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Let the drums roll out. and now it seems only fitting if the final word goes to roy castle. # i cant go on with a happy song # bye—bye.# lovely finishing that piece that way with roy castle. fiona and cathy will both be with us a little later on the sofa this morning, talking more about that campaign that they are involved in. that will be this morning just after 8.00. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning from bbc london. the mayor will today thank some of t...

Has eased again, will the pressure on politicians keep growing? lucy williamson, bbc news, teste—de—buch. elsewhere in the world, heavy rain has caused severe flooding in senegal�*s capital, dakar. the main roads through the city were inundated, forcing people to wade through knee—deep waters. residents say rainy season downpours cause problems every year and that the government needs to install adequate drainage systems. to the uk now, where londons fire service says that tuesday was it...

0ur correspondent, guy hedgecoe has been giving us the latest on the situation in spain from madrid. its not looking great at the moment. there are around a dozen fairly substantial fires which are active at the moment. most of those are across the north of the country, particularly in the north—western region of galicia. there are two very large fires there, which have consumed around 30,000 hectares so far and caused several hundred people to be evacuated from their homes. theres another ver...

Theres no doubt the story of the week is the heatwave across europe , with soaring temperatures and raging fires. weve seen them in portugal, there are more than 30 still alight in spain, while the southwest of france has been ravaged by blazes along the coast. and heres the knock—on: european union scientists say the fires in spain and morocco injune and july have produced more carbon emissions than the same period in any year since records began in 2003. weve seen all this in other parts of ...

Bbc news, cambridge. mackey got a flavour of what has been going on in london with the fires breaking out there. we will show you again some of those pictures. this was the scene east of london where a small fire in a back garden quickly turned into an inferno that ripped through several houses. there have been fires in other areas too — with bone dry conditions providing ideal conditions for blazes to spread. temperatures are now beginning to cool. that is relative for the moment, though, of ...

Ido i dojust i do just want to focus or a moment on some of the buyers that have been breaking out here in the uk. we have talked in particular about the east of london. this was the scene east of london where a small fire in a back garden quickly turned into an inferno that ripped through several houses. there have been fires in other areas too, with bone dry conditions providing ideal conditions for blazes to spread. we are being told that temperatures are at least beginning to cool. it has be...

Temperatures across western europe are showing signs of easing on wednesday, but the threat caused by wildfires is not. more than 30 fires are still raging in spain, portugal, france and greece. in the uk, the number of blazes has surged, after temperatures topped a0 degrees for the first time ever. azadeh moshiri has the latest. across europe, wildfires have continued to rip through the continents forests. the damage is clear in france. summer campsites have been destroyed. the country has seen...

Weve seen fires across spain and france and in northern italy. and those firefighters working under incredibly difficult conditions to try to keep the blazes from moving in to cities. but weve seen evacuations and deaths and there is no end in sight. they are talking at least another week of these horrific temperatures. >> despite all the difficult images, i have enjoyed watching the images of the dogs being cooled off in europes many fountains. they get hot too in all this. thank you so much. ...

Out. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. a very good morning from bbc london, im alice salfield. a major incident remains in place following a series of fires across london, where temperatures exceeded 40 degrees celsius for the first time yesterday. a large grass fire in wennington on the london/essex border took 100 firefighters more than eight hours to bring under control. it destroyed several peoples homes and a church. across the capital, more than 400 firefighters b...

Degrees lower, it was no wind. but once the wind picked up yesterday i ing oxygen, it got out of control. i didnt sleep thinking how badly it could have gone. so just thank god that everyone got out alive. >> reporter: there are about 90 residents in this village who still dont know who they will spend time including that 66-year-old grave digger and much of his family. you heard his own harrowing story. but it isnt just here in this small little town. a few miles down the road in the east of lo...