among the dead her fiance and the head of a British Company compass, richard cousins, and his two sons william and edward both in their 20s. The both in their 20s. Pilot also died. A fire in a liverpool car park destroys around m00 vehicles, stranding hundreds of people in the city centre overnight. State media in iran says the death toll in Anti Government protests has risen to ten the countrys president warns that violence and disorder will not be toler
Millions of self employed workers can apply for a second round of grants from today, to help support their businesses against the effects of coronavirus. A woman has been charged with the murder of a ten year old boy in west london. In the first weeks of lockdown, someone called the police about domestic abusive every 30 seconds according to new research for panorama. More protests are expected in belarus following sundays huge gathering to try to force president Alexander Lukashenko to step down. The foreign secretary says the uk does not accept the result of the election. And coming up on sportsday misery for the manchester clubs in europe. After Citys Champions League shock, united are knocked out of the Europa League by sevilla. In the last hour Northern Ireland has decided to award gcse grades on the basis of teacher assessed grades. It adds to growing political pressure on the government over a level grades in england which have been described as flawed and unfair after almost 40